re: Space Force and novel energy production sources / transit (Paradigm changing)

quote:

---

Discussion

We have carefully considered a handful of encounters with UAVs of unknown nature and 260 origin. Reports of the encounters have described these UAVs as having “amazing” or “impossible” 261 flight characteristics. In this paper, we objectively quantified the observed accelerations. In some 262 situations the information available consisted of eyewitness descriptions. However, in each of these 263 cases the eyewitnesses were trained observers, and these encounters were selected because they 264 involved multiple witnesses observing in multiple modalities including visual contact from pilots 265 and passengers, radar, and infrared video. While fabrication and exaggeration cannot be ruled out, 266 the fact that multiple professional trained observers working in different modalities corroborate the 267 reports greatly minimizes such risks. Moreover, the fact that the estimated accelerations of encounters 268 spanning over 50 years all fall within two orders of magnitude of one another and that they are far 269 greater than one would expect further supports the accuracy of the reports. 270 The analysis aimed to estimate lower bounds on the acceleration. This was found by assuming 271 that the UAVs accelerated a constant rate. We worked to obtain conservative estimates by assigning 272 liberal uncertainties. It was found that the minimum acceleration estimates far exceeded (often by 273 orders of magnitude) those expected for an aircraft. A summary of the estimated accelerations is 274 provided in Table 2. The observed UAV accelerations range from about 70 g to well over 5000 g. For 275 comparison, humans can endure up to 45 g for 0.044 s with no injurious or debilitating effects, but this 276 limit decreases with increasing duration of exposure [27]. For durations more than 0.2 s the limit of 277 tolerance decreases to 25 g and it decreases further still for longer durations [27]. 278 These considerations suggest that these UAVs may not have been piloted, but instead may have 279 been remote controlled or autonomous. However, it should be noted that even equipment can only 280 handle so much acceleration. For example, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II has maintained 281 structural integrity up to 13.5 g [28]. Missiles can handle much higher accelerations. The Crotale 282 NG VT1 missile has an airframe capable of withstanding 50 g and can maintain maneuverability up 283 to 35 g [29]. However, these accelerations are still only about half of the lowest accelerations that 284 we have estimated for these UAVs. The fact that these UAVs display no flight surfaces or apparent 285 propulsion mechanisms, and do not produce sonic booms or excessive heat that would be released 286 given the hundreds of GigaWatts of power that we expect should be involved (Fig 3C), strongly 287 suggests that these anomalous craft are taking advantage of technology, engineering, or physics that 288 we are unfamiliar with. For example, the Tic-Tac UAV dropping from 28000 ft to sea level in 0.78 s 289 involved at least 4.3 × 1011 J of energy (assuming a mass of 1000 kg), which is equivalent to about 100 290 tons of TNT, or the yield of 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles, released in 34 of a second. One would have 291 expected a catastrophic effect on the surrounding environment. This does not rule out the possibility 292 that these UAVs have been developed by governments, organizations, or individuals on Earth, but it 293 suggests that these UAVs and the technologies they employ may be of extraterrestrial origin. 294 That being said, it should be strongly emphasized that proving that something is extraterrestrial 295 is extremely difficult, even if one had a craft in hand. One might imagine that the presence of 296 unidentifiable, or incomprehensible, technology would constitute potential evidence.

---

quote:

---

Conclusions
It is difficult to draw any useful conclusions at this point. We have characterized the accelerations 318 of a number of UAVs and have demonstrated that if they are craft then they are indeed anomalous, 319 displaying technical capabilities far exceeding those of our fastest aircraft and spacecraft. It is not clear 320 that these objects are extraterrestrial in origin, but it is extremely difficult to imagine that anyone on 321 Earth with such technology would not put it to use. Moreover, observations of similar UAPs go back 322 to well before the era of flight [1]. Collectively, these observations strongly suggest that these UAVs 323 should be carefully studied by scientists [9–13]. 324

Unfortunately, the attitude that the study of UAVs (UFOs) is “unscientific” pervades the scientific 325 community, including SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) [31], which is surprising, especially 326 since efforts are underway to search for extraterrestrial artifacts in the solar system [32–36], in particular, 327 on the Moon, Mars, asteroids [37], and at Earth-associated Lagrange points. Ironically, such attitudes 328 inhibit scientific study, perpetuating a state of ignorance about these phenomena that has persisted for 329 well over 70 years, and is now especially detrimental, since answers are presently needed [38–43].

---

quote:

---

UNEXPLAINED LIGHTS IN SKY COULD BE ALIEN STRUCTURES OR ‘COMMUNICATION LASERS’, SCIENTISTS SAY

Vanishing, bright stars likely to be from 'natural, if somewhat extreme, astrophysical sources', say astronomers – but could change our understanding of the universe whatever they are
Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin 22 hours ago

---

quote:

---

Scientists are investigating strange blinking lights in the sky for indications that they are signs of "interstellar communication lasers" or alien structures. A number of appearing and vanishing objects have been spotted among the stars and are puzzling the scientists who are trying to understand what they are.

---

quote:

---

Whatever scientists find it likely to change our understanding of space, potentially ushering in a "new astrophysics", scientists said. "The implications of finding such objects extend from traditional astrophysics fields to the more exotic searches for evidence of technologically advanced civilisations," the authors write in the new paper.

---

quote:

---

Navy Pilot Who Filmed the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Speaks: ‘It Wasn’t Behaving by the Normal Laws of Physics’
By Matthew Phelan

---

quote:

---

In the 15 years since Chad Underwood recorded a bizarre and erratic UFO — now called “the Tic Tac,” a name Underwood himself came up with — from the infrared camera on the left wing of his F/A-18 Super Hornet, he’s become a flight instructor, a civilian employee in the aerospace industry, and a father. But he has not yet spoken publicly about what he saw that day, even now, two years after his video made the front page of the New York Times. As he explained before speaking with Intelligencer, Underwood has mostly wanted to avoid having his name “attached to the ‘little green men’ crazies that are out there.”

---

quote:

---

Was that named based on what you saw with your own eyes, or from looking at the screen on the camera?

No. I was more concentrated on looking at the FLIRAdvanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) is an optical electric- and thermal-imaging system that was developed for U.S. Navy pilots by Raytheon in the late 1990s, mainly for the detection and identification of tactical targets and the delivery of autonomous precision targeting to smart weapons. In the mid-2000s, as well as today, ATFLIR was capable of detecting and tracking targets within a range of 40 nautical miles. . It was inside of 20 miles. You’re not going to see it with your own eyes until probably 10 miles, and then you’re not going to be able to visually track it until you’re probably inside of five miles, which is where Dave Fravor said that he saw it. So, at that point I didn’t see anything with my eyeballs. I was more concerned with tracking it, making sure that the videotape was on so that I could bring something back to the ship, so that the intel folks could dissect whatever it is that I captured. The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving. And what I mean by “erratic” is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I’ve ever encountered before flying against other air targets. It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal. That’s what caught my eye. Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like seconds, which is not possible.

And it was doing that during your engagement too?

Yes. That was the thing that was the most interesting to me: how erratic this thing wasJim Gillingham, an engineering consultant who worked on ATFLIR for Raytheon, suggested in an interview with Intelligencer that “if there were several things in the sky to look at, but none were quite where the pilot was trying to look,” it might produce erratic results, a glitch he’d experienced using the ATFLIR to track planes from the ground during development testing. “We ran into this when trying to get a lock and there were two aircraft climbing out. (LAX has four parallel runways). Sometimes the image would switch back and forth vigorously until we took steps to bias the lock some way.” . If it was obeying physics like a normal object that you would encounter in the sky — an aircraft, or a cruise missile, or some sort of special project that the government didn’t tell you about — that would have made more sense to me. The part that drew our attention was how it wasn’t behaving within the normal laws of physics. You’re up there flying, like, “Okay. It’s not behaving in a manner that’s predictable or is normal by how flying objects physically move.”

---

quote:

---

no sonic booms

---

quote:

---

Navy's Advanced Aerospace Tech Boss Claims Key 'UFO' Patent Is Operable

Navy officials claim their radical electromagnetic and superconductor technologies aren't theoretical, they’re already operable in some form.

BY BRETT TINGLEY
AUGUST 2, 2019

---

quote:

---

Last month, The War Zone reported on a series of strange patent applications the U.S. Navy has filed over the last few years and questioned what their connections may be with the ongoing saga of Navy personnel reporting incidents involving unidentified objects in or near U.S. airspace.

We have several active Freedom of Information Act requests with the Department of Navy to pursue more information related to the research that led to these patents. As those are being processed, we've continued to dig through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Public Patent Application Information Retrieval database to get as much context for these patents as possible.

---

quote:

---

In doing so, we came across documents that seem to suggest, at least by the Navy's own claims, that two highly peculiar Navy patents, the room temperature superconductor (RTSC) and the high-energy electromagnetic field generator (HEEMFG), may in fact already be in operation in some manner. The inventor of the Navy's most bizarre patent, the straight-out-of-science fiction-sounding hybrid aerospace/underwater craft, describes that craft as leveraging the same room temperature superconductor technology and high energy electromagnetic fields to enable its unbelievable speed and maneuverability. If those two technologies are already operable as the Navy claims, could this mean the hybrid craft may also already operable or close to operable? Or is this just more evidence that the whole exotic 'UFO' patent endeavor on the Navy's behalf is some sort of ruse or even gross mismanagement of resources?

---

quote:

---

All of these technologies - the room temperature superconductor, the high-energy electromagnetic field generator, and the hybrid aerospace/underwater craft (HUAC) - are inventions of the same NAWCAD aerospace engineer, the aforementioned Salvatore Cezar Pais. Our previous article on the Navy’s patents explored the hybrid craft and whether or not it could be related to other developments such as Navy pilots reporting strange objects in U.S. airspace during training exercises and members of Congress now asking for answers on UFOs.

---

quote:

---

Speculation is electrogravitic (antigravity)
vs deriving energy from the vacuum (zero-point energy / free energy)

---