When President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December, so began the 180-day countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs.
No, really…
It should…describe in detail “an interagency process for ensuring timely data collection and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting for the Federal Government” and designate an official responsible for that process…
The submitted report should be unclassified, the committee said, though it can contain a classified annex.
1. My position on UFO’s is unchanged. Especially in light of the behavior of Looney Tunes like Trump. Given the science required for travel between solar systems much less galaxies, why would we expect species that advanced to want to deal with human beings?
2. If the choice of political hack falls before Trump leaves, we only get someone the Fake President can beat on the golf course. Daffy Duck, maybe?
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” (Arthur C. Clarke)
A favorite. Succinct reasoning.
March 26, 1880 Lamy, New Mexico, USA https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1880-03-26-usa-lamy.htm (scroll down)
p/s: Gary Larson, long before the movie was made (2011) or the graphic novel with the same title was published (2006) https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/3c/fc/663cfcfd0cc77edd91447c6f214d0a32.jpg
“Where Is Everybody?” by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, SETI League Technical Advisor (January 2003) http://www.setileague.org/editor/clarke.htm An earlier article with the same title by Clarke in Harper’s Magazine, November 1957 issue (paywall) https://harpers.org/archive/1957/11/wheres-everybody/
“Stephen Hawking on Alien Life, Extraterrestrials and the Possibility of UFOs Visiting Earth” (March 2018) https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-hawking-death-alien-contact-aliens-theory-ufo-search-breakthrough-844920
“Thousands of documents from the CIA on unidentified flying objects were released this week in a document dump that the agency says includes all their records on UFOs.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/cia-thousands-documents-ufos-cache
The documents are currently available on the Black Vault, an online archive of declassified government documents, after the site’s founder John Greenewald Jr, purchased a CD-Rom the CIA had made with its UFO documents. About 2,700 pages were included in the collection, what the agency says are all the files it has on UFOs, but Greenewald notes on his website that “there may be no way to entirely verify that”.
Re: Greenewald see also https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdqjy/you-can-now-easily-download-all-cia-ufo-documents-to-date
Black Vault: https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/
UFO report might miss deadline, Sen. Rubio says https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/ufo-report-might-miss-deadline-sen-rubio-says/
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo [March 24, 2021]: So Senator, what about that? What can you tell us about UFOs?
Sen. Marco Rubio: Well, we have things flying over military installations over military exercises and other places. And we don’t know what it is. It isn’t ours. It isn’t anything that’s registered with the FAA, and in many cases, exhibits attributes of things. We’ve never seen technology, the kinds of technology we haven’t seen before. At least that’s what it seems like. I think you have to know what it is, or we have to try to know what it is. That’s my view of it without any preconceived notions, maybe there’s a logical explanation. Maybe it’s a, you know, something that can be explained away. Maybe it’s a foreign adversary who’s made a technological leap, as you’ve heard the former DNI said, whatever it is, we need to know the answer to it. The problem with this issue is every time you raise it, people get all nervous. Oh, does this mean UFOs and aliens and extraterrestrials? We don’t have to go So far, it’s very simple. There are things flying over national security installations. We don’t know who they are. I don’t know what it is it isn’t ours, we need to find out.
Flashback: https://eideard.com/2008/10/20/us-pilot-was-ordered-to-shoot-down-ufo-and-then-to-shut-up/
(2/21/21): Airliner Encountered Unidentified Fast-Moving Cylindrical Object Over New Mexico.
The event, and the pilot’s reaction to it, are remarkably similar to one that occurred in the same general area a few years ago. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39367/airbus-encountered-unidentified-fast-moving-cylindrical-object-over-new-mexico
“Inside The Extraterrestrial Tale Of The 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter” https://allthatsinteresting.com/kelly-hopkinsville-encounter
See also Kentucky New Era, Aug 22, 1955 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HeYrAAAAIBAJ&pg=2838,3341366