Encounters with UFOs have reportedly left Americans suffering from radiation
burns, brain and nervous system damage, and even "unaccounted for
pregnancy," according to a massive database of U.S. government reports
recently made public through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
The database of documents includes more than 1,500 pages of UFO-related
material from the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) —
a secretive U.S Department of Defense program that ran from 2007 to 2012.
Despite never being classified as secret or top secret, the AATIP only
became known to the public in 2017, when former program director Luis
Elizondo resigned from the Pentagon and released several now-infamous videos
of an unidentified aircraft moving in seemingly impossible ways to the
media.
Shortly after the AATIP's existence was revealed, the U.S. outpost of the
British Tabloid The Sun filed a FOIA request for any and all documents
related to the program. Four years later — on April 5, 2022 — the U.S.
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) honored the request by releasing more
1,574 pages of
material to The Sun.
According to The Sun, the cache of documents includes reports on the
biological effects of UFO sightings on humans, studies on advanced
technologies such as invisibility cloaks, and plans for deep space
exploration and colonization. Some portions of the documents were "withheld
in part" for privacy and confidentiality concerns, the AATIP told The Sun.
One standout document from the collection is a report titled
Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological
Tissues, dated March 2010. The report describes alleged injuries to "human
observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems," some of which may be a
"threat to United States interests," according to the document.
The report describes 42 cases from medical files and 300 "unpublished" cases
where humans sustained injuries after alleged encounters with "anomalous
vehicles," which include UFOs. In some cases, humans showed burn injuries or
other conditions related to electromagnetic radiation, the report said —
some of them appearing to have been inflicted by "energy related propulsion
systems." The report also noted cases of brain damage, nerve damage, heart
palpitations and headaches related to anomalous vehicle encounters.
It is unclear what kind of vetting process, if any, the AATIP used to
investigate these alleged cases. The Sun has yet to share the full contents
of the requested reports.
The report also includes a list of alleged biological effects of UFO
sightings on human observers between 1873 and 1994, compiled by the Mutual
UFO Network (MUFON) — a civilian non-profit group that studies reported UFO
sightings. The reported effects of UFO encounters include "unaccounted for
pregnancy," "apparent abduction," paralysis, and experiences of perceived
telepathy, teleportation and levitation.
The report concludes that there is sufficient evidence "to support a
hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed, and opaque to
full US understandings."
For more details, check out The Sun's
initial report
on their FOIA request.
Originally published on
Live Science.