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May 21, 2022Liked by Billy Cox

So, I caught up on my DVR'ed shows last night and watched the two-part Nova on the Dinosaur Apocalypse (very good) and it struck me that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit exactly in the right spot on the earth to bring about their demise. That's when it struck me. What if They have been around for hundreds of millions of years and maybe They decided the dino experiment had run ran its course. Maybe They and decided it was time to see what those mammals could do and sent the asteroid straight into the Yucatan area where the soil is heavy in sulfur at the right angle? If the asteroid hit in the Atlantic or Pacific it would have been bad but it wouldn't have killed them off. Just a thought......

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"McDonald and fellow transparency advocates never got a return invitation to extend that one-day conversation."

Instead Dr. McDonald was suicided for his advocacy.

A lesson which I am sure is not lost on many of the denizens up on capitol hill.

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Great article Billy. I think we need congress to give money to academia to solve this enigma. Let's treat it just like we do global warming or our development of space travel. Congress should provide funding to study the phenomenon. This takes out the national security issue and analysis will be done with equipment designed to detect UAP rather than the military method which relies on happenstance, the chance that someone captures some information, and the hope that it doesn't get buried in a morass of national security concerns.

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May 16, 2022·edited May 17, 2022Liked by Billy Cox

On March 21 numerous witnesses in several states of the US Midwest observed and shot video of a glowing cigar shaped UFO passing overhead. The same or similar object was seen on the same day by the live cams on the International Space Station, recorded by a few stalwart observers of the daily feed. It was not the Starlink satellites.

Curiously, in his latest post Chris Mellon wonders if the upcoming hearing will address UAP presence in space. That's an issue NASA can answer, but has so far been in the background of this entire issue.

Thanks to their live feed TV broadcasts, numerous viewers have watched anomalous objects fly past the ISS, without comment from NASA.

The next push from Congress ought to be at NASA. They have seen and know more than anyone can imagine, including interactions with ET's during Shuttle missions.

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I don't know if these hearings will move the ball down the field. I believe the Phenomena controls everything, giving us a peek here and there but we never get to see who's behind the curtain. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some incredible, world-wide display of their power someday (something like the adaptation of Childhood's End mini-series) and then silence for decades. If They are what Jacque Vallee theorize we are just spectators.

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Hearings have a role to play. Back in the late 1970's my nuclear missile crew commander, an engineer by training told me a story. We were on alert at a Minuteman III site in ND. His story was that as a missile maintenance officer, a duty he had prior to operations, he was at a site to perform duty when he encountered grey aliens. Do they exist, likely they do? Do they have understanding and applications of science that we do not, likely? Are they brighter then we are, probably? Are we similar to the South American natives who literally could not perceive masted ships as they were outside their world view? Possibly. They likely understand magnetism better than we do.

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I assumed that Congress would be talking to subject matter experts, not political appointees (or are they high level bureaucrats?)

In reality, Congress will be asking questions of guys who have been briefed by the SMEs right? What could possibly go wrong; especially as it's doubtful that UAPTF had people qualified enough to be SMEs in all of the necessary areas.

Hoffman is right about the importance of analyses, but if the Aguadilla case provided cast-iron proof of an object moving in and out of the water (and not just the appearance of such on a compressed video format copied from the original), then why isn't that analysis being reviewed by someone with the relevant knowledge and skills? Given the significance, one would think that a second opinion can only make it all the stronger.

I suppose one should really say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary corroboration. (When does theory become proof?)

If the government or military enter the game again and by some miracle keep the public informed, then any results will require extraordinarily stringent checking before being announced as evidence of non-human tech (which is what we're all hoping for).

Unfortunately, analytical battles don't make for good TV and the people looking at the data won't make a public appearance. Chris Mellon might hope for a UAP version of SOCOM at the Pentagon, but scientific enquiry doesn't proceed like a tactical mission; you have to give people the right tools and let them get on with it in their own way and then face public peer review.

(And that's ignoring the problem that if we're dealing with non-human tech then it's not so much scientific enquiry as it is a criminal investigation - and is anyone prepared to prepare for that possibility at this point?)

What was it that Churchill said about the end of the beginning? Nowhere near it yet.

McDonald carried out personal investigations of a very high calibre that informed his opinion, but even he wasn't put in the position of obtaining empirical data that stood by itself. We may have amazing technology these days, but it's easy to forget that sophisticated tools introduce their own complications when not under laboratory conditions.

Unless Congress is prepared to abandon all pretence and admit that they want a project to look for evidence of non-human tech, then all we'll get is explanations or admissions of something remaining unidentified - until they are satisfied it's not Russian or Chinese (or they do find something of Russian or Chinese origin).

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