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Excessive secrecy could undermine U.S. efforts to evaluate unidentified flying objects, experts warn
The Debrief ^ | Micah Hanks

Posted on 02/27/2023 4:44:30 AM PST by RoosterRedux

A series of incidents involving the downing of several objects over North America that the Biden Administration refuses to identify but suggests had been commercial balloons has renewed debate over whether the United States is being forthcoming about data it collects on aerial objects that remain unidentified.

Speaking at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters that the unidentified objects were most likely to have been commercial balloons that the U.S. shot down using AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles, projectiles with an individual price tag of around $400,000.

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In addition to the warranted concerns by many Americans over whether the U.S. had been trigger-happy in its response to the detection of the objects—all of which were shot down in the aftermath of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon’s transit through U.S. airspace in open view of the public—some are also raising concerns over whether the Pentagon and the Biden Administration’s positions on the recent incidents highlights another pressing concern for Americans: excessive secrecy.

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Notably, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines recently warned that excessive secrecy is “an urgent challenge to solve” and that “classification and inability to share information can undermine the critical democratic objectives”...

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Fundamentally, if any information is being collected about UAP that points to something other than technologies suspected of belonging to U.S. adversaries or other security challenges, Hoffman and the SCU say American citizens deserve to know.

“This is called transparency,” Hoffman told The Debrief, “and our government should be transparent unless to do so clearly and rightly jeopardizes national security to provide these types of images.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thedebrief.org ...


TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: avrilhaines; coverstory; sabrinasingh; ufos

1 posted on 02/27/2023 4:44:30 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
If even the Director of National Intelligence thinks the government is hiding information from the public (that is not related to our own black craft or those of our adversaries), what is the government (mostly the DOD and USAF) hiding and why?
2 posted on 02/27/2023 4:48:17 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Absolutely no excuse for secrecy if object is not military in any way...or connected to a foreign country.

Wonder how much we will have to pay companies for a shoot down of a $12 balloon.

3 posted on 02/27/2023 5:05:04 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: RoosterRedux
Let's be real....every balloon on earth will become regulated....and have to ask permission of the US government. Again...it's all about control..No guns...no free speech...no regular light bulbs...no plastic straws....no plastic bags...BUT....

Everyone gets a Covid booster.....along with Covid itself.

4 posted on 02/27/2023 5:08:35 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: RoosterRedux

>> “classification and inability to share information can undermine the critical democratic objectives”

That’s not a bug, that’s a feature!


5 posted on 02/27/2023 5:13:42 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: RoosterRedux

what is the government (mostly the DOD and USAF) hiding and why?
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This cat-and-mouse news on UFOs goes on ad nauseam because the politicians don’t want to tell you they are not in control of this planet. Can you imagine them telling you that? There are military secrets that not even Presidents are briefed on. The stupid cover they use is that if you knew these ‘secrets’ you would certainly go crazy, so just go back to sleep!! The problem now, since covid. is that the diabolical DARPA/military decided to collude with these off-planet creatures in conducting their ‘experiments’ on humans. That obviously raises the urgency to a whole new level for us. This explains the current thrashing around that officials are displaying regarding the UFO saga. It’s no longer just cattle mutilations and a few human abduction ‘experiments’ to worry about but a progression of treachery being exerted by these entities on our military. It is my view that our military is being blackmailed into participating in these experiments. This is what happens when one possesses unspeakable secrets. The blackmailed wind up selling their souls to the Devil rather than disclosing the secrets. Now, participating in the covid experiment has dirtied up our military with the Devil so they have dug their hole even deeper.


6 posted on 02/27/2023 6:02:13 AM PST by iontheball
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Very interesting comment. And, given all that we know, not out of the realm of reason.


7 posted on 02/27/2023 6:08:31 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: iontheball

Interesting post—lot to comment on..but I will stick to one...perhaps our alien “friends” can affect the way the military contacts “think”—so that the secrecy might be an alien agenda rather than just a military one...


8 posted on 02/27/2023 6:12:38 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Unidentified flying objects

LOL and repeat


9 posted on 02/27/2023 7:28:08 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: RoosterRedux

All this UFO/UAF business is just to take attention off of Biden’s failure to protect the American heartland from a massive Chinese spy balloon that could have easily been a bio weapons platform.


10 posted on 02/27/2023 7:42:17 AM PST by The Great RJ
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