1 I love #ufotwitter & I'm glad folks contacted their representatives when NDAA/Gillibrand/Gallego amendment was being debated. One day, when our numbers are large enough, we'll be able 2 have an impact on legislation. To think that it happened this time is a bit delusional, IMO.
2 Back in November on @MaxMoszkowicz's show with Mellon, Lue and Avi...
@LuAngeles asked: Does Mellon think grass roots political efforts (like Big Phone Home) are part of the public awareness of creating awareness of UAP?
@LuAngeles asked: Does Mellon think grass roots political efforts (like Big Phone Home) are part of the public awareness of creating awareness of UAP?
3 Mellon: "I think all of that is helpful & I think it's important. I will say that I followed a particular course of action very carefully with Capitol Hill & it was primarily a discussion about national security. It wasn't a discussion about science & it wasn't a
4 Mellon: "discussion about extraterrestrials, and that was very deliberate bc of the stigma is so bad that these members couldn't even approach it if you didn't provide some cover, some defensible way for them to be able to talk about it and engage. And that's a subject that
5 Mellon: "all Americans care about, national security, & rightly so. And there's a very general national security component to this. So THAT is what got the members (of Congress) to engage, when they met with these Navy pilots & they looked them in the eye, and those airmen
6 Mellon: "told them what their experiences had been. I would say that's, in terms of effect on the members & getting them to engage. You notice @SenBillNelson, the director of NASA, has been talking about that. That's bc he was a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
7 Mellon: "when we pushed to get those pilots in there & have those briefings. By good luck, he's now the director of NASA and it's obviously had a huge effect on his thinking. So I think everybody's efforts to advance the conversation & get the information out are helpful and
8 Mellon: "contribute and are positive, and I support all that. But in terms of the actual impact on the legislators, I think I think first and foremost, it's been the Navy and the military and the national security argument."
9 I think it's great to encourage this community but let's not live in fantasy land. Folks we need to thank are Lue, Chris, E. Davis, Puthoff, the aviators who were brave enough 2 share their stories, & everybody else who briefed Congress & explained why this needed to get done.
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