If you are a fan of conspiracy theories, secret projects and futuristic technologies, then the information revealed by Vice should intrigue you. Official documents indeed reveal that the American government secretly financed research on UFOs, but not only. Here are the projects that were considered but which were then abandoned.
A secret program of the Ministry of Defense made public
With the emergence of social networks, it has become extremely easy to say anything and everything, without any consequences. Suffice to say that conspiracy theories have never been so numerous, and most often so unfounded. But it would be naive to believe that our leaders are hiding nothing from us. and that there are no secret programs that we never imagined possible.
In 2017, we learned of the existence of a secret program of the United States Department of Defense. Titled “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program” (AATIP). This was only revealed to the public following the resignation of Luis Elizondo, the former director of the program carried out between 2007 and 2012. If the official goal of the American Department of Defense was to investigate UFOs, the documents revealed at the time made it clear to us that other less avowed projects were also under consideration.
Well, dozens of new documents, more than 1,600 pages, have also been made public recently and detail some of the program’s research. Hang on, it looks like a science fiction movie!
Projects worthy of the best science fiction films
If the researchers of the United States Department of Defense did indeed study UFOs, it is now clear that their field of research was much broader. The U.S. government was actually funding research on futuristic technologies, in order to know if it was possible to develop some of them. If it seems that the famous “cloak of invisibility” was considered for a time, it was above all towards the stars that all eyes were turned.
On this subject, how not to mention one of the biggest pieces of the program, or in any case the one that seems the most shocking: creating holes in the Moon. No jokes or exaggeration here, since the documents made public do reveal that the Ministry of Defense was planning to literally dig tunnels through our natural satellite using thermonuclear explosives. Suffice to say that the damage would have been considerable, but would obviously have been justified by the presence of extremely rare metals, “100,000 times lighter” but as resistant as steel, in the heart of the Moon.
Besides that, the other projects studied seem less destructive but just as ambitious. Among them, wormholes were given special attention. As a reminder, these would be objects – whose existence remains to be proven – which would make it possible to connect two distinct points of space-time through the universe. In the same order of ideas, sorts of “star gates” (like those of Stargate) allowing interplanetary travel were also under consideration. In short, the Pentagon wanted more or less to control spacetime and to be able to travel through it.
Be that as it may, we are not ready to find ourselves in Mass Effect, because all of these programs have been abandoned. Finally, officially.
