AS A RESEARCHER and activist, I never thought the day would come in my lifetime where the historic space agency ‘NASA’ would actively take a role in discussing unexplained aerial anomalies (whatever they are). However, that is exactly what is happening. This month NASA chief Bill Nelson repeated his ‘pro-UFO’ statements from earlier in the year and this time went as far as to say he had spoken with Navy Pilots on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), even indicating a ‘non-human’ origin. The video below quickly went viral thanks to our team of activists.

Nelson’s comments reflect a growing consensus of prominent voices within the American government claiming that UAP technology represents a serious issue of both national defence and of profound scientific inquiry. It is amazing to think that this is the same agency that once scornfully responded to astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s extreme claims about alien intelligences operating here on Earth.

“NASA does not track UFOs”

The needle has moved forward from that statement given in 2008. The once stigmatised topic of UAP - previously labelled ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’ (UFOs) - has become popular within the mainstream since the infamous AATIP New York Times article in 2017 and is now on the forefront of conversation within certain scientific circles. At least it is for those who have been briefed at the unclassified level and those who have a strategic ‘need to know’. For those who haven’t had access to such sensitive data, there has been a flood of publicly accessible information over the past few years.

A recent article in The Hill - a prominent political newspaper in America - recently titled an article ‘NASA chief Bill Nelson latest official to suggest UFOs have otherworldly origins’ and didn’t sugar-coat the issue of extreme concepts. After all, regardless of one’s own belief systems, this is a serious issue and deserved to be written by a massive news outlet about a massive story. I do not overstate this. In short, I can paraphrase by quoting the article, ‘U.S. intelligence analysts are reportedly considering the possibility that recent encounters involved “non-human” technology’.

The research and activist team based at UAPMedia have been fortunate enough to know the seriousness of such claims by senior people in congress, DoD and now NASA. Behind the scenes, some very serious and high-ranking people are mobilising into position around this issue. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence UAP report this summer gave nothing away, apart from, the recommendation to replace the temporary Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) with something more permanent.

The very notion of unacknowledged special access programs (SAP) that have no oversight from congress is an alarming thought, and one which we should be mature enough as a species to move past.

You may well ask how this could be happening? After all, we have only seen but blurry, black and white footage of ‘things’ that - sort of - kind of – maybe - look like spaceships, but without clear HD videos it’s impossible to tell. The very first DoD footage to be confirmed, ‘FLIR1’, ‘Go Fast’ and ‘Gimbal’ represented genuine objects of ‘something’ unusual and that something has been classified officially as unidentified. Meaning these aren’t birds, balloons, drones or Chinese spy planes, they are anomalous phenomena in the truest sense, whatever that means.  

So exactly how and why are claims being made? And why are they saying these things now? High level officials such as Fmr. President Barrack Obama, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, NASA chief Bill Nelson, Fmr. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Senators for oversight committees Mark Warner, Marco Rubio, André Carlson, Martin Heinrich, (the list goes on and on) have all made comment regarding extraordinary things. But why?

The answer is that they have received classified briefings from intelligence agencies. They have seen the classified annex to the 180-day DoD report and others which still remain inaccessible to the public, even through FOIA requests. They have seen the clear photos and videos of UAP that are 50ft away from Navy Pilots cockpit, and quite possibly heard the pilot audio too. They are indirectly/directly involved with the ongoing UAP initiative that is being forced by Christopher Mellon, Luis Elizondo and the strategic think-tank team at SkyFort. 

The other, more pleasing reason is that the stigma surrounding UAP has lifted in recent years. Those who are in a position of authority can now step forward without fear of reprisal and ridicule. The conversation has shifted so dramatically away from ‘little green men’ and conspiracies to an authenticated radical technology, that the highest authorities within the United states government are comfortable enough to push the agenda forward. 

The upcoming November symposium ‘Our Future in space’ is an accolade to this successful paradigm shift and it includes renowned Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb joined by NASA administrator Bill Nelson and the acting Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. Prominent people, now part of the UAP conversation. A conversation which might include the possibility that non-human technology operates freely within our skies and our oceans and transcends sovereign borders .

The UAPMedia team reached out to the Fmr. Director of the Pentagon’s ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’ (AATIP) Luis Elizondo, the man who ran the secretive UAP program. We asked him about the significance of recent events and the importance of the paradigm shift.

Whilst ‘disclosure’ is a loaded term and means many things to many different people, the consensus is the same – that something anomalous is operating within our skies. The conversation has changed, and is changing, that is for certain. To the UAP research community and to the UAPMedia team of researchers and activists, the acknowledgment by government that we are dealing with something extreme, radical and potentially non-human is worthy of conversation.

Let’s hope we have people willing to take a stand.