Urban Sky Theory Inc., Denver, Colorado, was awarded a $99,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Urban Sky operations. This contract provides for the manufacturing of micro-balloons. Work will be performed in Denver, Colorado, and is expected to be completed by November 2030. This contract was a sole source acquisition under Small Business Innovation Research Phase III. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $1,500 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Research Lab Enterprise Contracting Branch, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA2280-25-D-0002).

https://www.urbansky.com/

While researching a related subject, I came across the following document from 1984, declassified in 2003 and uploaded to CIA reading room (link to document here), which appears to include pages / slides from a separate CIA report summarizing anomalous incidents associated with Soviet weapons development.

Note: for those unfamiliar with the Dome of Light, here is a rare image of the phenomena itself, and an article which provides some background and additional details.

A few key points:

• This report is published by the somewhat notorious Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden, who is associated with everything from Project Stargate to free energy device patents and wild claims about various disasters being secret geopolitical plots, so take the claims here with a sizable grain of salt.

• That said, Bearden was an insider of sorts and did appear to have access to CIA reports in writing this paper. The paper itself is dated 1984, but the CIA declassification stamp is from 2003. Of course, that could just mean that 2003 was the year the CIA admitted they kept a copy of said report, and doesn't prove they commissioned it. However its inclusion of unusually candid and un-redacted slides from a related CIA briefing suggests a certain connection.

• I created an album of the most interesting images from the report, which you can find here.

• Images especially relevant to the "Dome of Light" phenomena is found on pg. 32, Item No. 5 - "Giant ABM Shield seen from Afghanistan". (image link here) Noteworthy is that this references the "lurid glow over the Hindu Kush", so it's definitely the same incident. This technology is alternatively referred to as a "Tesla Shield", but like much of Bearden's work, I suspect this to be either a colloquial or a notional name for a technology that may or may not be responsible for the "Dome of Light".

• Other relevant images are on pg. 38, Item no. 14 - "1969 Virgin Islands Incident" , labeled as 'possible Tesla shield' , which matches certain characteristics of Dome of Light sightings. (image link here); Pg. 39, Items No. 15 & 16 - "Expanding Dome-Like Phenomenon" and "Two Arcs in the Sky" (image link here)

• Space Shuttle mission STS-48 (1991) recorded what is alleged to be a 'scalar' weapon system firing at a UAP that entered Earth's orbit. At 0:19 there is a huge flash of light followed by a large 'burst' of energy directed at the UAP (it missed, UAP flies away). The point of origin for the energy projectile is said to be Central or Western Australia, and is associated with the Harold E. Holt VLF System in Exmouth and/or the Pine Gap facility in Alice Springs. Multiple commerical jets have reported dangerous EM disruption / interference when flying near the Harold E. Holt site; there are also similar reports from light aircraft pilots flying near certain comparable sites in Florida.

• What's more, there are an awful lot of high energy physics devices that have been built by the Soviets, US, China, and other countries, which roughly match the description of the systems described in this paper. See: Project Sanguine, Soviet & Chinese equivalents; various OTH radars of the largest type (e.g. Cobra Mist; Duga / Russian Woodpecker; Tule Lake / Christmas Valley, etc.) are suspected as being dual-use.

• Whether the "Dome of Light" actually operates on the principles Bearden lays out in this paper remains TBD; I believe that it was a Soviet technology, given its association with Soviet missile and weapon tests, but I can't say for certain if it's "scalar" system as described in this report. I cannot yet reject the null hypothesis that this whole paper is entirely speculative and possibly published as disinformation because the real technology uses a different set of principles.

The Drive currently has an article about this. It looks to be unmanned, though the article describes it as optionally manned.

In 1979 Air Force special operations AC-130 gunships were scheduled for deactivation or moving to reserve status. They were not funded beyond that budget year. Deep penetration helicopters were non existent outside of search and rescue units. Within the DoD, SOF was a low priority. A career dead end.

On November 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the embassy and detained 53 Americans.

This was a seismic turning point for American military special operations in the modern age.

On April 24 1980 the US government launched a rescue attempt named Operation Eagle Claw. Eight RH‑53D helicopters flew from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz to a remote road serving as an airstrip in the Desert of Eastern Iran.

The rescue was aborted after severe dust storms disabled two of the helicopters. Then while refueling, one of the helicopters ran into a C‑130 tanker aircraft and exploded, killing eight U.S. servicemen and injuring several more.

Preparations for a second rescue attempt were called operation "credible sport". This work resulted in a modified rocket powered MC-130H Combat Talon II, capable of landing and taking off in a 100-yard distance.

This craft was destroyed on October 29 1980 during a rocket assisted landing test. Kaboom.

In August, 1980 the highly classified Holloway report was issued with an assessment of the rescue attempt and recommendations in the wake of the failure. CENTCOM came out of this. SOCOM came out of this. I think the so called "stealth blimp" came out of this as well.

Since 1982 Congress had included funding for the new MC-130H Combat Talon II system in the annual budget, but each year the Air Force redirected the funds to other, more important conventional priorities. In 1984 the Air Force developed its own plan to fix special operations, which included divesting itself of all rotary-wing SOF assets. Known as Initiative 17, the agreement between the chiefs of staff of the US Air Force and US Army called for transfer of the SOF rotary-wing mission to the US Army. The Air Force wasn't just walking away from SOF, it was running.

Which brings us to the point of all this. I think I was wrong. I don't think the craft over Hudson Valley, which I am now going to refer to as the "ZR-7/Hades" was a sub hunting craft. (ZR is Navy designation for airships, and Hades is the god of the underworld) I think it is a specialized exfiltration craft built in the wake of the Iranian hostage crisis. How did I come to this conclusion?

Starting in 1983 witnesses constantly said it looked like airplane landing lights at first. Which I never had a good answer for, until it occurred to me that you would WANT it to look like a low flying plane. This is probably why it had an array of lights on the front, so it could mimic any variety of different lights. And most witnesses would have actually dismissed it as a plane if it had not stopped over their house for 10 minutes.

The other thing I could never account for, why would it operate over populated areas? That is until I realized if its operations were modeled after the Tehran situation, then that is exactly where you would want to practice operations for exfiltration. We have seen SOCOM and other forces train in downtown Los Angeles and other cities. Additionally, the witnesses who saw it shining red lights into the water and lowering probes may have been them practicing Navy Seal exfiltrations. It is a Navy craft after all!

As for the "Big Black Delta" sightings, I think that one belongs to the Air Force. But that is a story for another day.

Lifted from r/UFOs.

The tic-tac is described as being in the area of a high-interest REDACTED ship, associated with C2 functions, and potentially being an end-view of a REDACTED Air Force plane.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240321195157/https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/ForAll/103122/F-2021-00154_C05136331.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20240604164351/https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/ForAll/103122/F-2021-00154_C05136334.pdf

Edit: These are from Black Vault originally. I'd forgotten about this release.

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/highly-classified-nro-system-captures-possible-tic-tac-object-in-2021/

While you were sleeping, ok ok while I was sleeping, France developed a CCA (technically UCAV) and a hypersonic nuke.

https://theaviationist.com/2024/10/10/development-of-rafale-f5-with-new-ucav-and-nuclear-missile/

“This UAV will be complementary to the Rafale and suited to collaborative combat”, said a release from Dassault Aviation. “It will incorporate stealth technologies, autonomous control (with man-in-the-loop), internal payload capacity, and more. It will be highly versatile and designed to evolve in line with future threats.”

One of the ideas regarding NGAD was not to build it at all and just greet China with drones controled with the B-21. There is no appetite for a $300 million NGAD or a highly inferior $100 million NGAD done on the cheap.

The Rafale is routinely upgraded every five years.