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@bennyjohnson The person who had this news (Buchett saying that Miller told him they were being blocked by the "Deep State") first was...
@MattLaslo, of @AskaPol_UAP...in July.
https://t.co/e3jYdH2ahe
Thanks, Matt.
I think it's mostly just the NYP summarizing the NDA videos @jamescfox and Kean help put together to get Trump's attention. Maybe Trump will see this article?
"Grusch said evidence he has seen is jaw-dropping."
I think that was Fox telling us this...
"I looked at everybody in that room, and their eyeballs were popping out. My jaw was on the floor. Like, I simply couldn't believe what he'd seen with his own eyes. Like, I can't wait for it to come out."
Source:
https://t.co/Z8ap2QdrMs
The White House just opened a back door for UFO whistleblowers 👽🇺🇸
Rep. Eric Burlison says hesitant witnesses can now come through his office with their lawyers, and the administration will let him escort them through the process so their testimony doesn’t vanish into a black box.
If the people sitting on NHI crash retrievals and biologics finally feel safe enough to talk, this is how it starts.
Would you walk into that room if you had the files?
🚨❓🛸 Breaking: What the Heck is Going On? 👽❓🚨
Senior White House Officials: We cannot find any copies of the DIA's AAWSAP records.
Robert Bigelow: "We have copies of everything [from AAWSAP]."
(Please spread this far and wide and tag the appropriate people. @DepDNILukas@StephenM@realDonaldTrump@BigelowPodcast@BigelowInst. Let's get these folks together.)
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@ainsleyearhardt: "....is releasing new documents that might provide proof of extraterrestrial life, including decades-old, never-before-seen UFO footage."
Brian @kilmeade: "Really? We should have led with this."
@lawrencejones: "Right. @pdoocy joins us live from the White House with this exclusive. Hey, Peter."
(Doocy has been kicking ass with his reporting on UAP.)
Peter Doocy: "Good morning. I was summoned to an office in the West Wing yesterday for a private briefing about these files that you're about to see on your screen for the first time ever.
"Let's show the first clip. It was taken by a Navy aerial photographer. His name was Delbert Newhouse. It was taken along a Utah highway. If you look closely, it looks like a drone swarm, but there were no known drones in the sky when this video was taken in 1952.
"I am told they took the first and only copy of this film. They found it in the National Archives. It has been digitized into 4K to be released right here for the first time today."
(I watched it today. Film footage from 1952 that's turned into 4K isn't much clearer. But...the Newhouse film clip was first released in 1956, and it was stabilized and posted on YouTube in recent years and that's much better than what was released today. I'm no expert on everything historical in ufology but I'll share something on that 1952 sighting in another post that's MUCH better than what was put out today by our government.)
Doocy: "The second clip we have taken by a law enforcement officer's iPhone along a busy Colorado highway three years ago. The officer's narration and some nearby buildings have been redacted. I heard the unredacted version, though, and he is describing multiple orbs hovering over a sensitive military installation for 15 minutes at a time. This one was three years ago.
"And then we have a third clip taken by a drone over the Middle East last year. It shows six objects flying in formation, destination unknown. The Pentagon looks at this, they say they do not know what they are looking at on the screen.
"And then there's this. There is a newly declassified copy of an expense report, a line-by-line expense report, going through the $22 million dollars that the DIA spent to investigate repeated, years-long claims over something called Skinwalker Ranch. Claims of extra...things in the sky, UFOs, UAPs."
(This was AAWSAP and it wasn't focused just on Skinwalker Ranch. Not even close. Read, "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon" by Drs. James Lacatski and Colm Kelleher, and award-winning, investigative journalist, @g_knapp, for an inside look at that program. And the three follow-up books, with the last two authored by Lacatski himself).
Doocy: "Harry Reid, before he passed away - this was in 2008 - got $22 million dollars to investigate this. Officials now are telling me, senior White House officials are telling me, they cannot find any copy of the records. They've got all the proof that this government contractor was spending $22 million dollars to do this investigation, but when folks high up at the White House who can just pick up the phone and say, 'I need a copy of those records,' make the call, they are being told that if these records were created, they are either lost or something happened to them.
"Somebody has them; they are not available to White House officials right now. Which kind of seems like one of these UFO movies where it gets to the Oval Office and the president has to be told that there are certain things that are too classified even for the president."
(Those senior White House officials should contact the guy who briefed Trump in the Oval Office in February on UFOs: Robert Bigelow. Bigelow's company, BAASS (Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies), was the contractor for that program.)
Here's Bigelow on Episode 2 of The Bigelow Podcast:
Bigelow: "BAASS, our organization, we have the 38 papers. We have copies of everything [from AAWSAP]."
@g_knapp: "The DIRDs."
Bigelow: "We have everything. We have all the other papers going up to about approximately 100. So, DIA has those someplace."
Knapp: "But they deny it. They say, 'We don't have 'em.'"
Bigelow: "Well, I don't know. They could be buried in a frigging trailer or the back of a car somewhere in the trunk and put into a cellar. I don't know where it is, but we have ours, we have copies of everything.
(Problem solved. I'm sure those senior White House officials will be on a plane to Las Vegas once they see my tweet. 🙄)
Bigelow: "I don't think it's our business to go around the government and divulge ours without sanction of proof, without approval. I mean, without approval. I feel uncomfortable about that. I don't mind the 38 papers (which have been public for years). I think beyond that, I'm uncomfortable by not having some kind of official, ass-covering approval, you know?"
(I disagree. The American taxpayers paid for that. Release it all.
They then go on the discuss how personal details of people involved would need to be scrubbed if those papers were to ever be made public. No problem with that. But Mr. Bigelow has had a decade and a half to do that. Either way, that should NOT stop Mr. Bigelow from calling his contact at the White House (or vice verse), doubling down, and saying, "I have ALL of the AAWSAP data. Come to Vegas and I'll let you see it all.")
Doocy: "But, we should stress, again, officials do not know what the objects are in these videos that are gonna go wide online after this report."
Kilmeade: "Now they don't know, Peter, but do you know?
Doocy: "[long pause] Can't say."
[All laugh. I like the comedy.]
Jones: "Well played."
Kilmeade: I would check a burn bag in the FBI building.
Jones: "Right, exactly."
Earhardt: "He used to know, he wiped the record. They just look like white dots to me. I mean, How do we know that's not a drone?"
Kilmeade: "Well, it's the 50s."
Earhardt: "I know, but they're just like, white dots."
(Exactly. Interesting, but it will NOT move the needle with the masses. We have no idea what those white dots represent and they're not making any incredible maneuvers. But it's still coverage of UFOs on a national news show that has a lot of viewers who aren't into UFOs, like us. So, not a bad thing.)
Doocy: "Well, the one clip is from a guy in 1952, and so you look at a lot of this stuff now. It's like, oh well, maybe that's a lens flare, maybe it's a hobbyist, maybe it's a weather balloon. But in 1952, there was not a lot of stuff up in the sky. And so, when you look at a video like this, yes, it is old, but it kind of creates a decades-long storyline. We know that these are things that have been a curiosity of humans on Earth for generations, and this is why. And this is a really clear clip that puts into focus - clearer focus, 4K - what some of these guys were...said that they were seeing."
(Excellent summary and context by Doocy.)
Earhardt: "Were you able to look through the expense report? What are some of the expenses? How'd they spend $22 million dollars?"
Kilmeade: "Wow."
Earhardt: "And there are no records?"
Jones: "Nothing to show for it."
Doocy: "I've got it. It's 59 pages long, and some of the stuff is still blocked out. But you know it's got dates. A lot of the stuff is 2008 and 2009. $2.8 million dollars, $3.6 million dollars, $2.1 million dollars. It's a well-respected government contractor (Bigelow's company, BAASS) that was doing this."
(I have ChatGPT trying to find this 59-page document and so far it has struck out. We know they had 50 full time investigators over a 27-month period and they all had to be paid. Plus, they had to retrofit buildings in case they received classified UAP-related materials, allegedly from Lockheed, or elsewhere. And, in 2021, I was told the DIRDs cost $15,000 a piece or $570,000 for all 38 studies.)
Doocy: "And again, it was Harry Reid out in Nevada who had an interest in UFOs because there are a lot of sightings out there. Harry Reid is the one who got the $22 million dollars of government money appropriated for this."
(Kilmeade scoffs. He should know that it was the late Senators Reid (D), Inouye (D) and Stevens (R) who helped fund AAWSAP to the tune of $22 million. This shouldn't be a partisan issue.)
Doocy: "Somebody went and investigated, and the files...they just can't find them. Maybe they will turn up at some point, but it is noteworthy that, given all of the interest and all the money that was spent, that somebody from the West Wing of the White House calls and they can't produce the files."
Earhardt: "It disappeared."
Kilmeade: "Should check [Reid's] estate. Check Harry Reid's closet."
Earhardt: "Or someone's bank account (laughs)."
(Or make a phone call to Mr. Bigelow. Long-distance calls are free nowadays.
To insinuate that Reid pocketed any of that money is ridiculous, and partisan. Also...apparently, Bigelow spent $1 million of his own money to keep the program going towards the end.)
Jones: "They think we're all stupid. The only person that knows is the dead senator, right? I mean, come on. Thanks, Peter."
Earhardt: "Very interesting. All right, thank you Peter."
Kilmeade: "There's an excellent chance they're gonna be friendly."
(Based on what?)
Earhardt: "Oh, the aliens?"
Kilmeade; "And just tell us what they know. Why are they able to move so quick?"