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reading citizens and welcome to unknown

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I'm Jason McClellan thanks for hanging

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out with me newly proposed legislation

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would require US intelligence agencies

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and the Department of Defense to

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assemble a report providing a picture of

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the current UFO situation how would that

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work and what does that even mean

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let's talk about it today

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this story first grabbed my attention

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with a tweet posted by a political

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journalist Brian bender just after 11:00

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p.m. Pacific time on Monday June 22nd

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the tweet states quote Senate

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Intelligence Committee wants a

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government-wide report in 180 days on

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UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomenon

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as they are now called and it wants it

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to be unclassified this is a big deal

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Congress stepping in to force unified

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and public reporting in quote this post

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included a photo showing a portion of

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the document the apparent source of what

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mr. bender was referring to at 11:42

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p.m. he followed up that tweet with

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another this time with a link to the

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full document a Senate Intelligence

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Committee markup of the fiscal 2021

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intelligence authorization bill on

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Tuesday June 23rd to the stars Academy

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of Arts and Science or T TSA started

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tweeting about the story at 9:04 a.m.

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stating quote in May 2019 t TSA posted

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proposed draft language by Chris Mullin

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for Congress to take action and just

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last week the Senate Select Committee on

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Intelligence incorporated his

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long-standing suggestion to require the

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Intelligence Committee to do a full

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written unclassified assessment of the u

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AP issue in quote Chris Mullin started

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tweeting about this as well at 9:25 a.m.

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he tweeted a link to the full document

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along with the message quote

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congratulations to the Senator Marco

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Rubio and the Senate Intelligence

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Committee and staff for requiring the

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executive branch to at long last

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evaluate you ap in the interest of

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national security and our dedicated

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military personnel unquote Chris Mullin

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is a former United States deputy

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assistant secretary of defense for

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intelligence and he currently serves as

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the chairman of the scientific and

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national security policy advisory board

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at to the stars Academy of Arts and

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Science before Chris started posting on

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Twitter about this news Tom DeLonge tts

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A's co-founder

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was understandably excited by this news

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and he tweeted quote to the stars has

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done it again Chris Mullin was able to

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get unidentified aerial phenomenon

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language inserted into the Senate Select

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Committee on Intelligence Authorization

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Act for fiscal year 2021 end quote

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then at 11:13 a.m. Pacific still on

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Tuesday June 23rd Brian bender published

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a story on Politico titled quote

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senators want the public to see the

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government's UFO reports in quote that

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started a stream of coverage for

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world ok so that paints a little picture

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of this story unfolding now let's get

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into the document at the center of all

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this attention

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this draft intelligence Authorization

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Act for fiscal year 2021 was submitted

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by Senator Marco Rubio on June 17th on

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behalf of the Senate Select Committee on

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Intelligence the bill contains a section

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titled advanced aerial threats here's

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what it says quote the committee

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supports the efforts of the unidentified

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aerial phenomenon task force at the

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Office of Naval Intelligence to

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standardize collection and reporting on

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unidentified aerial phenomenon any links

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they have to adverse aerial foreign

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governments and the threat they pose to

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US military assets and installations

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however the committee remains concerned

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that there is no unified comprehensive

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process within the federal government

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for collecting and analyzing

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intelligence on unidentified aerial

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phenomena despite the potential threat

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the committee understands that the

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relevant intelligence may be sensitive

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the information sharing and coordination

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across the intelligence community has

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been inconsistent and this issue has

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lacked attention from senior leaders

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therefore the committee directs the DNI

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Defense and the heads of such other

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agencies as the director and secretary

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report within 180 days of the date of

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the act to the congressional

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vehicles including observed airborne

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unquote the committee includes a list

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detailing exactly what they want

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aerial phenomena data and intelligence

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force number two a detailed analysis of

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unidentified phenomena data collected by

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intrusions of unidentified aerial

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States airspace number four a detailed

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description of an interagency process

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centralized analysis of all unidentified

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aerial phenomena reporting for the

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federal government regardless of which

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service or agency acquired the

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aerospace or other threats posed by the

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unidentified aerial phenomena to

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phenomena activity may be attributed to

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patterns that indicate a potential

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forces at risk and number eight

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collection of data enhanced research and

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classified form but may include a

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classified annex in quote Wow pretty

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elements here that we can pull out and

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that unidentified aerial phenomena task

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force name-drop this is new I mean last

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month researcher John Greenwald brought

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attention to statements obtained by

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spokesperson Susan Gogh who stated that

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ongoing in quote multi-agency meaning

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the first realization of a current UFO

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the name of this task force it's

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mentioned by name twice in this bill but

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first mention calls it the unidentified

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aerial phenomenon task force whereas the

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second mention calls it the unidentified

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variation there between phenomenon and

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phenomena what does that mean likely

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inconsistently in the UFO community so

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the same issue outside the UFO community

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time when I work at the UFO media

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company open minds when others would

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inconsistencies with how the name of the

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production with no sk2 dumb I know but

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that's what it was so understandably the

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name was routinely written as open minds

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story where it was correctly written as

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phenomena task force we won't know until

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related to the Pentagon's a chip program

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revealed task force is this UAP task

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force the current version of a tip you

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about the Pentagon's advanced aerospace

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threat identification program the

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official word was that the program ended

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exposing the program's existence a

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former director of the program Lewis

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Pentagon's UFO program never ended

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task force input well this makes it

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on that issue soon on Thursday June 25th

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t TSA announced that it would host a

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special podcast with Chris Mullin and

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Luis Elizondo on the topic of the new

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bill so that's probably a great place to

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get more clarification and insight from

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these key players involved with a story

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the episode you're currently listening

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to was published on Monday June 29th and

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T TSA said their podcast episode would

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drop this week so depending on when

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you're listening to this it might

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already be out so look for that if

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you're interested another element of the

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intelligence Authorization Act for

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fiscal year 2021 worth discussing for a

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minute is the real guts of the request a

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detailed analysis of UFO data and

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reports from the Office of Naval

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Intelligence the u AP task force and the

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FBI who knows what kind of things will

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be in that report who knows how long the

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O&I has been collecting UFO reports and

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data we don't even know when the u AP

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task force began and the seemingly

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random inclusion of the FBI in this

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request is interesting I mean the

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request explains that the specific FBI

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information in question comes from quote

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investigations of intrusions of

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unidentified aerial phenomena data over

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restricted United States airspace

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unquote

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now I'm just guessing here but I assume

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they mean investigations of U ApS over

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restricted airspace not investigations

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of UAP data over restricted airspace as

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it says that's probably a typo but

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regardless the FBI's been in the UFO

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game for a long time including keeping

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tabs on UFO researchers as weird as that

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sounds but yeah the inclusion of the FBI

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in this request as opposed to other

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groups like the Air Force or even the

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CIA is curiously specific and makes it

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seem like the committee is looking to

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paint a specific picture in the report

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it's requested the focus is obviously on

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military most likely with an in-game of

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justifying a military funding request

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if this were really about getting a full

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picture of the current UFO su or a

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genuine attempt to get to the bottom of

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the UFO issue there would be additional

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information and participation requested

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from organizations like the FAA and

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procedures for civilian UFO reporting

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would be requested but that's not the

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case here this only focuses on the DoD

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the Navy and the FBI with specific

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wording limited to incidents over

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restricted airspace

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even Chris Mullins and TT SAS public

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comments about this are focused on the

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military quote the potential threat it

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poses to our men and women in uniform in

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quote and quote in the interest of

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national security and our dedicated

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military personnel in quote something

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this request makes abundantly clear is

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something we've known all along and

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that's the absolute mess that exists

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when it comes to interagency information

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sharing it's a cluster there is no

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centralized ufo-related data system for

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the federal government and that's

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something this committee hopes to change

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when we step back from the details of

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the intelligence Authorization Act for

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fiscal year 2021 what do we think we'll

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get out of this well based on some of

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the ridiculous headlines about this

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story and seeing the response from many

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who clamor for government disclosure

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related to UFOs they were more than a

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few people who think acknowledgement of

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government-held extraterrestrial

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technology and knowledge of intelligent

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extraterrestrials is coming I wouldn't

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hold my breath there but many others are

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expecting this exercise to result in a

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landmark public release of

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government-held UFO information and

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that's definitely possible but it's a

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long road for that outcome to be

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actualized first this assumes that the

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mention groups or agencies possess

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worthwhile information and that they

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want to share that information with the

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committee second although the

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instructions state that the report will

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be submitted in unclassified form it's

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at their discretion to put information

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in a quote classified annex --an quote

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so the public might not see anything

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noteworthy at all aside from the usual

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government UFO documents were used to

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seeing these days featuring a few

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summaries of fighter pilots seeing and

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attempting to engage strange things in

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the sky and finally that's if there's a

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report at all this bill still has a long

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road ahead the bill was introduced in

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the Senate on June 8th and reported on

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June 17th it still has to be voted on in

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the Senate if it passes there then it

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has to pass in the house if it passes

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there then it has to be signed by the

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president before becoming law if all of

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those things happen then the UAP task

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force and others have 180 days to

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assemble the requested report so

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whatever information we the public will

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see from this exercise it's still pretty

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far out oh and not that it means

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but Scopus Labs a company that uses AI

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to predict policy outcomes currently has

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this bill listed at a 49 percent chance

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of being enacted I wouldn't put too much

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stock into that however just something

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interesting I noticed if we look at

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previous assessments of the UFO

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situation conducted by the US government

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the results haven't been that great for

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people wanting some juicy UFO secrets in

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fact they're almost never good for the

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UFO community the Air Force's Project

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Blue Book and the Air Force funded

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Condon report the CIA's Robertson panel

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these things almost always result in the

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government essentially saying UFOs

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not really anything to this yeah there's

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some strange stuff in the sky but we can

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identify most of it and the stuff we

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can't we probably could if we cared to

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look more but it's not a matter of

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national security so no official

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statements like this diminish the UFO

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topic and the eyes of the public and

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well you can see how a seemingly

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positive thing can turn negative pretty

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quickly and looking specifically at the

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US Senate there have been plenty of

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Senators interested in the UFO topic

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Barry Goldwater is a well known example

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he was a firm believer in intelligent

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extraterrestrial life and he was also of

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the opinion that the government

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investigates UFOs and keeps that

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information secret from the public

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he actively attempted to get information

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related to the subject but was

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unsuccessful because the military

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informed him that the information he was

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requesting was top-secret

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then there's former Senate Majority

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Leader Harry Reid who along with two

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other senators spearheaded the advanced

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aerospace weapons systems application

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program the precursor to the advanced

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aerospace threat identification program

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these are programs instigated by

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senators and yet we the public didn't

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get any of this information in fact

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we're lucky we have the little

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information about these programs that we

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do Harry Reid wanted a tip to be more

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hidden than it was he wanted it moved to

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a special access program making the

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information more hidden not more public

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we also know that the Defense

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Intelligence Agency provided information

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from the ATF program to several members

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of both the Senate and the house

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including the late John McCain the

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majority and minority leaders and

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several committees so the Senate and

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Congress as a whole or not completely in

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the dark when it comes to UFOs it's also

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been demonstrated that it doesn't matter

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how many times they ask the military

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will disclose what it wants to disclose

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it's great to see UFOs mentioned in the

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Senate record and it's always good to

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see discussions about this topic taking

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place at the highest levels but again

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historically public knowledge hasn't

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benefited from these exercises and in

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some cases the legitimacy of the UFO

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subject has been negatively affected

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let's hope that isn't what happens with

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this latest effort I don't know what if

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anything the public will see from all

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this at the very least I hope the

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committee is able to implement a

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centralized reporting process and an

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appropriate individual or a group to

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oversee that monumental task then maybe

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one day the government will have

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something worthwhile to share with the

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public until they get their in

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order they aren't appropriately equipped

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to know anything let alone share

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revelatory information with the world

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McClellan do us a favor friends always

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treat the UFO subject with the cautious

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and responsible skepticism it deserves

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question everything had the courage to

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form your own opinions keep truth as the

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