General Lance W. Lord, former commander of the Air Force Space Command, argues that military leaders must think of space as a battleground. Indeed, the combat capabilities provided by advanced orbital systems increasingly are at risk. “Some would say that we’re not threatened in space,” Lord observed. “I want to disabuse everybody of that argument.” Lord delivered his warning at the Air Force Associations annual National Symposium in LA.

Editor’s Note: The logical question that needs to be asked? Who is threatening advanced US orbital systems? Is General Lord talking about the Chinese, the Russians or even Extraterrestrials? The fundamental fact confronting us is the existence of a thousand UFO sighting reports each month. Some of these reports may be fraudulent, but most MUFON investigators have concluded that the majority of the reports are quite valid. The witnesses believe they see something real, external, artificial, and not normal types of aircraft. On logical grounds all possible explanations can be subdivided into two major categories, namely, a physically real, manufactured object that the witness could not relate to, or to something entirely different, such as obscure natural phenomena, hoaxes, or psychic projections. We know that the best UFO reports are often observed by relatively experienced witnesses such as police, astronomers and aircrews. We have obtained previously classified Air Force documents signed by General Nathan Twining Commander of the Air Material Command stating: “The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.”

Air Force Space Command operates satellites sensors that are able to pick up unidentified flying objects that are entering and leaving our atmosphere called Fastwalkers.” Several UFOs coming in from space are picked up each week. 

North America’s early warning system is now being upgraded and in their 22,300 mile geosynchronous orbits, satellites help protect the United States and its allies by detecting missile launches, space launches and nuclear detonations.
Several hundred Fastwalkers within our atmosphere are tracked worldwide each month. The new satellites should be able to track many more Fastwalkers with their improved infrared sensors designed to detect heat from missile and booster plumes against the earth’s background. Insiders report there is a great deal of excitement as the UFOs sometimes trigger the early warning system setting off alarms that missiles have been launched. Computers keep track of over 6,000 satellites and pieces of debris in space. The Fastwalkers are also referred to as Uncorrelated Targets indicating they are not in the data base for objects in space. The Individual Target Event Database which is unclassified should be made available to MUFON and the Filer Research Institute so we can correlate ground based and aircraft sightings with satellite data.

The new Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system is a planned constellation of satellites and supporting ground infrastructure that will improve the ability to detect and track space objects in orbit around the Earth. The primary SBSS contractor, Boeing, characterizes some orbiting space objects as, “Potential future threats to the United States’ space assets. 

Boeing has finished installing the hardware for its Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system’s Satellite Operations Center in Los Angeles. The SOC now has the necessary security certification to allow the SBSS program to begin integrated testing. Their mission is to “develop, deliver, and sustain” capabilities that “ensure space superiority” for the United States U.S. Air Force Col. James Jordan, commander of the Space Situational Awareness Group in the Space Superiority Systems Wing states, “When launched in spring 2009, SBSS will revolutionize the nation’s space situational awareness with enhanced performance by providing around-the-clock visibility to detect distant space objects without interference from weather, atmosphere or daylight.” The first “pathfinder” satellite of the SBSS system, will launch in the Spring of 2009 on a Minotaur rocket.

UFOs Often Produce Many Colors Transferring Energy to the Atmosphere

UFOs come in a variety of colors and shades. Some are dark or black others are white with various colors in between. Observers often report a metallic appearance as light reflects off their polished surfaces. Others see that the UFO itself is luminous and some UFO propulsion systems create multiple colors particularly as they gain speed or slow to a hover. Additionally, the UFOs may use lights like our own aircraft for illumination, search, and safety. UFOs are often seen with a corona of light that is probably caused by an electrical discharge. Light is produced within atoms of matter; when the atoms become sufficiently agitated by collision among themselves or by absorption of electromagnetic radiation, electrons are elevated out of their normal energy states and create light. Cameras that can pick up infrared light often are able to record UFOs even when not visible to the human eye. The most likely candidates for color emission of the gases in our atmosphere are helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon. Brilliant white UFOs likely represent limited ionization of all the gases. The colors surrounding the UFOs seem associated with speed or the rate of acceleration. The silvery grey is seen when the object is traveling slowly. Then comes the vivid red and at high acceleration the white, green, blue and purple appear. 

-Red lights, with intense red glow probably results from neon or the red of argon.

-Luminous red colors do not appear to be lights covered by red glass like aircraft lights. (Often the red appears to be part of the propulsion system.)

-Glowing Orange Lights, sometimes reported as bright orange flames are probably the brilliant orange red of neon often seen in neon signs.

-Yellow, pale yellow lights are often reported. White lights can appear yellow at a distance due to atmosphere.

-Green lights and flashes often reported, sometimes green glow or reported green flames from craft probably the green line of neon.

-Green meteors reported are thought to be space craft entering atmosphere.

-Bluish green colors are probably the result of hydrogen atoms being excited by the UFOs (It is strongly suspected, that xenon is responsible for the “blue,” “brilliant blue,” and “luminous blue Greenish blue to blue colors reported.)

-Blue or bluish ultraviolet are reported particularly by young people.

-Purple” would result from the blue of xenon and the red of argon.

The UFOs apparently develop huge amounts of energy similar to nuclear power plants and have the ability to create coronas or mists around the craft. Using atomic structure and spectroscopy the element responsible for the emission of photons of a particular energy and color can be identified. Witnesses report the craft were wrapped in a blue haze or a glowing red mist. Center portions of the craft are often described as having a red glow that likely represents part of the propulsion system. Also the UFOs are reported as gradually increasing amount of energy to the gases surrounding them as they appear to pick up speed. At some point, the atmosphere would absorb enough energy to become luminous and the craft appear to glow.

Further increases in energy transfer would activate the other gases in inverse order of their thresholds and their light would simply be added to that from xenon. Xenon is the most easily excited of the atmospheric gases, and creates spectacular “brilliant blue,” and “luminous blue” that is often reported by observers. The “orange-red” or “fiery red” color is the brilliant orange-red of neon, so easily recognized in neon signs. The combination of the green line of neon, 5401 A, with the blue of xenon would yield the often reported “bluish green” or it may come from hydrogen, 4861 A0. “Purple” would result from the blue of xenon and the red of argon, 6965 A0.

Source: National UFO Center