Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean have written another good - and this one is quite controversial - article about the US Government´s study of the UFO phenomenon. The article was published in the New York Times (NYT) on July 23, 2020, with the headline "No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon´s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public." Note the important correction (at the end of the NYT article) made on July 24, 2020, on some of former Senator Harry Reid´s statements. You can read the article at the following link:
My comments on some parts of the article
The main theme, or question, in the article is: Does the US Government (USG), together with some private defence contractors, know about or have in its possession "materials, not from this earth", or "objects or vehicles not from this earth and not made by humans"?
The article does not explicitly mention the "Wilson document" (or the "EWD notes" as it is sometimes referred to), but it is obvious that Blumenthal and Kean are following the content and the leads of that document. If you are not aware of the "Wilson document," I suggest you read it.
I have personally a hard time believing that the USG (or specific parts of it) has had in its possession some kind of extraterrestrial material or technology, and kept it hidden for the world for decades. How would it be possible to keep such a thing secret for 5-7 decades? I find it very unlikely.
At the same time, I think I have to at least listen when credible people with more insight than me into the workings of government structures and who have actually been in the centre of the decade-old Pentagon UFO program, claims that "objects of undetermined origin have crashed on earth with materials retrieved for study." However, "objects of undetermined origin" do not necessarily mean or imply an intact "ET" vehicle.
In the article, Mr. Luis Elizondo and Mr. Eric Davis are the ones who seem to be convinced about the reality of "objects of undetermined origin" and about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.” Now, if one is familiar with those two gentlemen´s backgrounds and credentials, one should pause and ask: why would they make those kinds of fantastical claims? Do they have solid reasons for their claims?
Were it not for people like Mr. Elizondo, Mr. Davis, and Mr. Harry Reid (who says crash retrievals may have occurred), I would not waste my time on claims about "objects of undetermined origin" or "off-world vehicles not made on this earth", allegedly studied by the USG and private corporations. (And, perhaps, by other nations besides the US?).
Despite those credible and knowledgeable individuals, I think, however, that this is where my limit goes. I will not admit proven wrong until I see some concrete and indisputable evidence of "off-world vehicles not made on this earth." On the other hand, I cannot ignore or deny the fact that the fantastical claims mentioned above, comes from individuals who have been in the centre, or very close to the centre, of the UFO issue for a decade or longer.
An interesting piece of information in the article by Blumenthal and Kean is the following:
For more than a decade, the Pentagon program has been conducting classified briefings for congressional committees, aerospace company executives and other government officials, according to interviews with program participants and unclassified briefing documents.Does the last sentence mean that Blumenthal and Kean have interviewed participants in the current UFO program, the "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force", coordinated by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)? If so, I hope we can read some more from those interviews in a future article. And what about those "unclassified briefing documents"? The article also mentions some "unclassified slides" from briefings with ambiguous information cited in them. Mr. Christian Lambright got a response to one of his FOIA requests surrounding the 2004 USS Nimitz UFO encounters.
ONI responded it had found some TOP SECRET briefing slides and a classified video. So then the briefing slides which Blumenthal and Kean are referring to in the article, should not be the same as Mr. Lambright´s TOP SECRET slides, or?
That the Pentagon UFO program has been conducting classified briefings for more than a decade, raises some questions. Why has no congressman/woman had the courage to put the UFO issue on the table until now? Is the difficulty of raising the UFO issue always about social stigma? Or is the main difficulty due to something else? Religious beliefs?
And why is the UFO issue being pushed so hard now? One part of the answer is thanks to the work by Mr. Luis Elizondo and Mr. Christopher Mellon, and others in "To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science." But the most important part of the answer is that a group of people in the Pentagon, and in others parts of the USG, has decided that the UFO issue can no longer be ignored. That is one of the reasons why, for example, Mr. Davis can say things like"off-world vehicles not made on this earth." He would never state such a thing if he had not got the green light from someone high up in the echelon of the Pentagon/the Department of Defense, and/or in the intelligence community. But, still, why now?
The last paragraph in the article is of course intriguing. Mr. Harry Reid says:
Either way, Mr. Reid said, more should be made public to clarify what is known and what is not. “It is extremely important that information about the discovery of physical materials or retrieved craft come out,” he said.
However, it is difficult to know exactly how to interpret that statement from Mr. Reid. Because his other statements in the article are stated more carefully and in less certain terms. Also, remember the correction by the New York Times I mentioned at the beginning of this text:
Correction: July 24, 2020
An earlier version of this article inaccurately rendered remarks attributed to Harry Reid, the retired Senate majority leader from Nevada. Mr. Reid said he believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied; he did not say that crashes had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied secretly for decades.
Whatever one thinks and believes about potential "off-world vehicles" in the possession of the USG, this NYT article is yet a step forward in the fight for more transparency on the UFO/UAP issue. I do not know it for a fact, but I get the feeling that this article by Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean was a warm-up.
Take care!
/Janne
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