UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA
"Imagine a technology that can do 600-to-700 g-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space. And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing."
~ Lue Elizondo, former U.S. Military official that led the U.S. government's effort to investigate UFO's
“... these vehicles seem to have unlimited loiter time, which we don't have. We're limited in terms of altitude, it's hard to design something that functions well at ground level that can go, 60,000 or 80,000 feet and then drop down to the deck or drop to 20,000 feet. And you know, and it's like a straight vertical line ... in seconds. ... Then the acceleration is beyond any, far beyond anything that we, that we're capable of ... There's nothing we could build that would be strong enough to endure that amount of force and acceleration."
~ Chris Mellon, served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush
Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs
Richard Dawkins asks Neil deGrasse Tyson his thoughts on the probabilities of other intelligent life in the universe.
It is difficult to give a precise estimate of the odds of life existing elsewhere in the universe based on data, as our understanding of the conditions required for life and the processes that lead to its emergence is still limited. However, based on the information we currently have and our understanding of the universe, many scientists believe that the possibility of life existing elsewhere in the universe is quite high.
Carbon, which is a key element in the building blocks of life as we know it, is indeed one of the most abundant elements in the universe, and the presence of water, which is also believed to be necessary for life as we know it, has been detected on a number of planets and moons in our solar system and around other stars.
In addition, the discovery of exoplanets, which are planets orbiting other stars, has increased the chances of finding potentially habitable planets in other solar systems. As of now, we have discovered over 5000 exoplanets and many of them are in the habitable zone of their star and are considered potentially habitable.
Another piece of data that adds to the odds of extraterrestrial life is the fact that life on Earth has persisted and thrived in some of the most extreme conditions on the planet and it's been suggested that simple forms of life may exist in subsurface oceans and extreme environments of other planets and moons.
Overall, while it is difficult to give a precise odds of the existence of extraterrestrial life, the existence of key ingredients and the ability of life to adapt and persist in diverse conditions on Earth, along with discovery of many exoplanets in habitable zones, leads many scientists to believe that the odds of the existence of extraterrestrial life is likely high.
The Most Mysterious Star in the Universe
Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this perplexing celestial object, a colleague suggested something unusual: Could it be an alien-built megastructure? Such an extraordinary idea would require extraordinary evidence. In this talk, Boyajian gives us a look at how scientists search for and test hypotheses when faced with the unknown.
The USS Nimitz UAP Incident
In 2004 and 2005, several US Navy pilots reported unidentified flying objects (UFOs) while flying near the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. Some of the pilots reported that the objects were able to fly at high speeds and perform maneuvers that were not possible with known aircraft technology at the time. The US Navy acknowledged the reports and launched an investigation, but the results of the investigation have not been made public. In recent years, some of the pilots and other military personnel involved in the incident have come forward to speak publicly about their experiences, and several videos of the incidents were released by the US Navy in 2020 and 2021 through the Freedom of Information Act. However, the nature and origin of the objects remains unknown and no official explanation has been provided.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident
The USS Nimitz UFO incident refers to a radar-visual encounter of an unidentified flying object by US fighter pilots of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004. The encounter also included an engagement with the UFO by the commander of Strike Fighter Squadron 41, and his weapon systems officer.[1]
The primary encounter occurred during a combat training exercise being conducted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California on 14 November 2004, with purportedly related sightings occurring in the days before and after this encounter. A 2015 account of the incident on FighterSweep.com, interviews with one of the pilots, and subsequent news reports describe the sighting of an "unidentified flying object" by six Navy Super Hornet fighter jets.[2]
Thirteen years after the incident, in December 2017, infrared footage of the encounter was released to the public.[3][4] According to The Washington Post, the video was released by former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo to shed light on a secretive Department of Defense operation to analyze reported UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.[5][6][7]
Numerous Freedom of Information Act requests were submitted regarding the incident. There was an FOIA obtained that indicated four Marine Lieutenant Colonels and a Marine Major were aware of the event and had witnessed the IR video of the unknown object. A number of documents were leaked to the Internet, with varying levels of credibility. Acceleration values for the performance characteristics of the object were based upon statements from the USS Princeton radar operators, the F/A-18 pilots that saw the object disappear within a second, and the IR video.[8][page needed] The Navy has since reportedly updated their protocols for pilots to report UFO sightings in an effort to reduce the stigma associated with such reports.[9]
Commander David Fravor told the New York Times, “I have no idea what I saw ... It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he added, admitting he was “pretty weirded out”.
Skeptics have called into question the veracity of the pilots' accounts, pointing out that the sighting can be explained by equipment malfunction or human error. One of the witnesses, retired United States Navy officer, Commander David Fravor, lamented the amount "of misinformation that [was] starting to come out through third and fourth parties" during a June 2018 interview.[1]:11:58 On 17 September 2019, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that the three UFO videos are of real unidentified phenomena.[10]
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Phoenix Lights
The Phoenix Lights incident refers to a series of sightings of unexplained lights in the sky over Phoenix, Arizona and surrounding areas in the United States on March 13, 1997. The lights were reported by many people, including pilots and law enforcement officers, and were described as a "V-shaped" formation of lights that appeared to be stationary in the sky for a period of time before eventually moving off into the distance.
The incident received widespread media coverage, and many explanations have been proposed, including military flares, aircraft, and atmospheric phenomena. The Arizona Governor Fife Symington at the time publicly joked about the event calling it a "mass hallucination" .
However, many witnesses, including several pilots, have maintained that the lights were not flares or any known aircraft, and some have suggested that the lights may have been some type of advanced, unidentified aircraft.
The U.S. Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducted an investigation and concluded that the lights were flares that were dropped by military aircraft during a training exercise. The explanation was not well received by some of the witnesses and the public, and the incident remains a topic of debate and speculation. The official explanation has not been able to explain all the witnesses reports.
FROM WIKI
The Phoenix Lights (sometimes called the "Lights over Phoenix") were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects or UFOs observed in the skies over the U.S. states of Arizona, Nevada, and the Mexican state of Sonora on March 13, 1997.[2]
Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles (480 km), from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. There were two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over the state, and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area. The United States Air Force identified the second group of lights as flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft that were on training exercises at the Barry Goldwater Range in southwest Arizona. Witnesses claim to have observed a huge carpenter's square-shaped UFO, containing five spherical lights or possibly light-emitting engines. Fife Symington,[3] the governor at the time, was one witness to this incident; he later called the object "otherworldly."[4]
The lights were reported to have reappeared in 2007 and 2008, but these events were quickly attributed to (respectively) military flares dropped by fighter aircraft at Luke Air Force Base[5][6] and flares attached to helium balloons released by a civilian.
The "helicopter" image is the result of carved stone being re-used over time. The initial carving was made during the reign of Seti I and translates to "He who repulses the nine [enemies of Egypt]". This carving was later filled in with plaster and re-carved during the reign of Ramesses II with the title "He who protects Egypt and overthrows the foreign countries". Over time, the plaster has eroded away, leaving both inscriptions partially visible and creating a palimpsest-like effect of overlapping hieroglyphs.[1][2]
In paleocontact hypothesis circles[3] the hieroglyphics have been interpreted as an out-of-place artifact depicting a helicopter as well as other examples of modern technology. This claim is dismissed by Egyptologists who highlight this pareidolia is partly based on widely distributed retouched images that removed key details from the actual carvings.
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