Wormholes, stargates and dark energy: what the Pentagon spent money on as part of the military space program

The documents of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which the Pentagon implemented from 2007 to 2012, were published at the request of the Director of the Federation of American Scientists, Steven Aftergood.

The published materials state that the US defense department was interested in researching such issues as “development of a promising space power plant based on a vacuum (space-time metric)”, “communication using gravitational waves”, “positron aerospace engine”, “value quantum entanglement and nonlocality for space communications ”, and other concepts from the field of science fiction. A total of seven pages contains 38 names of research areas, which were engaged in various scientific organizations.

For example, a project called “Nuclear engines for manned flights into deep space” was entrusted to a scientist from the University of Nevada. The program “Warp engine, dark energy and manipulation with additional measurements” was transferred to a private scientific consulting firm Obousy Consultants. EarthTech International was commissioned to study Passable Mole Holes, Stargates and Negative Energy.

According to the documents, the project on invisibility was led by German physicist Ulf Leonhardt from the Weizmann Institute. The scientist is engaged in research in the field of theoretical quantum optics. In 2006, Leonhardt published a paper on creating “invisible spaces” in space that can be used to disguise.

Another study was devoted to the study of the Drake equation - the formula for determining the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in the Galaxy, with which mankind has a chance to come into contact.

Psychic scientists

It is worth noting that the company EarthTech Ineternational, mentioned in the document, is headed by an American engineer Harold Puthoff, who already has experience of participating in unusual research under the auspices of the Pentagon. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was the head of the Stargate program, organized with the joint participation of the US Department of Defense and the CIA.

Within the framework of Stargate, Puthoff and American artist and psychic Ingo Swann experimented with the so-called remote observation — movement in time and space with the help of the power of thought. In the course of such experiments, Swann and Puthoff “observed” the planets Jupiter and Mars and told CIA agents about the presence of ancient civilizations on them.

Puthoff, who, according to his own statements, also possessed the gift of “remote observation,” acquired him after he reached the highest rank of OT VII enlightenment in the Church of Scientology. Ingo Swann, who was expelled from the American Association of Parapsychology (ASPR) in 1972 for his collaboration with Scientologists, was also a member of the church.

In the final conclusion about the work of Stargate, it was noted that Puthoff's experiments gave results only when Swann was a psychic on the project. Repeated attempts by CIA agents to obtain any really useful intelligence information did not yield any result, the report said. However, Swann and Puthoff willingly shared with agents observations of distant planets and civilizations lost in space and time.

Skeptics vs. Fiction

Stephen Aftergood, on whose request these data were declassified and published, was not very impressed with the far-reaching ideas of the US military.

“I think that any person who has read these names will simply clutch his head and guess what the US Department of Defense had in mind. Here are those topics that are being researched when there is nothing more to spend money on, ”he quotes News Corp Australia.

He added that, despite the certain attractiveness of such concepts, they should not be paid out of the taxpayers ’pocket.

“When I was young, I liked science fiction. But now I like competent government. Therefore, I find nothing funny here, ”added Aftergood.

Recall that at the end of 2018, the Pentagon failed the first in its history external audit department. This provoked criticism from a number of democratic politicians who accused the military of embezzling funds. The check was initiated by Senator Chuck Grassley, after he became aware of the purchase of US Air Force mugs for coffee with heating function, the price of each of which on average exceeded $ 800.

In search of the unknown

The existence of the AATIP program in 2017 was reported by The Washington Post and The New York Times. As part of this program, the US defense department conducted an investigation into incidents involving unidentified flying objects and the study of unidentified atmospheric phenomena.

In the news and materials about the American AATIP media, a video was printed on which the US Navy F / A-18 Super Hornet was allegedly pursuing an unidentified aircraft of unknown configuration, moving at tremendous speed.

After these publications, the Pentagon admitted the existence of a program to study UFOs - for the first time after the Blue Book project was closed in 1969.

According to The New York Times, funding for the program was initiated at the request of Harry Reid, a former Democratic senator (state of Nevada). AATIP budget was $ 22 million, most of which went to subsidies for the company Bigelow Aerospace - she manages the hotel magnate from Las Vegas, Robert Bigelow. In the summer of 2017 on the program “60 minutes” on CBS channel, he stated that he had no doubt about the existence of aliens.

In addition, Bigelow is a close friend of Senator Harry Reed, who ordered to start the program, and has repeatedly donated tens of thousands of dollars to the campaign for his re-election in 2004 and 2010.

Military science fiction

Political analyst Mikhail Sinelnikov-Orishak, in an interview with RT, recalled that the Pentagon was engaged in many exotic things, compared with which threats from space and other dimensions do not look something unusual.

For example, in 2014 and 2015, the Pentagon allocated a $ 1.3 million grant to scientists from Cornell University to study the Gambian marsupial rats, which they planned to use to search for mines and explosives instead of working dogs.

Scientists quickly found out that the Gambian rats can indeed find mines by smell, but they are no better able to cope with this task than dogs. In addition, rats lost interest in the case in hot weather, and their maintenance was much more expensive.

As for the programs for studying UFOs and unusual scientific fields, the US Department of Defense has been engaged in them since the 1960s of the last century, Sinelnikov-Orishak noted.

“The benefits of such“ fantastic things ”are that you can write off whatever money you like for them. Theoretically, the cosmos can emanate threats, for example, not a UFO, of course, but asteroids or comets that could potentially threaten the Earth. It is necessary to study. No one can say how practical this is. And the duration of the study is determined by infinity, because the cosmos is infinite. In this regard, you can write off any amounts, ”explained the political scientist.

However, despite the exotic nature of the stated topics for research, one should not rush to conclude that this program is a cover for inappropriate spending or distribution of funds from the budget, says Vladimir Batiuk, Chief Researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada.

“For misuse, there are plenty of simpler ways. For this, overpricing the items purchased by the Pentagon is sufficient. There are many classic examples, such as the Pentagon flashlights, that were purchased for $ 400. For such purposes, gravitational waves do not need to be studied, ”the expert noted.

“They exist in their own world”

For the Pentagon and its research organizations like DARPA, this is a very typical story, political analyst Alexander Asafov said in an interview with RT. According to him, such a doctrine of developing the most paradoxical directions in science was adopted by the United States after World War II.

“It is worth remembering the Stargate program, which was absolutely real, and budget money was spent on it. Inside the US Department of Defense there are a number of adherents of the strategy, according to which the scientific and technical advantage can be achieved faster if even the most absurd directions of research are not discarded by scientists, ”the expert explained.

Until recently, the Pentagon was not subjected to audits, and the approval of funding for such studies did not pose a big problem, Asafov recalled.

“For people working inside this system, it does not matter. They are divorced from reality and exist in their own world, from which they write scientific reports on the study of warp technologies. This can be useful for dominating space in a few centuries, so another tens of millions of dollars have to be spent here, ”the expert noted.

According to him, despite the fact that such studies may seem absurd to outsiders, for the Pentagon such processes are natural.

“The calculation is based on the fact that, having explored 1000 incredible ideas, on the 1001st they will make a sudden breakthrough and really open the warp engine, teleportation and time travel - everything that we used to attribute to science fiction,” Asafov concluded.