1/9) In WIRED, another drive-by polemic hit by Keith Kloor, who attacks the NY Times for reporting on recent formal release by Pentagon of UAP videos. Kloor suggests videos and associated pilot sightings
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2/9) all have mundane explanations, mentioning only "commercial and private drones." There is no indication that anyone notable in military thinks anything more exotic is involved, Kloor suggests. Kloor studiously ignores all evidence inconsistent with his all-is-mundane claim.

3/9) Kloor fails to mention, for example, that top Naval Intelligence officials held at least 3 classified briefings specifically on these incidents for key members of Congress. Briefers included 3-star chief of Naval Intelligence, senior intelligence analyst,and pilot-witnesses.

4/9) Here is ranking Dem on Senate Intelligence Cmte, Sen. Mark Warner (VA), after 6-19-19 classified briefing: "One of the key takeaways I'd have is that the military and others are taking this issue seriously, which I think in previous generations may not have been the case."

5/9) Another member of Intel Cmte, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Co.): "Our guys are seeing unidentified stuff. They don’t know what it is. And I don’t know what it is...[it's not] necessarily things from outer space, but it’s unexplained stuff....We’re trying to learn more about it."

6/9) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), after getting classified ONI briefing as member of the Senate Armed Service Committee, said, "I'm not allowed to talk about it....UFOs, I think that there are events that have happened that have not been explained adequately."
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7/9) What may be slides from the congressional briefings are now classified as TOP SECRET. Obviously, the Office of Naval Intelligence should have called Kloor, who would've breezily explained encounters as merely hobbyist & commercial drones. Bet Navy guys never thought of that!

8/9) 1994 Nimitz incident involved not just video but 4 Navy officers, entrusted with two $70 million warplanes, observe a 50-plus-foot wingless object outfly elite commander-pilot, accelerate to hypersonic speed. Here is 268-page forensic report from SCU: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WgURI1Fzrkij3utVvcPISGTyEUNX4Z0J/view

9/9) Kloor also repeats his claim "There is no discernible evidence that [Luis Elizondo] ever worked for a government UFO program..." For some REAL journalism on Elizondo's role re UFOs,see in-depth report (Feb. 2020) by Tim McMillan in Popular Mechanics: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/government-secret-ufo-program-investigation/

More on Luis Elizondo: Harry Reid held the most powerful U.S. Senate office, majority leader, when he wrote 2009 letter to Secretary of Defense urging the elevation of ATTIP to Special Access Program & he listed Elizondo on proposed highly restricted "bigoted list." #ufo #ufo2020

Reid said (12-7-19) "ATTIP was my program. One can say whatever, but the truth is it was for only one purpose -- to study UFOs."

In an interview published 11-1-19, George Knapp asked Reid, “Would you say -- definitely -- he [Luis Elizondo] was working for AATIP trying to figure out UFO stuff?” Reid replied, “That’s one of the things he did, yes.”

Question from Swedish writer Roger Glassel to Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for 3-star chief of Naval Intelligence, 9-16-19: "In the Navy’s effort to study reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, was former DOD/OUSDI employee Luis Elizondo involved in such effort?"

Written response (9-16-19) from ONI's Gradisher: "While he was a U.S. government employee, Mr. Elizondo occasionally provided coordination and professional connections/liaison within DoD and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence."

Certain people in Pentagon were unhappy the 3 Navy pilot UFO videos reached media in 2017. They secured an investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. The AFOSI report (obtained by researcher-journalist Tim McMillan) explained

that Elizondo [name redacted] had "disclosed his involvement (to several news outlets) with Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which focused research issues on Unidentified Flying Objects."

The AFOSI investigation indicated the videos were not properly authorized for public release, but apparently couldn't establish they were classified in the first place.

For those who haven't seen it before, Luis Elizondo's 2017 memo for record & letter of resignation to then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

On June 17, 2020, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued a report in which it set forth explicit direction to the Director of National Intelligence for preparation of a government-wide report on "anomalous aerial vehicles" within six months of enactment of S. 3905.