![]() ![]() The language of the legislation itself goes a bit further, calling for rapid field investigations of UAP incidents, including “adverse physiological effects.” It envisions the “testing of materials, medical studies, and development of theoretical models,” as well potential future investment, to “replicate any such advanced characteristics and performance” discovered. Steven Greer, who retired from the emergency room to pursue the hunt for aliens as the self-described “world’s expert on UFOs,” objects to the notion that UFOs should be treated as a national security threat at all. In an op-ed in The Hill, Elizondo criticized the Pentagon’s decision to place the new UAP office inside the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security, which he said is the “perfect place to put it” if “we want 70 more years of secrecy on this topic.”Īctivists complain about the lack of civilian involvement in the new Pentagon office and assume it will simply classify anything interesting it finds, so that its unclassified reports to Congress will be little more than fig leaves.ĭr. Luis Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, the former government insiders who helped spark renewed interest in Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs, as they are more commonly known now, by publicizing video from military aircraft, applauded Gillibrand’s amendment - but worry it was watered down before final passage and will be buried by the Pentagon. We believe that considerable resources have always been dedicated to the matter at some level inside deep government and industry,” James added. “We don't see that this means new resources will be dedicated to the matter. ![]() “This is a subject with a provable history of secrecy, and anything that lacks a new openness about the information is subject to more, possibly inappropriate control,” said Ron James, a spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network, which bills itself as “the oldest and largest UFO organization in the world.” ![]() ![]() On social media and forums like AboveTopSecret, a hub of ufology and conspiracy theories, debates have raged about whether the new office represents the beginning of the end of the alleged cover-up or its revival. It’s been decades since Washington formally studied UFOs in any kind of comprehensive way, so one might expect the news would be cause for celebration among so-called ufologists.īut the movement has long believed the government is covering up the greatest secret in history, so many are having a hard time believing the feds want to do anything other than clamp down again after several years in which it became socially acceptable for former presidents and CIA directors to talk publicly about weird things they’d seen in the skies. “The United States needs a coordinated effort to take control and understand whether these aerial phenomena belong to a foreign government or something else altogether.” Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who spearheaded the bipartisan measure. “Our national security efforts rely on aerial supremacy and these phenomena present a challenge to our dominance,” said Sen. Some hail the legislation creating the new office, tucked into section 1683 of the massive National Defense Authorization Act, for bringing new resources, rigor and officialdom to the investigation of a phenomenon - and a potential national security threat - that has long been stigmatized in a way that makes it difficult to study. And that’s when the tears came, ’cause I was like, ‘We’re doing an alien movie, and I just saw a UFO.The establishment of a new office, signed into law just before New Year's, to study “ unidentified aerial phenomenon” has divided the loose community of activists, researchers and pseudo scientists who hunt for proof that we are not alone in the universe. “I’m not crying, I’m holding it together, and then I see a shooting star as I’m hugging him, and I just think that coincidence itself was weird. “On the last day of filming, I was hugging this producer and it was the last person I was saying good-bye to,” she told Vulture at Sundance Film Festival on January 23. Tremblay, Jacob’s big sis, isn’t as skeptical about extraterrestrials as her onscreen character is. In Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out, Emma Tremblay plays a skeptical kid journalist investigating her space-obsessed neighbor’s claim that aliens zapped up his parental unit. ![]()
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