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UFOs Are Still a Mystery, and 2020 Showed Us the DoD is Paying Attention

Micah Hanks
31 Dec 2020
The Debrief

In June 1960, Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, third Director of
Central Intelligence under the Truman Administration and first to
direct the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency created under the
National Security Act of 1947, went on the record with his views on UFOs.
"I know that neither Russia nor this country had anything even
approaching such high speeds and maneuvers," Hillenkoetter was
quoted saying. ...
Hillenkoetter was also not the last to suggest that some of the objects appeared to display capabilities that far exceeded anything in the
arsenal of US adversaries, let alone the best spy planes and other
aircraft taking off from runways here stateside. Despite this, more
recent appearances of aerial objects of unknown origin, as depicted in
a series of Navy videos authorized for release by the DoD earlier this
year, have been touted by many as either being a form of secret US
technology, or perhaps that belonging to another nation. ...
The unlikelihood of this scenario has not been lost on skeptics over
the years. In search of more parsimonious alternative explanations for
the UFO problem, such unsound arguments tend to favor Occam's razor,
and lead to the presumption that misidentifications of prosaic objects, delusions, and hoaxes can suffice to explain the entirety of the
mystery. However, this conclusion also aids us little in finding a
truly comprehensive solution to the UFO issue as it has been recognized
since the 1940s. ...
The Pentagon's officially authorized release of Navy videos depicting
aerial phenomena on April 27, 2020 ranks among the most noteworthy
stories of the year, and arguably, in the broader history of UFOs. The
Dept of Defense "authorized the release of 3 unclassified
Navy videos, one taken in Nov 2004 and the other 2 in Jan
2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after
unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017," according to an official
Pentagon statement. ...
If the objects in these videos were anything known to our
military--either from its own inventory or suspected of belonging to
that of an adversary--it seems unlikely that the DoD's "thorough
review" would have cleared them for release. This, in addition to characterizing the aerial phenomena in question as "unidentified,"
which explicitly conveys that the objects appear to be of unknown
origin. ...
With the renewed attention the Pentagon has shown for the study and
assessment of unidentified aerial phenomena over the last few
years--and 2020 in particular--it would seem that it remains a
potential concern to our military, as past instances of govt
involvement have shown. This remains evident, despite challenges to
its legitimacy as a subject of scientific inquiry that have arisen
over the decades. ...
In spite of its enduring ambiguity, 2020 has made it clear that the
United States military, certain members of Congress, and others in
govt are taking UFOs seriously, to whatever limited extent the
subject is being studied. As history shows, we have stood at these
crossroads several times before. Perhaps with fresh eyes on the
problem, and new technologies that past analysts weren't able to
benefit from using, 2020 could mark a turning point in our
understanding of these mysteries of the skies. ...

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UAP Task Force to Provide Report to Senate Intelligence Committee
The recent passing of the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021 may
help shed light on the Pentagon's current investigations into UFOs.
The Debrief, 29 Dec 2020
Since it was first presented by the Senate Select Intelligence
Committee in June, this year's Intelligence Authorization Act has been
of unusual interest thanks to an included provision titled "Advanced
Aerial Threats." In this inclusion, the committee offered intriguing
support for the "efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task
Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence" and requested the production
of an unclassified report detailing the analysis of UFOs, or as The
Pentagon now terms them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) or
"Anomalous Aerial Vehicles."

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ABC News, 30 Dec 2020 19:05Z
Images published in local media show Indonesian military officers posing
with the unmanned underwater vehicle that was found just before Christmas
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US rivers are changing from blue to yellow and green, satellite images show Livescience.com, 30 Dec 2020 13:25Z
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Scores Missing, Hundreds Evacuated After Clay Landslide Strikes Village in Norway
The Daily Beast, 30 Dec 2020 18:23Z
At least 26 people are unaccounted for, and 100s have been evacuated
after a sheet of clay caused a devastating landslide in a picturesque
village outside ...

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