Congress hunts for illegal UFO programs as the media shrug

quote:

---

Congress hunts for illegal UFO programs as the media shrug BY MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR 12/22/23 08:00 AM ET

---

quote:

---

The most powerful member of the U.S. Senate, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), suggested publicly that elements of the U.S. government are illegally withholding UAP information from Congress. Schumer, citing “multiple credible sources,” made his extraordinary comments on the Senate floor last week.

---

quote:

---

Given the decades-long stigma associated with UAP, it seems that only a significant amount of credible evidence would convince normally cautious, risk-averse politicians, let alone a Senate majority leader, to level such a stunning accusation in public. The underlying allegations, which the mainstream media have studiously and curiously avoided, are shocking. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined Schumer and a bipartisan group of four other senators to co-sponsor the UAP Disclosure Act. In a rare colloquy with Schumer on the Senate floor, Rounds doubled down with yet more remarkable commentary, noting that the UAP Disclosure Act originally included “a requirement…for the government to obtain any recovered UAP material or [“non-human“] biological remains that may have been provided to private entities in the past and thereby hidden from Congress and the American people.”

---

quote:

---

Rounds’ statement is noteworthy because the U.S. Air Force (and, more recently, the U.S. Navy) was historically the only government entity overtly involved with the UAP issue. But as former intelligence official and UAP whistleblower David Grusch has alleged, the CIA has been actively involved with retrieved UAP materials. Moreover, a bombshell Daily Mail story, citing multiple anonymous sources, suggests that a particular CIA office coordinates the retrieval of crashed or abandoned UAP of “non-human” origin. Intriguingly, in the early 1950s, the parent organization of that particular CIA office developed and enacted a sweeping, government-wide policy to debunk all UAP sightings, no matter how credible, with the objective of reducing “public interest in ‘flying saucers.’” Shortly after the implementation of the CIA policy, the number of UAP cases categorized by the U.S. Air Force as unidentified or “unknown” plummeted from around 20 percent to only 3 percent. The U.S. government’s newly dismissive attitude toward all UAP sightings, courtesy of the CIA, left countless credible witnesses angry and humiliated. A remarkable 1971 document written by the then-head of the nuclear branch of Australia’s Joint Intelligence Organization only deepens the mystery of potential CIA involvement with UAP. The report alleges that the same CIA division noted above, then called the Office of Scientific Intelligence, studied “UFO reports with the intention of determining the UFO propulsion methods.” With Congress now hunting for unreported UAP reverse engineering programs, the full document makes for particularly intriguing reading. Given all of the smoke surrounding the CIA’s potential involvement with UAP, the remarkable commentary from Schumer, Rounds and their colleagues is only trumped by the language in the UAP Disclosure Act.

---