The numerous descriptions of UFO/UAP by pilots over the years have been both precise and unexplainable. The first great wave was during the 2WW when bomber pilots were talking about luminous balls of light flying around their planes which they ended up calling the Foo Fighters. They were told that this was a particular kind of St Elmo fire (an electric discharge during thunderstorms) which in unison, they answered that they all knew what St Elmo fires were and that these lights definitively were not "electric".
Then came the second great wave during the height of the Cold War when authorities were concerned that these objects were new Soviet technologies. There was a rather good reason for the worries. At the end of the war, when finally the Americans and Soviets put their hands on German blueprints, they were amazed to see how advanced German engineering was. Not only did the Germans had perfected the jet and rocket engines but they were already working on an intercontinental ballistic missile called the V5 which could have reached New York and other American cities. Luckily the US had captured Wernher von Braun and his Peenemünde team thanks to the Paperclip operation but there was no way to know exactly what the Soviet got. A secret German engine which was now being used over the continental US?
When finally in the 1960s, they realized the technology was not Soviet, the US Government decided to bury the UFO controversy with Project Blue Book which in 1968 concluded that most sightings were actually misinterpretations of common phenomenons and objects which was going to be the official position for the following 20 years. But sightings did not stop. They conversely became more widespread and diverse.
At the same time, the term UFO became more "out-there" and unrespectable with abducted people seeing aliens on a regular basis and all kind of hoaxes filling the back pages of newspapers during the news starved Summer days.
It is only in the 1990s that once again the UFO phenomenon, renamed UAP resurfaced with more specific sightings of impossible performances now confirmed by radars which were far more difficult to dismiss. And finally the spectacular 2004 Tic-Tac display which when it was revealed, rekindled the alien technology narrative. And sure enough, it was amazing. Thousands of mariners, pilots and radar operators observing day after day these amazing crafts doing impossible maneuvers close to the Nimitz super-carrier, in the air, under water, reversing direction instantly. This could not easily be dismissed.
More recently, we have entered the drone era so as below we can't be sure anymore. Most UAP could indeed be advanced drones or secret programs. Although pilots are assuring us they are definitely not, with no infrared signature and no propulsion system visible. The one description I prefer is that of a grey metallic sphere inside a transparent cube crossing the path of a fighter jet at 180 degrees.
Military Aircraft's Mysterious Crash Sparks UFO Speculation In U.S. Airspace
An unexplained collision between a U.S. military aircraft and an unidentified flying object, detailed in declassified documents, has sparked renewed questions about whether aliens have entered American airspace.
The incident occurred in January 2023, when an unidentified object struck the left side of an F-16 Viper fighter jet during a training exercise near Gila Bend, Arizona.
Fox News reports:
The flying object impacted the clear "canopy" at the top of the aircraft and was first seen by an instructor pilot seated in the rear of the plane, officials said. An initial investigation found no damage to the nearly $70 million jet, and officials ruled out a possible bird strike. Authorities ultimately concluded that the aircraft had been hit by a drone. However, the drone’s origin and operator remain unknown, a spokesperson said.
According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) documents obtained by The War Zone, the crash marked the first of four encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reported the following day.
The unusual incident was confirmed to Fox News by an Air Force spokesperson.
"According to military personnel I’ve personally met with, there were objects 200 miles off the East Coast that were extensively loitering and had no visible means of propulsion,” UFO expert James Fox said in an interview with Fox News. “So a report from 2023 about an actual impact with a UAP doesn’t really surprise me.”
Previously declassified documents from the Department of Defense reveal that between May 1, 2023, and June 1, 2024, there were 757 reported incidents involving unidentified flying objects. Of those, only 49 have been deemed “case closed” by the Pentagon.
While the presence of unidentified flying objects may raise alarms, James Fox says the phenomenon is far from new.
"There are reports dating back to the 1930s and 1940s,” the UFO researcher said. “Where you had mysterious, glowing, and orb-like objects that emitted very bright light that could just fly rings around the military planes from World War II."
"This has been well-documented for decades,” he added. “So either we’ve managed to track the same thing it’s been, [possibly] non-human intelligence, since the 1940s. Or someone has managed to replicate the technology, reverse engineer it and they’re flying it around.”
In 2020, President Donald Trump hinted at intriguing knowledge about the infamous Roswell incident during an interview with his son, Donald Trump Jr.
“I won’t talk to you about what I know about it, but it’s very interesting,” Trump said.
Not everyone is convinced. Elon Musk remains skeptical that aliens have ever visited Earth.
"I've not seen any evidence of aliens," Musk told the Milken Institute Global Conference last year. "And SpaceX, with the Starlink constellation, has roughly 6,000 satellites, and not once have we had to maneuver around a UFO. [...] Never. So I'm like, okay, I don't see any evidence of aliens."
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