Clinking a glass to today’s milestone of bipartisanship: The appearance of democracy getting a break after nearly four generations of military intelligence resistance to opening the books on UFOs is better than no appearance at all. The moments that shape who and what we’ve become can take years to assume full stature, but sometimes the details linger, waiting for proportion to catch up. My backyard neighbor, eyes fixed on the catastrophe blossoming across the immediate sky, placing the microphone to the cancer hole in his throat and issuing a pronouncement filtered through an electronic and otherworldly monotone: “I think the space shuttle just blew up.” A newborn daughter’s first screech and the snip of the umbilical scissors in the launch of a fresh adventure. The slant of the late afternoon light through the kitchen window when Mom calls from 650 miles away to say her diagnosis is terminal.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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
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.
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 ???
"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
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.
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."
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.
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.
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
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.
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 ???
"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"?
Helluva column, Billy. Merry Christmas. We surely can hope.