“Hiding in Plain Sight”—So, like, What's Up with Mars?

[Mars Update: NASA’s Perseverance rover is now into its third year operating on Mars. The nuclear-powered rover has been examining geologic features and collecting samples of the Red Planet that are central to the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign. Scientists want to study Martian samples with powerful lab equipment on Earth to search for signs of ancient microbial life...]

We have a real UFO problem, and it’s not balloons.

—Ryan Graves, former US Navy fighter pilot,

There is an ‘underground base in the depths of Mars’ where there (have been) human astronauts and alien representatives

—Professor Haim Eshed, former head of Israel's Defense Ministry's space directorate

 One may be tempted to say, you cannot be serious! Which leads us back to the $64,000 question—Is there. Anybody. Out there?

Truth is, most of us who have looked to the skies at night and seen gazillions of glorious stars and solar systems in billions of galaxies, have questioned—We can’t be the only ones out there, right?

Well, there have been an increasing number of pilots who have admitted to witnessing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that exhibit advanced performance capabilities. As a result, former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who has been speaking out, aims to better support aviators who witness unexplained events, by creating Americans for Safe Aerospace. ASA is a new advocacy organization that aims to push for policy changes, like better reporting mechanisms, serve as a hub for pilot whistleblowers and push for more disclosure by the military and other government agencies.

Why? Because concerned former pilot Graves says, “Unidentified objects in our airspace present an urgent and critical safety and national security issue, but pilots are not getting the support they need and the respect they deserve. When I served, my squadron was encountering UAP nearly every day, and nothing was being done.”

One glaring example was in 2015 off the coast of Florida, when Graves and his squadron were aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt doing training missions, and they encountered unexplained objects operating within their vicinity. He recalls, “We didn’t know what they were but we did know they were a safety hazard for our missions. We were using multiple sensors on our aircraft (and it was) performing a number of behaviors that we didn’t recognize. They were maintaining speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They also did not have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion—in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. I am a formally trained engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding. We don’t have the ability to do that with our own aircraft. We simply don’t know who’s operating these or what their intents are.”

So, what did the sensors of those Navy pilots and dozens of others actually see, something hiding in plain sight?

Dr. Garry Nolan, a scientist/professor at Stanford University appeared on Graves’ initial episode of his Merged Podcast, called “Expanding Our Understanding On UAP Technology.” Nolan says upfront—"Extra-terrestrial intelligence has visited 100 percent…They’ve been here a long time and are still here.” Another mind-blowing guest on the Merged Podcast was former Cmdr. David Fravor, a graduate of the TOPGUN naval flight program, about a “UAP (UFO) call to action.”

Additionally, Dr. Nolan, who says he has had personal experiences with individuals who are working on the “reverse engineering programs” of downed alien craft, offers options on who or what’s behind these UAPs: “I think it is an advanced form of intelligence, something that we don’t understand, They could be future humans; future AI coming back to us because somehow they figured out time travel; to the ultra-terrestrial hypothesis—spacecraft capable of replicating itself.”

Yes, hiding in plain sight.

The same could be said of what the camera of the Mars rover Perseverance reportedly captured—something hiding in plain sight.

I spoke to filmmaker/UFOlogist Steve Zoller about these and other subjects like Professor Eshed’s comments on the “Galactic Federation”—WTF, indeed:

From H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (Written over a Century Ago) to Bradbury's Martian Chronicles to Director Ridley Scott's Blockbuster Movie, The Martian, What's up with the Ongoing Interest in Mars?

Culturally, “Mars” is a Greco-Roman god of war and an agricultural guardian. The Red Planet, itself, is the only planet with an atmosphere, as slight as that is, and water—lots of water frozen in the soil—therefore it has a chance to be made habitable for humans in the distant future. Additionally, several factors have helped propel Mars back into today’s spotlight, such as: the success of the five American-launched Mars rovers, including the latest Perseverance; and then there’s the compelling interest of people like billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk has had a longtime Mars obsession, starting with being on the board of the Mars Society that advocated for human Mars exploration. And, then his goal evolved into creating a self-sustaining human settlement on Mars, leading to the formation of his SpaceX company. Anyway, Musk has said he wants to colonize Mars because all signs point to the human race ultimately destroying Earth’s ability to support life.

What Has Been Discovered on Mars by the Multiple Rovers that have Visited Including What Perseverance’s Camera Reportedly Captured?

How about something hiding in plain sight? The Perseverance rover’s camera caught many stills of the historic moments when the Mars Ingenuity helicopter began studying the Martian atmosphere—the helicopter had been attached to Perseverance’s belly. When a video link from JPL was established with the Perseverance rover, viewers with sharp eyes noticed a blurry object in the sky which they immediately downloaded and which JPL dismissed as a speck of dust on the camera lens. But when enlarged it seemed to show a UAP hovering, observing the event. WTF, indeed! By the way, those frames were subsequently removed when replayed on network television. So, what should have been headline news around the globe was instead relegated to feel-good science segments on morning news shows. This added credence to the then outlandish rumor that a federation of extraterrestrials had already met with a delegation of top-secret US military officials—on a secret base on Mars and signed agreements that to this day remain top secret.   

Come Again?

The Jerusalem Post ran a story in 2020 on revelations by former Israeli space security chief, Professor Haim Eshed, who served as the head of Israel's space program for nearly 30 years and is a three-time recipient of the Israel Security Award. Eshed suggested that aliens exist, that a "Galactic Federation" has supposedly been in contact with Israel and the US for years, but the Federation is keeping themselves a secret to prevent hysteria until humanity is ready. There’s even an underground bunker on Mars, Eshed says, with top-secret meetings between human and alien representatives.

So, What’s the Reticence of Still Employed People to Come Forward with their Observations?

Listen, former high-ranking people are claiming these things, people like Eshed and Canada’s former Minister of National Defense Paul Hellyer who passed in 2021 but who also spoke about the alleged "Galactic Federation" of aliens. To re-iterate, these are top, top people head of space security and national defense agencies. Unfortunately, the stigma attached to reporting UAP is still very strong. All UAP reports and videos are classified, meaning active-duty pilots cannot come forward publicly.  For example, Graves notes that since he came forward about UAP in 2019, only one other pilot from his squadron has gone public. Additionally, he suggests that to protect civilian pilots from job retribution, new rules are needed to require civilian pilots to report UAP. Graves simply says: “Above all, we need to listen to pilots.”

So, What is Going on, What's Being Hidden?

Let’s quickly go back to the dramatic spike in UAP/UFO sightings around the globe. The Navy has officially acknowledged at least 11 near misses with UAPs that required evasive action and triggered mandatory safety reports between 2004 and 2021. And, the Director of National Intelligence reported last year, in its 2022 Annual Report on UAP, there’d been 247 new UAP reports. This dramatic spike of UFO sightings raised the issue of just who are these top-secret US officials who have appointed themselves the keepers of the truth and who have gone to great lengths to suppress this information from the public and even a succession of US presidents. But ever since the disclosure of encounters from the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the “tic-tac” USS Nimitz event, it’s become clear that some individuals who are or were inside the military complex have begun leaking information to UFO reporters, forcing the issue to the fore. That raises the question, is this slow drip of info happening because of guilty consciences inside the military complex or are the extraterrestrials trying to force the Pentagon’s hand, to reveal once and for all why the insiders in the military complex are so afraid of revealing the truth. Is it because the uber rich class in America who are intimately tied with the inner circle at the Pentagon are desperate to keep the status quo? For power and profit? Or, as the French say, Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

There Are Rumors of Something Big Going to Happen in the Next 1-2 Years, Who Says it, How Should We Prepare?

Many of the top respected UFO observers like Dr. Steven Greer and Dr. Garry Nolan believe that the increase in sightings and the growing willingness of whistleblowers to leak information will lead to A BIG REVEAL within the next two years. And what will that big reveal be? That we are not alone! And, that the aliens will not help us fix our planet until we fix ourselves. But will the “deep state,” the shadow government that insiders say does exist, allow us to see that the “truth is indeed out there?”

Watch out for our upcoming “Hiding in Plain Sight” blog on the “deep state” and UFOs. Graphics by Stephen Zoller. And, also refer to other UFO interviews/stories posted on BBN Times by author Ashley Jude Collie and filmmaker/UFOlogist Stephen Zoller.

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