In September, 2023, Mexico presented two bodies of ‘aliens’ sparking fresh debates globally, about the existence of extra-terrestrial intelligence among us.
The specimens were dated 700 and 1,800 years and were about 60 cm tall. They had three fingers on each hand, no teeth and elongated head.
If alien, they would have visited using some advanced technology.
They were unearthed from Peru in 2017 and were considered a significant discovery that they were presented to the Mexican parliament.
Medical analyses, which include computer-based tomography, fluoroscopy and X-ray, in Mexico suggested that the samples were not manipulated nor humanly assembled.
One of the samples is believed to be female and had egg-like structures in the abdomen.
The samples were not made available to leading scientists in other parts of the world to also study and scrutinise.
In another development in US, the Vice Chairman, Senate Intelligence Committee, Marco Rubio, added credibility to the several earlier UFO sightings in America when in June, 2023, he claimed to have “firsthand accounts” of top people in government covering up the evidence.
One of those is by a US retired Air Force officer, David Grusch, who said the government even has custody of crashed UFO retrieved with ‘dead pilots,’ but this is being kept secret.
This prompted a new US Congress investigation into the matter.
It is significant because any country with that can, through reverse engineering, restore it and obtain the advanced alien technology.
Grusch however, did not see one but depended on ‘reliable’ evidence from his colleagues who have retrieved many.
NASA, on 8 June, 2022 set-up a study group to investigate all cases of Unidentified Flying Objects, UFO, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, UAP, as the government prefers to call them.
On 31 May, 2023 the study group held its first public meeting in NASA headquarters in Washington DC to brief the public on how far it has gone in its assignment and said they have no proof yet of aliens visiting Earth.
The UAP study is different from the one by the Pentagon and is led by astrophysicist David Spergel of Simon’s Foundation and Daniel Evans, the Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for Research in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
There were great expectations after the Department of Defence de-classified UAP report of June, 2021 and a Congressional hearing on UAP in May, 2022.
NASA defines UAPs as observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomenon from a scientific perspective.
It is believed that UAPs can pose a threat to flight safety and national security.
UFO: I HAVE SEEN ONE
The term Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, UAP, is preferred to Unidentified Flying Objects, UFO, because they may be optical illusions like of the Sun and the sky or camera tricks, after all.
In that case, they may not be objects nor flying.
NASA’s director, Bill Nelson, gave credence to the theory that we are not alone in October, 2021 when he said he personally believes UAP can possibly be from alien intelligence because the Universe is so vast.
Some prominent people who say they have seen UAP include singers Alicia Keys, Kesha, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, Lupe Fiasco, Kacey Musgrave, and Nick Jonas.
The others are actors: Russell Crowe, Khloé Kardashian and Kendall Jenner, Fran Drescher, Tom DeLonge, and January Jones.
Sports stars include Shaquille O’neal, Aaron Rodgers, and Pilot Kurt Russell.
The Pentagon in 2020, declassified three video clips from US Navy pilots on UAP as observed by them.
One video was taken in 2004 and the other two in 2015.
Some other witnesses, considered credible, including a former navy pilot, said he had seen unidentified anomalous phenomena – the government’s preferred term – “every day for at least a couple of years.”
US Presidents, it is said, have been briefed on them.
A former Pentagon director, Lue Elizondo, even claims the US government has “exotic material” evidence from a UAP.
One of the UAP, he went on, was undetectable by radar and must have cruised at up to 13,000 miles/hour, pulling up to six to 700 G forces.
The Congress demanded a report from the Pentagon’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, the Office of Naval Intelligence and the FBI.
The report examined 144 incidents from 2004 to 2021 and determined that one case was a large deflating balloon.
On the other 143, it said, there is insufficient data to either determine whether they are from extra-terrestrial intelligence or are major technological advancements by an adversary country.
UAPs are a threat to flight safety, the report said, but it is not known if they pose a threat to national security.
The report described 18 of the incidents as having “unusual movement patterns or flight characteristics” which may be as a result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer mis-perception and need more rigorous analysis.
Eleven others were described as near misses with military planes.
In the end, a non-standardised system for reporting UAP was blamed for the lack of adequate data for analysis rather than depending on anecdotal observations by military planes as was largely, the case.
The de-classified US Defence Department’s official report on mysterious aerial sightings was presented to Congress on 25 June, 2021.
Interest in UAP grew further with former President Barack Obama saying that “footage and records” of them exist.
“What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory,” Obama said.
Former President Obama spoke on 18 May, 2021.
President Joe Biden avoided any comment on UAPs, even when asked to comment on what former President Obama said about them.
He smiled and merely said: “I would ask him again.”
Former President Jimmy Carter many years ago, before becoming President, reported an unidentified sighting which was investigated and found to be the planet Mars in a position that it was visible to the naked eye.
The US navy has cleared what Khloé Kardashian and Kendall Jenner saw over the skies of Los Angeles as mysterious light as actually flashes from a missile test.
The Black Knight satellite, that has been a source of concern to many, as its owners are unknown, has been cleared by NASA to be a de-orbited satellite still in space.
This curious image of a woman in Mars from a NASA file is not evidence of life on the red planet but just a fractured Martian rock.
This picture of what appears to be a door, taken by NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover on 7 May, 2022 is an eroded boulder from “normal geological processes.”
Could the door, just 12 inches (30 cm) tall and 16 inches (40 cm) wide be a “Dog door?”
Pareidolia is when human beings make sense of seen patterns in their brain from experience.
The ‘Moon hut’ spotted by Chinese lunar explorer, Yutu-2 rover, was identified by Chinese scientists in December, 2021 as ‘rabbit-shaped’ rock.
It was considered a mystery hut on the far side of the Moon from some ancient civilisation for a while.
Who balanced this rock in Mars?
This is a true picture of a rock, the size of a bowling ball, precariously balanced on a slightly bent boulder in Mars.
The picture was taken by NASA’s Perseverance Rover and published by NASA on 16 June, 2022.
A broader picture shows it could have rolled-off a higher plain, created a dent on impact which cushioned its fall, and stopped it from rolling over completely.
The “flying saucer” that crashed in a farm in Roswell, New Mexico, US, in July, 1947 after a thunderstorm, has been explained by the military to be a high-altitude weather balloon.
In 1994, the US Air Force said the wreckage was actually from a secret project called Mogul that flew microphones on high-altitude balloons between 1947 and 1949 to detect sound waves from Soviet atomic bomb tests.
The history of UFO sightings started on 24 June, 1947 when Kenneth Arnold, an amateur pilot, said he saw nine objects like flying saucers over water at about 1,200 miles per hour (1,930 kilometres per hour) near Mount Rainier in Washington State.
The US Air Force and military said in 1947 that none of their craft or equipment can attain that speed.
Interest grew and Ufology became an intriguing area of study.
Several other pilots have come up with video evidence, backed by radar evidence, but as always, the pictures are never clear.
The images tend to show something that glows, travelling at incredible speeds, thereby giving an impression of an advanced technology or intelligence at work.
However, such glowing aura is common in thermal cameras and such quick acceleration in video coincides with sudden camera movements.
One of the video evidence de-classified by the US navy was the incident of 14 November, 2004 in California.
The video was in infra-red, showing a Tic Tac object, in white colour, about the size of a fighter jet, moving fast above water.
Images form easily over water due to water’s refractive abilities and this may need further investigations.
In UK, reports of UAP sightings doubled in 2020.
The authorities are considering re-opening a UFO desk in its ministry of defence that was scrapped in 2009.
Any UAP sighting in UK has to be reported to the local police.
People need answers to the question: Are we alone in the Universe?
There is even a report of an Air Force fighter officer who opened fire on a UAP, on command, after giving it a chase in Colombia – the only such case in the world.
A celebrated encounter was that of an alien kidnap of 19-year-old Calvin Parker and 42-year-old Charles Hickson on 11 October, 1973 by River Pascagoula, Mississippi, which they reported to the police.
They alleged that some bulky looking creatures about five feet tall, that were levitating, forced them into an alien spacecraft by the river as they went fishing at night.
They said they were placed on a platform and physically examined, up to the external genitalia, by one of the aliens, who appeared feminine.
This was for about 30 minutes before returning them to the ground.
Both men took lie detector tests and passed.
Hypnotists were called in and they concluded that the two men actually experienced something traumatic.
The two were even sent to Keesler Air Force base in Biloxi to test if they have any radioactive contamination. The result turned negative.
Charles Hickson wrote a book on his encounter before he died in 2011.
In 2018, Parker published his experience in a book, “The Closest Encounter,” and still stands by their abduction story, 48 years after.
Mississippi has placed a historical marker on the sight by River Pascagoula in commemorative gesture of the purported kidnapping.
There was also a story, though uncorroborated, of another alien kidnap of a man who was released after an hour and his beard became much longer.
Another source of worry are Fast Radio Bursts, FRBs, hitting the Earth from unknown sources.
About 1,000 FRBs have been detected since the first in 2001.
They appear and disappear in an instant without trace and are difficult to track.
Only 15 of them have been tracked to specific galaxies.
Scientists using the Hubble telescope were able to pinpoint five FRBs to their host galaxies, as well as the kind of locations they originated from.
Their conclusion in April, 2020 was that FRBs come from young magnetars, a type of neutron star, with very strong magnetic fields.
The galaxies they come from are between 400 million and nine billion light years from the Earth.
The debate on the other issues however, continues.
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