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[–] lildictator@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

> you need to touch grass, the text you sent just has the same allegations, nothing new nothing concrete

The details are classified. You and I don't get to see them. The people who do get to see the classified evidence, like some of the congresspeople I mentioned, take it seriously. The whistleblowers have allegedly provided Congress with the names of the people in charge of the reverse-engineering projects and the locations of the materials.

Think again about that: the elected representatives with the best access to the most sensitive information take it seriously.

What alternative explanation do you have for multiple congresspeople from both sides of the aisle being willing to investigate these claims and writing new laws to encourage more whistleblowers to come out?

> why have i never heard of flying saucers in africa?

How much news do you get from Africa, generally? You won't know things when you don't look for them.

One of the most widely known mass UFO sightings happened in Zimbabwe in 1994 in the Ariel School.

[–] Firipu@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The fact that Trump never revealed anything about Aliens is all the proof you need. He would never have been able to shut it about it if there was even a grain of truth to it

[–] lildictator@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What makes you think that the alleged programs that have been supposedly kept secret from the Congress for decades were revealed to Trump? It stands to reason that if such programs existed, they would have been hidden from him as well.

[–] Firipu@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if you start like that, there is no discussion to be had. "If eVeN tHe prESidEnT doESn't know"

*insert dickbutt meme

[–] lildictator@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago

But that is precisely the central allegation of the whistleblowers that we are discussing: that certain research programs have been kept hidden from the Congress. And that is why the Congress has already passed bills to encourage whistleblowers to come out and report what they know specifically about UFOs.

Why did they write such specific legislation? Do you think it may be because they already knew about some whistleblowers that wanted to speak?

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