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If the Government Has UFO Crash Materials, It’s Time to Reveal Them
politico.com ^ | Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

Posted on 06/03/2023 8:54:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Since AARO was established, I have referred four witnesses to them who claim to have knowledge of a secret U.S. government program involving the analysis and exploitation of materials recovered from off-world craft. Other sources who, rightly or wrongly do not trust AARO’s leadership, have also contacted me with additional details and information about an alleged secret U.S. government reverse engineering program. Some have supplied information to the intelligence community’s inspector general, others directly to staff of the congressional oversight committees. As this process has progressed, and the credibility of these claims has grown, so too have my concerns. What if I’m helping to pry open a genuine Pandora’s box, releasing information that might prove destructive, destabilizing or for many simply terrifying? I’ve repeatedly had to ask myself: “Is disclosure in the best interest of the public? Am I doing the right thing working to bring what could be America’s most deeply buried secret to light?”

The most refreshingly clear guidance I have received came from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who is chair of the Senate Armed Services Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee and member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. When the opportunity presented itself during a meeting in the Senate, I asked, “You’ve launched an investigation that could prove aliens are visiting earth. What if the answer proves to be yes? Would you support sharing that information with the American people?” After all, AARO is not required to share its findings with the public, only Congress. Without hesitating she replied, “Of course! Why not?” I thought it was a great answer because I’ve always believed the public has a right to know the truth. However, after much reflection, I’ve also concluded the public needs to know the truth. I say this for the following reasons:

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In conclusion, I believe it is in our interest to follow the facts of the UAP issue wherever they lead. All living things, all nations and corporations, can only survive by continuing to adapt to changing circumstances. But to do so we must know the facts. We can’t adapt to what we don’t perceive. Concealing such vital information, if indeed we are not alone, poses a huge barrier to understanding and successfully adapting to the world around us. Lies and disinformation are already polluting public discourse. We can’t have meaningful debates on policy if we cannot even agree on the basic facts.

Admittedly, disclosure would initially be shocking and disorienting, but we would of necessity modify our beliefs to accommodate a new understanding of the universe and our place within it. What is deemed possible technologically would certainly change, but if our government can reveal the truth of such a deep secret it will demonstrate that government can change as well. Maybe we can build on that, perhaps even mitigating the dynamic of our current, frighteningly polarized political process.

As Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant author and inventor of modern communications satellites once said, commenting on the possibility of extraterrestrial contact: “Strangeness, wonder, mystery and magic — these things that not long ago seemed lost forever, will soon return to the world.” Some people will be afraid of change, as always, but change is inevitable and as always those who recognize and embrace it are the most likely to benefit. Thankfully, there are many reasons to believe that if UAP are manifestations of extraterrestrial intelligence, this stunning revelation can work to humanity’s advantage.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; UFO's
KEYWORDS: astronomy; fringe; ufo; ufos
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To: RoosterRedux

I like Elon, but he’s just human like everyone else.

With the exception of Mark Zuckerberg. And likely Al Gore.


41 posted on 06/03/2023 11:23:52 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
There may or may not be UFO's, but Navy pilots and commanders of nuclear missile launch facilities claim they've seen them and the military has not been at all supportive (basically threatening to end their careers if they talk).

On top of that, Congress doesn't know a damn thing about them and is pissed that they have been kept out of the loop (though no one seems to know who controls the "loop").

So, who is it that's trying to rally people? Do you think a bunch of pilots and on-duty commanders of nuclear missile launch facilities are trying to enslave us?

42 posted on 06/03/2023 11:26:57 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Some of the purported metal fragments have been analyzed. The alloy was unusual, but not unknown (Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc metal). Differing opinions on whether the metal originated in nuclear weapon casings, which were and are top secret (the case material can be used to augment the yield).


43 posted on 06/03/2023 11:30:42 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: RoosterRedux

we would of necessity modify our beliefs to accommodate a new understanding of the universe
/\

The same people
who beleive in Darwin and Freud

who say they believe Jesus either didn’t ever exist

Or if He did, was just a regular man

May just end up believing

Jesus was/is an alien ,,..

...a bad alien

and Lucifer was/is

The good alien.

And must necessarily modify their beliefs
and conforming...

....or be put to death.

Time will tell.


44 posted on 06/03/2023 11:32:43 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: RoosterRedux

“though no one seems to know who controls the “loop””

This is a great topic for discussion.

The “Majestic 12” trail seems to have gotten a bit cold.

It appears that Rumsfeld was “on the team” in his day.

Bobby Ray Inman is another name that comes up now and then.

It may well be that there are no public officials in charge these days—it could be all corporate players.

That is why Congress may find that questioning military officials is a waste of time.

If I were leading the investigation I would be questioning the CEOs of the ten largest defense contractors to start.


45 posted on 06/03/2023 11:39:01 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

That Bobby Ray Inman was and is a slippery guy. He knows a hell of a lot more than he is letting on.


46 posted on 06/03/2023 11:41:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

It makes no sense. But it’s an evergreen industry. Not particularly lucrative, though.


47 posted on 06/03/2023 11:57:25 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to se)
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To: RoosterRedux

Did you read James Moseley’s Shockingly Close to the Truth?

If not, you should.


48 posted on 06/03/2023 11:58:20 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to se)
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To: ifinnegan

There are a lot of crazies in the UFO field—any many of them were given covert support by US intelligence agencies as disinformation operations.

Part of “disclosure” should be exposing these historical (and imho ongoing) operations.


49 posted on 06/03/2023 12:05:18 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ifinnegan

The most well documented UFO disinformation operation is detailed in this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Project-Beta-Bennewitz-National-Security/dp/0743470923


50 posted on 06/03/2023 12:07:59 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

Static reaction. They likely use earth’s magnetism in some way.


51 posted on 06/03/2023 12:18:18 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: RoosterRedux

Something similar in a different language was written by people living along the Atlantic coastline and widely disseminated as far as it could go - in those days everyone was seeing white cloths moving along the horizon which every one knew was impossible ... then, one day the truth was revealed to the public with predictable results.


52 posted on 06/03/2023 12:38:12 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: chopperk

Yep they’ve been recorded joke for nearly 2000 years.


53 posted on 06/03/2023 12:39:40 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: RoosterRedux

Its an all-purpose squirrel.


54 posted on 06/03/2023 12:40:38 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: broken_clock

But they people who have directed and managed black project in many countries say ‘we have the means to take ET home’. Elon knows nothing about black projects and only a very few people alive actually do.


55 posted on 06/03/2023 12:41:44 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

This is an interesting guy for sure:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weird-news/former-israeli-space-security-chief-says-extraterrestrials-exist-trump-knows-n1250333


56 posted on 06/03/2023 12:45:26 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: RoosterRedux
There’s no reason to believe that a FTL drive can be built, a drive that would be needed to cross the distances between stars in a reasonable amount of time. Maybe in the far future such a thing will exist, most likely not.

Since the galaxy is made up of the same stuff, the same metals and alloys and such and since the laws of physics seem fairly consistent across space time there is no reason to suspect beings from another world have come our way to crash or study us.

Aliens and the hocum that go with them are little more than a distraction that seems to pop up every so often by a bored, anxious population. It’s the stuff of pulp SciFi kept alive to generate clicks, sell books, and build the occasional summer blockbuster film around.
57 posted on 06/03/2023 12:52:09 PM PDT by The Louiswu (You cannot free a man from the chains which he reveres.)
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To: RoosterRedux
If you read deeply on this subject, you would know that the government doesn't really possess such material or documentation. That material is completely compartmentalized away from every government agency and person who does not have any need to know or who hasn't been vetted by agencies outside of government. The materials are in the hands of private industry that are doing the super-secret research.

In short, the government has no access to or knowledge of that stuff.

58 posted on 06/03/2023 12:55:02 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

The first few were accidents where they became victims. Now they are baited and shot down.


59 posted on 06/03/2023 12:56:13 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: The Louiswu

The UFO literature says that “portals” (wormholes) are used, both natural and artificial to move to any point in space or time.

It is fine if you do not believe they exist, but if they do that would overcome the speed of light issue.


60 posted on 06/03/2023 12:57:27 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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