For those of you who don’t celebrate World UFO Day, consider this: A former US Air Force intelligence officer told Congress last summer about a government program that captured and reverse engineered unidentified flying objects.
The Mexican Congress held an unprecedented session in September during which mummies were considered “non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution.” And NASA now has a director of research for unidentified flying objects, or what they call “unknown anomalous phenomena.” Never mind that the Pentagon is denying the claims of former intelligence officials; that Mexican researchers say the mummy “makes no sense;” and the NASA study found no evidence of extraterrestrials.
There has never been a better time to mark World UFO Day.
alien? Or just balloons and crash test dummies? World UFO Day has its roots in the so-called Roswell Incident on July 2, 1947. On that date, something crashed on the ranch of JB Foster in New Mexico. There are reports that the US military has found a “flying disc”. But officials later said the debris was just the remains of a high-altitude weather balloon.
The Air Force investigated the incident in 1994 amid allegations of a cover-up. It concluded that the alien spacecraft was an Army Air Force balloon designed to monitor Soviet nuclear testing.
Materials found near Roswell include foil-wrapped cloth, wooden sticks, pieces of rubber, and small I-beams with strange markings. A local newspaper headline described the find dramatically and unambiguously: Air Force Captures Flying Saucer At Ranch.
“Air Force research has not discovered or developed information that the ‘Roswell Incident’ was a UFO event,” wrote Col. Richard Weaver, author of the report.
The Air Force released another report on UFO claims in 1997, stating that the alleged bodies found near Roswell were just mannequins used in parachute tests.
Some UFO researchers reject this explanation, stating that the doll was not used until 10 years after the Roswell Incident. And they said it would be a stretch for those who claim to see foreign bodies to mix up the date so badly.
The life-size mannequins were used in high-altitude parachute drops from 1954 to 1959. The majority landed outside the boundaries of a military base in eastern New Mexico, near Roswell, according to Air Force reports.
The doll has an aluminum or steel skeleton, a latex or plastic skin, a cast aluminum skull, and instrument cavities in the body and head.
The Air Force says the existence of the dummy is not widely known outside scientific circles and is “easily mistaken for its absence.” inexplicable in the sky.
The object seen appeared to be a flying plane with no discernible means of propulsion. They have been reported near military bases and coastlines, raising the prospect that the witnesses are in fact Chinese or Russian secret technology.
A 2021 government report reviewed 144 sightings of aircraft or other devices that appeared to fly at mysterious speeds or trajectories. Didn’t find an extraterrestrial link but made some other conclusions and called for better data collection.
Lawmakers from both parties say UFOs are a national security issue. But that seems to be mostly fleeting. Some are visible for no more than a moment on camera – and then sometimes distorted by the camera lens.
Ronald Moultrie, the deputy secretary of defense for intelligence, said during a 2022 hearing that the Pentagon is trying to eliminate the problem and is encouraging pilots and other military personnel to report anything unusual.
Then something a little weird happened last year.
During a congressional hearing in late July, retired Air Force Maj. David Grusch testified that the US was hiding a long-standing program to shoot and reverse engineer unidentified flying objects.
Asked if the US government had information about extraterrestrial life, Grusch said the US had known about “nonhuman” activity since the 1930s.
The Pentagon rejected Grusch’s claims of a cover-up and denied the existence of the program.
A shriveled body with a shrunken head Unlike the hearing in the US, the testimony before members of parliament in the Mexican Congress included alleged evidence of aliens.
During an unprecedented session in September, Mexican journalist José Jaime Maussan presented two boxes containing shriveled bodies with shrunken heads, suspected mummies found in Peru.
“It is the queen of all evidence,” Maussan said. “That is, if the DNA shows that they are not human and that there is nothing else in the world that looks like this, then we should treat it as such.” The apparently desiccated body dates back to 2017 and was found underground in Peru’s Nazca coastal desert. Most associate the famous Nazca Lines with ancient Indigenous communities.
Julieta Fierro, a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, was among those who expressed skepticism, saying that many of the details about the figures “make no sense.” He noted that scientists need more advanced technology than the X-rays they claim are used to determine whether the so-called calcified bodies are “nonhuman”.
At another hearing in November, Maussan made his case again, calling him “nonhuman” who had no lungs or ribs.
NASA chief: ‘Show me the evidence’
The Pentagon released a study in March that reviewed numerous UFO sightings over the past nearly century and found no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence.
The report analyzes US government investigations dating back to 1945. There is also no evidence that the US or private companies have reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology.
The Pentagon report comes about six months after NASA released a report on UFOs, which also found no evidence of extraterrestrials.
But NASA Administrator Bill Nelson admits that other Earth-like planets could exist in billions of galaxies in the universe.
“If you ask me, do I believe that there is life in a universe that is so vast that it is difficult for me to understand its size? My personal answer is yes,” Nelson said at a press conference.
When pressed by reporters about whether the US or other governments are hiding aliens or other spaceships, Nelson said: “Show me the evidence.”
