For at least the last 70 years, the governments of the world, and in particular the USA, have been terrified of telling the truth about UFOs. They have actively sought to deny their existence, deter their investigation and denigrate… if not totally destroy… any witnesses who are brave enough to come forward.
At least, this is the accepted wisdom from UFO experts or ‘UFOlogists’.
Yes, I know they’re now called UAP. But ‘UAPologists’ is awkward to say and suggests that you need to apologise, in advance, merely for being interested in the subject.
And that is definitely no longer the case.
Roswell and the birth of a phenomenon
Flush with pride at having turned up just in time to take the credit for victory over the Nazis (and flush with cash from repayments made by Britain on its $3.4 billion war debt), in the years following the end of WW2 Uncle Sam had the military might, ideological impetus and financial footing to fight an emerging global threat: the USSR.
But, in the midst of some very real and bloody battles, first against North Korea and then in Vietnam, a radically new front was slowly opening up. One that threatened the sanity and sanctity of American society like nothing before.
And it came from a totally unexpected direction: outer space.
It all began in June 1947, when pilot Kenneth Arnold saw a string of nine shiny objects over Mount Rainier, in Washington State. Almost immediately, a creative headline writer had coined the term ‘Flying Saucers,’ based on Arnold’s account of the craft moving like "saucers skipping on water."
Just one month later, something crashed into the New Mexico desert. To the astonishment of an entire nation, the nearby Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) made the schoolboy error of admitting it had recovered a crashed saucer.
It was the first and last time such a statement would be made.
Rapidly backtracking on the saucer claim, the military sent out Jessie Marcel, a senior Intelligence Officer, to clean up the mess. Literally and metaphorically.
Having (allegedly) shown his family pieces of a miraculous metallic material he collected from the crash site, Marcel subsequently found himself posing for photographs with what was clearly fabric from an ordinary weather balloon.
There were probably very few people in the world more qualified at identifying this kind of debris than Marcel, so it is rather telling to see the slightly confused expression on his face in this famous photo. It’s as if he’s saying: ‘Sure, this is a balloon. But a balloon is not what I saw’. According to his children, Marcel was deeply unhappy with the level of deception.
And he wasn’t alone. Lieutenant Walter Haut, the RAAF public relations officer responsible for issuing the original disk capture story and the weather balloon ‘correction,’ made his feelings clear, on his deathbed, when he stated that an alien craft had been recovered at Roswell, along with several extraterrestrial bodies.
Washington D.C. (Disk Central)
While the vast majority may have been happy to swallow Haut’s balloon-based bailout, talk of aliens undoubtedly sowed a seed in the American psyche.
Before long that seed started to grow. Five years after Rowell, in 1952, a series of UFO sightings occurred in the heart of the nation.
“SAUCERS SWARM OVER CAPITAL’ shouted the Cedar Rapids Gazette, as airport radar repeatedly picked up strange signals, witnesses spotted odd lights, and F94 Starfire fighter jets took to the skies in hot pursuit.
The Air Force subsequently dismissed the whole thing as ‘misidentified aerial phenomena such as stars or meteors,’ while claiming that the radar traces were nothing more than temperature inversions. At the same time, the competence and professionalism of the radar operators was called into question.
Howard Cocklin was one of those operators. He also waited until the eve of his death, to state, with as much clarity as possible, that he saw a genuine, unequivocal UFO ‘on the [radar] screen and out the window’.
In addition to stars and unusual weather patterns, city lights, balloons and swamp gas would all make multiple appearances as UFO explanations, over the coming decades, to the perpetual embarrassment and infuriation of those who witnessed the events first hand.
A nation of the verge of hysteria
Behind the scenes, quite a few people were pretty miffed with the idea that foreign aircraft might be puncturing American skies with impunity, not least the guys and girls of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Fearing that UFO scares or ‘flaps’ would add even more weight to growing concerns over USSR military prowess, in 1953 the CIA instigated the formation of the Robertson Panel.
Tasked with looking into the potential social impact of the phenomenon, this committee of leading scientists reached a number of rather obvious conclusions. Well, obvious if you lived through the paranoia of the Cold War:
'The whole [UFO] affair has demonstrated that there is a fair proportion of our population which is mentally conditioned to acceptance of the incredible.'
Indeed, the panel concluded that the only real threat came from the susceptibility of Joe Average to ‘mass hysteria’ and ‘enemy psychological warfare.’ Far too many US citizens were fundamentally irrational, leaving the country vulnerable to the evil machinations of the USSR.
For proof of this, so the argument went, you only needed to look back at Orson Welles’ infamous radio broadcast of War of the Worlds (1938). No matter that, in reality, this dramatisation caused very little reaction amongst the audience. Yes, some people who hadn’t heard the opening disclaimer, stressing that the play was entirely fictitious, did grab their shotguns and prepare to repel invaders. But that kind of thing happened a thousand times a day across America, without the threat of Martians.
Around 98% of the potential audience for the broadcast wasn’t even listening on the evening in question, and, of the remaining 2%, we can safely assume the majority did not go running and screaming into the streets.
In reality, Welles’ play was not even a success. In no small part this was due to the Sunday night schedule, which pitted him against the most popular radio act of the day, the Chase and Sanborn Comedy Hour, hosted by ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.
Yes, you heard correctly. A ventriloquist. On the radio.
Newspapers, perhaps sensing an opportunity to bash their rivals, picked up on what little panic there was, amplified it a thousand-fold, and the myth of a hysterical reaction was born.
Even so, to the CIA, the situation was crystal clear. People were prone to illogical behaviour, and this was a precursor to social upheaval.
If the status quo was to be maintained, the UFO community would need to be contained.
NASA and the PANDA
Once the CIA’s steel shutters had been padlocked into place, a fledgling NASA raised its head above the UFO parapet and commissioned its own study into the implications of space exploration.
By now the world was in colour, and the 1961 Brookings Report was not as bleakly black and white as Robertson’s earlier effort. It suggested that the discovery of alien plant life or subhuman intelligence would end up being little more than a ‘brief novelty’ not dissimilar to the discovery of panda bears.
Which all sounded rather lovely.
However, intelligent aliens were a different matter. They might view us the way we viewed ‘lesser’ societies during colonial expansion. Consequently, the report suggested that:
‘Fruitful understanding might be gained from a comparative study of factors affecting the responses of primitive societies to expose to technologically advanced societies,’
Before reminding us, ominously, of the fate of these ‘primitive’ peoples:
‘Some thrived, some endured, and some died.’
Ah. That didn’t sound quite so enticing.
In a sad and rather pathetic aside, the report also noted that engineers would be the first to lose their jobs, if and when alien technology was acquired by humans.
One can only imagine that this aspect of the report did not go down well at NASA.
Overarching these one-off committees was the single biggest investigation into UFOs in American history, Project Blue Book. Originally code-named Project Sign, and then Project Grudge, this 17-year study should actually have been called Project Whitewash.
Of the 12,600 cases it looked at, including those originating from military and law enforcement, the vast majority were explained away using one (or a combination) of the following factors: mass hysteria; hoaxes; psychopathological personalities; and misidentification of conventional objects.
When the project ended, in 1969, it had succeeded in closing the steel shutters even more securely, further stigmatising the entire subject of UFOs.
It would now take something astonishing to pick the padlock.
Facing up to reality
Studies like Project Blue Book helped to foster an environment that was reminiscent of a nationwide multiple personality disorder, with one half of America not only believing in UFOs but suggesting, in ever growing numbers, that alien abduction was a very real experience; while the other half (the bit with the power) portrayed these people as little more than gibbering idiots, shaped by fallacious - not to mention dangerous - belief-systems.
The pro-UFO community soldiered on, ignoring the cacophony of criticism.
Soon, popular culture started to depict aliens in a more measured and thoughtful way. Talk of little green men was still laughable, yet more and more people, across all walks of life, were beginning to have that very conversation.
Then, in 1976, NASA released an image taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, of the Cydonia region on Mars, and everything changed. It may just have been an example of pareidolia (the tendency of humans to see faces in random patterns), triggered by a trick of the light, as NASA was at huge pains to explain...
But it didn’t matter. This rock formation sure did look like a face. For all but the most hardened skeptics, it was hard not to think about the possibilities for alien life contained in such an image.
Little over a year later, Steven Spielberg kick-started the move towards a more liberal attitude towards space visitors, with the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He then rammed the point home, by progressing from spindly, dancing aliens to the charming and adorable little creature in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial (1982).
Indeed, one persistent conspiracy theory says that Spielberg received last-minute funding from the CIA for Close Encounters (which went massively over-budget), as part of a careful ‘drip feeding’ of UFO facts, designed to gradually acclimatise us to the idea of a real alien presence. Conversely, some argue that NASA tried to stop the film, as it revealed rather too much.
Ronald Reagan is alleged to have told Spielberg the film was far closer to reality than he could imagine, after he was given a screening at the Whitehouse.
Either way, these two heavy ‘pro-alien’ films act as bookends to a very unusual Spielberg film, 1941. The script for this WW2 comedy was inspired, in part, by the real-life ‘Battle of Los Angeles’.
In February 1942, two months after the attack on Pearl Harbour, air raid sirens sounded across LA County. Anti-aircraft barrages sprang into action and, over the following hours, more than 1,400 shells were fired, at objects believed to be Japanese aircraft. However, despite an extensive search of the area, no wreckage was ever found.
By 1949, the whole incident had been explained as hysteria, attributable to… yes, you guessed it… a weather balloon. Which subsequently, and perhaps inevitably, led to the suspicion that it was almost certainly a UFO.
Spielberg used 1941 to illustrate the chaos that can ensue when military minds are confronted with an existential threat. We watch as Jim Belushi is first shot down (in his P-40 ‘Tomahawk’) by friendly fire, then blown up on a jetty and forced to swim out to a Japanese submarine, the crew of which has amply demonstrated its own levels of incompetence.
But the flow of Hollywood’s creativity was not all pro-alien and anti-establishment. For every positive depiction, there is an equally attention-grabbing negative. The Independence Day series beats the jingoistic drum with a fighter-pilot President and a powerful military response (albeit it one that is reliant on a nerdy and bespectacled pacifist), while it's certainly hard to think of Alien (1979), and its sequels, as anything other than films intended to scare seven types of crap out of us.
Maybe Ridley Scott was anally probed, while Spielberg only shook hands.
Regardless of their individual perspectives on alien life, films like this helped to normalise the idea of aliens being ‘real’. They might have acid for blood, or lightbulbs for fingertips… they might be here to steal our natural resources, or save us from environmental disaster… but they did exist, in some form, somewhere out there.
Polls show that more than 200 million American's now believe in UFOs. This figure is truly astounding. So it’s perhaps even more astonishing to think there is still no scientific proof that UFOs/UAPs actually exist.
Or is there…
An incomparable threat to mankind… or a camera anomaly?
Which brings us to the crux of the matter.
In December 2017, the New York Times published an article headed Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program confirming that the US Department was in possession of verified video (and other) evidence of unexplained UAP activity. It even posted footage taken from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet, of an unknown object performing gravity defying manoeuvres, over the Pacific Ocean.
Half of the country’s public servants must have expected a pretty rough day, peppered with calls from furious electors, demanding answers for the years of secrecy and denial… but that’s not what happened.
In reality, the world kinda went ‘U-huh, OK,’ and carried on regardless.
Yes, the NYT report did generate hours of prime-time discussion, thousands of column inches and innumerable Youtube videos. But the Stockmarket didn’t crash, organised religion survived unscathed and people, in general, found it relatively easy not to shit themselves.
In part this is surely down to the Deacons of Denial, who swung into action immediately.
Skeptics, such as the UK’s own Mick West, were quick to put forward mundane explanations for each of three videos released at roughly the same time as the NYT article. For example, the so-called ‘Gimbal’ footage was, West argued, nothing more than ‘lens flare’ from the plane’s Forward Looking Infra-Red camera (FLIR); while the ‘Go Fast’ footage featured (you’ve guessed it) a ballon, seen from an unusual angle.
Now West is undoubtedly a clever guy: he’s done very well indeed out of developing computer games (and isn't doing too badly from being a UFO skeptic). However, he is not a USAF pilot with thousands of hours flying and specific training in object identification. Yet his opinion was placed alongside - and, in many media outlets, on an equal footing - with the witness accounts of multiple pilots, who said they saw the craft with their own eyes, not just using aircraft instrumentation.
Furthermore, experts in the US military, who had additional access to footage and other verifiable data never released to the public, came to the conclusion the objects were real, but unidentifiable. West, who was not there and did not have access to the same resources, claims, in his own words, to have ‘quickly arrived at likely explanations for all three videos.’
He succeeded, without breaking into a sweat, where the entire US military and intelligence community failed.
If West is right, either the US military is incompetent, from the ground up, or it is lying to us.
The rhetoric steps up a notch
In addition to the birthing of a whole new cohort of super-charged deniers, one or two peculiar things happen following the NYT article.
The emergence of the ‘To The Stars Academy’ is particularly notable. This deliberately vague corporate entity, fronted by Blink-182 lead singer and long-time UFO researcher Tom DeLong, quickly secured the services of ex-CIA operatives, Stanford scientists, and senior Defence Department officials (presumably retired), amongst others.
While the purpose, business model and commercial viability of the academy is open to question (aa $37m deficit was reported in 2018), the wider impact of this disparate band of brothers is hard to deny.
Most notably, Luis Elizondo emerged from a Pentagon cubbyhole to stand alongside DeLong. With the correct mixture of menace, friendliness and authority you would expect from an expert in counter-intelligence, Elizondo started to reveal his own understanding of the UAP situation, with examples garnered from his previous role, as head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). This was the very same ‘black budget’ operation uncovered in the New York Times article.
Elizondo has a fabulous goatee beard. Along with an unnerving ability to milk every media interview for its maximum value, despite (or perhaps because of ) the need to finish every sentence with the words ‘I can’t say any more… it’s classified.’
Rarely seen without a Star-Spangled Banner in the background, has also been quick to emphasise the more unsettling aspects of the UFO phenomenon. In particular, the propensity for unknown craft to be attracted to military sites and equipment, especially nuclear weapons.
This rings alarm bells for much of the UFO community, who suggest he is trying to drum-up a huge increase in military spending, by promoting a fake ‘alien invasion’ scenario.
Crazy though it sounds, there is some justification for this view.
In the early 70s, Wernher von Braun, who wisely swapped one four-letter N-word for another (Nazi for NASA), took time away from his role as head of the Apollo 11 rocket program to brief a close colleague on the possibility of asteroid strikes and alien invasions being used as a form of social manipulation.
Fifty years later, we are far more aware of the apocalyptic potential of Earth-crossing asteroids than ever before. Just last year, NASA successfully changed the orbital path of such an object (an asteroidal moon called Dimorphos) by flying into it, with a small spacecraft, at 23,000 km/h.
And now Elizondo is ramping up the alien threat.
Irrespective of his rhetoric on the potential dangers of the phenomena, Elizondo certainly has helped to crystallise ideas that have been floating around the fringes of the UFO world for many years, without gaining much traction.
As a result of his increasingly suggestive revelations, we are now talking about objects that are ‘trans-medium’, meaning they can travel seamlessly between water and air; we are considering the possibility they might be inter-dimensional, giving them the ability to pop in and out of our reality at will; we are speculating whether or not these things are piloted by future-humans, with mastery over time-travel; and, perhaps most importantly of all, we are starting to wonder if they relate to conscious processes, rather than physical ones.
Expanding our thinking in this way must surely come as a welcome step forward for Jacques Vallée, an astronomer, computer scientist and paranormal researcher who has been advocating a broader investigation of the phenomenon for many, many years.
You may not recognise Vallée’s name, but you almost certainly know of his work. He was the inspiration behind the character of Lacombe, the Fresh-speaking expert played by François Truffaut in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Vallée’s attitude to UFOs is obvious from the advice he gave Spielberg during filming; advice that, until now, made very little sense: “I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET," he suggested.
To which Spielberg replied: “You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting…"
If the last 70 years have taught us anything about the subject, it’s to expect the unexpected. And not to take any one person’s opinion as fact, even if he previously worked for the Pentagon. Or perhaps because he previously worked for the Pentagon.
We need more evidence and we need it now.
Heavyweights enter the ring
Whatever your think of Eiizondo, he has also acted as a catalyst for the emergence, into a previously taboo subject, of people with considerable expertise… and real qualifications… in subjects that could contribute hugely to our understanding of UAPs.
Enter Dr. Gary Nolan, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a man with more diplomas than you can shake a very large stick at. Not to mention numerous commercial interests, including co-founding of the successful biotech firm, Rigel Inc. (Rigel is a blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion, and home to the dribbling octopus-aliens of The Simpsons cartoon series.)
Nolan recently joined the Galileo Project, which is looking at the potential for UAP having extra-terrestrial origins. This endeavour was partly initiated by another academic heavyweight, Harvard Professor of Astrophysics, Dr. Avi Loeb.
Sure, neither Nolan nor Loeb has a goatee, but what they lack in facial hair they more than make up with blunt, unequivocal responses to the biggest UAP questions. While Elizondo dances a complicated Irish jig, in his efforts to answer without incriminating himself, Nolan and Loeb don’t hesitate to jump in with both feet.
Loeb got the ball rolling back in 2018, when he suggested that Umuoamoa (the first inter-stellar body to be tracked through our solar system) was more likely to be some kind of alien technology than a natural object.
Despite his exalted status, Loeb was not immune from the predictably negative response. Take, for example, CNN’s reporting on his ideas:
‘Interstellar object may have been alien probe, Harvard paper argues, but experts are skeptical.’
If you only read headlines (as many people do), you would assume the author of the paper to be an interloper, much like Umuoamoa itself. A biologist, perhaps, trying his hand at cosmology. Or a cleaner, leaving his musings on a classroom whiteboard.
Colleagues is the correct word to use in this instance, not experts. The decision to use the latter, over the former, is no accident. It simultaneously denigrates Loeb and elevates his critics.
While Loeb’s eyes are fixed firmly on his telescope, Gary Nolan prefers to use a microscope. For many years he has been the go-to expert on exotic materials, including samples reputedly collected from UAP events.
To some degree, this is because of his reputation as an impartial follower of the data, not the narrative. Indeed, until recently, his most notable investigations seemed to go against the UFO believers, as with his assertion (wearing his microbiologist and immunologist hats) that the tiny ‘Atacama skeleton’ was not alien, despite being only 15cm tall, but rather a very human victim of at least seven severe genetic abnormalities.
This outcome did not impress the UFO community. When you look at the skeleton, you can see why. It looks alien. But it did endear him to the wider academic community.
Which must have made his recent on-stage interview at SALT iConnections technology forum all the more shocking…
The dam springs a leak
“Do you believe that extraterrestrial intelligence has visited planet Earth?" Asks the SALT interviewer. He sits alongside Nolan on a high-tech New York stage, facing a live audience.
“I think you can go a step further," Nolan replies, "it hasn’t just visited. It’s been here a long time and it’s still here."
“That statement seems so incredible that it’s tough to believe," says the interviewer. ‘I’m curious. If you had to assign a probability to that statement… "
“100%,” Nolan answers, without hesitation.
There is a slight but noticeable gasp from the audience. The Interviewer raises an eyebrow. “What happens next?” He wonders.
“What happens next is the professionalisation of this… to make it OK to talk about it,” says Nolan, reiterating his hope that the best and brightest research minds will now turn towards the subject, instead of running away.
It’s earth-shattering stuff, as the interviewer is quick to acknowledge. But why should he (and we) believe what Nolan says?
Just like Loeb, Nolan is putting his professional reputations on the line, even if his career is protected by the safety net of lifelong tenure. Additionally, Nolan has nothing to gain financially. His many business interests have made him a wealthy man.
Perhaps a better question is why shouldn’t we believe him.
Other high-profile experts will, almost certainly, appear in the coming weeks and months. To encourage this, the US government recently introduced new legislation, aimed at protecting UAP 'whistleblowers'. The 2022 amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act makes it easier (and safer) for public officials and private contractors to come forward with data on UAP sightings, crash retrieval programs and attempts to back-engineer extraterrestrial technology.
The mere fact that top-level US lawmakers are now taking this matter seriously should be sufficient indiction of the new, more open environment for the discussion of all things UAP.
Elizondo poked a hole in the dam with his pinky finger. Nolan and Loeb are busy making the breach a little bigger. Soon people will be queueing up, to play their part in the disclosure process.
Eventually, the flood will begin.
NASA brings a penknife to a gunfight
Clearly, someone forgot to tell NASA what’s been happening in the real world.
While Nolan was talking about proof of aliens being an integral part of our existence for thousands of years, the space agency was preparing a press conference on its latest foray into the UAP arena. A conference that turned out to be so astoundingly dull that I fell asleep watching it.
The only interesting moments were both notable for their comedic value, not their insightfulness.
The first came when the spokesperson pointed out that, while NASA has lots of equipment capable of tracking UAPs, the American public is very keen on maintaining its privacy. Being fully respectful of this fact naturally limits the amount data the agency can collect.
Wow. I can only imagine that Edward Snowden is still laughing.
The second was a story about a pilot and qualified observer who thought he’d seen something anomalous, only for it to be a Bart Simpson balloon.
Yes, we are still blaming balloons. Snowden may not have laughed at this, but I did.
Eventually, NASA did give us some concrete facts. Of the 800 events it investigated, 2.5% showed unexplained behaviour. Or, in the words of the presenter, there is evidence that, in 20 cases, “something is doing something weird.”
No shit, Sherlock. Thank goodness the space experts are back on the case.
A journey of a thousand miles
As NASA has once again helped to demonstrate, in the world of UAPs it’s still a case of one step forward, 0.999 steps back.
But at least now those tiny incremental steps are now being taken by experts, wearing hobnail boots.
As the range of possible explanations for UAPs naturally and necessarily expands, beyond the simple ‘nuts and bolt’ approach, into areas such as consciousness, parallel dimensions and time travel, there is a risk of the field becoming increasingly confused, and us being distracted from the ultimate goal.
Dividing the project into tiny parts will lead to progress, but the parts themselves will not generate the kind of headlines that the subject deserves.
We are talking about investigations that have the potential to radically re-write our entire history, reveal key aspects of consciousness and wider reality, change our understanding of the future and, ultimately, reveal our place in the universe. Not to mention underpin the reformation of social and economic structures, philosophical and ethical practices, healthcare, education and religion.
UAP research and revelation will contribute to a global paradigm shift the likes of which we cannot even imagine.
And if that isn’t big news, I don’t know what it.
Afterword: Nuremberg, 1561
This article focuses on the modern UFO phenomenon, but it is important to remember that similar events have been recorded throughout history. They did not begin just after science fiction was first written, or in tandem with the first manned flights, as many skeptics are quick to argue.
Here is just one example from many. And it’s a cracker…
Daybreak, April 14, 1561. We are in Nuremberg, a city of the Holy Roman Empire, in the heartland of a future Germany. Looking towards the rising sun, we see something unusual. In the words of a contemporary broadsheet, illustrated with a striking woodcut:
‘At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the colour was blood, there stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous colour […] which were intermingled, among them two big rods, one on the right, the other to the left, and within the small and big rods there were three, also four and more globes.’
Before long, the spectacle takes a menacing turn:
‘These all started to fight among themselves […] vehemently with each other for over an hour […] After all this there was something like a black spear, very long and thick, sighted; the shaft pointed to the east, the point pointed west.’
To summarise: 450 years ago, an entire city witnessed cigar-shaped objects, glowing orbs and a black triangle. All of which are very familiar forms to the present-day UAP researcher.
The skeptical explanation for all this? A solar phenomenon known as ‘sun dogs’, comprising two bright arcs, one either side of the sun, caused by ice crystals. While it’s true that sun dogs can last up to 30 minutes, they were known to (and recorded by) observers throughout the Middle Ages, as can be seen in this illustration, taken from… the very same Nuremberg Chronicle.
Alternatively, it’s argued that Nuremberg was going through a recession in 1561, resulting in social conditions that would ‘accentuate apocalyptic thought.’ Which is a circuitous way of saying the entire city imagined a spectacular, one-hour battle between multiple aerial phenomena, of many different shapes and sizes, because they were suffering from an economic downturn.
At least there’s no mention of weather balloons.
Additional Sources:
'100% Aliens Have Already Arrived - Dr Gary Nolan' SALT iConnections New York (YouTube May 2023)
'1561 celestial phenomena over Nuremberg' Wikipedia
'Genetic tests reveal tragic reality of Atacama 'alien' skeleton' The Guardian (Mar 2018)
'Mystery of Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Gets Trickier’ Scientific American (Aug 2020)
'NASA team says over 800 'incidents' investigated' BBC (May 2023)
'von Braun's False Flag Alien Invasion' exopolotics .org (June 2020)
* All images Wikipedia (commons), unless otherwise stated
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