Navy: We’re Investigating More UFOs, But We Won’t Tell You About It

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Navy: We’re Investigating More UFOs, But We Won’t Tell You About It
By: JAZZ SHAW - Posted at 7:01 pm on May 4, 2019
Re: https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/...fos-wont-tell/

There’s an ongoing discussion taking place among the United States military, intelligence agencies and elected officials over what, if anything, we should be doing in response to military pilots (and others) who have been reporting unidentified flying objects (or “unexplained aerial phenomenon” and “Advanced Aerospace Threats,” as they’re being called these days). Most of the MSM coverage stems from the 2017 New York Times blockbuster article, where the federal government released video shot by Navy pilots of some… things nobody could reasonably explain hanging around in our airspace.

Since that time, many other pilots, both military and civilian, have been coming forward and saying they’ve seen the same sort of activity. So what are we doing about it? The Navy came out in the past couple of weeks and said that they were going to be taking those reports more seriously and changing the way they investigate them. But there’s a catch to it. They don’t plan on telling the public what they’re finding. (Newsweek)

Since 2014, UFOs have intruded upon military airspace as often as several times per month, a military official told the Washington Post. In a follow-up published by the Post on Monday, the same official said that the U.S. Navy will not share any more information regarding what they call “unexplained aerial phenomena” with the public, despite drafting formal procedures to document UFO sightings on an ongoing basis…

Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, described multiple recorded sightings per month to The Washington Post, but emphasized that any further information will likely remain classified. Congress may see reports with broad statistics regarding the number of sightings and conclusions taken from follow-up investigations.

But while the Navy plans to keep its UFO sightings out of the public eye, the politician who helped fund the Pentagon’s shuttered UFO program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), says UFO sightings are far more common in military circles than previously revealed.

Is the government still of the mindset where they believe this should all be hidden from the public? It certainly sounds like something remarkable is taking place. One crew member from a carrier group that encountered these aerial phenomena described how they “generally zoomed around at ridiculous speeds, and angles and trajectories and then eventually they all bugged out faster than our radars.”

But since the cat is pretty much out of the bag (so to speak), what point is there in keeping the public in the dark? I can see some possible reasons to do it, depending on what they find. If this turns out to be some sort of very, very deep black bag project that we cooked up out at Area 52 (which is where they moved all of the flying saucers, alien bodies and the remains of David Duchovny’s career after Area 51 was exposed), then I suppose we should cut them some slack. That could be dangerous information to have floating around. Even more to the point, if it’s not ours, but turns out the be the Russians or the Chinese, that’s even more of a national security concern.

But even then, based on the maneuvers the “white Tic-Tac” was able to pull off, it likely means that our own government is sitting on some technology that could massively change the world. Have they actually discovered how to tinker with gravity? Could someone in the Pentagon really have figured out zero point energy? If so, it would revolutionize virtually every industrial activity engaged in by man. Should they just keep it a secret? Maybe. Grabbing hold of that kind of magic brings with it the understanding that it could be turned into a terrible weapon that could literally destroy the world.

The most fascinating possibility, however, remains the generally forbidden question in journalism. What if those things weren’t made by humans? What if they came from… “out there?” I’m curious if most people would rather the government tell us that or leave us in the dark and handle it on their own. And what would the justification for secrecy be? I guess they might say they’re trying to avoid causing a massive panic, but I don’t know if that passes the smell test. If ET really has phoned home, it seems to me that our elected leaders would have a responsibility to let us know.

TAGS:ALIENS-EXTRATERRESTRIALS- INVESTIGATIONS- PILOT- UFOS- US NAVY

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US Navy's New UFO-Detecting System to Keep Sightings Secret From Public − Report
By: TECH 3/5/19
RE: https://sputniknews.com/science/2019...tings-reports/

The US government already ran a short-lived 'X-Files' office in the Obama-era, which studied military reports about UFO sightings. Funding for the programme allegedly dried up in 2012, but the navy now wants this effort to be revitalised.

The US Navy's new guidelines will require pilots and other staff to report encounters with unidentified flying objects, but has no plans to make the data available to the general public, according to the Washington Post.

"Military aviation safety organisations always retain reporting of hazards to aviation as privileged information in order to preserve the free and honest prioritization and discussion of safety among aircrew," stated Joe Gradisher, a spokesman for Vice Admiral Matthew Kohler, the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare.

Gradisher added that any report resulting from these investigations will contain "classified information".

he navy's decision to revise the UFO-reporting guidelines came to light last month. The spokesman explained back then that the navy had received "a number of reports of unauthorised and/or unidentified aircraft" flying into military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years.

It emerged in late 2017 that the Pentagon had run a secret office tasked with investigating military reports about UFO sightings. The effort was called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Programme, which purportedly ran between 2009 and 2012, and had an annual budget of $22 million.

Despite reports that the government cut the funding for the secret study, its former head, Luis Elizondo, reportedly said the project had never actually stopped and that he continued to manage that programme until October 2017, when he resigned due to internal pressure that hampered its functioning.

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Aliens, ahoy! Navy developing guidelines on reporting UFO sightings
By: J.D. Simkins - Military Times - 4/25/19
RE: https://www.navytimes.com/off-duty/m...ufo-sightings/

Photo link: https://www.armytimes.com/resizer/Ri...QBP2WWT2N4.jpg
The Navy is reportedly drafting guidelines on how to report UFO sightings, like the apparent one here, seen in a declassified Department of Defense video. (DoD screenshot)

Encounters with unidentified aircraft by pilots have once again prompted Department of Defense officials to take action.

More specifically, the Navy confirmed that the service is drafting guidelines to establish a formal process for pilots and military personnel to report UFO sightings, Politico first reported.

The move comes following a surge in what the Navy called a series of intrusions by advanced aircraft on Navy carrier strike groups.

“There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years,” a Navy spokesperson told Politico.

"For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.

To improve upon past investigations, the Navy wants to establish a formal process so that “such suspected incursions can be made to cognizant authorities.”

The Navy confirmed a fleet-wide message on the UFO-reporting initiative is in the works.

While this development comes sans any admission of the existence of alien life, it signals a return to DoD acknowledgement that the series of recently documented encounters are at least authentic enough to warrant further investigation.

So prevalent was the DoD’s interest in tracking the phenomena years ago that it established a program inside the Pentagon solely dedicated to investigating reports of UFO sightings.

The existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which ran from 2007 until 2012, was confirmed by DoD officials in December 2017, who noted it was done away with when it "was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change.”

Former military intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who claims to have spearheaded the AATIP, told Politico the Pentagon should be taking a more aggressive approach to analyzing data surrounding UFO encounters.

“If you are in a busy airport and see something you are supposed to say something,” he said.

“With our own military members it is kind of the opposite: ‘If you do see something, don’t say something. ... What happens in five years if it turns out these are extremely advanced Russian aircraft?”

Elizondo will be appearing in a six-part documentary series titled “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation™" — the trademark symbol is part of the title — alongside other former Pentagon officials and Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge, who founded To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences as a means to prove the existence of alien life.

Joining Elizondo on the History Channel docuseries is former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence for both the Clinton and Bush administrations, Chris Mellon.

Mellon, who was also instrumental in drafting the legislation that led to the creation of Special Operations Command, echoed Elizondo’s call for a formal reporting process.

“Right now, we have situation in which UFOs and UAPs are treated as anomalies to be ignored rather than anomalies to be explored,” he told Politico. “We have systems that exclude that information and dump it.”

Mellon cited a number of examples in which military personnel simply “don’t know what to do with that information — like satellite data or a radar that sees something going Mach 3."

“They will dump [the data] because that is not a traditional aircraft or missile,” he said.

DeLonge’s To the Stars shot onto everyone’s radar last year after the company released a declassified 2015 video that reportedly showed U.S. Navy pilots encountering a UFO.

The clip, called “GO FAST,” is "an authentic DoD video that captures the high-speed flight of an unidentified aircraft at low altitudes,” a TTSA press release said.

Such encounters have sparked questions from congressional lawmakers who have requested briefings by the Navy’s senior intelligence officials and members of its aviation community, the report said.

The Navy did not specify who had requested briefings.

In 2017, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, along with former Sens. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, openly backed the establishment of the AATIP.

“I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Reid told the New York Times in 2017. “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”

Dr. Hal Puthoff, a NASA quantum physicist and DoD adviser, and Jim Semivan, a former senior intelligence member of the CIA, will also be lending their expertise to the History Channel’s upcoming series, which is set to debut in May.

Elizondo, Mellon, Puthoff and Semivan all currently work for TTSA.

About the writer: J.D. Simkins is a writer and editor for Military Times who was a Marine scout observer from 2004-2008.  

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Personal note: I've never seen any UFO's and I don't think I ever will. But many believe there as such things as extrarestials. Space is very large more than we know. Whose to say are the only beings in the whole universe? My Mom was a believer she drove us nuts with all these outer space things. SciFi movies also drive up the notion of visitors. Whose to say there aren't any? But even our military spot things that are unusual and the term used UFO's only means its an unidentified flying object. Until we actually meet them we will never know.

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