"There are pieces of evidence", says former Senator Harry Reid

"I-Team: Former Sen. Reid wants UFO studies made public." Posted on 8 News NOW Las Vegas YouTube channel on the 27th of February 2019. Duration: 5:10 min.

Former Senator Harry Reid says that he can bet money on that Russia and China have had, and have, their own UFO programs, and are trying to understand the technology behind the UFO phenomena.

That piece of information is of course nothing new or controversial for ufo enthusiasts. In fact, in the interview by George Knapp, former Senator Reid is not saying anything new or controversial.

So why post the interview? Personally, I think the most interesting thing in the interview is that Mr. Harry Reid is saying that "there are pieces of evidence" with a mischievous smile. Of course, Mr. Reid does not want to say what nature those "pieces of evidence" are or look like, and he claims that he just heard of it as a rumour.

But the interesting part for me is that Mr. Reid´s claim about "pieces of evidence" (followed by his mischievous smile) may tie into Dr. Eric Davids´ statements about the U.S. government having crash retrieval programs up until 1989, and attempts at back-engineering UFO technology. Without any success, according to Dr. Davids. You can listen to Dr. Davids talk about the topic in my previous post here.

So are we getting the correct information about the UFO phenomena? Or is there a faction in and outside the U.S. government that has hijacked - what I believe to be and call - the educational, or preparation, phase of the disclosure process?

But why at all start a disclosure process (if this truly is an attempt at disclosure) about the UFO phenomena, if you do not want attention from the public and media in the first place? Why release Department of Defense videos of UFOs in major newspapers, if you want to keep that knowledge secret? Why release information on AAWSAP and AATIP?

Where is the logic in "To The Stars Academy (TTSA)" being a CIA or DIA (or both) front?

Why all of this release of information and "insider" people coming out in the public, if one wants to keep working and spending money on the study of UFO technology without the general public, media, and congressmen interfering? Remember that TTSA has been, and still is, busy informing congressmen about the UFO phenomena, AATIP, AAWSAP, and so on.

The only way for me to make sense of all the seeming contradictions between on the one hand continue secrecy and denial, and on the other hand releasing information about the UFO phenomena in the public domain, is that there has to be at least two opposing factions inside the Pentagon, who are in disagreement about the nature of the UFO phenomena (threat or not), if the public has a right or not to know, if the public can handle the information or not, about geopolitical issues and so on and so forth.

I speculate that, what made the articles in the New York Times in December of 2017 possible, is a change in group dynamics and power balance between the two factions. I wrote more at length about my thoughts on these contradictions in my post from September last year.

I still believe - I am aware I can be wrong - that we are experiencing an "educational phase" of a disclosure process of the UFO phenomena. I also believe that the "what", "how" and "when" are well planned. That is, there is a clear and intentional strategy behind the phases of and the whole disclosure process. Nothing is random here. And "balance" is a keyword and aspect in the unfolding of the disclosure process.

But, I think it is crucial that the general public in the near future gets more involved in the disclosure process. I believe that a true, honest and transparent disclosure is only going to happen if the general public is given power and control over the disclosure process. What is on the other side of power and control? Yes, responsibility and effort.

I believe that TTSA and others are trying to facilitate the general public in gaining power and control. They are briefing congressmen, working with meta-materials, etc, and they are going to make their studies and results public. Then it is up to the general public to take responsibility and make an effort to analyze the information and take action accordingly.

In other words, disclosure has to be by and for the people. The people have to own and control the final disclosure. Disclosure has to be a bottom-up process, rather than a top-down process. Or at least, the powers at be and the people have to meet somewhere in the middle.

So, now is not the time for paranoia or knee jerk reactions to everything and everyone related to the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.

It is not necessarily so that people once - or who still are - working in the national security apparatus are agreeing with how the UFO phenomena have been handled in the past or in more recent times. Not everyone in the national security apparatus wears a black hat. Some are wearing white hats.

Take care!

/Janne