“US Senators want the public to see the government's UFO reports” - Politico
Press Release for Immediate Distribution
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| SENATOR MARCO RUBIO |
Toronto [ZNN] An unprecedented narrative has begun to unfold among influential US Senators about the subject of UFOs - spearheaded by the Chairman and Vice Chair of the powerful Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Although the general public by and large remains blissfully ignorant of the UFO phenomenon, many are indeed well aware of the many storylines within American politics.
Remarkably the two mutually exclusive narratives have cross paths.
The new UFO narrative began with the unexpected release of UFO videos in December 2017 by the US Navy. The US Pentagon’s public verification of those videos subsequently ignited intense political discussion about UFOs within the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. And it is within this intermix that this storyline now resonates for the blissfully ignorant as well as an astounded UFO research community.
THE POLITICAL MIX - NO OVERSIGHT
According to Politico’s Bryan Bender, three Senators had already been briefed on the UFO matter a year ago. One of those Senators was Virginia Democrat Senator Mark Warner.
It has since come to light that the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Marco Rubio and Vice Chair Senator Mark Warner - were concerned there was no comprehensive process within the US federal government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena.
Thus this statement;
“The Senate Intelligence Committee has voted to require U.S. intelligence agencies and the Defense Department [emphasis ZNN] to compile a detailed public analysis of all data collected on ‘unidentified aerial phenomenon,’ including intrusions recorded by Navy pilots in recent years.” [Politico]
This unusual requirement by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to compel US defence agencies to collect UFO data is not only extraordinary in its implications but the Committee’s requirement blends politics and the UFO issue as never before.
HOW DID THIS ALL GET STARTED?
The political explosion of interest in UFOs began when the US Senate approved $22 million in funding for a UFO Pentagon research program known as AATIP, Advanced Aerial Threat Investigation Program that ran from 2007 to 2012. Then former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senators Daniel Inouye and Ted Stevens procured the funds.
“For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials… It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.” (NY Times).
The Senate-funded Pentagon UFO research program (AATIP) has set the stage for what has turned out to be a new flash point of interest among politicians and UFO Disclosure advocates.
Ironically the narrative initiated by Senators Reid, Inouye and Stevens over 13 years ago has now been re-ignited by two other concerned Senators - Rubio and Warner.
That this new narrative is once again before the Senate and, that it is of substantial historical and political significance, should be of no surprise to the alert follower of the UFO Disclosure process. The politics of UFO disclosure is not new – however it has recently evolved into a more nuanced political, military and technological narrative with far reaching implications for our future.
This new narrative is producing entirely revised modes of reasoning about what appears to be going on in our skies that we are not
being told about.
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- What are these vehicles that come and go with impunity in our airspace?
- Where are they from?
- How does the military attempt to explain that they do not have control of their own airspace as well as non-military airspace?
- Who or what might be piloting these craft?
- What types of propulsion systems allow these craft to out manoeuvre and out pace our most sophisticated jets?
- Do these craft and the civilizations they may represent constitute a threat to us?
- Why has this situation been kept secret for over seventy years?
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DISCLOSURE – A BRIEF HISTORY
Unacknowledged but penetrating UFO disclosure activities reach as far back as 1993 within the Clinton White House.
An initiative during President Clinton’s administration, called The Rockefeller Initiative, revealed a dramatic configuration of correspondence, letters, faxes, dates, renowned individuals, meetings and events - all of which eventually landed on the desks of the President of the United States, his Chief of Staff and the First Lady for a minimum of three years in the mid 1990s.
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| John Podesta |
The highlight of this configuration of facts proved to be a powerful and sustained disclosure trajectory for former Clinton advisor and Chief of Staff, John Podesta – even to this day. [Podesta statement one - Podesta statement two]
A NEW AVENUE FOR UFO HEARINGS?
What occurred in the White House under Clinton and Podesta from 1993 to 1996 and, compounded now by the current Pentagon/Navy public UFO discourse - may indeed provide a foundation for Congressional hearings similar to the Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, held 52 years ago by the US House of Representatives in July of 1968. This was the last official political exploration of the UFO matter. Even the meagre possibility of UFO Congressional or Senate Intelligence Committee hearings would be riveting for any journalist or politician.
Is this move by Rubio and members of his committee an attempt to begin assembling data and witnesses for hearings on UFOs - a move by elected officials to get to the bottom of the most enigmatic phenomenon in human history?
Is this move by Rubio and members of his committee an attempt to begin assembling data and witnesses for hearings on UFOs - a move by elected officials to get to the bottom of the most enigmatic phenomenon in human history?
Although the impetus created by these previous UFO disclosure events is commendable - the disclosure process advanced by mere millimetres. However, recent disclosure events signal a decidedly focussed political climb into the world of politics and UFOs. And, now that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and it’s Chair Marco Rubio are entwined in the UFO matter, whether we like it or not, it may mean an entirely new political worldview for many. We are reminded that the proposed routine legislation put forward by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021, into which Rubio cleverly inserted a requirement that U.S. intelligence agencies and the Defense Department compile a detailed public analysis of all UFO data, is by no means a routine or mundane addendum.No political figure, committee, agency or even a President has yet been able to create a mandated a legislative position or force of authority to demand any U.S. intelligence agency or the Defense Department to release all data collected on ‘unidentified aerial phenomenon'. In late 1976, President Jimmy Carter tried but was unsuccessful early in his administration in obtaining UFO files from CIA Director George Bush Senior. Bush flatly rejected Carter’s request.
The Last Word
What has Senator Rubio actually accomplished that no other political figure has managed to do with his public stance on the UFO issue? During an Interview with Jim DeFede of CBS4 News Miami, Senator Marco Rubio put it bluntly:
"We have things flying over our military bases and places where we are conducting military exercises and we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours… that’s a legitimate question to ask. There are things flying over your military bases and you don’t know what they are because they’re not yours and they exhibit technologies that you don’t have at your own disposal - that to me is a national security risk - one that we should be looking into." [Washington Examiner]
It doesn’t take a politically alert citizen or a UFO expert to discern that if the Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence are tracking UFOs, there are surely many more in the US Senate or the House of Representatives who may want to do some UFO hunting of their own.
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What to learn more?
Kean and Blumenthal [The blockbuster New York Times article]
Toronto Star - Vinay Menon [Featured TorStar writer]
Kean and Blumenthal [The blockbuster New York Times article]
Toronto Star - Vinay Menon [Featured TorStar writer]
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