The UAP Task Force: is this 'disclosure'?

[aoibhghaire]

I thought this was a good historic summary of actions on UFO/UAP by US Congress to the end of 2022 (17 December 2022)

https://tas-education.org/exostudies...y-us-congress/

[aoibhghaire]

I hope that the true intent of AARO behind the US Congress and its fusion of the IAA into the NDAA is not thwarted by OUSD&I and an Air Force pushback. And I hope that they are provided the funds to accomplish the enormous amount of work that was stipulated in the final U.S. Senate-approved NDAA.

Yes, Mr. Moultrie and Dr. Kirkpatrick's recent declarations are disappointing...No evidence of alien origins in hundreds of UAP cases studied? Also, two recently disappointing articles were published, one in the NYT and another in the WSJ just before the new NDAA was about to be approved in Congress.

It's as though AARO (receiving guidance from OUSD&I which itself probably receives 'guidance' from others truly "in the know") insists on starting from scratch and the ones pulling the strings are not part of the control group that truly knows what is going on, most likely outside of formal supervision channels and working on legacy projects in association with private contractors.

The final NDAA version also eliminated a clause that mentioned whistleblowers' right to sue the USG if they felt that there was wrongdoing from their superiors for coming out to AARO (that should re-transmit their information to the SECDEF and to the proper committees in the US Congress. The final NDAA version also eliminated the clause that ordered AARO to focus on non-manmade objects. These setbacks may disincentivize many potential whistleblowers.

A necessary question is what is motivating that "cabal" in the know?

[aoibhghaire]

The Office Which ‘Lied’ And ‘Persecuted Whistleblowers’ Sidelined By Congress From U.S. UFO Investigation

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home...-investigation

Congress on U.S. UFO Investigation


President Joe Biden today signed the Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act into law, which has been shaped by Congress over previous months.

Of note, the legislation contains new provisions relating to what is now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

Provisions include protections and reporting mechanisms for potential whistleblowers involved in alleged UAP retrieval and reverse-engineering programs, and the requirement for a new report detailing the historical records and documents belonging to the intelligence community relating to UAP from 1 January 1945 onwards.

Of note, the legislation also means that Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, Director of the UAP office known as the AARO, will now report directly to Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, and the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Stacey Dixon, on all operational and security matters relating to the AARO.

Only administrative matters will now be reported to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSDI&S), where a UAP office has been located since 2021, meaning that it would effectively be sidelined on the most important elements of UAP investigations.

[boja]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dMvbMWnV3Rs

24 Dec 2022 #BreakingNews
BREAKING NEWS: Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon confirms that Dr. Eric W. Davis is the author of the Admiral Wilson Notes

[aoibhghaire]

IMO this is the game changer, having Chris Mellon confirming that Eric Davis wrote the Davis-Wilson notes.

Chris Mellon's timing is no accident.

This is indeed is a wonderful Xmas present in the last 3 hours.

[aoibhghaire]

In reference to post 543

NDAA FY23 and AARO's Strange Setbacks

As Christopher Sharp wrote in his December 23, 2022, Liberation Time article "Office Which ‘Lied’ And ‘Persecuted Whistleblowers’ Sidelined By Congress From U.S. UFO Investigation", OUSD(I&S) seems to have been sidelined, but I suspect that OUSD (I&S) (and or someone else) is still powerfully influencing what can be said by AARO. What makes me think that? In the following press conference roundtable, Mr. D. Moultrie and Dr. S. Kirkpatrick minimized evidence for an alien component (after reviewing hundreds of more UAP cases mostly based on military sightings). They said that they had found no evidence of alien intelligence.

Also, (if I'm not mistaken) Mr. Moultrie said that they had found no evidence for transmedium objects in his current review!

"We have not, to the best of my knowledge, had any credible reporting, that we've been able to analyze of trans-medium activity or trans-medium objects. We are still going through the data. And so, I would say that it's early on in the process. So, I don't want to be definitive to say that there's nothing that is there. But I would say that we have not seen since the -- the May hearing, we have not seen any – any indications that there have been trans-medium activities with UAPs."
This is the LINK to the media AARO-OUSD(I&S) roundtable: USD(I&S) Ronald Moultrie and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick Media Roundtable on the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office > U.S. Department of Defense > Transcript

However, after some cogitating, I wonder whether the IAA annex from October 1st, 2022 annex (which included the "non-manmade objects" language and which also was in the July 2022 IAA version) has been surreptitiously added to the current - signed into law - NDAA? Could it be that "trans medium" is still so connected to the original "non-manmade" clause that, even if it is not openly mentioned in the main text, it is still hidden in the law, and this is a reason why it is being downplayed?


If I understood well, OUSD(I&S) currently has a supervisory, advisory, and administrative role now. Whistleblowers will have to present themselves directly to AARO (which will vet their claims). They will not go to OUSD (I&S) but perhaps the latter still exerts plenty of control over AARO.

The current, enacted-signed NDAA FY23 is indeed a step forward towards greater openness, public education, and accountability but several important pro-disclocure clauses were removed from the previous main text. For example, the order to focus on "non-manmade objects" was removed from the main NDAA text.

Two more setbacks:

1) The Historical UFO report that was going to be independently compiled by GAO, US Comptrollers Office since 1945 will be conducted by AARO and is now only to be reviewed, audited by GAO, US Comptrollers Office.

2) The clause referring to whistleblowers' rights to sue the USG (if they felt they had been wronged for whistleblowing) was removed.

At this point, AARO's capacity to accomplish what it's being asked for requires plenty of funding and I believe that that would depend on other committees' decisions. If leaders from the appropriate Congressional committees are still dissatisfied they may add more pro-transparency provisions to next years' IAA and NDAA in order to know what has been hidden from them.

I just hope that what today comes across as a current information control and 'pushback' (also manifested in recent poorly researched skeptical articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post) doesn't increase and turn AARO into another (even if more sophisticated) truth-squelching Project Blue Book. As mentioned, it will depend on how satisfied the relevant congressional leaders are, and for now, they seem to be trusting the process although the report ordered on December 2021 and due on October 31st, 2022, is 54 days late! Will the many other UAO-related reports ordered with specific deadlines in the NDAA FY23 also be so nonchalantly late?

Sources:

Christopher Sharp. Liberation Times. December 23, 2022 article "Office Which ‘Lied’ And ‘Persecuted Whistleblowers’ Sidelined By Congress From U.S. UFO Investigation."

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home...-investigation

USD (I&S) "Ronald Moultrie and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick Media Roundtable on the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office." Dec 16, 2022. USD(I&S) Ronald Moultrie and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick Media Roundtable on the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office > U.S. Department of Defense > Transcript

H.R.7776 - James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. Sections 1673, 6802, 6803.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-...bill/7776/text

Dan Lamothe. "No Alien Life Discovered on Earth Says Pentagon but Search Deepens". December 16, 2022.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ce-alien-life/

Holman W. Jenkins Jr. The Wall Street Journal - Opinion. December 2, 2022. "The UFO Bubble Goes Pop"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ufo...ts-11670010814

Julian E. Barnes. The New York Times. October 28, 2022. "Many Military U.FO. reports are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash. Forget space aliens or hypersonic technology; classified assessments show that many episodes have ordinary explanations."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/u...y-reports.html

[ExomatrixTV]

• Unprecedented UAP Legislation

Unbeknownst to most Americans, President Biden just signed into law far-reaching legislation that could soon confirm the existence of an alien presence on earth. The relevant provisions, incorporated into legislation needed to provide funding for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC), enjoys strong bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. This is arguably the biggest story mainstream news organizations have ever failed to cover. Among other things, this new legislation:

• Provides greatly enhanced authorities and resources for the ‘All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office’ or ‘(AARO),’ which now reports directly to the leaders of the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community. The organization’s unusual name is intended to clarify that its purview extends to anomalous objects regardless of their location (i.e. land, air, undersea, or space).

• Mandates a review of all intelligence documents involving UAP from 1945 to the present.

• Requires DoD, DHS, and the IC to identify any non-disclosure agreements related to UAP and provide those to the new AARO office.

• Directs the new AARO office to develop a UAP science plan to assess the sometimes mysterious and mind-bending capabilities being reported as well as a collection plan to leverage America’s vast technical intelligence apparatus to determine where these objects are coming from and their capabilities and intent. This aggressive UAP investigation, using America’s unparalleled intelligence capabilities, is what I hoped to accomplish when I brought the famous DoD UAP videos (“Gimbal” and “Flir”) and Lue Elizondo to the NYT and the oversight committees on Capitol Hill in December, 2017. Recall that Mr. Elizondo had just resigned his position on the staff of the Secretary of Defense in protest over DoD inaction in the face of innumerable violations of restricted DoD airspace by UAP.

• Provides a secure process for anyone who has signed an official US government secrecy agreement related to UAP to come forward and reveal that information to AARO and to Congress, regardless of the level of classification, without fear of retribution or prosecution. This provision is intended to determine the veracity of longstanding allegations indicating that the US government has recovered extraterrestrial technology and perhaps even extraterrestrial beings. The alleged UAP crash in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico, offers the most famous example, but there are many others. For example, in his new book Trinity: The Best Kept Secret, the renowned writer, scientist and venture capitalist Dr. Jacques Vallee surfaces a new case of alleged ET spacecraft recovery operations.

The historical intelligence document review, and the review of government secrecy agreements, should be completed over the next 18 months. That process alone could validate claims the US government has been concealing proof of an extraterrestrial presence near earth. If it seems unbelievable that Congress would pass such legislation, it is only because of the paucity of reporting on the facts that caused members of both parties in Congress to join together to pass these provisions.

Even before this ‘whistleblower’ legislation was signed into law, credible individuals were providing Congress.

information alleging that the US government has recovered extraterrestrial technology. This process began in 2019 when I brought astrophysicist Dr. Eric Davis to Capitol Hill to meet with staff from the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees. Dr. Davis, author of the famous Wilson-Davis memo, provided specific information lending credence to sensational reports that an official US government program is actively seeking to exploit recovered technology that was fashioned by some other species or perhaps advanced AI machines. Much of the information Dr. Davis provided remains highly classified, but the good news is that these sensational claims, which have the potential to transform our understanding of the universe and man’s place within it, are now being taken seriously and properly investigated. I’ve brought others besides Dr. Davis and Lue Elizondo to the Hill and the AARO office and I am encouraging anyone else who may be able to help set the record straight to step forward as well.

I’m not claiming that the information provided to Congress or to AARO proves that earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. However, Dr. Davis and Mr. Elizondo and other witnesses are credible former government officials who worked on highly classified government programs. Having heard their reports, and those of others who are coming forward, I can vouch for the fact that the AARO office has serious leads to pursue. The media is doing the public a great disservice by ignoring the UAP issue because a sudden shocking revelation runs the risk of being far more disruptive and disturbing than information gradually processed and absorbed. If these claims prove true, blindsiding the public greatly increases the risk of negative consequences.

Although it is true that Congress could seek to keep the AARO office’s findings confidential, it is doubtful that this information can be kept under wraps for long if confirmed. I say that not because the government is incapable of keeping secrets. Indeed, the reverse is more nearly true: DoD and DoE black programs are almost never compromised. By contrast, intelligence reports (e.g. reports on the Iranian nuclear program) often leak because policymakers want to influence public opinion, but even in those cases the technical or human sources behind the reporting are rarely revealed. In fact, while serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence at DoD, I can only recall one instance of a DoD special access program being compromised and that was simply because the capability was used in combat during the Gulf War. In the case of UAP, however, the individuals coming forward want the information to be disclosed, as do many members of Congress who are the recipients of the information being gathered by AARO. In that regard, I recently had the opportunity to ask Senator Gillibrand, a leading sponsor of the legislation, whether she would support revealing the existence of alien technology if the whistleblower process confirms these sensational allegations. Without missing a beat, she replied: “Of course! Why not?” Most members of Congress and their staff, and most of those coming forward presenting evidence, seem to agree that the American people have a right to know. This is therefore a case where I believe the truth, whatever it proves to be, will prevail in the not too distant future.

Even if the UAP whistleblower provision and UAP document reviews being mandated by Congress do not lead to confirmation of an ET presence near Earth, ongoing governmental and scientific investigations of UAP activity might lead to the same conclusion. Now that the anti-UAP stigma is being lifted, and the government has established UAP reporting procedures, fresh data regarding hundreds of new UAP incidents is pouring in. At last count the official number of UAP incidents was at 400, and is still rapidly increasing. If the media is guilty of the sin of omission when it comes to reporting on the unprecedented, bipartisan UAP legislation that was just signed into law, they are guilty of the sin of commission when it comes to misleading reporting regarding UAP activity detected by DoD and the IC. I’ll have more to say about that soon. For the moment, I’ll simply venture to predict that the facts, when they emerge, will directly contradict recent reporting in the Wall Street Journal by Holman Jenkins Jr. and Seth Shostak, as well as reporting in the New York Times by Julian Barnes, which claims that conventional explanations have been found for most of the UAP reports identified by DoD and the IC. I believe that the report, when it emerges, will deepen the UAP mystery rather than provide explanations for the burgeoning number of UAP incidents involving violations of US airspace.

Consider that although the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has produced nothing of import, despite decades of work, it is still rightly regarded as a worthwhile effort. The most notable SETI incident occurred back in the 70’s, when a strangely powerful and mysterious signal was detected. It has become famously known as the Wow! signal. Although it remains unexplained, there is now some reason to believe it may have had a terrestrial origin. By contrast, the US government has only just begun officially investigating UAP with modern sensors yet we already have hundreds of official military cases that defy conventional explanation. Hundreds of Wow!-like events, most involving data from multiple sensors! Moreover, in some cases, the ET hypothesis seems the best or only viable explanation (e.g. the Nimitz case which left no doubt in the minds of some of the Navy pilots and radar operators).

I therefore suggest giving the UAP investigative process a chance and I am frankly baffled why anyone would expect DoD or the IC to have firm answers when the AARO office is only just beginning to be properly staffed and funded. Would we expect SETI to find definitive proof of aliens the moment they began collecting data? Meanwhile, with this recently passed legislation, Americans have reason to hope we will soon know the truth of legendary allegations that the US government has recovered alien technology. For those seized with curiosity over the UAP issue, I can’t imagine a better Christmas gift than this new UAP legislation.

Merry Christmas, with special thanks and appreciation to the members of Congress and their staffs who have put national security and science ahead of stigma and ignorance.

• source

[aoibhghaire]

In spite of the setbacks, pushbacks, etc, including some useful clauses deleted, confirmation of an ET presence is advancing.

Merry Christmas!!

[boja]

This Today (28 Dec 2022) from ROBERT SALAS on Twitter :-

"Recently, I have been contacted to give testimony to AARO on 1967 Malmstrom AFB UFO incidents. Also have helped provide names of other UFO-NUKES witnesses for AARO testimony. I anticipate these will be given in early 2023. Pls retweet."

1:47 PM · Dec 28, 2022

[aoibhghaire]

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home...of-this-enigma

Is A UFO Church Committee Coming To Congress? Lue Elizondo Says He Would Support Creation Of New Committee To “Get To The Bottom Of This Enigma”

Following the signing into law of the Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) provisions, former AATIP director, Lue Elizondo, has told Liberation Times that he would support the idea of establishing a committee which could quickly and accurately get to the bottom of the enigma.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by aoibhghaire (here)
https://www.liberationtimes.com/home...of-this-enigma

Is A UFO Church Committee Coming To Congress? Lue Elizondo Says He Would Support Creation Of New Committee To “Get To The Bottom Of This Enigma”

Following the signing into law of the Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) provisions, former AATIP director, Lue Elizondo, has told Liberation Times that he would support the idea of establishing a committee which could quickly and accurately get to the bottom of the enigma.

Ha. I do know this is political theater, of course. And it may even be a necessary pathway, maybe the only one that's realistic.

But I also confess I rather roll my eyes when I hear something like that. As so many know, the "enigma" is all fully understood, at least to a very large degree — and has been for many decades.

[boja]

Interesting interview with USAF Witness, MARIO WOODS.
MARIO WOODS is 1 of 8 Witnesses already "called to testify before congress."
He witnessed a "UFOs & Nukes" incident in 1977 at Ellsworth AFB in S. Dakota.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ozvj1c5DvSE

[Johnnycomelately]

Whoa boja, great story. Got to 1:34: of 1:40+:. Feels like it might be too great to be true, so seamless, but time well spent.

Posted by boja (here)
Interesting interview with USAF Witness, MARIO WOODS.
MARIO WOODS is 1 of 8 Witnesses already "called to testify before congress."
He witnessed a "UFOs & Nukes" incident in 1977 at Ellsworth AFB in S. Dakota.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ozvj1c5DvSE

[aoibhghaire]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by aoibhghaire (here)
https://www.liberationtimes.com/home...of-this-enigma

Is A UFO Church Committee Coming To Congress? Lue Elizondo Says He Would Support Creation Of New Committee To “Get To The Bottom Of This Enigma”

Following the signing into law of the Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) provisions, former AATIP director, Lue Elizondo, has told Liberation Times that he would support the idea of establishing a committee which could quickly and accurately get to the bottom of the enigma.

Ha. I do know this is political theater, of course. And it may even be a necessary pathway, maybe the only one that's realistic.

But I also confess I rather roll my eyes when I hear something like that. As so many know, the "enigma" is all fully understood, at least to a very large degree — and has been for many decades.

I also roll my eyes. But, generally speaking, the human family has been split between those that scoff at the possibility of ET already here on Earth, those that have some interest or curiosity, and those who do not...care.

Among the few of us that care, most are split into an objective-only tendency under old materialist scientific standards or into a believer-sentiment-preponderant approach. Within those minorities, only some tend to be both spiritually and culturally open to ET and its implications while trying to maintain an objective approach.

Will there be chaos if too much is confirmed too soon? Only a small percentage of the population going berserk is needed to disrupt a livable social order. Can leaders get into the fray and do their job without a national security reason with which to save face and without being initially told by the military "we don't know what they are?" How disclosure-confirmation is unfolding seems to be a carefully thought strategy.

[Kryztian]

Posted by aoibhghaire (here)
Is A UFO Church Committee Coming To Congress? Lue Elizondo Says He Would Support Creation Of New Committee To “Get To The Bottom Of This Enigma”

I have to laugh at the comparison to the Church Committee which would "Get to the bottom of" things. Did the Church Committee ever get to the bottom of MK-Ultra, Project Mockingbird or Project Family Jewels??? The answer is a big resounding "NO", despite Senator Frank Church and other's best efforts. In retrospect it was just a way to sweep things under the rug. No one ever went to prison for murder, torture, or treason, in fact, not even one single person got indicted for the massive array of crimes that went on. The committee was just a way to acknowledge the Elephant in the room, that these programs existed, and pretend that our elected leaders dealt with the problem. It was just Congress's way of slapping some people at the CIA and NSA with a wet noodle, in effect saying, "Okay, if you naughty, naughty boys are going to keep doing these naughty, naughty things, than you had better be a lot more discreet."

Calling it "The Church Committee" shows just what they are really trying to do with "disclosure" - they are acknowledging that yes, that had just a tiny bit of interest in UFOs and were just a teensy-weensy bit secretive about it, but now it's going to be all above board. Meanwhile they continue to build up the massive secretive breakaway civilization involved in technology and secrecy even more but with more security, learning from all their past mistakes.

[boja]

Jim Quirk Nails it here.

Back around 1947, when Truman & a few other "Nobodies" decided that the Public "Can't Handle the Truth" -
in my humble opinion, that was a BIG Mistake.

Many People get Really angry over being lied to, especially regarding an issue that is the Biggest affecting Humanity, Ever.
Sooner or Later Everybody is going to know.

Yes there will be some disruption, BUT Life Will Go On.

Meanwhile, this Pathetic slow disclosure gets ever more Silly by the day.

Personally being elderly, I shall be going to my grave soon, Ashamed that I was once part of the Human Race.
At least they Didn't fool me. I'm making a note, Never to Re-incarnate into this species.
Meanwhile I'm just a saddened spectator. Billions content to live in a "Fairytale" reality - You just can't help some people.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nZYcBDj1iUE

[boja]

ODNI Report on UAP (Due 31 Oct 2022) -

Dropped today (12 Jan 2023) -

https://dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents...Report-UAP.pdf

More Toilet Paper.

[Did You See Them]

Notable alarms !!
i.e Not Russian or Chinese.

[mountain_jim]

saw this covered on Tucker last night with interview with Nick Pope ... video here:

http://vod.foxnews.com/media/v1/pmp4...f6790/main.mp4



Is this meaningful?

https://www.foxnews.com/media/report...before-roswell

Reported 1945 UFO sighting to be investigated by US government: 'Roswell before Roswell'

An 'avocado-shaped' object allegedly crashed in New Mexico 78 years ago

An amendment added to the National Defense Authorization Act in late December would require the Department of Defense to review historical documents related to an alleged 1945 unidentified flying object (UFO) sighting in New Mexico.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), created in July 2022, will lead the effort to identify any "unidentified anomalous phenomena that may pose a threat to national security."

Former UK Ministry of Defense official Nick Pope spoke out about the alleged mysterious "avocado-shaped" object that crashed almost 80 years ago on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Monday.

We must get to the bottom of a potential UFO-nuclear connection: Nick Pope
Former UK Ministry of Defense official Nick Pope discusses a bill that would require the Department of Defense to review historical documents related to an alleged 1945 UFO sighting on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

"This has been called the ‘Roswell before Roswell,’" Pope said, referring to the first reported UFO sighting in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

[onawah]

Quite a good report here on disclosure and the coverup starting at 15 minutes 5 seconds into this video, in which Rep. Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee, accused the government of covering up UFO sightings.

Posted by onawah (here)
Now Left MORE afraid of Trump & Musk; DeSantis goes after China; AI & Govt can’t hide THIS anymore
Front Page with Scott Goulet
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"New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said that she will resign as prime minister of New Zealand, and she will not run in the general election, which is scheduled for October.

While Democrats are still waiting for Biden to decide whether he will run for president, next year, President Trump's campaign is already on the agenda. Trump's campaign was in contact with Facebook's parent company, Meta. Here are the details.

U.S. authorities arrested the majority shareholder, and co-founder of Bitzlato, which is a cryptocurrency exchange.

Rep. Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee, accused the government of covering up UFO sightings."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LTGvqbrA4Q0