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Records · US Department of Defense (AARO)AARO Historical Record Report, Volume IThe Pentagon's UAP office was told about a secret program called KONA BLUE, said to hide non-human biologics. When it looked, the office reports, it found only a rejected proposal to fund paranormal research and reverse-engineer craft its backers merely hoped to get. What else did its 2024 review of government UFO history find?Events · IndiaKali YugaThe present age in Hindu tradition lasts 432,000 years, which matches exactly the 432,000 years the Babylonian priest Berossus gave to the kings before the Flood. By tradition it began in 3102 BCE, the year Krishna left the earth; historians suggest a shared base-60 number, not a link. What else could explain it?Objects · Egypt and geologyLibyan desert glass (Tutankhamun's scarab)The scarab at the center of Tutankhamun's jewelry is carved from glass far older than any pharaoh. Geologists say it formed about 29 million years ago, when sand melted at temperatures higher than any volcano reaches; pieces still lie scattered across the Great Sand Sea. What kind of blast from the sky could do that?Events · IndiaManu and Matsya (the fish)In the oldest Indian flood story, humanity's savior is a fish small enough to fit in a man's cupped hands. Manu raises it in a jar, then a trench, then the sea, and when the waters rise he ties his ship's rope to its horn; scholars debate whether the tale was borrowed from Mesopotamia. Where does the fish tow him?Objects · The AmericasMaya Long CountThe Maya counted days from a start date placed in 3114 BCE, and on December 21, 2012 the count rolled over a big cycle. Only one known inscription mentions that date, and it predicts no doom. Yet one stela reportedly pushes the numbers far beyond the age of the universe. How big can a calendar get?Records · Office of the Director of National IntelligenceODNI Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (2021)A 2021 US intelligence report reviewed 144 military reports of unidentified aerial phenomena and could explain only one, a large deflating balloon. Some objects reportedly moved against the wind or at speed without a visible means of propulsion. The word alien never appears. So what does the report actually conclude?Records · US Air ForceProject Blue BookBetween 1947 and 1969 the US Air Force logged 12,618 UFO reports. When it closed the files, 701 still carried the label unidentified. Even its own scientific consultant later mocked it as a society for explaining the uninvestigated. What did the Air Force conclude, and what do the unexplained cases actually mean?Events · UK Ministry of Defence / US Air ForceRendlesham Forest and the Halt MemoA US Air Force deputy base commander in Suffolk wrote an official memo to Britain's Ministry of Defence in 1981. It reports a metallic triangular object, three depressions in the ground, and radiation readings peaking in them. The UK National Archives calls it Britain's best-known UFO incident. Skeptics point to a lighthouse. What do you make of it?Events · US Air Force / CIAThe 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO SightingsIn July 1952, radar at Washington's airports tracked unknown targets two weekends running, and fighter jets were sent up over the capital. The story reached the White House, and the Pentagon held a huge press conference. The official answer was weather. A newspaper headline said saucers swarmed over the capital. Was it?Events · Imperial Iranian Air Force / US Air Force / NSAThe 1976 Tehran UFO IncidentA US military account says that in 1976, as an Iranian F-4 closed on a bright light over Tehran, its instruments and radio went dead. A second jet's pilot reportedly tried to fire a missile at an object heading toward him, and his weapons panel lost power. The Defense Intelligence Agency called it outstanding. Others say Jupiter.Events · US House of Representatives, Committee on OversightThe 2023 House UAP HearingIn July 2023 a former intelligence officer told Congress he had been informed of a multi-decade crash retrieval and reverse engineering program, but his claims were secondhand. Two pilots also testified, one describing a dark cube inside a clear sphere. The Pentagon replied that it found nothing to back it. Who said what?Records · US Air Force / University of ColoradoThe Condon ReportThe Air Force paid the University of Colorado to study UFOs, and its 1968 conclusion was blunt: nothing in 21 years had added to scientific knowledge. It even advised teachers not to grade work based on UFO books. But a leaked memo from the study's own coordinator made critics doubt it. What did that memo say?Records · FBI VaultThe Guy Hottel Memo (FBI Vault UFO File)A one-page FBI memo from 1950 says an informant claimed three crashed saucers, each with three small bodies in metallic cloth, were recovered in New Mexico. It became the most viewed page in the FBI's online vault. The Bureau itself calls it a second- or third-hand claim it never investigated. Where did the story really come from?Records · CIAThe Robertson PanelAfter a wave of sightings in 1952, a CIA-backed panel of scientists reviewed the evidence in 1953. They explained one famous film as sunlight on seagulls, then recommended a public campaign to debunk UFO reports, possibly using even Disney. Why did the CIA fear UFO reports more than UFOs?Events · US Navy / Department of DefenseThe USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" and the Navy UAP VideosNavy pilots off California in 2004 reported a white, oval object about 40 feet long that rose to meet one jet as it spiraled down, then vanished. Infrared video of it became the Pentagon's officially released Tic Tac clip. Skeptics say the sensors distort ordinary things. What did the pilots say they saw?Events · JapanUtsuro-bune (the hollow ship)The story says that in 1803 fishermen on Japan's coast found a round, lacquered vessel with glass windows and strange writing, holding a pale woman with red hair who clutched a box no one could touch. Villagers reportedly pushed her back out to sea. Several old manuscripts draw it almost the same way. Why?
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