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.
If the Russian’s can do this, why are they not applying it to their space program? Seems like it would get an unmanned craft to mars in record time. Big propaganda coup if they can go zipping all over the solar system while all other countries have to plod along.
The proposed nuclear powered flight that the Russians claim to have created uses air as the propulsion mechanism. That won’t work in space. It has been suggested to use actual nuclear explosions to propel a spacecraft, but never tried.
If they are aliens from way out there, best not to piss them off. Sending Voyager with an invitation showing Earth’s location may not have been the brightest idea. A better one would have been to collect as much info as possible and remain anonymous.
That’s the ‘quiet forest’ theory. Keep quiet or something with find and kill you.
I read an interesting book about that idea. A guy sent out a signal, identifying the location of the source. He spoofed the location, however. A number of years later, that location was destroyed, probably by an enormously fast large object hitting the star.
From timings, he identified how far away the threat was.
The moral is, keep quiet!
“Sending Voyager with an invitation showing Earth’s location may not have been the brightest idea.”
Voyager has not even left the defined boundaries of our solar system’s gravitational bound objects. According to Wikipedia, as of April 24, 2021, Voyager was 152.6 AU (22.8 billion km) from Earth. That’s beyond the Kuiper belt but not even 10% of the distance to the start of the Oort cloud surrounding the solar system.
The distance to the nearest star excluding the Sun, Proxima Centauri, is 268,770 AU (40,208 billion km). Thus, Voyager is about 0.057% of the distance to the nearest solar system.
Finding Voyager in the vastness of space would make finding a needle in a haystack look like child’s play.
Olen,
Voyager has barely left the solar system so it would be no problem for an alien to discern its origin even without the ‘map’. Of course, I would suggest that even if aliens try to read the map it would be undecipherable since it is a 2D representation of our position in 3D space relative to certain quasars.
Olen,
And you know the skills of aliens from . . .
Maybe we can use the engines from that downed UFO in Roswell to catch up with the Russians?
They need to un-classify all of the Area 51/ Roswell stuff and use the alien technology to close the gap. Imagine if the Ancient Romans discovered an Abrams Tank or something as simple as the printing press, they would have survived for another 1000 years and might have been around today!!!
The Russians might have the advantage today, but we have the alien technology to make mince meat of them !!! /s (lol)
Okay, okay, okay – they are NOT space aliens, they are NOT Russian thingies with experimental engines, they are NOT exterrestrial in origin. Get a copy of Paul Devereux’s “Earth Lights Revelation”, which he wrote after many, many, many hours of investigation into the subject of UFOS.
Whatever they are, they are part of this planet, and NOT SPACE ALIENS. Okay?????
If you really think no currently-living organism can do maneuvers like those UFO thingies can do, then you have NEVER EVER seen swallows divebombing insects over a pond and pulling out of the dive in a sharp upward-bound U-turn that would tear a full-sized fighter jet apart, if the speed were up to the aircraft’s scale.
You have also NOT seen male goldfinches and other birds chasing each other over who gets the turf in the bush willow. They are aggressive about turf, will challenge each other over who gets the space, and when the more dominant male goldfinch is fed up, he takes off chasing the intruder. They can make right-angle turns by simply raising and spreading their tailfeathers, and they corner like they are on rails. The speed, if brought up the scale of a fighter jet, would rip the aircraft to pieces.
Whatever these things are, they are part of the earth, they are alive and they belong here. They may be primitive organisms or not so primitive, but they belong here. And if they are able to keep up with a fighter jet (and they can easily do that) and change directions in the blink of an eye, or stop on a dime and hover at will, they are NOT machinery. They can also change shape and color at will.
They are alive, some kind of undefined organism, and they belong here.
I heard one credible-seeming expert report that submarines had detected objects going 600 kmph while submerged. The UFOs have been observed by satellite making 600 G turns. If true, no terrestrial power has that sort of technology.
Smart shells fired from artillery withstand accelerations well in excess of 600G. 600kmph underwater sounds like a shockwave – a powerful volcanic event maybe. Extreme shockwaves can cause sonoluminescence.
Volcanic events which could release the required energy have been observed on land, this one looks like a small nuclear explosion.
Ah, the Earth at work!!! I love it. I’ve been watching the new Iceland volcano grow form a simple shield cone to a line of erupting orifices, one after another, and the latest one is not to be sneezed at. And Grimsvoton, which hasn’t erupted since 2011, is showing signs of waking up – serious signs. Something’s cooking up there….
A few weeks ago, I saw some recently declassified photos. They did not appear to me as nuclear powered ramjets, which cruise at speeds many times the speed of sound and don’t suddenly change speed by hundreds or even several 10s of MPH in a fraction of a second while using ramjets for thrust and they don’t turn on a dime. Ramjets only work at high speeds and cruise missiles need somewhat substantial wings to cruise, at least at speeds slower than hypersonic. I saw commentary/speculation that these objects are some sort of spy aircraft (with a fair chance of being unmanned aircraft) by some entity other than the US government / military. As for what kind of espionage these aircraft are doing, if this is actually true? One speculation I have is for seeing how the US government and military responds to the presence of very unusual aircraft. I expect that the US military and intelligence agencies have already given a lot of consideration to this, and I hope that politicians don’t meddle or allow/encourage meddling by political forces with national security agencies regarding such national security issues.
Just laughable. Russians are just transferring budget money into their own pockets here.
Let me start out by saying I need evidence before I’m going to believe aliens are visiting the Earth, such as “observing an alien walk off his spacecraft and set foot on the ground”, type of evidence.
Having said that, there are many unexplained things around UFO’s, and I’m not going to dismiss anything until it deserves to be dismissed.
So, for the purposes of argument if I assume alien visitations are real then I would conclude that the aliens are not immediately dangerous to us here on Earth because they have taken no hostile actions against humans to date.
One thing I’m curious about is the number of different vehicle designs that UFO’s present. There must be several dozen different configurations that have been pictured over the years.
So, if aliens are real and visiting us, then are the aliens from just one planet which happens to make all sorts of different spacecraft designs, or are different spacecraft designs coming from different alien civilizations. Are we being visited by one alien race, or many? Assuming we are, of course, and taking into consideration that there is no solid evidence of this being the case. It’s just pure speculation on my part. 🙂
Well first, I don’t believe aliens would travel upteen light years to play games. Secondly, if Russia, or any other country, could produce or store the energy required to propel an object of any size the way these are moving, they wouldn’t be wasting their tome of nuclear, fossil fuels, or renewables. And if they could, but it was expensive or required rare materials, again, they eouldn’t wast their efforts on these games. So what’s left?
Based on my own ignorance, since that is all any of us have wrt this, there is one question that hasn’t been really answered: are we looking at solid objects? They move like the dot made by my laser pointer, which can SEEM to move faster than the speed of light, and produce no shock waves. Stop on a dime, zoom up or down, disappear in the ocean. And uses virtually NO energy.
I’m thinking along the lines of multiphoton ionization, perhaps of free argon, in the air. Unfortunately, all the data are in black and white, denying us a clue. Two lasers, computer controlled, operated using a joy stick. Each laser, individually, too weak to create anything visual in open air. Wherever the beams crossed, however, would have the energy for (argon, oxygen, nitrogen?) to become ionize and glow. A laser ‘dot’ in the air. You need a lot more power than a laser pointer, but that’s about it. No real technological breakthrough required.
But why? Having this in an encounter could confuse the enemy as to what were real targets, e.g. you, or just air. And that would answer the ‘who’. The US military, field testing it using unsuspecting pilots.
“Based on my own ignorance, since that is all any of us have wrt this, there is one question that hasn’t been really answered: are we looking at solid objects? They move like the dot made by my laser pointer, which can SEEM to move faster than the speed of light, and produce no shock waves. Stop on a dime, zoom up or down, disappear in the ocean. And uses virtually NO energy.”
Some of the objects we are seeing may be some kind of plasma, but there are many other pictures and verbal descriptions that describe solid objects.
One U.S. airforce pilot was chasing a UFO one day, and he got up fairly close to it where he could describe what it looked like, and then he said the craft took off away from him so fast that it was out of sight in a couple of seconds. He had clear visiblity for over 20 miles and they said for the object to be able to disappear in the timeframe given would mean the craft was moving at about 8,000mph. This was not plasma.
The Dems are looking for more reasons to sow fear among the public
While I have historically supported the US having a strong military, I no longer trust the military. Perhaps they never deserved trust, but in the past year, they have fully confirmed that they are dangerous to our Liberty. What the military did on 1/6/2021 and since then has sealed the deal for me. For a long time, they have been virtue signaling about climate alarmism to get more funding. They have doubled down on that recently. They tell us that climate change is one of the most serious military threats to the US but no actual spending takes place to fight it. If the widespread deployment of Critical Race Theory in the military doesn’t make you lose sleep, then enjoy your oblivion. The enemy is now within.
So, we should fully assume that the military deciding to reveal evidence of UFO/UAPs is a psychological operation with a specific goal in mind. Increased funding is the obvious one that is always present, but we should assume they plan more control through fear or to distract from other activities.
If the US Military is truly mystified by these UAPs then they are the knuckle-dragging blockheads we feared. But it is more likely that they are diabolically clever than dumb. We know that they are working on plasma weapons that fool instruments. Why wouldn’t they at least propose the theory of natural plasma as an explanation? They have to have an army of physicists at the National Labs they could contract with to assess it.
Sorry, Eric, but you overlooked and/or intentionally minimized a raft of serious scientific questions related to UFOs/UAPs when you posted your statement: “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.”
To wit, do you really think the Russians have technology enabling vehicles (perhaps with humans inside) to:
— operate at speeds in excess of 20,000 mph (Mach 30) deep in Earth’s atmosphere?
— change velocity vector almost instantaneously at high speed, equivalent to straight line accelerations and/or turns at hundreds of g’s?
— literally disappear in an eyeblink?
— to operate thusly, and even to hover, with no obvious chemical exhaust plumes and completely silently (i.e., no acoustic emissions in the range of normal human hearing).
— to operate thusly without any evidence of aerodynamic lifting surfaces or aerodynamic control surfaces such as humans currently need to use on supersonic and hypersonic vehicles?
Also see: https://www.history.com/news/ufo-sightings-speed-appearance-movement
I sincerely hope your comment was a weak, misplaced attempt at humor, and not the product of a closed mind.
I don’t believe the Russians have that technology. But I also believe nobody else has it either. What you are describing is magic.
Eric,
Thanks for the reply . . . but as sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke famously noted in his Third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
““Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
EVERYTHING is magic … until you know the trick !
from sawing someone in half, to getting water from thin air, electric light, catatonic coma, DNA, flight, radio, magnets….
“Crop circles are a hoax, the pranksters confessed in 1991. No doubt lots of copycats since then.”
Yup, was involved in a few myself in the late 70s,
Method-
Need a full moon & dry earth, some short scaffold planks with rope bridles, a few thin steel marker posts ~4ft long, a long rope with marker knots, a magnetic compass, a pre-drawn plan & a few people.
Walk into field on short stilts + walking poles. ( so no footprints)
Set up one person as center, take marker rope to first knot, drop board & tow it with rope bridle until plan-master says stop, repeat until design complete.
A simple design takes about 1 hr complicated 5-6hrs.
Great fun (geometry by moonlight ) still got some of the press cuttings … somewhere !
These days they use smartphones & GPS apps for the wonderful patterns, but the method is still the same. Here’s some modern ones – https://english.pravda.ru/photo/album/7938/
EVERYTHING is magic … until you know the trick!
Really???:
GPS information from a wrist watch is a “trick”?
A phone in your pocket able to communicate with almost anyplace on the planet is a “trick”?
Home desktop computers orders-of-magnitude more capable than the one that was used to land Apollo 10 on the moon is a “trick”?
A CAT scan than enables 3D views inside the human body is a “trick”?
I need not go on and on.
There is a difference between faking crop circles and reality.
Show me a working alien space drive and I’ll believe. A few grainy videos don’t do it for me.
Eric,
I can understand, and respect, that position.
I agree with that position.
UFOs = The Pentagram wants more money.
I wonder where the Russians are getting the money from to develop and place these things into the field with a GDP the same as that of Italy?
GDP is misleading. Better to use PPP.
Russia is the 6th richest nation. Italy is 12th.
Personally, I have seen two UFO’s. In both cases, it was clearly an object (possibly 5 in one instance, couldn’t tell), it was clearly flying, and I could not identify it.
In late 1980s, a spacecraft landed in a downtown square of a fairly large city (Voronezh, Russia). Supposedly, “aliens” in suits peeked out at the scenery.
Investigators interviewed over 40 people, and they all described and drew the same craft and creatures.
I doubt the witnesses held a conference to decide what the concensus should be.
Could it be an elaborate hoax? Maybe. But what’s the point? Why not in Moscow or St Petersburg?
“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. … 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. “
Get an editor who knows how to punctuate.
It is a forgone conclusion that the Russians were observing these same UFO’s while they were building the TU95-LAL with it’s array of vacuum tubes for the circuitry within it’s avionics.
This latest UFO fuss emanates from the Pentagon. What are they up to?
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
Navy aircraft -Navy patent
valid explanation ?
EM Drive – utterly debunked.
Another example of plasma physics.
https://youtu.be/UYr3zPP5rCw
The more I search, the more I find evidence that the Pentagon is all over plasma physics. I’m not buying the “we don’t know what these UAPs are” story.
That also jibes with the tic-tac and other objects being seen by the Navy. It’s a real-world test.
Here’s a good video about Nimitz and Roosevelt encounters, and the famous flir, gofast and gimbal videos:
Extraordinary Until Proven Otherwise
they are everywhere, here they are about to do something on the moon, unless it is Chinese
https://twitter.com/i/status/1396023023099072513
Make no mistake, UFOs, eh, UAPs as alien technology is as far-fetched as Biden/Harris winning the most votes ever. But the foreign military craft explanation doesn’t quite click with me, either.
If this technology belongs to our rivals, why haven’t they used it to military advantage? If Russia can make vehicles that perform like this, would they really not have flexed their muscles a bit?
Only human arrogance would assume that the motives of aliens traveling here to observe us does not make any sense, with our vast technological advancement of pushing electrons around by steam driven turbines. This civilization runs on internal combustion just as it has for hundreds of years. Oh but wait, we have windmills now.
Um maybe they are using it to their military advantage – hence the uptick in UFO sightings.
Russia as of 2019 only claimed to have made slightly over a dozen test flights. They had at east one crash. I suspect they are being very careful with their test flights, a) because they don’t want anyone else reverse engineering their breakthrough and b) because its a frigging flying nuclear reactor – major radiological incidents on the soil of other countries tends to attract negative comment and escalate international diplomatic tensions.
If this is Russian military tech, it is possible the technology is so new they haven’t developed practical uses for it at this time.
While I don’t believe Russia is this advanced, there would be a distinct advantage to waiting until they have overwhelming numbers ready.
Maybe we are not unlike a fly watching TV. We simply cannot understand the messages being sent. So we see brief flashes of things so obvious to the intended audience but we are totally lost. Remember we only gauge intelligence by human measures.
My 1st impulse when I read/hear Biden/0-bama govt officials raising the question of UFO’s is: from what anti-liberty POLICY ISSUE are they trying to DIVERT OUR ATTENTION?
IOW: whenever they open their mouths, they are LYING! They are trying to distract us from some other SERIOUS govt mischief in which they are engaged.
This impulse of mine is not hyperbole, it is not snarky condescension and it is not political posturing of any kind; rather, it is simply my objective assessment of what I see as the blatant DemoKKKrat-globalist disregard for any respect for the American citizen.
Are there UFO’s — that is, real “space aliens” — who knows? In the meantime, we need to continue to follow such things [possibilities] with serious investigation.