i have a fascination with verified UAP video footage ever since the declassification of the USS Nimitz videos in 2017-2018 .

conspiracies and unverified sightings you might see on r/UFOs were never interesting to me (fwiw, r/UAP seems good), but i am very curious about undiscovered tech that could change what we think is possible.

before chatgpt, researching stuff like this was tedious. now, it’s easy to choose your own adventure. here’s what I found by researching, summarizing, and comparing results between openai chatgpt 4 and google gemini advanced (1.5).

my top five most interesting UAP categories1
  1. High-Speed Phenomena (Zippers & Skimmers): Objects that display extreme speed and agility. The Tic Tac UAP’s rapid acceleration and maneuverability. Occurred by USS Nimitz off the coast of California in 2004, declassified video released in 2017-2018.
  2. Splashers (Transmedium Travelers): Observed UAPs are capable of moving effortlessly between air and water. No confirmed publicly released videos, but this is super fascinating to me.
  3. Faders (Sensor Ghosts): Invisible to the naked eye yet detectable by military sensors, these objects, like those in “FLIR1” footage, defy conventional detection methods. Also observed from USS Nimitz encounter .
  4. Orbs & Cubes (The Shapeshifters): UAPs exhibiting non-standard shapes, such as orbs or cubes, suggest the ability to shapeshift . No widely recognized footage of this, but it reflects an array of observations.
  5. Gimbal Spinners: gimbal -like rotation without visible propulsion, challenging our understanding of propulsion and stability. Gimbal footage was captured by a U.S. Navy jet off the East Coast of the United States in 2015.
what technology categories are likely at play?2
  • material science
    • metamaterial (cloaking): artificially engineered materials that can exhibit unusual properties such as negative refractive index or cloaking capabilities
    • programmable matter : The concept of matter that can change shape and properties on command, potentially through nanoscale technology
    • graphene : harder than diamonds and 200x stronger than steel. 5x lighter than aluminum. most conductive material on earth. also good to know about carbon nanotubes (CNTs).
  • propulsion & field manipulation
    • field propulsion : Systems generating and manipulating fields (gravitational, electromagnetic, etc.) to achieve motion where no fuel is necessary
    • warp drive : techniques to manipulate spacetime for faster-than-light travel or extreme maneuvers.
    • exotic energy utilization: look into zero-point energy and dark energy
  • advanced physics
    • non-newtonian fluid dynamics: Exploring if controlled manipulation of fluids could mimic some UAP behaviors at specific scales.
    • quantum entanglement : imagine two magic coins that, no matter how far apart they are, always show the same face when flipped—what happens to one instantly affects the other. they communicate at a rate faster than the speed of light.
how we will understand more about UAPs
  • sensor technology: more sensitive and compact LIDAR systems, quantum sensors that leverage quantum entanglement for unprecedented precision, and AI-integrated sensors that can autonomously process and react to data in real-time
  • quantum computing : to decrypt signals or data associated with UAPs, including predicting movements. to learn about quantum computing from scratch, I really enjoyed Quantum Country .

any suggestions on what I should double-click into next? leave a comment.

Below are footnotes related to the AI prompts I used to start some of this research. It required dozens of follow-up prompts to dive deeper, with frequent double prompting between Gemini Advanced and ChatGPT4 to see which answers I preferred.