U.S. Defense has studied invisibility, knucked the moon, announced other speculative techniques, and released secret documents.

The US Government’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) is researching several speculative techniques such as invisible cloaking and tunnel drilling. Moon The nuclear explosion unveiled a pile of newly released secret documents.

The document, acquired and shared by Vice.com, contains approximately 1,600 pages of proposals, contracts, meeting notes, and reports, run from 2007 to 2012 funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Some of the AATIP priorities have been revealed. ..

The previous AATIP In the limelight After former director Luis Elizondo infamously leaked a video of an unidentified aircraft moving in a seemingly impossible way, the latest document investigates more than a UFO encounter reported by a defense program. It is clear that.

Programs that are now officially abolished include taxpayer money and proposals to use passable wormholes, antigravity, gravitational wave communications, and nuclear explosions to tunnel holes into the moon. He was studying the defense of speculative technology and the potential for military applications. The document has been revealed.

Many of the reports track the scientific development at the forefront of the proposed project and also acknowledge the impracticality of some speculative techniques.

For example, a report on invisibility states that a “perfect cloaking device” is “impossible” because “a material with a speed of light approaching infinity is needed” and “an incomplete cloaking device is created.” There is a possibility. “

“It is not yet entirely clear whether invisibility in the visible range of the spectrum will become a reality. Perhaps this depends on new theoretical research rather than advances in new materials, mathematical intelligence, intuition and imagination. Will depend on the application of “.”

However, cloaking devices that obscure objects from microwave-based sensors such as radar are “arguably within the scope of current technology.

In other documents, the author described the feasibility of more eccentric technologies that are closely adjacent to science fiction, such as warp drives and wormholes that can be passed through.

Explaining how warp drives work theoretically, the unnamed author stated that the structure of the universe in the immediate vicinity of the spacecraft needs to be manipulated locally.

“The basic idea is to create a bubble in an asymmetric space that expands behind the spacecraft and contracts in front of the spacecraft. Using this form of movement, the spacecraft makes this” warp bubble “. It remains stationary within, and the movement of the space itself facilitates the relative movement of the spacecraft, “they say.

In one document, an unnamed author suggested using nuclear explosives to blow up tunnels into the lunar crust and mantle.

It is still unclear whether the document ultimately led to a long-term investment in these technologies, but reports that the AATIP research agenda relied on a contract with a private company called the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). It has been.

The company was run by Robert Bigelow, a personal friend of the late Harry Reid, the senator responsible for creating the AATIP, according to Vice.com.

BAASS won a $ 10 million worth of contracts in the program’s first year of research.

In 2020, Popular Mechanics reported on several aspects of the program, following the release of a series of documents.

“The entire contracting process for this program was irregular from start to finish. [The AAWSAP contract] It seems that it was a good deal for the contractor. But it would be difficult to claim that either the military or the public got the value of their money, “Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Government Secret Project, told Popular Mechanics. rice field.