UFO Article (Blog): “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the National Reconnaissance Office”

By Keith Basterfield, 21 July 2019

(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,

New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:

“Background

The To The Stars Academy (TTSA) recently announced that Chris Herndon was joining their Advisory Board. Herndon initially worked as a Department of Navy civilian, supporting a variety of agencies, including the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO.)

This made me ask myself, what did I know about the NRO? Like many other long-time researchers, the NRO had popped up on my radar from time to time. So I decided, that in this blog post, I would take a look at what I could find out about any relationship between the NRO and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP.)”

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/07/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-and.html

Wikipedia article: “National Reconnaissance Office”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office

Quote fron the Wikipedia article:

“The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the ‘big five’ U.S. intelligence agencies.[2] The NRO is headquartered in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia,[3] 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Washington Dulles International Airport.

It designs, builds, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA.[4]

The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense[5] and serves in an additional capacity as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO’s federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel.[6] A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and ‘virtually no federal workforce’, accomplishing most of its work through ‘tens of thousands’ of defense contractor personnel.[7]”

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UFO Thread (Forum): “UFOs and the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office).”

1 January 2018

(AboveTopSecret.com, U.S.A.)

The question of whether the National Reconnaissance Office’s sophisticated satellites pick up UFOs has been debated by many UFO researchers from time to time.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1195094/pg1

Wikipedia article: “National Reconnaissance Office”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the ‘big five’ U.S. intelligence agencies.[2] The NRO is headquartered in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia,[3] 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Washington Dulles International Airport.

It designs, builds, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of theUnited States government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA.[4]

The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense[5] and serves as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO’s federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel.[6] A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and ‘virtually no federal workforce,’ accomplishing most of its work through ‘tens of thousands’ of defense contractor personnel.[7]”

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NRO ground station at Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, CO

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UFO Article (Blog): “Item 2.102: FOIA Request to the U. S. National Reconnaissance Office”

23 March 2011
(Larry W. Bryant’s UFOview, Newport News, Virginia)

http://ufoview.tumblr.com/post/48553585876/item-2102-foia-request-to-the-u-s-national-re

Wikipedia article: “National Reconnaissance Office”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the ‘big five’ U.S. intelligence agencies.[2] The NRO is headquartered in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia,[3] 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Washington Dulles International Airport.

It designs, builds, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the United States government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA.[4]

The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense[5] and serves as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO’s federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel.[6] A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and ‘virtually no federal workforce,’ accomplishing most of its work through ‘tens of thousands’ of defense contractor personnel.[7]”

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UFO Article (Blog): “TTSA - a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission”

By Keith Basterfield, 15 July 2019

(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,

New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:

“Offering circular

On 12 July 2019, the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences [sic] (TTSA for short) undertook a further filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As with all these filings, there are always a few new pieces of information.

New Director

"In May 2019 the company appointed J Christopher Mizer to serve on the company’s Board of Directors...Mr Mizer will be considered an independent contractor and will receive a monthly fee of $5,000 as well as 300,000 shares of the company's class A common stock..."

The current staffing is:

Thomas Delonge - President, Interim CEO.

James Semivan - Vice President, Operations.

Harold Puthoff - Vice President, Science and Technology.

Louis Tommasino - Treasurer, CFO.

Stephen Justice - Director of Advanced Programs and Technology, COO.

Kari Delonge - Chief Communications Officer.

Lisa Clifford - Secretary.

Luis Elizondo - Chief of Security and Special programs.

The Board of Directors is:

Thomas Delonge; James Semivan; Harold Puthoff; J Christopher Mizer. (‘There is one additional director to be appointed.’  ‘We are looking for a CEO...to take over from T Delonge.’)

New member of the Advisory Board

There is one member of the TTSA Advisory Board, listed in the offering circular, who does not appear on the TTSA’s website list of their team. This is one, Chris Herndon. The offering circular provides the following information on Herndon:

‘Chris Herndon is a C-level Executive and Entrepreneur and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of TechCentrics Inc. Previously he served for more than twenty years in the federal government, most recently as Deputy Assistant to the President and the Director of White House Information Technology...He began his career in telecommunications as a Department of the Navy civilian, where he supported organizations such as the National Reconnaissance Office, Office of Naval Research, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the White House Communications Agency...’

My comment: Note that Herndon’s background was with the US Navy. This is interesting to me in that TTSA has been claiming success with influencing the US Navy to update its guidelines on reporting unidentified aircraft; and in briefing members/staffers in Congress. Note also, the reference to supporting agencies such as the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

The role of the NRO, according to their website is ‘the U.S. government agency in charge of designing, building, launching and maintaining America's intelligence satellites.’

Given this role, the question of whether or not its sophisticated sensor network picks up UAP has been debated from time to time in the UFO literature.”

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/07/ttsa-new-filing-with-us-securities-and.html

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Chris Herndon, Member of the TTSA Advisory Board

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The Question of U.S. Government UFO Interest

The U.S. politician who deserves most credit when it comes to the UFO issue is former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford (Republican). In 1966, while Ford was a Representative for Michigan and U.S. House of Representatives Republican Minority Leader, he managed to get the House Armed Services Committee to hold a Congressional Hearing on UFOs on 5 April 1966.

So many top U.S. government politicians have had a great interest in the UFO phenomenon, but have ultimately failed to acquire classified U.S. government UFO evidence.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (Democrat) also failed to acquire classified UFO evidence.

James Earl Carter, Jr.,
39th President of the United States
(Democrat)





Then how interested are the main U.S. government departments/agencies (Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, FBI, NSA and NRO) in the UFO phenomenon today? And do these departments/agencies still investigate UFO cases?

The U.S. Air Force and other U.S. government departments/agencies claim time and again that they haven’t investigated a single UFO case since 17 December 1969.

United States Department of Defense article
(http://www.defenselink.mil/faq/pis/16.html):

"Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)

This issue is no longer being investigated by the Defense Department. As you may know, the United States Air Force began investigating UFOs in 1948 under a program called Project Sign. Later the program's name was changed to Project Grudge, and in 1953 it was changed again to Project Blue Book. On December 17, 1969, the Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project Blue Book.

The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on a number of factors, including reports and studies by the University of Colorado and the National Academy of Sciences, as well as past UFO studies and the Air Force's two decades of experience investigating UFO reports.

As a result of these investigations, studies, and experience, the conclusions of Project Blue Book were:

* No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security.

* There has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as "unidentified" represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge.

* There has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as "unidentified" are extraterrestrial vehicles.

Between 1948 and 1969 the Air Force investigated 12,618 reported UFO sightings. Of these, 11,917 were found to have been caused by material objects such as balloons, satellites, and aircraft; immaterial objects such as lightning, reflections, and other natural phenomena; astronomical objects such as stars, planets, the sun, and the moon; weather conditions; and hoaxes. Only 701 reported sightings remain unexplained.

All documentation regarding the former Blue Book investigation was permanently transferred to the Military Reference Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 8th and Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20408, and is available for public review. A list of private organizations interested in aerial phenomena can be found in Gale's Encyclopedia of Associations, available in the reference section of many libraries. Air Force Fact Sheets on this topic may be viewed, including one about the so-called Roswell Incident . The Naval Historical Center has compiled a bibliography."

But if you click on the below web links, you’ll see that the U.S. government in actuality hasn’t stopped investigating UFOs post 1969.

The text in the U.S. government document pertaining to the 1976 Iran UFO case, which can be found at the below links, shows that it was received by the U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. (Pentagon) and other main U.S. government departments/agencies:

www.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/oasd/asod89.htm

www.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/oasd/asod90.htm

www.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/oasd/asod91.htm

The three above web links have been posted on this blog earlier.

And the U.S. Government has also investigated many other UFO cases since 17 December 1969.

UFO TV News Report:
“Air Force UFO Report”, 24 June 1997
(CNN, Atlanta, Georgia)

The U.S. Air Force held a press conference regarding the
“The Roswell Report” on 24 June 1997. Colonel John Haynes
represented the U.S. Air Force.

Part 3 contains an interview with esteemed author and UFO researcher Jim Marrs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ0rNj7mKLw (1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPI0ieDb9Y (2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6V-fLIDGQ (3)

Short excerpt from the press conference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsiH1t81S4c

Colonel Haynes was also asked several questions about UFOs in general. And he answered that he personally does not believe that UFOs exist, that the U.S. government does not investigate UFO cases any longer and that he didn’t believe that the U.S. government would investigate UFOs in the future.

This begs the question: Why then have the U.S. Air Force (!!), U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, DIA, CIA, FBI, NSA and NRO released thousands of UFO documents which are dated after 17 December 1969?

Aren’t these released U.S. government UFO FOIA documents bona fide proof of ongoing U.S. government UFO investigations and interest?!

If the U.S. government's UFO investigations had ended on 17 December 1969, you shouldn’t have found a single U.S. government UFO document dated after the aforementioned date!

News articles regarding “The Roswell Report”:

“Report on Roswell 'UFO crash' due soon” (CNN):

http://edition.cnn.com/US/9706/18/ufo.report/

“Air Force Details a New Theory in U.F.O. Case”, 25 June 1997 (The New York Times):

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/25/us/air-force-details-a-new-theory-in-ufo-case.html

“The Roswell Report: Case Closed - The Declassified Evidence (1997)”, 18 September 2009 (The New York Times):

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/176856/The-Roswell-Report-Case-Closed-The-Declassified-Evidence/overview

U.S. Department of Defense document (NICAP.org):
“NEWS RELEASE
OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
(PUBLIC AFFAIRS)
WASHINGTON, D.C - 20301

AIR FORCE TO TERMINATE PROJECT "BLUE BOOK"’:

http://www.nicap.org/waves/1969BB_Termination.htm

Actual document in PDF file format:

http://www.nicap.org/waves/1969BB_Termination.pdf

Wikipedia article:
“Air Force reports on the Roswell UFO incident”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_reports_on_the_Roswell_UFO_incident

Colonel John Haynes,
U.S. Air Force

UFO Radio Interview: “GOVERNMENT DoD INSIDER, CHRIS MELLON ON UFOs 06-01-2016”

Published: 2 June 2016

(Podcast UFO, Sebago, Maine)

Source: Martin Willis Live Shows (YouTube channel)

Video text:

“Alejandro Rojas with the UFO updates, host of Podcast UFO, Martin Willis is the first to interview former DoD insider, Chris Mellon. Chris talks about where he ventured with interests in the UFO topic when he was on the inside. What access levels government officials may or may not have, including the US president and why he joined UFOData, as well as the goals they hope to achieve.

Chris Mellon’s background: Chris graduated from Yale with a Master’s Degree in International Relations, he worked for many years for the US Department of Defense as the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Security & Information Operations as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Minority Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

His responsibilities included review and oversight of intelligence activities, which included Area 51 and other sensitive governmental locations. He also spent over a decade on the Senate Intelligence Committee, involved in oversight of NRO, CIA, NSA and other intelligence organizations. He became the first Congressional official to review all of the NSA’s compartmented programs. Chris is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Reconnaissance Office Gold Medal and the Defense Intelligence Agency Director’s Medal.

Chris has had a lifetime fascination with UFOs, and has recently became a Board Member of UFODATA, UFO Detection & Tracking as he believe the topic needs serious scientific investigation and is putting his efforts forward.”

Christopher Mellon is now the National Security Affairs Advisor for the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science.

The interview starts at 14:17 minutes into the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmhGQY9pfos

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Christopher Mellon
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The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia

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NCP Supplemental Web Page (E-Mail): “Subject: USAF Strategic Air Command began Ground Alert Operations on October 1, 1957”

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the web page:

“USAF Strategic Air Command began Ground Alert Operations on October 1, 1957, whereby it would maintain approximately one-third of its aircraft on ground alert, with weapons loaded and crews standing by for immediate take-off.

The beginings of the great UFO Wave of 1957 seemed to have started in October 1957 and continued through December 1957.

In the first week in November 1957, the predicted UFO wave began. As sightings occurred worldwide, the greatest number of sightings seemed to concentrate in the United States, Brazil, and Japan. In terms of numbers the UFO wave of 1957 produced more UFO sightings than any other UFO wave. At this unique period of time the CIA established ‘The Director of Central Intelligence Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance’. Years later this committee evolved into the very spooky National Reconnaissance Office. The NRO’s focus is planet earth.”

The e-mail was sent from Daniel Wilson to Francis L. Ridge on 
17 August 2005.

http://www.nicap.org/waves/1957supp.htm

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UFO Map: North America 1957 (archive.org/larryhatch.net)

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