Thursday, July 21, 2022

Coast to Coast AM: AARO and Current Sightings

It seems that Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, in coordination with the Director, National Intelligence, has renamed the nearly incomprehensibly named Airborne Object Identification and Management Group to the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which I suspect will be called Arrow by those in the know. The responsibilities of this will be broader than those of the old office whose name I won’t try to pronounce.

Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick who was the chief scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center, is the director of AARO.

The mission of AARO will be to synchronize efforts across the DoD and other federal agencies to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security and this includes anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedium objects.

I will note here that the emphasis seems to be on military and official sites and that this seems to ignore sightings and reports from the civilian population. This seems to be an effort to control the data under the umbrella of national security which will mean that the reports are born classified. It doesn’t scream transparency to me.

Reports that might be ignored are like the one from June 19 this year, in Bruce, South Dakota. The witness said he watched the object, that was about 75 degrees above the horizon for four or five minutes. He said that the object was a bright light behind a “V” shaped object. It was slightly smaller than the full moon. He said that a cloud started to form above the “V.” The cloud was lighted by a glow from the UFO.

Given the date and the description, it seemed that this might be another sighting of the SpaceX launch. However, he mentioned a triangular shaped UFO with an aura or cloud around it. The time, however, seems to suggest the sighting was about two hours after the launch on June 19. If the witness’ timing is off, then a SpaceX launch might be the solution. Without a photograph, and with the witness talking about a distinctive “V” shape, and the timing issue, this is a tough call.

I’ll note here that Project Blue Book would have ignored the differences and listed this as the SpaceX launch. Given the circumstances, and the mission of the new AARO office, this sighting would not be of importance. Blue Book’s mission was to clear UFO sightings, keeping them from the dreaded “unidentified” category. With the new AARO office, similar sightings might not be investigated at all.

Without more information or a photograph, this is more of an insufficient data for scientific analysis sighting than an unidentified one.

A photograph was taken in Utah on May 16 of this year. The witness said that he was taking panoramic views in the area for scenery purposes. It wasn’t until he was reviewing the pictures that the UFO was spotted. He supplied both the panoramic view and the enlarged version of the UFO which shows its triangular shape.

The UFO is the small black dot on the right side of the photograph.




A close up of the UFO.

I currently have no explanation for the object in the photograph, other than to say it doesn’t seem to be an artifact created in the camera or a lens flare or some sort of natural phenomenon. And, I suspect, given there was no visual sighting that the new AARO office wouldn’t be interested in it. There is a real lack of scientific information and no witness testimony to accompany the picture. 

13 comments:

starman said...

There have been a number of cases where a UFO or strange entity wasn't seen until after a picture was taken. IIRC this was true of Templeton's '64 pic showing the "spaceman" behind his daughter.
Btw, the object in the latest post doesn't appear artificial.

Tim Printy said...

The June 19th event from Bruce SD was related to the Falcon booster. It was seen at Lick Observatory in California around the same time listed at NUFORC. https://www.flickr.com/photos/xb70man/albums/72177720299927045
Witness gave a SW to East motion, which is consistent with a booster. The NUFORC database is full of reports all over the midwest on that date and time. Some with photographs similar to the Lick photographs. These types of sightings are not that hard to figure out. All it takes is a little checking.

Capt Steve said...

It's interesting that under AARO the powers-that-be are essentially merging UFO and USO phenomena under the category 'transmedium'. Now I'm really curious as to what data they have that inspired that merge...

Bob Koford said...

Good afternoon, Dr. Randle.

The thing that stood out for me, in this update to the new program is that they will be required to go all the way back to 1 January 1947, and read the information. This, I hope, will finally break the damn open. We will see.

Regards,
Bob

Daniel said...

On THIS PHOTO, a stone throw away...Click!:).........?

J. T. Drake said...

That looks a bit like a rock, perhaps thrown from immediately outside the frame?

Are you familiar with Dr. Taylor, and have any opinion about him.

https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/ive-seen-more-ufos-than-i-can-count-dod-scientist-says/

J. T. Drake said...

Looks like a rock, perhaps thrown from immediately outside the frame?

Are you familiar with Dr. Taylor, and have any opinion about him?
https://www.mysterywire.com/ufo/ive-seen-more-ufos-than-i-can-count-dod-scientist-says/

james tankersley said...

To me the small black dot in the picture that was taken in Utah looks almost like the mysterious object that crashed in Kecksburg Pennsylvania in 1965 in i can clearly see a ring on the bottom of this object going around it and while it is not the same color as what the witnesses said it was that crashed in the woods, it still looks identical to me.

Daniel said...

Click on the above photo, & you will see the hand that threw the stone!..........?

james tankersley said...

I thought of a meteor, space junk falling from space, and a rock, until i saw a ring around the bottom of this object going across it which reminded me of Kecksburg Pennsylvania and the crash that occurred back in December 1965.

james tankersley said...

Daniel...I believe thats someone taking a picture.

Daniel said...

James:)...There are only two shadows! The left shadow is taking the picture, but the hand to the right, has no shadow showing. I think there are three people, but no shadow showing, of the one with an extended hand,as if throwing something, namely, a small rock, a stone if you will...Keep smiling James:)........

james tankersley said...

Daniel...Or it could be camera equipment or video equipment next to the one taking the picture and if that black dot is some kind of craft, it must have been traveling at a tremendous speed faster than the eye could follow since no one reported seeing it at least as far as we know!