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Image 1 — A CIA inspector general’s report records a shootdown in Peru on 23 March 1997, which occurred around the time former Marine Jonathan Weygandt claims he encountered a retrieved UFO while deployed to Peru for Operation Laser Strike
Image 2 — A CIA inspector general’s report records a shootdown in Peru on 23 March 1997, which occurred around the time former Marine Jonathan Weygandt claims he encountered a retrieved UFO while deployed to Peru for Operation Laser Strike
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A CIA inspector general’s report records a shootdown in Peru on 23 March 1997, which occurred around the time former Marine Jonathan Weygandt claims he encountered a retrieved UFO while deployed to Peru for Operation Laser Strike

A CIA inspector general’s report records several shootdowns under the U.S.-supported Airbridge Denial Program in Peru, including one on 23 March 1997, around the time former Marine Jonathan Weygandt claims he encountered a retrieved UFO while deployed to Peru.

The original source can be read here:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs

Around the time former Marine Jonathan Weygandt claims he encountered a retrieved UFO while deployed to Peru, for Operation Laser Strike

Jonathan's testimony can be watched here:

Full Interview - Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt (1997)

A bit of background to Jonathan's testimony:

Jonathan was deployed to Peru and part of "Operation Laser Strike" in 1997, while on a recovery mission of what was thought of as a friendly aircraft crash, they came upon an unusual teardrop shaped craft, not of this world, wedged in rocks, apparently damaged by a H.A.W.K. missile, and there were some beings involved. Armed men in black camouflage (with no insignia) showed up and aggressively took over the scene. He was shackled, taken away told not to speak about what he witnessed.

u/Courtly-Chris — 10 days ago
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In response to David Grusch’s Statements on Sentient Plasmoid Life, Robert Hastings provides an encounter where witness describes plasma-like orbs that appeared to possess consciousness, which telepathically communicated with them

Source: UFOHastings.com

David Grusch’s Statement on Sentient Plasmoid Life

During the June 9, 2026 UAP/NHI press conference on Capitol Hill, former US Air Force officer and intelligence official David Grusch made a remarkable statement regarding the US government’s secret acknowledgment of the existence of sentient non-human entities.

When a reporter asked how many alien types have been identified, Grusch said matter-of-factly: “I don’t have the compendium [that I can present to you today, however,] it’s a continuum from corporeal bipedal type life to what I would consider sentient plasmoid life. But there are several [species] that the US government is aware of.”

A "plasma-orb" case described by Robert Hastings:

>It was sometime in the Fall of 1992, but I didn’t record the exact date; as with many other strange things in my life, it didn’t seem that important.

>In that instant, literally instantaneously, I was back at the passenger door of the car, staring at what I can only describe as an undulating orb in my neighbor’s front yard, no more than 30 feet away! It was hovering directly at my eye-level, completely still, about the size of a cantaloupe. It was a fiery reddish-orange, flickering and seemingly breathing. I’ve used the word “undulating” as it’s the only word I can find to describe it. It was like it was alive! I have oftentimes explained it as appearing how molten lava looks when you see it on TV.

>As soon as I realized what I was looking at, I immediately heard a voice in my head say, “Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you.” I was astonished! I wasn’t afraid at all, just fascinated by what I was seeing. I immediately thought—or maybe the orb put this thought in my mind—to look at it really hard to see if there was a structure beneath the flames.

>All I remember at this point was my simply staring right into it. It was like the orb and I were inside a clear bubble, protected from the outside world. It was strange, there was absolutely zero sound. No neighbors were outside, no kids playing, no cars in the distance on the highway, no birds, bugs, nothing. Total and complete silence. My neighborhood was there in the background, but it was hard to see, like it was muted, darkened, outside the bubble.

>I had no awareness of the passage of time. I had no further telepathic messages from the orb. I was just transfixed and staring into it. The next thing I remember, I heard the front door open; my husband was coming out. The orb instantaneously took off between the houses in a westerly direction and went completely out of sight in a split second.

>I stood there and pondered what I had just experienced. I thought to myself: How am I going to explain this to my husband? But I don’t recall acknowledging him when he came to the car. Again, I had no sense of time, or how long it took for him to come out. I don’t remember getting into the car. The next thing I do remember was already being in the car, staring at the glove compartment as we drove down the street. It was dark by then.

>I eventually did tell my husband the story, but he didn’t react. He just listened, and didn’t ridicule me, or question me. It was so strange.

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u/Courtly-Chris — 12 days ago
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Solar sails pushed by powerful lasers could reach incredible speeds, but at around 75% of the speed of light, scattered photons can begin creating drag, adding a surprising obstacle to interstellar travel

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u/Courtly-Chris — 14 days ago