– Chapter Two –
Recent disclosures and a new government policy
In 2017 retired special AATIP agent Luis Elizondo released three classified videos of military UFO encounters to the New York Times, and then later started his own UFO investigating television show called Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. The now famous videos are called, “Tic Tac,” “go fast” and “gimbal.” 67
The Times article by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean was titled “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program.”
Prior to this article the Pentagon had never released any of this type of information from this agency, which was formed to analyze and report UAP incidents to the Defense Department.
Elizondo had been an intelligence officer for decades before taking over the AATIP program in 2009.
In his TV show, Elizondo described UAPs as having one or all of what he calls the “observables” abilities not shared by any known aircraft. He said they display anti-gravity (flying with no apparent means of propulsion), instantaneous acceleration at G-forces that would kill a human being, hypersonic velocity (sometimes over five times the speed of sound), low observability (the ability to cloak or disappear), trans-medium travel (the ability to move between space, air and water while flying). 67
The Tic Tac incident took place in November of 2004 off the California coast about 100 miles southwest of San Diego, and was documented by pilots from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and three attending vessels of the carrier group, the Vincennes, Chosin and Princeton. The group was holding exercises with VFA-41 fighter jets and holding mock fighting drills.
This incident is the most documented and corroborated UAP event in history.
Six Navy fighter jet pilots spotted and chased a white, oval-shaped UFO and took the now famous video. During this encounter, an underwater USO was also tracked.
The Princeton tracked an object at 80,000 feet which fell at lightning speed to right above the ocean; hovering over roiling water as if something was in the water underneath the “Tic Tac.”
Two fighter jets had launched from the USS Nimitz to perform maneuvers, one of the jets was being flown by squadron commander David M. Fravor and the other by Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich.
The chief radar specialist, Senior Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day, on the USS Princeton interrupted the maneuver and dispatched the jets to the UFO’s coordinates for a real-world intercept.
When the jets arrived at the coordinates, they saw water churning and at first the pilots thought something had crashed in the ocean. Then an approximately forty-foot-long, white, “giant Tic-Tac-shaped object,” with no markings, wings, windows, intakes or exhaust, appeared above the object in the water. The UAP began moving in instantaneous, erratic motions as if it perceived the presence of the jets. The jet pilots attempted to intercept it, but it crossed their bow and accelerated away at about 3,700 mile per hour, reappearing on radar sixty miles away.
Another jet was launched with a targeting pod and infrared camera and this jet took the actual “Tic Tac” video.
Day said he tracked many of these objects dropping down from the upper atmosphere, which then moved south in a formation at 28,000 feet traveling at 100 knots, which is usually considered too slow to be able to fly at that altitude.
One of the objects was tracked diving into the water and accelerating away at seventy knots, which is much faster than any manmade submersible craft.
The UAP activity was tracked by the Navy’s most advanced radar system, the Aegis Spy-1. The technicians thought the system might have been malfunctioning, so they rebooted the computer and found the UAPs were still there, and then confirmation reports came in from other ships.
Naval officers collected and “disappeared” the hard drives with the recordings on them until they were later released to the public by Elizondo.
The “go fast” and “gimbal” videos were both shot by naval jets from the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in 2015 off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. Both videos were shot in infrared with the UFOs showing no heat signatures.
Prior to the videos being taken, jet pilots with a squadron called the Red Rippers flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia were experiencing encounters with many UAPs during their exercises beginning in the summer of 2014. During their maneuvers up and down the eastern seaboard the pilots were seeing strange radar tracks and initially thought there might be something wrong with their upgraded radar system until they actually witnessed the UAPs themselves. The pilots described seeing a cube inside a sphere and also various round objects flashing around them. Over a period of months, into 2015, pilots reported seeing strange objects nearly every time they flew.
When one of the objects flew between two jets at very close range, nearly causing a mid-air collision, the pilots submitted a safety report to the Navy Safety Center.
The “go fast” video is of a round, white craft moving at blazing speed, roughly two-thirds the speed of sound, just above the surface of the ocean. In the accompanying audio you can hear the pilots are amazed at how fast the object is moving and confused as to what it could be. The craft has no wings, no visible means of propulsion or lift and displays no heat signature.
The “gimbal” video is just part of a longer recording of a squadron of five small round UAPs flying in formation with the larger gimbal object traveling behind them. That’s why the chatter in the video describes seeing a “fleet of them” even though only one object is seen in the released video. It was described as a hovering gyroscope holding position against 120 knots of wind that then rotates over ninety degrees on its axis with no change to its altitude.
These UAP objects are all displaying abilities that defy the laws of physics. They are moving at instantaneous velocities at hypersonic speeds without creating sonic booms, making high-G turns no human pilot would be able to survive then flying at speeds so slow an aircraft would not be able to stay in the air. They can stop on a dime and hover. They can move effortlessly through trans-mediums, plunging into water and emerging from water before speeding off at thousands of miles per hour.
The lack of sonic booms in dumbfounding. It’s almost as if they are carving out a portal and moving through that, instead of through the atmosphere, causing no air pressure as they move.
No explanation ever emerged after these videos were taken and the safety reports submitted until Elizondo leaked them to the media.
All three of the Elizondo videos can easily be viewed in several locations online.
We are mostly sticking to US incidents, but this is a very well documented case that took place in Mexico. On March 5, 2004, off the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, the Mexican Air Force spotted and recorded an incident with eleven white lights that appeared on infrared and radar. They were traveling at very high speed, tracking along with the jets. The jets were moving at 200 miles per hour, but the lights were sticking with them and flying around them. After the incident the Mexican government held a press conference admitting that UFOs exist. 60
We believe these released videos and the changes to how people record and disseminate information have forced the government to adopt a new strategy in relation to UFOs. We believe the new position is to release limited UFO information to the public, while pretending to be as baffled about it as we are. The “gosh, gee, we admit these things exist, but we have no idea what they are” strategy. Since the government is known to be hiding actual crashed UFOs, actual dead alien bodies (and maybe some live ones), we believe this strategy is another disingenuous, bald-faced lie, but one that lets the government pretend to be a cooperating participant in the search for the truth.
Evidence of this new strategy comes in the form of the Pentagon declassifying and officially releasing the three previously-released Elizondo videos with a statement by the Department of Defense confirming the authenticity of the videos, but they stopped short of claiming them to be from extraterrestrial sources. 71
Along with the release they issued this statement, “The Department of Defense is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconception by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’”
Another pair of leaked videos of a 2019 incident off the California coast, that the government later confirmed as real, showed pyramidal-shaped UFOs flying over the USS Russell and an infrared video taken by the USS Omaha showing a “Tic Tac” trans-medium UFO splashing into the water. The videos were posted by documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.
On June 25, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report, “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.” Though the report never claims the UFOs are under extraterrestrial control, it does confirm that UFO, or UAP, activity is not coming from Russia or China or any other Earth government. The report examined 144 incidents and only found one to be a large, deflating balloon. All the other cases remained “unexplained.” Most of the events involved first-hand witness reports by military aviators, and systems they deemed reliable.
The report says the phenomenon requires further study and we may have to increase our scientific knowledge to be able to understand what is going on.
We believe the release of this report is further evidence of our assessment of the new government position concerning UFOs, or what we referred to before as the “gosh, gee, we admit these things exist, but we have no idea what they are” policy.
All of the incidents in these two chapters would each fill a book, in fact there are hundreds of books about them. Except for briefly touching on these subjects where needed, this book will not go into the details of this knowledge, but will rather take much of it as “given,” for the sake of arguing our theories.
Understand that for every incident that took place here in the US there is a similar incident or set of incidents in almost every country on the globe. But, we believe that after World War II, because of the use of nuclear weapons, the US and later Russia, were the particular focus of UFO activity.
References
60 Jonathan Nowzaradan,UFOs: The Lost Evidence, season 1, episode 13, Pilots & Astronauts, April 9, 2017.
67 Tom DeLonge, executive producer, Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation, May 31, 2019.
70 Matt Pearl, Unidentified: UFOs in the Headlines, 2021, on the History Channel.
71 Director of National Intelligence office, Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. View at dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf.