Posted on 12/21/2018 12:24:30 PM PST by BenLurkin
Sunday marks one year since the New York Times broke open a provocative secret when it reported about the existence of a long-term Pentagon study of UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects.
In the 12 months since then, the I-Team has unveiled new details about the study, which was based in Las Vegas. So, what comes next? And will 2019 bring the public closer to understanding what the government already knows? The I-Team's George Knapp sat down for an exclusive interview with an intelligence officer who chased flying saucers for the Pentagon.
"When you say, something big is coming, what does that mean?" Asks Lue Elizondo with To The Stars Academy.
As a career intelligence officer, Elizondo learned to parse his words carefully. He spent nearly a decade managing a secret Pentagon study of encounters between U.S. military units and UAP's, Unknown Aerial Phenomena, aka UFOs, including multiple incidents in 2015 off the coast of Florida with an object dubbed the Gimbal.
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Media and public interest, combined with statements from the UFO study's original sponsor, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, have reportedly resulted in closed door briefings and testimony for senior staff and members of Congress during 2018. Elizondo hints that official interest in UFOs has been aroused.
"For some people, this UAP issue, they're really learning about it for the first time, despite what they may have seen on popular TV or maybe in some movie, this is really the first time they're being told. Hey Jack or Jane, this is a serious topic. This is something your Department of Defense has been tracking."
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegasnow.com ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.
Which was how the Pentagon wanted it...
...The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence...
...The shadowy program — parts of it remain classified — began in 2007, and initially it was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader at the time and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. Most of the money went to an aerospace research company run by a billionaire entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr. Reid’s, Robert Bigelow...
corporate cronyism from Dingy Harry.
There are no extraterrestrials, nor their remnants, which have been here, granting a very slight possibility of microbial forms in a Martian meteorite.
And that’s very slight.
Let me guess . . . Bigfoot pilots a flying saucer. . . .
Good.
Now I can throw away my tin foil!......................
If the gubment knows more than they are admitting, that is their job. Any extra-earth folks must be viewed as a potential threat. Why would you tip your hand to a possible adversary?
Any potential ‘adversary’ capable of interstellar travel would be technologically far superior to us, so tipping our hand really wouldn’t be an issue in that regard.
Anyone who is talking does not know anything.
Anyone who knows anything isn’t talking.
I worked for a Colonel who had been stationed at Wright Patterson. He said there was the body of a deceased space alien there.
They now have the ability to manage any hysteria that might result from full disclosure.
No, Bigfoot pilots a nuclear submarine in Loch Ness so he can keep tabs on the Monster.
What if they are not from outer space, but from underground/ocean?
LOL
Mr Knapp is a big time UFO - I’d say nut, but he seems to believe in the UFO silliness.
Otherwise, he isn’t a bad TV reporter on local issues.
I miss the winter weather in Las Vedas, having lived there for 11 years - but I do not miss the horrible gang problems now eating the place alive...
At a minimum, Cortez vs the Aztecs - or more likely modern military vs the Aztecs.
Dude stinks like a CIA tool.
So THAT's where he's been all this time!! LOL!
Merry Christmas, my friend!!
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