Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Russia have openly admitted for years that they have developed a nuclear powered flying device which can stay aloft for days, possibly weeks, without refuelling. But maybe its easier to believe in aliens, than to face the idea that Russia may have developed a key military capability that the USA currently cannot match.
‘We’ve reached a tipping point:’ UFOs go mainstream, suspense builds ahead of major Pentagon report
By Ben Wolfgang– The Washington Times – Friday, May 21, 2021
In 1973, future President Jimmy Carter went public with a claim he had seen a UFO years earlier in the skies over rural Georgia.
Nearly five decades later, former President Barack Obama went on late-night TV this week and admitted there are “objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are.”
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“There is this manifest interest in the subject. And let’s face it: It’s not because it might be Chinese or Soviet drones or secret technology,” said Mark Rodeghier, scientific director at the Center for UFO Studies who has spent decades researching the subject. “All the real interest is because, yes, it might be aliens or something incredibly strange.”
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Last May, the Navy acknowledged as genuine three videos that showed military pilots tracking objects in the sky that were moving at incredibly fast speeds. In one instance, the object flipped end over end while moving against the wind.
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Now, Defense Department officials openly discuss the unexplained.
“We take reports of incursions, whether they’re by known aircraft or unidentified aerial phenomenon, very seriously, and the safety and security of our personnel and of our operations that they remain paramount,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters this week. “So to protect our people, maintain those operations and safeguard intelligence methods, we don’t publicly discuss the details of these unexplained aerial phenomenon observations or the examinations of the UAP Task Force.”
At least some of the research is expected to soon become public. A joint report by the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies is scheduled to be delivered to Congress next month. The Defense Department Inspector General’s office also is reviewing how the Pentagon has handled the issue of UFOs, and its report is also expected soon.
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Read more: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/21/ufos-go-mainstream-suspense-builds-major-pentagon/
The following is a video of a test firing of the Russian nuclear powered 9M730 Burevestnik missile, from a Russian military website. The claimed range of the missile is more than enough to buzz US targets, outlasting any chemically fuelled vehicles the USA can deploy, maintaining full cruise velocity throughout the encounter. The missile is believed to work as a nuclear ramjet, in which a small unshielded nuclear reactor burning at temperatures close to the limit of available materials technology superheats air and expels it from the rear.
In 2019 the Russians admitted a radiation release in the Archangel region was due to a failed nuclear powered flight test.
There is nothing exotic about nuclear ramjet technology in engineering terms, it is all 1960s technology. The USA had a project to develop a similar system, Project Pluto, in the 1960s. The nuclear ramjet engines when test fired appeared to live up to expectations, but the project was abandoned over fears that US deployment of such a weapon would prompt the Soviets to respond with their own nuclear ramjets. The concern was the development of such weapons would destabilise the detente, because they would be an almost undetectable first strike weapon.
The Soviets were well aware of the potential of nuclear power, they built an experimental nuclear powered long range bomber in the 1950s, the TU95-LAL, but the project was abandoned. There was some suggestion the rather limited radiation shielding wasn’t enough to protect the pilots, though this is obviously much less of an issue in an unpiloted drone.
Obviously there might be another explanation for the upsurge in UFO sightings. But I think the hypothesis that the Russians were telling the truth when they claimed they had developed devices which operate on engineering principles which have been known for decades is a great deal more plausible than the idea that little green men chose now to cross the gulf of interstellar space, in order to behave like juvenile delinquents, scaring the locals with a few close encounters.
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Anyone ever heard of the Fermi Paradox? Where are they?
If indeed some other civilization did in fact turn up here, it would take about 42 minutes to be part of that civilization. Conversely we will eventually move out and about with a population of trillions, increasing by numbers that would make today’s ground-hugger Malthusians whimper.
Greta has got is all mixed up.
Of couse any proper cynic won’t be just asking ‘Is this stuff real?’ but will also be asking ‘why are we being told this, and why now?’
I invite hypotheses below….
This is the key question: why now? To which the only answer that makes even a shred of sense to me, is that for whatever reason they can’t put it off any longer.
Eric,
One minor point that seems to get overlooked is the heat signature. A nuclear ram engine would leave an infrared wake a mile wide, while most of the reported military aviation sightings show NO detectable heat or propulsion system!
The Russkys may have what you say, but it doesn’t match up with the videos that have been released so far. Any other explanation?
Also the navy video has temperature readings. The object was much colder than the air surrounding it.
The exhaust from a nuclear ramjet would have the same signature as an equivalent chemical jet, and could be stealthed using very similar techniques (e.g. forced mixing with external air).
The nuclear motor supplies range, not additional power.
Why do aliens travel interstellar distances, which require incredible technology, only to make crop circles, abduct and probe rednecks, mutilate cattle and then allow their spaceships to appear over Sidcup in a grainy, shaky video?
What if the people of Earth suddenly discovered how to travel to other stars in a short period of time and we discovered a planet with intelligent life? I can imagine all sorts of people buying themselves spaceships and then traveling to the inhabited planet for all the reasons human beings would do that.
It probably would not be a smooth operation unless some central authority prevented rogue humans from landing on the planet.
Societies evolve. Maybe the aliens are waiting for a certain stage of development before making contact.
Take this all as speculation, since we don’t know if there really are alien civilizations or not. But if there are, what if?
In 1956, Winston Harper Bostick demonstrated that an amorphous mass of high-velocity plasma has a natural ability to convert a large proportion of its kinetic energy into magnetic energy, contained in an organised toroidal structure. He called this structure a ‘plasmoid’.
Archaeologist and Thunderbolts colleague Peter Mungo Jupp details the criteria of eyewitness accounts that some UFO sightings may in fact be plasmoids. They seem to possess an intelligence, rise and fall to the ground as though being flown, seem to fly in the direction of either magnetic pole, change shape, pulse, and can blink with multiple colours. This ubiquitous property of plasmoids is often recorded as UFO sightings.
https://youtu.be/Z3ExTkjYXWY
Some videos on this subject
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/05/18/government-report-ufo-cuomo-intv-cpt-vpx.cnn
Now, for my UFO story. I was driving on the Taconic Parkway, a dark, rural road- north of NYC. My friend said, “hey, look at that” as he pointed up – but I couldn’t see it from my window so I pulled over. We looked up and I saw a pattern of lights that at first I thought might be a V formation of planes- maybe fighter jets. But, I heard no sound. The pattern of lights was very large- if it was a single object it was either very low or very large. It slowly flew across the sky and out of site. The fact that it made no noise at all is what struck me as weird. I suppose it could have been a huge balloon but why would it have all those lights. I then forgot about it until a decade or so later when I was looking at a row of UFO books in a local library and found one that described similar sightings in the same area (not far from Poughkeepsie, NY). The book said a military base is in that area- and that many local people including a police chief and some military people saw a triangular shaped object- at night and during the day. I’m sure that what I saw must have been the same thing. Otherwise, I’ve worked outdoors for almost 50 years and have never seen anything weird out in the forests- no UFOs, no bigfoot, etc. I often look up as I walk through fields and forests and see planes passing by- I should think I would have seen a UFO during the day in all that time.
UFOs: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Collection
Published in January 2021
Declassified Pentagon “UFO” videos:
Has anyone noticed that the thermal images of the UFO’s/UAP’s are always deliberately degraded?
Eric – there was recently a discussion on Chiefio on this subject. See https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/tic-tacs-quantum-drives-usaf-vs-navy-em-vs-inertia/ if you’re interested. There is academic work going on to find ways of making a non-reactive drive work, and even using text-book classical physics it can be seen that the light-speed delay between the force being put into an EM field and the time it can affect the object means that momentum is not conserved when a wave is used to transfer forces between objects. Thus if you have enough power, a non-reactive drive is certainly possible without delving into quantum mechanics.
There are many standard explanations around for what has been witnessed. Venus, weather-balloons, atmospheric inversions, hallucinations (drug-induced or simply crazy), ball-lightning, stress-generated electricity in the Earth causing plasma balls to appear, and of course simple fraud. For a long time, having read the accounts of such encounters and finding them unbelievable, much the same as you I discounted them. However, some of them remain unexplainable using the standard physics we know, and the witnesses are such that there would need to be a very good reason to say they were mistaken or were fooled. However, there’s no evidence that such things are alien, and the more-likely explanation is that it’s military tech. A bit further down here there’s a reference to the Païs patents, from the US Navy, which seem to me to be non-workable as such but have some bits that could well be real based on Mike McCulloch’s QI theory. One thing those patents tell us is that the military are at least thinking about this level of science, even if they haven’t actually made and tested what’s in the patents. I’ll not add any more links here to the research, since it would take a fair number and I put them all on Chiefio’s blog.
Dismissing these things as impossible in theory is actually based on belief rather than science. Better maybe to look at the evidence, chuck out the ones that purport to tell you how they work (since if they were true somebody would have tried it out and shown it to work if it worked), and winnow the evidence down to the ones where the witnesses are sound and where there is other backup (radar or video) that can be checked.
The current status of non-reactive drives is a few mN per kW for EMDrive (NASA and some Chinese tests), around 100mN/kW for Richard Banduric, and around 100N/kW for Frank Becker (though so far only with a few mW of power used). You’ll find Frank’s data on Mike McCulloch’s blog, and also that the experimental results match (within error-bars) the theoretical predictions. This QI-based drive would also allow the high-g manoeuvres witnessed, since the effective force acts equally on the craft and what’s inside the craft. Also maybe worth mentioning that Mike got a DARPA grant of $1.3M to progress his research, so his theory is obviously not officially regarded as being too far along the crazy scale. This is actually a pretty small amount relative to the benefits if the theory is shown to be near-enough the truth to make those reactionless drives deliver actually a useful thrust, as appears to be the case with Frank Becker’s tests.
“t little green men chose now to cross the gulf of interstellar space, in order to behave like juvenile delinquents, scaring the locals with a few close encounters.”
No no, they have come to save us from the evil CO2!
Congratulations, Vlad, you have successfully (???) copied a program the US abandoned in 1964 !!
It was called the “Crowbar” because it ws so comparably simple.
Literally a flying Chernobyl with (multiple) nuclear bombs.
Was that the one that was supposed to get into orbit by detonating a series of atomic bombs under a massive shield and riding the reaction?
Project Orion. Another “brilliant idea.”
From Wiki.
Project Orion was the first serious attempt to design a nuclear pulse rocket. The design effort was carried out at General Atomics in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The idea of Orion was to react small directional nuclear explosives utilizing a variant of the Teller–Ulam two-stage bomb design against a large steel pusher plate attached to the spacecraft with shock absorbers.
The very first description of an UFO was that from Ezekiel in the Bible.
The descripton was very detailled so that Josef F. Blumerich, an NASA engenieer was able to reconstruct it, beginning with the wheels, he got as US3789947A OMNIDIRECTIONAL WHEEL
patented.
His intention was, to refute the idea of the Swiss author E.v. Daeniken of extraterrestrial visits in historical times, where Ezekiel was named as proof.
Blumerich later wrote, this try of refute was his greatest disater, published as The Spaceships of Ezekiel
Hans Herbert Beier. a German engenieer was curious about the measurements Ezekiel has taken from the palace, he found they where very exact and so he was able te reconstruct the palace Ezekiel measured:
More than interesting is, the Blumerich flying object and the Beier Palace had common measurements, so that the palace could be seen as a maintainance building for that object.
NFW does Russia or China, or any other pretend global power, have technology so advanced that it makes a cruise missile look like a sharpened stick. I don’t know who’s behind this explosion of sightings, but it’s not these guys or any other we are familiar with. Period.
Belgian UFO wave 1989
I had a look at those videos from the 60 Minutes segment posted to YouTube, and the black object over the waves seen from the U.S.S. Omaha, but they are all disappointing. Seventy plus years after the initial UFO hysteria with all the new technology in radar, imaging and digital processing and what evidence I see is no better than the fuzzy, inconclusive photos I saw as a child.
Aliens don’t exist. UFOs remain unidentified until they’re identified then they’re no longer UFOs. So who cares? Can we get back to science. And anyone here who thinks aliens exist in our World is deliberately ignoring infinite time and event probability. The probability is so small it’s impossible to calculate.
A Culture-wide Hallucination?
As US space probes in the 60s began to closely examine the planets, it became clear that, beyond the Earth, there was no place for life in our solar system. The universe beyond is an even more vast empty hostile place.
This sense that one is truly isolated can be disturbing. An individual held in isolation often experiences hallucinations. Maybe the obsession with UFOs is a kind of culture-wide hallucination. The belief that UFOs are contacts from alien intelligence is wishful thinking. For many it is just too terrible to contemplate the reality that we are profoundly alone.
As Isaac Asimov said, even low probability events can happen.
SOMEthing certainly is being observed by the military and others, and it’s not just grainy video or optical illusions or Russian or Chinese technology…
Space aliens or not, the unexplained and currently unexplainable phenomena deserve investigation and transparency.
Just because some government types may want to use this as a distraction or another power grab doesn’t vitiate the facts about what pilots/others have seen.
Major Non Sequitur Fallacy.
I expect better logic, rationality, and critical thinking from visitors to this site. As Ayn Rand said, a person shouldn’t have an “open” mind but should have an ACTIVE mind. That includes NOT being snidely, condescendingly dismissive of credible evidence that doesn’t conform to your prejudices.
If we discount all the obvious fakery involved in UFO “evidence”. Everything else to this point has good explanation, or at least alternative explanation.
Nearly all daytime observations of UFOs are the unexpected observation of the planet Venus. Last Autumn I launched a 1200g latex balloon on a bright clear morning and about half the gathered audience lost sight of the actual balloon and were fixated on Venus.
Night time observations of lights in the sky? Superior mirages. Looks like a super Walmart in the sky? It is a superior mirage.
People wandering and disoriented on a dark night seeing the blinking red light on a water tower through the trees? Oh, a UFO, of course.
Roswell? Oh, please. That is a convolution of memories of two events separated by 13 years.
And the dark object seen on the image from the USS Omaha? I noticed the dark blob isn’t pixelated like the rest of the scene. It looks like an artifact of the imaging system or digital algorithms.
I won’t believe that “UFO” means “alien craft” until they let me sit in the engineer’s seat at least.
Not all sightings take place at night or when looking up at the sky. There is, for example, the widely known report of Cmdr. David Fravor, who witnessed a UFO flying relatively low over the ocean while leading a training mission in broad daylight on a clear day.
In that case, there were 2 fighter jets, each one containing 2 people, and all 4 people witnessed the incident with their own eyes, as well as on their onboard systems. Some of the grainy footage of the “tic-tac” comes from that incident, and you can easily find video on YouTube of Fravor and/or the pilot of the second plane discussing the encounter in detail. The grainy footage, incidentally, is but a small portion of what was recorded, according to Fravor, since the more advanced instrument measurements are withheld from release to avoid revealing our fighter jet technology.
Nice. You been taking click-bait lessons, Eric?
So what was causing the foo fighters during WW2 over Europe and the Pacific? What was flying over Washington DC in 1952? The fact is that object able to fly at supersonic speed without creating sonic booms has been observed for over 70 years. Probably not caused by the Soviet Union or Russia. If this recent observations were caused by objects created by Russia then that would create big alarms within Pentagon.
That the government is producing this report indicates that the US is a senile empire in irreversible decline. The population is totally unserious; no science just science fiction.
“Calm Down, Everyone: The ‘UFOs’ Aren’t Aliens” By Andrew Follett | May 21, 2021
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/calm-down-everyone-the-ufos-arent-aliens/
Except there is no exhaust heat signature visible for these recent sightings. And the change of directions and hovering aspect don’t comport with missile technology. And the trans medium aspect with the water entry. None of this fits with Russian technology.
Extremally unlikely. Russians possessing completely unknown technology and conducting regular missions using nuclear-powered drones in the airspace of the hostile country, like the Americans with the U2 flights over the Soviet Union? Unlikely. And risking war if such devices crash in the densely populated areas causing nuclear contamination? Even less likely. Event Powers was eventually shot down with his U2. And what CIA is doing here plus host of military intelligence agencies? No intel at all? Hopefully CIA and DIA haven’t forgotten old schools of planting spies in the foreign military and government.
When I saw those videos first time my impression was it is malfunction of IF sensors, i.e. no external object was actually captured. Explaining correlation with radar signals would be more difficult. Even harder in cases when group of pilots had visual contact with those objects plus confirmation from onboard sensors. So, after all, there may be some kind of external object or phenomena. But – that’s not Russians.