Library of Congress: UFOs and Aliens Among Us

Above, yours truly at the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico.

The Library of Congress has hoards of documents (and, I guess, books) on all kinds of topics.

One topic is of UFOs and Aliens Among us. 

I perused a webpage from the Library of Congress on UFOs and Aliens and it is loaded with additional pages on UF0-related subject matter.

The page begins with:

UFOs and Aliens Among Us

In the 1940s and 50s reports of "flying saucers" became an American cultural phenomena. Sightings of strange objects in the sky became the raw materials for Hollywood to present visions of potential threats. Posters for films, like Earth vs. the Flying Saucers from 1956 illustrate these fears.  Connected to ongoing ideas about life on the Moon, the canals on Mars, and ideas about Martian Civilizations, flying saucers have come to represent the hopes and fears of the modern world.

Are these alleged visitors from other worlds peaceful and benevolent or would they attack and destroy humanity? The destructive power of the Atomic bomb called into question the progressive potential of technology. Fear of the possibilities for destruction in the Cold War-era proved fertile ground for terrestrial anxieties to manifest visions of flying saucers and visitors from other worlds who might be hidden among us in plain sight.

For those who want to delve deeper into aliens and UFOs, go here. 

Remember, Keep Watching the Skies!

Inside The "Alien Autopsy" Video

Above, the alien autopsy display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Remember the alien autopsy video that surfaced back around 1995 during the heyday of Art Bell's Coast-To-Coast radio show?

Well, the video has resurfaced again. 

With interest in UFOs (or UAPs) rising thanks to information being released by the government, the video has been dusted off and brought out again.

The Daily Mail (U.K.) posted an article on this and it begins with:

An 18-minute video of an alleged alien autopsy that sent the world into a frenzy decades ago has resurfaced as investigations into UFOs have reached a fever pitch.

The shocking film, showing three people in hazmat suits dissecting what appeared to be an alien body from the 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico, was originally released in 1995.

The grainy black-and-white footage was televised worldwide, revealing a humanoid figure with a large head and dark eyes being cut open, further fueling the growing speculation of a government cover-up.

Millions of viewers were fascinated because the film seemed to prove that aliens existed, especially as shows like The X-Files were becoming a cultural phenomenon.

Years later, however, the film's producers admitted it was all a sophisticated hoax filmed in a London apartment using animal parts and plastic casts.

Despite their confession, questions remained, as one of the filmmakers behind the fake alien autopsy claimed the video was based on a real recording of scientists examining the remains of a dead extraterrestrial.

The film has now surged back into the public conversation about alien life, thanks to a new docuseries that is set to explore this mystery, diving into the video's creation 30 years ago and its lasting impact on UFO culture.

Above, yours truly with a couple of aliens at the 2018 Roswell UFO Festival.

To read more, go here. 

Video Shows Glowing UFO Splitting A Hellfire Missile Mid-Air

Above, a screenshot of the released video in which a hellfire missile is split by a glowing orb.

There are those who scoff at the existence of UFO/UAPs and there are those who believe they do exist.

More evidence of Unidentified Flying Objects or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena has been released. 

The Gateway Pundit posted an article on a UAP "shrugging off" a hellfire missile. The incident took place last year off the coast of Yemen. Experts say there's no existing technology capable of pulling off such a feat.

According to the Gateway Pundit:

On Tuesday morning, Capitol Hill was rocked by the release of a never-before-seen military surveillance video showing what appears to be a glowing orb, an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), shrugging off a U.S. Hellfire missile like it was a paper airplane.

The 100-pound air-to-ground missile literally bounced off the craft, barely leaving an impact, before the UAP shot away at impossible speeds.

The shocking footage, captured by an MQ-9 Reaper drone off the coast of Yemen on October 30, 2024, was unveiled by Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) during the latest congressional hearing on UAPs.

Here's the video: 

As the old saying goes, "Keep watching the skies!"

To read more, go here.

WION: 7 Most Famous UFO Sightings of All Time

Above, a display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The annual Roswell UFO Festival was held in the New Mexico city a couple of weeks ago. It celebrated the 78th anniversary of the famous "flying saucer" crash incident.

WION News posted on July 2 an article on the 7 most famous UFO sightings of all time. It includes Roswell.

It begins with:

For many years, people around the world have been fascinated by UFO sightings. These strange flying objects have sparked big questions: Are they alien spacecraft, top-secret military technology or just things people didn’t understand? No matter what the answer is but UFO sightings have become a big part of both science and pop culture. They’ve inspired movies, books and endless debates. Scientists continue to study them by hoping to learn more about what might be out there. Below are some of the most well-known and mysterious UFO cases in history:

To read the article, go here. 

Also, Atomic Robot blog has posted some interesting UFO stories that "are too strange to ignore". To read it, go here.

UFO Documentary: "The Age of Disclosure"

 

A new documentary on UFOs (or UAPs) and alien life is coming soon.

From Yahoo! Entertainment:

AUSTIN, Texas — The documentary The Age of Disclosure sets out to do what countless films have done before: present proof that humans on Earth are not alone in the universe. What’s different this time is that 34 senior members of the government, military and intelligence community went on camera to talk about it.

“This is the biggest story there is,” director Dan Farah told Yahoo Entertainment. “What’s a bigger story than an 80-year-old cover-up of the existence of nonhuman intelligent life and revealing there’s a secret Cold War race among nations to reverse-engineer technology of nonhuman origin?”

There’s a lot to unpack here, so let’s back up.

The movie, which premiered on March 9 at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film & TV Festival, reveals information alleging that the U.S. government has been working to hide evidence of the existence of extraterrestrials and that it’s competing with other countries to reverse-engineer the complex technology they’ve uncovered.

To read more, go here. 

Montana Man Videos Blinking UFO

Above, video seemingly shows a blinking craft streaking across the sky.

It looks like the state of Montana has attracted the attention of extra-terrestrials.

A blinking UFO was seen and videoed by a Montana man on Friday. The Daily Mail has posted an article on it along with the video.

They wrote:

A man in small-town Montana has captured footage of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) and shared the shocking video that made his wife 'cry' on Reddit.

The video was recorded on Friday between 10:10 and 10:15 pm, and showed what appears to be a blinking craft streaking across the clear night sky.

Said to have been spinning and adorned with a series of rotating lights, the apparent object flew over tiny Choteau, home to a population of just over 1,700 people.

The videos, along with the original poster's in-depth account of the sighting, reveals how the man and his wife first mistook the unknown object for a meteor. 

It comes after Montana was singled out as a hotspot for UFO sightings, with visitors recording some of the most significant and well-documented footage.  

To read more and see the video, go here. 

World UFO Day 2024

Above, a crashed flying saucer display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Did you know that today is World UFO Day.

What's World UFO Day?

According to the Business Standard:

Every year on July 2, people all over the planet observe World UFO Day. This extraordinary day is all about studying the Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and bringing people together to discuss possibilities of life beyond Earth. In 2024, World UFO Day falls on a Tuesday.

To listen for more, go here. 

Trump and the UFO Question

Above, a Stars & Stripes article on the Roswell Incident of 1947.

Years ago, former President Jimmy Carter said while campaigning that he would look into UFOs and release the government's files on them. He never did.

Neither have his presidential successors.

Former President Donald Trump gave an interesting answer recently on UFOs.

According to Yahoo! News:

Donald Trump has revealed whether he believes in UFOs during an interview with social media personality Logan Paul released on Thursday.

While the former president said he doesn’t personally believe in UFOs, he acknowledged the growing contingent of people in- and outside of government who believe aliens exist might have a point.

Trump described meeting with military pilots who had strange encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena, as the government refers to them.

“I met with pilots, like beautiful — Tom Cruise but taller — handsome perfect, people. ‘Sir, there was something there that was round in form and going like four times faster than my super jet fighter plane,’” Trump recalled being told. “And I looked at these guys and they really mean it.”

“Am I a believer? No,” Trump continued. “Probably I can’t say I am. But I have met with people that are serious people that say there’s some really strange things that they see flying around out there.”

Perhaps if he wins this election, Trump can release the government documents on UFOs that have been kept top secret for decades.

To read more, go here.

100% Pure Aluminum Found At Roswell UFO Crash Site

Above, a framed re-print of the famous Roswell Daily Record front page. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Back in July 1947, headlines blared out that a "flying disc" or flying saucer had crashed in the southern section of New Mexico and recovered by the U.S. Army. The story was first reported by the Roswell Daily Record and picked up other newspapers around the country such as the Los Angeles Herald Express (below).

Then, almost as suddenly, the Army backtracked and said the object was a balloon, not a flying saucer.

This year marks 77 years since this incident. The controversy has not gone away.

Now, a geologist has found pieces of pure aluminum at the crash site that will surely open up a new can of worms.

According to the Daily Mail (U.K.):

America's most famous UFO case is still producing more evidence as scientists and civilians are on a mission to prove that the Roswell crash was not of this world. 

The 1947 incident made headlines when the US Army Air Force issued a press release stating that it had recovered debris from a 'flying disc' — only later to reverse course, claiming that the material had really just belonged to a downed weather balloon.

Geologist Frank Kimbler is among the many experts who have challenged the military's official version of what crashed on the outskirts of this New Mexico town, where he has scoured the alleged UFO's crash site with a metal detector since 2010.

Kimbler has since uncovered over 20 unusual scraps of metal material, most no bigger than a fingernail, and has now submitted one uniquely odd metal for testing to the Discovery Channel's new series 'Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction.'

Testing revealed that the metal was '100-percent pure aluminum,' which experts said was 'compelling evidence' that could prove aliens crashed in the area decades ago.

To read more, go here. 

Breakdown of The History of UFO Crashes

Above, a crashed UFO diorama at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Since I have been holed up indoors due to rain and snow showers and not having posted anything pertaining to Unidentified Flying Objects in a while, here's a story that caught my attention.

If you thought Roswell, New Mexico was the first (in 1947) UFO crash, well, you're mistaken. The Trinity atomic bomb test in 1945 (two years before Roswell) caused UFO to crash. 

KLAS (out of Las Vegas) has an article with the breakdown of the history of alleged UFO crashes.

They begin it with:

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Stories about crashed saucers and coverups have been around since the end of World War II. But now, these stories are being taken seriously in Washington.

When former intelligence officer David Grusch testified last July about nonhuman craft hidden away for decades inside special access programs, it caught some members of Congress and major media off guard.

However, the lore of crashed saucers and dead aliens is hardly new and the claims have leaked out many times in the past 76 years.

The grandfather of crashed saucer tales is Roswell. A story that didn’t emanate with UFO nuts, but came from the U.S. military.

To read more, go here. 

Government Received Over 200 UFO Reports

Above, a display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

People are watching the skies, so it appears.

The Pentagon reports that UFOs/UAPs were seen over the past eight months and reports the government received are over 200.

From Fox News:

The Pentagon announced that there have been more than 270 reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, known as UAPs or UFOs, reported to the U.S. government in the past eight months.

According to the unclassified report released Tuesday by the Department of Defense, since Aug. 31, 2022 to April 30, 2023, there were 274 new reports made to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which leads the government's efforts documenting and analyzing reports of UFOs/UAPs. 

Many of the reports it receives are made by members of the military and commercial pilots, the DOD noted.

To read more, go here. 

Whistleblower: US Has UFO Retrieval Program

Above, a display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Here's one that could be from an episode of the X-Files.

A Pentagon whistleblower claims that the U.S. has an Unidentified Flying Object retrieval program. This government program allegedly has alien spacecraft that had either landed or crashed and the occupants found inside.

American Liberty News reported:

A prominent former member of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) says the U.S. government is in possession of intact aircraft not made of this Earth and the bodies of their non-human pilots.

“I thought it was totally nuts, and I thought at first I was being deceived,” Air Force veteran David Grusch, 36, said after allegedly being told of the above top secret program by senior intelligence officials.

Newsweek has more on the startling claims:

“These are retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will, non-human exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed,” Grusch said. He added that, in those wreckages, the pilots of the craft were found.

To read more, go here.

California Campers Photograph UFO

 

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Pentagon Forms New Department To Watch and Study UFOs

Above, a display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Phto by Armand Vaquer.

There are those who don't believe UFOs are real. As it turns out, the Pentagon does think they're real and potential threats.

They have formed a new department to watch and study them.

According to Motherboard:

The Pentagon announced the formation of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), a successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The group study Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP), the U.S. military’s name for UFOs.

According to the Pentagon’s press release, “the AOIMSG will synchronize efforts across the Department and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interests in Special Use Airspace (SUA), and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security.”

To read more, go here.

Keep watching the skies!

Demi Lovato Says "Alien" Is Offensive To Extraterrestrials

Above, a display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Oh-oh!

It appears that the Hollywood Left (or at least one of them) finds calling extraterrestrials "aliens" is offensive. They should be called "ET" instead.

TMZ reported:

Demi Lovato has an out-of-this-world take that's bound to get eyeballs rolling -- they think we should retire the term "alien" when referring to extraterrestrials ... seriously.

The pop star made the bizarre plea to us earthlings during an interview with Australian outlet PEDESTRIAN.tv -- in which they say the term "alien" itself is offensive ... even as it pertains to actual would-be aliens from outer space ... who may or may not be zipping around above us.

The context here is that Demi is plugging this new Peacock special of theirs called "Unidentified" ... where they and their pals go looking for proof of Martians, and seem to find something.

So far, I haven't heard any complaints from an ET.

To read more, go here.

74 Years Ago: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region"

Above, my reprint of the famous front page of the Roswell Daily Record. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

A newspaper came out whose headline shook up a lot of people. The headline still resonates today.

It was 74 years ago today (July 8, 1947) that the Roswell Daily Record reported that a flying saucer was recovered by the RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) in Roswell, New Mexico.

The headline: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region"

Above, yours truly in Roswell, New Mexico at the UFO Festival.

Other newspapers around the country picked up the story, including the Los Angeles Herald-Express.

From Wikipedia:

The Roswell incident is the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, and the subsequent conspiracy theories claiming that the crash involved a flying saucer, and that the truth had been covered up by the United States government. On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell. The Army quickly retracted the statement and said instead that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.

The Roswell incident did not surface again until the late 1970s, when a retired lieutenant colonel, in an interview with a researcher of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), alleged that the weather balloon account had been a cover-story. Ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-up.

I obtained a reprint of the famous front page at the 2018 Roswell UFO Festival and it is framed and display in my living room. 

Government UFO Report Fails To Impress Roswell Attendees

Above, the Roswell Internationa UFO Museum and Research Center. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

There are true believers. There are non-believers. And there are some in-between when it comes to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO).

The annual UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico is happening this weekend and the recent government report on UFOs (or UAPs) failed to impress attendees.

The Washington Times reported:

ROSWELL, New Mexico — The federal government’s recent landmark UFO study failed to offer the clear answers many hoped for.

In fact, Joyce Rowell was left with the same question she’s always had.

“Why don’t they tell us the truth?” Ms. Rowell, 75, said Friday as she and her daughter, Debra Tucker, searched for the next clue on an alien-themed scavenger hunt inside a cozy coffeehouse in downtown Roswell. 

Ms. Rowell and Ms. Tucker, 52, traveled here from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, for the city’s annual UFO Festival, which has drawn a record crowd this year amid skyrocketing public interest in the subject and the release last week of the government’s widely anticipated unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) report.

Inside Roswell’s Stellar Coffee Co. — which boasts the “Spock Special,” “Martian Sunrise” and “Alien Soda” among its menu offerings — Ms. Tucker said she remains open-minded to all possibilities, including that at least some UFO sightings could be connected to extraterrestrial life.

“I definitely think it could be true,” she said. “I haven’t ever seen one but I think it’s definitely possible. There’s so much out there we don’t know about.”

To read more, go here. 

Fukushima UFO Research Site Opening

Above, Godzilla and Rodan being transported by flying saucers in Monster Zero (1965). Toho Co., Ltd.

With new interest in  Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) growing in the U.S., Japan is opening a UFO research facility in Fukushima.

According to The Japan Times:

A research facility on UFOs will open later in June in the city of Fukushima, in hopes that the truth behind the unidentified flying objects witnessed around the world can finally be uncovered — and that the facility will become a new tourist attraction.

On June 24, the research facility will open inside UFO Fureai-kan, a center devoted to UFOs. The research facility will analyze witness reports, plan events to lure UFOs to Fukushima Prefecture and create a network of researchers at home and abroad. The center is located in the town of Iino, which is known colloquially as a “UFO town.”

The move comes amid growing attention on UFOs in the United States.

To read more, go here. 

Note: The story is serious, but I thought I'd have some fun with the photo.

UFO Report Does Not Confirm, Nor Rule Out, Alien Spacecraft

Above, alien display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

A government report on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) is set to be released to congress later this month.

Essentially, it says there's no evidence that they're alien spacecraft. But, it doesn't rule it out either.

According to MarketWatch:

A highly anticipated government intelligence report on unidentified flying objects finds no evidence of alien spacecraft — but it also doesn’t say it’s not aliens, according to a new report.

Scores of odd aerial sighting in recent years that have baffled scientists and the military remain a mystery, according to a New York Times report Thursday night.

Citing senior government officials who have been briefed on the largely inconclusive finding of the report, which will be presented to Congress later this month, the Times also reported top-secret U.S. technologies have been all but ruled out in most of the incidents, leaving a major question hanging: So if they weren’t ours, what were they?

The report investigated more than 120 incidents over the past two decades, many from U.S. military pilots, with unusual sightings captured on video and sensors. A number of sightings described craft that flew with no discernible propulsion system, flying at speeds and making maneuvers that seem to defy physics.

Above, a replica of Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still at the
 Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Since alien spacecraft haven't been ruled out, all we can do is...Keep Watching The Skies!

To read more, go here. 

UAPs/UFOs On 60 Minutes

Above, a July 1947 edition of the Los Angeles Herald-Express on the Roswell flying saucer.

Gee, I'm sorry I missed this.

60 Minutes on CBS last night had a story on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), more commonly known as UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects).

CBS News reported:

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker reported on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, more commonly known as UFOs.

Whitaker interviewed two former Navy pilots, Cmdr. Dave Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich, who said they witnessed something "unsettling" and unexplainable while flying over the Pacific Ocean in November 2004. Fravor is a graduate of the TOPGUN naval flight program. He was a commander of the F/A-18F squadron on the USS Nimitz at the time of the encounter.

Dietrich, a former F/A-18F pilot, has never before spoken publicly about what she saw that day. 

"It was unidentified. And that's why it was so unsettling to us. Because we weren't expecting it. We couldn't classify it," said Dietrich. 

Above, a UFO display at the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

To read more, go here. 

The 60 Minutes report is on YouTube. Here it is: