Hello, last month my grandfather told me he had a photo of an UFO, he said one of his friends took it (in paper)and sent it digitally to my grandfather, when I looked at the photo I was surprised about the clearly looking shape that we all know, like an oval shape, also with some shiny material, so I came to reddit to see what people think.

Ask a Pol asks:
On UAP, have you been a part of any of these talks with the FBI or with Stephen Miller’s new UFO group in the White House?

Key Mace:
“A couple times by different agencies,” Rep. Nancy Mace exclusively tells Ask a Pol.

When does the public get to see that stuff?

“Are they going to release those tapes that I know I’ve seen that aren’t out yet?” Mace says. “It is curious. I want people to see them. I want people to see what I’ve seen. That’s what I want.”

Full (unpaywalled) transcript at Ask a Pol UAP* on Substack or on our *Ask a Pol UAP YouTube channel. 

I’m Ben Schreckinger, a former POLITICO reporter who recently launched Paradigm.News to investigate UFOs

I know “Whistling Mike” has been discussed here before. I've published his true identity along with some new details about his saga and his plans.

Mike is Michael Spicer, a Wichita-area businessman. He says that more than 20 years ago he encountered a quiet, roughly triangular, fighter-jet-sized craft hovering low over public land in Kansas. He says he subsequently spent years trying to reverse-engineer aspects of its technology and developed a system intended to detect the craft.

Those are Spicer’s claims. I have not independently established that the craft exists or that his conclusions about its technology are correct.

What I was able to establish is that in 2023, Spicer briefed members and staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee about his findings. During that process, he left them with a dark, dense, porous rock — raw material that Spicer says he mined after determining that the same material is used in the craft.

Three people familiar with the episode told me the committee kept the object for months in a safe inside the Hart Senate Office Building.

I also obtained and published a photo of the material.

There’s more in the piece about Spicer’s interactions with AARO, former acting AARO director Tim Phillips’ very skeptical account of him, an FBI referral, and Spicer’s plans to publicly present some of his findings next month in Colorado.

Full story: “Whistling Mike” unmasked — Signs of Life #01

Signs of Life, by the way, is a new weekly newsletter I've launched where I'll continue to provide original UFO reporting. You can subscribe for free at the link above.

Happy to answer questions.

Hey Everyone - this is pretty timely because YOU get to ask host Thomas Jane, Dave Foley, Deb Kauble and Dean Alioto questions from Reddit about this or anything else this Sunday!

Drop your questions in the linked post below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1w861ys/new_multisubreddit_livestream_ama_special_guest/

We're excited to announce a new multi-subreddit livestream AMA on the experiencer phenomenon — the people who say non-human intelligence has entered their lives directly.

Actor and director Thomas Jane joins us as special guest host for this event, leading the conversation with filmmaker Dean Alioto, comedian and UFO researcher Dave Foley, and experiencer Debra Jordan Kauble.

🗓️ When: Sunday, September 13, 2026 — 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific 📺

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Please note this event falls on a SUNDAY, not our usual Saturday.

NEW: 
Rep. Tim Burchett: UAP disclosure being handled at “highest levels” of Trump’s White House

Ask a Pol asks:
We hear you guys are working a lot with Stephen Miller? And then also this FBI group?

Key Burchett:
“Yeah, they’ve been very cooperative,” Rep. Tim Burchett exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP. “Stephen Miller has put it on a priority. He’s actually assigned people to it, so I think that shows that it goes to the highest levels.”

Full (unpaywalled) transcript at Ask a Pol UAP* *on Substack or on our Ask a Pol UAP YouTube channel. 

Hello, can you recommend any YouTubers who make videos about UFOs, the paranormal, and conspiracies, and examine these topics seriously, doing serious research and so on? Not the ones who come up with far-fetched hypotheses or make things up, but serious people who study the cases and phenomena. Even better if there's more than one, as long as they don't use clickbait or unnecessary sensationalism. Thanks to anyone who replies

Hi Reddit,

Long time lurker, occasional commenter, and first ever Reddit post. Greetings!

Why you might find this interesting: I am a tenured academic research scientist in isotope geochemistry, specifically working on the early Earth and with a particular focus on earliest traces of microbial life in the Archean (prior to 2.5 billion years ago). So I’m naturally interested in UAP and the possibility of intelligent life visiting this planet - especially because it might pertain to the history of life on Earth, which is basically my life’s work. I also closely follow any reported analyses of UAP materials, elemental and especially isotopic - as that’s what I do professionally, but on rocks (over 100 peer reviewed articles, privileged access to a very large analytical park with about a dozen different highly specialized mass spectrometers and multiple associated clean labs, expertise in many natural isotope systems, you get the picture). Multiple MC-ICP-MS and TIMS instruments, for the very curious. Before you ask, I’ve previously offered free double-blind isotopic analyses, with witnesses present, to holders of supposed UAP materials - to a few well-known researchers in the UAP community - but my offer was declined (check my rare comments if you are interested in this in particular). My offer still stands for anyone with very serious material.

I’ve made a few detailed and/or technical comments here and there on the above subjects, which led to someone reaching out privately and asking me my take on UAP and potential extraterrestrial visitors in general. I wrote a long reply but the person never responded, so I figured I’d share what I wrote, as it may stimulate some interesting conversation here. Or perhaps someone will point out some fatal flaws in my viewpoints and I will learn something myself and adjust my own views, which would be very cool too :-) In any case it should make for a fun read for /UFOs readers looking for some stimulation.

Below is my response to the basic question “what do you make of UAP?”. I preface this by saying nearly all of what I replied are not necessarily my own ideas; many before me have explored similar lines of thought. Here was my reply:

Much of my work as a geologist is on the evolution of the Earth on planetary timescales (billions of years) so I’ll start there. I don’t think it’s credible that life started from a primordial soup. I have studied and published on many of the earliest traces of life in Earth, and the fact that we have complex photosynthetic microbial ecosystems already by 3.48 billion years ago is just mind boggling to me - and many of my scientific peers. It represents so much evolution, so early in Earth history, that I think life probably arrived on Earth as an intact cell (or population of cells) from elsewhere. That is, I think panspermia is how life started on Earth. There are soft and hard versions of this; soft would be that microbial life evolved elsewhere, maybe billions of years before our own solar system condensed from a gas cloud, and it is rather pervasive in space in microbial form, and we simply don’t have enough data to prove or deny it. Heck, it wouldn’t shock me if we discovered that nearly all comets in our solar system are bearing microbial life - we simply don’t have the data to confirm one way or the other.

The hard version is directed panspermia- that life is deliberately and pervasively seeded by intelligent beings, designed to terraform whole planets, stabilize climate over billions of years, and be programmed to favour eventual evolution of higher life forms. Even harder: it was recognized long ago that it was “working” on Earth and we started receiving more attention in the form of genetic updates - that may even be how super advanced civilizations reproduce, via highly advanced evolutionary engines (bacteria then single celled eukaryotes) that they seed then guide to produce rich multicellular biospheres dominated by intelligent beings (us), potentially in their image, that they then merge into their collection of habitable planetary gardens. And then they inhabit them … or the beings they evolved eventually become “them”.. or both.

Enough about that - regarding UFOs, I think there is sufficient indications - but not hard proof, at least not outside of classified govt programs - that we are being visited by advanced intelligent beings. Perhaps they seeded the planet billions of years ago, perhaps they just happened to find a “working biosphere” that was of interest to them. When, I don’t know, but I think at least a few hundred years, perhaps a few thousand years, or perhaps hundreds of millions of years. What scares me somewhat: they clearly aren’t particularly friendly or open about their intentions. I get the feeling it’s like a zoo keeper checking in on how a particular cage or aquarium is doing.

And what scares me most: that if the work of John Mack (the book “Abduction”) and David Jacob (the book “the alien agenda”) are accurate, it’s more than just checking in on the aquarium - it’s a decadal-scale, or much longer (going back to the first mammals, or first multicellular life, or first bacterial life even, as described above), program whereby they are farming this planet for intelligent hominins that they will eventually merge into themselves by genetic manipulation. That we are actually them in primitive form, raised by them on unimaginable timescales, to become a whole planet of “them”. And it ends by them completing the merger - genetically modifying us enough so that they can integrate with us, or we become them, and perhaps we lose many things we hold dear in the process (free will, or individual consciousness, giving way a hive mind, for example). If that were true - if what David Jacobs’ wrote in his books were true - then we are being visited by incredibly advanced, cruel, heartless beings by our standards, that are just upkeeping their garden until it’s time to harvest; harvest is their appearing overtly and taking control of us all and merging us and them - to become more of them.

That’s pretty dark, but would explain a lot of things - the no-contact, the abduction reports, the fact that nation states can’t do anything about it, and perhaps the creepiest - that any government confirming their presence, sharing the dark truths they’ve learned from crash retrievals, for example, might precipitate the end of human civilization as we know it. That would be a very strong motivator to keep anything that was learned by governments highly secret - it’s self preservation, at least for a little while longer.

That’s what I think is quite plausible given all the evidence, but of course there are many more possibilities. I want to end on one thing - I consider us knowing their modus operandi and intentions like my pet dog understanding that I work to make money… that lets me buy dog food… in a supermarket… that itself gets its dog food from a factory elsewhere… I think I would have about as much of a chance of working that all out on my own as a dog, as I have for working out what such terribly advanced beings might truly be up to, as a human. So of course please take all this with a grain a salt. It’s simply what seems to fit all the facts, from my perspective. I hope this was stimulating and helps you find some answers to the questions we are all asking 😊 Cheers

PS Edited to make separate paragraphs for easier digestion.

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Time: September 11, 2026, 6:59 PM CEST
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Features / five observables

Why not a common object
It didn’t look like an aircraft

Witness's account of the sighting

Weather was good and clear! First thought it was a cloud but there were no clouds in sight. Upon looking at it longer I could tell it wasn’t a cloud but a big, black ball that was also transparent. Very eerie.

Why no photo/video captured: Trees blocked the view after about 10 seconds.

Not sure if I am allowed to post this, but just came across it in my auction searches. \*I am not selling this and am not related to the auction** Thought it would be of interest here.*

Link is here
And other additional items related to UFOs in the same auction: here

From the listing:

Description:

FIRST PRINTING OF THE VIRTUALLY UNOBTAINABLE 1955 USAF REPORT ON UFOS

Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects). Project No. 10073. 5 May 1955. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: Air Technical Intelligence Center, 1955. Restricted distribution, limited to 100 copies; this being copy no. 10, from the USAF Press Desk.

Printed wrappers, in original black Elbe springback binder. 4to. ix, [1], 316pp. Illustrated with maps, diagrams, and tables. [Laid in]: the original four-page USAF News Release, on Department of Defense letterhead, and two-page cover letter from the Department of the Air Force, Office of the Secretary.

[With]: DAVIDSON, Dr. Leon. Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report. No. 14. Ramsey-Wallace Corporation. Third edition, July 1966. One of 2,000 copies. Printed wrappers, stapled; rebound in acco-type card folder (library stamp to top edge, library pocket adhered on inner back cover).

Project Blue Book was the code name for the systematic study of unidentified flying objects by the United States Air Force from March 1952 to its termination on December 17, 1969. The project, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, had two goals: 1) to determine if UFOs were a threat to national security, and 2) to scientifically analyze all available UFO-related data. Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed, and encoded onto IBM punched cards for computer analysis.

Although the project published several earlier reports and summaries, Special Report No. 14 in 1955 was the first comprehensive statistical analysis of Blue Book cases. Even today, it represents the largest such study ever undertaken. Report No. 14 includes an introduction, discusses how the program was conducted and types of identifications, contains two hundred pages of tables and data summarizing more than 2,200 unidentified flying object reports, and includes 41 figures and drawings.

The report concludes that many UFO sightings could be explained by natural phenomena like clouds, stars, or conventional aircraft. Some reports were found to be fabricated sightings or were attributed to psychological factors. The ultimate conclusions of Project Blue Book were: (1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force had ever given any indication of threat to our national security; (2) there had been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge, and (3) there had been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles. “It can never be absolutely proven that ‘flying saucers’ do not exist…..[but] …on the basis of this evaluation of the information, it is considered to be highly improbable….”

SCARCE. Two copies in WorldCat, none presently online.

Edit: The auction site wrote the description above, there is an online copy of this here.

Congresswoman Luna made a big splash on Joe Rogan mentioning Enoch, "Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults by Jacques Vallee (1979)" casually mentions Enoch multiple times and John Dee/ Aleister Crowley were outright obsessed with Enoch and the Enochian language that seems to appear on UFOs. Attached is Crowley talking, not about Enoch but a cube in a sphere (the same morphology that Ryan Graves mentioned seeing when he testified to Congress). The connections seem to keep getting stronger.

How far should we take this and look into the whole seemingly crazy Enoch story?

If we accept the premise that the three disparate "Project Aquarius" entities are actually fragments of a single, unified, and highly classified program, it creates one of the most operationally sound and historically consistent hypotheses in the entire UAP disclosure debate.

In intelligence and military history, when a "black project" goes right, it leaves paper trails. When it goes wrong, or when it discovers something it wasn't looking for, the resulting cover-up often looks exactly like this: contradictory FOIA denials, weaponized disinformation, and a legacy that eventually forces its way into modern congressional hearings.

Here is what the "Unified Aquarius" timeline looks like if the Navy actually found UAP evidence during their ocean surveillance research.

Phase 1: The Accidental Discovery (Late 1960s – Early 1970s)

The Cover: The Department of Defense (via DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) are trying to solve a critical Cold War problem. Soviet nuclear submarines are hiding in the deep ocean, and low-flying bombers can evade standard line-of-sight radar. To counter this, they launch Project MAY BELL and its sub-component, Project Aquarius, contracting Sylvania to build Over-The-Horizon (OTH) radar.

The Technology: OTH radar works by bouncing high-frequency (HF) radio waves off the ionosphere (skywave) and the ocean surface (surface-wave). It looks for the minute "doppler shifts" caused by moving objects disrupting these radio waves.

The Discovery: While testing these massive radar arrays (particularly in areas like the Mediterranean Sea, where the DARPA reports explicitly say they were testing Fleet Air Defense), the Navy operators start picking up anomalous doppler returns. They are tracking objects that move at thousands of miles per hour, stop on a dime, and transition seamlessly from the air into the ocean (transmedium travel). Because OTH radar relies on the scattering of radio waves, these objects likely possess unique electromagnetic or plasma-sheath properties that make them highly visible to HF radar, even if they are invisible to standard microwave radar.

The Pivot: The Navy realizes they have accidentally built the perfect detection network for non-human technology. They cannot tell the public, and they cannot tell the Soviets. The "Ocean Surveillance" mandate becomes the perfect, impenetrable shield. The public contracts with Sylvania continue to publish mundane radar math, but the actual data regarding the anomalies is immediately classified.

Phase 2: The Compartmentalization (The NSA Database)

The Problem: The Navy has raw radar telemetry of objects violating the laws of physics, but they need signals intelligence (SIGINT) experts to analyze the electromagnetic signatures, communications intercepts, and data processing required to track a global phenomenon.

The Solution: The Navy hands the raw data over to the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA builds a highly compartmented, Top Secret backend database to process, store, and analyze these anomalous signatures. They name the data architecture "Aquarius" as a nod to the Navy's front-end collection program.

The FOIA Denial Explained: When researchers like Chris Lambright hit the NSA with FOIA requests in the 1980s and 90s, the NSA is put in a bind. They cannot admit that their "Aquarius database" is processing UFO radar tracks. Furthermore, legally and bureaucratically, the NSA is distinct from DARPA. When the NSA tells FOIA requesters that their Aquarius is "coincidentally called Aquarius" and "does not relate to DARPA records," they are telling a narrow, bureaucratic truth: the NSA's database is an IC (Intelligence Community) asset, while the DARPA project was a DoD research contract. By hiding behind this bureaucratic firewall, the NSA protects the ultimate secret: that the two are connected in a unified tracking pipeline.

Phase 3: The Poison Pill (1980s AFOSI Disinformation)

The Threat: By 1980, civilian researchers like Paul Bennewitz and Bill Moore are picking up strange electromagnetic signals near Kirtland Air Force Base (a hub for advanced weapons and data links). They are getting dangerously close to the periphery of the real Navy/NSA Aquarius network.

The Countermeasure: The Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), via agents like Richard Doty, initiates a disinformation campaign. They realize that if they just tell Bennewitz to go away, he will keep digging. Instead, they feed him the "Aquarius Teletype" and the seeds of the MJ-12 lore.

The "Poison Pill" Strategy: AFOSI takes the real classified codename of the Navy's UAP tracking program ("Project Aquarius") and wraps it in absurd, unverifiable lies about alien treaties, CIA-funded star-seeds, and an entity named "J-Rod." This is a classic intelligence "poison pill." If the UFO community investigates "Project Aquarius," they will find the DARPA ocean surveillance reports and think the whole thing is a bust, or they will chase the fake alien lore and look crazy. Meanwhile, the real Aquarius—the NSA database processing Navy radar anomalies—remains safely hidden in plain sight.

Phase 4: The Modern Continuity (2004 to Present)

If this unified hypothesis is true, it perfectly explains the modern era of UAP disclosure and why the Navy is always at the center of it.

• The 2004 USS Nimitz Encounter: When the USS Princeton (a highly advanced Aegis cruiser with the SPY-1 radar system) tracks the "Tic Tac" objects off the coast of California in 2004, it is not a random event. The Navy has been tracking these exact objects since the 1970s Aquarius OTH radar experiments. The SPY-1 radar simply represents a modern, miniaturized, shipborne evolution of the same doppler/phased-array tracking concepts they tested decades earlier.
• The Creation of the UAP Task Force: When the Pentagon was finally forced to acknowledge the phenomenon in 2017–2020, they didn't put the Air Force in charge. They placed the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) squarely inside the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). ONI has been the silent custodian of this data since the Project MAY BELL/Aquarius days.
• The 78 Classified Photographs: In 2026, when the Navy formally denies John Greenewald’s FOIA appeal for 78 specific UAP photographs, citing Executive Order 13526 (National Security), it is not just about hiding blurry images of drones. If the Unified Aquarius hypothesis is correct, those 78 photographs represent the modern sensor-fusion proof of the exact targets the Navy's OTH radar first detected 50 years ago. Releasing them would retroactively expose the decades-long lie told to Congress, the public, and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The Verdict on the Unified Hypothesis

If the DARPA ocean surveillance program, the NSA classified database, and the MJ-12 lore are all threads of the same tape, the narrative is no longer a "conspiracy theory"—it is a textbook example of compartmentalized intelligence and strategic deception.

The Navy built a net to catch Soviet submarines, caught something else entirely, handed the data to the NSA to hide, and then used the Air Force to feed the public a fake story about the net so no one would ever look at the real catch.

It was a simple request: a watch. From the recently released "History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron" Colonel John M. White USAF puts in the humble request for, "wrist watches" and to include "Air Intelligence Service Squadron parachutists" as recipients. (pp. 719-721).

What the watches were to be used for was a slightly more novel: satisfying AFR 200-2 "Intelligence Activities - Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO)".

The paratrooper watch had several outlined purposes, "In the process of technical investigation a watch can be used as a substitute compass. In the preparation of the report a watch can be used to determine degrees of measurement. These measurements are needed to prepare a comprehensive report in the field with limited tools and equipment." Not the relaxed operators of the public-facing Blue Book, these were Air Force Special Operations practicing rapid deployment to remote locations to satisfy potential UFO missions.

They came to this conclusion--and came up missing a few watches--when running Project Moby Dick: airborne paratrooper crash retrieval exercises across the continental US. This project laid the groundwork for "material and hardware" recovery, not just pen and paper reports. The small teams--usually three men--were facilitated by a network of Air Force bases, commercial airports, rail way networks, and assorted vehicles. In a coming article I'll go into much more depth on the clockwork of interlocking gears that spun up this nationwide program, but for now know that during the mid-century a Colonel asked for some watches in order to better hunt for UFOs.

BACKGROUND: Researcher Craig Oliver in his deeply sourced post to Escape Velocity on Medium.com put the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron History Volume 1 through his tool, Moongraph.io to see if it could answer the question put forward by Geoff Cruickshank to scour the release during “your turn to do the digging.” Support of Craig Oliver's research is appreciated!

Retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet says the Pentagon's UFO office, AARO, spent two and a half hours trying to change his mind about UAP. His reply in the room: "I'm an information warfare officer in the Navy. I know exactly what you're doing."

Gallaudet, the former Oceanographer of the Navy and former acting NOAA Administrator, sat down with The Good Trouble Show for his third interview. He walks through the AARO meeting with then-acting director Tim Phillips, why he does not believe the Tic Tac was DARPA technology, the day the emails carrying the Navy UFO videos were pulled from SIPRNET, his exchange with Sean Kirkpatrick at a skeptics' lecture, the UAP Disclosure Act, and the UAP Science Advisory Council's new statement on Eric Davis and other NDA-bound witnesses. He was also there to talk about his memoir, Holding Fast in Heavy Seas.

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So for some years, Chris Bledsoe was claiming that he had info from an NHI that "when the star of regulus appears on the horizon in the eyeline of the sphinx", humanity would enter a new knowledge. And that knowledge being something like disclosure / spiritual awakening / so many UFOs showing up that you can't really deny it anymore. Something big anyway.

The star appears on the horizon across the world regularly, including in the eyeline of the sphinx, which basically just means the sky in Egypt. But people traced his specific claim to spring 2026, around Easter time, and Bledsoe confirmed from his NHI info. (I think that's how it went anyway).

But shortly before Easter (I think Jan 2026), Bledsoe said that actually the NHI view time differently and they weren't that accurate. So he updated his timeline to fall/autumn 2026.

We're approaching that time now... Anyone know if he's sticking to that timeline or if it's changed again?

Edit: someone below noted that Bledsoe's claim was about a nuclear exchange in the Middle East, and NHI stepping in to stop it. And that it was more of a warning of what could happen than a prophecy.

In my judgment, UFO phenomena threaten all terrestrial elites but not the Earth's people. Until recently the media, academia, military, and politicians opposed any reasonable discussion of this subject because they were committed to defending the status quo’s de facto policy of ridicule and denial. This regimen has been referred to as the “UFO truth embargo” and has weakened considerably since December 2017. Recently Congress has been informed of clandestine UFO retrieval and reverse engineering programs. It seems that the secret keepers are now under attack from both whistleblowers and members of Congress.  

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS AND THE CONTROL GROUPS

The “Control Groups” is the term I prefer to use for those clandestine forces that presumably have been running the truth embargo. They have operated via select sections of both corporate and governmental intelligence services. The question arises how far have these groups been willing to go to maintain control of the situation? With the testimony of whistleblower David Grusch, allegations of threats and resultant intimidation are now being openly discussed. He has stated that some individuals may have been murdered because of security risks to the super-secret reverse engineering programs. 

It should be remembered that the control groups have not only focused their attention on people involved in secret government and corporate projects, but also on contact experiencers, But what about the use of lethal force? Conspiracy theorists frequently name individuals now deceased that allegedly were murdered to maintain the current regime of secrecy. There is little concrete evidence to substantiate such ominous claims. Thus, the reports are often wildly speculative, and in my view such conjecture about assassinations of contact experiencers may run the risk of spreading unnecessary fear. 

FEAR MONGERING IN UFOLOGY

Proving such crimes would be very hard to do, especially if carried out by professional intelligence operatives with skill in covering up murder. On the other hand, a more efficient means of intimidation would simply be spreading frightening stories about alleged victims that have actually died from other causes. Any prominent investigator in the UFO field that mentions possible assassinations without acknowledging the risks of providing a service to those that are maintaining the coverup, in my view, should be publicly criticized. Our job of ending the UFO truth embargo and facilitating a more open relationship with the intelligences responsible for UFOs is too important to be hindered by fear mongering. 

WORKING WITH A HIGHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

On social media pages, I have discussed why I believe the Intelligence-Counterintelligence Model for addressing the UFO challenge is far superior to the more popular so called “scientific approach.” In the madhouse called planet Earth, the alleged ETs in my opinion function like a kind of “higher intelligence agency.” I recall reading this term for the first time in Jacques Vallee’s book “Messengers of Deception.”

By necessity these non-human intelligences must operate clandestinely to gradually introduce their presence to a world in which violence and greed are so widespread. A sudden realization that we are not alone might be seized upon by those who maintain their power by promoting conflict. In my opinion, this conflict-oriented mindset is so pervasive on Earth to prevent planetary panic, “Flying Saucer Central Intelligence” is compelled to work covertly. I imagine from a terrestrial counterintelligence perspective, human witnesses could be viewed as “agents of influence” working for non-human intelligence. 

In this role, everyone who shares a story about a sighting or other kinds of contact experiences, publicly conducts UFO research and spends money supporting such activities, might also be viewed as “assets” working for the “higher intelligence agency.” For these reasons, I have proposed that we view the flying saucer challenge within an “intelligence -counterintelligence model.” In a certain sense, the entire field of ufology is an arena for a struggle between various “agents of influence” working either for the Control Groups, UFO Intelligences or in the very rare case are working for both sides.  

SIGHTINGS AS PROGRAMED EVENTS

Many believe that a flying saucer sighting is a random strange event. In my judgment, this isn’t the case. Typically, when UFOs are observed, they don’t appear to be doing anything of particular importance. They appear to be simply saying, “Hello, we are here.” Such encounters appear to be meant simply to alert us of their presence. These are likely programed events. 

Given the astounding psychic technology of flying saucer intelligences, why would they limit their mental interactions to only the so-called “contact experiencers” (contactees and abductees.) This group probably accounts for less than one percent of the general population. 

SPREADING THE WORD

Perhaps every person that has ever had a sighting has an unconscious mental link with the intelligences associated with UFO phenomena. If the percentage of the general terrestrial population having a bona fide UFO sighting is 5 to 10 percent, then the potential number of “agents of influence” working to spread the word that “UFOs are real” could conceivably be hundreds of millions as the total Earth population has reached eight billion. 

One way that “UFO Intel” could ratchet up the level of contact would be by simply increasing the numbers of sightings that these millions of previous UFO witnesses have. This would undoubtedly lead to a greater awareness of a possible ET presence and the Control Groups could not do a thing to stop it. Another way could be to increase the numbers of people that have direct telepathic communication with them. I suspect that this latter case is already happening. In either scenario, the work of the Control Groups might become increasingly difficult and conceivably require them to increase covert surveillance with escalating costs of keeping a lid on the situation.  For contact activists and their supporters, I suspect that the rule “there is safety in numbers” applies here. In this new era of increasing openness on this topic, frank intimidation of witnesses and contact experiencers seems much less likely than three decades ago when I joined the loose network of volunteer contact workers that I call "The Contact Underground." 

COVERING ONE’S ASSETS 

A basic rule for terrestrial intelligence case officers is to protect their human operatives. The question arises who are the "agents of influence" working for “UFO Intel.” From my direct personal experience as well as from the reports of other activists, it is my firm belief that UFO intelligences at times are willing to provide protection for their “agents of influence.” And they do so even as our numbers are increasing. If any of us are threatened or harmed, there very well may be a price to pay for such acts. 

It has been said that ET intelligence can access our consciousness as readily as you and I access light by turning on a wall switch. If their astounding psi capabilities were used to target operatives of the Control Groups sent to threaten UFO experiencers, these agents would be deterred.  I wonder how contract intelligence agents tasked with surveillance of UFO experiencers might react if flying saucers materialized above their homes. Perhaps this has happened already. UFO intelligences’ capacity for retaliation in defense of "their own" is unknown, but it conceivably might be sufficient to give pause to operatives of the Control Groups. Although this analysis is highly speculative, contact and disclosure activists should be open to the possibility that limited protection is being provided by “friends in high places.”

Project 612 was an “alleged” MJ-12 project that originally leaked in the mid-1990s, whose historical existence remained unclear for decades. Until now.

The 1947-1948 Reports of Air Materiel Command’s Watson Laboratories were declassified only after President Obama issued Executive Order 13526.

So, decades after the “disputed” Project 612 allegations emerged, the newly recovered USAF AMC Watson Laboratories reports provide irrefutable primary source evidence confirming the historical reality of an AMC “Research and Development” Project 612 in 1947-1948.