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The ‘UAP’ (UFO) Disruption Factor

Should We Be Seeking Help from the Sky Gods?

For those who have long dismissed as just crazy talk, any reporting on the subject of UFOs, recent news must seem very disturbing. Their prospects, however, do not appear likely to improve any time soon. In July, 2020, The New York Times published an astonishing report that the Pentagon has retrieved material from “off-world vehicles not made on earth.” Astrophysicist Eric Davis, who now works with defense contractor Aerospace Corporation, told the Times that he had examined certain materials, and concluded, “we couldn’t make them ourselves.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html)

Coming on the heels of several recent bombshells, the story makes it clear that, despite any claims to the contrary, the U.S. military takes the phenomenon very seriously, and has allocated millions of dollars to their investigation. The Pentagon has, however, now replaced the term Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

Officially authenticated video has appeared on national TV showing U.S. military encounters with mysterious flying craft behaving in ways totally beyond our known technological means. Some believe the new revelations are harbingers of even stranger things to come, and think that maybe it is time to take a look at some of the deeper implications of learning, as a hard fact, that we are not alone after all.

During World War II and its aftermath, on some South Pacific islands the native tribes came to believe that western manufactured products (“Cargo”) had been created by divine spirits and were intended for their people. They objected to the unfairness of sending such bounty to white people alone and formed what were called “cargo cults” to enlist the gods in their cause. The phenomenon was studied and written up by celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead. Later, in the early days of NASA, Mead joined in a report from the Brookings Institute recommending that any possible future discoveries of extraterrestrial life be withheld from the public on the grounds that, as in the South Pacific, such contact could be calamitous.

It has been suggested that going from one world to another, may not be as simple as traveling through space or time—which, as we know, can be hard enough. If that were all there was to it, maybe we would have more off-planet visitors. It seems obvious, that advanced life from any world could exist only within a matrix of virtually infinite complexity. And that, while similar, or parallel, to those of other systems, those lifeforms would still be very unique. Jumping from one world to another would be perilous at best—for either the visitor or the visited. Those born and conditioned to the bio-cycles, astrology, ‘cargo’ needs, etc. of one world; if suddenly contacted by an alien one, could be in serious jeopardy. As for the natives of the visited place, they could be at the mercy of infections of body or mind to which the traveler could be immune. Virtually wiped out by European diseases brought by the early explorers, native American tribes  might, if they were still around, make that case. In the age of COVID19, the hazards of viruses moving undeterred across international borders should, by now, be clear to all.

Suppose for a moment that there were some kind of benign governing council operating at the inter-galactic level, aware of the relative advancement of many worlds, including ours. Wouldn’t such a body seek to limit inter-world contacts—for safety’s sake, if nothing else. Since travel in ‘physical’ conveyances—like say ‘UFOs’—between worlds, could entail risks which primitive populations might not appreciate, wouldn’t wisdom dictate some kind of interstellar social distancing,  requiring modes of communication that were more virtual or ‘spiritual.’ The goal would be to reduce any potentially toxic direct physical contact. In such a universe, would it not be wise to require ‘missionaries’ from advanced worlds visiting more primitive ones, for purposes of birth, life, death, etc., to confine themselves to ordinary biological channels—thus insuring the production of lifeforms sympathetic to those already present, and avoiding the shock of premature exposure to radically different orders of life?

If such were the regulations of this hypothetical higher order—call it an ‘unseen hand’—guiding the destiny of all, or most, worlds; wouldn’t those who insisted on using relatively crude physical or material technology for their inter-galactic adventuring, be out of line, perhaps even criminal? Such irresponsible behavior, clearly does not jibe with the pursuit of some higher cosmic agenda. Indeed, some wonder, might physical alien spacecraft actually be just pirate ships, out to sustain their exile by stealing what they can, whatever the cost to their victims?

It has long been conjectured, by some in the UFO research community that most UFOs, or UAPs, for reasons which may be beyond our present capacity to comprehend, could have wandered light years from their planets of origin, and have maintained a long twilight existence by purely technological means, such as cloning. The result, over time, it is thought, may have been extensive physical degeneration, and the predicament of these derelict bands may have led them to attempt to revitalize their kind through interbreeding with the vital stock of the primitive worlds encountered. Here on earth, this, it is speculated, would account for the unholy experiments reported by many so-called UFO abductees.

At any rate, it is clear that physical, or even mental, contact, with other worlds might not be the kind of blessing which some believe. And though some believe Earth’s portals should be flung wide for any passing visitors, maybe we should remember what happened to Montezuma and his followers when they met the Spanish conquistadors. Clearly, some serious demonstration of good will should be required from any stranger who suddenly darkens our planetary door.

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Whistleblowers Say U.S. Military has Alien Craft

LESLIE KEAN and RALPH BLUMENTHAL·June 5, 2023

SOURCE: https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/

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A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.

The information, he says, has been illegally withheld from Congress, and he filed a complaint alleging that he suffered illegal retaliation for his confidential disclosures, reported here for the first time.
Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record.

The whistleblower, David Charles Grusch, 36, a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He served as the reconnaissance office‫’‬s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.

The task force was established to investigate what were once called ‫“‬unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs, and are now officially called ‫“‬unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP. The task force was led by the Department of the Navy under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. It has since been reorganized and expanded into the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to include investigations of objects operating underwater.

Grusch said the recoveries of partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the government, its allies, and defense contractors. Analysis has determined that the objects retrieved are ‫“‬of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin) based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures,” he said.

In filing his complaint, Grusch is represented by a lawyer who served as the original Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG).

“We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,” Grusch said, referencing information he provided Congress and the current ICIG. “The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.”

In accordance with protocols, Grusch provided the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review at the Department of Defense with the information he intended to disclose to us. His on-the-record statements were all “cleared for open publication” on April 4 and 6, 2023, in documents provided to us.

Grusch‫’‬s disclosures, and those of non-public witnesses, under new protective provisions of the latest defense appropriations bill, signal a growing determination by some in the government to unravel a colossal enigma with national security implications that has bedeviled the military and tantalized the public going back to World War II and beyond. For many decades, the Air Force carried out a disinformation campaign to discredit reported sightings of unexplained objects. Now, with two public hearings and many classified briefings under its belt, Congress is pressing for answers.

Christopher Mellon, who spent nearly twenty years in the U.S. Intelligence Community and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, has worked with Congress for years on unidentified aerial phenomena.
‫“‬A number of well-placed current and former officials have shared detailed information with me regarding this alleged program, including insights into the history, governing documents and the location where a craft was allegedly abandoned and recovered,” Mellon said. “However, it is a delicate matter getting this potentially explosive information into the right hands for validation. This is made harder by the fact that, rightly or wrongly, a number of potential sources do not trust the leadership of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office established by Congress.”

But some insiders are now willing to take the risk of coming forward for the first time with knowledge of these recovery programs.

Jonathan Grey is a generational officer of the United States Intelligence Community with a Top-Secret Clearance who currently works for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), where the analysis of UAP has been his focus. Previously he had experience serving Private Aerospace and Department of Defense Special Directive Task Forces.

“The non-human intelligence phenomenon is real. We are not alone,” Grey said. “Retrievals of this kind are not limited to the United States. This is a global phenomenon, and yet a global solution continues to elude us.”

At the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Grusch served as a Senior Intelligence Capabilities Integration Officer, cleared at the Top Secret/Secret Compartmented Information level, and was the agency‫’‬s Senior Technical Advisor for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena analysis/Trans-Medium Issues. From 2016 to 2021, he served with the National Reconnaissance Office as Senior Intelligence Officer and led the production of the NRO director’s daily briefing. Grusch was a GS-15 civilian, the military equivalent of a Colonel.

Grusch has served as an Intelligence Officer for over fourteen years. A veteran of the Air Force, he has numerous awards and decorations for his participation in covert and clandestine operations to advance American security.
According to a 2021 NRO Performance Report, Grusch was an intelligence strategist with multiple responsibilities who  “analyzed unidentified aerial phenomena reports” and “boosted congressional leadership Intel gaps [in] understanding.” He was assessed by the reconnaissance office‫’‬s Operations Center Deputy Director as an “adept staff officer and strategist” and “total force integrator with innovative solutions and actionable results.”

Grusch prepared many briefs on unidentified aerial phenomena for Congress while in government and helped draft the language on UAP for the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act, spearheaded by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Marco Rubio and signed into law by President Biden in December 2022. The provision states that any person with relevant UAP information can inform Congress without retaliation, regardless of any previous non-disclosure agreements.

In his statements cleared for publication by the Pentagon in April, Grusch asserted that UFO “legacy programs” have long been concealed within “multiple agencies nesting UAP activities in conventional secret access programs without appropriate reporting to various oversight authorities.”

He said he reported to Congress on the existence of a decades-long “publicly unknown Cold War for recovered and exploited physical material – a competition with near-peer adversaries over the years to identify UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering to garner asymmetric national defense advantages.”

Beginning in 2022, Grusch provided Congress with hours of recorded classified information transcribed into hundreds of pages which included specific data about the materials recovery program. Congress has not been provided with any physical materials related to wreckage or other non-human objects.

Grusch’s investigation was centered on extensive interviews with high-level intelligence officials, some of whom are directly involved with the program. He says the operation was illegally shielded from proper Congressional oversight and that he was targeted and harassed because of his investigation.

Grusch said that the craft recovery operations are ongoing at various levels of activity and that he knows the specific individuals, current and former, who are involved.

“Individuals on these UAP programs approached me in my official capacity and disclosed their concerns regarding a multitude of wrongdoings, such as illegal contracting against the Federal Acquisition Regulations and other criminality and the suppression of information across a qualified industrial base and academia,” he stated.

Associates who vouched for Grusch said his information was highly sensitive, providing evidence that materials from objects of non-human origin are in the possession of highly secret black programs. Although locations, program names, and other specific data remain classified, the Inspector General and intelligence committee staff were provided with these details. Several current members of the recovery program spoke to the Inspector General’s office and corroborated the information Grusch had provided for the classified complaint.

Grusch left the government on April 7, 2023, in order, he said, to advance government accountability through public awareness. He remains well-supported within intelligence circles, and numerous sources have vouched for his credibility.

“His assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence,” said Karl Nell, the retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force.

In a 2022 performance evaluation, Laura A. Potter, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army, described Nell as “an officer with the strongest possible moral compass.”

Grusch is represented by Charles McCullough III, senior partner of the Compass Rose Legal Group in Washington and the original Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2011. At that time, McCullough reported directly to the then-Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, and oversaw intelligence officers responsible for audits, inspections, and investigations.

In May 2022, McCullough filed a Disclosure of Urgent Concern(s); Complaint of Reprisal on behalf of Grusch with the ICIG about detailed information that Grusch had gathered beginning in 2019 while working for the UAP Task Force.
An unclassified version of the complaint provided to us states that Grusch has direct knowledge that UAP-related classified information has been withheld and/or concealed from Congress by “elements” of the intelligence community “to purposely and intentionally thwart legitimate Congressional oversight of the UAP Program.” All testimony Grusch provided for the classified complaint was provided under oath.

According to the unclassified complaint, in July 2021, Grusch had confidentially provided classified information to the Department of Defense Inspector General concerning the withholding of UAP-related information from Congress. He believed that his identity, and the fact that he had provided testimony, were disclosed “to individuals and/or entities” within the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community outside the IG’s office. He did not allege that this information was improperly disclosed by any member of that office.

As a result, Grusch suffered months of retaliation and reprisals related to these disclosures beginning in 2021. He asked that details of these reprisals be withheld to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation.

The Intelligence Community Inspector General found his complaint “credible and urgent” in July 2022. According to Grusch, a summary was immediately submitted to the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines; the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The complaint was drafted and signed by McCullough and his managing partner. It ended with Grusch’s signature attached to his statement that “I do solemnly affirm under the penalties of perjury that the contents of the foregoing paper are true and correct to the best of my knowledge.”

A whistleblower reprisal investigation was launched, and Grusch began his communication with the staff of the Congressional intelligence committees in private closed-door sessions. According to Grusch, certain information which he obtained in his investigation could not be put before Congressional staffers because they did not have the necessary clearances or the appropriate investigative authority.

A representative of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence told us in March that the committee members are not able to comment on the content of a complaint or confirm the identity of a complainant.

“When you have multiple agencies nesting UAP activities in conventional SAP/CAP programs, both as recipients of exploitation-related insights and for operational reasons, without appropriate reporting to various oversight authorities, you have a problem,” Grusch said, referencing the highly secret Special Access Programs and Controlled Access Programs.

Grusch’s willingness to take risks and speak out appears to be emboldening others with similar knowledge who believe in greater transparency.

Jonathan Grey, the intelligence officer specializing in UAP analysis at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, is speaking publicly for the first time, identified here under the identity he uses inside the agency.

NASIC, headquartered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, is the Department of Defense‫’‬s primary Air Force source for foreign air and space threat analysis. Its mission is to “discover and characterize air, space, missile, and cyber threats,” according to the agency‫’‬s website. “The center‫’‬s team of trusted subject matter experts deliver unique collection, exploitation, and analytic capabilities not found elsewhere,” the website states.

Grey said that such immense capabilities are not merely relegated to the study of the prosaic.  “The existence of complex historical programs involving the coordinated retrieval and study of exotic materials, dating back to the early 20th century, should no longer remain a secret,” he said. “The majority of retrieved, foreign exotic materials have a prosaic terrestrial explanation and origin – but not all, and any number higher than zero in this category represents an undeniably significant statistical percentage.”

It is unusual for an Air Force insider to come forward, as the Air Force has been less forthcoming than other agencies with regard to UAP.

“A vast array of our most sophisticated sensors, including space-based platforms, have been utilized by different agencies, typically in triplicate, to observe and accurately identify the out-of-this-world nature, performance, and design of these anomalous machines, which are then determined not to be of earthly origin,” Grey said.

Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, has been instrumental in arranging classified briefings for members of Congress and other officials about UAP, which include references to exotic retrieved materials. The first briefing he facilitated on retrievals of unexplained objects was provided to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later, as reported by The New York Times.

Mellon says that once the members of Congress gain greater awareness of the information provided to their staff and the Inspector General, they will be in a position to quickly determine the truth if they have the will to do so.

“This is an unprecedented oversight challenge for the committees, but I believe we have leaders in Congress who are up to the task,” Mellon said.

Classified briefings are often presented for Jonathan Grey and his team at NASIC. “High-level, classified briefing materials exist in which real-world scenarios involving UAP, as evidenced by historical examples, are made available to Intelligence Personnel on a need-to-know basis,” he told us. “I have been the recipient of such briefings for almost a decade.”

The National Defense Authorization Act for FY2023 tasked the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, with establishing for the first time a secure mechanism for the authorized reporting of sensitive information to defense channels.

In addition, the legislation asks for reporting on “material retrieval, material analysis, reverse engineering, research, and development” involving unidentified anomalous phenomena currently and going back decades.

Dr. Garry Nolan, a Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University and a renowned inventor and entrepreneur with more than three hundred published papers, has started over half a dozen companies based on technologies out of his laboratory. Nolan has previously applied some of those technologies to the analysis of exotic materials, publishing the first peer-reviewed paper examining such materials.

“Human civilization was utterly transformed by something as small as a grain of silicon or germanium—creating the underpinning of the integrated circuits that underly computation and now even artificial intelligence,” Nolan said.

Studying even small samples of purported anomalous material could lead to currently inconceivable benefits for humanity, he said. “What might be represented here could be hundreds of technology revolutions ahead of us. It could be more transformative for humanity than what the microprocessor accomplished. Imagine what we could do with even a grain of knowledge about how they operate.”

To encourage potential witnesses to come forward, the whistleblower legislation forbids any federal employee from retaliating against anyone providing authorized disclosure.

“Whistleblowing is essential to the checks and balances of our government – and no federal employee should feel discouraged from stepping forward due to fear of retaliation,” Rep. Andre Carson told us. In May 2022, Carson presided over the first open Congressional hearing on UAP since 1968.

The case of David Grusch marks a crucial test of these new whistleblower protections and their ability to protect future whistleblowers who decide to come forward.

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Underwater Bases & Alien Civilization

By David H. Childress

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Enormous Batch of JFK Records Released

by Zach Schonfeld

The National Archives has released thousands of records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. The release of 12,879 new files, the largest dump since 2018, comes nearly six decades after Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, becoming the fourth U.S. president to have been assassinated while in office.

Lawmakers in 1992 passed legislation requiring all remaining government records about the assassination to be released by Oct. 2017, unless they posed certain risks to national defense or intelligence, but former President Trump and Biden both issued extensions.

That set off a legal challenge filed by the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a nonprofit that curates an online collection of the assassination records, arguing the extensions were unlawful based on the 1992 legislation.

Biden issued the most recent extension, which lasted one year, arguing that the coronavirus pandemic impeded agencies’ ability to review the records by the earlier deadline.

The president’s order on Thursday stated that almost 16,000 records remained redacted, and Biden approved the release of more than 70 percent of them.

But an unspecified “limited” number of records that remain the subject of review were not included in the batch, and Biden’s order gives federal agencies and the National Archives until May 1, 2023, to make recommendations about whether they must still be kept private.

Biden ordered the remaining records to be publicly released by June 30, 2023, unless they meet narrow exceptions.
“Agencies shall not propose to continue redacting information unless the redaction is necessary to protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure,” Biden’s order states.

The National Archives had released various batches of documents in recent years, with the most recent dump of 1,491 files being published exactly one year ago. 

The Archives had previously released roughly 55,000 total documents since the deadline originally imposed by Congress.

Referenced story link:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3776939-national-archives-releases-thousands-of-jfk-assassination-records/

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JFK Sought UFO Files

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Swedenborg’s ETs

By J. Douglas Kenyon

Should a publication devoted to discussing the history of life on Earth, be concerned with life on other worlds?

Should a publication devoted to discussing the history of life on Earth, be concerned with life on other worlds?For history purists, the answer might be, ‘NO’, but for others, it is not so simple. If no-less-an-authority, than the “History Channel” can produce Ancient Aliens, an immensely popular documentary series making a case for extra-terrestrial intervention in Earth’s history; and if agencies like the U.S. Department of Defense now officially admit the authenticity of military photographs showing anomalous, seemingly alien, aerial vehicles; and if Harvard’s top astronomer can argue that an unexplained object tracked hurtling through the solar system was a hi-tech artifact from another star… Ifall of that, and more, is true, shouldn’t the possibility of an extra-terrestrial dimension—never mind ‘intervention’—in Earth’s history, be worth, at least, discussing?

In November, 2017, a mysterious object dubbed ‘Oumuamua’ (Hawaiian for “messenger”) suddenly appeared on an interstellar trajectory curving around our sun. Shaped like an enormous, black, cigar, it was described by astronomers as the first such object ever observed. In his subsequent book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard’s astronomy department, insisted the object cannot be properly explained except as a product of alien intelligence.

The possibility that our solar system had hosted an intruder, possibly carrying evidence of life on other worlds, certainly intrigues, not only UFOlogists, but many mainstream scientists, as well. “The more I study this object,” says Loeb, “the more unusual it appears, making me wonder whether it might be an artificially made probe which was sent by an alien civilization.”It may seem like a no-brainer, but NASA is now under pressure to get more serious about the search for ET life. A congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) says every NASA space-bound mission should be searching for ET. The authors of the report, say that the study of how life originated and how itmight evolve elsewhere in the universe—should be part of every phase of all NASA missions destined for space, “from inception and conceptualization, to planning, to development, and to operations” (https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25252/an-astrobiology-strategy-for-the-search-for-life-in-the-universe).

Impressed by recent discoveries of thousands of exoplanets, scientists think we need a new strategy to solve the puzzle of life’s origins. NASA mightbegin such a campaign by consulting some of the unsung heroes, that it has so long ignored, at least publicly. Emanuel Swedenborg, for instance, the eighteenth-century Swedish polymath, who—along with Immanuel Kant—is credited with the nebular hypothesis of star formation (still the most widely accepted theory of star formation), believed that the universe is teeming with life, and claimed in public writings to have directly communicated with the inhabitants of other worlds.

A confidante of kings and scholars, Swedenborg was immensely influential in the science of his day, and, to some extent, remains so—counting thinkers like Carl Jung, Honore de Balzac, Helen Keller, and William Butler Yeats, among his followers. His scientific writings dealt with human physiology, inventions, some of the initial concepts concerning brainneurons, and virtually all known areas of scientific investigation. The majority of planets are, he claimed, inhabited by intelligent beings and he described in extensive detail his personal encounters with many of them. While he had introduced his ideas of extra-terrestrial influence in 1749, Swedenborg ultimately took the notion much further, devoting an entire book to the topic. Beings from remote worlds, he explained in Earths in the Universe, 1758, had contacted him for over a decade and indeed had appeared physically before him, appearing in several locations and providing important details about the universe. He spoke of beings on Mars, Venus, themoon, Saturn, Mercury, and Jupiter, and beyond our solar system.

Immensely popular in his own time, Swedenborg’s works have, ever since, been subject to much ‘interpretation.’If that all sounds like science fiction, it’s worth remembering that science fiction has proved right about many amazing things, and some of its fans have even speculated that its writers must have accessed secret, yet authoritative, information. As science writer William B. Stoecker explained in “Foreseeing the Past,” (Atlantis Rising #94) some SF writers do “seem to have had knowledge of our own mysterious past, as well as knowledge of the present, unavailable to most people.” He cites Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift’s famous satire, considered by some to be early science fiction, which mentioned the two moons of Mars in 1726, over a century before their discovery. “Swift said they orbited at three and five diameters of Mars in orbital periods of 10 and 21.5 hours. The actual moons orbit at 1.4 and 3.5 Martian diameters from the red planet, in 7.6 and 30.3 hours.” Not exact, but still pretty close for mere coincidence.

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What Did the Ice Age End?

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Medieval Shipwreck Found Underwater

Maritime archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a medieval ship and its cargo dating back to the 13th century off the coast of Dorset. The survival of the vessel is extremely rare and there are no known wrecks of seagoing ships from the 11th to the 14th centuries in English waters. The discovery makes this the earliest English designated wreck site where hull remains can be seen.  

The ship was discovered in Poole Bay on the edge of the Swash Channel by local charter boat skipper Trevor Small of Rocket Charters who reported the discovery to archaeologists from Bournemouth University. Trevor said: “I was born into a seafaring family. I’ve skippered thousands of sea miles looking for shipwrecks from my home port of Poole. In summer 2020, I discovered what I believed to be an undetected wreck site. Recent storms had revealed something unknown on the seabed. I was granted permission to dive the wreck. The rest is history! I’ve found one of the oldest shipwrecks in England.” 


Maritime Archaeologist, Tom Cousins who is part of the team at Bournemouth University assigned to uncover and preserve the wreck said: “Very few 750-year-old ships remain for us to be able to see today and so we are extremely lucky to have discovered an example as rare as this, and in such good condition. A combination of low-oxygenated water, sand and stones has helped preserve one side of the ship, and the hull is clearly visible.” 


The vessel, known as a clinker ship in its design, is made from overlapping planks of wood and was carrying a cargo of Purbeck stone. The shipwreck is referred to as the ‘Mortar Wreck,’ since much of the cargo contained within the wreck also includes several Purbeck stone mortars, which are large stones used by mills to grind grains into flour. Purbeck stone is a form of limestone made from densely packed shells of freshwater snails. Quarried on the Isle of Purbeck on the south coast of England, the stone is also referred to as Purbeck marble, due to its ability to be highly polished. Purbeck marble is used in Gothic architecture across Britain and the continent. Other items found in the wreck include a cauldron used to cook food in, which would have been placed directly onto a fire. Two Purbeck marble gravestone slabs were also found in the wreck in remarkably good condition. Purbeck marble gravestone slabs were widely used across the south of England and were exported to Ireland and the continent. One of the slabs features a wheel headed cross, an early 13th century style, while the other features a splayed arm cross, common in the mid-13th century. 


The discovery has re-written our understanding of how gravestone slabs were produced according to Brian and Moira Gittos from the Church Monuments society who said: “Even this early stage in the investigation, it has been clearly demonstrated that two cross head designs which were previously thought to be part of a developmental sequence were actually in use at the same time. Further work on the wreck is very likely to greatly enhance our understanding of the work of the medieval Purbeck marblers’.” These were found to be carved, rather than blank slabs which suggests that these were produced as a form of industry. It is believed that the unpolished slabs would have either been carved at a local quarry, or at a workshop. 


Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive of Historic England, who has been working closely with the university said: “The 13th century ship with its cargo of medieval Purbeck stone is fascinating because it is the earliest English protected wreck site where hull remains are present.” 


Tree ring analysis indicates that the timbers used to construct the hull are from Irish oak trees, felled between 1242-1265.The Irish origin of the timbers doesn’t necessarily mean the ship was constructed in Ireland as Irish oak was widely exported for shipbuilding during the medieval period. One theory is that the ship may have been lost on its way out from the Dorset coast, with its cargo of Purbeck stone. 


Rebecca Rossiter, Engagement and Collections Manager at Poole Museum, who will be exhibiting the cargo finds from the Mortar Wreck said: “It’s exciting that finds from the Mortar Wreck will be going on display in one of Poole Museum’s three new maritime galleries. Our new maritime galleries are part of Our Museum Project £4.3m redevelopment of the museum, supported by The National Lottery Heritage fund. They will open to the public in 2024, and local residents and visitors will be able to see some of these incredible finds up close and hear the stories about how the wreck was discovered and excavated from the people involved.” 

https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2022-07-20/bournemouth-university-uncovers-earliest-english-medieval-shipwreck-site

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Underwater UFO Bases & Alien Civilization

by David Hatcher Childress

 

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Should Earthling’s Welcome ET?

Tantalizing new evidence released by the U.S, military suggests that we may be on the threshold of some unprecedented contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence. But something the people of Earth should NOT be doing, is trying to make such contact. Indeed, the whole idea is ‘reckless’ and we should stop trying to communicate with unknown worlds right now. That is the gist of a June, 2021 op-ed in the Washington Post by influential physicist and science writer Mark Buchanan. Among scientists agreeing with him is SETI astronomer Joe Gertz who sees such efforts as ‘the reckless endangerment of all mankind’ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/ufo-report-aliens-seti/2021/06/09/1402f6a8-c899-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html)

Buchanan and Gertz find themselves echoing the views of the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking who warned that rather than seeking such contact we should be trying to avoid it. It is not that Hawking thought there is no life out there. On the contrary, he thought that, given the odds, there almost certainly is. It is just that there is no telling what it is like, and prudence would dictate that we do what we can to stay out of its way until we know a great deal more than we do now. I wrote about the Hawking warnings in my publisher’s letter for Atlantis Rising Magazine #82 (July/August, 2010).

Most alien life Hawking believed is probably microbial or simple animals. Any intelligent life and even civilized life, he thought, might very well view Earth as a target for colonization or some other form of exploitation. The first contact with arriving ETs might be very much like that of the American Indians greeting the European explorers, and that didn’t work out very well for the Indians, he reminded us. One also recalls the cargo cults of the south Pacific during World War II.

On some South Pacific islands in the 1940s the native tribes came to believe that western manufactured stuff (“Cargo”) had been created by divine spirits in the sky and was intended for their people. They objected to the unfairness of sending such bounty to white people alone and formed what were called “cargo cults” to enlist the gods in their cause. Meanwhile on other islands the natives worshiped the Americans who flew in the “cargo.” The phenomenon was studied and written up by celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead. Later, in the early days of NASA, Mead joined in a report from the Brookings institute recommending that any possible future discoveries of extraterrestrial life be withheld from the public on the grounds that, as in the South Pacific, such contact could be calamitous. Could she have had a point?

Interplanetary travelers, Hawking pointed out, could very well be nomads or pirates out to raid Earth to extract its resources and then to move on. If Hawking was right, then someone should warn some of those at SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) like Douglas Vakoch who runs a nonprofit research organization devoted to transmitting intentional signals to extraterrestrial civilizations, and seem to think it a good idea to broadcast our presence to the universe.

And what about some politicians who have complained that Hollywood portrayals often make aliens look unflatteringly threatening? For this school of thought, the politically correct treatment of aliens ought to be more like what was portrayed in the movie ET. But what if the aliens are more like those we saw in Independence Day, merciless and predatory?

Do we really know what to expect, and should we gamble the human race on the answer?

Atlantis Rising Research Group PAK #4 – 15 issues

Enjoy issues #1 through #15 of the ATLANTIS RISING RESEARCH GROUP REPORT.

Includes:

  • Is Proxima Centauri Calling?
  • ET Intelligence Evidence
  • New ET Documentaries
  • Spheres of Influence
  • Is Anybody Home?
  • Underworld Cretures
  • Betz Sphere Mystery
  • When ‘Potbelly’s’ Are Attractive
  • Light on the Plain of Jars
  • Master Tools of Skara Brae
  • The World’s Oldest Art
  • Who Were the Olmecs?
  • Scotland’s Stone Balls
  • Atlantis and the Neanderthals
  • The Pole-Shift/Climate-Change Connection
  • Warp Speed Possible?
  • Bahamas & Atlantis
  • Ancient American Copper
  • Pole Shift & the Pyramids
  • Indigenous Metal Industry
  • Ice Age Bahama Civilization
  • New Challenge to ‘Big Bang’ Orthodoxy
  • Cave Geniuses
  • Taming Aurochs
  • Ringing our Chime
  • Defying Gravity
  • Aiming at the Big Bang
  • Stone Age Temples
  • Ancient 3D Stone Map Excites Archaeologists
  • Glacier Viruses in China
  • Shackleton’s Lost Ship
  • The ET Threat
  • Lost Equator
  • Vostok’s Hidden Life
  • Socrates & His Inner Voices
  • Americans 26,500 Years Ago
  • UFO Disruption Factors
  • Conscious Universe?
  • The Talk of Tomatoes
  • Denisovans in America
  • Beyond the Brain
  • Invisible Warfare
  • ADVANCED ACOUSTICS AT STONEHENGE
  • Siberian Civilization
  • Fast Radio Bursts
  • Vanishing Stars
  • Ancient Acoustics
  • Last of the Denisovans
  • Pulsar Mystery
  • Evidence Found for Life on Venus? Maybe!
  • Brain/Machine Collision
  • Bible as History
  • Origins of Gold Mystery
  • Blue Martian Sky
  • Microchip Implants
  • God & Gold
  • TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE!
  • Ancient Thule Located?
  • Making Energy Waves
  • Water on the moon
  • Time Tunneling
  • Antilia & Hyperborea
  • Secrets of the Moon
  • Americans 130,000 Years Ago?
  • Before Gobekli Tepe
  • Palimpsest Secrets
  • Indus Script
  • Atlantis and America
  • Explorer Priest
  • Writing on the Wall
  • Extinction Event
  • The Strange Case of the Disappearing Stars
  • Hunting for Artifacts in the Asteroid Belt
  • Hi Tech Painting in the ‘Primitive’ Past
  • Death and the Advance of Science
  • Could Nazca Be a Map of the World?
  • Nefertiti’s Lost Tomb
  • British Tin in Bible Lands
  • Midas Gold in Turkey
  • DESIGNING GÖBEKLI TEPE
  • The Fires of Top O’Noth
  • Fake Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Tiny Flying Dinosaurs
  • Cosmic Gobekli Tepe
  • Ancient War Fires
  • FATE OF PANCHEN LAMA REVEALED…or Not?
  • Antarctic Melting
  • Maya Discoveries
  • Lost African Civilization
  • Roerich & Tibet
  • Catastrophism
  • The Carbon Dating Game
  • Mother Goddess
  • Gauches & Atlantis
  • Syrian Comet Strike
  • Politics of Time
  • Berekhat Ram
  • Russia & Atlantis

Each Report 4-12 pages in download PDF format