TIME: Trump Says Government Will Declassify Alien Files

[MapperGuy]

sublimely quaffed beard

The word you were looking for is: "Coiffed". Hair carefully arranged in an attractive style.
I have read far too many old books... Wherein the color of every persons eyes are noted by the narrator, and the details of their hairstyle.

 

[NorCal Dave]

Let the hedging begin! Trump may have said he'll direct government agencies to release UFO files, but what about all those dastardly defense contractors that really have the UFOs? Some Facebook UFO blogger quoted our old friend RC about how disclosure doesn't really mean disclosure:

President Trump announced a review of government UFO and UAP files this week, but according to investigative journalist Ross Coulthart the announcement has a significant gap that is not being talked about enough.

Private aerospace contractors including Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Raytheon are under no legal obligation to release anything.
As Coulthart stated directly, these companies "have access to non-human technology" and "are not compelled under any expression of intention by President Trump to release any information."

https://www.facebook.com/official.cristina.gomez

Regardless of what the government ends up releasing, or more accurately, not releasing, RC and the rest of the UFO-media posse can keep the ball rolling speculating and fantasizing about what Lockheed is hiding.

The word you were looking for is: "Coiffed". Hair carefully arranged in an attractive style.

My bad! I knew what I meant and I think most people figured it out.

 

[Mendel]

Regardless of what the government ends up releasing, or more accurately, not releasing, RC and the rest of the UFO-media posse can keep the ball rolling speculating and fantasizing about what Lockheed is hiding.

So now Lockheed is hiding UFOs from the government? How would they even acquire them, without leaving a mile wide trail in the government bureaucracy?

 

[MapperGuy]

So now Lockheed is hiding UFOs from the government? How would they even acquire them, without leaving a mile wide trail in the government bureaucracy?

When the government gives a company TS/SCI level material it requires the company to already have a SCIF to store or work on it in. A facility is only a SCIF if it has been accredited as such by the government (lots of mandatory requirements). SCIF's have to be periodically inspected and re-certified, again by the government. So the location of any facility where such material is located is known about by the government. If the company wants to shut down a SCIF they have to again work with the accrediting office, who will make sure all classified material in it is destroyed or returned to the government. SCIF's don't just get lost.

So any TS/SCI level material Lockheed was given would have, initially, been moved to a SCIF, whose location was know to the government. So was it later declassified? Lockheed can't just declare it unclassified, the originating government office would have to do that. They would have made a record of that fact, because both the company and the government would want to cover their backsides in case of future questions about what happened to that classified stuff. Disposing of classified material creates paper trails.

 

[deirdre]

Done, also included his post from the day before where he informed there was an outage.

awesome! so Feb 20 at 12:30 pm New York time.

new news:

Article:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is "working" on identifying and releasing government files related to UFOs and extraterrestrial life following President Donald Trump's directive.

"We've got our people working on it right now," Hegseth said Monday [Feb 23], when asked by a reporter if he was prepared to potentially declassify such information. "I don't want to oversell how much time it will take, but we're digging in."
...
Trump announced on Feb. 19 [8:13 pm New York time] that he is instructing federal agencies to begin releasing government files.

Source: https://time.com/7380751/us-government-ufo-alien-files-release-hegseth-update/

 

[NoParty]

In all honesty, I've been kind of surprised to see so many posts on this.

My take, when Trump first said it, was that he had less than zero interest, and only said he would, to try to score some
"transparency" points, since he's currently getting an "F" in that area, despite his & his administration's constant
gaslighting to the contrary.

Moving on to the meat of the supposed declassifications: I'm just working on the assumption that--if this does happen--it will
be the biggest NothingBurger yet. Am I missing something, or does anyone here think that there's actually going to be a
single, significant piece of information worthy of an: "Oh, wow! I can't believe that they (gov) have hidden that from us!" ??

I'm expecting (supposing it happens) zero meaningful info, in which case the usual suspects will automatically
& immediately go into damage control mode, necessarily insisting that "ACTUALLY the best stuff is still being kept from us"...

 

[Mendel]

Moving on to the meat of the supposed declassifications: I'm just working on the assumption that--if this does happen--it will
be the biggest NothingBurger yet.

The biggest chunk of it would be the AARO cases files with half of the content redacted, since all of the names and some of the operations are classified.

 

[Todd Feinman]

Brian Tyler Cohen just asked Newsome the now obligatory Alien question. It's at 8min 45sec. Had trouble adding timestamp:
YouTube Link

Imagine if all these folks were asked about "unicorns" instead of "aliens" and acted so weird! That would be funny. I'd love to see an AI mashup of all the instances.
Bush would say something like: "I can't tell you nuthin' about nuthin' about unicorns"
Obama: " Yes, unicorns are real, but I haven't seen them…"
Trump: "Unicorns are classified! He should have said that.. Maybe I can declassify unicorns…. I'm not sure I could declassify the Roswell unicorn…. I'd have to think about it". "Very interesting unicorn, though…".

 

[Mendel]

Brian Tyler Cohen just asked Newsome the now obligatory Alien question. It's at 8min 45sec. Had trouble adding timestamp:
YouTube Link

Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fvORfRUepI8&t=8m45s


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