Thread by @TheUfoJoe

1 #ufotwitter - @RepRubenGallego: "There is absolutely no difference (between "UFOs" & "UAP") but I think the logic behind it is to basically demystify it all, to destigmatize the conversation about these phenomena, whether they are #ufos. Then we can talk further about that.

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2 Gallego: "But one of the biggest problems we are recognizing, I recognize, is that we have a lot of 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 pilots, people in the military, that are afraid of uttering the word, "#UFO." So by kind of desanitizing the language, I think this is an approach to get

3 Gallego: "more people to actually talk about what they're seeing."

Why is Congress Directing The Pentagon To Study #UFOs?

Gallego: "I would say, probably, a lot of credit has to go to Harry Reid who kind of started this movement a couple of years ago (AAWSAP began in 2008)

4 Gallego: "by putting money to study #UAPs a couple of years ago. I think the other thing that really has happened is like there is a new, renewed sense of Congress that we need to know what's going on & us burying our head[s] in the sand is not going to help to find an approach

5 Gallego: "to this. I'm not the person saying, 'Oh, there's definitely some little green men in these UAPs out there.' What I'm saying is, 'If we 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 a problem, the problem is we have these unidentified objects. And if you have a problem like that, then you need to have a

6 Gallego: "solution to do that. And in order to have a solution, you need to have a study and treat this like a real, potential threat that it is. When I say 'potential threat,' it could be some really advanced Russian weaponry, some really advanced private weaponry. It could

7 Gallego: "be natural, things that are happening in nature that are affecting our radars. Or yes, it can be extraterrestrial, at the same time."

(Will @julianbarnes step in and try to tell us that by saying extraterrestrial, Gallego really meant meteors and/or solar flares? 🙄)

8 What is a UFO Rapid Response Team and How Would They Work?

Gallego: "OK, well it's not as cool as it sounds (laughs). But look, it's essentially a team that is to investigate occurrences of UAPs, right? And the most important thing for their job to do is to gather information

9 Gallego: "and gather information quickly. And what usually happens for a lot of these instances is that the information gets very stale, or people lose their nerve to talk, which is also bad, and then the information gets stale again. So, this organization, this

10 Gallego: "rapid response team would actually be there to collect information. And the information collection is really important because the next step is actually the 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 important...is the data that comes from it, right? The reason we don't have definitive answers -

11 Gallego: "besides that there's been, in my opinion, an obvious attempt by the government 𝘯𝘰𝘵 to look for the answers - [and] even when we do, we don't have any kind of real data. When is this occurring? How often does it occur? Where does it occur? What are the

12 Gallego: "similarities? And sometimes it's happening to @usairforce personnel & it's happening to @USNavy personnel. But maybe it happens to @USArmy personnel but they don't talk to anybody [except] to each other, right? So the idea of us having a department-wide office is for

13 Gallego: "us to be able to take in all this information so then we can turn around & analyze it. And once you have [a] good analytical basis to make decisions from, then you can actually move to next steps."

What Made You Push For More #UFO Research & Preparedness?

14 Gallego: "It's more of a national security...it is under my jurisdiction as the chairman of intelligence special operations. And the committee itself, the subcommittee - intelligence special operations - is new & it's part of my jurisdiction. So, of course, if it's part of my

15 Gallego: "jurisdiction, I'll investigate it. We knew that there was a report coming out from the @DeptofDefense, so I arranged a classified briefing of that report. And taking information from that report is what helped me create the amendment that you now find in the

16 Gallego: "defense budget that largely is also aligned with @gillibrandny.

What Does The Public Need To Know About UFOs and How Our Government Handles Them?

Gallego: "Well, I think the government is now moving in the right direction in dealing with #UAPs/#UFOs - or whatever

17 Gallego: "you prefer to call them - is that now that we're actually going to be looking at the data and actually looking, essentially, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 them. Not in the traditional sense that we're going to have people exploring, but we're actually going to be looking through past

18 Gallego: "instances, past witnesses, past encounters - whatever it is - and to be able to actually, again, form good data so that they can make some good decisions off that data. Whereas before, there really wasn't a concentrated effort

19 Gallego: "by the federal government to figure out what was going on. If anything, the goal was just to ignore and/or not talk about it, unless it was a direct, national security threat. When I mean it's a direct national threat, there was something that they weren't able to

20 Gallego: "identify but they thought was maybe Russian or Chinese or some type of threat. Then they would actually go look at it. Now we're actually going to take, basically, a real, across-the-board look at everything that we encounter."

21 Early in this interview Gallego praised Senator Reid & said, "there's been, in my opinion, an obvious attempt by the government 𝘯𝘰𝘵 to look for the answers - [and] even when we do, we don't have any kind of real data."

Well, I have no doubt that data exists but folks like

22 Gallego, Gillibrand, Rubio, etc. don't have access to it. THAT is the problem. Has the gov't avoided looking for the answers? Here's Senator Reid on S1 E6 of "Unidentified.

Reid: "You know why they’re not looking at it? They don’t want to. It’s another issue that they're

23 Reid: "trying to ignore. And that’s what’s happened over the years and that’s too bad. We now have the technology. What else is going on in space? That information is coming in. It’s all stored some place in a computer bank and it could be pulled up.”

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24 I believe Reid was referring 2 satellite data Mellon has referenced. Put the right filter on historical recordings & voilà...UFOs. And it wouldn't shock me if Gallego watched "Unidentified" and, he and his staffers read, "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon."

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25 Gallego: "...we're actually going 2B looking thru past instances, past witnesses, past encounters."

Lots 2 choose from but one guy I'd interview would be Admiral Thomas R. Wilson & ask him about his experience in June '97. I'd have Dr. Eric Davis in the room. #crashretrievals

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