Monday, 1 July 2019

UFO Article (Blog):
“The United States Air Force’s UFO(ish) Reporting Rules For 2017; The Air Force Service Watch Cell; ‘Unauthorized Air Vehicles’; And The Old ‘Vital Intelligence Sightings’ Back From The Dead”


By Paul Dean, 6 June 2019
(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne, Australia)

Quote from the article:
“It’s been nearly two years since the existence of a hitherto unknown UFO investigation effort, known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), was revealed to the world. The program was housed within America’s Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Office of the Secretary of Defence (OSD), and apparently ran from 2007 to 2012. Some of the cases studied by AATIP have involved the United States Navy’s (USN) massive aircraft carriers and the formidable combat aircraft attached to them. Further, it appears that the Navy has been caught flat footed regarding the reporting of UFO’s and unidentifiable aircraft, and changes to operational doctrine are apparently underway.

On the 23rd of April, 2019, media outlet Politico carried an article titled ‘US Navy Drafting New Guidelines For Reporting UFOs’. Written by reporter Bryan Bender, the piece builds on an official statement made by the Navy’s vital Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (OPNAV N2/N6). Various issues are discussed including the apparently sudden need for modernized ‘unidentified aircraft’ reporting guidelines for ‘pilots and other personnel’, and the fact that Congressional briefings by Navy ‘intelligence officials’ on unidentifiable air hazards have taken place. The Politico article, and the formal OPNAV N2/N6 statement which it cites, was analysed by Australian researcher and colleague Keith Basterfield, here.

Of note, to me at least, was a curious admission within the OPNAV N2/N6 statement, and it concerned none other than the United States Air Force (USAF). Ostensibly, the ‘Navy and the USAF take these reports very seriously’ and ‘investigate each and every report’. If they are talking about mundane unidentified aircraft engagements, then this statement isn’t especially interesting. If, however, they are talking about encounters with odd craft, or unusual phenomena, then it’s quite another. Considering that this entire story links itself to recent events regarding UFO’s, and even quotes Christopher Mellon, a former DoD official and UFO proponent, one is bound to assume we are dealing with the latter. And if this assumption is correct, the notion that the ‘Navy and the USAF’ take such reports ‘very seriously’ and ‘investigate each and every’ one of them flies in the face of what we have been told about ‘our’ sort of UFOs for decades.”















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The Pentagon (2008), ArlingtonVirginia

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