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Leslie Kean & Ryan Graves

1981 case in Kean's book - portholes noticed

size of a grapefruit at arm's length, so, big

"Bending of the atmosphere"

Dr. Haines 100 cases report

Graves - 747 pilot, South Africa, Johannesburg

case #1 - black triangle, huge, TV-set sized, 500ft away

(500ft is range that fighters engage in combat)

case #2 - orb outpaced one of the fighters in a dogfight

Legislation to collect reports & radar data and funnel to aviation safety mechanism and a publicly accessible NASA database

Low Earth Orbit is becoming increasingly crowded, we should try to track UAP in space

National Geographic Documentary season 2 has new footage of a UFO from a commercial pilot

2006 O'hare Airport investigation:

First they said it was lights reflecting off the clouds, but the lights hadn't been turned on

Then they said it was a hole punch cloud, but the weather was too warm that day for that weather phenomenon to form

Dr. Tim Gallaudet

Passive Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar capable of detecting the specific enemy submarine, not just the class, it's that good

But it wasn't able to figure out what was detected off the coast of Japan in 1990 and 1991

Southern California UAPs are so commonplace that they no longer phase sailors

Karl Nell & Lue Elizondo drafted UAPDA

Path forward: Start at the White House > Create a Council > Council develops a Strategy/Plan > Draft Policy > Write Legislation

We need a "Whole of Government" approach -- This is what the UAPTF had!

Jay Stratton was given a DNI award (UAPTF given National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation)

Jonathan Berte, Sol Foundation, European Union

Eric Davis & Kirk McConnell (!)

[5tinger's note: my favorite]

McConnell only left government in February 2024. He started digging into UAP after the 2017 NYT article

Eric Davis did Physics, brushed up against AAWSAP. Eric Davis applied to be Bigelow's physicist at NIDS.

Aerospace physics and astrophysics. He went to Skinwalker Ranch, worked at Air Force Research Labs (AFRL)

AFRL Advanced Research Concepts division, AFRL Crash Retrieval (C/R) & Reverse Engineering (RE) programs

Hal Puthoff, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, EarthTech International, The Aerospace Corporation

then space, fission power, defense (this was basically Eric Davis listing his work history and background)

McConnell convinced Senators that there was something to UAP secrecy, had a very small UAP staff

had Peter Skafish and Garry Nolan come in and do a consultation

Congressional members became interested after 2017 NYT article

they made legislation (think NDAA amendments that led to UAPTF)

in hindsight, AARO didn't turn out the way they wanted

Eric Davis briefing vehicle of unknown origin DIA's AAWSAP, later AATIP, EarthTech science advisors

UAPTF & Jay Stratton, Davis gave briefing to McConnell & staff in SCIF

gave briefing on C/R, RE program, to SASC staff, set up by Jay Stratton, McConnell was previously on SSCI

Chris Mellon set up for Davis to give briefing a few days later to SSCI in a SCIF--what was said:

Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering, craft of unknown origin, not of the Earth, they were under control of Non-Human Intelligence (!)

People known and not known pulicly came via McConnell and gave briefings to Senators, Rubio(?) said:

"Either clearances are being given to loonies or the government isn't telling all that it knows when it comes to non-human intelligence."

McConnell: If there were crashes, the government would have recovered them, and if recovered, they would have tried to find out how they worked.

McConnell: Government would also have tried to come up with prosaic explanations but simultaneously seriously looked into it

Davis collected evidece of CR/RE program from everyone from officials to aerospace executives in classified & proprietary environments

there's a "there" there based on "breadcrumbs, pieces of bread, and entire loaves of bread." (his words)

Davis had a letter from Jim Lacatski that deputized him to go in and ask questions at the various locations of the CR/RE program

McConnell had a witness come to him who was physically shaking -- "enough of these instances changes your mind"

Both Davis & McConnell have gone to Congress.

Davis has interfaced with a ton of people in the [legacy] program

President has plenary access to National Security Information & access to classified information

Congress may say Executive Branch has to Disclose, but the President has a legal argument that would permit withholding [that information]

PEADs - Presidential Emergency Action Documents

Prevent Congressional oversight since Eisenhower, have never been leaked outside of the Executive Branch, not subject to FOIA

tied up in contracts with membres of the Defense Intelligence Industry, sole source contracts [only one contractor], uncompeted

SAPs, uSAPs, waived uSAPs

There have been Presidents who have been briefed, but some are considered not trustworthy enough to be briefed:

Nixon, Reagan, Kennedy, Eisenhower all briefed

Clinton NO.

Bush Jr, a little bit.

No President fully briefed, only partially, on a need-to-know basis.

Carter was briefed.

Jay Stratton & colleagues did brief Trump but on UAP problem not C/R program.

It's been pretty clear from people like Jim Lacatski, and generals (3 & 4-star), program people, aerospace executives, Presidents, these are of non-human origin.

Davis has seen photos.

Davis says there have never been ARVs becaus ewe can't figure out how they work.

Jim Lacatski's book describes craft with no power source detectable.

Rep. Yoshiharu Asakawa

Japanese UAP Caucus

Christopher Mellon addressed Japanese Government [5tinger's note: is there video of this?]

National Diet of Japan, Committee on Security

Politicians have a taboo on UAP

Asakawa-san is in the Japanese Innovation Party, and pointed to the US taking UAP seriously

[Defense Minister?] General is now head of UAP Caucus of Japan

When General was asked about them, he said there was no knowledge that had come to his level

There is video with subtitiles on Yoshiharu's YouTube

He specifically asked "Please Google Asakawa Yoshiharu" [5tinger's note: tried to locate this]

There are 90 members in the Japanese UAP Caucus, the purpose of which is to create an organization to study UAP.

Asakawa-san took on UAP as a political issue because his job is to anticipate the unexpected [like earthquakes]

He references the US Operation Tomodachi [which was to provide humanitarian aid after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake]

There have been UFOs over Fukushima frequently since the nuclear accident

Asakawa-san watched the US Congresionall hearings on Japanese video-streaming site Niko-Niko-Doba

Yohei Watani beat him in the election, but he has been asked to still lead the UAP Caucus

Dr. Tsumeta, head of the National Observatory of Japan

Japanese astronomers have begun study of UAP

Cameras automatically remove noise, but by looking at the original images it might reveal lights

The Japanese astronomy effort is secret from the bureaucracy

Japan has taken the lead from the US re: AARO

Asakawa-san has soggested that Japan's DARPA share info on gravity control

NHI will change humankind on many levels.

Asakawa-san wants to make a Japanese partner or equivalent of the Sol Foundation

Asakawa-san saw a UFO when he was a teenager!

He liked astronomy.

He studied the Japan Airlines case [JAL 1628]

Leslie Kean & Peter Skafish

Sol has goals with Policy and Academia, relationship with truth, hard & soft sciences

Disclosure is not a Hollywood-esque Presidential speech, but a gradual process

Peter Skafish wrote a whitepaper on secrecy.

Ontology -- in anthropology, interested in how people have different ontologies, indigenous Amazon, Chinese medicine.

In the Amazon, nothing is just a "thing," everything is consciousness

There are lots of selves, everything is alive, everything is subjective, everyithing is consciousness

Think about not physical objects but the noetic interactions with these supersubjects, the relationship between NHI and ourselves

Inferences about objects, portholes, doors, landing gear were common during the Cold War.

Summer 1952 DC flyover, in November of that year was the first H-bomb test

We need to listen to & trust experiencers

Dr. Alexander Wendt

International Relations

UAP and Security of Humans

Talk title: "The Last Humans: UFOs & National Security"

International Relations perspective of assuming the worst "threat"

Term: Securitization

Wend's book takes up where the Pentagon 2021 report ends

ETI is a threat, we could have an immune response, result in state collapse

Threat has to do with security of the mind, sometimes called ontological security

connection to a way of life, it's mental

NHI are a threat to anthropocentrism and by way of that the state.

We are alone, sovereign, and the measure of all value.

The Social Contract--the people obey the state's law in exchange for protection from internal and external threats.

This creates legitimacy & state cohesion.

UAP are an Ontological Sec...


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I joined this sub sometime back and for the longest I’ve been wondering what is the point of it. You post something you think may be a UFO: you’re wrong and dumb.

You post something you know for certain you saw with your eyes but couldn’t get a good image: you’re dumb (and receive the highest level of invalidation).

You post a “drone” similar to those featured on the news: you are both stupid and lack even the simplest level of common sense.

I was actually on another sub recently, where people felt uncomfortable even sharing their thoughts on this sub due to heavy invalidation (damn near the same extent of the government’s gaslighting.) I’m all for skepticism and fact checking, but it’s gotten to the point that 1.) the sub is primarily for invalidating claims and 2.) being as rude as possible in the process is criteria for doing such. The prior sucks, but the latter is awful. A lot of the new posters are not “expert” ufologists. Many people will not have flight radars and stargazing apps. They are just trying to figure out what’s going on and think to ask these questions in a “safe” place. (Legit, I saw someone name a bunch of stars, like the average person would know even the names let alone the coordinates of each.)

I am more of an observer/data-collector (whatever) than a poster. I don’t need convincing—I’ve experienced strange phenomena most of my life but as a child learned to share very little with those unfamiliar due to the very thing that I see happening here. I just say this to say, it costs nothing to be kind. The funny thing is, my teens and I recently analyzed this statement to discuss that being brutal is also free. Bummer.

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I can’t believe I haven’t seen this on the sub yet. Maybe I missed it. But just in case this is a great account from a highly credible source. I love that he was so candid about his experience. Maybe the stigma really is lifting. He doesn’t mention explicitly mention orbs in the context of the drone incursions, but his story still feels like a hint to the idea they are related.hope this was enough words for the bots, guess I’ll find out

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Found a great site that asked Rep. William Timmons (R-SC) — (Oversight Committee; JAG Officer; Captain in South Carolina Air National Guard) this question: "What did you make of responses — and non-responses — to your questions in the public House Oversight UAP hearing on Nov. 13th?"

Heres a transcript of one of the interviews:

WT: Rep. William Timmons (R-SC)

ML: Matt Laslo (Veteran congressional reporter WIRED, Raw Story, fmr. VICE, Rolling Stone, Playboy, et. u/Prof_Laslo Johns Hopkins University)

WT: “So it's actually — here's the thing. I do think that the government is trying to assess whether it's China or non-human. I think that's really the underlying question. Cause if it's China, it's bad because they have technology that we don't understand. And they're...”

ML: “Yeah?”

WT: “They have advancements that we don't have, which is not good. But if it's non-human, then, well, we don't know why they're here. So, you know, both of those deserve additional resources to figure out the answer to.”

ML: “And that's like — the way you're framing it is kinda simple; not simplistic but simple. Do you think that's an easy case to make to the incoming Trump administration? Like, hey...”

WT: “Yeah, I mean, it doesn't take — this is not an Elon Musk task. This is a task that can be assigned to a lot of people. But, you know, this is the thing: the patterns in sightings can easily be predicted, and I actually think there's a coordination between — a correlation between military training, military activities in the US and these sightings. So it would not be difficult to figure out if it's China because if it is indeed China, they're using their technology to assess our military capacity, and we can create the systems through which they would then respond, and we'll be like, ‘Okay, it's China.’ Or maybe they don't take the bait and then it's not China — or it might not be China.”

ML: “Have you entertained any idea of military contractors? Do you feel like that part of it?”

They enter an elevator.

WT: “Yeah, I mean, that's definitely a variable because we have a lot of — we spend a lot of money to allow the private sector to develop technologies because we don't have the expertise. So, absolutely. But, again, this is next level. I mean, this isn't like 10 years ahead of where we are. This is like 50 or 100 years ahead of where we are. And, you know, we've all seen — I mean, six years ago, I remember seeing what the world then saw on 60 Minutes, like a year or two later. And, I mean, look, I got my private pilot’s license, I understand physics, I understand propulsion. I'm not Elon Musk, again, but I have a pretty good grasp of that. We have nothing that can do what I've seen. So if you have no existing technology, either the Chinese are kicking our a** or it's something else. Either way, we need to know, because if the answer is brought to us, it might be too late.”

ML: “Yeah? And how worried are you just the idea of SAPs [Special Access Programs] hidden from Congress? Like the Constitution gives you guys the power...”

WT: “I actually don't care about that at all.”

ML: “Interesting.”

WT: “Yeah, I mean, you know, I get it, some people want information. There's a lot of information that government has my colleagues should not have. I shouldn’t have. You know, I am one of five members of Congress still in the Air Force. So, I mean, you know, there's information that Congress might eventually get, but also might never get. And we have systems in place, checks and balances, and then you go to the — you know, I mean, the example I use is — you know, if the intelligence community has an asset in a foreign government, should we know that? F— no!”

ML: “Right? Amen.”

WT: “Absolutely not. You know, these people can't go through a meeting without tweeting about it.”

ML: “Right?”

WT: “We're gonna give them, like, highly classified information?”

ML: “Yeah?”

WT: “No.”

ML: “Yeah?”

WT: “So, no, that doesn't bother me at all. But, I mean, there is a role for that because we are responsible to our constituents. And when Langley Air Force Base has 19 days of consistent UAP activity, I have to answer questions to my constituents. And that's where the interplay becomes a little more complicated.”

Laslo speaks off mic about the then-upcoming Senate hearing with AARO investigating UAPs.

WT: “So, I have to be very careful, because I have two hats I wear. But, yeah, there's a lot of incidents. Some publicly reported, some not. But, I mean, you know, this isn't the first time that UAPs have been over military installations, and it seems that they are becoming increasingly brash, and I think we're doing that to show the US military, to show the American people that, ‘Don't mess with us,’ because we can do things that you can't do.”

ML: “And that's where [Sen. Tim] Kaine was pushing, I think, the head of North and Southcom, because he's like, we don't have rules of engagement for doing these things.”

WT: “There's no authorities. There's no authorities. That's one of the things I said. I said, we've got to get authorities for law enforcement, we've got authorities for military. We have to get — they don't know what to do. Like, if your base commander at Langley, like, everything that they have is an SOP [Standard Operating Procedures] for what you're supposed to do. There's none for this. We've gotta get to this.”

ML: “Preciate you. Have a good one, sir.”

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