Ep 94: Imminent Disclosure? Part 1

Image from the New York Times article, Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense, December 16, 2017 

“I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going, I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. I’ve done something that no one has done before.”
– Former US Congressman Harry Reid, who, the day before the New York Times story broke, Tweeted, “The Truth is Out There.”

Screen capture from a FLIR monitor on board an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, taken during a training mission in November 2004. The video shows what appears to be an Unidentified Flying Object. 

Military Intelligence official Luis Elizondo, who formerly ran the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program at the Pentagon.

Harry Reid, former Democratic Senator from Nevada, who pushed for funding of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program while he was Senate majority leader.

Robert Bigelow, billionaire hotel, and aerospace entrepreneur, who formed a group to investigate phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch and is currently working with NASA on space station technologies.  A Friend of former Nevada Senator Harry Reid.

Leslie Kean, journalist, and author whose book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record stands as a noteworthy account of credible UFO reports.  Kean was one of the three journalists writing the NY Times article.  

Helene Cooper, one of the three journalists contributing to the NY Times article, Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program 

Ralph Blumenthal, long-time contributing journalist to the NY Times and one of the three journalists contributing to the article, Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

Friend, Astonishing Research Corps member, and fellow podcaster, Rob Kristofferson, host of his own UFO-themed show, Our Strange Skies.

 

Possible location where two Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet pilots on a routine training mission, Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Jim Slaight encountered unidentifiable craft that behaved like no known objects.  

Background:

The term "Disclosure" in the UFO community generally refers to the long-awaited event when the government, specifically the U.S. Government, finally tells the world that UFOs exist, along with everything they know about extraterrestrials, or so enthusiasts of the topic would hope.  While we wouldn't suggest holding your breath until "Full Disclosure" happens, there has been an interesting, recent development worth noting.  On December 16, 2017, the New York Times published a curious article titled, "Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program."  Apart from the mild surprise that such a serious publication as the New York Times would bother running with any story that would give consideration to such a "preposterous" idea as UFOs being real, is the bigger surprise that from 2007 until 2012, $22 million dollars of U.S. taxpayer money was spent annually on something called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.  Although funding for this program officially ceased in 2012, it was also revealed that the program still exists and continues to investigate credible reports of possible UFO encounters.  Join us tonight as we sit down with friend, collaborator and fellow podcaster Rob Kristofferson, host of his own show called Our Strange Skies as we discuss the significance of a major revelation that there is a serious military effort to investigate what many believe is Science Fiction, but what some "in the know" think may be a threat against which we have no defense.

Reference Links:

• The New York Times article, Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

• "Navy Pilots Were Seeing UFOs on an Almost Daily Basis in 2014 and 2015: Report” from New York Magazine Intelligencer

• From Vanity Fair's HIVE: “WE MAY NOT BE ALONE”: INSIDE THE TIMES’S U.F.O. REPORT

• From the NY Times: 2 Navy Airmen and an Object That ‘Accelerated Like Nothing I’ve Ever Seen’

• From NPR: 'I Don't Know Where It's From': Former UFO Program Head On Navy Jet Footage

• From the NY Times: People Are Seeing U.F.O.s Everywhere, and This Book Proves It

• 2013 documentary, Mirage Men

• 60 Minutes interview with hotel and aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow

• Howard Hughes' deep-sea drillship, GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer

• Charles Fort

• H.G. Wells

• Ben Rich, 2nd Director of Lockheed's "Skunk Works" from 1975 to 1991

• Deconstructing the Alexander the Great UFO story from OpenMinds.tv

Related Books:

UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record

By Leslie Kean

Buy on Amazon

UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015

By Cheryl Costa, Linda Miller Costa

Buy on Amazon

Suggested Listening:

Check out our friend Rob Kristofferson's brand new UFO-themed podcast, Our Strange Skies.  Click on the hyperlink or cut n' paste this URL into your web browser's search bar: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-strange-skies/id1324932558?mt=2.  Not only is Rob incredibly knowledgeable about all things UFO, but he joins us for the roundtable discussion on this episode!   Listen and subscribe immediately! 

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Credits:

Episode 94: Imminent Disclosure? Part 1.  Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel; Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2018 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.