House approves measure for sharing information on UFO reports ( msn )

 Congress took a step toward creating a database on UFO reports with House passage of a measure that would establish a "secure system" for receiving information on unidentified aerial phenomena.

House lawmakers voted Wednesday to adopt a bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. The measure was approved by voice vote, signaling little to no opposition, and there was no floor debate on the amendment.

The UFO reporting system would provide for "immediate sharing" of information with certain scientists, analysts and government personnel, according to the legislative text.

The amendment would allow for exceptions to reporting in cases where “the observed object and associated events and activities likely relate to" restricted programs that have been reported to the congressional defense and intelligence committees.

Approval of the amendment, introduced by Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., comes more than a year after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a highly anticipated intelligence report that indicated the agency didn’t have enough data to explain 143 of the 144 cases of unidentified flying objects reported by military planes from 2004 to 2021.

That number had grown to “approximately 400 reports” of unidentifiable objects earlier this year, according to deputy director of naval intelligence, Scott W. Bray, who provided an update in mid-May during the first public hearing held by Congress on UFOs in more than 50 years.

At the end of December, legislation to create an office to study “unidentified aerial phenomenon” was signed into law.

The House has yet to pass this year's National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate will take up next. After Senate passage, the two chambers will likely go to conference to hash out the differences, with final passage expected later this year.

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New Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Reporting Procedures Outlined in Amendment to FY 2023 NDAA ( The Debrief )

Lawmakers in Washington have once again introduced an unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) Amendment for the forthcoming FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual piece of legislation that provides the budget for the Department of Defense. 

Representative Mike Gallagher of the House Armed Services Committee has introduced an Amendment that builds on the historic gains passed in the FY 2021 NDAA when the UAP Task Force was established, and which mandated the reporting of UAP events.

Fundamentally, the new language proposed for inclusion in the 2023 NDAA focuses on reporting procedures related to UAP, along with ensuring transparency on information the Pentagon collects about unrecognized aerial objects encountered by members of the armed forces. The bill’s language calls for ensuring that data collected about UAP is shared with the UAP Task Force’s successor, the Airborne Object Identification Management and Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), as well as by offering protections for those who come forward with such information. 

Among the key elements included within the bill’s language are takeaways that include:

• Nondisclosure orders and written agreements will not prohibit the disclosure of UAP information to the UAPTF or the Office.
• That the Intelligence Community shall establish a system for reporting of UAP-related information, regardless of classification level, to the UAPTF or the Office. 
• Language calling for the protection of witnesses that share UAP-related information from liability, as well as retaliation, for the breach of NDA. 

Background: On Classified Information and Nondisclosure Agreements

Executive Order 13526: In December of 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order (EO) 13526, which revoked and replaced EO 13292 (amended March 2003) and became the latest order to outline how national security information would be classified, safeguarded, and ultimately declassified. An Executive Order is a directive by the President of the United States that has the effect of law. 

EO 13526 kept in effect the long-standing levels of classification that included Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential. The authority to classify information is derived from the Order and is held by the President and Vice President, agency heads, and Government officials delegated with the authority to do so.  There are two methods for information to become classified: 

Sec. 2.1 Derivative Classification – Would be the person who “reproduce, extract or summarize classified information” or generates products from a source that is already classified.  An example would be if a product is produced from a Top Secret source, then the product would then be classified at the same level as the source. (https://www.archives.gov/isoo/policy-documents/cnsi-eo.html Sec. 2.1) 

Sec. 2.2 Original Classification Authority (OCA) – Would be a senior government official or the senior agency official with program or supervisory responsibilities can make an initial determination that information requires protections from unauthorized disclosure.

In order to access classified information, a person must meet certain defined criteria. First, they must pass a favorable background investigation. Second, the person must be trained on the proper safeguarding and handling of classified material, as well as the sanctions that may be imposed on a person who fails to protect classified information. Third, the person must have a need to know in order to access the classified information. Most importantly, the person must also have signed a nondisclosure agreement.  

SF312: The Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement Form SF312 is a contractual agreement between the cleared individual and the United States Government. Within the agreement, the signatory acknowledges that they are bound, have received, and understand the nature and need to protect classified information as well as the procedures to do so. 

Furthermore, a breach of the agreement or unauthorized disclosure of protected information could result in loss of security clearance, assignment of all royalties resulting in the disclosure, and possibly criminal prosecution under Title 18 U.S. Code, Section 798. 

Analysis: NDAA Amendment Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Reporting Procedures 

Establish a System for Reporting: The Amendment introduced by Representative Mike Gallagher moves to address issues that have possibly been a hindrance to the disclosure of UAP-related incidents to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) or the “Office” and our elected officials of the various intelligence committees. 

“The head of the Office, on behalf of the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence, shall establish a secure system for receiving reports of 

• • Any event relating to unidentified aerial phenomena; and 
  • Any Government or Government contractor activity or program related to unidentified aerial phenomena.”

Should the Amendment become Law, the newly established system will continue to provide long-standing protections against unauthorized disclosure of “classified military and intelligence systems, programs, and related activity” to include all categories of special access and compartmentalized access programs. 

.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher questions senior military leaders during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on March 7, 2017 (Credit: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff/CC 2.0).

Sharing of Information: The legislation continues to provide the UAPTF, or the Office with the ability to clear the bottleneck of reporting by allowing those with information, to directly provide it to those responsible for investigating UAP incidents. 

“The system… shall provide for the immediate sharing with the Office personnel and supporting analysts and scientists of information previously prohibited from reporting under any nondisclosure written or oral agreement.”

An exception to sharing of information with the Office would be if the observed object and events were related to a Special Access Program (SAP) that has “explicitly and clearly” been reported to congress already. 

Furthermore, the Gallagher Amendment directs the Secretary of Defense, Director of National Intelligence, Secretary of Homeland Security, and heads of other department agencies to search records for all related documents relating to witnesses of UAP and make them available to the Office with the records to be available for congressional committees no later than Sept. 30, 2023.

Protection From Liability, Prosecution and Reprisal: Reports made to UAPTF or the Office, which would previously have been prohibited as “knowing and willful transmittal of classified information to an unauthorized person” under Title 18, Section 798, will not be prosecuted as long as they are made in compliance with this Amendment.

The language drafted by Representative Gallagher not only protects witnesses that come forward from official sanctions and prosecutions but also extends that protection from workplace reprisals.

“An employee of a Federal agency and an employee of a contractor for the Federal Government who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any personnel action, shall not, with respect to such authority, take or fail to take, or threaten to take or fail to take, a personnel action, including the revocation or suspension of security clearances, with respect to any individual as a reprisal for any reporting as described…”

If a person of authority takes retaliatory actions against a witness, not only may the witness seek remedies such as injunctive relief, compensatory, and punitive damages in a civil suit, but the injured party may seek relief from the individual accused of conducting the reprisal. 

Outlook: What the New UAP Legislation Means for 2023, and Beyond

In effect, this legislation would allow for witnesses or personnel, who have information or data at a higher classification level or SAP,  to provide members of UAPTF or the Office with data that UAPTF are not cleared for or “read-into.” Additionally, by doing so, witnesses or personnel, who would otherwise be breaching their NDA by disclosing information, will no longer be found to be in breach, and therefore are free from prosecution or sanctions. 

A hypothetical situation that may arise from this could be as follows: An analyst, working with an intelligence agency (NRO / NGA / CIA / NSA etc), has data relating to UAP that is within a Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI) program or Special Access Program (SAP) that the UAPTF or the Office members are not read into, and therefore do not have access to. 

With the passing of the legislation discussed in the proposed NDAA amendment, that agency analyst will be able to disclose the data to UAPTF or the Office members without fear of violating their nondisclosure agreement or reprisal from their chain of command or employer. 

The legislator’s intent is clearly put forth in this latest piece of drafted law contained within the Gallagher Amendment: Congress wants data shared with those tasked with investigating UAP and there will be no more hiding behind security classifications or NDAs. 

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Our Fascination With Aliens and When it All Started ( DISCOVER )

 

Our Fascination With Aliens and When it All Started

About 75 percent of Americans believe in extraterrestrials and stories are scattered throughout history. But our attitude towards aliens has evolved in recent years.

 

In September 1961, Barney and Betty Hill were driving late at night in the mountains of New Hampshire when they saw a flying object whizzing in the sky. Barney thought it was a plane until he saw it swiftly switch directions.

According to The Interrupted Journey, the couple nervously continued driving until a spacecraft confronted them. They remembered seeing “humanoid-like” creatures and hearing pinging sounds reverberate off their car trunk. And then, they found themselves 35 miles further along on the highway with almost no memory of what had just transpired. They believed they had been abducted.

The Hills reported their experience to the nearby Air Force base and it later became the subject of a book and then a movie. Their experience was widely considered the start of a collective fascination with extraterrestrials. It’s a captivation that persists, and 75 percent of Americans believe there are intelligent lifeforms elsewhere in the universe. But attitudes have changed, and most Americans no longer think aliens are hostile or a national security threat. Social scientists say our attitudes towards Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) have evolved with our acceptance of technology.

Flying Saucers Fixation

Scholars mark 1947 as the start of the UFO fascination. A pilot flying in the Cascade Mountains in Washington state reported seeing disc-shaped objects. In the next decade, aliens were primarily seen as benevolent, intelligent beings who came to Earth to offer advice or warnings.

In 1961, the Hills reported their abduction and stories about aliens became more sinister. Social scientists, like famed psychologist Carl Jung, analyzed the UFO obsession and found it fit neatly with humans’ long fascination with heavenly ascents. Whereas past societies looked for angels, saints or Gods to descend from the heavens, modern Americans were looking for “technological angels.”

Starting in the 1960s, aliens were both benign angels and menacing demons, which prompted some religious scholars to see UFO fixation as a modern religious movement.

Other scholars saw the popular fascination as a response to society dealing with rapidly changing technology. At the start of the 1950s, for example, most households didn’t have a television. That changed within the decade, and Americans were also aware that technological advancements would soon bring computers into our workplaces, households and even our bodies through devices like cardiac pacemakers.

Most Americans now rely on technology for work and entertainment. People who call out to Alexa to add an item to the grocery list aren’t as technologically anxious as people were in the past. And for decades, that anxiety fueled books, TV and film about extraterrestrials.

Popular Abduction Stories

The 1982 film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial dominated box office sales and was one of the few storylines to depict a kind alien. Most popular narratives featured frightening aliens. The long-running TV series X Files, involved a government coverup about alien life forms. Similarly, the 1997 film Men in Black, based on the comic book series, involved government agents protecting both alien allies and Earthlings from a variety of cosmic criminals.

Stories about abduction were also common, which scholars have analyzed and identified consistent patterns and rhetorical devices.

One scholar suggested that aliens were a stand-in for technological fears. Abductees described how the aliens controlled their bodies and minds. The aliens used high-tech, futuristic gadgets to conduct tests, many of which were described as stressful and painful. In the end, the person had lost time they could not account for.

Another study looked at 130 accounts of alien abductions. The author found that the standard abduction story about aliens waking you from bed, transporting you into a spaceship and then subjecting you to medical tests was a modern myth in which the storyteller placed themselves as the hero. One abductee, for example, made himself a hero saying his “superior genetics” was the reason that aliens had abducted him multiple times.

Abductee stories about humanoids communicating telepathically are outlandish, but compelling. And social scientists think they persuade people to listen.

Abduction Antics

In 2007, a psychologist interviewed and analyzed people who felt aliens once abducted them. The psychologist concluded these people were sane, but created false memories that fictional accounts partly fueled.

So why would anyone else believe their stories of aliens sucking them into a spaceship and then probing them in all the wrong places? The author found that the stories were compelling because the emotions expressed were both real and relatable. The stories followed a consistent pattern, which made them feel more valid. And, there were also many people willing to tell these tales.

The large amount of people who have described UFO encounters or abductions have prompted scholars to consider the belief as type of myth making.

And myths, one scholar notes, endure because they have both the appearance of truth and societal approval. Thus, UFO fascination flourished because the accounts seemed truthful and many people were willing to trust in a repetitive, but incomplete narrative and to believe there was much more to be learned. Just as they said in the X-Files, “the truth is out there.” 

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Proposal would create office to securely report UFO activity and other unexplained incidents ( The Washington Times )

Rep. Mike Gallagher wants to set up a special reporting mechanism for soldiers, contractors and others who want to report suspected UFO activity, a hot-button issue for Congress of late.

The Wisconsin Republican filed an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act that would set up a secure reporting office under the secretary of the Department of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence. The office would receive reports about “any event relating to unidentified aerial phenomena.”

UAPs is the term that’s been used by Congress in recent hearings to describe any unexplained activity, rather than UFOs.

The office would also receive reports about “any government or government contractor activity or program related to unidentified aerial phenomena.”

Notably, the program would serve as a secure mechanism to prevent the unauthorized public reporting or compromise of classified military or intelligence systems and programs, according to the amendment.

Mr. Gallagher has been at the forefront of inquiries about UAPs. At a May hearing, he pressed government officials about a “glowing red orb” that shut down nuclear weapons in Montana in 1967.

The questioning was part of a broader push by Congress to understand and process reports about UAPs.

Pentagon officials said some phenomena spotted by pilots and others can be easily explained, but others cannot, so there should be a way for people to feel comfortable reporting the incidents without being ridiculed as crazy or wild conspiracy theorists.

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BLACK BOOK UFO encounter with US Navy warship was RIPPED OUT of ship’s logbook after mass sighting by 200 sailors, says witness ( The Sun )

 

US NAVY sailors were allegedly told to rip pages out of a warship's record book detailing an encounter with a 40ft ball of fire UFO.

Nuclear powered aircraft USS Ronald Reagan is believed to have been at the centre of one of the world's most extraordinary UFO encounters.

Dozens - if not hundreds - of sailors and airmen are believed to have witnessed a blazing orange orb lurk around 200 feet from the deck of the vessel during her shakedown in 2004.

Three witnesses have already gone on record about their memories of that eerie encounter with what the crew dubbed "the blob" or "the thing".

 

Documentary filmmaker Dave C. Beaty - who produced 2019 film The Nimitz Encounters about the famous 2004 US Navy encounter with the "Tic Tac" object - has been investigating the case.

And one of the ongoing mysteries around the case is why were crewmen allegedly either told to not log or to "rip out" reports of the incident in the ship's books?

Mr Beaty's latest interview released on his YouTube channel is with seaman Patrick Gokey, who was working on the aircraft carrier on the night in question and also saw the UFO.

And he recalls while he was on the bridge he witnessed an officer gave instructions to another crewman to remove pages from one of the log books.

"I remember one of the officer's on the deck ordering someone to take the pages out of the deck logbook," Mr Gokey told The Nimitz Encounters.

"For me that was the most surprising thing, because I was always told in the navy that whatever you write in that logbook is a legal record and you can't destroy it out rip it out."

He added: "[It was] even more surprising than seeing this object just because it was out of the norm."

Witnesses aboard the vessel have recounted seeing the object being seen multiple times over the course of around four hours.

Some of the testimonies vary, offering different times of day and duration of the encounter - but all agree the orange fireball was spotted near the ship.

Previously, Mr Gokey told The Sun Online: "It did not move in ways that I've seen other aircraft maneuver and it was faster than anything I've ever seen."

And he estimated the object was seen by up to 200 witnesses.

Strange objects seen in the sky - known more commonly known as UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) - have stepped firmly from the realms of conspiracy theories into a serious national security concern.

 

I asked, should I be logging this?

Karol Olesiak

 

US senators last month grilled intelligence chiefs about the encounters as they confessed over the last year they have probed 400 sightings and 11 near misses.

And theories are raging from unknown drones, secret technology, spy craft from Russia or China - or potentially even aliens.

USS Ronald Reagan was the ninth in class of the supercarriers - and had a crew of 5,680 sailors, an air wing of 2,480, and 80 warplanes.

The 101,000 ton, 1,092 feet long vessel is powered by two nuclear reactors - making her maiden active deployment in 2006.

And the exact date of the encounter is unknown - but it is believed to have occured in early 2004.

 

 

Former navy quartermaster Karol Olesiak - who also saw the object - has said he was told not to log the encounter by the Officer of the Deck.

"I asked, should I be logging this?," he said.

You know, and I think I might have asked the conning officer and I don’t remember exactly what he said, but the impression that I got was that this should not be in the official log."

He puts this down to a culture of stigma within the US military when it came to reporting UFOs.

"There is an immune system against fairy dust in the military," Karol previously told The Sun Online.

And a female trainee has also claimed she remembers instructions to not make any log entries about the UFO aboard the Reagan.

Another witnesses - who has not yet been named, but was serving as Boatswain’s Mate Of The Watch at the time - has said he was told the "rip out" reports from his departmental log known as the "Green Book".

He said this book is a less formal one kept by members of the ship's Watch rather than the official ship's logbook.

And this would be a highly secretive document kept by the US's Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, unlikely to ever be released by a requests through the Freedom of Information Act.

However, it is suggested this act of either not recording the encounter or ripping it out of the books is not an overarching cover up - but merely navy crew wanting to avoid the drama that came with reporting a UFO.

Mr Beaty also spoke to former Pentagon UFO investigator Luis Elizondo regarding the practice, with the ex-intelligence officer saying it was known as "log it and scratch it".

Questions surrounding whether the encounter was logged at all or was scrubbed from the books deepen the mystery surrounding the UFO.

 

Mr Elizondo explained crew may sometimes write these encounters down as an act of official recording keeping - only to them rip it out of the logbook.

"So in essence you know…  they’re doing what they’re told to do, but at the same time, it’s not getting reported," he said, as quoted by The Debrief. 

 

And the investigator suggested the "fireball" orbs could actually be scouts launched by larger UFOs.

"What seemed to be these orbs or luminous balls of almost, like, plasma-like balls and some have even speculated that these are similar to something we’re familiar with," he told Mr Beaty.

"[They] could be compared to unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, or drones, basically, probes, if you will that are related to UAP and potentially, even launched and deployed from an actual UAP craft."

The incident is the latest encounter which has seen a US nuclear assets linked to UFOs.

US lawmakers earlier this year grilled two top security chiefs in the first UFO hearing for 50 years as UFO fever grips Washington.

And this week, The Sun Online revealed one family's heartache as they search for answers on the death of a fighter pilot who was killed while chasing a UFO.

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It follows testimonies from former personnel who worked at nuclear missile bases who claim the objects have even interfered with their weapons.

Segnalazioni Ufo. I testimoni: “Eravamo in spiaggia, l'abbiamo vista in due. Era verso Budoni” ( sardegnalive )

 

"Una fonte luminosa che faceva delle partenze ad elevata velocità per poi fermarsi improvvisamente"

 

“Dopo due mesi di assenza, giungono le segnalazioni dalla nostra Isola”. Lo fa sapere fa sapere il responsabile della sezione sarda del Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, Antoniomaria Cuccu.

“É ancora viva nella nostra memoria la mini ondata di avvistamenti, iniziata il 21 febbraio scorso, in concomitanza dell’inizio della guerra in Ucraina, poi le segnalazioni si sono man mano diradate sino a calma piatta – spiega Cuccu -. Ma ieri notte, dopo le ore 24, è accaduto che due persone, mentre si trovavano sulla spiaggia di "Su Triarzu" vicino a Posada, in Baronìa, per prendere il fresco e ammirare le stelle, notavano sul mare, in direzione di Budoni, una fonte luminosa che faceva delle partenze ad elevata velocità per poi fermarsi improvvisamente. “Si muoveva in fretta. Si fermava, tornava indietro e poi ripartiva velocemente”, hanno riferito i testimoni, ancora increduli e scossi, al responsabile della sezione sarda del Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici.

“Purtroppo, abbiamo pochi elementi per dare una valutazione - precisa Cuccu - la notevole distanza non ha permesso ai testimoni di percepire altri particolari. Il comportamento bizzarro, ma intelligente della fonte luminosa, non è la prima volta che viene descritto nella casistica internazionale”.Gli ufologi lanciano un appello: “Chi ha osservato il fenomeno luminoso da terra o dal mare, ci riferisca cosa ha notato”.

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