What the heck is going on with UFOs? (Part 1)
It appears as if the Intelligence Community is up to their usual shenanigans with respect to aliens but now the scale and volume have been cranked up to 11. I have a theory as to why.
Background
‘Oumuamua
On October 19th 2017 the first interstellar object was detected in our solar system by the Pan-STARRS observatory in Maui. The Pan-STARRS system is the world’s primary instrumentation for Near Earth Object discovery. The object was named ‘Oumuamua — a Hawaiian word meaning “scout.”
Since its discovery there’s been considerable controversy over how to classify the object. Is it a comet? Is it an asteroid? Is it neither? Still there is no consensus and it’s currently simply designated as an interstellar object. However, within a week of detecting the object some scientists already thought it was unusual enough to check for radio transmission emanating from it. More research would eventually cause the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard to all but explicitly state that the object was artificial in origin — his name is Avi Loeb.
To The Stars Academy Of Arts & Science
On October 11th 2017 news of the launch of a “public benefit corporation” named To The Stars Academy Of Arts & Science hit the PR newswire.
Note the date of this launch — roughly a week prior to the official discovery of ‘Oumuamua. The synchronicity is interesting to me and part of a pattern we’ll continue to see with this story.
Also take careful note of a couple of the staff members associated with TTSA. Their names will come up often in this story. If you’ve read any mainstream media stories about UFOs/UAPs in the last 6 years you’re probably already familiar with them.
What’s the connection?
It is my speculation that upon discovery of ‘Oumuamua, elements of the United States Intelligence Community began work on a large scale disinformation operation targeting Avi Loeb and his subsequent research. I suspect the end goal of the operation is to discredit Professor Loeb and to disrupt The Galileo Project (we’ll come back to this project later) as much as possible.
I believe Professor Loeb is an honorable man and scientist dedicated to the pursuit of truth. I also believe that the disinformation operation, while being a shitty thing to do, makes sense and is probably a necessary tactic from a national security perspective — at least I get where they’re coming from and can’t completely condemn the effort.
All systems go…
The New York Times’ bombshell
On the heels of the launch of TTSA and the discovery of ‘Oumuamua, The New York Times blew the collective minds of UFO junkies and normies alike with their “bombshell” reporting on a clandestine Pentagon program to study “unidentified aerial phenomena” along with grainy video footage of military reported UAP encounters by aircraft pilots.
These stories would drop on December 16th 2017, roughly two months after the launch of TTSA and the official discovery of ‘Oumuamua. They would generate considerable media buzz. Over the course of the next several months we’d eventually see either the videos, pilots, Luis Elizondo, or Chris Mellon (or some combination of all) on 60 Minutes, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Lex Fridman Podcast and all over the rest of the internet. Eventually Chris Mellon would explicitly take credit for getting the videos released to the public.
I have no reason to believe the pilots are “in on it.” I’m not entirely sure what they saw and they don’t claim to be sure of what it was either. I’m inclined to believe them — which is probably part of the point of showcasing their testimonies.
As for Mr. Mellon and Mr. Elizondo, I cannot speculate as to the ultimate nature of their role either. If these men are intentionally deceiving us then they are very good actors. I tend to believe the real orchestrators of an operation like this are unlikely to surface publicly.
In my opinion, these articles were used as the official launch of the public-facing component of the disinformation operation. I’ve asked for clarification on timing but the scope of these articles and the pace at which corporate news functions would suggest to me that work on the stories probably began in late October or early November at the latest. There was seemingly no delay. Edit: To be clear, I don’t think the New York Times reporters are “in on it.”
The public would now be primed to expect future discussion of unidentified aerial phenomena and alien probes and to view both Mr. Elizondo and Mr. Mellon as trusted intelligence experts on such matters.
Interstellar Meteors 1 & 2 (IM1, IM2)
Meanwhile, after inferring all they could about ‘Oumuamua based on the available data, Professor Loeb and team moved on to look for evidence of other interstellar visitors. After all, Loeb concluded, if Pan-STARRS was able to detect ‘Oumuamua against all previously believed odds (PDF link warning), then there should be many more visitors to find passing through our solar system.
Sometime in early 2019, at the suggestion of Professor Loeb, his undergraduate student Amir Siraj looked into the CNEOS catalog of fireballs associated with impactors of Earth’s atmosphere to see if he could determine if any of the recorded objects that impacted Earth were interstellar in origin. The catalog records the inbound trajectory and velocity of the objects as well as the magnitude and altitude of the associated explosion caused by friction with the atmosphere. Mr. Siraj would eventually identify two probable candidates — IM1 and IM2.
A preprint paper authored by Professor Loeb and Mr. Siraj would initially be rejected by a referee because the pair could not provide precise error bars for the measurements in the CNEOS catalog since the instruments which recorded the objects are classified by the United States Government for national security reasons. Eventually via back-channels the team would get a signed letter (PDF link warning) indicating the precision of the instruments is at least fine enough that there should be no statistical doubt in the certainty of their findings — the objects are not from our solar system.
Subsequently the team would also conclude these objects had another unusual property, they were composed of material much stronger than all of the other known impactors in the catalog. In fact, in the case of IM1, they believe enough of it may have survived the explosion to be recoverable.
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