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[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The core idea is that there are legacy programs that have acquired and are covertly researching non-human technology and biologics. These are a combination of compartmentalized government groups from the DoD, DoE, CIA, etc. and private contract companies. The programs are sealed away by over classification that prevents oversight. Even if you have clearance to know about the programs you'd need to know where to find them and who to seek for the information. And, just because these groups fall under a larger group like the DoD doesn't mean the chain of command above them is in the know. They know that there are programs, they know just enough details about them, and that they're needed. Outside of that, there is deliberate ignorance to limit any direct liability and to obfuscate effort to look into them.

While some individuals in Congress would have had briefings on incidents and certain programs in the past, they were still in the dark of the programs as a whole. David Grusch and other individuals provided testimony to help connect the dots needed for them to pursue disclosure. What Congress currently knows is pure speculation to the public, but there had to have been some damning details emerge that it has become a bipartisan effort in both the House and Senate to seek disclosure.

Naturally, there has been opposition so far from the DoD and members of Congress whose primary donors are companies with military contracts. Thanks to some legislation that has passed and more that is in the works, it seems that a form of disclosure is on the horizon. What the disclosure will entail and whether it will truly reveal any form of non-human intelligence is yet to be seen. But, over the next few years there will be details on legacy programs come to light. Some details will remain classified, but there should at least be enough come forward for the public to have a gist of what's been going on and if there is indeed non-human intelligence involved.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Interesting note that "non-human" appears 25 times in the 47 page amendment. That wording, grouped with "unknown origin", is clearly casting a broad net to try to encompass anything that can't directly be tied to human origin. Whatever the believed origin of some UAP are, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers are putting a lot of effort into uncovering potential non-human technology.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I always hope that videos provide enough in the scenes to estimate depth and distance. One of the tricky things with capturing objects in the sky is that there will always be a sacrifice in what you capture. If you zoom in to just the sky, then you lose trees and objects on the ground to establish some sense of distance and visual anchors to match the movement of the objects to. If you're zoomed out then you lose clarity of the object itself.

I do find the consistent rotation of the main object interesting. I've seen quite a few videos posted of objects that show tumbling movement, though it's usually hard to make out exactly what they are.

Public sightings are a hard numbers game to win. It really just comes down to chance that someone with a good enough camera spots something and captures enough details. There's a lot of open sky, time in the day, and not a ton of people actively watching the sky. But, enough videos like this can help categorize sightings to better determine what is anomalous.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looks great! If you’d like an easy sauce, you could macerate the strawberries. Just sprinkle a little sugar over cut strawberries, cover, and let sit an hour or so until the juices start to draw out.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

You should see what they do during the closed door hearings.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

“Oh, I set her up. I asked about UFO within the Department of Energy. And they said, ‘Aliens don’t exist or spaceships,’ and after that: BOOM! Then everybody just lit her up,” Rep. Tim Burchett exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “Because they have a procedure in place and there were certain — and she said they've never had an incident of a nuclear facility, and there's literally documented incidents. I mean, that's weird.”

For reference, Burchett's questions for Sec. Granholm followed Luna's.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

One more thing... It doesn't look like LLNL itself is a no-drone zone. I'm not sure the accuracy of this map, but it lists Sandia National Labs (located adjacent to LLNL) as a no drone zone. LLNL does seem to experiment with drones, but the reports in the prior article clearly weren't objects they were aware of.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Article on sightings at LLNL.

On April 1, 2021, a Lawrence Livermore security supervisor reported an employee’s early morning sighting of “a possible drone hovering 50-75 feet off the ground in the buffer zone. Due to the darkness I only saw the red and white lights.” The supervisor consulted with a construction crew and drone operator in the area. Neither had been flying a drone at the time.

One report categorized as “Incident: Suspicious Occurrence” was recorded by a supervisor on April 30, 2019. It involved security escorts near Lawrence Livermore’s building 815. Having spoken with the escorts, the supervisor reported, “They both said, ‘I saw a round silver drone flying around the Process Area and periodically stopping and hovering for several seconds. Once it continued it flew to the north of my location and stopped and hovered for several more seconds. It flew over that area for several minutes and departed south east. It was really high up and it looked like it was just under the clouds.'” The supervisor adds, “The drone like object was flying at a distance and height that made identification of the object impossible for the employees.” The supervisor then contacted another employee “who said there was no scheduled flights for Site 300 today.” The supervisor then ordered a security sweep that found no one who might have been operating a drone.

Note the description in the second quote of it being a "round silver drone"

Edit: Additional reporting from The Debrief and the incident report for the 2019 encounter.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I wanted to follow up that there may in fact have been a sighting near a fusion site, as Lawrence Livermore National Lab was mentioned in a hearing with the Department of Energy today.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Tim Burchett also asked about UAP earlier.

Interestingly enough, Lawrence Livermore National Labs was a focus in Luna's questioning. A post in this community had previously asked about potential sightings around fusion sites, so I suggested LLNL as a potential focus. I hadn't come across anything specific, so I'll have to check into the event to see if there is public documentation on it. Curious to know more about it.

My response in the previous post about fission:

I never really considered it, mostly due to our current limitations around fusion. If anywhere would have a sighting due to that, it’d likely be National Ignition Facility in Livermore, CA. That facility, a part of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the first to have break even on energy creating fusion.

I searched and couldn’t find any sightings directly attributed to the area around the labs. LLNL comes up a little in search regarding UAP research, but I haven’t jumped in that rabbit hole. However, they are near the California coast which does get a lot of sightings reported.

Extending the scope a bit, the sun gets a fair share of sightings. That could just be due to the fact that it’s constantly observed. The scale of object size compared to the sun and differentiating from objects drifting through space makes those sightings tricky to determine.

[–] HM05_Me@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I searched last night to see if it was picked up anywhere and didn’t find anything significant. I’d imagine we’ll at least see some opinion articles soon, but I figured some news outlet would have run with this.

 

Following an off-camera briefing with undisclosed, select reporters Wednesday, AARO is releasing the first volume of their Historical Records Reports. Reporters with an interest in the subject of UAP, including Ross Coulthart (News Nation), Christopher Sharp (Liberation Times) and Matt Laslo (Ask a Pol), were denied access to the event. Given the days of silence and refusal to provide further details to outside reporters, there seems to have been an embargo on discussing and publishing details of the meeting. Adding to the point is the URL explicitly stating an embargo time: https://defensescoop.com/2024/03/08/embargo-10a-friday-dod-developing-gremlin-capability-to-help-personnel-collect-real-time-uap-data/. This could be to not compete with the State of the Union or to be buried under its news.

Steven Greenstreet, a controversial figure in the UAP field for his eagerness to debunk sightings, adds to the mystery of this event. On March 1, the week before the planned meeting, AARO’s website briefly displayed a link under their “Transcripts” section titled “AARO Acting Director Timothy Phillips Holds an Off-Camera Media Roundtable: March 6, 2024”. The link appeared to direct to an older article, so it is unclear if they were just premature in getting a page established or if they were somehow ready to publish a transcript for an event that had yet to take place.

Regardless of the accuracy of AARO’s reporting, it is clear that they’re failing their promise of transparency. For a subject engrained with conspiracy and mistrust of government handling, they have done nothing but fan the flames started with earlier investigations like Project Blue Book.

That said, given their official capacity, the content of their reports will be taken by the general public as fact without second thought. News outlets will state the synopsis, highlight a few key findings that back AARO’s claims and then shut the book on the topic until the next whistleblower or event stirs public interest.

The goal of this community, of the news, and of AARO should not be to prove an issue. Setting out to prove or disprove a belief is establishing a bias from the beginning. The goal is answers and transparency. And even if AARO does provide some answers, they have failed every step of the way in transparency. Answers are meaningless if there is no trust in how they were derived and if question additional agendas at play.

Please take all reports on any sides of the subject and weigh them against the trust you have in the reporting. This goes for all subjects in life. Seldom will you receive the full facts of any situation. That’s not to say that there is always ill intent, but reporting and documentation will never full encompass everything. Some topics, such as UAP, are also multifaceted and can’t be explained by just one answer. It is ok to accept that you only know some truths of a subject. Whether you wish to seek more facts is up to you. But, please, keep an open mind and take time and diligence to understand a subject instead of being handed an answer.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by HM05_Me@lemmy.world to c/uap@lemmy.world
 

An email just sent by MUFON addresses a cyber attack last week that took their sightings' database offline. This is the first official statement I've seen on it and I'll post a link once available. The attack does seem crippling to their research, though the full extent may yet to be determined.

CMS Update

Anymore, it seems that everyday we hear of Cyber attacks on major institutions around the world. Banks, Credit Bureaus, Libraries, Department stores and more.

Last week, MUFON was the victim of such an attack. Our CMS was knocked offline.

This attack was of a high level of technological skill and points out the importance of MUFON and the work we do and the status of world leader in UFO/UAP research and investigations, that some person, group or company would go to that much effort to try to stop us.

It is also important to note that this, as well as any past crisis, resulted in a tremendous outpouring of help and assistance which came from our membership. Once again, our members stood up in support of MUFON and its goals and ideals.

Forensic investigations are currently being conducted which has delayed our ability to reopen the system. We expect to be back in service, hopefully in a matter of days.

Here is where we are at the time.

All but a tiny bit of the CMS data is intact and safe. No critical data has been compromised or lost. All sites and programs have been recovered.
Our PR team is in full swing and making a difference. Restoration work is in process.

Due to the nature of the forensic investigations, there is little more that I can publish at this time.

We thank each and every one of you for your loyalty and support.

EDIT: Follow up email

CMS Update FOLLOW UP!

Headquarters would like to assure all members that your memberships and all of your information is safe. The cyber-attack mentioned was not to our membership database, our website, or to our MUFON U site. This was isolated to our reporting site (CMS) which was knocked offline. We will open up our reporting site once the investigation is done and we are given the go-ahead.

Thank you for your patience!

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