In the open water swimming community, UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Floating Objects which can be inorganic or organic matter. Open water swimmers occasionally after swim into various objects floating at or near the surface of oceans, lakes, and rivers. Prior to these unexpected and, sometimes startingly encounters, the swimmers cannot identify or see the objects.
The objects can be slimy or spongy – or hard and prickly. Sometimes, the objects are simply plastic bags and other marine flotsam or jetsam. The objects are most often impossible to see ahead of the encounters because the objects are translucent and simply blend into the surface water – or just underneath.
For generations, swimmers have not mistaken the Unidentified Floating Objects for the more commonly known UFOs or Unidentified Flying Objects.
Especially after the middle of the 20th century, Unidentified Flying Objects have been repeatedly sighted and described by pilots and eyewitnesses on Earth as everything from flying saucers to spaceships of various shapes and sizes.
With the recently released data from the United States government, there is a totally different perspective that may connect Unidentified Floating Objects with Unidentified Flying Objects.
Department of Defense All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Report
Earlier this year, a report commissioned by the U.S. Congress demanded government agencies, including previously confidential information withheld by the Department of Defense, provide information to the public about the government’s secret military programs that focused on alien spaceships.
Its release was fascinating.
A handful of experienced ocean swimmers and channel swimmers who are also marine biologists have started to connect the possible relationship between the UFO1 (Unidentified Flying Objects) and UFO2 (Unidentified Floating Objects).
While the U.S. Department of Defense announced that it found no evidence that any agency or department of the federal government or military was or has been keeping information about contact with extraterrestrials secret, questions were raised by marine biologists who are specialists in jellyfish.
Jellyfish Primer
Jellyfish have long been the bane of ocean swimmers and marine biologists.
Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles. The tentacles have stinging cells and barbs that release venom to capture prey and defend against predators.
While jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to the deep sea, there is still much to be learned about them, especially those that resident in the deep oceans.
Even those large and often colorful jellyfish that are common in coastal zones worldwide are among the less studied inhabitants of the oceans.
Samuel Cardenas, PhD who holds two endowed chair positions in both the Department of Oceanography and the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Hawaii Manoa explains, “Jellyfish have been in existence for at least 500 million years – and possibly 700 million years or more, making them the world’s oldest multi-organ animal group. Certain cultures include jellyfish in their traditional cuisine, but the newest technologies enable us to understand even more about these creatures.
We cannot explain some of the more esoteric DNA of some jellyfish. The DNA should tell us the jellyfish’s entire generic code, but there are strands of DNA that are simply do not match anything else in our biological databases. Literally, we cannot figure out what these strands are or what they are related to.
And the most puzzling piece of this discovery is that when we look at the mitochondria of some of these jellyfish, they are not similar to anything we find on Earth. They are abiotic, or not biological. That makes zero sense. How can a living organism have cells that are abiotic? It just does not make any logical sense. It is like the jellyfish have an asteroid-like protective covering.”
Professor Herman Westfelle of the University of Hamburg, a specialist in meteorology and atmospheric sciences, was the first to make the possible connection between UFO1 and UFO2. “With a hardened outer bell that is made up of interstellar materials, these jellyfish may not be marine jellyfish at all. The hint comes when we examine the proteins that cause bioluminescence. The proteins found in jellyfish that cause bioluminescence are well known. These fluorescent markers for genes have been documented. We know what they are and what to look for. But these proteins – or what we assume are proteins – have unknown compositions. Yes, they include hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, as we would expect, but they also have long chains of helium like what we find in iron and nickel on Saturn.
So, the real question is, did these jellyfish evolve like all the other known species in the world’s oceans that we know – or, more interestingly or perhaps more alarmingly, are these jellyfish from other galaxies or planets?
Could they have arrived from space and somehow evolved to adapt themselves to our oceans? It is a very serious question that we should be asking.”
Venom
“While jellyfish have various kinds of venom, these particular asteroid-like jellyfish (ALJ) have no venom. Some of their tentacles have the same appearance as others, but these tentacles give off waves – a type of radio wave that we have never seen before.”
Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with much longer lengths than visible light. Professor Westfelle says, “But these waves emitted by the few jellyfish that we have been able to analyze before they disintegrate are different – longer – than anything we know. It is simply inconsistent with known science.”
UFO2 Definitions
So if the UFO2 are sea creatures with unique mitochondria with undeterminable DNA and potential communication mechanisms of unknown origins, how does science define the UFO2?
“This is where our citizen scientists who have been studying and searching for UFO1 for years come into play,” explains Freeman Jones, a long-time ufologist from Danvers, Massachusetts. “With all this new information, we are currently working on the theory that the UFO1 are indeed arriving on Planet Earth from outer space, but are quickly transforming themselves to UFO2. That is, if extraterrestrial aliens want to study and observe life on Planet Earth, what better place to hide and exist from the world’s oceans? The oceans cover 70% of our planet and up to 80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface. The oceans contain 99% of all the livable space on our planet – and less than 10% of that space has been explored by humans. 90% of the volume of the ocean is in the dark, deep sea.“
The World Register of Marine Species currently documents 243,612 accepted marine species as of 2023. However, scientists estimate that there are up to 25 million more marine species – most of which have yet to be found.
The world’s oceans are an ideal location for extraterrestrial beings to learn more about Planet Earth and its living creatures. If these UFO1 can visit us and somehow then transform themselves to UFO2, then they can remain hidden as long as they wish, continuing to learn about life on earth.
If we think imaginatively and you consider that three times as much garbage finds its way into the world’s oceans as the total cumulative weight of the fish caught, then the UFO2 can learn more about us by simply studying what we throw away.”
Remaining Questions
While the latest marine-derived information remains highly classified by the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense, it appears that some answers may be found if UFO specialists and citizen scientists continue to explore the composition and communication mechanisms of the UFO2.
Dr. Cardenas of the University of Hawaii agrees. “Based on what we currently know and what we have recently discovered, it makes complete sense to look down in the seas – instead of up looking up towards the skies – for UFO1 sightings.
With all the smartphones and cameras owned by billions of people on earth, with all the flights and pilots that are in the air on any given day, we have recorded a relatively small number of UFO1 sightings – and we have no extraterrestrial beings in captivity.
There are about 100,000 flights with an average of 2 pilots each carrying about 6 million passengers onboard every single day somewhere all over the globe. Add to that the number of people with smartphones who are outdoors at any single time – we are talking about billions of people with adequate opportunities to film a UFO1.
But the UFO2 have been identified. We just need more resources shifted from looking up to the skies to looking down towards the seas – and more citizen scientists to augment the efforts of my hard-working colleagues.”
USS Russell
Nearly three years ago, the US Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of pictures and videos gathered by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTFT) that showed objects hovering below the USS Russell in July 2019. The USS Russell is a destroyer of the US Navy that was off the coast of California when its personnel onboard took the videos.
Later in July, several other sightings from on-deck Navy personnel and drone footage collaborated the evidence. Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Gough confirmed that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel.
Department of Defense All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Report
Volume I of the Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) can be read here. The first volume reviewed all official US government investigatory efforts since 1945, researched classified and unclassified archives, conducted 30 interviews, and partnered with Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) officials responsible for controlled and special access program oversight. Volume II will be published later and will provide analysis of information acquired after the date of the publication of Volume I.
The report was clear. In its Executive Summary, the report “found no evidence that any USG investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology. All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification. Although not the focus of this report, it is worthwhile to note that all official foreign UAP investigatory efforts to date have reached the same general conclusions as USG investigations.”
While the report attempts to provide clarity and transparency to the issue of UAP, the report completely ignored the growing evidence of UFO2.
Dr. Cardenas says, “Overlooking UFO2 was a huge missed opportunity. Perhaps including the clearly evident UFO2 information was intentional – or not. But the absence of presenting the documented unknowns leads to many questions.
Why not look at the evidence of the unknown mitochondria, DNA proteins, and communicative tentacles with asteroid-like sheathing? It is all available and has been presented, albeit to small groups.“
Non-human Biologics
David Grusch testified before Congress that the U.S. government has been working for decades on trying to understand and even reverse engineer crashed alien spacecraft. But does the military possess these UFO2 non-human biologics?
Increasingly, it appears so.
Given the assumed highly advanced technologies – especially the communicative sheathings found on these UFO2 tentacles that perhaps aliens utilize for interstellar travel, it is logical for the world’s scientists and military researchers to examine and study these UFO2 non-human biologics, whether living or non-living.
Latest Findings
In two separate cases, divers off of San Luis Obispo, a coastal city in central California, and near San Miguel, the westernmost of California’a Channel Islands, have located two underwater blooms of elliptic-shaped UFO2.
Dr. Cardenas has looked at the UFO2 with an unknown super-hydrophobic coating buried just slightly below the ocean floor.
Dan Kanoa, a 64-year-old veteran who has conducted diving tours for 3 decades after retiring as a hard-hat diver with the US Navy, found the first UFO2 underwater about 3 kilometers from the Point Buchon State Marine Reserve coastline. “I was taking a group of graduate marine biology students on one of their final dives of the semester. All the students had plenty of dive time, but they were always curious about everything. We were in an area where I have made hundreds of dives before, so I knew the area well. The water conditions were calm and there was very little wind. We were in slack tide so the sediment off the bottom was still and the water clarity was about as good as it gets in the San Luis Obispo area.
I was in the lead when I first saw movement to my right. Nothing out of the ordinary for it could have been any number of rays – or even rockfish or Dover sole. I didn’t think much of it at the time. But, for some reason, I noted my bearings and thought that I should make one more pass through this area before we surfaced.
We were not under for too long and I motioned for us to turn around and head back to the surface. I asked the students to take point and I pulled up the rear. I didn’t want to alert anyone, but I also wanted to be in a position to help if something was out of the ordinary.
Sure enough, I saw movement in the same location as before. None of the students seemed to catch this. I lingered and just stared at the – what I can only describe – as a lump on the ocean floor. It was the strangest thing.”
A day later, Kanoa called Dr. Cardenas who he heard give a presentation at an international oceanography conference years previously.
“Kanoa offered me to take me down to the area and check out the UFO2”, recalled Dr. Cardenas. “Of course, I took him up on his offer and immediately drove to San Luis Obispo. I was in Ventura and it was not a long drive.
Sure enough, the UFO2 was exactly where Kanoa said it would be. The tranquil conditions helped preserve what he had found. We captured a small bloom of UFO2 and brought them up to the surface. It was the strangest thing that I have ever seen in my 35 years in this field – the jellyfish tentacles were pulsating even after we gently brought them onboard and exposed a few to the air.
But within 90 seconds, the tentacles reverted back into the bell of the jellyfish. I have never seen that phenomenon before. Then, it just melted in front of our eyes. Like an ice cube in a microwave. It was quick.
We only had six UFO2 samples to spare. Each one of them did the same exact thing. It was inexplicable, but undisputable.
We have 12 additional UFO2 samples remaining and gave them to colleagues at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Selfishly, we wanted to keep a few samples, but this was such a find that it seemed to me that others in the field should observe what we saw.”
UFO2 versus USO
Dr. Cardenas’ advice has been discussed among the U.S. Navy researchers, but it seems there was little collaboration or fact–sharing with all the UFO1 information gathered by the U.S. Air Force. The lack of interservice cooperation may be a key in further understanding a possibly overlooked piece to this puzzle.
Nigel Williams, a UK-based author of many books on UFO1, is one of a number of like-minded colleagues, but he is not yet convinced of the theories of Dr. Cardenas. But there are a growing number of other academics and military personnel who question the origins of USO or Unidentified Submerged Objects sighted by American submariners.
While some believe that USO that have been seen to be concentrated in the North Sea and off the coast of California are possibly submerged UFO1 that land on earth and then inhabit the world’s oceans.
Williams told the Daily Mail, “USOs are as intriguing as UAPs but they are even more difficult to substantiate – and often get mixed with dreams about Atlantis and aliens living in the hollow Earth. Personally, to me, they are a myth, like mermaids or the Loch Ness Monster.”
Professor Bob McGwier of Virginia Tech University and the Institute for Defense Analyses describes two brief USO accounts where the objects moved at inexplicable speeds underwater, while completing Classified military intelligence operations in a US submarine. Watch his UAP Society interview below.
So many questions. So few answers. The search for interstellar beings continues.
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