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The Navy acknowledges UFOs — so why aren't they on Washington's radar?
The Hill ^ | Christopher Mellon

Posted on 11/04/2019 7:00:28 AM PST by RoosterRedux

In what could be a precursor to further stunning developments, the U.S. Navy has publicly acknowledged that the advanced aircraft depicted in several recently declassified gun-camera videos are UFOs, or what the Navy prefers to call “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon” (UAPs). “The Navy designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena,” acknowledged Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations, referring to the bizarre vehicles that have brazenly operated in restricted U.S. military airspace.

Strangely, this shocking announcement seems to have scarcely been noticed by Congress or the Trump administration. Is the information too jarring and radical to process? Are U.S. government officials in denial? One can only wonder, given the glaring disconnect between the Navy’s announcement and the limited government actions to protect U.S. military personnel and the nation as a whole.

The vehicles observed and recorded by U.S. Navy fighter pilots seem impervious to altitude or the elements; they are able to maneuver above 80,000 feet; they can hover and then instantly accelerate to supersonic and even hypersonic speeds; they have very low radar cross-sections and use a means of propulsion and control that does not appear to involve combustion, exhaust, rotors, wings or flaps.

Since the Navy asserts these are not U.S. aircraft, we are confronted by the daunting prospect that a potential adversary of the United States has achieved the ability to render our most sophisticated aircraft and air defense systems obsolete...

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I’ve interviewed numerous active-duty and retired military personnel who have encountered these mysterious vehicles. Without exception they express grave concern for their colleagues and near disbelief that our government is not reacting more vigorously.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aatip; doesntmeanalien; fringe; josephgradisher; tictac; uaps; ufo; ufos; usn; usnavy
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Christopher Mellon (the author of this article) served 20 years in the federal government and was deputy assistant Defense secretary for intelligence, 1999-2002, and for security and information operations, 1998-99. From 2002 to 2004, he was minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence under Sen. John Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.). He is a national security affairs adviser of To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and is a consultant and contributor to HISTORY’s nonfiction series, “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation.”
1 posted on 11/04/2019 7:00:28 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

There are no votes or graft money to be made in it right now.


2 posted on 11/04/2019 7:06:23 AM PST by Starboard
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m sure there are many people in official capacities in Washington and elsewhere who are putting a lot of thought into the subject of UFOs.


3 posted on 11/04/2019 7:06:59 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: RoosterRedux

And do what, exactly?


4 posted on 11/04/2019 7:07:01 AM PST by MNnice
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To: RoosterRedux

Most of these are likely experimental aircraft which the US would rather detract attention from by having the public fixate on “UFOs”.

There are all sorts of “wonder” aircraft being developed, years in advance of when they may/may not be produced for general use.


5 posted on 11/04/2019 7:07:28 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: RoosterRedux

Foo Fighters.


6 posted on 11/04/2019 7:07:40 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Starboard
There are no votes or graft money to be made in it right now.

Well, that, and there's no way to get them to testify against Trump...

7 posted on 11/04/2019 7:09:07 AM PST by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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Great, now we will have green people calling orange man xenophobic


8 posted on 11/04/2019 7:10:49 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: dsrtsage

+1


9 posted on 11/04/2019 7:11:26 AM PST by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s not a big deal to us because the world and the people in it have gotten so strange and bizarre already that we are just all like, “Ok, ufo’s, aliens, whatever I don’t care.”


10 posted on 11/04/2019 7:12:48 AM PST by BusterDog
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To: RoosterRedux
so why aren't they on Washington's radar?

Well, they are what they described, unknown or unexplained.

Taken further, if they are earth based it means some other country has developed flying objects far beyond our known science. Would not be a good thing but there seems no likelihood that is the case. Even when Aurora was being developed by us, there were seemingly enough signs to know it was ours.

Otherwise, it is indeed an extra planetary force. So, what to do. Well, given “their” science is very superior to ours (getting here from light years away) and would conceivebably wipe us out in the blink of an eye if they wanted to, why worry. Remember, when they get here, they will eat the fat ones first. Just watch for the ones with the cook book: to serve man.

11 posted on 11/04/2019 7:13:22 AM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Who says UFOs are not on the military’s radar? It would be highly classified and not something the public would be told.


12 posted on 11/04/2019 7:14:14 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Who says UFOs are not on the military’s radar? It would be highly classified and not something the public would be told.


13 posted on 11/04/2019 7:14:17 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Mouton

Yes in so cal in the 90s or so we had very strange booms going on


14 posted on 11/04/2019 7:14:51 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: RoosterRedux

If UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin, and confirmation of their existence would undermine the well being of the public and cause widespread panic, the Democrats would have leaked that information by now.


15 posted on 11/04/2019 7:15:42 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: null and void

Exactly right. As soon as Washington finds a way to exploit the issue the UFO phenomena will be pushed to the forefront of political topics.

Washington is only interested in working on things for which there is an immediate financial or political payoff.


16 posted on 11/04/2019 7:16:34 AM PST by Starboard
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To: CondorFlight

“Most of these are likely experimental aircraft which the US would rather detract attention from by having the public fixate on “UFOs”.”

Yep, a retired Air Force officer on Fox recently said his sources told him they are US experimental stuff and they will boggle the mind.


17 posted on 11/04/2019 7:16:40 AM PST by setter
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To: null and void

Regardless of what anybody thinks of them, it is abundantly clear they are not as big a threat to us as the DemocRAT party.


18 posted on 11/04/2019 7:16:47 AM PST by RatRipper
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To: Starboard

AND they haven’t figured out how to get them to vote Democrat.


19 posted on 11/04/2019 7:16:57 AM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: CondorFlight

We learned long after the fact, that the stealth aircraft was tested years ago at Area 51.

Some other weird things have been seen there. As a top secret facility, everything happening there is secret.

As far as UFO sightings elsewhere, if they are secret developing aircraft of some.kind, by definition they will be secret , and nobody will confirm publicly what they are.

And if these UFOs are truly unidentified, it’s likely nobody in government wants to admit that .


20 posted on 11/04/2019 7:18:37 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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