“The Cold War, while real enough and dangerous enough, was also a cover for us to develop a planetary tracking and defense system that looked into space as well as into the Soviets’ backyard. And the Soviets were doing the exact same thing we were, looking up at the same time they were looking down.”.― US Army officer Philip J. Corso, The Day After Roswell.Shortly before the death of famed German-American aerospace engineer and space architect Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun, he confided something most secret, to his female assistant..He said, "the last card to be played" by the US military, will be the UFO/alien threat — real, or not.. Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun .He was speaking of course, about the massive US military industrial complex — a multi-billion-dollar juggernaut that cannot be stopped..US President Ike Eisenhower warned us about this in the 1950s, advising Americans to "guard against" its growing and potential influence..But Von Braun, who was essential to putting a man on the moon with the Apollo space program, would have had unique hands-on access to many US space secrets..His controversial association with the Nazis and the development of deadly V-1 and V2 rockets aside — and that is a very deep rabbit hole — he also knew the US military well..And he knew what was coming down the pipe. One day, it would happen..According to a report in the US Sun, this may actually be coming to pass..A US $100 million, classified Space Warfighting Center will protect the US if the world ever encounters hostile aliens reflects as space becomes "a key warfighting domain," an expert in defence and UFOs said..The Aerospace Corporation, a national nonprofit, built a federally funded 90,000-square-foot facility in Colorado "to examine space warfighting and advanced system concepts and educate space operators and analysts on assessing a variety of threat scenarios," the US Sun report said.. War against aliensWar against aliens .Steve Isakowitz, Aerospace's President and CEO, said in a statement, "Developing advanced space warfighting concepts that enhance the resiliency and agility of our systems is critical to outpacing the threats we face in space.".Aerospace didn't respond to emails with follow up questions, the Sun reported..Expert Nick Pope, the former head of the UK's now-defunct Ministry of Defense's UFO program, told the US Sun that the facility "is a cutting-edge part of the US government's wider space policy.".It has a dual use to combat the US's enemies as well as any potential "hostile extraterrestrial.". UFO expert Nick PopeUFO expert Nick Pope ."Even if it was set up to plan warfighting against conventional adversaries like China and Russia, if we did ever encounter hostile extraterrestrials, it would doubtless play a key role in planetary defense," Pope said..In June, the Sun reported that an active duty service member said the Air Force has fired at UFOs in active war zones.."The Air Force routinely observes, and at times, even kinetically engages UAP in operationally sensitive areas around the world to this day," a service member with direct knowledge of recent UAP Air Force engagements said.."While some UAP are eventually identified, too often others are hastily dismissed outright due to an inability to properly classify, based on characteristics displayed and observed.".According to secret files made public, two US fighter planes were scrambled in May 1957 and ordered to shoot down a UFO over the English countryside during the Cold War, Reuters reported..One pilot said he was seconds away from firing 24 rockets at the object, which moved erratically and gave a radar reading like “a flying aircraft carrier.”.At the last moment, the object disappeared from the radar screen and the high-speed chase was called off, Reuters reported..He returned to base and was debriefed the next day by an unnamed man who “looked like a well-dressed IBM salesman.”. Aerospace Corp. new HQAerospace Corp. new HQ .“He threatened me with a national security breach if I breathed a word about it to anyone,” he said.."In any future war, space (along with cyberspace) is going to be a key warfighting domain," said Pope, a former British Ministry of Defense UFO Investigator. "Perhaps more important than the traditional three (domains of) land, sea and air.".Space Force, the Space Fence radar system and the planned Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor are also parts of this, he said..Construction of the actual facility in Colorado Springs wrapped up in early September, Aerospace said in an announcement on their website..It comes at a time when the US government has been demanding answers about Unidentified Aerial Phenomenons (UAPS), and NASA is exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life..Even legendary horror and science fiction author Stephen King wondered out loud about alien life in a recent tweet.."Is there intelligent life in the universe? If we find it, what will the general reaction be here on Earth?" King said on Twitter..Pope acknowledged that some people will wonder if Aerospace's facility has any UFO connections.."There are conspiracy theories about how Space Force was set up to fight hostile aliens," Pope said.."With Congress demanding answers on UFOs and with NASA undertaking a study, there's certainly more official interest than we've ever seen.".NASA said it wants to apply scientific rigor to a vexing issue that has been a fixation for generations. Studying UAPs fits into the agency’s mission of looking for signs of life beyond Earth, from studying water on Mars to exploring the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, the agency said..“NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also,” Thomas Zurbuchen, the head of NASA’s science mission directorate, said in a statement reported by The Washington Post..“We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That’s the very definition of what science is. That’s what we do.”.Pope said another connection is The Aerospace Corporation's board of trustees, which includes many people with intelligence community and military backgrounds..David Norquist, one of the board's members, was the deputy secretary of defense when the Pentagon's UAP Task Force was approved and established, according to Pope..The Colorado facility hired 250 engineers, scientists and analysts and is billed as "the focal point for delivering technical expertise across the space enterprise to outpace threats to national security.".Meanwhile, the skies over Kyiv are swarming with unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to a new report from the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine..Published to the preprint database arXiv, the report — which has not yet been peer-reviewed — describes recent steps that Ukrainian astronomers have taken to monitor fast-moving, low-visibility objects in the daytime sky over Kyiv and the surrounding villages, Space.com reported..Using specially calibrated cameras at two weather stations in Kyiv and Vinarivka, a village about 75 miles (120 kilometres) to the south, astronomers observed dozens of objects "that cannot scientifically be identified as known natural phenomena," the report said.. 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“The Cold War, while real enough and dangerous enough, was also a cover for us to develop a planetary tracking and defense system that looked into space as well as into the Soviets’ backyard. And the Soviets were doing the exact same thing we were, looking up at the same time they were looking down.”.― US Army officer Philip J. Corso, The Day After Roswell.Shortly before the death of famed German-American aerospace engineer and space architect Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun, he confided something most secret, to his female assistant..He said, "the last card to be played" by the US military, will be the UFO/alien threat — real, or not.. Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun .He was speaking of course, about the massive US military industrial complex — a multi-billion-dollar juggernaut that cannot be stopped..US President Ike Eisenhower warned us about this in the 1950s, advising Americans to "guard against" its growing and potential influence..But Von Braun, who was essential to putting a man on the moon with the Apollo space program, would have had unique hands-on access to many US space secrets..His controversial association with the Nazis and the development of deadly V-1 and V2 rockets aside — and that is a very deep rabbit hole — he also knew the US military well..And he knew what was coming down the pipe. One day, it would happen..According to a report in the US Sun, this may actually be coming to pass..A US $100 million, classified Space Warfighting Center will protect the US if the world ever encounters hostile aliens reflects as space becomes "a key warfighting domain," an expert in defence and UFOs said..The Aerospace Corporation, a national nonprofit, built a federally funded 90,000-square-foot facility in Colorado "to examine space warfighting and advanced system concepts and educate space operators and analysts on assessing a variety of threat scenarios," the US Sun report said.. War against aliensWar against aliens .Steve Isakowitz, Aerospace's President and CEO, said in a statement, "Developing advanced space warfighting concepts that enhance the resiliency and agility of our systems is critical to outpacing the threats we face in space.".Aerospace didn't respond to emails with follow up questions, the Sun reported..Expert Nick Pope, the former head of the UK's now-defunct Ministry of Defense's UFO program, told the US Sun that the facility "is a cutting-edge part of the US government's wider space policy.".It has a dual use to combat the US's enemies as well as any potential "hostile extraterrestrial.". UFO expert Nick PopeUFO expert Nick Pope ."Even if it was set up to plan warfighting against conventional adversaries like China and Russia, if we did ever encounter hostile extraterrestrials, it would doubtless play a key role in planetary defense," Pope said..In June, the Sun reported that an active duty service member said the Air Force has fired at UFOs in active war zones.."The Air Force routinely observes, and at times, even kinetically engages UAP in operationally sensitive areas around the world to this day," a service member with direct knowledge of recent UAP Air Force engagements said.."While some UAP are eventually identified, too often others are hastily dismissed outright due to an inability to properly classify, based on characteristics displayed and observed.".According to secret files made public, two US fighter planes were scrambled in May 1957 and ordered to shoot down a UFO over the English countryside during the Cold War, Reuters reported..One pilot said he was seconds away from firing 24 rockets at the object, which moved erratically and gave a radar reading like “a flying aircraft carrier.”.At the last moment, the object disappeared from the radar screen and the high-speed chase was called off, Reuters reported..He returned to base and was debriefed the next day by an unnamed man who “looked like a well-dressed IBM salesman.”. Aerospace Corp. new HQAerospace Corp. new HQ .“He threatened me with a national security breach if I breathed a word about it to anyone,” he said.."In any future war, space (along with cyberspace) is going to be a key warfighting domain," said Pope, a former British Ministry of Defense UFO Investigator. "Perhaps more important than the traditional three (domains of) land, sea and air.".Space Force, the Space Fence radar system and the planned Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor are also parts of this, he said..Construction of the actual facility in Colorado Springs wrapped up in early September, Aerospace said in an announcement on their website..It comes at a time when the US government has been demanding answers about Unidentified Aerial Phenomenons (UAPS), and NASA is exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life..Even legendary horror and science fiction author Stephen King wondered out loud about alien life in a recent tweet.."Is there intelligent life in the universe? If we find it, what will the general reaction be here on Earth?" King said on Twitter..Pope acknowledged that some people will wonder if Aerospace's facility has any UFO connections.."There are conspiracy theories about how Space Force was set up to fight hostile aliens," Pope said.."With Congress demanding answers on UFOs and with NASA undertaking a study, there's certainly more official interest than we've ever seen.".NASA said it wants to apply scientific rigor to a vexing issue that has been a fixation for generations. Studying UAPs fits into the agency’s mission of looking for signs of life beyond Earth, from studying water on Mars to exploring the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, the agency said..“NASA believes that the tools of scientific discovery are powerful and apply here also,” Thomas Zurbuchen, the head of NASA’s science mission directorate, said in a statement reported by The Washington Post..“We have the tools and team who can help us improve our understanding of the unknown. That’s the very definition of what science is. That’s what we do.”.Pope said another connection is The Aerospace Corporation's board of trustees, which includes many people with intelligence community and military backgrounds..David Norquist, one of the board's members, was the deputy secretary of defense when the Pentagon's UAP Task Force was approved and established, according to Pope..The Colorado facility hired 250 engineers, scientists and analysts and is billed as "the focal point for delivering technical expertise across the space enterprise to outpace threats to national security.".Meanwhile, the skies over Kyiv are swarming with unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to a new report from the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine..Published to the preprint database arXiv, the report — which has not yet been peer-reviewed — describes recent steps that Ukrainian astronomers have taken to monitor fast-moving, low-visibility objects in the daytime sky over Kyiv and the surrounding villages, Space.com reported..Using specially calibrated cameras at two weather stations in Kyiv and Vinarivka, a village about 75 miles (120 kilometres) to the south, astronomers observed dozens of objects "that cannot scientifically be identified as known natural phenomena," the report said.. 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