{"id":1486630,"date":"2022-05-21T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486630"},"modified":"2022-05-21T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T12:00:43","slug":"first-public-congressional-ufo-hearing-in-50-years-reveals-pentagon-not-interested-in-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-public-congressional-ufo-hearing-in-50-years-reveals-pentagon-not-interested-in-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"First Public Congressional UFO Hearing in 50 Years Reveals Pentagon Not Interested in Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-public-congressional-ufo-hearing-in-50-years-reveals-pentagon-not-interested-in-transparency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486630&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this week, Congress held the first open UFO hearing in 50 years. Among those who pay attention to such things, there were mixed feelings of excitement and trying not to get hopes up.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t pay much attention to such things, the potential implications are still enormous. Planetary, or even galactic in nature.<\/p>\n<p>So what did we learn? Much like what we already knew, some things can\u2019t be explained \u2013 and the Pentagon is <em>either<\/em> not interested in finding out or not planning to tell us what they know.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8U.S.A. Chad Pergram, FOX News<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tuesday\u2019s hearing didn\u2019t quite get all the way to the &#8220;truth&#8221; to satisfy everyone. But it did get UFOs and UAPs back on the agenda on Capitol Hill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ufo?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ufo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/uap?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#uap<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ufotwitter?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ufotwitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/uaptwitter?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#uaptwitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Akam1129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Akam1129<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAPHearing?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAPHearing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aUp6fZop4V\">https:\/\/t.co\/aUp6fZop4V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baptiste Friscourt (@Baptiste_Fri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Baptiste_Fri\/status\/1527559753139896321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>What Was The Goal of the Hearing?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/05\/17\/ufos-rep-andre-carson-project-blue-book-air-force\/9805921002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Representative Andre Carson opened the hearing<\/a> by laying out his areas of interest:\u00a0What are the obstacles to getting the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) operational?<\/p>\n<p>How is the Pentagon working to de-stigmatize unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) reporting?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congress hasn&#8217;t held a public hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UFO&#8217;s) in over 50 years. That will change next week when I lead a hearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseIntel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HouseIntel<\/a> on this topic &#038; the national security risk it poses. Americans need to know more about these unexplained occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andr\u00e9 Carson (@RepAndreCarson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAndreCarson\/status\/1524018039439695884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>Others included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/17\/politics\/house-ufo-hearing-congress\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Representative Rick Crawford\u2019s concerns<\/a> over possible Intelligence Community failures and Representative Adam Schiff\u2019s interest in eliminating excess secrecy.<\/p>\n<p>The two witnesses who came to testify were Ronald S. Moultrie, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, and Scott W. Bray, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Their goals were to convince Congress that they are \u2018fully committed to transparency.\u2019 It\u2019s an \u2018all hands on deck\u2019 approach, and The Honorable Ronald Moultrie is a not-so undercover science\/science fiction convention nerd.<\/p>\n<h3>Representative Gallagher Hits BOSS Status on #ufotwitter<\/h3>\n<p>Representative Gallagher of Wisconsin garnered some hat tips from the #ufotwitter community.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably in the Twittersphere were his questions about the famed 1967 Malmstrom Air Force Base incident when ten ICBMs were rendered inoperable for inexplicable reasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lot to unpack from the UFO hearing. This congressman has done his homework, asking about the Malmstrom incursion involving disabled nukes (DOD seemed strangely clueless about it.) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5GeD06urEU\">https:\/\/t.co\/5GeD06urEU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Knapp (@g_knapp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/g_knapp\/status\/1526573707581267968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There was speculation that it had to do with an alleged UFO sighting at the same time in the location of an orange orb. However, when pressed by Mr. Gallagher, the witnesses claimed they hadn\u2019t looked into the event and were unaware of it.<\/p>\n<p>It seems odd given that in 2001 the Air Force released documents regarding the event in response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ufos\/malmstromufo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOIA request<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t really seem like the UAP Task Force is dialed into the other services.<\/p>\n<h3>Dedicated to Transparency\u2026 Until They Aren\u2019t<\/h3>\n<p>Representative Gallagher also pressed Mr. Moultrie and Mr. Bray on their awareness of any other initiatives pre-dating Project BLUE BOOK or between Project BLUE BOOK and Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) investigating UAPs.<\/p>\n<p>The answer was that they weren\u2019t aware of anything. He pressed two more times with the same general answers. <a href=\"https:\/\/highlandcountypress.com\/Content\/In-The-News\/In-The-News\/Article\/Congressman-presses-Defense-Department-on-UFOs\/2\/20\/79239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr. Bray\u2019s final answer<\/a> is below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, I\u2019ll say no contractual or programmatic efforts that are involved. The reason why I qualified, yeah, let me qualify it that way. I can\u2019t speak to what people may be looking at in the department. Somebody says I\u2019m looking at something that may be identified, and I can\u2019t speak to that, speak to official programs that we have on the record.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s some pretty fancy tap dancing. I heard, \u201cLook, I know that you know that we have looked into UAPs since BLUE BOOK, but since we didn\u2019t classify them as anything official, I\u2019m going to keep not telling you about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it\u2019s more like, \u201cLook; clearly, you know something I don\u2019t, Congressman; please just stop asking me about this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Moultrie and Mr. Bray were adamant in their attempts to convince Congress this week that they are taking their charge from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) seriously. Mr. Bray went so far as to say that it\u2019s an \u201call hands on deck\u201d approach.<\/p>\n<p>Given that only two people are assigned to this program, that means four hands are on deck. That doesn\u2019t seem like a whole lot to me.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The reality is, there are only two full-time people looking into this,&#8221; Gallagher said. &#8220;So, I have questions about whether they have the resources, or the access, necessary to get us closer to answering these questions.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ufo?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ufo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/uaptwitter?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#uaptwitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ufohearing?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ufohearing<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tjo8i4xAP0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Tjo8i4xAP0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meta material (@MetaStudioLogic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetaStudioLogic\/status\/1527357598143434756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Mr. Moultrie stated that they had finally picked a Director for the program. There is <a href=\"https:\/\/douglasjohnson.ghost.io\/director-picked-for-new-pentagon-intelligence-office-to-study-unidentified-aerial-phenomena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some speculation<\/a> that this new Director is Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick. He currently is the Chief Scientist at the Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC).<\/p>\n<p>If that is true, it would be interesting. Moreover, it may allude to the Pentagon\u2019s actual motivation regarding AOIMSG. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dia.mil\/About\/Organization\/MSIC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mission of MSIC<\/a> is to \u2018analyze, reverse engineer, and counter-air and space-related weapon systems of potential adversaries.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this would be major news for otherwordly vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/50\/3373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Within the NDAA portion regarding AOIMSG<\/a>, it states that the head AOIMSG, otherwise known as the Director, will:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2026supervise the development and execution of a science plan to develop and test, as practicable, scientific theories to \u2013 (1) account for characteristics and performance of unidentified aerial phenomena that exceed the known state of the art in science or technology, including in the areas of propulsion, aerodynamic control, signatures, structures, materials, sensors, countermeasures, weapons, electronics and power generations; and (2) provide the foundation for <em>potential future investments to replicate any such advanced characteristics and performance.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to start eyeing what stock options Congress likes in the next few years. Let\u2019s see which defense contractors start getting larger awards and start hiring more \u2018analysts\u2019 and \u2018specialists\u2019.<\/p>\n<h3>Bottom Line Up Front<\/h3>\n<p>This week\u2019s hearing did not reveal that aliens have visited us and that the United States government or military-industrial complex has kept it from us.<\/p>\n<p>It did reveal that the Pentagon and Intelligence Community are not interested in cooperating with Congress and more than likely have their own agenda.<\/p>\n<p>That agenda could be hiding projects within the government that aren\u2019t necessarily sanctioned by Congress or taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Or it could just be the Pentagon and Intelligence Community don\u2019t want us to know that they are incapable of doing their jobs adequately. I\u2019d put even money on both.<\/p>\n<h3>Where Do We Go From Here?<\/h3>\n<p>This hearing probably did little to temper the theories and distrust among civilian organizations and those with an \u2018amateur interest\u2019 in UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that Congress and the American people should continue to press those trusted with our safety and money to investigate and reveal what they learn about these UAPs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/05\/18\/representative-eric-swalwell-ufo-hearing-support-congress-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It\u2019s been reported that former defense officials have faced retribution<\/a> for wanting to raise the red flag on what is going on around these programs. Therefore, finding a path for those with pertinent information to be released from non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) meant to muzzle them needs to be a priority.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t buy the theory that E.T. has been interested in our nuclear capabilities. I\u2019m more in the camp that says we may be testing our military capabilities using technology that isn\u2019t public knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>My husband keeps trying to sell me that what we think of as \u2018aliens\u2019 is really is <em>us<\/em>, but from the future, Time Benders as he hollers at me regularly from various parts of the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Representative Gallagher also delved into that topic, but on the Pat McAfee show.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s definitely worth a watch:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Intriguing: The Congressman who asked some of the shrewdest Qs in the UAP hearing, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepGallagher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepGallagher<\/a>, suggests the time travel\/inter dimensional future human hypothesis as an explanation for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UAPs?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UAPs<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jAZx8PFmQC\">https:\/\/t.co\/jAZx8PFmQC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ross Coulthart (@rosscoulthart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosscoulthart\/status\/1527038517595242496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It might be time for us to take a break from Ancient Aliens for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the entire hearing here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n[embedded content]\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now is the time to support and share the sources you trust.<\/strong><br \/>The Political Insider ranks #3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/political_blogs\/\">Feedspot\u2019s<\/a> \u201c100 Best Political Blogs and Websites.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Congress held the first open UFO hearing in 50 years. 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