Sep 15, 2022 05:49 AM
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'Cosmic' and 'phantom' UFOs are all over Ukraine's skies, government report claims
https://www.livescience.com/ukraine-ufo-uap-report
EXCERPTS: 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.
Of course, given that Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a months-long war that relies heavily on aircraft and drones, it's likely that many of these so-called UFOs are military tools that appear too fleetingly to identify, a U.S. intelligence agency has speculated.
Published to the preprint database arXiv, the report — which has not yet been peer-reviewed — describes recent steps that Ukrainian astronomers have taken to monitor fast-moving, low-visibility objects in the daytime sky over Kyiv and the surrounding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. Using specially calibrated cameras at two weather stations in Kyiv and Vinarivka, a village about 75 miles (120 kilometers) to the south, astronomers observed dozens of objects "that cannot scientifically be identified as known natural phenomena," the report said.
"We observe a significant number of objects whose nature is not clear," the team wrote. "We see them everywhere."
The researchers divided their UAP observations into two categories: "cosmics" and "phantoms."
According to the report, cosmics are luminous objects that are brighter than the background sky. These objects are designated with birds' names — such as "swift," "falcon" and "eagle" — and have been observed flying solo as well as in "squadrons," the team wrote.
Phantoms, by contrast, are dark objects, usually appearing "completely black," as if absorbing all light falling onto them, the team added [...] The researchers did not speculate as to what these UFOs may be... (MORE - missing details)
Biden administration preparing to send billions to Afghanistan
https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/14/us-fu...tral-bank/
INTRO: The Biden administration has moved $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan money to a dedicated fund for eventual transfer to Afghanistan if the country’s central bank can demonstrate independence from the Taliban.
The Biden administration plans to return billions in financial assets, frozen when the Taliban overran Afghanistan and ousted the central government, through a special “Afghan Fund” through Swiss financial organization, according to a joint statement from the U.S. Treasury Department and State Department.
However, officials say that U.S. will not release funds any time soon because there is yet no institution in Afghanistan who can be trusted to distribute the money to its rightful recipients, CNN reported. “We do not have that confidence today,” a senior US official told CNN.
Funding could help the Afghanistan government finance critical imports and repay debts to international financial organizations, according to the Treasury Department... (MORE - details)
https://www.livescience.com/ukraine-ufo-uap-report
EXCERPTS: 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.
Of course, given that Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a months-long war that relies heavily on aircraft and drones, it's likely that many of these so-called UFOs are military tools that appear too fleetingly to identify, a U.S. intelligence agency has speculated.
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. Using specially calibrated cameras at two weather stations in Kyiv and Vinarivka, a village about 75 miles (120 kilometers) to the south, astronomers observed dozens of objects "that cannot scientifically be identified as known natural phenomena," the report said.
"We observe a significant number of objects whose nature is not clear," the team wrote. "We see them everywhere."
The researchers divided their UAP observations into two categories: "cosmics" and "phantoms."
According to the report, cosmics are luminous objects that are brighter than the background sky. These objects are designated with birds' names — such as "swift," "falcon" and "eagle" — and have been observed flying solo as well as in "squadrons," the team wrote.
Phantoms, by contrast, are dark objects, usually appearing "completely black," as if absorbing all light falling onto them, the team added [...] The researchers did not speculate as to what these UFOs may be... (MORE - missing details)
Biden administration preparing to send billions to Afghanistan
https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/14/us-fu...tral-bank/
INTRO: The Biden administration has moved $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan money to a dedicated fund for eventual transfer to Afghanistan if the country’s central bank can demonstrate independence from the Taliban.
The Biden administration plans to return billions in financial assets, frozen when the Taliban overran Afghanistan and ousted the central government, through a special “Afghan Fund” through Swiss financial organization, according to a joint statement from the U.S. Treasury Department and State Department.
However, officials say that U.S. will not release funds any time soon because there is yet no institution in Afghanistan who can be trusted to distribute the money to its rightful recipients, CNN reported. “We do not have that confidence today,” a senior US official told CNN.
Funding could help the Afghanistan government finance critical imports and repay debts to international financial organizations, according to the Treasury Department... (MORE - details)