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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: eeriegeno

It is important to understand that all that needs to be done to discredit witnesses is to twirl the index around the ear, smile, and shake your head.


61 posted on 06/03/2023 12:58:08 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: The Louiswu

If you want to hear the “other point of view” here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t564HRXeS6o

Save the bookmark even if you do not want to watch it now.

You may thank me later.


62 posted on 06/03/2023 1:00:27 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: bigbob
Kennedy was going to do that, they killed him. Carter was going to do that, they ridiculed him. Bill Clinton was going to do that, they spoke quietly with him, and then he ordered all records of UFOs to be destroyed.

People need to get used to the idea that the elected government is not the power to which we answer.

63 posted on 06/03/2023 1:02:15 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

“the elected government is not the power to which we answer”

It is almost amusing that these Presidents could not figure it out until the gun was pointed at their head—or the bullet exploded inside it.

I am sure they were warned.


64 posted on 06/03/2023 1:05:26 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: cgbg

I am sure that a President’s initial intelligence briefing is not at all what they were expecting.


65 posted on 06/03/2023 1:09:05 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: cgbg
...they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you...

Fatal accidents being the easiest to set up and explain. Hillary has a pretty good collection of "cleaners". Imagine what the real powers have.

66 posted on 06/03/2023 1:15:11 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: RoosterRedux
...whatever IS known is kept locked away by industrial contractors...

I do believe that is how it is accomplished. They government really doesn't know anything.

67 posted on 06/03/2023 1:16:40 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: broken_clock

We are indeed lucky. With Trump and Musk we have omniscience on our side.


68 posted on 06/03/2023 1:19:21 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: cgbg
I have read that ETs told us that they will not establish diplomatic relationships with over 300 separate nations here on Earth. They will do do once we form a unified government that rules the planet.

I think that accounts for the direction things seem to be moving.

69 posted on 06/03/2023 1:23:23 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

The secret space program folks have a different narrative.

Their view is that aliens work with corporations (or similar) rather than governments—and that the relationship is based on trading technologies (including biological samples).

They don’t need to wait for civilizations to get their government act together.

If true that might explain why governments are kept mostly out of the loop.


70 posted on 06/03/2023 1:40:13 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: cgbg

Yeah Eshed was one of the people I was obliquely referring to.


71 posted on 06/03/2023 2:07:56 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cgbg

That is an interesting wrinkle. I think it very wise to work outside of governments.


72 posted on 06/03/2023 2:10:39 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: skeeter

Heheh. I’ve got some of those in my yard. They’re quite clever.


73 posted on 06/03/2023 2:16:58 PM 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: RoosterRedux

“The Universe Beyond the Horizon - conversations with Professor Haim Eshed” by Hagar Yanai

there is no known translation of this book - not on Amazon US not Amazon UK.


74 posted on 06/03/2023 2:18:55 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: cgbg

See post #74


75 posted on 06/03/2023 2:19:53 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: The Louiswu

Yep we now now everything there is to know about the universe and the physics it employs - we only need to fill in the details - the same thing people said in the 1950s.

Manned powered flight was also thought impossible as was manned space flight.


76 posted on 06/03/2023 2:22:56 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: The Louiswu
It's been many years since someone close to this subject suggested these "UFO's" are coming from some distant planet, star system, or galaxy. That's only in movies.

The common theory since the 1960's has been extradimensional and that is almost a foregone conclusion nowadays.

It's all very Biblical sounding, with beings like angels, jinn, daemons, or other spirits.

77 posted on 06/03/2023 2:26:18 PM 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: cgbg

Thanks.


78 posted on 06/03/2023 3:24:59 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to se)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’d rather see the manifesto from that mass-murdering transexual.


79 posted on 06/03/2023 3:27:54 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: PIF

Interesting parallel.


80 posted on 06/03/2023 3:54:59 PM 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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