Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the U.S. Government

The Raven

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the U.S. Government

“It sounds so crazy …” stated Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich of the U.S. Navy in reference to witnessing and reporting an unidentified aerial phenomenon in 2019.

Preceding her statement, Alex and other U.S. Navy pilots were conducting training exercises over the Pacific Ocean when during one occurrence they observed an upside-down pyramid flying in the air and on another occasion tracked a black blob-shaped unidentified aerial object until it eventually splashed in the water and went under. In government speak, such objects are called unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), but lay people call them UFOs.

Ever since the government has had planes in the skies, pilots have encountered unknown flying objects. In November 2004 and January 2015, fighter pilots conducting training maneuvers in restricted airspace could be heard gibbering excitedly about UAPs. “There’s a whole fleet of them!” one pilot said. Another added, “They’re all going against the wind. The wind’s 120 knots to the west. Look at that thing, dude!” In 2019, pilots stated, “We’ve been seeing them for a couple of years.”

Even though witnessing and reporting has been going on for years, it wasn’t until 2020 that the Department of Defense officially declared the videos of some of these sightings as real. Before admitting the truth of their own videos recorded on their own equipment, they wanted to ensure no “sensitive capabilities or systems” would be revealed, nor impingement “on any subsequent investigations of military air space,” according to Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough. Everyone knows about the 1947 Roswell incident, but less well known is the wave of airship sightings over the western half of the U.S. that happened a half-century before, in 1896-1897. The hot air balloon had been around for a century by this time, but this was long before the Wright brothers and their first successful flight. In November, numerous witnesses in Sacramento and San Francisco reported seeing metallic flying craft with lights. There were even some alleged close encounters. Then the encounters seemed to move eastward, with reported sightings as far away as St. Louis and Omaha.

In April 1897, the Dallas Morning News reported that an airship had crashed into a windmill in the tiny town of Aurora, Texas, about 26 miles north of Ft. Worth. The owner of the windmill, Judge J.S. Proctor, reported finding wreckage and a body that was “not an inhabitant of this world”. The alien was given a Christian burial in the town cemetery, then the indicent was forgotten. Interest in the Aurora spaceman was rekindled in the 1970s when the Dallas Times Herald revived the story. The original grave marker has long since vanished. Modern investigations by MUFON and others have found metal deposits near the supposed grave site, but the town refuses all requests to exhume the grave. The mystery endures.

The Raven

People have long been enthralled with UFOs. Our curiosity dates to the Mayan civilization—before that even if one factors in accounts of such in past life regressions—in the first millennium A.D. when some of their drawings and artifacts depicted flying objects. It was only a matter of time before lawmakers in Washington, DC admitted their curiosity, too. Led by a group of bipartisan senators, the UAP amendment was added to the FY22 National Defense Authorization Act, according to TotheStars.com. This important amendment bridges the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and other governmental agencies and funnels their data into one, new department for reporting, analysis, response, health, and security. The new department will replace the current UAP Task Force. Soon, the day will come when we’ll watch briefings and committee hearings on C-SPAN and other channels regarding UFO sightings. How exciting! Look at how far we’ve come.

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The Pentagon Released U.F.O. Videos. Don’t Hold Your Breath for a Breakthrough. - The New York Times (nytimes. com)

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