When Did We First Notice UFOs And Why I'm Not Expecting A Bombshell From The Report On UAPs To Congress

The video below is perhaps one of the more sensational ones taken by an eyewitness in recent months. It's one of the thousands that are out there and one of the hundreds that have already been shared with the public over social media. This reminded me of something I hadn't had time to consider lately, the forthcoming, expected to be, bombshell report that congress will receive later this month.

It's this month that Congress is expected to hear a bombshell report on the phenomenon of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenons or, UFOs and there doesn't seem to be any shortage of new footage being shared on the internet or by the press. This was taken by Instagram user Ovni_avistamientos and shared and while it's not the most compelling video out there it definitely left me a sort of "what the heck" is that feeling. Have you ever wondered when this all started, because I have and there's more than one possible answer to that question?

In the writings of John Winthrop, on March 1st of 1639, Winthrop recounted a story that, at the time, caused quite a commotion among some of the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Allegedly, earlier that year, a man by the name of James Everal and two others were rowing a boat in the Muddy River when they claim to have seen a great light in the sky. When the strange apparition went away, the Governor wrote, the three Puritans in the boat were stunned to find themselves one mile upstream, as if they were taken there by the light, somehow.

James Everell, "a sober, discreet man,"

When a strange light in the sky stood still, it flamed up, and was about three square yards, when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine."

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Governor John Winthrop

A little over three hundred years later, in June of 1947, something happened outside of a small town in New Mexico that would become the subject of scrutiny, conspiracy theories, and an apparent government cover-up that still, to this day, has left more questions than answers. After collecting all of the evidence of the crash from rancher WW Mack Brazel and taking it to Roswell Army Field, the base public information officer, Lt. Walter Haut, issued a press release under the orders of the base head of intelligence that said basically that there'd been a flying saucer recovered. When on the following day a second release by then General Roger Ramey stated that there'd been a weather balloon crash this marked the start of the most well-documented UFO coverup in American history.

From 1952 to 1969 when the project was terminated, Project Blue Book was the official code name of the Air Forces designated investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects. It was in 1969 that the Air Force terminated their investigations as a result of a report from the University of Colorado titled "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects." The conclusion of the studies into UFO's was that (1) no UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of a threat to National Security; (2) there has been no evidence submitted to or found by the Air Force that Unidentified Flying Objects represent technological developments beyond the range of present-day science; and (3) there has been no evidence indicating that the sightings categorized as "Unidentified" represent extraterrestrial vehicles.

Scientists, civilians, news agencies, the governments of the world, and more specifically presidents of the United States have sought answers for years to the questions about UFOs and the United State's involvement or knowledge of these encounters. During the 90s both former President Bill Clinton and his wife, and long-time presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, showed interest in uncovering and sharing the truth about UFOs. While we may never know for certain what they know, from their time in the White House, if presidents can't find the truth behind what's known and not known, then who can?

In the 90s another famed aerial phenomenon occurred that captured the hearts and minds of curious viewers, scientists, and even the former governor of Arizona, Fife Symington, who was at the time a skeptic, curious. The Arizona lights. Described by many that witnessed the events of the Arizona Lights, the March 13, 1997 event appeared near the time of the passing of the Hale-Bopp comet, which also was a once-in-a-lifetime event. The most interesting part of the story actually started around 8:30 P.M. in Henderson, Nevada, at the Arizona border. Witnesses reported a strange sight, six orange lights, in a triangular pattern that slowly, almost methodically, moved toward the southeast. Famously, witnesses all claimed that there was no sound except for what was described as wind. Fifteen minutes later the lights were seen again as they got closer to Phoenix.

They were not conventional craft because the object flew too slowly for an airplane, flying slow enough a plane would have stalled, did not have the thwapping sound of rotor blades like a helicopter, and was completely noiseless. A helicopter would have shown distinct navigation lights and made a sound, especially at the low altitude.

As commander in chief of the Arizona National Guard and Air National Guard, I called Luke Air Force Base and was told no military craft were in the sky at 8:30 over Phoenix.

Former Arizona Governor

Fife Symington, 2007

Later, at about 10:30 PM a second sighting was reported to both Sky Harbor Air Traffic Control and Luke Air Force Base. Both claimed there were no planes in the sky initially but the military later released a statement indicating the second sighting were ground illumination flares from a flight of A-10 Warthogs over the Goldwater test range. Months went by before the Maryland Air National Guard Announced there were planes in the air on the night of March 13th, 1997, from the 104th fighter squadron flying out of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The CIA's UFO consultant Dr. Bruce Maccabee conducted an analysis, stating that it was likely that the second formation of lights were flares that could have been seen even from that many miles away. James Dilettoso, a photo analyst from Arizona's Village Labs disagreed, saying he'd done a spectral analysis of the lights to determine that the colors were inconsistent with flares.

UFOs or UAPs have always been with us as people looked to the heavens, looked to the stars, and pondered the bigger questions. Over the past seventy years, the modern worlds' fascination with the phenomenon and the questions it invokes has only grown. According to a USAF Fact Sheet of the 12,618 reports to Project Blue Book, only 701 remained "Unidentified." Nothing about that fact is going to slow the growth of curiosity with the universe.

Going into the future, we may never know the truth. The world is ready to hear the truth but at the same time, those in power may not be ready to share it with us. According to a June 4th Associated Press article by Robert Burns and Nomaan Merchant, the US government cannot give a definitive explanation of the aerial phenomena spotted by military pilots but has found no evidence they a linked to aliens, according to officials being briefed early. The report due to Congress later this month examines multiple unexplained sightings captured in recent years, some on video that's leaked to the public. Whatever is to come of the report, there are still events unfolding all over the world. While they're not denying that they are "extraterrestrial," they're not so far telling us that any evidence exists to confirm the existence of them being alien in origin.

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