"of which they are the self-constituted jurists and judges, institute a repugnant espionage upon their fellows, to pass judgment upon whom they are in many instances remarkably unqualified."
excerpts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/military-whistleblower-showed-photo-allegedly-152539859.html
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Futurism
A Military Whistleblower Showed a Photo of an Allegedly Huge "Disc-Shaped" Object, But There's an Incredibly Obvious Explanation
Victor Tangermann
Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM PDT
"Jesus, this is embarrassing," one user wrote in response to Elizondo's latest gaffe.
excerpts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/military-whistleblower-showed-photo-allegedly-152539859.html
Yahoo!
Futurism
A Military Whistleblower Showed a Photo of an Allegedly Huge "Disc-Shaped" Object, But There's an Incredibly Obvious Explanation
Victor Tangermann
Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM PDT
Instead of admitting his gaffe, Elizondo argued that the incident "illustrates a bigger point" that pilots and other individuals reporting UFO sightings may be "faced with fierce ridicule."
Of course, none of that really addresses the core criticism: that he shared an unvetted photo that was handed to him hours earlier, seemingly having done no due diligence.
excerpts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/military-whistleblower-showed-photo-allegedly-152539859.html
Yahoo!
Futurism
A Military Whistleblower Showed a Photo of an Allegedly Huge "Disc-Shaped" Object, But There's an Incredibly Obvious Explanation
Victor Tangermann
Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM PDT
The briefing, which took place on Thursday, was hosted by the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Fund
excerpts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/military-whistleblower-showed-photo-allegedly-152539859.html
Yahoo!
Futurism
A Military Whistleblower Showed a Photo of an Allegedly Huge "Disc-Shaped" Object, But There's an Incredibly Obvious Explanation
Victor Tangermann
Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM PDT
In 2017, Elizondo resigned from the DoD in protest of the "bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets" that he said "plague" his former employer and its treatment of the "UAP issue," according to an official bio submitted to Congress.
After years of hunting for evidence of UFOs, though, Elizondo has little to show.
excerpts
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/shocking-1000-ft-ufo-photo-144711676.html
Shocking '1000-ft UFO' photo has been shared by a Pilot
Ben Williams
Fri 2 May 2025 at 7:47 am GMT-7
The panel, held in Washington, D.C., wasn’t short on big claims. Alongside Elizondo were US Reps. Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett
IMDb
Contact (1997)
Quotes
S.R. Hadden: Dr. Arroway, I presume.
Ellie Arroway: Mr. Hadden.
S.R. Hadden: I've had my eye on you a long time, Doctor. I consider you one of my most valuable long-term investments. And when it comes to my investments, I always do my homework. Eleanor Ann Arroway, born 25th August, 1964, De Pere, Wisconsin. Mother, Joanna, died from complications during childbirth. Early testing indicated high predisposition towards science and mathematics. Father, Theodore, advised to provide enrichment activities in these areas, .did so conscientiously until his death from myocardial infarction, November 10, 1974. You graduated from high school in 1979, almost two full years early. Awarded full scholarship, M.I.T, graduated magna cum laude. Doctoral work, Cal Tech where you worked on the lanthanide-doped ruby maser, dramatically increasing the sensitivity of radio telescopes. Subsequently offered a teaching position at Harvard University which you turned down to pursue SETI work at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Changes in NSF policy gave rise to certain funding problems, at which point you came to my attention.
https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001309
excerpts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/military-whistleblower-showed-photo-allegedly-152539859.html
Yahoo!
Futurism
A Military Whistleblower Showed a Photo of an Allegedly Huge "Disc-Shaped" Object, But There's an Incredibly Obvious Explanation
Victor Tangermann
Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM PDT
Instead of admitting his gaffe, Elizondo argued that the incident "illustrates a bigger point" that pilots and other individuals reporting UFO sightings may be "faced with fierce ridicule."
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2025/05/01/ufo-briefing-congress-government-aliens-extraterrestrial-coverup/83368972007/
‘We are not alone.’ Talk of UFOs again on Capitol Hill months after Congressional hearing
Another type of meeting to discuss UFOs that won't include testimony under oath is set to take place Thursday, May 1, 2025, on Capitol Hill.
USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/1/2025 ( ) is 21730 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/25/1977 ( premiere USA film "Star Wars" ) is 4222 days
From 11/21/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 1" ) To 8/28/1986 ( ) is 7950 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/20/1976 ( from Time magazine publication, Science: Looking for the Bodies ) is 3975 days
From 2/14/1969 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Requiem for Methuselah" ) To 8/28/1986 ( ) is 6404 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/9/1974 ( Richard Nixon surrenders and abandons his illegal presence in the United States of America federal White House ) is 3202 days
From 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) To 8/28/1986 ( ) is 1476 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 11/5/1955 ( the fictional date setting in the 1985 film "Back to the Future" and the date "Dr. Emmett Brown" invents time-travel ) To 8/28/1986 ( ) is 11254 days
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-signing-the-bill-regulate-armor-piercing-ammunition
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States: 1981 ‐ 1989
Statement on Signing the Bill To Regulate Armor-Piercing Ammunition
August 28, 1986
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/16/1982 ( premiere USA film "Young Doctors in Love" ) is 6100 days
From 12/17/1896 ( from Alumni Princetonian publication, Princeton University: HARVARD DEBATE. ; Harvard And Princeton To Meet On The Platform On Friday Night. ) To 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) is 22720 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/9/1996 ( ) is 11360 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 4/9/1990 ( from Princeton Weekly Bulletin publication, Princeton University: Hubble Space Telescope To Fly ) is 11360 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/9/1996 ( ) is 11360 days
From 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts comet nicknamed "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn and diverts it away from our planet Earth ) To 12/9/1996 ( ) is 7463 days
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From 9/24/1963 ( the United States Senate ratifies the Partial Test Ban Treaty ) To 12/9/1996 ( ) is 12130 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/11/1982 ( premiere USA film "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" ) is 6065 days
https://papersofprinceton.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19961209-01.2.9&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
Princeton University
Daily Princetonian, Volume 120, Number 126, 9 December 1996
Technology Week
Area 51 Inspires Speculation; Locals Seek Alien Explanation
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from my public journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:03 PM Tuesday, December 16, 2008
From 5/21/1969 ( I am Princeton University Medical Doctor degree graduate as Dr. Thomas Reagan M.D. ) to 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) is: 3713 days
From 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) to 9/19/1989 ( premiere US TV series "Doogie Howser, M.D." ) is: 3713 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doogie_Howser
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Original run September 19, 1989 – March 24, 1993
Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993), is a television comedy-drama starring Neil Patrick Harris as a brilliant teenage doctor who was also faced with the problems of being a normal teenager, despite having graduated from Princeton University at age 10.
excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:03 PM Tuesday, December 16, 2008
by me, Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 12:03 PM Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 9/2/1965 ( my first day as university student and graduate student instructor at Princeton University where I earned Medical Doctor degree ) is: 2375 days
From 5/21/1969 ( I am Princeton University Medical Doctor degree graduate ) to 1/21/1976 ( my first landing on planet Mars and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of planet Mars ) is: 2436 days
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From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 11/15/1966 ( Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and I was Gemini 12 astronaut ) is: 1218 days
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar
Solar System: Wed 1976 Jan 21
Mars
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from internet
https://twitter.com/hvom2022/status/1688166438505480192
Alex Anne Dietrich @DietrichVFA41
I love you. But sometimes I don’t like your behavior
Don’t make me turn this Tic Tac around!
Can I claim #ufotwitter as a dependent on my taxes?
Quote Tweet
@TimSpursFan
Replying to @DietrichVFA41 @Rabbit_Hole_UFO and @NewsNation
Alex has the patience of a saint with all of this. I'm no body language expert, but at the beginning of the video, you can see her take a big breath in like "Ok, here we go...". Prepping for a root canal. She's like #ufotwitter 's Mom with what she does for us.
written, posted by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022
Sure you're not just someone's Useful Fool in all this?
They're laughing behind your back?
You didn't seem very credible on News Nation recently
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/16/2023 6:57 PM
As for those UFO-bunkers, they STILL !!! do not explain WHY Tim Burchett has the same birthdate as the fictional character "Dr. Ellie Arroway" from the 1997 "Contact"
Just a bunch of losers
They want the USA Department of Defense to reveal important secrets FOR NO REASON other than to satisfy the obsessive-compulsion of you UFO-bunkers, so desperate to escape your mediocre life
You're an ineffective little guy in a pathetic attempt to exert dominance over those with real power, because their mere existence reminds you of your ineffectiveness.
Kevin Day doesn't know a damn thing about RADAR. Sean Cahill doesn't know a damn thing about RADAR. That guy bounces out the good name of the US Navy just to peddle his crappy product. And those ineffective little guys rage with threats to Area 51.
AND my personal interpretation suggests their heroic US Navy pilot *might be* an actual drunk who's never flown at 500 miles per hour and passed a mylar balloon
I gave a lot of people on Twitter the opportunity to refute my sensible rebuttal
Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022 6:54 PM August 21, 2023
Is that all just porno for you, Daisy?
Is that why all those people a few years ago got all worked up into a frenzy to trespass at Area 51?
Is that what you're still hoping to do?
UFO-worshippers are harassing USA DOD so they will give you their UFO-porno?
https://twitter.com/hvom2022/status/1695549365635752315
Mike Colangelo @MikeColangelo
Lets have transparency on UFOs: Rep. Tim Burchett
Interview with Tim Burchett on Fox News last night, talking about the latest UFO news and Chris Christie's terrible answer at the Republican debate.
I'm very thankful for all the work Mr. Burchett has done for the UFO issue
by me, Kerry Burgess, 07/31/2023
More of those guys muddying up the water with ridiculous questions.
That guy is not a pilot, as far as I know
He has zero amount of aerodynamics expertise
You are never going to know if it was a "perfect sharp" 90-degree turn
Just stupid.
#ufotwitter
Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022 2:27 PM Aug 26, 2023
https://forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/11/04/why-are-solar-panels-so-inefficient/?sh=20cd28405948
Why Are Solar Panels So Inefficient?
https://epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/air-pollution-current-and-future-challenges
air pollution in the United States continues to harm people s health and the environment
Kerry Wayne Burgess @hvom2022 10:39 AM September 17, 2023
"Believer" ? "Thinker" ?
Why the scorn for "the government" keeping secrets about E.T.?
Are there not more important matters to OCD about?
Why aren't solar-panels more efficient?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/military-whistleblower-showed-photo-allegedly-152539859.html
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Futurism
A Military Whistleblower Showed a Photo of an Allegedly Huge "Disc-Shaped" Object, But There's an Incredibly Obvious Explanation
Victor Tangermann
Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM PDT
Self-styled Pentagon whistleblower and former US Army counterintelligence officer Luis "Lue" Elizondo showed off a peculiar image of what appeared to be a gigantic, disc-shaped object floating hundreds of feet above the ground, during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee meeting this week.
The briefing, which took place on Thursday, was hosted by the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Fund, a nonpartisan political advocacy group "committed to uncovering the truth about UAPs," a less-stigmatized term used by government officials to refer to UFOs. Also present at the meeting was Harvard professor and noted UFO hunter Avi Loeb.
According to a tweet by the Disclosure Fund, the object was "estimated 600-1,000 ft in diameter, silver-hued, disc-shaped," which the group used to call for "full declassification and open scientific analysis."
https://twitter.com/UAPDF/status/1918006945887236115
"This was taken by a civilian pilot," Elizondo claimed during the meeting. "But again, you'd think this information would be important for somebody to look at," he added, while holding up a printout of the image.
According to Elizondo, "an average person with an average camera" took the photo at "21,000 feet."
"The object is potentially anywhere between 600 and 1,000 feet in diameter," he added. "It's a lenticular object, and it is silver."
However, despite making a big deal out of the image, he admitted that he couldn't "vouch for the veracity of this photograph," quipping that "I didn't take it."
At first glance, it does indeed look like an alien ship from a Hollywood movie. But as eagle-eyed users on Reddit quickly pointed out, Elizondo's purported smoking gun has a hilariously simple explanation. On the platform's otherwise conspiracy theory-friendly r/UFOs community, user mattperkins86 traced back the satellite image to two adjacent, perfectly circular fields, with the nearer, much darker one perfectly lining up to look like the second circle's shadow.
The two circles, located an hour east of Colorado Springs, can be spotted on Google Earth here.
An image purportedly showing UFOs, according to Pentagon whistleblower Luis Elizondo.
Put the pieces together, and showing the image as evidence of a UFO makes Elizondo look absolutely buffoonish.
"He HAD to have known that if this thing was fake, it was going to be found," mattperkins86 wrote. "So I am left thinking that this is intentional, I guess."
"This is actually hilarious," one user wrote. "Not even a crop circle, just regular crops in a circle."
UFO debunker Mick West also had a closer look, finding that the shadows simply didn't line up the way they should if it was an object floating above the ground.
Elizondo tried to retrofit the photo after the criticism, arguing in a lengthy tweet that the "specific photo had only just been provided to me (by a private pilot) that morning, prior to the forum" admitting that the photo "had NOT YET been vetted."
"The dimensions I quoted, were per the pilot’s own assessment of what he saw, based on altitude and experience," he added.
"As you know, I am always first to admit mistakes, but this is not one of those times," Elizondo wrote.
Instead of admitting his gaffe, Elizondo argued that the incident "illustrates a bigger point" that pilots and other individuals reporting UFO sightings may be "faced with fierce ridicule."
Of course, none of that really addresses the core criticism: that he shared an unvetted photo that was handed to him hours earlier, seemingly having done no due diligence.
The incident, following almost a decade of public government investigations into the UAPs, shows that even though it's a singularly grabby topic — or perhaps exactly because of that reality — official discussions often devolve into a laughable circus.
Officials have repeatedly pushed back against claims that the US government is hiding recovered alien spaceships that crashed on Earth, or that the Pentagon was conspiring against the public to keep evidence of extraterrestrials secret.
As he's admitted, Elizondo already has a track record of showing off debunked evidence of UFOs.
"A photo that was provided to me by a friend in Government a couple of years ago was presented by me two days ago at our engagement in Philadelphia," he admitted in an October tweet. "Looks like we can put this one bed, as our friends in Twitter figured/solved this one, major bravo to you!"
The photo, which Elizondo alleged to show a "mothership" UFO, turned out to be a simple, unusually-shaped cloud.
Elizondo has previously alleged that military pilots had received radiation burns after making close encounters with UFOs, and that other pilots had experienced the "warping of space time."
The former intelligence official has strongly advocated for the release of classified information regarding UAPs, promising to turn up the pressure on the Defense Department's UAP Task Force.
In 2017, Elizondo resigned from the DoD in protest of the "bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets" that he said "plague" his former employer and its treatment of the "UAP issue," according to an official bio submitted to Congress.
After years of hunting for evidence of UFOs, though, Elizondo has little to show. His repeated efforts to prove their existence using phony pictures of crops and clouds aren't helping his ambitions.
Whether his latest slip-up will meaningfully add to the discussion and reduce the stigma surrounding the subject remains dubious at best. If anything, chances are it could risk further undermining the UAP Disclosure Fund's legitimacy.
Even the r/UFOs community, which remains extremely open-minded when it comes to the supernatural, is starting to turn on him.
"Jesus, this is embarrassing," one user wrote in response to Elizondo's latest gaffe.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 1:34 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 05/03/2025
