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UFO reporting hotline is MIA
politico.com ^ | LARA SELIGMAN and JOE GOULD

Posted on 08/11/2023 10:07:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

There’s no phone number. No email address. Not even a website.

More than a year since the Pentagon launched an office to investigate UFO sightings, there is still no hotline for pilots and others to report mysterious objects directly to the investigators.

Some witnesses say they’re getting frustrated and feel forced to turn to Capitol Hill or outside groups to tell their stories. Others say it discourages them from attempting to flag such incidents at all because they’re worried about recrimination if they report to the FAA or military supervisors.

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The Pentagon has denied the claims. At the same time, it has encouraged witnesses to come forward with any information related to the effort to investigate UAPs — but has not yet provided a public avenue to do so.

AARO is required by law to launch a public-facing website where witnesses can directly report potential UFO sightings. But the website is tied up in Pentagon red tape: It is still “under development” after officials submitted a first version to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks for review before Christmas, Gough said.

The existing reporting mechanisms only receive two or three reports a month, said Lt. Ryan Graves, the first active-duty military pilot to come forward with his experience seeing a UAP in 2018. Graves recently founded a nonprofit group to support other pilots who see things they can’t explain, Americans for Safe Aerospace. Van Voorhis is also working with the group.

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TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: fringe; joegould; laraseligman; ohsomysteriouso; ufo; ufos
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To: RoosterRedux

The government doesn’t want to hear your stories, they only want you to hear their stories


21 posted on 08/11/2023 10:50:59 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: dfwgator
I suspect it would get overloaded with all kinds of bogus reports.

As a kid, in the early 60's IIRC, I reported a fake one to project blue book's phone number.
it was so obviously fake, since during it I said ,in a kids voice, I'm sure... "oh no they're here".....and dropped the phone followed by a hang-up

So, yeah. probably get inundated with fake reports
22 posted on 08/11/2023 10:53:30 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: RoosterRedux

Yep. Back years ago in Ca they passed a niche regulation on my business. “All contacts and questions shall go through this office at this number”. For a couple months it always rang busy. I had to go through a round about way to find out no one even works in that office and they leave the phone off the hook.

So I just ignored the regulation for years and never heard another thing about it.


23 posted on 08/11/2023 10:54:57 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: oil_dude

It’s hard not to wonder what their new angle is (if any), after ostensibly ignoring the whole issue for decades. This despite the fact that there have been very credible sightings of ‘things’ for a long time, including inexplicable ‘things’ showing up on radar going back at least to the 1950s.


24 posted on 08/11/2023 11:19:01 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: EEGator
That’s like 75% of posts...

We can do better. I'll just try harder.

jk

25 posted on 08/11/2023 11:26:41 AM PDT by BipolarBob (5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions.)
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To: BipolarBob

I’m with you…


26 posted on 08/11/2023 11:31:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: RoosterRedux

Why a Hotline? These sightings are routine.


27 posted on 08/11/2023 11:35:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Why a Hotline?

Because.


28 posted on 08/11/2023 11:38:12 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Jamestown1630

It may be a blessing in disguise—since .gov still is determined to “cancel” pilots who dare to report what they see.

The Cabal is alive and well...


29 posted on 08/11/2023 12:12:37 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: dfwgator

Could probably name at least TWO freepers that would be cutting and pasting accounts into the reporting system, if it were available.


30 posted on 08/11/2023 1:47:37 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: RoosterRedux

The problem with humanity is that most don’t care anymore about anything.

UFO’s do exists. But what we don’t know for sure yet is about their true origin.
Are they extraterrestrial (alien)? Is it ultra advanced earth technology? If so...
Is it China? USA? A private non-national venture?

From whatever it comes from, this stuff is based on technology that defies our most creative dreams.

But the thing is...
If God himself would manifest himself speaking to all humanity at once with a thunderous voice dropping from she sky all over the planet... people would just say: “yeah sure... nice AI Hollywood cinema effect...”.
If we would see a new Jesus waling on water... everyone would just laugh.

The value of TRUTH is diminishing every day. Sad.


31 posted on 08/11/2023 6:54:30 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: USA-FRANCE
Excellent comment!

But as to this part of it...

"The value of TRUTH is diminishing every day"...
I would say "keep your chin up." Truth (i.e., reality) can be ignored, forgotten, tamped down, and insulted...but it ain't going anywhere.;-)
32 posted on 08/12/2023 4:13:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: larrytown
Most of us on these threads can name MANY freepers who would, if they could, be filing false reports to gum up the works and damage the search for the truth.
33 posted on 08/12/2023 5:02:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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