Published footage of Pentagon observation of UFO objects

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Luis Elizondo, the head of the secret program AATIP, created by the Pentagon to observe unidentified flying objects, has released another part of the results of these searches. The Internet portal Live Science tells about this.

"Of course, we did not find aliens. On the other hand, those objects that we observed were moving with overloads, which were 400-500 times higher than the acceleration of gravity. They did not have engines or even wings, and on them, as it seemed to us that the Earth's gravity was not working, "said a former special services specialist.

The history of mankind's fascination with UFOs and observations of them dates back to the late 1940s, when almost simultaneously Swedish border guards and American aviator Kenneth Arnold announced that they saw several unidentified objects in the sky that did not resemble any aircraft or any other aircraft. The unusual shape, reminiscent of a tea saucer, was the reason why these objects came to be called "flying saucers".

Many historians consider UFOs to be a kind of product of exacerbated relations between the USSR and the West. They became popular because the intelligence services of the United States and its allies, fearing Soviet reconnaissance planes and balloons, encouraged the population to report any unusual phenomena in the sky. In the first decade of the Cold War alone, over four thousand such reports were collected.

These data were constantly analyzed, but the results were almost always classified, which is why the witnesses of such phenomena believed that the authorities were either in collusion with the "aliens", or were actively hiding their existence. As a result, a whole pseudoscientific area of knowledge arose - ufology - as well as extensive traditions of searching for UFOs and possible traces of contacts between aliens and earthlings.

For a long time, it was believed that military programs for observing UFOs were curtailed almost immediately after the end of the Cold War, and all assumptions about the continuation of such projects immediately acquired the status of "inventions of conspiracy theorists."

In December 2017, it was suddenly revealed that this was not the case: The New York Times published an interview with Luis Elizondo, head of the secret Airspace Advanced Threat Observation Project (AATIP).

According to Elizondo, the program was launched in 2007 at the initiative of Senator Harry Reid, one of the leaders of the Democratic Party. Within its framework, Congress allocated $ 22 million to the Pentagon to collect information about UFOs and their systematic analysis. To the surprise of the public, the military did not deny that the AATIP project did exist, but said it was closed in 2012.

As Elizondo explained, he was forced to talk about the program by the end of AATIP and the insufficiently serious attitude of the military towards it. The former head of AATIP immediately confessed that he posted on the Web a video in which the missile cruiser USS Princeton and accompanying SuperHornet fighters collide with a large oval object, "giant tick-tock", moving at an impossibly high speed.

These frames and many other data were officially declassified in January this year at the request of the Federation of American Scientists. Late last week, The New York Times ran another interview, this time with SuperHornet pilots from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. They confirmed some of Elizondo's stories and stated that they almost collided with other unidentified objects in 2015.

As Elizondo admits, some of these objects were drones, new types of missiles or simply atmospheric phenomena, however, according to him, the nature and nature of the movement of many others has not yet been explained.

A historian from the United States concluded that the main reason for the "appearance" of UFOs in the Western press was the Cold War and the atmosphere of secrecy and mistrust associated with it, forcing people to look for traces of government conspiracies and at the same time distrust scientists.

Nevertheless, almost all scientists are very skeptical about such statements and consider UFOs to be image artifacts that appeared on the video due to equipment malfunctions, and in the memories of pilots - due to eye strain.

For this reason, the former head of AATIP called for declassification of all data collected under the program so that the most competent experts can study it. This will simultaneously help clarify the nature of UFOs and make them less attractive to fans of conspiracy theories, he concluded.