Navy UFO Sightings: A False Message

The International Raelian Movement (IRM) is trying again to ride on the coattails of the recent UFO hype stirred up by mainstream media.

On May 30, 2019, IRM published a press release about a recent New York Times' article spotlighting a US Navy's F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, Lt. Ryan Graves, who reported observing UFOs. Pilots from the aircraft carrier Roosevelt made repeated observations of strange objects like a "spinning top'' surrounded by a "glowing aura" flying over the East Coast that could allegedly fly at hypersonic speeds, make swift stops and turns, reach 30,000 feet in altitude, and fly all day long without apparent engine or exhaust plumes. According to them, such technology assembled in one craft simply doesn’t yet exist, implying the objects were alien spacecrafts.

An infrared (ATFLIR) video taken on January 20, 2015, was released by the US Defense Department's secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program [1] in late 2017 that seems to back up the anecdotal claims made by Lt. Graves above. The New York Times ran an article about it at that time written by the same authors. The video in question is being widely circulated with the title GIMBAL since the infrared camera was mounted on a gimbal pod that can rotate in any direction.

It isn't apparent whether Lt. Graves was one of the pilots in the video. The conversation heard in the video is very casual and does not use military protocol, indicating that it might have been taken during a training exercise for rookies. The transcript attached to the video opens with, "It's a fucking drone, bro!" followed with "There's a whole fleet of them! Look on the ASA." At one point, one of them says, "It's rotating!"

After a thorough investigation by Metabunk, it was concluded that the object is most probably another jet (or, drone). The apparent "glowing spinning top" was due to the long distance and infrared glare caused by a twin jet engine. The rotation is consistent with how spikes in a glare artifact would rotate when viewed by a gimbal FLIR camera following a curved trajectory.

There are no other visual evidence that corroborates the fantastic claims made by Lt. Graves except for another video that was released shortly after the GIMBAL video titled GO FAST. In it, we can just observe a small dot darting in a straight line showing nothing significant or unearthly. It's likely it's a balloon rather than a jet plane, since it doesn't have a heat signature. Again, the conversation heard does not maintain military protocol and is very casual.

Thrown into the mix of this naval UFO hype is yet another video titled FLIR1 taken way back in 2004 using a similar infrared camera setup. It's known as the USS Nimitz UFO incident. The Washington Post published an article about it just days after the New York Times first broke the news about the black project in late 2017. Cmdr. David Fravor claimed in an interview with Fox News he saw a flying object about the size of his plane that looked like a Tic Tac after a break in a routine training mission. The object moved rapidly and unlike any other thing he had ever seen in the air. Apparently, Cmdr. Fravor's account was just a recollection of the incident and that he wasn't the one who had taken the video.

Again, Metabunk did a thorough investigation and concluded that the footage is consistent with a distant jet plane flying away from the camera. At the end of the video it gently drifts off to the left, either making a turn or due to the camera lock drifting. A sudden jump between 1x and 2x zoom makes this look vastly more dramatic than it actually is.

The Raelian press release tries to insinuate that alien spacecrafts deliberately showed themselves to these naval pilots in order to bring to them a "message of peace" before they were deployed to the Persian Gulf to drop bombs over Syria and Iraq.

In reality, IRM is just taking advantage of the media hype related to UFO sightings (as they always do) to advance their belief that aliens called the Elohim of the Bible scientifically created all life on Earth and that they would appear more and more in our skies in order to increase awareness and facilitate their ongoing efforts of promoting an official encounter at an Embassy dedicated to welcoming them officially. Fortunately, these UFO sightings eventually generate more conventional evidence that show the objects to be misidentified normal aerial phenomena. UFOs do not automatically equate to alien spacecraft.

Advocatus Diaboli

Also, check out:

Raelian ET Embassy's FAKE NEWS Page: UFOs

Peruvian UFO (High Altitude Kite)
Raelian Sandcastle

Raelian Embassy: ZERO Progress

[1] Apparently the ex-chief of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Luis Elizondo, resigned from the Pentagon in October 2017. Subsequently, he joined this organization created in 2015 by musician, Tom DeLonge, "To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences". The government black project lost funding in 2012 (but is still apparently operational), and this new venture may have had the potential of becoming a lucrative option for Elizondo and other retired people of the Department of Defense to get behind and "disclose" the officially released videos. This video outlines the connection between the Elizondo and DeLonge.

ET EMBASSY WATCH: Phase 1

Daniel Turcotte, Raelian Guide and Rael’s assistant for the Embassy Project explains, “Phase 1 will be completed when two or more countries have ratified the optional protocol, and we expect that this should be achieved by 2019 (Press Release, March 2017).”

The following documents the progress of Phase 1 according to the press releases by the International Raelian Movement (IRM). As with the Pleasure Hospital spearheaded by the CLITORAID project, the ET Embassy project also seems to be lagging behind.


March 31, 2015 - “project file” handed to the White House and the United Nations Council of Foreign Affairs. Copies of the file given to the U.S. State Department; to French, German and other European foreign ministers; and to "many other" government officials around the world.

March 30, 2016 - “Optional Protocol Concerning Embassies for Extraterrestrials” handed to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Official request for extraterritoriality of the embassy made to President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Requested Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to propose a conference of all nations that are parties to the Vienna convention for the purpose of discussing the draft protocol, and to call for offers to host it.”

March 30, 2017 - ET Embassy Project timeline announced.

March 28, 2018 - “Several countries" have shown a genuine interest, but this year, "one country" has invited IRM representatives to discuss the project. The updated 2017 optional protocol handed to host country candidate and asked to address the possibility for that country to hold the first international conference to discuss the protocol.

April 2, 2019 - On-going negotiations for the past year with the "first country" to consider hosting an Embassy for Extraterrestrials. Solicited the United Nations to organize the first International conference to discuss the optional protocol. “Several countries" still show a genuine interest in the project.

We are yet to be informed of the names of the countries that have shown genuine interest and more importantly, the one country that has invited IRM to discuss the project. It is very convenient not to disclose names and rather just make bold claims.

It is interesting to ask why IRM hasn't ever disclosed the Seychelles Government's interest in the embassy project dating back to March 2000.

July, 2019 - The ET Embassy site updates the timeline and pushes back phase 1 to be between 2019 and 2022.

March 28, 2020 - Letter sent to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asking him to consider holding an international convention to discuss the “Optional Protocol Concerning Embassies for Extraterrestrials.” The response to the letter explained that the United Nations was not able to act without the support of the member states, and so IRM allegedly sent their proposal to all ambassadors of member states.

The press release cites a debunked video released by the US Defense Department late 2017 as evidence that UFOs exist and are "the real deal." 

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RAEL FACTS: HIS BOOK vs. INTERVIEW

There is a book by a respected French journalist, René Pacaut titled “They Met Extraterrestrials” (Ils ont rencontré des extra-terrestres, 1978) which is a collection of interviews of so-called “contactees” of the 1970s. One of the interviewees was Claude Vorilhon, Rael.

Rael's account from that interview, however, was in contradiction with what he wrote in several instances in his first book, “The Book Which Tells the Truth” (Le Livre qui dit la vérité, 1974).


WRONG LOCATION
In his book, Rael relates that on the 13th of December 1973, he went to a volcano overlooking Clermont-Ferrand in central southern France. He wrote:

I went more to get a breath of fresh air than to take a drive in my car. My legs were itching after a full year following the races from circuit to circuit, almost always living on four wheels, so to speak ... [ ]... I walked and jogged a little and left the path where my car was parked, aiming to reach the center of the crater called Puy-de-Lassolas where I often went for picnics with my family in the summer (Intelligent Design, p. 3).

However, in the interview, Rael said:

"I had just returned from the Tour de Corse automobile, and I felt tired, depressed. To escape this depression, I suddenly decided to get in my car and drive towards the Puy de la Vache. (They Met Extraterrestrials, p. 191)”

It is interesting to note that in earlier renditions of his book, there used to be a footnote stating how Rael had indeed made a mistake in identifying the location.

WRONG BELIEF IN UFOs and MEASUREMENTS
In his book, Rael writes:

“By now, the object was about twenty meters above the ground, and I could see it had a somewhat flattened shape. It was a flying saucer. I had always believed in their existence, but I had never dreamed I would actually see one. It measured some seven meters in diameter, about 2.5 meters in height, was flat underneath and cone-shaped ...[ ]... on closer inspection, looked more like a flattened bell with a full and bulging underside. (p. 5, 7).

However, in the interview, Rael said:

“It was only when he stopped two meters above the ground, about twenty meters from me, that I noticed that it had the shape of a huge bell, 4 meters high. and a diameter of 7 meters. He had the color of silver metal ...[ ]... I was, in any case, a hundred leagues away from suspecting the existence of UFOs and aliens. All this made me, for me, part of the realm of dreams (p. 190, 191).”

It is interesting to note that Rael has never mentioned “silver metal” or “metallic” to describe the alleged flying saucer he saw at that time in his book.


WRONG VOICE & QUESTION
In his book, Rael describes the extraterrestrial's voice and what he asked the visitor:

“Thinking that I had to find out if he could hear me, I asked: ‘Where do you come from?’
He answered in a strong, articulate voice that was slightly nasal: ‘From very far away.’ ‘Do you speak French?’ I enquired (p. 6)”.

However, in the interview, Rael said:

“Encouraged, I asked him, at random: 'Where are you from?' To my amazement, he said in a deep voice, without the slightest accent: "From far away!" Emboldened by this answer, I asked him again: "What are you doing here (p. 190)?"

According to his book, Rael asked why the extraterrestrial was visiting only after asking a couple more questions: if it was the first time visiting and if so, how often it was.

WRONG DISTANCE
Later in his book, Rael writes how long it would take us to travel to the extraterrestrial's planet:

“Our planet is 30,000,000 parasangs away from Earth or about nine thousand billion kilometers, just a little less than a light year. By moving at the speed of light, or 300,000 kilometers per second, you would take almost one year to reach our planet. With your present day rockets, which travel at only 40,000 kilometers per hour, it would take you about 26,000 years to reach our planet (p. 89).”

However, the interviewer reported:

This is how his interlocutor will teach him that the planet from which he originates is located a light-year away from Earth, that is to say at a distance such that with the fastest of our rockets we would take 90,000 years to reach it (p. 192).

WRONG SEQUENCE OF COLORS
In his book, Rael writes how the flying saucer changed color as it took off:

“Because the sky was clearer this time, I was able to watch more closely as it took off. It hovered motionless at a height of about 400 meters, then still without the slightest sound, the vessel turned red as if it was heating up, then as white as white-hot metal, and then finally a sort of bluish purple like an enormous spark, which was impossible to look at. Then it disappeared completely (p. 25).”

However, the interviewer reported:

Claude Vorilhon descended [the flying saucer], and soon, the "bell" rose vertically by changing color. It went from electric blue to white then turns to bright red before getting lost in the clouds (p. 192).

Rael claims that his books enshrine the truth and that nothing has been changed in the script:

“Our world has continued to change very rapidly during that period, always in the direction of the revealed information I was first given in the early to mid 1970s. That is why the books are reproduced unchanged here to demonstrate that the extraordinary truths first revealed three decades ago are being gradually and successively proven by new scientific discoveries and developments (p. 364).”

It is evident, however, that Rael has had different versions of the “truth” in the various interviews before and after the release on his books. Check out the Maryse Péloquin Video Files that highlight many other discrepancies in Rael's verbal testimonies in the earlier days of creating his career as a doomsday cult leader dressed up as a utopian visionary for all of humanity. Check out also, Maryse Péloquin's book, “RAEL: The Thief of Souls: Biography of a Liar” (Raël: Voleur d'âmes: Biographie d'un menteur, 2004)


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Reference in French: https://web.archive.org/web/20120313111239/http://www.rael.free.fr/version1.htm