Global SITREP E2-17: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)

UPDATED 1700 EDT on 20 December 2017: The above video, known as "FLIR1" is the second of three videos from the 14 November 2004 USS Nimitz UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) incident off the coast of (my beloved hometown) San Diego, California that has been declassified and released to the public. I have embedded (hopefully for a long duration) the URL of this video into this SITREP, the webpage source of which is also linked above. In several days of studying this since incident it was first brought to my attention about three days ago, this is the best webpage yet viewed from a purely technical standpoint. A partially redacted but must read pilot report of this incident is here. The first video, the 34-seconds long "GIMBAL" video first seen this past Sunday, and its associated webpage are here.

Description of HUD (Heads Up Display) seen in the FLIR1 video as filmed by a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet using the Raytheon AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pod.

In sum, this approximately 2 minute 30 second duration video is the real deal. For technogeeks (like me) the image above has been included as it provides descriptions of all the data points displayed on the F/A-18F Super Hornet's (call sign Fast Eagle 110 and wing-man Fast Eagle 100) heads-up display as seen by the pilot and the weapons sensor operator (WSO) during the incident. As the video plays subtitles appear at the bottom of the video frame because there is no voice track on the FLIR1 recording. Most interesting thing here is that the infrared sensor detected no heat plume emanating from the UAP, yet it is moving at a very high rate of speed, and darts out of the FLIR frame to the left at incredible speed just as the video ends. Based upon the known speed of the Super Hornet the object clearly accelerated well past the speed of sound, yet no shock wave or heated vapor trail is evident.

 VFA-41 Black Aces were embarked on USS Nimitz in late 2002. This is the F/A-18F Super Hornet, call sign 'Fast Eagle 110' as it appeared in November 2002, two years prior to the UAP incident. 'Fast Eagle 110' was piloted by the source of the report discussed in this SITREP. Click to enlarge. USS Nimitz seen in the background. Five minutes of data mining located this image here.

Why is this important? 

Because this is the first time a first-rate vetted report of an obviously intelligently controlled unknown aerial system has come out of the U.S. Government. This incident has been verified by the Navy pilots themselves. This is about an aerial system without obvious means of lift (wings), describable or detectable propulsion, or piloting, and that the object was capable of maneuvering in defiance of all known physical laws of aerodynamics. Based upon USN tracking data the UAP instantaneously accelerated to a speed in excess of 2,400 mph in one particular maneuver. The UAP in question literally played with the F/A-18F Super Hornet which in 2004 were the very best combat aircraft in the world. The UAP maintained a flight profile of total tactical dominance over the Super Hornet at all times during this incident.

Given everything that is currently going on in this world, and I mean everything, one critically important question and a couple lesser important questions require answers. 

Why release this now? And why is it apparently only left-of-center media and personalities that have been involved in this release? 

Being on high alert for grand-scale delusion and great deception, something like this completely out of the blue, at this time in history, is like a bombshell with a delayed fuse detonation. A potential bunker buster in other words. Right-of-center media and personalities are bah-hum-bugging the report in total, (ahem, FoxNews, a flying Tic-Tac? Really?) and likely in ignorance of the astounding, unprecedented technical aspects evident in the DoD videos that have been released, thus far at least. There may be more coming.

It is often stated here to expect the unexpected, but this is something else again; something way off the charts.

Global SITREP A26-13: The Syrian Crisis Phase Two

CVN-68 USS NIMITZ Carrier Strike Group Eleven (CSG-11)

2 September 2013: The Labor Day holiday weekend is still in full-swing in the United States, but our Sailors, Marines and Combat Pilots are still in the thick of the potential conflagration in the Middle East this morning. One little known secret is that should push come to shove in Syria or in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, our military forces will come under fire from within the Syrian air and sea defense systems by Russian "volunteers" who have recently taken up stations manning those Russian-made defense systems for Bashar al-Assad's government as a part of Russia's commitment to defend its Syrian ally.

Key Syrian government forces of Bashar al-Assad (land and air) and their Iranian and Hezbollah allies have mostly gone into an underground and heavily fortified redoubt. This redoubt is a just completed 32 by 36 mile contiguous bunker complex in the Coastal Mountain Range just northwest of Damascus. It can accommodate more than one million individuals plus the entire Syrian army. It has supplies for a three-year siege and an integrated hydro-electric power grid. There are underground airbases within this complex, as well as missile silos and artillery positions. It will prove to be a tough nut to crack being a much larger and natural version of Hitler's Atlantic Wall of WWII. This Syrian military redoubt will make any adventure begun by Obama a very long and expensive one that he cannot afford. The only effective response to missiles fitted with Syrian chemical warheads launched  from within this 1,152 square mile fortified under-mountain defensive position might well prove to be a nuclear response.

As I predicted a week ago, CVN-68 USS Nimitz (also known as CSG-11) has been moved into a position in the Red Sea from which a strike on Syria can be launched. This is a move that may or may not involve a transit into the already crowded eastern Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal and deeply troubled Egypt. It is no secret that President Obama is in very hot water with the Egyptian interim government for his unwavering support of the Muslim Ikhwan (Brotherhood).

For the record, the other ships of CSG-11 with the Nimitz now in the northern Red Sea are the  USS Princeton (CG-59); USS Stockdale (DDG-106); USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110); USS Shoup (DDG-86) and the USS Higgins (DDG-76). The embarked airwing of CVW-11 includes (VFA = Fighter Strike Wing) VFA-146, VFA-147, VFA-154; (VAW = Carrier Early Warning) VAW-117, (VAQ = Electronic Attack Squadron) VAQ-142; Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Six, and VMFA-323 (Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323). It should also go without saying that US nuclear submarines are a part of this mix.

The military forces of more than a half-dozen nations are now crowded into the Middle East, from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, and from the Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf, are on tenterhooks in anticipation of hostilities erupting without further notice. Frontline nations Turkey (which is on high alert and still wanting payback for the 2012 shoot-down of one of its reconnaissance aircraft by Syria) and Jordan have a mix of both NATO and Arab land combat and antimissile forces arrayed, as does Israel, the most powerful and nuclear-armed nation in the entire region. And it could all erupt should U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama decide to fire a "warning shot" without US Congressional approval and with the vast majority of We The People of the United States of America against such action being taken.

3 September 2013: The results of an ongoing poll at the DrudgeReport.com as of 06:20 this morning to the question:  

GIVE OBAMA AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT MILITARY OPERATION IN SYRIA?

YES: 8.35% (20,247 votes)

NO:  91.65% (222,175 votes)

Total votes: 242,422

This is a poll in which the IP of the voter is recorded; a second attempt to vote by that IP is not accepted. That means the votes reflect an accurate sampling of how individual Americans are responding to the question. These results clearly indicate a 10:1 ratio AGAINST Obama conducting any military operation in Syria.  By the way, the Administration has not preliminarily briefed members of Congress about a single strike, but on their plan for a continuing series of strikes against Syria.

In this extremely tense military environment, reports are just coming in from both the US, Israel and Russian military sources that the US and Israel have just conducted and completed a ballistic missile interception test with at least two objects being tracked and having fallen into open waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Sending a message to al-Assad and the Ayatollah no doubt.

Another item that is dated but extremely important to know is that the Obama Administration is issuing a bald-faced lie when they say that the Syrian rebels do not possess chemical weapons. To the contrary, the rebel faction aligned with Al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra, was caught red-handed with 2kg (4lbs) of sarin gas. The sarin was seized from them by Turkish authorities during a raid as reported on 30 May 2013 by the Turkish daily newspaper Today's Zaman.

This is extremely important because Russia intends to use this incident to prove before the whole world, most likely in the UN Security Council, that the Obama Administration is hiding the truth and politicizing intelligence to suit its own aggressive agenda against Syria. In fact, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov predicted that the Obama Administration would do exactly this less than three months ago when he demanded that the Turkish government release all of the information regarding its seizure of the rebel jihadists sarin gas. Said Lavrov, “I do not rule out that some force may want to use it [Syrian chemical weapons] to say that the “red line” has been crossed and a foreign intervention is needed.” This statement was carried in the Turkish media but it was not picked up or repeated in Western media, particularly in the United States.

According to an excellent and extremely well-connected source comes new intel that Russia intends to fight for Syria. Russia has dispatched (re-routed actually) some very significant firepower from its Northern Fleet which has been exercising in the Atlantic. The Slava-class guided missile cruiser Moskva (image above) with Admiral Aleksandr Vitko, Commander Black Sea Fleet, embarked is enroute via the Strait of Gibraltar (with three other major surface combatant platforms) to take command of the entire Russian Mediterranean Sea flotilla off Syria. The Russian Mediterranean Sea flotilla will soon also include the extremely silent water-jet propelled hunter-killer (modified Kilo-class) submarine Alrosa.