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For millennia, humans have seen inexplicable things in the sky. Some have been beautiful, some have been terrifying, and some — like auroras and solar eclipses before they were understood scientifically — have been both. Today’s aircraft, balloons, drones, satellites and more only increase the chances of spotting something confounding overhead.
In the United States, unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, came into the national spotlight in the late 1940s and early ’50s. A series of incidents, including a supposedly crashed alien spaceship near Roswell, N.M., generated something of an American obsession. The Roswell UFO turned out to be part of a classified program, the remnants of a balloon monitoring the atmosphere for signs of clandestine Russian nuclear tests. But it and other reported sightings prompted the U.S. government to launch various projects and panels to investigate such claims, as Science News reported in 1966 (SN: 10/22/66), as well as kicking off hobby groups and conspiracy theories.
In the decades since, UFOs have often come to be dismissed by scientists as the province of wackos and thus unworthy of study. The term UFO has a smirk factor to it, says Iain Boyd, an aerospace engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder and director of the school’s Center for National Security Initiatives.
But government agencies and officials are trying to change that attitude. Among the biggest concerns is that the stigma associated with reporting a sighting has the side effect of stifling reports from pilots or citizens who might have valuable information about potential threats in U.S. air space — such as the Chinese spy balloon that traversed North America and made headlines last year.
“If there’s something interfering with flights, people or cargo, that’s a problem,” Boyd says.
To help reduce the stigma, many serious investigators now refer to UFOs as “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAPs, coined by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2022. “The term UAP brings science to the issue,” Boyd says. It also rightly broadens the view to include natural atmospheric phenomena as well as things outside the atmosphere, such as satellites and particularly bright planets such as Venus.
An independent team of experts (shown meeting in 2023) suggested NASA help fill in gaps in collecting UAP data.Joel Kowsky/NASA
Investigators of all types have a lot of questions about UAPs that they believe deserve serious scientific scrutiny: Which UAPs are something real and which are merely artifacts of the sensors that detect them? If real, which may be a threat to aviation? A threat to national security? Do they point to some unknown natural phenomena?
Answers may be forthcoming. In June 2022, NASA announced an independent study to determine how the agency could lend its scientific expertise to the study of UAPs. Meanwhile, military and commercial pilots have felt more comfortable making reports and even providing videos taken during close encounters. Some of those reports were discussed as part of congressional hearings in 2022 and 2023, which were covered widely by the media and in part focused on more government transparency (SN: 5/19/22). Those were the first open hearings since the mid-1960s.
Americans for Safe Aerospace, an advocacy organization with a focus on UAPs, supports legislation that would help provide a way for pilots to confidentially report potential sightings to the government.
And government agencies increasingly recognize publicly that strange phenomena in the skies are worthy of attention — whether the phenomena are signs of aliens or not. In 2022, the Pentagon established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to serve as a clearinghouse for government reports of UAPs and for analysts determining if UAPs pose threats. The National UFO Reporting Center, a nonprofit established in 1974, and other organizations continue to collate reports from the public.
By bringing UAPs into the realm of science, the hope is to make the unexplained explainable.Where do UAP sightings occur?
Since its founding, the National UFO Reporting Center has kept a database of UAP sightings, including past and recent incidents reported through its telephone hotline, the mail and online. The database includes almost 123,000 sightings in the United States from June 1930 through June 2022. It’s a trove of data that few if any peer-reviewed scientific studies have used, says Richard Medina, a geographer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
For a study reported in 2023, Medina and colleagues scoured the database to see if they could identify which factors, if any, might affect the number of sightings in a particular area. They focused on the almost 99,000 reports, or about 80 percent of the total, that came from the continental United States from 2001 through 2020. They stuck to the continental United States because tree cover was a factor they were studying, and detailed maps of forested land aren’t available for Alaska’s interior.
First, the researchers calculated the number of UAP sightings that occurred in each county in the Lower 48 states for the 20-year period. Then, they tried to correlate the number of sightings per 10,000 people that lived in each county with environmental factors.
Although many UAPs remain puzzling, experts have identified some common sources. Saucer-shaped lenticular clouds, birds in flight, thermal fluctuations in the atmosphere and other natural phenomena explain some sightings, as do celestial objects like Venus. And while no alien technology has been linked to UAPs, human tech has, including weather balloons, satellites, drones, airborne trash and military aircraft. Last year, a particularly spooky spiral in the sky over northwestern Canada turned out to be vapor from unspent fuel released from a SpaceX rocket.
Vapor from unspent fuel released from a SpaceX rocketTodd Salat
Perhaps ground-based instruments are the way to go. Several research teams are developing suites of instruments that can observe a broad range of characteristics and be deployed to sites where UAPs are frequently seen. Some of these packages could be ready to deploy late this year.
Wes Watters, a planetary scientist at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, is on one team now developing such instrument packages. The observatories are intended to “determine whether there are measurable phenomena in or near Earth’s atmosphere that can be confidently classified as scientific anomalies,” he and colleagues proposed in the March 2023 Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. Or, in simpler terms, “to figure out what’s normal versus what’s not normal,” he explains.
Designing such observatories is complicated by the fact that not all UAPs are the same. But previous fieldwork, as well as the observations made by people during UAP sightings, is a rich source of information about what measurements could be useful, Watters says. Besides sensors for detecting and characterizing a UAP itself, instrument packages will collect weather data, which could help researchers interpret the other measurements.
Watters and colleagues are developing three styles of instrument packages as part of the Galileo Project. Led by Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb, the project seeks to bring the search for signs of extraterrestrial technologies into mainstream scientific research.
The most elaborate instrument package will sport arrays of wide-field cameras for targeting aerial objects and triangulating their positions; narrow-field cameras for tracking objects across the sky; radio antennas and receivers; microphones that can detect sound across a wide range of wavelengths; and computers that can integrate, process and analyze data. These weather-resistant systems will function autonomously 24/7 and be deployed at sites with electrical power and internet connectivity.
These observatories will likely cost around $250,000 each and be deployed to at least three sites for up to five years.
A second, more portable option will be designed for rapid deployment for up to two weeks to sites that don’t have access to electrical power or internet. Each costing about $25,000, these simpler packages will be monitored daily, with data recorded and then processed later and elsewhere. The instruments won’t necessarily be weatherized, restricting their operation to mild-weather locales.
The third, simplest and least expensive package will host low-end, consumer-grade sensors and instruments, Watters says. They’ll be easy to maintain, monitor the sky within a radius of five kilometers and operate continuously for up to a year, relying on solar and battery power if need be. Groups of these packages can be networked together to cover a broad region. Each package will probably cost about $2,500.
With these sorts of instrument packages — and open minds, Watters suggests — researchers are bound to make new discoveries. “It’s impossible to make sense of these phenomena until we collect the right kinds of data,” he says.
In their 2023 report, Watters and colleagues noted that though several teams are developing or using instrument packages, none have yet reported detection of UAPs in peer-reviewed papers. The Galileo Project, including Watters’ team’s research, is funded by private donations, including a recently received $575,000 grant to establish and monitor a ground-based observatory somewhere in the Pittsburgh area.
The goal is not to explain away UAPs, Watters says. Instead, he notes, “we’re about identifying and characterizing what they are or might be.”
The UFO community isn’t a monolith. Among true believers, there are two large factions butting heads over why E.T. is visiting earth.
First, there are the people who believe aliens are cosmic space brothers. This train of thought gained momentum way back in the ’50s with the wave of UFO contactees. This group thinks alien races are here on earth for humanity’s benefit. They see aliens as enlightened beings, here to prevent nuclear war, cure cancer, and end our dependency on fossil fuels.
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And then there are the people preaching the UFO threat narrative. These folks claim aliens are here to mutilate our cattle, abduct unwilling citizens, and plunder our natural resources. In their eyes, we’re in the early stages of an invasion.
Both points of view are just theories. No one has irrefutable evidence to back up either claim. But
the phenomenon’s head-scratching nature means there are plenty of opportunities for believers on both sides to project their beliefs.
Alien Endgame goes all-in on the alien threat narrative.
In its opening moments, the documentary asks viewers if they’re prepared for a war of the worlds before throwing out the claim we’re in an alien cold war.
Despite dropping this explosive claim, Alien Endgame isn’t as off-the-wall bonkers as other investigative docs in the genre. Alien Endgame makes a lot of bold claims, and it (mostly) attempts to back them up with well-researched cases and knowledgeable interview subjects.
Alien Endgame is an investigative documentary that follows “government insider” Rich Emberlin. Emberlin spent 30 years in law enforcement, working for the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service. He believes we’re in the midst of a military coverup. The film follows him on his mission to expose “the government’s greatest secret.”
And what is that secret, you ask? Why are aliens stalking our military, and is our planet in jeopardy?
Unidentified: UFO Encounter Freezes Team in Time (Season 2) | History
Emberlin travels across the United States speaking to people with incredible UFO stories. Folks like retired air force security officer Mario Woods. In the late ‘70s, Woods oversaw security at a nuclear missile launch control facility.
On one fateful night, Woods and his partner investigated an alert at a nearby facility. The men encountered a giant glowing sphere hovering over a missile silo. Woods describes it as about 100 feet tall and several hundred feet in diameter, and says he felt the heat radiating off the object.
Woods breaks into tears describing the encounter’s surreal turn of events. While he can share what happened now, Woods required a hypnotist to uncover the traumatic memories he buried away that night.
The doc features footage of his hypnosis session. Woods lays spread out on the hypnotist’s couch like he’s making a snow angel, and it’s hard not to feel for the guy as his voice trembles and his body quakes. I wouldn’t bet my life that he encountered alien beings, but I have no doubt he believes this happened.
Woods remembers being taken aboard a craft by “long-headed beings with eyes that looked right through him.” He recalls being separated from his partner and receiving a physical inspection by beings that are not kind, not good people. He claims that whatever it is these beings continue to do, they’re not done yet.
Alien Endgame spotlights more stories like Woods, detailing nuclear site incursions, fighter plane dog fights, and encounters with USOs (unidentified submerged objects). The film features a host of credible witnesses, such as former military personnel and CIA operatives.
If you’re part of UFO Twitter, you’ll recognize names like Nick Pope and Jeremy McGowan. And Michio Kaku seems to be making the UFO documentary rounds. After his enthusiastic showing in Caroline Cory’s A Tear in the Sky, the theoretical physicist shows up to chime in on UFOs. It’s about time someone of his stature joins the conversation. Kaku enthusiastically points out how the burden of proof has shifted from the believers to the scientists.
Alien Endgame doesn’t hide its desire to be provocative reality TV. So it doesn’t hold itself to the highest journalistic standards. A literal shadowy figure called Agent X shows up to gossip about the granddaddy of all UFO stories: Roswell. Agent X tells a story about working in a facility where he stumbled into a box marked Roswell. Of course, he won’t share the details, but he states what was inside 100% proves Roswell happened.
I say this all the time in my UFO Movie Club reviews, and I’ll say it again. This movie could use some critical voices. I’m talking about UFO non-believers and people who believe UFOs are accurate but don’t subscribe to the threat narrative.
Alien Endgame makes some all-caps WILD claims and backs them up with the most credible witness accounts. This isn’t one of those docs that claim the Loch Ness monster is guarding an underwater alien base for beings from Zeta Reticuli. These cases have merit, and not challenging them only does each account a disservice. If these alleged encounters hold up to scrutiny, it makes them even more credible.
Presenting alternative points of view prevents these types of docs from coming off like tabloidy hack jobs. Alien Endgame sensationalizes the UFO mystery to stir up drama, much like Fox News manufacturing a crisis of the week to scare people into panic-watching.
When given the option to titillate or educate, Alien Endgame chooses the former every time. So if you’re agnostic about UFOs, all the doc’s fearmongering may be too much to bear – no one has proven UFOs are alien craft. And yet, this doc tells us we’re currently at war. But there are still plenty of fascinating accounts and intriguing interviewees wrapped up in shameless sensationalism.
If you take the doc for what it is, Alien Endgame offers 90 minutes of conspiratorial edutainment.
“There’s a Whole Other Reality That Surrounds Us” — Ex-CIA Officer Drops Alien Encounter Bombshell on National Radio Show
Coast to Coast AM is a venerable radio show known and loved by armchair UFO and alien researchers since its inception in 1988.
While it often plays in the wee hours of the morning, the show, hosted by the legendary George Noory, is well known for its bombshell interviews and confessions.
Over nearly a century ex-CIA officers and military officials have been known for spilling the beans on UFO and alien encounters, ranging from Derrel Sims to Lue Elizondo to David Fravor and R. James Woolsey.
Recently, a CIA veteran named Jim Semivan stepped up to the plate, sharing information with host George Knapp that has caught the attention of paranormal and UFO investigators nationwide.
Ex-CIA Agent Details Harrowing Alien Encounter with Wife in His Bedroom
Semivan took to the airwaves along with fellow ex-agent John Ramirez to describe ‘paranormal alien-type encounters’ that he and his wife experienced beginning in 1990, during which ‘beings showed up in their bedroom.’
The ex-CIA employee said that the incident was not a hypnagogic or dream state, and was authentic in nature.
Jim and his wife reported seeing a “hooded figure that resembled the Death Eater character from Harry Potter.” He said it “perhaps materialized to herald the death of a close friend.”
The incident was authentic, Semivan insisted.
Semivan also shared his perspective on the UFO phenomenon, agreeing that it is “a lot more than nuts and bolts and machines,” as Skinwalker Ranch researcher Colm Kelleher has insisted.
More info can be seen in the interview below:
Investigations have been conducted on “metamaterials” with ‘odd isotopic ratios” that are currently ongoing, he added.
To the Stars’ investigation of “metamaterials” with odd isotopic ratios (possibly associated with UFOs) was ongoing, he added.
Ex-CIA Officer Jim Semivan says Aliens are Jinn
CIA Agent: We Have Only Seen the Tip of the Iceberg When It Comes to Aliens and UFOs
Semivan added that he believes we have only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to aliens and UFOs.
Much like in the animal kingdom where each creature lives in its own world with an entirely different scale depending on location, environment, the creature’s size, and the way it perceives the world, humans may be living on a completely different spectrum compared to aliens without even realizing it.
“I think they mention that the phenomenon is a natural part of our universe, and we’re living in it but we don’t recognize it,” Semivan said.
“The same way that insects and animals don’t recognize the human universe. A cat and a dog could be running through a library, but they don’t have the faintest idea what the books are all about and what libraries are all about.
“We might be walking through our existence and there’s a whole other reality that surrounds us that we just simply don’t have the ability to see or interact with.”
His take seems reasonable and measured, especially coupled with he and his wife’s bedroom experience with the shadowy figures mentioned above.
Semivan went on to say that oftentimes we come close to a different reality but never fully realize it. We brush up against it, but have no idea exactly what is happening.
The lines have become blurred, the former CIA agent concluded.
“It seems to be peeking inside our little consensus reality. As I explained to somebody once, it comes close, it teases us, it cajoles us, it lies to us, but you can never take it home to meet the parents. It won’t allow you to do that. There’s no formal introduction. Add on top that there’s no ontology, which is just a fancy word, it basically means there’s no structure to even discuss this. We don’t have a common lexicon. Somebody said we have dots but no connections. I don’t even think we have dots.
He wasn’t specifically tasked with pursuing UFO and alien-related questions during his time with the agency, but CIA analyst Kit Green was during his time there.
These two articles are about UFO/UAPs and what the governments know about them or do not know about them but so many people have had experiences with these so call UFO/UAPs and have recorded them, have been abducted by them, and have had actual contact with these Alien beings. But is there more to these UFO/UAP events that governments all over the world are hiding to keep us in the dark about what's really going on? These two articles speak about what may be really going on and will open your mind to real facts and events that military personnel has experienced with UFO/UAPs and that UFO/UAPs have been here all the time but in another dimension where we can't go.
