Time out for Disclosure: UFO + Pentagon = Headline TKO

"If anyone says they have the answers, they’re fooling themselves. We don’t know the answers but we have plenty of evidence to support asking the questions. This is about science and national security. If America doesn’t take the lead in answering these questions, others will. via Twitter - Senator Harry Reid

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Truth just landed.

Weekend headlines delivered a HUGE Christmas present: Pentagon/UFO bombshell reveal. YES, the US does follow-up, track, research and investigate reports and sightings of UFOs. Status and contact for current program uncertain/unavailable/undisclosed. Not a surprise.


In mainstream news media, this is Disclosure.

Congrats to Leslie Kean: 10/11/2017 HuffPo who, in her story on the launching of the Tom DeLonge project, To the Stars Academy, suggested a potential for increased public awareness: "This could represent the beginning of a trend towards a new openness on the part of the U.S. government. These people know more than any of us, and they will be releasing important data on UAP in the future."

The New York Times (Leslie Kean and co-writer Ralph Blumenthal) broke the Pentagon UFO story Saturday and chain reaction headlines blew up the newsfeed. Raw Story picked it up. Reuters tagged on.

Bonafide viral - quickie interview on CNBC -  MSNBC interview with Ralph Blumenthal on the schedule (Sunday 12/17/2017)



AOL followed suit. As did the Washington Examiner. And CNN carried it forward.

On CBS’s “60 Minutes” in May 2017, Robert Bigelow said he was “absolutely convinced” that aliens exist and that U.F.O.s have visited Earth. Excerpted from that interview:

CBS News Correspondent  Laura Logan: Do you believe in aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.
Lara Logan: Do you also believe that UFOs have come to Earth?
Robert Bigelow: There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions -- I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.
Lara Logan: Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I don't give a damn. I don't care."

Doesn't hurt that his grandparents saw a UFO. 

OddsnEnds 

• Forbidden Fruit - CDC list of words not to use: "Evidence-based": Futurism 
• Plan B - Signs Intelligence has other means of surfacing: Kuzweil AI 
• Making final days of 2017 merry and bright: Quakeland, On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake, Kathryn Miles 
• Frightening over 750 thousand followers on Twitter/Adam Ellis/Dear David. Review the backstory: AOL  And continue following the story on Adam's Storify Page
• Scary Bonus: Cattle Mutilations. 37th Parallel author interview And his website: Ben Mezrich
• Goal achieved. Cat adopted. "Wall of shame" campaign strategy posted here. The Dodo
  

Odd (and not) coincidence and way off topic. Out of the blue during the Wendy's Coffeehouse interview 12/17/2017, KCMO Talk Radio, with Lynn Andrews and Robert Taylor: Cattle Mutilations in Hawaii. We don't go there. However, I do have another guest coming up who investigates and can address specifics involved investigating cattle mutilations and similar oddities in further detail. 2018 interview shout out!

Video - Unexplained UAP - UFO - Discussion of the object mentions a fleet but those objects are not shown. 



So what happens when you encounter the extraordinary, something that defies all known tech in current and anticipated future capabilities?

"I have no idea what I saw," Commander Fravor replied to the pilot. “It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s.” But, he added, “I want to fly one.”

Do Americans believe in UFOs? Surveys say a lot of us do:  HuffPo 2013 and HuffPo 2017

Go a bit further with the UFO adventure and spend time with Boyd Bushman. Some suggest he had nothing to lose in confessing his experiences at Area 51. Consider or not. He describes telepathic communication with Aliens. (Having experienced it first hand, there is no mistaking telepathic presence. Feels like it is coming from inside your head.)

I interviewed Tom Carey about the Children of Roswell. Experience and proximity to experiencers changes everything. More background on Tom: Roswell Investigator

Then there's the 1994 sighting and encounter witnessed by school children in Zimbabwe that continues to perplex those who experienced it. Movie now expected in Spring 2018. New trailer features Dan Aykroyd. Ariel Phenomenon

Curiosity wins. We want to know more.