Perché il Pentagono ha lanciato una task force contro "il pericolo degli UFO"? ( Esquire )

Per molti esperti non è una buona idea che sia passato tutto in mano a una task force dell'intelligence USA.

 

Non è passato molto tempo dalla notizia che ha visto il Pentagono istituire una nuova task force per trovare gli UFO nell'ufficio di intelligence e sicurezza del Dipartimento della Difesa degli Stati Uniti.

La news è stata subito interpretata come la netta voglia di fare sul serio e di arrivare ad avere risposte molto velocemente. Cosa sono tutte quelle luci che ultimamente vedono civili e piloti? Sono davvero extraterrestri o, più probabilmente, tecnologie sconosciute di altre potenze mondiali?

Non è stata per tutti una mossa saggia però, anzi, molti esperti ne hanno parlato in modo apertamente negativo. Secondo Nick Pope, un ex investigatore sugli UFO per il governo britannico negli anni Novanta, il gruppo di ricerca precedente, affidato ai senatori Kirsten Gillibrand e Marco Rubio, avrebbe introdotto "rigore scientifico e accademico" nel lavoro del governo degli Stati Uniti.

Un'altra critica arriva dal deputato repubblicano Tim Burchett del Tennessee, che ha esortato il Pentagono a non oscurare il proprio lavoro dietro un velo di segretezza.

Insomma non sono ancora chiari i piani del governo riguardo questo affare. Non ci resta che aspettare i prossimi mesi per capire se qualcuno riconoscerà davvero una di queste "luci". 

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THE FLY WHO SAW THE BIRTH OF THE GALILEO PROJECT ON AVI LOEB’S PORCH ( THE DEBRIEF )

 

After the publication of my book “Extraterrestrial,” a few extraordinary guests visited the porch of my home with questions about it. A hypothetical fly on the wall might have wished for more.

The avalanche of a thousand interviews for podcasts, newspapers, and television in the months that followed the publication of my new book, Extraterrestrial, was expected. But the series of visits by extraordinary guests to my home was a complete surprise. Because of the pandemic, I hosted them unmasked in the open air of my front porch. There, we sat on the comfortable rocking chairs and conversed on whether humans might not be, after all, the smartest kids on our cosmic block. 

In a recent podcast, the commentator lamented: “I wish I was a fly on the wall of your porch over the past few months.” What would this fly see?

First, the fly would witness hours of interviews by TV crews from the US and distant origins, such as France, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and Australia; as well as journalists from major outlets including, most recently, the Smithsonian Magazine and the Boston Magazine, in addition to numerous podcasters. It would also notice a local student from Latin America whose father sent him to get my autograph on the Spanish translation of the book, two visitors who took a selfie with a tree branch that is mentioned in my book (which I tied with insulation tape when it was broken, and now it is the tallest branch – a symbol of the importance of helping young people early on in their career), a married couple whose daughter sent me a small red oak tree in a planter with hopes for a better future for our planet, and a YouTuber who took the “red-eye” flight from Seattle to interview me for half an hour. Distinguished guests included the former director of the National Science Foundation, France Cordova, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, Alan Stern, and the creator of Mathematica, Stephen Wolfram.But most consequentially, on June 18, 2021, Frank Laukien – the CEO of the Bruker Corporation and a Harvard affiliate, visited my porch with questions about my book. Ten days later, it was decided that we would establish a research project derived from the book’s content. 

Within a month, we founded the Galileo Project, a scientific research program that would search for unusual objects near Earth that may have been manufactured by extraterrestrial technological civilizations. 

By now, the project engages more than a hundred scientists, and it will assemble its first telescope system in the coming months on the roof of the Harvard College Observatory. The system will include optical, infrared, radio, and audio sensors. Computer algorithms will analyze its video data of the sky to separate out natural or human-made objects. Another branch of the Galileo Project aims to design a space mission to study the nature of unusual interstellar objects, like `Oumuamua, which look different from known comets or asteroids.

The ground was fertile for the Galileo Project. A couple of weeks before I met Frank, NASA administrator Bill Nelson encouraged scientists to study the nature of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), which are routinely seen by military personnel. On June 5, 2021, I submitted to NASA a white paper that included the skeleton of what later became the Galileo Project.  

A couple of weeks before I met Frank, the administrator of the Harvard Astronomy Department congratulated me with the unexpected news: “you have a new research fund from private donations!” When this fund accumulated nearly two million dollars, the time was ripe to establish the Galileo Project with Frank’s encouragement.The Galileo Project aims to determine whether our Solar System is home to equipment produced by other technological civilizations that may have predated us by billions of years. Its data will be open and its analysis transparent, just like any other scientific endeavor. The project’s cost will only be a few percent of the cost of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, but the information it uncovers could be far more consequential for the future of humanity.

We should keep in mind that human history has only been recorded for less than ten millennia, a millionth of the age of the Earth. We, therefore, know very little about the past of our cosmic neighborhood. 

To find our neighbors, we cannot submit to Enrico Fermi’s impatient question: “where is everybody?” If we do have neighbors, assuming that they must knock on our front door right now and reveal their existence unambiguously is not the way to move forward.

Instead, we should dare to look through our windows to find evidence for our neighbors – preferably using our best new telescopes. This is what the Galileo Project aims to do. Enrico Fermi did not have access to the remarkable instrumentation, computers, and telescope systems we have today.

In summary, what would the hypothetical fly conclude from all of these conversations on the porch of my home? 

It might realize that some humans are intelligent enough to seek new evidence as a way of learning about their cosmic environment. However, the steady pushback against the content of my book by other people and the reluctance by some to support the Galileo Project financially or scientifically (while they are busy studying untestable notions like the multiverse) can only leave the fly with the hope that there are brighter cosmic species out there – far away from Earth.If these distant neighbors were to show up as extraordinary porch guests, the fly would learn new insights about the cosmos. The empty space outside the Earth’s atmosphere will never be available to this fly unless it were to sneak under the shirt of one of the porch visitors, Alan Stern, the first Galileo team member who will fly into space next year.

Avi Loeb

New Pentagon Office Criticized as Effort to Control UFO Investigations, End Transparency ( msn news )

 American officials and analysts globally are raising alarm about a new Defense Department office that will handle the U.S. government’s examination of unidentified flying objects, warning that the move indicates the military wants to end a brief spell of transparency and shove UFO reports back into a closet under lock and key.

The Pentagon quietly announced the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving that it had formed the esoteric-sounding Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. Working with the intelligence agencies, it serves as the follow-on to a government-wide effort earlier this year to document and analyze reports of encounters with unidentified objects – “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or UAPs in Pentagon jargon – predominantly from military pilots.

The new office, which reports to the undersecretary of defense for Intelligence and Security, will now oversee the entire government’s study of UFOs, focusing on sightings within restricted military airspace and will also “assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security,” a spokeswoman says.

The Defense Department has since justified the composition of the office as necessary to provide uniformity to the reporting process and subsequent analysis.

But some researchers characterize the Pentagon’s latest move as an “insulting” attempt to run around specific efforts by civilian organizations and leaders in Congress to exercise greater oversight over the government’s study of UFOs.

“It represents a brazen step towards completely stifling the burgeoning demand from both the public and Congress for increased UFO transparency,” says Peter Whitley, a researcher based in Japan and a member of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, which considers itself one of the largest and oldest of its kind. “Clearly, the DOD is attempting to reverse course on this trend and shut the door on further disclosure of any kind.”

Others who follow the issue closely see it as nothing more than a play by the Pentagon to control a subject that should belong in the arena of scientific study – at the expense of proper oversight.

“It is clear that the Pentagon does not want any civilian interference in this,” says Clas Svahn, chairman for the Sweden-based Archives for the Unexplained, among the most comprehensive digital libraries for UFO sightings and investigations into them by governments worldwide. “This is a power struggle over who should have access to UAP information.”

So-called “ufologists” around the world expressed optimism this summer at the congressionally mandated effort led by the civilian Office of the Director of National Intelligence into the government’s handling of UFO sightings. It culminated in a report released in June that offered few exciting conclusions – no documentation of “little green men,” for example – but elevated the reputation of an often-ridiculed subject to one deserving of serious consideration among the world’s most powerful countries.

The Pentagon through the formation of the new office has begun to dash those hopes with what some consider a unilateral power grab. And, indeed, even some lawmakers have expressed concerns of their own.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has sponsored a pending bipartisan amendment to this year’s military budget bill that would ramp up government study of the issue and add more layers of oversight, in addition to determining whether any sighting amounts to a threat from unknown technologies fielded from Russia, China – or elsewhere. It calls for the creation of a new advisory committee composed of experts from civilian agencies such as NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration as well as from academia to strengthen public discourse over the findings.

“While we appreciate the DOD’s attention to the issue, the AOIMSG doesn’t go nearly far enough to help us better understand the data we are gathering on UAPs,” a spokeswoman for the New York Democrat, Lizzie Landau, tells U.S. News. The framework she has proposed “does much more to address the UAP issue while also maintaining public oversight.”

The Defense Department, however, has pushed back on the notion that its supremacy over the issue amounts to anything nefarious and says it can practice transparency on its own.

“This is a chance for us to be much more organized in the way we process these reports,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters this week. “And we will certainly continue to be as transparent as we can about these phenomena and the impact that they may or may not be having on our ability to operate.”

Kirby then tempered expectations about what the public may learn of the newly formed office’s findings.

“I don't want to leave you with the impression that there'll be sort of a regular drumbeat of, you know, of some kind of report that gets posted on a website, you know, every couple months,” he added.

The Pentagon’s approach has deeply frustrated those who have followed the issue closely, particularly after it finally acknowledged that for years it has neglected to adequately analyze its encounters with unknown objects in U.S. airspace.

“This is an end-around to cut the legs out from Sen. Gillibrand in her amendment to the next defense spending bill,” says Robert Spearing, MUFON’s director of international investigations, who is based in Costa Rica. “She wants a government office that utilizes input from civilian organizations. In essence, the Pentagon doesn’t want this.”

Two former defense officials who previously worked on UFO assessments told The Hill in an interview that the latest initiative is woefully underprepared to handle the issue.

“If we want 70 more years of secrecy on this topic, then [the undersecretary for intelligence’s office] is the perfect place to put it. They’ve had four years so far, and we have little in the way of efforts serving the public interest,” Luis Elizondo, the former head of an informal Defense Department unit that assessed military UFO reports, told the paper.

Elizondo isn’t the only expert to question the Defense Department’s assertions that it alone can determine what materials to make public.

“To be ‘as transparent as we can’ means nothing much,” Svahn says. The military’s approach is particularly frustrating “when it comes to observations and reports that are made by Air Force and Navy pilots inside restricted airspace, since they most certainly will be seen as something that could threaten national security.”

“Now,” he adds, “UAPs will only be seen as a threat – and treated as that.”

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Ufo sui vulcani. E’ polemica tra ufologi ( MEDITERRANews )

 

Il presidente dell’associazione ricerca italiana aliena (A.R.I.A) Angelo Maggioni , in una mail scrive che la scienza non ha ancora spiegazioni definitive ma studia il fenomeno delle “luci” vicino o attorno a Vulcani o fonti di energia conosciuti dalla scienza come plasmoidi, questo si legge “sembrerebbe in grado di convertire la sua parte cinetica in campo magnetico su una struttura toroidale ( è lo schema utilizzato dalla natura per ogni cosa, a partire da una semplice mela, passando per il corpo umano e finendo con tutti i corpi celesti presenti nell’universo L’energia fluisce in un vortice, attraverso un asse centrale, esce dall’altro vortice e quindi si avvolge su se stesso per tornare al punto di partenza. Ha la forma di una ciambella anche se la sua forma varia in base al corpo in cui si trova Il primo a scoprire questo sistema fu il grande Nikola Tesla )” Scrive ancora Maggioni che “L’espulsione plasmoide dei vulcani , viene studiato fin dal 1956 , plasmoide termine generico per tutte le entità magnetiche del plasma , autorigenerante di energia libera, possono avere colori e dimensioni diverse, possono raggiungere distanze enormi … Spesso sono accompagnate da attività sismiche del vulcano in attività, non a caso il Vesuvio era in “attività ” anche il 16 luglio piccole scosse sismiche (che producono anche energia) che favoriscono queste formazioni plasmoidi . Dunque seppur ancora agnostico scientificamente , nel senso che non vi è ancora una chiara dinamica e spiegazione , come per esempio il fulmine globulare (è ancor oggi poco compreso; di tutte le manifestazioni energetiche) non tenerne conto queste teorie e dati quando si valutano avvistamenti può essere un errore grossolano che può pregiudicare l’evento stesso “

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Year Of The UFO Continues: Pentagon Launches Program To Investigate Sightings

 

TOPLINE

 

In the latest instance of the federal government showing it considers UFOs a very real threat, the Department of Defense late Tuesday announced plans for a new group to look into reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, as speculation grows over what is actually out there.

KEY FACTS

The new program, called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, will examine reports of UFOs in special use airspace (SUA), such as military operation areas, to “assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security,” the Pentagon said in a news release.

The announcement comes just over five months after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report on 144 UFO sightings by Navy pilots since 2004, with intelligence officials unable to explain 143 of the sightings, but concluding they are likely real objects that could pose a threat to national security.

Pressure has mounted for the government to ramp up its research to come up with some sort of explanation, with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) saying this summer: “When you have this much visual and radar evidence that there is something . . . we’ve got to get an answer.”

In January, the CIA released thousands of documents that it claimed amounted to all of its UFO research, but—much like the June report—it failed to provide an answer to the phenomena.

Public interest in UFOs also reached a fever pitch this year, with Google Trends data showing spikes in searches like “UFO” and “UFO sightings” through much of the year, though it has tapered off a bit in the fall.

A massive rise in sightings by the general public has coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic—sightings reportedly increased nationwide by 16% in 2020, with sightings in New York doubling.

BIG NUMBER

11. That’s how many times Navy pilots have reported near-misses with UFOs, according to the report released in June.

CRUCIAL QUOTE

“Incursions by any airborne object into our SUA pose safety of flight and operations security concerns, and may pose national security challenges,” the Pentagon said.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR

In its June report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence identified five categories that UFOs will likely fall into—airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, secret U.S. aircraft, foreign adversary systems or a catchall “other” category. The report didn’t make mention of the popular, yet unfounded, speculation that UFOs might be of extraterrestrial origin.

KEY BACKGROUND

U.S. government research on UFOs dates back decades, starting in the 1940s. The most comprehensive report thus far was called Project Blue Book, carried out from 1952–69. The investigation reviewed more than 12,000 UFO reports, but found most of the reports were explainable and determined at the time that UFOs weren't a threat to national security. Government UFO research largely fizzled out after Project Blue Book, until 2007, when a little-known project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program launched. The program ushered in the new era of increased government scrutiny on UFOs, but largely remained unnoticed until media reports on its existence appeared in 2017. It was replaced by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, which launched in 2020.

FURTHER READING

Intel Agencies Say Most UFO Sightings They Reviewed Were Likely Real Objects (No, That Doesn’t Mean They’re Alien Spacecraft) (Forbes)

UFO sightings spike dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic (CNET)

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program (The New York Times)

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Alieni in grado di infettare l’uomo e arrivare facilmente sulla Terra? Sì, è possibile ( Androiditaly )

 

Secondo alcune ricerche da parte di diversi scienziati, un possibile scenario di infezione proveniente da una razza aliena non sarebbe così strano. Ma in che modo potrebbe accadere?

A causa dell’aumento esponenziale delle missioni spaziali, i ricercatori non hanno escluso la possibilità di una possibile contaminazione biologica. Ovviamente non così disastrosa come quelle che vediamo nei vari film, però è sempre un bene pensare che possa succedere.Il motivo? Prevenire è meglio che curare a volte, ecco perché avvengono numerosi studi su come possa essere combattuta una situazione del genere. Una idea in mente potrebbero anche avercela, ma al momento preoccupiamoci di indagare a fondo e scoprire che cosa hanno pensato gli scienziati.

Le opinioni dei ricercatori

Anthony Ricciardi, l’autore di uno studio sul tema in questione – e professore di biologia alla McGill University of Montreal -, ha esposto le sue considerazioni al riguardo, dicendo che: “La ricerca della vita oltre il nostro mondo è uno sforzo entusiasmante che potrebbe portare a un’enorme scoperta in un futuro non troppo lontano. Tuttavia, di fronte all’aumento delle missioni spaziali, comprese quelle volte a riportare campioni sulla Terra, è fondamentale ridurre i rischi di contaminazione biologica in entrambe le direzioni“.

Ma questo cosa significa? Che anche noi, in un certo senso, potremmo essere degli alieni per altre razze. Attraccare su un pianeta abitato ed entrare in contatto con degli extraterrestri vulnerabili, magari, ad un virus che noi sconfiggiamo facilmente con il nostro sistema immunitario, potrebbe danneggiarli gravemente. Ecco perché è importante prestare attenzione pure a questo punto di vista.

Lo scienziato prosegue con il suo discorso, riferendoci le seguenti parole: “Le invasioni biologiche sono state spesso devastanti per le piante e gli animali nei sistemi terrestri, soprattutto quelli insulari. Noi sosteniamo che i pianeti e le lune potenzialmente contenenti vita dovrebbero essere trattati come se fossero quel tipo di sistema, vulnerabile e che non ha sviluppato protezione per un certo tipo di invasione“.Quello che viene raccomandato, in particolar modo, è di aumentare i protocolli di bio sicurezza per i viaggi spaziali, assicurandosi che, gli astronauti, non portino sulla Terra eventuali malattie sconosciute e che potrebbero mettere in pericolo gli esseri umani.

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"Non capiamo tutto". E il Pentagono vara una task force anti-Ufo ( msn notizie )

 

Torna prepotentemente alla ribalta il tema degli Ufo (Unidentified Flying Object), acronimo col quale si indica ogni genere di oggetto volante non identificato che solca i cieli del mondo. Evidentemente la questione non può più passare inosservata neppure all'opinione pubblica, dato che il dipartimento della difesa degli Stati Uniti ha diffuso l'informazione della costituzione di una task force creata ad hoc: questa, ribattezzata Airborne object identification and management synchronization group, almeno dichiaratamente, dovrebbe limitarsi allo studio degli oggetti volanti non identificati che sorvolano "zone militari sensibili".Il fenomeno, al centro di grandi teorie della copsirazione e di molti blockbuster di Hollywood, sta iniziando ad assumere connotati sempre più istituzionali. La nuova task force è arrivata dopo che lo scorso giugno lo stesso Pentagono aveva ammesso in un rapporto di non poter in alcun modo spiegare la natura di 144 avvistamenti effettuati tra 2004 e 2021.

Questi fenomeni, oggi per l'appunto denominati Uap (unidentified aerial phenomena), hanno causato un'interrogazione alla Cia da parte di alcuni politici governativi. Da aprile fino a giugno di quest'anno il Pentagono e la UapTf (Uap Task Force) hanno fornito un resoconto di cui uno solo, il più breve, è stato declassificato e reso pubblico. Quello più lungo e dettagliato, invece, è rimasto ancora secretato ufficialmente per la presenza al suo interno di informazioni di carattere militare. Dal rapporto risultano 144 avvistamenti reali e di natura sconosciuta. Per alcuni di questi è stata cercata disperatamente una spiegazione che potesse rientrare nelle 4 categorie note, vale a dire quella dei "disordini aerei" (ad esempio velivoli non segnalati, false segnalazioni o errori di sensori), quella dei "fenomeni atmosferici", quella della "tecnologia industriale" (ad esempio droni, palloni meteo) e quella dei "sistemi nemici" (tecnologia, cioè, di Paesi ostili agli Usa).

Nonostante questo immane sforzo, tuttavia, ben 80 fenomeni sono accostabili solo alla quinta categoria, quella definita "other", ovvero "altro", che riguarda una serie di oggetti fisici reali contraddistinti da inesplicabili e non convenzionali capacità tecnologiche di volo e da prestazioni aerodinamiche che stravolgono le leggi della fisica ad ora note. Avvistamenti effettuati direttamente da personale militare o segnalati da strumentazioni tecnologiche (ovvero contemporaneamente da radar da terra, o installati su navi o velivoli) in grado di rilevare anche tracce radiotrasmissive.

Avril Haines, Direttore dell'Intelligence Usa a livello nazionale (Dni) che sovrintende tutte le 16 agenzie di spionaggio comprese Fbi e Cia, è stata decisamente esplicita nelle dichiarazioni rilasciate in occasione del Congresso "Hour future in space: Ignatius Forum": "Ritorna sempre la domanda: 'C'è qualcosa che non capiamo e potrebbe avere origine extraterrestre?", si era chiesta. "Eravamo abbastanza sicuri che non saremmo riusciti a classificare ognuno di questi rapporti Uap nelle varie categorie che abbiamo identificato", ha ammesso poi Haines, "perché francamente non siamo stati in grado di capire tutto al riguardo". C'è stato spazio anche per l'ironia, dato che il Dni ha scherzato sulla possibilità che il Direttore venisse licenziato nel caso in cui avesse deciso di rivelare al forum "la cosa più bella" che l'intelligence sta facendo tuttora nello spazio.

Ribadendo il pericolo per la sicurezza nazionale di detti velivoli, pertanto, il vice segretario alla Difesa Kathleen Hicks ha emesso l’ordinanza per stabilire la creazione di una nuova task force.

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Former Defense Officials Weigh-In On Proposed “UAP Legislation” ( The Debrief )

In early November, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) submitted an amendment for consideration in the F.Y. 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDDA, H.R. 4350), detailing expansive requirements for the U.S. military and Intelligence Community in addressing “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAP), commonly known as UFOs. 

Entitled “Establishment of Structure and Authorities to Address Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” Gillibrand’s proposal outlines the establishment of an Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking, and Resolution Office (ASTRO). The newly formed office would be responsible for extensive investigations into reputed sightings of UAP. 

If passed, the Bill would represent the most comprehensive legislation targeting the lingering mystery of UFOs since the 1969 closure of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book.

Speaking on background, several current senior Defense and Intelligence officials expressed to The Debrief that the proposed Bill is significant and very necessary. Not all were convinced that UAP might represent anything “otherworldly.” However, officials said the mere fact incidents are being reported that defy explanation warrants serious investigation. 

“It should be treated like any other intelligence issue,” an executive from the U.S. Intelligence Community told The Debrief under the condition of anonymity. 

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for Presidents Clinton and Bush, Christopher Mellon, says the proposed UAP legislation represents a landmark step in solving the lingering mystery of UFOs.

“This is unquestionably the most significant legislation ever on the UAP issue,” Mellon told The Debrief. “This legislation, if enacted, will unshackle some at DoD who want to get to work on this issue, and it would compel the system to begin doing what it should have done long ago: establishing and implementing a serious plan to answer critical questions regarding the capabilities and origin of these objects.” 

Mellon is no stranger to the topic of unidentified aerial phenomena. Since helping traffic the release of three DoD videos reportedly depicting UAP, Mellon has been one of the most prominent supporters for serious scrutiny into these mysterious events. 

“It is public knowledge that I worked patiently for months with Lue Elizondo, the OSD official responsible for the UAP issue in 2017, to try to get this issue taken seriously within the department. It was only when that failed that Mr. Elizondo and I chose to stick our necks out by taking the UAP videos and the UAP issue to the press and to Congress,” Mellon recently wrote in a blog.

Mellon is hardly alone in saying that sightings of unexplained and inexplicable aerial objects are both occurring and potentially represent a threat to national security. 

In the past few years, former defense and intelligence officials, including – a former CIA Director, Secretary of the Navy, notable lawmakers, an eminent Harvard professor, current head of NASA, current Director of National Intelligence, and numerous military veterans– have all gone on record saying the occurrence of UAP is very much real. A claim many likewise say is supported by data collected from some of the most sophisticated sensor systems in the world. 

At the end of June, the Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI) released an unclassified “Preliminary Assessment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”

While the public had been previously aware of a handful of UAP events in recent history, ODNI revealed the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force and ODNI’s National Intelligence Manager for Aviation had examined 144 different incidents of reported UAP in the last few years. Of those cases, only one had been explained as likely a “large deflating balloon.” The other 143 reports remain unexplained. 

Most striking, according to the ODNI report, 18 incidents or 21 reports demonstrated “unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics.” [ Read The Debrief’s detailed analysis of the ODNI report on UAP.] 

Having previously discussed the topic of UAP with The Debrief, former Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said he supported the proposed UAP legislation. Mabus, however, says the threat of aliens being responsible for these sightings shouldn’t be the driving force behind the Bill.

“I support this proposal in order to find out what, if anything, has been flying around our ships,” Mabus told The Debrief. “I don’t worry about aliens especially but about more earthly sources for some new technology.”

According to the proposed UAP legislation, in addition to collecting and analyzing UAP incidents, the newly formed Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking, and Resolution Office (ASTRO) would be tasked with investigating adverse physiological effects claimed to have been caused by UAP encounters. 

Individuals’ claims of suffering adverse health effects represent one of the least discussed but most concerning aspects of claimed UAP encounters.

Mellon said he was encouraged to see that adverse health effects were explicitly mentioned in Sen. Gillibrand’s proposed UAP legislation. 

“I was surprised but pleased to see the inclusion of the reference to “adverse physiological effects.” This is not commonplace, but like the ‘Havana syndrome,’ there have been some instances involving medical effects,” said Mellon. “Government cases are mostly confidential, but anyone curious about this might want to Google the extraordinary ‘Cash-Landrum’ incident as an example.” 

The “Cash-Landrum” event mentioned by Mellon refers to a 1980 incident in which two women suffered severe medical complications after a claimed encounter with a UFO or UAP outside Houston, Texas.

According to accounts by Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum, the women were driving home to Dayton, Texas, on December 29, 1980, when they encountered an “intensely bright diamond shaped object” hovering at treetop level near Texas state highway, just south of Inland Road. As the mysterious craft began to depart the area, the women said it was joined by nearly two-dozen Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopters. 

Shortly after the encounter, both women experienced nausea, vomiting, weakness, a burning sensation in their eyes, and feeling as if they had suffered a sunburn. The women would later experience lingering malaise, skin sores, and hair loss. Medical reports suggest the women suffered from acute radiation exposure or chemical contamination. 

Cash and Landrum eventually sued the U.S. Government, accusing the military of being responsible for their health issues. However, the case was dismissed in 1986 after the women could not provide proof that the helicopters they witnessed were associated with the U.S. government and military officials testified that the U.S. did not possess any large diamond-shaped aircraft.

Curiously, 24-hours before the “Cash-Landrum” incident and a continent away, another well-known and controversial UFO incident occurred: “The Rendlesham Forest Incident.” 

On December 26-28, 1980, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, had repeated sightings of a glowing metallic object with colored lights, including at least one close encounter. 

While none of the Airmen claimed to suffer immediate adverse effects from the encounter, several witnesses say they ultimately suffered later health issues, which they attributed to the event. After a protracted legal battle, the U.S. Veterans Association (V.A.) finally granted full benefits to former Airman and Rendlesham witness John Burroughs for heart issues said to be the result of the 1980 UFO encounter.

During the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) 2008-2012 quasi-secret UFO research program – the “Advanced Aerospace Systems Applications Program” or “AAWSAP” – a research paper was prepared, entitled “Clinical Medical Acute & Subacute Field Effects on Human Dermal & Neurological Tissues.” 

In an interview published in Popular Mechanics, the paper’s author, former CIA Officer, forensic clinician, and neuroscientist, Dr. Christopher “Kit” Green, confirmed the archival study was “focused on forensically assessing accounts of injuries that could have resulted from claimed encounters with UAP.” 

Speaking with The Debrief, Dr. Green praised the proposed UAP legislation’s mention of adverse physiological effects associated with UAP encounters.

“I would like to associate myself in the strongest possible way with the language concerning physiological effects and sometimes adverse health effects, specifically mentioned in Sen. Gillibrand’s proposed legislation,” said Dr. Green. 

“It is time that direct veridical observations by numerous credible witnesses of anomalous encounters by militaries or any persons should be treated sanely,” emphasized Dr. Green. “To deny investigating early and with complete medical attention of demonstrated injuries is terrible.”

“The time for the invention of false alternative realities, memes, or narratives, as excuses for denial, distraction, and delay for providing help should end. As with all forensic medical concerns…realities of the physically harmed should be first, not excused with disdain. The time to identify perpetrators whether off-target, off-world or imaginal should be after treatment of those for whom we first respect, care and love.”

The proposed UAP legislation also includes a section detailing the establishment of a 20-person “Aerial and Transmedium Phenomena Advisory Committee.” Committee members would include persons from other U.S. government agencies, such as NASA and the FAA, along with academic organizations, like the Galileo Project at Harvard University. 

“I strongly support the Gillibrand amendment and hope that it will bring better coordination within the different sections of government regarding the analysis and interpretation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,”said the  head of the Galileo Project and Harvard University professor Dr. Avi Loeb. “It will also help to remove the stigma from discussions on UAP and enable additional reports that were previously suppressed by prejudice.”

Speaking with The Debrief, Dr. Loeb pointed out that during the recent Ignatius Forum on “The Future of Space,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines both discussed UAP and the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations in the cosmos. When asked by David Ignatius of the Washington Post, “What is the most exciting project in your organization?” Nelson and Haines both replied, “It is classified.”

“I was fortunate to represent the Galileo Project which embodies a different answer to this question: ‘It is unclassified,’ remarked Dr. Loeb. “The Galileo Project is only interested in openly available scientific data and a transparent analysis of it.  Thus, classified (government-owned) information, which can not be shared with all scientists, can not be used. Such information would compromise the scope of our scientific research program, which is designed to acquire valid scientific data and provide transparent (open to peer review) analysis of this data.” 

The specific mention of “transmedium” phenomena, or objects which appear capable of operating in and out of water, was another intriguing tidbit in the proposed amendment. In an exclusive, last year The Debrief revealed that occurrences of “transmedium” phenomena was a particular area of interest for DoD’s UAP Task Force.

In a recent interview with Politico, Sen. Gillibrand explained the importance of the proposed UAP legislation. “If it is technology possessed by adversaries or any other entity, we need to know,” said Gillibrand. “Burying our heads in the sand is neither a strategy nor an acceptable approach.”

Gillibrand, a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, told Politico’s Bryan Bender she was motivated to craft the legislation after hearing credible eye-witness accounts and “repeated reports over the last two or three years of these increased sightings by Navy pilots and Air Force pilots.”

One of those credible eye-witnesses, former Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot Ryan Graves, says he’s encouraged at seeing Congress finally take some serious action towards investigating UAP incidents. 

“For the first time ever, Sen. Gillibrand’s proposed legislation would create an office with the ability to meet their potential namesake and find a resolution for this mystery,” Graves told The Debrief. “Just as important, the proposal calls for the formation of a public communication channel via the ATAC to ensure this process involves the wider community. I am very happy with the contents of the amendment, and I would urge others to contact their legislators to voice their support.”

In 2014 and 2015, Graves and fellow Naval Aviators said they had repeated encounters with bizarre unidentified airborne contacts off the East Coast of the United States. At least two of these encounters were captured by the F/A-18’s ATFLIR targeting pod. The footage was subsequently released in what has colloquially become known as the “Go Fast” and “Gimbal” videos. 

Fellow former Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot and eye-witness to the 2004 “Nimitz Incident,” Alex Dietrich, told The Debrief she hadn’t read the proposed UAP legislation yet; however, she’s similarly supportive of a more rigorous investigation into the UAP issue. 

“Whether the UAP we are encountering during military ops are lurking adversaries, natural phenomena, or something sci-fi worthy, I support a systematic approach to investigating and establishing standard observation & reporting protocols,” said Deitrich. “We should be concerned about the safety of flight for the aircrew in close proximity to the UAPs and potential National Security implications in general. I hope this won’t become political or sensationalized. But yes, I do support this development.”

In past conversations with The Debrief, both Graves and Dietrich have been steadfast in their concern that UAP represents a safety hazard to fellow aviators, rather than mere idle curiosity that these events may represent visiting aliens.

So far, the amendment appears to have strong bipartisan support amongst lawmakers. 

First mentioned by researcher Douglas Dean Johnson, the proposed UAP legislation has already garnered several notable sponsors and cosponsors including, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO).

Johnson, who closely follows UAP Congressional action, has become a foremost source for current updates on UAP action on Capitol Hill – providing frequent updates on his blog and Twitter. 

“In the 435-member House, 860 amendments were proposed to the National Defense Authorization Act — but not one attacked the Gallego UAP section,” Johnson told The Debrief. The “Gallego UAP section” mentioned by Johnson was an earlier September amendment to the FY2022 NDAA by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), which called for establishing a permanent UAP office within the DoD. 

Johnson says the bipartisan support for the legislation is encouraging but not uncommon with national security matters. 

“In the Senate, a far more robust proposal was filed by Gillibrand, a liberal Democrat, but the prime cosponsor is the conservative Republican Marco Rubio, ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee,” Johnson explained. “So far, they’ve been joined by two other conservative Republicans and one Democrat. What all five sponsors have in common is that they serve on committees with purview over national security.” 

Johnson, however, cautions that enactment of the “Gillibrand-Rubio Amendment” is far from a foregone conclusion. 

“As Sen. Gillibrand herself remarked in her interview with Politico’s Bryan Bender, ‘I don’t see opposition to this at any level,'” Johnson remarked. “However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the Gillibrand-Rubio Amendment will simply sail into law. The shoulders of the legislative roadways are littered with ideas that had bipartisan support, but that we were well far down the priority list for most lawmakers. The voices of those who think UAP is a very important issue are as yet barely audible on Capitol Hill.”

As of November 22nd, there have been four minor revisions to the amendment since its initial November 4th introduction. The most significant revision being a change of name for the new UAP office from the “Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office” (ASRO) to the “Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking, and Resolution Office” (ASTRO). Three separate sources from Capitol Hill, who are intimately familiar with the legislation, told The Debrief that they expect the name of the new UAP office to be again changed in upcoming revisions. 

Speaking on background, officials from the DoD and Intelligence Community told The Debrief that reaction inside the Pentagon has been predictably mixed, but largely supportive of the proposed legislation. 

Officials said that some of the major players in the U.S. National Security world-  such as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), National Security Agency (NSA), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Army, and Navy- were in favor of establishing a new permanent body to specifically investigate UAP.

Conversely, the branch of the military with the most significant historical involvement with UFOs, the Air Force, was said to be standoffish to the idea of a new UAP office. 

Even if the proposed UAP legislation passes, defense and intelligence officials say there will still be an uphill battle in trying to thoroughly investigate reported UAP incidents. “To comprehensively examine the issue, you’ve got to have involvement from agencies outside just the DoD or IC-  like the FAA, Homeland Security, the FBI, just to name a few,” explained an official from the U.S. Intelligence Community. 

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Bureau of Investigation  Homeland Security (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security, each fall under differing Executive Departments, outside the Department of Defense. Each of those agencies are said to be supportive of the current UAP efforts and have assisted the DoD’s UAP Task Force. However, those department’s involvement has been at-will, and not mandated by formal policy.

For now, advocates of the proposed UAP legislation will anxiously await to see if the amendment will be included in the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, ultimately being signed into law by President Joe Biden. 

The Bill’s backers, including longtime D.C. stalwarts like Christopher Mellon, urge the public to reach out to their Congressional representatives and express their support for the proposed UAP legislation. 

“This legislation is absolutely extraordinary and unprecedented. Not only will it get the government moving at long last, but it builds bridges to the civilian UAP research community,” Mellon stressed to The Debrief. “The only proper response to my mind is extreme gratitude and thanks to members of Congress willing to courageously set aside fear of ridicule to do the right thing for national security and science.” 

Tim McMillan

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