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70 Years of UFO Cover-Ups Are Finally Coming to an End

July 10, 2021
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Article by Gary Heseltine July 2, 2021 (rt.com)

• For more than 70 years, highly trained, credible people have reported interactions with some kind of intelligence that is, literally, out of this world. Yet, the mass of corroborated testimony from military pilots, commercial pilots, astronauts, cosmonauts, radar operators, air traffic controllers, sonar operators, military personnel, and police officers from all around the world have been largely ignored by governments, military and scientists and the academic world. Why? Because governments across the planet, supported by the mainstream media, have poured scorn on and trivialized the subject of UFOs since the early 1950s. As the late Stanton Friedman used to say, “It can’t be, so it isn’t.”

• While the subject has opened up to the public in recent years, the manufactured stigma attached to the UFO topic makes it is still too ‘taboo’ for most. Scientists and academics still do not take the UFO phenomena seriously. It isn’t surprising, since for most of their lives they have been told that there is no evidence to support the premise that some of these reports are credible, cannot be explained, and may be of extraterrestrial/non-human origin.

• Almost all of these scientists, professors and the public in general do not realize that they have been hoodwinked by a huge propaganda machine that was deliberately created by the United States. In January 1953, a group of scientists met to figure out a way to ‘strip the aura’ from ‘flying saucers’. They decided the best way to do this was to dismiss, trivialize, scorn and debunk all UFO sightings through the use of the media in all its forms – television, film, newspapers, books, and magazines. They commissioned the ‘Robertson Panel’ to begin the process of stigma and ridicule that has plagued this topic for decades.

• Today, most astronomers won’t even consider looking at the mountain of UFO evidence, due to the perceived risk of ridicule and the effect on their careers. This has proven to be a powerful deterrent for those that dare to take the phenomena seriously. The message was clear to scientists and academics: stay away from UFO research or risk ruining your career.

• Yet over the past months, there have been significant developments on the UFO subject that seem to be signaling the end to this policy of deceit and denial. A government investigative task force just submitted a nine-page preliminary assessment report to Congress regarding US Navy encounters with UFOs off the east and west coasts of America in recent years. It cited 144 cases recorded by the US military since 2004 and stated that 143 remained unexplained. Given the huge technological resources the US has, it is a staggering statistic. We’ve also seen people at the highest levels of government and the military speak out about the phenomenon, in complete contrast to what leaders have said on the matter before.

• Said Senator Marco Rubio: “We have things flying around military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises, and we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours. …I’d say frankly if it’s something outside this planet it would actually be better than the fact that we’ve seen some technology leap on behalf of the Russians, the Chinese, or some other adversary…” Rubio later added: “We cannot allow the stigma of UFOs to keep us from seriously investigating these encounters.”

• Former CIA Director John Brennan said to an audience at George Mason University: “I think it’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there’s no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe… I think some of the phenomena we’re going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might, in fact, be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don’t yet understand, and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.”

• John Ratcliffe, a former director of national intelligence, recently said on Fox News: “There’s actually quite a few of those (UFOs). … [T]here are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we have seen. When we talk about sightings, it’s not just a pilot or just a satellite, or some intelligence collection. Usually, we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things.”

• Former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, told CNN: “I don’t know why we haven’t been more transparent about (UFOs) in the past, and I’m part of that crime I guess… I didn’t insist on more transparency with respect to this issue.”

• Even former President Barack Obama has talked in specifics about UFOs. On the James Corden talk show Obama said: “But what is true… is that there’s footage and records of objects in the sky that we don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern.”

• These comments from such high-level individuals indicates the very real possibility that we have been witnessing UFOs in action around our Earth for decades, and that for the first time it will be taken seriously and investigated properly by the world’s top scientists. And this in turn is likely to have profound implications for humanity. In the second part of my article, I will detail some of the most astonishing unexplained encounters.

The policy of denial and debunking evidence of encounters with ‘alien spacecraft’,

that’s been in place since the 1950s, is crumbling. Even ex-US presidents and CIA directors admit there’s something out there we can’t explain.

It’s often said that when mankind acknowledges that ‘life’ in the universe has been confirmed and an intelligent civilization reaches out to us, that ‘contact’ will be the most profound moment in human history. So, almost everyone is in agreement as to the ramifications of such ‘contact’, but have we actually not had an ongoing engagement between humans and super-intelligent creatures from other planets for decades?

Today, on World UFO Day, as we approach the summer of 2021, the world is potentially on the brink of learning something that most people will be astonished and perhaps shocked by.

For more than 70 years, highly trained, credible people have found themselves involved in multiple witness reports and having an interaction with some kind of intelligence that is, literally, out of this world. These cases from all around the

world have been fully investigated and documented, yet have largely been ignored by governments, military and scientists and the academic world.

Why?

The explanation is simple and stark: governments across the planet, supported by the mainstream media, have poured scorn on and trivialised the subject of unidentified flying objects, or flying saucers, since the early 1950s.

As the late Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist and huge UFO proponent, used to

say, “It can’t be, so it isn’t.”

That phrase is particularly apt if we ask the question as to why the scientific and academic worlds have largely ignored the mass of corroborated testimony from military pilots, commercial pilots, astronauts, cosmonauts, radar operators, air traffic controllers, sonar operators, military personnel, and police officers etc.

In recent years, a new acronym has been created to replace the term ‘UFO’ – Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) – in the hope that science, academia, and the media would be more open to investigating the subject. However, such is the manufactured stigma attached to this topic that it is still deemed too ‘taboo’ for most.

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Elizondo Insists That UFOs Aren’t Ours, Theirs, or Alien

June 25, 2021
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Article by Bhaswati Guha Majumder June 10, 2021 (swarajyamag.com)

• Luis Elizondo (pictured above), the former head of the Pentagon’s UFO research program, told the Washington Post that UFOs have frequently rendered our nuclear weapons unusable. “We’ve had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities.” Given the fact that nuclear technologies in the US are being phased out, some might say this is a good thing. But Elizondo says that he has data showing that UFOs have actually put nukes online in other countries, which is “just as concerning”. At any rate, these UFOs certainly have an interest in America’s nuclear technology, and have the capacity to tamper with it.

• Elizondo noted that UFOs also have some sort of connection with, and have a tendency to be seen in and around water.

• Elizondo then turned the subject to UFO’s hypersonic velocity and their ability to change directions instantly. “[H]uman beings can withstand about 9 G forces or some of our best aircraft can withstand about 16 Gs. These things are doing 3-, 4-, 600 Gs in mid-flight,” he said. And at these hypersonic speeds, they can make a 90 degree turn. “To put that into context, our SR-71 Blackbird when at 3,200 miles an hour wants to take a right-hand turn, it takes roughly half the state of Ohio to do it,” said Elizondo.

• According to Elizondo, the third main technological capacity found among UFOs is cloaking technology.

• Elizondo’s remarks came after a sneak peek at a Pentagon assessment on UFOs, which is due to be disclosed by June 25th, which purportedly revealed no concrete evidence of extraterrestrial technology underpinning the bizarre aerial phenomena. If it isn’t alien technology, then that leaves two alternatives. Either this is secret US technology that we’ve managed to keep secret even from ourselves, or Russia and/or China have leap-frogged our own technological development, which has escaped the attention of our entire intelligence apparatus.

• Elizondo says that the new Pentagon investigation will rule out the possibility that these UFO sightings are linked to US technology. Furthermore, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced definitively that this is not Russian technology.

• So, that leaves China. But Chinese officials recently stated that the Chinese military is now using artificial intelligence to investigate UFOs after being “overwhelmed” by UFO reports. It is unnatural for an authoritarian state like China to admit to a lack of control over national security matters, said Marik von Rennenkampff, a former analyst with the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the US Department of State. And it is not likely to be part of a deception campaign by Beijing. According to von Rennenkampff, China is equally baffled by some of the same UFO events as the United States. China has struggled to produce engines for its fifth-generation fighter aircraft. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that they have managed to develop flying saucers.

• Elizondo pointed out that there have been reports of UFO sightings since the 1950s. It doesn’t make sense that in 1950 China would have mastered this beyond next-generation technology to be able to fly anywhere on the face of the planet, but has managed to keep it as a secret for 70 years. Also, China has a habit of stealing technology from the US. “So, one has to ask the question that if…a country had this technology, would it be necessary to steal…much more basic technology from another country?”

• [Editor’s Note] Oh, well if the government says that the US doesn’t possess UFO technology, then that’s good enough for me. The US government/ military industrial complex/ deep state would never lie to us, would they? The US intelligence community would never use the Senate Committee’s report to further the deep state’s agenda of hiding the fact that the US government has secretly possessed extraterrestrial anti-gravity electromagnetic propulsion and cloaking technology since the 1950s, would they? Of course not. And a former CIA counter-intelligence official like Elizondo would never be a part of that agenda, would he? So the mind-controlled, brain-dead American public will simply have to accept that the UFOs we’ve seen are not ours, not theirs, and not alien in origin. And if they did not come from anywhere, then they must not exist at all. The only answer then is mass hallucination. This makes perfect sense. Thank you Lue for clearing that up.

Luis Elizondo, the former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), said in a recent interview that unidentified flying objects or UFOs have frequently rendered nuclear weapons unusable in the United States.

While referring to UFOs by their official Pentagon term, Unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), Elizondo told Washington Post: “We’ve had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities”.

“I think to some they would probably say, well, that’s a sign that whatever this is, is something that is peaceful,” Elizondo said of the fact that nuclear technologies in the United States are being phased out.

“But in the same context, we also have data suggesting that in other countries these things have interfered with their nuclear technology and actually turned them on, put them online. So that is equally, for me, just as concerning,” he added.

According to his understanding, there is enough evidence at this point to show that there is an interest in America’s nuclear technology, as well as the capacity to tamper with it.

The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), which was formed last summer by the Pentagon to examine odd aerial phenomena, has taken the role of the now-defunct AATIP.

The former AATIP director claimed that there are some common traits among UFO sightings.

“We see an interest in our nuclear capabilities, and then we have this really bizarre…I don’t know if you call it an interest, but there seems to be a connection with water, and these things have a tendency to be seen in and around water,” said Elizondo.

He also shared other observations on the technological capabilities implied by UFO sightings.

Elizondo told the American news outlet: “The first is hypersonic velocity. The ability to change directions instantly”.

“And when I say instantly, I mean human beings can withstand about 9 G forces or some of our best aircraft can withstand about 16 Gs. These things are doing 3-, 4-, 600 Gs in mid-flight,” he added.

He also noted UFOs’ hypersonic speeds.

Elizondo explained that “you know, there are [some known human] technologies that can go that fast, but then again, you don’t expect a hypersonic aircraft to do a 90-degree turn”.

“To put that into context, our SR-71 Blackbird when at 3,200 miles an hour wants to take a right-hand turn, it takes roughly half the state of Ohio to do it,” he added.

According to him, the third main technological capacity found among UFOs is cloaking technology.

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Former CIA Director Woolsey Says He Believes UFOs Could Exist

April 21, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Aliki Kraterou April 6, 2021 (thesun.co.uk)

• 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.

**the innocent patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald**

“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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Scientist Claims Trying to Contact Extraterrestrial Life Forms is a ‘Terrible Idea’

April 19, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Joshua Smith April 4, 2021 (dailystar.co.uk)

• Michio Kaku, author and Professor of Physics in New York City, told the ABC documentary “UFOs: Seeing Is Believing” that he thinks it is extremely unlikely that extraterrestrials have ever visited Earth. Kaku is open to the idea of “civilizations a million years ahead of us in technology”, but says that the notion of attempting to contact these advanced aliens “is a terrible idea”.

• Kaku’s bases his opinion on the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. “We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago.” If Earth does go ahead and try to make contact with other civilizations, Kaku thinks we should do so ‘very carefully’, despite his belief that they would ultimately be friendly.

• “Soon we’ll have the Webb telescope up in orbit and we’ll have thousands of planets to look at, and that’s why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilization,” said Kaku. “Now, personally, I think that aliens out there would be friendly but we can’t gamble on it. So I think we will make contact but we should do it very carefully.”

• Professor Daniel Drezner is more willing to believe that extraterrestrials are here with us now. Drezner noted that the UFO report signed off by US President Trump could reveal super-smart aliens are visiting us in peace. His claims came after the US former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed the Pentagon files included declassified intelligence of aircraft “that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom”.

• Jane Buckle, 68, would also disagree with Professor Kaku. She recently told the Daily Star that she was abducted on March 1st and after spending an evening with extraterrestrials, she gave birth to an alien-human hybrid whom she is now raising.

Contacting aliens “is a terrible idea” and that “we can’t gamble on it”, a top scientist

has warned.

String theorist Michio Kaku, who is Professor of Physics at the City College and City University of New York, has had a number of books published including New York Times Bestsellers Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future, and The Future of the Mind.

He previously told ABC documentary UFOs: Seeing Is Believing that he thinks it is extremely unlikely that extraterrestrials have ever visited Earth, but that “we must keep our minds open to the possible existence of civilizations a million years ahead of us in technology”.

Citing the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Dr Kaku told The Observer that while Earth could soon be able to make contact with aliens, he does not think that we should reach out to them.
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Dr Kaku added that if Earth does go ahead and try to make contact with other

civilizations, we should do so “very carefully”, despite his belief that they would ultimately be friendly.

He said: “Soon we’ll have the web telescope up in orbit and we’ll have thousands of planets to look at, and that’s why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilisation.

“There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them. I think that’s a terrible idea.

“We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago.

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Mystery UFO’s Off of Virginia Remain Unidentified

April 17, 2021
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Article by George Knapp April 6, 2021 (kxnet.com)

• Military and intelligence officials remain baffled by unidentified aircraft that have been encountered in recent years off both coasts of the United States. Investigators with the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force have requested that military airmen try to document their encounters. On March 4th, 2019, one of them did. (see image above)

• Since at least 2014, Navy F-18 jet pilots out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach have reported encounters with a bizarre array of UFOs positioned directly in their daily flight paths over the Atlantic Ocean off of Virginia. On March 4th, 2019, an F-18 weapons systems officer (WSO) seated behind the pilot used his iPhone to capture images of three different objects they encountered in flight. One object was dubbed the ‘sphere’, another the ‘acorn’. A third object encountered on the same day was described as a ‘metallic blimp’.

• A previous photo of the ‘acorn’ UFO was published online in December 2020, and was said to resemble a toy Batman balloon. But after two years careful study by the UAP Task Force, the objects remain unidentified. The Task Force reports noted that the objects were able to remain stationary in high winds, with no movement, beyond the capability of known balloons or drones. Now, more photos of these strange UFOs have been released to the public.

• Mystery Wire learned of the still unreleased photos two years ago during a private briefing hosted by Robert Bigelow in Las Vegas on April 6, 2019. Speculation at the time was that the objects might be foreign spy drones, possibly Chinese. Mystery Wire’s George Knapp learned the Navy wanted to capture one for study, but that never happened.

• Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Gilday maintains that the swarms of pyramid-shaped drones that buzzed Navy warships in July 2019 off of Los Angeles still defies explanation. (see previous ExoArticle here) Last month, former National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News that he was briefed on the mystery drones. “We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots,” said Ratcliffe. “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.”

• The pyramid drone swarms that buzzed Navy destroyers in 2019 appeared in the same general area as the 2004 Tic Tac UFO, which was pursued by former Navy Commander Dave Fravor. Unlike previous decades, when the UFO topic was ignored or covered-up by the government, Fravor thinks there are reasons for the Pentagon’s new interest. “I look at it for two reasons,” said Fravor. “One, if there’s a capability, we can’t explain it. Number two, if you can explain it, then you can literally change everything that we do.”

MYSTERY WIRE — Military and intelligence officials say they remain baffled by unusual,

**Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach**

unidentified aircraft that have been encountered in recent years off both coasts of the United States.

Many of the objects have been referred to as drones, but that is not what Pentagon investigators have been telling the chain of command behind the scenes.

Naval Air Station Oceana is the center of airpower on the east coast of the United States. It is a sprawling naval air station in Virginia, home to the best aviators in the world.

Since at least 2014, F-18 pilots flying into the zone designated W-72 have reported encounters with a bizarre array of unknown, unidentified objects and aircraft, positioned directly in their daily flight paths.

Investigators with the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force have requested that airmen try to

document their encounters.

On March 4th, 2019, one of them did.

An F-18 weapons systems officer (WSO) seated behind the pilot used his iPhone to capture images of three different objects he encountered in the same airspace.

At 3:02 p.m. he photographed an odd shaped object. Another photo, taken close to the same time, was first posted to twitter on May 11, 2020, then again on social media 6 months later.

Other photos taken on the same day; March 4th, 2019 have never been made public until now.

The object the Navy calls the “Sphere” was photographed at 2:44 p.m.

The second one to be photographed was dubbed the “Acorn.” A similar, but different photograph of this same object was published online in December 2020.

Then, 12 minutes later, the WSO spotted a third object, described as the “Metallic Blimp.” It appears to have various appendages.

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Military and Intelligence Agencies ‘Stonewalling’ UFO Report

April 10, 2021
ExoNews Editor

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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Military and Spy Agencies ‘Stiff-Arming’ UFO Investigators

April 10, 2021
ExoNews Editor

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.

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.

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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Former Intelligence Chief Tells Fox News That UFOs Are Real

April 2, 2021
ExoNews Editor

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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