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You can check my post history. More than a year ago, maybe 2 now, I recounted my experience with two uniquely colored green orbs(unlike any color I've ever seen. Similar to old night vision green, or phosphor green). At the time I researched to find other accounts of those who interacted with the green orbs, to no avail. It seemed there was nearly zero talk, anywhere, of green orb encounters. Now, since the release of Elizondos book, there seems to be more and more people talking about green orbs.

I'm willing to recount my experience and interaction with the orbs, but in short, I saw an orb, small, very near. It tried to hide from me several times, then another orb appeared above my head, motionlessly "starring" at me. There was another person with me who saw them as well. No drugs involved. It was dark/night time.

My questions are: are green orbs interaction becoming more common? Did Elizondos book cause a spike in people willing to talk about their own orb encounters? What's the deal? How was there virtually no people who had seen the green-meanies up close and now it seems as if it were common?

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Surprised to see such serious documentaries from the 70s.

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I just watched this video of a floating cube inside a sphere (link), and the first thing that came to mind was Carl Sagan’s brilliant explanation of higher dimensions in his Cosmos series (link). The cube’s movement through the sphere feels like a visual representation of a higher-dimensional object passing through our 3D world, similar to how Sagan illustrated interactions with the fourth dimension. It’s fascinating to think about!

Edit: i also find it wild how Carl mentions that if a 4D object decided to communicate with a 3D object, it would seem like a voice coming from within, akin to telepathic communication.

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Original Title: At 10:25 pm, I looked up and saw these lights in the lower east side of Manhattan. They were almost stationary; may not have moved at all. I'm assuming it must be explainable, because I can't imagine UFOs over NYC without anyone noticing. Used "night vision" on my camera — pics taken 4 mins apart.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/disclosurediaries on 2024-10-01 04:33:10+00:00.


This past week in Disclosure:

Sep 24 – Canadian freedom of information request results in the release of an image associated with a UAP shot down over the Yukon in Feb 2024

Released through a Canadian freedom of information request, an image of the unidentified object shot down over Canada's Yukon territory in February 2023 has been obtained by CTV News.

"Heavily redacted documents show the image was approved for public distribution within days of the headline-grabbing incident, but then held back after a public affairs official expressed concerns that releasing it "may create more questions/confusion."

Sep 26 – Sen. Rounds indicates UAPDA may still be included in the FY25 NDAA as negotations are ongoing

Following the failure of the UAPDA to make it into the latest manager's package for the FY25 NDAA, Senator Mike Rounds (one of the architects/co-sponsors of the UAPDA legislation) suggested to Askapol that negotiations are still underway.

Sep 27 – Rep. Nancy Mace previews the upcoming UAP Hearing in US Congress

Speaking to Askapol regarding the upcoming House UAP Hearing in November, Rep. Mace (who will chair the hearing) shared:

*“I wanted to have a military vet. I think it's important to have more than just academics. I need people who’ve maybe seen some sh*t and can tell us some stuff. [...] I want people who've actually seen and heard and read. Like, it's just important. So, I moved the dates back…”*

Sep 27 – Japan elects a new prime minister, who sits on UFO study group

Former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba will become Japan’s new prime minister after winning his party’s leadership contest. Notably, Ishiba sat on a parliamentary UFO study group as recently as June 2024

Sep 28 – former presidential advisor shares his thoughts on NHI technology recovery

Harald Malmgren, a former advisor to Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford as well as many global leaders, shared his view on on recovered NHI tech:

"You asked "is there actual recovered NHI tech?" The answer is yes, in several different hands, both government and private hands. For example, knowing such technology has enabled planning for moon to Mars transportation in days, not years. Don't ask me who has such tech."

Things to look out for in the near future:

September/October/November

  • According to Senator Gillibrand – a public hearing in line with AARO's latest report can be expected soon, saying –"I’m hoping July, and if not then September. But I’m trying to do July.” This has more recently been confirmed to be happening in November.
  • Speaking with Askapol, Reps. Luna and Burchett indicated that the next UAP hearing is likely to come after the August recess. More recently, this UAP hearing has been penciled in for November 13th.

Beyond/currently unknown

  • Following the UAP hearing on the 26th of July, Members of Congress have called for a select committee with subpoena authority, to “go about the task of collecting information from the Pentagon and elsewhere” on unidentified flying objects. There have been conflicting messages from various Members of Congress on whether this is likely to happen anytime soon. Note – a select subcommittee was formally requested on March 13th.
  • Reps. Moskowitz, Luna, and Burchett have repeatedly stated their intent to hold field hearings to overcome stonewalling from the Pentagon and military establishment "I think we [Congress] should try to get into one of these places [housing UAP evidence]...and if they won't let us in I think we should have a field hearing right outside the building...and the military will have to explain why that is." – Rep. Moskowitz (D) It is currently unknown when exactly we might expect that to occur, however as of Jan 12 – Rep. Luna confirmed: "I feel confident that we have enough evidence to move forward with our first field hearing. We will be announcing details soon."
  • Several journalists have indicated that first-hand witnesses of the alleged UAP legacy programs are in the process of providing testimony/evidence to the relevant authorities (e.g. the IC IG) and/or are on the verge of making public statements in the near future (Example 1example 2example 3example 4)
  • David Grusch has received additional clearances through DOPSR to discuss some of his (alleged) first-hand knowledge of Legacy programs. He has mentioned he may be covering more of this information in an upcoming Op-Ed

Skimmed through this post but need a quick refresher on how we got to this point? Check out this handy Disclosure Timeline to get up to speed.

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In light of the upcoming Congressional hearing featuring testimony from Tim Gallaudet, the recent claims from UK journalist Chris Sharp about various three letter agencies and private companies collaborating to retrieve advanced crafts from beneath the sea, and the looming threat of "technological surprise", the goal of the Seabed 2030 initiative to "...facilitate the complete mapping of the world's ocean floor by 2030" seems pertinent.

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If Dr Hal Puthoff is actually in "The Program" that would be very interesting news.

This is clearly implied to be the key headline from the trailer for James Fox's documentary The Program, and I doubt it's an accident.

In light of this suggestion, it's interesting to look at his background and some of the connections to claims about Psi and plasma phenomena.

Puthoff - some facts and connections:

Few things about Puthoff - with some inferences and links:

  • Puthoff was connected with DeLonge to form TTSA and was a board member and publicly disclosed "advisor".
  • Evidence suggests TTSA was set up after DeLonge's meeting with a General and Exec at Lockheed - i.e people within "the Program) - see link. (Steve Justice head of engineering at Lockheed Skunworks was also a member)
  • Puthoff theorized that the crash material TTSA had in their possession was a waveguide for Terahertz radiation, and may "float" when bombarded with enough energy.

 - TTSA's materials are later given to the Army for a research CRADA (Carl Nell anyonel?)

  • Puthoff wrote a paper suggesting NHI may be ultraterrestrial (John Keel's term) or cryptoterrestrial. Similar to Prof Nolan's conceptualisation of it as akin to the idea of a  "shadow biome" (biology).
  • He also wrote papers on Zero-Point Energy / Engineering the Quantum Vacuum for AATIP's DIRDS. (i.e he may have been working for both AATIP and the deeper "Program."
  • He ceated the model used by Elizondo/AATIP of how the 6 Observables are all products of one spacetime metric engineering technology (warp bubble), (known theory) ,and how this also explains the configuration of the different craft - saucers, boomerangs etc (dictated by single or multiple emitters to generate one or more "warp bubbles" and the shape being a result) (see Elizondo's book)
  • Recent involvement in the SAFIRE project building an experimental fusion reactor claiming to be able to create self-organizing plasma with clean energy and nuclear waste reprocessing implications.
  • Self-organizing plasmas in the thermosphere were recently proposed as possible explanations for some UAP in a scientific paper. (similar to the orbs reported by Elizondo, Stratton, Skinwalker etc - and if you think its just them you are dreaming).

 -  Puthoff ran "Stargate" the CIA's remote viewing program in the 70's/80's looking at classified uses of Psi phenomena, and was allegedly a lynchpin of many classified programs. 

  • Elizondo seperately also claims to have been invited into a classified special forces program that used remote viewing for operations. (unrelated to Puthoff) and that such unit(s) exist.
  • PSI effects and "high strangeness" are widely reported in connection with "physical UAP encounters (see   below)
  • Wwho else you going to call if you got tech that appears to be powered by "consciousness" (EM/quantum brain waves) ,or have reports of its originators using PSI as communication ?)

   - See also the paper written by Dr Eric Davis who worked with Putoff in Earthtech and with Bigelow studying Skinwalker Ranch - with ufologist Jacques Vallee - The 6 Layer Model of Anomalous Phenomena.

  • See also "AATIP Slide 9" - for their briefing to DoD that a technology exists that can create "changes in the spacetime construct", "unique human cognitive interface experiences" and Psychotronic (mind to matter-like effects)
  • Davis also worked with Puthoff on studying so called ball lightning for the Air Force Research Laboratory (Black Vault FOIA doc).
  • I'd also bet my bottom dollar Puthoff was behind the quote DeLonge read attributed to one of his unknown "advisors" in the Program - in response to DeLonge's questions how can a "spiritual" intelligence (i.e an intelligence ordinarily invisible/ immaterial to our senses and instruments) - create physical craft and bodies in our frame of reference:

 -Quote: “using nanofabrication atomic layer by atomic layer with durable nano texturing and quantum entanglement properties,  and of course powered by the polarized vacuum. the same methods that crypto terrestrials use.”  (this is basically a best guess for how something can construct matter from the ground up out of underlying quantum fields). 

My Takeaway:

  • My takeaway - if Puthoff was really in the "the Program" (or one of multiple) - why did they see fit to hire an expert in exotic physics, ball lightning and PSI?  Presumably they have grounds to consider these are related to the phenomena, or an explanation for some misidentifications?
  • Said expert then became involved in experimental research into applications of self-organizing plasmas (Electric Universe Theory), presumably as he had grounds to suspect a link from his classified work, and was willing to bet money on it.
  • Is their any connection between the quantum vaccum, spacetime metric enginering, plasmas, and anomalous EM phenomena, or is this coincidence?

Speculation:

Here comes the weird:

Plasma and "Orbs":

People like to blanket assume accounts of “orbs” are fraud - or so “woo” they shouldn’t be credited or studied at all. This is often reasonable, as some dubious people have claimed this in the past- or have mistakenly leaped to supernatural or religious interpretations. But what if they are self-organizing plasmas that can be studied and in some circumstances produce measurable EM interactions?   

Question is - if these plasmas are alive - are they sentient - how do they "work" and  what can they do?  Truly this would be classed in the words of the CIA Director John Brennan when asked about UAP  - as something which might "constitute a different form of life"

Of course first base would be to assume they would not be alive, then dumb, then basic animal intelligence, but we don’t know this. 

Some have theorized they could have quantum-like properties (akin to macroscopic QM entanglement) like Bose Einstein Condensates (and more fringe claims about the "Evo's" witnesses in research into fusion reactors say they observe). It's also been proposed they could have evolved much earlier than humans (not requiring organic processes, and plasma being more common than other states of matter etc.

Could they "construct" matter in some way by influencing the underlying EM or quantum fields?  Produce mind to mind effects by electrically influencing fields in the brain as reported by many witnesses ,who observe first lights/orbs, in the sky and experience mind-to-mind communication, then observe physical craft and bodies? This would be analagous to extruding (observable) tools and then vanishing them back into your invisible hand. (supernatural interpretations would follow).

Recall the claims of SAFIRE that self-organising plasma can transmute elements? If this turns out to be correct this means such a lifeform can electrically change the fundamental make up of matter.

Dark Plasma:

Various people have proposed something stranger - that dark matter, which is proposed to be around a third of the universe -and represents matter and energy existing in a state that is non-interacting with forces apart from gravity and hence difficult to observe - may be composed largely of "dark plasma".

And that the cell-like self-organizing properties of plasmas could be replicated on the dark matter scale. and more common than biological life. (see links below)

Remind anyone of the ideas of a "shadow biosphere"? And an ultraterrestrial lifeform that is present on Earth but ordinarily undetectable? (i.e weakly or non interacting with most regular matter, fields and forces).

People forget that the Earth's atmosphere is at least if not much more unexplored on the scale of fine-resolution than the oceans - except to the capabilities of classified satellite platforms. And of course, if it's "dark" - that's a whole other ball game.

We also know that many of the "high strangeness" type observations- involved these plasma-like orbs - and "physical" craft -(see Skinwalker for example) - and such orbs/lights have been reported for thousands of years in folklore, history and relgious accounts. What is the relationship with craft and beings?

Why are anomalous energy signatures observed (microwaves, gamma rays etc) in scientific studies of these Phenomena - without a source?

One explanation would be that the source is "dark" , therefore we can only observe its actions in our frame - not the source itself - hence the bias to considering it "supernatural." Of course we would only be able to even observe its interactions - if it has somehow learned to influence regular matter and energy.  (which may be related to how the lifeform can absorbe energy and transmute elements)

Of course such a lifeform - which is not currently even recognised as a possible form of life - would have to create representations we can understand and not dismiss in the form of material objects/manifestations that can interact with us and accord with out expectations - to even be perceived as life. Which is what John Keel claimed "The Phenomena" was doing on a long time ago.

We might also speculate (as did Keel way back in the 70's) that some classes of this "different form of life" might predate on animals in some way. (cattle mutilations) or sometimes humans (such as accounts of orbs in Corales Operation Prato). One tell might be unusual EM signatures/radiatiion or signs of anomalous radiation...


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Original Title: UK Journalist Christopher Sharp will join us on October 1st at 10 a.m. Pacific to discuss the CIA / US Navy recovery of UAPs, the UAP Disclosure Act, and the UAP hearings chaired by Congresswoman Nancy Mace.

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This post is hard for me to type. On one end...I'm super-excited. Videos posted of 2 mass sightings this weekend. The first...about 300 witnesses, the second was supposedly closer to 1,000.

Here's why it's hard for me to type this. Both groups who witnessed and took videos of these events over the weekend were at a UFO event called 'GSIC' led by a woman named Elena Dannan. People in this GSIC group believe in a Galactic Federation of various alien species, and Elena basically thinks she can communicate with them, get the news on what all the aliens are up to, and then she relays it to us on her YouTube channel. Imagine the 'Galactic NBC Nightly News' for the lack of better words. I'll admit it...I thought her, this group, all this...was just way to 'woo'. They were 'out there'.

Well, after speeches/presentations each night, they went outside, looked up at the sky, and from what I could read....they all collectively tried to summon the objects.

On Friday night, they captured the triangle. What many in here label the TR-3B. Video was posted to this room on it Friday night and again Saturday morning. You could hear everyone reacting. It was a great video....right up until the OP decided to shine a laser right at it. Rightfully so, that generated a lot of negative chatter in the room (on one end...FAA could throw you in prison for this....on the other, let's not trigger a War of the Worlds invasion). Needless to say, even though it was a great video, it was deleted by late Saturday morning.

Well, Saturday night it appears they saw something even bigger. What I've seen 3 times in the last 2 years over Denver. I call it the big boomerang. The person posting the video said on Saturday night, there was close to 1000 people trying to collectively wish these things to show themselves. Then this thing flew over: (this is very grainy footage...based on the # of people there I'm hopeful better video will be posted in the days ahead)

Combined with the similar sighting from the astrophotographer on Friday night in nearby South Dakota.....the skies just seem VERY active right now. For what it's worth...I've seen the big boomerang 3 times in the last 2 years, and they were all in September and October.

If we had 300 people see/video a UAP on Friday night in Denver....and then 1000 see/video an even bigger, and different UAP on Saturday night, do these not count as mass sightings? I tried to post something about this to r/Denver, but was downvoted immediately. The masses are still dismissive of this. Everything is Starlink.

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I've been a longtime poster and lurker in this subreddit and regularly check it. Although this is often, although not always, a forum for intelligent discussion, the videos posted here were usually subpar. Early on, they were often clear fakes, although those eventually got weeded out, or some strange light, perhaps Starlink, perhaps anomalous, but probably trivial. In either case, the images were fuzzy.

However in recent months ,I ve seen an outpour of footage that conveys puzzling shapes in the sky. Videos that seem substantially more detailed than anything I've seen before. At first ,I thought it was just a trick my mind played on me, but the user videos have been consistent. Has anyone noticed something similar?

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I saw it while driving between Iglesias and Cagliari. I never believed in UAPs until now. Unfortunately, I couldn't take a picture or video since I was driving, and it disappeared after a maximum of one minute. Has anyone else seen or heard of similar sightings on Sardinia? I just googled it and found a story from September 20, 2024, mentioning 18 reported UFO sightings in Sardinia this year.

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Original Title: Experts reveal alarming theory for why UFOs appear to defy the laws of physics - Anti-gravity machine. Time for anything operating a craft would be considerably faster. This would mean anything looking outside a craft would see the entirety of humanity moving at slow motion.

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I debated posting this, because I don't have a picture, but I figured with my astro background, maybe this can simply be another data point in the bucket, or maybe more importantly help others with camera setups (I'll mention this at the end). Here's what my wife and I saw last night 9/28/2024 at 8:15PM Mountain Time, clear sky, in the Black Hills of SD.

I'm an astrophotographer, so I'm well-versed in what a typical night sky looks like in terms of high and low earth satellites, Starlink, northern lights, rocket launches, and military craft (we have a major Air Force base in Rapid City). I’m familiar with these because they often interfere with my astro shots, and I’m outside enough to notice them. The night sky between here and Wyoming is usually clear and stunning. That being said, what my wife and I both saw last night made our jaws drop. There is simply no man-made explanation for what we witnessed.

My wife and I were stargazing in our backyard around 8:15 PM Mountain Time when I personally noticed something odd: an orb with a gray haze surrounding it shot across the sky in about 6 seconds. It looked incredibly strange, and I mentioned it to my wife, who missed it. I tried to convince myself that maybe I was just seeing things, but then, as I pointed out the area I saw it in, a massive right-angle-shaped craft appeared from the northwest and crossed the sky to the east in about 10 seconds. It wasn’t V-shaped per se, but rather a perfect right angle.

To my eyes, the craft seemed to be in the upper atmosphere or low orbit, and it had to be the size of multiple football fields. There were a few planes in the sky, and this was way higher than those, but not as high as Starlink satellites, at least from what I could tell. What made it even stranger was the clearly visible under-lights, which were white and structured. Surrounding the lights was almost a grayish-white hazy aura, giving it an ethereal appearance. The whole craft, for lack of a better term, looked almost like a ghost ship with that eerie aura. When it passed above us, you could see both the lights and the structure. It moved silently, like a stingray gliding through the sky, smooth and quick and did not change directions. We only had about 10 seconds to observe it, just enough to grasp what we were looking at. Even if we had our astro gear set up, it wouldn’t have been a good enough shot to capture it because it moved too quickly and would have been blurry.

Based on my experience, satellites can take up to 2-5 minutes to cross the sky, but this took only 10 seconds and had a visible structure. It had to be moving at an incredible speed, way faster than any military aircraft in our area and faster than any satellite. I would estimate it was about 3 times slower than a typical shooting star.

My wife and I both confirmed what we saw. To avoid influencing each other’s perspective, we went inside and drew what we saw without sharing until we were done. We depicted the same craft. Later, we made a Photoshop image of it, which I’ll attach here below.

Based on my research, a typical Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite travels at about 7.8 km/s (approximately 17,500 mph) and takes around 5 minutes (300 seconds) to cross the sky, covering a distance of roughly 2,340 km. In contrast, the object I observed covered a similar distance in just 10 seconds, meaning it was moving at an incredible speed of about 234 km/s, or 523,440 mph. To put this into perspective, the fastest known spy plane, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, publicly has a top speed of over 2,200 mph. This means the object I saw was moving at speeds approximately 238 times faster than our fastest aircraft.

Personally I feel like the only way you could capture what we saw would have been with some type of combination of night vision goggles and a high-speed camera, and be extremely lucky to be pointing at the right part of the sky for that brief moment. There's absolutely no way a cell phone camera could capture this, not even my Sony A7 III astro setup either. This is because it would require a long exposure shot, and with that speed, it would of just been a smear.

Our minds are blown, it's kinda hard to go back to normal work after seeing this.

I used photoshop to try to show what we saw.

My wife's picture recall on the left, mine on the right (I'm a bad artist).

Off topic just some astro pictures up here lately

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