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In this video, retired Air Force pilot and YouTube creator Chris Lehto analyzes an article by Christopher Sharp about lawyer Daniel Sheehan's claim that 5 Republican politicians are blocking the UFO Disclosure Act. Lehto explores the connections between these politicians and defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Radiance Technologies that could influence their opposition to the Act. He also analyzes the Citizens United Supreme Court case that gave corporations and other entities First Amendment rights and how that has impacted campaign finance laws. Lehto argues we now have the tools for decentralized media and communication to apply pressure and get to the truth behind what's happening with this important legislation.
originally posted by: 727Sky
Why am I not surprised that major defense contractors are buying politicians to side with them against having to reveal any alien tech they may be hiding ?
In this video, retired Air Force pilot and YouTube creator Chris Lehto analyzes an article by Christopher Sharp about lawyer Daniel Sheehan's claim that 5 Republican politicians are blocking the UFO Disclosure Act. Lehto explores the connections between these politicians and defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Radiance Technologies that could influence their opposition to the Act. He also analyzes the Citizens United Supreme Court case that gave corporations and other entities First Amendment rights and how that has impacted campaign finance laws. Lehto argues we now have the tools for decentralized media and communication to apply pressure and get to the truth behind what's happening with this important legislation.
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originally posted by: orbhunter
Just throwing this in here. Section in the Guarding UK today and can be viewed for free, if the site asks regarding subscription just click 'maybe later'............. www.theguardian.com...
The government never released video or photos of the objects it tracked (even though they obviously must have had some footage). They initially claimed they couldn’t recover any wreckage. When reporters and other concerned citizens attempted to Foia the evidence they were stonewalled completely, with the Pentagon claiming it was all classified.
Actually, using two nearly half-million-dollar Sidewinder missiles, because the first one missed.
Purchased for less than $15 and operated by the ham radio hobbyist group Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, a silvery, 32-inch-wide pico balloon called “K9YO-15” was launched from a nature preserve north of Chicago in October 2022. It dangled a 10-gram (0.35-ounce) payload that included a radio tracker, a solar panel and a long antenna wire. Some 123 days later, on February 11, 2023, K9YO-15 was on its seventh circumnavigation of the globe, its hobbyist operators say, when they lost contact with the pico balloon near Alaska’s border with the Yukon. This was the same day that a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down a UFO using a nearly half-million-dollar Sidewinder missile in the same general vicinity. K9YO-15 has not been heard from since.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
The reason they don't want to release that "classified" information is they used 2 missiles costing almost half a million dollars each to shoot down a $15 balloon!
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
But what if it had been an alien probe? Such an aggressive attack could have started an interstellar war! Maybe it's not such a good idea to shoot first and ask questions later.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
originally posted by: orbhunter
Just throwing this in here. Section in the Guarding UK today and can be viewed for free, if the site asks regarding subscription just click 'maybe later'............. www.theguardian.com...
The government never released video or photos of the objects it tracked (even though they obviously must have had some footage). They initially claimed they couldn’t recover any wreckage. When reporters and other concerned citizens attempted to Foia the evidence they were stonewalled completely, with the Pentagon claiming it was all classified.
The reason they don't want to release that "classified" information is they used 2 missiles costing almost half a million dollars each to shoot down a $15 balloon! (The first missile missed). People figured out that's very likely what happened to that one object even without the release of official information. So I can see why people want to block the relase of such embarrassing truths, at least officially.
Did the Pentagon Shoot Down a Harmless Ham Radio Balloon?
Actually, using two nearly half-million-dollar Sidewinder missiles, because the first one missed.
Purchased for less than $15 and operated by the ham radio hobbyist group Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, a silvery, 32-inch-wide pico balloon called “K9YO-15” was launched from a nature preserve north of Chicago in October 2022. It dangled a 10-gram (0.35-ounce) payload that included a radio tracker, a solar panel and a long antenna wire. Some 123 days later, on February 11, 2023, K9YO-15 was on its seventh circumnavigation of the globe, its hobbyist operators say, when they lost contact with the pico balloon near Alaska’s border with the Yukon. This was the same day that a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot down a UFO using a nearly half-million-dollar Sidewinder missile in the same general vicinity. K9YO-15 has not been heard from since.
Everyone feel safer now?
But what if it had been an alien probe? Such an aggressive attack could have started an interstellar war! Maybe it's not such a good idea to shoot first and ask questions later.
I wouldn't say that they are inaccurate, I would suppose shooting down a 32 inch balloon with no engine so not much of a heat signature might be beyond the design parameters of the sidewinder missile, which is designed to home in on heat signatures of aircraft. A 32 inch balloon probably doesn't have that much of a heat signature. The much larger supposed "Chinese spy balloon" shot down over the atlantic ocean was a much easier target, being the size of a truck or so with a much larger heat signature from all the sunlight it abbsorbed then gave off as heat.
originally posted by: orbhunter
a reply to: Arbitrageur
Blimey those sidewinders must be inaccurate Arbi to miss a balloon!
If an alien invasion uses craft that have no heat signature, I think the sidewinders might be useless against them. I'm hoping they will be friendly aliens, which is why I don't suggest shooting first and asking questions later, as the US apparently did in that case.
I totally agree with you on playing it a little careful with the UFOs, having experienced what 'they' have up there close up on a couple of occasions there is little we can do do if they decide on a full scale invasion. We are doomed.
Maybe you didn't read my last paragraph about the possibility it was an alien probe they were shooting at? So yes of course they could be something else, that's what I was suggesting, but my point was also that they didn't even know what they were shooting at when the 32 inch pico balloon was shot down.
originally posted by: Zetor
Just because they have shot down a cheap balloon at one point it doesn't imply they re shooting cheap balloons all the time and there are reasons for the secrecy we all know. It could be foreign adversaries using their technology and devices or something more which is unidentified.
Conclusion
Given the rapid development in this newly emerging area of focus, private-sector entities involved in government-funded projects, particularly defense or intelligence-related contracts or research projects, should monitor closely both the implementation of FY 2024 NDAA provisions related to UAP records and future UAP legislation.
The Pentagon may be investigating hundreds of reported UFO sightings, but the number of people coming forward with tales of possible encounters, is set to drop according to the former head of the Defense Department's dedicated investigative unit.
The total number of "unidentified anomalous phenomena," or UAP, reported by the U.S. military, intelligence officials and members of the public will decrease as military personnel and the public understand more about technologies under development across the world, Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), told Newsweek.
Sections 1841-1843 of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 118-31) require NARA to establish the ‘‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection." The law also requires that by October 2024, each federal agency review, identify, and organize each UAP record in its custody for disclosure to the public and transmission to the National Archives.