Transcript for 11/13/24: ALIEN SWIM W/ DR. SKY AND RICHARD C. HOAGLAND

Today, there was another congressional hearing about UAPs or UFOs, and this time, there was more testimony regarding transmedia objects capable of traveling at fast speeds in the sky and unbelievable speeds underwater. The term for these anomalies is USOs or unidentified submersible objects.

Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet has been appearing a lot on UFO documentaries currently showing on Max and the new George Knapp documentary “Investigation Alien” being shown on Netflix.

Knapp does a segment in the documentary where in Tampico Mexico UFO sightings take place over or near a body of water, and ponders whether the 70% of the planet's surface being covered by water might yield a clue to their hiding place. Tampico, Mexico, is where dozens of UFO and or USO encounters have been reported just off the coast. He finds that the locals attribute their lack of hurricanes to their UFO protectors, who, they believe, live under the sea. 

Tim Gallaudet testified today at the hearings be led by Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

Gallaudet previously led Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and served as Oceanographer of the Navy. He also deployed on multiple tours afloat during his career in uniform, and later served for about a year-and-a-half as the Senate-confirmed assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere after retiring from the military in 2017.

In his retirement, Gallaudet has been candid about his experiences while on active duty observing now-verified video footage of UAP and unidentified submerged objects (USO) captured by colleagues — and his aims to help de-stigmatize discussion of this previously taboo topic across the military. 

Gallaudet calims that elements of the government are engaging in a disinformation campaign, including personal attacks designed to discredit UAP whistleblowers.'

The ex-US military described USOs as "large lighted craft", often seen under the sea surface on their own "or as part of a group in formation."

In a chilling warning, Gallaudet said these unknown bodies can sometimes travel in the deep ocean waters without ever emerging.

And because most research focuses on what is going on up in the sky, it means that major powers could be making moves underwater without barely anyone knowing.

Gallaudet said: "We have less research on transmedium UAP and USOs than is ideal.

"These underwater anomalies jeopardize US maritime security, which is already weakened by our relative ignorance about the global ocean.

Such "proliferating and overwhelming" threats are said to be mainly stemming from Putin's war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, as well as Iran's proxy conflicts in the Red Sea, North Korea's ever-increasing nuclear arsenal, and China's dangerous moves towards Taiwan.

But of course there is always that possibility that aliens are not just part of the land and air domain -- they are also under water and over water observing and bothering our military.

Gallaudet, who previously urged the American government to take action in international UFO research, labelled the under-sampling of the world's oceans as an "unsettling" and "critical concern" for maritime security.

That is because despite the ocean covering 71 per cent of the Earth's surface, less than 25 per cent of the seabed has been mapped, and a mere five per cent of the ocean volume has been explored.

It means that more is known about the surfaces of Mars and the moon than that of our own planet’s seafloor.

Now, it appears that we will know more about oceans in space that have not been explored -- as a mission to Europa is underway.

It’s part of NASA’s hunt for signs that this icy moon is habitable to life. Based on brief visits from NASA missions like Voyager 2, Galileo, New Horizons, and Juno, researchers think Europa is covered in a 15-mile-thick shell of ice. But despite the ice’s fragility, the surface has remarkably few large craters. This points to the possibility that Europa is actively regenerating ice from a global subsurface ocean.

Shortly after the first NASA unmanned Voyager mission to Jupiter, in March, 1979, Richard C. Hoagland published in Star & Sky magazine a radical new theory regarding implications stemming from Voyager's historic fly-by and data return from one of the “Galilean moons”.

Hoagland proposed that a planet-wide ocean still exists under the tens-of-miles-thick sulfur-tinged ice now completely covering Europa. Further, that in that extremely ancient ocean -- the only other planetary "near-by" liquid water that may have persisted from the beginnings of the solar system (other than on Earth)--

Life may have once originated ... an alien type of life that -- because of the present uniqueness of Europa in the entire solar system -- currently might still exist 

At the time, Hoagland's theory encountered overwhelming opposition from almost everyone at NASA, official and/or scientist ... except for two significant exceptions: inventor of the communications satellite, famed science and science fiction writer ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), Arthur C. Clarke; and, Dr. Robert Jastrow -- one of the founders of NASA, and former Director of its Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Based on Hoagland's startling theory, Clarke two years later would create a sequel to his most famous work "2010: Odyssey Two" -- after long claiming that such a follow-on was "impossible". This would then be followed by a movie sequel co-written and directed by Peter Hyams of the same name.

In the acknowledgments to "2010," Clarke would write:

"The fascinating idea that there might be life on Europa, beneath ice-covered oceans kept liquid by the same Jovian tidal forces that heat Io, was first proposed by Richard C. Hoagland in the magazine Star & Sky ( The Europa Enigma,' January, 1980). This quite brilliant concept has been taken seriously by a number of astronomers (notably NASA's Institute of Space Studies, Dr. Robert Jastrow), and may provide one of the best motives for the projected GALILEO Mission.

The theory that aliens swim is now giving way to innovative discovery today -- Hoaglands theories may be proven outright.

NASA launched the Europa Clipper last month on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It will slingshot around Mars, then Earth, and reach Jupiter in April 2030. Once in orbit around Jupiter, the Clipper will perform about 50 flybys of the moon Europa, studying its icy surface and subsurface ocean, which may be capable of supporting life.

Europa is constantly bombarded by intense radiation, making life on the surface impossible. However, information gained by Galileo, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, strongly suggests that a massive ocean resides under the icy crust. Clipper will determine if there is a subsurface ocean and look for the other ingredients necessary for life.

The spacecraft is massive, spanning over 100 feet with its solar array deployed and weighing 13,000, including fuel, at launch. It contains nine scientific instruments to gather the most detailed data ever recorded in the outer Solar System.

It has three parts: a lander, an autonomous ice-thawing robot, and some sort of self-navigating submersible. literally an underwater satellite that will burrow into the ice and explore possible underwater life on the Icy moon.

To plumb the ocean of this Jovian moon, engineers must work out a way to get missions to survive a never-ending rain of radiation that fries electronic circuits. They must also plow through an ice shell that’s at least twice as thick as Mount Everest is tall.

The bad news is that Europa is one of the most hostile environments in the solar system—at least, for anything above its concealed ocean. 

When NASA’s Clipper mission arrives in 2030, it will be confronted by an endless storm of high-energy particles being whipped about by Jupiter’s immense and intense magnetic field, largely raining down onto Europa itself.

The good news is that any Europan life-hunting mission has a great technological legacy to build upon. Over the years, scientists have developed and deployed robotic subs that have uncovered a cornucopia of strange life and bizarre geology dwelling in the deep oceans of our planet.

This creates an opportunity for science to discover marine life that may be considered alien as it has not been encountered before -- but finding some sort of stealth craft in our oceans is yet to be uncovered -- and with more area covered we may have a surprise pertaining to alien life and where it may be hiding on earth.

However we still have a lot to learn and we also from time to time need to reexamine data --as science has now learned new things about the Planet Uranus.

Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet.

Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus has for decades left scientists perplexed.

As a result, Uranus earned a decades-long reputation as an outlier in our solar system. But new research may be flipping that understanding on its head.

A fresh look at the data collected during the Voyager 2 flyby revealed that the probe's visit to Uranus may have accidentally coincided with a rare interstellar event. The findings, published Monday in a study in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that our understanding of the planet's protective magnetic field, or magnetosphere, may be flawed.

The spacecraft saw Uranus in conditions that only occur about 4% of the time.

But long before that, Voyager 2 stopped by Uranus, coming within 50,600 miles of Uranus' cloudtops. While encountering the planet on Jan. 24, 1986, the probe returned detailed photos and other data on the world, its moons, magnetic field and dark rings.

What made Uranus' magnetosphere so strange were its radiation belts with an unexpected intensity rivaling that of Jupiter's.

Just as mystifying was the absence of plasma. The energetic ionized particles are common to other planets’ magnetospheres, and scientists had theorized that the five major Uranian moons in the magnetic bubble should have produced them.

Instead, the Voyager 2 findings forced them to conclude that the moons must be inactive.

As a result, Uranus earned a decades-long reputation as an outlier in our solar system.

Voyager 2's flyby may have taken place at the same time that some unusual space weather was squashing the planet's magnetic field – skewing the probe's data. Solar winds pounding the magnetosphere would have temporarily driven plasma out of the system while also ratcheting up the power of the magnetosphere, according a new study.

So, instead of getting a full picture of Uranus, scientists back on Earth were presented with a misleading "snapshot in time."

What that means is those five major moons of Uranus may be active after all.

Scientists now suggest that Uranus and its five largest moons might have oceans beneath their icy surfaces, raising the possibility that these distant worlds could support life.

Again we are learning that perhaps not only do extraterrestrials navigate space -- they can swim too.

A small moon orbiting Uranus called Miranda may have an ocean below its icy crust, suggests a new study of archive images taken 38 years ago. If it’s true, Miranda has the potential for life alongside other ocean worlds in the solar system, such as Europa at Jupiter and Enceladus at Saturn.

According to NASA, the seventh planet from the sun has 28 moons, but five major moons — Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon. All are named after characters from William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope's works rather than being from Greek or Roman mythology, as is traditional in planetary science.

Miranda has a diameter of just 290 miles (470 kilometers), but it could be about to become the new darling of astrobiologists and planetary scientists searching for life in the solar system.

It just shows you that "the science" is not by consensus and news about space change all the time. Testimony about aliens in our oceans is just as compelling as aliens from space.

Beings may have been able to adapt to their surroundings and so life as we know it may not be the same as aliens are not always anthropomorphic.

We no longer have to use the old argument that they travel light years to meet with us -- perhaps we have to admit that they are closer than we think.