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It's not the best news, but a great start for our government officials to demand transparency, attention, and coverage about this subject. Far too long, the government and mainstream media have been dubbing people "crazy" and "conspiracy theorists" for witnessing and experiencing UFO encounters. There is nothing worse people can do than make others feel crazy, especially knowing that this is a real phenomenon. I believe this is a step in the right direction, even though it is more than likely that the military-industrial complex and secret agencies already know about who and what they are and why they are interested in humankind. DKH

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Dec 2, 2021Liked by Billy Cox

“‘I don’t see a reason for them to coexist,’ Powell says. ‘Congress needs to make the decision. Congress needs to say, we will ultimately support the organization that controls the information for dissemination to the public.’”

I wholeheartedly agree with Robert Powell.

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It appears that after Lacatski's experience at Skinwalker ranch, he approached Reid to obtain funding for a contracted-out project that was aimed directly at ranch owner Bigelow. A very tight group. Who else at the DIA was interested, or read the reports? Because when AAWSAP ended no one at the enormous DIA was apparently interested and Lacatski approached the DHS.

AAWSAP spawned AATIP (although the latter has no evidence for its existence except for Elizondo's pronouncements) and AATIP appears to have been used by the TTSA crowd to create a front page story for the press: "AATIP, a $22M (oops wrong project!) Government UFO study"; which garnered political interest, as it appears to have been designed to do; culminating in Gillibrand's amendment (words/plan provided by Christopher Mellon.)

... which, in turn, is being headed off at the pass by the DoD's AOIMSG response.

AAWSAP's main contribution appears to have been the identification of a hitchhiker-type psi phenomenon that behaves like a contagious agent. But as far as UFO/UAP studies go, the two sides in this battle are jockeying for position before any military UFO/UAP investigations start for real.

Follow the virtual money. What's the cost of Gillibrand's proposition, compared to the DoD's AOIMSG? Will the politicians prefer to offload the UFO problem to the DoD for free, or pay for a new body to oversee and manage data from organisations that would choose to shave their eyeballs before sharing?

Money+Political_Will kick-started the Superconducting Super Collider, which was eventually cancelled due to costs - and that was a project asking questions we wanted answers to. How long will the politicians back UAP studies before the psi side (and physical 'impossibilities') have them running for cover?

Apparently psi is real, and some UAP appear to be non-human tech. But these actual realities don't mesh well with virtual political realities.

However this ends, this entire episode in our UFO history needs to be remembered, and understood.

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Once again I'm reminded of the recurring PEANUTS panels in which Lucy is holding a football on the ground for Charlie Brown to kick. At the last moment she pulls it away, causing him to fly into the air and crash on his backside. Will he / we ever learn?

The game is afoot, and I suspect the USAF - at the highest levels - played a significant role in advocating for AOIMSG.

Someone is hell-bent on controlling the narrative - a very restricted narrative.

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Dec 1, 2021Liked by Billy Cox

Robert Powell is sorta like screen name "Freeman"

He asks a lotta good questions

Let's hope that Congress goes with only ASTRO

Kathleen Hicks simply takes her marching orders from the Pentagon.. who prefers the status quo

Tom Rogin of the Washington wrote a good OP- ED a few days ago regarding this as well

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