When President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December, it began a 180-day countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs.
That report must contain detailed analyses of UFO data and intelligence collected by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI, according to the Senate intelligence committee’s directive.
Well those 180 days are almost up, and the government-sanctioned report on “unidentified aerial phenomena” is expected to be sent to Congress in just a couple of weeks.
In advance of the report, 60 Minutes this past weekend interviewed Luis Elizondo, former director of the defense department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Elizondo told “60 Minutes” that some reported sightings don’t have explanations. “We’re going through our due diligence. Is it some sort of new type of cruise missile technology that China has developed? Is it some sort of high-altitude balloon that’s conducting reconnaissance? Ultimately when you have exhausted all those what-ifs and you’re still left with the fact that this is in our airspace and it’s real, that’s when it becomes compelling, and that’s when it becomes problematic,” Elizondo told the broadcast news outlet.
“Imagine a technology that can do 600-to-700 g-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space. And oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity. That’s precisely what we’re seeing.”
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said in a recent interview that the findings will shock people because “frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public.”
Ryan Graves, former Navy pilot Lieutenant, notes that the U.S. Military encounters UAPs on the East Coast: “Every day. Every day for at least a couple years.” Graves commented: “I would say, you know, the highest probability is it’s a threat observation program.”
Chris Mellon, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, and was on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee notes: “… these vehicles seem to have unlimited loiter time, which we don’t have. We’re limited in terms of altitude, it’s hard to design something that functions well at ground level that can go, 60,000 or 80,000 feet and then drop down to the deck or drop to 20,000 feet. And you know, and it’s like a straight vertical line … in seconds. … Then the acceleration is beyond any, far beyond anything that we, that we’re capable of … There’s nothing we could build that would be strong enough to endure that amount of force and acceleration.”
And then earlier this weel on the Late Late Show, President Obama had this to say:
Here’s Obama:
“What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, 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. And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.”
I have to admit I’ve never believed in UFOs, but the above revelations certainly makes me rethink my beliefs.
I am looking forward to what the Congressional report will have to say.
In the meantime, I’ll be keeping a closer look at the sky…
Sources:
Daily Wire
USA Today
CBS News (transcript of 60 Minutes interview)
ABC7
time will tell. Maybe.
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hopefully the report will provide some insights…
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I’m skeptical. It’s probably just reflections from the sun or moon or city lights. Or it’s swamp gas. Or it’s a hoax perpetrated by bored pilots. Or it’s a government plot to scare the hell out of us, so that we’ll fund NASA. I can go on and on with all the possible explanations. So it couldn’t be aliens from outer space. Not a chance.
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Just don’t let them kidnap you! They might want your black jellybeans. Or they may have heard a lot about you and be intrigued!
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they may be interested in learning more about this thing we humans call puns, and Tippy and Jason would be natural choices for abduction… 🙂
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LOL! Tbey better be on their guard, though tbe aliens would probably give them back! The puns would be causing them to …smack their heads… too much!
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maybe the puns will be a way of keeping the aliens away…
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There’s a good chance they may have heard of me. I have millions of intergalactic followers. They probably want my autograph.
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that’s right; I forgot about all of your intergalactic followers!
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I’m getting a lot of them. I wonder if I can lead them in a campaign of intergalactic conquest.
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just be sure to take care of your blogging colleagues…
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When we take over the Earth, we will give you safe passage to the refugee camps on Mars.
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well that’s where men are from, so it will be like going home..
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You may hurt your wrist by signing your autograph for a million followers!
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No, I’ll hire an army of minions to do that kind of work.
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does such a job pay well? asking for a friend…
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Yes, it pays, well . . .
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I read one story that said just becuase there might be UFOs doesn’t mean there are aliens. I’m not exactly sure what that means…
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It could be an unmanned drone, sent from someplace like Alpha Centauri.
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there’s got to be an alien behind that drone somewhere…
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It could be a drug smuggling operation, as I understand that cannabis grows very well on some exoplanets. Don’t ask me how I came to understand this.
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probably from one of your intergalactic followers…
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Shhh . . .
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mum’s the word…
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I’m going with a yes, there are aliens, and we are being softened up for the big reveal. It is a big wide multiverse out there…I doubt we are alone…
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I hope the big reveal happens soon, so I have to time to digest it all…
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Me too….it is all very strange…
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and a bit concerning…
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Just a little. I presume we are not about to be subjected to war of the worlds, Jim…Perhaps it is more likely to be star trek than Alien?
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I would think not as well. I guess I shoud start watching Star Trek to get ready 🙂
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Live long and prosper…it’s life but not as we know it, Jim!
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that sounds about right!
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I believe that thinking we are the only creatures in the vast area that is outer space is awfully naive. That being said, I’m not sure I want to have them come visit. Someone, alien or human, is likely to panic. Things could get messy.
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I have lived a somewhat sheltered life 🙂
and it certainly does make me think more about what else is out there…
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I did ask my RAF pilot son if he had seen any UFOs – he said No, but I replied that he wouldn’t be allowed to tell me anyway! A local friend told me that one pleasant summer evening years ago they were on the beach near the pier and something darted down to the pier and zoomed back up again. Everyone watching agreed it was Not an earthly aircraft or anything earthly at all! Some of the observers did report it and a few days later a UFO investigator turned up at my friend’s house for a witness statement, but they never heard any more… I do know that RAF pilots on exercise or stationed in the USA are forbidden to fly in the airspace over Area 51! I think most sightings do have an explanation, but not all. Writer ‘me’ thinks they could be visitors from our future…
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that’s a crazy story about your friend! and I never knew about the flight restrictions over Area 51 – the plot thickens.
Hopefully the report is comprehensive and does not hold anything back.
and I am grateful for your son’s service in the RAF…
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I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but considering we are just a speck in the universe, I have a hard time believing there are no other life forms.
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I guess I need to come around to that way of thinking as well…
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If alien come to visit us i want to meet them
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as long as they are friendly, I’ll happily meet them too!
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i so agree with pete, and am looking forward to this report –
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so am I – something to get our minds off the pandemic…
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It is man’s greatest hubris to think that we are the only life in a universe this vast. I will not argue the possibility of alien life. I do, however, question what interest they would have in us if they have visited as prolifically as some suggest. I do wonder, if any or all of this is true, than how does that reconcile with the standard Judeo-Christian beliefs regarding creation?
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it does raise a lot of questions, and you wonder if these UFOs are so advanced, what interest would they have in us, if we are so far behind….
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Like others, I’m doubtful that we are the only life form in the universe, though whether any of the potential beings from other planets would transport themselves here seems more than a little far-fetched to me. But at least the former guy has managed to leave a legacy of spending your tax dollars on creating new conspiracy theories for his followers to believe.
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it will be interesting to see if this gets politicized…
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I’ve no doubt the GOP will use it to distract people from the real issues, such as why they are trying to disenfranchise voters and blocking sensible law changes. (Political enough for you? 😉)
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and now it looks like there will not be an investigation into the January 6 storming of the capitol, thanks to Mitch…
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I read that the House had passed it. Does this mean the Senate has blocked it? Presumably Manchin has screwed it.
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it seemslike once McConnel cameout against it, the odds of the Senate passing it became quite slim, since it needs 60 votes…
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Ah, I thought it was a straight majority. A good way of sweeping incitement to murder under the carpet!
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I think the Dems need 60 votes to avoid a filibuster…
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I’ve never understood how that works, or why a supposed democracy allows it!
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I’m not familiar with the details myself; the filibuster always seemed a bit crazy…
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From what I’ve seen, it’s a uniquely American interpretation of the word, but it does seem anti-democratic to me.
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I agree…
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I too think there are other life forms. There are definitely UFOs, emphasis on unidentified. I think nothing in the coming release will change that although it will be very interesting to see what remains unexplained and unidentified.
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this might be one cogressional report I actually read…
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What connection is there between the relief package and the report count down?
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great question; who knows how things get added to the final bill. just trying to please different special interest groups…
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I assume there are aliens, but I assume these UFOs aren’t aliens from beyond our solar system. Yes, unidentified and some maybe not even objects. Some probably sun glares, maybe a foreign govt. Maybe aliens from outer space, but I doubt it.
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I wonder if the report will reveal anything surprising…
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Billy Meier has been meeting with advanced humans his whole life, and has the evidence to prove it.
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