SCIENTISTS SURPRISED BY FOOTPRINTS FROM BEFORE HUMANS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE IN AMERICA
Crazy Strange News presents. You know, Crazy Strange News episode forty two news bite. Heading over to thedbrief dot org. Fantastic site. If you've never been to yourself a favor, it is like getting debriefed. It's serious science, aerospace, defense, space UAPs. Then they have some podcasts which are just great. Uh. Micah Hanks is one of the co founders in this article is his so. A baffling incident unfolded in the skies above Frederick County, Maryland last month, as a pilot reported a midair encounter with a thirty foot tall triangular UFO. Newly released audio recordings reveal the pilot, flying a Piper Cherokee Arrow, which is a P two eight R registration nine three zero zero two four, was flying from Allegheny County Airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Frederick Municipal Airport in Maryland at the time of the incident, which occurred on December twentieth, twenty twenty three, approximately fifty miles northwest of his destination. The pilot contacted air traffic controllers ATC to report a sighting of an object he described as appearing to be approximately thirty feet tall as it passed him, flying at about sixty five hundred feet. Not sure what it is, the pilot can be heard saying on the audio recording of the incident uploaded to YouTube channel u CAN SEATC, which specializes in reconstructions of non standard and emergency situations that occur in flight, it was thirty feet tall and obviously perplexed. ATC operator can be heard replying, it was pretty tall, probably about thirty feet tall. The pilot confirms it was going opposite direction of us. Asked if the object was moving at a fast pace, the pilot, just prior to entering his dissent, also confirmed that the object appeared to be moving quickly as it passed him. Arrow two zero two four. What does the object look like? The ATC operator can be heard asking, It's kind of hard to describe. The pilot responds it was just a tall and pointy, like a triangle. The ATC operator then asks it was in the shape of a triangle. It was bottom and flat on top. I'm not sure what it is. Intriguingly, the pilot then adds, I do have a picture of it, clarifying that there did not appear to be any danger resulting from the appearance of the unusual flying triangle. It was pretty far away from us, just noticeable enough for caution to other aircraft, the pilot says. Following this exchange, the ATC operator can then be heard advising the pilot to call his supervisor due to safety concerns that were raised after the pilot's bizarre sighting. Just want to make sure everything is safe up there for future aircraft flying through that, So give him a call once you're on the ground safely, please. The debrief has reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration, that's the FAA for comment on the December twenty twenty three incident. The pilot who reported the sighting of the strange object has not been identified, nor has the alleged photograph of the object the pilot references in the recorded communications with ATC surfaced for decades, observations of flying objects of a known origin, which the Department of Defense now calls Unidentified anomalous Phenomena UAP, have often involved triangular UFO sightings. Beginning on November twenty ninth, nineteen eighty nine, a wave of sightings involving large triangular aircraft erupted over Belgium, culminating in an intercept attempt involving two Belgian Air Force F sixteen's in the early morning hours of March thirty first, nineteen ninety. Sightings of the unusual craft continued until April of that year. Remarkably, similar sightings involving large triangular UFOs have continued to be reported for decades, including an incident involving observations by multiple law enforcement officers located in Saint Clair County, Illinois, during the early morning hours of January fifth, two thousand. Given that few details apart from its estimated size and general shape, were conveyed about the object reported in the December twentieth incident, it is unclear whether anything beyond a superficial resemblance to these earlier sightings of large triangular UAPs exist. Earlier this week, members of the House Oversight Committee were scheduled to receive a classified briefing on UAP conducted by Thomas Monheim, the current Inspector General of the Intelligence Community the ICIG last June. The debrief was the first to report on a complaint filed by the ICIG by whistleblower David Grush, alleging that secret US government programs involved in the recovery of craft believed to be of non human origin had been illegally withheld from Congress. Currently, the Department of Defense's All Domain Anominally Resolution Office, or ARROW AARO, is responsible for evaluating a UAP incidents reported by US military personnel, and is expected to release the first installment of a two part historical review in the weeks ahead. Established in twenty twenty two, the office received some criticism for the slow pace of its operations, with its official website having not appeared online until August thirty, twenty twenty three. At that time, a congressionally mandated reporting mechanism for million military personnel to report their sightings did not yet appear on the website, although added some time later. The site's current reporting mechanism only accepts unclassified information related to the possible knowledge of US government UAP programs. Last November, Sean Kirkpatrick, the first individual named as director of ARROW, announced he would be stepping down from his position. Currently, those duties are being performed by Timothy A. Phillips, who had only been named as arrow's deputy director shortly before the Pentagon confirmed Kirkpatrick's retirement. Kirkpatrick officially retired from his duties on the December one, twenty twenty three, and is currently employed at Oakridge National Laboratory as its Chief Technology Officer for Defense and Intelligence programs. If you have an additional any additional information about the December twentieth, twenty twenty three incident over Maryland, or have observed similar unexplained aerial phenomena, please consider contacting The Debrief. Micah Hanks is the editor in chief and co founder of The Debrief. He can be reached by email at Micah at thedebrief dot org. Follow his work at micah Hanks dot com and on x at micah Hanks. Dude is a rockstar, and so is his UH publication to Debrief That's pretty Awesome. Up next. Scientists surprised by footprints from before humans were supposed to be in America. In the past century, scientists have debated over when humans first set foot in the Americas, but in twenty twenty one, a study on a set of human footprints discovered in the White Sands National Park in New Mexico blew the whole mystery wide open again. The findings showed that the fossilized footprints were made during the height of the Ice Age some twenty one hundred excuse me, twenty one thousand to twenty three thousand years ago, far older than what many scientists thought possible and potentially upending our entire understanding of how the Americas were first populated. Now, the researchers have followed up these findings with a new study published in the journal Science that provides even more evidence that their original dates were correct. This opens up a whole new chapter in our understanding of the peopling of the Americas. Some are pretorious. A palaeon oceanographer at the US Geological Survey who was not involved in the study told The New York Times. For decades, the general, yet iffy, scientific consensus was that humans populated the Americas some thirteen thousand years ago as the ice Age retreated, or maybe as long as sixteen thousand years ago. But these new dates suggested by the footprints have archaeologists scratching their heads. That's because between nineteen thousand to twenty six thousand years ago, during a period called the Last Glacial Maximum, colossal eight ice sheets that span much of the Americas made the journey to the land mass impassable and too treacherous for humans. And yet here we are with footprints in New Mexico made during that period, suggesting that humans actually settled the Americas even earlier before passage to it froze over completely. That's wild. Originally, the researchers dated to sixty one footprints by using the seeds of an aquatic grass called rupia embedded in the sands. That wasn't good enough for critics, who pointed out that rupia, being an aquatic plant, was an unreliable source for radio carbon analysis as it could have absorbed carbon atoms from the water and instead of the air. So this time the researchers painstakingly gathered thousands of pollen grains from conifers, a terrestrial tree contained in the same layers as the rupia seeds. It took almost a year, but dating the more reliable pollen bore out the original timeline of roughly twenty one thousand years. But they went on one step further by dating the soil itself using a technique called optically stimulated luminescence in a nutshell. It uses quartz screens as timekeepers as their crystalline structures accumulate energy over time that's released by exposure to sunlight. Calculate how much energy has built up, and you have a good idea when the quartz was last exposed and deposited. The results that the quartz was at least twenty one thousand, five hundred years old. We've got seed ages, we've got pollen ages, we've got luminescence ages. They're all converging, or I should say they all converge. Study co author Jeff Pigata, a geologist at the Geological Survey, told The New York Times, they all agree, and it's really tough to argue against that. So what do you guys think about that? Shoot me a email at Crazy Strange Days Days is spelled daze at gmail dot com. Remember to five star rate and review helps ton, tell a friend about the show, helps even more, and I will bring you some quick bite news probably tomorrow or the next day. All right, be cool, peeps, I'm out. Names is bad as names gives an ADDI