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Why are key Republicans resisting transparency on UFOs?
The Hill ^ | marik von rennenkampff

Posted on 11/29/2023 9:04:51 AM PST by RoosterRedux

In July, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of five other senators, announced sweeping legislation to declassify and release government information about unidentified flying objects.

The announcement coincided with, and seemed to corroborate, an extraordinary series of UFO-related developments. But now, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) appear poised to quash this bipartisan transparency initiative.

In the absence of reasonable, good-faith objections to the core provisions of the historic legislation, the question is why.

If there is nothing to hide and nothing to the UFO phenomenon, why would any member of Congress object to greater transparency and oversight of an executive branch prone to excessive and dangerous over-classification?

Or perhaps there is something to hide. According to Schumer, a sweeping investigation “led some in Congress to believe that the executive branch was concealing important information regarding [UFOs] over broad periods of time.”

This is corroborated by the inspector general of the intelligence community, who deemed a decorated whistleblower’s assertion that the government inappropriately concealed UFO-related information from Congress “credible and urgent.”

Moreover, as Senate Intelligence Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) noted in extraordinary detail, several high-level officials with top security clearances have told congressional investigators of the existence of surreptitious government UFO retrieval and “reverse engineering” programs. At the same time, 10 ex-government officials, military officers and scientists have alleged (or suggested) publicly that the U.S. government has recovered at least one UFO.

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TOPICS: UFO's
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To: dragnet2

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101 posted on 11/29/2023 12:31:37 PM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: Seruzawa
Yep. I think it was the USS Nimitz that first picked up a tic-tac entering our atmosphere at 80,000 ft (which is the upper limit of the shipboard radar IIRC) and tracked it down to sea level in 7/8 of a second (60,000+ mph). By the way, it came to an abrupt stop at that speed...and such a stop would have obliterated any known man-created object.

Side note: I am not saying our upper atmosphere starts at 80,000 ft, just that that's the altitude at which ship board radar was said to pick up the object.

102 posted on 11/29/2023 12:40:05 PM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: dragnet2

Please try posting those images again. Pins and needles as we await.;-)


103 posted on 11/29/2023 12:41:00 PM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: Fai Mao
Even nowadays people from the DOD who are afraid to speak on the record say regarding UFOs, "We don't know what we are dealing with."

This is from Chris Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.

The above statement might not mean that no one "knows what we are dealing with." Some may know more than others...a lot more.

104 posted on 11/29/2023 12:46:23 PM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux
the question is why.

The question is why are you asking us? A half descent reporter would ask their congressional staff for a comment at least. They all have a PIO.

Then, if they refuse to respond, you can put it in the article. Now the reader has no idea what they are doing or why they are doing it. There might be a reasonable explanation, or not.

105 posted on 11/29/2023 12:47:00 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: JohnnyP

Yep. 80,000 ft to sea level in 7/8 secs is one account I remember. There have been several accounts IIRC but all were at an astonishing, non-human speed.


106 posted on 11/29/2023 12:48:45 PM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: dragnet2

Oh man, nice rig! I played a bit when our kids were younger but never had the time to dive in too deep. With your hobby the chances of seeing them increases a hundred fold. Thank you for sharing your experiences with me!


107 posted on 11/29/2023 12:48:57 PM PST 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: null and void

I see them...


108 posted on 11/29/2023 12:50:05 PM PST 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: RoosterRedux

Strange, I can see them?

Nice rig, pretty blue. lol


109 posted on 11/29/2023 12:51:35 PM PST 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: Fish Speaker
I, for one, welcome our UAP overlords ...

I fear they are already running the UN and the Biden administration. Which implies low intelligence of demonic origins.

110 posted on 11/29/2023 12:53:19 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“non-human speed.”

And they have a non-human way of getting into your mind.


111 posted on 11/29/2023 12:53:41 PM PST 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: usurper
From various online sources, congressmen are being bombarded with phone calls right now about this issue...with constituents calling on them to resist the efforts of Reps Mike Turner and Mike Rogers to kill this "non-disclosure bill" (it's actually a rider to the NDAA).

As to why Reps Turner and Rogers are resisting transparency, the answer to that is that the DOD, Intel Community, and military contractors are applying pressure for them to kill the "bill."

Both congressmen are chairmen of House military and intelligence committees. In other words, it's the Deep State against the people.

112 posted on 11/29/2023 12:57:48 PM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux; null and void

“Please try posting those images again. Pins and needles as we await.;-)”

They are at Google, so if you have Google blocked it will probably block them.


113 posted on 11/29/2023 12:59:40 PM PST 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: Openurmind
I don't do google.
114 posted on 11/29/2023 1:03:04 PM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: null and void

That is ok too. Just explaining why. But here is something weird. I have google block myself, but he replied directly to my comment, and in my personal comment page they rendered fine. But when I copied the link and tried to go to them on another tab they would not render.

Wonder what the difference was? URL Referral tracking coming from the FR maybe?


115 posted on 11/29/2023 1:09:06 PM PST 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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A spook from the spooks using The sHill to throw Schumer’s “Squirrel!” as far as he can ... f both of them.


116 posted on 11/29/2023 1:09:50 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: RoosterRedux

And everyone knows government flunkies never lie.


117 posted on 11/29/2023 1:18:07 PM PST by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food)
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To: RoosterRedux

And everyone knows government flunkies never lie.


118 posted on 11/29/2023 1:18:07 PM PST by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food)
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To: RoosterRedux

This sort of activity has been observed since the 40s. It used to be very common around bases with nuclear weapons.


119 posted on 11/29/2023 1:18:43 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Good friend of mine was stationed and on duty at Malmstrom AFB during the Missile Incident and witnessed the UFO event there in 1967.

https://legis.senado.leg.br/sdleg-getter/documento?dm=9177522&ts=1658782546895&disposition=inline


120 posted on 11/29/2023 1:52:15 PM PST 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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