Threats from UFO’s/UAP’s? The Biggest Threat Might be the Historical Lack of Government Transparency and Candor

It’s seven days before the “Big UFO/ UAP Report” from the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence about what our government knows about this topic. Given the amount of report leaks already as far back as a couple weeks ago or more from The New York Times and others, most likely the entire report – and hopefully the alleged classified section accompanying it – will be in full public view before next Friday, June 25. 

Watch for a BREAKING NEWS analysis here in the Chronicles when it happens!

In the meantime, the “UFO/ UAP threat” thread continues to surface and expand through different media stories. But more telling – and potentially more troublesome – is this line of thinking from elected national congressional representatives, among others. Troubling because historically governments in the U.S. and the U.K, to name two, have downplayed or denied these objects were a threat going back years – the years when no one in the news media were paying as much heated attention to this story like they are now. Or maybe they’re just making up for lost time in 2021.

A recent Associated Press story underscores that fact, with a somewhat muddled sentence: “In 1960, the CIA said 6,500 objects had been reported to the U.S. Air Force over the prior 13 years. The Air Force concluded there was no evidence those sightings were ‘inimical or hostile’ or related to ‘interplanetary space ships’ the CIA said.” Of course, there’s no explanation of how or why the CIA thinks this. But that has been the m.o. of the agencies and military for decades.

That was then. This is now. The AP report continues, “Last August, the Defense Department created a task force dedicated to the matter. The mission was to ‘detect, analyze and catalog UAPs’ that could endanger the U.S. In an era of increasingly sophisticated drone aircraft, now seen as a risk to sensitive domestic military sites such as nuclear missile bases, the focus has been more on foreign rivals than on any supposed visitors from another planet. Yet the formation of the task force stood as a rare acknowledgment from the government that UFOs posed a potential national security concern (my italics).

 The June 16 New York Post account of select NY congressional reps being briefed on the report, with this brazen headline – UFOs could threaten US security, pols say after Capitol Hill briefing – plays to the age-old national security fears, which now seems to include UAP: “Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-New York) was more talkative when asked about the report’s contents, but still spoke in general terms, describing UFOs as a potential national security threat.”

Added Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), “You know it’s always about our safety and security — our national security is [priority] number one — and so that’s really the area where we really focused on this morning.”

What has always been true in this murky subject area is the utter lack of transparency and candor from the authorities. In an embattled democracy like the one we struggle to hold onto, this period – and this loaded subject – provide a real chance at restoring some faith in select government agencies and the military to be forthcoming and free with the facts. But it simultaneously hastens the tongues and pens of informed cynics and tired skeptics who suspect that bar will never rise, not on this subject, not back in the day, not now.

That said. the silver lining/good news week quote from the Post story: “Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), who has been heading efforts on the UFO inquiry, said Americans should expect an eventual public hearing on the report’s findings.”

Let’s see how that goes.