These Are Real Pentagon Reports On Warp Drive, Extra Dimensions, Anti-Gravity, And More

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick

Updated May 14, 2018 4:37 AM EDT

The modern understanding of the Pentagon’s relationship with unexplained flying phenomena has become remarkably more pointed in the last six months since the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was uncovered. Its disclosure came in between our own exclusive reporting on two very strange and well-documented encounters with strange aircraft operating in U.S. airspace. Now, new documents are coming to light that show the Department of Defense’s own spy agency was also interested in subjects that border on science fiction and the even the paranormal, including warp drive, extra-dimensional manipulation, dark energy, and other highly exotic forms of space travel.

The documents were first discovered by George Knapp’s I-Team , part of Las Vegas CBS affiliate Channel 8 News, which has been investigating the government’s supposed connection with ‘UFOs’ for decades.

Author’s note 5/14/18: It has come to our attention that the documents were in fact first posted by Corey Goode late last year shortly after the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was first disclosed.

Recently Knapp has been digging deeper into Bigelow Aerospace —which is located in Las Vegas—and its starring role in the previously classified program. It is no secret that Robert Bigelow, a former real estate developer turned inflatable space station entrepreneur, has been highly interested in UFOs, but the depth of the company’s official relationship with the Defense Department regarding the topic was something entirely unheard of before the disclosure of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program occurred in December 2017.

Abbreviated AATIP, that effort, and its funding, sprang from Nevada Senator Harry Reid’s interest in the topic, along with that of a Defense Intelligence Agency official. The program, which eventually cost $22 million and ran roughly between 2008 and 2012, began after Bigelow won the contract, apparently to investigate UFO sightings, along with pretty much everything else that goes along with the topic for better or worse, on behalf of the military.

A team of nearly 50 scientists, analysts, and investigators were assembled to work on the program, which was originally and very cryptically dubbed the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program before gaining its more recent moniker. The contract between the DIA and Bigelow made sure not to spell out its focus, instead referring to exotic technologies without mentioning UFOs. The I-Team writes:

“The agreement with DIA did not mention UFOs at all. It used more generic terms such as future threats and breakthrough technologies, and specified 12 focal points including, lift, propulsion, materials, versions of stealth as well as human interface and human effects.”

Real estate mogul and Bigelow Aerospace chief Robert Bigelow., AP

It was under the AAWSA name that the organization funded at least two studies into advanced propulsion and space technology research that border on the fantastical. The first of these studies , dated March 29, 2010, deals with “advanced space propulsion” for faster-than-light travel, discussing theoretical physical constructs such as “spacetime-altered regions” and “gravity/antigravity” forces. The second study , which the AAWSA program published on April 2, 2010, covers similar ground, but also includes discussions about “dark energy” and “extra dimensions.”

The AAWSA experts did this work under the auspices of DIA’s Defense Warning Office, which makes good sense, at least conceptually. This organization first came into being in 2002 and is “charged with identifying sources of increasing threats to U.S. interests in critical regions,” according to an official briefing .

One of the figures from the March 2010 report., DIA via Las Vegas Channel 8

“This office will also identify opportunities to affect adversary behavior prior to and in the early stages of a crisis.” that presentation notes. In 2003, these tasks expanded to also include work “to provide the earliest possible warning of technological developments that could undermine U.S. military preeminence.”

UFO sightings are often indications of advanced and secret military aircraft research and development projects. Having a team of experts try and determine if any of the reports translated to real programs, especially those that potential opponents such as Russia or China might have been working on, would be well with DIA’s mandate for the office.

That AAWSA team would have delved into known developments in associated fields would also make sense in this context. If America’s adversaries were rapidly advancing toward practical warp drives and other advanced propulsion and space research, DIA would definitely want to know in order to help inform U.S. policy responses.

“These studies are so loaded with information,” Senator Reid reportedly said at one point, according to Las Vegas’ Channel 8. “One thing we learned is over the decades a lot of things happen there’s no explanation for. Well there are now.”

Nevada Senator Harry Reid., Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP

But the applicability of these studies to the Defense Warning Office’s core mission seems dubious, as do portions of the underlying research itself. Neither report suggested that the technology they described was anywhere near practical or that any foreign government was close to achieving a relevant breakthrough.

“This paper has considered the possibility—even likelihood—that future developments with regard to advanced aerospace technologies will trend in the direction of manipulating the underlying spacetime structure of the vacuum of space itself by processes that can be called vacuum engineering or metric engineering,” the March 2010 study says in its final discussion section. “Far from being simply a fanciful concept, a significant literature exists in peer-reviewed, Tier 1 physics publications in which the topic is explored in detail.”

“The idea that a sufficiently advanced technology may interact with, and acquire direct control over, the higher dimensions is a tantalizing possibility, and one that is most certainly worthy of deeper investigation,” the second document concludes. “Of course, this may not be actualized until many years in the future, but consider the many spectacular physical phenomena that are believed to be true at this early point in the 21st century.”

What these statements do clearly reflect is the vision of the primary “contractor” for these studies, EarthTech International, Inc., a small firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. This company no longer has a functional website and otherwise has a virtually non-existent presence on the internet. “We strive to translate these ideas into laboratory experiments,” according to an archived copy of the company’s website from 2017.

Here’s a clip from a 60 Minutes segment with Bigelow that was filmed before the revelations about his involvement with the Pentagon’s Aviation Threat Identification program were exposed:

A cursory internet search on EarthTech’s CEO Harold Puthoff, Ph.D., who authored the March 2010 study, and Eric Davis, Ph.D., another employee who co-authored the other report, quickly turns up a web of links to Bigelow and his other fringe scientific and paranormal investigative endeavors, including the now defunct National Institute for Discovery Science, or NIDSci . You can find a mirrored copy of that entity’s website, circa 2008, here . Independent consultant Richard Obousy, who helped produce the April 2010 document, also has connections to the Nevada businessman.

Puthoff is now Vice President of Science and Technology at To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, a non-profit organization that reportedly is, at least in part, continuing the AAITP’s work independently. Luis Elizondo, who was the government head of AAITP and its follow-on guise, is its Director of Global Security and Special Programs.

The full extent of the AAWSA effort, including how many similar studies it funded and at what cost, as well as the later AAITP, still remains unclear. So far, two videos the latter iteration of the group examined in detail have captured the most public attention through the media. F/A-18 Hornet Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) targeting pods shot both of these clips and they feature small “tic-tac”-like objects racing around at high speed over the water.

But the main video and pilot account wasn’t new when news of the existence of AAITP first broke. It had been floating around in defense circles for over a decade, but more open disclosure about the origin of the video on an official level, as well as subsequent interviews with the pilot that took it, certainly elevated it to mainstream news.

Beyond that, accounts of Bigelow’s special unit’s investigation include claims that mysterious material from downed objects was being stored in storage lockers and that the program went far beyond documenting and evaluating eyewitness reports of UFOs. Instead, it took a holistic approach, which may have included evaluating the impact on human biology in association with sightings and other unexplained events and even seemed to have delved into other paranormal domains.

This would seem to match up with the picture of the program’s work we now have based on the documents Knapp’s I-Team obtained. What we know for sure, beyond the basic facts surrounding the project and information that Elizondo, the guy who led the program on the DoD side, has given to the press, is that some very strange studies resulted from its mandate. Once again, the studies Las Vegas’ Channel 8 uncovered are official DIA documents that the United States Government paid EarthTech and other Bigelow associates to produce and kept on file for its own internal use.

If nothing else, the existence of these studies supports the perception that this program went far beyond just trying to interpret and document eye-witness accounts of UFOs and trying to identify what was buzzing around in earth’s atmosphere. And they are bound to leave just about anyone wondering if this is what has been released, imagine what else exists that hasn’t, whether out of fear of embarrassment or risk to national security.

Here is another one titled “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy.”

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作者：泰勒·罗戈韦和约瑟夫·特雷维西克

更新于美国东部时间2018年5月14日凌晨4:37

自“高级航空威胁识别计划”（Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program，简称AATIP）被曝光以来的六个月里，人们对五角大楼与不明飞行现象之间关系的现代理解显著加深。该计划的披露恰逢我们独家报道了两起发生在美国领空、记录详实的与不明飞行物遭遇的离奇事件。如今，新的文件浮出水面，显示国防部内部的间谍机构也对一些近乎科幻甚至超自然的领域表现出浓厚的兴趣，包括曲速引擎、跨维度操控、暗能量以及其他极其奇特的太空旅行方式。

这些文件最初是由乔治·克纳普的调查小组发现的，该小组隶属于拉斯维加斯 CBS 附属电视台 8 频道新闻，几十年来一直在调查政府与“不明飞行物”的所谓联系。

作者注 2018 年 5 月 14 日：我们注意到，这些文件实际上是 Corey Goode 在去年年底首次发布的，当时高级航空威胁识别计划刚刚被披露。

最近，克纳普一直在深入调查位于拉斯维加斯的毕格罗宇航公司及其在之前被列为机密的项目中扮演的重要角色。众所周知，罗伯特·毕格罗——这位从房地产开发商转型为充气式空间站企业家的企业家——一直对不明飞行物（UFO）抱有浓厚的兴趣，但该公司与国防部就此话题建立的如此深入的官方关系，在2017年12月国防情报局（DIA）的“先进航空威胁识别计划”公开之前，却是闻所未闻的。

这项名为“AATIP”的计划及其资金源于内华达州参议员哈里·里德以及一位国防情报局官员对该议题的关注。该计划最终耗资2200万美元，运行时间大致在2008年至2012年之间。计划启动于比格罗公司赢得合同之后，其任务显然是代表军方调查不明飞行物目击事件以及与此相关的几乎所有其他问题，无论好坏。

一支由近50名科学家、分析师和调查员组成的团队被召集起来参与该项目。该项目最初被命名为“先进航空航天武器系统应用（AAWSA）计划”，名称十分隐晦，之后才有了现在的名字。国防情报局（DIA）与毕格罗公司签订的合同刻意回避了项目的重点，只是提及一些奇异技术，却只字未提不明飞行物（UFO）。调查小组写道：

“与国防情报局的协议根本没有提到不明飞行物。它使用了更通用的术语，例如未来威胁和突破性技术，并具体列出了 12 个重点领域，包括升力、推进、材料、隐形技术的各种版本以及人机交互和对人体的影响。”

房地产大亨兼比格罗宇航公司首席执行官罗伯特·比格罗。（美联社）

该组织以AAWSA的名义资助了至少两项关于先进推进和空间技术的研究，这些研究近乎天马行空。第一项研究发表于2010年3月29日，探讨了用于超光速旅行的“先进空间推进”技术，并讨论了诸如“时空改变区域”和“引力/反引力”等理论物理概念。第二项研究由AAWSA项目于2010年4月2日发表，内容与第一项研究类似，但还涉及了“暗能量”和“额外维度”等概念。

AAWSA的专家们是在国防情报局（DIA）的国防预警办公室的指导下开展这项工作的，这至少在概念上是合理的。根据一份官方简报，该机构于2002年首次成立，其“职责是识别对美国在关键地区利益日益增长的威胁来源”。

数据来自2010年3月的报告，DIA通过拉斯维加斯8频道发布。

“该办公室还将识别在危机爆发前和初期阶段影响敌方行为的机会。”该报告指出。2003年，这些任务扩展到包括“尽早预警可能削弱美国军事优势的技术发展”。

不明飞行物目击事件通常预示着先进且秘密的军用飞机研发项目。组建一支专家团队，调查这些报告是否与实际项目相关，特别是那些潜在对手（例如俄罗斯或中国）可能正在进行的项目，完全符合国防情报局（DIA）的职责范围。

在这种情况下，AAWSA团队深入研究相关领域的已知进展也合情合理。如果美国的对手正在迅速推进实用曲速引擎和其他先进推进及太空研究，国防情报局肯定希望了解这些进展，以便为美国的政策应对提供依据。

据拉斯维加斯第八频道报道，参议员里德曾表示：“这些研究包含的信息量非常大。我们了解到，几十年来发生了很多无法解释的事情。但现在有了解释。”

内华达州参议员哈里·里德。（图片来自美联社，汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ Roll Call摄）

但这些研究对国防预警办公室核心任务的适用性似乎值得怀疑，其部分研究本身也存在问题。两份报告均未表明它们所描述的技术接近实用水平，也未表明任何外国政府即将取得相关突破。

“本文探讨了未来先进航空航天技术发展可能——甚至极有可能——朝着通过被称为真空工程或度量工程的过程来操控太空真空的底层时空结构的方向发展，”2010年3月的这项研究在其最后的讨论部分指出。“这绝非异想天开，在同行评审的顶级物理学期刊中，已有大量文献对此主题进行了详细探讨。”

第二份文件总结道：“足够先进的技术或许能够与更高维度互动并直接控制它们，这种想法令人神往，也绝对值得深入研究。当然，这或许要等到很多年后才能实现，但想想看，在21世纪初，就已经有许多令人叹为观止的物理现象被认为是真实的。”

这些声明清晰地反映了这些研究的主要“承包商”——总部位于德克萨斯州奥斯汀的小型公司 EarthTech International, Inc. 的愿景。该公司目前已无法访问其网站，在互联网上也几乎销声匿迹。根据该公司 2017 年网站的存档内容，“我们致力于将这些理念转化为实验室实验”。

以下是《60分钟》节目对比格罗的一段采访片段，这段采访是在他参与五角大楼航空威胁识别计划的丑闻曝光之前拍摄的：

只需在网上简单搜索一下EarthTech公司首席执行官哈罗德·普特霍夫博士（Harold Puthoff, Ph.D.，2010年3月研究报告的作者）和埃里克·戴维斯博士（Eric Davis, Ph.D.，另一份报告的合著者），就能迅速发现他们与比格罗及其其他一些边缘科学和超自然现象调查活动之间存在着千丝万缕的联系，其中包括现已解散的国家发现科学研究所（National Institute for Discovery Science，简称NIDSci）。您可以在这里找到该机构2008年左右的网站镜像。独立顾问理查德·奥布西（Richard Obousy）也与这位内华达州商人有联系，他曾协助撰写了2010年4月的文件。

普特霍夫现任“星际艺术与科学学院”（To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science）科学技术副总裁，该学院是一家非营利组织，据报道，它至少在一定程度上独立地延续了AAITP的工作。路易斯·埃利松多曾担任AAITP及其后续机构的政府负责人，现任该学院全球安全与特别项目主管。

AAWSA项目的全部规模，包括其资助的类似研究数量和成本，以及后来的AAITP项目，目前仍不清楚。迄今为止，该小组后期详细审查的两段视频通过媒体引起了公众的广泛关注。这两段视频均由F/A-18“大黄蜂”战斗机的先进前视红外（ATFLIR）瞄准吊舱拍摄，视频中出现了一些类似“Tic Tac”的小型物体在水面上高速飞行。

但当AAITP的存在消息首次曝光时，这段主要视频和飞行员的描述并非新内容。它已经在国防圈内流传了十多年，但官方层面更公开地披露了视频的来源，以及随后对拍摄该视频的飞行员的采访，无疑使它成为了主流媒体关注的焦点。

除此之外，比格罗特别小组的调查记录还包括：他们声称从坠毁物体上提取的神秘物质被储存在储物柜中；而且该项目远不止于记录和评估目击者对不明飞行物的报告。相反，它采取了一种整体性的方法，可能包括评估目击事件和其他无法解释的事件对人类生物学的影响，甚至似乎还涉足了其他超自然领域。

这似乎与我们根据克纳普调查小组获取的文件所了解到的项目运作情况相符。除了围绕该项目的基本事实以及国防部项目负责人埃利桑多向媒体透露的信息之外，我们确切知道的是，该项目授权开展了一些非常奇怪的研究。拉斯维加斯第八频道披露的这些研究是国防情报局的官方文件，美国政府付费给地球科技公司和其他比格罗公司关联公司制作这些文件，并存档供其内部使用。

即便没有其他证据，这些研究的存在也印证了人们的看法：该项目远不止于解读和记录目击者对不明飞行物的描述，以及试图识别地球大气层中盘旋的物体。而且，这些研究必然会让所有人不禁思考：如果这些只是已公开的内容，那么还有多少未公开的信息，或许是出于对尴尬或国家安全的担忧。

这里还有一篇题为“可穿越虫洞、星门和负能量”的文章。

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