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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Luis Elizondo Addresses The Pentagon UFO Program Controversy (AATIP) – BREAKING THE SILENCE

The Pentagon UFO Program (AATIP) Controversy, & Luis Elizondo – BREAKING THE SILENCE

Luis Elizondo Speaks Out on Criticism, the Pentagon, Disclosure and the Future

From Shadows to Headlines

In October of 2017, Luis Elizondo stepped out of the shadows. Whether he wanted it or not, he became an instant celebrity to UFO enthusiasts the moment he walked across a dimly lit stage. He stepped up to the microphone and began recounting his time with the Department of Defense (DOD), and how he had run a “sensitive aerospace threat identification program.” Then, at a moment which appeared to be marred by some reluctance

By John Greenewald
The Black Vault
1-13-20

in his voice, Elizondo told the world that while he ran that program, he learned “the phenomena,” as he called it, was “indeed real.”

The “phenomena” he refers to is that of the “unidentified aerial” kind; or more popularly referred to as simply UFOs.

He was introduced to the stage by Tom DeLonge, a rock star and entrepreneur who had recently formed To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA). Elizondo was part of a newly developed team which aimed to, “…investigate the outer edges of science and unconventional thinking in order to push human knowledge.” Exactly what Elizondo’s role would be in this newly formed group was not immediately known, but his story intrigued the masses.

Two months after Elizondo was introduced, the NY Times and Politico simultaneously published bombshell articles that took Elizondo’s story to a whole new level of exposure. Elizondo went from a celebrity within UFO circles, to becoming the headline of an international story.

Rumors of metal alloy debris recovered from “unidentified aerial phenomena”; allegations that tens of millions of dollars on UFO research was secretly spent; and an in-depth look under the veil of secrecy which surrounded Elizondo himself were just some of the bullet points within these viral stories. It was picked up by media outlets around the world, and very quickly, the subject of UFOs was no longer a laughing matter.

Controversy Begins to Brew

To many who had researched “the phenomena,” this was the moment they had been waiting for. They believed that “disclosure” by a world government of an extraterrestrial presence was about to take place. But despite that enthusiasm by many; others were cautious and even downright conspiratorial. Ideas began floating in some circles that Elizondo was part of a CIA backed cabal aimed to misinform the masses. And DeLonge, who was already known for saying some ‘out there’ ideas on his social network platforms, was simply a pawn in a shadowy government disinformation campaign. Then, you had those in the middle. This group was optimistically cautious about the narrative, but they began to see red flags raised about some facts and motives surrounding the story – and they wanted answers.

The ideas floating around about exactly what was unfolding were not only diverse; they were incredibly divisive. Many found themselves firmly planted on one side of the debate, or the other, and battle lines within various online ‘communities’ were drawn. Emotions would run high, and friendships would be challenged, or even broken. Colleagues would head their separate ways from working with each other, and to make all matters worse; verifiable facts were scarce to help differentiate between what was right and what was wrong.

The Pentagon began issuing statements that questioned Elizondo’s background, and his claims.

Although the Pentagon confirmed that the secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) existed; controversy quickly began to brew about what the U.S. government’s position really was. Could AATIP really have been a secret UFO program? What exactly did it find? Was the entire viral story simply a misinformation campaign orchestrated by the U.S. intelligence community? Official statements did very little to answer those questions.

However, those uncertainties all paled in comparison to what would happen next. The Pentagon dropped a bombshell of their own in June of 2019 and said Elizondo had “no assigned responsibilities” on AATIP; the exact program he claimed to have ran. Although worded cryptically, the intentions were clear. Whether truthful or not, the Pentagon now aimed to hurt the credibility of one of their own. The story that the public was fed for a year and a half which caused so much excitement and confusion, was completely called into question.

This was the tipping point that took the story to the trenches of yet another deep debate. The roller coaster of official statements that brought good news, and bad, now seemed to come to a screeching halt. Elizondo’s story, along with the claims about AATIP, were being challenged by the U.S. government.

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Labels: AATIP , AAWSAP , By John Greenewald , Defense Intelligence Agency , DIA , Dod , Interview , Luis Elizondo , Nimitz , Pentagon , Susan Gough , The Black Vault , UAP , UFO , UFOs

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Navy Admits To 'Another' Secret Video Re The Nimitz UFO Incident

On October the 28th, 2019, long-time researcher and friend Christian Lambright submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Navy’s (USN) Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) for records relating to the famed USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” UFO encounter. In it, he stated:

“This is a request for records under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) as amended including the E-FOIA amendments. Because I am unsure of what department or agency retains the records I am requesting, I ask that you forward a copy of this request to all locations that would have been in

By Paul Dean
ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com
1-8-20

position to receive any of the material(s) detailed in the following paragraphs.

This request is to include all releasable portions of records and reports related to investigation of the detection of and encounter(s) withAnomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) by personnel involved with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG) operations off the western coast of the United States during the period of approximately 10-16 November, 2004. The designation ‘AAVs’ is used here because it appeared in a summary of these events, so there may also be other terms used in the material I am requesting.

Information supportive of my request comes from a former pilot and now writer who has publicly stated he was allowed to see an exhaustive classified ONI report on these events prior to an article he published in 2015. Other supportive information comes from a contractor/analyst who has stated that an investigation had been conducted by a “GS-15” with the Office of Naval Intelligence.

If any records responsive to my request originated with another agency and require review or handling by that agency, I request that I be informed appropriately of the agency(ies) involved and actions in this regard.

I also request that ANY and ALL partially releasable information be forwarded to the appropriate agency(ies) specified for review, if any, and that I be informed appropriately of actions in this regard.

In order to help determine the category in which to place this request, please know that I am a private individual requesting records for noncommercial research and study purposes. Therefore, I believe this request belongs in the “all other” fee category. However, I am willing to pay reasonable search and reproduction fees up to a maximum of $50.00 over and above the ‘2 hours’ research time and first 100 pages free’ provisions of the FOIA for costs associated with this request if necessary.

If my request is denied in whole or in part, I ask that you explain all deletions by reference to specific categories of exempted information, but as required by law, release any segregable portions that are left after the exempted material has been redacted. I also request that redactions be made using blackout not white-out.”

Less than two months later, on December 9th, 2019, the ONI’s FOIA/PA Coordinator, Camille V’Estres, sent Lambright her reply. Her letter states, in part:

“This is a final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request of October 28, 2019, addressed to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Your request was assigned the above referenced Department of Navy FOIA number. You request all releasable portions of records and reports related to investigation of the detection of and encounter(s) with Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) by personnel involved with the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG) operations off the western coast of the United States during the period of approximately 10-16 November, 2004.

Our review of our records and systems reveal that ONI has no releasable records related to your request. ONI has searched our records for responsive documents. We have discovered certain briefing slides that are classified TOP SECRET. A review of these materials indicates that are currently and appropriate Marked and Classified TOP SECRET under Executive Order 13526, and the Original Classification Authority has determined that the release of these materials would cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States. Specifically, under Section 1.4, the materials would trigger protections under subcategory c), the Intelligence Activities of the United States, as well as the Sources and Methods that are being used to gather information in support of the National Security of the United States. In addition, the materials would trigger protections under subcategory e), Scientific and Technological Matters related to the National Security of the United States. For this reason, the materials are exempt from release under the (b) (1) Exemption for Classified Matters of National Defense. As a result these records may not be released and are being withheld.

We have also determined that ONI possesses a video classified SECRET that ONI is not the Original Classification Authority for. ONI has forwarded your request to Naval Air Systems Command to make a determination on releasability…”

From there, Ms. V’Estres goes on to offer Lambright his standard rights of appeal, and a non-determination of fee waiver.

Evidently, the ONI’s response contains numerous issues worth raising. The ONI reviewed their “records and systems” but found “no releasable records” regarding the USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” UFO event. At first glance, this implies that they have nothing themselves to release. But interpreted slightly differently, the statement could also suggest that they in fact do have internal, homegrown records, but those records off limits. This, however, seems unlikely, due to the candid admissions that come next. During these searches, ONI discovered records originating from another agency. Designated as “briefing slides”, these items were deemed to be “classified TOP SECRET” under the well-worn Executive Order 13526, and the originating authority determined that they must stay that way. The reasons given relate, firstly, to “Intelligence Activities of the United States” and “Sources and Methods” which are used to collection national security information, and, secondly, to “Scientific and Technological Matters” related, again, to national security. Finally, the ONI admits to possessing a video which is currently classified “SECRET”. Again, the ONI has no authority to declassify it, but they did at least confess to who does. The originating agency is acknowledged as the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). Ms. V’Estres reply letter is imaged below:

FOIA Request (Nimitz Event) DON-NAVY-2020-001283 By Chris Lambright (1 of 2)

FOIA Request (Nimitz Event) DON-NAVY-2020-001283 By Chris Lambright (2 of 2)

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Labels: AATIP , AAWSAP , By Paul Bean , Chris Lambright , Document , Documents , FOIA , New Secret Video , Nimitz , ONI , Secret , Tic Tac UFO , Top Secret

UFOs and Nukes Witness, Robert Salas Running for Congress

Gunning for second place

California’s 26th Congressional District northwest of Los Angeles looks like a fairly safe bet to stay blue in 2020. Democrat Julia Brownley has been there since 2013, and her constituency has gone for Dems over the past three presidential election cycles. But if an Air Force veteran gets lucky, the 26th could be ground zero for injecting UFOs into the 2020 campaign.

Only, the challenge might not be confined to whether or not

By Billy COx
De Void
1-8-20

UFOs make decent political fodder. We already know a growing number of taxpayers and at least a few lawmakers are ready to raise hard questions about the military secrecy surrounding The Great Taboo. Maybe the question here would be: Are California voters willing to get behind a candidate who claims to have actually been abducted by aliens?

Just how many elected officials have been beamed up is anyone’s guess; heretofore, you’d want to keep stuff like that closeted away with the usual pedestrian skeletons. De Void knows of just one other aspiring Rep who has ‘fessed up to it – Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera. And that was nine years before she decided to run for an open Congressional seat in Miami in 2018.

Despite her account of being whisked aboard an ET spaceship as a child – “There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that control the ship,” she told a Spanish language YouTube production – Aguilera earned an endorsement from the Miami Herald. But she finished sixth in a field of nine in the Republican primary.

Two years later, three time zones away and sensing an accelerating public appetite for candor, former USAF captain Bob Salas is climbing into the ring as a political novice. But as a launch control missileer on duty in 1967 when a UFO allegedly took 10 nukes offline at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Salas has been a public figure in subculture circles for years. In 2005, he co-authored his account of that event, Faded Giant. Five years later, he spoke out at a Washington, D.C., press conference livestreamed by CNN. He made his case again at the National Press Club during the Citizen’s Hearing on Disclosure in 2013, the same year he wrote another book called Unidentified – The UFO Phenomenon.

Salas also owned up to something in 2013 that didn’t make the book – a 1985 abduction experience at his home in Huntington Beach. He offered a graphic description, which included details about how the ethereal body snatchers injected an extremely long needle into his testicles (ouch) to withdraw semen.

While this sort of biographical arc doesn’t have enough data to gauge its effectiveness in political theater, we do live in weird-ass times, and Salas isn’t running from it. In fact, he says from his home in Ojai, anyone who believes the phenomenon is limited to machinery is naïve.

“It’s not a simple matter of UFOs shutting down missiles, or UFOs being able to fly so fast, and the technology of their energy. It’s also about taking people, doing experiments on them, the taking of DNA, telekinesis – it involves a lot of things,” he says. “It’s not as simple as, ‘There are aliens, here they come.’”

Salas began contemplating a run for office after the NY Times’ 2017 story about the Defense Department’s secret UFO research program. Although a military angle was impossible to avoid in order to procure Pentagon funding, what Salas finds counterproductive is the premise that the unknowns pose a threat to national security.

“The shutting down of our missiles was, to me, a message – that’s all. They did no damage to those missiles, by the way, they simply upset the inertial guidance system,” he says. “All they had to do was go out there and reorient the missiles properly so that if they launched, they would be accurate on target. It was strictly an orientation thing.”

While Salas’ website touts liberal positions on conventional talking points like immigration, education and climate change, he maintains the entire system is up for reform when it comes to excessive government secrecy. And he sees the new Space Force agency as “opening the door to greater and greater funding for space weaponry that would create another arms war. It also implies taking our nuclear weapons into space.”

As an Air Force Academy alum with advanced degrees in aerospace engineering plus 21 years with the Federal Aviation Administration, Salas says he’s uniquely qualified to assist congressional oversight into the classified world. “We’ve gotten to a point where we need more people in Congress who understand technical matters,” he says. “We’ve got way too many lawyers.”

California’s primaries are bipartisan, which means the top two vote-getters will square off against each other in November, regardless of party affiliation. Salas is banking on the hope that voter backlash in his district against the GOP could clear a path for a more unorthodox challenge to Brownley. In other words, if he can claw his way into second place in the March 3 primary, well …

“I don’t know where this is gonna go,” he says. “But if I don’t get laughed out of the place for this UFO stuff, if I can get the UFO community behind me even more in terms of donations, then hopefully I’ll have enough to compete, and stimulate more interest in this subject.”

In June, the London-based data analytics company YouGov found that 54 percent of Americans believed it was very or at least somewhat likely the feds are hiding information on UFOs; just 27 percent begged to differ, with 19 percent no opinion. That top-end number sounds a little conservative to De Void, but whatever. If somebody can figure out how to convert all that skepticism into cold hard campaign cash, maybe give a shout-out to Captain Salas. You can’t win a Congressional seat for under a million bucks anymore.

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New Search for Aliens May Be Funded By Congress

Congress, UFOs, NICAP and The CIA

Congress Is Taking the UFO Threat Seriously

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Labels: 26th Congressional District , By Billy Cox , California , Congress , Politicians , Robert Salas , UFO , UFOs , UFOs and Nukes

Mystery Drones Now Raising Safety Concerns

The mystery drones that started as a curiosity are now being viewed as a potential hazard. The unmanned aircraft, flying in groups above Colorado, impacting a professional pilot and raising safety concerns.

By Kristen Skovira
krdo.com
1-10-20

"The drone just went right underneath us," said Kirk Peebles, a Flight for Life pilot out of Lakewood, Colorado.

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Mystery Drones Caught On Camera in Rural Saunders County | VIDEO

UPDATE: FAA, FBI, Homeland Security Join Mystery Drone Investigation

Bizarre Drone Mystery Is Unfolding In Rural Colorado

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Labels: 2020 , Drone , Drones , F.E.Warren Missile Fields , FBI , Homeland Security , Investigation , January , Mystery Drone , Nebraska , Safety Concern , Saunders County , Sheriff , Sighting , UFO , UFOs , UFOs and Nukes , Video

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Ex-Navy Boss Stumped By UFOs

Former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead

Milestone: This is De Void’s first UFO story to make the Herald-Tribune’s print edition. Please note the direct style, as well as the paucity of adverbs and meaningless tangents.

America’s former Chief of Naval Operations stated on Thursday that the unidentified flying objects that appeared to have outperformed Navy fighter pilots on videos recorded in 2004 and 2015 remain a mystery.

“I’ve seen the videos and, at least in my time, most of the assessments were inconclusive as to what it was,” said retired Admiral Gary Roughead, following a speaking engagement in Sarasota. “But the whole issue of defense against autonomous vehicles is one that the Department is taking pretty darned seriously.”

By Billy Cox
De Void
1-9-20

Three sets of gun-camera videos – one taken from an F-18 assigned to the USS Nimitz operating off southern California in November 2004, and two more from Super Hornets attached to the USS Roosevelt during maneuvers off Jacksonville in January 2015 – were authenticated as official government footage by the Defense Department last year.

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Labels: AATIP , AAWSAP , By Billy Cox , By De Void , Navy , Nimitz , Retired Admiral Gary Roughead , Tic Tac UFO , UAP , UFO , UFOs , USS Roosevelt

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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Luis Elizondo Addresses The Pentagon UFO Program Controversy (AATIP) – BREAKING THE SILENCE

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Navy Admits To 'Another' Secret Video Re The Nimitz UFO Incident

UFOs and Nukes Witness, Robert Salas Running for Congress

Mystery Drones Now Raising Safety Concerns

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Ex-Navy Boss Stumped By UFOs

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