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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?People · Hebrew Bible; Enoch literatureEnochGenesis spends only a few lines on Enoch, and then breaks its own pattern. Everyone else in his family line dies, but of him it says only that God took him. He lived 365 years, the same number as days in a solar year. That odd ending sparked a whole library of visions, still being read today.Beings · QuranHarut and MarutTwo angels taught magic in Babylon, but only after warning every student, "We are only a temptation." The Quran's verse is short; later commentators added a woman who tricked them, and in one legend she used a secret word to fly to heaven and became the planet Venus. Which parts are scripture?People · 2 MaccabeesHeliodorusA stone inscription found in Israel preserves a real letter addressed to Heliodorus, a king's minister. In the Apocrypha, the same man marches into the Jerusalem Temple to seize its treasury and is beaten by a horse with a terrible rider and two strong young men. The history is real. What does the story say happened?Objects · Jewish mysticismMerkabah (throne-chariot)Ancient rabbis ruled that the first chapter of Ezekiel was too dangerous to teach openly. The Talmud tells of four men who entered a mystical "orchard": one died, one went mad, one became a heretic, and only Rabbi Akiva came out in peace. What did the vision of a fiery throne-chariot do to them?Beings · Hebrew Bible; Jewish mysticismOphanim (the wheels)Ezekiel describes a wheel in the middle of a wheel, with rims so high they were dreadful and full of eyes. There are no gears or engines. The text says the wheels move because the spirit of the living creature was in them. Later readers decided the wheels were alive, and made them a class of angels.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?Objects · NorseSkidbladnirSnorri describes a ship big enough to carry every Norse god with their weapons, one that always catches a fair wind and folds up like a napkin to fit in a pouch. Dwarves forged it in the same workshop as Odin's spear. Is it engineering fantasy or something older? See what the texts say.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?Places · EgyptThe Imperishable StarsThe Egyptians called the stars circling the north pole "the ones that do not know destruction," because from Egypt they never dip below the horizon. The Pyramid Texts send the dead king north to join them; some think the builders even used two of these stars to find true north. How would that work?Records · FBI Vault / US National ArchivesThe Majestic 12 DocumentsAn undeveloped film roll arrived in a package with a New Mexico postmark in 1984, holding a supposed briefing to President-elect Eisenhower about a recovered alien craft. An Air Force investigation called it fake, and the FBI scrawled BOGUS across its copy. Yet one related paper sits in the National Archives. Why do archivists doubt it?Objects · ChinaThe Qigong (Jigong) flying cartA Chinese text compiled around 290 CE says a people from a far country built flying carts that ride the wind. One landed in the reign of King Tang, who had it taken apart so his people would not see it. Ten years later, an east wind came. What happened to the visitors then?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?Beings · IrelandTuatha Dé DanannIrish legend says a god-like people landed on a Connacht mountain in dark clouds that hid the sun for three days, bringing four treasures including a spear that never missed. When later settlers came, they withdrew into the hills and became the fairy folk. Medieval monks turned old gods into a lost race. See how.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?People · Modern ancient-astronaut writingZecharia SitchinA single 4,300-year-old cylinder seal in a Berlin museum, VA 243, became the most famous piece of evidence for one man's claim that Sumerian gods were astronauts from a hidden planet. Cuneiform specialists say his translations are not supported by the languages or the texts. What did he say the seal showed?
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