Secret Pentagon projects reveal gov't looked into UFOs, wormholes and other bizarre anomalies

By Chris Ciaccia

Newly declassified documents from the Pentagon reveal the Department of Defense funded projects that investigated UFOs, wormholes, alternate dimensions and a host of other subjects that are often the topics of conspiracy theorists.

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released 38 research titles on Jan. 18, following a Freedom of Information Act request from Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. The research was funded by the Department of Defense under its Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

Some of the more interesting projects include Invisibility Cloaking; Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy; Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions; and An Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation.

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"The DOD and the DIA have previously sought to spin AATIP as being a program looking at 'foreign advanced aerospace weapon threats', but the attachment to the DIA's letter to Congress is difficult to reconcile with this, given that the 'products produced' under the AATIP contract are listed as including reference papers on topics which seem more concerned with space travel," Nick Pope, a former employee at the British Government's Ministry of Defence, said in comments obtained by Fox News.

Pope continued: "The smoking gun is the paper about the Drake Equation, which is used to estimate the number of civilizations in the universe. This supports the suggestion that AATIP was indeed a UFO program, as has been claimed, and not an aviation program looking at aircraft, drones and missiles."

The Drake Equation is a seven-term equation that attempts to look at the different variables that would be relevant for intelligent lifeforms. This includes factors such as formed stars and their planets, the average number of planets that can potentially support life. Other factors include a fraction of those planets that can develop life and a fraction of these civilizations that have become intelligent.

Some of the projects give details such as who was working on them  – Dr. Eric Davis of EarthTech International participated in the wormhole project, for instance – but others are left with scant details.

The project entitled "Metallic Glasses" says Dr. Todd Hufnagel from Johns Hopkins University worked on the research, but it could mean anything.

“I think anyone who looks at these titles will scratch their heads and wonder what on earth the Defense Intelligence Agency was thinking,” Aftergood said in an interview with MotherBoard. “These are the kinds of topics you pursue when you have more money than you know what to do with.”

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The existence of AATIP was initially described by The New York Times and Politico in 2017. It was subsequently reported on by Fox News and a number of other news outlets, due in large part to its investigation into the existence of UFOs at the urging of former Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Following the Times report, Reid tweeted "the truth is out there" (a nod to the show, "The X-Files), adding that if "anyone says they have the answers, they’re fooling themselves."

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The shadowy program began in 2007 and was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, who has had a longtime interest in space phenomena.

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Both the Times and Politico said Reid’s interest in UFOs was the result of friend and donor Bob Bigelow, who owns Bigelow Aerospace and has said before he is “absolutely convinced” aliens exist and UFOs have visited Earth.

The New York Times said AATIP had a $22 million annual budget and “most of the money” went to Bigelow’s research company, which hired subcontractors and solicited research for the program.

A Pentagon spokesman said the UFO program ended in 2012, though The New York Times said the Defense Department still investigates potential episodes of unidentified flying objects.

Review: ‘Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers’ fails to discover truth or progress

By Kahron Spearman

Jeremy Corbell’s awful misfire of a documentary, Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers, ventures to examine a dubious character in Bob Lazar, a self-described “scientist” who in 1989 claimed to have worked near Area 51, investigating alien tech that the United States was supposedly hiding from the public. Lazar has since become a totem for UFO enthusiasts and space-related conspiracy theorists, and Corbell believes that talking to him one more time might uncover the truth. The problem is, the director pursues the wrong enigmas, answering unnecessary questions that no one’s asked.

Among other things, Lazar claims to have worked at a U.S. government site named S-4, near Papoose Lake in Nevada, on reverse engineering extraterrestrial aircraft that used gravity wave propulsion. Per Lazar, these aircraft are powered by a stable version of element 115, or Moscovium, which had yet to be officially discovered when he made his claims.

Of course, Lazar’s claims have been largely dismissed and relegated to fantastic film and TV concepts. Though Corbell produces enough evidence to show that Lazar did work for the government in some capacity around Area 51, the institutions from which Lazar says he graduated show no records of attendance. His 1990 felony conviction, in connection with a prostitution ring, further sullied his name. It wasn’t until former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo recently admitted his belief in extraterrestrial life that UFO activity even seemed plausible and acknowledged as newsworthy in the mainstream.

There hasn’t been a specific reason to doubt Lazar’s claims, but not once has he produced a shred of hard proof. This makes his exasperation with the public’s non-belief unusual. For the little it’s worth, many of the investigators and newspeople interviewed in the doc believe Lazar. So does Corbell, which proves problematic for his duty to find facts.

Corbell essentially rehashes all of this information, with new interviews featuring Lazar, a handful of friends, his wife, and other associates, including Las Vegas newsman and leading UFO adherent George Knapp. Yet at no point does the film introduce any new ideas or evidence, instead becoming an odd character study of a man no one’s asked about. Instead of following up on Elizondo’s explosive new claims, Corbell seems resolute in simply staring down Lazar in front of different backgrounds with ominous music, questioning whether he’s “sure or sure-sure” about what he said 30 years ago.

Even worse, Corbell never digs directly into Lazar’s claims. His failure to locate any sort of authenticity proves to be the film’s worst feature, of many. For whatever reason, Corbell also employs actor Mickey Rourke to deliver a comically dramatic performance as the film’s existentialist narrator, on top of Space Age/UFO archival footage. These attempts at disorientation are completely nonsensical, unrelated to literally anything that makes up the meat of the documentary.

In all, Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers is a flop. Corbell fails to find anything honest over its course, even when presented a grand opportunity, time, and place to do so.

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Jeremy Cordell fails to find a sliver of truth in his documentary about self-described “scientist” Bob Lazar, who revealed “information” about extraterrestrial technology at Area 51 in 1989.

 

UFOs were not the only thing that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification program was studying

By Mark Whittington

The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification program was a government project started over 10 years ago at the instigation of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat of Nevada, to study the truth about UFOs. Much of the money was directed to a constituent of Reid, Robert Bigelow, a hotel magnate who also is the owner of an aerospace company that builds inflatable modules for NASA. Even though Bigelow is a believer in the notion that aliens have been regularly visiting Earth, the results of the study were inconclusive at best.

Now, Motherboard reports that alien visitations were not the only area of study for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

“On Wednesday (Jan 16), the Defense Intelligence Agency released a list of 38 research titles pursued by the program in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy.”

The areas of research that were being funded by the program seemed to be things out of “Star Trek.” One grant was for the study of “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy” conducted by Eric W. Davis of EarthTech International Inc. Another grant was for the study of “Invisibility Cloaking” by German scientist Ulf Leonhardt, at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Yet another area of study was “Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions” conducted by Richard Obousy, a theoretical physicist and director of the nonprofit Icarus Interstellar.

No one has revealed how or why these studies were given grants under the AATI program. Since only $22 million is reported to have been spent through the known life of the program, it could not have been a lot of money. Nor are the results of the study publically known. Possibly the criteria is that warp drives and stargates would be technologies that would be useful for aliens traversing interstellar distances to visit Earth.

Aftergood is not amused that such seemingly esoteric fields of study had received government funding. The grant recipients are lucky that William Proxmire, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, is no longer alive. Proxmire regularly handed out his “Golden Fleece Award” to science projects he didn’t like. He had a special ire in his heart for anything that seemed too much like science fiction. The senator was instrumental in ending government funding for the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a project to listen for signals from alien civilizations.

On the other hand, none of the fields of study could be considered crackpottery, at least according to our current understanding of physics. All of the people who received grants were legitimate scientists. According to Futurism, NASA has conducted low-level warp drive studies for the past couple of decades. Technologies like those the Advance Aerospace Threat Identification program funded are theoretically possible. However, the current state of engineering means that their reality is many decades, perhaps centuries, in the future.

Should the United States government even be spending money on possible technologies that are unlikely to become reality during current human lifetimes? The problems of travel to Mars, not to speak of Alpha Centauri, have not yet been solved.

Still, studies into such subjects as warp drives, stargates, and manipulation of extra dimensions would possibly lead to further insights into the nature of the universe. Knowledge is better than ignorance and can, in turn, lead to unforeseen practical applications that perhaps don’t involve interstellar travel.

Besides, when a real-life Zefram Cochrane is ready to build the first warp drive, he will have a solid basis of theoretical work to inform his history-making project. Just as the art of rocketry dating back to ancient China led to the Apollo missions to the moon, people today working in scattered labs across the planet could lead to that “Star Trek” future that has captured the imagination of generations of TV and film audiences.

Mark Whittington is the author of space exploration studies “Why is It So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? as well as “The Moon, Mars and Beyond.”

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Life on Mars BOMBSHELL: Physicist 'discovers proof' of something that should NOT be there

By Sebastian Kettley

PLANET Mars teemed with alien lifeforms until nuclear warfare wiped out all evidence of life on the Red Planet, a plasma physicist has astonishingly claimed.

Dr John Brandenburg, an American physicist and book author, believes he has found evidence of a nuclear winter wiping out an ancient Martian civilisation. Speaking to Coast to Coast AM radio, the scientists argued alien life on Mars was cut short by the power of the atom and the deliberate use of nuclear weapons by a foreign force. The researcher further argued humanity stood on the brink of a similar cataclysm at the height of the Cold War. In his estimate, Dr Brandenburg said Mars was nuked into oblivion by two nuclear devices detonated on the Red Planet.

The physicist said: “The best working hypothesis is that Mars was like Earth and developed an indigenous, humanoid species like us, that evolved to a primitive civilisation.

“It looks primitive. We don’t see any roads, airports, anything like that.

“It appears that there was a primitive civilisation on Mars and somebody attacked them from space because the explosions were airbursts of two massive nuclear weapons.”

The extraterrestrial revelation came to the physicist at the height of the proxy Cold War with the Soviet Union, when he came across atmospheric readings from Mars.

During a stint in Sandia National Laboratories, in California, Dr Brandenburg said he learned Mars’ atmosphere was “loaded with a peculiar isotope” known as Xenon 129.

Mars was like Earth and developed an indigenous, humanoid species like us

Dr John Brandenburg, plasma physicist

High concentrations of radioactive Xenon are typically associated with nuclear reactors, nuclear fission and the fallout from nuclear explosions.

Dr Brandenburg, who holds a PhD in Theoretical Plasma Physics at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, believes Mars’ nuclear destruction was deliberate and meticulous.

He said: “The two regions of residual radioactivity on Mars, which are very weak but they’re still easily detectable, and Thorium and Potassium are correlated with Cydonia Mensa and Galaxias Chaos, this other centre of civilisation.

“There certainly would be levels of radiation in these areas that would be easy to detect for human beings.

“I don’t think that this would present any hazard for humans unless they maybe dug down below the soil deeply in the centres of these areas.

“One of the reasons I have published this now is because I sense a growing danger of nuclear war between us and China or Korea.

“I don’t want that to happen, I don’t want this planet to end up looking like Mars.”

However, according to data collected by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover, vast amounts of Xenon in the atmosphere can be explained by cosmic rays bombarding the planet.

The US space agency said the particular chemistry of the Red Planet’s surface material “contributed dynamically” to Mars’ atmospheric makeup.

A research paper on the findings, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, reads: “The Xenon measurements suggest an intriguing possibility that isotopes lighter than Xenon 132 have been enriched to varying degrees by spallation and neutron capture products degassed to the atmosphere from the regolith, and a model is constructed to explore this possibility.”