AMESBURY – Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), came to the Costello Senior Center last week.
About a dozen senior residents listened enthusiastically to Chris Torres of Salisbury Beach explain how the government and academics no longer believe people are crazy if they believe impossibly fast space ships from another planet are visiting Earth.
“We are entering a new era of transparency” about extraterrestrials, Torres said. Notably, a new documentary, the Age of Disclosure, filmed in secret for the last two years, is being unveiled next month at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX, Torres said.
The Age of the Disclosure, by filmmaker Dan Farah, features interviews with 34 current and former senior members of the U.S. government, military and intelligence agencies who have what is said to be “direct knowledge of UAPs.”
The film contends the government has engaged in an 80-year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life. And it is not just the U.S. The documentary contends that a secret war is underway among major nations to reverse engineer captured UFO technology.
Torres, who grew up in Methuen, has been fascinated with little green men since he was a boy. But in the 40 years he has been watching the skies, he has been frustrated because he has never seen a UFO.
He admits that about 95 percent of lights in the sky are easily explained as airplanes, drones and stars, notably the planet Jupiter. Or it could be Chinese spy balloons, he said.
Torres, who gives his lectures as part of a company called SeniorU. brought with him to the edification of the Amesbury seniors videos of Navy pilots, who filmed aircraft that looked like giant Tic Tacs. As the objects flew close to Navy aircraft carriers and other ships, the pilots followed and filmed them, but could not explain what they were and expressed their amazement at the objects’ capabilities, according to the videos.
The aircraft travelled at unimaginable speeds, defied gravity, were not detectable on radar and could operate in the air and below the water line, Torres said.
Congress has taken a new interest in the phenomena. Senators from both sides of the party divide have joined together to press the Defense Department and other agencies to release to the public what information they have, including wreckage of UAPs and even non-human remains.
Senators Chuck Schumer, D-NY, and Mike Rounds, R-SD, have introduced legislation to require the government to release the information. Marco Rubio, the new Secretary of State, appears on the documentary in support of releasing the information to the public. Rubio says in the documentary that “even Presidents are operating on a need-to-know basis.”
New York’s other senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, joins the former director of National Intelligence for the Obama administration in support of more transparency about UAPs.
“The film was granted unprecedented access and support from senior members of the U.S. government, military and intelligence community,” the documentary producers state. “Everyone interviewed in the film has direct knowledge of UAP as a result of their work for the U.S. government. The film exposes the profound impact the situation has on the future of humanity, while providing a look behind the scenes with those at the forefront of the bipartisan disclosure effort.”
Jim Semivan, a 25-year senior official with the CIA, said, “UAPs are here, they are real and they are not human.”
Former Department of Defense official and longtime UAP disclosure advocate Christopher Mellon said, “This is the biggest discovery in human history.” Former Department of Defense official Luis Elizondo, who was a member of the government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said, “You have information being locked away that can change the trajectory of [our] species.”
Jay Stratton, former director of the U.S. government’s UAP task force, said, “The first country that cracks the code on this technology will be the leader for years to come. This is similar to The Manhattan Project; this is the atomic weapon on steroids.” ♦
