The UFO Phenomenon Breaks Into the Mainstream
Widespread contemporary interest in unidentified flying objects, popularly known as ‘UFOs’, is agreed to have been sparked by the 1947 Roswell incident, in which an object described by witnesses as looking like a ‘flying disc’, or ‘saucer’, is reported to have crashed at a ranch outside of the sleepy city of Roswell, New Mexico. This incident sparked curiosity across the globe as to the nature of the crashed object, and its possible origin. Was it a highly advanced craft being tested by the U.S. military? Was it a highly advanced craft being tested by a foreign power? Was it something, or someone, else? While the U.S. military finally provided an answer to these questions in the 1990s, claiming the downed craft was an advanced nuclear surveillance balloon developed as part of Operation Mogul, other occurrences, such as the revelation of the existence of Area 51— which is a top secret facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range — in 1989 (the US military acknowledged its existence in 2013) have helped keep the public captivated.
However, no revelation or report has been as strange as what was originally revealed in a series of stories published on December 16, 2017 in the New York Times, sourced from none other than the very officials who ran a top-secret Pentagon program to investigate ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon’, or UAPs, and citing no less than a pair of videos obtained directly from, and de-classified by, the United States Department of Defense. The stories, and their accompanying videos, rapidly spread across the globe and were further reported on by numerous other mainstream media outlets. The videos appear to show a series of encounters between highly trained U.S. fighter pilots flying some of the world’s most advanced aircraft, and unexplainably bizarre unidentified flying objects. The objects, noted as looking like giant flying “Tic-Tacs” by US Airforce Commander David Fravor — one of the pilots who engaged with the unidentified objects while on a 2004 training mission in preparation for deployment in the Iraq War, off the Pacific coast of Mexico — appear to manoeuvre in ways that would seem impossible according to conventional physics. These objects fly at impossibly high speeds without any detectable signatures of propulsion; they appear to have the capability to cloak themselves at will to both radar and the human eye alike; they have displayed the ability to operate both in air and underwater with no discernible operational hinderance; and they have shown they can monitor and respond to secret U.S. military communications in real-time. Confirming the validity of the seemingly unbelievable New York Times accounts — and the videos published alongside them — U.S. Navy spokesperson Joe Gradnisher explained to CNN that the Department of Defense decided to publicly reveal these shocking encounters because “this is all about frequent incursions into our training ranges by UAPs”. He further contends that “those incursions present a safety hazard to the safe flight of [their] aviators and the security of [their] operations”.
In addition to the 2017 stories, subsequent reporting was published by the New York Times in May of this year, which claims that these incidents between the US military aircraft and highly advanced unidentified flying objects were not isolated to the events described in the 2017 reports. Instead, they are widespread, endemic, and likely still occurring. These new reports — again, citing officials with the US Department of Defence, and a number of first-hand accounts from still-active US military pilots — describe encounters with extraordinarily peculiar craft (one described as resembling a flying black cube within a transparent spherical frame, or energy field) along the eastern seaboard of the United States during military training exercises that prepared for the war in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State terrorist group in 2015. Even stranger, the reports claim that the ‘encounters’ were not exclusive to the United States Atlantic coast. Rather, the same pilots reported seeing some of the same unexplainable objects once they were deployed to the Middle East.
The widespread encounters of 2015 spurred the U.S. Department of Defense to update and enhance its system of reporting and documenting such events by encouraging other US military personnel to come forward if they had experienced similar phenomena. This response is unsurprising, especially considering some of these encounters between the US military craft and unidentified flying objects had reportedly occurred relatively close to the Washington, D.C. metro area. The implications of the world’s foremost military power apparently being unable to control the airspace above its own capital city cannot be overstated.
The obvious question is then raised: what the hell is going on? Why has the US Department of Defence — one of the most secretive and opaque organizations on the planet — declassified and revealed this information and allowed its active duty personnel to comment on the record in the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets? What is the potential benefit or utility of admitting that they cannot control their own airspace, and do not even know what, or who, is?
There are several potential answers to this question, all of which have tremendous implications and none of which sit well with this author. The first, and most likely, is that much like the downed nuclear surveillance craft of 1947 in Roswell, these objects are highly-advanced and exotic U.S. military black project operations. This makes some sense, as it is logically straightforward that if the U.S. military had developed hyper-advanced technologies, they would likely test them (secretly) against their own conventional military assets, rather than in a real-world foreign engagement. One can easily see how using unwitting forces conducting training operations (often without real-world live munitions) would be the perfect ‘test dummies’ for ‘black ops’ technologies. However, with that said, this would imply that the U.S. military has access to technology far beyond what anyone has ever imagined, and that they may have even cracked the holy grail of scientific advancement — anti-gravity propulsion and zero-point energy. If this is true, it means that the US military is holding secret technologies which would revolutionize the modern world, and potentially solve world crises like climate change. Additionally, this conclusion raises its own serious questions — namely, why would the U.S. military declassify materials which reveal its own black project operations? What benefit does the U.S. military gain from both making their conventional forces look incompetent, and revealing these secret technologies to hostile foreign powers? The answers to these questions make almost no sense, and only raise further questions.
The second potential answer is that these objects are secret operations from a world power that is not the United States, which implies that this power is toying with the U.S. military. However, this answer doesn’t seem to make much sense for the same reasons that it doesn’t make much sense for the US to reveal its own technologies. Why would a foreign power deploy immensely advanced craft to toy with the US military, yet not engage with them? Why would the United States military de-classify and release materials which would indicate that they have been bested by technologies from a foreign power? It really doesn’t make much sense.
The third potential answer is that these objects are not from either the United States, or the rest of known human civilization. As to what they are, where they come from, and who is driving them, is a mystery — one which I will not attempt to answer. Yet, the implications are obviously massive. Is there another advanced civilization which shares the planet Earth with us? Are they coming from another planet, star system, or galaxy? Are they even from our universe? Still, beyond the obvious reason that it sounds risks sounding crazy, this answer raises a number of its own questions. Why are these objects, considering how advanced they are, revealing themselves to the U.S. military? Why are they here? What do they want? Does the U.S. government know more than it is letting on?
What I can say conclusively is that something is going on. I think the least likely answer is that the U.S. Department of Defense has randomly decided to play a giant prank on all the rest of us. There is simply no utility that would come from that, and it somehow makes even less sense than that a terrestrial, or extra-terrestrial, power is operating hyper-advanced craft in the skies above us, and the oceans below. There is simply too much hard evidence at this point to come to any other conclusion. Something very, very strange IS going on.
The hope with writing and publishing this piece is that more people become wise to this information and these stories, which are widely available and easy to find. The more people who are aware of this information, the more likely it is that the U.S. Department of Defence will be forced to explain more of what they know. I strongly urge all readers of this piece to do their own research into this topic. I recommend starting with both a Google and YouTube search of the terms “New York Times Tic Tac UFO” and “USS Nimitz Incident.” You will find a plethora of stories and videos, all from mainstream, reputable sources such as: the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CBC News, Global News, BBC News, and many more.
Before December 16, 2017, I personally believed the UFO phenomena to be a subject discussed and dominated purely by kooks, eccentrics, and the naive and easily gullible. I now believe the same of those who refuse to look further into the issue. Something is happening in the skies above us, and it’s the biggest story in the world that has yet to be fully revealed. I am looking forward to the day it is, and I hope you are as well.