“I also propose that we put a warning on all horseradish that clearly states that if you ingest an entire bottle, that you will blow out your sphincter. Also, if anyone knows anyone that recently died with an intact size 3 sphincter, please contact me as I am currently very low on the waiting list for a donor.”

• Stan Smith

It’s the same. I know it as Dog Vomit Slime, but there seem to be a ton of regional names for it. Scrambled Egg Slime is one of the more inviting names, but I’ll always prefer my dog vomit.

Looks like slime mold to me, particularly Fuligo Septica.

Looks great! If you’d like an easy sauce, you could macerate the strawberries. Just sprinkle a little sugar over cut strawberries, cover, and let sit an hour or so until the juices start to draw out.

!chevron7@lemmy.world

There have been numerous sightings of objects around military bases in recent years, including nuclear sites. More recently were sightings over Langley AFB in 2023. It is clear that not only are military bases being observed, but also that little is known about the objects or their origins. While the current events may be drones from an adversary, it does echo a long history of UAP observed around military bases. Of the more concerning events was in 1967 at Malmstrom AFB where it is alleged that a “mysterious red glowing object in the sky” disabled 10 nuclear ICBMs.

Some notable quotes from this article:

We can confirm that the drones spotted in Colorado and Nebraska are not from F.E. Warren Air Force Base and are not affiliated in any way with the United States Air Force. We have provided this information to the FAA, FBI, and state and local authorities, as they investigate this matter.

The drones have not posed a threat to any of our sites, facilities or operations.

F.E. Warren AFB does conduct counter-UAS training within the confines of the installation, however, any drones spotted outside of the installation are not part of our fleet.

In another email sent on January 2, 2020, an unknown sender notes the bewilderment the region experienced at the height of the drone panic:

Hey colonel:

Northeastern Colorado is in a tizzy about drone sightings. They all seem clustered in an area that has quite a few Minuteman sites. Do you know if security forces is playing with UASs [unmanned aircraft systems] up there?

This article highlights discrepancies and blatant gaps in AARO’s recent historical report. I always appreciate Marik’s articles for being well cited to back his statements and this is no exception. While I’ve seen a lot more examples of flaws in AARO’s report, this article does a good job in showing the cracks in the foundation of AARO’s arguments.

I personally would have liked to see more Democrats sign this request to show that this is a bipartisan concern. However, the request is to sway the Speaker, so having majority Republicans signing may do a better job in getting the committee established.

Text from Graves’ tweet:

As a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot who works with other advanced UAP witnesses, I am very discouraged and disappointed by the Pentagon’s report. Once again, the Pentagon demonstrates it is more interested in discounting witnesses and whistleblowers than it is with actually identifying anomalous objects and phenomena in our airspace.

The bottom line is that this report raises more questions than it answers.

Here are the facts:

In the actual report, the Pentagon again acknowledges that there are anomalous objects in our airspace demonstrating concerning performance characteristics.

For example, the “UFO videos” - 2004 Nimitz incident, 2015 Gimbal and GoFast experienced by squadron remain completely unexplained and the Pentagon has no new update on this mystery.

The Pentagon is unable to determine whether or not these advanced UAP are foreign just as the former director of AARO is calling advanced UAP, “a potential national security crisis.

The Pentagon is dismissing UAP cases in this report without evidence while having previously said that they don’t have the resources or the proper authorities to adequately investigate.

Here are my questions:

Why is the Pentagon trying to dismiss cases they can’t explain?

If reported cases of UAP are entirely innocuous, why is AARO right now deploying advanced hyperspectral sensors to military bases and training ranges?

Is the Pentagon the right agency to investigate whistleblower claims or should Congress or the DOJ take a stronger role to ensure impartiality and justice?

Rather than address head on the 80 year UAP mystery, the Pentagon succeeded in further misdirecting the public, discouraging military pilots and whistleblowers from coming forward, and perpetuating the stigma surrounding this topic.

The pentagon just had a briefing and touched on the report. They only said a few sentences recapping it and even then it was specifically focused on extraterrestrials. That should not be the point of AARO and shouldn’t have been the focus of the report. Even if what they review isn’t extraterrestrial, hyper-fixating on disproving it is a failure of their publicly stated role. Instead of determining what things are, they’re trying to determine what they aren’t.

Highlights below, emphasis mine.

UAP Caucus Member: “The goal would be, if he’s on staff, his security clearance would be — he would have it renewed. He would have the place to park his clearance.”

UAP Caucus Member: “We are kind of exploring that as a concept to see if it would work. The question is, let’s say he’s on staff, what authority would he have? And would it work? The other thing is like, he doesn’t want to get paid. He’s not somebody that is trying to do this because he wants money, but it would be a mechanism for us to have somebody on the inside that’s steering the ship.”

I’d be fine with a report that came back inconclusive compared to dismissing an unknown due to too narrow of a scope. If they truly were being scientific, they would admit that their research scope was not determining what UAP are, but determining they’re not specifically extraterrestrial. It’d be like going to a doctor and them saying you’re not sick because you don’t have cancer.

I don’t expect answers to a lot of UAP incidents or alleged programs, but I do want transparency. I’m sure that even the government has a lot that is left unknown on the subject, but there’s definitely information being buried. This report just serves to further muddy the topic.

The goal of this report is not to prove or disprove any particular belief set, but rather to use a rigorous analytic and scientific approach to investigate past USG-sponsored UAP investigation efforts and the claims made by interviewees that the USG and various contractors have recovered and are hiding off-world technology and biological material. AARO has approached this project with the widest possible aperture, thoroughly investigating these assertions and claims without any particular pre-conceived conclusion or hypothesis. AARO is committed to reaching conclusions based on empirical evidence.

The word “extraterrestrial” appears 61 times in the 40 pages of actual report and “off-world” 29 times. For claiming to be focused on accurate, scientific study, the report is focused on specifically dispelling extraterrestrial claims. As I previously stated, it is hard to prove “extraterrestrial” or even “off-world”. Without interviewing an extraterrestrial or see an object make entry into our atmosphere, you’re left with an assumption on the source. The goal of the paper seems fixated on lack of evidence of “extraterrestrials” not that there aren’t objects we can’t attribute to human technology or even programs reviewing objects of unknown origin. The moment they can claim they can’t attribute something to extraterrestrials is the moment the research or discussion stops. It should be ok to state that there are objects being studied of unknown design and origin, but this paper fails to address that.

The report has finally been published: https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Volume_1_2024.pdf?ver=hqUUJmBEFELwdKX1QqF5XQ%3D%3D

Edit: I love that a lot of the claims proving UAP are not Extraterrestrial are “backed” by citations that simply read “AARO case files”. Citations 84-115 are just “AARO case files” with no reference to which case or additional details. For an unclassified report, they are definitely showing how much they don’t want to elaborate.

Also, do note that it is hard to prove an unknown object is “Extraterrestrial”, which is why there has been a shift in regarding objects as from NHI (Non-human intelligence). Even that is difficult to prove, but it’s a broader scope that is harder to rule out. They could very well find a non-human body, but state there’s no evidence it’s not of this planet. The important thing is either proving it is tied to a specific individual or group of people or admitting that they can’t. This seems to be an attempt to resolve incidents by claiming they can’t assign it to specifically “Extraterrestrial”.

Opinion piece by Ryan Graves on potential risks in our airspace. Graves had previously testified before congress on UAP, as well as the stigmas and bureaucratic barriers in reporting UAP. Objects in our airspace, whether identified or not, have been under reported and even under observed by our military’s own surveillance.

To me, the most curious thing has been the lack of monitoring by the government until the identification and shoot downs of objects February last year. There is no telling how much had been filtered out or ignored over the years and potentially still is.

the three other objects shot down by American fighters over Alaska, Canada, and Michigan the following weekend were only detected after the North American Aerospace Defense Command removed Cold War-era filters from its radar. Previously, filters excluded anything too small, too high, too slow, or too fast to be a Soviet bomber or ballistic missile.

Yeah, I’m hoping there were actually more involved. As much as I don’t like Gaetz being central to it, his position on the Armed Services committee has given him more access than some other reps.

If I’d hazard a guess, this meeting could have taken place in Florida, potentially Eglin AFB. That’d explain specifically those two reps since they’re out of Florida. Though I wish Moskowitz would have attended to balance out potential political bias.

The article focuses on the progress of the Sky Canada Project, which was created Fall of 2022 to study the handling of public reports of UAP. I’m curious to know if this project will entail the UAP incidents from early in 2023 which involved both the US and Canada.

“We should be on track for releasing the report at the end of summer, early fall,” Nemer said on Tuesday. “I think our report is going to be quite fascinating on the historic front, so stay tuned.”

Update from Ask a Pol:

NEW: Matt Gaetz confirms classified briefing

“We can confirm that we received a briefing with Rep. Luna. We have no comment on the contents of that briefing at this time,” a spokesman for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sends Ask a Pol.

Additional update from Twitter:

https://twitter.com/AskaPol_UAPs/status/1763440732134883592

“Bodies” is 💯 in context of and in reference to remains from a recovered craft.

💯 No question what our source meant.

💯 claim @MattLaslo brought 🎙️ to @realannapaulina in Ask a Pol’s interview.

That’s not disputed by Luna, Gaetz or their comm’s teams

I think it speaks volumes that Luna could only respond "I cannot discuss these things, you know that,” and “I’m sure we’ll have field hearings. No comment.” She hasn’t been one to pass up speaking on the topic in the past. Politics on Luna and Gaetz aside, for the topic of UAP their statements and actions have been echoed across congress across both parties. While this is just rumor at the time, it does seem that there’s been more action taken by congress so far this year.

Yeah, it didn’t seem directly related to the article outside of UAP. I’ve noticed a trend of news sites posting vaguely related videos at the top of articles just for added content.

Frustratingly, this was highlights of dismissive statements. They probably just grabbed a random video they had tagged “UAP”. Reports on UAP are getting more mainstream coverage, but a lot of it has been half assed.