People across the world in all walks of life continue to report phenomena in the sky that they can’t explain. Luis Elizondo, whistleblower and former head of the secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), described intriguing accounts of radiation exposure and warping of space time that pilots have reported in the presence of UFOs.

Declassified Pentagon documents reveal significant investigations into documented injuries and health impacts of people in close proximity to anomalous vehicles. The term “foo fighters” was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe mysterious UFO encounters that were never officially explained.

The official shift from "UFO" to "UAP" emerged in 2020, when the Pentagon established the US Navy "UAP Task Force" to investigate reports. UAP initially stood for Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, but the Pentagon updated it to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon in 2022, so as to include more types of unusual objects.

Strangely, the media is no longer debunking UFOs. Yet still to this day, government narratives claim that their official investigations have not produced anything conclusive. However, the long history of secret government programs and cover-ups make it clear that factions within our government possess significant and possibly revolutionary UFO knowledge. Many intense and real UFO encounters have been reported by military officers, government officials, and public figures, yet those stories rarely get discussed in the mainstream press. Notably, their testimonies emphasize that there hasn’t been any proof suggesting that ET intelligences have ever attacked us even when provoked.

Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon. He not only believed in the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial activities, but that knowledge of the phenomena has been covered-up extensively by all governments. Mitchell was also particularly passionate about the compelling idea that UFOs (and possibly ET forces) have demonstrated interest in human military capabilities. UFO activity was regularly witnessed by various Air Force officers during the Cold War, particularly near nuclear missiles and during weapons tests. See UFO Interference with Nuclear Missiles for more.

First CIA Director and National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena board member Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter also knew that UFOs were a serious national security concern. We've preserved a copy of the 1960s New York Times article that was buried after interviewing Hillenkoetter:

Medical doctor and former ER director Steven Greer is the director of the Disclosure Project, a nonprofit research organization advocating for the disclosure of alleged classified UFO information. At the National Press Club in 2001, The Disclosure Project presented a few courageous witness testimonies on the existence of extraterrestrial beings and technologies, most of them from the military and intelligence sectors. View the full 494-page Disclosure Project briefing document.

In Greer’s revealing book Disclosure, he provides transcriptions of videotaped testimonies of astronauts, generals, professors, and highly respected government and military officials who reveal their direct experiences in the UFO cover-up.

Read our compiled summaries of the book below, which highlight 60 stunning testimonies of government and military witnesses:

2-pg UFO Disclosure Summary
10-pg UFO Disclosure Summary
Video Collection of Groundbreaking Witness Testimony Interviews

Canadian engineer and government scientist Wilbert B. Smith headed up the Canadian government's first major study on UFOs called Project Magnet, and was a high level official in Project Second Storey, the Canadian equivalent to the US's Project Blue Book. Declassified files reveal Smith concluded UFOs were most likely extraterrestrial in origin, and that recovered craft might reveal the introduction to a new technology based on “unknown magnetic principles.”

Later in his life, Smith wrote in a couple UFO magazines that he believed entities "claiming to be extraterrestrials" were in telepathic communication with him. He concluded after Project Magnet that "cosmic law" must be preventing ET intervention by extraterrestrials. Watch a fascinating video and analysis of Smith’s revelations, including actual recordings of him speaking on the subject.

Below is an excerpt from Smith’s 1950 Department of Transport memo, declassified in response to a FOIA request (We saved the actual scanned documents, which are harder to read).

As more information and UFO disclosure comes to light, we will continue updating this section.

At the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, DC in September 2010, six courageous US Air Force officers and one passionate researcher assembled to release declassified US government documents on the connection between UFOs and disruptions at several nuclear missile bases. Yet even more revealing, they shared their first hand experiences of witnessing UFOs neutralize American and Russian nuclear missiles. These individuals were among more than 100 former or retired US Air Force officers who came forward to share their personal experiences of UFOs near nuclear weapon storage and testing grounds.

For more, explore key excerpts of compelling articles from mainstream media sources covering this unprecedented event. Below, we provide compelling evidence that UFOs monitored our use of nuclear weapons, which many believe secretly influenced the halt on nuclear weapons testing in the early 90s.

Perhaps one of the most remarkable events in the history of UFO encounters took place in March of 1967 at the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, which was a base that was responsible for a large amount of nuclear weapons. Air Force Captain Robert Salas, a missile launch officer and Titan 3 missiles engineer, initially received a call from his flight security controller about strange lights that were flying rapidly around the facility, yet making no sound. A few minutes later, he called back with a shaken up voice, and informed Capt. Salas that an oval-shaped UFO with glowing red lights was hovering right outside the gate. Moments later, all of the missiles started shutting down one by one, and then went completely dead. Read Capt. Salas’ full testimony and story of this shocking encounter.

In a nearby launch facility around the same time, maintenance and security officers at Echo Flight witnessed hovering UFOs at the launch facilities. The entire flight of 10 Minuteman I missiles were also disabled within ten seconds, and remained down the entire day. Capt. Salas would also learn that 10 ICBMs were disabled under similar circumstances at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota the previous year, September 1966. UFO encounters at the Minot Air Force Base were quite extraordinary, as detailed in this fascinating summary. Capt. Salas’ colleague Colonel Fred Meiwald would also confirm that a similar incident occurred just eight days before the Malmstrom Base incident at the Oscar Flight nuclear facility.

It is important to note that there was an intense policy of secrecy regarding UFOs in the Air Force at the time. Despite being deeply frightened and confused by the encounters, officers were required to sign non-disclosure agreements ensuring they wouldn’t talk about the encounters with anyone, including their family and even amongst each other.

Furthermore, the Air Force was not asked to release information on these classified UFO incident reports at nuclear sites to the Condon Committee, an Air Force-sponsored investigation into UFOs following Project Blue Book. The results of the Condon Report heavily influenced public policy and understanding of the phenomena, emphasizing that UFOs do not bear national security interest or relevance. Meanwhile, behind closed doors, the Air Force understandably considered the disabling of all 10 Echo Flight nukes by UFOs to be one "of grave concern” (pg. 8 of declassified government document collection).

Retired US Air Force Colonel Ross Dedrickson, who worked with the US Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission, provide further evidence linking UFO activity and nuclear missiles. Project A119 was a top secret Air Force program developed in 1958. Its aim was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which could boost “domestic morale in the capabilities of the US” as the Space Race raged on between the US and the Soviet Union. In a powerful interview, Colonel Dedrickson discusses how the US Air Force was prevented from executing the mission.

US Air Force Lieutenant and Professor Robert Jacobs was tasked with supervising the instrumentation photography of every missile that went down the Western test range (a large area of the Pacific Ocean west of California used for US satellite launches). Most of the nuclear missiles blew up on launch, and his job was to provide data on why they blew up. Lieutenant Jacobs also admitted that they were testing to see if they could launch a nuclear warhead into orbit slightly above the nuclear chaff so that Russian anti-missile missiles would aim at the chaff and the warhead would fly over and “obliterate Moscow.”

After successfully launching a dummy nuclear warhead into the test range, he sent the film back down to Vandenberg Air Force base. Shortly after, he was called into the office of Major Florenze J Mansmann, where two CIA agents were also present. Maj. Mansmann told Lt. Jacobs to watch the film clip. After the three stages of the rocket’s powered flight were observed in the film, a saucer-shaped object traveling at 8,000 mph suddenly appeared and circled the missile.

After the screening of the footage, the two officers confiscated the tape and Major Mansmann told Lt. Jacobs to never speak out about this event. Watch Lt. Jacobs’s intriguing full testimony here, where he discusses how he was sworn to secrecy about what he saw for 18 years. By 1983, Maj. Mansmann spoke out about the encounter as well, describing the UFO as a “classic disc, the center seemed to be a raised bubble … the entire lower saucer shape was glowing and seemed to be rotating slowly.” An anonymous US Senate investigator allegedly confirmed that the existence of the footage was verified by Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

Major-General Vasily Alexyev of the Russian Air Force has extensively discussed his participation in programs that studied UFOs, including one that deliberately provoked the appearance of UFOs at military bases. Interestingly enough, he elaborated in great length that many of their reported UFO sightings were seen over locations containing “high concentrations of advanced science” like nuclear facilities. He suggests that extraterrestrials are concerned about the future of our species.

Much of the UFO discussion remains speculative, largely due to the deliberate suppression of information. Looking back at UFO disclosure in history, government cover-up and secrecy tend to be the rule, not the exception. It’s been well-documented that government narratives in the last century have emphasized that UFOs are of no significance, while covert elements within different branches of the military-intelligence apparatus have secretly studied this phenomena in manners that are just beginning to come to light. A 1949 FBI memo revealed that the FBI destroyed thousands of UFO reports, supposedly due to a lack of filing space. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) claimed to have destroyed all of their UFO reports during World War II. A previously secret 2009 MoD memo announced a policy of destroying future UFO reports.

Those seeking the truth are often misled, debunked, threatened, or discredited for valid inquiries. Meanwhile, Wilbert B. Smith, engineer and head of the Canadian government’s first study on UFOs, concluded in a declassified 1950 memo that US authorities consider UFO phenomena to be “of tremendous significance,” and that UFOs are the “most highly classified subject in the US government.” Luis Elizondo, whistleblower and former head of the secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), even asserted that only three presidents have been fully briefed on the matter.

In a democracy, the decision on where to draw the line between a citizen's right to know and the government's national security obligations is especially relevant to the UFO conversation. There are legitimate reasons to keep this information secret. If the government disclosed the existence of some of the advanced technologies that witnesses have encountered, it could have serious political and economic ramifications.

By taking control of the UFO narrative early on, covert elements within our government along with private sector interests positioned themselves to leverage any secrets they might uncover while investigating the phenomena. While this information control has clear benefits to a nation state seeking an edge over its adversaries, it also created a situation where these interests could more easily manipulate the general public using secrets and perhaps secret technologies.

Mainstream media narratives about the UFO topic often serve as limited hangouts, a tactic used in the intelligence community to reveal parts of the truth in order to effectively conceal a greater truth. This strategy is commonly used by authority figures to influence public narratives.

Air Force officers have even infiltrated the UFO community, feeding researchers “lies and half-truths” to further steer them away from top secret technologies.

An important consideration regarding government secrecy is the strong possibility that there are deeply classified black budget programs involving ET technology.

According to Navy astronaut Edgar Mitchell, these programs involve rogue private organizations that operate top secret projects with black budget federal funding. These programs operate without any oversight, and are set up structurally to maintain secrecy. If there are cover-ups happening now, they likely won’t be uncovered for years.

Former Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a longtime UFO disclosure advocate, revealed in 2021 that he’s been informed for decades that Lockheed Martin, an American aerospace defense contractor, is in possession of fragments recovered from the U.S. crash site of a UFO. However, he was unable to further investigate the matter because he was not given classified approval from the Pentagon.

For further exploration, watch leading UFO researcher Richard Dolan’s in-depth analysis on the leaked document.

Another piece of the government cover-up puzzle are the intriguing accounts of Col. Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso, former head of the Foreign Technology Desk in the US Army and a member of President Eisenhower‘s National Security Council from 1953–1957. A year before his death, he came forward to share his astounding knowledge and involvement in covert government operations regarding UFO phenomena in his book Day After Roswell. According to his testimony, he helped spearhead the Army’s reverse-engineering project on recovered material from the infamous 1947 Roswell crash, which accelerated the development of sophisticated technologies commonly used today (see Roswell Crash Cover-Up and Reports of Breakthrough Technologies for more).

Read our summary of key excerpts from Day After Roswell, where you can read more about how he came into contact with the Roswell material and his direct involvement in top secret investigations and covert operations.

Master Sergeant Dan Morris was a retired Air Force Master Sergeant who worked on extraterrestrial projects for many years. After leaving the Air Force, he was recruited into the top-secret National Reconnaissance Organization, or NRO, where he was specifically involved in extraterrestrial-connected operations. According to the National Security Archive, the mission of the NRO was to synchronize “the space and aerial overflight operations of the Air Force and the CIA” and “institute a uniform security control system to protect information about those systems.” In 1962, the NRO added the Navy reconnaissance satellite program, which collected signals emitted by foreign radars. The existence of the NRO remained an official secret until 1992.

Many are calling for formal congressional oversight of these rogue private organizations, and their partnership with covert elements within our government. This is especially important, as the public and scientific community have been misled and discredited for their valid inquiries into UFO matters.

While concrete evidence continues to be dug up from all sorts of nooks and crannies, we provide details into three compelling summaries of events that indicate a government cover-up. Skip down below to read a more in-depth look.

Roswell Cover-Up
Condon Report Cover-Up
Rendlesham Incident Cover-Up

In July of 1947, something crashed in the high desert of Roswell, New Mexico. A few days later, the U.S. Army Air Forces shocked the country by issuing a press release that the Roswell Army Air Field had “captured” a flying saucer that crashed nearby. Within hours, however, the statement was quickly retracted and reclassified as a weather balloon. As a result, the press lost interest and the story was buried for the next thirty years. Then, in 1978, Major Jesse Marcel, the Air Force intelligence officer tasked with investigating the wreckage, broke the silence by publicly stating that what crashed outside of Roswell in 1947 was not a weather balloon.

Compelling information released decades after the incident, particularly from government officials directly involved in the incident, strongly suggests that the infamous 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico was a cover-up. Below, we provide the best, most reliable documentation of what really happened during that time.

When New Mexico rancher Mac Brazel reported on a pile of strange debris on his ranch about 80 miles northwest of Roswell, Major Marcel’s responsibility was to retrieve the wreckage and debris to investigate the matter. He concluded that the debris was not from this earth and the material from the recovered wreckage was quite peculiar. It had strange markings and was thin and light, yet tough and unburnable. For verification, view a typed transcript (or view original scanned documents) of the groundbreaking interview Major Marcel did with journalist Bob Pratt in 1979.

Despite this bombshell revelation, the Air Force changed the official story yet again in 1997 with the release of "The Roswell Report: Case Closed." In this report, they determined that Project Mogul was responsible for the 1947 events. It was explained that the top secret Mogul balloon was used to acoustically detect Soviet nuclear weapons explosions.

However, Major Marcel, the man who investigated the wreckage, was highly trained in radar tracking materials and equipment, which were the dominant parts of Project Mogul’s balloon devices. Major Marcel had worked on top secret special weapons projects, and received his diploma in radar technology from the Army Air Forces Command. Notably, he was also the intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Wing stationed at Roswell's Army air base, the only nuclear-equipped jet squadron in the world.

Watch Maj. Jesse Marcel's revealing testimony about the Roswell cover-up.

It’s important to note that Stanton Friedman, a respected nuclear physicist who worked for top American companies, began investigating the Roswell investigation. After speaking with Major Marcel and at least 40 other people directly involved, he became convinced that a flying saucer did explode, and that Roswell is an outcome of a long-term cover-up. He even reported that many people were told by the US military that if they talked about what they saw, they would be killed along with their families.

The intense secrecy around the Roswell incident would keep Lt. Walter G Haut, the man who issued the original press release, in silence until his death. Lt. Haut left a sworn affidavit to be released only after his death, which was published in Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up, a book written by long-time Roswell researcher and US Air Force Veteran Thomas J. Carey. Carey held a Top Secret security clearance and became a long-time researcher into the Roswell incident.

Lt. Haut’s affidavit would reveal that Major Marcel was very upset that the pieces of the wreckage he brought back were replaced with a weather balloon and a radar kite. The affidavit also asserts that the weather balloon claim was indeed a cover story, and that the real object had been recovered by the military. Furthermore, his affidavit also describes not just seeing the craft, but also witnessing alien bodies. Read the full affidavit here, which has been verified by Lt. Haut’s daughter.

There have been many accounts of witnessing alien bodies by those allegedly involved in the incident. Some of these accounts appear credible, while others may reflect fabrication or government misinformation. One of the most interesting accounts involved was Sergeant Frederick Benthal, who was an Army Air Force photographer in Washington, DC when he was given sudden orders to fly to the Roswell base. At the desert site, he was taken to a dark tent where he and a few others took photographs of small nonhuman bodies with “dark complexions, thin and with large heads.” However, his picture-taking was heavily supervised by an officer who did not want Benthal to make sustained observation of the aliens. Because it was so dark in the tent, the flash bulbs gave off a blinding light when pictures were snapped.

Before he left the site, his camera and film were confiscated. He was told by a Lieutenant Colonel Marine officer that they did not know what they photographed. Like many other military officers, Benthal would be transferred out of the Roswell base after their duties were completed. He was reassigned to Antarctica “to study the effects of cold on pieces of equipment.”

Perhaps the most incredible testimony about the Roswell cover-up was from Colonel Philip J. Corso, former head of the Foreign Technology Desk in the US Army and a member of President Eisenhower‘s National Security Council from 1953–1957. A year before his death, he came forward to share his astounding knowledge and involvement in covert government operations regarding UFO phenomena in his book Day After Roswell, where he would corroborate the testimonies of Maj. Jesse Marcel and other witnesses who were sworn to secrecy about what they saw that day.

Read our full summary of his shocking investigations and encounters with alien bodies and technologies recovered from Roswell. According to his testimony, Col. Corso helped spearhead the Army’s reverse-engineering project on recovered material from the infamous 1947 Roswell crash, which accelerated the development of sophisticated technologies commonly used today. In his book, he extensively discusses the top secret conversations and investigations by military and government officials, which largely focused on studying and exploiting the technology they recovered at Roswell, that was vastly superior to anything human made.

The Roswell crash was one of many UFO incidents investigated by Project Blue Book. The end of Project Blue Book involved the Condon Report, which was an investigation from 1966-1968 that heavily influenced public policy and understanding of the phenomena for years. The final report from the Condon Committee was written by committee chair Dr. Edward Condon, an American nuclear physicist. In the investigation's conclusions, Condon writes:

However, the Condon Report failed to conduct or document interviews with principal witnesses, including critical military officials who witnessed the presence of unidentified aerial objects around nuclear missile sites (See UFO Interference with Nuclear Missiles for more). The Air Force was not asked to release information on classified UFO incident reports for the study. Meanwhile, behind closed doors, the Air Force understandably considered the disabling of 10 nuclear missiles by UFOs to be one "of grave concern” (pg. 8 of declassified government document collection).

Former Air Force Captain Robert Salas, a missile launch officer and Titan 3 missiles engineer, has extensively written about his personal experiences regarding cover-ups of UFO activity at nuclear bases. WantToKnow.info founder Fred Burks had the privilege of spending some time with Capt. Salas, who gave us permission to post his fascinating and personal, in-depth research into the Air Force cover-up.

In his research, Capt. Salas mentions Lt. Col. Lewis Chase, a high-ranking officer who experienced his own mysterious UFO encounter over the Gulf Coast in 1957. Chase had been involved with the handling of "special contacts" for UFO matters that the Air Force established at some of their military bases. These contacts were called Base UFO Investigators and attended a meeting with Major General Otto Glasser, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force. He writes a report of this meeting, with parts of it quoted below:

Over the course of a few days starting December 27, 1980, unusual lights and other phenomena were observed by military officers in the Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England between the Royal Air Force bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge. Although it was not confirmed nor denied the presence of nuclear weapons in the weapons storage area for national security purposes, it is likely that RAF Bentwaters stored tactical nuclear bombs in their Weapons Storage area.

Similar to many UFO encounters at military bases, officers kept quiet and the British government did not investigate the incident in any depth. Yet unlike other one-time UFO encounters, what happened in the Rendlesham Forest was a series of events over consecutive nights.

Colonel Charles Halt, now retired US Air Force officer, was the former deputy base commander of RAF Bentwaters during this encounter. Below is the text of Col. Halt’s 1981 report to the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD). This report was released under the US Freedom of Information Act in June 1983 by the US Air Force to Robert Todd of the pressure group Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS). See full memo here. To read the incredible witness statements by other officers, click here.

1. Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L) two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they called for permission to go outside the gate to investigate. The on-duty flight chief responded and allowed three patrolmen to proceed on foot. The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest. The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high. It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object, it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy. The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate.

2. The next day, three depressions 1.5 inches deep and 7 inches in diameter were found where the object had been sighted on the ground. The following night (29 Dec 80) the area was checked for radiation. Beta/gamma readings of 0.1 milliroentgens were recorded with peak readings in the three depressions and near the center of the triangle formed by the depressions. A nearby tree had moderate (0.05–0.07) readings on the side of the tree toward the depressions.

3. Later in the night a red sun-like light was seen through the trees. It moved about and pulsed. At one point it appeared to throw off glowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects and then disappeared. Immediately thereafter, three star-like objects were noticed in the sky, two objects to the north and one to the south, all of which were about 10 degrees off the horizon. The objects moved rapidly in sharp, angular movements and displayed red, green and blue lights. The objects to the north appeared to be elliptical through an 8-12 power lens. They then turned to full circles. The objects to the north remained in the sky for an hour or more. The object to the south was visible for two or three hours and beamed down a stream of light from time to time. Numerous individuals, including the undersigned, witnessed the activities in paragraphs 2 and 3.

(Signed)
Charles I. Halt, Lt Col, USAF
Deputy Base Commander

Even more compelling, Col. Halt preserved a copy of a tape recording of the second night of the UFO sighting. Most of the recording, they investigate what appear to be landing marks on the ground by the craft on its earlier visit. At 12:25, they begin observing UFO sightings.

Ian Ridpath, the first journalist to investigate the Rendlesham incident after it hit the headlines in 1983, was given a copy of the tape that Col. Halt made, which was created by placing a microphone in front of a loudspeaker that was playing the original tape. Thus, there are a few times where background noises can be heard, including his daughter playing piano for a brief moment.

Listen to/download the recording here (UFO sighting begins around 12:25).
Read the full transcript here.

Claims that the incident was a prank, or even that the UFO sighting was caused by lights on a police car, fail to account for the bizarre details of the incident. MoD official Simon Weeden, the first to investigate Col. Halt's memo, investigations into the incident were found to be of no significance, and that none of the radar stations reported anything unusual on their logs during the incident. However, Col. Halt was able to gather statements from radar operators at RAF Bentwaters once they retired. Col. Halt would be told that every time a UFO was reported by one of the radar operators, they would be “de-certified.”

Defense contractors keep advanced technologies secret for commercial reasons. Militaries keep advanced technologies secret to stay ahead of foreign adversaries. If covert elements within the military-intelligence apparatus recovered UFOs and successfully reverse-engineered aspects of them, they could be in possession of technologies capable of fundamentally transforming energy, transportation, medicine, and more. The implications are so profound that it is unlikely such capabilities would be disclosed voluntarily. After all, breakthrough energy and scientific advancements have long been kept from the American public by our national security state and the fossil fuel industry, where major oil giants filed and then buried dozens of patents for cleaner technologies as early as the 1960s.

In this section, we explore the radical idea that the reported UFO/UAP craft are not isolated anomalies but a profound gateway to entirely new technological paradigms. We draw on accounts from renowned scientists and high-level military and intelligence officials with direct involvement in highly classified UFO/UAP secret programs and what has been described about the crafts themselves. Together, we explore what it could mean for how humanity addresses its most pressing challenges if even a fraction of these claims are true.

Let's begin with the anomalous objects and technologies themselves and what military personnel, pilots, and officials have actually reported.

• In the Journal of Scientific Exploration, researchers Thomas Beck, Ph.D. and Janet Colli, Ph.D. analyzed eyewitness testimony, congressional briefings, infrared videos recorded by US Navy aircraft and multi-sensor observations combining radar, visual, and infrared tracking. Some craft were observed holding perfectly stable positions in the air despite strong winds and turbulent conditions, then accelerating instantly from a standstill. They appear to move without any visible propulsion system or exhaust, often traveling at extreme speeds and accelerating rapidly without producing sonic booms or shockwaves. Anti-gravity effects are observed, where the Earth's gravitational field no longer has an effect on the reported craft. Some have been reported to exhibit transmedium qualities, transitioning seamlessly between air and water with no splash or loss of speed.

  In multiple cases, they are seen surrounded by a luminous or plasma-like field, suggesting some form of interaction with the surrounding atmosphere. They propose that these craft may tap into the Earth's natural electrical environment, creating intense electromagnetic fields that ionize the surrounding air into plasma. Think of plasma as air that has been energized so intensely that it becomes electrically charged and starts behaving differently from ordinary gas. Lightning, the Sun, and the Northern Lights are all examples of plasma. In this view, they would function less like fuel-powered vehicles and more like electrically driven systems connected to a continuous energy source.

• The descriptions of luminous or plasma-like fields reported echo claims by veteran defense and intelligence contractor physicists Dr. Hal Puthoff and Dr. Eric Davis that the luminous glow observed around some of the reported craft may represent a visible manifestation of the energetic field itself. In the documentary Age of Disclosure, they propose that the field creates a localized distortion of spacetime, effectively separating the craft from the physical conditions of the external environment. Within that bubble, the craft may be shielded from aerodynamic forces and Earth's gravity, enabling maneuvers that appear impossible according to conventional physics. According to their hypothesis, the same field could also produce the luminous distortions and unusual sensor signatures frequently reported in military encounters. Understanding the source and mechanics of this energy field could have profound implications, including new forms of clean energy, revolutionary transportation systems, and the possibility of interstellar travel.

• In 2018, former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) Luis Elizondo reported that UFOs warp space-time. In a fascinating interview, Elizondo discusses a pilot who had a close encounter with a UFO that likely involved the warping of space time: “You know, Lue, it's really bizarre. It felt like I was there for only five minutes, but when I looked at my watch 30 minutes went by, but I only used five minutes' worth of fuel. How is that possible?” In one alleged crash-retrieval account reportedly shared with Senate Intelligence Committee staff, a whistleblower described a roughly 30-foot saucer partially embedded in the Earth whose interior was said to be the size of a football stadium.

• Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who served in the US Navy and as acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) put it best: "It's not that they break the laws ... It's that they demonstrate engineering capabilities we haven't yet developed. We can't build anything that can do that today.” Gallaudet once described a report from a Navy helicopter crew chief aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2021, who recorded a metallic sphere on infrared video flying just a few hundred feet above the ship. The object moved steadily before suddenly accelerating to extreme speeds and disappearing over the horizon. Gallaudet also asserted that sightings were so frequent that officers are "desensitized to the phenomena ... the Navy possesses a trove of video evidence and data regarding UAP." In an interview with The Free Press, Gallaudet indicated that what the government has disclosed so far is “a fraction of the tip of the iceberg of what we’re really seeing day to day.”

• Congressman Tim Burchett has stated that US Navy admirals have reported encounters with unidentified submerged objects (USOs) as large as a football field moving at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour underwater. If accurate, such performance would far exceed the capabilities of any known human-made submarine, which are limited by drag, pressure, and propulsion constraints in water.

• In 2014, former US Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot Ryan Graves testified to Congress about routine encounters with unknown objects off the East Coast. He described one incident at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, where unknown objects in restricted airspace were being detected following radar system upgrades. During a training mission about 10 miles off the coast, two F-18 Super Hornets were separated by a UAP described as a dark cube encased within a clear sphere, estimated to be 5 to 15 feet in diameter, which passed within 50 feet of one aircraft. Over time, Graves stated that such encounters became so frequent that pilots began including UAP as a standard safety consideration in preflight briefings.

• Air Force veteran Dylan Borland testified that he encountered a large, triangular craft estimated to be around 100 feet across and one to two stories thick, exhibiting several anomalous technological features. He described the object as completely silent, with no visible propulsion system or exhaust, and said it appeared to “manifest” around a central light, forming a structured triangular shape. The craft's material did not look rigid or metallic, but instead appeared fluid or dynamically changing in structure. As it moved across the base, Borland reported that it interfered with his electronics. This caused his phone to overheat and shut down, which suggested a strong electromagnetic effect. The object traveled smoothly and deliberately through the air without any detectable sound or aerodynamic disturbance.

Former head of the secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) Luis Elizondo holds up a photo of a silver UFO/UAP taken in 2021 over the Four Corners region at an altitude approximately 21,000 ft by a private pilot outside his aircraft. The particular object is estimated to be anywhere between 600 - 1,000 ft in diameter. This nonpartisan briefing, hosted by UAP Disclosure Fund and sponsored by the bipartisan Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, provided Members of Congress with insights into the scientific, national security, and innovation implications of UAP-related data. Watch the full presentation here.

Astrophysicist Dr. Eric Davis has conducted classified work with the Defense Intelligence Agency, Pentagon programs, and the UAP Task Force, including the research of advanced nuclear and beamed-energy propulsion technology for the Air Force Research Lab. He recently briefed Congress in a nonpartisan briefing titled "Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation," which was hosted by UAP Disclosure Fund and sponsored by the bipartisan Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. In this hearing, Dr. Davis stated that the observed performance of cases like the 2004 Nimitz “Tic Tac” implies an energy requirement on the order of hundreds of times the total annual electrical energy produced by the US. He has also said that recovered craft, as described to him by industry leadership, are “not of this Earth,” “not made by human hands,” and “not human." When discussing so-called “exotic materials" from recovered craft, Davis explains that the materials consist of known elements from the periodic table yet their combinations, isotopic ratios, composition, and structural arrangement are highly unusual and engineered in ways that appear beyond current human technological capabilities.

Based on his experience in these programs, he also claimed that multiple governments, including the US, China, and Russia, have recovered craft from crashes or other incidents and placed them into extraordinarily secretive programs hidden from congressional oversight through mechanisms such as presidential emergency directives, shell companies, sole-source contracts, and internal contractor R&D pipelines. He says these programs have existed for decades under shifting code names, dating back at least to a craft recovered in Italy in 1933 and later obtained by the US, with many recoveries occurring in maritime environments. See our section, Government Cover-Ups: Controlling the UFO Narrative, for more on this.

The Consciousness Connection

At one point during the "Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation" hearing, Dr. Davis and former Department of Defense and NASA aerospace engineer and physicist Travis Taylor noted how many of the reported UFO/UAP craft do not contain any power devices or systems inside the craft. Scientific analyses of craft encountered by military, commercial, and civilian aircraft also indicate that the crafts do not have flight or control surfaces, or any conventional steering or interface system. Dr. Davis and Taylor speculated that energy might somehow be transmitted to the craft remotely, allowing it to operate without carrying obvious propellant or an identifiable engine.

If these craft truly lack conventional controls or interfaces, it opens the door to a more radical possibility: that the key to interacting with such technology may lie not in hardware, but in human consciousness itself.

According to whistleblowers, consciousness is reportedly viewed as a key component of interaction with the phenomenon. One such individual is Air Force veteran Jake Barber.

Jake Barber was an aerospace mechanic, precision shooter, and contractor in classified defense and intelligence programs. He's one of the latest whistleblowers to come forward alleging direct involvement in specialized retrieval missions in highly classified programs, including transporting or recovering anomalous craft. In January 2025, he provided Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) testimony in a secure compartmented information facility (SCIF) to members of Congress and congressional staff.

In an interview with senior special investigations NewsNation correspondent Ross Coulthart, Barber describes a retrieval mission involving what his team called an "8GONE," or octagonal-shaped disc. As he approached the craft, he began experiencing an intense emotional connection, describing a loving, maternal presence accompanied by profound feelings of sadness, grief, and compassion. The experience transformed his life and led him to view the phenomenon as not purely mechanical, but as something that may possess an intelligence capable of interacting directly and telepathically with human consciousness.

As his involvement in these programs continued, Barber discovered that the consciousness component of the phenomenon was well known and taken seriously within the elite military circles he worked in. Senior special investigations NewsNation correspondent Ross Coulthart spoke with Barber and decorated Special Forces Operator Don Paul Bales, who alleged the existence of a “psionics” program involving “psionic operators” or psychics—identified for their ability to use focused intention, meditation, or what he describes as a kind of telepathic awareness—to interact with these craft. Barber asserted that these individuals are involved in efforts to “invite” or attract UAP to specific locations, occasionally working in conjunction with specialized technologies designed to signal or draw them in.

Drawing on his extraordinary experiences in these classified programs, Barber went on to establish Skywatcher, an aerospace intelligence organization comprised of former special operators, military aviators, intelligence officers, and national security professionals investigating UAPs. Rather than treating the phenomenon as a collection of isolated anecdotes, they have organized UAP sightings into what they describe as a living “taxonomy” or classification system. This includes different shapes (e.g., spheres, tic-tacs, triangles, orbs), different behaviors (hovering, rapid acceleration, transmedium movement), and different contexts (military ranges, oceans, high altitude, etc.).

The consciousness connection, and reports of advanced technologies, corroborates the testimony of Colonel Philip J. Corso, former head of the Foreign Technology Desk in the US Army and a member of President Eisenhower‘s National Security Council from 1953–1957. A year before his death, he came forward to share his astounding knowledge and involvement in covert government operations regarding UFO phenomena in his book Day After Roswell, where he describes how he was in charge of developing advanced war technologies from the artifacts recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash in 1961.

According to his testimony, Col. Corso described the "crescent-shaped space vehicle" recovered from the Roswell crash as having no traditional navigational controls, control sticks, wheels, throttles, pedals, cables, flaps, or rudders. He later uncovered reports from engineers at Norton Air Force Base in California describing craft that could be controlled directly through a pilot’s mind using brain signals rather than physical controls with an interface translating those signals into movement.

Did Some Modern Technologies Come From UFO/UAPs?

Corso also describes how he spearheaded the Army's reverse-engineering project that led to today's integrated circuits, fiber optics, lasers, bulletproof vests, and more. Secretly, they would “seed” ET technology to American industry giants, mixing human technology with ET technology, without telling those companies where it came from. Read our full summary of his book, Day After Roswell.

Don Phillips, a retired Air Force pilot and special aircraft engineer, came forward to discuss his personal experience with UFOs as a pilot, along with his experiences as a contractor for Lockheed Martin's secret weapons and technology unit, Skunkworks, which was kept secret until 2014. He worked on secret projects for the CIA and other government agencies as part of an “unseen” and “hidden” industry. In his testimony for The Disclosure Project, Phillips described reverse engineering programs and certain technologies that have been developed because of ETs: computer chips, lasers, night vision, and bulletproof vests. His testimony starts on pg. 281 of the Disclosure Project briefing. (Note: The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research organization advocating for the disclosure of alleged classified UFO information. Since 1993, it has documented fascinating testimonies from top scientists and military-intelligence officers who reveal their knowledge of advanced technologies).

Implications of Alternative, Breakthrough Technologies

The reported non-human technologies and their characteristics are remarkable enough. The implications of how these craft operate are even more profound. If even a fraction of the reported observations are accurate, we may be confronting technologies that challenge one of the most fundamental assumptions of our age: that scarcity is inevitable. The idea that energy could be abundant, clean, and universally accessible is more than an engineering revolution. It is a consciousness shift.

Clean and unlimited energy sources could radically shift our thinking about the climate change crisis and our larger future. Desalination could be scaled up to address the water scarcity crisis. Fears about energy-guzzling tech like AI and blockchain would be alleviated. Transportation could be clean. Medicine could be revolutionized.

Yet instead of these technologies being used to radically reduce fossil fuel dependence and regenerate our planet, these advancements are being secretly repurposed to serve the war economy. In fact, private military contractors profiting from conflict and global instability control many of these non-human technologies that could transform our world for the better. Under AATIP, it was claimed by Luis Elizondo and program contractors that materials recovered from UFOs may have "otherworldly origins and useful applications for the military.”

Some of these reported exotic, non-human technologies are not without risk. There have been reports of burns, radiation damage, and other injuries from contact with the phenomenon. Physicist Dr. Hal Puthoff, the creator of the CIA's own psychic spy program and consultant to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) said in the documentary Age of Disclosure: “The energy field associated with these craft causes a highly energetic wave of radiation, which is why people getting too close to a UAP can experience biological effects that are harmful.” Any attempt to engineer this class of technologies for ourselves must be taken carefully. Yet the need for caution is not, in itself, a sufficient reason to avoid advancing a technology that could dramatically improve life on Earth and beyond.

Many of today’s biggest problems aren’t accidental. They emerged from the structure of the system itself, manipulated endlessly by powerful economic, political, and corporate interests that depend on control, secrecy, and the illusion of scarcity to maintain authority. Yet what happens to that authority if it depends on controlling a limited resource that suddenly becomes clean, unlimited, and abundant?

We are witnessing the deliberate suppression of a whole new class of breakthrough technologies, both human and non-human, that defy conventional physics and appear to run on energy sources that don’t burn anything, don’t emit pollution, and could fundamentally change how we power our world. This calls into question the whole idea of climate doom and the fear-based apocalyptic stories we’re inundated with.

We believe it’s important to notice these attractors and turning points in human consciousness and use them for good. How do we steward this transition? How do we ensure that breakthrough technologies serve life rather than control? And how do we translate these possibilities into shared abundance and wealth on a global level?

Still to this day, government narratives claim that no secret ET programs have existed. In our 33-min Speculation Station video below, we look at everything from specific UFO technologies that have allegedly been recovered from crashes to how these other-worldly technologies might have helped accelerate the development of some human technologies.

UFO encounters range from beautiful and transcendent to intensely negative and traumatizing. Some of these encounters involve abductions. In UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in Technological Guise, UFO researcher and folklorist Thomas E. Bullard identified eight distinct events within many abduction accounts.

Alien abductions draw much controversy in an already controversial field of study. Reports of abduction experiences are greatly varietal, suggesting the possibility that more than one phenomenon is in play. Below, we present a few perspectives.

Dr. John E. Mack was a professor of psychiatry at The Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and founding director of the Center for Psychology and Social Change. A 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Mack studied the subject of UFO abductions later in his career. He came to some astonishing conclusions:

In the 1990s, Mack began talking with people who claimed to have had UFO abduction experiences. He was initially skeptical of these claims, but the more people he talked to, the more convinced he became that something incredible was going on. In his 1994 book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, he wrote that “the abduction phenomenon has important philosophical, spiritual and social implications.” His documentary film Touched by an Alien told the powerful stories of UFO experiencers. Though Mack passed away in 2004, he left behind a legacy in the form of the John E. Mack Institute.

After working with hundreds of UFO experiencers, Mack concluded in Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens that a common theme in abduction stories was that abductees emerged from their experiences with a “commitment to changing their relationship to the Earth, of living more gently on it or in greater harmony with the other creatures that live here” after being warned by aliens that humans are destroying their planet.

Another recurrent story Mack noticed in abductees was that they reported a hybrid species is being developed to replace or join humankind. In his book, he stated that the “future role that the hybrid offspring are being prepared to play represents one of the most puzzling aspects of the entire abduction phenomenon.” For a glimpse into how strange these stories can be, watch a documentary on alleged alien reproduction programs. A particularly compelling perspective that this documentary emphasizes is that many women who had mysterious miscarriages also had clear memories of alien abduction experiences.

Thousands of people or more have gone through the process of navigating an abduction experience. One of the most controversial parts of this phenomenon is that it often relies on memories recovered from hypnosis. A reputable doctor wrote in the prestigious Lancet that John Mack’s use of hypnosis to uncover abduction stories was potentially “cementing and constructing false memories.” Yet even if memories recovered by hypnosis differ from consensus reality, the abduction experience often seems to have some value for the experiencer. And Mack’s research suggests that many abduction stories do appear to be supported by material evidence.

Abduction Encounters for Psychological Warfare Purposes and Military Abductions (MILAB)

There is strong evidence that the CIA explored using the UFO phenomenon in psychological warfare as early as 1952. And in his book Forbidden Science - Volume Four, the esteemed scientist and co-developer of NASA’s map on Mars Dr. Jacques Vallee wrote that he “secured a document confirming that the CIA simulated UFO abductions in Latin America (Brazil and Argentina) as psychological warfare experiments.” Vallee also speaks of a conversation he had with Dr. Ron Blackburn, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who was then working at the Lockheed Martin’s secret weapons and technology unit, Skunk Works, which was kept secret until 2014.

Dr. Helmut Lammer is a scientist at the Austrian Space Research Institute, Department for Extraterrestrial Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz, Austria. Lammer reviewed hypnosis transcripts of abductees and found a possible link between their alien abduction experiences and the experiences of survivors from the CIA’ s top secret MKUltra program. This program ran from 1953 to 1973. Its existence was revealed in 1975 by landmark congressional hearings into the activities of national security agencies.

Declassified CIA documents prove that the MKUltra program hypnotized young women and trained them to plant bombs and shoot people with guns while in the hypnotized state. Ordinary people became super spies programmed to carry out assassination, terrorist acts, sexual favors, and more without conscious knowledge of what they were doing. The main focus of the program was summarized in a January 1952 CIA memo, "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation?”

In Lammer’s book MILABS: Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction, he explores how military personnel are often recalled by those claiming to have been abducted by aliens. These people report that they were taken to hospitals and/or military underground facilities. Read his research here:

From Alien Abductions Via MKUltra to an Implanted Cyber-Situation
Project MILAB: Alien/Military Abduction Agenda

UFO researcher and UFO sighting tour guide Melinda Leslie has also extensively studied the MILAB issue. In the support groups she leads for those who believe they’ve been abducted, she alleges that more than three dozen people have claimed to have been abducted by aliens, and then re-abducted by military personnel for interrogation and physical examinations. In a comprehensive presentation, she discusses both ET and covert-ops military abduction experiences, including her own personal stories and other cases of people being abducted by aliens and covert military personnel.

Are UFO abductions physical or psychic? Are they being carried out by extraterrestrials or by agents of the military-intelligence complex? There are no clear answers to these and other questions raised by the huge number of people who have had abduction experiences. But these experiences point us to a deeper understanding of UFOs and related phenomena.

There is no consensus about UFOs within the UFO research community. Our understanding of these mysterious matters continues to evolve, and remains largely speculative. Yet the implications of these phenomena will radically change the way we relate to our larger place in the universe.

In the absence of anything definitive about what all of this means, we invite you to suspend certainty, stay curious, and question any narrative that promotes fear and division. Explore our resources below to see how you can seek support and get involved.

You are not alone as you navigate these complex topics. Feel free to reach out to us at any time if you have any concerns, questions, or feedback.

The New Paradigm Institute is a project dedicated to advocating for the public release of information held by the government surrounding the issue of UFOs and UAPs. Consider exploring their site to stay updated about recent press releases, news stories, podcasts, and ways to take effective action.

Unhidden is a charity dedicated to decreasing the stigma associated with discussing UAPs, non-human intelligences, and the possibility that evidence is being covered up by governments. They have a Medical Advisory Board composed of doctors and clinical psychologists, and provide mental health support regarding these phenomena.

The Black Vault document archive contains over 3 million pages of US government documents obtained by John Greenewald, Jr., primarily through Freedom of Information Act requests. The site’s UFO section contains a massive number of documents.

Eyes Only: The Story of Clifford Stone and UFO Crash Retrievals is a book written by Sergeant Clifford Stone of the US Army. He spent 22 years in the US Army in covert government operations tasked with recovering UFO or ET craft, bodies, and artifacts. Since his retirement from the Army, he has devoted his time to a diligent Freedom of Information Act search of government archives. Read Stone's full book here, and read his full Disclosure Project testimony starting on pg. 238 of The Disclosure Project Briefing Document.

WantToKnow.info's older UFO Information Center is still accessible. While it is less comprehensive, it is a great place for those who don't necessarily want to go deep yet still want to learn basic information regarding UFO phenonema.

United States Coast Guard photographer Shell R. Alpert took a photograph through a window screen that allegedly showed unidentified flying objects at the Salem, Massachusetts, Air Station on July 16, 1952.

There are many questionable UFO photos and videos online, along with many illustrations and animations depicting UFOs. We compiled a concise list of real footage below to get you started.

• Declassified CIA documents on UFO Sightings, released in 2013
• DoD UFO/UAP videos of footage from the cockpits of US Navy fighter jets
• NASA Shows Video of “Spherical Orb” Unidentified Object in UFO Meeting
• Fascinating Video of UFO Sightings in Wisconsin, December 2022
• 2014 UFO Clip Released By Chilean Navy (read a brief news summary about this interesting incident)
• The Phoenix Lights: on the night of March 13, 1997, unusual lights were seen by huge numbers of witnesses in Arizona and Nevada. The most surprising sight was a vast and silent triangular formation of lights that passed over Phoenix. Although Wikipedia attributes the sightings to a pilot training program, mainstream media continues to cover this mysterious mass sighting, which was captured on film and video.

Below, we introduce a variety of fascinating perspectives regarding strange events in history and other unusual phenomena and interesting theories.

• 6-min video clip on the incredible mystery of crop circles
• Esteemed scientist and co-developer of NASA’s map on Mars Jacques Vallee’s top-ten list of pre-20th-century unexplained aerial objects
• WanttoKnow.info founder Fred Burks provides deep speculation on the UFO presence on our planet and its implications. Though this is a speculative essay in which the sources provided are not as reliable as those usually used on the website, plentiful links are provided to explore some of the fascinating theories proposed. Don't miss this inspiring essay which calls on each of us to join in transforming our beautiful planet: Meaning of Life Questions: A Speculative Look at the Big Picture of Life in the Universe
• An intriguing essay was written by Wilbur Smith, engineer and head of the Canadian government’s first study on UFOs. He was deeply involved in new energy explorations in the 1950s. He is most known for his quote from a declassified memo which states, "Flying saucers exist. The matter is the most highly classified subject in the US Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb." He wrote the below astounding description of alternate dimensions and deep forces of the universe: The New Science

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Best UFO Information Videos (available for free viewing)

The History Channel has come out with the best, most powerful evidence yet on the existence of UFOs. Don't miss their astounding documentary at the first link below. One of the most popular shows ever presented on the Sci-Fi channel was the riveting documentary Out of the Blue, which mixes interviews with astronauts, generals, and other high-ranking military and government officials with remarkable footage of UFOs taken from around the world. Another excellent video is the National Press Club Video in which 22 government and military witnesses testify to their personal experiences in the UFO cover-up. Finally, Walt Disney Television produced a most unusual special titled Alien Encounters which alleges a major government cover-up of UFOs.

https://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/ufos/ufos... - History Channel's UFOs on the Record

https://www.WantToKnow.info/060602ufosvideosfootage - SciFi Channel's amazing Out of the Blue

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=national+press+club... - National Press Club video

https://www.WantToKnow.info/ufos/ufos_video_disney - Disney's Alien Encounters