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"This seems ... to be one of the biggest stories of my lifetime, and I don't care if it's about UFOs or whatever you call it, something that we don't understand it getting very close to our military aircraft and the government isn't responding adequately, and I hope you keep sounding the alarm on this"–Tucker Carlson

Editor's Note: In another interview, this time with former Pentagon UFO Investigator Luis Elizondo (watch below), concerning the recently revealed, previously secret Pentagon program; along with the newly released (the 3rd) video taken by Navy F-18s in pursuit of same;

By Frank Warren The UFO Chronicles 3-13-18

host Tucker Carlson expresses his concern over the magnitude of the disclosure and the government’s failure to respond accordingly. In part, Carlson remarks:


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GO FAST is the third of three official USG videos selected for release after official review by multiple government organizations. While To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science was the first to obtain a copy, it should be available to any member of the press or

By tothestarsacademy.com 3-9-18

public via the Freedom of Information Act. This footage was captured by a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet using the Raytheon ATFLIR Pod that was being operated by a highly trained aerial observer and weapons system operator whom the government has spent millions of dollars to train. Go Fast reveals a Navy encounter that occurred off the East Coast of the United States in 2015 and the object in view remains unidentified. Read further analysis of what is being observed in Go Fast by our team of experts including additional videos and reports on our community of interest:
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In December, the Defense Department declassified two videos documenting encounters between U.S. Navy F-18 fighters and unidentified aircraft. The first video captures multiple pilots observing and discussing a strange, hovering, egg-shaped craft, apparently one of a “fleet” of such objects, according to cockpit audio. The second shows a similar incident involving an F-18 attached to the USS Nimitz carrier battle group in 2004.

By Christopher Mellon The Washington Post 3-9-18

The videos, along with observations by pilots and radar operators, appear to provide evidence of the existence of aircraft far superior to anything possessed by the United States or its allies. Defense Department officials who analyze the relevant intelligence confirm more than a dozen such incidents off the East Coast alone since 2015. In another recent case, the Air Force launched F-15 fighters last October in a failed attempt to intercept an unidentified high-speed aircraft looping over the Pacific Northwest.

A third declassified video, released by To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science , a privately owned media and scientific research company to which I’m an adviser, reveals a previously undisclosed Navy encounter that occurred off the East Coast in 2015 (below).
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On December 17th 2017, New York Times has published historic article on the front page titled: "Real U.F.O.s? Pentagon Unit Tried to Know". The article described Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program which had a mandate to

By Giuliano Marinkovic omnitalkradio.weebly.com 2-7-18

evaluate UFOs. Luis Elizondo was a former director of that program. In this exclusive interview that I did for Croatian Television, he explains his involvement in the program and what was learned through the years. This is the uncut version of that interview. On the date of this release, as far as I am aware, this is the longest interview with Mr. Elizondo that runs 60 minutes.
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WASHINGTON — “This is not a laughing matter.” That’s what investigative journalist and author Leslie Kean says of UFOs.

By Michelle Basch wtop.com 3-5-18

“It’s completely rational to be interested and to try to figure out what’s going on with this,” she told WTOP.

Kean co-authored a stunning article in The New York Times late last year that revealed the existence of the Pentagon’s secret project to investigate unidentified flying objects — the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

Months later, this is still earth-shaking news to those eager for the truth.
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British cinephile Robbie Graham, who took a look at Hollywood-government collusion in shaping perceptions of The Great Taboo several years ago in a book called Silver Screen Saucers, tried another angle in 2017. He asked an eclectic cast of UFO culture vultures to steer the controversy away from the usual futile debate over origins. The goal was to consider the impact of the phenomenon on society, the mind, religion, politics, etc., and the result was an anthology of essays, UFOS: Reframing the Debate.

By Billy Cox De Void 2-26-18

The foundation for this discussion appeared not on a UFO site, but in the journal Political Theory, back in 2008. That’s when Alexander Wendt at Ohio State and Raymond Duvall at the University of Minnesota collaborated on a breakthrough academic piece called “Sovereignty and the UFO.” Wendt and Duvall argued a superpower is incapable of handling a serious debate because it might well be forced to confront the absurd notion that something other than homo sapiens occupies the top slot in the food chain, so to speak.

“Taking UFOs seriously would certainly embody the spirit of self-criticism that infuses liberal governmentality and academia in particular, and it would, thereby, foster critical theory,” they wrote. “And indeed, if academics’ first responsibility is to tell the truth, then the truth is that after sixty years of modern UFOs, human beings still have no idea what they are, and are not even trying to find out. That should surprise and disturb us all, and cast doubt on the structure of rule that requires and sustains it.”

In Graham’s compendium, critic M.J. Banias dives even deeper with a challenging assertion titled “UFOs and Modern Capitalism: Dissent, Disenfranchisement, and The Fringe.” Without a moneyed or proprietary constituency, the UFO phenomenon, says Banias, poses an unprecedented dilemma for an array of institutions — military, corporate, scientific, you name it — because its existence is truly egalitarian. He says merely staging a formal conversation about The Great Taboo is an implicit form of dissent, because the issue is democratized by its lack of “hierarchy, domination, or subordination.”

“It is a discourse with no locus of control, no elites, and no ivory tower that establishes ideological truth. There is no established power in the discourse, therefore power moves openly between constant shifts in ideas.” Because the “consumable aspects created by UFO discourse are economically inconsequential,” Banias adds, “modern capital is unable fully to negotiate that threat into something it can fundamentally control as it has before.”

Banias’ bottom line: “Mainstream capitalist culture has no choice but to resist UFO discourse,” although “Ufology must continue to push towards democratization, towards a shared body of knowledge and ideas that cut against the grain of mainstream official culture.”

And that’s why, at least superficially, the emergence of the To The Stars Academy last October, and its stated goal of harnessing and exploiting technologies associated with UFOs, plus transparent public access to boot, might test Banias’ argument. It’s hard to know for sure – TTSA’s business model has its share of critics, and the company isn’t exactly loosey goosey with making its sources available. Moreover, the kind of hyper-technology being discussed comes with inherent and very sobering national security overtones. Is it reasonable to think that a capitalist venture, TTSA or anyone else, would ignore its own for-profit self-interests and not hoard any acquired self-financed knowledge and expertise?

Maybe the capitalist model on its current path is unsustainable. The widening and potentially cataclysmic gulf between the super-rich and everyone else – not just in the U.S., but globally – shows little evidence of deceleration. The institutions that support it here are beginning to look like pigs or castrati. Congress, with its approval ratings in the teens, subsidizes the plunder of the Treasury with even more lavish rewards for its corporate sponsors. As “legacy” media platforms dissolve by the week and #fakenews rushes in, info-junkies cluster at digital information niches dispensing coveted dollops of dopamine-strength anger and fear. The Defense Department spends $586 billion a year, but it can’t protect taxpayer hearts and minds from an epidemic of gasoline-slinging Russian bots wreaking havoc across a sizzling spectrum of American insecurities.

And oh, by the way, that UFO stuff going on upstairs? No money can stop it from happening. At least they’re not Klingons (yet).

As reason and independent inquiry asphyxiate beneath unending gushers of special-interest cash, and fringe thought infects the mainstream, maybe a Reframing the Debate
essay from a contributor whose pseudonym is Red Pill Junkie is more relevant now than it was even a year ago. RPJ’s take on where UFOs fit into this transitional period – “Anarchy in the UFO” – doesn’t sound all that that far-fetched. And by anarchy, he apparently subscribes to the “V For Vendetta” definition, in which anarchy means without leaders, not without order.

“… As we observe the events unfolding in the second decade of the 21st Century, the eventual disappearance of the Nation/State, as we currently know it,” writes RPJ, “seems a more likely scenario than for those entities to recognize an anomaly over which they have no control whatsoever; an anomaly that refuses to conform to our ‘sensible’ expectations and seems hell bent on throwing into question everything we take for granted – even the nature of reality itself.”

Not much else from RPJ about what, exactly, might replace that disappearing nation-state, only the certitude of a receptive market for an end to things as they are: “That which is a nuisance to the governing authority becomes appealing to those with a distaste for orders and regulation,” RPJ writes, “and the unruliness of UFOs seems to stir something in the core of the most marginalized layers of society.”

Shudder … Well, it’s been two months now since Sarah Huckabee Sanders told The Hill’s Jordan Fabian, who asked about the December NY Times piece on the Pentagon’s $22M UFO research program, she’d “check into that and be happy to circle back.” Sanders hasn’t circled back and, judging from all that smug White House press corps giggling around him, Fabian has decided to leave well enough alone.

So it’s up to De Void again, and here goes:

Mr. President — If you truly want to do something no POTUS has ever had the guts to do before, start tweeting about UFOs, now, before it’s too late. It’ll be a worthy diversion, you’ll go down in history and it’ll be totally amazing, that I can tell you. That I can tell you.
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In the last few months a formal, hitherto unknown US Department of Defence (DOD) program to study the UFO phenomena has been revealed. Located within the massive Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), began in 2007, and was dissolved in 2012. Beyond that, and yet to be formally admitted, the work of ATTIP was apparently migrated to an new interagency partnership where it is still ongoing today. The AATIP effort, for most of its existence, was headed by DOD staffer, Luis Elizondo, whose career has been spent in specialised defence intelligence, counter–intelligence and security roles. Since his departure, last year, from the DOD, Elizondo has appeared in numerous media interviews

By Paul Dean ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com 3-3-18

regarding the AATIP program, but avoids detailing specific security classified information. Acres and acres of discussion about the AATIP issue has, unsurprisingly, taken place on social media and in the press. I do not aim here to further highlight what has already been revealed, or what hasn’t. My intention, as always, is to provide primary documentation, or other solidly sourced narrative.

On top of AATIP’s sudden exposure, two segments of airborne video footage were released that purport to show unidentified, airborne objects. The first piece of footage, and its wider story, was already known to researchers, and is generally referred to as the “Nimitz” or “Tic Tac” UFO case. The second piece of footage, which was entirely new, is known as the “Gimbal” event. The former occurred in 2004 off the coast of California, and involved multiple F/A–18 Super Hornets assigned to the USS Nimitz. The latter occurred in 2015 off the coast of Florida, and involved similar aircraft. Again, my aim is not to go over, ad nauseum, these two events, or their associated video footage. Others have done so, and work is ongoing.

One question that has arisen about these two videos, though, is the issue of DOD endorsement and formal release. Elizondo, and others, such as reporter Leslie Kean, have claimed that defence authorities formally permitted the open presentation of the material, and that a documented “chain of custody” was in existence. Again, it should be noted that the “Nimitz”, or “Tic Tac”, footage was already known, as it had been leaked to an online source, by USN personnel, quite a few years ago. Also, the newer “Gimbal” footage, as I have discovered, was also leaked by USN personnel, though not to an online server for all to see. Informal, isolated leaks aside, Elizondo understandably wished to see that these segments of unusual footage were as properly accounted for as possible, as did those he has confided in. Working with a number of interested parties, either directly or indirectly, which have included an unusual outfit known as the “To The Stars Academy” (TTSA), plus The New York Times, Bigelow Aerospace, and others, Elizondo has not, as yet, demonstrated exactly how he had the videos were declassified or otherwise released. Researchers, and the wider public, have yet to see copies of any “chain of custody” documentation.

Early on, I had assumed that Elizondo had utilised the US Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) to see that the videos were released, but my rather forceful enquiries with the DIA and Office of the Secretary of Defence and Joint Staff (OSD/JS) had demonstrated that this was probably not the case. Likewise, I engaged in lengthy telephone correspondence with staffers at the Assistant to the Secretary of Defence for Public Affairs (ATSD/PA), but they couldn’t shed any light on the matter either. Upon talking to someone heavily involved in this affair, I was able to recently learn that Elizondo had used an internal DOD records–release channel unrelated to the FOI Act. My confidant wasn’t entirely comfortable with telling me exactly what this method was without consulting with Elizondo himself, and I didn’t further push the matter. Put simply, I didn’t know how the videos were formally released, but that has now changed.

On the 25th of February, 2018, Elizondo was interviewed by reporter George Knapp for the radio podcast show “Coast to Coast”. In that presentation, Elizondo revealed that he used the services of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR). In conjunction with that effort, Elizondo said he utilised a pair of DOD publications which govern the clearance and release of certain information to the public. Importantly, Elizondo stated that the actual document he used was a “DD Form 1910”.

Specifically, DOPSR is an office which resides within the Office of the Secretary of Defence (OSD) and is “responsible for managing the Department of Defense security review program, reviewing written materials both for public and controlled release”. They coordinate “official work products with Defense enterprise stakeholders to ensure that information being released is both accurate and represents the Department’s official position”. The two publications at the center of Elizondo’s video release efforts are “DOD Directive 5230.09, Clearance of DoD Information for Public Release”, which was certified as current on the 22nd of August, 2015, and “DOD Instruction 5230.29, Security and Policy Review of DoD Information for Public Release”, which was promulgated on August the 6th, 1999. As mentioned, the form Elizdono apparently used was a DOPSR–issued “DD Form 1910”. Its title is “Clearance Request for Public Release of Department of Defense Information”. Completed forms are submitted to the Chief of DOPSR, and a copy is sent for coordination with to the DOD’s Director for Freedom of Information and Security Review (DFOISR). Copies of whatever material, be it documents or audio–visual material, that the applicant wants released are submitted with the “DD Form 1910”, and processing can take weeks or months. A sample copy of the form, which is two sided, is imaged above top and below.


The DOPSR “DD Form 1910” is self–explanatory, for the most part. There are fields, or blocks, for a names, a signature, a date, subject matter areas, prior co–ordination of the subject material, office address information, etc. However, I am not exactly sure, at this stage, what information would be placed in some of the fields.

On the 1st of March, 2018, I submitted an FOI request to the Office of the Secretary of Defence and Joint Staff (OSD/JS) for a copy of this record. Explicitly, I stated, in part:

“This is a request for information under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). I am requesting a specific document which were recently processed by Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR). The document is a “DD Form 1910”. It was utilised by a former DoD employee, Luis Elizondo, to see that some audio–visual clips (airborne FLIR videos from US Navy aircraft) be formally released to the public for educational or publication use. Elizondo headed up, some years ago, the much–discussed Advanced Aviation/Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). When he resigned from the DoD, he wished to utilise various DOD audio–visual material as part of a wider, civilian program. Thus, he used a DD Form 1910. Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR), or associated agencies, must have a copy of the DD Form 1910 in question.”

I was immediately furnished with an automatic reply from the DOD’s FOI Office. In it, I was given an FOI case number, which was “18–F–0601”. On the 2nd of March, 2018, I was furnished with a more formal, if interim, response from the same office. DOD FOI Specialist Sean Porter enclosed a scanned letter from Stephanie L. Carr, who is the long–suffering Chief of the DOD’s FOI Office. In it, Carr states, in part:

“This is an interim response to your enclosed March 1, 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, a copy of which is attached for your convenience. We received your request on March 1, 2018, and assigned it case number 18–F–0601. We ask that you use this number when referring to your request.

Although we have already begun processing your request, we will not be able to respond within the FIOA’s 20–day statutory time period as there are unusual circumstances that impact our ability to quickly process your request. The FOIA defines unusual circumstances as (a) the need to search for and collect records from a facility geographically separated from this office; (b) the potential volume of records responsive to your request; and (c) the need for consultation with one of more other agencies or DoD components having a substantial interest in in either the determination or subject matter of the records. At least one, if not more, of these scenarios applies or would likely apply to your request. While this office handles FOIA requests for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff (JS), and other component offices, we don’t not actually hold their records and our office is not geographically located with these organizations. As we do not hold the records, until the required records searches are complete, we are unable to make a release determination.

Your request has been placed in our complex processing queue and is being worked based on the order in which the request was received. Our current administrative workload is approximately 2,246 open requests.”

This is a standard response, no matter what the FOI request entails. I have received the exact same letter on other occasions. While it is certainly true that the OSD/JS FOI desk is inundated with requests for DOD material, I would argue that my request shouldn’t be placed in the “complex processing queue”. After all, I am asking for a copy of just one document, so the statement about the “potential volume of records responsive to your request” is hogwash. Searching for it shouldn’t be an issue, as the record was only generated last year. Also, I have given the OSD/JS FOI desk a very likely filing location, which is, of course, the DOPSR office. The statement about the record potentially being at “a facility geographically separated from this office” could be argued on technicalities either way. Both the OSD/JS FOI desk and DOPSR are located in the Pentagon though. One issue that may cause some complexity is the potential need for “consultation with one of more other agencies or DoD components” which have a “substantial interest in in either the determination or subject matter of the records”, but even this is debatable. Whatever the situation, my hands are probably tied. Short of me ringing the OSD/JS and reminding them of their responsibilities under the FOI Act, which is something I have done with varying degrees of success in the past, we are going to have to wait. Stephanie L. Carr’s letter is imaged below.

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As if we needed more proof that we’re living in the strangest of times, Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge, a man who once wrote a (pretty great) song called “Dick Lips,” has proven himself to be a galvanizing force in the realm of extraterrestrial exploration. Sure, we

By Randall Colburn AV Club 3-1-18

all had a laugh when DeLonge quit the band and started crowdfunding for a spaceship, but then WikiLeaks revealed he was chatting UFOs with high-ranking political consultant John Podesta and a New York Times report not only confirmed some of DeLonge’s previous ramblings on the subject, but also the legitimacy of some of those involved in his To The Stars Academy.

To listen to DeLonge speak on the subject is, to say the least, maddening. He’s articulate in outlining the aims of his academy, and his stories as to how he first came in contact with the government remain remarkably consistent, but, as so happens in this sprawling interview with Joe Rogan, it isn’t long before DeLonge starts spouting off about Greek culture and the lost city of Atlantis and we’re back to rolling our eyes.
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