Activity Report, 04/30/24

• General Reading
  • Beyond Cloak and Dagger: Inside the CIA, by MIles Copeland. (1974). To p. 341 of 379.
  • “C” – The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill, by Anthony Cave Brown. To p. 342 of 830.
  • Completed Wayward Sons – NICAP and the IC, by Jack Brewer. (2021). Kindle.
  • Began The Official C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception (Declassified). https://archive.org/details/cia-manual-trickery-deception-2009
• Continuing to review and index the Barry Greenwood MJ-12 file.  Viewing the second installment of document images. 
• Change In Approach
  • Rather than work through topics one by one in the prospective book, Tom has started the first chapter and will work through the manuscript of the book in coming months.
  • There will be no further postings of topic content or chapters in future blog postings. Rather, there will be one commentary each week regarding Tom’s thoughts on the general UFO subject and on pertinent developments in the UFO public. 

I’m Not Optimistic About “Big D” Disclosure – Part One

UFO enthusiasts began to hope for major disclosures after an important article was published in a December 2017 issue of the New York Times. In the fall of 2017, Tom Delonge publicly introduced To The Stars Academy, which featured several board members well known in the UFO world. Among the directors were Christopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo, relative newcomers to the public scene. Mellon had served both in the Department of Defense and as a staffer in Congress. HIs background lent him particular credibility with congressional representatives and staff members. Mellon’s efforts resulted in important legislation affecting UFO/UAP issues. He worked behind the scenes to help write legislation directing the DOD to create a UFO investigation office (now known as “AARO”). Later, Senator Chuck Shumer introduced the “UAP Disclosure Act”, modeled on the Kennedy assassination information release. To date, and despite much hoopla, there has been no substantive disclosure from the government about the nature or intention of anomalous phenomena. 

I’m Not Optimistic About “Big D” Disclosure – Part Two – Policy At the Highest Levels

We UFO enthusiasts like to complain about the bad guys in the Pentagon who won’t give us the information that we want – confirmation of the extraterrestrial presence on Earth. The latest target of our spleen is Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, formerly with AARO. Dr. Kirkpatrick is a seasoned government employee, and is certainly smart enough to know that report findings and conclusions are often fashioned in a manner that executive management wants.

We UFO believers were disappointed and frustrated with the slant of the AARO report, but not surprised. Why? Because the report asserted there was no finding of extraterrestrial visitation. (aka “NHI – Non-Human Intelligence”). (Attempts to prove extraterrestrial visitation is flawed, but we will address that problem in another commentary.) The findings in the report are consistent with a sixty-year pattern of government critiques on the UFO phenomenon: the Robertson Panel (1953), Project Bluebook publications (1950s), the Condon Report (1969), The Roswell Report (1995), The Roswell Report – Case Closed (1997), and finally the AARO history (this spring). “Nothing to see here” has been the policy, and the policy has not changed!

There is this little group called the National Security Council, composed of government national security chieftains (and staff). If the government has been in possession of what I call the “Crown Jewels” (recovered craft, bodies, relationships with off-world groups) it would necessarily withhold such information from the public for a variety of reasons. Since we believe there has been a preponderance of the evidence since WWII that UFOs are at the very least, anomalous, we can conclude that there has been a policy of denial (and deception) by the government regarding the reality of the phenomenon.

There will be no shift in policy until there is consensus at the highest levels to change it.

Let’s not hold our collective breath.

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