11 March 2019

(If a family member or loved one has asked you to read this, they are trying to help you understand some pretty fantastic but nonetheless true recent history so that we can all determine our future together)

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If you are reading this article in the early days or months after it was released you are probably part of a very small subset of the population, aka The UFO Community. Whether you are the president of your local Stanton Friedman fan club or get withdrawals without a constant stream of Ancient Aliens, you are involved, invested or otherwise somehow accepting of a larger world beyond your direct perception. You may actively seek out new and verified information in regard to UAP and USO phenomena. You may be interested in the philosophical implications of certain established theory or fanciful hypothesis. You may be interested in consciousness, meditation and the culture of awakening. You may lean in a more esoteric or occult direction bringing faith and perhaps even religion to bear against a backdrop of lesser reported history and geological evidence. Some may go so far as to report personal unverifiable phenomena or communication. I know many of us experience each of the things I have mentioned and more. We are uniquely equipped.

When the genesis of this article spread in my mind it was as a rebuke to the greater “UFO” community. In December 2017 the capital “D” Disclosure event everyone was begging for occurred. Cognizant authority in the guise of Luis Elizondo revealed certain key declassified details about The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. That was the moment I saw the greater “UFO” community begin to experience the close-minded cognitive dissonance that plagues our society at large. With that said the “UFO” community has been battered and abused by all sides. Members have been subject to disinformation, harassment, character assassination and simply put… psychological espionage and control tactics usually reserved for the “enemy”.

We can’t mention how the community has been abused by those charged with keeping us safe and keeping our secrets safe without mentioning how it has been abused from within;

Snake oil salesmen. Charlatans. Attention whores. Liars. Swindlers and let’s be honest; the borderline and full-blown mentally ill. There are many who prey on the desperate in a manner so similar to a rousing preacher at a tent revival that you can just smell the tar and feathers in their future. Some started as truth tellers who just loved the attention too much. They’re human.

But I don’t want to start a fight. So I am going to soften my tone and try to bend my rebuke into a plea.

We need your help.

There will never be capital “D” disclosure as the greater population wants and expects it. Those who study the broader phenomena beyond YouTube and popular television shows know that there is more to this than an interplanetary federation of little green men in nuts and bolts machines that will land someday next to fanfare on the white house lawn.

But there are nuts and bolts machines…and not all of them are “ours”. So let’s start there.

The 2004 Tic-Tac incident off the coast of California sparked another investigation by the government into UAPs. I’ve been lucky enough to not have to question any part of the reality of that incident because I was there, I was paying attention and before that week I had been a “UFO” nut. I had seen a few things, enjoyed science fiction and liked to speculate about our vast universe. After that week and the reaction of those above me in my chain of command, I decided there were no UFOs and everything was an advanced defense project of local (human) origin. Not interested, case closed.

In December of 2017 when I saw the same gun camera footage in a New York Times article that was shared with us in ’04 I knew I had called the whole game wrong. 2017 was kind of a big year. In January, before Mr. Elizondo changed the game forever, the CIA released over 12 million pages of declassified data under the CREST (CIA Records Search Tool). These include “special collections such as STAR GATE remote viewing program files”.

There is a lot more than just the well-known STAR GATE program; research conducted in conjunction with Army Fort Meade, the Monroe Institute and overseen in many areas by Stanford Research Institute’s Dr. Hal Putoff all draw a sketch of dedicated individuals trying to understand some very prevalent but very subtle and elusive phenomena.

It also shows how our government will gain success in a program only to appear to shut it down and rebrand it under a veil of secrecy. Not surprisingly the website archive.gov still toes the line in their description of the original Project Blue Book that,

“Since Project BLUE BOOK was closed, nothing has happened to indicate that the Air Force ought to resume investigating UFOs. Because of the considerable cost to the Air Force in the past, and the tight funding of Air Force needs today, there is no likelihood the Air Force will become involved with UFO investigation again.”

This is patently untrue and ridiculous.

By precedent and past practices, we must make the rational assumption that data was gathered, classified and exponentially expanded on, siloed and compartmentalized over the decades. It was too important to be shared. It was too dangerous. It was too elusive. It was embarrassing the way it treated us. They needed to control it themselves and until they could they had to keep it secret. We know this rings true because we know humanity’s paranoid and frightening nature. I’ll hold the torch and the club, not you… and you should go first too.

Let’s talk secrets…

The only reason the Manhattan Project was declassified was that the size of the bombs blasts and the ensuing devastation was too big to hide. While nuclear physics is rather complicated, without a worldwide network of officials working around the clock to safeguard fissionable material the number of nuclear weapons used against our own species would certainly be more than two.

Now imagine an object capable of accelerating to a large fraction of the speed of light within the atmosphere of the earth and impacting… anything. For many of us, this is where imagination breaks down. A .45 cal bullet will travel at approx 560 mph (ca. 901 km/h). A human body can stop a .45 cal bullet pretty well, but usually with undesired results.

A grain of sand traveling at 99% of the speed of light has around 16.5 kilotons of energetic force. That’s a blast that compares in intensity to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

If you will excuse the simple metaphor, If you throw a candy wrapper out the window of your Tic-Tac at the wrong time could obliterate a vast metropolitan area.

The Nimitz Tic-Tac was approximately 30 feet (ca. 9 m) long. A solid, large object was judged to outmaneuver the best of our defense technology in the very home waters where we hone our skills. “They” (those controlling the object) exhibit seemingly absolute confidence in their technology and ability to maneuver and control the battlespace. With a few notable exceptions, they also appear generally aloof to our presence.

Better… stronger, faster… with the confidence of a master of the environment and the presence of mind to not obviously harm us.

If it were just the Tic-Tac video and Senior Chief Day, Commander Fravor and others we would have an anomaly; a glitch. But with the Gimbal and Go Fast videos that followed after Elizondo, Putoff and a host of other influential intelligence personnel, scientists and established researchers joined Tom Delonge’s To the Stars Academy it seemed that something very important was coalescing in public view.

In mainstream media, it is easy to find the often written “Thing in the sky debunked” article tucked away on your local news affiliate website. If you dig a little deeper into the internet you are suddenly in a cult-ish territory with talk of channeled entities and a menagerie of species vying for control of this planet and its pyramids, flat earth, and alien zoos.

The sad or fantastically incredible fact is that the truth is somewhere in between and that is going to be incredibly easy for people to dismiss if it is not presented in a way that makes sense.

“But I thought the government already determined…”

1947–1949 US Air Force Project Sign

“Project Sign’s final report, published in early 1949, stated that while some UFOs appeared to represent actual aircraft, there was not enough data to determine their origin”

“Project Sign had been active from 1947 to 1949. Some of Sign’s personnel, including director Robert Sneider, favored the extraterrestrial hypothesis as the best explanation for UFO reports. They prepared the Estimate Of the Situation arguing their case. This hypothesis was ultimately rejected by high-ranking officers, and Project Sign was dissolved and replaced by Project Grudge.” source

1949 — Project Grudge

The project formally ended in December 1949 but continued in a minimal capacity until late 1951.

“Like Project Sign, Grudge thought that the vast bulk of UFO reports could be explained as misidentified clouds, stars, sun dogs, conventional aircraft or the like. However, unlike Sign which thought some UFOs might have an extraordinary answer, Grudge’s personnel thought the remaining minority of reports could be explained away as normal phenomena. Grudge began a public relations campaign to explain their conclusions to the general public.” source

December 1953, Joint Chiefs of Staff Letter of Promulgation

Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Regulation number 146 made it a crime for military personnel to discuss classified UFO reports with unauthorized persons. Violators faced up to two years in prison and/or fines of up to $10,000. source

1952–1969 US Air Force Project Blue Book

Studied “unidentified flying objects”(UFOs) conducted by the United States Air Force.” source

The most well-known investigation is just too large to capture in a brief paragraph. 17 years of study, 12,000 reports, numerous officers-in-charge and what would appear to be constant stymying and interference directed at its science lead Dr. J. Allen Hyneck, an accomplished and respected astronomer who went on to pursue further truth in the field of UAPs after Project Blue Books cancellation.

1966–1968 The Condon Committee

“The Condon Committee was the informal name of the University of Colorado UFO Project, a group funded by the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1968 at the University of Colorado to study unidentified flying objects under the direction of physicist Edward Condon. The result of its work, formally titled Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, and known as the Condon Report, appeared in 1968.”

“Conclusions and Recommendations”, Condon wrote: “Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.”

“Even before its completion, the Air Force had asked the National Academy of Sciences to “provide an independent assessment of the scope, the methodology, and the findings” of the Committee. A panel chaired by Yale astronomer Gerald M. Clemence studied the Report for six weeks and concluded that “on the basis of present knowledge the least likely explanation of UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings” and that “no high priority in UFO investigations is warranted by data of the past two decades.” source

Let’s summarize this. In 1947 Kenneth Arnold kicks everything off with his sighting near Mt. Rainier. The US Government then initiates 21 years of intense study of the phenomenon. It is simple to see the internal battles over ideology, what is possible, perceptible and the implications.

Even a casual investigator can form the opinion that those in charge have a habit of discounting the work of the experts they hire in favor of their own “beliefs”. We see it in how the brass treated the honest assessments of Hynek, Puthoff, and Elizondo. Even today as reported by Elizondo, some in the chain of command believe (via their own personal faith apparently) that their specific religions demons are behind the phenomenon and therefore it should be left alone. It’s 2019 by the way.

Three projects with mounds of evidence collected, eyewitness testimony that were it a trial for murder or theft would undoubtedly lead to a conviction. Thousands and thousands of reports by trained observers, military personnel, police, fire, and academics poured in. Reports of harassment of nuclear assets have continued since.

We can assume that in the intervening years between 1970 and 2017 numerous other investigations into the phenomena were conducted under the veil of secrecy. We already mentioned ATTIP and since the revelations, a brief list of topics studied have spun off we have indications of another program entitled Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Application (AAWSA) program. One should note that now in the open, these programs have ended without successors.

Why did I lay all of this out for a community that already knows all this? Why am I opening myself to the scrutiny of what I may have left out or got wrong? Because many of us have already altered our world view to try to understand what is going on. Without gradual understanding, much of this can sound like the rantings of maniacs. As you can see, the argument that we can’t handle the truth is nuanced. The real question is, what are you going to make of the truth?

We need to find a way to share the scope of this new world with our loved ones. Though many in the community have been highly critical of my colleagues, I know it is because they are desperate for truth, desperate for understanding and desperate to be heard. Disclosure happened. Confirmation is coming. When the confused and scared among us turn toward the UFO community for understanding where will you be? Will you lend a hand, an open heart and mind? Or will you cash in on those selfish feelings of “I told you so?”

Sadly mainstream science is probably going to sit out the first couple rounds of Confirmation. Many are understandably unwilling to risk their livelihoods and reputations on subtle data that often cannot be replicated according to the scientific method. Furthermore, cultural science has a blind spot where it decides that a thing that was not true before has shown to be accepted. That is to say, it is a gradual process, it took a decade for many, even in established science to believe the Wright brothers truly flew. The tipping point in the arena of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena is here.

The people we care about will turn to us. You have a chance to change things. You have a chance to make what was hard for you, easier for the ones you love. If we all do this, we may make through these revelations intact and stronger for it.

Choose wisely.