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UFO-hunting Harvard scientists say debris from unidentified object that crashed into Pacific Ocean in 2014 appears 'artificial in origin', could be remnants of an 'interstellar spacecraft'

Matthew Phelan
Daily Mail
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:49 UTC
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The Berkeley lab's new analysis of the IM1 spheres (examples pictured) now shows that the object was likely almost entirely composed of iron, which Harvard astrophysicist and Galileo Project founder Avi Loeb noted is unlike any meteors or asteroids known to man.
Tiny metal fragments recovered from an interstellar object that crashed into the Pacific Ocean appear 'artificial in origin', scientists say.

A Harvard duo recovered 50 unusual iron spheres after tracking down the unidentified object, known as IM1, off the coast of Papua New Guinea last week as part of a $ 1.5 million underwater search mission.

New lab analysis of the metal spheres reveals they are 'anomalous' and stronger than any observed meteor produced by nature, according to Professor Avi Loeb, former chair of Harvard's astronomy department who led the research.

Comment: It's worth noting the U.S. Space Command had kept data on this interstellar object classified, which prevented scientists from verifying the discovery for 3 years. Who knows what data or material has been kept under lock and key.

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Best of the Web: First 'proper' UFO crash? 14 years before Roswell, Italian fascist govt studied crashed UFO - Intel whistleblower claims it's been in US govt possession since 1945

Josh Boswell and Chris Sharp
Daily Mail
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:42 UTC
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An artist's impression of the alleged 1933 UFO crash outside Magenta in northern Italy shows a craft shaped like a saucer
A top US intelligence officer claims World War II American forces retrieved a UFO that crashed in Italy in 1933 - and Italian researchers say they have the documents to prove it.

Former top National Reconnaissance Office staffer David Grusch shocked the world last month when he revealed he had blown the whistle in sworn testimony to Congress and government watchdogs, about an alleged secret US program that has obtained multiple 'non-human' flying saucers.

Grusch claims one of these alien spacecraft crashed in Northern Italy in 1933, and was secreted away by Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, before it was captured by American forces at the end of World War II and shipped to the US.

DailyMail.com understands Grusch was briefed on the supposed June 1933 crash by a staffer who allegedly worked on the 'non-human' craft in a secret US government program.
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Best of the Web: Senator Rubio heard shocking 'firsthand' accounts of UFOs from top Pentagon officials

Citizen Frank
CF.org
Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:41 UTC
rubio ufo
More whistleblowers in the Pentagon have come forward with 'first-hand knowledge' of secret UFO crash retrieval programs, US Senator Marco Rubio has revealed.

The Republican Florida Sen said officials with 'very high clearances' who have occupied 'high positions within our government' have come forward with 'first-hand knowledge or first-hand claims' of top secret Government programs.

Ex-Air Force officer David Grusch made worldwide news earlier this month when he claimed alien craft and bodies had been recovered and back-engineered by US officials.


Comment: See: Unclassified version of David Grusch's UFO-related reprisal complaint released


Comment: The question hanging over all of these recent whistleblower revelations is 'why now?' It seems highly likely that all of this is serving some larger agenda, which for now remains hazy. Eyes and ears open.

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Senate Intelligence bill gives holders of 'non-earth origin or exotic UAP material' six months to make it available to AARO

Douglas Dean Johnson
Mirador
Sat, 24 Jun 2023 18:34 UTC
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) sits on both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Armed Services Committee. She chairs the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee.
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has unanimously approved legislation containing language that appears intended to dig out any UAP-associated technology that is or ever was controlled by the federal government.

The new UAP/UFO provisions are being publicly reported in detail in this article for the first time anywhere.

The new UAP provisions are part of the Fiscal Year 2024 Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA, S. 2103), which was approved unanimously by the Senate Intelligence committee in a closed-door session on June 14. On June 21 I reported on the committee's action, but the text of the UAP amendment was not yet publicly available at that time. The committee formally filed the bill and it was assigned its number on June 22; it was posted on the Internet early on June 24.

The new UAP language (found in Section 1104 of the bill) would require "any person currently or formerly under contract with the Federal Government that has in their possession material or information provided by or derived from the Federal Government relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena that formerly or currently is protected by any form of special access or restricted access" to notify the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) within 60 days of enactment, and to provide within 180 days (six months) "a comprehensive list of all non-earth origin or exotic unidentified anomalous phenomena material" possessed and to make it available to the AARO director for "assessment, analysis, and inspection."

AARO is the Pentagon office established by Congress to conduct investigations of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), and to collect information on current and past federal government activity pertaining to UAP.
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Pentagon 'unable' to confirm or deny discovery of materials originating from non-human intelligences or unknown origin within secretive programs

Christopher Sharp
Liberation Times
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:37 UTC
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The Pentagon is unable to confirm or deny whether its UFO office, known as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any current or former U.S. programs have had possession or reverse-engineered materials from non-human intelligences or unknown origin.

Department of Defense (DoD) spokesperson, Susan Gough, told Liberation Times:
"To date, AARO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently."
But when pushed, whether the term "extraterrestrial" could extend to materials of unknown origin or non-human intelligences (a term used specifically by whistleblower David Grusch), Gough declined to go beyond the existing on-record statements provided by the DoD.

Liberation Times has offered the DoD an opportunity to comment further on its stance regarding such terminology - as of publication, there is no indication that such a move is likely.

Although noteworthy that the DoD refuses to comment further, this is not an admission that programs dealing with materials of unknown or non-human origin have been discovered.

There may be a variety of reasons for using the term "extraterrestrial", a term which means 'of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere.'
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Why does the government keep obstructing UFO transparency efforts?

John Greenwald
Washington Examiner
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:24 UTC
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It's been nearly 27 years since I submitted my first Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, request on UFOs. I was 15 years old at the time. That request unearthed a four-page Defense Intelligence Agency document detailing a 1976 event in which multiple UFOs shut off the communications and instrumentation panels of two separate Iranian F-4 Phantom jets. The advanced capabilities of these UFOs sparked my interest, and through the FOIA, I quickly discovered the incident was not an isolated one. I learned that there was much more to discover within official files.

My website, The Black Vault, showcases thousands of UFO files I've received from the government. The documents, overall, hint at a mysterious phenomenon the U.S. military and government have struggled to identify adequately for decades. Indeed, they appear to have often kept the public in the dark using various tactics to block legally or at least severely prohibit accessing some of these records that date back to the 1940s.

Fast forward to December 2017, and that secrecy seemed to be lifting. A former government intelligence officer, Luis Elizondo, came out of the shadows to talk about his work running a secret Pentagon UFO study. Politicians became interested, and legislation was passed mandating UFO research offices and congressional hearings. The intent was to get the public some answers.

Anyone with interest in the mystery was overjoyed that the government was taking it seriously, the military was taking action, and they were going to share their findings. At least, we thought they were going to share their findings.

Unfortunately, the transparency appears to have been a facade. Behind the scenes, something has been brewing for years. Even though politicians talked openly about what is now called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena/Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP, and the media seemed to take it more seriously, the government was working hard to lock down UAP-related information.
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Group says UFO, F-16s engaged in dogfight over Bad Axe, Michigan

Mark Birdsall
Huron Daily Tribune
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:12 UTC
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Keep watching the skies.

According to an organization known as the National UFO Reporting Center, two military jets engaged an object referred to as an "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon" over Bad Axe early this month.

Witnesses reported watching a pair of F-16s engaged in a "dogfight" with an object they were unable to see as they moved a camper at the storage units across from the Bad Axe Meijer store on June 3.

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Canadian MP Larry Maguire: UAPs are real, and Canada should take them seriously

Larry Maguire
Substack
Thu, 12 May 2022 19:32 UTC
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© YouTube/Jeremy CorbellMystery object • Camp Wilson US Marine Corps base -Twentynine Palms, California • April 2021
With the news that Canada's Minister of Defence was briefed about the issue of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), it's time for parliamentarians and the government of Canada to take this issue seriously.

For decades, the public has been told claims about UAP (what were once called UFOs) are either banal or altogether nonsense. It is now apparent there is something very real going on — something that warrants high-level briefings from military leaders. This deserves legitimate inquiries, and it is time to demand action from our government departments. Moreover, it's time for them to engage with the scientific community in an open and transparent manner.

The greatest barrier to better understanding the phenomena is the stigma surrounding it. It is encouraging to see this begin to subside and allow the topic to be both publicly acknowledged and studied.

American senators and members of Congress have shown greater willingness to seek information, ask questions and engage the public in recent years. However, unlike its counterparts in the United States, the government of Canada has yet to show even the slightest curiosity or concern.

The evidence of UAP is overwhelming and has been affirmed by presidents, former heads of the CIA, the current NASA administrator, intelligence officials, and trained military observers. Now that there is an ability to have serious discussions on this matter, more individuals with impeccable backgrounds feel comfortable speaking publicly about what they know.

Comment: This article was published last year. A year later, and Maguire is back in the news for writing a letter to the Minister of National Defense where he confirms the existence of a Five-Eyes program into investigating retrieved UAP materials. Read that story here:

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Canadian MP confirms allied UAP reverse-engineering programs in letter to defense minister

Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp
Weaponized
Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:21 UTC
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Investigative journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp obtained and are releasing a new document into public record - pertaining to an allied coordination of UFO/UAP reverse-engineering programs.

BACKGROUND

On the heels of blockbuster testimony from UAP whistleblower David Grusch, a letter has surfaced which alleges the UFO coverup is a multinational effort. In Canada, a veteran Member of Parliament sent a confidential letter to that nation's Defense Minister. The elected official provides very specific details about an ongoing program within the "Five Eyes" alliance (USA, Canada, Australia, UK, New Zealand) to analyze and reverse-engineer exotic materials obtained from crashes of UFOs. Some of the materials in question date back to the early 1950s according to MP Larry Maguire. Maguire urges the Canadian government to get out in front of the UAP story before further revelations destroy public trust and embarrass the governments of the Five Eyes nations. In this episode, Jeremy and George review the contents of this explosive letter, its implications, and the names of the specific multinational programs which have allegedly attempted to reverse-engineer exotic wreckage collected at crash sites.


DOCUMENT
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Comment: The letter was from March, urging a public response to be prepared by May. They have obviously not done so, but there is this:
The Canadian government has confirmed its participation in a first-of-its kind international meeting on unidentified flying objects hosted at United States military headquarters.

The gathering at the Pentagon late last month comes amid a burst of activity in Washington and eye-popping news reports related to so-called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

It featured a U.S.-led briefing to visitors from nations of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, which includes Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

The Canadian Department of National Defence told CBC News in an email that Canada attended the meeting, led by a Royal Canadian Air Force representative.

"The details of the meeting remain classified," DND said in an email. "It can be characterized as the sharing of information on the subject of UAP and no further details can be shared at this time."

The meeting featured a presentation by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick — the veteran scientist in the U.S. national-defence establishment who leads the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a new entity created in 2022 to lead UAP-related activities for the U.S. military.

Kirkpatrick publicly revealed the Five Eyes gathering last week while speaking at a public conference hosted by NASA.

"I have just held our first Five Eyes forum on this subject," Kirkpatrick said.
More tidbits compiled by Joe Murgia on Twitter:
"There is a Five Eyes program to analyze UFO materials and it's been kept secret." ~Knapp

"This is a reverse engineering program of UFOs confirmed." ~Corbell

"[@LarryMaguireMP] has been directly interviewing program witnesses. It's like they uncovered [a UFO] exploitation program and they're like, 'Oh shit!'" ~Corbell

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Larry Maguire is a member of Parliament in Canada.

@JeremyCorbell: "[Maguire] is informing the Minister of National Defense. like the Secretary of Defense in the U.S., equivalent - that she is not aware that [Canada] has been participating, through, basically, their form of DARPA, through this Five Eyes Foreign Materials Program, in the reverse engineering of UFOs. That's what this document admits"

@g_knapp: "I think he could also be saying, 'Look, I know about it, and I know that YOU know about it, so it's time for you to come clean.' I think he's characterizing this in as polite a way as possible, to say, 'Boy, you need to get briefed, you need to be brought up to speed on this.' But I suspect, behind the scenes, he knows that SHE knows, and he's telling her, 'Look, the beans are gonna be spilled, you gotta get ready to come clean on this."

Corbell: "The way I understand it, and I could be wrong, is that she doesn't know. That she's pretty new to the job, and that they don't have the clearances and this is not something that's usually put up as a first thing that's given to a Secretary of Defense. She might know I have no proof either way.

"CC'd on this are a number of people. Science technology...all that. I noticed one, Major-General Michael Wright, Commander of Canadian Forces. So strange. His name has been brought up to me for years now, as somebody who was, what they call a gatekeeper to this information. Seeing his name there? That feels like a warning shot. That individual knows about these programs, from what I know over a few years now. That individual knows about these exploitation programs that are coordinated through Five Eyes and with Canada. So putting that person on this as a CC feels, to me, like a shot fired."

Knapp: We know Maguire met with @LueElizondo and @ExploreSCU and had briefings from both of them. Has there been a briefing in an official capacity where USG representatives leveled with him and said, "Here's what's going on"?

Knapp mentions Maguire's OpEd piece from a little over a year ago: "UAPs are real, and Canada should take them seriously"

Read it here: https://theline.substack.com/p/larry-maguire-uaps-are-real-and-canada...

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Corbell mentions this @BrandiVincent_ article:

"Five Eyes alliance remains tight-lipped on how it's collaborating on uncovering UAPs

"DefenseScoop asked government media officials from all the nations to provide more details in the wake of a recent meeting held at the Pentagon."

Read it here: https://defensescoop.com/2023/06/15/five-eyes-alliance-remains-tight-lipped-on-how-its-collaborating-on-uncovering-uap...

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Corbell: "[@LarryMaguireMP] has met with firsthand, direct program exploitation people. I know that for a fact, that he has met with them. He has been directly interviewing program witnesses. It's like they uncovered [an] exploitation program and they're like, 'Oh shit!' And I know some of the people that he's spoken [to], both in person, and also through Zoom or something like that. But in HIS country, in those programs that are allied exploitation programs."


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Senator admits UFO whistleblower report tracks with official briefing

Maura Zurick
Newsweek
Mon, 19 Jun 2023 02:21 UTC
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© Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./GettyImagesSenator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
Senator Josh Hawley said a recent UFO whistleblower's report is "pretty close" to information he received in a briefing after the United States shot down a spy balloon and other unidentified flying objects this past winter.

The Missouri Republican said he wasn't surprised, but he was "disturbed" by David Grusch's claims that not only has the government found proof of but also covered up several "non-human" crafts and remains.

Grusch, a 36-year-old Airforce veteran, told NewsNation earlier this month that a top-secret military program found fully intact UFOs, or "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAPs). Grusch, who previously worked as the National Reconnaissance Office's representative to the UAP Task Force, said that the U.S. covered up several "non-human origin" crafts and "dead pilots."

Newsweek reached out to Hawley via his website for comment. Grusch's claims could not be verified by Newsweek.
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