

It haf earlier acknowledged funding a secret multi-million dollar program to investigate such ‘extra-terrestrial sightings’. The Pentagon’s run-ins with UFOs is not a new thing. The revealed documents have also said that the Pentagon was trying to test whether the metal Nitinol could be integrated into the human body for health purposes or not. The Nitinol had similar properties to the ‘memory metal’ found near the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash site of 1947. Bragalia revealed in his blog the UFO Explorations that “A stunning admission by the US government that it possesses UFO debris was recently made in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed over three years ago by this author.” His blog also mentions that “some of these futuristic materials have the potential to make things invisible.”īragalia said that “although much of the reports’ details are redacted, what can be gleaned is that these technologies represent a literal quantum leap beyond the properties of all existing material known to man.” He also added that in the pages he received, there have been repeated mentions of ‘advanced technology reports’ surrounding Nitinol, described as a shape recovery alloy. Bragalia had written to the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request over three years agoīragalia said that the DIA let out 154-page test results regarding a mysterious “memory” metal called Nitinol which can remember its original shape when folded. Newsweek has contacted both the Facebook user and Sánchez for comment.Pentagon, the USA’s Defence Department’s headquarters have admitted to testing wreckage they gathered from UFO crashes, researcher and author Anthony Bragalia has said.
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Newsweek has contacted Midjourney AI for confirmation of this claim, but has not heard back by the time of publishing.įurthermore, the fact that the person working across the road from that same building that the AI generator selected, then came across the hoax image and decided to claim it as their own, seems highly coincidental at least, and potentially suspicious.įinally, in an August 23 video UFO YouTuber ledrack analyzed the photos and proposed that the object in question bears a strong similarity to a type of toy magnet which, if thrown in the air, might replicate the appearance of the 'UFO' in question. Addressing this in the comment section of his post, Poncho said "that's because it took a Google Street View image." Poncho did not provide a link to the original post they said they made in the Mexican 'UFO sighting' Facebook group, and Newsweek was unable to locate their alleged post in the Midjourney AI Discord group.Īnother issue is that the house in the UFO image is real-it can be seen in the Mexican news video on YouTube-meaning that at least part of the image is not AI-generated. Most of the claims around this story are hard to verify independently without access to the metadata of the original images.

The purpose of this fact check is to assess the authenticity of the original image, not if the object is a UFO or of extraterrestrial origin. A UFO is not necessarily extraterrestrial. Poncho also took a screenshot of what appeared to be a post in the Midjourney AI Discord chat, showing the UFO image along with the text prompt "highly defined UFO flying over poor Mexican town house."įirstly, the definition of a UFO is simply an object in the sky that has not been identified. "People need to hire me to create fake news." "Once again one of my mischievous random posts on Facebook groups went out of control (not even my original post, someone from another group grabbed the photo and posted it somewhere else, then it became viral), and now it's on The Sun," Poncho wrote. In the comment section of their post, they added that the Facebook group they posted the image to was "a very active 'UFO sighting' group in Mexico," but provided no other context. The Facebook user, whose display name is 'Poncho,' said they generated the UFO image and posted it to another Facebook group where it then took off.

By deploying the Midjourney Bot, which can be accessed on the group's official Discord server, users can create AI-generated art via a text prompt. Midjourney AI says it is an independent research lab focused on artificial intelligence. Fact Check: Did Cassini Film a Hexagonal Spot on Saturn's North Pole?.Fact Check: Is Hoba in Namibia the Largest Meteorite On Earth?.NASA's Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Spaghetti-Like Object on Mars.Fact Check: Does Viral Post Really Show 'Clearest Image of Venus'?.
