Luis Elizondo for Medium: These days, many of our government’s affairs are handled behind closed doors, and usually for good reason.
There are countless secret programs, secret agencies, secret congressional committees, secret laws, and even a secret courtroom. Secrecy allows our government to gather and share information, and even make decisions, that might otherwise fall into enemy hands or be exploited.
Ultimately, the purpose of secrecy in government is to protect sources and methods and ensure that information flow and integrity is maintained so that decision makers can make decisions based on the very best data available. It is no surprise that governments will go to great lengths to protect information they consider sensitive. The more sensitive information is perceived, the better it is protected.
Nowhere is this more true than in the shadowy world of intelligence and espionage.
A famous example of secret programs was once run by a colleague of mine, Dr. Harold Puthoff. The Stargate Program was a secret intelligence gathering effort straight out of science fiction books. Founded by the Central Intelligence Agency under a different name, and later acquired by the Defense Intelligence Agency, Stargate’s purpose was to train intelligence collectors in advanced human cognitive abilities and use them to gather information.
These elite individuals, better known as the paranormal spies, used the not very well understood phenomena of precognition and “remote viewing” to conduct espionage against our adversaries.
Many in the scientific community were initially dismissive of the idea, but later became fascinated by the reliability and accuracy of the data collected. Was the US government really using things like witchcraft, as some had suggested, or was there a more scientific explanation?
Perhaps one of the more controversial programs in American history, it was certainly not the first or the last to explore the strange world of quantum physics for the purpose of gathering intelligence and information.
Some of the most “out there” research currently taking place in government is taking place in the world of quantum physics.
Quantum mechanics is a theory of physics that studies the behavior of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic level – and now it’s helping to shed light on some of the most mysterious areas of science.
Areas such as teleportation, quantum entanglement and zero-point energy offer new insights into the structure of our reality and space-time. Ideas popularized by sci-fi shows like StarTrek turn out to be more real than you might think.
Most people would be surprised to learn that we have been teleporting objects such as electrons for over a decade, most recently the Micius satellite confirmed successful teleportation of a quantum object from Earth to orbit, breaking the previous record.
Yes, teleportation is a real thing.
Another example of government involvement in the strange world of quantum mechanics is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). LIGO, a partnership between Caltech, MIT and the National Science Foundation, is tasked with detecting tiny fluctuations in gravitational waves caused by stellar black holes colliding millions and billions of light years away.
Until recently, the idea that gravitational waves even existed, let alone compress and stretch space-time like a Slinky, was only theoretical. Why are gravitational waves important? Because they prove that the space and time we live in is in fact flexible, and sometimes very flexible.
If you’re scratching your head right now, you’re probably not alone.
Our recent understanding of these strange quantum properties was only made possible because at some point the US government decided it was worth pursuing and got involved.
The mystery surrounding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) may seem whimsical; After all, other efforts, including the now famous “Project Blue Book,” looked at the same fanciful phenomena, along with several other previous efforts, and came up with nothing… or did they?
When I led the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), we did exactly what others did before us.
But AATIP had an advantage that its predecessors did not: a better understanding of the quantum world. Only recently have we made enough progress in our understanding of the science that for the first time, many of the mind-boggling behaviors of UAP – such as instantaneous acceleration, hypersonic speeds, low observability, trans-medium travel, and even anti-gravity – can now be performed. are explained by quantum physics and not by voodoo science.
Finally, we reached the point where physics had caught up with observations, electro-optical data, and other hard data. We have now glimpsed a better understanding of how these things behave and perform.
Books written by Harvard professors and renowned scientists from MIT, Stanford, Cambridge and Oxford shed new light on the mathematics involved in this super-boutique area of science. The quantum world is no longer a field of scientific theory, it is now a practical field of reality. It could explain the behavior of the universe and everything in it.
It might even help demystify the riddle of ‘faster-than-light travel’, or frankly the ability to bend space-time in such a way that you can travel vast distances in the blink of an eye and still not break any laws of physics.
Eureka!
Laws are there to be broken
Perhaps in traffic court it would be best not to tell the judge.
But in physics we learn that some laws can be bent. Let’s look at quantum entanglement as an example.
When two particles become ‘entangled’, when one particle is reacted to, the other reacts. This is true whether the particles are an inch, a foot, a mile, or much further away.
Here’s a way-too-simple demonstration of what it looks like:
Suppose I am holding two pens, one in each hand. I take the pen in my left hand and throw it to the left, to the farthest reaches of our visible universe, 13.5 billion light years over the horizon. Then I take the pen in my right hand and send that pen to the furthest point of the visible universe on the right, in the opposite direction of the first pen. Now we have about 27 billion light years between each pin, right? This means that light (the fastest thing in the known universe) takes 27 billion years to travel from the first pen to the second.
But if my two pins are quantum entangled, when I act on one pin, the other one will respond immediately. Somehow, the two pens managed to instantly transmit an action that takes more than 27 billion years to reach light.
Confused? Fine. Albert Einstein was so seduced by quantum entanglement that he called it “spooky action at a distance.”
So how is this possible if light is supposedly the fastest thing in the universe? It’s possible that quantum communication has found a shortcut. Perhaps the communication that takes place at the quantum level doesn’t recognize distance in the same way we do, or even in the way light does.
Perhaps distance doesn’t even matter in the quantum world.
Some have proposed that the space resemble a giant sponge or Swiss cheese, with small holes that allow you to zip from one point to another without having to walk over or around the actual sponge or cheese itself. Imagine if we had the technology to exploit these tiny holes.
Another possibility is that communication occurs at the quantum level by connecting two regions of space-time at a single point. Similar to placing a pencil mark on the edge of a sheet of paper and then folding the opposite ends of the paper together so that the pencil mark on one side rubs away on the other side of the paper.
Scientists now believe that there are other things that can indeed move faster than the speed of light. Recent observations supporting the ‘Inflation Theory’ suggest that space itself can expand faster than the speed of light. Essentially, the space between two objects can expand so quickly that even though the objects themselves don’t move faster than light, the space between the two objects certainly does.
All we realize is that, strange as the quantum world may be, it is indeed real.
Quantum physics helps us explain the behavior of UAP
All reports from UAP have something in common: the strange and erratic way the unknown craft move through the air.
The first report of a “flying saucer” dates back to 1947, when a pilot saw nine objects in the sky that looked like boomerangs, each moving “like a saucer when you jump it over the water.” In 2003, a New Zealand eyewitness described seeing a “disc-shaped silver UFO with erratic vertical and horizontal movements.” Thousands of reports from military and civilian personnel around the world continue to report similar features.
Then in December 2017, the Ministry of Defense published the first ‘official images’ of UFO encounters with the military. In the videos, the trained military pilots – who know exactly what both foreign and domestic aircraft look like in flight – are completely baffled by what they see. The spacecraft shoots to one side and then speeds across the screen to another point, seemingly in violation of the laws of science.
How can they maneuver this way?
UAP does not seem to be bound by the same limitations and interpretations that we have of space-time. One minute they’re here, the next minute they’re gone. It’s safe to assume that whatever technology is being used, it’s probably much better than ours.
It’s time for a paradigm change
In the 19th century, the director of the US Patent Trademark Office predicted that in twenty years there would be no need for patents because everything would have been invented by then.
Pretty shortsighted, right? But something similar happened with UAP. Through Project Blue Book, the US Air Force has compiled reports of tens of thousands of UFO sightings over seventeen years. But in 1966, another Air Force committee published the Condon Report, which concluded that most of the observations examined were explainable.
Then the DoD’s 2017 disclosure happened, which directly contradicted the findings in the Condon Report. We realized that we had not yet discovered everything there was to discover.
AATIP succeeded where others failed, simply because our understanding of physics finally caught up with our observations.
Now that we’re equipped with more information than ever before, we’re on the cusp of some serious revelations and discoveries about our place in the universe.
Author: Luis Elizondo, former US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, source Medium
