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“What about 1st person witness testimony of a Navy pilot who is an F/A-18F Super Hornet Squadron Commander and a Top Gun grad, with such testimony corroborated by his Weapons Systems Officer in the back seat, his wingman, the radarmen onboard the carrier (USS Nimitz), and an Aegis-equipped destroyer (USS Princeton).”

That is a different report than what the “former defense official” shared. What he shared he did not present cooborating evidence for. We are to take his credentials As more important than thAt eviddene.

[RoosterRedux]

Chris Mellon, former Dep. Asst. SecDef for Intelligence, had a classification that permitted him to see evidence and to talk to people in the Pentagon, the services, and in the Intelligence Community about what they've seen and are willing to testify about.

BTW, he's not a witness in the hearing tomorrow. He doesn't care what you think of his statements.

That said, IIRC he has testified before classified House and Senate Committees on this subject under oath. They took his word.

[RoosterRedux]

As an aside, not believing all this stuff (or believing it is contrived by someone or some group or believing it is swamp gas) is a valid theory.

Not a darned thing wrong with that.

For all we know, this might be some kind of mass hallucination. Who the heck knows?