The video starts with someone filming a screen using their phone. On the screen is what looks to be pre-recorded security footage over a military base. The date on screen is August the 27th, 2022 and we are looking through camera 6 in Sector 1. In the footage a light in the sky can be seen hovering. At the one minute mark the security camera zooms into the craft, revealing a diamond shaped object with a protrusion at the top. The person narrating states that this is when they noticed it. They zoom out and back in again to verify what they are seeing. As they zoom in a second time the UAP disappears. The camera operator then zooms back out again and the UAP reappears. As he zooms back in for a third time the UAP “fades off to the right” in his own words.

The operator states that the UAP was there for around four minutes and disappears only when he noticed and started to observe it.

Leaked UAP Video

Make sure you listen with the sound on as the person filming talks you through it.

Here’s a gamma adjusted version of the video (courtesy of the reddit thread).

Strange indeed. I will let you draw your own conclusions to the video but I wanted to dive into the surrounding circumstances and talk about the location the video was filmed.

Location and Provenance

According to comments on Reddit by people who saw the original poster and his account, he definitely worked in the air force. The account had been active for at least a couple of years and had frequently commented on the air force subreddit. These comments had displayed a depth of knowledge that only someone in the military would know.

When he originally uploaded the video, he was pressed for a location and would only give vague answers saying “one of the original 13 colonies”. Within a few hours, the account and original post had been deleted. Thankfully, the video had been saved and reposted to the thread linked above.

After lots and lots of conjecture, it seems the actual place of recording has been identified. Joint Base Andrews in Maryland appears to be the location. Specifically here:

If you would like to check it out yourself, here’s the google maps link with coordinates.

Why would a UAP be here? Joint Base Andrews doesn’t have nukes or any crazy tech (that we know of anyway). What it is known for is two very special Boeing VC-25’s. You may have heard of them by the call sign they use when the President is onboard. Air Force One. The President of the United States just so happens to store their planes where a UAP was observed.

Conclusions

So far we have a place, a time and somewhat of a motive. It could be another country using drones or unknown aircraft to test the capabilities of the US’s defence systems but what really sells it for me as an alien spacecraft is the movement it exhibits.

I don’t mean as in it floating or flying away. That we can easily replicate.

I mean the awareness.

The ability to know when the camera is looking at it. As soon as it becomes aware of being watched it vanishes. Then reappears briefly before leaving for good when focussed on again. That level of awareness I find personally find seriously strange. It’s not quite the WOW! signal but it’s some of the most compelling footage I have seen.

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First though, let’s familiarise ourselves with the details.

The first interstellar object ever detected in our Solar system

On the 19th of October 2017, Oumuamua (Hawaiian word for Scout) is first observed. At the time it’s around 21 million miles away from Earth and heading away away from the Sun. Considered a small object, rough estimates measure it somewhere it between 300 – 3000 feet (100 – 1000 metres) long with a width ranging between 115 – 548 feet (35 – 167 metres). Oumuamua, studied through analysis of its light curve, is thought to have a red hue and be featureless. However, because of large variations in the curve, the actual shape of Oumuamua has been suggested to be anything from a cigar shape to an extremely flat pancake.

What about actual pictures? Unfortunately, because of the relatively small size of Oumuamua, it only shows as a single pixel in actual pictures. It’s just too small and too far away to get a good photo of.

Oumuamua was the first interstellar object ever detected passing through our Solar system. Unfortunately, by the time we detected it in October of 2017, it was already heading away from us. Based on its current speed and trajectory, it will eventually leave the Solar system and head back out to interstellar space.

At its closest, Oumuamua was just 23,700,000 million miles (38 million km) from the Sun. For perspective, Mercury at its closest approach to the Sun is around 29 million miles (47 million km) away.

So far, a cool discovery but pretty uneventful. Here’s where it get interesting. Let’s talk about the anomalies that set Oumuamua apart and led Avi Loeb to publish his paper positing that an alien spacecraft visited our Solar system.

Initial Anomalies

At first it was assumed that Oumuamua was a comet. Comets reside in the Oort Cloud at the very edge of our Solar system and are flung away by the perturbations of a passing star. Further study showed that Oumuamua had no cometary tail and had not inherited the motion of its parent star. In fact, the motion of Oumuamua was found to be highly unusual for a natural object originating from a nearby star.

These observations led Avi to the conclusion that Oumuamua could be artificial. He also posited that its motion might also be artificial, tailored to obscure the star system it originated from.

Stay with me. It gets even stranger.

Remember before when we spoke about the light curve? Oumuamua tumbles every eight hours with the brightness of sunlight reflected from it changing by a factor of ten. This implies Oumuamua has an extreme shape, with it being at least ten times longer than it is wide. The very best fit (90% surety) for this light curve is one of a flattened pancake, or disk-like shape rather than the cigar shaped oblong as portrayed in the media (and above in the artists impression).

The lack of heat from Oumuamua, detectable in infrared, placed an upper size limit of 200m according to Avi Loeb’s paper. However, when it had passed the Sun, Oumuamua exhibited a “push” away from the Sun which, if Oumuamua was a comet, would have caused it to lose around 10 percent of its mass and produce a tail. Neither of which happened. Additionally, the push was smooth, producing no spins or kicks in the objects trajectory and showing no stopping beyond the point where we expect evaporation of water-ice by the heating of sunlight to stop. Basically, it did everything we would not expect from a natural comet.

In September 2020, another object was discovered by the same array that found Oumuamua. This object also displayed all the same properties of no outgassing and excess push away from the Sun. It turned out to be a thin shell from a rocket booster used in a 1966 Nasa mission. Adding further weight to the idea that Oumuamua was not of natural origin or at least not made of material we are familiar with.

Alien Solar Sails?

The idea of using solar sails to push spacecraft along has been around for several decades. In fact, in 2010 the idea became science fact with the launch of IKAROS. The best analogy for solar sails is ships here on Earth. Rather than using wind to push the craft along, they use radiation pressure from stars to push themselves along.

Sufficiently advanced sails would allow a spacecraft to travel huge distances without the need for traditional propellants. Meaning the craft would be cheap to run and have less chance of breaking, due to the relatively small number of moving parts.

With all this in mind, the idea of Oumuamua being an alien craft visiting our solar system from elsewhere is a compelling one. Even if more study is needed.

If it’s not an alien spacecraft, what else could it be? A couple of compelling theories have been proposed.

Nitrogen ice theory: States that Oumuamua could be part of a dwarf planet from beyond our solar system. If composed of nitrogen ice, it would reflect two thirds of the Suns light, giving it the required push needed. Avi Loeb himself has criticised this theory.

Hydrogen Ice Theory: It has also been suggested that Oumuamua could contain a large amount of hydrogen ice. The object would have to have originated from an interstellar molecular cloud for this to be correct. The heat from the Sun would cause the hydrogen to sublimate (change from a solid to a gas, skipping the liquid state) and propel the object. This would be a difficult process to detect from Earth based telescopes, which would explain the lack of outgassing.

To try to find out once and for all what Oumuamua and other possibly similar interstellar objects found since (such as 2l/Borisov) are, there are currently two different approaches being taken.

Avi Loeb and colleagues at Harvard have created the Galileo Project, the goal of which is:

“to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations (ETCs) from accidental or anecdotal observations and legends to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research. This project is complementary to traditional SETI, in that it searches for physical objects, and not electromagnetic signals, associated with extraterrestrial technological equipment.”

The above text is taken direct from the Project details page. Additionally, there is also Project Lyra.

Project Lyra is a feasibility study to see if we could launch spacecraft to catch up to Oumuamua and 2l/Borisov within a reasonable time period. One of the options to catch them is, yep you guessed it, a solar sail. The craft would have to use Jupiter for a gravitational assist if we are to have any hope of getting to it within 5 to 10 years.

It is certainly exciting times in the age of space discovery. Let’s hope we set out after Oumuamua soon. After all, if we want to answer the question of whether an alien spacecraft visited our solar system or not, now seems like the best chance we have ever had. Even if it turns out to be a natural object, we could learn so much from it.

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You click the article excitedly and….disappointment. It’s a fast radio burst. Usually originating from a neutron star spinning rapidly. Or it’s some other completely plausible natural phenomena. And I hate those headlines. It’s said that if a headline asks a question, the answer is pretty much always no.

So have I set myself up with the above headline? Maybe. Because the answer really is, on this occasion, we don’t know. You see, there is a candidate that stands out above all others. One that has not been explained by natural sources even after 43 years has elapsed.

The WOW! Signal

Most natural radio phenomena happens on the wideband spectrum. In a 1959 paper, two Cornell University physicists speculated that any intelligent alien civilisation would use the narrowband frequency of 1420 megahertz, which is naturally emitted by hydrogen. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and would be well known by all civilisations.

In 1973, Big Ear, a radio telescope at Ohio State University turned its attention from wideband sources to looking for narrowband sources. The project was named SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence).

Not much happened at SETI for the first four years. Scouring the known universe for signals is a thankless task. The likely hood of finding one is miniscule. You would have to be pointing in the right direction at exactly the right time and looking on the right frequency. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, except the haystack is the size of the sun!

Which makes the below picture even more remarkable.

August 15, 1977

It doesn’t look like much, does it? Without the context of this story, it’s just a piece of paper with a load of numbers on it. But to someone scouring the night sky in 1977, this was so exciting, WOW! is hastily scribbled next to it.

It was written by Jerry R. Ehman. Jerry is an Astronomer and on that day in 1977, he was going over reams of data a few days after the telescope had picked up the signal.

To us, it looks like nonsense, but this is what Ehman saw. A signal that starts off low, picks up in strength and then weakens again. Strongly showing it is in one area of the sky only. This narrowband signal also only appeared on one channel. Let’s allow Ehman to explain:

It was a narrowband signal, just what we were looking for. It didn’t take long for me to recognize that this was extremely interesting. And the word ‘Wow!’ came to my mind very quickly, so I wrote it down.

Jerry R Ehman

They went back and looked for it again. It appeared to originate from the constellation of Sagittarius. Some 25,000 light years away.

Going through all the past data printouts, they hoped to find the signal appear again, but to no avail.

A month later they tried again. Nothing.

Same thing a year later. The SETI project lasted for 24 years. In all that time there was never another signal anything like the WOW! signal.

The project was scrapped after Congress in America deemed it too costly to fund. All it needed was around $150,000 a year to function. A rounding error in the American budget. The amount was literally less than 0.00001% of the budget that year.

By 1998 the Big Ear telescope had been demolished to make way for a golf course.

Attempts to explain the signal

Over the years there have been several attempts to attribute the signal to natural phenomena. The most pervasive paper was published by Antonio Paris just a few years ago. He and his team asserted that the signal came from comets. Hydrogen on comets gives out a signal of 1420MHz, which is where Big Ear caught the signal. And according to Paris, there were two comets near to where Big Ear saw the signal that night. So case closed right?

No.

Here’s why.

Radio astronomers have never been able to measure strong hydrogen signals from a comet, so this would have been beyond anything seen before. But hang on, maybe two comets could double the signal?

Big Ear was fitted with two receivers. During its sweep of the sky, only one of them picked up the signal. Due to the slow speed comets move at, this would make no sense. It’s not like the comets could have moved out of range in the 90 seconds it took to sweep that patch of sky. The only explanation to this has to be that the signal finished before the second sweep.

And lastly, Robert Dixon, the director of the Ohio State Radio Observatory has pointed out that the comets were in fact no where near the telescopes sightlines when the signal was found. And he should know, seeing as he was in charge of the telescope.

So what was the signal? As I said at the beginning, we just don’t know. Maybe there was/is a sentient civilisation living in the heart of the Sagittarius constellation and we managed to catch a glimpse of their communications. Communications that would have had to have started on their journey over 25,000 years ago to reach us now.

Or maybe it’s something else. A natural phenomena we don’t understand yet. But one thing is certain. It wasn’t a comet that was heard that night.

The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence lives on with SETI. Although the original project was defunded, it continues with donations. If this article has inspired you in any way, go give them a few dollars if you can. Who knows, the next news piece you read about them could be a confirmed extra-terrestrial signal, and you could have contributed to it in a small way.

SETI Donations Page (click here)

Sources:

The Big Ear Wow! Signal (bigear.org)

The Wow! Signal: An alien missed connection? (astronomy.com)

Was it ET on the line? (seti.org)

Wow! Signal (wikipedia.org)

Hydrogen Line Observations of Cometary Spectra (planetary-science.org)

Image Header (pixabay.com)

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August 21st 1955 – A Kentucky Police Station

Five adults, with seven children trailing in their wake burst into the police station. All are visibly upset and talking at once. Once the police calm them down, a story starts to emerge.

Billy Ray Taylor and Elmer Sutton, two of the adults present, fill in the details. Billy begins by describing how earlier that day he had seen a metallic object in the air.

“Real bright, with an exhaust all the colors of the rainbow”

Billy Ray Taylor

As he watched, the object made its way silently towards the house, passed over it, then dropped straight down to the ground. Telling the others what he had seen, he was dismissed and laughed at. So he dropped the tale, thinking he must have been mistaken.

An hour later, they are alerted to something outside because of the dogs barking. Opening the door, they are met with an otherworldly sight.

Hopkinsville Goblins – The Encounter

A strange glowing creature is out there. With an oversize head, long arms and eyes that glow yellow, these creatures standing three and a half feet tall are unlike anything they have seen before. They do what any sensible person would do. They grab their guns.

Recounting the story at the police station, an epic gun battle lasting four hours takes place. 12 to 15 of the creatures are out there. Every time one shows it face, boom! they shoot at it. To no avail. It appears the creatures are impervious to bullets.

At one point, during a lull in the fighting, Billy steps outside to look for the creatures. As he does, a claw like hand reaches down from the porch roof and touches his hair. Screaming, he throws himself back inside as another member of the group takes aim. A direct hit. Again the creatures are unaffected, floating to the ground and heading for the woods.

For the next few hours a pattern is set. The creatures get close and are forced back by the people inside. Eventually it becomes too much. So they make a break for their vehicles and race to the police station.

The police return to the farmhouse to investigate. They find no evidence of a silvery flying object or little glowing men. What they do find, however, is evidence of a massive shootout. Holes are everywhere, in doors, windows and the walls of the farmhouse. All made by gunfire.

Aftermath and News Reports

The news spreads like wildfire and is soon picked up by the press. In early reports, there are no mentions of “little green men”. This detail is added to later reports and helps to solidify the folklore surrounding alien encounters. We see it from E.T. to Yoda, the Martian in Mars Attacks! to Men In Black. All have “little green men” in them. Even Toy Story has small green aliens in it. It is enshrined in the stories surrounding extra-terrestrial visitors.

So what actually happened at the farmhouse that night? Could the Hopkinsville Goblins have been a genuine extra-terrestrial encounter? Mass hallucination? Or a giant con?

Simply put, we don’t know. What is known is this. Throughout the entire investigation and onwards, the stories never change. Each and every person who witnessed this event tells a similar story. And they tell it earnestly and honestly. They are utterly convinced in what they saw that night.

Sources:

Kentucky New Era, Aug 22 1955 Newspaper Article (news.google.com)

Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter (self.gutenberg.org)

How the little green men phenomenon began (history.com)

Close encounter at Kelly (cufos.org)

Header Image (pixabay.com)

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