Tim Ventura Interviews

Investigative filmmaker Sean Cahill discusses three unidentified flying objects shot down in North American airspace this weekend after a Chinese spy balloon was brought down last Saturday off the South Carolina coast.

The Chinese surveillance balloon was downed on Feb 4th off the coast of South Carolina after traveling across the US. Since then, a second object was shot down Friday flying over Alaska at about 40,000 feet, another object was shot down at 40,000 feet over the Yukon on Saturday, and and a 4th object was shot down at 20,000 feet over Lake Huron on Sunday.

CNN quoted an anonymous National Security Council spokesperson as saying, “These objects did not closely resemble and were much smaller than the PRC balloon and we will not definitively characterize them until we can recover the debris, which we are working on.”

Politico reported the object shot down on Friday was 'cylindrical in shape and roughly the size of a small car', 'not maneuverable', and appeared to lack surveillance equipment. Canada’s Defense Minister said the one shot down over the Yukon was also small & cylindrical, and the one over Lake Huron was Octagonal in structure, with strings hanging off it but no payload.

Reuters reports that General Glen VanHerck at NORAD hasn't ruled out extraterrestrial origin for three airborne objects that were shot down, saying "I'll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven't ruled out anything."

Fox News reports that NORAD gave notice of an upcoming air defense exercise scheduled between for Tuesday between midnight and 2:30 a.m. EST around Washington, DC. This is a night exercise scheduled after the 4th object was shot down.

Sean Cahill, an investigative filmmaker and retired U.S. Navy Chief Master-at-Arms. He served on various vessels and duty stations abroad; most notably he was part of the bridge crew onboard the USS Princeton during the infamous Tic-Tac UAP incident with the USS Nimitz in 2004.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Sean Cahill on Twitter

https://twitter.com/mintyhyperspace

Sean Cahill on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-cahill-9b29a297/

STORY REFERENCES:

Here is what we know about the unidentified objects shot down over North America

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/politics/unidentified-object-canada-alaska-military-latest/index.html

Here's Why Planes Fly at 36,000 Feet

https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/why-do-planes-fly-at-36000-feet-cruising-altitude

Military shoots down ‘high altitude object’ over Alaska

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/10/military-shoots-down-high-altitude-object-over-alaska-00082367

The US has shot down 3 suspicious flying objects in 3 days. Here's what we know about the UAP floating over North America.

https://www.businessinsider.com/objects-shot-down-over-alaska-canada-ufo-interfered-f22-sensors-2023-2

Third ‘unidentified object’ downed this week, this time over Lake Huron

https://www.abc27.com/national/airspace-over-lake-michigan-briefly-restricted-as-national-defense-airspace/

U.S. to explore punishing China over spy balloon, official says

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/09/u-s-to-explore-punishing-china-over-spy-balloon-official-says-00082015

Ruling out aliens? Senior U.S. general says not ruling out anything yet

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ruling-out-aliens-senior-us-general-says-not-ruling-out-anything-yet-2023-02-13/

NORAD gives notice of air defense exercise around Washington, DC, set for Tuesday

https://www.foxnews.com/us/norad-gives-notice-air-defense-exercise-washington-dc-tuesday

Patrick "PJ" Hughes recounts a TicTac UAP close-encounter by an E-2C Hawkeye aircraft during the 2004 Nimitz UAP incident, describes hard-drives being confiscated by USAF couriers soon after the Hawkeye landed, and discusses his role as an Aviation Electronics Technician on the Nimitz.

Patrick "PJ" Hughes served in the Navy as an Aviation Electronics Technician primarily on the E-2C Hawkeye and C-2A Greyhound airframes.

In November 2004, Patrick was a Second Class Petty Officer attached to VAW-117 - the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron - and was with the squadron onboard the Nimitz conducting Air Wing and Battlegroup exercises during the infamous UAP encounters that have made headlines worldwide.

Malak Trabelsi Loeb describes her vision for space, quantum & deep tech and a new distribution partnership for SpinQ NMR quantum computers under the “Vernewell” brand.

Malak Trabelsi Loeb is a Dubai-based visionary entrepreneur and accomplished legal consultant. As the CEO of Trabelsi Loeb Legal Consultant and Managing Director of Vernewell Management Consultancies, Mrs. Loeb has established herself as a sought-after expert in international business law and focuses on space law, tech law, and national security law. Additionally, she leads the newly launched Vernewell Academy, solidifying her position as a trailblazer in the field.

Her exceptional knowledge has earned her recognition as an international thought leader, a sought-after speaker at conferences, and delivered workshops and keynotes as a space subject matter expert for various organizations such as the NATO Strategic Direction -South Hub in Italy; the Royal Aeronautical Society, UAE; and the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Research Center of Sousse in Tunisia.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Press Release:

Vernewell Group contributing to the next Quantum leap in the region

https://reviewcentralme.com/2023/02/06/vernewell-group-contributing-to-the-next-quantum-leap/

Vernewell Management Consultancies

https://vernewell.be/

Vernewell Academy

https://www.vernewellacademy.be/

Life-Extension pioneer Dr. Aubrey De Grey discusses the LEV & SENS foundations, the latest trends in anti-aging research, new animal trials anticipated to double or triple life expectancy, and increased social acceptance for the disease model of aging.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is President and CSO at the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation and Co-founder at the SENS Research Foundation. He's also the author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging and co-author of Ending Aging.

Dr. De Grey is generally recognized as one of world’s leading experts in longevity research, and is an international adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the American Aging Association, and also the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Dr. De Grey has a BA in Computer Science, studies in Bioinformatics, and a PhD in Biology from the University of Cambridge.

LEV Foundation

https://www.levf.org/

SENS Foundation

https://www.sens.org/

Dr. Aubrey De Grey (Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey

Star Wars Actor Mark Hamill donated 500 drones to support Ukraine - what can you do to help? Jaanika Merilo discusses Ukraine's Army Of Drones, including her own efforts with HeroIamSlava and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's UNITED24 project.

Jaanika Merilo is an Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. Prior to the war, the ministry's chief project was the "state in a smartphone" project to automate delivery of public services through an online portal.

Today, Jaanika is working to collect drones for the war effort, which are used for surveillance & early warning. "Ukraine needs many eyes in the sky, "Jaanika says, "and every drone you donate can really save lives, allowing the defenders of Ukraine to see and receive information."

Jaanika has over 25 years of combined experience in technology, investing, and communications. Her background includes a diversity of experience ranging from programming, to technology management, VC investment management, private equity and angel investment.

Since 1997 she’s been an analyst of the developing markets of Ukraine and Russia and an international lecturer and keynote at economic and security forums. In addition to technology and investment, she has a background in the areas non-linear and cyber-warfare, which we’ll be discussing today along with our focus on Ukraine’s Army of Drones.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

HeroIamSlava

(this is Jaanika Merilo's Donation Site)

https://www.heroiamslava.org/

Donate To Ukraine's UNITED24 Initiative

(this is the official site for charitable donations to Ukraine)

https://u24.gov.ua/

He launched the "neopsychedelic movement", hung out with Timothy Leary, and helped define both cyberculture and the modern transhumanist movements.

Ken Goffman (R. U. Sirius) is a counter-culture icon also known as R U Sirius - best known as the founder of Mondo 2000, a popular digital culture magazine in the 90's that helped shape nascent internet culture.

With Mondo, he covered topics like nanotech, biotech, life-extension, body-modification, virtual-reality, mind-uploading, and cybers*x. These were unheard of in the early 90’s - and after the era was over, he returned with a focused, grown-up take on the concepts in Humanity+.

Ken has written for international periodicals including Esquire, LA Weekly, Wired, Disinformation, and Salon, and has been a columnist for Wired News, 21C, and San Francisco Examiner. He's authored a number of popular books, plays in the band Mondo Vanilli, and founded Humanity+ Magazine.

Goffman's association with countercultural movements goes back to the 1960s and his association with Timothy Leary, the legendary proponent of hallucinogenic drug use. As time passed, Goffman's interests turned to new technology and its implications for the counterculture, as well as alternative politics.

In 2000, he ran for president as a candidate of the Revolution Party. His books published under his R. U. Sirius pseudonym include How to Mutate and Take over the World, Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook, and Counterculture through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House.

Books By R. U. Sirius on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/R.-U.-Sirius/author/B001HD1MGU

Writings Under The Pseudonym R. U. SIRIUS

(Editor, with Rudy Rucker and Queen Mu) Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge, HarperPerennial (New York, NY), 1992.

Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook, Random House (New York, NY), 1995.

How to Mutate and Take over the World, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 1996.

(With Timothy Leary) Design for Dying, HarperEdge (New York, NY), 1997.

Twenty-first Century Revolutionary: R. U. Sirius 1984–1998, Fringecore, 1999.

The Revolution: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R. U. Sirius, Feral House, 2000.

(With Dan Joy) Counterculture through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, Villard (New York, NY), 2004.

Are China and Russia the new Axis Powers? Dr. Namrata Goswami discusses General Mike Minihan's prediction of war with China by 2025, and examines whether China views the Ukraine conflict as an opportunity to pursue the territorial acquisition of Taiwan.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Namrata Goswami is an independent strategic analyst, author and consultant on Great Power Politics, Space Policy, Alternate Futures, and Frameworks of Conflict Negotiation and Resolution. After earning a Ph.D. in international relations, she served for nearly a decade as Research Fellow at India’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) sponsored think tank, the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, working on ethnic conflicts in India’s Northeast, counter-terrorism and China-India border conflict. Her research and expertise generated opportunities for collaborations abroad, and she accepted visiting fellowships at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway; the La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; and the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

In 2012, she was selected to serve as a Jennings-Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington D.C. where she studied India-China border issues, and was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Fellowship that same year. Shortly after establishing her own strategy and policy consultancy in 2016 after relocating to the U.S., she won the prestigious MINERVA grant awarded by the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense (OSD) to study great power competition in the grey zone of outer space. In 2017, she was awarded a contract with Joint Special Forces University (JSOU) to write a monograph on ISIS in Asia, in which one of her field of study was Indonesia.

With expertise in international relations, ethnic conflicts, counter insurgency, wargaming, scenario building, and conflict resolution, she has been asked to consult for audiences across the globe, from academia to policy-makers. She was the first representative from South Asia chosen to participate in the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium (PfPC) ‘Emerging Security Challenges Working Group.’ She also received the Executive Leadership Certificate sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, National Defense University (NDU), and the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS). Currently, she is working on a book project on “Ethnic Conflicts” with Oxford University Press, and another one on ‘Great Power Ambitions in Outer-Space” to be published by Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield.

Namrata Goswami's Books on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Namrata-Goswami/author/B00IOR4U2U

Scramble For The Skies (Goswami / Garretson):

https://www.amazon.com/Scramble-Skies-Competition-Control-Resources/dp/1498583113

Brig. General Geoffrey Weiss discusses the war in Ukraine and provides strategic analysis & insights based on his book, "The New Art Of War".

*** PLEASE NOTE: The views, opinions & commentary expressed in this interview are editorial in nature and do not represent the views of the United States Air Force or Department of Defense.

Brigadier General Weiss has civilian experience as a systems engineer and his military experience includes wartime operational, USAF and Joint Headquarters Staff, and command leadership positions in homeland air defense, air and missile defense, theater air battle management, command and control, nuclear deterrence, and information/influence operations.

He has commanded at the wing, group, and squadron levels. He holds four masters degrees in military and aeronautical study areas, including an M.S. in National Security Strategy from the National War College. His articles have appeared in the Air and Space Power Journal and Joint Force Quarterly, and his book: The New Art of War: The Origins, Theory, and Future of Conflict.

LINKS

The New Art of War: The Origins, Theory, and Future of Conflict

https://www.amazon.com/New-Art-War-Origins-Conflict/dp/1108837646

USAF Bio Page:

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/3075724/geoffrey-f-weiss/

Learn how cold-war research into psychic abilities shaped our understanding of human consciousness. Stephan A. Schwartz discusses remote-viewing, near-death experience (NDE), and US/Soviet experiments in military communications that suggest human consciousness is non-local in nature.

Stephan A. Schwartz is an internationally known researcher in the field of extraordinary human functioning. He’s an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, columnist for the journal Explore, editor Schwartzreport daily web publication, and writes regularly for The Huffington Post.

Stephan is a Distinguished Associated Scholar for The California Insitute for Human Science, Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University, a BIAL Foundation Fellow, a Senior Samueli Institute Fellow; Founder and Research Director of the Mobius laboratory; Director of Research of the Rhine Research Center; and Senior Fellow of The Philosophical Research Society.

Stephan’s government experience includes work as a Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, consultant to the Oceanographer of the Navy.

LINKS & RESOURCES

Stephan A. Schwartz (Main Website)

https://stephanaschwartz.com/

Schwartz Report - Trends That Affect Your Future

https://www.schwartzreport.net/

Ollie Rankin used AI to choreograph epic battle scenes in the Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies - now, he's using it to bring the Metaverse to life. Join the award-winning director, virtual reality & visual effects pioneer as he discusses the Metaverse and Extended Reality, and describes the groundbreaking work he's helping to shape at Sansar.

Ollie Rankin has spent more than two decades pioneering new technology and techniques in filmmaking. From the use of artificial intelligence to choreograph epic battle scenes in the Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies, to his recent induction into the Unreal Virtual Production Fellowship, he has worked to balance creativity with pragmatism in the service of highly engaging storytelling.

Links & Resources:

Sansar (Official Site)

https://www.sansar.com/

Pansensory Interactive

https://pansensory.com/

Ollie Rankin (IMDB)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710285/