Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s UFO program, has repeatedly made attempts to drive home several points regarding the phenomenon over the past few years.
He has hammered on specific concepts throughout the interviews he has given during this time, trying to communicate to the best of his ability what he had learned during his years running the Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
Some of these points were included in the History Channel series Unidentified, starring himself, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, and Blink-182 guitarist and founder of To The Stars Academy Tom DeLonge. Each episode includes a review of what Elizondo refers to as the “Five Observables,” or the handful of characteristics that a UFO must exhibit for the craft to be considered a truly anomalous object.
Before we continue, let’s briefly review these observables and how they manifest during an encounter with unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP. This list has been taken directly from the Unidentified page on the History Channel’s website.
Anti-gravity lift
Unlike any known aircraft, these objects have been sighted overcoming the earth’s gravity with no visible means of propulsion. They also lack any flight surfaces, such as wings. In the Nimitz incident, witnesses describe the crafts as tubular, shaped like a Tic Tac candy.
Sudden and instantaneous acceleration
The objects may accelerate or change direction so quickly that no human pilot could survive the g-forces—they would be crushed. In the Nimitz incident, radar operators say they tracked one of the UFOs as it dropped from the sky at more than 30 times the speed of sound.
Hypersonic velocities without signatures
If an aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound, it typically leaves “signatures,” like vapor trails and sonic booms. Many UFO accounts note the lack of such evidence.
Low observability, or cloaking
Even when objects are observed, getting a clear and detailed view of them—either through pilot sightings, radar, or other means—remains difficult. Witnesses generally only see the glow or haze around them.
Trans-medium travel
Some UAP have been seen moving easily in and between different environments, such as space, the Earth’s atmosphere, and even water. In the Nimitz incident, witnesses described a UFO hovering over a churning “disturbance” just under the ocean’s otherwise calm surface, leading to speculation that another craft had entered the water.
It is unclear how often these craft exhibit all five of these characteristics during a single encounter, let alone if they have all been captured at the same time on video. Regardless, these are all familiar attributes relayed in stories throughout the history of UFO lore.
However, I would like to focus on the one observable I believe may be an unlikely candidate for one of the most important aspects of the UFO phenomenon.
Let’s dive into what could possibly be meant by the counterintuitive definition of the “observable” known as “low observability.”
Outside the Spectrum
There have been running jokes that surface every now and then ridiculing the idea of low observability, by its definition, as actually being one of the observables.
This is somewhat understandable as it does sound like an oxymoron. The technology involved may turn out to be the most easily replicable characteristic of UAP, and nothing to be considered especially exotic.
It is true that we have the ability to cloak our aircraft — for example, the B-2 bomber — using advanced materials that will most likely remain classified for decades to come. Many have even speculated that these materials have been reverse-engineered from alien technology in one of the few successful attempts to reproduce aspects of these vehicles.
This may well be the case, but some of my recent research has raised the possibility that this version of stealth may only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to developing “low observable” technology. As a feature of these craft that seems to be brushed over when it comes to level of interest, there may be more to this technology than just visual and radar deception.
This overlooked characteristic may actually have more to do with the actual observer than the camouflaging of the craft itself.
To start, there are a few things to review when it comes to quantum mechanics.
Observing the Anomaly
I am far from an expert in classical physics, let alone quantum physics, but there may be an important factor when it comes to certain experiential phenomena involving these encounters. One of these potential aspects is known as the observer effect, which is demonstrated by the now-infamous double-slit experiment.
Without getting into the nitty-gritty of quantum mechanics, the essential idea is the actual act of observing a system in a quantum state can alter the properties of what is observed. This has been interpreted by some to mean that consciousness is what causes these effects, but this theory has not yet been supported by scientific evidence.
However, it is clear that an observer has an effect on a quantum system, and many on the more philosophical end of the spectrum have interpreted the changes in the system as an effect of consciousness.
This may also in fact be the interpretation of some individuals within historical government UFO programs.
In a slideshow presentation provided to top DoD officials by members of AATIP, there were a few startling concepts included in the briefing materials.
With a seemingly heavy focus on quantum physics, one of the slides included such bullet points as “Unique cognitive human interface experiences” and “Alteration/Manipulation of biological organisms.”
I have broken down the cognitive human interface concept in previous articles, so I will not go into it in detail here. Essentially, I have interpreted this as a kind of medium facilitating interaction between human consciousness and the physical universe based on intent on a quantum level.
The inference of “unique experiences” in this regard suggests anomalies within this interface, and the “manipulation of biological organisms” insinuates another intelligence is capable of bending this interface to their will.
One more recent example of this idea has come to light, as a slideshow for the current UFO office AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) also includes the study of the effects of UFOs on the observer.
This research encompasses “any physiological, psychological, or other effects apparently corresponding to the UAP observation.” Clearly the cognitive effects resulting from the interaction between these craft and the human mind have retained the interest of government officials over the decades.
Now what might this mean in terms of “low observability,” a description brushed off as the least intriguing of the five observables?
Perhaps the answer may lie in a paper, written in the 90s and presented by the Low Observable Projects Department at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.
Quantum Interference
A report on emerging brain-mapping techniques, titled White Paper on Brain Disorder Phenomenology Using Noninvasive Brain Analysis, was approved for FOIA release in August 2000.
The purpose of this paper seems innocuous enough. The researchers stated that the department’s five objectives in developing a new, advanced neuromagnetometer were to lower healthcare costs, minimize surgical risks, develop new and improved treatments, treat psychiatric disorders, and study basic neuroscience.
These obviously respectable intentions are definitely applicable to the science being investigated. However, there may actually be more to these applications than meet the eye.
The first order of business for the Sandia National Lab’s Low Observable Projects Department was to acquire thin-film Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUID) to expand the number of magnetic sensors in comparison to standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques.
These sensors — of which there were a thousand — would live in a cryogenic refrigeration system enclosure as is standard practice with the massive heat generation produced by superconductors.
Images of the brain tissue would then be processed through computer algorithms and turned into three-dimensional models, forming high-accuracy predictions of magnetic fields and electrical potentials of the brain that the department dubbed “the forward solution.”
Interestingly, the brain signals would be processed using “techniques from the array processing used in phased array radar.” This would enable the array of 1000 sensors to be instantaneously ‘steered’ to any part of the brain, receiving its signals with “much higher sensitivity and selectivity than any single sensor.”
If the term phased array radar sounds familiar, it might be because Chris Mellon has discussed this technology at length recently in his open letters to the Pentagon regarding the February 2023 shootdowns of unidentified objects by NORAD over North American airspace.
After the recent Chinese balloon incursion that was plastered all over the national news, the Air Force reportedly removed filters from their solid-state phased array radar systems (SSPARS), when all of a sudden previously undetected objects seemed to start popping up all over the place.
In fact, President Joe Biden’s Homeland Security Advisor told state governors on a conference call that, “we are dealing with a number of objects that are not well characterized.”
She also added, “It’s true that there are things that are being identified that don’t resemble anything else, that largely don’t present a threat, and we have to figure out what to do about them. And it turns out, there are hundreds if not thousands of them.”
So why did Sandia National Labs designate its Low Observable Projects Department to write an in-depth paper on this quantum brain sensor utilizing phased array radar technology?
And what does this have to do with the low observability described as a prevalent characteristic of the UFO phenomenon?
An Alteration of Reality
Let us return to the AATIP presentation slide, and specifically evaluate more fully the concept of the Cognitive Human Interface.
If we had the ability to harness this SQUID technology in the 1990s for detecting areas of the brain with such extreme accuracy, one wonders what level of technology has been developed by the intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon.
Can the whole brain be instantaneously mapped at the quantum level, and perhaps manipulated as well?
Is that what is meant by “unique cognitive human interface experiences” and “alteration/manipulation of biological organisms?”
Can our entire experience of human consciousness be at the mercy of this phenomenon?
And what would that look like in a real-world scenario?
At this point, we may have reason to believe that low observability may include the manipulation of human consciousness — or the consciousness of the observer — that allows the phenomenon to force individuals to see and experience what it wants them to.
This concept is actually expanded upon by physicist Dr. Eric Davis, a colleague of Elizondo’s and employee of AATIP’s predecessor, in a paper reported on by journalist Ross Coulthart in his book In Plain Sight.
There was also a paper by Dr. Eric Davis, where he wrote matter-of-factly about how UAPs used mimicry techniques to hide their form, ‘entering the atmosphere with either the look or trajectory of a meteor or hidden within a meteor shower, behaving like dark meteors without the associated optical signature, hiding within an artificial or natural cloud, behaving as pseudo-stars sitting stationary over certain regions, or mimicking man-made aircrafts’ aggregate features’.
In his paper, Dr. Davis referred to the infamous 1980 Cash-Landrum UFO case, covered earlier in this book, where the Landrum family reported a massive diamond-shaped UFO hovering over their car in the road near Dayton, Texas.
As well as the trio reporting terrible burns from what experts declared was ionising radiation, one of the weirdest claims in the Cash-Landrum sighting was that they said they saw 23 helicopters, including massive CH-47 Chinooks, closely following the object.
The US military denied any of its choppers were in the air nearby that night, and 23 of them in one place does sound implausible.
Dr. Davis’s paper gave an explanation – that the helicopters were ‘mimicry techniques employed for the manipulation of human consciousness to induce the various manifestations of “absurd” interactions or scenery associated with the UFO encounter.
This in combination with the mimicry of man-made aircrafts’ (helicopters) aggregate features were prominent in the Cash-Landrum UFO case’. There is no explanation for how Dr. Davis reached this conclusion. No known science describes the capacity to manipulate human consciousness to induce hallucinations as described. Modern science would say it was science fiction.
It sure sounds like Eric Davis here is referring to the manipulation of whatever the cognitive human interface is that is referenced by AATIP in their slideshow presentation. The same presentation remarks “What was considered phenomena is now quantum physics.”
This also seems to suggest the mimicry employed by the UFO is also playing on the basis of human consciousness, and Dr. Davis says as much in his paper.
So perhaps “low observability” and manipulation of human consciousness are one in the same. If true, this would also add to the theory that consciousness is fundamental to reality.
But how would an entity be able to manipulate our consciousness?
Isn’t the SQUID technology just meant for sensing and innocuous healthcare objectives?
Once again, according to the Sandia Nation Labs Low Observable Projects department, this technology can also be used to develop a “Man-Machine Interface.”
Among the potential commercial military applications of an advanced MEG system is the assessment of human mental performance under conditions of high workload.
These measurements may lead to improved design of the man-machine interface by more effectively conveying essential information to the brain such that the mental work is reduced.
A more speculative but somewhat related application is the possibility that an MEG array focused by advanced signal processing (adaptive beamforming) to a specific brain site could be used to control a machine by mental activity alone.
This insinuates that this technology can be used for some kind of telefactoring scenario on a potentially quantum level.
An Abstract Phenomenon
This now brings to mind certain comments made recently by Stanford professor Dr. Garry Nolan regarding this subject. In an interview with Ross Coulthart for Australia’s Channel 7 News, Nolan postulated a rather unorthodox theory about the origin of the UFO phenomenon.
Rather than it being some form of technology, Nolan suggested it was somehow a form of consciousness.
Now I don’t know whether it’s a technology, per se, because I’m leaving open the idea that it’s some form of consciousness that is non-material. I’ll say to my colleagues out there, I know this all sounds absolutely crazy. But if you’ve seen the things I’ve seen, you would only be able to come to a similar conclusion.
This idea may seem like it came out of left field, but a similar theory linking consciousness to anomalous phenomena is something Nolan has actually speculated on before, in a paper titled Towards Multi-Disciplinary SETI Research co-written by famed ufologist and astronomer Jacques Vallee.
Because it is hard to imagine all possible life forms, and given the short time that life and consciousness have been scientifically studied (less than one century), it would be prudent not to rule out possibilities that may appear unfashionable.
Life may thrive underground and in space, near and far from planets and stars, and under conditions we may now consider prohibitive. With the newly essential understandings of quantum physics and quantum information, are “biological brains” the only place consciousness could have evolved?
To this point, new models for the evolution of consciousness and matter are under study that suggest novel possibilities to interpret the nature of reality and which are at odds with a materialistic worldview.
This includes the possibility of other forms of communication or contact with alien intelligences that are considered “science fiction” by mainstream science, yet have an extraordinary history of anecdotal evidence. We are speaking of everything from telepathy, empathy, remote viewing, and out of body experiences that may be pointing towards channels of communications beyond what electromagnetic waves can reveal.
Before dismissing such ideas, we need keep in mind that all sensory apparatus our consciousness employs to interpret our immediate universe relies upon electromagnetic waves which propagate as quantum fields. Our sensory apparatus operates in that quantum reality.
We perceive quantum information and construct our internal “animal” view of reality—but are we perceiving all information fields enfolding us? Are we consciously aware of everything we are perceiving? Animals, and now humans, are recently understood to perceive magnetic fields.
The proteins in our brain that form our neurons sit in a quantum mix where information is transferred in still unfathomable manners. Are those proteins and biologicals completely blind to all forms of information passing through them?
The question of whether or not we are consciously aware of all the information we are perceiving is an important one. If we are receiving — or perceiving — information from these craft that may be affecting our sensory systems in ways we can’t detect, how would we even know if our reality is being manipulated?
The short answer is there would be no way to know.
So we are left with a couple of questions here.
- Should the definition of low observability include the manipulation of human consciousness in order to force an individual to see what the phenomenon wants them to see?
- Is the phenomenon in fact a form of consciousness as described by Dr. Garry Nolan, as demonstrated by the deployment of phased array radar technology for both detection of the phenomenon and the human brain?
Whatever this Cognitive Human Interface is referring to, it is apparent that it can be affected by technology and that this effect is most likely on a quantum level.
But is what we are seeing in this interaction between the phenomenon and the human brain demonstrating, as former Navy pilot and AIAA UAP outreach coordinator Ryan Graves puts it, “macroscopic quantum effects?”
There is a lot going on when it comes to the consciousness aspect of the UFO phenomenon, and it’s extremely difficult to pin down these labels, acronyms, and names of certain technologies along with military jargon that accompanies them.
What is becoming more clear by the day is that we are going to need a multi-disciplinary approach to answer these questions about this mystery, as complicated and uncomfortable as they may be.
