A Patch Better Perhaps

The above patch, from the private collection of Trevor Paglen, is perhaps a better candidate regarding a possible UFO connection. It has not been published (it is not in Paglen's book on this topic, for example) but it did float about for a while on the artist's old web-page, with a call there for any information regarding it to be forwarded to the artist (this is how it came to my attention). It can be found online today with a bit of "enlightened" google searching still.

Why is it a better candidate? Here one needs to reference something that is a bit of a rebus in UFO circles - namely the nexus of ideas around the alleged sightings of a black triangle UFO. Some people are of the opinion that this object is a reverse engineered human artefact, possibly code-named the TR3A (alternatively, through the years, the TR3B), and also known as the "Black Manta". The patch clearly shows a black manta ray, with wording emphasising its triangular shape! The full meaning of the design is as ever obscure - but the synchronicity between UFO lore and the existence of this patch is, to say the least, and in my opinion, very compelling indeed. It is, I think, a smoking gun.

Confusing the issue, perhaps, is the existence of an acknowledged, but unrealised, concept plane the X-44 MANTA (Lockheed Martin, 2000). It seems unlikely to me that an unrealised concept would earn a related mission patch, and Wikipedia in any case gives the code-name for this project as being "Project Have Manta" and not "Black Manta", but some would say Occam's razor applies (blah, blah - does it always?) and the patch should simply be associated with the X-44. Without more information from those in the know this comes down to a matter of ideology and taste. I do see more than a red herring here - proof rather that the alleged Black Manta is real, triangular, and the likely source of all those sightings!

I do have other, more esoteric, observations on the meaning of this patch, and I may follow up on that here later, but for now - I think - a puff of smoke, a smoking gun, and dead red herrings will do.

Patchy Evidence?

It is a strange feature of the black budget that elaborate mission patches are designed even for projects that are not openly acknowledged. A selection of these is catalogued and discussed in a book by the artist Trevor Paglen (I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me, Melville House Publishing). There is a nice essay at The New York Times discussing the book, and an article at The Space Review focusing on the special subset of black ops missions in space.

Now an Australian journalist, Ross Coulthart has joined the obscure patch trail, by offering up an image of a patch he alleges covers the reverse engineering program of a captured UFO at Area 51 (pictured above). The number sequence seen, 11001001, is associated - strangely - with an episode of Star Trek. One in which technology is shared between aliens and humans. Because it is Season 1 Episode 15, people are seeing the number of Element 115, which in Bob Lazar's famous testimony is the material which powers the said UFO.

Other readings are possible; the lightning may indicate electronic warfare, and the binary code the role of digital technology within that. The binary code reduces to 201 in decimal, and the fact there is an EW unit called the 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade may close the case, but I think we should note that the date of the Roswell crash was indeed - cue music - a dark and stormy night. So the rabbit hole is there to follow should one wish. And lightning is sometimes just lightning.

Disappearing Act

The Mirror has a nice article about the video being discussed on reddit this week, which allegedly shows the missing flight MH370 disappearing into a portal (after being chased by a fleet of UFOs). In the video's favour, it has been determined that the cloud cover matches satellite imagery for weather on the day; on the other hand, counting against, a frame in the video has been shown to match a VFX template of a generic explosion, although debunking that - in turn - there is some indication that the VFX template was tampered with. The strangest bit though is that this video is nine years old. Why has it come to attention now?