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U.S. Government Finally Acknowledging UFOs, Thanks to Republicans
Townhall.com ^ | May 24, 2021 | Rachel Alexander

Posted on 05/24/2021 7:21:26 AM PDT by Kaslin

Few people will discuss UFOs, dreading the label of a conspiracy theorist. The U.S. government claimed for years that it had not discovered any UFOs or evidence of alien life. But all that may be changing thanks to Republicans.

In 2019 under President Donald Trump, the Navy admitted that three leaked videos taken by Navy pilots showed UFOs. One was taken in 2004 and two in 2015. The pilot who saw one of them said it flew in a way he could not understand. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, Christopher Mellon, who is related to the late conservative billionaire funder Richard Mellon Scaife, has claimed that he was responsible for leaking the videos. He said, "We know that UFOs exist. This is no longer an issue."

The Pentagon followed up last April releasing the videos with the statement, “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’” Then the DOD admitted UFOs exist in December. Now Republicans are forcing the government to turn over information. Sen. Marco Rubio, chair of the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence, included a provision in December’s $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and appropriations bill that Trump signed requiring intelligence agencies to provide a report on UFOs within 180 days.

That deadline is almost here, and things are continuing to change in anticipation. John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence under Trump and known as one of the most conservative members of Congress, said during a March interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that there have been sightings of flying objects which are hard to explain: “Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”

But Democrats are rushing to take credit first, even though Republicans set the ball rolling. Confident that the issue is no longer being framed as a conspiracy theory, they want to pretend to be the first high-level officials to acknowledge the evidence. During an interview this week with CBS's The Late Late Show with James Corden, former President Barack Obama said, "What is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are."

It’s finally no longer a fringe issue. While many reputable people have come forward in recent years and vouched for their existence — in large part due to the efforts of an emergency room doctor named Steven Greer who brought together a large community of authoritative people from ex-military officials to scientists — it has taken years to get the government to admit anything, much less produce any of its research.

Democrats may finally be coming around on the issue because of how it’s being framed. Greer says that the government’s obsession with building up the military-industrial complex relies on oil and gas fossil fuels. Focusing on those has shut out a lot of interest in green energy sources. Reducing the military-industrial complex would make it easier to shift to alternative energy sources. The military-industrial complex always has an enemy, whether it’s hostile countries, terrorists, or the unknown. So far our knowledge of UFOs reveals that they’re not hostile. Letting the public have access to this type of information would remove UFOs as a pretext for keeping the military-industrial complex so huge.

Why is the mainstream media barely covering the government’s turnaround on UFOs? It is probably because they don’t want to give Republicans the credit for turning the stigma around. Just like there are always a handful of brave journalists working for the MSM who dare to cover things that are anathema to the left, there are a few exceptions in this area. There are so few articles by the MSM about this that people actually refer to them like “The New Yorker article about UFOs,” “The New York Times exposé on UFOs” and the “60 Minutes video.”

It may also be because of the left’s hatred for anything that might give credibility to the existence of God. Anything supernatural, outside the realm of what they can see and hear and quantify, gives weight to the argument that God exists. Billionaire Elon Musk, who is an agnostic or atheist and admired by the left, has taken the lead in making the search for aliens acceptable by his interest in life on Mars.

Just as important, why hasn’t the government acknowledged UFOs until now? Former Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), obviously under pressure considering Area 51 is located in his state, secured funding for UFO research, but none of the results ever reached the public until the Trump years. Reid admitted in the 2020 UFO documentary “The Phenomenon” that “the federal government all these years has covered up, put brake pads on everything, stopped it.” He discusses a 1967 incident where an object appeared over a U.S. missile base at the same time 10 of the missiles became inoperative.

Much of the money Reid helped get was awarded to Robert Bigelow, a friend of Reid’s who owns an aerospace research company. Bigelow went public several years after the program he was involved in ended in 2019, saying on “60 Minutes” that he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that UFOs have visited Earth. Luiz Elizondo, who led the Pentagon’s effort to investigate UFOs, resigned in 2017 to protest excessive secrecy and internal opposition to the program. He said he was blocked from informing superiors, including Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis.

Tom Rogan, who writes about national security for The Washington Examiner, believes it is because the government is afraid UFOs have negative intentions. This is because they’ve had significant interaction with U.S. Navy planes operating off of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and near Air Force nuclear weapons bases and nuclear submarines. The government doesn’t want to cause panic.

Don’t expect to get any apology from the left for being wrong about this “conspiracy theory.” They’re too busy taking credit now.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bidenadmin; dod; harryreid; johnretcliffe; luiselizondo; navy; pentagon; robertbigelow; ufos
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To: Lazamataz

The description of angelic movement Ezekiel saw in Ezekiel 1:1-28 clearly describes what angelic lights, their associated movement, their ability to change direction, and their amazing speed can look like to us.

However, also for today, keep in mind who is “The Great Deceiver”, and that Scripture warns of how he “will appear as an angel of light”, and will deceive most of the people in the world. Eventually he will empower “The anti-Christ” to even perform humanly impossible “signs and wonders”.

Also, “If it were possible, he [satan] would deceive even the Elect.”

Additionally, the Bible teaches, demonic activity and deception will be greatly increased near/around the “end times”.


61 posted on 05/24/2021 10:24:17 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: patriotfury

The Bible is the best book ever.


62 posted on 05/24/2021 11:09:06 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Buttons12
Hologram making waves.
63 posted on 05/24/2021 11:22:36 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Lazamataz

And those people who claim to have been abducted and found themselves inside of one?


64 posted on 05/24/2021 11:24:59 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( Biden won, Trump got the most legal votes.)
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To: Kaslin

Yes people, there are obviously UFOs.

Jan 6th and stolen elections are just KRAZY TALK. Don’t be crae crae wackos now, stick to UFOs.


65 posted on 05/24/2021 12:10:49 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: Balding_Eagle; Lazamataz
That's a very interesting question.

People who have worked with abductees and many of the abductees themselves have wondered if these so-called aliens were interdimensional and/or had a "paranormal" quality that endowed them with the ability, for example, to go through walls, doors, closed windows, and ceilings (among other things).

At the Westall School sighting in Australia, witnessed by over 100 people, including students, teachers, and farmers at a nearby market garden, the "disks" were said by some to be solid at times and to have an almost smokey quality at others (for example, when they moved through a stand of trees that stood too close together for such an object to pass through).

66 posted on 05/24/2021 12:18:35 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: sarge83
I heard someone say the other day that the only time the government intentionally tells the truth is when it can tuck an important lie inside or behind it.
67 posted on 05/24/2021 12:32:07 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: caww

The internet, love it or hate it, has the Media back on its heels.


68 posted on 05/24/2021 12:33:27 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Kaslin

We’re here To Serve Man.


69 posted on 05/24/2021 12:33:59 PM PDT by murron
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To: Balding_Eagle

Imho the best book on the topic of “alien abduction” is John Mack’s final work:

https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Cosmos-John-Mack/dp/1907661816

He was a professional shrink who worked with abductees—and walks through a detailed discussion of lots of alternative explanations of what is happening.

This stuff is _very_ complicated...and the folks who claim to have easy answers are not asking the right questions.


70 posted on 05/24/2021 2:45:28 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Elizondo accused him of having flares dropped from aircraft so that folks who paid him (Greer) $1,500+-

It would not surprise me if Greer did something like that.

It is interesting that almost anyone who studies "fringe" stuff ends up in food fights with other folks studying "fringe" stuff.

Imho it is part of the nature of these things to rub our noses in homo sapien's arrogance, vanity, and corrupt nature.

At the end of the day anyone trying to make money in the "UFO field" will wish they had chosen another way to make a living.

;-)
71 posted on 05/24/2021 2:51:21 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Lazamataz
RE: "UFO"//That sounds more like a lake trout.

Yeah. The one that got away just gets bigger and more exciting with every telling of the fish story.

72 posted on 05/24/2021 3:34:22 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Lazamataz
“If’’ Laz, a big ‘’if’’. If you could ‘’bend’’ time and space to ‘’pull’’ space and your destination towards you, you might be able to travel through a ‘’worm hole’’.

But again, it's just a theory. Consider too that we always assume what ever is out there is smarter, more advanced than us. Seems almost like a collective human insecurity complex.

What if it isn't as advanced? What if they're dumb?

Certainly there has to be life on other worlds. It formed here, it certainly can form else where.

But keep in mind here in our world the advanced life forms tend to be the predators. They're intelligent, cunning and ruthless. They have to be. They have to constantly outsmart their prey.

If a civilization out there is watching us and they're of a malevolent bent, it might not be a good idea to attract them. But if indeed we're being observed or have been observed in the , say, 80 years by some race out there they'll notice fairly quickly we're an aggressive bunch down here. We wage constant warfare on each other and we posses the atom and we have used nuclear weapons on ourselves. They might be inclined to just avoid this neighborhood altogether. It would be my hope that they would.

73 posted on 05/24/2021 4:39:52 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Buttons12

We taught Julia Child everything she knows.


74 posted on 05/24/2021 6:42:02 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Earth has entered an interstellar energy field.

Wait for the next message from Matthew ward.


75 posted on 05/24/2021 6:43:06 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: patriotfury
“The coming of the lawless one [The Anti-Christ] is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

Really??


 

These are the only places that the word antichrist is mentioned in the Bible. 
 
 
1 John 2:18
 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
 
1 John 2:22
Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist —denying the Father and the Son.
 
1 John 4:3
...but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
 
2 John 1:7
I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist .

76 posted on 05/24/2021 6:47:17 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: jmacusa
That there is life somewhere else in the vast expanse of the universe is not in doubt.

I doubt it.

77 posted on 05/24/2021 6:48:07 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: jmacusa
And THIS is why!

To date there isn't a shred of evidence to prove it actually exists.

78 posted on 05/24/2021 6:48:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: frank ballenger

Un
Floating
Object?


79 posted on 05/24/2021 6:49:44 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

I note a lack of blacks being kidnapped and probed by aliens. Are aliens racist?


80 posted on 05/24/2021 6:52:42 PM PDT by xp38
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