Bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) aimed to establish a process with the ostensible goal of revealing the existence of “non-human intelligence” to the public. But the legislation, which is co-sponsored by three Republican and two Democratic senators, is now in jeopardy.

In comments yesterday on the Senate floor, Schumer stated that “House Republicans are also attempting to kill another commonsense, bipartisan measure passed by the Senate, which I was proud to cosponsor… to increase transparency around what the government does and does not know about unidentified aerial phenomena.”

According to reports, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, are leading efforts to prevent any meaningful version of this provision from being added to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.

Members of Congress generally clamor for enhanced government oversight — a core function of the legislative branch — and transparency. So what could cause a small group of influential lawmakers to suddenly resist it?

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    Gee, I wonder why chairs of the Intelligence and Armed Services committees would want to prevent the release of information about heretofore unrevealed aircraft?

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      Until the DoD can account for the 2 trillion dollars they can’t account for this audit, I have 0 interest in entertaining the obstruction of these officials.

      That’s American taxpayer money and we don’t even get “classified aerospace research” as a line item

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        They can account for it, but the government can’t just make all of their defense spending public knowledge.

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          They still don’t account for it, they just get free money from US tax payers. The DoD is getting free hand outs.

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    UFOs were a plot by the US government - but just to get the Russians to waste money researching something we knew was nonsense. Yet another cold war deception.

    This current UAP nonsense is probably us seeing if China will buy the same ploy. Chuck Schumer does seem to be a UFO true believer though.

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      I’d love to read some more about this if you have some recommendations that I can go look for. I don’t buy that it’s all a ruse, but am open to it if the data points that way. So, recommended reading for that please!

      Right now we have many senior government officials stating there are “things” that do not belong to us or our adversaries but are interfering with flight trainings on a routine basis, well respected intelligence and military officials under oath saying the same and more. I get it’s still not “proven” but the movers and shakers are taking it seriously, so there’s something to it - whether that’s purely government corruption or “something else” remains to be seen.

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        Hi! Sorry for the delay.

        So bear with me here. I first heard about it on the podcast of two prominent tabletop RPG developers. One is or was an academic, and they are both intelligence nerds who heavily research intelligence history and present. Is that a credible source? I think it’s an informed opinion, but i’d understand some eyebrow-raising.

        You can hear them talking about the recent round of UAP stuff in this episode from july, beggining at 54:45: https://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/episode-557-all-four-sided/

        I believe the theory that UFOs were a cover story for new airplane design research that got weaponised during the cold war originates from skeptic Brian Dunning: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4528