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Bipartisanship and UFOs…A Chance for At Least One More Agreement in Congress Right Now

1/25/2019

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​“It was one of the easiest sells I ever had to make”, explained Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in a recent interview with Nevada’s KNFR radio station. He was referring to his approach to then Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) in 2007, to try to convince him to fund a Pentagon program investigating the UFO phenomenon.

Amidst only a temporary reprieve from the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, there isn’t much that is agreed upon in Congress today. But in this case, just a few years ago, from opposite sides of the political aisle, these two members controlling the military budget instantly found common ground. A third member in charge of military spending was the late Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Medal of Honor recipient and World War II veteran, who also supported the plan.

Also, at that time, Congress was divided on many fronts. Stevens and Reid routinely debated issues on the Senate floor, often with opposing viewpoints. But this was one issue they immediately agreed upon.

 According to Reid, Stevens exclaimed to him, “Sign me up.”, and he recounted a mysterious incident he personally had as a pilot with the Flying Tigers of the then U.S. Army Air Force. Reid said Stevens told him he had an “occasion” during World War II where he had a craft that was next to him that he couldn’t “get rid of,” despite “doing everything he could.” He recognized the need to properly address what has continued to be an unknown threat to national security, and an opportunity to further study the science behind it. 

The three senior members went on to establish what Reid refers to as an “extremely important study,” also the topic of a December 2017 New York Times article about the Pentagon program. Based on publicized details about the program, it seems to have lasted a few years, but it did not succeed in establishing any formal paths for government reporting, particularly from active duty military personnel witnessing these unusual phenomena. 

Stevens’ incident was earlier than, but not unlike, some of the reports collected and analyzed through an early Air Force program called Project Blue Book, currently featured in a new popular series on the History Channel and based on the program’s declassified official memos and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The program even enlisted physicist J. Allen Hynek, a Professor in the Astronomy Department at Ohio State University, who began the process of gathering measurable, scientific data associated with these events. Project Blue Book, too, only lasted a few years before it closed its doors.

MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, an independent civilian organization focused on the scientific study of UFOs “for the interest of humanity,” picked up where Project Blue Book left off, and was formed in 1969. It has been conducting its own scientific investigations for the past 50 years, in that time compiling and analyzing over 100,000 individual reports from concerned citizens (who are, of course, also constituents of Congressional member’s states and districts). MUFON has over 4,000 active members worldwide and over 600 trained and qualified field investigators. Among its ranks are scientists, engineers, physicists, and many former military personnel, who acknowledge there is the lack of a formal safe reporting path within the services. Because of military members’ training and technological expertise, they often are the very best witnesses to events such as these, yet, ironically, the military does not allow them to address this possibly grave national security threat appropriately.

Reid believes the Federal Government and Congress need to do more to address this issue and said his very next call following the radio interview was to be with a very senior member of the Senate, in order to arrange for him to hear directly from some of these military pilots who feel compelled to tell somebody what they’ve seen. “What we’ve found in the past, is that these pilots are prone not to report it,” due to ridicule and penalty by their superiors, if they do make a formal report. “Many times, they don’t say a word,” Reid explains, or it may even affect their promotion opportunities.

So, how does a military member discern what to report and what not to report?  It is no secret that the military consistently tops an annual Gallup poll for the most trusted organizations. In effect, by not allowing open and honest military reporting, we are also forcing the most trustworthy citizens we have to lie about what is actually happening. Many of these unexplained aerial phenomena occur near military installations and operations, which presents even more of a threat to our national security. And considering the technological advancements worldwide, shouldn’t we care to determine whether the unexplained event is extraterrestrial in nature, or represents possibly a danger from an unfriendly country? Either way, these events are also happening in our own controlled airspace.

Former Senate Intelligence Committee Professional Staff Director and past United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, and later for Security and Information Operations, Christopher Mellon poses similar questions in his Washington Post article of March 9, 2018 entitled “The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn’t the Pentagon care?” The article references several declassified Defense department videos and other recent incidents documenting encounters between military assets and unknown craft appearing to have extremely advanced technological capabilities.

Reid goes on to state, “The facts are that they need a place to report this.” New programs or hearings, Reid explained, would be up to the senior member Senate he would be talking with about it, but Reid continues with some background on his original involvement with the topic. When asked where Reid’s interest in UFOs came from, he immediately replied “Just from the facts…”, followed by a confident chuckle, as if he may even have been surprised he was asked the question. “I think it is something that we can’t ignore…I do believe that the information we have indicates we should do a lot more study,” and “We have hundreds and hundreds of people seeing the same thing.”

Reid’s initial interest in the UFO phenomenon, he explains, came from a suggestion that the country needs to take a closer look by his friend and former colleague and astronaut, the late Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, and in his later years, also the oldest astronaut in space. His viewpoints spanned decades of thought on the subject.

Another astronaut who became very outspoken on this issue was the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth astronaut to walk on the moon, who claimed in an interview shortly before his death that “UFOs are real.”  In addition to being noted as an accomplished Navy test pilot, an astronaut, and instructor in the astronaut program, he had earned a doctorate of science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT). In terms of qualifications toward being a reputable witness, Mitchell is certainly at the top of the list. He wrote books about the subject and participated in several documentaries, such as The Phoenix Lights, released in 2005.
Again, referring to the 2007 Pentagon program initiated by Reid, Stevens and Inouye, Reid validated its origins and the need to press ahead. “There was no question, yet what has happened since?” he asked; “The program went nowhere”…but “people now are beginning to see the facts, and that is what I’m going to work.”

When asked about Reid’s home state military base of great interest, Area 51, he appeared to uncouple it from his new push for a military reporting path, and he demurred from elaborating on any sensitive details about our own projects there, while acknowledging some of the programs that arose from the notorious base are now commonplace technologies that we see every day.

MUFON, who has studied UFO technological forensic evidence for half a century, fully endorses Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s call for new measures protecting service members who want to report UFO sightings and information. Senator Reid has performed a great service by alerting the nation to the career ending risks often faced by members of the armed forces in these circumstances, and the value of the scientific information they are able to report. Such protections should be implemented for them without delay.
MUFON is ready to assist in helping to educate both Congress and the American public on the subject, as it continues to study scientific evidence from its own investigations. It also looks forward to studying more about the significant incidents and technologies these military members bravely wish to report.

Addressing the UFO “elephant in the room” is one important bipartisan step that Congress can agree upon now, when it is most needed.
 
Jan C. Harzan
Executive Director
Mutual UFO Network, MUFON

10 Comments
Rebecca Kirejczyk
1/26/2019 01:21:14 am

I was born on an AFB that had a famous UFO sighting in 1975. My father says "they" were there many times, including when I was born in the summer if '77. I've seen MANY UFOs my entire life, and can pick them out of the sky almost instantly EVERY time I go outside in the night. Usually between 11pm and 4am, I see mostly singular, golden craft "swimming" quickly through the sky much lower than stars but a bit higher than aircraft lanes most of the time. I've seen multiple types of craft, multiple colored lights, and multiple sizes "swimming" or speeding through the sky. Day sightings are less, but have seen over 10 in the day, especially in the early morning near sunrise. They seem to be drawing energy from the sun rising. I saw 2, fluid Mercury looking craft with pink trails vertically behind them sitting still in the sky and when the sun began to rise over the horizon, they sped with incredible speed toward the sun, leaving their neon pink trails behind, and encircled the sun rising 4 times and sped off in opposite directions! That was amazing! I've seen them flying off of the moon too. I've caught several videos on my cellphone buy are of very low quality. I wish to one day know exactly "who" or what they are, but they're definitely not man made with the sheer speed, sizes, and maneuvering! Happy Hunting!

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Mmiller
1/26/2019 10:28:52 am

Rebecca...I know exactly what you mean....I used to get off work at 3:00 a.m. and the things I would see between 3:00 and sunrise would astound most people. I actually started keeping a fully charged digital camera charged in my pickup for UAP photos. Most don't do justice to the sighting so I also kept binoculars handy. Some of these craft can't be photographed....point and click...nothing. I have caught large and small orbs...bright low lights....saucers..cylinders...fireballs..none of which could possibly be aircraft. I live in the country..dark..no airports. I had one SLOW Moveing light headed towards my house...and just for shits and giggles shined my VERY powerful work flashlight on it...and it stopped...no sound..about 500 feet up. Took photo..nothing. Then it slowly moved off. Made sure I had no missing time! Keep looking up Rebecca. :)

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Pascal Fechner link
1/26/2019 05:42:13 am

Great paper ! We'll translate and share it for french followers, friendships from Mars(eille) !

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Alexander Swage
1/26/2019 09:29:51 am

How are going change earth mankind as primitve warrior race with limited understanding and violent and racists to others and causing Death and destruction everywhere they go????
Why would 2000 aliens races alliance council goverment in 100 galaxies with languages and cultures and civilizations would want come to warrior race violence and racists to others ??

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Mmiller
1/26/2019 10:34:50 am

To enlightened us Alexander ...maybe educate the silly monkeys playing with matches (nuclear weapons)

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Tom White
1/26/2019 12:26:17 pm

I once saw a triangular shaped object less than a thousand feet in the sky in the city of Albany New York in about 2006. I stopped my car looked up the triangle was coming in my direction then took a quick left and went behind some trees as they drove around the corner to see behind the trees it was gone

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Diane Rizzo link
1/27/2019 09:11:19 am

If they have an important message for us, why is it so difficult for them to relay it to us? I mean if they are so powerful, why have they not been able to convince or at least bypass the actions of our military?

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Mmiller
1/27/2019 12:16:13 pm

Diane they do have an important message to is its one we should all know..to help and love one another...to live in peace..to not turn the planet into a burned out cinder. (After all they may live in our oceans). It's difficult to relay to us because very few of us are doing that. More people are killed in the world over religious believes than anything...imagine throwing E.B.E.s in the mix. We need to get our act together as a race...before we meet another....and gain technology that would put oil out of business and disrupt our economy. That's up to us....but it will happen slowly so economic chaos doesent happen. Have they convinced our military.....I'm sure our military knows much more than they are saying....I'm sure deals have been made. Should they BYPASS our military....well that would be invasion....and then you would have Jim-Bob and cousin Jethero out cruising in their pickups with shotguns lookin for little green men. We don't want that and neither do our brothers from Alpha-Centari. It's all good they could have enslaved us millions of years ago if that's what they wanted....it's more like they are watching a child grow.....US :)

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Sri Bubba
1/28/2019 09:48:57 am

It amazes, concerns and saddens me how often UAP's are reported to be a threat to our national security. Although they "may" be, to assume so is to follow the same path that has so often created so much pain and suffering among those of our own planet. It would seem that to be equally open to the possibility that they "may" be benevolent or neutral would certainly provide a better, and possibly a beneficial future, should that prove to be true.

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Mmiller
2/4/2019 11:16:46 am

How true Sri Bubba when we made our moon landings we didn't stick a gun out of the hatch before we crawled out. We came in peace. But whenever "they" show up here...jets are scrambled..lock on target....missiles fired....What a great welcoming. Maybe all those flesh eating...crawling eye..little green men movies of the 50s and 60s gave EBEs a bad rap. I can't believe a race advanced enough to build and fly starships through the galaxy's would fly here to have us for lunch.

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