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Post by auntym on May 15, 2021 13:10:36 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/the-reasons-why-i-yawn-at-the-words-ufo-disclosure-is-coming/The Reasons Why I Yawn at the Words “UFO Disclosure is Coming”by Nick Redfern / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/nredfern/May 15, 2021 Just a couple of days ago, on Facebook, I was asked when I thought “the aliens” would land and when we would finally get definitive disclosure. Well, first and foremost, we don’t know for sure that the UFO phenomenon is extraterrestrial. Nor do we know that “they” have disclosure on their agenda – even if they have agendas like ours. The fact is that just because the UFO subject is big news now, and with new revelations coming out of government and military agencies, doesn’t necessarily mean that we are going to see ourselves immersed in a real-life The Day the Earth Stood Still scenario. Indeed, I am someone who does not think we’re going to get any big revelations, nor do I believe we’ll have the bodies from the Roswell crash of 1947 paraded for one and all to see. And, in light of that aforementioned Facebook chat, I’ll tell you why I doubt that Disclosure is coming. First and foremost, we’ve heard all of these “the truth is coming” scenarios time and time again. For example, in 1971 there were whispers that the full story was going to emerge. An anonymous letter was sent to the FBI that read as follows: “In approximately seven months or January, 1972, certain copies of top-secret documents shall be sent to the New York Times as well as two other newspapers. These documents are related to and will be an ostentation of the involvement of the Pentagon in the coThe fact is that Ufologists here, there and everywhere have been waiting for Disclosure forever. On several occasions it appeared to be on the horizon. But, it never actually managed to get over that same horizon. What happened? I’ll tell you what happened: everything fizzled away until the next big, exciting thing came along. And then that one went away. And so on and so on. Maybe, this time, Disclosure really is looming large. I’ll be amazed and as happy as a pig in *bleep* if it does occur. But, we have to take a look at the history of Ufology. And the fact is that on each and every time it looked like it was coming, Disclosure stalled. Why should things be any different now?ntroversial ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’ or ‘Flying Saucer’ subject. It will show that not only the US Air Force was involved in UFO research but the other military branches as well. Analysis and the actual conclusions of the classic UFO cases shall be revealed. This shall be accomplished by zeroxed [sic] documents and photographs that General Wolfe had reviewed when he was head of the Army’s UFO support program in the Pentagon during the Eisenhower years. Sorry, but it is concluded here that this is the best course to take because we feel that the secret UFO investigations are parallel in nature to the Times-Pentagon-Vietnam controversy. If we are wrong in taking this action, time will tell.” You can see the letter at this link. vault.fbi.gov/UFO/UFO%20Part%2014%20of%2016Of course, history has shown that the story didn’t go any further. What could have been the start of Disclosure turned out to be garbage. In the 1980s, when the bogus Majestic 12 documents appeared, there was significant talk that this was all the beginning of a widespread revealing of the UFO truth. In 1952, there were multiple flyovers in the skies of Washington, D.C. by UFOs. The story is a fascinating one. Arguably, an amazing one. Yet, “the aliens” never took things any further. In 1973, there was a huge wave of UFO activity that had many in Ufology suspecting that the truth might be on the horizon. After all, there were some classic cases: the “Captain Coyne” helicopter-based encounter and the Pascaogoula/Hickson-Parker abduction affair were just two classics of many. But, it didn’t go anywhere. When, in 1989 and 1990 there were multiple UFO sightings of the “Black Triangle” type, there were hopes that this was just the beginning. Well, there was no beginning. Now, today, we’re seeing new revelations, claims, photos and footage – and even people in government addressing the UFO subject seriously. But, if we look at earlier years, a solid case can be made that the events of today are not much different to those days of decades long gone. The fact is that Ufologists here, there and everywhere have been waiting for Disclosure forever. On several occasions it appeared to be on the horizon. But, it never actually managed to get over that same horizon. What happened? I’ll tell you what happened: everything fizzled away until the next big, exciting thing came along. And then that one went away. And so on and so on. Maybe, this time, Disclosure really is looming large. I’ll be amazed and as happy as a pig in *bleep* if it does occur. But, we have to take a look at the history of Ufology. And the fact is that on each and every time it looked like it was coming, Disclosure stalled. Why should things be any different now? mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/the-reasons-why-i-yawn-at-the-words-ufo-disclosure-is-coming/
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Post by auntym on May 15, 2021 19:14:34 GMT -6
www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-14/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&linkId=118829996Former Navy pilot says flight crews observed UFOs off Atlantic Coast "every day for at least a couple years"Next month, a government report is expected to be made public on sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, better known as UFOs. Sunday on 60 Minutes, Bill Whitaker reports on the sightings. May 14 2021 Former Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves says he and other members of his F/A-18 fighter squadron detected strange, maneuverable and unidentified objects flying in the restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach nearly every day for two years beginning in 2015. The sightings were so common, he says, pilots and their crews began to take them for granted. Graves is calling those objects a threat to security in a 60 Minutes interview. Graves is one of several current and former military members who have spoken publicly about what the Pentagon now calls unidentified aerial phenomena or UAP. These documented sightings of UAP, recorded on gun camera video and photos taken by U.S. service members, have been analyzed by the Defense Department for years. But the government only grudgingly acknowledged the internal efforts after unclassified videos of UAP were leaked to the New York Times in 2017. Now, the Senate Intelligence Committee has ordered the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense to compile a report on unidentified aerial phenomena to be delivered next month. "I am worried, frankly. You know, if these were tactical jets from another country that were hanging out up there, it would be a massive issue," Graves tells Bill Whitaker in an interview airing Sunday on 60 Minutes. "But because it looks slightly different, we're not willing to actually look at the problem in the face. We're happy to just ignore the fact that these are out there, watching us every day." Graves says pilots who have seen UAP speculate they could be a secret U.S. technology, an enemy spy platform, or something else entirely. Watching one of the unclassified videos he says, "This is a difficult one to explain. You have rotation, you have high altitudes. You have propulsion, right? I don't know. I don't know what it is, frankly." "I would say, you know, the highest probability is it's a threat observation program," Graves says. He wouldn't rule out the possibility they could be a Russian or Chinese technology. Luis Elizondo, a former DOD official who investigated UAP for nearly a decade, says these vehicles display technology far superior to anything in any nation's inventory. "Imagine a technology that can do 600 to 700 G-forces, that can fly 13,000 miles an hour, that, that can evade radar and can fly through air and water and possibly space, and oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing." Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) has seen classified briefings on UAP and called for a detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena. Last December, while still head of the Senate's Intelligence Committee, he asked the Director of National Intelligence and the Pentagon to present Congress with an unclassified report by June 2021. The 60 Minutes report airs Sunday, May 16, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.WATCH VIDEO: www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-14/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&linkId=118829996
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Post by auntym on May 16, 2021 13:38:42 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/ufo-and-alien-encounters-disclosure-and-deception/UFO and Alien Encounters: Disclosure and Deceptionby Nick Redfern / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/nredfern/May 16, 2021 My previous article was on the subject of why I don’t think UFO disclosure will surface. My reason for thinking that is because time and time again – as history has shown – Disclosure has always stalled (see that same previous article). There is, however, another reason why I doubt that Disclosure is on the horizon. The fact is that the UFO enigma is extremely detached from us, except for when they want us. Or need us. And I don’t see that changing at any time soon. Yes, there have been thousands of UFO encounters / sightings / experiences. In the 1950s there were the alleged meetings between numerous people and human-looking aliens. I am, of course, talking about the Contactees and the Space Brothers. A decade or so later, the phenomenon of “alien abductions” began to surface like a rash. Collectively, all of this demonstrates – as I see it, at least – that the UFO phenomenon is a very real one. But, here’s the important thing: yes, there is a real UFO enigma. However, that very same enigma has never shown any evidence of wanting to come among us on a worldwide situation. They talk a lot but they don’t back it up with anything at all. For example, yes there were many people who claimed contacts with the Space Brothers. But, they almost always met with people late at night, in desert locations, and where barely anyone else – the Contactees themselves aside – knew what was afoot. In other words, the Space Brothers (and the Space Sisters) were very detached from the Human Race – except, that is, until they required us. Not only that, the Space Brothers were bullying types demanding that we do this or we do that (such as get rid of our atomic weapons). Now, moving on, we can make similar parallels with the alien abduction phenomenon. For the most part, people are kidnapped against their will, their minds are placed into muddled states, and in many cases they are placed into situations akin to being drugged. And there’s not much positive about all of this. Getting probed from head to toe can’t be a good thing for anyone. And, most abductions occur late at night or in the early hours of the morning. It’s during these encounters that the aliens go to work: abductees have blood, semen, eggs, DNA and so on taken from them. And they never ask. They just take. People are usually strapped down on tables and plunged into states of fear. Then, when the aliens are done with us, they toss the abductee back to where he or she came from. What all of this tells us is that despite their longstanding connection to us, it’s always them who are calling the shots. Whether it’s warnings of a Third World War, of pollution and so on, they’re always pulling the strings according to their terms. So, with all of that in mind, I have to say that they’re also pulling those same strings when it comes to Disclosure. In other words, this isn’t a two-way situation. They are clearly in control. And, it has to be said that the control relates to Disclosure, too. Too many gullible people in Ufology hope that aliens will land, come clean to us about what or who they are, reveal their agenda, and make everything just dandy for all of us. I don’t see it like that, though. How I do see it is like this: just like the human race (sadly), these creatures are out for themselves and not us. We’re a commodity (particularly so when it comes to the matter of alien abductions); something to be used. As I see it, that situation will continue. I believe certain governments know that and, rather than tell us the grim truth that we are just things to be used, those same governments feed us nice, friendly, comfortable tales of Disclosure and how everything will be fine. But, I have a deep, dark feeling that things are far from good and won’t be fine. The scenario of the “Trojan Horse” springs to mind. mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/ufo-and-alien-encounters-disclosure-and-deception/
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Post by swamprat on May 16, 2021 17:57:11 GMT -6
An additional interview from 60 Minutes with Commander Dave Fravor and one of his rear-seaters, Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich on UAPs. After you listen to this interview, and after the commercials, you can then watch the interviews that were aired on tonight's 60 Minutes.
www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-ufo-sighting-60-minutes-2021-05-16/
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Post by auntym on May 16, 2021 21:05:02 GMT -6
in case you missed it
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Post by auntym on May 19, 2021 12:07:17 GMT -6
www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-16/UFOs regularly spotted in restricted U.S. airspace, report on the phenomena due next monthBill Whitaker reports on the regular sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, that have spurred a report due to Congress next month.May 16, 2021 by CORRESPONDENT Bill Whitaker / We have tackled many strange stories on 60 Minutes, but perhaps none like this. It's the story of the U.S. government's grudging acknowledgment of unidentified aerial phenomena— UAP—more commonly known as UFOs. After decades of public denial the Pentagon now admits there's something out there, and the U.S. Senate wants to know what it is. The intelligence committee has ordered the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense to deliver a report on the mysterious sightings by next month. Bill Whitaker: So what you are telling me is that UFOs, unidentified flying objects, are real? Lue Elizondo: Bill, I think we're beyond that already. The government has already stated for the record that they're real. I'm not telling you that. The United States government is telling you that. Luis Elizondo spent 20 years running military intelligence operations worldwide: in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Guantanamo. He hadn't given UFOs a second thought until 2008. That's when he was asked to join something at the Pentagon called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or "AATIP." Lue Elizondo: The mission of AATIP was quite simple. It was to collect and analyze information involving anomalous aerial vehicles, what I guess in the vernacular you call them UFOs. We call them UAPs. Bill Whitaker: You know how this sounds? It sounds nutty, wacky. Lue Elizondo: Look, Bill, I'm not, I'm not telling you that, that it doesn't sound wacky. What I'm telling you, it's real. The question is, what is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities? Buried away in the Pentagon, AATIP was part of a $22 million program sponsored by then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to investigate UFOs. When Elizondo took over in 2010 he focused on the national security implications of unidentified aerial phenomena documented by U.S. service members. Lue Elizondo: Imagine a technology that can do 6-to-700 g-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space. And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing. Elizondo tells us AATIP was a loose-knit mix of scientists, electro-optical engineers, avionics and intelligence experts, often working part time. They combed through data and records, and analyzed videos like this. A Navy aircrew struggles to lock onto a fast-moving object off the U.S. Atlantic Coast in 2015. Recently released images may not convince ufo skeptics, but the pentagon admits it doesn't know what in the world this is or this or this. Bill Whitaker: So what do you say to the skeptics? It's refracted light. Weather balloons. A rocket being launched. Venus. Lue Elizondo: In some cases there are simple explanations for what people are witnessing. But there are some that, that are not. We're not just simply jumping to a conclusion that's saying, "Oh, that's a UAP out there." We're going through our due diligence. Is it some sort of new type of cruise missile technology that China has developed? Is it some sort of high-altitude balloon that's conducting reconnaissance? Ultimately when you have exhausted all those what ifs and you're still left with the fact that this is in our airspace and it's real, that's when it becomes compelling, and that's when it becomes problematic. Former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves calls whatever is out there a security risk. He told us his F/A-18F squadron began seeing UAPs hovering over restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach in 2014 when they updated their jet's radar, making it possible to zero in with infrared targeting cameras. CONTINUE READING & WATCH VIDEO: www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-16/
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Post by auntym on May 19, 2021 13:48:37 GMT -6
www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-obama-offers-serious-take-on-puzzling-nature-of-navy-ufo-encounters/Watch: Obama Offers Serious Take on Puzzling Nature of Navy UFO EncountersMay 19, 2021 ByTim Binnall / www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/tim-binnall/In an intriguing turn of events, former President Barack Obama recently talked about the UFO phenomenon during an interview and, differing starkly from similar instances in the past, offered a serious assessment of the situation. The interesting exchange, which can be seen above, occurred this past Monday night when he appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden. During the segment, bandleader Reggie Watts asked him about the simmering story surrounding Navy pilots spotting unidentified aerial phenomena and, undoubtedly echoing the thoughts of so many people who have been following these latest events, how it might be connected to aliens. Responding to the extraterrestrial aspect of Watts' question, Obama initially made the obvious joke that "there's some things I just can't tell you on air." He then said that, upon taking office, he had actually asked if there was "a lab somewhere where we're keeping the alien specimens and spaceship" and he was told that was not the case. The anecdote elicited laughs from the hosts and the audience, but then the former president's demeanor changed and he said "but what is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are." Regarding these UAPs, he said, "we can't explain how they move, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so I think that people still take seriously, trying to investigate and figure out what that is." While Obama's answer to the question did not exactly provide any new insight into the phenomenon, what's noteworthy is that his response to the question was markedly different from previous media appearances wherein he largely treated it as a joke. This refreshing change in tone from the former president is in keeping with the overall seriousness which has been afforded the subject over the last few years and, one hopes, a promising sign of things to come when it comes to getting to the bottom of the mystery. MORE: www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-obama-offers-serious-take-on-puzzling-nature-of-navy-ufo-encounters/
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Post by swamprat on May 20, 2021 7:38:12 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on May 20, 2021 12:36:14 GMT -6
www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/19/ufos-are-real-and-us-needs-answers-former-military-officials-say.htmlUFOs Are 'Real,' and the US Needs Answers, Former Military Officials Say19 May 2021 Military.com | By Stephen Losey / www.military.com/author/Stephen-loseyAs the military prepares to release what it knows about unidentified aerial phenomena -- or UAPs, but better known as UFOs -- former service members and Pentagon officials are becoming increasingly vocal about what they've seen in the skies that can't be explained. In a blockbuster report Sunday on "60 Minutes," multiple military officials told reporter Bill Whitaker that the U.S. military has repeatedly observed aircraft that it can't identify. The aircraft have displayed extraordinary capabilities that have been both observed by aviators and captured on radar, video and other data. Whether their origins are extraterrestrial, or come from an adversary's advanced research laboratories, the officials say these aircraft far surpass all limitations of known technology -- and seemingly even laws of physics. Read Next: Some Air Force, Space Force Officers Can Now Opt Out of Promotions. Here's Why "Imagine a technology that can do 600 to 700 G-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space," Lue Elizondo, a former military intelligence official who was part of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, told "60 Minutes." "And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces, and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing." As officials like Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, grew increasingly concerned about the national security implications of these UAPs, no matter where they came from, they moved to inform the public. "I'm not telling you that it doesn't sound wacky," Elizondo said on "60 Minutes." "What I'm telling you, it's real. The question is, what is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?" "60 Minutes" also interviewed several Navy personnel who observed unexplainable aircraft, including F/A-18F Super Hornet pilots David Fravor and Alex Dietrich, who encountered UAPs described as flying "Tic Tacs" while deployed with the aircraft carrier Nimitz in 2004. Fravor and Dietrich were part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group training near California when they were sent to investigate "multiple anomalous aerial vehicles" over the horizon, according to "60 Minutes." The vehicles were observed descending 80,000 feet in less than a second, they said. They saw what Fravor described as a "little white Tic Tac-looking object" -- roughly the same size as his jet, but with no markings, wings or exhaust plumes -- that stopped abruptly and began purposely mimicking his moves. Dietrich told "60 Minutes" she first thought it might have been a helicopter or drone. But Fravor tried to get close to it, "and when it gets right in front of me, it just disappears. ... Like, gone." Fravor said both he and Dietrich and the two weapons systems officers in their backseats all observed the object for about five minutes. "60 Minutes" reported that Elizondo tried to keep working to uncover the story behind UAPs, even after AATIP was defunded in 2012, but he grew frustrated and resigned in 2017. But first, according to the show, he managed to get three videos of highly peculiar Navy encounters declassified. Mellon told "60 Minutes" he tried unsuccessfully to help Elizondo get the issue before the secretary of defense, and likewise grew concerned the Pentagon wasn't doing anything. So, behind the scenes, he got ahold of those declassified videos and leaked them to a reporter in 2017. The New York Times' December 2017 report on them, "On the Trail of a Secret Pentagon UFO Program," jolted the debate over UFOs and forced the Pentagon to start answering some awkward questions. "It's bizarre and unfortunate that someone like myself has to do something like that to get a national security issue like this on the agenda," Mellon told "60 Minutes." Pressure increased on the Pentagon, and Congress stepped in. The fiscal 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, passed last December as part of the omnibus COVID-19 relief bill, ordered the Pentagon to report to Congress by June what it knows about UAPs, or "anomalous aerial vehicles." Earlier this month, the Pentagon's Office of Inspector General released a short statement announcing it has started an evaluation "to determine the extent to which the DoD has taken actions regarding unidentified aerial phenomena." The Pentagon launched a Navy-led task force last August, resurrecting the defunct AATIP, to track down any encounters service members may have had with aerial objects that could pose a threat to national security. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told "60 Minutes" that getting to the bottom of these encounters is vital to the security of the U.S. "Anything that enters an airspace that's not supposed to be there is a threat," said Rubio, who pushed the intelligence community and Pentagon to inform lawmakers about what they know while he was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. But the stigma associated with investigating potential UFOs and discouragement from his fellow lawmakers can be discouraging, even for a senator, he said. "Some of my colleagues are very interested in this topic, and some kinda, you know, giggle when you bring it up," Rubio said. "But I don't think we can allow the stigma to keep us from having an answer to a very fundamental question." -- Stephen Losey can be reached at stephen.losey@military.com. Follow him on Twitter @stephenlosey.www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/19/ufos-are-real-and-us-needs-answers-former-military-officials-say.html
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Post by swamprat on May 20, 2021 19:12:00 GMT -6
What Trump, Obama and Clinton Have Said About UFOsBY DARRAGH ROCHE ON 5/19/21
There has been renewed attention on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in recent days following comments by former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (ATTIP) Luis Elizondo.
ATTIP is a Pentagon unit that studies UFOs and Elizondo told CBS News on Sunday that there is "compelling" evidence for their existence.
His remarks come just weeks before a government report on the topic is due to be published and followed a leaked video apparently showing a UFO off California.
Three recent former presidents have broached the subjects of UFOs in the past: Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, with Trump becoming the first commander-in-chief to admit to receiving a briefing on the matter.
In June 2019, Trump responded to reports that navy pilots had spotted UFOs off the eastern seaboard in 2014 and 2015 on an almost daily basis, according to New York Magazine. Trump told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that month "we're watching" for extraterrestrials.
"I want them to think whatever they think," Trump said of the pilots. "I did have one very brief meeting on it," he said. "But people are saying they're seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly."
In April 2020, Trump responded to three infrared videos released by the Pentagon that showed unidentified objects in the sky traveling at high speeds. Some service members in the videos reacted with "awe," according to CNN."I just wonder if it's real," Trump said. "That's a hell of a video."
Trump also suggested he knew more about the topic than he was saying publicly in an interview with his son Donald Trump Jr. Referring to the alleged UFO incident at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, he said: "I won't talk to you about what I know about it, but it's very interesting."
Former President Obama was more direct about UFOs in comments on Monday, though he didn't provide any information that he might have received during his years in office from 2009 to 2017."What is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are," Obama said on CBS's The Late Late Show with James Corden.
"We can't explain how they move, their trajectory," he said. "They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so I think that people still take it seriously, trying to investigate and figure out what that is."
Former President Clinton took a sincere interest in UFOs during his presidency from 1993 to 2001. Clinton genuinely wanted to know what the U.S. government knew about UFOs, according to the memoirs of his associate attorney general Webster Hubbell.
During a visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1996, Clinton publicly answered a letter from a child named Ryan about Roswell.
"No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947," he said, but added: "and Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know."
Clinton told Jimmy Kimmel in 2014 that he had aides search Area 51 "to make sure there was no alien down there," according to The Daily Beast. He also said he would have told the public if he found anything.
"If we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised," Clinton said. "I just hope it's not like Independence Day."
Newsweek has asked former Presidents Clinton, Obama and Trump for comment updates.
www.newsweek.com/what-trump-obama-clinton-have-said-about-ufos-1592844
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Post by auntym on May 22, 2021 12:17:36 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2021/05/hell-freezes-over-60-minutes-does-ufos.htmlWednesday, May 19, 2021 Hell Freezes Over: "60 Minutes" Does UFOsBy Robert Barrow / robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2021/05/hell-freezes-over-60-minutes-does-ufos.htmlThe UFO Chronicles 5-19-21 Those among us who have staked their reputations and sometimes longevity on trying to make others aware that UFOs are a real mystery may have mouths agape today after CBS-TV's 60 Minutes went whole-hog UFO Sunday evening. While, yes, the subject was minimally touched upon when Robert Bigelow was interviewed some time back, this is the first opportunity the hard-hitting news show ever took over the decades to explore and emphasize the seriousness of the UFO (or UAP, what's your pleasure?) issue. With millions of viewers still unfamiliar with the facts about UFO observations receiving a top-notch introduction to the subject on a commercial TV network, maybe those of us who endured years of catcalls from the uninitiated can finally shed adoring terms showered upon us -- you know the words, crackpot, lunatic, whack job, flim-flammers, etc. Did anything in the report make me want to shout at the TV screen? Yes. I continue to marvel at experienced military personnel and legislators who fret that this enigma in the sky could be Russian or Chinese weapons? Whaaa...? Do they really not care or understand that these air / sea / land shows have been tracked visually and on radar since the 1940s, and observed by just plain folk way before that? Forget Einstein. I think Charles Fort was closer to the truth. Perhaps property we are and property we shall always be. All Great Discoveries Quick, get me a time machine so we can bring back from the departed Coral and Jim Lorenzen, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Richard Hall, Frank Edwards, Hal Starr and a literal plethora of original UFO researchers and investigators whose early work and pleas for understanding held far more value than a zillion stupid and regressive words from uninformed skeptics and professional debunkers. Oh, I've no doubt whatsoever that those long-deceased veterans appreciative of real UFO science and legitimate UFO journalism would enthusiastically return just long enough to watch this unexpectedly welcome 60 Minutes report, affirming in spades that their efforts were important. In TV terms, the account is big stuff for another reason. Those of you old enough to remember will recall when CBS presented its disastrous "documentary," entitled "UFO: Friend, Foe or Fantasy" in the 1960s, hosted by Walter Cronkite, which turned out to be nothing more than a pathetic hit piece for truth about the UFO phenomenon (and the government "helped," as we recall). A few years later, on December 4, 1976 I sat before the weekend TV screen, shaking my head over the nonsense spoon-fed by CBS-TV in a "Young People's Special" entitled, "Flying Saucers From Outer Space: What's it All About?" Maybe, one hopes, CBS and other network news divisions have seen the light(s) at last, and will proceed with respectable journalism accordingly. ABC-TV can take a few hints from CBS as well, as its occasional hour-long UFO-related presentations have proven dreadful. 60 Minutes often tends to turn a societal key, and if changes regarding UFO publicity and facts are to expand, this report's potential effects on public attitudes certainly can't be overlooked. www.theufochronicles.com/2021/05/hell-freezes-over-60-minutes-does-ufos.html
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Post by auntym on May 23, 2021 12:45:33 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/former-senator-harry-reid-and-current-senator-martin-heinrich-weigh-in-on-ufos/Former Senator Harry Reid and Current Senator Martin Heinrich Weigh in on UFOsby Paul Seaburn / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/paulseaburn/May 24, 2021 You know something is getting popular with the American public when politicians who follow the prevailing winds suddenly turn themselves in that direction and claim they’ve been pointing that way long before the breeze began. That seems to be the case with UFOs as more lawmakers and former lawmakers are actually beating reporters to the question and bringing up the topic themselves. Is this classic political jumping on the bandwagon before it leaves you behind – even if you’re not sure where it’s going? This week we have a new U.S. senator joining the discussion and the only one who rightly deserves to brag he was there before the breeze takes a preliminary victory lap, expounds on how we got to this point in the first place and reminds us why it’s important. “I don’t know what it is, but any time you have legitimate pilots describing something that doesn’t seem to conform to the laws of physics that govern aviation and is in US airspace, I think It’s something we need to get to the bottom of.” Just days after former president Barack Obama revealed on a late night talk show (the new platform for UFO disclosure) that UFOs are real, New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich (D) tells TMZ (the previous preferred platform for UFO disclosure) shared his belief that the current UFO sightings defy the laws of physics and that’s a concern. Then comes the bombshell: “If there is a foreign government that had these kinds of capabilities, I think we would see other indications of advanced technology. I can’t imagine that what has been described or shown in some of the videos belongs to any government that I’m aware of.” Excellent observation, Senator Heinrich! (Watch the interview here.) Human nature is such that we can’t keep anything big quiet for long, and the suspected foreign powers being finger-pointed for the current spate of UFOs (China and Russia) don’t seem to be making or hinting at any other technical advances that defy the laws of physics. He also can’t imagine how a human could survive in these crafts and says aliens would be a much bigger threat than foreign powers. Heinrich is on the Senate Intelligence Committee and says, “we should get to the bottom of this.” OK, do it, Senator Heinrich! “One day in 1996, I received a call from George Knapp, an investigative reporter at KLAS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas, and a friend of mine. “Harry,” he said, “there’s something you have to attend.” He invited me to an upcoming conference that would focus on what the U.S. government generally refers to as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” but what most other people simply call U.F.O.s, a subject Mr. Knapp had, and still has, a particular interest in.” Meanwhile, former Nevada Senator Harry Reid (D) takes us back to the beginning in The New York Times (the leading legitimate media source for UFO Info), giving due credit to UFO investigator George Knapp. That initial conversation led to more with senatorial believers (former astronaut and senator John Glenn) and warnings from his staff to avoid the subject – warnings Reid thankfully ignore. “In 2007, while serving as Senate majority leader, I worked with Senators Ted Stevens, a Republican from Alaska, and Daniel Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii, to secure $22 million in funding for what would become known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. This clandestine Pentagon operation investigated reports of U.F.O.s and other related phenomena, including U.F.O. encounters involving American military personnel. Some videos and photographs documenting these astonishing encounters have since been made public, reigniting America’s longtime fascination with U.F.O.s.” Reid gives examples of why some data must remain classified for national security reasons, especially concerning Area 51, then turns around and states that muzzling pilots – either by shame or by threats – could also harm our national security. He believes there is “information uncovered by the government’s covert investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena that can be disclosed to the public without harming our national security,” but he fears the much anticipated big reveal that is the promised comprehensive government report requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the military’s encounters with U.F.O.s. due in June may be delayed. Reid’s bottom line is that there’s much we don’t know or understand – especially about whether the UFOs are foreign, alien, generated by pilots’ vision being distorted, or something else. He concludes with the kind of advice that should apply to many things these days, not just UFOs. “Ultimately, the U.F.O. debate can be broken down into a sincere belief in science versus a sincere belief in extraterrestrials. I side with science. Let me be clear: I have never intended to prove that life beyond Earth exists. But if science proves that it does, I have no problem with that. Because the more I learn, the more I realize that there’s still so much I don’t know.” Thank you, Harry Reid and Martin Heinrich. Who’s next? mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/former-senator-harry-reid-and-current-senator-martin-heinrich-weigh-in-on-ufos/
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Post by swamprat on May 23, 2021 17:14:54 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on May 29, 2021 20:15:31 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on May 29, 2021 20:38:57 GMT -6
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Post by jcurio on May 30, 2021 6:00:38 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/ufo-and-alien-encounters-disclosure-and-deception/UFO and Alien Encounters: Disclosure and Deceptionby Nick Redfern / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/nredfern/May 16, 2021 My previous article was on the subject of why I don’t think UFO disclosure will surface. My reason for thinking that is because time and time again – as history has shown – Disclosure has always stalled (see that same previous article). There is, however, another reason why I doubt that Disclosure is on the horizon. The fact is that the UFO enigma is extremely detached from us, except for when they want us. Or need us. And I don’t see that changing at any time soon. Yes, there have been thousands of UFO encounters / sightings / experiences. In the 1950s there were the alleged meetings between numerous people and human-looking aliens. I am, of course, talking about the Contactees and the Space Brothers. A decade or so later, the phenomenon of “alien abductions” began to surface like a rash. Collectively, all of this demonstrates – as I see it, at least – that the UFO phenomenon is a very real one. But, here’s the important thing: yes, there is a real UFO enigma. However, that very same enigma has never shown any evidence of wanting to come among us on a worldwide situation. They talk a lot but they don’t back it up with anything at all. For example, yes there were many people who claimed contacts with the Space Brothers. But, they almost always met with people late at night, in desert locations, and where barely anyone else – the Contactees themselves aside – knew what was afoot. In other words, the Space Brothers (and the Space Sisters) were very detached from the Human Race – except, that is, until they required us. Not only that, the Space Brothers were bullying types demanding that we do this or we do that (such as get rid of our atomic weapons). Now, moving on, we can make similar parallels with the alien abduction phenomenon. For the most part, people are kidnapped against their will, their minds are placed into muddled states, and in many cases they are placed into situations akin to being drugged. And there’s not much positive about all of this. Getting probed from head to toe can’t be a good thing for anyone. And, most abductions occur late at night or in the early hours of the morning. It’s during these encounters that the aliens go to work: abductees have blood, semen, eggs, DNA and so on taken from them. And they never ask. They just take. People are usually strapped down on tables and plunged into states of fear. Then, when the aliens are done with us, they toss the abductee back to where he or she came from. What all of this tells us is that despite their longstanding connection to us, it’s always them who are calling the shots. Whether it’s warnings of a Third World War, of pollution and so on, they’re always pulling the strings according to their terms. So, with all of that in mind, I have to say that they’re also pulling those same strings when it comes to Disclosure. In other words, this isn’t a two-way situation. They are clearly in control. And, it has to be said that the control relates to Disclosure, too. Too many gullible people in Ufology hope that aliens will land, come clean to us about what or who they are, reveal their agenda, and make everything just dandy for all of us. I don’t see it like that, though. How I do see it is like this: just like the human race (sadly), these creatures are out for themselves and not us. We’re a commodity (particularly so when it comes to the matter of alien abductions); something to be used. As I see it, that situation will continue. I believe certain governments know that and, rather than tell us the grim truth that we are just things to be used, those same governments feed us nice, friendly, comfortable tales of Disclosure and how everything will be fine. But, I have a deep, dark feeling that things are far from good and won’t be fine. The scenario of the “Trojan Horse” springs to mind. mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/ufo-and-alien-encounters-disclosure-and-deception/ Fortunately, some of us “experiencers” have a chance at everything being fine. With constant contact, some of the “little scientists” have grown to like us. We are “pets”. Like a “pet”, I am hoping that “they” understand that i have my own likes and dislikes, and that I have inclinations to disobey. 🤪🙄
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Post by auntym on May 31, 2021 23:29:58 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jun 1, 2021 13:18:44 GMT -6
New Video Raises More UFO Questions Ahead of Pentagon Report Release
May 28, 2021
For the first time, the world is getting a glimpse at leaked U.S. military radar readings that show more than a dozen objects swarming a Navy warship off the coast of California, and it comes as a deadline approaches for the Pentagon to tell Congress what it knows about UFOs. NBC’s Gadi Schwartz reports for TODAY.»
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Post by auntym on Jun 1, 2021 20:18:06 GMT -6
lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/tickticktickticktick-Tickticktickticktick ...by Billy Cox / lifeinjonestown.substack.com/people/27376895-billy-coxThe vibe around the UFO coverage feels like a spin on an old WWII submarine movie. The dorsal fins of a newly invigorated news media make beelines for the oil slick on the surface, and fling depth charges with increasing accuracy. The target below is getting pounded by fresh leaks spewing through impact fissures in the hull, and the drama tightens with each new official image and video the deep coughs up. Meanwhile, back in Washington, top-level public servants are finally being held to account, but they do little more than fire blanks. Former President Obama manages to restate the obvious – “… there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are” – but ventures nothing more. For White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, it’s Keep Calm and Carry On: “We take reports of incursions into our airspace by any aircraft, identified or unidentified, very seriously and investigate each one.” A presidential press conference ends with a reporter asking the Commander in Chief to weigh in on Obama’s UFO ad lib. Joe Biden exits the stage with the best he can do: “I would ask him again. Thank you.” Press corps laughter gives him a pass. Over the past seven decades, 13 presidents have dodged the UFO bullet, but the music has finally stopped. Sorry, Joe, you just got caught without the chair. And the clock is running. An unclassified status report on UFOs, the product of a forced collaboration between the Pentagon and the Director of National Intelligence thanks to a spending-bill mandate, could land in Congress’ court any day now. There are rumored concerns about inter-agency stonewalling and obfuscation. The Defense Department’s Inspector General is suspicious; on May 3, its office issued a terse and vaguely worded memo demanding direct contact names from 18 sets of military and intelligence entities. Oh, to be a fly on the wall inside those SCIFs. But a couple of researchers with the nonprofit Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) are expecting more meh. That’s because there’s a massive hole in the IG’s distribution-list summons – the Department of Homeland Security was not ordered to cooperate. This is a huge deal because DHS commands sprawling infrastructure that oversees U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. And CBP is sitting on arguably the most astonishing UFO sequence in federal custody. Although the footage has been in the public domain since 2015, CBP bureaucrats refuse to relinquish the unedited raw video by clinging to the fiction that national security is at stake. For newcomers to the UFO issue, the Aguadilla riddle is a doozy, visually speaking. The event went down on 4/28/13, when an agency surveillance plane working the night skies over coastal Puerto Rico videotaped an object without a transponder for nearly four minutes as it tumbled into restricted airspace over a commercial airport. Targeting the estimated 5-foot wide blip using infrared optics, the crew of the DHC-8 watched as the bogey sliced into the Caribbean surf at about 100 mph and stirred barely a ripple. The heat-seeking camera locks onto the UAP as – zipping along at an average speed of 82 mph – it alternately submerges, breaks the surface, dips underwater again, and reemerges for the last time by dividing into two flying objects of equal size before disappearing. The baffled camera operator pans from side to side, scanning for what is no longer there. “60 Minutes wanted to show the video, but they wanted to be able to verify the government released it,” says SCU executive board member Robert Powell. “But it wasn’t an official government release.” What the raw footage contains, according to fellow SCU board member Morgan Beall, is real-time voice-over crew reaction, most likely of the sort that made the Navy-authenticated GoFast and Gimbal videos so gripping and visceral. But the Aguadilla chatter was scrubbed, says Beall, because the officer who passed him the second-generation film needed to protect the identities of the crew. And the crew wanted it out there because they weren’t getting any answers from the apparently disinterested chain of command. Upper management allegedly told them to shop it over to the Air Force. The USAF allegedly passed the buck to a civilian UFO contact number. Beall, at the time, was with the Mutual UFO Network. Working with embedded metadata, six researchers who eventually formed SCU examined all 7,027 individual frames of the Aguadilla UFO. Its erratic speed ranged from 40 to 120 mph, and just before the object split in two moments prior to exiting the water for the final time, it doubled in size. Although SCU obtained FAA radar records, its 162-page report was hamstrung by blocked access to far more sophisticated military radar, installed locally at Rafael Hernandez Airport. Furthermore, formal requests for control tower logs were snubbed because the airport is managed by a private concern, Robinson Aviation, exempt from FOIA laws. CBP contends the release of the UFO video would “essentially provide bad actors with a map of where to look for CBP in the sky during smuggling operations.” Powell, however, submits at least three CBP smuggler-tracking videos, approved for commercial television, that include the same sort of alleged security-compromising metadata. “Homeland Security oversees a ton of law enforcement and national security air fields and towers, and they’re part of annaD,” adds Beall. “They oversee radar systems now that are not run by the FAA. So why wouldn’t (Congress) involve Homeland Security in its request, especially since so many airport records are in the hands of private contractors? If they were on the list, they’d have to comply.” Given its foundational analysis of events like the Tic Tac incident, alongside Powell’s research into the perhaps even more troubling Stephenville encounter in 2008, SCU is well positioned to become a vital partner in any UAP/UFO research going forward. Its multi-disciplinary team – 114 members at last glance, with collective expertise including chemistry, astronomy, biology and physics – counts 28 percent with PhDs, and more than half hold advanced degrees. Many will convene for SCU’s “Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Conference” this weekend, headlined by Hal Puthoff, a consultant to the Pentagon’s controversial Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. “We’re averaging three to four new members a week, and we’re not looking for them,” says Powell. “They’re coming to us.” With or without DHS cooperation, the momentum for transparency is beginning to look irreversible. With or without big reveals from the imminent DoD/DNI audit, human curiosity is abandoning the sidelines and leaving the closet. Neither the obstructionists nor the sunshine advocates have any idea where this is going, or how it will end. Assuming it will end. But this is more than an idea, and its time has come. Damn the torpedoes. lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/tickticktickticktick-
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Post by swamprat on Jun 2, 2021 13:58:10 GMT -6
Posted on Facebook by Grant Cameron
June 2, 2021 President Johnson's UFO Task Force and the Aussie teacher that was threatened:
In 1966 there was a major UFO sighting at the Westall school in Australia. At least 200 students were witnesses. One of the teachers who was involved was science teacher Andrew Greenwood was threatened in two weeks later by Aussie military to keep quiet. He then states that one year later he is approached by UFO researcher Dr. James McDonald who wanted to hear his story. He reported McDonald was working on a UFO study for President Lyndon Johnson.
I reported on this 8-man 9-month study in an earlier podcast. In that podcast I read the full conclusion on UFOs given to the President. anchor.fm/.../The-President-Johnson-Eyes-Only-UFO...
This new testimony backing the Johnson Study can be found in a documentary that just was broadcast in Australia. The documentary was produced by prominent journalist Ross Coulthart and is called IN PLAIN SIGHT. It is an investigation into the mystery of UFOs-UAPs. The Broadcast was Sunday 30 May 2021 on the Australian Seven Television Network's Spotlight program.
The documentary is part of a bigger book project by Coulthart. The book is called "In Plain Sight: An investigation into UFOs and impossible Science." Coulthart interviewed many high level government and military people to put together his estimate of the situation.
www.booktopia.com.au/in.../book/9781460759066.html
anchor.fm/.../President-Johnsons-UFO-Task-Force...
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Post by swamprat on Jun 3, 2021 14:30:17 GMT -6
For those who don't know.....
www.dni.gov/index.php
The DNI serves as the head of the Intelligence Community. The U.S. Intelligence Community is a coalition of 17 agencies and organizations, including the ODNI, within the Executive Branch that work both independently and collaboratively to gather and analyze the intelligence necessary to conduct foreign relations and national security activities.
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Post by swamprat on Jun 4, 2021 11:13:17 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jun 4, 2021 22:09:46 GMT -6
thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/556847-harry-reid-on-ufo-research-glad-i-blew-the-hornHarry Reid on UFO research: 'Glad I blew the horn'BY LEXI LONAS / thehill.com/author/lexi-lonas 06/04/21 © Greg Nash Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) commented on a report about unidentified flying objects set to be released later this month, saying he is “glad I blew the horn” on it. The U.S. government is set to release a report to Congress later this month about unidentified aerial phenomenon. The report, to be released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the secretary of Defense, was required as part of a provision included in a coronavirus stimulus package signed into law by former President Trump last year. Two former Navy pilots explained their sightings over the Pacific Ocean to CBS News in May. The former Senate leader, Reid, was one of the first lawmakers to call for an investigation into UFOs and is responsible for one of the first investigations into them in 2007. “I’m glad I blew the horn,” Reid told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I expect they are going to be fairly vague with what they come up with,” Reid said of the anticipated report. “We don’t have enough information now to be drawing conclusions.” Officials briefed on the report told The New York Times that there is no evidence the UFOs are alien spacecraft, but that the 120 sightings of UFOs over the past 20 years were not U.S. aircraft or technology. The determination effectively rules out any secret government operations conducted by the American government. There are concerns that the objects could be from Russia and China, with the possibility the countries are experimenting with hypersonic technology. “The U.S. government should not stop investigations now,” Reid said. “Are they a threat to national security? What’s the nature of the technology, and can the United States duplicate it?” Former President Obama commented on the subject in May, saying there are UFOs that “did not have an easily explainable pattern. "What is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there are, there's footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory," Obama said. "They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is." thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/556847-harry-reid-on-ufo-research-glad-i-blew-the-horn
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Post by auntym on Jun 6, 2021 12:08:05 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opinion/aliens-ufos-report.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=curOPINION by MAUREEN DOWD / www.nytimes.com/by/maureen-dowdE.T., Phone Me!June 5, 2021 WASHINGTON — There are plenty of unexplained phenomena here on Earth. What kind of mentality does it take for Mike Pence to dip his toe in the 2024 presidential waters while abasing himself before the president who seemed content to have him hanged? Why are Donald Trump and Republicans so desperate to turn Anthony Fauci, one of the good guys of the pandemic, into one of the bad guys? Does Barack Obama not hear how condescending he sounds when he goes on a media tour and portrays the Biden administration, which is off to a bigger and leftier start, as “finishing the job”? Who on Earth wanted a “Friends” reunion, and why in heaven’s name doesn’t anyone from the Biden White House return my calls? We must consider the terrestrials in our midst who seem very extraterrestrial. Mitch McConnell and Marjorie Taylor Greene are in no strict sense earthlings. And yet not since Michael Rennie’s Klaatu and his all-powerful robot, Gort, landed their flying saucer on the Mall in the 1951 movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” has the capital been so riveted by the possibility of aliens hovering. Carbon-based life-forms are eagerly awaiting a report by intelligence officials about aerial phenomena lighting up the skies in recent years, mysterious objects witnessed and recorded by Navy pilots. After reading The New York Times story on what the report will say, Luis Elizondo, who once ran the Pentagon’s secret program on U.F.O.s, tweeted, “If The New York Times reporting is accurate, the objects being witnessed by pilots around the world are far more advanced than any earthly technologies known to our intelligence services.” Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that a government that couldn’t get it together to prevent a primitive mob from attacking the seat of government on Jan. 6 can’t figure out a series of close encounters. Could it be that we are not the center of the universe? The truth, if it’s out there, certainly isn’t in the report. As Julian Barnes and Helene Cooper wrote in The Times, intelligence officials said they have found no evidence that the mysterious sightings are alien spacecraft. But they have also found no evidence that they’re not. “The report determines that a vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. government technology, the officials said,” according to The Times. “That determination would appear to eliminate the possibility that Navy pilots who reported seeing unexplained aircraft might have encountered programs the government meant to keep secret.” Intelligence and military officials were worried that China or Russia could be engaging in hypersonic chicanery. And since the U.S. has lied about stealth technology in the past, we can’t exclude the possibility that our government is messing with us. The Navy pilots who saw the aerial vehicles were spooked, The Times said, reporting that “the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes, but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.” Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, told The Times, “These things would be out there all day” at such high speeds that “12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.” What has it come to that the only thing we can all agree on in Washington is something that used to be the definition of loony? Unlike Jimmy Carter, who claimed to have seen a U.F.O. in Georgia in 1969, former Presidents Obama and Trump have no firsthand experience. However, they are open to the possibility. “My entire politics is premised on the fact that we are these tiny organisms on this little speck floating in the middle of space,” the man christened Spock told Ezra Klein. Trump recently told Dan Bongino, “I’m not such a believer, but some people are. So I don’t want to hurt their dreams or their fears.” Earth to Donald: After five years of stoking fear and hurting dreams, it’s a little late. Some argue that, if it were aliens, they would have the technology to buzz our planes without being detected. One Redditor, SentientHotdogWater, disagrees: “If we flew drones over a wildlife sanctuary to observe monkeys we wouldn’t identify ourselves to the monkeys, but at the same time we wouldn’t really be too concerned if the monkeys saw one of the drones.” In sci-fi movies, aliens are often concerned with three things: they want to mate with us, eat us or warn us. In “Species” and “Dude, Where’s My Car?” the aliens take the form of femme fatales. In the “Twilight Zone” classic “To Serve Man,” aliens professing peace present officials with a big book titled “To Serve Man.” But then it turns out, after they set up a flight to their planet, that “To Serve Man” is actually a cookbook. In “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” the alien gives earthlings an ultimatum: Give up your bellicose ways or “Earth will be reduced to a burned-out cinder.” We can only speculate what aliens want from us, if they’re getting closer and closer to landing. They may want to learn why Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema seem to have so much power they don’t deserve. Or maybe they’re alarmed to hear that Donald Trump is heading back to the Oval in August. I checked with one of our true living experts, David Duchovny of “The X-Files,” to see how it will play out. “I know nothing ,” he emailed back with a wink. If the aliens are watching and haven’t exterminated us yet, perhaps they are willing to step in and lend a hand. I say, aliens, show yourself. Beam down! Time to serve man! www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opinion/aliens-ufos-report.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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Post by auntym on Jun 6, 2021 13:14:10 GMT -6
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/05/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-ufos/Opinion: Why aren’t we talking more about UFOs?by Megan McArdle / The Washington Post / www.washingtonpost.com/people/megan-mcardle/6-5-2021 My Twitter feed is full of the things that Twitter feeds are always full of these days. With the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, lots of people are mourning the loss of lives and basic democratic freedoms amid the ongoing Chinese government repression of this history. Meanwhile, Donald Trump apparently believes that he is going to be reinstated to the presidency come August; people are laughing at this risible notion, but it is also a bit scary, and people are worrying, too. At least he can’t encourage more mayhem by posting on Facebook until at least 2023. In other news, the May jobs report renewed argument over whether making unemployment benefits pay more than working is a good idea when we’re trying to get the economy restarted. The origins of covid-19 are also a hot topic, thanks to a nearly 12,000-word Vanity Fair piece. These are all major, important stories, stories that lives and futures depend upon. And yet they’re almost irrelevant compared to the question that isn’t anywhere in my Twitter feed right now: Are we being watched by alien technology? We are now getting previews of the latest government investigation into that question, a declassified version of which is scheduled to be released soon. Sifting through scores of incidents of UFOs that seemed to move in ways that exceed current technology, the investigators reportedly found no evidence that they were looking at extraterrestrial technology — but also no way to rule it out. Apparently, all they could say for sure was that most of the reported sightings did not involve involve secret U.S. government advanced technology. Which leaves three possibilities. First, these could be some sort of optical illusions that made normal objects look like physics-defying technology too advanced for any known human civilization. Second, another country — likely Russia or China — has developed some unknown technology, potentially leaving the United States disastrously far behind our strategic rivals. Or, third, it’s the little green men — though, of course, they might be neither green nor little. These are all major, important stories, stories that lives and futures depend upon. And yet they’re almost irrelevant compared to the question that isn’t anywhere in my Twitter feed right now: Are we being watched by alien technology? We are now getting previews of the latest government investigation into that question, a declassified version of which is scheduled to be released soon. Sifting through scores of incidents of UFOs that seemed to move in ways that exceed current technology, the investigators reportedly found no evidence that they were looking at extraterrestrial technology — but also no way to rule it out. Apparently, all they could say for sure was that most of the reported sightings did not involve involve secret U.S. government advanced technology. Which leaves three possibilities. First, these could be some sort of optical illusions that made normal objects look like physics-defying technology too advanced for any known human civilization. Second, another country — likely Russia or China — has developed some unknown technology, potentially leaving the United States disastrously far behind our strategic rivals. Or, third, it’s the little green men — though, of course, they might be neither green nor little. The first possibility is the status quo, and we know what it looks like, so leave it aside for the nonce. The second possibility is bad for both the United States and the world, given how repressive those governments are. But even that worst-case scenario — a strategic rival getting some hyper-potent new military technology — is a comprehensible kind of bad. We understand how other humans think; that whatever bad ends they might seek, they would not will the death of our entire species. Aliens might. They could also, of course, have benevolent intentions. Or they might not be interested in us at all; perhaps we don’t even look like the alien definition of “intelligent life” — if, that is, the aliens have definitions. Or language. Whether we’re being visited, and what they might be up to, is the most important question of anyone’s lifetime, because, if so, everything that currently obsesses us, including the pandemic, will retreat to a historical footnote. It might well be the most important question for our species since Homo erectus debated whether to play with fire. So I’ve been surprised to find that the story of unexplained sightings, which has now been percolating for years, has been mostly a subplot to more ordinary human politics and folly. It has attracted intense interest from people who debate whether to organize their science fiction collection alphabetically or by subgenre. But for everyone else, it seems to be mostly fodder for jokes. In one sense this is perfectly rational; after all, we can’t reliably guess at what aliens might want from us, so if they really are visiting Earth, all we can do is wait to see whether they show up in force with a death ray or an ultra-advanced physics textbook. Why debate the unknowable? Yet my Twitter feed is full of people arguing about things they don’t understand (well, if at all) and worrying about things they probably can’t change, like the human rights record of the Chinese government. Why is this particular unknowable getting such short shrift? One possibility is that UFOs have a social status problem; historically, they are associated with cranks or, well, people who debate whether to organize their science fiction collection alphabetically or by subgenre. Thus, most other people reflexively refuse to take the topic seriously. But the third option is that we understand at some level that aliens would be a Very Big Deal — and that most of the possibilities for alien contact are pretty unpleasant. Sure, one would rather be judged “cute but helpless” than “too boring to care about,” and “boring” is preferable to being deemed “lunch.” But historically, low-technology groups have almost universally fared badly when coming into contact with higher-technology cultures, even when that contact was made with the best of intentions. Perhaps the aliens, if they exist, are advanced enough to have solved that problem. But the alternative is so horrible that I suspect for many of us, it simply doesn’t bear thinking about. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/05/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-ufos/
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Post by auntym on Jun 11, 2021 17:05:38 GMT -6
Luis Elizondo, Former Director, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (Full Stream: 6/8)
Washington Post Live
There is a bipartisan push in Congress to find out once and for all: Are we alone? It isn’t a philosophical query, but a demand to disclose any information the U.S. government has been gathering on unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP), also popularly known as UFOs. Last December, as part of the omnibus spending and coronavirus-relief package, Congress stipulated a report conducted by multiple agencies must be handed over this month with detailed analysis of UAP sightings by U.S. military members. Luis “Lue” Elizondo is the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), an unpublicized U.S. government program created in 2007 committed to the investigation of UAPs. Elizondo joins Jacqueline Alemany, author of the “Power Up” newsletter and congressional correspondent, on Tuesday, June 8 at 3:30pm ET. Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage.
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Post by swamprat on Jun 14, 2021 13:46:11 GMT -6
The Pentagon Report 180 Days - Deny, Rinse, Repeat Absolutely explosive! Will the Pentagon finally tell us something new about UFOs? It doesn't look that way. In fact, it seems to be a reworking of 70 year old denials. Join Ron James and an all-star lineup in the most important 15 minute video you'll ever watch on the subject. We are watching history repeat itself. Again.
Ron James lays it out with the help of exclusive video from Louis Elizondo, Mike Bara, Steve Bassett, Richard Dolan, Tom Delonge, Linda Moulton Howe, and Col. John Alexander!
Watch video here: mufontelevision.com/spacetime/
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Post by swamprat on Jun 17, 2021 19:32:51 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jun 19, 2021 20:08:19 GMT -6
www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/truth-embargo-ufos-are-suddenly-all-talk-washington-n1270560'Truth embargo': UFOs are suddenly all the talk in WashingtonAfter 75 years of taboo and ridicule, serious people can finally discuss the mysterious flying objects, and even skeptics say that's a good thing.June 13, 2021 By Alex Seitz-Wald / www.nbcnews.com/author/alex-seitz-wald-ncpn385646WASHINGTON — Stephen Bassett and Mick West don’t agree on much. Bassett has devoted much of his adult life to proving UFOs are helmed by aliens, and West has devoted much of his to proving they are not. But they both agree on one thing: It’s good that, after nearly 75 years of taboo and ridicule going back to Roswell, New Mexico, serious people are finally talking seriously about the unidentified flying objects people see in the skies. “If you look at the level of public interest, then I think it becomes important to actually look into these things,” said West, a former video game programmer turned UFO debunker. “Right now, there is a lot of suspicion that the government is hiding evidence of UFOs, which is quite understandable because there's this wall of secrecy. It leads to suspicion and distrust of the government, which, as we’ve seen, can be quite dangerous.” Later this month, the Pentagon is expected to deliver a report to Congress from a task force it established last year to collect information about what officials now call "unexplained aerial phenomena," or UAPs, from across the government after pilots came forward with captivating videos that appear to show objects moving in ways that defy known laws of physics. While those who dabble in the unknowns of outer space are hoping for alien evidence, many others in government hope the report will settle whether the objects might be spy operations from neighbors on Earth, like the Chinese or Russians. The highly anticipated report is expected to settle little, finding no evidence of extraterrestrial activity while not ruling it out either, according to officials, but it will jumpstart a long-suppressed conversation and open new possibilities for research and discovery and perhaps defense contracts. “If you step back and look at the larger context of how we've learned stuff about the larger nature of reality, some of it does come from studying things that might seem ridiculous or unbelievable,” Caleb Scharf, an astronomer who runs the Astrobiology Center at Columbia University. Suddenly, senators and scientists, the Pentagon and presidents, former CIA directors and NASA officials, Wall Street executives and Silicon Valley investors are starting to talk openly about an issue that would previously be discussed only in whispers, if at all. “What is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are," former President Barack Obama told late-night TV host James Corden. The omertà has been broken thanks to a new generation of more professional activists with more compelling evidence, a few key allies in government and the lack of compelling national security justification for maintaining the official silence, which has failed to tamp down interest in UFOs. In a deeply polarized country where conspiracy theories have ripped apart American politics, belief in a UFO coverup seems relatively quaint and apolitical. West pointed to models from other countries like Argentina, where an official government agency investigates sightings and publishes its findings, the overwhelming majority of which are traced to unusual weather, human objects like planes or optical effects. “This is something that we could do here,” West said. “But right now we're left with people like me, who are just enthusiasts.” John Podesta, a Democratic poobah who has held top jobs in several White Houses, has called on President Joe Biden’s White House to establish a new dedicated office in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, which would help get the issue out of the shadows of the military and intelligence community. Podesta, who has harbored an interest in UFOs since at least his days as Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, recently told Politico, “It was kind of career-ending to basically talk about this subject. That has clearly switched, and that's a good thing.” Believers are unsurprisingly thrilled by the culture shift. “The ‘truth embargo’ is coming to an end now,” said Bassett, the executive director of Paradigm Research Group and the only registered lobbyist in Washington dedicated to UFO disclosure. “I am elated to finally see this movement achieving its moment.” Bassett is convinced the government is covering up proof of extraterrestrial life and that everything happening now is elaborate political theater to make that information public in the least disruptive way possible — a view, of course, not supported by evidence or most experts. “This is the most profound event in human history that's about to be taking place,” he said. 'Truth embargo' Interest in UFOs waxes and wanes in American culture, but millions have questions and about one-third of Americans think we have been visited by alien spacecraft, according to Gallup. But those questions have been met with silence or laughter from authorities and the academy, leaving a vacuum that has been filled by conspiracy theorists, hoaxsters and amateur investigators. West, the skeptic, thinks the recent videos that kicked off the latest UFO craze, including three published by the New York Times and CBS’ “60 Minutes,” can be explained by optical camera effects. But he would like to see the U.S. government thoroughly investigate and explain UFOs. The government has examined UFOs in the past but often in secret or narrow ways, and the current Pentagon task force is thought to be relatively limited in its mission and resources. WATCH VIDEO: www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/truth-embargo-ufos-are-suddenly-all-talk-washington-n1270560
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Post by auntym on Jun 25, 2021 17:00:48 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/06/pentagon-uap-ufo-report-released/Pentagon UAP/UFO Report Released!by Paul Seaburn / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/paulseaburn/June 26, 2021 “This preliminary report is provided by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in response to the provision in Senate Report 116-233, accompanying the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, that the DNI, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF), is to submit an intelligence assessment of the threat posed by unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and the progress the Department of Defense Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) has made in understanding this threat. This report provides an overview for policymakers of the challenges associated with characterizing the potential threat posed by UAP while also providing a means to develop relevant processes, policies, technologies, and training for the U.S. military and other U.S. Government (USG) personnel if and when they encounter UAP, so as to enhance the Intelligence Community’s (IC) ability to understand the threat. The Director, UAPTF, is the accountable official for ensuring the timely collection and consolidation of data on UAP. The dataset described in this report is currently limited primarily to U.S. Government reporting of incidents occurring from November 2004 to March 2021. Data continues to be collected and analyzed.” That is the opening to the long-awaited “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” report from the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It sounds promising … until you notice there are only nine pages, with the cover sheet being one and the above intro being another. That leave seven pages to release the juicy details of 144 instances of UAPs between November 2004 to March 2021 that were investigated by the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. Doing the math, that means about 20 UAPs per page. Does it sound like this writer is preparing you to be disappointed? “The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP.” The first line of the Executive Summary let’s you know that there was not much data in the UAP reports to investigate, indicating either a cover-up or military personnel are still reluctant to talk about things they can’t explain. The report admits a few of the UAPs exhibited unusual flight characteristics that “could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis.” That’s despite the fact that most of the 144 reported cases of UAPs came in the last two years after the US Navy put in place a standardized reporting mechanism. Even with that, 143 cases “lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations.” The best they could do is define five generic categories of possible explanations: “There are probably multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations based on the range of appearances and behaviors described in the available reporting. Our analysis of the data supports the construct that if and when individual UAP incidents are resolved they will fall into one of five potential explanatory categories: “airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or U.S. industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall “other” bin.” Yes, the “other” bin is where extraterrestrial explanations would go … unfortunately, that’s the first, last and only reference to them. While it doesn’t rule out a Russian or Chinese aircraft or an American classified program, it gives no further information on which ones those might be. Nonetheless, there are some interesting tidbits about the unexplained 143 (the identified incident was a “large, deflating balloon”). “In 18 incidents, described in 21 reports, observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics. Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion.” “The UAPTF has 11 reports of documented instances in which pilots reported near misses with a UAP.” “In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings.” The first point is well known – the Tic-Tac UFOs and others that were made public exhibit these characteristics. The number of near-hits would seem to indicate aggressive behavior, but there are no reports of any sort of weapons-based response by pilots or other military personnel. The presence of radio frequency energy would indicate the UAP might be a sophisticated drone … but whose? “In line with the provisions of Senate Report 116-233, accompanying the IAA for FY 2021, the UAPTF’s long-term goal is to widen the scope of its work to include additional UAP events documented by a broader swath of USG personnel and technical systems in its analysis.” “The UAPTF is looking for novel ways to increase collection of UAP cluster areas when U.S. forces are not present as a way to baseline “standard” UAP activity and mitigate the collection bias in the dataset.” The report concludes with a promise to do better next time by expanding data collection from military personnel and including UAP sightings from the public. That sounds promising … unless you look at how hard it was to get the Pentagon to issue this released/are nine-page report. You can read the entire report for yourself here. www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf The New York Times has an excellent review here. www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-report.htmlAfter reading the report, are you satisfied, disappointed or crying as you watch reruns of “The X-Files”? mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/06/pentagon-uap-ufo-report-released/
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