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Military and spy agencies accused of stiff-arming investigators on UFO sightings
By Bryan Bender 2 days ago
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 surprising 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.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/25/ufo-sightings-report-478104
dada wrote:I'd agree. Just thinking that the space between habitable planets is so far, it takes light itself years just to reach the nearest star systems. So even if the extra-terrestrials were made of light, it would still take them a very long time to go from here to there.
Maybe travel is between nodes in the light network. Movement between any node in the network to any other node is instantaneous. Distances between nodes in the light network are real, but all nodes are 'equidistant' in the network.
In any event, these extra-terrestrials seem to be bending and navigating the laws of physics one way or another. And we're still thinking warp speed and wormholes. Like Kirk and Khan. Kirk outmaneuvers Khan because Khan is still thinking like a twentieth century naval captain. Two-dimensional strategies in a three-dimensional world. We're still thinking in the twenty-first century. Using three-dimensional strategies, getting outmaneuvered. So hopefully soon the federation class starship will be a thing of the past.
Iamwhomiam » 30 Mar 2021 04:15 wrote:Let's see, if I recall correctly, we were neither here, nor there, but everywhere simultaneously, and are experiencing a never ending moment, as we always have. First impressions can be lasting.
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It's your third paragraph I most agree with, I think. Your first two paragraphs brought me to write my first impressions comment ~ so 20th century! Very early 20th century, at that. Spooky action at a distance demonstrates time and distance have no matter and do not matter - communication is instantaneous. (But I do like the nodes of light idea, a neural network, just the same.)
"So even if the extra-terrestrials were made of light, it would still take them a very long time to go from here to there." Light is transitional energy; energy expression. Spooky action eliminates time and distance from the equation.
dada » Thu Apr 01, 2021 4:31 pm wrote:I'm thinking movement into the future is along a vertical dimension, moving perpendicular from the horizontal dimension of chronological time at every point in the linear narrative. The evolution of life is towards the apprehension of higher dimensions. So all choronlogical time, the horizontal dimension, is the past. And the future can be accessed at every moment in chronological time.
So, not that the visitors aren't us from the future, but that we may also be us from the future.
Is it a matter of bi-location, or multi-location? Could be we are in many places at once in the linear narrative. But when apprehending the higher dimensions, time does not function in the same way, it is an instantaneous succession of revelations.
Navy's Top Officer Says ‘Drones’ That Swarmed Destroyers Remain Unidentified
APRIL 5, 2021
At a roundtable with reporters today, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday, the U.S. Navy's top officer, was asked about a series of bizarre incidents that took place in July 2019 and involved what only have been described as 'drones' swarming American destroyers off the coast of Southern California. The War Zone was the first to report in detail on this series of mysterious events after the incident was originally uncovered by filmmaker Dave Beaty.
Asked by Jeff Schogol of Task & Purpose if the Navy had positively identified any of the aircraft involved, Gilday responded by saying:
“No, we have not. I am aware of those sightings and as it’s been reported there have been other sightings by aviators in the air and by other ships not only of the United States, but other nations – and of course other elements within the U.S. joint force.”
“Those findings have been collected and they still are being analyzed," Gilday added. "I don’t have anything new to report, Jeff, on what those findings have revealed thus far. But I will tell you we do have a well-established process in place across the joint force to collect that data and to get it to a separate repository for analysis.”
At the time of writing, it is unclear if Admiral Gilday was referring to the Department of Defense’s Navy-led Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), created last August to examine “incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace.” A Senate-requested report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena is expected later this year. Representatives from the UAPTF could not be reached for comment.
A preliminary response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) inquiries indicates that the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) possesses documents about the incident and that they are intermingled with records from several other agencies. This would make sense as the UAPTF was established within ONI, according to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Schogol also asked if there was any suspicion that the aircraft described as drones were “extraterrestrial.” Gilday responded, “No, I can’t speak to that - I have no indications at all of that.”
The War Zone has reached out to the Navy, Coast Guard, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for further details regarding the drones flying near Navy destroyers in 2019. Members of the intelligence and armed services committees in both the Senate and the House were asked for comment, as well. While at least some elected officials indicated they were aware of the issue, none were able to make a statement at this time regarding the encounters off the coast of Southern California two years ago.
We will continue to update our readers with new information on this strange series of events as soon as we get it.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40071/navys-top-officer-says-mysterious-drones-that-swarmed-destroyers-remain-unidentified
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