According to a CBS 60-Minutes report on 5/16/2021, the U.S. Senate’s intelligence committee has ordered the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense to deliver a report on decades of mysterious Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings by next month.

There has often been a Looney-Tunes flavor to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) sightings, the first well-known one occurring in 1947 when a private business flyer reported seeing nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington state.

He attributed the speed of crescent-shaped objects at several thousand miles per hour and compared them to saucers skipping on water. The other incident occurred the same year when a rancher came across a mysterious wreckage near an Army airfield in Roswell, New Mexico.

During the last few decades, more recent sightings are less fleeting and better monitored. They involved highly credible sources of air-force-trained professionals, including advanced radar technicians and pilots in aircraft having the latest technology.

Luis Elizondo, with a 20-year background running military intelligence operations worldwide, was asked in 2008 by the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) to investigate such potential threats to our security.

When AATIP was dissolved, Lue Elizondo joined by Chris Mellon, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence under Clinton and Bush, finally elevated the UAP concerns to the Senate.

Elizondo’s research included UAP sightings near strategic military installations near Virginia Beach in 2014 and after, documented by updated infrared radar technology and comparatively measured by high-speed F14s. Others involved multiple sightings in November of 2004 by Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and F18 pilots and radar technicians. All were documented by radar, pilots, crews, and cameras.

The data and analysis point to a number of un-alterable truths, truths our current technology cannot explain. The UAP craft flew in excess of 13,000 MPH in our atmosphere; it periodically evaded radar; it was able to fly through air, water and possibly space. It had no obvious signs of propulsion. It had no seen control surfaces. It seemed to defy the natural effects of gravity.

Now, many of these facts have been known for several decades. From 1952 to 1969 Project Blue Book, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, compiled reports of more than 12,000 sightings or events, each ultimately classified as “identified” with known astronomical, atmospheric or artificial phenomenon or “unidentified.” The latter – 6% of the total – was labeled unknown.

Officially a CIA-sponsored panel, chaired by a Cal Tech physicist and a second committee set up in 1966 at the behest of the Air Force, the latter concluded with the Condon Report. Both determined that over 90% of sightings were explained, that there was no obvious security threat, and that there was no evident to support the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH).

Furthermore, ETH was contradicted by most psychologists and many scientists, who most likely feared an attribution of fantasy by their peers.

The current report, required by the Senate, is due within about a month. The difference now is more indisputable data, more advanced technology, and more key witnesses behind the data. Perhaps the Looney-Tunes mantra is gone as well, but in light of the current fantasy-based “Trump conspiracies,” that is not a given.

However, we may be slowly evolving from the cock-suredness of standard beliefs of Physics, much based on a classical world. In the tiny world of quantum, perhaps there is a way to defy the effects of gravity, and a propulsion that needs no obvious signs of control surfaces. If these two features can be ignored in the quantum world, why could you not seamlessly fly through all mediums: atmospheric, water and space? And evading radar and neutralizing g-forces would be a snap.

Remember, our perspective is that of a Type 0 civilization on the Kardashev scale which says these things are not possible.

Ancient people would attribute much of what we can do today to the supernatural or the magical, as we do the fantastic phenomena that we experience with UAPs. In fact, in our arrogance, most of us are part of a herd which rejects them outright because it’s convenient, embarrassing, or self-serving.

In the political world, look at Donald Trump and the Republican Party: Many recounts and court cases proved that Joe Biden won the election. Even the Trump-led insurrection is denied when private and media footage prove it. For ostrich-heads-in-the-sand Republicans, power and control demand the Big Lie.

Science does not demand a “Big Lie.”

It is time to recognize the same undisputed facts with scientific phenomena and marshal all our sciences toward investigating objects and happenings which defy our current knowledge base.