Atop the Capitol in June 2023, representatives of Congress sat before witnesses, experts and the media in an extraordinary hearing. They watched grainy infrared video of a small sphere flying over the ocean circa 2004, listening to the voices of veteran Navy combat pilots who laughed in amazement at the supernatural performance of the object they were chasing. with futility.

Declassified videos later released by the Pentagon revealed those pilots shouting into their radios, asking their wingmen if they had any idea what was happening with the world’s most advanced fighter jet. Meanwhile, the aircraft carrier commanders of the airliners had to prepare for a very strange debriefing.

BANG skeptics must now confront the fact that this event – ​​and the U.S. Navy reports discussing it – are in the congressional record. Navy Commander David Fravor, now retired, commanded the FA-18 Hornet squadron off the coast of USS Nimitz bridge on the afternoon of November 14, 2004. His statement describes spotting an object off the coast of Southern California that was similar in size to his own fighter jet: Fravor and fellow Hornet pilot Lt. -Commander Alex Dietrich, witnessed, pursued and recorded a white or metallic BANG. It seemed to fly without wings, without an airfoil, without windows or an identifiable propulsion system – and in a death-defying manner.

The FA-18 Hornet can travel at nearly 1,200 mph, or just over Mach 1.5, and it can pull more than 9 g’s, if the pilot can tolerate it. Even with these specifications, what would now be called the “Tic-Tac” UFO literally circled around Fravor and Dietrich. Visual and radar analysis, combined with eyewitness reports from pilots on the chase, indicate that the Tic-Tac UAP descended from 80,000 feet in less than a second at one point. According to standard mathematical models, such a maneuver would require a speed in excess of 45,000 mph, while pulling more than 2,000 g. In other words, the craft and all passengers inside would have experienced a force of gravity 2,000 times greater than that of Earth.

Such maneuvers would reduce a human being to a red mist if a land vehicle could even approach such extreme forces.

According to transcribed testimony, Fravor (a graduate of the legendary Top Gun Navy aviator training school) confirmed that the USS Princeton of the Nimitz the group of carriers also followed the BANG. In fact, the officers on board the Princeton reported having detected several of these contacts.

Since there are also no known drones or other remotely controlled devices capable of similar performance, capturing or even identifying Tic-Tac remains impossible. If the target pursued by the pilot was real and not a radar glitch or optical illusion, humans would have to speculate on how such physics-defying movement could be possible.

SINCE UAP’S PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES THE LIMIT theoretical physics, even speculative, and ventures wildly into the realm of science fiction, there is perhaps only one way to explain this phenomenon.

This is where André Bormanis comes in.

Armed with a BS in Physics from the University of Arizona and an MS in Science, Technology and Public Policy from George Washington University via a NASA Space Research Fellowship, Bormanis has written and consulted for several Star Trek series. Perhaps his knack for creativity allows him to play in the scientific sandbox more freely than academics – more than 50 international experimental physicists and theoreticians Popular mechanics Those contacted did not respond or refused to participate in an interview regarding UAP phenomena.

According to Bormanis, whether objects like Tic-Tac are the product of secret U.S. technological programs, the work of foreign powers, or some kind of extraterrestrial craft, explaining their maneuvers requires more than the inspired application of 21st-century understanding . This requires the application of entirely new speculative knowledge that continues to elude humanity.

Science has made great strides, including discovering quantum mechanics and string theory over the last century, and that progress will continue, says Bormanis. “But even in the nearly 50 years that I’ve been studying and writing about these kinds of ideas – even though the technology used in a fighter jet, a guided missile or the rockets we use to explore is incredible – we still can’t can’t explain the things these pilots have spotted in recent years. We’re not even close.

When Bormanis examines the same images that members of Congress witnessed in 2023, he wonders if this is advanced technology somehow created on Earth. However, such a possibility is too far-fetched for him when he considers that today’s jet engines and rockets are not fundamentally different from those designed in the 1940s.

“If these things are real, it suggests technology beyond anything we are aware of today,” he adds. “I think these objects suggest a form of physics that we haven’t discovered yet.”

TRADITIONAL NEWTONIAN LAWS MAKE AERIAL TICK-TAC DANCE IMPOSSIBLEBormanis therefore proposes a way to suspend the interaction of such forces. His idea recalls his time working on Star Trekand the concept of warp drive which proposes the creation of a field around a ship. THE chain concept– which theoretical physicists are currently working on using mathematical models – could explain everything from how Tic-Tacs dance to how beings could travel the impossible distances of space.

Newton and Einstein could happily move forward with their laws of gravity and relativity intact within this protective warp bubble. This is because the physics inside is not the same as the physics outside the domain, and scientific laws as we know them do not exert influence on the domain itself . The warp zone could envelop a craft, moving unhindered by thermodynamics or aerodynamics, allowing the object inside to remain stable while handling incredible speeds and pulling against overwhelming g-forces.

“Warp technology could manipulate space,” says Bormanis. “In the warp field, if you pull space toward you at 100 times the speed of light, while propelling space behind you at 100 times the speed of light, you would make the distances between stars manageable.

Bormanis immediately recognizes that humanity lacks the understanding to make the physics of a warp field work. Nor is there a clear way to deliver the massive amounts of energy needed to make such an achievement.

STILL, RESEARCH ON OFFICIAL US GOVERNMENT REPORTS CONFIRMS THIS that the U.S. armed forces and others studying the report take seriously the kind of speculative science Bormanis describes. In August 2018, Steven Aftergood, a former representative of the Federation of American Scientists, sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). It requested a complete record of “all DIA products manufactured under the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) contract.”

Aftergood declined to comment and informed Popular mechanics directly that he no longer works with the Federation of American Scientists in the areas of UAP or advanced technologies. However, a declassified copy of the DIA’s response to his FOIA request reveals several experimental projects in the type of non-traditional areas suggested by Bormanis.

A perusal of related research topics reveals groundbreaking scientific work that could help humanity understand the exceptional behavior of UAPs, or even create its own spacecraft. For example, Dr. R. Obousy of Obousy Consultants published research on Warp Drive, Dark Energy and Manipulation of Extra Dimensions. Dr. Hal Puthoff of EarthTech International look at has Advanced space propulsion based on vacuum engineering (space-time metrics). Finally, Dr. Eric Davis (also from EarthTech International) presented Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy.

Back in Hollywood, Bormanis points out that the distortion theory is nothing more than a theory and is only one possible explanation for what the Navy pilots reported. When it comes to evidence that cannot be rationally explained by the human senses and is beyond the comprehension of our scientific advances, there is nothing to do but speculate.

“Unless these things are hoaxes, I think we would need entirely new science and a new understanding of physics to know what they are,” he adds.

John Scott Lewinski, MFA, travels the world and writes for a network of publications with a total monthly readership of more than 100 million people. As an author he is represented by the Fineprint Literary Agency, New York.