review<\/a> gave no indications that their origins were extraterrestrial.<\/p>\nOn two separate occasions, Debbie Dmytro saw things in the sky over Michigan\u2019s southern Oakland County. The greenish object Dmytro says she saw March 1 in the sky over Royal Oak, Michigan, looked like neither plane nor helicopter. Dmytro, a 56-year-old medical professional, acknowledges that it could have been some type of commercial or delivery drone.<\/p>\n
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What she saw in 2023 in the same general area north of Detroit is not so easily explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour yellow lights, yellowish golden lights and they were all flying very, very low,\u201d Dmytro remembers. She says the lights were about 100 feet (30 meters) up at their nearest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything so low without any noise and flying in complete uniformity,\u201d she says. \u201cIs it something man-made? Is it something that\u2019s not manmade? Who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n
Who knows indeed? UFOs, the term for unidentified flying objects, has in recent years given way to UAP \u2014 unidentified aerial phenomena or unidentified anomalous phenomena.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAbsolutely, there are such things\u201d as UAPs and UFOs, says Diamond, whose SETI \u2014 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence \u2014 seeks to explore, search and understand the nature of life and intelligence in the universe.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople observe things in the sky that they can\u2019t immediately identify or recognize as either human engineering such as planes or drones or helicopters, or animals, such as birds, and therefore they don\u2019t know what they are,” Diamond says.<\/p>\n
Time for the truth<\/p>\n
Like so many, Dmytro wants to know what the government knows. \u201cI think there\u2019s more information out there. I\u2019m open to learning more,\u201d she says. \u201cI have an open mind. It\u2019s always about scientific proof.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Retired Rear Adm. Timothy Gallaudet says evidence clearly shows there are UAP zipping around the airspace and in the oceans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe nonhuman intelligence that operates them or controls them are absolutely real,\u201d Gallaudet says. \u201cWe\u2019ve recovered crashed craft. We don\u2019t know if they\u2019re extraterrestrial in origin.”<\/p>\n
Gallaudet worked as acting administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He participated in a 2024 congressional hearing on UAP disclosure and says the release of government files promised by Trump is something people find of interest. He just hopes the president follows through.<\/p>\n
There are billions of galaxies in the universe and each has billions of stars, so the likelihood life developed elsewhere is fairly high, according to University of Michigan Astronomy Professor Edwin Bergin, who teaches about looking for life elsewhere. He believes that if intelligent beings navigated vast distances to reach Earth they would make themselves known \u2014 despite humanity\u2019s penchant for creating chaos.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI would think that they would look at us like we were crazy … but they would come out,” he says. “I mean, why come here otherwise unless you\u2019re going to sit and observe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Loeb, director of the Institute for Theory & Computation at Harvard and head of the university’s Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts, believes in the likely existence of extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey might be laughing at us,\u201d he says. “They might be watching us … to make sure we will not become predators, that we will not become dangerous to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the interest of national security<\/p>\n
Much of the government\u2019s secrecy around UFOs and UAP is tied to national security concerns, according to Diamond.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe have pretty advanced technologies, satellite, ground-based that are for various purposes mostly national security and defense that are pointing at the sky or things on board aircraft,\u201d Diamond says. \u201cSometimes these pick up objects. The technology behind it is sensitive and protected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Government data, including a \u201ctrove \u201d of UAP video the Navy is sitting on, should be shared with scientists for research and a better understanding of the characteristics of the objects, says Gallaudet, who spent 32 years in the Navy and viewed classified UAP video.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at these things in our airspace having near collisions with our aircraft, that\u2019s a real valid concern,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are just not sure of what they are and what they intend to do with their interaction with humanity. That could be a national security threat, or not.”<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen has ignorance ever been a good national strategy?” Gallaudet asks. “Whether it be scary, harmful or not, or a mix, I think seeking the truth is in our best interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Diamond doesn’t think any \u201ctrue alien encounter could be kept secret.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf any civilization has mastered interstellar travel, they have technology and capabilities beyond our wildest comprehension,\u201d he says. \u201cIf they want to interact, they will; if they don\u2019t, they won\u2019t. If they want to be seen, they will be, and if not, they won\u2019t be!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE – A patron passes a painting inside the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7536,90653,145,90651,3116,23681,59373,73298,86082,73294,59371,59372,61262,90652,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-234803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-bill-diamond","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-extraterrestrials-ufo-uap-trump-obama-files","12":"tag-michigan","13":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","14":"tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","15":"tag-package-100923-member-choice-lifestyles-option","16":"tag-product-30081-ap-new-mexico-state-news-no-weather","17":"tag-product-30594-lifestyles-formerly-weekly-features","18":"tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","19":"tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","20":"tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","21":"tag-royal-oak","22":"tag-san-antonio","23":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","24":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}