Next UAP disclosure hearing set, as lawmakers consider new whistleblower protections (Sept 9th)

The UAP Whistleblower Protection Act, introduced last week by Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), marks the latest move by lawmakers to help shield people who want to share information with Congress but fear retaliation — and motivate more of them to come forward.

House lawmakers are reviewing new legislation that would codify distinct protections for whistleblowers who disclose information about any use of U.S. government funding to study “unidentified anomalous phenomenon material” — or matter associated with objects observed in air, space, or sea domains that cannot be immediately explained.

But efforts to compel more transparency and oversight have continued to emerge in recent years, largely due to mounting public pressure and mandates from Congress.

A member of Burchett’s team told DefenseScoop in an email that the bill is identical to legislation put forward in November during Congress’ last session. If passed, they said it would ultimately add “provisions for individuals to report on the use of taxpayer funds to evaluate or research [UAP] to existing whistleblower protection statutes.”

This version of the bill was referred to the House committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, and Intelligence for consideration.

Burchett and Luna are among a small cadre of policymakers who have been steadily prioritizing whistleblower hearings, public engagement sessions and other legislative efforts to promote more accountability and disclosure from the [IC, DOD, etc.].

On Wednesday, Luna announced a hearing on “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection” that’s officially set for Sept. 9.

Once we look a little deeper at some plain details of the government's UFO project, we might find things that seem a little.....questionable.

This is the current official AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) logo:

The wording:

universum mutao est.

vita nostra est quod cogitationes nostra facere est.

Here is an analysis of the (intended to be Latin) phrase by a user on latin.stackexchange.com:

https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/23640/vita-nostra-est-quad-cognictationes-nostra-facere-est

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Translate to English Vita Nostra est quad cognictationes nostra facere est

  It's bad Latin even without the misspellings you added to it. –  Commented May 22, 2024 at 0:36  

This a bad transcription of fake Latin made by someone who knew no Latin at all for a government website which, if I didn't know otherwise, I would have sworn was a crack group of cranks. Actually, I don't know otherwise.

They say it means "our life is what our thoughts make it.", but it means no such thing. They unfortunately used Google Translate 10 years ago, which is terrible with Latin, as we have at length discussed before.

For one, it's straight calque from English without any thought given to how Latin speakers have said it. The grammar of the first sentence (which you don't give) is incomprehensible, and there's a missing letter in mutao. (N.B. I did see a "corrected" seal with a real Latin word here [PDF link], but the misspelled word is still up on their official website.)

In the sentence you give, there's lack of agreement between the noun and its adjective (cogitationes and nosta), and then the subject and the verb (cogitationes and est). And then there's this weird infinitive which is unconnected from everything else. I suppose they're trying to say "thoughts make", but then since it's inside a relative clause, you'd need to conjugate it (faciunt) and then est becomes useless. The motto is a travesty of good Latin mottoes connected with august institutions, and, frankly, it calls into credibility the whole endeavor.

edited May 22, 2024 at 1:20

answered May 22, 2024 at 1:15

Why would the government use such (frankly) crappy and inauthentic wording on the identifying logo of an important government agency?

Things like this just have to be intentional. Which brings into focus so many other questions.

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