UAP captured by Navy pilots off E. coast -2015
Military Vets: Graves, Grusch and Fravor at congressional
UAP Hearing (July, 2023)
The study of UFOs (now termed UAP or unidentified aerial phenomena - to mute the chuckle factor of chuckleheads) has always been dogged by short sightedness,
negative confirmation bias and blind refusal to examine all aspects. This is especially in the context of the actual historical background as well as the science. This
is why - for those of us who've actually conducted scientific research into
the "taboo" UFO arena - and had papers published in
peer-reviewed astronomical journals, i.e.
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Page 168 (harvard.edu)
We easily are reminded of Leo Tolstoy's famous quote:
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the
slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already. But the simplest
thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly
persuaded that he knows already without a shadow of a doubt."
Whenever we come up
against obtuse critics or skeptics who exhibit knee-jerk reactions of denial
before even examining the evidence. But then there is another breed of critic, colossally slow-witted and uninformed - like the WSJ's Holman Jenkins Jr. - who stands apart in the dimensions of sheer ignorance and codswallop expelled. Such is the case with little Holman's latest column, 'CBS Kicks The UFO Habit', trotted out in the weekend issue (p. A13).
Likely energized by his previous excursions into balderdash and bunkum on the topic, i.e.
And:
He babbles:
"A UFO hoo-hah began on Dec. 16, 2017, as you may remember, and
new chapters continue to be written today. As reported by the New York
Times, U.S. Navy visual and sensor sightings seemed to indicate encounters
with uncannily agile flying objects operating in military training areas,
performing physically impossible maneuvers. As the story roiled along, it soon
commanded the attention of serious scholars and top government officials,
including from the CIA, Senate and NASA, who spoke openly of alien spacecraft.
Then with the outbreak of the Ukraine War and the heightening
of the geopolitical moment- and no thanks to serious news reporting - the U.S. government began to striptease the
truth: the most troubling sightings weren’t of physically impossible
objects. They were ordinary drones
operated near U.S. military bases likely by a foreign power, namely China.”
He then claims the 60 Minutes original report on the
Nimitz UAP sightings, i.e.
Navy pilots describe
encounters with UFOs
was retracted by CBS’ correspondent Bill Whitaker:
“who states plainly the
Pentagon did little to dispel speculation these images taken with night vision
equipment were not UFOs but ship’s log identification as drones. At the
time and the Navy suspected they came from a Hong Kong flagged freighter
sailing nearby."
We may never know what brand of MJ munchies Holman was snacking
on when he wrote this drivel, or indeed CBS’ Bill Whitaker – if what Jenkins insists he claimed was true about the ship’s
logs. What we can do is inquire whether Jenkins (or CBS' Whitaker) knew all the salient facts, data points when they made their phantasmagoric conjectures. Or whether they relied on the well-known disinformation campaign that's been ongoing since 1947.
But asserting the ships logs were off and the experienced Nimitz pilots were pursuing 46 ft. long Chinese drones in 2004- off San Diego- take us into MJ-munchies (and magic mushrooms) la-la land
Luis Elizondo, former director of The Advanced
Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), splattered
this twaddle into a million pieces in his superb monograph, Imminent.(The AATIP was an unclassified but unpublicized investigatory
effort funded by the United States Government to
study unidentified flying objects (UFOs)
or unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP). It originated with the Defense
Intelligence Agency.)
Specifically, as Elizondo notes, what places the Nimitz 2004 sighting in the realm of the "UAP gold standard" is the fact that:
- It was made not merely by distant sightings or videos of but a close up encounter of TWO pilots (Lt. Cmdr. David Fravor, Lt. Jr. Grade Alex Dietrich) in their U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets. Further, occupying the rear seat of Fravor's Hornet was Jim Sleight (the WSO) responsible for weapons targeting.
- It was supported by state of the art technology including Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared Radar (ATFLIR) used by a 3rd pilot (Lt. Chad Underwood).
- The incident was noteworthy given the convergence of high caliber intelligence gathering from multiple radar systems (and ATFLIR) and the unanimous testimony of experienced military pilots in an encounter at close quarters.
Mistaking the object for a Chinese drone? No way in hell! As Elizondo details the encounter (pp. 74-75):
"The object was about 46 feet long - about the length of a semi-truck and shaped like an elongated oval. The pilots would later recall the object's gleaming whiteness as if the exterior were covered with a white, candy- coated shell."
A 46 foot long "drone" it was assuredly not. And more to the point (op. cit.):
"As Fravor closed in on the object it instantly trained itself on his fast approaching aircraft. It gained altitude as if intending to meet Fravor and Sleight somewhere in the middle but it mirrored Fravor's maneuver in a way that never permitted him to get closer.
As Fravor and Sleight approached the object it disappeared over the horizon in a split second. Never before had Fravor or Sleight encountered this type of performance. Whatever the technology it was more capable than anything in our inventory by several magnitudes."
Or in any foreign nation's "inventory"!
The most chlling aspect? The object arriving at the pilots' CAP point within seconds.
As Elizondo describes it (p. 75):
"The combat air patrol (CAP) point is a designated point preloaded into the aircraft, used as a meeting point for navigation and exercises. Few people know the location of a CAP point and it is impossible to extract it from the aircraft system themselves. Yet the object somehow 'knew' the intended meeting point of the two Hornets, though it was sixty miles away. Not only did the object have secret information but it managed to dart to the location within seconds."
In his 2023 congressional testimony Fravor noted how the object shifted its longitudinal axis and paced his fighter - which was at 15,000 ft. altitude, while the object was at 12,000 ft. It then "rapidly accelerated in front of us and disappeared". Adding:
"We started to turn back and then the controller interrupted and said 'Sir, you're not going to believe this but that thing turned around is at your cap point, roughly 60 miles in less than a minute.'
You can calculate the speed, as Cmdr. Fravor notes, and it works out to: (60 miles/ min) x (60 min/hr) = 3600 miles per hour, or over MACH 4. And as he added:
"What you don't see is the radar tape which was never released and we don't know where it is right now. But there was active jamming the object put on our AG373 radar. I can get into modes later if you want. What was shocking to us is the incident was never investigated, tapes were never taken, leaving it just a great story with friends. It wasn't until 2009 Jay Stratton contacted me to investigate, he was part of the AATIP program with Lou Alizondo."
As Elizondo observes (p. 78), "several pilots later related being debriefed by intelligence officers but they saw no evidence of a subsequent investigation."
The Nimitz encounter radar tape not being released bears an uncomfortable similarity to the whole GIMBAL video - i.e.
taken by Navy pilots from the U.S.S. Roosevelt, off the east coast in 2015 - not being released in its entirety. This has allowed Wack jobs and trolls to mock it and make up baloney to try to explain it away.
Such as one skeptic crank, Mike West. This joker actually
admitted - in The Denver Post, 6/23/21 - that alien craft was the simplest hypothesis
to explain UAP. But he sought to invoke "infrared glare"
to account for certain rapid spin motion for the GIMBAL object. (Because he saw another clown - with the nickname 'Monkey Man' - "debunking" it on his podcast - by comparing the video to an alleged earlier similar one with the same pilot reactions).
Typical of the 75 years coverup that's also allowed hacks like Holman Jenkins Jr. to come up with their idiotic Chinese drones bollocks.
As Elizondo earlier (p. 46) relates, the Pentagon's and Intelligence community's formula for treating the UFO-UAP phenomenon echoes the words of my now deceased Air Force brother Jerry:
1- Admit nothing and deny everything.
2-Make counter-accusations.
3- Retrieve the pieces of any crashed craft.
4- Whisk the retrieved pieces off to undisclosed locations.
5- Work to reverse engineer the superior technology
6- Intimidate witnesses into saying nothing. Discredit those who don't play along.
7- Threaten anyone who says a word about the topic with the Espionage Act.
There you have it. So we are saddled with a military-intelligence complex intent on hiding the facts, while scallywags and trolls like Holman Jenkins Jr. churn out rubbish about Chinese drones to mislead millions into buying their codswallop.
A more serious, rational and objective framework would consider the following:
1) What manner of craft would be consistent with maneuvers at 700gs, moving at 13,000 mph in our atmosphere?
2) What manner of craft would have the ability to evade radar, mirror our own fighter jets speeds, and then out maneuver them as if they were standing still?
3) Why did a Nov. 21, 1950 memo dispatched from the Canadian Embassy relay the following information - on the actual U.S. position on UFOs- to an inquiring Canadian radio engineer:
i)The matter is the most highly classified subject in the U.S government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.
ii) Flying saucers exist and are likely extraterrestrial craft, not manufactured on Earth (Project Sign conclusion)
Incidents like the Nimitz F/A 18 Hornets encounters with UAP support my now deceased Air Force brother Jerry's contention that there has been a 75+ year deliberate effort to conceal alien artifacts and existence. This a result of governmental and military paternalism, convinced Americans simply aren't ready to accept the truth of extraterrestrials roaming our skies with impunity - and a U.S. military unable to do a damned thing about it.
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