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U.S. Navy photo/Petty Officer 2nd Class James R. Evans.
WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
From closed-door meetings, to senior military leadership and the issuance of classified intelligence reports, all indications
suggest the DoD is indeed taking the UAP issue seriously. However, what new information has come to light about the
government's UAP investigations provides us with few answers, and certainly raises a number of questions.
Classification has long surrounded the U.S. government's most sophisticated airborne platforms. However, when it comes to
underwater systems, the extremity of official secrecy falls into a class by itself. For instance, retired Navy Admiral Bobby Ray
Inman acknowledged that he served as director for the
National Underwater Reconnaissance Office (NURO) decades ago; yet despite this, to date the government denies that the
NURO even exists.
Even if the Senate Select Intelligence Committee's request for an unclassified UAP report ends up being enacted in the FY2021
Intelligence Act, as legislative experts have pointed out, the UAP report provision is not not binding law. In essence, there's no
guarantee the public will be provided any comprehensive information on UAP. Equally, while Congress is required to have
access to classified information, only the executive branch has the authority to declassify national security information in order
to make it public.
Should the DoD become more willing to discuss UAP publicly, there are plenty of indications that it might be a disappointment
compared to many of the popular myths and narratives intertwined with the UFO subject over the last 70 years.
Every source The Debrief spoke with who had either seen the published position reports or were familiar with the activities of
the UAPTF said that no concise estimate of the situation for UAP has been achieved. While they acknowledged that many
hypotheses are being explored, the U.S. government presently lacks any definite explanation for UAP-related events.
Focusing on the DoD's statements that the mission of the UAPTF is to "detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially
pose a threat to U.S. national security," The Debrief spoke with retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Bruce
McClintock.
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