The US government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) spent millions of dollars researching speculative technologies such as invisibility cloaks, antigravity devices, wormhole traversability, and a proposal to build a tunnel through the moon using nuclear explosives, a newly released set of secret documents revealed.
In 2017, when the existence of the U.S. Department of Defense’s super-secret AATIP program — which ran from 2007 to 2012 — became known to the world public, much of the public and media attention was focused on the government agency spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money on UFO-related investigations.
Now, documents obtained and shared by Vice, which total nearly 1,600 pages of reports, proposals, treaties and meeting notes, reveal some of AATIP’s stranger priorities that go well beyond identifying and encountering UFOs and using words like traversable wormholes, stargates, anti -Gravity Devices, Invisibility Cloaks, High Frequency Gravity Wave Communications, Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and Extradimensional Manipulation.
All 51 documents, which look like something straight out of a sci-fi fantasy, were obtained by the media outlet through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) application filed four years ago. Now the documents are freely accessible and can be consulted in a cloud.
invisibility cloak
Many of the reports traced the scientific developments on the frontlines of the proposed projects and also acknowledged the impracticability of some of the speculative technologies.
For example, in the report on invisibility, the paper states that “perfect cloaking devices” are “impossible” because they “require materials where the speed of light approaches infinity.”
However, camouflage “imperfect cloaking devices” that make objects invisible to microwave-based sensors like radar and motion detectors are “definitely within reach of current technology,” the authors add, the authors report.
“It’s not entirely clear yet if invisibility in the visible part of the spectrum will become a reality. It will most likely depend more on new theoretical research than on advances in new materials and on the application of mathematical intelligence, intuition and imagination,” the published document reads.
atomic bomb to the moon
Another eccentric proposal envisaged in the documents was the launch of an atomic bomb on the moon. In a report on “negative mass forcing,” the authors suggested scouring the lunar core for ultralight metals, said to be 100,000 times lighter than steel but with the strength of steel. And to get to the lunar core, they proposed tunneling through the lunar crust and mantle with thermonuclear explosives to reach the lunar core. Fortunately for the moon and mankind, none of these ideas have come close to becoming reality.
Warp drives and passable wormholes
In other articles, the authors describe the feasibility of more outlandish, science-fiction technologies such as warp drives and traversable wormholes. The unnamed authors describe the theoretical operation of warp drives and say they involve local manipulation of the fabric of space in close proximity to a spacecraft.
“The basic idea is to create an asymmetric bubble of space that contracts in front of the spacecraft and expands behind it. With this form of locomotion, the spacecraft remains motionless within this ‘warp bubble’, and the motion of space itself facilitates the relative motion of the spacecraft,” they noted.
According to Vice, one of the reasons these documents are so intriguing, aside from the absurdity of the research, is that much of the AATIP agenda was based on research commissioned by a private firm called Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). Offshoot of a private company owned by hotel magnate Robert Bigelow, a personal friend of the late Senator Harry Reid who was responsible for founding AATIP.
This document dump comes just three weeks after The Sun received more than 1,500 pages of documents cataloged by AATIP regarding alleged UFO encounters.
The documents included an account of the alleged biological effects of UFO encounters on humans. The report listed paralysis, “apparent abduction,” and “unexplained pregnancy” as side effects of alleged UFO encounters, as reported by Live Science.
Edited by Felipe Espinosa Wang.