Let’s sum up the events from 2017 that we’ve covered so far.
Three brief U.S. Navy F/A-18 infra-red videos were released, first in the summer of 2017 by To The Stars Academy.[1] Then later semi-officially in December coinciding with major media coverage.[2]
This media frenzy prodded the Pentagon to admit much later (in 2020) that yes, the videos did originate with U.S. military aircraft flown by military pilots, but without any confirmation or denial of the objects themselves.[3]
Only one pilot out of the half-dozen or so involved with the initial 2004 USS Nimitz sighting has said he spotted a white Tic Tac-shaped object doing what he described as ‘impossible’ maneuvers.[4]
However, neither his plane nor his wingman’s plane were equipped with weapons or infrared sensor arrays. The F/A-18 that supposedly captured video of the Tic Tac object was a different aircraft that arrived in supposedly the same location an unknown number of hours later.
However, that second aircraft’s video does not record a Tic Tac-shaped object, nor was the object near the water’s surface, and it did not exhibit any anomalous flight characteristics.[5]
Despite claims that the object was also recorded by other Navy aircraft, as well as at least one surface vessel, none of those recordings have been released.[6]
In October 2017, before the major media coverage exploded, a New York Times reporter was given a private briefing with what was described as unnamed intelligence officers,[7] as well as with Lue Elizondo, who has claimed he headed a UFO/UAP investigative office for the Pentagon[8]. However, the Pentagon denies his claims.[9]
In the words of ‘The Intercept’ author and reporter Keith Kloor, ‘There is no discernible evidence that Luis Elizondo ever worked for a government UFO program, much less led one.’
Elizondo has, however, been verified as having worked for the U.S. Army’s Counterintelligence service, whose job is specifically to ‘detect, identify, assess, counter, exploit and/or neutralize adversarial, foreign intelligence services.’
Such an agency would not be above creating false stories nor spoofing technology and assets to mislead our adversaries, as has been done continuously since World War II.[10]
Later in October 2017, there was a major incident in the skies over California and Oregon that received much less media coverage.[11] In this event, a fast, unidentified, uncommunicative craft without a transponder signal was caught on radar going in excess of Mach-1 out of southwestern Nevada, flying west into northern California airspace.
At that point, it made a hard right-hand turn and began paralleling and outpacing commercial airliner traffic, flying north at 37,000 feet, just above the commercial traffic lanes at around 35,000 feet.
It had appeared on radar initially, but soon after it turned north, it disappeared from radar, though the commercial airliner crews continued to maintain visual contact.[12] The craft was far enough away that the crews could not make out any specific details or control surfaces.
It should be noted that any large aircraft at two or three miles distance painted white would indeed appear as a white Tic Tac object, similar in appearance to what was reported in the original 2004 Tic Tac incident, though this craft made no ‘impossible’ movements.
In fact, multiple videos of Tic Tac-shaped craft flying near commercial airliner traffic have been made by both passengers and aircrew, when these objects have all been shown to have been known commercial airliners whose details cannot be made out by the cameras recording them.[13]
In late December, the New York Times reporter broke the story about the three original US Navy IR videos, which created significant media attention.[14]
In February 2018, following several Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests regarding the October 2017 incident, the U.S. Air Force released the radar tapes of the craft on its flight through three states.
In a highly unusual move, the Air Force also released the recorded conversations between the FAA controllers, the commercial pilots, and the NORAD officers who vectored in armed F-15 fighters with the intention of finding and possibly engaging the mystery craft.[15]
The fighters never reported seeing the craft, which was lost to visual sighting by the commercial aircrews somewhere north of Portland, Oregon. The recordings paint a very unflattering picture of the FAA’s lack of preparedness in dealing with such an incident. Not to mention their inability to relay what action the commercial air traffic should take to avoid the armed F-15s entering their airspace.
There is one more ensuing event that happened after all this that adds an interesting bit of context to these previous events…
On March 1st, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced with great fanfare in a public speech that his country’s military had perfected several new ‘super weapons’.[16] This included a nuclear-powered stealth cruise missile that could loiter indefinitely (theoretically) near the U.S. coastline, ready to divert and attack U.S. cities with barely a moment’s warning.
The good news is that this particular weapon, codenamed the RS-28 SARMAT — Russian for ‘Satan’ — is nowhere near being ready for active service: at its latest test launch in September 2024, it appears to have exploded in its silo, leaving a 200-foot-wide crater where the silo used to be.[17]
Putin’s announcement was accompanied by a video presentation with an oddly specific target: not Washington or New York City, but the state of Florida, home to then-President Donald Trump.[18] At the time of the presentation, pundits suggested this may have been an intentional warning to Trump to take Putin’s threats seriously.
The question is, why would Putin feel the need to threaten the U.S., since Trump had treated Russia so well during his first term? The reason behind this threat has everything to do with the image at the top of this newsletter: Putin was responding to the Pentagon, more specifically, the Tic Tac-shaped craft that the Pentagon had been so delicately supporting throughout 2017.
The theory goes that Putin was responding to the possibility that the U.S. had back-engineered UFO technology, and was beginning to test it near US assets like the Nimitz carrier group in 2004.
When that revelation was about to become public knowledge in 2017, the Pentagon appears to have tested the same or an advanced version of that same technology over U.S. soil, launching the craft from one of its test ranges in Nevada, home to both Area 51, officially called the Nevada Test and Training Range,[19] as well as the Tonopah Test Range.[20]
But is there any evidence that this Tic Tac object may in fact be a US craft?
Have there been any other sightings of such Tic Tac-shaped craft in US airspace?
And does anyone else in the Pentagon say officially that these may be US technology?
Amazingly enough, all three questions can be answered with a surprising, ‘Yes.’ More on this in our next newsletter.
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[1] https://tothestars.media/blogs/press-and-news/to-the-stars-academy-of-arts-science-acknowledges-the- pentagons-official-release-of-uap-video-footage
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html
[3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/pentagon-ufo-videos/index.html
[4] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/01/16/this-former-navy-fighter-pilot-who-once-chased-ufo- says-should-take-them-seriously
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ
[6] https://www.twz.com/Tic Tac-uap-incident-included-in-72-newly-released-range-incursion-reports
[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/insider/secret-pentagon-ufo-program.html
[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
[9] https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/
[10] https://www.army.mil/acic#org-history
[11] https://www.twz.com/16079/airliners-and-f-15s-involved-in-bizzare-encounter-with-mystery-aircraft-over- oregon
[12] https://www.twz.com/18473/faa-recordings-deepen-mystery-surrounding-ufo-over-oregon-that-sent- f-15s-scrambling
[13] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-serious-ufo-uap-security
[14] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html
[15] https://www.twz.com/18473/faa-recordings-deepen-mystery-surrounding-ufo-over-oregon-that-sent- f-15s-scrambling
[16] https://www.twz.com/18906/heres-the-six-super-weapons-putin-unveiled-during-fiery-address
[17] https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/satellite-images-suggest-test-of-russian-super-weapon-failed- spectacularly/
[18] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43248794
[19] https://now.northropgrumman.com/area-51-aliens-or-just-a-simple-myth-understanding