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Less than a month ago, I read some news that made my blood curdle, and not for the reasons you may expect. This wasn’t about genocide or a totalitarian dictator, but about technology that is currently beyond the public’s understanding. What scared me about this news had nothing to do with the incident itself, and everything to do with what it means for the future of the world.
In July of 2019 over the course of multiple days, six different unidentified drones swarmed over United States Navy Destroyers. According to Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, the aircraft were, “…described as flying for prolonged periods in low-visibility conditions, and performing brazen maneuvers over the Navy warships near a sensitive military training range less than 100 miles off Los Angeles.”
Drones getting so close to military vessels would’ve been strange enough, if not for how they were described by the sailors. The ship log described the aircrafts as, “white lights,” and on the first night of the sightings, one drone was able to hover over the deck of the destroyer and keep a pace of 16 knots. You read that right, the drone was able to hold a hover over a moving battleship. Even stranger, this happened in low visibility conditions, at night, and lasted for over 90 minutes.
There was an investigation launched that involved the Navy, Coast Guard and FBI, and as far as we know they were not able to determine the source of the aircraft.
I can’t go into every detail of this story, so I highly recommend you read it for yourself. The Drive, who published the investigation, is still working on it and I hope we get to read more soon.
This news dropped at a time when sightings of unidentified aircrafts are increasing, not among kooky tin-foil hat wearers, but in the ranks of the military. This has prompted the Navy to formalize their process for reporting Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) which is the new term they use instead of UFO.
It appears that the military is becoming increasingly comfortable with divulging the details of UAP sightings with the general public, although they still seem rather cagey. Three different videos were officially released by the Pentagon in 2020, named FLIR, GIMBAL and GOFAST. All three of the videos show radar footage of aircraft flying at unusually fast speeds, with purplexted pilots discussing the object.
I think the most chilling moment of these three videos takes place in GIMBAL, when the two pilots exchange, “That’s a fucking drone, bro,” the second replying, “There’s a whole fleet of them, look on the SA.” Not dissimilar to the unidentified drones that could hold a hover over a rapidly moving military vessel from June 2019.
Even stranger, one of the pilots points out that the UAP is flying against the wind. After watching in awe for a moment, the aircraft begins to visibly rotate, and then the radar footage cuts.
These videos had been previously leaked and reported on before the Pentagon released them, but if you’re anything like me you didn’t see the footage until months after quarantine. The military formally recognizing these videos as real also signals a possible shift in the public discussion of UAP sightings.
And it’s not just radar video; pilots have reported a near miss with an unidentified aircraft before. In 2014, two pilots were flying about a hundred feet apart in tandem over the Atlantic, east of Virginia Beach, when something very weird flew right in between them. They described it as a sphere encasing a cube.
Pilots in the area saw aircraft like this multiple times, catching them on video in some instances (this is where the GIMBAL and GOFAST videos were taken). The pilots described, “that the video showed objects accelerating to hypersonic speed, making sudden stops and instantaneous turns — something beyond the physical limits of a human crew.”
We’re about two months away from receiving a massive report from the Pentagon on the UFO phenomenon thanks to the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 2021. The military has until June to release a comprehensive report of what they know about UAPs. Needless to say, I’m sitting on pins and needles waiting for this report, considering the public will be able to access most of it, besides a classified supplement.
As for what will actually be in this report, I suspect that it will raise more questions than answers. I think we’ll learn a great amount from it, but we could be left to draw our own conclusions, which wouldn’t be a smart move on the part of the military. If we don’t receive solid answers in the report, then it just leaves us to wildly speculate.
In the meantime, why don’t we indulge in some speculation? My head has been spinning with ideas for what these unidentified aircraft are, and currently I believe the most likely answer is that they belong to our own government, and that the witness pilots don’t have the security clearance to know about these highly advanced aircraft.
Although, pilots who have seen these aircraft disagree with me. The pilots who nearly collided with an unidentified aircraft told this story to their squadron, and it convinced them these didn’t belong to the military, because they would’ve known not to interfere with their mission.
My first theory was that another major superpower, like China or Russia, was using this technology. I still think that’s a possibility, but Air Force spokesman Maj. Bryan Lewis said, “While there is a proliferation of UAV technology across the globe, we are not concerned that China or Russia have developed a long-range capability about which we are not aware.”
So if it’s not those two options, then where the fuck are these things coming from? At the moment, my money is still on either the United States or another superpower, but I think we’d be foolish to not at least consider the possibility that they’re of extraterrestrial origin.
Is this likely? Of course not, because there’s a difference between a possibility and probability. Extraterrestrial visitors coming to Earth is the least probable answer to the mystery of what’s in our skies, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. I would also contend that it could be our best case scenario.
Look at the time period preceding World War I. There’s a lot of reasons why it happened, and one of them is that major governments had just developed tons of never before seen advanced weaponry, and they wanted to test out their new toys. The result was unprecedented destruction and calamity.
What if these unidentified aircraft belong to the major government superpowers of today? What else can they do when they’re not taking surveillance? If history has taught us anything, our leaders will use the power for destruction, and treat the common people as cannon fodder.
At least with extraterrestrials, there’s a chance they use this technology more responsibly than us. We don’t know that, but we know what our government will do with it. I’ll take my chances with the aliens.
