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Official Photo — Brig Gen Bruce McClintock (U.S. Air Force
Photo by Michael Pausic).
During his 30-year career with the Air Force, McClintock's assignments included White House Fellow to President George W.
Bush, Executive Assistant to the Commander of NORAD, Executive Assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and Special Assistant to the Commander of Air Force Space Command. Before retiring in 2017, Gen. McClintock
amassed more than 3,000 flight hours on more than 35 aircraft, including the A-10, F-15B/D, F-16A/B/C/D, and the F-111.
Presently, Gen. McClintock heads up the RAND corporation's Space Enterprise Initiative and serves as the focal point for all RAND space-related
research for the U.S. government and U.S. allies.
McClintock was dismissive of the idea that U.S. military encounters with UAP could be related to any form of classified
aerospace testing.
"It is unlikely that the U.S. government would intentionally conduct tests against its own unwitting military assets," he told The
Debrief in an interview. "To do so would require a very high level of coordination and approval for the potential safety and
operational security risks."
In separate interviews last year, aerospace engineer and Area-51 veteran T.D. Barnes and former CIA
executive S. Eugene "Gene" Poteat both suggested radar detections by the Navy of extreme aerial maneuvers sounded
suspiciously similar to a top-secret electronic warfare program they were involved with in the 1960s, codenamed
PALLADIUM.
However, Poteat and Barnes acknowledged they had no explanation for any of the physical sightings by military aviators.
Coinciding with Gen. McClintock's comments, both men said everyone involved in any classified assessments involving the
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