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Post by auntym on Apr 11, 2013 10:20:42 GMT -6
www.citizenhearing.org/Citizen Hearing on Disclosure – April 29 to May 3, 2013 – Washington, DCAn event with historical implications will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC from April 29 to May 3, 2013. At that time as many as forty researchers and military/agency witnesses will testify for thirty hours over five days before former members of the United States Congress. The Citizen Hearing Committee will be Senator Mike Gravel (Dem/Lib, AK), Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey (Dem, CA), Carolyn Kilpatrick, (Dem, MI), Darlene Hooley (Dem, OR); and Congressmen Roscoe Bartlett (Rep, MD) and Merrill Cook (Rep, UT), The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race will attempt to accomplish what the Congress has failed to do for forty-five years - seek out the facts surrounding the most important issue of this or any other time. For this reason the motto for the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure is "If the Congress will not do its job, the people will."Jones Cheryll 1 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure April 29 to May 3, 2013 Washington, DC Reflecting the global implications of the issue, the entire CHD will be live streamed worldwide in English, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese and Mandarin (archive only). This represents approximately one half of the world's population. The live webcast will also include side press conferences with witnesses as well as interviews by former CNN News Anchor Cheryll Jones. The English and Spanish webcast will include evening lectures presented by Hearing witnesses. Access to these webcasts is available via subscription here. The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure will be filmed as the basis for a forthcoming documentary- Truth Embargo - by Just Cause Entertainment. The title of this film is fitting as the goal of the Citizen Hearing is nothing less than the end of the extraterrestrial truth embargo this year. The world's people have waited long enough. Over the coming weeks this site will develop rapidly with new information added daily. Check back often for updates. This video provides more of the details. The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure will bring 40 researchers and government/agency witnesses to Washington, DC to testify before former members of the U. S. Congress on events and evidence supporting the truth of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and a government policy to embargo that truth. Also available in: Japanese Hungarian Time lapse footage provided by "Earth Time lapse, Amazon HD" and NASA. See more videos relating to the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the CHD YouTube Channel "The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure will attempt to accomplish what the U. S. Congress has failed to do for forty-five years." - Stephen Bassett Political Activist"I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization." - Eugene Cernan Apollo 17 Astronaut"Of course UFOs are real - and they are interplanetary ...The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence." - Lord Dowding UK Air Chief Marshal"There is a serious possibility that we are being visited by people from outer space. It behooves us to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want.” - Admiral Lord-Hill Norton UK Chief of Defence"This massive cover-up has been going on for almost six decades since the UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, an event which was certainly not caused by balloons, as alleged by the U.S. Air force." - Dr. bob O'Leary Apollo Astronaut"The mystery surrounding this crash (at Roswell) has never been adequately explained - not by independent investigators, and not by the U.S. government." - Bill Richardson Congressman Secretary of Energy New Mexico Governor Presidential Candidate
"It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects." Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter CIA DirectorMORE: www.citizenhearing.org/
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Post by auntym on Apr 14, 2013 11:04:02 GMT -6
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/mock-congressional-hearing-on-alien-life-brings-former-members-back-to-planet-washington/2013/04/12/55b80866-a383-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_blog.html 04/12/2013 Mock congressional hearing on alien life brings former members back to planet WashingtonBy Emily Heil This is what a congressional hearing looks like in a some kind of bizarre-o parallel universe: All your favorite past members are there, including former senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), and former representatives Darlene Hooley, (D-Ore)., Merrill Cook (R-Utah), Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), and Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif). And the topic? Extraterrestrials. As in little green men. And whether there’s a conspiracy within the U.S. government to cover up their existence. A longtime UFO-truther organization called the Paradigm Research Group is holding what it’s calling a “Citizen Hearing on Disclosure,” a five-day event at the National Press Club to explore the matter. The confab, which kicks off on April 29 and was brought to our attention by our pals at Roll Call’s Heard on the Hill, will be styled to resemble a real Hill hearing, complete with witnesses, statements, the whole shebang. And to give the proceedings the proper air of legitimacy, the hearing’s organizers enlisted a colorful roster of former members to wield the gavel and question the witnesses. Organizer Stephen Bassett tells us the group identified about 100 former members they thought might be up to the task and ultimately settled on a bipartisan panel of six. The “committee” members aren’t necessarily believers in extraterrestrial life, he says — and that wasn’t a job requirement. “It is assumed that they are skeptical,” Bassett says. “Their job is to be objective fact-finders.” CONTINUE READING: www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/mock-congressional-hearing-on-alien-life-brings-former-members-back-to-planet-washington/2013/04/12/55b80866-a383-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_blog.html
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Post by auntym on Apr 14, 2013 14:13:58 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Apr 28, 2013 11:06:41 GMT -6
naturalplane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/citizen-hearing-on-disclosure-former.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:Saturday, April 27, 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure: Former Canadian Minister of Defense to Testify April 29 to May 3.Why is Lester Pearson's 89-year-old former minister of defence coming to Washington next week to testify as to the existence -- and multiple visits to Earth -- of little green men (not to mention tall white dudes) from outer space? "Because this is the third most important issue facing humankind after global warming and changing the monetary system," Paul Hellyer says. It is the eve of what is being billed as "the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure of an Extraterrestrial Presence Engaging the Human Race." Hellyer, the former Liberal, Tory and independent MP who first sat in Parliament in 1949, will be arguing -- hardly for the first time -- that, as he tells me by phone from his home in Toronto, not only has ET been here, "there are more than one species, in fact there are several species. "There has been collaboration between one or more of them with the U.S. government and the U.S. defence department. They've been sharing technology, some of which they wouldn't want the public to know about. Not only anti-gravity machines, but also diabolical weapons -- so many things that will affect the future of humankind." Why didn't you ask them about this when you were minister of national defence? I ask. "I'd never heard about this at that time," he answers. Alien intelligence, Hellyer says, "is like a scroll that opens up in both directions; it has no end, it goes on and on. There are people from other dimensions, too, and a lot of them have visited Earth and they still do. Some of them look very much like us. The species we call the Tall Whites have been seen shopping in Las Vegas." Hellyer is not alone in his certainty that we are not alone. Last month, a polling firm in North Carolina sampled 1,000 Americans and discovered 21 per cent agree a UFO crash at Roswell, N.M., in 1947 was covered up by the U. S. government, and 29 per cent concur with the proposition that "aliens exist." (When asked, "Do you believe that shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our societies, or not?" only 88 per cent said they do not.) The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure etc., is going to occupy five full days at the National Press Club. CONTINUE READING: naturalplane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/citizen-hearing-on-disclosure-former.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:[/color]
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Post by auntym on Apr 30, 2013 12:06:18 GMT -6
www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/04/29/former-members-of-congress-getting-20k-to-hear-evidence-of-extraterrestrial-cover-upFormer Members of Congress Getting $20K to Hear Evidence of Extraterrestrial Cover-upBy Elizabeth Flock April 29, 2013 Over the next five days, former members of the Air Force, former astronauts and UFO researchers and historians will gather in Washington to testify before six former members of Congress on an alleged government cover-up of alien contact with the human race. The former lawmakers participating will receive $20,000 each as well as paid expenses for listening to the testimony, according to event organizers. Congress has not held an official hearing on extraterrestrials since 1968. www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1987.htmStephen Bassett, who heads the Citizen Hearing Foundation, an advocacy group putting on the event, blames a "truth embargo" in place since the Cold War for why Congress hasn't taken up the issue. "There's a catalogue of over 3,500 pilot sightings [of extraterrestrials]. But [the pilots] are not allowed to speak publicly by the Air Force," Bassett tells Whispers. "And there will be a panel of individuals [this week] who worked at nuclear bases in the 1960s, when a craft came over their base and shot all their missiles down." The hearings, which are taking place at the National Press Club, will begin with the history of extraterrestrials and then move on to subjects like "nuclear tampering," government documents on extraterrestrials, and what happened at Roswell, N.M., the 1947 site of an air debris crash on a ranch – which some believe was a UFO incident. Some 36 percent of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth, according to a June 2012 survey by National Geographic. Nearly 80 percent think the government has kept information from the public about UFOs. [READ: Most Americans Believe Government Keeps UFOs Secrets, Survey Finds] : www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/06/28/most-americans-believe-government-keeps-ufo-secrets-survey-findsCONTINUE READING: www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/04/29/former-members-of-congress-getting-20k-to-hear-evidence-of-extraterrestrial-cover-up
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Post by auntym on May 3, 2013 19:01:45 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/03/citizen-hearing-on-disclo_3_n_3208536.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003Lee Speigel lee.speigel@huffingtonpost.com Citizen Hearing On Disclosure: Pilots Testify To UFO Encounters (Live Updates Day 5)[/color] Posted: 05/03/2013 Chdpilots A panel of pilots gives testimony on the final day of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure in Washington, D.C. A former FAA official as well as private, commercial and military pilots are on tap to testify on UFO encounters as the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure (CHD) at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., draws to a close. Also scheduled for discussions between panel witnesses and a committee of former members of Congress are the topics of an alleged UFO truth embargo, possible alien technology and the hope of ultimate UFO disclosure. In the following hearing highlight, former U.K. police officer Gary Heseltine testifies on behalf of law enforcement personnel who've had UFO encounters: 7:10 PM – Today Former Canada Minister Of National Defense Paul Hellyer Closes 5-Day D.C. Hearing Paul Hellyer is widely known and credited for his work to unify the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2005, he made headlines by announcing that "UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead." That statement made him the first cabinet-ranked individual in the G8 group of nations to say that UFOs were unequivocably real. "Since then, I've learned a lot from many sources, including a number of the fantastic witnesses that we have heard these last [five] days." Among the things Hellyer says he has learned and believes is a particular document that concluded at least four species had been visiting Earth for thousands of years: "This is my own view at this stage, as well. ... They are different species and, consequently, may have different agendas. I don't think we can say that they all have the same agenda any more than we can say that the United States, China and Russia have the same agenda. Our real interests may be similar, but as of now, our perceived interests are still quite far apart." MORE VIDEOS & CONTINUE READING: www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/03/citizen-hearing-on-disclo_3_n_3208536.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
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Post by auntym on May 3, 2013 19:14:29 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2013/05/paying-bunch-of-retired-politicians-to.htmlFriday, May 03, 2013 "Paying a Bunch of Retired Politicians to ... 'Hear' Stuff Just Doesn’t Seem Like a Path to the Truth." Aliens? Here? Just Ask The ‘Experts’By Rebecca Regnier www.monroenews.com5-2-13 This week a Washington, D.C., group conducted hearings on the existence of extraterrestrials and presented evidence of an alleged government cover-up. A group called the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure sponsored by the Paradigm Research Group set up the hearings and paid six former members of Congress $20,000 each plus expenses to hear evidence on the matter. The faux congressional style hearings were to include a history of aliens, evidence of a 1947 spaceship crash in Roswell, N.M., and testimony that pilots have spotted UFOs 3,500 times. I am not a cynic in this department. The idea that there are other species, non-earthling type folks, is not only probable, but likely I think. Space is big y’all, cray cray big. Here’s where I have a problem — hiring former politicians to lend legitimacy to something. What now? Tell me again how the nice Congress people are going to make something seem credible? I suppose the idea from the Paradigm Research Group is that former Congress people are serious and respectable. Maybe they think that attaching these venerable former representatives to this endeavor will make the idea of a government alien cover up seem less wackadoo? . . . CONTINUE READING: www.monroenews.com/news/2013/may/02/aliens-here-just-ask-experts/?columnists
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Post by auntym on May 4, 2013 11:28:31 GMT -6
Law professor shares thoughts on UFO hearing [/color] Published on May 3, 2013 Edgar Cahn is a professor at the University of the District of Columbia School of Law, founder and co-chairperson of TimeBanks USA, a former special counsel and speechwriter for Attorney General Robert Kennedy under President John Kennedy's administration, and the author of a number of books including No More Throwaway People. At the close of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure he sat down to share his thoughts on the event, and the testimony presented. He also gave his advice on the next steps that can be taken to further the awareness of the credibility of the UFO phenomenon. Read more at: www.openminds.tv
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Post by swamprat on May 6, 2013 17:46:17 GMT -6
The Sarasota Herald Tribune
De Void
Hearts & minds, cont’d.Monday, May 6, 2013 by Billy Cox You either followed the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure last week or you didn’t, so attempting a rehash of what happened at Washington’s National Press Club in this small space would be like trying to cram an orca into a Mason jar. And considering how De Void managed only a cursory scan of events from afar, a thorough analysis would be incomplete. But one especially noteworthy blurb lit De Void’s radar screen and it concerned neither the witnesses nor the six retired politicians who listened to their testimony in a congressional inquiry-style format. This was Alejandro Rojas’ Open Minds Magazine interview with law professor emeritus Edgar Cahn, who told Rojas that what he heard last Friday was “very compelling, very exciting,” and “very disturbing,” especially regarding the implications of hoarding technology leads that could theoretically create a “sustainable planet.” What most intrigued De Void were the Yale-educated Cahn’s credentials, which include the authorship of a 1968 study called Hunger, USA. Special counsel to and speechwriter for Attorney General Robert Kennedy and a distinguished scholar at the London School for Economics, Cahn went on to develop the Time Dollars project, a tax-exempt, service-credit currency program that serves poor communities in the U.S. and more than two dozen countries abroad.De Void contacted Cahn on a followup phoner to see if the old civil rights attorney was having any second thoughts about supporting a United Nations-sponsored inquiry into The Great Taboo, as well as pressuring Congress to launch its own formal investigation. Cahn, who had no prior interest in UFOs and attended Friday’s session at the invitation of a friend, brushed off the notion he might get cold feet. “I was one of the first people to do any research on hunger in America at a time when everybody denied its existence,” he said. “The only studies that had been done were by vitamin companies on the affluent; they said there might be some vitamin deficiencies here and there, but there was no indication of the magnitude and distribution of malnutrition in this country.” Underwritten with foundation resources, Cahn’s year-long Hunger, USA study “at the very least shifted the burden of proof to the government to defend its position,” he recalls. “I even debated the Secretary of Agriculture who said there was no hunger in America. I had to tell him there are no newborn babies who can eat peanut butter.” Given how last week’s UFO hearing was his first exposure to the issue, and given the “obvious” questions raised by a multinational cast of witnesses whose credentials impressed him, Cahn had a flashback to Official America’s initial resistance to the existence of malnutrition in the world’s richest nation. As with today, the media voiced plenty of skepticism — but with one significant distinction. “There was sort of a disbelief in the media back then,” Cahn says. “You had to almost make it political battle, with an enemy, and in this case we were going against congressional districts where farmers were getting paid subsidies not to grow certain things. That got their attention. “So it’s one thing for them to say, ‘We don’t know.’ But it’s another thing entirely for the media not to demand transparency from its government and to ridicule what it doesn’t know. If a politician charges taxicab fare for a pleasure trip, investigative reporters will be all over the case. But with such a massive amount of material on UFOs, with such cumulative experiences, they’re not willing to suspend disbelief? You almost need an investigation into why this is. I don’t think there’s a conspiracy involved, but more of a fear of looking foolish.” Cahn says dedicated transparency advocates should collaborate with foundations or academic institutions to fund a commission to “challenge the executive branch for withholding information in the public interest,” he says. “That goes to the separation of powers, and Congress has an obligation to obtain that information. I’d go to a state where there have been numerous sightings, gather about 200, 300 people who’ve seen these things, and get them to gang up on their congressmen or senators as constituents who vote. “You can also get a lot of energy from teenagers. I’d find a way to teenagers involved, because teenagers can be persistent and they don’t shut up and they should demand to know what’s going on in our universe.” At age 78, Cahn sounds like he’s ready for another campaign. Having his intelligence insulted by institutional indifference — media and otherwise — really puts the fire in him. “I’ve been in the trenches for awhile,” he says, “and I’m not afraid to get back in.” devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/13766/hearts-minds-contd/
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Post by auntym on May 7, 2013 12:20:12 GMT -6
www.ufo-blogger.com/2013/05/watch-full-citizen-hearing-on-ufo.html Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure April 29th, 2013 pt1 [/color] Published on May 4, 2013 PLEASE READ FOR VIDEO DESCRIPTION: VIDEO DESCRIPTION: True UFO Disclosure has begun! This is the first day of the Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure. The hearing occurred over the course of four days - from April 30th, 2013 - May 3rd, 2013. I paid to have access to these videos. Unfortunately, I was only able to download half of the archived videos available from the hearing. CDH (the provider of the Livestream pay service) took the videos down before I could download them all, but I was able to get the most important ones BEFORE that happened. This is ONE incredible video. Stanton Friedman, Doctor Roger Leir, Doctor Steven Greer, Nick Pope, and EVERY known investigator in the UFO community - along with Steven Geer's 400 witnesses from the CSETI Disclosure Group - sit before congress and present irrefutable proof that we are being visited by extraterrestrial beings and that the US Government has been suppressing the truth for decades. There is ALSO a surprise at the beginning of the hearing. Remember the recent stories of Capt. Edgar Mitchell stating that he wanted NOTHING more to do with Steven Greer, CSETI, UFOS or the Disclosure Group? Let alone be involved with disclosure in any capacity? Apparently those stories were nothing more than DISINFO because Capt. Edgar Mitchell is the FIRST witness called at the beginning of the hearing; he is PRESENT via SKYPE video chat. His testimony is compelling. This hearing has also caused a ripple effect in the United States Government. One of the congressman who attended the hearing - former senator Mike Gravel - has appeared publicly on reputable news sites like Yahoo, accusing the White House and all levels of the US Government for 'suppressing' the truth about alien and UFO visitation. You can read, and also view, the Yahoo Mike Gravel interview by clicking here: news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-pla... Steven Greer and his colleagues have kept their promise. This is the beginning of TRUE alien/UFO disclosure. MORE VIDEOS: www.ufo-blogger.com/2013/05/watch-full-citizen-hearing-on-ufo.html
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Post by auntym on May 31, 2013 11:14:28 GMT -6
Citizen Hearing 2013 - The RAF Bentwaters Classified Medical Records Conspiracy
Published on May 29, 2013
FORMER CONGRESSIONAL PANEL EXPRESSES CONCERN TO OBAMA.
Write letter of support on behalf of USAF Veterans.
By Patrick Frascogna
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, May 24, 2013 -- Six former members of congress have signed a letter to President Obama 'expressing concern' over lack of response by the Veterans Administration to requests for medical records pertinent to the medical treatment of two career United States Air Force veterans who suffer from medical disability stemming from contact with an object of unknown origin while on duty as base security at the U.S. airbase at RAF Bentwaters in December of 1980.
Retired Tech Sergeants John Burroughs and James Penniston claim the government is denying them proper treatment for injuries sustained in the line of duty as base security at the U.S. airbase at RAF Bentwaters in December of 1980. Penniston and Burroughs were the first on-scene responders to a potential base incursion by an object of unknown origin into one of the most sensitive United States Air Force installations at the height of the cold war. As such, the pair were momentarily on the front lines of the USAF defense establishment in Europe.
The most perplexing aspect of the case is the apparent classified status of the records in question by the Veterans Administration. The pair testified before the former congress members in April at the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure.
The former Congresspersons include former Senator Mike Gavel, Alaska and former House of Representatives members Merrill Cook, Utah; Roscoe Bartlett, Maryland; Darlene Hooley, Oregon; Carolyn Kirkpatrick, Michigan and Lynn Woolsey, California.
The letter, a copy of which was sent to both President Barack Obama and the Head of the Veterans Administration, said in part:
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Post by auntym on Jun 2, 2013 11:41:56 GMT -6
ufodigest.com/article/disclosure-review-0601June 02, 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure - ReviewBy Nick Pope In my previous column I wrote about the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, a five-day event held at the National Press Club in Washington DC from April 29 - May 3, the format of which mirrored the Congressional hearings on UFOs that many in the UFO community want to see and believe might be a precursor to ‘Disclosure’. The event has now taken place and in this column I’m going to offer some thoughts on how it went. This was certainly no conventional UFO conference. The involvement of a number of former Congressional Representatives (Republican, Democrat and Libertarian) brought genuine gravitas and discipline to proceedings. The researchers and witnesses were arranged onto themed panels and gave evidence to the Committee of former Representatives. Each panelist read an opening statement onto the record, but thereafter, the questions were at the discretion of the Committee. Having had some experience of the UK’s Defence Committee I knew the rules better than most: answer only the question asked; if you don’t know the answer to a question, say so; and make it clear if you stray from what you know to what you think. With so much material discussed and so many of ufology’s ‘big names’ present (Stanton Friedman, Steven Greer, Linda Moulton Howe and Richard Dolan, to name but four) it’s difficult to pick out highlights. For me, however, two stood out. The testimony of John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, the two key witnesses to the Rendlesham Forest incident, really caught the attention of the Committee. Burroughs and Penniston discussed their concern that they were irradiated by their close proximity to the mystery craft that so many people saw near the twin bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge in December 1980. So frustrated are they with their inability to secure the release of their medical records from the classified records section of the Department for Veterans Affairs that they plan a federal lawsuit. The politicians on the Committee were so outraged by their treatment that they contacted Burroughs and Penniston afterwards and have undertaken some high-level lobbying to help resolve the situation. The most poignant moment was when Geoffrey Torres told the Committee about his father’s terrifying encounter with a UFO. Milton Torres (now very ill and unable to attend in person) was a USAF fighter pilot on exchange with the UK’s Royal Air Force back in the Fifties. One day he was scrambled in response to a UFO being tracked on military radar. To his amazement, he was ordered to shoot it down. He achieved a lock-on, but before he could fire his air-to-air rockets, the UFO moved from a virtual hover and accelerated away at Mach 10. His fighter jet’s radar had indicated the UFO was the size of an aircraft carrier. Torres was debriefed and told that if he discussed the incident with anyone, he’d never fly again. He only spoke publicly about the incident decades later, in 2009, when the UK Ministry of Defense released a statement he’d lodged with an attorney, as part of the ongoing program to declassify and release the entire archive of UK Government UFO files. But to his eternal regret, Milton’s father had died before this happened and he was never able to tell him. “My Dad’s lost his voice now,” Geoffrey said, his voice shaking with emotion, “but I’ve found mine”. His heartfelt plea that secrecy on UFOs should end was a powerful reminder that whatever one believes about the true nature of the phenomenon, there’s a human cost here. CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/disclosure-review-0601
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Post by swamprat on Jun 9, 2013 16:52:43 GMT -6
Sky Valley Chronicle UFO debunker sees space ships up close
June 09, 2013 Well ain't this a fine howdyuhdoo? Ya pick a guy, a good obedient soldier, pay him good government money to debunk UFO sightings back in the 1950's, he does his job just great and then decades later blows the whole scam by blowing the whistle about everything. Is nothing sacred in this world anymore? Can’t ya pay a guy good money to lie and then count on him to keep his mouth shut later? Damn. There is no honor anymore. Okay so here's the deal. Former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French was a lead investigator for the government's "Project Blue Book" in the 1950s (the government's "official" investigation into the weird) and his job was to go around the country and just make up anything to shoot down as false, all these sightings of UFO's. He said back in those days he'd just make up crap left and right for the gullible news media. He'd say, "Well this sighting was swamp gas" (there's no such thing as swamp gas) "and this one over here was a flock of birds," blah, blah, blah crap like that. Anyway, he was really good at his job and the dumb reporters just took down everything he said and reported it as though it was gospel stuff. So you can imagine how freaked out the good Colonel was one day when he ends up in Newfoundland watching with his own eyeballs what appeared to him to be two extraterrestrials performing repairs on a submerged, unknown circular craft. We bet it freaked him out so bad he went poopy-pie in his pants. Anyway, so French is in Washington DC like last month (he's 83 year old now) testifying at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure panel of six former members of Congress about his work as a UFO debunker in 1952 and about what he saw there in Newfie country. So he tells them about this Newfoundland incident decades ago, in the early 1950s, after two UFOs were seen by a lot of folks off the coast of St. John's. And how did he end up there? His bosses ordered him to look into the situation and then, ya know, debunk it. "They said, 'We have a UFO report and we want you to investigate it,' and that was standard for what I was doing," French told The Huffington Post. "They told me there were two of them involved and that they were deep under the water, after entering the water doing roughly 100 miles an hour. There were a lot of people assembled on the wharf, at least 100 standing around just looking in amazement at the water, including several local policemen." So anyway he recalls the water was very clear that day and he could see with his own eyeballs two circular craft, each one about 18 feet in diameter and approximately 3 feet thick. He said the two objects were floating below the surface of the water, a couple of feet apart, not more than 20 feet from the shore. And he saw two beings in the water near the ships. Anyway, watch the video below and hear him tell the story. Some other stuff French said: ~ He said it looked the craft's occupants were working on one ship, maybe to repair it. ~ The occupants of the craft were about "2 or 3 feet tall, light gray in color, very thin, long arms with either two or three fingers. The top of their heads was much wider than their jaw line, their eyes were very slanted." So now the really cool part. Since he was an Air Force UFO debunker at the time, what kind of a report did he file about what he had witnessed with his own eyes in Newfie country? He lied! "Needless to say, it was a fictitious report, as all of them were," he said. But these days he says, "I think without a doubt it was a UFO and I think there were aliens aboard it. There's no question in my mind that was exactly what it was." In the video below he talks about being a professional debunker of UFO sightings. The events of the Newfoundland UFO's took place over a half century ago long before everyone had a cell phone camera handy so there's no photos to back up his story. But it's a helluva story don't ya think? www.skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAKING-NEWS/PHOTO-OF-THE-DAY-BR-UFO-debunker-sees-space-ships-up-close-1375171
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Post by auntym on Aug 13, 2021 18:08:56 GMT -6
UFOs - Pilots & Aviation ExpertsAUGUST 13, 2021 UFOs - Pilots & Aviation Experts 5 hours ago Citizen Hearing on UFO DisclosureUFOs - Pilots & Aviation Experts with Col. Richard French, Maj. George Filer, John Callahan, Jim Courant and Steve Allen Held at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. April 29th - May 3rd, 2013 The Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure set out to accomplish what the U.S. Congress had failed to do for forty-five years - seek out the facts surrounding the most important issue of this or any other time - evidence pointing toward an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. Forty researchers along with military/agency/political persons of high rank and station came to the National Press Club in Washington, DC to testify to six former members of the United States Congress. The main ballroom of the National Press Club was configured to resemble a Senate hearing room. There were press areas, an audience area, witness tables and committee tables. Protocols for congressional hearings were followed as closely as possible during the testimony. Committee members received written statements from witnesses, heard oral statements and asked whatever questions they wished about the subject matter at hand. Hearing witnesses testified for thirty hours over five days in five morning and five afternoon sessions, each composed of two panels of witnesses, each panel lasting approximately ninety minutes. The Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure was a historic event. We are excited to be able to make the footage available, and allow these brave testimonies to become part of the public record on the topic of UFOs. Citizen Hearing on Disclosure IF THE CONGRESS WON'T DO ITS JOB, THE PEOPLE WILL. www.citizenhearing.org
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Post by auntym on May 10, 2022 13:37:16 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/one-of-the-greatest-mysteries-of-our-time-congress-to-hold-ufo-hearing-next-week/ar-AAX7q9t?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=a001d8e2db764aa8a7a7fc4e16db9fbePOLITICO 'One of the greatest mysteries of our time': Congress to hold UFO hearing next weekBy Bryan Bender 5-10-2022 AHouse committee will hold a public hearing on UFOs next Tuesday for the first time in decades, as Congress presses the Pentagon and other national security agencies for more answers on reports of mysterious aircraft violating protected airspace. The session before the House Intelligence Committee's Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee comes fives months after the National Defense Authorization Act required the military to establish a permanent UFO research office and take a series of other steps to collect and investigate reports of "unidentified aerial phenomena." “The American people expect and deserve their leaders in government and intelligence to seriously evaluate and respond to any potential national security risks — especially those we do not fully understand,” the panel chair, Rep. André Carson, said in a statement on Tuesday. “Since coming to Congress, I've been focused on the issue of unidentified aerial phenomena as both a national security threat and an interest of great importance to the American public." Testifying before the panel will be Ronald Moultrie, the Pentagon's top intelligence official, and Scott Bray, the deputy director of naval intelligence. The hearing, Carson said, "will give the American people an opportunity to learn what there is to know about these incidents." A number of congressional oversight committees have been grappling with the issue since revelations first reported by POLITICO and The New York Times in 2017 that the Pentagon had a secret UFO research office and multiple Navy pilots and radar operators came forward with their testimony of encounters with strange, high performance craft. The director of national intelligence issued a public report in June 2021 at the request of the Senate Intelligence Committee that outlined 144 reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in recent years, including 18 incidents in which 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 report said. "In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency energy associated with UAP sightings." At the time, Carson said he was determined to hold public hearings, saying that "we can't rule out something that is otherworldly." The defense bill adopted last in December also required the Pentagon to develop an “intelligence collection and analysis plan to gain as much knowledge as possible regarding the technical and operational characteristics, origins, and intentions of unidentified aerial phenomena." That includes identifying personnel across the government “to respond rapidly to incidents or patterns of observations." It also required an annual report and semiannual briefings for Congress with descriptions of all UAP incidents such as those “associated with military nuclear assets, including strategic nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered ships and submarines," the bill stated. Closed-door briefings on the Pentagon's progress in carrying out the legislation have begun in recent weeks. But a number of lawmakers expressed dismay that the Pentagon is still not taking the topic seriously enough, as POLITICO reported last week. Rep. Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday he has high hopes for the next phase of congressional oversight. “There's still much to learn about unidentified aerial phenomena and the potential risks they may pose to our national security," he said in a statement announcing the public hearing. "But one thing is sure — the American people deserve full transparency, and the federal government and Intelligence Community have a critical role to play in contextualizing and analyzing reports of UAPs." "The purpose of this hearing," Schiff added, "is to give the public an opportunity to hear directly from subject matter experts and leaders in the intelligence community on one of the greatest mysteries of our time, and to break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency." The session will mark the first time Congress has convened a public hearing on the issue since the Air Force oversaw an inconclusive UFO investigation called Project Blue Book that concluded in 1969. "It has been something like 50 years since there has been a congressional hearing," said Alejandro Rojas, a journalist and UFO researcher who has studied the history of the phenomena. "But even then it doesn't seem that Congress was as serious as they are now. They want to actually see government UFO hunting." He said a big question remains whether national security agencies are serious about taking direction from Congress. "There seems to be a big disconnect between what Congress wants and what DoD is delivering," Rojas said. "They are being accused of dragging their feet. It is a very strong message that Congress is sending that they want action." www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/one-of-the-greatest-mysteries-of-our-time-congress-to-hold-ufo-hearing-next-week/ar-AAX7q9t?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=a001d8e2db764aa8a7a7fc4e16db9fbeNew York Times: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/us/politics/ufo-sightings-house-hearing.html
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Post by auntym on May 10, 2022 18:01:48 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on May 12, 2022 18:05:47 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vintage-chicago-tribune-close-encounters-with-ufos-in-illinois/ar-AAXcr9N?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0cef5d17d8934ae3b357d9bdbc6ef739Vintage Chicago Tribune: ‘Close encounters’ with UFOs in Illinois!!!!!by Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune / 5-12-2022 They’re out there, Chicago.And on Tuesday — for the first time since the U.S. Air Force concluded “Operation Blue Book” in 1969 — Congress will hold open hearings with Pentagon officials to discuss “unidentified aerial vehicles,” according to the New York Times. The meetings follow a long-awaited U.S. government report released last year that reviewed more than 100 sightings of mysterious flying objects — and concluded none of them had links to extraterrestrials. Yet, the incidents could not be attributed to American government or military technology either. Can I borrow a line from “The X-Files?” The truth is out there. The National UFO Reporting Center lists more than 4,000 alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects in Illinois since 1947, but director Peter Davenport told the Tribune last year that total is likely a tiny fraction of the true number. “My opinion is that out of 10,000 or 20,000 people who see an object they sincerely believe was or may have been a UFO, (researchers) capture only one of those sightings,” he said. “If you want to test my theory, go to a big party sometime and ask everyone who saw a UFO to raise their hands. Then ask how many have reported them. Virtually all of the hands go down.” A local astronomer is credited with creating the term “close encounters of the third kind” and founding an privately funded institute based in Evanston in the early 1970s that remains dedicated to researching, reporting and studying the phenomenon of extraterrestrial visitors today. Want to believe? Read on to learn more about local UFO sightings and efforts to record them. CONTINUE READING: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vintage-chicago-tribune-close-encounters-with-ufos-in-illinois/ar-AAXcr9N?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0cef5d17d8934ae3b357d9bdbc6ef739
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Post by swamprat on May 13, 2022 19:35:56 GMT -6
UFO hearing: Pushing the frontiers of science with government dataBY AVI LOEB, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 05/13/22 6:00 PM ET
Next week, a subcommittee in the House of Representatives is scheduled to hold the first open congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena in more than half a century. Unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) has replaced the term unidentified flying object (UFO) — and with it the observed phenomena are being viewed more as data. At this upcoming hearing, my sincere hope is that the following question will be asked: Can we get the highest quality UAP data to scientists who will analyze it methodically and quantitatively?
As noted in the report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released in June 2021, UAP data is rarely discussed openly because “sociocultural stigmas and sensor limitations remain obstacles to collecting data on UAP… reputational risk may keep many observers silent, complicating scientific pursuit of the topic.”
The responsible approach of scientists should be to attend to new evidence as unusual as it might be and adapt to its implications irrespective of how challenging they are. It is common practice for experts to raise dust and claim that they cannot see anything. After all, they are being rewarded for mastering knowledge from past data and not for their willingness to admit igannance on new facts.
What we regard as “ordinary” are things we are used to seeing, such as birds in the sky. But digging deeper into the nature of ordinary matters suggests that they are rather extraordinary. Humans were only able to imitate birds with the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903. Similarly, what we regard as “extraordinary claims” are often based on societal conventions. We invest major funds in the search for the nature of dark matter that has minimal impact on our society, but minimal funds on the scientific study of UAP, which could be much more impactful. As a result, the lack of “extraordinary evidence” is often self-inflicted igannance. We might figure out the nature of UAP before we understand dark matter, if we would only be brave enough to collect and analyze UAP data publicly, based on the scientific method.
The common goal of the scientific community should be to eliminate the term “unidentified” from our lexicon. Much of the history of physics is about the pursuit of knowledge about items that initially appear “extraordinary” and later become “ordinary.” Quantum entanglement appeared to Albert Einstein as extraordinary, but is now part of the daily vocabulary of engineers designing quantum computers. The notion of non-universal space and time in Einstein’s General Relativity was initially disruptive to the mainstream view of the physics community, but it is now employed for precise navigation by taxi-drivers who routinely use global positioning systems (GPS).
We should seek evidence-based knowledge without being boxed by our egos, emotions or national security traps. This is my wish for the congressional hearing next week.
Here’s hoping that the USG will continue to advance the scientific frontiers of our knowledge. Future cooperation between government and science will help us understand the unknown. And exploring the unknown is the spiritual light that illuminates our journey in search for knowledge on destinations far away from the familiar rock we call Earth.
Avi Loeb is head of Harvard’s Galileo Project, a systematic scientific search for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts. Loeb is the founding director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, the director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and he chairs the advisory board for the Breakthrough Starshot project. He is the author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.”
thehill.com/opinion/technology/3488041-ufo-hearing-pushing-the-frontiers-of-science-with-government-data/
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Post by auntym on May 14, 2022 18:11:47 GMT -6
9AM EST / Tuesday 5-17-2022Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Scheduled for May 17, 2022 On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. EST, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman André Carson (D-Ind.) will hold an open hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena. Following the open portion of the hearing, the subcommittee will hold a closed, classified briefing.
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Post by auntym on May 16, 2022 14:14:13 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-skull-and-bones-type-vibe-spy-agencies-grapple-with-how-much-to-share-at-ufo-hearing/ar-AAXltwl?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3d243c605ac2450581ec6e4504bdb5db‘A Skull and Bones-type vibe’: Spy agencies grapple with how much to share at UFO hearingBy Bryan Bender 5-16-2022 As Congress prepares to hold the first public hearing on UFOs in half a century, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies are feuding internally over how much to cooperate with demands to investigate and share what they know, according to current and former national security officials. Pentagon officials are under increasing pressure to carry out Congress’ recent mandate to establish a permanent effort to coordinate research into reports of highly advanced aircraft of unknown origin intruding into protected airspace. The law also requires regular classified and public reports to oversight committees on new incidents involving “unidentified aerial phenomena,” including previous information or investigations that are uncovered in government repositories or testimony. But there is a tug of war among competing factions inside the national security bureaucracy that will make it difficult for Congress to compel military branches, spy agencies, national laboratories and other organizations to come clean given the longstanding secrecy and stigma surrounding the issue. “Without forcing peoples’ hand, it is going to be very difficult to uncover legacy ventures and programs that we know about based on oral interviews we dug up,” said a Defense Department official who is involved in the new effort but was not authorized to speak publicly. “There has to be a forcing mechanism.” “There has to be something to hold people accountable but also give them a chance to come out clean for a period of time,” the official added, noting that in his experience the Pentagon oversight group has been “stonewalled.” The official said there are people with knowledge of the phenomena who have yet to contribute to the oversight effort. “These people exist and they are protecting very interesting information,” the official said. The public hearing, the first to be held by a congressional committee since 1966, is scheduled for Tuesday before the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation Subcommittee. “It will give the American people an opportunity to learn what there is to know about these incidents,” the panel’s chair, Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), said in announcing the hearing last week. Set to testify are Ronald Moultrie, the Pentagon’s top intelligence official, and Scott Bray, the deputy director of naval intelligence — which has played a prominent role in investigating reports of “drone swarms” dogging Navy pilots flying from aircraft carriers. It comes five months after the National Defense Authorization Act required the military to establish a permanent UFO research office and take a series of other steps to collect and investigate reports. To address the new law, the Pentagon set up the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group to standardize reporting and analyze data collected by representatives from across the military and intelligence community. But dueling factions in the Pentagon and intelligence agencies are jockeying over how to carry out Congress’ direction and how much to reveal to oversight committees, according to four current and former officials. Two current officials said they are concerned that the most unusual incidents now being reported are getting lumped in with drones, space debris and other more common occurrences and therefore aren’t being fully investigated. “They're like, you know, five things out of 5,000, we weren’t sure what they were,” said an intelligence official who was not authorized to discuss internal deliberations, adding that his superiors want to treat all UAPs as “all air trash.” The official feels the department is not addressing “the whole tapestry of the multi-tech problem that we have.” “They really dragged their feet on this,” said the DoD official. “I don’t think they have taken it very seriously.” So far, the official said someone has been identified to lead the new Pentagon oversight group and has established two full-time positions for analysts. “To meet the will of Congress you are going to need an analysis team,” the DoD official said. “It can’t just be a small operation with a lead and two officials. That is what they were trying to get away with.” It is also unclear what the budget is for the new Pentagon effort. “How much funding was actually allocated to the 2022 UAP effort?” asked Colm Kelleher, a biochemist who previously worked as a Pentagon contractor on UAP research. “Has anyone ever confirmed that actual appropriation funding ever went along” with the recently passed law? Christopher Mellon, a former top Pentagon intelligence official who has been pressing Congress to take more aggressive steps, said the Biden administration appears to be treating the new effort “as a small office that compiles reports, conducts briefings, and seemingly little else.” “There remains a large gap between the intent of Congress and the actions of the Pentagon,” he wrote in a public appeal to the panel on Friday. “Who owns the urgent mission of getting to the bottom of these ‘drone’ swarms plaguing our ships and bases and what are they doing about it?” The biggest question may be whether the Pentagon is being fully transparent with Congress. The intelligence official described another faction inside military and intel agencies “that … takes this subject very seriously” and is protective of UAP-related data. “They fetishize their secret society,” the official said. “It’s kind of a Skull and Bones-type vibe. They take it seriously but they have no accountability. Zero. There is a whole group of us that know in great detail this subject, a lot of which has not been reported to Congress because of security issues.” The Pentagon, through spokesperson Susan Gough, declined multiple requests to discuss the progress of the new Pentagon-led effort, including how many personnel are assigned, from what agencies, and how it is carrying out the congressional mandate. The upcoming House hearing, however, is seen as an opportunity to make historic headway. A coalition of scientists appealed to the panel over the weekend to press Pentagon witnesses to publicly share as much as possible on what government agencies have learned about a number of widely reported cases. The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, whose members work at private corporations, universities and government agencies, singled out reports of intrusions — and even interference — at nuclear weapons facilities. They also urged more transparency on reported health hazards from encounters with the phenomena as well as whether military and intelligence agencies have tracked unknown craft maneuvering through multiple mediums — including the air, under the sea and in orbit. “Will the Department of Defense release information on this transmedium behavior to the public?” they wrote in an open letter. Mellon has also said that Pentagon officials need to be asked publicly if any of the reported aerial intrusions were also detected maneuvering through space. “If members can confirm UAP in space, they’ll make history and help to eliminate an entire category of potential explanations having to do with atmospheric phenomenon, Chinese lanterns, civilian drones,” he said. But what may be needed first is finding new ways to compel agencies and government personnel to be more forthcoming to Congress. For instance, lawmakers and staff have been discussing the possibility of taking new steps to encourage individuals with pertinent information to come forward, according to four current and former officials and a pair of congressional staffers. The UAP coalition raised the prospect that Congress may need to push legislation to allow personnel who signed nondisclosure agreements or were directed not to discuss their knowledge of incidents to share what they know, as long as they are not publicly revealing classified information. Only with credible, verified data on UAP reports — then and now — can modern technology be used to fully analyze the phenomena, according to experts. “Can we get the highest quality UAP data to scientists who will analyze it methodically and quantitatively?" said Avi Loeb, who heads the Galileo Project at Harvard University and has worked with NASA and the Space Force. “‘Future cooperation between government and science will help us understand the unknown.” He said he is eager “to engage my research team at Harvard in a detailed analysis of such data, should the government be interested in sharing it.” What’s becoming clear is that the hearing is likely to be a first step. “I think there are going to be good questions,” said the DoD official, who said he has viewed some videos of UAPs that have not been made public. “But I think they are going to lead to more questions.” But there are also concerns it will be more theater than anything else. “Congressional inquiries on this subject have often turned out to have entertainment value and little substance,” said Jacques Vallée, a computer scientist and ufologist who advised the Air Force’s Project Blue Book UFO investigation in the 1960s and has consulted on more recent Pentagon research efforts. “But this case may be an exception. We may be touching a real issue with a serious purpose.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-skull-and-bones-type-vibe-spy-agencies-grapple-with-how-much-to-share-at-ufo-hearing/ar-AAXltwl?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3d243c605ac2450581ec6e4504bdb5db
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Post by auntym on May 17, 2022 0:29:14 GMT -6
Lee Speigel
On Tuesday, at 1pm, Eastern, after the congressional UFO hearing, I'll be part of a Live panel on Den of Geek TV to discuss what we all saw during the hearing.
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Post by swamprat on May 17, 2022 6:56:21 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on May 17, 2022 17:03:18 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2022/05/Here-s-What-We-Learned-During-the-Recent-Congressional-Hearings-on-UAP/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitterMay 18, 2022 by Micah Hanks / mysteriousuniverse.org/read/author/micah-hanksHere’s What We Learned During the Recent Congressional Hearings on UAP
On Tuesday, a House Panel convened in Washington to speak with two military witnesses on the timely, and equally controversial topic of unidentified aerial phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs.The hearings, which were held by the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, were overseen by Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), who had spearheaded the effort to bring the UAP issue before Congress in a public forum. "Unidentified aerial phenomena are a national security threat," Carson said during the opening moments of the live televised hearing."UAPs are unexplained. It's true, but they are real,” Carson added, noting that they also “need to be investigated." Carson speaking in Tuesday's hearing during opening statements (Public Domain). Echoing Carson’s opening statements, Rep. Adam Schiff called the House Panel’s willingness to hold a hearing on this matter an "important step toward understanding these phenomena.""UAP reports have been around for decades,” Schiff said. “And yet we haven't had an orderly way for them to be reported and investigated. That needs to change," he said, adding that "excessive secrecy only leads to mistrust and speculation."A main focus of Tuesday’s hearings dealt with the Pentagon’s new Airborne Object Identification Management and Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), and how it would proceed with studying unidentified objects in U.S. airspace. However, another question many had in advance of the hearings had to do with what kinds of data is already being collected about the phenomena, and how much officials would be willing to say about this during the open portions of Tuesday’s hearings."Put simply, UAP are airborne objects that, when encountered, cannot be immediately identified, said Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security Ronald S. Moultrie, who appeared alongside Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray as one of two military witnesses during the hearing.Moultrie emphasized during his opening statements that the AOIMSG will be partnering with agencies that include the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), FAA, DHS, FBI, the DOE, NOAA, DEA, NASA, the National Labs, and "international partners and allies."Moultrie also had encouraging words to share about the Pentagon’s commitment to transparency once the AOIMSG takes over for the Navy’s UAP Task Force.“The Department is fully committed to the process of openness and transparency to the American people,” Moultrie said, although noting that “we are also mindful of our obligation to protect sensitive sources and methods."For Bray’s part, flight safety for both military and civilian aviators remains a primary focus of the Department of Defense with its ongoing UAP investigations. This, in addition to working to encourage military personnel to come forward with their reports of sightings, and to be more prepared and capable to collect data when such encounters occur."The direct result of those efforts has been increased reports, with increased opportunities to focus a number of sensors on any objects,” Bray told the House Panel. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray speaks during Tuesday's hearing (Public Domain). "The message is now clear: if you see something, you need to report it. And the message has been received."Early in the session, a pair of videos were shown as examples of UAP encountered by military personnel. The first video, which appeared to be available on YouTube and labeled as "Video 1 2021 Flyby.mov", depicted a fleeting glimpse of what resembled a metallic, spherical object speeding past the cockpit of a fighter jet.The second video involved now-famous footage of a series of objects that Bray said "appear to be triangles" off the coast of the United States."Importantly, the video was taken through night-vision goggles with a single-lens reflex camera,” Bray noted, before explaining how similar footage was later obtained of objects that were fully known and recognized by Navy personnel at the time, but which nonetheless produced the artificial appearance of “triangles” by employing a similar method of capture by pairing night vision goggles and an SLR camera."This is a great example of how it takes considerable effort to understand what we're seeing in the examples we are able to collect,” Bray concluded.Among the other themes that came up during the hearing had been questions from Rep. Schiff about unusual flight characteristics demonstrated by some UAP, as well as the appearance of advanced technology some of the objects might exhibited, and whether any such technologies could represent innovations by an adversarial nation like Russia or China."We're not aware of any adversary capable of moving objects without a discernible means of propulsion," Bray told Schiff during the hearing, adding that in at least some cases, unidentified objects have been detected which appear to have exhibited evidence of signature management; that is, electronic means of lessing their ability to be detected.While Bray acknowledge that the DOD "can't explain with the data we have,” he also added that there was a fair degree of confidence in the systems the DOD currently uses, and the accuracy of their detection capabilities."Generally speaking, our sensors operate as designed," Bray told Schiff.Moultrie and Bray were both adamant that data collected on UAP does appear to convey that they are physical objects. In response to questions from Rep. Mike Gallagher about any other programs that were undertaken by the U.S. government between the end of Project Blue Book and the more recent Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, neither said they knew of any such programs.When questioned about the possibility that the U.S. government is withholding secrets about UAP—possibly even data that might indicate an extraterrestrial presence on Earth—Moultrie was quick to defend the protection of classified sensor systems, while maintaining an openness to transparency. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security Ronald S. Moultrie responds to questions during Tuesday's hearing (Public Domain). "We're protecting the fact that this nation has developed capabilities that enable us to know what may be threats to us," Moultrie said, "and to counter those threats before they become... a national issue."Intriguingly, some members of the House Panel asked about whether there could be legal ramifications for the presentation of misleading information or otherwise spurious or unverified claims about UAP by civilian groups and UFO enthusiasts.Moultrie said he knew of no legal deterrents, although he hopes the DOD can curb the effects of misinformation and false narratives, although he said he did not know what "should be the legal ramifications that we could use to potentially hold individuals accountable" in such instances. This seemingly left open for the possibility that, at some point, individuals guilty of knowingly perpetrating UFO hoaxes to mislead government investigations might be held accountable.Apart from the videos that were shown earlier in the hearings, the only other specific case that was referenced by Moultrie and Bray involved the 2004 Nimitz incident, which the DOD still calls an "unresolved” UAP incident."We have data on that and it remains simply unresolved," Bray said during the hearing, though adding that he "can't point to something that definitively was not manmade.”Lasting slightly under two hours, the open panel concluded shortly before 11 AM ET, with plans to reconvene for a classified hearing later in the afternoon. Reactions to the hearing were somewhat mixed, and ranged from there being little new information provided, to some recognizing the hearing as one of the most significant developments related to UAP in recent days.However one chooses to interpret Tuesday’s Congressional UAP hearings, it is difficult to ignore their historic significance, and their role as a key moment in the ever-developing story of U.S. government investigations into unidentified aerial objects in the 21st century. mysteriousuniverse.org/2022/05/Here-s-What-We-Learned-During-the-Recent-Congressional-Hearings-on-UAP/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Post by auntym on May 18, 2022 15:25:51 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/intelligence-officials-offer-greater-transparency-but-no-aliens-at-ufo-hearing/ar-AAXoOSJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=cead651b1d4743f19dff0df4c7b85c25Intelligence officials offer greater transparency, but no aliens, at UFO hearingby Jon Kelvey / 5-17-2022 The first congressional hearing on UFOs in decades offered little new or conclusive for anyone hoping for an announcement that the US government has been tracking technologically advanced extraterrestrial lifeforms, as intelligence officials told lawmakers they still weren’t sure what the unidentified objects seen by military pilots actually are. But the hearing held on Tuesday before the US House Intelligence Committee's subcommittee on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and counterproliferation did offer a new level of transparency on a topic often shrouded in secrecy and rumour. “We want to know what's out there as much as you want to know what's out there,” US Undersecretary of Defence for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie, who oversees a new Pentagon program investigating UFOs, told lawmakers. “We get the questions not just from you; we get them from family members and we get them night and day, not just in committee hearings. So finding what's out there is important.” Mr Moultrie was joined by Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray, the pair offering the first public testimony before congress on the topic of UFOS — or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) in the new Pentagon lingo — since the 1970s. That’s when the US Air Force ended Project Blue Book, an investigation into UFOs that concluded the available evidence suggested UFOs were a national security threat, and did not represent advanced and/or extraterrestrial technology. But in 2020, the Department of Defence set up a UAP task force within the Department of the Navy to investigate new UFO/UAP sightings by military pilots over training ranges. A report based on the work of that task force and published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in June 2021 also found insufficient evidence to conclude sightings represented aliens or advanced foreign adversaries, but did conclude that many of the sightings were real physical objects. “Since the early 2000s, we have seen an increasing number of unauthorized and or unidentified aircraft or objects in military control training areas, and training ranges and other designated airspace,” Mr Bray told lawmakers. “Reports of sightings are frequent and continuing.” Congress made funding available in the Fiscal Year 2022 budget to create the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, which Moultrie oversees, within the Pentagon. The group has created processes by which military personnel can report sightings of UFOs/UAPs. “We know that our service members have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena and because UAPs pose potential flight safety and general security risks, we are committed to a focus effort to determine their origins,” Mr Moultrie said. “Our goal is to eliminate the stigma by fully incorporating our operators and mission personnel into a standardized data gathering process. We believe that making UAP reporting a mission imperative will be instrumental to the effort’s success.” That approach is already paying dividends. The number of unexplained UFO/UAP sightings the group is tracking has grown to 400 since the report was released last summer. “The message is now clear. If you see something you need to report it, and the message has been received,” Mr Bray said. “In fact, recently, I received a call from a senior naval aviator with over 2,000 flight hours. He called me personally from the flight line after landing to talk about an encounter that he had just experienced.” Both intelligence officials agreed with lawmakers that transparency with the public concerning UFOs/UAPs is important, and committed to making disclosures when possible. The key thing, they said, was ensuring that in revealing information about UFOs/UAPs, the US military did not provide terrestrial adversaries with classified information. “What's really important for us to protect is how we know certain things,” he said. “Many [UFO/UAP sightings] are the result of some of our most sensitive sources and methods, and we'll use those things not just for this effort, but those same sources and methods are used to help protect us from adversaries and from others who might mean to do us harm. There aren't separate UAP sensors.” For that reason, Tuesday’s hearing adjourned before midday so that the intelligence officials could brief the lawmakers in more detail in a classified briefing. “For information that we have, when it does not involve sources and methods, and when we can with a reasonable degree of confidence determine that if it does not pose a foreign intelligence or national security threat, and it's within my authority to do so, I commit to declassifying that,” he said. “I believe very much in the transparency of this and we work very hard to balance that with our national security needs.” But both Mr Bray and Mr Moultrie also asserted that even with classified information, the challenge facing the Pentagon’s new program is the fact that most UFO/UAP sightings provide scant information. In one video shown at the hearing, a spherical UFO/UAP could barely be seen when zooming past a military aircraft cockpit. Determining which UFO/UAP sightings cannot be easily explained by aerial debris, such as Mylar balloons, weather phenomena, commercial or military drone aircraft or sensor artifacts, — common explanations in some cases — and just what lies behind the remaining, mysteries objects, will take time, according to Mr Bray. “As a lifelong intelligence professional, I'm impatient. I want the immediate explanations for this as much as anyone else,” he told lawmakers. “However, understanding can take significant time and effort.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/intelligence-officials-offer-greater-transparency-but-no-aliens-at-ufo-hearing/ar-AAXoOSJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=cead651b1d4743f19dff0df4c7b85c25
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Post by auntym on May 18, 2022 15:49:42 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spot-a-ufo-the-pentagon-wants-to-know/ar-AAXo6DI?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3719008931054e0aaba32bf71fa82207Spot a UFO? The Pentagon wants to knowby Anumita Kaur / 5-17-2022 If you see an unidentified flying object in the air, let the Pentagon know — and officials have promised to take you seriously. The Defense Department wants to remove the stigma around reporting such incidents so that it can better investigate them, starting with military personnel, Pentagon officials on Tuesday told members of the House Intelligence Committee at a hearing. "We want to know what's out there as much as you want to know what's out there," testified Ronald Moultrie, a top Defense Department intelligence official. "Our goal is not to potentially cover up something, if we were to find something. It's to understand what may be out there, examine what what it may mean for us." The hearing focused on a Pentagon program that started in 2017 and sought to investigate reports from pilots and other military personnel who spotted what the Defense Department calls UAPs, short for "unidentified aerial phenomena" (better known to the public as UFOs, or unidentified flying objects). This isn't the Pentagon's first attempt to record and investigate UFOs. The latest program follows another Pentagon effort, known as Project Bluebook, which discontinued its research about 50 years ago. "Unidentified aerial phenomena are a potential national security threat, and they need to be treated that way," said Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), chairman of the Intelligence subcommittee that held the hearing, the first to examine UFOs in five decades. "For too long, the stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis. Pilots avoided reporting or were laughed at when they did." Scott Bray, deputy director of Naval Intelligence, said that reports of such sightings are "frequent and continuous," with more than 400 recorded by the Pentagon to date — up from the 144 reported sightings between 2004 and 2021. He attributed the rise in reports to the agency's efforts to destigmatize the sharing of such stories. Understanding and assessing the reports is another matter. The spontaneous and often quick nature of the incidents means that officials frequently have little data to work with. During the hearing, Bray pointed to footage of a mysterious object zooming by a military aircraft, appearing and disappearing in the blink of an eye. "I do not have an explanation for what this specific object is," he said. Lawmakers asked Bray to play and replay the video so they could catch a glimpse of the puzzling visual captured through a plane's window. In another video, Navy personnel documented a triangle flashing off the coast of the United States. Several years later, Navy personnel witnessed another triangle floating off a different coast in the U.S., Bray said. "We're now reasonably confident that these triangles correlate to unmanned aerial systems in the area. The triangular appearance is a result of light passing through the night vision goggles and then being recorded by an SLR camera," he said. "This is a great example of how it takes considerable effort to understand what we're seeing in the examples that we are able to collect." This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spot-a-ufo-the-pentagon-wants-to-know/ar-AAXo6DI?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3719008931054e0aaba32bf71fa82207
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Post by auntym on May 19, 2022 12:30:50 GMT -6
Why Congress is finally taking UFOs seriously
May 19, 2022
In today’s episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains why Congress is starting to investigate UFOs -- also known as UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) -- as a potential national security threat.
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Post by Steve on May 19, 2022 18:17:14 GMT -6
Here nice to see Edge of reality here still. I recently watched the Congressional hearings on UFO's. Some comments.
I watched the You tube full video of the Public part of the meeting Senate Congressional Hearing (May 17th, 2022) . The classified part of course we all would rather see. But since it would reveal capability's & methods of gathering the info and the technical aspects possible of the sensors on the aircraft in the recordings , no way are going to .
Some friends thought the quality of the questions asked where notable. My impressions of the quality of the questions were mixed. Some good questions and logical. but one a senator from Illinois (R) Mr LaHood questions where idiotic. He seemed concerned with legal consequences of spreading false info on the Internet about UFO's. Trying to politicize & close discussion about UFO's. The reason LaHoods question is idiotic is how do you know what is false information and real information? When no one knows with certainty what the phenomenon even is in the first place!.
Scott Bray USN Naval Intelligence head & Ronald Moultrie Defense dept R&D I was shocked at the degree of how extremely narrow the confined parameters for investigations were. They only investigate the ones in the group started a decade ago?
They were really only investigating the Intrusions into Naval Air and sub surface events. Nothing at all really outside these exercises. They did desire or wish to work with FBI & the FAA at least. They did seem to be trying ot cultivate a new climate of welcoming reports of sighting now from pilots. It seems they were now obligated and they would be taken seriously. But I have never seen two top Intel officials so heavy with blinders placed on them by 'the system' .
Worse, they had no sense of history of past significant cases effecting national security. The Minot Air Force Base Minuteman missile event in 1968 they were totally igannant of.!!!!! They only knew of blue book...hell every 10 year old kid knows of blue book. The seemed to already sound in their tone answering , since they didn't know about Minot, it must have sounded suspiciously to them like some spurious internet fake news, LOL.
They used so much Pentagon jargon for terms. I was almost waiting for a Nixon Era type reply to a question like 'That statement is inoperative'...lol
At least Mufon was mentioned in the beginning, but seems the Intel officers did not wish, or have the capacity to look at historical patterns in investigating present sightings in context. Its like to these two men, the modern UFO era started in 2004....not 1947.
Ronald Moultrie Defense dept R&D admitted early he i a science fiction fan and had gone to 'conventions'. I guess that was to patronize us to think see, I'm like one of you. I thought, ok, maybe then he has at least the 'imagination' to see the potential possibilities. Einstein said imagination is as important as knowledge. But later his testimony seems to imply possibility's about the phenomenon were to be tossed right out the window.
I am glad they are talking, but its a feeble start, but at least its a start.
I'm sure Senator Lahood in a knee jerk reaction will quickly now be writing a bill to make it illegal for space aliens to vote too....WTF. LOL.
Steve
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Post by swamprat on May 21, 2022 13:22:42 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on May 22, 2022 8:48:39 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on May 23, 2022 2:10:09 GMT -6
lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/but-the-gorilla-gets-a-pass?utm_source=twitter&sd=nfs&s=rBut the gorilla gets a passby Billy Cox / substack.com/profile/27376895-billy-cox5-22-2022 “So just to confirm, you’re not aware of any technology or engineering resources that have been focused on these efforts besides what we’ve mentioned today …” — Rep. Mike Gallager, 5/17/22Former Defense Intelligence Agency director Thomas Wilson watched a little of Tuesday’s UFO hearings in Congress but “didn’t stick with it because I had more important things to do.” He tuned into opening remarks from Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie, and Scott Bray, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. He watched them field a few questions from lawmakers before turning to more important things. Wilson doesn’t dismiss the idea of true unknowns testing American airspace. “But most of what I heard had either been released before, or I’d seen a lot of it before,” said the retired admiral from his home in Virginia. What Wilson found out after he’d turned it off was arguably the biggest surprise of the historic 90-minute session. That’s when, two-thirds of the way through the testimony, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) asked Moultrie if he was “aware of a document . . . sometimes called the Admiral Wilson memo, or the EW notes memo.” Also referred to as the Core Secrets or Smoking Gun memo by advocates of its authenticity, the notes suggest at least one unnamed defense contractor is holding UFO material so tightly, not even America’s elite brass have access. Allegedly written by physicist Eric Davis during a 2002 interview with the just-retired admiral, the controversial 15 pages describe an interview in which Wilson confides his frustration over being denied a security clearance in 1997 to see what the corporate world was hiding. Davis has never defended nor disavowed the document, although he has participated in closed-door meetings with lawmakers about his knowledge of UFOs. Wilson has consistently called the documents “bogus.” And that hasn’t changed. Several weeks ago, the former Joint Staff Director of Intelligence said he was approached by a “Senate committee” liaison who wanted to know if he had “any objections to a law being considered where, if someone’s being questioned by Congress, they can’t say, well, I’m not cleared to talk about it because it’s a black program. I said no, not as long as there’s a process in place to … get clearance.” But if Congress called him to testify about the memo, Wilson said he’d show up, and he wouldn’t need a guarantee of immunity or legal cover. Immunity schmimmunity “This is a ridiculous goose chase and I’ve said so all along. I think they called me about that because somebody still has the mistaken impression that what I have said about it is only because I’m trying to not to violate a secrecy agreement that I have. I told them that wasn’t the case. “You know, there’s a lot of state secrets I could talk about, but not on this issue. I don’t know who they are, but apparently there are a group of zealots who are doing whatever they can to keep the story alive,” Wilson said. “But I would tell Congress exactly what I’ve told you over the years. “They may have put the ‘Wilson memo’ in the Congressional record, but there’s a lot of stuff in the Congressional record that’s not necessarily true. Just because it’s in there doesn’t mean it’s factual.” Either way, Gallagher’s ballsy bid to elevate a fringe buzz into the political mainstream was just one element in what had to be – for at least a few hardcore UFO freaks (me) – among the most clarifying milestones in the long and exhausting timeline of high strangeness. Technical difficulties, please stand by It really didn’t matter that Bray and Moultrie brought bupkis to the table – nobody expected these two to submit the Starchild skull with an accompanying hybrid DNA chart for Nobel consideration. And that little yawner of a Navy-pilot clip? An absolute gift, and not just for showcasing Bray’s bumbling inability to freeze-frame the underwhelming UFO blip for the House intel subcommittee. It was also the perfect insult to a growing subculture that’s already seen government footage of the Aguadilla UFO plunging into the waters off Puerto Rico. What’s missing – and what a conscientious effort to repair the Pentagon’s credibility would have presented – was the unedited version of the Aguadilla phenomenon, with the deleted crew chatter intact. Moultrie and Bray might also have won converts by premiering the rumored 23-minute triangle video, which has been making the rounds within the IC for more than a decade, according to former AATIP director Luis Elizondo. He says the long tracking sequence has left small select audiences “rattled.” But the first public congressional hearings on UFOs since 1968 likely left the entire military establishment rattled, because some committee members appeared better informed than Moultrie and Bray. When queried about the 1967 nuke-missile shutdown by UFOs at Malmstrom AFB, Moultrie tossed the hot potato to Bray, who tried to swat it back: “That data is not within the holdings of the UAP Task Force.” Venturing one of the most intriguing questions was Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL). He wanted to know “the consequences for people … or groups” involved with “unsubstantiated claims or manufactured claims of UAPs … or false information.” He was likely referring to civilian hoax-mongers, but the net was broad enough to include government obstructionists who allegedly kept Elizondo from forwarding AATIP’s UFO research results to SecDef James Mattis in 2017. Moultrie replied with the word salad equivalent of We’re Working On It. “Are there examples,” LaHood went on, “that you can give us where people have been held accountable by this misinformation or disinformation?” Moultrie (short answer): No. “Well, I guess, what’s the deterrent from people engaging in this activity?” LaHood wondered. Moultrie: “I don’t, I don’t know. I don’t have that answer.” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) wanted to hear about data gathered by underwater sensors, and whether or not UAP encounters have “altered the development of, either our … offensive or defensive capabilities or even our sensor capabilities.” The guests tabled their answers for the classified setting afterwards. Apparently unequipped with any meaningful historical perspective, the public faces of the Pentagon clung to the rigid scope of the not-quite-two-year-old UAPTF when grilled by Gallagher. Gallagher wanted to know, for the official record, about any additional Defense Department UFO research being conducted above and beyond the USAF’s Project Blue Book, which ended in 1969, and the AATIP initiative, which grew out of a $22 million earmark from Sen. Harry Reid in 2008. “I’m not aware of any contractual programs,” Moultrie responded, “that are focused on anything related to (UFOs) other than what we are doing in the Navy Task Force.” Ditto from Bray: “Same answer. I’m not aware of anything outside what we are doing in the UAP Task Force.” Still, as informed as many committee members were, no one dared speak of the gorilla in the room. It’s been getting a pass since 1969, and is obviously content with letting the Navy take the heat for security holes in American airspace since the New York Times broke the AATIP story in 2017. Unfortunately, the question is so bloody obvious there’s no way to ask it delicately: Where is the *bleeping* United States Air Force? lifeinjonestown.substack.com/p/but-the-gorilla-gets-a-pass?utm_source=twitter&sd=nfs&s=r
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