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Grey Alien

Will the next UFO disclosure be "biological threats from outer space?"

Reagan's Alien Threat
© AZ Quotes
That may sound like a misguided question. But let's look at Tom DeLonge's company, currently acting as a conduit for new UFO revelations.

DeLonge (twitter), a famous musician (Blink-182, Angels and Airwaves) has surrounded himself with high-level spooks from the CIA and the military, in his new venture, To The Stars Academy (twitter).

One of his lead collaborators is Luis Elizondo, who was the Pentagon chief of a secret program (2007-2012) to study and explore UFO activity. Elizondo is now the point man for media, explaining the breaking news about a 2004 US military sighting of a UFO, and subsequent failed attempts to analyze materials from UFOs. He's also hinting that alien UFOs are a potential threat to our safety, a threat we can't ignore.

Every major press outlet in the world, starting with the NY Times, is covering this story.

Who are the players on De Longe's team? Buckle up. The following quotes are from the Academy's site:

Camcorder

Enormous train of mystery flashing lights seen from across the US (VIDEOS) - UPDATE: Related to meteor fireball event?

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© Eric Hurst 5280Fire / YouTubeWhat the...?
A mysterious pattern of lights, accompanied by a rather ominous hum, was spotted across large swathes of the United States Saturday night. Plane spotters and stargazers alike were baffled and local residents scared from Illinois to as far as Utah.

Local media across the US began receiving reports and video footage of what appeared to be, and sounded like, aircraft flying in formation. However, the sheer size of the visible phenomenon fuelled wild speculation online.

Theories ranged from military planes, presumed to be C-17s or C-130s, flying in formation, to UFOs and even suggestions that Santa's elves were doing some preliminary reconnaissance before the big night on December 24.

Comment: Update 20 Dec 2017

These could have been aircraft of some kind, but they were either - depending on eyewitness reports - completely or unusually silent. Given that there's no official involvement, the plane angle means they must be part of some sort of 'top secret' operations. But then why give away their presence with bright flashy lights and a striking visual formation?

Here's another interesting video captured by a Denver resident who claims the string of lights was preceded by an 'asteroid' (by which he probably means a meteor fireball):


Here's how the video uploader described what he saw (and no, to him also, they weren't planes):
Saw a huge meteor or "shooting star" over Denver, then a few minutes after this happened. Looked like planes or helicopters but no light reflecting off showing an outline. But why so close to each other? At least a dozen light counted. Almost blended with the sky but couldn't make out a shape.
One possible match for this fireball report is logged on the American Meteor Society as having occurred at 03:32 UTC on December 10th, which corresponds to 20:32 local time on December 9th. Here's video footage of that fireball as seen from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Weird!


Question

Strange lights filmed above Sheffield, UK

An engineer has captured a video of seemingly strange lights above Sheffield
An engineer has captured a video of seemingly strange lights above Sheffield
An engineer has captured a video of seemingly strange lights above Sheffield.

In the footage the strange comet-like trails of light can be seen shooting around high above Sheffield United's football stadium - changing directions very quickly in the early morning sky.

The video was captured by Peter Savage, 35, an electrical engineer at a security firm, on Friday December 15 at about 7am.

Mr Savage was using the footage of the morning sky to calculate the distances between Mars, Venus, Earth and the moon when he noticed the unexplained phenomenon.


UFO

Alex Tsakiris interviews Stanton Friedman on Jacques Vallee and UFOs/Consciousness

Stanton Freidman
© SkeptikoStanton Freidman
Now, when we talk about augmented reality, there are three important use cases that we think about...
--Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Facebook
That's Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spreading Facebook's Brave-New-World-Gospel re the merging of consciousness and computing. He's actually taking his foot off the pedal a little bit with this group of developers. If you search for some of his more freewheeling discussions he straight-up talks about mind reading, telepathy and even mind control. It's all part of Facebook's glorious future. And, you know what? He might be right.

Skeptiko has always been about controversial science and spirituality related to consciousness, but if we're going to be honest, we have to accept that technology has a role to play in cutting through some of the philosophical bullshit that sometimes dominates these discussions. I mean, when mind reading is another app you can download on your iPhone 20, some of the "spiritual" questions surrounding consciousness will be answered.

Same goes for UFOs. The main question that's dominated the UFO field for the last 10 years is whether we should remain focused on nuts-and-bolts technology related questions/issues, or shift the focus to experiences and experiencers. Jacques Vallee has been a leading thinker in this area linking modern UFO encounters extended consciousness phenomena. I've covered this topic in my recent interview with him and my interview with Robbie Graham. But since we had not heard from anyone in the nuts-and-bolts camp, I decided to turn to Stanton Friedman for this episode.

UFO

Retired Navy pilot David Fravor describes 2004 encounter with UFO off San Diego coast

US F-22 fighter pilot
© US Air Force/Senior Airman Preston Webb
A Navy pilot says he encountered a mysterious aircraft off the coast of San Diego in 2004 and video from the Department of Defense has kicked talk of UFOs and the possibility of alien life into overdrive.

The New York Times shared an interview with now retired Cmdr. David Fravor on Saturday amid news that, for the first time, a spokesperson confirmed that a program to research UFOs existed at the Pentagon. Fravor's encounter was one the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was investigating, according to reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

This is what Fravor says happened. He and another pilot were with the USS Nimitz training in F/A-18F Super Hornets about 100 miles out in the Pacific Ocean when someone on the Navy cruiser USS Princeton contacted them by radio about mysterious aircraft.

The ship had been tracking objects that were described as being whitish, 40 feet long and shaped like Tic Tacs that would appear suddenly 80,000 feet up, then descend toward the ocean and hover at 20,000 feet before dropping out of radar range or blasting back up.

Comment: There have been major strides in the direction of disclosure lately - but don't expect them to ever release all the information and explain it for us. No doubt that what we get are crumbles compared to what is actually known in the spheres of power.


UFO

Disclosure! Pentagon releases footage of USAF jets chasing UFO in 2004 (VIDEO)

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The Pentagon spent $22 million to study UFOs in a 2007-12 program whose existence has been confirmed by the Department of Defense. An official formerly in charge of the program told media it remains alive to this day.


The secretive program, which the US Department of Defense has been keeping under wraps, was brought to light in simultaneous reports by Politico and the New York Times on Saturday, citing interviews with people involved or with knowledge of the program, as well as contracts, and Pentagon and Congressional records.

Comment: See also: $22M program to investigate UFOs confirmed by the Pentagon


Grey Alien

The truth is out there: The Pentagon's secret search for UFOs

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© Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Funded at the request of Harry Reid, the program probed a number of encounters military pilots had with aircraft they believed didn't operate like anything they had seen before.

The Pentagon, at the direction of Congress, a decade ago quietly set up a multimillion-dollar program to investigate what are popularly known as unidentified flying objects-UFOs
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The "unidentified aerial phenomena" claimed to have been seen by pilots and other military personnel appeared vastly more advanced than those in American or foreign arsenals. In some cases they maneuvered so unusually and so fast that they seemed to defy the laws of physics, according to multiple sources directly involved in or briefed on the effort and a review of unclassified Defense Department and congressional documents.

Comment: The truth is out there.


Fire

Spontaneous human combustion? Man dies after bursting into flames in unexplained circumstances in London street

unexplained blaze killed John Nolan
© Metropolitan PolicePolice are appealing for information on the blaze that killed 70-year-old John Nolan
Horrified members of the public tried to put out the blaze but John Nolan died of his injuries

A pensioner has died of his injuries after bursting into flames in unexplained circumstances in a London street.

Police are appealing for information on the blaze that killed 70-year-old John Nolan, a retired construction worker originally from Ireland.

Emergency services were called to reports of a "man ablaze" near his home in Haringey on 17 September.

Horrified members of the public tried to put the fire out and alerted police but the flames were not extinguished until firefighters arrived on the scene.

Mr Nolan was taken to a specialist hospital by air ambulance but died of severe burns, with an inquest due to open in March.

The London Fire Brigade investigated the cause of the fire but found no evidence of an "accelerant" that would have spread the flames.

Comment: Spontaneous human combustion is rare, but real


Take 2

The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film: Why it should concern scholars of human origins

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© Patterson-Gimlin/public domainFamous VFC-2 Frame 354 (popularly referred to as 352)
The anthropological sciences occasionally have to deal with something which has a profound but unexpected impact on our understanding of human origins. Two events are noteworthy, in part because both impacted powerfully upon our concept of human evolution, but also because they were diametric opposites. One was a truth first rejected, and the other was a false contrivance embraced as fact. As presented in Roger Levin's fine text, Bones of Contention, the stories of the Piltdown Man and the Taung Child were meaningful because they demonstrated that ultimately the evidence will lead to the truth, but first, one must examine that evidence with an impartial and open mind.

Sadly, they also illustrated that confirmation bias is a serious and formidable obstacle in the search for truth. Piltdown was a fraud, an orangutan jaw mated to a human skull, and it confirmed the bias of expecting that our human ancestor would be an ape-like body affixed to a human cranium, thus affirming that regardless of how primitive the body, the illustrious human mind remained robustly beyond any mere ape. Taung was a truthful hominid fossil, but its rightful place in human origins was rejected for many years because of its small brain. So, when we consider that some evidence with potential impact upon human origins is misunderstood, or suffers in the face of a confirmation bias, the idea has a solid foundation of prior examples demonstrating that exact issue.

Cross

Exorcism performed on teen girl who goes to a school where there have been a number of 'strange manifestations'

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The 'healer' said a number of children at a school had 'strange manifestations'
A 'possessed' teenager has undergone a violent 'exorcism' after she was claimed to be possessed by an evil spirit.

A chilling video shows a man performing a 'ritual of healing' on the teenage student in a school in Argentina.

There had been reports several teens at the school had been taken over by demons following a number of 'strange manifestations'.

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