The US Navy is Setting Up New Guidelines for UFO Reports: ‘Disclosure’ or More of the Same?

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Last night Politico released an article penned by Bryan Bender, which seemed to echo the mainstream repercussions with regards to a broader acceptance of the UFO phenomenon than the 2017 bombshells published by that same online news outlet, as well as the New York Times.

The news broke by Bender was that the United States Navy is currently updating their reporting protocols for pilots or other enlisted personnel who observe “unidentified aircraft,” in an effort to “creating a formal process to collect and analyze the unexplained sightings — and destigmatize them.”

This seemingly unprecedented move was evidently triggered by the recent public interest surrounding military UFO encounters like the ones between F-18 pilots and a group of white objects nicknamed “the Tic-Tacs” during a Navy exercise with the USS Nimitz in 2004. An interest that, according to Politico’s article, has also transcended into the power corridors of Washington and Congress, where unnamed lawmakers have been “briefed by senior Naval Intelligence officials as well as aviators” who have been involved in such encounters.

“There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated airspace in recent years,” the Navy said in a statement in response to questions from POLITICO. “For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.
“As part of this effort,” it added, “the Navy is updating and formalizing the process by which reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognizant authorities. A new message to the fleet that will detail the steps for reporting is in draft.”

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More Absurdities by the Washington Post

 

 
Richard Dolan Press

I finally got around to writing a reply to a piece by the Washington Post on “The Fear that Drives Our Alien Belief."

This article is another shameful and absurd attempt by the Washington Post to debunk something that the publication has never, ever bothered to do the slightest bit of real investigation about. The Post, in fact, probably has the worst track record of dealing with UFOs in responsible manner of any of the major publications in the U.S. By turns taking the tone of dismissal and ridicule, it has demonstrated this. Belief in UFOs, this piece suggests, is suggestive of a psychological problem.

 

Never mind the documentary record left behind in the declassified documents that anyone can easily find on the Web. Documents that show a long history of concern by senior U.S. officials about airspace violations by objects that appeared — strongly — to defy conventional explanations, and which exhibited characteristics (disk-shape, silence, extreme maneuverability) that are simply not supposed to exist. Except that, within the military reports we have available to us, they do, or strongly appear to.Never mind the fact that a few senior officials have indeed gone on the record to discuss this reality. Never mind the fact that any researcher who has looked into this long enough finds even more senior officials who are willing to talk, but only off the record. They know full well this is a matter of national security and concern.What does one make of this discrepancy? When you have a phenomenon that, decade after decade, baffles national security professionals, and yet is dismissed by that paragon of Official Culture, the Post? Well, you can make of it what you will, but it surely points to a failure of true investigation.

 There are many topics on which such mainstream, plugged-in, national security/corporate publications like the Post fail to deliver the goods. But the UFO topic is a bell-weather. While this discrepancy exists, while the Post wastes everyone’s time with infantile explanations, it destroys its credibility among serious individuals who know better.

Richard Dolan