To all those who have been following all the instances of
the official reaction to the US Navy pilot's report of UAPs, the pace of the
information received through time has become very slow, and practically inexistent.
Let´s try to quickly review what happened so far about
the official UAP investigation.
Everything started after April 27, 2017, when the
newspapers The New York Times and The Washington Post published articles
dealing with videos apparently showing UAPs. The videos were taken in 2004 and
2015.
On August 4, 2020, the U.S. Navy created the UAP Task
Force (UAPTF).
On June 25, 2021, the UAPTF brought a report to the
Senate of the United States.
The UAPTF will exist until November 23, 2021, when it is
substituted by the AOIMSG at the initiative of the Deputy Secretary of Defense,
Kathleen Hicks in close collaboration with the Director of National
Intelligence.
The acronym AOIMSG
stands for Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group.
This organization within the Department of Defense will stay until July 15,
2022, when it is announced the creation of the A.A.R.O., All-domain Anomaly
Resolution Office.
On April 19, 2023, there takes place an important hearing
of the Armed Services Senate subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Senator Kirsten
Gillibrand, where Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, Director of AARO gives a detailed
report about how the Office is organized, what has been so far its work and
what it knows about UAP, which included various graphics.
At the end of the hearing, Dr. Kirkpatrick said that in
June or July, the AARO will present a report of its work.
On June 9, 2022, NASA convened a group of scientists,
chaired by Dr. David Spergel, to essentially consider what contribution NASA could
make as such, to help elucidate the mystery posed by the existence of
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
On July 20, 2023, Dr. Kirkpatrick is interviewed by David
Muir, on ABCNews Live Prime. During a talk of 8 minutes 40 seconds, Dr.
Kirkpatrick said among other things that "I am a long term Intelligence Officer, scientist and military Officer."
Answering the question "What keeps you up at
night" Dr. Kirkpatrick replied:
"Technical surprise and that could be adversary technical surprise or extraterrestrial
technical surprise."
The most common misconception people have about UAPs is
that "they are all the same thing and they are all extraterrestrial and
neither of that is true."
It was during this interview that Dr. Kirkpatrick
admitted that there is a 2 to 5% of UAP that so far has been not identified.
On July 26, 2023, there was a surprising hearing of the
House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability with the
presence of two UAP witnesses, the former U.S. Navy Pilots, the retired
Commander David Fravor, and Ryan Graves, as well as the
"whistleblower" and former Intelligence Officer of the U.S. Air
Force, David Grusch.
The pilots told about their experiences with UAP, and
Grusch repeated his outlandish testimony that various people told him about
"non-human" entities and "non-human" technology recovered
from UFO crashes, although not even a picture of something like that was
presented. The lack of evidence was total.
And until today, nothing else happened related to those
fantastic declarations. The world didn't care about the possible existence of
extraterrestrials among us, nor about recovered material of their presumed
ships.
And here in the United States that particular subject
didn't attract such an attention that even today —three months later— there
were a matter of discussion or interest.
But, after the hearing of July 26 above mentioned, on
July 27, 2023, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, wrote a personal note where without
mentioning Officer Grusch by name, he complained about the treatment of the UAP
subject by the legislators that ignored the intricacies of the issue, and
specifically about Mr. Grusch.
On that note Dr. Kirkpatrick says: "I cannot let
yesterday's hearing pass without sharing how insulting it was to the officers of
the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community who chose to join
AARO," adding that many of his staff have worked "often in the face
of harassment and animosity, to satisfy their Congressionally-mandated
mission."
Moreover, Dr.Kirkpatrick added: "Allegations by its
witnesses of retaliation, to include physical assault and hints of murder, are
extraordinarily serious, which is why law enforcement is a critical member of
the AARO team, specifically to address and take swift action should anyone come
forward with such claims. Yet, contrary to assertions made in the hearing, the
central source of those allegations has refused to speak with AARO."
That "central source" mentioned in the note,
was Mr.Grusch.
At the end of the note, Dr. Kirkpatrick wrote: "Finally,
to be clear, AARO has yet to find any credible evidence to support the
allegations of any reverse engineering program for non-human technology. Also,
to be clear, none of the whistleblowers from yesterday's hearing ever worked
for AARO or was ever a representative of AARO, contrary to statements made in
testimony and in the media." Once again, a clear reference to Mr. Grusch.
On September 14, 2023, the special panel of scientists
convened by NASA to deal with the UAP, made publicly known its work for almost
3 months.
The document of 36 pages divided into 7 parts, presented
conclusions, recommendations, and a discussion as a product of the work done.
We introduced that report on this web page as well as our
evaluation.
As a consequence of the panel work, NASA appointed Mr.
Mark McInerney as Director of UAP research. McInerney previously served as
NASA's liaison to the Department of Defense covering limited UAP activities for
the agency. In the director role, he will centralize communications, resources,
and data analytical capabilities to establish a robust database for the
evaluation of future UAP.
A document created by AARO in July 2013, was made public
at the end of September 2023, under the title "The US Defense Department
and the UAP Mission" signed by Seán Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Director, AARO.
It consists of 12 pages dealing with the organization of
AARO, its analysis capabilities, the study of UAP reports, and how some of them
have been explained and some others not. It gives information about the main
characteristics of the UAP, shapes, colors, speeds, areas of frequent
detection, etc
We arrived in October 2023, and the AARO promised report
for June or July was not presented.
Currently, we are waiting for an AARO report to be
released at the end of the year, on December 2023, according to the
announcement done by Dr. Kirkpatrick.
The
expectation and the frustration
Until December 2023 –unless something spectacular happens
related to UAPs—there is and will be silence. No one officially will bring any
updates, any information, or any breakthrough.
Therefore, there exists a process of deception, lack of
trust, and anxiety on the part of the general public, who wants to know
something more specific and concrete about the UAP.
On the other hand, the media in general do not help to
give science the needed time to work exhaustively on the subject to be able to
say something specific and concrete about it.
And then, those individuals that exert a conspirative way
of thinking, exploit in their favor the situation, accusing "the
government" of deliberately hiding or distorting the truth about UAP. They
are propelling fantastic stories about extraterrestrials of various
civilizations visiting regularly the Earth, and losing their ships where they
came from, which have been subject to reverse engineering, and after being
flown by military pilots.
These are the kind of individuals that are introduced by
the media as UAP "experts" or "investigators". They are
invited to news bulletins, and special programs, and specifically created radio
and TV programs to deal with UAP.
The damage they create among the public is enormous, the
distortion of reality, confusion, lack of respect for the true investigators,
etc. becomes something difficult to cope with.
To make it clear: the
silence of official sources about the UAP opens the door to any kind of
speculation.
We consider that this is not favorable for the study and
investigation of the UAP subject, and –although undesirable— it creates
increasing pressure on scientists and Intelligence people dedicated to
identifying these phenomena.
That is why we
suggest that the official reports, should be accompanied by the presence of
Dr.Kirkpatrick and Mr.McInerney in the media, regularly, to answer questions of
the journalists and make precisions of terms, definitions, and clarify the work
they are doing at AARO and NASA.
That would turn efficiently the consideration of the UAP
subject by the media to the appropriate approach that it deserves and would be
of extraordinary help to the public.
An
educated public won't be useful for the sellers of fantasy and mystery. This
task must be done!