Greenstreet: "Does the gov't know what’s going on & they’re keeping it a secret?"
Dr. Eric Davis: "I think so. Yeah, I think there’s a lot of evidence that the gov't has known, but the problem is, it’s so outside the realm of of human comprehension that they can’t
2 ED: "deal with it on a legislative basis, they can’t deal with it on a military, operational basis, they can’t deal with it on the basis of a presidential policy. So they just ignore it and just sweep it under the rug and let a finite group of scientists and engineers and
3 ED: "investigators work together to either get funded to investigate and evaluate it or they don’t get funding for long periods of time and nothing gets done! They just hold onto the information and it just collects cobwebs in the classified, storage warehouses."
4 That was a November 2019 interview.
Thankfully, some things have changed along the legislative front.
"On the January 28, 2018 episode of Coast to Coast AM with George Knapp, Dr. Davis described a #UFO sighting he had in Tucson, Arizona in May of 1989, while doing his PhD dissertation on the Voyager missions to Jupiter. Davis, his wife &
2 "other students were at a swimming party in the back of his dissertation supervisor’s house when he and his wife saw a black, boomerang-shaped object in broad daylight.
"In May 2018, Davis was the guest on Open Minds UFO Radio, with host, Alejandro Rojas. Eventually, the
3 "conversation turned to #UFO crashes and while Rojas said he was pretty skeptical about the subject, Davis jumped right in and said there have been crashes all over the world. Since these details are so important, I’m going to transcribe everything that Dr. Davis said.
1 #ufotwitter - Lots to say about this from @BrandiVincent_, featuring quotes from @LtTimMcMillan & @ChrisKMellon. Of course, neither of them could bring themselves to utter the acronym, AAWSAP, which was run by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
2 Dr. Colm Kelleher, a molecular biologist & former deputy administrator for BAASS, told me, "AAWSAP was probably the broadest scope, largest #UFO program ever conducted by the United States gov't. And certainly, if u compare it against Project Sign, Grudge & Blue Book, that’s
3 probably accurate."
Vincent writes, "In the 2000s, Congress approved millions in funding to back the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP. That effort encompassing UFO sighting-aligned research."
1 Maybe some tension. "Skinwalkers" was about AAWSAP, not AATIP, so. In one of the few interviews Lacatski gave, he said this about AAWSAP/AATIP mix-up in media:
"Now, AATIP in the Pentagon, as described in the articles, was basically zero funded, looked @ specific military #UFO
2 JL: "encounters – and very important ones because they had film – and it had no contract. So getting back to how did this mix up occur? I think it’s not deliberate, it’s not due to to authors, to television personalities, etc. It’s the fact we were running, not an official SAP,
3 JL: "but a closed program. I can tell you for a fact that within my own office, they did not know, except leadership, that this contract was being run. They had no idea whatsoever. Our security was that tight."
1 @BryceZabel: "We've acknowledged to ourselves, officially, that these things are real. Now we have an obligation to look into what that means. And if the search for what that means leads to having to accept a little woo in our lives, then I'm sorry, tough break for the people
2 BZ: "that find that to be too challenging. Ultimately, they may slow things down at the beginning.
"[I have] a new class of friend that actually knows a little bit about [the #phenomenon] & says, 'Boy, I just don't wanna think about it.' There will be people in Congress who
3 BZ: "fall into that category. Some of the people [in Congress] will be nuts and bolts people & some will be woo people, and some people will be, 'Don't talk to me about that' people."
@knapp: "I remember, in studying the early days of ufology, those guys like Keyhoe and others
1 Agree 100%. I wanted to add that to my thread but left it alone. Bolender memo. After Blue Book ended, "reports of #UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose.”
"Physicist and longtime CIA contractor Dr. Hal Puthoff says the end of Blue Book was not the end of UFO programs.
'Nonetheless, as far as the public was concerned, that was it,' Dr. Puthoff said during a 2018 talk in Las Vegas.
3 HP: “'I mean, even the Air Force Public Affairs Office put out circulars all the time in response to questions saying, no while we gave this up in 1969. What, in fact did occur was that there were programs going on behind the scenes anyway, as required by the Bolender Memo.'”
1 #ufotwitter, I'm confused. I appreciate all the hard work done by CM & @LueElizondo but not sure why Mr. Mellon felt the need to take an apparent shot at AAWSAP on a day where we were all celebrating the progress made on the NDAA.
2 B) When comparing AAWSAP & AATIP, AAWSAP wasn't the small effort. 50 employees (investigators, scientists, physicians) were hired & they investigated various cases around the country. In "Skinwalkers," they wrote, "more than 75 contractor personnel performed exotic aerospace
3 B) "research & several hundred part-time personnel conducted field work. A multi-million-dollar database to store contract research data was developed."
C) Both AAWSAP & AATIP were secret. In fact, CM didn't even know about AATIP for the longest time. In 2016, in an interview