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US Navy introducing guidelines for pilots to report UFO sightings - Updated 1834 GMT (0234 HKT) April 24, 2019 By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent
Washington (CNN) Navy pilots who think they may have seen unidentified flying objects will now have a detailed means of reporting unexplainable events so the military can keep track of what may, or may not, be happening. "The Navy is updating and formalizing the process by which reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognizant authorities," they said in a statement. "A new message to the fleet that will detail the steps for reporting is in draft," the statement added. Politico was first to report the development. The Navy does not think that aliens have been flying in US airspace, one Navy official told CNN. But there have been "a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years," according to the statement. "These kinds on incursions can be both a security risk and pose a safety hazard for both Navy and Air Force aviation. For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the USAF takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report." The new policy will standardize how incidents are reported, and what radar or other data may be gathered that the military can store long term for further analysis, the navy official said. Separately a senior military official told CNN that some of the recent sightings are highly classified military aviation programs undergoing testing in the western United States. Because the sightings have garnered public attention, senior Navy intelligence officials have briefed Congress, as well as aviators on the safety hazards.
The Pentagon has intermittently over the decades funded various efforts to evaluate unexplained incursions and phenomena, but the last official effort was shuttered in 2012.A former Pentagon official, who led that program and resigned in protest when it was ended, told CNN's Erin Burnett in 2017 "that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone." Luis Elizondo made clear he could not speak on behalf of the government, but strongly implied there was evidence that stopped him from ruling out the possibility that alien aircraft visited Earth. "These aircraft -- we'll call them aircraft -- are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of," Elizondo said of objects they researched. He said the program sought to identify what had been seen, either through tools or eyewitness reports, and then "ascertain and determine if that information is a potential threat to national security." "We found a lot," Elizondo said. The former Pentagon official said they identified "anomalous" aircraft that were "seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics." "Things that don't have any obvious flight services, any obvious forms of propulsion, and maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological," Elizondo said.
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Il post della CNN non dice niente di nuovo, gli UFO esistono, si tratta di vedere nei dati raccolti dei casi di avvistamento, se trattasi di UFO made in mankind = DRONI per EW & SEAD oppure se sono UFO alieni. Il signor Luis Elizondo esprime un proprio parere, ma non porta a supporto della sua tesi alcuna nuova evidenza non ancora nota.
Il post della CNN del 24/4/2019 ha poi un rinvio ad un altro post sul tema UFO
Former Pentagon UFO official: 'We may not be alone'- Updated 2319 GMT (0719 HKT) December 19, 2017 By Eli Watkins and Brian Todd, CNN
(CNN) A former Pentagon official who led a recently revealed government program to research potential UFOs said Monday evening that he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth. "My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone," Luis Elizondo said in an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront." A pair of news reports in The New York Times and Politico over the weekend said the effort, the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was begun largely at the behest of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, who helped shore up funding for it after speaking to a friend and political donor who owns an aerospace company and has said he believes in the existence of aliens. Former official on UFOs: We might not be alone. Former official on UFOs: We might not be alone Elizondo told The New York Times he resigned from the Department of Defense in October in protest over what he called excessive secrecy surrounding the program and internal opposition to it after funding for the effort ended in 2012. Elizondo said Monday that he could not speak on behalf of the government, but he strongly implied there was evidence that stopped him from ruling out the possibility that alien aircraft visited Earth. "These aircraft -- we'll call them aircraft -- are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of," Elizondo said of objects they researched. He said the program sought to identify what had been seen, either through tools or eyewitness reports, and then "ascertain and determine if that information is a potential threat to national security." "We found a lot," Elizondo said. The former Pentagon official said they identified "anomalous" aircraft that were "seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics." "Things that don't have any obvious flight services, any obvious forms of propulsion, and maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological," Elizondo said.
Secretive program tracked UFOs for 5 years
The Times' report on the government UFO study included a pair of videos of pilots remarking on something mysterious they were seeing. One of the pilots, retired Cmdr. David Fravor, told CNN that he had witnessed an object that looked like a "40-foot-long Tic Tac" maneuvering rapidly and changing its direction during a flight in 2004. Ryan Alexander of Taxpayers for Common Sense expressed dismay about the program and cast it as a waste of money in a piece that aired on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Monday. "It's definitely crazy to spend $22 million to research UFOs," Alexander said. "Pilots are always going to see things that they can't identify, and we should probably look into them. But to identify them as UFOs, to target UFOs to research -- that is not the priority we have as a national security matter right now." For his part, Fravor said the money spent on the program was a drop in the bucket relative to the military's over half-a-trillion-dollar annual budget. Politico reported that after Elizondo stepped down from the Department of Defense, he went to work for To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, a company co-founded by former Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge that says it looks into issues surrounding government secrecy and unidentified objects. In a statement Monday, Reid continued to defend the program. "I'm proud of this program and its ground-breaking studies speak for themselves," the statement read. "It is silly and counterproductive to politicize the serious scientific questions raised by the work of this program, which was funded on a bipartisan basis."
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5 anni di tracking UFO non sono credibili come Archivi: un solo viaggio di andata e ritorno in tratta Terra-AlfaCentauri-Terra causa una latenza che è stimabile tra 11.5anni con un fattore tecnologico di 0.8c, ed una latenza di 8.11anni con un fattore tecnologico 0.987c in ogni caso, con un archivio di 5 anni di UFO tracking l'US Navy non potrebbe catalogare una beata mazza, quindi s'inferisce che il sig. Luis Elizondo non ha idea di cosa stia parlando, nel post CNN del 19/12/2017
Altro post che propone google.news querando con "UFO sightings" è questo articolo di Bloomberg:
The Aliens Among Us; An uptick in UFO sightings by military pilots raises all sorts of interesting questions. By Tyler Cowen 2 maggio 2019, 02:00 CEST
For the last several years, the U.S. military has observed an increase in what it calls “unexplained aerial phenomena.” The rest of us may know them by their more common name — unidentified flying objects — and we should all strive, as the Navy is doing, to take these reports more seriously. Sometimes, according to the Washington Post, well-trained military pilots “claimed to observe small spherical objects flying in formation. Others say they’ve seen white, Tic Tac-shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind and no exhaust.” They also appear to exceed all known aircraft in speed and have been described by a former deputy assistant secretary of defense as embodying a “truly radical technology.” Meanwhile, Avi Loeb, chair of the Harvard astronomy department, recently suggested that a passing object in space, named Oumuamua, might be a lightsail from an advanced alien civilization, as evidenced by its apparently strange movements. Before you ask: No, I don’t think the proverbial “Little Green Men” have come. But maybe you wonder about the probability, even if quite small, that aliens are visiting. Or at the very least you might think we should remove the stigma, which has been strong in the military, against reporting and discussing UFO sightings. You might also be wondering which non-alien phenomena might be accounting for these strange observations. Wouldn’t it be interesting, for instance, if a foreign power were tracking our military missions with a new secret weapon? Or if the eyewitness reports of our service members were so unreliable and in such systematic ways? But let’s first step back a bit and see why the chance of actual alien visitations is more than minuscule.
There is a well-known dilemma known as the Fermi paradox, and it asks why we have not seen evidence of alien visitation or communications to date. After all, scientists are identifying more potentially life-supporting planets all the time, and the number of such planets in our galaxy is likely very large. Even if the chance of intelligent life on any single planet is small, it is plausible to think at least a few of these places have evolved technologically sophisticated civilizations, capable of sending messages to us. An alien civilization doesn’t have to send its people. It could build a few self-replicating von Neumann probes, as they are called, carrying artificial intelligence and powered by solar or nuclear energy. At some point you would expect such probes to wash up on our shores or transmit messages to us. You can debate the actual numbers, but on the grounds of pure theory alone, the chance of alien contact of some kind is not so small. So on the yes side, on behalf of the notion that something truly strange is happening here, we have both pilot testimonials and pure theory. That is not nearly enough, in my view, to believe in alien visitation, but it is more weight than many people think. Also keep in mind the history of the New World before the European arrival and conquest. There were legends of fair-skinned visitors from abroad, perhaps stemming from the Vikings and their explorations, but one day this “alien contact” turned out to be very real indeed — through Columbus, Cortés and others. To be oblivious of another civilization for a long time, and then suddenly encounter it, is a common theme in human history. Perhaps this has not happened for the last time. Of course, the case against alien visitation remains strong. On its side is common sense, the absence of anything close to knockdown evidence, the general notion that very large changes in our understanding of the world are rare, and the observation that if advanced aliens somehow were here, they either would be entirely hidden or much more obvious.
Still, when you run all the arguments through your mind, is it not possible to come away with an estimate of at least a one-in-a-thousand chance that alien visitations are a real thing? Even such a small chance would be worthy of more discussion. And might I be able to talk a few of the bolder ones among us up to a one-in-a-hundred chance? Regardless of how you judge the likelihood, you can still benefit from thinking more deeply about the mysteries of the universe and our place in it. Perhaps the earth has life because it came from other solar systems, seeded by alien probes, and indeed that is what I would do if I were a very wealthy alien philanthropist. If you end up with 100 successfully seeded solar systems for each very advanced civilization, the resulting odds suggest that we are indeed the result of a seed. That’s partly why, to this observer, the most likely resolution of the Fermi paradox is this: The aliens have indeed arrived, through panspermia — and we are they.
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- Il post ufologico proposto da Bloomberg, non dice niente ma ha al suo interno una massa notevole di contraddizioni:
- Mescola la fenomenologia FOO FIGHTERS (palese manifestazione di tecnologia aliena durante la WWII) con meteoriti.
- Le speculazioni di paleoufologia, violano il corollario Eso-Darwiniano.
- Non si suggerisce al lettore nessuno strumento su dove, come, perchè individuare possibili paleocontatti nell'antica storia dell'uomo.
- Si continua a rimuginare sul Paradosso di Fermi, dimenticando Hessdalen e molti altri eventi UFO genuine ben documentati.
Nei cieli della Virginia e della Florida volano degli oggetti non identificati. Lo assicurano cinque Marines che hanno raccontato la loto testimonianza prima ai loro superiori e poi al New York Times. In particolare, uno di loro, il luogotenente Ryan Graves, ha affermato di aver visto questi ‘ospiti’ quasi ogni giorno tra il 2014 e il 2015 e che gli oggetti potevano raggiungere velocità supersoniche e altezze di 30.000 piedi senza alcun motore visibile o sistemi infrarossi.
Graves, che ha riferito le sue osservazioni anche al Pentagono e al Congresso, ha assicurato che “questi oggetti sarebbero là fuori per tutto il giorno”. Ma ciò che più lo ha sorpreso è la loro capacità di fermarsi rapidamente, virare all'istante e accelerare subito e a velocità supersonica. Manovre, queste, che nessun pilota in carne e ossa, soggetto alla forza di gravità, avrebbe potuto compiere. ”La velocità non ti uccide", ha detto Graves. “L’arresto o l’accelerazione sì”. Nessuno dei 5 piloti ha parlato espressamente di Ufo, ma si sono limitati a dire che questi oggetti nel cielo non sono classificabili, senza ipotizzarne la natura, aggiungendo che nessun drone opera nella zona. “Siamo qui per fare un ottimo lavoro non per creare miti”.
Non è la prima volta che il Pentagono si occupa di Ufo. Nel dicembre del 2017, sempre il New York Times, riportò la notizia di un programma di ricerca di extraterrestri (semplificando). Il suo nome è “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program”, (ovvero “Programma avanzato per l'identificazione delle minacce aerospaziali”) e per i due anni precedenti era stato condotto da un team super-selezionato che lavorava dietro segnalazioni dei piloti dell’aeronautica militare su oggetti volanti non identificati e fenomeni inspiegabili avvistati. Per il suo piano segretissimo, il Pentagono aveva stanziato 22 milioni di dollari all’anno (circa 19 milioni di euro). Una goccia in un oceano se paragonato ai 600 milioni di dollari totali messi sul tavolo dal Dipartimento della Difesa. E così avrebbe dovuto essere, al punto che nessuno, al di fuori del Pentagono, era mai venuto a conoscenza del programma fino ad ora, fin quando un portavoce ha confermato la sua esistenza aggiungendo che è stato chiuso nel 2012. Stando, però, a quanto riporta il quotidiano di New York, che cita fonti accreditate, le indagini su questi avvistamenti continuano e che ad essere finiti sono solo i finanziamenti.
Secondo la Marina Usa nel 2004 a 100 miglia dalla costa sono stati registrati "oggetti volanti che apparivano all’improvviso a 80.000 piedi di altezza, si tuffavano in direzione dell'oceano e poi si fermavano d'un tratto all'altezza di 20.000 piedi. Quindi, come erano apparsi, sparivano”. Prima di allora le forze armate americane si erano interessate agli oggetti volanti non identificati nel 1952 con il “Project Blue Book”, quando studiarono fino al 1969 oltre 12mila avvistamenti, di cui un centinaio rimasero inspiegabili. Ma quaranta anni dopo, la Difesa americana torna a interessarsi dei possibili nemici dello spazio, e lo fa mettendo sul piatto una buona dose di finanziamenti.
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- Parte di quanto indicato nell'articolo dell'AGI potrebbe essere vero, risulta traffico alieno già statisticato nel 2014 ossia nel caso dell'UFO all'aeroporto di Brema (il caso tuttavia è stato sterilizzato dentro ai modelli ufologici, in quanto accaduto entro i 365gg dall'avvistamento di Foo Fighter ad Hessdalen nel 2013).
- Il contenuto del post dell'AGI, non riporta nessuna informazione nuova, non ancora nota.
Il post dell'AGI del 29/5/2019 probabilmente si riferisce all'articolo del NYT del
26/5/2019 New York Times: Wow, What Is That? Navy Pilots Report UFOs
By Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, WASHINGTON — The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East Coast. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.
“These things would be out there all day,” said Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years, and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”. In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the incidents were videotaped, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching. “Wow, what is that, man?” one exclaims. “Look at it fly!”. No one in the Defense Department is saying that the objects were extraterrestrial, and experts emphasize that earthly explanations can generally be found for such incidents. Lieutenant Graves and four other Navy pilots, who said in interviews with The New York Times that they saw the objects in 2014 and 2015 in training maneuvers from Virginia to Florida off the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, make no assertions of their provenance.
But the objects have gotten the attention of the Navy, which earlier this year sent out new classified guidance for how to report what the military calls unexplained aerial phenomena, or unidentified flying objects. Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said the new guidance was an update of instructions that went out to the fleet in 2015, after the Roosevelt incidents. “There were a number of different reports,” he said. Some cases could have been commercial drones, he said, but in other cases “we don’t know who’s doing this, we don’t have enough data to track this. So the intent of the message to the fleet is to provide updated guidance on reporting procedures for suspected intrusions into our airspace.” The sightings were reported to the Pentagon’s shadowy, little-known Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which analyzed the radar data, video footage and accounts provided by senior officers from the Roosevelt. Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official who ran the program until he resigned in 2017, called the sightings “a striking series of incidents.”
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- Parte di quanto indicato nell'articolo del NYT potrebbe essere vero, risulta traffico alieno già statisticato nel 2014 ossia nel caso dell'UFO all'aeroporto di Brema (il caso tuttavia è stato sterilizzato dentro ai modelli ufologici, in quanto accaduto entro i 365gg dall'avvistamento di Foo Fighter ad Hessdalen nel 2013).
- In ogni caso, il filmato mostrato nel post che era già noto, non è ritenuto significativo in quanto gli oggetti non zig-zagano e non emettono luce pulsante. Si tratta invece probabilmente di droni terrestri oppure di missili superficie-superficie o proiettili con volo balistico sparati da cannoni elettromagnetici, in esercitazioni aeronavali.
UFOs: Where your state ranks for unexplained sightings
Edward C. Baig USA TODAY
Published 12:01 AM EDT Jul 2, 2019
The truth is out there. Extraterrestrials are more likely to visit from the North. That’s one way, anyway, to interpret the results from a new report on the states with the most unidentified flying object sightings per capita. Washington State topped that list, followed in order by Montana, Vermont, Alaska, and Maine. Or maybe Northerners just believe more. So much for Roswell, New Mexico, or the lonely Nevada desert. New Mexico came in 8th on the list; Nevada 13th. Meanwhile, the states with the least frequent UFO sightings per capita — Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama -- are all down South. The list was put together by the analysts and space nerds at internet provider SatelliteInternet.com, which culled data from the National UFO Reporting Center and the U.S. Census, to attract attention in time for World UFO Day on July 2. (Yep, there is such a day.) It must be pointed out that Washington state, which had about 78 sightings per 100,000 people, is home to the National UFO Reporting Center, a repository for such sightings. Among them: A California couple reported seeing three red lights in a triangle shape, described as "huge," low in the sky. In Orlando, Florida, a person claimed (in all caps) to see “15 STRANGE OVAL LIGHTS ABOVE THE LOW CLOUDS,” south of the city. Trump UFOs: Trump got a briefing on UFOs, but said he doesn't 'particularly' believe. And someone in Heppner, Oregon, noticed a fast-moving, classic cigar-shaped high altitude object with no wings. Though UFOs have fascinated people for generations, they have been in the news of late, with recent reports that the U.S. Navy is drafting new guidelines for pilots who witness unexplained aircraft because of increases in sightings near sensitive military outposts and at sea. Some members of the U.S. Senate have also received classified briefings on UFO sightings from the Pentagon. The sightings are more common in summer, which is not entirely surprising since it's a season when more earthlings spend time outdoors. Though SatelliteInternet.com offered another possible explanation: “maybe aliens go on summer vacations with their kids, too.” You can check out the full list to see where your state ranks. Readers: Have you experienced a UFO sighting. Email: ebaig@usatoday.com or tweet @edbaig with the details.
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In sintesi, nell'articolo di USA Today del 2/7/2019 non c'è niente d'interessante per un "paleoufologo razionale" ;-P
22/7/2019 ABC news Astronomer explains strange object seen in night sky across Queensland, NT and NSW
By Anna Hartley, Updated 22 Jul 2019, 10:14pm
An astronomer has explained a strange, bright light that appeared in skies over the Northern Territory and Queensland on Monday night, leaving hundreds of people mystified. Shauna Royes spotted the light over the Julia Creek caravan park in remote north-west Queensland about 7.30pm on Monday night and put a call out to the ABC North West Facebook page to figure out what it was. "We were actually at the caravan park having a bush dinner for not-for-profit organisations, so there was about 160 people, and one of the tourists looked up and said, 'look'," the McKinlay Shire Councillor said. "It was quite a bright, unusual light with a tail on it. It was travelling north-east and we watched it for probably two or three minutes before it faded out. "We had no idea what it was. It was really unusual." Plenty of people captured photographs and videos of the mysterious light, sharing photos from Rockhampton in central Queensland to Atherton in the state's far north.
Jacob Blunt saw the light near Cape Crawford in the Northern Territory and captured a video."Look at it, it is an alien or UFO," he said in the clip. "I thought it was a UFO, so I tried to shoot it with my NERF gun," he later posted on the ABC North West Facebook page. Sky-watchers in New South Wales also spotted the unidentified light.
So, is it aliens?
No!, University of Southern Queensland astrophysics professor Jonti Horner said those who hoped the light was a sign of alien life would be left disappointed. "My first thought was it's a meteor, but looking at the footage it can't be a meteor, it's not something in the Earth's atmosphere at all," he said. "It looks like a rocket, something orbiting the Earth doing a prolonged engine burn. "Interestingly, earlier today India launched its second Moon mission [Chandrayaan-2] so it seems a really good bet that this is that engaging its engine to move towards the Moon. "It's not quite [a sign of alien life] — it's a sign of India going to the Moon. "In some ways that's even cooler, you are seeing something that is exciting and it's worth remembering that we are now in an era that it's not just the US and Russia, we have China on the moon and India going, it really is a global endeavour."
Updated 22 Jul 2019, 1:24pm
How was it discovered?
Within an hour of posting the photo Cr Royes shared, the ABC North West Queensland Facebook page had more than 1,000 comments. Cr Royes said she was shocked to see how many others had seen the light. "It's pretty amazing actually," she said. "The quick response we've got to tell us what it is. "Within an hour and a half we already know what it is, that's the power of social media I guess."
Sight similar to Apollo 11, says astronomer
Professor Horner said there had been several instances where prolonged burns caused the night sky to light up over the past half century. Astrophysics professor Jonti Horner smiles in front of a planetary backdrop, Astrophysics professor Jonti Horner helped sky watchers determine what the bright light was. "There were images like this that came out in 2018 when they launched the space car into orbit, so we've seen this before," he said. "The light you are seeing is a combination of the rocket burning, but you've also got the gas being ejected from the rocket, the gas is spreading out in space and reflecting spotlight as well, so it's like it creates a cloud in space that gradually disperses with the rocket at the end of it. "It's the same thing you would have seen 50 years ago when Apollo 11 had done a few laps of the Earth and decided it was ready to head to the Moon, they did exactly the same thing, they turned the engine off, did a long burn and sailed off. "This is an indication of how engaged people get. "Fifty years ago people would have seen this and just thought it was a UFO, but now we can get on Facebook and upload images and within an hour get a fairly good answer."
11/9/2019 ANSA: Gli alieni già nella Via Lattea, lo dice un modello matematico: Nessun contatto perché viaggerebbero lentamente tra le stelle
Gli alieni potrebbero già essere nella nostra galassia: non ce ne saremmo accorti semplicemente perché la starebbero esplorando con tutta calma, sfruttando il movimento delle stelle per saltare più agevolmente da una all'altra alla ricerca di pianeti abitabili. Potrebbero addirittura aver già visitato la Terra, lasciando tracce ormai cancellate dal tempo. A ipotizzarlo è una simulazione numerica pubblicata sull'Astronomical Journal dal gruppo dell'Università di Rochester coordinato da Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, che ha così provato a dare una inedita soluzione al famoso paradosso di Enrico Fermi sulle probabilità di contatto con forme di vita intelligente extraterrestre.
Considerando la moltitudine di stelle nell'universo, Fermi riteneva naturale che forme di vita avrebbero potuto formarsi su altri pianeti, fino a dare vita a civiltà extraterrestri: La domanda allora era : "dove sono tutti quanti?"
La mancanza di segnali "non significa che siamo soli", è la risposta di Carroll-Nellenback. "Significa soltanto che i pianeti abitabili sono probabilmente rari e difficili da raggiungere".
Per simulare la diffusione degli alieni nella Via Lattea, i ricercatori hanno usato modelli numerici che prendono in considerazione la vicinanza dell'ipotetica civiltà extraterrestre ad altri sistemi stellari, la velocità delle eventuali sonde interstellari, la distanza che potrebbero coprire e la frequenza dei lanci. Se una civiltà aliena fosse approdata sulla Terra milioni di anni fa, scrivono i ricercatori, probabilmente non ci sarebbero più tracce del suo passaggio.
Potrebbe anche darsi che gli alieni siano passati nei paraggi della Terra dopo la comparsa dell'uomo, decidendo però di non farci visita perché non avrebbero avuto probabilità di sopravvivere (il cosiddetto 'effetto Aurora', dall'omonimo romanzo di Kim Stanley Robinson). Tra le varie ipotesi, anche quella per cui gli alieni potrebbero evitare di proposito i pianeti che già ospitano vita, con un atteggiamento opposto rispetto allo spirito di conquista tipico degli esseri umani.
19/10/2019 NCBC News: Navy confirms videos did capture UFO sightings, but it calls them by another name. The U.S. Navy doesn't know exactly what the "unidentified aerial phenomena" seen in the videos are.
Sept. 19, 2019, 7:56 AM GMT+2 / Updated Sept. 19, 2019, 10:48 AM GMT+2
By Mosheh Gains and Phil Helsel
Three videos posted online that have been described as being related to UFO sightings do indeed include footage of “unidentified aerial phenomena,” a U.S. Navy spokesman confirmed. But as for specifics, spokesman Joseph Gradisher said the Navy doesn't know exactly what the objects are.
"The three videos (one from 2004 and two from 2015) show incursions into our military training ranges by unidentified aerial phenomena," Gradisher told NBC News in an emailed statement. "The Navy has characterized the observed phenomena as unidentified," he said. To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, a group dedicated to pursuing research into UFOs and extraterrestrial life that was co-founded by rocker Tom DeLonge of Blink 182, helped bring attention to the videos. The three videos were posted by TTSA and The New York Times in December 2017 and March 2018, NBC New York reported.
The website The Black Vault last week first reported the Navy's "unidentified aerial phenomena" designation and said the three videos are commonly known as "FLIR1," "Gimbal" and "GoFast." The video called FLIR1 shows an oblong-shaped object, which accelerates out of view from sensors. The group says that video is from 2004 and the "2004 Nimitz incident." Gradisher did not name the videos in his emails, but said the video from the 2004 sighting is from an aircraft from the carrier USS Nimitz. In the video called Gimbal, a crew member is heard saying "look at that thing" about an object that they said appeared to be going against the wind. One says they believed it was a drone.
The video called Go Fast, which the group says is from 2015, shows an object that appears to be over water and crews are heard asking "what the f--- is that?" and "what is that, man?" To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science says online that U.S. military videos of “unidentified aerial phenomenon" have been through the declassification review process and approved for public release. Gradisher disputed those assertions. He said the video from 2004 from the Nimitz was widely shared throughout the ship at the time and was posted online by a crew member in 2007. The online post came to the attention of Navy officials in 2009, but officials decided not to pursue the matter because of the time that had elapsed and the size of the crew at the time, which was around 5,000, he said.
The Navy "has no information" on how the other two videos were released into general circulation, Gradisher said. “These videos are copies of official Navy footage taken by Naval personnel conducting training missions in controlled military airspace," he said. The New York Times reported in 2017 that the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program for years investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, but that the Defense Department said that program was shut down in 2012. What was described as a shadowy program was reported to have begun in 2007.
Gradisher said in emails that the larger issue about the three videos is what he called an increase “in the number of military training range incursions by unidentified aerial [phenomena],” and he said all such sightings are investigated. "Any incursion into our training ranges by any aircraft or phenomena, identified or not identified, is problematic from both a safety and security concern," he said. While the objects in the three videos in question are designated as unknown, Gradisher said that as inexpensive unmanned aerial systems — commonly called drones — become more prevalent, "sightings of this nature have increased in frequency."
While popular culture may refer to unexplained objects as UFOs, the phrase “unidentified aerial phenomena” was borrowed from the United Kingdom and describes “any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified," Gradisher said. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and institute fellow at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, said in an email Wednesday night that all that the Navy did with its confirmation of the videos and the “unidentified aerial phenomena” was confirm that the videos were authentic. “The videos weren’t really being questioned. What IS being asked is ‘what the heck are these things?’” Shostak, a regular contributor to NBC News MACH, said in an email. “Now I think if the answer were easy, that would be known by now. But when I look at these things I see no reason to consider them good evidence for ‘alien visitation,’ which is what the public likes to think they are.”
He said that in some reported sightings of unidentified flying objects other explanations, like birds, seem plausible.
18/9/2019 CNN: The US Navy just confirmed these UFO videos are the real deal
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
Updated 1811 GMT (0211 HKT) September 18, 2019
(CNN)The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. And while officials said they don't know what the objects are, they're not indulging any hints either.
The objects seen in three clips of declassified military footage are "unidentified aerial phenomena," Navy spokesperson Joe Gradisher confirmed to CNN.
The clips, released between December 2017 and March 2018 by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, appear to show fast-moving, oblong objects captured by advanced infrared sensors.
In footage from 2004, sensors lock on a target as it flies before it accelerates out of the left side of the frame, too quickly for the sensors to relocate it.
Two of the videos, both from 2015, contain audio from US fighter pilots attempting to make sense of what they're seeing.
"It's a f****g drone, bro," a pilot says to his colleague in the first clip.
"My gosh! They're all going against the wind."
"Look at that thing, dude!"
Gradisher said the Navy's transparency about unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, is largely done to encourage trainees to report "incursions" they spot in the airfield, which threaten pilots' safety.
"This is all about frequent incursions into our training ranges by UAPs," he said. "Those incursions present a safety hazard to the safe flight of our aviators and the security of our operations."
The public clips capture just a fraction of the frequent incursions Navy training ranges see, he said.
"For many years, our aviators didn't report these incursions because of the stigma attached to previous terminology and theories about what may or may not be in those videos," he said.
The only way to find out what those UAP are, he said, is to encourage trainees to report them when they see them.