Hiding in Plain Sight

Lately news stories concerning military encounters with UAP’S (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) have focused on the Tic Tac Event of 2004 and more recent UAP encounters by US Navy pilots and personnel. These sightings of strange objects in the sky by the military are nothing new.

In World War II, ‘Foo Fighters’ tracked Allied and enemy aircraft over Europe and the South Pacific. On July 8, 1947, the US Army released a story to the press describing the recovery of a flying saucer that had crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. On July 6, 1952, US Air Force jets chased glowing lights over Washington, D.C. that disrupted air traffic and upset President Truman enough to demand a military investigation and press conference. All the while, mysterious red orbs were reported hovering over nuclear test sites and missile silos. These incidents were quickly dismissed as hoaxes, temperature inversions, ball lightning, or the unfortunate malfunctioning of flight controller and pilot’s radar screens. No solid evidence shedding light on these events ever came forward.

Until now. Recently, astronomers scrutinizing historic astronomical plates taken at Mount Palomar Observatory during this time period have found something truly baffling that may cast light on what the military was dealing with back when Howdy Doody was on TV. The evidence was hiding in plain sight and is now becoming more intriguing with every passing day.

David A. Aguilar is an internationally recognized naturalist/astronomer, author, onscreen science contributor and space artist with the unique ability to open minds to the vast frontiers of space and their potential effects on our own world. He is the former director of science information at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and past director of marketing communications for Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado. David has written and illustrated 12 award-winning children’s books for National Geographic, was a member of the NASA Pluto Encounter Mission, has consulted and appeared in the History Channel’s Universe series and has been honored with his own asteroid for achievements in furthering science education. He is also the science consultant for the TV series “UFO Hunters.” www.aspenskies.com