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Saturday, September 11, 2021

Army Confirms Testing of UFO Debris

Army Confirms Testing of UFO Debris


     In October of 2019, Tom DeLonge’s company To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) announced an agreement with the U.S. Army. It allowed TTSA to take an untold number of UFO artifacts; pieces of debris or other related material from
By John Greenewald
The Black Vault
9-7-21
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that they have collected, and take it to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command [CCDC] to “advance TTSA’s materiel and technology innovations in order to develop enhanced capabilities for Army ground vehicles.” In other words, the Army agreed to offer their equipment to test the UAP artifacts TTSA had collected in order to see what results may appear. Those results would be mutually shared and exploited. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that they have collected, and take it to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command [CCDC] to “advance TTSA’s materiel and technology innovations in order to develop enhanced capabilities for Army ground vehicles.” In other words, the Army agreed to offer their equipment to test the UAP artifacts TTSA had collected in order to see what results may appear. Those results would be mutually shared and exploited.
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Friday, April 02, 2021

Spy Agencies Blocking Data, UFO Report To Congress Will Be Delayed?

Spy Agencies Blocking Data, UFO Report To Congress Will Be Delayed


     The truth may be out there. But don't expect the feds to share what they know anytime soon on the recent spate of UFO sightings.
By Bryan bender
Politico
3-25-21
Some military and spy agencies are blocking or simply ignoring the effort to catalog what they have on "unidentified aerial phenomenon," according to multiple current and former government officials. And as a result, the Biden administration will likely delay a much-anticipated public report to Congress.
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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Key Figures in Tom DeLonge's UFO Organization Jumping Ship

Key Figures in Tom DeLonge's UFO Organization Jumping Ship
Elizondo indicated that he, Chris Mellon, and Steve Justice
will be departing “To the Stars Academy” (TTSA).


     George Knapp began his interview Sunday night on Coast to Coast AM radio with a simple statement, “Let’s make some waves.” It’s fair to say ‘mission accomplished.’
By Duncan Phenix
Mystery Wire
12-21-20
Knapp’s guest was Lue Elizondo, the former intelligence officer for the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense who has been at the center of many UFO disclosure developments over the last three years.

There were several headlines to come out of the late night interview:
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Monday, November 30, 2020

New Nimitz UFO Encounter Witness Reveals, 'American Taxpayers Still Haven’t Gotten the Full Story'

New Nimitz UFO Encounter Witness Reveals, 'American Taxpayers Still Haven’t Gotten the Full Story'

Where the buck stops​

     “You were on the Nimitz. You weren’t on the Princeton. So, don’t act like you know what happened on the Princeton. These are things that happened on my ship – my ship.” This was Navy veteran Karson Kammerzell teeing off last month on Lt. Cmdr. David Fravor, maybe the single most important eyewitness in the long road toward de-stigmatizing the entire UFO issue. “So I don’t wanna hear you, no matter how far up the chain of command you are, bash my shipmates on my ship by saying what they saw happen on their ship didn’t happen.
Billy Cox
By Billy Cox
De Void
11-23-20

“Because, you got no room to talk, dude. You were on the Nimitz the whole time.”

Hot damn!

A cryptological communications operator aboard the USS Princeton during the fateful span of days in November 2004 compressed into what’s become known as the Tic Tac Incident, Kammerzell is coming in late to this brouhaha. But, as with a small but outspoken group of USN colleagues before him, Kammerzell decided to join them in telling Florida filmmaker Dave Beaty that American taxpayers still haven’t gotten the full story about what happened off the coast of Baja California 16 years ago.

To the extent that the Pentagon finally and formally admitted in April that it doesn’t know what Fravor and his “Black Aces” squadron aboard the USS Nimitz encountered over the Pacific on 11/14/04, Kammerzell is absolutely right – we don’t know the whole story. But how much of that mystery is being deliberately shielded from public scrutiny?

Since the NY Times broke the Tic Tac story, with its attendant revelations about the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, we’ve seen the momentum escalate in ways no one could’ve predicted just three years ago:
In April 2019, the Navy made a public show of updating its pilot procedures for reporting UFOs. Last summer, the DoD established its Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force “to detect, analyze and catalogue” UAPs/UFOs deemed potential national security threats. In June, the Senate Intelligence Committee introduced as part of its omnibus spending bill for 2021 a provision for the military to publicly release its findings. When and if Congress ever gets around to passing a budget, and assuming the Committee’s mandate survives, the UAPTF will have 180 days to pony up. And lately, even the venerable Scientific American is cheerleading for a rigorous, transparent pursuit of the facts.
So lots of things are happening, but the corridors are still dark and we’re all trying to find our way. Just ask Dave Beaty, who started a related Facebook page immediately after the AATIP reveal. The chatter led to an earful from one of the drama’s key players, retired Senior Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day.

Day was anchoring the Combat Information Center aboard the USS Princeton, the guided missile cruiser and comm hub of the carrier task force, when bogeys began shadowing the exercises. Day’s big-picture framing helped inform Beaty’s visual recreation of the incident, which fused stock footage with CGI, and motivated him to contact the To The Stars Academy.

The Nimitz Encounters
Filmmaker Dave Beaty cut out direct references to Lt. Cmdr. David Fravor in his documentary on the Tic Tac incident after being threatened with legal action/CREDIT: Dave Beatty
Beaty asked for permission to use snippets of Fravor’s retelling of the encounter, which were posted on the TTSA website. TTSA chief content officer Kari DeLonge gave the green light for limited use, and Beaty dropped the 14-minute “The Nimitz Encounters” on YouTube in November 2018, where it would draw 1.5 million views.

Shortly thereafter, Beaty was approached in writing by a TTSA lawyer demanding the removal of those brief Fravor segments, as well as any implied affiliation with TTSA. Beaty complied with re-edits, going so far as to delete Fravor’s name from the current version. That one’s been up since 2019 and has garnered more than 5.3 million views.

“It’s kind of stupid, really, to have to refer to him just as ‘the commander of the Black Aces,’ but out of respect for his wishes, OK, fine,” says Beaty, “I’ll just paraphrase everything he said and I won’t attribute it to him.”

The re-edited update, however, was expanded to 32 minutes in order to accommodate additional voices who responded to Beaty’s appeal for more participants and eyewitnesses. From the get-go, Fravor has been reasonably perplexed over the ostensible lack of official interest in his squadron’s documentation of the flying object(s) that zipped around the Pacific skies like a cursor on a computer screen and rendered front-line carrier warplanes obsolete. Yet, after listening to Beaty’s witnesses, the commander felt obliged to push back.

“Position-wise, I’m probably, as commanding officer of the squadron, in the top 20. Out of 6,000 (sailors). And no one came to talk to me,” Fravor told Joe Rogan in October 2019. “No one came to take my tapes, no one showed up in a suit, no one told me not to talk. No one talked to any of my air crew that were involved in this, and there were six (fliers) involved.” And as Fravor told a live audience attending the McMenamins UFO Festival five months earlier, “Excuse my language, but it kinda pisses me off when people started making stuff up.”

Presumably, those unnamed fabulists include Princeton shipmates Petty Officer 3rd Class Gary Voorhis, Leading Petty Officer Ryan Wiegelt and Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Turner, along with Petty Officer Patrick Hughes, assigned to the Nimitz. And now, more recently, the Princeton’s Karson Kammerzell.

Voorhis goes on camera to state that, after the incident, he was ordered to turn over the Princeton’s Aegis 3-D radar system data tapes to two unknown authorities who arrived by helicopter; furthermore, he was directed to reload the CIC radio communication tapes because they’d all just been scrubbed of recent content.

Wiegelt claims two unknown men wearing generic flight suits stepped off a helicopter and tended to none-of-your-business on the Princeton before taking off for the Nimitz. They later returned to the Princeton with unmarked bags, and retired to guest quarters with a sentry posted outside.

While in the Ship’s Signal Exploitation Space aboard the Princeton, Turner says he got a look at the Tic Tac sequence on the console, and that the video was roughly 10 minutes long. Fravor says the video lasts maybe 1½ minutes, and that allegations to the contrary are “bullshit.”

Back on the deck of the Nimitz, meanwhile, aviation technician Hughes says he removed and secured memory cartridges from the all-seeing E-2 Hawkeye, which was monitoring the chase scene from high above the action. Shortly thereafter, Hughes said his CO, accompanied by two unidentified men, confiscated the E-2 “data bricks” and deposited them into bags, which left with the visitors.

Kammerzell decided to weigh in with Beaty only after discovering Fravor’s dismissive comments from 2019.

Over the span of the Tic Tac affair, Kammerzell says he got a first-hand look at a UFO from the deck of the Princeton one night. And it didn’t look a thing like the oblong Tic Tac. It was a silent, triangular array of lights, flying close, maybe no more than a mile away. In fact, he says the entire crew was aware that something extremely bizarre was going on upstairs but nobody freaked because the activity wasn’t threatening.

Kammerzell also said two superior officers were summoned to the Nimitz, where they were instructed that the confusion was merely a “falling ice” phenomenon, a line nobody believed. The day following the incident, Kammerzell added, the boatswain’s mate charged with logging official records for the Princeton discovered his notes from the prior day had been removed and replaced with a sanitized version, in someone else’s handwriting.

None of these details made it into the “Executive Summary,” the unsigned and “unofficial official” accounting of the Tic Tac intercepts prepared in 2009 and released to KLAS-TV journo George Knapp in 2018. But as we follow the trail, Luis Elizondo, the man Fravor credits for persuading him to talk to the Times, urges caution.

“David Fravor is a good man and a hero,” says the former director of the AATIP project. “But yes, it’s possible the commander was out of the loop. He had complete situational awareness of what was going on with his squadron. But it’s not fair to say he necessarily had an awareness of everything that happened.”

Is it logical to suppose that analysts poring over Tic Tac data wouldn’t want to interview the aviators who actually acquired that data? Not really. But when it comes to The Great Taboo, logic has never been a co-pilot. In the meantime, Dave Beaty continues to work with other retired Navy sources.

“In the beginning, I was thinking this thing was completely unknown, and nobody seemed to have a clue within the military,” Beaty says. “But as more people come forward, it seems to paint a different picture that leans more towards the military knowing more about what’s going on with that event than they’re letting on.”

Certainly, if they’re sitting on classified data, that much is indisputable. At least now, with Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist running the UAP Task Force, we know where the buck stops.

Here’s to clarity.
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Monday, November 16, 2020

UFOs and Politics

UFOs and Politics

When the Republicans release this as their closing paragraph of a multi-year investigation into Trump. Hard to call this fake news when the red team is the one that put it out. Stay tuned for some sealed indictments that may finally start rolling out - pic.twitter.com/nuGAkcpl1v

— Tom DeLonge (@tomdelonge) October 18, 2020
     Tom DeLonge has been expressing his political views on Twitter. After writing a line like that about DeLonge, reporters and bloggers typically give readers an obligatory few sentences about how he is the unlikely front man of an organization consisting of former defense officials and contractors who purport to research UFOs. We'll skip the intro since you probably already know about TTSA if you're reading my blog in the first place, but we could add that very little in the way of compelling evidence has actually been produced by those former officials and contractors. After decades of spooky stories and promises of forthcoming UFO Disclosure, we continue to have little more than hearsay to show for it.
Jack BrewerBy Jack Brewer
The UFO Trail
10-19-20

While plenty of the burden falls on the shoulders of self-described scientists who plundered around Skinwalker Ranch, it's not all their fault. It's been three years now since Kean and company broke the AATIP story in the Times, and there are a whole lot of relevant assertions made in that article that still haven't been verified. The Times, its writers, and TTSA bear responsibility for that.

As we have explored on this blog and elsewhere, the Disclosure movement is a chronic staple of the UFO genre. It has endured some 70 years of public hearings, Congressional panels, and forecasts of big things to come. Nonetheless, many UFO advocates continue to suggest a Congressional hearing will, this time, reveal the secrets that are surely withheld.

Deeply withheld secrets, we might add, that allegedly seem to be rather puzzlingly made available to men like Luis Elizondo. These men, secrets purportedly in hand, apparently decided to launch a corporation with a stock securities strategy for fundraising rather than seek counsel from attorneys with expertise in national security and whistleblower law. It might indeed be considered reasonable to tap some brakes on the validity and objectivity of their insider knowledge that rests so heavily on taking them at their word.

As DeLonge weighs in on the upcoming election, we could consider a prevailing point that towers above the support and criticism he receives: The UFO topic is married to the political arena.

In order to realistically discuss possible Congressional hearings and initiatives (like the Rubio-backed effort to obtain a DoD appraisal of the UAP situation), we must consider political allegiances and related dynamics. Moreover, while some high profile characters state they support a nonpartisan approach and that politics should stay out of the UFO fray, their actions suggest somewhat otherwise.


As suggested in the above tweet, TTSA personnel and its friends of the program are fond of guest spots on the right wing, highly dubious FOX News. The "highly dubious" description I opted to use is not just my personal observation, but is in line with court filings by FOX itself. Attorneys argued on behalf of FOX that reasonable viewers do not take Carlson seriously and understand his segments to be hyperbole, as suggested in the screenshot below.

Tucker Carlson Disclaimers
The seemingly ever present Nick Pope is also among those who frequent Carlson's show and discuss issues which many would argue he is not the least bit qualified to address, much less explain. The political leanings of Pope, who generally supports TTSA or most anything that keeps people talking about UFOs, may be explored at his Twitter account.

UFO enthusiasts and TTSA fans, whether they like it or not, are somewhat forced to accept that Congressional support for the UAP topic is enmeshed with political issues. Acknowledging the political factor in the UFO arena is a sensitive undertaking for the talking heads because it lays bare the topic's often overlooked social complexity. It is often overlooked, both mistakenly and as an insincere matter of convenience, in lieu of promoting an overly simplistic and unrealistic model. UFO buffs might also consider why their preferred spokespeople, if they sincerely want to keep the topic as apolitical and nonpartisan as possible, congregate to talk about it on the defacto state media channel.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020

UFOs / UAP and The Hot Mess at the New York Times

UFOs / UAP and The Hot Mess at the New York Times


     After listening to Kean and Blumenthal on how hard they had to work to get articles in the NYT, I am completely unimpressed by the latest two articles.

First, whatever was said in the articles caused many of the UFO crowd to go wild saying the Pentagon has admitted they had crashed ET saucers, Lazar is vindicated, the Roswell incident was confirmed. None of the above were exactly in the article. Speculation overran what was written. If the article was not so sloppily written perhaps other newspapers and radical UFO fans would not be so encouraged to jump off the deep end.
By Jan Aldrich
The UFO Chronicles
8-3-20
The retraction on the Harry Reid quote was the first crack. Then, Reid issued a much more conservative statement.

Eric Davis is on record as opposed to Lazar’s story.

Davis is identified as a consultant to the Pentagon.  What actually was missing are several important details. Was he a current consultant? Was he a consultant on UFO?  Did he really say there were crashed saucers known to the Pentagon?

Being a subcontractor on a government contract does not mean someone is a contractor to the Pentagon. Being on the contractor's employment rolls does not mean someone is a contractor. Maybe a fine point, but necessary in this discussion.

While the authors said elsewhere that they were in contact with the NYT Washington bureau. They couldn't identify what committees Eric Davis testified in front of, but I think the Washington bureau may not have been able to find out what was said at the hearings. They, however, probably could confirm what committees took Davis’ testimony.

Former Deputy Asst. Def Sec for Intelligence, Chris Mellon said rather that Davis gave out leads and sources of potential information.

Finally, the follow-up article on the UFO beliefs is ironic as it quotes Margaret Mead. I don't think they knew that Mead advocated serious study of UFOs after another well-known anthropologist and former OSS operative, Dr. Carlton Coon joined NICAP.  In our scanning of the CUFOS files we have not yet encountered correspondence with Mead or Coon.

The articles were not news items.  There was adequate time to vet the articles unlike breaking news.
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New York Times Reporter Ralph Blumenthal Addresses 'Off World Craft' – INTERVIEW

Off World Craft


     UFO Researcher and New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal joins Mark to talk about an article he recently wrote about some eye raising disclosures from the US Military regarding weird lights in the sky and possibly "Off world craft"
By Mark Towhey
News Talk Radio 1010
8-2-20
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Sunday, August 02, 2020

UFO Gatekeepers: You Shall Not Pass

UFO Gatekeepers: You Shall Not Pass



     The recent sensational New York Times’ headline thrilled readers across the world: No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public.

I am not going to discuss the details of the article or the Time’s subsequent corrections or the buzz generated in UFO circles of imminent disclosure. Instead, I want to focus, as I have for the last ten years on the human side of the UFO subject, and specifically on those who play a role in pushing the UFO narrative through the mass media. In this latest sensation -
James Carrion
By James Carrion
The UFO Chronicles
7-29-20
Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal who also broke the Times’ 2017 AATIP story, follow up on their tic-tac, paddywack, give a Navy dogfight a bone story to the now even more sensational retrieval of off-world vehicles.

 If my multi-decade experience with the UFO subject has taught me any one core truth, it boils down to the following observation. The modern-day UFO subject has been dominated for the last seven plus decades by humans deceiving humans and because the deceivers are affiliated with domestic or foreign government agencies, what truly lies at the core of the UFO phenomenon cannot be unequivocally ascertained until the role of those agencies is brought fully to light. A tall glass to fill indeed.

I am not talking about the MIB, or MJ-12, or the IPU, all mythical or made-into-myth organizations that have no basis in reality. I am referring to, at least on our side of the pond, our run-of-the-mill agencies like the CIA, the DIA, and in years pass the AFOSI. Now it is the ONI – the Office of Naval Intelligence – that is taking the central role in this hall of mirrors.

We are enticed to believe that soon, some of the ONI’s UFO findings will be shared with the public, although I am not holding my breath for clarity but just further muddying of  the UFO waters,  likely generating more questions than answers. I anticipate the “findings” will be piecemeal-ed out in a very controlled manner using the same human mouthpieces that have been serving their intended purposes from 2017 until the present day. It won’t just be Kean and Blumenthal but also Mellon, Elizondo, de Longe, and Silva, who will act in there already pre-established roles as “gatekeepers”. Those who came before them like Knapp and Moulton-Howe have long since served their purpose of pushing false narratives like the Skinwalker Ranch. New gatekeeper blood has emerged but the myths they are helping to build have at their base the dung hill of deceptions past.

Gatekeepers

You may remember the iconic movie scene from the Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring where the wizard Gandalf prevents the demon Balrog from crossing the bridge; slamming down his magical staff while uttering the words, “You shall Not Pass!” The bridge crumbles and the Balrog falls into the chasm. UFO truth seekers who shun the sensational and instead critically explore and research facts are just as doomed to cross the UFO bridge of enlightenment, stopped from further progress by the sponsored gatekeepers of the UFO narrative.

Playing an analogous role to Gandalf in UFO world are the UFO mouthpieces who release and promote their sensational UFO news stories, oftentimes fed by an inside source.  Ego-driven by their “chosen” status and preconceived beliefs, they are more than eager to regurgitate the sensational allegations, irrespective of glaring red flags. Facts and journalistic integrity often time take second place to getting the story out. The UFO narratives that make it into the mass media flow directly from deceivers through these gatekeepers and alternative narratives simply cannot compete. Conspiracy and sensationalism sell and anything mundane simply falls away into the deep black void.

Gatekeepers most likely are not cognizant they are being taken for a ride, although I would venture some do and simply don’t care. Others are just plain old naïve and truly believe they are the conduits to imminent disclosure. Some may think they can role play their way to the inner circle of UFO enlightenment when in fact they never make it over the bridge themselves. Some may even be cognizant of their roles and the masters they ultimately serve.

 Critical thinkers will see it as just the same ole nonsense of imminent disclosure they have been hearing about for years. Jack Brewer discusses the same in his recent blog article UFO Debris, Disclosure, and Congressional Investigations. If you think Senator Marco Rubio is a visionary for pushing for Congressional briefings, then take the time to read this 1988 document. Congress has had an interest in UFOs since Kenneth Arnold kicked off the modern-day UFO era in 1947. Since that time, neither the most ardent UFO believers who scream  Cosmic Watergate nor the official agencies that had UFO investigation oversight until 1969, have been able to muster sufficient concrete evidence to interest the scientific community or to grab the short attention span of politicians. Congressional inquiries have gone nowhere.

And are we supposed to believe that by the time the Air Force stopped investigating UFOs in 1969, that the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) was asleep at the UFO wheel for decades? If the ONI wants to truly brief the public, they can start by explaining what the hell they have been doing with UFO intelligence since 1947.

UFO Gatekeepers come and go, but what always eludes us is the plain and simple UFO truth. Instead it is obfuscated, muddied, built on deceptions and minutely orchestrated by those who control the narrative for selfish reasons. The same old gatekeepers show up time and time again in UFO circles, monopolizing the news cycle; propped up to media roles, their sensational voices drowning out logic and reason. Did you catch Linda Moulton Howe’s cameo on the History Channel’s The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch?

When they have outlived their usefulness, UFO Gatekeepers are sidelined, and new young guns take their place. The sooner you accept that UFO disclosure is a fallacy, the less disappointment and frustration you will endure when the ONI’s findings do not live up to your expectations. But if you insist on skipping and hopping your way across the bridge to UFO enlightenment – just remember that like all who desired the same before you and were denied - You Too Shall Not Pass.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Do We Believe in UFOs? – Wrong Question

Do We Believe in UFOs? – Wrong Question


     Reporting on the Pentagon program that’s investigating unidentified flying objects is not about belief. It’s about a vigilant search for facts.

We’re often asked by well-meaning associates and readers, “Do you believe in U.F.O.s?” The question sets us aback as
By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean
The New York Times
7-28-20
being inappropriately personal. Times reporters are particularly averse to revealing opinions that could imply possible reporting bias.

But in this case we have no problem responding, “No, we don’t believe in U.F.O.s.”

As we see it, their existence, or nonexistence, is not a matter of belief.
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UFOs, UAP Deserve Scientific Investigation

UFOs, UAP Deserve Scientific Investigation

UAP are a scientifically interesting problem.
Interdisciplinary teams of scientists should study them
     UFOs have been back in the news because of videos initially leaked, and later confirmed, by the U.S. Navy and officially released by Pentagon that purportedly show "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) in our skies. Speculations about their nature have run the gamut from mundane objects like birds or balloons to visitors from outer space.
By Ravi Kopparapu, Jacob Haqq-Misra
www.scientificamerican.com
7-27-20

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Judging the nature of these objects (and these seem to be “objects,” as confirmed by the Navy) needs a coherent explanation that should accommodate and connect all the facts of the events. And this is where interdisciplinary scientific investigation is needed.
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Sunday, July 26, 2020

The "Disclosure" Shoe Finally Drops - And it's a Huge Dud!

The 'Disclosure' Shoe Finally Drops - And it's a Huge Dud!

     We reported last week about the widespread expectation among the "Young Guns" of UFOlogy of a groundbreaking UFO Disclosure revelation to be published in the New York Times, approximately right now. Well, the Shoe has now Dropped:

But instead of shock, amazement, and jubilant vindication, the reaction among the UFO Fan Boys is largely that of disappointment and disbelief. Joe Murgia, who we quoted in the previous article as expecting imminent "Disclosure," has now
Robert Sheaffer
By Robert Sheaffer
Bad UFOs
7-25-20
posted to Twitter, "this is not THE article." Quite obviously it isn't.
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Pentagon’s UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public

Pentagon’s UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public


For over a decade, the program, now tucked inside the
Office of Naval Intelligence, has discussed mysterious events in classified briefings.

     Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.
By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean
The New York Times
7-23-20
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Senate's Request For a Public Report On UFOs – 'It's Impossible to Overstate The Magnitude of This ... Directive'

Unprecedented Public Report On UFOs Requested From Senate Intel Committee




A blizzard in hell


     It’s been a week now, and I keep waiting to wake up. Because when I think I’m woke, the “Advanced Aerial Threats” section of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 hasn’t done the disappearing ink thing. Which leads me to believe the Senate Intelligence Committee is serious about ordering the Pentagon to produce a legitimate audit of The Great Taboo, at least as it relates to national security. By December — an unclassified report, with a possible “classified annex” at the end.
Billy Cox By Billy Cox
De Void
6-30-2020

First reaction: What’s the catch? It can’t possibly be this simple. It’s been 50 years since the closure of the U.S. Air Force “Project Blue Book” sham. Fifty years of official avoidance, denial, ridicule and stigma. More than 70 years since researchers with the original government analysis of UFOs, Project Sign, reportedly came back with the theory that the problem was “interplanetary.” And those conclusions – allegedly summarized in a document called “Estimate of the Situation” – were promptly rejected and buried by USAF Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg. At least, that’s the way it’s been framed since before most of us were born.

It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this heretofore unthinkable directive issued by the Senate last week. It sounds almost, what, too normal, too pro forma, as if the most radical fishing expedition of our lifetime is simply a matter of good bureaucratic housekeeping. Yet, here we are, in a place no one could have predicted even a year ago.

The “how” of why we’re here is the easiest part to figure. Without To The Stars Academy – which has been lambasted in small but obstreperous corners as the propaganda arm of some hidden hand – there is no “Advanced Aerial Threats” mandate in the Senate package. Period. For all of its flaws during and after its 2017 rollout, TTSA, guided most credibly by Luis Elizondo and Chris Mellon, has accomplished the impossible. Can we all at least agree on that?

Already, De Void has heard grumblings about the timing of the Senate’s move, coming just weeks before the second season of History’s “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.” Some critics charge the series, which premieres on July 11, couldn’t have gotten a better marketing boost than a Senate inquiry. Which is true. And so what? If this is brainwashing, bring it on. What theory are “they” promoting? What do “they” want us to believe? Who are “they”? Game on.

The more relevant question is, do 100 elected public officials, with limited demonstrable knowledge of this persistent mystery, have the long view on what they’ve gotten themselves into?

Ostensibly, the Senate’s primary objective is to determine whether or not Uncle Sam is facing a technology gap created by “adversarial foreign governments.” The Senate also wants to include an FBI review of data collected on incidents over “restricted United States airspace” – not a bad idea to bring a civilian agency into the mix. But at what point will this push for interagency cooperation clash with their perceived proprietary interests?

Consider the briefly famous Stephenville incident from January 2008, which suggested more about the military’s knowledge of tactical UFO behavior than about the UFO itself. Radar records retrieved from the FAA and National Weather Service (the Air Force would provide no records of its own) indicated there were no military interceptors in the air at all when the no-fly zone over President Bush’s “Texas White House” was apparently being challenged by an object without a transponder.

We know, for instance, that on at least three prior occasions during the Bush administration, Air Force warplanes swarmed and forced down private pilots who were either lost or stunting as they violated the security perimeter above Bush’s place. We also know, thanks to the civilian radar data, that F-16s from Carswell Air Force Base came to within a mile of the same object(s) when it emerged some 65 miles to the northwest, an hour or so earlier. That’s when the intruder initially popped up over Stephenville, leaving a handful of eyewitnesses at separate locations in cattle country to report a massive and brazenly slow-moving flying machine cruising low over the plains.

Were there no jet fighters in the vicinity of the Bush residence that evening because pilots had been waved off? Have there been briefings about potentially catastrophic UFO countermeasures? Because it wasn’t as if the USAF had lost interest in the event. A FOIA-assisted reconstruction of that event assembled by Robert Powell and Glen Schulze implied the entire incident was being monitored by another plane, possibly an AWACS surveillance craft, circling high above at 41,000 feet. Wonder what those pilots would have to say?

“The Air Force should be in the hot seat because they’re in charge of patrolling our skies,” says UFO historian Jan Aldrich. “I think they’re enjoying seeing the Navy in the hot seat.”

Founder of Project 1947, which displays primary source documents on UFOs dating back to back to the early nuclear age, Aldrich called the Senate’s move a “bolt from the blue,” nothing he thought he’d see in his lifetime. But is the political system structured to accommodate the complex legacy of this puzzle? Noting how the formal inquiry is directed primarily at the Office of Naval Intelligence, which confirmed the existence of its  Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, Aldrich offers a 1952 Look magazine story for perspective. It’s a map based on USAF data showing Cold War era UFO hot spots across the U.S.

“It’s all over our defense installations,” the Army veteran notes of the historical UFO penetrations, “and in more than half a century, nothing has really changed.” Furthermore, says Aldrich, many of “the best” UFO cases, like incidents involving the old Strategic Air Command, never made it into Blue Book. Will lawmakers care about going that deep into history?

And there’s a clause in the “Advanced Aerial Threats” section indicating the need for “an official accountable” for “an interagency process for ensuring timely data collection and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting for the Federal Government, regardless of which service or agency acquired the information.” That’s bigger than huge. It’s the key. Who might that person be? Military or civilian? An Edward Condon or a James McDonald? It would be a pleasant surprise to learn that anyone inside the Beltway knows either of those names.

America is facing reckonings on many fronts – science, the economy, race, income inequality, health care, sociology, and issues we haven’t even begun to recognize. And now, finally, apparently, this. Are we capable of getting it right? Are there any honest brokers out there with the integrity to steward a fair and dispassionate accounting of history’s most explosive story? Or is it already too late for that?

De Void isn’t convinced this whole thing isn’t an extended old-school dream sequence, doomed to end on the clatter of teletype or an urgent voice-over from a Movietone newsreel: “Bulletin! Putin Blows Up Capitol Dome, President Not Informed! UFO Senate Report — Delayed!”

Failing that … Christmas is coming. Ready or not.
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