Digging for the Truth, UAP Is a Congressional Imperative

Four witnesses maintain national security institutions are keeping the truth of UAPs secret.

by Dave Patterson | Nov 15, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Military Affairs, Politics

The Pentagon created a murky atmosphere around its responsibilities to get to the bottom of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), and the result was more questions than answers. That was the conclusion one would reach while watching testimony before the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee (HOAC) on Wednesday, Nov. 13.

UAP Secrecy Isn’t Helping

What is particularly incendiary in the conversation concerning UAP and other unexplained airborne events is not just the secrecy surrounding the subject but what appears to be apathy among cognizant government agencies in discussing the sightings. There was hope that the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, would proactively share information. However, even AARO hides behind a bureaucratic bulwark, providing reports only when required by law. If it were not for the House Oversight Committee, it’s doubtful whether any light would be shed on the subject.

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The Wednesday hearing was different from previous committee meetings. All four of the witnesses were articulate and not prone to conspiracy theories. The four witnesses were retired Rear Admiral Dr. Tim Gallaudet; author and former Defense Department official Luis Elizondo; Michael Shellenberger, author, journalist, and founder of the Substack publication Public; and Michael Gold, former NASA Associate Administrator and Member of NASA UAP Independent Study Team.

One of the most recent occurrences of the inexplicable was the drone sightings over Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) was curious whether the panel members believed military installations were more vulnerable to UAP sightings. Mr. Elizondo asserted:

“There is definitely enough data to suggest there is some sort of relationship between sensitive US military installations, also some of our nuclear equities, also some of our Department of Energy sites. There is a long historical record that some of your colleagues may have, documentation, that demonstrates this. This is not a new trend.”

Early during the hearing, Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) asked a fundamental question that UAP skeptics ask. 

1. “Why? Why is it so hard? 
2. Why are people, anytime they ask, why are people always thwarted? Why are they always judged? 
3. If it [UAP] doesn’t exist, why is it such a problem?” 

Mr. Gold explained:

“It is always difficult for breakthroughs and new information, regardless of whether it’s UAP or any other kind of discovery. When you break with orthodoxy of what is believed … the more extraordinary those new beliefs, the more difficult.” 

Though Gold’s explanation may have some historical validity, the AARO charged with understanding UAP is staffed with scientists. These are people steeped in exploring what is unknown through an objective lens.

Dr. Gallaudet offered a more plausible, pragmatic explanation of why the Pentagon and the intelligence community (IC) want to avoid going into detail regarding UAP sightings. 

“I will speculate that they don’t want to share that kind of information because it reveals weaknesses in our ability to monitor and protect our airspace,” Gallaudet told the committee. 

This is precisely the ostrich-like attitude that ensures the Defense Department will never be able to understand UAP. Opening the aperture on the UAP discussion brings a broader variety of minds to bear. With more eyes and brains on the problem, there is a better chance for clarity in understanding what the US and other countries are up against.

Witness Stuns Committee Hearing

Of all the testimony, Michael Shellenberger’s was probably the most intriguing. He offered a 214-page tome of well-researched written testimony for the record. His statement asserted that the Defense and IC were intentionally withholding information about UAP from Congress. He revealed that during a conversation with a “whistleblower” on UAP:

“The whistleblower alleges that the DOD [Department of Defense] created the USAP [Unacknowledged Special Access Program], called ‘Immaculate Constellation,’ in 2017 after The New York Times published an article describing an informal Pentagon UAP program called ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, ‘ or AATIP.”

The unnamed whistleblower also revealed that Immaculate Constellation is an effort to consolidate all UAP observations containing detailed sensor information. It is controlled by the White House but is run out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Shellenberger’s written testimony asserts, “A Source warned that simply printing the name ‘Immaculate Constellation’ could trigger government surveillance,” of Shellenberger. Unfortunately, this kind of “X-Filesesque” rhetoric causes eyes to roll, and the suspension of disbelief fails.

Despite the compelling discourse, one is still doubtful after listening to the four witnesses and the committee discussion. Nonetheless, the HOAC can be applauded for its steadfastness in getting to the bottom of the UAP mystery. The truth may be out there. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been revealed yet.

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One Of The Four Horsemen of The Alternative Doesn't Like Us, And More Media Links

By Hank Campbell

1. Dr. Gary Null, one of the Four Horsemen of the Alternative (along with Oz, Chopra and Weil), is now most famous for hosting a conspiracy theory radio program and producing straight-to-video movies funded by organic food groups.

Environmental Working Group has never produced a science study but they have overturned 500,000 biologists, according to Null, while the US EPA, which just cleared glyphosate of weird claims made by an IARC Working Group that was hijacked by an Environmental Defense Fund consultant, is secretly suppressing damaging data about Monsanto.

He makes even wackier claims, like that former FDA official and current ACSH friend Dr. Henry I Miller, has "a history of denying smoking’s association to cancer and heart disease" - his source for that specious claim, the website GMOSeralini.org, which is a puppet site created to support the known anti-GMO fraud Gilles-Eric Seralini. He gushes about the corporate mouthpiece US Right to Know, which he claims is "devoted to exposing what the food industry and Big Agriculture corporations such as Monsanto don’t want the public to know" - but leaves out that 97 percent of their funding is from the organic corporations they were created to support. What does Sourcewatch make of that fact? Nothing, because they are a political site devoted to undermining data and promoting the executive director's political party. She doesn't criticize US Right To Know because she serves on the board of US Right To Know. They are all Deniers For Hire, and the only people hiring them hate science.

Yet those two groups are his primary sources. Using that echo chamber, he further claims Genetic Literacy Project and University of California at Davis are secretly lobbying groups and that we are shills for Big Chemical, because we note there is nothing wrong with BPA - which the EPA also showed, along with every reputable science body. The only thing he left out of his random screed is that GMOs cause autism. There is no point in going on, Null is nuts. You can read his long-winded polemic against science on something called Center for Research on Globalization here.

2. You read last week about food activist Michael Pollan's unhinged, libelous jab at us. His lack of a clue is understandable, if slimy, because he hasn't learned anything in the last 25 years, however what is worse is another pseudo-journalist, this one at a site called Thrillist, doing the same thing while blatantly plagiarizing him. These people are paid little, they have to pump out a lot of volume and have pageview quotas. I get why stealing from the New York Times makes sense to companies like that, but it's still icky and will make it hard to get a job at a real media outlet.

3. Voice of America has joined in on calling on the corrupt UN to fix the mess it created in Haiti, citing our Dr. Julianna LeMieux.

Vaccinating all 10 million Haitians on the island would cost over $100 million, according to the American Council on Science and Health.
"That said, when you break something in a store, you have to buy it," Dr. Julianna LeMieux of ACSH wrote on their website. "It's time for the international body to give its health experts the financial support they need to correct the catastrophe it created."

Since VOA is syndicated, it was also on

Newsgram - http://www.newsgram.com/fighting-cholera-urgent-part-of-haitis-hurricane-recovery-say-doctors/?source=acsh.org
Citizen Digital - https://citizentv.co.ke/news/combating-cholera-urgent-part-of-haitis-hurricane-recovery-145153/?source=acsh.org

The National Memo - http://www.nationalmemo.com/cholera-outbreak-haiti/?source=acsh.org
Numerous other scientific studies also pointed toward the role of the peacekeepers. Julianna LeMieux, senior fellow in molecular biology at the American Council on Science and Health, recently wrote, “The scientific community has known for years that the U.N. brought cholera to Haiti.”
and other sites picked up the topic again:
AlterNet

How the U.S. and U.N. Set the Stage for a Major Cholera Outbreak in Haiti
Numerous other scientific studies also pointed toward the role of the peacekeepers. Julianna LeMieux, senior fellow in molecular biology at the American Council on Science and Health, recently wrote, “The scientific community has known for years that the U.N. brought cholera to Haiti.”

4. Want to read what other countries think about our food policy? You'd better learn Spanish.
La razón por la que Obama ya nunca habla de comida en sus discursos ("The reason why Obama would never talk about food in his speeches")

http://www.playgroundmag.net/food/razon-Obama-comida-discursos_0_1841815832.html?source=acsh.org

Sloppy translation: The best summary of President Obama's solution for food issues came from the American Council on Science and Health, who termed the Obama garden the work of "organic limousine liberals", which is the same as saying left-wing snobs.

5. Finally, Center for Inquiry covers what to us was the most interesting part of the Wikileaks release of John Podesta emails - his ongoing belief in magic, like that we are hiding a UFO conspiracy, that vaccines cause autism and GMOs cause everything else. Some people deny that certain science positions are held more strongly by one party - but the evidence is clear.

Also revealed, UFO enthusiast and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta is anti-GMO and holds some tiresome views about FDA and industry collusion to sidestep safety concerns. 

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/10_13_16/?source=acsh.org