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Mendy

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“Given their shadowy presence, it should come as no surprise, the funding for unacknowledged SAPs is either classified or is intentionally hidden within the Federal budget.”

Corruption certainly exists, but not all things are kept at levels of extreme compartmented secrecy bc they are corrupt #UAP

• Unacknowledged SAPs or "USAPs": The shy sibling of the SAP family. When a SAP is designated as "unacknowledged" not only is a program's purpose carefully guarded, as the name implies, USAPs mere existence may be denied to everyone but a spare few who aren't a part of the program. Given their shadowy presence, it should come as no surprise, the funding for unacknowledged SAPs is either classified or is intentionally hidden within the Federal budget.

November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

SASC=one of only few bodies authorized to be informed, typically along with the chairpersons + ranking members of Senate Appropriations Committee, House Armed Services Committee & House Appropriations Committee. Notification=often oral & an exception to full reporting required for other SAPs #UAP

In rare instances, when information is considered to be of the most extremely sensitive in nature, the Secretary of Defense can formally exempt a program from federal reporting requirements and establish the pinnacle of the secrecy-the "Waived Unacknowledged SAP."
Due to their ultra-secretive nature,
Unacknowledged or Waived-Unacknowledged
SAPs, serve as fertile breeding grounds for conspiracies of hidden crashed UFO technology or veiled government "carve-outs" whereby the general public's benefit is an afterthought. In truth, USAPs or Waived USAPs, like anything else that lacks accessibly verifiable fact, is likely very mythicized. With that said, like any good myth, there's some truth and historical precedent that give legitimate reasons to be concerned with these deeply hidden programs.

November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

The 27-person group that Elizondo was referring to in the #ageofdisclosure was SASC— Senate Armed Services Committee

#UFOsky #UAP

WUSAP/USAP reporting requirements continued👇

Organization Description:
As specified in Rule XXV, 1(c)(1) of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Committee on Armed Services' has the following jurisdiction:

1. Aeronautical and space activities peculiar to or primarily associated with the development of weapons systems or military operations.

2. Common defense.

3. Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force, generally.

4. Maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, including administration, sanitation, and government of the Canal Zone.

5. Military research and development.

6. National security aspects of nuclear energy.

7. Naval petroleum reserves, except those in Alaska.

8. Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and privileges of members of the Armed Forces, including overseas education of
civilian and military dependents.

9. Selective service system.

10. Strategic and critical materials necessary for the common defense.

The Senate has also given the committee the authority to study and review, on a comprehensive basis, matters relating to the common defense policy of the United States, and report thereon from time to time.

November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

Beware werewolves in sheep’s clothing: when adversaries masquerade as phenomena, your belief itself becomes the weapon. #UFOsky #UAP #neurowarfare

November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

Further examples from Lacatski’s newest book— if you read between the lines you’ll begin to notice the pattern. #UFOsky #UAP #neurowarfare

August 12, 2009
Jackson observes the kitchen table in the trailer shaking violently for two to three seconds. This observation makes Jackson feel scared and ready to depart the property.

August 12, 2009
In a bedroom in the trailer at 6:08 a.m. Lewis puts his hand on the bed again and feels the same hot spot as the day prior. The heat source could not be located.

August 12, 2009
At approximately 6:40 a.m., while Lewis lies in bed, he focuses on the energy or spirit to shake his bed and make its presence known. He fell asleep and awoke at 7:30 a.m. to his bed shaking violently from left to right (sideways). The bed shaking repeated itself after he had returned to sleep (time unknown). He put his hand on the wall, and the shaking stopped.

November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

Guantanamo: “Complaints about odors, sounds and vibrations persist, to the point that doctors wonder whether a neurological disorder is causing hallucinations.”

Complaints about odors, sounds and vibrations persist, to the point that doctors wonder whether a neurological disorder is causing hallucinations.
Mr. bin al-Shibh tells doctors that, before arriving at Guantánamo, he had been hung from the ceiling, which he says causes tingling sensations in his arms and legs. Doctors note that lotions and medications have not helped.
They fill out a form for "suspected detainee maltreatment." They cross off the word
"suspected" and write in "alleged."

November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

“He jokingly recounts how they made a game of astrally projecting themselves into the sleeping prisoner's cells and carried out various activities like shaking their bed, screaming at them, etc.”

One of the experiences he shares with Jesse is how he and others on his team somewhat jokingly decided to try torturing high value detainees using remote viewing, which in this case seems to be via astral projection. He jokingly recounts how they made a game of astrally projecting themselves into the sleeping prisoner's cells and carried out various activities like shaking their bed, screaming at them, etc.

November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

“Neuroscience will lead to the development of 'neuroweapons,' which can remotely manipulate mental states, emotions, perceptions, thinking, and behavior of adversaries.” #UFOsky #UAP #neurowarfare

November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

“U.S. military's JNLWD, is inching closer to a weapon that alters atoms to literally create words from thin air. It's called the Laser-Induced Plasma Effect and, fingers crossed, they hope to be able to say intelligible words within the next three years.” #UFOsky #UAP

Within three years, the Pentagon's non-lethal weapons lab hopes to have a direct energy weapon that can produce an effect like a haunted walkie-talkie or the biblical burning bush.

Watch the video above and listen carefully for what sounds like a human voice during the second spin. That's not an audio recording or a broadcast transmitted over radio...it's not human at all. It's an auditory effect that's created by military scientists who manipulated the air with lasers — and it's the Pentagon's most interesting idea for stopping people charging checkpoints, or just scaring the crap out of them.

The U.S. military's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, or JNLWD, is inching closer to a weapon that alters atoms to literally create words from thin air. It's called the Laser-Induced Plasma Effect and, fingers crossed, they hope to be able to say intelligible words within the next three years.

The weapon is composed of two parts: first, a femtosecond laser, which shoots a burst of focused light for 10-15 seconds, just long enough to rip the electrons from air molecules and create a ball of plasma. (Sometimes called the fourth state of matter, plasma is a field of electrified gas, highly responsive to electromagnetic effects.)

The scientists then hit that plasma field with a second nanolaser, tuned to an extremely narrow range of wavelengths. They use that to manipulate the plasma field in a way that can produce light and noise. Get the interaction precise enough and you get something that sounds like a haunted walkie-talkie.

"We're this close to getting it to speak to us. I need three or four more kilohertz," says David Law, who runs JNLWD's technology division.

Ultimately, he wants a single system that can produce multiple effects - noise, light, even heat - and replace a wide variety of non-lethal weapons that the military has been testing.
We have the exclusive video.

November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

“Multiple systems can literally project multiple air-craft, causing incoming missiles to pursue the fake plasma "fighters" rather than the aircraft itself.”

#UFOsky #UAP

November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

#UFOsky #UAP

Taken on its own sounds like a crazy and unsubstantiated story. However, in 2018 the Pentagon's Joint Non-lethal Weapons Program released a video of short-pulse laser creating an actual talking plasma fireball relaying barely-comprehensible speech - "the creepiest thing you'll hear all week" according to Popular Mechanics. While this does not confirm that scientists were playing with laser fireballs in the sky in the 198os, it suggests that the Voice of God project was not a complete fantasy.

So far so strange. What makes it stranger is that by pulsing the lasers they could modulate the crackling sound produced by the plasma to carry coherent speech: in effect, a talking fireball. The idea was that the device would be used for psychological operations, with a seemingly divine voice commanding opponents to flee or surrender.

Mullins never succeeded in finding out whether there was any truth behind the rumored experiments. Talking to various scientists he concluded that the Voice of God would be
"possible in the lab but very difficult to produce in the sky."

Taken on its own sounds like a crazy and unsubstantiated story. However, in 2018 the Pentagon's Joint Non-lethal Weapons Program released a video of short-pulse laser creating an actual talking plasma fireball relaying barely-comprehensible speech - "the creepiest thing you'll hear all week" according to Popular Mechanics. While this does not confirm that scientists were playing with laser fireballs in the sky in the 198os, it suggests that the Voice of God project was not a complete fantasy.
A 3D display created by mid-air laser plasma by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial ... [+] AIST

November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

#UAPsky #UFO

One of the most interesting stories in this field was the rumor which New Scientist journalist Justin Mullins heard about a bizarre new weapon supposedly being developed in the New Mexico desert back in the 198os. It was called the Voice of God:

"Researchers working with high-power laser weapons discovered that they could create a glowing ball of fire in the sky by crossing the beams of two powerful infrared lasers.
The beams were invisible to the naked eye, but where they intersected, their electric fields became so intense that they ripped apart
molecules in the air, creating a plasma. By moving the laser beams around the sky, the researchers found they could shift the plasma ball back and forth at very high speed," Mullins wrote in 2000.

November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

December 1996: Air Force 2025

Is this why folks like Avril Haines (former DNI) wanted more public transparency on emerging and next-gen technologies?

www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1296...

#UFOsky #UAP

November 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

www.rand.org/content/dam/...

November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

August 12, 1985: “By quickly adopting U.S. tech-nology, as it has done in at least 150 weapons systems, the Soviet Union improves its position in the arms race and boosts defense costs to American taxpayers as U.S. planners counter a heightened Soviet threat.”

Now fast forward to 2025…

November 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

“Moiré periodic and quasiperiodic crystals in heterostructures of twisted bilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Moiré periodic and quasiperiodic crystals in heterostructures of twisted bilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

Received: 26 August 2024
Accepted: 24 March 2025
Published online: 6 May 2025

Stacking two atomic crystals with a twist between their crystal axes produces moiré potentials that modify the electronic properties. Here we show that double-moiré potentials generated by superposing three atomic crystals create a unique class of tunable quasiperiodic structures that alter the symmetry and spatial distribution of the electronic wavefunctions.
By using scanning tunnelling microscopy and scanning tunnelling spectroscopy to study twisted bilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride, we unveil a moiré phase diagram defined by the lattice constants of the two moiré lattices (graphene-on-graphene and graphene-on-hexagonal boron nitride), comprising both commensurate periodic and incommensurate quasiperiodic crystals. Remarkably, the 1:l commensurate crystals, which should theoretically exist at only one point on this phase diagram, are observed over a wide range, demonstrating an unexpected self-alignment mechanism. The incommensurate crystals include quasicrystals, which are quasiperiodic and feature a Bravais-forbidden dodecagonal symmetry, and intercrystals, which are also quasiperiodic but lack forbidden symmetries.
This rich variety of tunable double-moiré structures offers a synthetic platform for exploring the unique electronic properties of quasiperiodic crystals, which are rarely found in nature.

October 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

Something important to keep in mind, especially for the UFO community #UFOsky #UAP #Drones #Geopolitics

In reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all. According to my opinion and the opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process, which we call either ideological subversion or active measures - aktivnye meropriyatiya, in the language of the KGB - or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country.

It's a great brainwashing process, which goes very slow, and it's divided in four basic stages, the first one being demoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.
Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to [sic] educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy.

Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with the authentic proof, with documents, the pictures, even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him a
concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom.

October 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

“Bezmenov was obsessed with a mission to warn the West that its institutions and populace were being eroded from within by a sophisticated Soviet disinformation strategy.”

www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

Schuman's real name was Yuri Aleksandrovich Bezmenov. The son of a senior Soviet military officer, Bezmenov defected to the U.S. in 1969 while acting as an operative in India for Soviet propaganda outlet Novosti Press Agency and conducting tasks for the KGB. He abandoned a Russian wife and infant daughter in New Delhi.
In 1970, Canada took Bezmenov in as a defector as a favour to U.S. intelligence.
He was hired by Radio-Canada International (RCI), CBC's multilingual international service, for its Russian-language division in 1972 "on recommendations from the RCMP's Security Service," according to a heavily redacted 1985 report by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
From the moment he arrived in Canada, Bezmenov was obsessed with a mission to warn the West that its institutions and populace were being eroded from within by a sophisticated Soviet disinformation strategy.

October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

Woven into UAP narrative but largely ignored: geopolitics, next-gen tech (drones, stealth, DEWs/EW), hybrid warfare, cybersecurity, the Davidson Window, Taiwan, Ambitious Dragon, etc.

“…America’s innovation deficit, particularly in drone technology and electronic warfare.”

#UFOsky #UAP #Drones

Hosts Ray Powell and Jim Carouso interview Congressman Don Bacon (R-NE), a retired Air Force Brigadier General with 29 years of military service. Rep. Bacon serves on the House Armed Services Committee and brings unique insights from both military leadership and congressional oversight.

Congressman Bacon is concerned that America is spending just 2.9% of GDP on defense-the lowest level since 1940, before Pearl Harbor. He argues for increasing defense spending to 4% of GDP, approximately $150 billion more annually, to address critical modernization needs including nuclear triad upgrades, fifth and sixth-generation fighters, attack submarines, and improved military quality of life.

The discussion highlights America's innovation deficit, particularly in drone technoloav and electronic warfare, where Ukrainian forces have outpaced U.S. capabilities. Bacon emphasizes how Ukraine's recent destruction of 41 Russian strategic bombers using $5,000 drones demonstrates the power of cost-effective innovation over expensive legacy systems.

With China potentially spending $700 billion on defense (despite claiming $170 billion), Bacon emphasizes the urgency of military modernization focused on long-range precision weapons, air and missile defense, and drone swarm technology. He stresses that deterring China requires immediate weapons deliveries to Taiwan, noting billions in delayed military aid.

October 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

Only the finest of hot sauces in these parts 👽

October 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

#Books #Reading

October 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum...

“Avro offered the project to the U.S. government, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force took it over in 1958.”

#UFOsky #UAP

October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM

Mendy

@mendenopolis.bsky.social

A good example of deconfliction of an aerial sighting- recreational drone usage. This is a big drone that often flies nearby in the evenings, the owner lives in the area, and it’s impossible to hear unless it’s directly above my house, plus has the appropriate FAA lighting.

#drones #UAP #UFOsky