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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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Teen-Age Times of Friday-Sunday, March 24-26, 1950. Credit: D. Marler.

This story could be told in two ways. Starting with the problem and ending with the solution, or the reverse. In the case of this controversial UFO photograph from the early years of the flying saucers craze, I will not follow the chronology of when researchers became aware of the facts but the historical sequence, that is, when things developed, although they were known later. La Voz de España, March 22, 1950 edition. Credit: J.C. Victorio Uranga. La Voz de España was a Francoist newspaper edited in San Sebastián city, province of Guipúzcoa, in the north of Spain, 20 km from the frontier with France. The cover page of the issue of Wednesday, March 22, 1950 shared its selected news with this amazing headline: “Flying Saucers [Platillos volantes]

By Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos UFO FOTOCAT BLOG 310-18

over San Sebastián”. It reported that at 3:30 pm on the prior Sunday, Mr. Mauricio Basurco, a dental technician, and his two twin sisters saw “something black” through one window of their apartment. “Immediately I thought of the flying saucers fad,” the man said. This object was lost to sight between roofs. One of the ladies went to the kitchen’s window and from there they witnessed two more objects. “They didn´t look like airplanes to us,” Mr. Basurco claimed. They were oval-shaped with a black stripe in the middle emitting sparks around. They crossed a cloud bank and reappeared on the background of the blue sky. Now, their shape was “black and they looked like a gramophone record.” Then, five more objects bobbed up, three of which marched almost altogether, “as in a squadron”. The sighting lasted 5-6 minutes.

In my view, this is the unsuspected prelude, never told before, to a long story.
The Teen-Age Times was a short-lived1 weekly magazine for youngsters edited in Dublin (Ireland). Sensationalism-bound, the March 24-26, 1950 edition carried on its cover page an extraordinary and exclusive news feature: Russians had developed a “suspension bomb” that would be “swinging like a red star over your city,” and this could somehow be related to the apparition of flying saucers. This piece was signed by “Nobel Price”. Hand in hand with the information was a photograph of nothing less than “the first sensational picture of The Flying Saucers.” Two bomb shells, indeed…if true. Regarding the so-called suspension bombs, nobody heard about this anymore. Regarding the picture, we will judge it later.

The present article has been motivated by David Marler, a US UFO researcher who was investigating this picture for a long time. ...
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A series of strange events occurred high up in the flightlevels above Southern Arizona on February 24th, 2017. Between roughly 3:30pm and 4:15pm local time, N71PG, a Learjet 36 belonging to Phoenix Air, and American Airlines Flight 1095, an Airbus A321, had

By Tyler Rogoway The War ZOne 3-8-18

independent close encounters with a strange craft flying at around 40,000 feet. The planes were flying east at about 37,000 feet between the Sonoran Desert National Monument and the New Mexico border when the incident took place.
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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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People often mistake Kate Dorsch for someone who studies aliens. But Dorsch actually studies something else. A doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, she’s been researching UFO reports collected by the U.S. government.

By Meghan Bartels Newsweek 3-1-18

The Air Force began compiling these accounts during the early stages of the Cold War as part of a program called Project Blue Book. In 1966, it hired the University of Colorado to further investigate stories of alien “encounters” by ordinary Americans. Project Blue Book ended three years later, and the American Philosophical Society eventually archived part of the project in Philadelphia.

Three years ago, Dorsch, a historian, dug through the archives. She found bags of dirt from where flying saucers purportedly landed and even a piece of foil that someone said fell off a UFO. In the process, she discovered another story—one about the struggle between the UFO “witnesses” and the scientists who didn’t believe them—a struggle that speaks to more recent debates over climate change and fake news.
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The Air Force Alerted its nation-wide radar network today to watch for a "brilliant mystery object" that has been reported flying in a crazy pattern over, Texas, New Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico in the last two days.

By Sante Fe New Mexican 11-5-1957

Air Force officials said the latest sightings have been placed in an unexplained category pending investigation ....

A statement issued by the Air Force said: "The air defense command radar net is keeping watch ... trained personnel are investigating reports on scene." The alert coincided with the release of an official dispatch to U.S. Coast Guard headquarters reporting that the cutter "Sebado" had contacted the strange object several times by radar over the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
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On December 17, 2017, a newspaper printed a story titled “Real U.F.O.’s? Pentagon Unit Tried to Know.” No, the headline wasn’t surrounded by text about post-baby bods and B-listers’ secret sorrows. Because it was on the front page of The New York Times.

By Sarah Scoles Wired 2-17-18

The article describes a federally funded program that investigated reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs, the take-me-seriously acronym that includes UFOs). And within the story, the Times embedded videos of two such UAPs.

Although the article was careful not to say that unidentified meant extraterrestrial, the Department of Defense acknowledged the program, and it was easy enough for readers to draw the conclusion that these videos could show alien aircraft....
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