A new Pentagon department may be bad news for the degree of transparency thats developed into the militarys secretive cache of UFO documentation.
In an editorial forThe Hill, former defense analyst Marik von Rennenkampff argued that the Pentagons new Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group is very bad news for the four brief years of unprecedented openness into the governments knowledge of UFOs (or, as they call them in militaryspeak, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena).
And von Rennenkampff should know he was appointed tothe Department of Defense under former President Barack Obama, and previously served as an analyst in the State Department.
Bolstered by interviews with other former officials, von Rennenkampff warned that the new DoD group, which will be under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security what a mouthful! is an attempt to turn back the clock on the steady drip of declassification of military pilot UFO sightings, and the Pentagons terse acknowledgement of its interest in them.
News of the new Pentagon office came quietly just before Thanksgiving and, in what is likely not a coincidence, was announced just after Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced a bill that von Rennenkampff and others say will revolutionize the study of UFOs.
Self-styled whistleblower Luis Elizondo, who used to lead the DoDs informal UFO unit, told von Rennenkampff that this phenomenon shouldnt be treated solely as an intelligence issue.
If we want 70 more years of secrecy on this topic, then [this] is the perfect place to put it, Elizondo said of the new group. Theyve had four years so far, and we have little in the way of efforts serving the public interest.
If we want meaningful change and transparency, he added, then we should keep the spirit of the Gillibrand amendment.
Elizondo said he is not convinced [that] burying this [issue] in the deep, dark bowels of the Pentagon under an intelligence organization is the best way to shed light on a topic that needs a whole-of-government approach, and even claimed that Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks is being hoodwinked by certain elements and members of her own staff.
The whole thing sounds remarkably like an X-Files plotline, and its unsurprising that Elizondo had such harsh words. In 2017, he resigned from the DoD in protest of the bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets that he said plague his former employer and its treatment of UFO phenomena. Ironically, the first of the shocking UFO declassifications that became an often-overlooked hallmark of Donald Trumps presidency dropped just a few months after Elizondos resignation.
In spite of his exit which the Pentagon responded to by claiming he never ran the unit he claims to have run Elizondo lauded most of his former colleagues as patriotic and competent, and expressed optimism about Gillibrands amendment in the face of the DoDs latest alleged attempts to hush up its knowledge of UFOs.
I think were in a good spot, he told The Hill. I think weve come a long way. There seem to be a lot of people really trying to get behind this in a productive not in a sensational way.
READ MORE: Ex-officials voice deep concerns over new Pentagon UFO unit [The Hill]
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