I think that I’ve made
it very clear that I’m critical of the latest in government investigations into
UFOs, I mean UAPs. I have noted that any time they wish to change and challenge
our perceptions, they change the nomenclature of the phenomenon, as if to erase
the past history. We all knew that UFO didn’t mean alien spacecraft exclusively
but any unidentified object. Now we’ve weakened the term UAP to Unidentified
Anomalous Phenomenon that could mean anything from an alien spacecraft to an
encounter with a ghost…
We are still locked out
of the real UAP study because it is classified but this is the same excuse they
have been using since 1947. Although the Condon Committee at the University of
Colorado announced in 1969 that there were no national security issues, here we
are being told that some of the information is being withheld because of
national security. I suppose that if the UAP is of foreign manufacture rather
than alien, and that UAP is observing our military on maneuvers or overflying
military facilities that are engaged in classified work, then national security
is an issue. It doesn’t help us resolve the question; it just obscures the
problem.
Here is some proof of
that. A company, Enigma Labs, is wanting to use machine learning to search for
patterns in UFO sightings. Okay. However, they are in business with the DoD. Again,
okay.
Here’s the problem.
They want the public to ignore the National UFO Reporting Center and MUFON, and
report sightings directly to them. Which, again, is okay. The problem is that
they do not make their database publicly available. Or, in other words, they
are attempting to syphon off the UFO sightings from other organizations and
then provide no data on them. Something like the classified reports being
collected by the DoD with no avenue to share the data with the civilian
population.
I did look up Enigma
Labs and read their mission statement. It said:
To advance progress on UAP using
cutting-edge technology and social intelligence. Only through thoughtful,
open-mined study of unidentified phenomena can we get answers. We are focused
on building and keep our team low profile for privacy.
It sounds good, or
looks good, and is almost meaningless. It provides nothing of value in
attempting to understand who they are, other than the claim to be open-mined
and that they want to keep a low profile. I am bothered by their continued
reference in other parts of their website to UAP. They have adopted the current
lingo, but I’m not all that sure they actually understand the subtleties of the
whole UFO phenomena. That leads us to another part of their explanations which
said:
There are individuals who have
dedicated their lives to researching UAP. We are indebted to them and stand on
their shoulders. Yet UAP remains a mystery. That is why Enigma adopted a fresh
approach taking advantage of modern tools, business models and skillsets. In order
to attract the brightest minds and build for the long term, we formed as a
private company. We take the mission seriously and embrace the complexity. We are
a team of full-time professionals from many backgrounds – data science, machine
learning, aerospace, citizen science, consumer product design, particle
physics, sailing, visual arts, finance, journalism, military service and public
policy, to name a few. We are grateful to everyone who has supported us so far.
Without a little more
data, I’m not sure what expertise they bring to the table. They mention
military service, and while there are certain military specialties that would
be beneficial, there are many that are not. An infantry soldier has no special skills
that would help in identifying UFOs. Journalism would be helpful, unless the
journalist spent his or her career attending local political meetings or
covering feature stories.
I will note, apropos of
nothing really, that there are job offerings at the website which pay in the
low six figures, up to a quarter of a million annually. Since I have no
engineering background, though I do have experience in security and
intelligence, I’m really not qualified. The real point is that they are offering
these high paying jobs which suggests a rather substantial financial position.
You can access their website here:
The last thing to say,
I suppose, is that I’m reminded of the To The Stars Academy from a couple of
years ago. They too, seemed to have some astonishing financial support and they
too were going to take UFO research, back when we could talk about UFOs rather
than UAPs, in a new direction. That soon fizzled out.
The problem here might
be the alleged connection to the official investigations, and the call for
sightings to be reported to them. It could have an adverse effect on overall
UFO research and could stymie communication among the various players in the
field today.
This could be much ado
about nothing because we don’t have an overload of information. I just think
that this doesn’t bode well for overall UFO research. Sure, we need to wait and
see, but in the meantime, access to sighting data might suffer.
Even with all this there
are still interesting UFO sightings that are not being collected by the DoD and
stored in vaults hidden from public view. What has been called the first UFO
photo of 2023, and they, not I, used the term UFO, was taken in Venezuela on
January 7.
The picture was taken
by Ricardo Monzon, in the San Antonio de Los Altos area. Journalist Hector
Esclanate, said that he thought it might be a reflection of the street light
but said the object had light and shaded areas and was a different shape than
the street light. He also suggested that the orientation of the UFO didn’t
match up. Here’s the link to the photograph:
http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2023/01/venezuela-first-ufo-photo-of-2023.html
In keeping with the
international flavor, the witness in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England, reported
five lights in a low cloud on December 21 of last year. The witness thought the
lights, which were moving in a random circle might be a laser display, or maybe
drones. The lights were in sight for about two minutes, were bright but not
blinding. The five balls of light flew over the car and the radio began to act
up and was filled with white noise, which, of course, is suggestive of
something other than a laser or a drone.
The lights passed over the car, about a hundred feet in the air. Apparently, they turned, and passed overhead twice more. They eventually disappeared. Not an exciting sighting except for the possible EM Effect on the radio.
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