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We’re looking at an extended war in the Ukraine, a potential war with China over Taiwan and assorted local threats all over the map, including Iran, but here’s what the Senate Majority Leader is focused on.
The House and Senate are using their annual defense bills to require declassification of reports related to UFOs, a bid to make government agencies share more information.
There’s growing, bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill as the Pentagon and other national security agencies have said they are investigating an increasing number of unidentified aircraft, which the government is now calling UAPs – unidentified anomalous phenomena.
What the Senate wants to do: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) have proposed an amendment to the Senate’s NDAA that would mandate the National Archives collect and store UAP records across the government.
“The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena,” Schumer said in a Friday statement.
The American public has the right to know the unknown destinations of hundreds of billions of dollars that have just disappeared, but that, unlike little green men, would be truly dangerous. So let’s talk about UFOs.
It’s no mystery that there’s a certain small but obsessive element among Democrats fixated on this. The Clintons may or may not have been pandering to donors, but Podesta seems genuinely invested it. So are a handful of very wealthy donors. People who don’t believe in G-d need to fill that space with something and an intergalactic civilization waiting to welcome and civilize us is high on that list. Does Schumer believe this stuff?
I doubt it, but it makes a pretty good distraction, doesn’t it?
In a country with few standards, the distractions can be dumber and more vulgar than ever, the more so, the more effective.
“The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena”? I’d like to see some human intelligence.
Ugly Sid says
They’ve figured out how the coke got into the White House.
The suspects are male, short in stature, green in tint.
Jeff Bargholz says
Sounds like Pete Buttgig and his syphilitic complexion. That tardmo is about knee high to a grasshopper.
Onzeur Trante says
A spooked American public is so much easier to control.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Like the 1938 radio broadcast “War of the Worlds” that had the public convinced an invasion from Mars was taking place. The public these days is almost equally delusional, if not more so.
Jeff Bargholz says
The truth is out there.
WAY out there.
SPURWING PLOVER says
I have seen strange lights in the sky and objects as well day and night there is even object reported by Columbus and Jimmy Carter and WW II where they were called Foo Fighters
Jeff Bargholz says
Foo Fighters? I always thought that name was made up by that Dave Grohl band from Seattle.
I never thought the name had an origin outside of pot induced hazes.
Cat says
I have been an avid science fiction fan since I could read. But I no longer give a damn if little green men land on my lawn in a flying saucer.
Compared to the crew in DC, nothing could be stranger or scarier. .
And next time the current government makes a law, regulation, or even a suggestion, remember, folks “its a cook book!”
Jeff Bargholz says
Lloyd Bochner, Susan Cummings (I had to look those two up) and Richard Kiel in that old “Twilight Zone” episode. A classic.
As a kid, I hated the episodes that were allegory for the Cold War. Except for the one with Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery as Adam and Eve. That one was cool.
Some of those “Twilight Zone” episodes from the second series in the early eighties were excellent. I remember a really good one in which a professor, played by Sherman Hemsly (Mr Jefferson) tricked Satan, played by Ron Glass from “Barney Miller. And another in which aliens came to Earth and commanded humanity to solve it’s petty international squabbles “or else.” The ending came completely out of left field and was nothing like you expected it to be.
“The Outer Limits remake fro the 90s was very good, too.
RAM says
The American public has a right to learn about human non-ntelligence. Easy, just watch Schumer.
RAM says
non-intelligence
Ted Paull says
I would at the very least like to see the data, reports, etc, and hear from credible witnesses. In my case, I have witness a UFO with my own eyes, with several hundred other people. It was an object, a small moving light, crossing the evening sky from left to right, which after a short time appeared to be heading directly towards a (known) satellite moving (in orbit) in the opposite direction. Just at the instant that the first light (apparently) ‘touched’ the satellite (i.e. the two lights merged for an instant) it veered off at an impossibly acute angle, and instantaneously accelerated to a speed of perhaps 20-50x its original speed, and then very quickly disappeared into deeper space. No earthy technology or pilot could pull that off, especially at that time (ca 1962). So, I’m keeping an open mind on the ‘AUP’ question.
Una Salus says
UFO’s are so hot right now even amongst the Tucker Carlson conservatariot. It’s like Mark Levin who taught me almost everything but because I know I can’t ignore.
Una Salus says
Just by coincidence UFO’s are especially hot around the Putin receptive imbeciles who think America is some sort of universal cosmos as opposed to the shrinking sphere of influence that it actually is.
Algorithmic Analyst says
What to say about this perplexing topic. For many decades I have been hearing claims about UFOs, often almost convincing. But never once hard factual evidence. And nothing supporting UFOs from my own experience.
A lot of the stories can be explained by peculiarities of perception, or misperception, one of my interests.
There are still a large number of unexplained incidents. It is very hard to assign probabilities to their existence,
the vastness of the universe being unknown for example.
Una Salus says
Fermi already posed this question. It’s never been satisfactorily addressed because the only the way to address it is to assume we are in some way exceptional.
If life is everywhere then we’re supposed to assume that it’s very rare that it gets to our level of technological progress.
Yes, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence but the only way to account for a lack of evidence is to assume we are in some way exceptional and the assumption that we aren’t exceptional is what kickstarted this whole thing to begin with.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Una! Fermi was smarter than I am 🙂
Jeff Bargholz says
He was smarter than all of us. Like Tesla, he never got the credit he was due.
Una Salus says
Well. I mean it’s much more interesting to observe how pygmies with nothing to distinguish themselves besides historical hindsight obfuscate around him.History will judge if history cares. These giants existed and now we just have technological demagogues.
I don’t know with certainty that there’s nothing out there and Fermi’s question is only a suggestion but why not assert the obvious implication of the question with all the enthusiasm that the opposite is asserted?
Una Salus says
There’s nothing out there. They’ve been looking for 50 years and they can go on looking.
Una Salus says
There’s just nothing which makes them sad,
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, “ET phone home” just doesn’t fly with me. I’ve seen things I cant explain but that doesn’t mean they were aliens or ghosts.
That “ghost” sure seemed real and scared the shit out of me, though.
Una Salus says
The whole point of ET is that he’s much wiser and sanguine than us. Once you understand that ET is only Spielberg’s version of Hollywood you understand Spielberg better than you wanted to and have to look elsewhere for movies that aren’t lecturing you. Fantastic movies for kids though.
Jeff Bargholz says
I was 17 when I saw “ET” and my brother was 16. We both hated it. A good movie for kids but not teenagers.
I watched the original Disney cartoon, “Peter Pan” the other day out of curiosity, and I plan to Watch “Snow White” in protest of that “woker” version the Disney groomers have out now.. I felt a bit weird watching “Peter Pan” alone with no kids around but it was a fun movie and funny. Better than “ET,” that’s for sure. And back then the animators were MUCH more talented, even without the computer image technology they have now. ThweWendy character looked like a real girl, not an almond eyed freak with only a few exaggerated and dumb looking facial expressions the way they do now.
Una Salus says
You understand that Spielberg is terrestrial in the most boring way and hence the flight of imagination which isn’t extraterrestrial at all. Only human.
Jeff Bargholz says
I always figured Schmuck Schemer was into alien anal probes and this proves it. No wonder he usually has that shit eating grin on his reptilian face. Hell, maybe he is an alien A chitauri lizard man..
Una Salus says
But maybe Trump is the ultimate reptilian because he knows it’s all BS and goes on selling his used Bill Clinton golf carts anyway? So much to think about.
Jeff Bargholz says
Oh, please, Una. You should give up your irrational hatred for Trump. It’s unhealthy. Besides, he was good for the U.K. Unlike the farting dotard illegally occupying the presidency now.
Çâşëğ says
How about declassification of CIA, FBI all other alphabet soup agencies misdeeds. Such as how many government agitators were in J6 riot. Or JFK files and many more .
Una Salus says
How you can get rich, lose weight, find inner peace, boost self-esteem, remain positive and all that other good stuff when simply voting Trump isn’t enough. Also remember DeSantis is a junior partner that needs to learn humility in this American corporation we call Trump.
Spurwing Plover says
Back in the 1960’s there was this TV program The Invaders about these aliens coming from a dying Planet they had to regenerate themselves in glass tubes and when they died they disntigrated and left behind their ashes