The upcoming Pentagon report on Unidentified Flying Objects
WHEN WE STARTED this process in the December of 2017, 99.9% of the 7.5 billion people in the world had no real active understanding of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP), more commonly known to as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The general misconception is that UFOs are binary, either they are considered to be ‘extraterrestrials’ or they are misidentifications (weather balloons, swamp gas, birds, drones, etc). The truth is more complex than a simplistic binary approach. The truth is arguably somehow integrated with nuclear fission/fusion and the Earth’s electro-magnetic field. Add into the potential mix human consciousness alongside dark matter, quantum entanglement, superposition and we probably still are a thousand years from coming close. They are truly anomalous in every sense of the concept. A genuine mystery.
Consider that over seventy years after World War Two and the beginning of the nuclear age when these anomalies were first reported to be appearing in our skies (at least with regard to the modern age), we still do not fully comprehend the nature of UAP. There are some who argue that such information has been studied in secret, buried within classified special access programs and the technology reverse engineered, however, this is unverifiable. In the civilian world none of this exists, there are no official programs or crashed saucers behind hanger doors. They are just stories and that’s as far as it goes.
With this uncertainty in mind we must intervene on what we can prove, and what we currently understand. In the civilian world that actually isn’t much, our understanding of physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity doesn’t explain the hyper advanced abilities of these anomalous vehicles (mainly because for seventy years the world has downplayed and ridiculed UFOs) and I’m guessing we certainly can’t replicate it.
With this in mind, it should be noted that the demands vs expectation on the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task (UAPTF) should be taken carefully. For those not aware, the UAPTF was created sometime after December 2017 by the American congress, more specifically, the Senate Select Committee for Intelligence (SSCI). The task force was put in place under DOD to investigate UFOs for the American government and produce a report via Director of National Intelligence.
As reported by defense writer Tom Rogan, in the Washington Examiner, the most recent Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, spoke on Fox News and answered questions by host Maria Bartiromo about UFOs and the upcoming Pentagon report. During that interview he confirmed the reality of the anomalous vehicles that are tracked by satellites, Navy Pilots and Airforce Pilots.
As stated by UAPMedia the following day, there is a report due by the DOD which the current Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, will now be spearheading. The report is to include unclassified UAP information with a classified Annex. However, there is much speculation about what such a report might contain. Consider the extreme abilities of such anomalous objects that have been reported by Navy Pilots in recent years. Then consider that Senator Marco Rubio (Senate Select Committee for Intelligence) has stated this technology is not that of the United States and the military doesn’t know what they are.
Where does that leave us?
He (Ratcliffe) went on say that he was unable to get the report down into a declassified format, something which his successor, and former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama, Avril Haines will be working on, ahead of the UAP Task Force report due on June 25th 2021.
Fmr. Director John Ratcliffe isn’t the only former DOD employee to step forward with comments about the UAP. Fmr. CIA Director John O’Brennan spoke in December 2020 with Tyler Cowen. This was an interesting development, keeping in mind that Brennan was the Director at the same time the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was in operation under the Obama administration. Whether or not Brennan had prior knowledge of UAP, or AATIP (Pentagon’s previous UAP program), remains unknown. However, speaking earlier in the year with a former U.S. employee they made clear the significance of such people coming out. It is a big deal that individuals who ran the CIA and National Intelligence office are coming forward.
Here is the transcript of the interview with Fmr. CIA Director John O’Brennan.
COWEN: Let’s say we take a concrete issue. The Navy has reported that a lot of its pilots have seen unidentified flying objects. If you’re tackling that, as a CIA director or someone who works there, what is it you would sift through and interpret? How would that go?
BRENNAN: I’ve seen some of those videos from Navy pilots, and I must tell you that they are quite eyebrow-raising when you look at them. You try to ensure that you have as much data as possible in terms of visuals and also different types of maybe technical collection of sensors that you have at the time.
Also, I believe, it’s important to reach out into other environments and find out, were there any type of weather phenomena at that time that might have, in fact, created the appearance of the phenomenon that you’re looking at? Were there some things that were happening on the ground, or other types of phenomena that could help explain what seems to be quite a mystery as far as what is there?
I think an important thing for analysts to do is not to go into this type of challenge either discounting certain types of possibilities or believing in advance that it is likely X, Y, or Z. You really have to approach it with an open mind, but get as much data as possible and get as much expertise as possible brought to bear.
COWEN: At the end of all that sifting and interpreting, what do you think is the most likely hypothesis?
BRENNAN: [laughs] I don’t know. When people talk about it, is there other life besides what’s in the States, in the world, the globe? Life is defined in many different ways. I think it’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there’s no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe. What that might be is subject to a lot of different views.
But I think some of the phenomena we’re going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might, in fact, be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don’t yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.
Psychologically, people struggle with this information. It triggers emotional states, primarily within a direct form of cognitive dissonance. (A part of your brain is now thinking about UFOs being real, and then another part considers what you are expected to think - UFOs can’t be real - which are in direct conflict, this causes you subconscious distress).
Take for example the War of the Worlds radio adaptation by Orson Welles, in 1938, that left people panicking in the streets, shooting at water towers, etc. Despite the fictionalised element to the show it showed those in the 1930s American government the dangers of a ‘Martian Invasion’, and how a threat to national security might instead come from the hysteria of its own people. The anxiety caused through fear of the unknown (70 years of alien invasion movies) reaches us to avoid processing this issue. After all, you’re being told that Flying Saucers, Cubes, Cigars, Spheres, Triangles are engaging the military.
There is a deeply rooted fear that is buried within people when it comes to such fantastic concepts. Essentially, we aren’t talking about an issue which is a passing fancy, a flavour of the week drama which engages people on Twitter. This issue changes everything, from religion, physics, astronomy, history, there is nothing that will be nothing left untouched when you really think about it.
However, we must also be careful not to speculate about something we simply don’t have answers for. The UAPTF will produce a report on such extreme technology, potentially giving hypothetical considerations to the origin, the applied energy source, and further recommendations for a fully established UAP program that is fully funded under the recently created branch of Space Force. (This is not something that has been told to me, but something I could imagine happening).
But most importantly, the UAPTF will produce a report that manages people’s understanding and perception of the phenomenon.
As for more evidence, there is expected to be more information incoming (such as the famous 2019 Black Triangle case), maybe more data from the USS Nimitz or USS Roosevelt encounters, but whether that information is officially released - or leaked - is still a matter of debate. Having briefly spoke to various people (Defense Journalists, Intelligence Officials, Researchers) earlier this year who have a working knowledge of the American classification system, one common theme is continuous amongst them. Leaking classified information is serious and highly illegal. Even leaking something which is on a classified server (regardless of if the videos/photo is classified) is illegal, and is not something the intelligence community tolerates. After all governments need to be able to keep their secrets, and issues of national security need to be kept secret for specific reasons. This raises another misconception issue amongst the general public, often misunderstanding classification for conspiracy. The UAP secrecy issue is legal and therefore not a conspiracy as such. Just classified.
And this is where activism goes into play. UAP activism is essential to progression thinking, it takes hidden information and makes people aware. And it has been effective in supporting programs such as the UAPTF to help Western society understand the dynamics of the perceived anomalous phenomenon.
Various UAP activism initiatives have even caught the eye of those working with/alongside the UAPTF and SSCI, most notably, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and former Staff Director of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Christopher Mellon. The two standout organisations, ‘The Big Phone Home’ and ‘End UAP Secrecy’ has pushed government personnel and media organisations to take seriously the testimony of Senators, Congresspeople, Fmr. Directors within DOD agencies, Pilots, Officers and Intelligence Agents.
Fmr. Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, in response to a question asked by Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, Friday, 19th March 2021. Thanks to Danny Silva (@SilvaRecord) for the graphic.
Needless to say, the individuals who are working to responsibly bring unclassified, sensitive information out into the public sphere as part of a controlled process have an interest with ensuring any activism efforts are done in a way which benefits national security rather than dismantles it. As you might imagine, a slow process allows society to absorb information in a way which understands the nature of the phenomenon and why governments acted (or didn’t act) in certain ways over the past seventy years. My own interest comes from ensuring this process is strengthened and not hindered. Unclassified UAP information must be pushed into the public sphere to improve understanding about what these anomalous objects are and are not. And whilst the UAP/UFO issue may pose a threat, it is important that people don’t panic on the face of what is coming.
