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Maybe I missed it, but in all the copy I've read in the mainstream news media about Harry Reid since his passing, not one mentioned AATIP and/or Reid's important role in moving the UFO transparency football downfield many yards. The least WE can do is give the guy some credit for the measure of improvement he helped institute.

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You didn't miss it. Big media dropped the ball.

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The Corona dress rehearsal was a success. So it's time to start preparing for the run on Broadway.

"NASA Enlists Priests To Assess How The World Would React To Alien Life"

https://timenewsdesk.com/2021/12/nasa-enlists-priests-to-assess-how-the-world-would-react-to-alien-life/

"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is recruiting priests and theologians to assess how the world’s major religions would react to the news of discovering extraterrestrial life and advise the agency on how to quell civil unrest upon the revelation.

The agency has enlisted 24 religious experts to develop protocols for the discovery of alien life in its Center for Theological Inquiry program at Princeton University in New Jersey.

NASA provided CTI with a $1.1 million grant to create the program devoted to researching “the societal implications of astrobiology” in 2015.

According to its website, CTI “builds bridges of understanding by convening theologians, scientists, scholars and policymakers to think together — and inform public thinking — on global concerns."

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NASA is a two-headed beast. One head is the newbies who have no clue about the extraordinary secrets sequestered somewhere in its vaults. They want to give the appearance of doing SOMETHING about this UAP bidness. The other head is the secret keepers. They are militantly hiding decades of irrefutable evidence of ET visitations. Woe betide the whistleblower!

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Thanks for writing sir. My memories were stumbling across Lue Elizondo's first talk at TTSA with Tom introducing these gallant people. Wow, I thought, this is real and open. Previously, John Mack's "Abduction" rocked me when it came out but I also looked around Amazon for stuff. Then Jacques Vallee, John Alexander, Richard Haines, some of the best. Personally, I had an experience abroad alone at night in a house in a village, a buzzing, vibrating, bright light and paralyzing affair in 2009 which seemed to involve a levitation while on my back twice. A sliding window was partially open I was lying next to. Then it just shut off. Got the feeling I was tested and selected but maybe rejected, ha, ha. Don't know, but something came that summer night.

Ok, so now it's official and scientists, it seems, can openly study this. The "Science Plan" part in the final Bill just passed is just quite correct, "a science plan to develop and test, as practicable, scientific theories to (1) account for characteristics and performance of unidentified aerial phenomena that exceed the known state of the art in science or technology" [part quote].

Does this mean whoever "they" are, who've known of all this for decades of course, is stumped scientifically and has been for this time. If this is being pushed somehow now is it because it's thought present physics (standard model of particle physics, quantum physics, relativity, multiple dimensions, materials science) has sufficient scope to help out? Then the Bill says, "provide the foundation for potential future investments to replicate any such advanced characteristics and performance." So that's to do with going A -> B very fast.

I wonder has this to do with the global warming crisis (maybe unique to us idiots on Earth who dig and burn dead fossils) and now trying to develop a technology to get to another world outside the Solar System. I mean, these are really, really first steps. Maybe it always starts this way with a beginning alien civilization because these "others" would be on their planet too. Avi Loeb's "smart kids on the block" poking around in a civilization's development? Do they poke? I mean, didn't the children at the school in Zimbabwe that John Mack investigated get messages from the aliens about us ruining the planet? Saying all this I'm very, very confused though. I read the latest Skinwalker/Pentagon book and that opens up a real mess. Who studies that? The paranormal? And in relation to this, I loved the bit too about Fravor and the CAP point. I mean, the Tic Tac knew the CAP point! Heavens above.

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In this field, we're all children, Alan.

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I am, we are. I have great hopes actually but that's down a long timeline. :-)

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Dec 17, 2021Liked by Billy Cox

Grinch warning (do not read if optimistic)

This whole thing kicked off with a small group of apparently highly motivated individuals seeking answers. But this has to be weighed against the forces of inertia: Do the politicians want answers, or just to look like they are doing something to find answers? Do the Pentagon inhabitants want a piece of this, or is it detrimental to climbing the greasy pole? (Do elements within the Pentagon want to maintain secrecy?) Are military assets going to be directed by a scientific board of enquiry, or are the scientists (if any) going to be limited to a few unclassified scraps of information?

We need a white-hat MJ-12 type group actively in charge and with top tier clearances, in order to get anywhere at all; because they need to focus on the most anomalous, high-confidence cases. The military is great at blowing things up. Scientific enquiry is not their strong point.

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Dec 18, 2021Liked by Billy Cox

The follow the money fly in the UAPx ointment:

"UAPx received funding from 3rd parties for the expeditions. The funding came with imposed restrictions on data release in exchange for fully financing the expeditions."

A) Who provided the funding?

B) Why did the funders impose restrictions on releasing the data?

"UAPx expects full transparency and the expiration of these restrictions sometime between March and June 2022."

If you expect in one hand, and shit in the other, guess which one fills up the fastest?

Just as the money people will decide the "expiration of these restrictions", the money will also determine what constitutes "full transparency".

Just another "WTF?!".. waiting to happen. I smell a Bobby Bigelow meta materials nothing burger sizzling in a bank vault.

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That sounds odd. I wonder what someone thinks they can gain by seeing the data ahead of everyone else by a few months.

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Isn't that the team that was planning to go to an island off California, before being stopped by Covid? Sounds very promising and could produce some very interesting results.

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Yup, these are some of the outspoken sailors from the Tic Tac incident. They're partnered up with SCU, so their material should have quite a bit of integrity.

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Dec 18, 2021Liked by Billy Cox

Righto! Initially, yes. But they moved their operation to the American Southwest, which they determined is a hotspot for UFO activity. Their latest announcement claims unprecedented multiple sensory data of UAP, which they said they will release once all analyses are complete.

Of course, it will all be ground based data. What I find curious is no one dug deeper into former Trump DNI Radcliffe's statement in March that UFO's have been "picked up by satellite imagery." He didn't elaborate, but I think he meant satellites that form part of the ICBM early warning system, which have been deployed for decades. That's a whole new aspect in the ballgame, man. Space based platforms have been recording UAP - entering and/or leaving the atmosphere?

Someone more experienced than me ought to be looking into this, perhaps calling in some chips.

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Billy it appears that Robert Powell and his coalition has been excluded from offering input, which also tells me that high-ranking military officials don't desire a true scientific investigation from civilians. Not that the Army had any problem with the CRADA agreement to analyze exotic meta materials in conjunction with the TTSA....... I don't get it

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Buckle up, Joeschmoe, this is just the beginning. Before we go on a crusade to get the Keystone Cops together in the same car, the smarter move would be for lawmakers to declassify the AAWSAP-BAASS files now collecting dust in the DIA. Let's see what we've already got first, right? More than 200,000 UAP cases on file? Really? And nobody's talking about it? How about calling James Lacatski to testify in an open hearing?

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OK, so how the movers and shakers get this to proceed in the right direction and even review this from a retroactive, rather than a prospective position ?. Hey!! maybe George Knapp can push a few buttons as well

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Starting immediately after the New Year all the majority of movers and shakers will be solely focused on is trying to get re-elected next November so that they can continue to pad their bank accounts with ill-gotten gains.

The UFO topic won't even get a backseat to that goal when ordinary working class people are paying 20% more for food at the grocery store.

But if the fascist totalitarians run out of corona variant capital they may decide to pull a UFO/ET false flag Rabbit out of their hat in order to get the chickenshits with no critical thinking skills back in line.

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Excellent, Billy! Sure, it's not a "ding-dong the witch is dead!" development, but I think a few congress members will be keeping a close eye on AOIMSG, especially some of those who received the UAP task force classified briefing.

One small step for a man... One giant leap for... well, we'll have to wait longer for that one.

Happy Holidays.

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The whole thing pivots on sustaining constituents' interest. This is bipartisan now because it requires no expenditure of political capital. How long before it degenerates into tribalism? Keep those phone calls and emails coming, folks.

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Eh??? So the Gillibrand amendment (ASTRO) didn't make the cut?

Have any of the UFO transparency advocates/ activists pursued the reason for denial of consideration in addressing the amendment??..The original acronym name was already referred to as a return to the previous way of doing business leaving the Pentagon in charge of the data and controlling the narrative..This sounds like deep state subterfuge with the usual covert operatives working behind the scenes, to fit their comfort zone.. .According to Elizondo, in responding to questions by a journalist named Gadi Schwartz, 180 days is insufficient time to release data because of the immense bureaucracy. at play..What am I missing here ???

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More like 180 days to edit and delete data prior to release.

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Yep..I cannot exalt over this development. The Pentagon will figure or has already found the means to keep the issue under wraps. Once again begs the question: Who were the "insiders" with the savvy and wherewithal, who gained the control to either sabotage or quash the amendment.. Sorry, but I can envision the Congressional Reps with their current ostensible rhetoric to simply table the matter.... while the issue goes away for another ...50 years.. Mellon and Elizondo have done all they can pointing out the threat part, but neither most of our elected officials or the majority of news media could care less. There's bigger but more sensational controversial topics more important to publish and politic over

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"This is the bureaucracy that, according to Pentagon whistleblower Luis Elizondo and former OUSD(I&S) Chris Mellon, is unqualified to handle these chores and have actively resisted outsider scrutiny."

I would be very interested to read a detailed explanation from LE and Mellon that clearly defines

"outsider" and "scrutiny"?

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Dec 16, 2021Liked by Billy Cox

Helluva column, Billy. Merry Christmas. We surely can hope.

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