In April 2021, during the Crew-2 mission’s historic journey to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule was briefly thought to be on a collision course with an unidentified object. NASA’s preliminary assessment categorized this event as a potential conjunction, prompting astronauts to suit up for extra safety. However, after a detailed investigation, it was labeled a false alarm, sparking intrigue about the nature of the incident and raising questions on the identification and tracking of space debris. Now, newly released documents rom Space Command (SPACECOM), obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request originally filed by…
Author: John Greenewald
The attack on the French oil tanker Limburg occurred on October 6, 2002, off the coast of Yemen. The tanker was en route to the port of Mina al-Dabah on the Arabian Sea to collect a shipment of crude oil. As it approached its destination, a small boat laden with explosives rammed into the ship’s starboard side. This resulted in a massive explosion and fire that breached the tanker’s hull, causing substantial damage and spilling thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden. The attack killed a Bulgarian crew member and injured several others. The explosion also created…
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has published a new document addressing the impact of forced perspective and parallax effects on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) observations. Their paper, “Effect of Forced Perspective and Parallax View on UAP Observations”, offers insight into how these optical illusions can distort estimates of UAP size, speed, and location, providing important context for the public and analysts alike. They shared the document via X in the following post: https://twitter.com/DoD_AARO/status/1788223137277952196 The paper begins by acknowledging that no single explanation can account for all UAP reports, but it emphasizes that forced perspective and parallax often play a…
Background When Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests are processed by the FBI, they will sometimes send CD’s (or printed pages) of “pre-processed pages”. This speeds up processing time, and generally (according to the FBI) the pre-processed pages that were released in previous FOIA requests, generally satisfies each respective request. If the pre-processed package does not seem to contain what a requester is looking for, they can then go after additional pages, and file another request (which generally gets tacked on to the first case number, unless 30+ days pass). In April of 2017, I went after what I believed…
The documents released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, submitted by Russ Kick, reveal annual reports from the National Security Agency (NSA) for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. These reports were created in compliance with the Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act and provide insights into the agency’s data mining activities. In a letter dated March 4, 2021, the NSA responded to Kick’s original FOIA request. Although the NSA released some of the requested documents, certain information was withheld under the provisions of Executive Order 13526, which classifies sensitive information as TOP SECRET due to potential risks to…