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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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To: z3n

Well, you may be correct. We’re better off trusting no one.


61 posted on 11/29/2023 10:14:01 AM 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; chuckb87

Heheh. And what about those officers and guards at nuclear missile bases like Malmstrom AFB that saw UFOs tampering with our missiles? I sure hope those guys are saner than the average Freeper.


62 posted on 11/29/2023 10:18:26 AM 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: RckyRaCoCo

You can do better than that.


63 posted on 11/29/2023 10:19:54 AM 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: RckyRaCoCo

BTW, I don’t mean that as an insult. As the Freeper who posted the thread, I feel an obligation to stir up trouble to keep the comments coming.;-)


64 posted on 11/29/2023 10:25:15 AM 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

Maybe because they know it will be globalist disinformation? AKA fake news?


65 posted on 11/29/2023 10:25:35 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: RoosterRedux
You're right

...but I'd surely be zotted by cats with viking helmets

...and I'd have to say bye bye to so many good FR iend's I've made here over the years...who've helped me keep my sanity...with all the surrounding insanity of this age.

; )

66 posted on 11/29/2023 10:32:21 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: piasa

I don’t believe ‘aliens’ are visiting Earth; but I don’t think your explanation really covers everything that people have seen - or explains why sightings have been recorded for hundreds of years.


67 posted on 11/29/2023 10:35:27 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: rustyboots

They have to finish up with their wind and solar scam before they break out the flux capacitor.


68 posted on 11/29/2023 10:39:58 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: RoosterRedux

Because they want us to think the humans are in charge.

Otherwise why would we bother to vote for them?


69 posted on 11/29/2023 10:42:21 AM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: cornfedcowboy
I won’t believe that UFO’s exist until one of those extraterrestrial hobbits sits on my lap and says hello.

Santa? Izzat you?

70 posted on 11/29/2023 10:45:24 AM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: Fai Mao
Reverse engineered from the designs of the Horton brothers who were designing aircraft for the Germans in WW2. That is where we get the term flying saucer. What people are seeing are atmospheric craft. Not spacecraft which do not need streamlining.

Horton Hears A Whofo...

71 posted on 11/29/2023 10:50:38 AM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: RoosterRedux

What difference would it make? Not paraphrasing the Hildebeast, I really want to know how knowing more about UFOs would change society.


72 posted on 11/29/2023 10:53:24 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: Jamestown1630; piasa
"or explains why sightings have been recorded for hundreds of years."

From 1350 AD

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=UFOs+in+ancient+christian+art&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

73 posted on 11/29/2023 10:54:24 AM 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

Actually Horten with an E.


74 posted on 11/29/2023 10:56:43 AM PST by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food)
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To: Openurmind

There are others like that.


75 posted on 11/29/2023 10:59:38 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Yep, that link I gave goes to a search full of them.


76 posted on 11/29/2023 11:01:19 AM 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: Fai Mao
Actually I should have said "Horton Hears a WhoFO"


77 posted on 11/29/2023 11:02:05 AM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: Jamestown1630

78 posted on 11/29/2023 11:05:17 AM 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

The new edition of Jacques Vallee’s book ‘Passport to Magonia’ is basically a compendium of historical records of sightings, going way back.


79 posted on 11/29/2023 11:05:18 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

What I find interesting is the connection with UFOs and Christ in ancient art.


80 posted on 11/29/2023 11:07:37 AM 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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