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“I think the UAPs are American,” Shawyer told me.

The report discusses 144 recent sightings by U.S. government personnel, many of them Air Force and Navy pilots and sensor operators. In most cases the UFO was spotted by several means, such as visual contact and radar or infra-red together.

“Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors,” according to the report.

The report suggests there might be several types of objects, including airborne clutter such as balloons, natural atmospheric phenomena, “USG or U.S. industry developmental programs,” foreign adversary systems and Other.

Some details seemed to turn up repeatedly across the sightings. In particular many seemed to share an unusual type of “advanced propulsion” and could remain motionless against the wind at high altitude, execute high-speed maneuvers, and move at high speed “without discernable means of propulsion.”

In addition, the report states that in some cases “military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings.”

Shawyer says that these features are all consistent with the electromagnetic drive, or EmDrive, which he developed, and which, despite considerable controversy and misleading reports of its demise, is still very much under development by DARPA.MORE FOR YOURussia’s Hypersonic Ship-Killers Head To The Med As British Carrier Sails NearbyAmerican Airlines Says Scheduling Problems Are Summer-Only Issue. Philly Pilots Say They Could Linger.The Deputy SECDEF Is The Most Influential Navy Secretary Since John Lehman

Depending on which theory you follow, the EmDrive uses an obscure piece of physics to seemingly generate thrust from a closed system. The results have apparently repeated at independent labs around the world including NASA’s Eagleworks and researchers at Xi’an in China. While existing versions only produce tiny amounts of thrust, comparable to ion drives used on satellites and space probes, Shawyer calculates that a version based on superconductors could drive a high-speed demonstration vehicle.

Skeptics, of course, claim that this is all bunk: that the EmDrive violates the laws of physics, can never generate thrust, and any experimental results to the contrary are lab errors, wishful thinking, or simply fraud. Apparent positive results are met with furious rebuttals, setbacks are hailed as the end of the EmDrive. Suffice to say, the debate continues.

Shawyer claims that EmDrive technology was supplied to Boeing in 2009 (“under the Boeing Purchase Contract No 9CS114H”) and tested successfully. Boeing has declined to comment on its involvement in the project.

Shawyer observes the wording in the UAP report is rather precise, referring to “advanced propulsion.”

“Note the use of the word ‘advanced’, rather than ‘exotic’ or ‘unexplained’,” says Shawyer. “The propulsion demonstrated was not unexpected.”

The EmDrive is able to produce the sort of maneuvers described, without the heat output or noise of a jet engine. The radio output observed is also highly characteristic of the EmDrive.

“In all my experimental work, stray RF [radiofrequency] energy was detectable, and having a field meter to monitor radiation leakage was part of the safety procedures that were mandatory for tests by Boeing,” says Shawyer.

Shawyer is not saying that the UAPs described were U.S.-made craft, simply that their characteristics are consistent with some type of EmDrive. The report even tacitly admits that this is a possibility:

“Some UAP observations could be attributable to developments and classified programs by U.S. entities. We were unable to confirm, however, that these systems accounted for any of the UAP reports we collected.”

“The words ‘we were unable to confirm’ is standard government-speak for a classified subject,” says Shawyer.

Researcher Mike McCulloch of the University of Plymouth, who is heading up the DARPA project, has also noted the similarities between the reports and the drive he is working on.

“Behavior of these UAPs is what you would expect from a quantized inertia horizon drive,” says McCulloch.

In particular he says this type of drive can achieve the sort of sharp acceleration which the UAPs appear to have, which would normally be intolerable for the pilot and electronics inside.

“Inertia is just a push from the quantum vacuum and it can be damped by the use of synthetic horizons,” says McCulloch. “This means a spacecraft can accelerate as much as you want and you will not feel any forces inside.”

Again, McCulloch says that there are plenty of other possible explanations for the sightings, including psy-ops or mind games by someone in the U.S. government.

“I’m not saying that UAPs are real, just that the observations are consistent with QI technology,” says McCulloch.

Exactly why such craft would make fleeting appearances during U.S. military exercises is of course a big question. The report notes that a disproportionate number of them interrupted planned military activities. It might be convenient if the U.S can claim ignorance if such craft appear watching military exercises elsewhere.

As the report notes, there are likely to be several explanations for UAP reports. But the report does appear to leave the door very much open on the possibility of their being of U.S. origin, and being powered by something like an EmDrive.

Keep watching the skies.

Source: Forbes