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Toronto [ZNN] As reported by the Washington Post, the Pentagon late in December 2017 acknowledged they had investigated UFOs from 2007 to 2012 with funds obtained from the US Senate. Pentagon officials indicated to the Washington Post that the program ended in 2012.
We now learn this was and is not the case at all.
In a New York Post article today by Steven Greenstreet - he was told by Department of Defence spokesman Christopher Sherwood that although DoD said it shut down the Advance Ariel Threat Identification Program (AATIP) in 2012 - Sherwood acknowledged that the department still investigates claimed sightings of alien spacecraft.
Sherwood went on to say, “The Department of Defense is always concerned about maintaining positive identification of all aircraft in our operating environment, as well as identifying any foreign capability that may be a threat to the homeland,”
This reversal - or as many in the UFO research community may describe as a 'walking-back' of earlier claims that AATIP had been terminated - ultimately confirms the suspicions of former AATIP Program Director Luis Elizondo's previously expressed sentiments that this program was still in operation.
The NY Post article now confirms Elizondo's suspicions.
ZNN reported earlier that the US Navy is now allowing pilots to freely report their UFO sightings and interactions without impunity or the once strictly-enforced disciplinary measures for speaking out.
The results of this? These statements by the Pentagon and the US Navy that allow open discussions about policy changes to the UFO matter are setting off alarm bells within other military agencies.
These new admissions on UFOs are critically important in two ways.
First - two of the top US military agencies have now clearly acknowledged UFO investigations and concerns about the origin of UFOs as being off-planet.
Speculation and possible internal judgements are now prevalent among military officials that UFO sightings may now be interpreted as affecting the National Security of the United States.
This conclusion is the result of pilot observations that the unexplained objects display unknown and highly advanced technologies, speeds and flight characteristics. One of the pilots involved in the first US Navy acknowledged engagement with UFOs is on record as saying these craft are not our technology.
Secondly, the US Air Force - because of the acknowledgement of UFOs as a concern, will undoubtedly be forced to revise its long standing contention.
From investigating UFO reports since 1948, the United States Air Force has concluded that:
"No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security;
There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological developments or principles beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge; and
There was no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial vehicles."
These three conclusions are now not only in question and in complete contradiction to the revised positions on UFOs by the US Navy and the US Pentagon but - even the most casual observer would conclude that the US Air Force is stridently and irresponsibly maintaining a thread-bare political position from the 14th century that viewed the Earth as the centre of the solar system.
"Since the termination of Project Blue Book, nothing has occurred that would support a resumption of UFO investigations by the Air Force. Given the current environment of steadily decreasing defense budgets, it is unlikely the Air Force would become involved in such a costly project in the foreseeable future."
This USAF statement demonstrates beyond any doubt that the United States Air Force is seriously out-of-step with its military partners.
How and when the USAF will re-think and revise its position is of valid concern to many in the US government. ZNN also wonders if these questions will ever be addressed by the current administration in the White House.
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE BY THE NY POST: HERE
ANOTHER REFERENCED ARTICLE: HERE
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