Article by Brian Bender July 23, 2021 (politico.com)
• The Federal Aviation Administration has a new capability called the Space Data Integrator program (see FAA data sheet here) coordinating the increase in space launches with the ordinary commercial air traffic.
Article by Matt Spivey July 17, 2021 (dailystar.co.uk)
• On June 25th, a 9-page ‘unclassified’ version of the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force report was released to the public. According to ‘The Black Vault’ author and podcaster John Greenewald, Jr., the classified version of the report is only 17 pages long.
Article by Celine Castronuovo July 4, 2021 (thehill.com)
• On July 4th, Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.) (pictured above), chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation, was on the CBS news show “Face the Nation”. The discussion turned to the newly released unclassified government report on UFOs which Carson admitted was largely “inconclusive” on the origins of more than 140 unidentified flying objects that the US military has observed since 2004. (see 5 minute video below)
• Carson called on Congress to hold hearings on reported UFOs. “My hope … is that we will have a series of hearings and possibly a public hearing in the very near future,” Carson said, though he did not give a specific timeline. “What we do know is that … there have been nearly 150 (UFO) sightings. Eighty of those sightings have been detected with some of the best technology the world has ever seen.”
• The UAP Task Force report noted that many UFO sightings have occurred near US military assets, our naval bases, our military installations. One of the possible explanations for the still unidentified UFOs could be advanced technologies developed by U.S. adversaries such as China or Russia. “We don’t want our adversaries to have … a technological advance over us in terms of what they can do with their capabilities,” Carson said, warranting concern and the need for further investigation. But Carson added that sightings around US military bases may result from a ‘collection bias’ due to “focused attention, greater numbers of latest-generation sensors operating in those areas, unit expectations, and guidance to report anomalies.”
• Finally, Carson admitted that government officials “can’t rule out something that’s otherworldly” in a small percentage of cases. It would be “arrogant to say that there isn’t life out there,” said the Congressman. “If it is otherworldly, we have to take into account our advancements in terms of our cellphone technology and why aren’t these images being captured? We have to think about the nearly 4,000 satellites that are orbiting the Earth right now. Most of those satellites have cameras attached to them. Why hasn’t any of that information been released?”
• [Editor’s Note] Congressman André Carson claims not to know why there isn’t more information available on UFOs or if they even exist. Two possible explanations why Carson seems to be so out of touch with reality might be: 1) Carson knows full-well about the long-standing extraterrestrial presence around our world and our government’s ongoing interaction with a number of different ET beings since at least WWII, but he has been told to play dumb so as not to cause a public panic; or 2) Carson really is ignorant of the most important reality in human history due to a lack of any intellectual curiosity whatsoever.
Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on
Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation, is calling on Congress to hold a “series of hearings” on reported UFOs following last month’s highly anticipated release of an intelligence report on the subject.
The congressman said in interview Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that because the newly unclassified report on UFOs, referred to by the Pentagon as “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), was largely “inconclusive” on the origins of more than 140 objects, additional probes are needed.
“My hope … is that we will have a series of hearings and possibly a public hearing in the very near future,” Carson said, though he did not give a specific timeline.
“What we do know is that … there have been nearly 150 sightings,” he added. “Eighty of those sightings have been detected with some of the best technology the world has ever seen.”
While Carson said officials “can’t rule out something that’s otherworldly,” he added that was possible in only a “very small percentage” of cases.
Last month’s highly anticipated UAP report said that nearly all of the 144 such encounters documented by the U.S. government since 2004 remained a mystery, though the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was able to confirm that one of the objects was a “large, deflating balloon.”
One of the possible explanations included in the report was that the UAP could be advanced technologies developed by U.S. adversaries such as China or Russia, potentially posing a national security threat.
5:05 minute clip of André Carson on CBS news show (‘Face the Nation’ YouTube)
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On July 4, Dr. Steven Greer released his latest documentary film – ‘The Cosmic Hoax’. In it, he presented evidence of a decades-long plan to stage an alien false flag invasion. He described multiple aspects of the plan and key figures in its implementation. He asserts that the staged event is imminent given recent developments in the mass media and US politics concerning the June 25 UAP report. What’s missing in Dr Greer’s analysis of a Cosmic Hoax is another kind of alien false flag event.
In this Exopolitics Today podcast, Dr. Michael Salla examines The Cosmic Hoax, pointing out its strengths and shortcomings as an expose on a future alien psyop, especially when it comes to a very different kind of staged alien event – an ‘Alien Rescue’ or ‘Salvation’.
Available on Rumble and YouTube
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June 14, 2021 (abc.net.au)
• Around 2,000 satellites orbit the Earth, and over half of them are operated by NATO countries, ensuring everything from mobile phone and banking services to weather forecasts. Military commanders rely on some of these satellites to navigate, communicate, share intelligence and detect missile launches. Around 80 countries have satellites, with private companies are moving in as well. In the 1980s, just a fraction of NATO’s communications was via satellite. Today, it’s at least 40 per cent.
• Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty states that attacks on any one of the 30 NATO allies will be considered an attack on all of them. NATO’s collective defense clause has applied to military attacks on land, sea, or in the air, and more recently in cyberspace. It has only been activated once, when the members rallied behind the US following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• Many NATO member countries are concerned about what they say is increasingly aggressive behavior in space by China and Russia. In December 2019, NATO leaders declared space to be the alliance’s “fifth domain” of operations, after land, sea, air and cyberspace. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (pictured above) said that “any attack on space capabilities, like satellites and so on or attacks from space, will or could trigger Article 5 …which states that an attack on one will be regarded as an attack on all – that we all will respond.”
• Former US President Donald Trump raised deep concern among US allies, notably those bordering Russia like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, when he suggested that he might not rally to their side if they didn’t boost their defense budgets. Since occupying the office, Biden has tried to reassure them of America’s commitment to its European allies. Trump also ordered the creation of the US Space Force, which was launched in 2019. “Space is the world’s new war-fighting domain,” said Trump.
NATO leaders are set to expand the use of their all-for-one, one-for-all, collective
defence clause to include attacks in space, the military organisation’s top civilian official says.
Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty states that attacks on any one of the 30 allies will be considered an attack on all of them.
So far, it has only applied to military attacks on land, sea, or in the air, and more recently in cyberspace.
“I think it is important [with] our Article 5, which states that an attack on one will be regarded as an attack on all, that we all will respond,” NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said.
“We will make it clear at this summit that, of course, any attack on space capabilities like satellites and so on or attacks from space will or could trigger Article 5,” he said, a few hours before chairing a summit with US President Joe Biden and his
counterparts.
Around 2,000 satellites orbit the Earth, over half operated by NATO countries, ensuring everything from mobile phone and banking services to weather forecasts.
Military commanders rely on some of them to navigate, communicate, share intelligence and detect missile launches.
In December 2019, NATO leaders declared space to be the alliance’s “fifth domain” of operations, after land, sea, air and cyberspace.
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Article by Luis Martinez June 25, 2021 (abcnews.go.com)
• An unclassified version of a highly anticipated report on UFOs, prepared by the U.S. intelligence community and delivered to Congress on Friday, does not provide definitive explanations for 143 UFO/UAP encounters reported by the U.S. military between 2004 and 2021. The report (see here) does not contain the words “alien” or “extraterrestrial”, and says further study or “pending scientific advances” may be needed to help explain UFOs that fall into a vague category: “other.”
• A senior U.S. government official noted that the report does not indicate that a foreign adversary had made significant technological leaps. He said that future data may lead to ‘non-Earth-related’ technologies. “We are open to other hypotheses that is meant to recognize that we have many things that we are currently unexplained,” said the official. “We are open to the possibility that some things may be unexplainable with our current level of understanding.”
• The seven-page report presented to congressional committees on Friday met a requirement Congress put in place last year requesting that the U.S. intelligence community take six months to prepare an unclassified and classified report on what the U.S. government knew about UAP/UFOs. “The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP,” said the report.
• The report reviewed 144 UAP incidents reported by U.S. military personnel in recent years. Only one could be explained and was attributed to a large deflating balloon. The report lists five hypotheses that may possibly explain some of them in the future: “airborne clutter” (birds, balloons, or drones); “natural atmospheric phenomena” (ice crystals, etc); “U.S. government or industry developmental programs”; “systems from a foreign adversary”; and the catch-all category listed as “other.”
• “Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation,” the report said. However, as the UAP incidents represent “an array of aerial behaviors”, “not all UAP are the same thing… [T]here is a wide, wide range of phenomena that we observe.”
• “There is not one single explanation for UAPs, it’s rather a series of things,” said the official. “And our analytic approach to this is to create a framework in which we have considered five explanatory categories that we believe are plausible explanations for a UAP that we observe.”
• The report cited 18 incidents “that appear to demonstrate advanced technology” based on flight characteristics. In those incidents, UFOs “appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion.” “In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings,” the report added. As for some of the incidents captured on video, the official said some are “propulsion that we can’t explain” though in some cases objects that appeared to be moving fast “may not be moving as quickly as it appears that they are in that video.”
• With the need for more data to analyze UFOs, the Pentagon announced new steps designed to standardize reporting and analysis of UAP reports across the military. The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force has begun to receive additional data from the Federal Aviation Administration from civilian pilots reporting “unusual or unexpected events.”
• “This report is an important first step,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the former chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence who championed the drafting of the bill ordering the DNI report. “The Defense Department and Intelligence Community have a lot of work to do before we can actually understand whether these aerial threats present a serious national security concern.” Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the committee, labeled the report “inconclusive”.
• [Editor’s Note] While the UAP Task Force report is a big ‘nothingburger’, I see two positive aspects of it. First, the report cites 18 incidents “that appear to demonstrate advanced technology” based on flight characteristics. The report includes a fifth category of UFOs as “other” – leaving room that extraterrestrials may have provided this advanced technology. Second, the report includes a category of UFOs created by “U.S. government or industry developmental programs”. So they admit that the UFOs seen by military personnel could have been manufactured by the military industrial complex, utilizing advanced technologies provided by “other”… which of course they were. The missing variable which the government is only willing to label as “other” is that this advanced technology was either provided directly by extraterrestrials or were derived from the reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial vehicles. The fact that these experimental drone craft employ extraterrestrial electromagnetic anti-gravity propulsion – which the US Navy has publicly patented under the inventor Salvatore Pais – is the ultimate conclusion that the U.S. government is trying so hard to avoid.
A highly anticipated report on UFOs, prepared by the
U.S. intelligence community and delivered to Congress on Friday, does not provide definitive explanations for 143 encounters the U.S. military reported with unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, that took place between 2004 and 2021.
An unclassified version of the report, released on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence website, does not contain the words “alien” or “extraterrestrial” and says further study or “pending
scientific advances” may be needed to help explain what are known as unexplained aerial phenomena or UAP’s that fall into a vague category the report lists as “other.”
But a senior U.S. government official did not rule out the possibility that future data may lead to non-Earth-related technologies.
“Of the 144 reports we are dealing with here, we have no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation for them – but we will go wherever the data takes us,” said a senior U.S. government official, who also noted that they did not show that a foreign adversary had made significant technological leaps.
“We are open to other hypotheses that is meant to recognize that we have many things that we are currently unexplained,” said the official. “We are open to the possibility that some things may be unexplainable with our current level of understanding.”
The seven-page report presented to congressional committees on Friday met a requirement Congress put in place last year requesting that the U.S. intelligence community take six months to prepare an unclassified and classified report on what the U.S. government knew about UAP’s.
“The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP,” said the report.
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June 15, 2021 (tmz.com)
• On June 15th, U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) was asked about whether the mysterious UFOs being reported by U.S. Navy pilots off of American shores could be Russian. Burchett said that if the Russians had the kind of advanced technology pilots have reported seeing … Putin would already own America. Instead, Burchett thinks the UFOs – seen on video operating in ways defying known laws of physics and gravity – must be something from beyond the Milky Way.
• Burchett was then asked to comment on the unclassified UFO report that is due for release before the end of June. He said that he’s been disappointed with empty promises before about releasing UFO info, and even calls out President Trump for missing the mark. Burchett says that “something’s clearly going on” … but the powers that be think folks can’t handle the truth.
• Burchett suggested that if the highly-anticipated government report doesn’t cough up some real intel, it will only prove why some people believe more in UFOs than in their elected officials. Burchett says it’s time we take UFOs seriously, and he’s got a hunch full disclosure is coming … one way or another.
Vladimir Putin and Russia are not responsible for the swarm of UFOs being reported
by U.S. Navy pilots, according to Rep. Tim Burchett … who says the aircraft must be from another galaxy!!!
We got the U.S. Congressman from Tennessee on Capitol Hill Tuesday and asked him about the rash of sightings in U.S. airspace or off our shores … and the speculation President Biden plans to raise the issue Wednesday during his Geneva summit with Putin.
Rep. Burchett’s having a hard time believing the Russians are involved. He says if they had the kind of advanced technology pilots have reported seeing … Putin would already own America.
Instead, the Congressman thinks the objects — which are seen on video operating in ways defying known laws of physics and gravity — must be something from beyond the Milky Way.
There’s lots of government chatter about UFOs these days, with intelligence officials expected to release an unclassified report for the first time before the end of June. Burchett says he’s been disappointed with empty promises before about releasing UFO info … and even calls out former Prez Trump for missing the mark.
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Article by Duncan Phenix June 17, 2021 (wjbf.com)
• On June 16th, US House lawmakers received a classified briefing on the upcoming Senate UAP/UFO report by officials from the FBI and the US Navy. The House members in attendance were from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation (C3).
• According to the New York Post, several lawmakers made comments to reporters as they left the secure room used for the briefing. Andre Carson (D-IN) said that while there are national security concerns to consider, “We’re looking forward to having a public hearing at some point.”
• The House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, “It was an interesting briefing. I did learn things that were certainly new to me. But I think I’m going to leave it at that.”
• Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) said, “The stigma is gone. Now that’s as big a change in policy as I’ve witnessed about this issue in my lifetime. So the fact that they are taking this sort of thing seriously for the first time, I think, is important.” However, Rep. Quigley then said, “If I had to predict how the public will react to this, one word would be disappointing.”
• Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) gave a pessimistic assessment saying, “I’m not on the edge of my seat.”
• Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) said she felt the briefing was important. “You know it’s always about our safety and security …and so that’s really the area where we really focused on this morning.”
• Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) said, “We take the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously to the extent that we’re dealing with the safety and security of US military personnel or the national security interests of the United States, so we want to know what we’re dealing with. …[A]nd we all know that there’s [a] proliferation of technologies out there,” Rep. Maloney added. “We need to understand the space a little bit better.”
MYSTERY WIRE — Several U.S. House lawmakers received the first known briefing on the
upcoming UAP/UFO briefing due to Congress by June 25.
On Wednesday morning, officials from the United States Navy and the FBI gave a classified briefing for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation (C3).
After the briefing the New York Post reported on several comments from the lawmakers as they left the secure room used for the briefing.
“We’re looking forward to having a public hearing at some point,” said Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN). “I mean, there’s some national
security concerns that we want to take into consideration.”
The House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, “It was an interesting briefing. I did learn things that were certainly new to me. But I think I’m going to leave it at that.”
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) said, “The stigma is gone. Now that’s as big a change in policy as I’ve witnessed about this issue in my lifetime. So the fact that they are taking this sort of thing seriously for the first time, I think, is important.”
However, Rep. Quigley then said, “If I had to predict how the public will react to this, one word would be disappointing.”
Peter Welch (D-VT) gave a similar assessment saying, “I’m not on the edge of my seat.”
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) told the Post she felt the briefing was important. “You know it’s always about our safety and security — our national security is number one — and so that’s really the area where we really focused on this morning.”
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) said, “We take the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously to the extent that we’re dealing with the safety and security of US military personnel or the national security interests of the United States, so we want to know what we’re dealing with.”
“I think it’s important to understand that there are legitimate questions involving the safety and security of our personnel, and in our operations and in our sensitive activities, and we all know that there’s [a] proliferation of technologies out there,” Rep. Maloney added. “We need to understand the space a little bit better.”
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Article by Katie Balevic June 5 2021 (the-sun.com)
• Top US officials were pre-briefed on the Pentagon’s report that is due for release by the end of this month. In short, US intelligence cannot explain over 120 documented UFO sightings.
• Fox News’ Tucker Carlson remarked, “It doesn’t sound like they can say much of anything.” “The Pentagon cannot say that UFOs are from a different solar system, but they can’t say they’re not. They can’t say they’re from China or Russia, but they can’t say they’re not,” Carlson said.
• So Carlson turned his questions over to Lue Elizondo, a former Pentagon official who oversaw investigations of UFO sightings. Elizondo offered a history lesson on UFOs. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Elizondo obtained records that show the US military has been monitoring UFOs since 1950, possibly even earlier. “This is official government documentation from military personnel to very senior military brass,” said Elizondo.
• Elizondo says that senior military personnel and scientists have spotted UFOs over US military facilities on multiple occasions. “The US government has finally admitted that this is not some sort of secret US technology,” he said. “But now, there is some wiggle room to say, ‘Well maybe it is some foreign adversarial technology.'”
• Elizondo thinks the likely culprits would be either China or Russia. But Russia shared much of its UFO information with the US following the fall of the Berlin Wall, and “they were seeing the exact same thing in their skies that we were,” he said, eliminating Russia as a suspect.
• Elizondo noted that China is frequently behind the curve on technology in comparison to the US. He doubts that either China or Russia would have the technological capabilities to conduct such advanced surveillance on US military operations. It is extremely unlikely that either China or Russia would have this type of technology – at least 1000 years ahead of us – and kept it secret since the 1950s.
• While Elizondo appeared to dismiss theories that the UFOs could be Chinese or Russian technology, he didn’t suggest any other possible culprits. He did note, however, an increase in UFO sightings as the country developed its nuclear abilities. “We began to see an increased uptick of what appeared to be some sort of reconnaissance or surveillance of our nuclear technology, our nuclear development – whether it’s power or propulsion or weapons systems and related technology,” he said.
• [Editor’s Note] Elizondo – a former counter-intelligence official with the CIA – says that UFOs have been breaching US military airspace since the 1950s (true), and they aren’t American, Chinese or Russian. But government officials cannot say they are extraterrestrial in origin.
What are they hiding? They are hiding the fact that Hitler and the Nazi’s obtained advanced anti-gravity electromagnetic propulsion technology from extraterrestrials just prior to WWII, induced the American military industrial complex to join their evil alliance during the 1950s in return for access to this technology, and thus created both the modern deep state shadow government and the secret space programs – all of which has been kept from public knowledge. With the maniacal deep state politicians and generals controlling the nuclear arsenal, benevolent extraterrestrials stepped in to make sure that these nukes could not be used to destroy the Earth, and thereby causing severe repercussions throughout the galaxy.
So what is this game that Elizondo is playing? Is he truly trying to advance UFO disclosure by making it obvious that these UFOs, or at least the technology, comes from extraterrestrials? Or is he trying to advance the agenda of the deep state by creating confusion and fear of an extraterrestrial threat to the Earth, possibly setting up a deep state false flag alien invasion?
Former Pentagon official Lue Elizondo said the military has been seeing mysterious
“tic-tac” UFOs since 1950, possibly even earlier.
On his show, Tucker Carlson brought on Elizondo to discuss the military’s history with UFOs, asking what the Pentagon’s report really means.
“The Pentagon cannot say that UFOs are from a different solar system, but they can’t say they’re not. They can’t say they’re from China or Russia, but they can’t say they’re not,” Carlson said.
In the Pentagon’s report that top US officials were briefed on this week, US intelligence couldn’t offer an explanation for over 120 mysterious UFO sightings.
“It doesn’t sound like they can say much of anything,” Calrson said, turning his
questions over to Elizondo, a longtime Pentagon official who oversaw investigations of UFO sightings.
Elizondo used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain records that show the military has been monitoring UFOs since 1950, possibly even earlier.
“This isn’t some eye witness report from a civilian,” Elizondo said. “This is official government documentation from military personnel to very senior military brass.”
Elizondo said senior military personnel and scientists have spotted UFOs over US
military facilities on multiple occasions.
“The US government has finally admitted that this is not some sore of secret US technology,” he said. “But now, there is some wiggle room to say, ‘Well maybe it is some foreign adversarial technology.'”
Elizondo says the likely culprits would be either China or Russia, but doesn’t think either of them have the technological capabilities to conduct such advanced surveillance.
Russia shared much of its UFO information with the US following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Elizondo said.
“They shared a lot of their UFO information with us, and by the way, they were seeing the exact same thing in their skies that we were,” he said, eliminating Russia as a suspect.
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Article by Brendan Morrow May 21, 2021 (theweek.com)
• On May 21st, former Nevada senator Harry Reid wrote an article for The New York Times about how he became “increasingly interested in UFOs,” although his staff warned him not to “engage” with the subject publicly. Nonetheless, in 2007 Reid helped secure funding for a Pentagon program to investigate UFO reports. “I believed that an unofficial taboo regarding the frank discussion of encounters could harm our national security and stymie opportunities for technical advancement,” Reid wrote. “We wanted to take a close, scientific look at the technological implications of reported UFO encounters.”
• There’s information the government has uncovered during its UFO investigations “that can be disclosed to the public without harming our national security,” says Reid. “[T]he American people deserve to know more”. And hopefully they will soon through the upcoming release of a UFO report requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
• Reid describes visiting Area 51 as a senator. “I visited Area 51, the top-secret Air Force testing site in southern Nevada long associated with UFO-related conspiracy theories,” he wrote. “What I saw fascinated me, though much of it must remain classified.”
• Reid says that “there’s still a great deal we don’t understand” and that “focusing on little green men or conspiracy theories won’t get us far”. “[But] if science proves that it does, I have no problem with that.”
Is the truth out there? Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is weighing in.
Reid wrote an article for The New York Times on Friday discussing how he became “increasingly interested in UFOs,” something he says his staff warned him not to “engage” with publicly. Despite their warnings, the former Nevada senator, as he recounts, helped secure funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a Pentagon program to investigate UFO reports.
“I believed that an unofficial taboo regarding the frank discussion of encounters could harm our national security and stymie opportunities for technical advancement,” Reid writes. “Which is why, along with Senators [Ted] Stevens and [Daniel] Inouye, I helped create that secret Pentagon program in 2007. We wanted to take a close, scientific look at the technological implications of reported UFO encounters.”
Reid argues that there’s information the government has uncovered during its UFO investigations “that can be disclosed to the public without harming our national security,” as “the American people deserve to know more — and hopefully they will soon” through the upcoming release of a UFO report requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
At one point, Reid also describes visiting Area 51 as a senator and seeing fascinating things.
“As a Democratic senator from Nevada, I visited Area 51, the top-secret Air Force testing site in southern Nevada long associated with UFO-related conspiracy theories,” he writes. “What I saw fascinated me, though much of it must remain classified.”
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Article by Adrian Carrasquillo May 11, 2021 (newsweek.com)
• UFOs have long been dismissed and relegated to movies and message boards. But after the release of footage of high-profile U.S. military encounters with aircraft of unknown origin, and confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, Senator Marco Rubio wants to get past the UFO jokes and focus on the seemingly vulnerable national security of the United States. “We cannot allow the stigma of UFO’s to keep us from seriously investigating these encounters,” Rubio told Newsweek.
• Rubio has in many ways taken the baton from former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who previously led the way in pressuring Congress to try to understand what was going on. In June 2020, Rubio added language to the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act requesting that the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense create a report with “a detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting.” Two months later, the Pentagon created a UAP Task Force to investigate the encounters by U.S. military aircraft. The intelligence report has a soft deadline of June 1st.
• Rubio sees the UFO topic as a national security issue. “People think about space aliens,” Rubio told TMZ in March. “[T]here’s stuff flying over military installations and no one knows what it is, and it isn’t ours.” “[M]aybe it’s a foreign adversary that has made a technological leap,” Rubio elaborated to Fox News.
• Rubio is aware that stigma attached to UFOs is an impediment to reaching a hard conclusion about what the government is dealing with. This stigma goes back decades to a time when if a Navy pilot reported a sighting, he or she would have been sent to the flight surgeon “to check out your head and make sure you’re not seeing things,” said Rubio earlier this year.
• But today, Rubio takes the UFO matter quite seriously, and will take on a question about extraterrestrials head-on. “Well, if they made it all the way here they probably are, yeah, they’re probably more advanced,” he said. “If they can get here and we can’t get there that tells you they’re probably more advanced.”
• And should Biden and the U.S. government’s approach to extraterrestrials be friendly? Rubio laughed, saying only that it would be one heck of a way to top the last year and a half.
Senator Marco Rubio believes the truth is out there and he wants to
get past the UFO jokes to make sure the national security of the United States isn’t threatened in any way, he told Newsweek.
“Dozens of men and women we have entrusted with the defense of our country are telling us about encounters with unidentified aircraft with capabilities we do not fully understand,” Rubio said in exclusive comments ahead of a 60 Minutes interview that will air this weekend. “We cannot allow the stigma of UFO’s to keep us from seriously investigating these encounters.”
UFOs, long dismissed and relegated to movies about aliens visiting earth and breathless message board posts, have begun to shed the farce label in recent years after the release of footage of high-profile U.S. military encounters with aircraft of unknown origin.
The 2019 leaked photos and video taken by U.S. Navy personnel of one such encounter, which showed triangle shaped objects flying through the air, were confirmed as authentic by the Defense Department in April of this year. Even the name of the objects — the branding if you will — has been revamped when discussed by the U.S. government, getting away from UFOs, to unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs.
Rubio has in many ways taken the baton from former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who previously led the way in pressuring Congress to try to understand what was going on.
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One of the least understand processes in the modern history of UFOs are secret meetings held between US Presidents and extraterrestrial visitors, and subsequent agreements that emerged from them. A number of insiders and eyewitnesses have come forward over the years to share their knowledge of these highly classified events, which continue to remain secret to this day and are hotly disputed among UFO researchers.
To this body of testimonial evidence that such meetings and agreements did occur, we can now add recent remote viewing sessions conducted by the Farsight Institute using a scientifically rigorous protocol. The data provided by Farsight gives us an independent means of evaluating the earlier body of testimonies concerning US Presidents meeting with and striking deals with extraterrestrials. Before discussing the recent Farsight remote viewing sessions on “Presidential Meetings with Extraterrestrials,” I need to explain what was already known from multiple sources about such meetings
The first references to US presidents meeting with extraterrestrials came from a letter dated April 16, 1954, that was written by a highly respected metaphysical leader, Gerald Light, less than two months after President Eisenhower reportedly met with an extraterrestrial delegation at Edwards Air Force Base. Light’s letter described his first-hand account of the meeting and the events that transpired after a delegation of human-looking extraterrestrials arrived in a flying saucer craft.
Light described expectations that the public would be told the truth by the Eisenhower administration, but a high-level cover-up was implemented instead. Unfortunately, there was no independent corroboration of the momentous meeting that Light says he witnessed. Consequently, Light’s account was quickly dismissed, ridiculed, and forgotten by the general public.
Over the subsequent decades, anonymous whistleblowers would occasionally come forward to be interviewed by an intrepid journalist or brave UFO researchers, such as Timothy Good, who included the information in their newspaper articles or books. Good’s 1991 book, Alien Contact, was among the first to release details of the Eisenhower extraterrestrial meeting. Very few individuals were willing to go on the record and face the scrutiny, ridicule, and risks associated with going public on such a highly classified topic.
Also, in 1991, a former top-level US Navy intelligence briefer, William Cooper, released his highly controversial book, Behold a Pale Horse, where he revealed some of the contents of official files he witnessed describing President Eisenhower meeting with different delegations of extraterrestrials at Edwards AFB and other locations in the 1954-1955 time period. Cooper said that the first delegation failed to reach an agreement with Eisenhower’s administration but warned him of a second extraterrestrial group that would soon make contact. Eisenhower was told this latter group would be more willing to reach an agreement but prove to be treacherous, and take the planet down a very dark path.
Cooper said an agreement was eventually reached that permitted a limited number of alien abductions, but these increased exponentially as a result of the permission being given (see my January 2004 article).
Beginning in 2007 first-hand testimony emerged from a number of witnesses that had been present at Holloman AFB in February 1955, showing conclusively for the first time that a second meeting had indeed occurred. UFO researcher Art Campbell collected a number of these insider accounts of what transpired, along with documents corroborating their testimonies. In short, President Eisenhower was seen entering into a flying saucer that had landed, but few details emerged about what was discussed and the occupants of the craft.
With the remote viewing data recently provided by Dr. Courtney Brown and his team of remote viewers, an independent means of corroborating such insider accounts is now available for the first time. Furthermore, a rare glimpse is provided into these highly classified meetings between US Presidents and extraterrestrials, and what was agreed to.
As explained in my previous article on the Farsight Institute’s remote viewing protocols, all sessions are conducted under “blind conditions.” The remote viewer is simply told to view a target, e.g., “Target X”, without being given any details. Only the individual setting up the sessions, Dr. Brown, is aware of the target. Here are the two targets that were given to the five remote viewers that participated in the sessions.
Target 1: The first meeting between a US President and extraterrestrials from the Galactic Federation of Worlds during the 20th Century.
Target 2:
Part A: The highest level meeting between a US President and/or his representatives and Reptilian extraterrestrials and/or their representatives during the 20th Century.
Part B: The first meeting between a US President and/or his representatives and extraterrestrials from the Orion System during the 20th Century.
While there were significant differences among the remote viewers about particular details of the scenes they were witnessing, the broad picture they described had remarkable coherence. This is one of the stunning aspects of multiple remote viewing sessions of blind targets by highly trained and competent remote viewers. It is easy to understand why the US Intelligence Community has used remote viewing for decades to complement intel gathered by other traditional sources: human (HUMINT), electronic (ELINT), photographic (IMINT), etc.
In the case of Targets 1 and 2, the remote viewers were able to independently confirm that high-level human representatives (Eisenhower administration) met with different groups of extraterrestrials that arrived in spacecraft to remote locations where meetings took place. The extraterrestrials came from competing alliances; some were human-looking (Galactic Federation of Worlds), while others were Reptilians (Draco Empire) or allied with them (Orion Collective).
Some of the negotiations went badly (Galactic Federation), while others led to deals being struck (Draco and Orion). The successful extraterrestrial groups gave technologies in exchange for human genetics or being allowed to establish bases on Earth.
The human leader (Eisenhower) eventually felt great regret for giving away something valuable (humans) for what he recognized as technology trinkets. On the other hand, the extraterrestrials who secured an agreement (Draco and Orion) felt they had achieved a significant victory over their enemies (Galactic Federation).
This suggested that the human side (US) was negotiating from a position of weakness since they did not view any of the different extraterrestrial groups as enemies but as neutral bidders in a negotiation. In contrast, the Reptilian-allied extraterrestrials saw the (Earth) human side as naïve natural enemies to be manipulated and exploited while feigning technological support.
After watching the remote viewers’ observations, it needs to be appreciated they spoke in general terms about human and non-human subjects meeting and interacting in different locations, without naming specific groups or locations. It is only when Dr. Brown analyzes their data in relation to the two targets he had set for the sessions, that a clearer picture emerges of what had happened.
Here’s how Dr. Brown summarized the remote viewing data:
You see, there was a meeting, not just one meeting, but a few meetings. The meetings were between various extraterrestrial groups and one or more US presidents and their representatives. The ETs were not all of one mind. They all wanted something. Some seemed to want to warn humanity not to strike a deal with other ET groups. Everyone wanted an alliance of some sort. But US leadership also wanted something, stuff.
Indeed, human leadership seemed desperate to strike a deal, and that desperation led to a deal that many now regret profoundly. This is one of the reasons for the continued secrecy. The deal was so bad that current human leadership is afraid to talk about it. So from the ET side, and the human leadership side, the silence continues.
What is remarkable here is that the remote viewing data corroborates much of what insiders have been revealing about secret meetings between the Eisenhower administration and extraterrestrials dating from 1954. The initial meeting with representatives from the Galactic Federation did not result in agreements, but subsequent discussions with the Reptilian and Orion alliances did.
The warnings from the first group of extraterrestrials (Galactic Federation) were disregarded, and the agreements reached with the second group (Draco and Orion alliance) came to be regretted by President Eisenhower.
It is known that President Eisenhower was very unhappy with the way the extraterrestrial issue was being managed by the Majestic-12 Group (MJ-12). While President Truman had created MJ-12 in September 1947, Eisenhower gave it much more power following the recommendations of national security advisors such as Nelson Rockefeller.
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Eisenhower expressed his disappointment privately to trusted military aides and even threatened to invade Area 51’s S-4 facility where extraterrestrial technologies were being stored and studied by MJ-12 personnel. Advanced extraterrestrial technologies were being reverse engineered with limited success, as confirmed by Bob Lazar in 1989. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of people were being abducted by aliens and subjected to genetic experiments.
Eisenhower’s realization that the deal with the extraterrestrials was a bad one led to his famous farewell address about the dangers of the Military Industrial Complex and warning President Kennedy about the MJ-12 Group.
Nevertheless, the agreements persist to this day, as evidenced by Dan Sherman, a former US Air Force electronic communications expert (1982-1994) who in 1998 revealed in his book, Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny, that the NSA had trained him to communicate with Gray extraterrestrials who reported on the abductions they were performing. When Sherman realized that there was a secret agreement between extraterrestrials and the US government that permitted abductions, he decided to resign and left the Air Force in disgust.
The agreements go far beyond merely allowing human subjects to be abducted for genetic experiments. According to multiple insider reports, the agreements also extend to soldiers being sent on missions to battle against Reptilian extraterrestrials with little chance of success, and millions disappearing annually into a slave trade that involves individuals being sent into remote deep underground bases (DUMBs) or off-planet locations (Moon and Mars) with no prospect of return.
All this makes it easier to appreciate Dr. Brown’s conclusion that human political leaders are afraid to reveal the different agreements reached with extraterrestrials. The public reaction to learning the truth would be utter disgust and an immediate demand to terminate such agreements. The anticipated public response is very high among the factors that perpetuate the secrecy system that still remains in place decades after the initial agreements were first reached and periodically renewed in total secrecy, without the public learning anything about the agreements and their hidden provisions.
Dr. Brown’s remote viewing sessions on “Presidential Meetings with Extraterrestrials” provide a valuable corroborating source of evidence that such meetings did in fact occur, and have resulted in agreements with manipulative extraterrestrial groups that continue to plague humanity’s evolution and development. In the meantime, the extraterrestrial group (Galactic Federation) that was spurned by US officials in the 1950s, has been quietly waiting for the day that the earlier oppressive agreements would be publicly exposed, and be replaced by more equitable arrangements.
As humanity undergoes its Great Awakening and learns of the many dark activities of the Deep State and its allies, it will be important to include full disclosure of these secret agreements. Most critically, we need to befriend the Galactic Federation of Worlds whose representatives first warned us of the dangers of agreements with the Orion and Draconian extraterrestrial alliance, and have played an important behind the scenes role in assisting humanity’s Great Awakening.
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The Farsight Institute has just released the results of multiple remote viewing sessions focusing on the true history of Antarctica in terms of a breakaway German colony established there with the help of extraterrestrials during the World War II era. The remote viewing sessions were conducted using a rigorous blind scientific protocol developed by Dr. Courtney Brown, and the results were, frankly, very impressive.
The consistency of the results with what whistleblowers and insiders had previously revealed, and the additional details they provide about the events that occurred in Antarctica leading up to and including Admiral Byrd’s Operation Highjump expedition from August 1946 to February 1947, makes the remote viewing data very helpful in reaching a more accurate understanding of our history.
Dr. Brown provided two targets to five remote viewers who were not given any details about the targets, so they could not front-load their own biases and opinions about it. Here is how he explains the scientific protocol used for all remote viewing sessions:
Blind Conditions for All Remote-Viewing Data: All remote viewing for this project (as with all projects conducted at The Farsight Institute) was conducted under totally blind conditions. The viewers were told nothing about the project or specific targets while they were conducting their remote-viewing sessions. They were only instructed that there is a target, and that they should remote view it.
In the Antarctica remote viewing sessions, there were two targets that the five remote viewers would focus on.
Target 1. The most advanced Nazi base in Antarctica, circa the end of World War II.
Target 2. The most significant battle between the Nazi forces in Antarctica and US forces, circa the end of World War II or after.
It’s important to emphasize that the five remote viewers were instructed to focus respectively on Target 1 and Target 2 without being told anything about either target.
It needs to also be pointed out that it is not unusual to get remote viewers to focus on historical events in remote locations. CIA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act confirm that the CIA hired remote viewers to gain intelligence on events on Mars as far back as one million years ago. Clearly, those within the intelligence community appreciate the importance of remote viewing data to better understand events that transpired decades, centuries, and even millennia ago.
In the two-part video series that has just been released, Dr. Brown provides his introductory remarks to each target and what the five remote viewers found. At the end of each segment of five presentations, he gives his own summary and analysis about each target. The following trailer introduces the two-part video series that spans four hours and what was discovered.
In Part 1, the five remote viewers presented their data on what they had witnessed. They all described seeing large artificial structures in a remote cold, snow-covered mountainous region. Saucer-shaped craft were sighted in the vicinity, and several remote viewers witnessed them either landing or proceeding into a large underground facility that was accessed through a mountain entrance.
One of the underground facilities was a large urban dwelling, dwarfed by even larger industrial manufacturing areas nearby, all connected by a transportation system of some kind. The five remote viewers all described seeing humans and extraterrestrials interact in various situations and those key individuals in command positions. The attitude of the humans was a mix of fear, anger, and arrogance. The extraterrestrials had an attitude of superiority, dominance, and boredom in working with humans.
None of the remote viewers explicitly mentioned Antarctica or Nazis. However, the descriptions they gave of the location and people involved for Target 1 were clearly indicative of both. While there were some variations in reports of the area, structures, humans, and extraterrestrials each of the remote viewers witnessed, collectively, they provided impressive details on Target 1: “The most advanced Nazi base in Antarctica, circa the end of World War II.”
Dr. Brown provided his analysis and summary of what the five remote viewers had observed in relation to Target 1:
What we found out is that there was a huge Nazi presence in Antarctica at the end of World War II. Moreover, they had help, extraterrestrial help, and in fact, very surprising extraterrestrial help. Clearly, the Nazis could not have established a powerful military presence in Antarctica without outside assistance, the environment was just too inhospitable. So they got help but we ultimately found out that they got help from two very different extraterrestrial groups.
One of the extraterrestrial groups helping the Nazis was Reptilian, while the other group was a human-looking group working with both the Nazis and Reptilians.
The remote viewing data aligns closely with what William Tompkins said he, and members of a covert Naval espionage team stationed at Naval Air Station San Diego during World War II, was told by nearly 30 navy spies embedded in top aerospace corporations in Nazi Germany. The spies revealed that Reptilian extraterrestrials had helped Hitler’s regime establish a base in Antarctica during the war and guided the Germans to precise locations where they could establish a large base—Admiral Donitz’s impregnable Shangri-la from which the Germans could one day rebound from their impending military defeat in Europe: “The German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Führer, in another part of the world, a Shangri-La on land, an impregnable fortress.”
Tompkins’ testimony is backed by multiple insiders and historical documents that I discuss in detail in Antarctica’s Hidden History: Corporate Foundations of Secret Space Programs (2018). Therefore, the remote viewing data is an additional source of evidence supporting claims that the Nazis had established a breakaway colony in Antarctica, which continued operations well beyond World War II.
The five remote viewers next proceeded to Target 2, again without being given any details of what they were looking for. This time the five witnessed large aerial battles over the remote mountainous region in a cold, snowy terrain. One side of the battle possessed flying saucers coming both from outer space and from undersea locations that were piloted by a mix of humans and extraterrestrials, while the other side comprised conventional aircraft piloted exclusively by humans, a number of naval ships, and ground forces.
The side led by humans was described as military in orientation and behavior, and possessed aircraft, ships, and ground troops. Before the battle, the leader of the human side was confident and determined to fulfill his mission of finding and destroying the underground facilities of the other side—the secret German Antarctic base.
The results are consistent with what is known about Admiral Byrd’s Task Force 68, which comprised 13 ships, 33 aircraft, and 4700 US servicemen in Operation Highjump, and the secret orders he had been given to find and subdue any German bases in Antarctica. Given memories of the comprehensive military defeat of Nazi Germany, it’s understandable why Byrd and his expedition would have had high confidence about their chances of success.
The remote viewers described the excitement and glee of the extraterrestrials whose craft were technologically vastly superior, as contrasted to the craft of the human (US Navy) pilots that were courageous but quickly became despondent as the battle progressed. The remote viewers described the extraterrestrial craft as possessing LASER weapons that disintegrated both the human aircraft and ground forces advancing towards the German base.
The remote viewers described a very one-sided affair where the flying saucers both toyed with and destroyed all the conventional aircraft. One of the remote viewers, Aziz Brown (Dr. Brown’s son), compared the battle to what was depicted in an episode of the popular sci-fi series, Stargate SG-1, where invading extraterrestrial spacecraft were met by human-piloted US Air Force fighters. In contrast to the genuine battle depicted in Stargate SG-1, Aziz Brown reported the battle he witnessed in association with Target 2 as a massacre.
The remote viewers described the aftermath of the battle and the attitudes of the respective leaders. The commander of one of the extraterrestrial flying saucer craft was in a very celebratory mood, while the human leader of the losing side was devastated. Several of the remote viewers described the top commander of the flying saucer craft as a very tall, powerful Reptilian who was ecstatic with the result.
There is one historical photo showing a downed US Navy airplane that crashed during Operation Highjump. While the Navy asserted that the downed craft was an isolated accident, according to the remote viewers, Antarctica was strewn with such debris from the destroyed aircraft and routed ground forces.
Dr. Brown again provided his analysis of the data at the end of Part 2 of the video series.
You have now seen all of our data regarding the Nazis in Antarctica and their extraterrestrial allies. To be honest, it is not too surprising to see that the Nazis found support from the Reptilians.
He went on to explain the dynamics of the evolving relationship between the Reptilians, the Nazis, and the US military as a result of Operation Highjump:
The Reptilians had no long-term interest in the Nazis, they were a means to an end…. You see by helping the Nazis with their Antarctica base they gained two things. First, they gained a small but dependable slave military force that they could dispatch wherever they wanted, even off-planet in the future. But second, and this is a really important part, they could scare the daylights out of the American military and political leadership. You see, it was clear at the end of the Antarctica battle that the Nazis could use their new aircraft and weapons to challenge the entire U.S. military. Indeed, the US military would be powerless against such a technological advantage.
Why then did the Nazis not actually do it? Why did they not actually invade the continental United States and blow the US military out of the water so to speak? Well, it’s simple, their Reptilian allies did not allow it. The Reptilians didn’t want the Nazis to control anything. They just wanted the US military and political leadership to be so frightened that they would agree to absolutely anything in order to get some of that advanced technology.
Brown’s analysis is consistent with insider reports that the Nazis and their extraterrestrial allies allowed most of the naval ships of Operation Highjump to escape the destruction inflicted on aircraft and ground forces. The ships and surviving personnel would be able to return to the US and warn national security leaders about the new enemy in Antarctica.
Indeed, Admiral Byrd revealed some of the truth when he stopped in Chile and gave an interview where he referred to significant casualties and a new enemy that the US would have to face.
Adm. Byrd declared today that it was imperative for the United States to initiate immediate defense measures against hostile regions.
The Admiral further stated that he didn’t want to frighten anyone unduly but it was a bitter reality that in case of a new war the continental United States would be attacked by flying objects which could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds.
Admiral Byrd repeated the above points of view, resulting from his personal knowledge gathered both at the north and south poles, before a news conference held for International News Service.”
This takes me to the second group of extraterrestrials helping the Nazis that participated in the aerial battle witnessed by the five remote viewers. Dr. Brown said:
What is most surprising is that some of our data suggests that some support for the Nazis came from a group of extraterrestrials who we know as the Pleiadians. Now understand that we have a much broader view of the Pleiadians at the current time. They were not all of one mind during that time period. Moreover, the Pleiadians now seem to be thoroughly upset with everything that some of their kind did with the Nazis back in the day. In general, we have found that contemporary Pleiadians are good people who want the best for humanity, all of humanity.
Dr. Brown’s comments here are puzzling since none of the remote viewers mentioned Pleiadians helping the Nazis. All the remote viewers mentioned were human-looking extraterrestrials helping the humans (Nazis) in the underground structures and the subsequent battle in the remote cold snowy mountainous regions (Antarctica).
According to the available literature, the human-looking extraterrestrials helping the Germans described them as coming from the Aldebaran star system in the constellation Taurus, not the Pleiades constellation. This was made clear in the psychic communications of Maria Orsic, who established the initial contacts with the Aldebaran extraterrestrials that kickstarted the development of the advanced spacecraft that would eventually be incorporated into the secret weapons programs of Nazi Germany and taken secretly to Antarctica.
Is Dr. Brown simply mistaken in his assertion that a rogue Pleiadian group helped the Nazis? Possibly, but it’s worth pointing out that according to Elena Danaan, who claims to be a Pleiadian contactee, there is indeed a rogue group of Pleiadians that are working with Reptilians. She describes them as coming from Alcyone, one of the solar systems making up the Pleiades constellation, and also asserts that they have long been helping the Cabal/Deep State:
They named themselves “Taal Shiar”… and name their planet “Taalihara” orbiting around the star Alcyone…. They tried to build their own little empire from there, I think that was quasi impossible regarding to the overpowering threat of the Orion and Ciakahrr [Draco Reptilian] empires. By opposition to their brothers Taygetans [the main Pleiadian group], they did not join the GFW [Galactic Federation of Worlds] and instead allied with … malevolent groups. They are involved in the misdeeds of the Cabal on Terra [Earth] and a painful disgrace to the Man races. They also gave a world in the Alcyone system to a reptilian presence. [A Gift From the Stars, p. 250]
The information provided by the team of remote viewers working with Dr. Brown gives rich insights into historical events that took place in Antarctica around the end of World War II, the establishment of a secret German space program in underground locations, and the assistance to the Germans by both human-looking and Reptilian extraterrestrial groups.
The remote viewing data provided by Dr. Brown and his team of well-trained remote viewers following a rigorous scientific protocol provides a highly valuable means of intelligence gathering on esoteric topics and important historical events involving extraterrestrial life. The data provides answers to many important questions while also raising further controversial issues to explore. Most critically, remote viewing data helps us sidestep the blanket suppression of information about the true history of human extraterrestrial interactions implemented by national security forces in all major countries. For these reasons, Dr. Brown and his remote viewing team deserve our thanks and support.
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• Former CIA director (between 1993-1995) R. James Woolsey, 79 (pictured above), was recently on John Greenewald Jr.’s the Black Vault YouTube channel to promote his new book, Operation Dragon, in which Woolsey says that Lee Harvey Oswald is behind JFK’s assassination.
• Woolsey also says he has become less skeptical about the possibility of extraterrestrial life as he has heard several stories of unexplained aerial phenomena over the years. “There have been over the years now events of one kind of another, usually involving some kind of aircraft-like airframe,” said Woolsey. “I never thought there was anything to all this, it always seemed pretty far-out to me.”
• “But, there was one case in which a friend of mine (someone Woolsey said he ‘respects’) was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft,” Woolsey revealed. “There had just been enough things like that that have occurred that I think there will be a lot of examination of what’s going on over the course of several months or years.”
• Greenewald pointed out that there have been other former CIA directors who shared Woolsey’s openness to the possibility of alien life. During an interview with George Mason University, John Brennan who served as CIA’s director under Trump’s administration between 2013 and 2017, spoke about UFOs and called videos that had emerged “quite eyebrow-raising.” Brennan said that “it’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe there is no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe.”
• Last month former Director of Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News that there were far more UFO sightings than the ones that have been made public. “Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engages in actions that are difficult to explain… Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
• Last summer, the Pentagon set up a UFO/UAP task force to “detect and analyze” sightings of a mystery aircraft that “could pose security risks” and “to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs.” The UAP Task Force is headed by the Department of the Navy and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
• Earlier this year, a dossier of CIA files containing information about UFO sightings all over the world was published online. “These people have reported very curious behavior by aircraft,” Woolsey continued. “And it may be something real that is an extraordinary change, for some unheralded reason… I am not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly. Something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent, experienced pilots and we’ll just have to see what it is.”
• “I’ve been in conversations with several individuals who have been close to aircraft performing in an extraordinary fashion, that performs in a fashion that has not yet come to be something that people are comfortable with or expecting to see,” says Woolsey. “[I] hope that we can be friendly and able to deal with…other creatures if they exist. I think we ought to be (open to) new possibilities. Some…are frauds but I don’t think this one is.”
• [Editor’s Note] It is remarkable that a former head of the CIA can be open and truthful about UFO and the extraterrestrial presence, tacitly confirming the government cover-up of UFOs, but the deep state still has such a stranglehold on these former officials that they still toe the line when it comes to the deep state/CIA’s 1963 murder of John F. Kennedy. Could these former government officials be coming forward to legitimize UFOs and extraterrestrials now to prepare us for a false flag alien invasion as described recently by Steven Greer?
You just can’t trust these rats. We won’t know the whole truth about our history and reality until we expel every deep state swamp creature from the halls of our government and start all over.
A FORMER CIA director says he believes UFOs could exist after his pal’s aircraft was
“paused at 40,000 feet.”
R. James Woolsey, 79, shared his friend’s story and said he hopes humanity would be friendly to aliens if they ever made contact.
Woolsey, who was CIA’s director between 1993-1995, spoke to the Black Vault’s YouTube channel on Friday to promote his new book Operation Dragon.
In the book, he claims that Lee Harvey Oswald is behind JFK’s assassination.
But the conversation shifted from the death of the former President to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
The former intelligence chief said he has become less sceptical as he has heard several stories of unexplained aerial phenomena over the years.
“There have been over the years now events of one kind of another, usually involving
some kind of aircraft-like airframe.
“I never thought there was anything to all this, it always seemed pretty far-out to me.
“But, there was one case in which a friend of mine was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft.
“What was going on? I don’t know. Does anybody know?
“There had just been enough things like that that have occured that I think there will be a lot of examination of what’s going on over the course of several months or years.”
Woolsey added that the source was “someone he respects”.
The host of the show John Greenewald Jr, pointed out that there have been other former CIA directors who shared Woolsey’s openness to the possibility of alien life.
During an interview with George Mason University, John Brennan who served as CIA’s director under Trump’s administration between 2013 and 2017, spoke about UFOs and called videos that had emerged “quite eyebrow-raising.”
“I think it’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe there is no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe,” he had said at the time.
Last month former Director of Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News that there were far more sightings than the ones that have been made public.
“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public.
“Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engages in actions that are difficult to explain.
“Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for.
“Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
He added that the Pentagon plans to release a report declassifying UFO sightings on June 1.
Last summer, the Pentagon set up a UFO task force to “detect and analyze” sightings of a mystery aircraft that “could pose security risks.”
Officials approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, which is headed by the Department of the Navy and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
The UAPTF was set up “to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs,” a press release at the time said.
It comes as earlier this year, a dossier of CIA files containing information about UFO sightings all over the world and top-secret information on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAPs) was published online.
“These people have reported very curious behavior by aircraft, Woolsey continued.
“And it may be something real that is an extraordinary change, for some unheralded reason.
“Or it may be a complex set of different views of what is going on in the world of cyber and so forth. I just don’t know.
“I am not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly.
“Something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent, experienced pilots and we’ll just have to see what it is.
“I have been, not in the presence of but I’ve been in conversations with several individuals who have been close to aircrafts performing in an extraordinary fashion, that performs in a fashion that has not yet come to be something that people are comfortable with or expecting to see.
“That’s how far I’d like to go, openness to new things.
“Willingness to examine them.
“Hope that we can be friendly and able to deal with a wide range of behaviors, in terms of dealing with our fellow human beings, or other creatures if they exist.
“I think we ought to be new possibilities, some new possibilities are frauds but I don’t think this one is.”
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April 3, 2021 (presstv.com)
• In a move to avoid a new era of arms race in the outer space, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved the extension of the ‘Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes’ agreement with the United States. A Russian press service said: “The extension of the agreement meets both countries’ interests and will facilitate the effective implementation of joint space projects.”
• The treaty was originally signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and US President George H.W. Bush on June 17, 1992. The agreement as extended will be in place until the end of 2030.
• Under the agreement, world powers are not allowed to place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in outer space orbit and must avoid harmful contamination of space. Outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means, according to the document.
• US President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to establish the Space Force, calling for American “dominance in space.” Space Force also became a full member of the US intelligence community. Following suit, both Russia and China are developing similar military capabilities as they seek to field the technology and erode America’s military dominance. Moscow and Beijing have proposed a treaty that prohibits the deployment of ground-based and space-based weapons targeting satellites in the space and are pushing Washington to sign it.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved the extension of the Exploration and Use
of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes, the cabinet’s press service said in a statement on Saturday.
“The agreement …on cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes will be in place until December 31, 2030,” it said.
“The extension of the agreement meets both countries’ interests and will facilitate the effective implementation of joint space projects.”
The treaty was originally signed by then Russian President Boris Yeltsin and US President George W. Bush on June 17, 1992, in Washington.
Under the agreement, world powers are not allowed to place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or in the outer space and must
avoid harmful contamination of space.
The outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means, according to the document.
The administration of former US President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to establish the Space Force – the first new US military branch in 72 years – calling for his country’s “dominance in space.”
The Treaty, the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects (PPWT), bans deployment of “any weapons in outer space.”
The PPWT signatories may not “resort to the threat or use of force against outer space objects” or engage in activities “inconsistent” with the purpose of the treaty.
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Article by Bradley Bowman and Jared Thompson March 31, 2021 (foreignpolicy.com)
• China and Russia have sprinted to develop and deploy both ground-based and space-based weapons targeting satellites while simultaneously pushing the United States to sign a treaty banning such weapons. Washington should avoid being drawn into international treaties on space that China and Russia have no intention of honoring.
• The Treaty on the ‘Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects’ (PPWT), which Beijing and Moscow have submitted at the United Nations, is a perfect example. PPWT signatories commit “not to place any weapons in outer space.” It also says parties to the treaty may not “resort to the threat or use of force against outer space objects” or engage in activities “inconsistent” with the purpose of the treaty.
• More than two years ago, the US Defense Intelligence Agency noted that both China and Russia were already developing space capabilities that could be used as weapons. The reality is that China and Russia are already racing to field anti-satellite weapons. “The space domain is competitive, congested, and contested,” said the head of US Space Command General James Dickinson. “Our competitors, most notably China and Russia, have militarized this domain.” The PPWT treaty would thus protect their weapons while tying Washington’s hands.
• China’s People’s Liberation Army units are already training with ground-based anti-satellite missiles capable of destroying satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit, where America’s most sensitive nuclear communication and missile defense satellites orbit. China has also tested several ‘scavenger satellites’ which can sidle up to other satellites and use grappling arms to capture the other satellite.
• In 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin heralded a ground-based laser weapon designed to attack satellites. Last December, Moscow tested a ground-based anti-satellite weapon that could destroy satellites in orbit. Russia recently deployed a pair of “nesting doll” satellites where one Russian satellite actually ‘births’ another. The second satellite has the capability to fire what appears to be a space torpedo.
• Meanwhile, China and Russia are pushing the United Nations for a “no first placement” resolution in which no government should be the first to put weapons in space. In a thinly veiled attempt to mask their intentions, China and Russia claim that their on-orbit capabilities are simply for peaceful purposes — for assessing the condition of broken satellites and conducting repairs as needed. This “dual-use” disguise permits Beijing and Moscow to put into orbit ostensibly peaceful or commercial capabilities that can also be used to disable or destroy U.S. military and intelligence satellites.
• A typical space treaty clearly defines acceptable and unacceptable actions in space and includes inspection and verification mechanisms. But the PPWT treaty does not explicitly prohibit the ground-based anti-satellite weapons that China and Russia have already fielded. Nor does the proposed treaty prevent the deployment of space-based weapons under the cloak of civilian or commercial capabilities. The PPWT does not even prohibit the development, testing, or stockpiling of weapons on Earth that could be quickly put into orbit. Instead, the treaty calls for “transparency and confidence-building measures” implemented on a “voluntary basis.” In other words, Beijing and Moscow want the United States to trust but never verify.
• Moscow habitually seeks to use international arms control treaties to constrain the United States, while viewing treaty strictures as optional when they become inconvenient or when the Kremlin sees an opportunity to seize a military advantage. For more than a decade, Moscow used the ‘Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty’ to constrain the United States while the Kremlin produced, flight-tested, and fielded a ground-launched intermediate-range cruise missile in direct contravention of the treaty.
• Beijing usually avoids any type of international arms control treaties. The willingness of the Chinese Communist Party to support the PPWT is, therefore, cause for some additional reflection.
• Instead of falling prey to China and Russia’s PPWT trap, the United States must work with allies to improve the resilience and redundancy of spaced-based military and intelligence capabilities. “There are really no norms of behavior in space,” said General John Raymond, chief of space operations at US Space Force. “It’s the wild, wild West.”
• In December, the U.N. General Assembly passed a British-introduced resolution that seeks to establish “norms, rules and principles of responsible behaviors” in space, which could reduce the chances for dangerous miscalculation. The vote was 164 in favor, 12 opposed. Those opposing this resolution included China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba.
Saying one thing and doing the opposite is, unfortunately, common in international
diplomacy. Beijing and Moscow, however, seem to have a unique proclivity for the practice.
Consider the actions of the United States’ two great-power adversaries when it comes to anti-satellite weapons. China and Russia have sprinted to develop and deploy both ground-based and space-based weapons targeting satellites while simultaneously pushing the United States to sign a treaty banning such weapons.
To protect its vital space-based military capabilities—including communications,
intelligence, and missile defense satellites—and effectively deter authoritarian aggression, Washington should avoid being drawn into suspect international treaties on space that China and Russia have no intention of honoring.
The Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects (PPWT), which Beijing and Moscow have submitted at the United Nations, is a perfect example. PPWT 
signatories commit “not to place any weapons in outer space.” It also says parties to the treaty may not “resort to the threat or use of force against outer space objects” or engage in activities “inconsistent” with the purpose of the treaty.
On the surface, that sounds innocuous. Who, after all, wants an arms race in space?
The reality, however, is that China and Russia are already racing to field anti-satellite weapons and have been for quite some time. “The space domain is competitive, congested, and contested,” Gen. James Dickinson, the head of U.S. Space Command, said in January. “Our competitors, most notably China and Russia, have militarized this domain.”
Beijing already has an operational ground-based anti-satellite missile capability. People’s Liberation Army units are training with the missiles, and the U.S. Defense Department believes Beijing “probably intends to pursue additional [anti-satellite] weapons capable of destroying satellites up to geosynchronous Earth orbit.” That is where America’s most sensitive nuclear communication and missile defense satellites orbit and keep watch.
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Article by Jazz Shaw March 26, 2021 (hotair.com)
• A directive from the Senate Select Intelligence Committee requested that the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) Task Force produce a report on the military’s investigations into UFOs. The effort was spearheaded by Senator Marco Rubio (R – Florida) with a deadline of June 25, 2021.
• But just having Congress tell the Pentagon that they’d like a report in 180 days has never guaranteed that anything would actually happen. The Pentagon has always had the option to take more time to complete their examination of the UFO data – a lot more time. The Task Force is currently being stonewalled by multiple military and intelligence agencies who are refusing to cooperate. Assembling a useful report of the type the Senate requested could prove impossible. As a result, the Biden administration will likely delay the much-anticipated public report to Congress.
• This strikes a far less optimistic tone than that taken by former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Fox News recently. Racliffe indicated that there were all sorts of information on the verge of being declassified and that the Senate Committee report was on the way. He said that he himself had been working to declassify much of this information, but they simply ran out of time. Was Ratcliffe out of the loop or has there been a significant change in policy toward UAP secrecy since the start of the Biden administration?
• Even more disappointing is the possibility that there may never be a report at all. The UAP Task Force has hit a ‘wall of silence’ as the FBI, CIA, DIA and DARPA have all reportedly been either dragging their feet or ignoring the Task Force’s requests. The Air Force has flatly refused to turn over any records of UFO/UAP investigations to the Task Force, instead referring curious reporters to the Pentagon. In turn, the Pentagon refers them to spokeswoman Susan Gough who always provides the same worthless response: “…[W]e do not publicly discuss the details of the UAP observations, the task force or investigations.” We already knew that they wouldn’t release any details to the press, but could they really be willing to tell the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine? Apparently, they think they can.
• The obvious solution to this logjam is the President of the United States as the final arbiter of what can be classified or declassified with a stroke of the pen. If Biden went to each of the intelligence agencies and military branches and told them to give up the goods to the Task Force, they would have to comply. If that failed, Biden could just start firing them and replacing them with people more willing to follow orders and respect the chain of command. Biden has talked a good game in the past about the need for government transparency. It would indeed be impressive if he stepped up to the plate and not only made this report happen, but ordered it declassified so the public could find out what the heck is going on.
Last December we discussed a directive from the Senate Select Intelligence Committee for the
Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) Task Force to produce a report on the military’s investigations into unknown vehicles (UFOs, obviously) intruding into restricted airspace. The order was included in the annual Intelligence Authorization Act and the effort was spearheaded by Senator Marco Rubio (R – Florida). The report was supposed to be delivered within 180 days of the signing of the IAA, putting the deadline at June 25, 2021.
Sadly, the chances of the UAP Task Force meeting that deadline are now looking quite unlikely, assuming they’re able to ever produce the report at all. As Politico is reporting this week, the Task Force is being effectively stonewalled by multiple military and intelligence agencies who are resisting requests for classified materials or, in some cases, flatly refusing to cooperate. And without that cooperation, assembling an actually useful report of the type the Senate requested could prove impossible.
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.
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…
“Just getting access to the information, because of all the different security bureaucracies, that’s an ordeal in itself,” said Christopher Mellon, a former Pentagon intelligence official who lobbied for the disclosure provision and is continuing to advise policymakers on the issue.
While this is highly disappointing, I’m not going to act like I’m surprised. I expressed my concerns over this specific scenario back in December.
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Article by Bryan Bender March 25, 2021 (politico.com)
• The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the director of national intelligence and the Defense Department to provide a public accounting on unexplained sightings of advanced aircraft and drones that have been reported by military personnel or captured by radar, satellites and other surveillance systems by June 25th. The request came after revelations in 2017 that the Pentagon was researching a series of unexplained intrusions into military airspace, including high-performance vehicles captured on video stalking Navy ships.
• But those in the UAP Task Force advising the investigations are advocating for significantly more time and resources to retrieve information from agencies that have shown reluctance, if not outright resistance, to sharing classified information. They worry that without high-level involvement, it will be difficult to compel agencies to release what they have. “I know that the Task Force has been denied access to pertinent information by the Air Force and they have been stiff-armed by them,” said former Pentagon intelligence official Christopher Mellon. “That is disappointing but not unexpected.”
• The report due to Congress was to include “a detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data” collected by a host of means, including imaging satellites, eavesdropping equipment and human spies. It was to include a detailed analysis of data collected by the FBI and a detailed description of 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.”
• Gathering such information from across the national security bureaucracy is enormously challenging, Mellon said. “They have to repeat that painful process with scores of different agencies,” citing the Army, CIA, National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A spokesperson for Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said that the report to Congress is in the works, but declined to offer further details. “We are aware of the requirement and will respond accordingly.”
• There is growing pressure from Congress for a more organized effort to compile what the government has learned and reveal how it is trying to solve the mysteries. “I can tell you it is being taken more seriously now that it ever has been,” said Florida Senator Marco Rubio who sits on the Senate committee who requested the UFO report. Rubio does not believe military and intelligence agencies have come to any solid conclusions about the origin of the UFOs. But he insisted that the reports demand a more comprehensive intelligence-gathering effort. “We have to try to know what it is,” said Rubio. “Maybe there’s a logical explanation. Maybe it’s foreign adversaries who made a technological leap?” Of course, any delay will be perceived by the public as another attempt by the government to hide what it knows.
• The pressure to disclose what the government is doing has only intensified after recent comments from the former top intelligence official. “We have lots of reports about what we call unmanned aerial phenomenon,” said John Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence under President Donald Trump. “When we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have [been] seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain.”
• Ratcliffe cited UFO/UAP “movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for … or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.” One such case was recently revealed by The Drive website where a swarm of unidentified “drones” bedeviled a flotilla of Navy destroyers off the California coast in 2019.
• There has been enormous resistance inside the government bureaucracy to releasing findings on UFO/UAP. Lue Elizondo led research on UFOs/UAPs in the Pentagon until 2017 when he publicly resigned in frustration that the issue was not being treated seriously enough. “You have all the stigma and the taboo that is associated with it,” said Elizondo, who now serves as an informal adviser to the military. “There’s been so much public taboo about this for decades that no one wants to risk their professional careers and that of their bosses on a topic like this without being directed.” Elizondo describes military and government reluctance to cooperate as “passive resistance”. “[T]hey’re just not going to do anything to support it.”
• “One of the challenges that [the Defense Department] has had in the past is that a lot of these intelligence-gathering organizations, a lot of the military services’ organizations that gather data on intrusions, are all extremely stovepiped and federated,” said Ellen Lord, who served as Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment until January. “In reality, there is a lot of technology that has been leveraged by our adversaries and we have ways to deal with that.”
• The secrecy surrounding the effort has been demonstrated by the Pentagon’s refusal to even discuss any details of its UAP task force, not even how many personnel are assigned to it or what budget it has been given. Elizondo believes there is little chance such obstacles can be overcome by June and is advocating for an interim report that requests more time and resources. “We can do this right or we can do it right now,” he said. “It’s certainly not sufficient time to provide a comprehensive, government-wide report that Congress not only expects, but that Congress deserves and frankly, so does the American people,” Elizondo added.
• Mellon thinks the process could take months or longer. “In addition to the onerous job of trying get everyone to come clean, there will be a sensitive and probably difficult process of getting all the players … to agree on the language and approve it. That process alone could take weeks or months.” Mellon thinks that the direct involvement of senior executive branch officials “is likely to prove necessary to compel the cooperation needed to do the job properly.” However, Mellon does believe that “the leadership on both sides appear to be taking this issue seriously and are acting in good faith.”
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.
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.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the director of national intelligence to work with the Defense Department to provide a public accounting by June 25 on unexplained sightings of advanced aircraft and drones that have been reported by military personnel or captured by radar,
satellites and other surveillance systems.
The request came after revelations in 2017 that the Pentagon was researching a series of unexplained intrusions into military airspace, including high-performance vehicles captured on video stalking Navy ships.
But those advising the investigations are advocating for significantly more time and resources to retrieve information from agencies that in some cases have shown reluctance, if not outright resistance, to sharing classified information. And they worry that without high-level involvement, it will be difficult to compel agencies to release what they have.
“Just getting access to the information, because of all the different security bureaucracies, that’s an ordeal in itself,” said Christopher Mellon, a former Pentagon intelligence official who lobbied for the disclosure provision and is continuing to advise policymakers on the issue.
For example, he asserts that a Pentagon task force established last August and led by the Navy has had few personnel or resources and only modest success acquiring reports, video or other evidence gathered by military systems.
The Pentagon task force is expected to be the primary military organization contributing to the wider government report.
“I know that the task force has been denied access to pertinent information by the Air Force and they have been stiff-armed by them,” Mellon said in an interview. “That is disappointing but not unexpected.”
The Air Force, which is historically most associated with UFOs from its investigations during the Cold War, deferred all questions on the subject to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which has similarly said little publicly about the effort.
“To protect our people, maintain operational security and safeguard intelligence methods, we do not publicly discuss the details of the UAP observations, the task force or investigations,” said Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough, who declined to address the criticism.
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Article by Leia Idliby March 23, 2021 (mediaite.com)
• On March 22nd, at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., the guerrilla news organization TMZ accosted US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL, pictured above) to ask for his comment on the impending unclassified UFO report that Rubio’s Senate Committee on Intelligence has requested from the Pentagon and government intelligence community within the next couple of months. “It’s common sense, right?” responded Rubio. “There’s stuff flying over military installations, and nobody knows what it is and it isn’t ours.”
• So should we be worried about potential foes from a galaxy far, far away? “I think the worry is that there’s stuff flying over our facilities and we don’t know what they are,” said the Senator. “You know what I mean? So that’s the concern. Maybe it’s the other logical explanation to it.”
• The TMZ reporter then asked Rubio if aliens or China imposed a bigger threat to the United States. Rubio answered by again stating that we don’t know who or what these UFOs are. “There’s stuff flying over the top of our military installations and they don’t know who’s flying it, they don’t even know who it is,” Rubio added. “So that’s a problem. We need to find out if we can.”
• Rubio did remark that the aliens must be smarter than humans if they “made it all the way here” but “we can’t get there.” “We don’t know what that stuff is that’s flying over the top of our installations, let’s find out,” he added. “Maybe it’s another country and that would be bad news too.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) shared his thoughts on aliens with TMZ — revealing he is worried about UFOs flying near United States military bases.
TMZ stopped the senator, a member of the Senate Committee on Intelligence, at Reagan National Airport on Monday, noting that the government is now required to release a report detailing everything officials know about UFOs.
“There’s stuff flying over military installations, and nobody knows what it is and it isn’t ours,” he said, adding that it’s logical to want to identify these unidentified flying objects. “It’s common sense, right?”
So should we be worried about potential foes from a galaxy far, far away? Rubio seems to think so.
“I think the worry is that there’s stuff flying over our facilities and we don’t know what they are,” said the senator. “You know what I mean? So that’s the concern. Maybe it’s the other logical explanation to it.”
The TMZ reporter went as far as to ask Rubio if aliens or China imposed a bigger threat to the United States, prompting the senator to repeat that he does not know what the object was.
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Article by Jazz Shaw March 20, 2021 (hotair.com)
• On March 19th, Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo interviewed John Ratcliffe, the former Trump administration Director of National Intelligence, to talk about the upcoming report from the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force. We knew that the Pentagon had to have more than three grainy UFO videos. We knew that the US government has been studying UFOs for quite some time. We knew that Navy pilots have come forward and said that there were periods of time when they were encountering these things “on a daily basis.” But we always kept our expectations low because we also know that the government doesn’t own up to anything it doesn’t absolutely have to. This Bartiromo interview, however, contained some of the most stunning admissions we’ve heard from one of the highest-ranking people in the government’s intelligence apparatus. (see 3:30 minute video clip from the interview below)
• We know about the expected report from the UAP Task Force to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Intelligence. Ratcliffe told Bartiromo that he had been working last year to assemble and declassify information on UFO/UAP encounters, but had been unable to get the information together before leaving office. He then mentioned aspects of the performance of the UFOs that military pilots have encountered “that are hard to explain, movements that we don’t have the technology for.” He describes objects “that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
• Then Ratcliffe casually mentioned that there are “quite a few more” military encounters with these UFO craft than have been made public, and we don’t understand the technology behind them. He basically dismissed the notion that the Russians or the Chinese could be responsible. In short, he didn’t say the words “non-human intelligence” but he might as well have. (Washington Examiner)
• Ratcliffe insisted that reports of “unidentified aerial phenomena” already in the public eye are only part of the bigger picture. There have been UFO sightings all around the world. “Usually, we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things … There is actually quite a few more than have been made public,” he said.
• In reference to the expected Senate committee report, Ratcliffe says that information on encounters that we can’t explain will be declassified and made available to the American public. Then he’ll “be able to talk a little bit more about that,” he told an incredulous Bartiromo.
• Most of the people at that level in the intelligence community know each other and manage to stay in the loop no matter which administration they serve. It’s a safe bet that Ratcliffe was in on the preparation efforts for the upcoming report and is well aware of what it will contain. He is also probably aware of the portions of the government’s file that will remain relegated away from public scrutiny within the “classified annex”. But Ratcliffe seems to hint some major UFO truths will be revealed. The report is expected to be released in roughly ten weeks or sooner.
• [Editor’s Note] Exposing the extent of the government’s cover-up of UFOs may be John Ratcliffe’s payback for the deep state pressuring him as Director of National Intelligence to claim in November that there was no evidence of significant domestic election fraud, and no evidence of foreign interference (beyond the usual social media trolling by the usual suspects Russia, Iran and China) in the 2020 Presidential election – which is simply a lie. Is Ratcliffe a willing/unwilling puppet of the deep state or just a lying sociopath? I get the feeling, both. It is apparent that he has no remorse in gaslighting the public.
Still, with his high-level clearance as DNI, Ratcliffe holds a broad view of these geopolitical developments. I’d say that he knows that ET and UFO disclosure is coming regardless of what he says and has accepted that the deep state’s days are numbered. Now he expects to watch the entire deep state matrix unravel and collapse around him. Hope you like the weather in Cuba, John.
Something of a bombshell dropped last night in the world of the United States
military and its relationship with unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP or UFOs) on Fox News. Maria Bartiromo had John Ratcliffe, the former Trump administration Director of National Intelligence on to talk about the upcoming report from the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, but she wound up getting more she bargained for. In the middle of the discussion, Ratcliffe, in an almost casual fashion, calmly announced that there are “quite a few more” military encounters with these unexplained craft than 
have been made public. He then went on to confess that we don’t understand the technology behind them. He also gave the impression that he was dismissing the
idea that the Russians or the Chinese could be responsible. In short, he didn’t say the words “non-human intelligence” but he might as well have. (Washington Examiner)
John Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence under former President Donald Trump, was asked on Fox News by host Maria Bartiromo what he knows about unidentified flying objects that have captured people’s imaginations for generations.
After saying that there have been sightings all around the world, Ratcliffe insisted that reports of “unidentified aerial phenomena” already in the public eye are only part of the bigger picture.
“Usually, we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things … There is actually quite a few more than have been made public,” he said.
Before getting to the highlights, check out the video for yourself. Even if you don’t want to sit through the whole clip (it’s really not very long), go to the 2:34 mark in the video and take in the look on Maria Bartiromo’s face as Ratcliffe calmly explains that there are “quite a few more sightings” than have been made public and that we can’t explain the technology we’re seeing. This is the look you get on your face when one of the highest-ranking people in the intelligence community tells you that UFOs are real and we don’t know what they are.
3:30 minute clip of Maria Bartiromo interview with John Ratcliffe
on Fox News (‘TOOL BOSS” YouTube)
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Article by Charles Beams March 12, 2021 (politico.com)
• In 2017, President Trump resurrected the National Space Council where senior government and industry leadership would plan and organize the U.S. and the world roles in a new ‘space century’. Putting the Vice President in charge was vital to the council’s integrity. Now, the Biden administration’s decision to assign oversight of space to the National Security Council has fueled speculation that the high-level National Space Council will be discontinued.
• Does Administrator Biden and his senior advisers truly appreciate the gravity of the situation and the opportunities before us in the final frontier? Seventeen industry groups representing hundreds of companies critical to our nation’s space future have recently endorsed keeping the National Space Council. They says that retaining the council “will provide stability and continuity to the United States’ space endeavors, enabling historic exploration and scientific achievement”. Its continuation would reflect that space is indeed a real priority.
• Serious questions regarding space need to be addressed in the next few years. These will require senior attention and active support across the Executive Branch. Should one person, ie: Elon Musk, monopolize the commercial space sector? Or should it be regulated to encourage small business growth in space? How should we encourage fair play among nations in space? How should we respond to anti-competitive Chinese business practices? And how can we prevent the growing menace of space debris from inhibiting future generations’ expansion into space?
• One specific policy issue that the National Space Council would manage is the evolution of the United States Space Force. Space Force is charged with protecting and ensuring free and fair access to space and defending contested domains where commercial companies and developing nations are increasingly operating. Space Force must create a culture to recruit and retain world class intellects and leaders to guide a developing military domain that is more defined by artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics and machine learning, than bullets and bombs. In the coming decades, Space Force must become a military service that understands, partners with, and sometimes puts commercial and civil needs before warfighting requirements. Guidance from the highest levels is essential for the Space Force to be successful.
• To date, however, no senior appointees have been nominated for the most senior space positions, including the NASA administrator or the space policy and space acquisition positions in the Pentagon. Without the high-level attention of a strong National Space Council, low earth orbit will become a no man’s land of discarded satellite and rocket debris, exploited only by the ultra-wealthy. The unique ability of the space sector to promote commerce, enhance international trade, strengthen diplomacy, and prevent military conflict will be lost.
• If the Biden administration cannot see the value in the National Space Council to lead a coherent space policy for a new century, it should disband it. Pretending it is important while assigning it no clear purpose would be a waste of time and resources, and actually hamper progress in space. The decisions the Biden administration makes regarding the National Space Council, Space Force, NASA and commercial space policies will determine whether space will remain a safe, nonpartisan domain for an economy to flourish or will become an inhospitable orbital minefield where only military hegemons joust for supremacy.
The early signs coming from the Biden administration have more than a few of us
worried about its approach to space policy.
The decision to assign oversight of space to the National Security Council has fueled speculation that the high-level National Space Council will be discontinued. And it comes at a time when a similar lack of seriousness by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and her flippant comments about the Space Force are playing out in the media.
The two recent events beg the question: do President Joe Biden and his senior advisers truly appreciate the gravity of the situation and the opportunities before us in the final frontier?
The rumors of dismantling of the National Space Council should give us all pause. Resurrecting the council in 2017 and putting the vice president in charge was vital to focusing senior government and industry leadership on organizing the U.S. and the world for a space century.
Which is exactly why 17 industry groups representing hundreds of companies critical to our nation’s space future have recently endorsed keeping it. Retaining the council “will provide stability and continuity to the United States’ space endeavors, enabling historic exploration and scientific achievement,” they wrote in their letter to President Biden’s chief of staff. Its continuation would reflect that space is a real priority for our new president.
Serious space questions need to be addressed in the next few years that require senior attention and active support across the executive branch.
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Article by Jazz Shaw December 31, 2020 (hotair.com)
• Back in June, some big UFO news focused around a provision that was inserted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence into the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) that directed the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force to produce an unclassified report on what they know about UFOs. It directed that this report be released to the Senate committee within 180 days of the enactment of the IAA. Well, the IAA was included in the $1.4 trillion government funding package that was passed on December 27th along with a $900 billion COVID-relief fund. So the 180 day clock is ticking. So what can we expect to see when that clock runs out?
• Christopher Mellon is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and former staff Director of the United States Senate Intelligence Committee. Mellon played an integral role in the development of the committee’s UFO legislation. He points out that the UFO phenomenon enjoys the support of both parties in both Houses of Congress, and therefore it is more likely that some sort of report will be released. Any expectations of revelations of UFO incidents or discoveries under current investigation, however, are more unlikely.
• First of all, the Pentagon can respond by saying that they’ve not being given enough time and will need to postpone it – for a very long time. Second, this report specifically pertains to unclassified material. All of the juicy stuff will no doubt be deemed ‘classified’. Thirdly, back in September, after the Pentagon’s verification of the existence of the UAP Task Force, numerous reporters were contacting the Pentagon’s one and only spokesperson to handle UAP questions, Susan Gough. Gough began issuing a boilerplate refusal to any and all questions regarding details of UAP incidents under investigation. To wit: “To maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to our adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examination of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP.” You can rest assured they have zero intention of starting to discuss it publicly now. Short of the President ordering specific documents from the UAP Task Force declassified (document that they somehow already know about), it seems obvious that the Pentagon intends to keep a lid on all of this.
• The military and the intelligence community routinely overclassify information, covering virtually every area of interest, not just UFOs. And once they lock something down it requires a herculean effort to bring it back to light. I can’t see those channels in our government sweeping away more than 70-years of obfuscation and deception with one sweep of a new broom. While cautiously hopeful about the pending release of this report, I’m definitely not getting my hopes up.
A lot of news came out of that massive COVID relief bill with bazillions of dollars in other spending 
wrapped up in it. One item that didn’t draw nearly as much attention was the fact that the annual Intelligence Authorization Act was rolled in as part of that mess. The IAA is obviously a necessary bit of housekeeping that Congress has to take care of on a regular basis, but this year’s version was of particular interest to people in the ufology community. I wrote about this when the measure was drafted back in June, specifically focusing on the provisions from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that made it so interesting to the saucerheads. It dealt with internal communications challenges for the UAP Task Force (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) and directed the UAPTF to produce an unclassified report on their progress within 180 days of when the measure was enacted. Well, now it’s enacted. And as The Debrief pointed out this week, that means that the clock is ticking. But what should we really expect to receive when that clock strikes midnight?
“Now, with the recent passing of the Omnibus, the clock has officially started ticking, and The Pentagon’s
UAP Task Force has 180 days to provide the Senate Intelligence Committee with their unclassified report detailing The Pentagon’s current investigations into UFOs.”
“The newly enacted Intelligence Authorization Act incorporates the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report language calling for an unclassified, all-source report on the UAP phenomenon. This was accomplished in the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying the bill,” says Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and former staff Director of the United States Senate Intelligence Committee, who played an integral role in the development of the legislation.”
“Consequently, it’s now fair to say that the request for an unclassified report on the UAP phenomenon enjoys the support of both parties in both Houses of Congress,” Mellon told The Debrief in an email.”
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Article by Douglas MacKinnon December 12, 2020 (thehill.com)
• On December 9th, Vice President Mike Pence addressed an assembly of the National Space Council, and to introduce the NASA astronauts selected for the Artemis Program’s return of humans to the Moon. During his speech, Pence made mention of the growing threat posed to the United States by China’s militarized space program. “China is increasingly emerging as a serious competitor in space,” said Pence. “As the world witnessed, China recently landed an unmanned craft on the moon and, for the first time, robotically raised the red flag of Communist China on that magnificent desolation.”
• “China is increasingly emerging as a serious competitor in space,” said Pence. “In four short years (ie: Trump’s administration), America is leading in space once again.” The reality is that China emerged as a serious competitor well over a decade ago, becoming the preeminent space-faring nation on Earth. The Trump administration has been forced to play catch-up after the setbacks in the space program enacted under his previous administration. And now that Joe Biden may be assuming the White House in January, China knows that the US is could to slip further behind.
• Virtually every incoming President has tended to scale back or dismantle the space policies enacted by his predecessor. When Barack Obama replaced George W. Bush, his administration oversaw the shutdown of America’s ability to send astronauts into space on US spacecraft. We came to rely on the Russians to get Americans to the mostly U.S.-built International Space Station – at a cost of $90 million per astronaut.
• The political and military leadership of China are thrilled that an incoming Biden administration, which despises Trump, would put Trump’s space policies – such as the Space Force, the return of American astronauts to the Moon, and the very existence of the National Space Council – squarely in the crosshairs of Team Biden. Much of Biden’s NASA transition team is led and staffed by Obama-era retreads who have made it abundantly clear that they favor redirecting NASA and Space Force dollars toward domestic programs and fighting climate change.
• Such stated goals are music to the ears of the People’s Republic of China. Every US tax dollar directed away from the American space program is a victory for China and their ultimate endgame. China understands its greatest competition, and its greatest threat, is the United States. They look for any opportunity to create an advantage over the US to further its goal to dominate the cislunar theater from Earth to the Moon. Recent news of the Chinese government seeking to compromise certain US politicians is evidence of China’s long-term strategy to usurp American power.
• You can be sure the Chinese leadership is hopeful that Biden will not only dismantle all that Trump has done regarding space, but will relegate the US space program to a back burner. In this case, historic precedent is on the side of the Chinese.
This past week, Vice President Mike Pence, in his capacity as chair of the National Space Council, addressed a meeting of that group at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Although his speech was rather generic and filled with too much partisan praise of President Trump, he did manage to briefly address a critically important topic: the growing threat posed to the United States by China’s militarized space program.
But, as they say in the news business, even with that warning, Pence still managed to “bury the lead.” In remarks that stretched almost two hours, he spoke about the threat from China for only one brief paragraph.
Said Pence: “China is increasingly emerging as a serious competitor in space, just as they are in other areas of the global economy and to the strategic interest of the United States. As the world witnessed, China recently landed an unmanned craft on the moon and, for the first time, robotically raised the red flag of Communist China on that magnificent desolation.”
The political and military leadership directing China’s space program must have burst out laughing when they heard or read Pence’s assessment that “China is increasingly emerging as a serious competitor in space,” or when, later in the speech, he declared: “In four short years, America is leading in space once again — it’s true.”
In fact, China “emerged” as a “serious competitor” well over a decade ago.
China knows it is the preeminent space-faring nation on Earth, and that the United States may be about to slip much further behind them with the coming change in presidential administrations.
For all those in the United States who understand the critical need for the United States to have robust civilian and military space programs, almost every presidential election becomes a recurring nightmare realized.
The main reason is that virtually every incoming president tends to scale back or dismantle the space policies enacted by his predecessor. The fact that the “predecessor” in this case will be Donald Trump, who is despised by much of the incoming Biden administration, puts Trump’s space policies and programs squarely in the “cancel it” crosshairs of Team Biden — policies such as the Space Force, a return of American astronauts to the moon, and the very existence of the National Space Council itself.
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Article by Miriam Kramer December 15, 2020 (axios.com)
• President Trump put the American space program front-and-center during his tenure. Building upon years of work by the space industry, the Trump administration helped open up new commercial opportunities in orbit. But some question whether those gains are sustainable in the long term.
• “I think the space program is in better shape now than it was when he took office,” says John Logsdon, the founder of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. Trump consistently prioritized NASA funding in his budget proposals and relaunched the National Space Council which holds agencies accountable for their work with space. His administration extended the reach of commercial partnerships in space, outsourcing that work to private companies in a trend that is likely to continue far into the future. And Trump created Space Force.
• Most of the criticism of Trump’s space policy is due to the political rhetoric accompanying them rather than the substance. Trump consistently politicized NASA’s wins, claiming credit for the Obama and Bush-era policies, and framing NASA’s accomplishments as ways to “make America great again,” Logsdon said. That has put off some space allies, including Russia, which has yet to sign on to NASA’s Artemis Accords’ plans for the exploration of the Moon.
• The Trump administration moved the ball forward for the US space enterprise, to be sure. But credit also goes to those in the space industry who went before and did years of ground work. Commercializing space with private rockets and spacecraft has taken time and funding from a number of previous administrations. The Space Force was an idea long before Trump took office.
• Some experts are also concerned that some of the progress made in commercializing space may not be sustainable. Landing people on the Moon is an entirely new level of difficulty for any private company. Some lawmakers have expressed concerns about whether a human lander built by private companies would be as safe as one built by NASA. And the market for space services may be limited to government customers, at least for the foreseeable future, as the private market for those kinds of missions isn’t clear.
• Biden will need to decide what his administration will build on when it comes to Trump’s space policies. Some suggest the new administration should continue with the Artemis Moon missions, commercial opportunities, and Space Force while changing the rhetoric around space accomplishments.
President Trump put the American space program front-and-center during his tenure, defining priorities in orbit and beyond that will outlast his four years as president.
The big picture: The Trump administration helped open up new commercial opportunities in orbit, building on years of work by the space industry. But some question whether those gains are sustainable in the long term.
What’s happening: “I think the space program is in better shape now than it was when he took office,” John Logsdon, the founder of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, told me.
• Trump consistently prioritized NASA funding in his budget proposals and relaunched the National Space Council, which aims to hold agencies accountable for their work with space.
• The Trump administration also extended the reach of commercial partnerships in space. Instead of NASA building a human-rated lunar lander, for example, the agency is outsourcing that work to private companies in a trend that is likely to continue far into the future.
• “[Space] may be one of the least controversial areas of his legacy,” Michael Gleason of the Aerospace Corporation told me.
• And perhaps his biggest move was standing up the U.S. Space Force.
“While some of the Trump administration’s space policy decisions and initiatives have generated criticism, that is more due to the political rhetoric accompanying them than the substance.”
— The Secure World Foundation, in a briefing document
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