In 2004, Sean Cahil, retired US Navy Chief Master-at-Arms, was aboard the USS Princeton when radar picked up extraordinary Tic Tac UFOs.
“The technology that we witnessed with the Tic Tac was something that we would not have been able to defend our forces from at the time,” Cahil said on CNN. (see video below)
Appearing with Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Cahil described the Tic Tac UFO’s abilities.
“What we saw in the Tic Tac and what Mr. Luis Elizondo described as the five observables indicate a technology that outstrips our arsenal by at least 100 to 1,000 years at the moment,” said Cahil.
The Five Observables
In 2008, Luiz Elizondo was first detailed to the secret UFO program sponsored by Senator Harry Reid, then called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program. Later, it became the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program or AATIP.
During his time at AATIP, Elizondo compiled a list of extraordinary feats that unidentified aerial phenomena shared:
Anti-gravity lift
Sudden and instantaneous acceleration
Hypersonic velocities without signatures (vapor trails or sonic booms)
Low observability, or cloaking
Trans-medium travel (moving between air and water)
Tic Tac UFO Abilities
According to Sean Cahil, the Tic Tac UFO was capable of all of the five observables and more.
“First of all, the aircraft had zero control surfaces; it had no means of propulsion that we could detect. It moved at hypersonic velocities, and it proceeded the pilots to their CAP [Combat air patrol] points. So, it seemed to have some knowledge of where the pilots were headed to ahead of time. And, we don’t posses those abilities to do that in our aresenal at the moment,” said Cahil.
Increasingly Bold UFOs
Host Chri Cuomo asked Mellon what he made of the matter.
“We clearly are vulnerable,” said Mellon. “And, this has been going on for too long. Finally, our Congress is learning of this situation. They’re beginning to react. We’ve got a lot of catch-up here, but it’s very concerning.”
Although the UFOs haven’t been hostile, the activities have become bolder, says Mellon.
“It’s not an imminent crisis or imminent threat. There’s been no hostility but there’ a lot of activity, and it’s increasingly bold. In some instances, we’ve had these things swarming around warships off the coast of California, swarming around strategic missile defense spaces in Guam,” he said.
Now, Mellon says, considering all the tensions in the world involving drone attacks, it’s something to take seriously.
See the interview below from CNN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azZ4XAZuVk4
What’s Changed About UFOs?
Cuomo asked Mellon why there is a new urgency in studying UFOs today.
In response, Mellon discussed the frustration Elizondo faced in AATIP. As pilots on the East coast saw UFOs frequently, Elizondo’s program was low on resources and unsupported by the intelligence community.
In frustration, he retired in 2017 and joined a group organized by Tom DeLonge, “To the Stars Academy.”
Then, a report in the New York Times that year finally got attention from Congress. The report detailed $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, exposing the Pentagon program to the world.
“Finally, our leadership in both branches of government became aware this was going on. So this has only just come to light,” explained Mellon.
A UFO Breakthrough
Next month, the US executive branch could issue a public UAP report of its activities related to the phenomenon for the first time in half a century.
Meanwhile, journalists at POLITICO and the New Yorker have detailed how Elizondo, journalist George Knapp, DeLonge, Mellon, and many others have pushed UFOs into the mainstream.
Today, DeLonge says there has been a breakthrough as the conversation has changed.
“You rarely read the ridiculous dismissals of the UAP phenomenon that were all too common over the past 70 years,” DeLonge told POLITICO’s, Bryan Bender. “We are witnessing the socialization of the UAP phenomenon in a much more accepting way. I am very optimistic about real research on this phenomenon happening in the near future.”
A Public UAP Reckoning
As we prepare for the June UAP report, nobody knows for sure what to expect. According to Cahil, the Tic Tac UFO encounter may be just the tip of the iceberg.
“I think that we’re going to find that this phenomenon represents a very large spectrum of different things,” said Cahil. “At edges of that spectrum are going to be near-peer technology of our adversaries here on Earth. At the other end of that spectrum is going to be something that we don’t yet understand and haven’t identified yet.”
Although he isn’t sure what the UFOs represent, Cahil knows they seem far beyond human technology.
“So, I hesitate to speculate on the source but I can tell you that I don’t believe that this is within our arsenal of any human technology at the moment.”
However, Cahil doesn’t necessarily think the UAPs are necessarily extraterrestrial.
“What we can say is we don’t know what this is and it’s here. It’s going to take all of us to figure this out together.”
Otherworldly Origins?
On the other hand, Mellon says there’s no reason to rule out extraterrestrial origins.
As for otherworldly origins, Mellon says, “There’s no scientific reason or basis to doubt that possibility. That’s a hypothesis that could explain the facts. People need to be open to that. We’re spending billions looking for extraterrestrial civilizations. We’ve got spacecraft that have already left the solar system. It’s possible somebody found us before we found them.”
So far, ETs haven’t made contact, and perhaps that’s because they see us as something like less intelligent animals in a zoo.
“If they’re as smart as we think they are then I think we’re kind of silly thinking we can guess their motives,” says Cahil.
Or, perhaps it’s like former Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed said?
“They have been waiting until today for humanity to develop and reach a stage where we will understand, in general, what space and spaceships are,” Eshed said.
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In June, a public UAP report on unidentified aerial phenomena is due as requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee. However, multiple current and former government officials say military and spy agencies are “blocking or simply ignoring the effort,” reported POLITICO.
Sen. Marco Rubio requested the UAP report, which is required to provide “a detailed description” of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting for the federal government, “regardless of which service or agency acquired the information.”
“We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises. We don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours,” Rubio told CBS last July.
Nevertheless, it seems the report will likely be incomplete, delayed, and highly redacted, similar to a recent CIA document dump.
Now, the Biden administration may decide to delay the report due to all the roadblocks.
Public Perception of a Coverup
In all likelihood, delaying the forthcoming report would only strengthen the public’s perception of a coverup.
“Any delay in delivering it is likely to be perceived by a large segment of the public as an attempt by the government to hide what it knows,” reported Bryan Bender.
Such perception would be entirely logical, given the long history of coverups, such as the decades of secret multimillion-dollar UFO study programs.
Also, recent public statements by Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe make it clear there may be much more to cover up than we know.
For example, Ratcliffe said, “there are a lot more sightings” than the public is aware of.
Furthermore, Ratcliffe explained that U.S. military craft and satellites picked up aircraft moving with unknown technology, even breaking the sound barrier without a sonic boom.
Public Disclosure in the UAP Report?
Despite Rubio’s request, it’s plain that the Pentagon maintains the position that protecting national security takes precedence over public disclosure.
Thus, the Air Force deferred reporters’ questions to the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Then, Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough responded without addressing criticism:
“To protect our people, maintain operational security and safeguard intelligence methods, we do not publicly discuss the details of the UAP observations, the task force, or investigations,” said Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough.
From this statement, we can assume any report would redact UAP details.
Taking it Seriously
Already, Rubio has asked fellow lawmakers to take the report seriously on 60 Minutes.
“I want us to take it seriously and have a process to take it seriously,” Rubio said on the show.
Further, Rubio acknowledged a stigma about the subject.
“There’s a stigma on Capitol Hill,” Rubio said. “I mean, some of my colleagues are very interested in this topic and some kinda, you know, giggle when you bring it up. But I don’t think we can allow the stigma to keep us from having an answer to a very fundamental question.”
Now, consider that some in Congress may giggle at the mere mention of UFOs and that the report will almost certainly be incomplete. As for us, we gave up a long time ago on seeing many in Congress take issues seriously.
Former Pentagon Intelligence, Christopher Mellon
According to former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence Christopher Mellon, the Air Force has denied access to information. Also, a Navy-led Pentagon task force set up last August has few personnel or resources to gather any evidence.
Further, government bureaucracies are stymying the efforts, as one would expect.
“I know that the task force has been denied access to pertinent information by the Air Force and they have been stiff-armed by them,” Mellon said in an interview. “That is disappointing but not unexpected.”
On the other hand, Mellon notes that, in contrast, the “tide is turning against the illogical stigma” preventing objective UAP study.
Instead, an interim report using more time and resources would serve the public better.
“We can do this right or we can do it right now,” Elizondo said. “It’s certainly not sufficient time to provide a comprehensive, government-wide report that Congress not only expects, but that Congress deserves and frankly, so does the American people,” he added.
Recently, Elizondo tweeted that he does not think the recent sightings could be attributed only to drones.
“Drones? In some cases, most certainly yes. In other cases, absolutely not. It is for this precise reason why we need a well-funded and enduring capability to collect, analyze and determine the exact nature of these things. It is here, it is real, and it is now,” he tweeted.
In a 60 Minutes interview, Elizondo says that while the government has confirmed the UFOs are real, it has also been covering up the truth.
See Elizondo in the clip from Inside Edition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDDXz1-zOlQ
Decades of Stigma and Secrecy
Even as decades of stigma and ridicule are giving way to mainstream UFO acceptance, it’s clear that full disclosure at this time would be extremely unlikely.
Already, we can see that the June UAP report will withhold much from the public. As Mellon said, even getting government agencies to agree on the language used will prove challenging.
“In addition to the onerous job of trying to get everyone to come clean,” Mellon said, “there will be a sensitive and probably difficult process of getting all the players … to agree on the language and approve it. That process alone could take weeks or months.”
Therefore, we can all plan to continue searching for the truth after the UAP report comes out. In all likelihood, the prevailing attitudes of stigma and secrecy will not just vanish like a UFO.
Indeed, these attitudes were carefully cultivated for decades to discourage interest in the subject. For an in-depth analysis of how it was done, see the recent piece by Gideon Lewis-Kraus in the New Yorker.)
Public Interest Only Growing
On the other hand, now that the government has disclosed that UFOs are authentic, interest is only going to grow from there. As public interest grows, we could be more likely to see the disclosure about UFO origins.
Perhaps, one day, we’ll even learn about extraterrestrials?
For those interested, Mellon recommended the new “explosive documentary,” called The Phenomenon.
“I can’t think of a better way for people to begin educating themselves on the #UAP issue. The film provides a badly needed remedy for the unwarranted stigma that has prevented government & academia from taking this important topic seriously,” he tweeted.
The film touts itself as “the most credible film ever made about the global mystery involving unidentified aerial phenomenon.”
In the documentary trailer, Mellon states, “We need to accept that we are not alone in the universe.”
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Former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid continues to call for leading with science when studying UFOs. Originally, he says he “never intended to prove that life beyond Earth exists.” However, he has “no problem with that,” if the science proves otherwise.
As a June UAP report is due in days, Reid wrote in the New York Times,“We still don’t know what they are, but we may be close to finding out.”
Nevertheless, other former government officials indicate we could be far from finding out. Recently, reports from former and current government officials suggest “military and spy agencies are blocking or simply ignoring the effort to compile a report.”
Harry Reid On Visiting Area 51
As a senator, Reid says he visited Area 51, the top-secret Air Force testing site in southern Nevada.
“What I saw fascinated me, though much of it must remain classified,” Reid wrote. “During one visit, I traveled a short distance to the facility that housed the Air Force’s secret new stealth fighters. For security reasons, the pilots could fly them only at night — under the same Nevada stars I had gazed upon as a boy.”
Then, suggested the existence of Area 51 should have remained classified until 2013.
“Though Area 51 was developed decades ago, during the height of the Cold War, its existence wasn’t publicly acknowledged by the US government until 2013. To do so earlier would have been detrimental to our security as a nation, given that our government constantly balances the competing priorities of secrecy and transparency in a democracy,” he wrote.
Recently, Reid suggested that Lockheed Martin might have fragments of UFOs, but he has never seen proof.
“I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials,” the Democrat told the New Yorker. “And I tried to get, as I recall, a classified approval by the Pentagon to have me go look at the stuff. They would not approve that. I don’t know what all the numbers were, what kind of classification it was, but they would not give that to me.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuYCa-65hhI
Harry Reid and AATIP
At the same time, Reid realized that the “unofficial taboo” of UFO discussions could actually harm national security. Furthermore, it could inhibit technical advancement as other countries openly study the phenomena.
Consequently, he decided to create AATIP with two other senators, Stevens and Inouye, focusing on science.
“I believe that there is information uncovered by the government’s covert investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena that can be disclosed to the public without harming our national security,” he said.
In 2007, Harry Reid requested funding for the self-described “clandestine Pentagon operation” the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Although his staff warned him to “stay the hell away from” the UFO subject, he says he “politely ignored” them.
In the Times, Reid says he became more interested in UFOs after journalist George Knapp invited him to a UFO conference in 1996. There, he was impressed with the academic and scientific approach. Rather than focusing on aliens, they focused on “technological advancement and national security.”
Following the experience, Reid became “hooked,” and his interest grew after conversations with former astronaut and then-senator from Ohio, John Glenn. He was the first American to orbit Earth.
When he was a younger man, Reid believed that leading with science was the best way to approach UFOs. Today, he believes it’s crucial.
“I believe it’s crucial to lead with the science when studying UFOs. Focusing on little green men or conspiracy theories won’t get us far.Of course, whatever the science tells us, some portion of the public will continue to believe in the reality of otherworldly UFOs as a matter of faith. Ultimately, the UFO debate can be broken down into a sincere belief in science versus a sincere belief in extraterrestrials. I side with science.”
To date, he says, “there’s still a great deal we don’t understand” about the phenomenon. Thus, he isn’t sure if the aircraft are of extraterrestrial origin, or made by other countries. On the other hand, some reports could be due to distorted visual perception.
However, he remains open-minded. In the past, he has indicated a belief in the probability of extraterrestrial life.
“I look at it this way,” Reid said in an interview with Motherboard in 2020.
“The world as we know it today is extremely large. It’s so big I can’t comprehend it. And I think that we as human beings have to be a little short-sighted if we think we’re the only species in the entire universe. In the entire universe, there is for sure more than one [species].”
Robert Bigelow and Skinwalker Ranch
In 2017, the Times revealed AATIP, the “mysterious UFO program,” existed and was funded for $22 million.
Much of the money went to Reid’s longtime friend, conservative Republican Robert Bigelow, who also worked with NASA to “produce expandable craft for humans to use in space.”
Further, the Las Vegas real estate and Bigelow Aerospace mogul financed ventures with funds from Budget Suites rentals. According to George Knapp, Bigelow may have spent more on UFO research than “any person in history.”
In 1996, Bigelow purchased the 480-acre Skinwalker Ranch. The place earned its nickname “for the shape-shifting witches of Navajo legend.” Before Bigelow arrived, the former owners, Terry and Gwen Sherman said they witnessed three types of UFOs and saw mutilated cattle.
According to Vice, much of AATIP’s research took place at the ranch, a paranormal hotspot in Utah. However, Reid says he never visited the location.
“I didn’t feel that it was appropriate for the government to take me,” Reid said.
Appearing on 60 Minutes, Bigelow said he remains “absolutely convinced” that aliens have visited Earth in UFOs.
Below, Bigelow talks to George Knapp about UFOs and his latest quest to learn about an afterlife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNPuhfrYDc
Ongoing Stigma and Taboo
Today, the former AATIP leader, Lue Elizondo, and former Pentagon intelligence official Christopher Mellon suggest UAPTF faces many hurdles.
For instance, Mellon stated that the Air Force “stiff-armed” the task force from obtaining information. On the other hand, Elizondo cites enormous resistance from government bureaucracy.
“You have all the stigma and the taboo that is associated with it,” said Elizondo, who serves as an informal adviser to the military. “Organizations whose mission this might fall squarely into are resisting adopting this mission.”
Although public interest is great and the stigma about the subject has lifted, that may not be the case inside the government.
“There’s been so much public taboo about this for decades that no one wants to risk their professional careers and that of their bosses on a topic like this without being directed,” Elizondo said.
Mellon, who served in the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, says lifting taboo may require direct involvement by senior executive branch officials –and more time.
“My hope is that this administration will provide our military people the support they deserve,” Mellon told NBC News. “On this issue, that means determining ASAP what threat if any is posed by the unidentified vehicles that are brazenly and repeatedly violating restricted US airspace over hovering around our warships. Our people are naturally and rightly concerned and almost nothing has been done to address their concerns.”
The American People Deserve to Know
Today, Harry Reid, now 81, hopes the upcoming UAP report will give Americans more answers.
“The American people deserve to know more — and hopefully they will soon,” he said.
In 2020, Reid said he thought it would be “a really unfortunate thing for the country” if the government stopped working on UFOs considering “other countries are doing it.”
However, Elizondo thinks the UAP report should be delayed. With more time and financing, it could reveal more facts instead of serving merely as more evidence of ongoing coverup.
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