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Lawmakers press for transparency ahead of UFO hearing

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© Greg NashRep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) speaks to reporters as he arrives to the Capitol for a vote on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.
The House Oversight Committee hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) next week will be centered on transparency, a bipartisan group of lawmakers said Thursday.

The committee hearing, spearheaded by Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), will investigate the increase in sightings of UAPs and their impact on national security. Burchett said the lack of information from the government — during Republican and Democratic administrations — has eroded public trust.

"This hearing is going to be different. We're going to have witnesses who can speak frankly to the public about their experiences," Burchett said. "We've had a heck of a lot of pushback about this hearing. There are a lot of people who don't want this to come to light."

Burchett and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said members of Congress have been "stonewalled" by military officials when they've asked for details on UAPs, including their possible origins.

"This is ridiculous folks. Either they do exist or they don't exist. They keep telling us they don't exist, but they block every opportunity for us to get a hold of the information to prove that they do exist," Burchett said. "And we're gonna get to the bottom of that dadgummit. Whatever the truth may be. We're done with the coverup."

Comment: Here is the full press conference:


As well as another media interview with Burchett:


Both are worth watching. As Burchett told Ask a Pol yesterday:
Burchett says the hits have been coming from, seemingly, every angle.

"Also, the Pentagon has flexed their muscle. We've lost a witness because of that, and NASA has backed down. And they blocked my amendment, which basically says if there are any, then they oughta come forward with information and they say there's not any but they're blocking my amendment," Burchett says.

Still, they're undeterred and eager to allow the public inside their investigation, even over the protests of ever-maneuvering aides.

"Staff needs to assume its position," Burchett tells Ask a Pol, "and Congress needs to assume its authority."



UFO 2

Flashback CIA cover-up alleged in JFK's 'secret UFO inquiry'

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A story that combines UFO cover-ups with the assassination of John F. Kennedy is a gold mine for conspiracy theorists. And that's just what author William Lester says he uncovered while conducting research for a new book on Kennedy: a memo written by JFK and addressed to the CIA in which the president requests confidential information about UFOs.

In the never-before-seen, top secret memo supposedly written on Nov. 12, 1963, the president ordered the CIA director to organize the agency's intelligence files relating to UFOs , and to debrief him on all "unknowns" by the following February. Ten days later, Kennedy was assassinated.

The newly surfaced document is bound to add fuel to the undying fire surrounding the president's death. But first things first: Is the document authentic?

Comment: See also:


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'We're done with the cover-ups': House oversight committee to hold hearing on UFOs

Rep. Tim Burchett
© Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesRep. Tim Burchett
The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing next week about UFOs, officially called unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee tweeted Monday.

"The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on UAPs [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena] on Wednesday, 7/26. We're done with the cover-ups," wrote Burchett. Burchett has been vocal about the government's monitoring of UFOs, saying that "we've been covering this up since the '40s," following the release of a report on the phenomena by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in January.

Comment: See also: Congressman has grim take after access to UFO footage: 'We can't handle it'


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Eerie mystery as Alabama woman vanishes after she approached a toddler she found walking along the highway at night. UPDATE: Woman found

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A 25-year-old woman vanished after pulling over to check on a toddler who was wandering alone along an Alabama interstate highway.

Carlethia 'Carlee' Nichole Russell was on the phone with her sister-in-law when she got out of her car to check up on the child. The family member then heard a sudden scream and shortly after, lost all contact with Russell.

When officers arrived at the location, they found Russell's car, along with her cell phone, purse, wig and apple watch in the nearby area - but Russell and the child were nowhere to be seen.

Comment: NYT reports:
A 25-year-old woman in Alabama who was reported missing on Thursday night after telling a 911 dispatcher that she saw a toddler walking along the side of an interstate and would pull over to help was found late on Saturday, according to the police.

The woman, Carlee Russell, showed up at her family's front door, knocked and was greeted by her stunned relatives, said Nicholas Derzis, the police chief in Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham.

He said he was not sure how Ms. Russell got there, but nobody was with her when she arrived. She was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Dispatchers at Hoover 911 received a call at 10:45 p.m. on Saturday that said Ms. Russell had returned home, the police said in a statement.

[...]

Among the most puzzling details about the case is how no other driver on the heavily traversed interstate managed to spot a toddler walking on the side of the road that night, an image that would have surely prompted more 911 calls than just Ms. Russell's.

"That is a little unusual," Chief Derzis said on Saturday night before Ms. Russell was found.

[...]

"From the time that she stopped to the time that the first officer hits the blue lights and gets to the scene — we do not see another vehicle pull over or anything like that," Chief Derzis said.

An early tip about a gray vehicle with a man standing outside of Ms. Russell's vehicle was discounted after the footage review, the chief added.



Attention

The empire strikes back: Would-be UAP whistleblowers offered dire warning from US security clearance org

The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Aug. 6, 2022.
© Anna Rose Layden/Getty ImagesThe U.S. Capitol in Washington on Aug. 6, 2022.
Clearance Jobs, an organization that defines itself as "the largest career network for professionals with federal government security clearance," has issued an apparent letter of guidance that also serves as a chilling warning to any industry or government insiders who are considering coming forward as UAP whistleblowers with evidence of their work with non-human craft and their pilots.

The letter, titled "How to Blow the Whistle if You Work With Flying Saucers and Their Alien Pilots," was issued to all subscribers via email on July 13th and is peppered with well-worn buzzwords seemingly meant to belittle the topic before laying out the dire consequences that likely await anyone who breaks their security oaths to talk about their classified work.

WHISTLEBLOWING SOMETHING GOOD?

After outlining the claims involving the U.S. government's alleged possession of non-human craft made by former intelligence officer David Grusch, claims which first appeared in a story by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal and published by The Debrief (a story that was later expanded upon to include potential alien pilots of these crafts in an interview with Grusch by Australian investigative journalist Ross Coulthart that aired on cable news network News Nation), the letter is broken into five segments.

The first, titled "Whistleblowing Something Good," opens with more loaded phrasing and language, including the second use of the term "space aliens," which seems to have replaced the classic "little green men" when trying to downplay and stigmatize the topic, before positing a scenario where Grusch's claims are actually found to be true.

Comment: This letter from Clearance Jobs seems either woefully misinformed or deliberately misleading. Either way, the effect on those reading it will be a chilling effect. The fact is, the government has in effect given immunity for any information provided on such programs. Whether or not it protects anyone coming forward, however, is another matter. Grusch will be the test case, either way, and rumor has it he will be testifying before Burchett and Luna's congressional hearing on the 26th.


Blackbox

Call your first witness: Admiral Wilson still waiting for his followup interview

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See No Evil and Hear No Evil plead ignorance at a UFO hearing on Capitol Hill in 2022: Will the Pentagon ever take a formal position on the Wilson Memo?
In May 2022, during the first congressional hearing on UFOs in more than half a century, Rep. Mike Gallagher entered the so-called Wilson Memo into the Congressional Record, primarily for the benefit of a two-man audience. Charged with getting the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence up to snuff on the UFO/UAP mystery, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray instead sat granite-faced while claiming they knew nothing about the firestorm of controversy raging on the Internet since it popped up in 2019.

Also known as Core Secrets and the Smoking Gun for their exquisitely detailed inclusion of names, dates and places, the Wilson Memo is a 15-page set of notes and correspondence concerning clandestine and possibly unlawful government programs involving the attempted exploitation of UFO technology.

Those transcripts describe an alleged meeting between physicist Eric Davis and Thomas Wilson, the vice admiral who ran the Defense Intelligence Agency until retiring three months before the two crossed paths in Las Vegas in 2002. During their conversation, the admiral vents his outrage with Davis over being personally rebuffed by the defense contractor in charge of a reverse-engineering program when he tried to learn more about the classified project. Even worse, Wilson's Pentagon colleagues sustained the unnamed corporation's objections.

The notes, purportedly written by Davis either during or immediately after the meeting, also indicate that, if word of their encounter ever leaked, Davis would clam up and Wilson would deny it ever happened. Davis has declined to comment since the documents dropped online four years ago, and Wilson has repeatedly denied knowing Eric Davis.

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Congressional hearing with UFO whistleblowers slated for July 26

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At the US Capitol, sneers, eye-rolling and gossip are starting to replace the inquisitive awe that initially accompanied whistleblower David Grusch's claims the federal government has recovered otherworldly craft and kept those programs secret from Congress.

At the end of June, Republican leaders poo-poohed some potential witnesses and now NASA officials have reportedly pulled out altogether from the House Oversight Committee's upcoming hearing into UFOs, but the two Republican lawmakers spearheading the investigation still plan to hold the public hearing on Wednesday, July 26.

"Yeah. Yup. We got the hearing - so we got the date confirmed," Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) tells Ask a Pol. "We'll be releasing names about a week prior."

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Luna confirms UAP hearing date to Ask a Pol

Ask a Pol has learned Luna and her co-chair for the hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), have gotten "some pressure from the Pentagon and NASA" since announcing their formal investigation into UFOs (aka UAPs, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, according to NASA).

People familiar with planning for the hearing confirm NASA's stopped cooperating but one source adds, "I don't care, because they're covering it up anyway."

Comment: Ask a Pol's previous conversation with Luna (a Trump endorsement) and has some more details:
"So what we're focusing on is, one, getting the information out to the American people: Clearly, this is a big galaxy that we live in and that there is very likely technology that we are unaware of where it's come from — and so, does this pose a national security threat?" Luna tells Ask a Pol.

Number two:

"It's important that instead of trying to make this conspiratorial and poo-pooing it, that people are actually understanding that it's very likely that there's other life forms out there and that we're not alone in this universe and that we can address these things with a scientific mindset," Luna says.

Last month, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer confirmed he tapped Luna and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) to lead his committee's investigation into new claims made by whistleblower David Grusch, who claims the federal government has recovered otherworldly craft. And also hidden it from Congress.

"So Burchett and Luna, on my committee, are the two that are kinda taking the lead in that. It's interesting. It's not an issue I'm an expert in so I don't know anything about it, but apparently Burchett and Luna are so they're really excited and our staffs are real excited about it," Comer told Ask a Pol.



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Ex-Pentagon official & Jacques Vallée suggest higher-dimensional beings crossing Into our world

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Dr. Jacques Vallée with Dr. Allen. J Hynek during the Project Blue Book
In a recent interview with journalist Ross Coulthart on NewsNation, Pentagon UFO whistleblower David Grusch dropped bombshell statements on UFO phenomena or UAPs, claiming that the United States and other world governments have retrieved intact and partially intact crafts of Non-Human Intelligence (NHI). The origin and reason behind these crashes is still unknown, but Grusch postulated that certain NHI, commonly associated with UFO sightings, might originate from higher-dimensional planes of existence.

Grusch made a sensational claim by stating that in 1945, the United States intercepted a mysterious craft that was initially recovered by Mussolini's forces in Italy back in 1933. As evidence of this extraordinary event, Grusch presented a handwritten Italian memo containing small drawings at the bottom. What made this revelation even more intriguing was the implication of the Vatican's involvement, suggesting the religious institution was not only aware of the existence of NHI but also actively participated in suppressing this information.

Grusch made significant assertions regarding the NHI, stating that these entities might be extraterrestrial or interdimensional, or possibly both. He described sightings and recoveries of multiple operational crafts of various sizes, including one as large as a football field. Alarmingly, he revealed the recovery of NHI bodies and hinted at potential formal agreements between the U.S. government and some NHI factions.

Comment: See also:


Top Secret

Bipartisan measure backed by Chuck Schumer aims to force release of UFO records

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Keeping America safe!
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, is pushing legislation to create a commission with broad authority to declassify government documents about U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial matters, in an attempt to force the government to share all that it knows about unidentified phenomena.

The measure offers the possibility of pushing back against the conspiracy theories that surround discussions of U.F.O.s and fears that the government is hiding critical information from the public.


Comment: The line between this and a cover-up is very thin. The government has hidden critical information, and anyone who says otherwise is either lying or woefully incompetent.


The legislation, which Mr. Schumer will introduce as an amendment to the annual defense policy bill, has bipartisan support, including that of Senator Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, who has championed legislation that has forced the government to release a series of reports on unidentified phenomena. Support in the House is also likely. On Wednesday, the chamber included a narrower measure in its version of the annual defense bill that would push the Pentagon to release documents about unidentified aerial phenomena.

(While the government has agreed not to call mysterious sightings U.F.O.s, various branches and agencies disagree on whether to refer to aerial phenomena or anomalous phenomena.)

The Senate measure sets a 300-day deadline for government agencies to organize their records on unidentified phenomena and provide it to the review board.

Comment: Only the NYT could report on news like this in such a boring manner. Good job, Julian. Also note that there is no mention of Grusch:






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Congressman has grim take after access to UFO footage: 'We can't handle it'

Tim Burchett
© Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesRep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., attends a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on June 6, 2023.
A Tennessee lawmaker issued a dire warning after claiming to have seen classified UFO footage that hasn't been released to the public.

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., speculated extraterrestrial life forms could have technology that humanity "can't handle" during an appearance on the "Event Horizon" podcast.

"If they're out there, they're out there, and if they have this kind of technology, then they could turn us into a charcoal briquette," Burchett said.

"And if they can travel light years or at the speeds that we've seen, and physics as we know it, fly underwater, don't show a heat trail, things like that, then we are vastly out of our league."

Burchett is a sitting member on the House Oversight Committee, which has held hearings about potential threats of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a government-derived term for UFOs.

"We can't handle it," Burchett said during his podcast appearance about potential alien tech. "We couldn't fight them off if we wanted to. That's why I don't think they're a threat to us, or they would already have been."

Comment: Burchett recently appeared on both Project Unity and Weaponized to discuss his work in Congress on UFOs: