re: NY Times: Pentagon’s UFO Program - aerospace/esoteric/quantum mechanics/future

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Why pilots are seeing UFOs
By Don Lincoln Updated 1:19 PM ET, Fri June 21, 2019

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The question that comes to mind is: "Are these aliens?" Sadly for anyone who is a fan of the television show "The X-Files," it is simply far, far, more plausible that what these pilots were seeing is something with a more ordinary explanation, whether it be an instrumental glitch or some other unexplained artifact.

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Given the professionalism of the pilots who reported the sightings, I am fairly certain that they did indeed see a UFO. The problem is that many people jump directly from the "unidentified" in "UFO" to "flying saucer." And that's just too large a jump to be reasonable. There is simply no credible evidence that the Earth is being visited by aliens. There are no artifacts, no clear photographs, no captured aliens, no alien bodies -- nothing.

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The reports of UFOs are from eyewitnesses or poor resolution photographs or videos. Ask a criminal prosecutor about the value of eyewitness reports: they have contributed to a majority of the convictions that were later overturned by DNA evidence. An eyewitness can be an unreliable source of information and, in the case of something as extraordinary as the observation of alien spacecraft, pedestrian evidence simply won't do. As Carl Sagan often said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The reality is that unidentified means just that.

The pilots could have seen a real object that they couldn't explain, or they could have experienced an instrumental artifact, which is basically just a glitch in the electronics. In the San Diego incident, there were earlier reports of high-altitude radar contacts from surface ships. And just prior to when an unidentified object was recorded on the fighter jets' infrared camera, there were reports of something in or just below the water. Even though there were multiple observations of multiple phenomena, what is missing is multiple reports of the same phenomenon. It would be hasty to link these independent observations together.

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There was a time in history when the working explanation of UFOs didn't involve extraterrestrials. During World War II and before the flying saucer craze, Allied pilots reported UFOs that they called "foo fighters," which were thought to possibly be a new weapon employed by German Luftwaffe. By the same token, these modern accounts should certainly be investigated in the event that they actually exist and are of earthly origin.

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Docs Show Navy Got 'UFO' Patent Granted By Warning Of Similar Chinese Tech

Advances Patent documents indicate that the U.S. and China are actively developing radical new craft that seem eerily similar to UFOs reported by Navy pilots.
BY BRETT TINGLEY AND TYLER ROGOWAYJUNE 28, 2019

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The United States Secretary of Navy is listed as the assignee on several radical aviation technologies patented by an aerospace engineer working at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) headquarters in Patuxent River, Maryland. One of these patents describes a "hybrid aerospace-underwater craft" claimed to be capable of truly extraordinary feats of speed and maneuverability in air, water, and outer space alike thanks to a revolutionary electromagnetic propulsion system.

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The Navy’s Patented Hybrid Underwater Aerospace Craft

Pais is named as the inventor on four separate patents for which the U.S. Navy is the assignee: a curiously-shaped “High Frequency Gravitational Wave Generator;” a room temperature superconductor; an electromagnetic ‘force field’ generator that could deflect asteroids; and, perhaps the strangest of all, one titled “Craft Using An Inertial Mass Reduction Device.” While all are pretty outlandish-sounding, the latter is the one that the Chief Technical Officer of the Naval Aviation Enterprise personally vouched for in a letter to the USPTO, claiming the Chinese are already developing similar capabilities.

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The hybrid aerospace-underwater craft in Pais’ patent, meanwhile, is described as being capable of incredible feats of speed and maneuverability and can fly equally well in air, water, or space without leaving a heat signature. This is possible, Pais claims in the patent, because the craft is able to “engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level” by exploiting the laws of physics.

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In his most recent publication, Pais describes the hybrid aerospace underwater craft as a roughly cone-shaped vehicle that would appear round from the front or rear: “the HAUC is conical in configuration, with an elliptical cross-section, similar in geometry to a hypersonic glide vehicle / dart.” Interestingly enough, the descriptions of the craft in several of Pais’ publications and even the patent for “Craft using an inertial mass reduction device” include room for a crew compartment shielded by a Faraday cage. Shortly after the patent for the hybrid craft was approved in 2018, Pais presented another related paper, “Room Temperature Superconducting System for Use on a Hybrid Aerospace Undersea Craft” at the 2019 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech Forum in San Diego this past January. In the paper, Pais writes that "the achievement of room temperature superconductivity (RTSC) represents a highly disruptive technology, capable of a total paradigm change in Science and Technology,” and adds that its “military and commercial value is considerable."

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The capabilities described in the paper should certainly sound familiar to anyone who's been following the Navy UFO stories over the last several years:

It is possible to envision hybrid aerospace-undersea craft (HAUC), which can function as a submersible craft capable of extreme underwater speeds (lack of water-skin friction) and enhanced aerial/underwater stealth capabilities (non-linear scattering of RF and sonar signals). This hybrid craft would move with great ease through the air/space/water mediums, by being enclosed in a Vacuum/plasma bubble/sheath, due to the coupled effects of EM field-induced air/water particles repulsion and Vacuum energy polarization.

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That being said, the unorthodox circumstances surrounding the approval of this patent have us wondering why the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Naval Aviation Enterprise, Dr. James Sheehy, personally vouched for the legitimacy of this beyond-revolutionary aerospace technology in the Navy’s appeal to the USPTO. Sheehy assured the patent examiner in charge of this application that the aircraft propulsion method described in the patent is indeed possible or will be soon based on experiments and tests NAWCAD has already conducted. While plenty of commenters online have seen the patents and claimed that any old crackpot scientist can attempt to patent crazy-sounding technologies far beyond what is currently technologically feasible, I would hesitate to call the CTO of the Naval Aviation Enterprise working on behalf of the Federal Government a crackpot. Then again, it's not impossible.

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In a press release marking the official launch of TTSA on Oct. 11, 2017, former Program Director for Advanced Systems at Lockheed Martin Advanced Development Programs at the Skunk Works, Steve Justice, described how TTSA was working on developing revolutionary "Advanced Electromagnetic Vehicles" that will "dramatically reduce the current travel limits of distance and time" and "mimic the capabilities observed in unidentified aerial phenomenon by employing a drive system that alters the space-time metric." Without a doubt, these advanced electromagnetic vehicles that TTSA says it plans to develop sound uncannily like the electromagnetic hybrid aerospace underwater craft in Pais's patent.

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Also, consider the fact that Senators, including the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Community, have been briefed in recent weeks by Navy officials about the unexplained sightings Navy pilots have reported. Even President Donald Trump recently stated in an interview that the Navy UFO reports could be due the fact that pilots "see things a little bit different from the past," a comment which could be taken to mean that pilots are witnessing new types of aerospace technology for the first time. Trump seemed to indicate that he does not believe the objects reported by Navy pilots are evidence of anything extraterrestrial and took his interviewer’s UFO question in stride without any apparent surprise, an indication of just how far into the mainstream the UFO discussion has become.

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Furthermore, Pais notes in the paper that such a technology “would permit swift movement of the HAUC beyond our Solar System.” Is this an undisclosed reason why we suddenly need a Space Force? Is this what Air Force Lieutenant General Vera Linn Jamieson was referring to last year when she casually dropped during an unrelated interview that in "different galaxies in the future we’re going to actually have capability that we have right now in the air”? And this is hardly the only highly peculiar thing that Air Force leadership has spouted off about in regards to the future of America's military footprint in space.

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These ‘Men in Black’ Think Aliens Made Your iPhone
A new study of the UFO phenomenon shatters the assumptions we have about what it actually is. It’s time to meet the Invisible College.

Jay Michaelson
Published 07.01.19 4:49AM ET

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American Cosmic is not the book that its author set out to write.

On the surface, it’s a straightforward project: religious studies professor examines the UFO phenomenon as a religion. Makes sense—about a third of Americans believe in UFOs, and UFO myths are part of our cultural psyche. It’s why there’s a new Men in Black film in theaters this month, after all.

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First, Pasulka was seduced by the largely anonymous network of scientists who study the UFO phenomenon, known as the “Invisible College.”

Epitomizing Lao Tzu’s epigram that “He who knows, does not speak; he who speaks does not know,” the Invisible College avoids all publicity, mostly because its members fear the ridicule and loss of credibility that would result if their colleagues knew they were among the weirdos.

These people actually exist, and are actual scientists with sterling mainstream reputations, rigorous methodological criteria, and high-up positions in government and the academy.

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Second, Pasulka found that among Invisible College members those who actually study the phenomenon, little green men have nothing to do with it. “What is ultimately marketed to the public about the phenomenon,” Pasulka writes, “barely resembles these scientists’ findings.”

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In fact—ready for the red pill?—most Invisible College members believe that alien intelligences have long used “anomalous technology [that] functions as creative inspiration.” Not all of the voices inside your head are being transmitted by aliens via some unknown technology, but sometimes, in certain ways, some are.

What’s more, the Invisible College includes a lot of those believers are themselves some of the most important pioneers of the internet, aerospace, biotech, and smartphones. And many credit alien intelligence with their technological innovations.

Yes, according to some people who actually invented it, aliens created your iPhone.

One of the most compelling figures in American Cosmic is “Tyler,” an Elon-Musk-type billionaire polymath who’s patented numerous biotech inventions, flipped several companies, flies in private jets, and was a NASA engineer until the Challenger disaster shook him to his core.

Tyler is certain that several of his own patented biotech inventions were communicated to him by alien intelligence. “I know I’ve established connection [with the non-human intelligence] when the thoughts that show up in my mind don’t seem like my own,” Tyler tells Pasulka. “They are unfamiliar. With practice you can feel the difference.”

Moreover, Tyler says, “the environment also ‘wakes up’ and validates that they are speaking to you… I get a thought, and it comes out of nowhere. It comes with a certain feeling, like a hit. Then, usually within a few hours, something will happen that will validate that it was them, and that I should act on it.”

As Pasulka points out, this whole understanding of reality is not that different from very old religious traditions about inspiration (original meaning: “divine guidance”).

In the Iliad, for example, it’s clear that the gods and goddesses are what, today, most of us would understand to be internal voices that emanate from the unconscious, or memory, or wherever, and that we hear all the time. When it’s a wise voice, it’s Athena; when it’s a warlike one, it’s Ares.

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Pasulka even proffers significant evidence of government propaganda, or “perception management.” The real Men in Black don’t have magic zappers to erase your memories, so instead, writes Pasulka, they partner with Hollywood to fake out the public as to what the phenomenon even is. It’s even possible that Men in Black helped create Men in Black.

Remember that saying, used to great effect in the movie The Usual Suspects, that the smartest thing the devil did was convincing us he didn’t exist? Pasulka shows that official government policy has been to muddy the already-unclear UFO waters with ridiculous bullshite deliberately disseminated to attract cranks and kooks.

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Pasulka finally is (mostly) convinced. “What I observed of [the Invisible College’s] work places me in the odd position of almost confirming a myth. This is not the preferred position of the academic author of books about religion.”

This, she describes, as an “epistemological shock”—that is, a shock to her fundamental understanding of the world and its universe. For Pasulka, the shock was twofold: First, “several of the most well-regarded scientists in the world believe in nonhuman intelligence that originated in space.” And second, “rumors of the findings of these scientists inspired hoaxes, disinformation, media, and documentaries based on bogus information.”

Pasulka says that she “watched this happen in realtime.”

Now, there is still plenty of room for skepticism. As the season one finale of Westworld conveyed to a mass audience, the bicameral human brain is structured such that different parts of the brain can seem like totally separate entities. There is, phenomenologically, no perceptual difference between a “voice” from a different region of the brain and a voice from outside.

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Nor, due to the anonymity of the Invisible College, can the reader evaluate Pasulka’s claim that it really includes “several of the most well-regarded scientists in the world.” (There are two notable exceptions: Jack Parsons, a pioneer of the U.S. space program who was also a leading occultist and magick practitioner—and the subject of the CBS drama Strange Angel–and his Russian counterpart, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.)

If only for the total redefinition of everything I thought I knew about UFOs, though, American Cosmic is a book that I cannot get out of my mind. Once you’ve eaten the red pill, you can’t go back.

Or, in Pasulka’s words, “Once you become aware that there is a phenomenon, it becomes aware of you.”

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