It's a Very Exciting Time

We're back is a bit of followup on the recent UAP hearing. In particular a few red flags have been raised that seem to indicate that the DOD is, at best, dragging their feet, and at worst, actively working to sabotage AARO, the UFO office set up at the behest of Congress. In addition to that, we're hearing increasingly specific information about whistleblowers testifying to both AARO and Congress, which raises the question of why Dr. Kirkpatrick said there's no credible evidence. Something doesn't add up here, and it feels like pressure is building. Also, we dub Senator Kirsten Gillibrand "UFO Mama Bear," joining the ranks of Chris "UFO Daddy" Mellon. References Tim McMillan: AARO doesn’t have Title 50 authority. The Debrief: Here Are the Major Takeaways You Missed From the Recent Senate Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Reddit: New letter from US Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio to DOD expressing concerns about NDAA provisions New York Post: Three months after Chinese spy balloon, DoD still hasn’t strengthened UFO analysis office Job posting: AARO Deputy Director Klaus: Job posting states that candidates should have expertise in “foreign material acquisition and exploitation.” Chris Mellon: “I find the testimony of US military personnel in the Nimitz case perfectly credible evidence…” Chris Mellon: “For Dr. Kirkpatrick to claim there is no credible evidence is disingenuous at best.” Garry Nolan: “Anecdotal evidence by credible witnesses… is data.” Garry Nolan: “The extraordinary claims/evidence meme is pretentious nonsense.” Lue Elizondo: “The fact is - I've already spoken to AARO at length.” Liberation Times: Senator Gillibrand Invites UFO Whistleblowers To Share Testimony With Her Office Daily Mail: Six whistleblowers who claim they worked on military UFO programs retrieving and analyzing crash material have come forward to spill their secrets to senior members of congress Reddit: The last five years have spoiled everyone…

For the last several weeks, rumors have been swirling that Congress was upset at the DoD over perceived foot-dragging on the topic of UAP. Sen. Gillibrand was demanding answers about a funding shortfall for the new AARO office, and many Congresspeople seemed frustrated with the lack of clarity from the military around the spy balloon shoot-downs. So when it was announced that a new public UAP hearing would be held soon, the community went wild. Speculation about what would come up in the hearing ranged from persistent rumors of whistleblower testimony about crash retrievals and reverse engineering programs all the way up to overt confirmation of non-human intelligence. In the end, the April 2023 hearing didn't cover any of that, and was more of a status update and view inside operations at AARO. We did get a new UAP video, a revised timeline for the next UAP report, some insight into how AARO investigates UAP cases, and hints of further hearings coming soon. References Sen. Gillibrand, Rubio, letter about AARO funding shortfall Sen. Gillibrand asks DNI Haines about AARO funding Sen Gillibrand asks SecDef Austin about AARO funding Liberation Times: Congress Prepares For UFO Hearings As Frustrations Escalate Among Politicians Liberation Times: Make Or Break Time For Kirkpatrick As UFO Senate Hearing Approaches Reddit: Big news coming soon Dr. Garry Nolan: "within 6 months, insiders will step forward, and that will change things" James Fox: “multiple whistleblowers have testified to AARO and Senate Intel committee that UFO crash retrieval programs exist” Dr. Garry Nolan: “whistleblower testimony is about crash retrieval and contact” USSF MajGen Olson speaks on worldwide UAP sightings Ross Coulthard on Need to Know discussing upcoming hearing Full video of the April 19 Hearing AARO slide on UAP Reporting Trends from 1996-2023 Drone footage of flying metal sphere in the Middle East The Debrief: Senate Hearing on UAP Reveals New Videos and Common Features, but Says No Proof of ET The Debrief: No Evidence of ET? Controversy Erupted After the Senate UAP Hearing. Here’s What the Critics Missed

Buckle up, because we're getting into the weird today! Recently, increasing reports have been emerging from US intelligence and government sources that UFOs may not be aliens, but our own descendants from the far future traveling back in time to avert an impending catastrophe. It's a wild idea, but there's a bit more substance to it than you might think! References Black Vault: USAF Says All Photos / Videos of 2023 Balloon Shootdowns Classified Ross Coulthart: Why the secrecy? Politico: What the Biden administration isn’t telling Congress about spy balloons News Nation: Rep Burchett on new UFO hearings Michael Masters: Identified Flying Objects & The Extratempestrial Model UFO Rabbit Hole: Interview with Michael Masters Ross Coulthart: Theories of Everything interview mentioning future humans Unidentified Celebrity Review: Interview with Franc Milburn Wikipedia: The double-slit experiment NPR: Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible, Researchers Say Quote: Banana Peels and Time Travel Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies The UFO Rabbit Hole: Are UFOs Humans from the Future? Point of Convergence: The case for time traveling post-terrestrial visitors Point of Convergence: Reports of Future Humans Warring Over the Coming Planet-Wide Cataclysm PBS Space Time: What If Space And Time Are NOT Real? PBS Space Time: What’s Your Brain’s Role in Creating Space & Time?

In March of 2021, I saw a post in r/aliens on Reddit by the title “Retired Defense Intelligence Officer with a CE5 Experience to Share.” It got a lot of attention with a great story and some pretty phenomenal claims. The author, a woman named Anjali, who is a former defense intelligence officer, claims to have met a man in 2018 who excavated a tunnel to find an alien base in a mountain on his land in the Mojave Desert. He took her there, and she met beings from a council overseeing life on earth. They told her that she needed to wake up and remember why she’s here, because humanity’s days are numbered and those who fail to evolve will not transcend. I'm super excited about today's topic, because the excitement surrounding Anjali's reddit post and the subsequent months of drama are what really got me fully back into the UFO topic, and started Chuck and I talking about it even before we thought of doing a podcast.  References: Congressman Says Alien UFO Tech Is Being 'Reverse Engineered' in Secret Lockheed Martin Challenged On UFO Legacy Programs, As Politicians Talk Hearings Avi Loeb and the DoD’s Chief UAP Investigator Sean Kirkpatrick Say Solving Aerial Mysteries Requires Known Physics Pentagon UFO chief says alien mothership in our solar system possible Anjali’s original Reddit post Anjali’s press conference Wayne comes forward, says they were high and there were no aliens Anjali says we have been “invaded by a more advanced race”

Y'all, it has been a *wild* two weeks since the US shot down three UFOs that turned out to be hobby balloons. The Pentagon is being weird about the balloons, the Senate is being weird about UAP, some sources claim the Navy told Biden that the Air Force is lying to him about UAP, and possibly as a result, Biden created his own independent UAP task force. Oh, and also, the Obama Library has thousands of pages of records about UAP? What is happening? References: Daily Mail: Pentagon's UFO office had only THREE staffers until recent weeks Debrief: Excessive Secrecy Could Undermine U.S. Efforts to Evaluate UAP Biden: Intelligence community says they’re private balloons Aviation Week: Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF John Kirby: We have not identified those responsible for the objects BBC: US and Canada abandon search for three flying objects shot down Debrief: US Senators Leave Classified Briefing on UAP with More Questions Debrief: Pentagon has no plans to release images of objects CNN: National security advisor will lead new “interagency team” to study UAP Marco Rubio: Why create a new team when we have AARO? Wall Street Journal: Pentagon’s UAP Office is Underfunded, Senators Say Gillibrand: Bipartisan push for full funding of AARO Lou Elizondo: comments on AARO vs new NSC team Ross Coulthart: Navy commander told Biden about USAF coverup Sen. Blumenthal: “The American people should be given more information.” Liberation Times: Pentagon’s Silence on UFOs Threatens to Undermine Biden Black Vault: Jackpot! 3k page & 23k electronic files in Obama Library Black Vault: 16 years to review! Black Vault: 5,196 classified electronic records in Obama Library

We've got a jam-packed episode for you today. In addition to our planned topic, we open by discussing the news that the US has shot down a Chinese spy balloon, as well as two other UFOs! After discussing why they're likely balloons, but that's still interesting for the UFO community, we get to the main topic: The 2001 Disclosure Project press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. At this conference, Dr Steven Greer (who has become a controversial figure in the UFO community) brought over 20 military, intelligence, and government witnesses together to testify to what they know about UFO incursions in our airspace, and the off-the-books crash retrieval programs hidden in from proper government accountability. It's gonna be a wild ride! Resources: Balloon Overflights: New Details on Unidentified Objects Shot Down Over the U.S. and Canada Here is what we know about the unidentified objects shot down over North America U.S. shoots down 'high-altitude object' over Alaskan airspace, White House says Chris Mellon on radar detecting balloon overflights Chris Mellon on recent shoot-downs “Someone is getting quite a bargain.” Disclosure Project Press Event: Video: 2001 Disclosure Project National Press Club Event Disclosure Project Briefing Document Executive Summary of the Disclosure Project Briefing Document New Yorker: How the Pentagon Started Taking UFOs Seriously Ed Mitchell Most Unhappy With Greer Using His Name As Disclosure Witness Unfriendly skies: The extraordinary flight of JAL 1628, Alaska’s best known UFO encounter The Malmstrom AFB UFO Missile Incident Rendlesham Forest Incident Rendlesham Forest UFO sighting 'new evidence' claim

This week we're talking about one of the foundational cases in the world of ufology: Betty and Barney Hill, who had an unusual encounter with a UFO while driving through the mountains late at night in 1961. They arrived home late, unable to account for 2-3 hours of time during their drive. They later recovered memories of being taken aboard the craft by aliens who conducted medical tests. It's a foundational story that introduced the world to some common elements of abduction stories including missing time and grey aliens. It's also got lots of room to be skeptical, and we're going to dig into it. Resources Wikipedia: Barney & Betty Hill Incident Ben H. Swett: Betty & Barney Hill Testimony History.com: How Betty & Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre Strange Arrivals podcast Repressed Memory Recovery: Useful Tool or Misleading Practice? Skeptoid: Betty & Barney Hill: The Original UFO Abduction Astronomy Magazine: Zeta Ridiculi Incident Jim Macdonald debunking David Halperin “ancestral trauma” theory

It's finally here! We've been waiting for the 2022 annual UAP report since halloween. We'll talk about what the report says, ask some questions about what it means, and dig into the community reaction to it. Let's go! References: 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Reddit: "They took 8 pages to say: You asked us to keep track of UAPs. We did that…" Reddit: "We have only the best people reporting plastic bags maneuvering at high rates of speed." Post Disclosure World: "I'd argue the US government wants it to go away. But know it can't." Stand For Better: "several people are testifying with AARO regarding historical UFO crash retrieval programs." Chris Mellon isn't mad, just disappointed: "If the intent was to make the report as anodyne, unremarkable, and boring as possible, the authors did exceptionally well."

In 2004, the USS Nimitz carrier group tracked hundreds of anomalous radar signals while preparing for a training exercise. Commander David Fravor, flying an F/A-18 Super Hornet, was dispatched to investigate one signal and encountered an unusual flying craft he described as the "tic-tac." This incident was discussed in the 2017 New York Times coverage of the Pentagon's UAP office, including the now-famous "FLIR" video. Today we're going to discuss the incident in detail, and why it marks a turning point in the UFO conversation. References: Detailed Official Report On Harrowing Encounter Between F/A-18s and UFO Surfaces What The Hell Is Going On With UFOs And The Department Of Defense? Multiple F/A-18 Pilots Disclose Recent UFOs Encounters, New Radar Tech Key In Detection Carrier Group In Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech Like Nimitz In 2004 Incident Recent UFO Encounters With Navy Pilots Occurred Constantly Across Multiple Squadrons Stunned by UFOs, ‘exasperated’ fighter pilots get little help from Pentagon

The 2022 UAP Report was due on October 31. It's December now, so where is it? Today we'll dive into what we know about the delay, and whether there are dueling factions in the US government on the topic of UFOs. But the good news is that the 2023 NDAA just passed, and it includes several really exciting additions regarding UAP, including protection for whistleblowers! References: 10/28 — NYT: Many military UFO reports are just foreign spying or airborne trash 10/31 — Daily Mail: Only half of UFO sightings can be explained 10/31 — Exoacademian: "vast majority of hits in baseball are not home runs" tweet 10/31 — Eric Weinstein: "high performing seagulls" tweet 11/07 — The Hill: Pro- and anti-UFO factions in government? It wouldn't be the first time 11/16 — John Greenewald's FOIA request shows UAP report not released to Congress yet 11/29 — Ross Coulthart discusses the late UAP report and the "shameful" NYT story 12/03 — Chris Mellon discusses the late UAP report and the NDAA UAP provisions 12/08 — NDAA passes (more info on UAP provisions)