1/10) UAP CONGRESSIONAL NEWS: The U.S. Senate yesterday (July 23, 2020) passed the National Defense Authorization bill (NDAA), S. 4049, 86-14. Tucked inside it is the entire Intelligence Authorization bill (S. 3905) -- the bill to which
2/10) is attached the request of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) for a public report by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). So for those interested in UAP, S. 4049 is now the bill to watch.
3/10) Be aware, however, that this combo Defense+Intelligence legislation is still a long way from enactment. It is unlikely that the legislation will be enacted prior to an anticipated post-election lame-duck session (so, November-December).
4/10) What happens now: Separate conference committees will meet on Defense and Intelligence components. There are many contentious issues to hammer out between Senate and House conferees, and with the White House. The Defense Authorization portion WILL ultimately become law--
5/10) at least, that has happened 60 years in a row -- but the Intelligence Authorization component may or may not make it. Even if the Intelligence Authorization component fails to reach enactment, the SSCI report language would stand as a formal expression of the will
6/10) of the SSCI. If the Intel part IS enacted, without pertinent change, then the SSCI report text will be an expression of "the will of Congress." (But NOT a law. There could be additional UAP-related language in the bill's "classified annex," but if so, we will never see it.)
7/10) Now, keep in mind: Congress often directs (in report language or actual law) various executive branch entities to produce reports on one thing or another. But the Executive Branch entities not infrequently comply in minimal ways, and sometimes not at all.
8/10) In other words, whatever exactly happens with the Intelligence Authorization bill, most important will be the degree to which key senators invest in insisting on a serious report from DNI, and on the spirit in which the congressional directive is carried out by key players
9/10) within the Executive Branch--including career people, senior political appointees (e.g., DNI), and even POTUS. It is possible, of course, that some of these players will change between now and the production of any DNI UAP report.
10/10) Note: The July 23 New York Times article misstates the SSCI report language on one point. The SSCI report requests one DNI report, within 180 days of enactment of the underlying bill -- not a public report "every six months." #ufo #NYTUFO
Note that the NY Times has now posted the following correction to the 7/23/20 story:
The New York Times has posted an updated and expanded correction to yesterday's UAP story. Here is the NYT correction as it appears at about 12:30 PM EDT. This revision corrects the error that I identified in tweet no. 10/10 of my original tweet-chain above.
1/2) Some folks have asked to see a page in the Congressional Record that "proves" that the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA. S. 3905) passed the Senate. It was accomplished through an arcane procedure. Sen. Rubio filed an amendment that contained the entire text of the IAA;
this went into a "substitute amendment" that replaced the original text of the National Defense Authorization Act (S. 4049). Then the combo bill was passed. Above,the first page of the Rubio amt. Below,Senate Armed Services Cmte release that mentions the incorporation of the IAA.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the ranking minority member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, responds (sort of) to some unheard questions about UAP. (From the Mystery Wire YouTube channel.)
More precisely:it's a classified annex to the SSCI committee report (not "the bill"). One portion of such a classified annex (the "schedule of authorizations") will have force of law if the bill is enacted,but the rest would be only an expression of the will of Congress--not law.
On July 23, the Senate passed a bill, to which is linked the Senate Intelligence Committee guidance to the Director of National Intelligence to prepare a public report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It still has a long way to go, as I discuss here:
1/5) At link in #5, a new "gateway" page to all of my five years of investigative reports covering many UFO-alien claims of Ray Stanford-- claims spanning the 1950s right up to today. This new portal page contains short descriptions of, and
2/5) links to, my earlier articles:
-- "Ray Stanford's Alien-Claims Lifetime Achievement Award": An overview of Ray Stanford's six decades of grandiose, unsubstantiated claims related to UFOs and extraterrestrials--from purported contacts with the "Space Brothers" in the 1950s,
3/5) to trance-channeling the extraterrestrial "Aramda of the Planet-Keepers" (and Jesus) in the 1970s, to Stanford's ongoing, multiple claims that his movies and photos show alien super-tech in action.
-- Ray Stanford's time machine project (1960-1976).
CONGRESS UPDATE:
U.S. SENATE PASSES MULTIPLE
UAP/UFO MEASURES
1) The U.S. Senate today (July 27, 2023) passed a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), 86-11, that contains multiple and far-reaching provisions related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP/UFOs). https://t.co/R5VHaBmtS1twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2) The Senate added the entire Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) to the FY 2024 NDAA, including UAP-related provisions earlier approved by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (with some revisions).
3) After approving the final NDAA-IAA package under the bill number H.R. 2670, the Senate sent it to a conference committee with the House of Representatives. There was only one minor UAP-related provision in the NDAA version that the House passed on July 14.
1/25) Deep-dive research by @SignalsIntelUFO shows that in 1980, Bob Lazar married a woman 16 years his senior, Carol, previously convicted of 2nd-degree murder for armed assistance to Hells Angels in committing a brutal slaying. Why is this pertinent? medium.com/@signalsintell…
2/25) The Knapp-Corbell fable of Bob Lazar, senior physicist, is very far removed from the sordid realities of the life of a serial scam artist during the 1980s, as revealed by research of Tom Mahood in the 1990s, and now in many interviews and document finds by @SignalsIntelUFO.
3/25) Lazar has claimed that he was granted a "Q" security clearance (equivalent to Top Secret) less than two years after his wedding, to work on secret stuff at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Lazar was not actually employed by LANL. Rather, he worked briefly AT the facility for
1/5) Here again is a link to the slideshow presented on January 11, 2023, by Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., director of the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), to the Transportation Research Board, about AARO's "UAP Mission & Civil Aviation." drive.google.com/file/d/1Lln8JF…
2/5) "[The] consequence of UAP in the vicinity of strategic capabilities is high, potentially threatening strategic deterrence and safety of civil society. DoD [is] strengthening observations and reporting capabilities near US strategic capabilities and critical infrastructure."
3/5) "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena are sources of anomalous spaceborne, airborne, seaborne or transmedium observations that are not yet attributable to known actors or causes...material, behavioral, or capability attributes perceived to be beyond known performance envelopes."
1/11) A PROPOSAL NASA WILL SURELY DECLINE: @JeremyCorbell is promoting a column by The Toronto Star's "pop culture columnist," @vinaymenon. Menon suggests that the recently constituted NASA UAP study team should bring on Bob Lazar as a consultant, asserting that #ufotwitter
2/11) "nothing Lazar said has ever been disproven," and "the man is a brilliant scientist." In the real world, however, Lazar is no scientist at all, but a man with only a high-school diploma, who brazenly fabricated claims to have earned Masters degrees from CalTech and MIT.
3/11) Lazar possesses some modest technical skills, and a disarming matter-of-fact manner of peddling manifest bullshit. Each remarkable claim collapses under critical investigation. Neither Lazar nor his promoters submit to sustained questioning or debate with informed skeptics.
1/13) The "United States Department of Naval Intelligence," an agency Bob Lazar claimed employed him for captive-UFO studies in 1988-89, has never existed, two key authorities on Navy intelligence history (both former 2-star admirals, one now the Navy's head historian) told me.
2/13) Bob Lazar, in muddled and conflicting statements, has claimed that a 1989 W-2 form from the IRS proved that he had worked for a "United States Department of Naval Intelligence." Lazar promotors such as Jeremy Corbell have made much of the document. #ufotwitter #BobLazar
3/13) But in a 10-19-22 email, Samuel J. Cox, Director of the U.S. Navy's Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC), told me no such organization ever existed. "There has been no Department of Naval Intelligence, either external or internal to the Department of the Navy."