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Cosmic Watergate II

Nixon thought the best spin to a lie was to salt it with a bit of truth. Could his playbook be used again with the UAP report?

Since 2017, the Pentagon appears to be a bit more forthcoming on the UFO/UAP reality issue than it’s been in the past. The problem is that if UFOs are a yes or no question, then you can’t get away with a little disclosure any more than you can be a little bit pregnant. Or can you?

There’s a big test coming at us this year, given that the Senate Intelligence Committee has demanded (in an approved bill) a public report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and they want it no later than June 25, 2021.

This could either be a bright, shining moment in the cause of truth and reconciliation on this issue, or it could be a dodge and weave with a hint of truth added for seasoning.

First, some background…

A Limited Hangout

What do you do when you get caught in a lie or trying to cover up something? Like the kid who gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar? You offer a little bit of the truth. Yes, my hand was in the cookie jar, but I wasn’t looking for cookies, just checking to see if it was clean so I could put some more cookies in the jar.

That’s called a limited hangout. It’s a phrase coined by the spy trade to refer to a strategy for when a veil of secrecy or a phony cover story to misinform the public is no longer reliable. In that case, they resort to admitting some of the truth while still managing to withhold the damaging facts in the case. When used successfully, the public can be so intrigued by the new information that it is distracted from pursuing the matter further.

Then there’s the next level.

A Modified Limited Hangout

The term was first used in a March 22, 1973, meeting between President Richard Nixon, top advisors H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and White House attorney John Dean. Ehrlichman, a man who spent time in prison for his Watergate crimes, coined the phrase, modified limited hangout. We know this because it’s in the famous transcripts from the Watergate tapes that got Nixon booted out of office.

PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the — let it hang out, so to speak? DEAN: Well, it’s, it isn’t really that — HALDEMAN: It’s a limited hang out. DEAN: It’s a limited hang out. EHRLICHMAN: It’s a modified limited hang out.

Let’s put this in context.

Before this exchange, Nixon tells his lawyer to lay out a misleading and self-serving view of the role of the White House in the Watergate burglary. Ehrlichman jumped on this by adding, “And the report says, ‘Nobody was involved.’”

Their idea was to create a document to share with the Senate Watergate Committee that was investigating the whole sordid political crime. The report would serve the administration’s goals by protecting the President, and provide support for his false statements should information come to light that contradicted his stated position. Further, the group discusses having information on the report leaked by those on the Committee sympathetic to the President, to put exculpatory information into the public sphere, and create an atmosphere of a guilt-free president being victimized by the press and Congress.

Since those sorry days, “modified limited hangout” has entered the politcal lexicon as the definition of a strategy of mixing partial admissions with misinformation, along with resistance to further investigation, and is used to accuse people or groups of following a Nixon-like strategy. It’s the perfect loop of non-denial denial.

Are we seeing it used again on the subject of UFO/UAP reality? A quick review:

A Modified Limited UFO Hangout

Remember that the existence of these anomalous objects have been confirmed by a number of official programs and reports over the years — from the Air Force’s public relations ploy Project Blue Book in the 1950s and 1960s to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) that was steered toward funding by Senator Harry Reid in 2007. In between there have been investigations known as Project Sign, Project Grudge, the Condon Report, etc. and possibly even an Above Top Secret group created by President Truman after the Roswell crash that’s still the subject of confusion by disinformation.

The United States Air Force has used a “fact sheet” since abandoning Blue Book back in 1969 when asked about UFOs. It states that the U.S. government will no longer be investigating unidentified flying objects. Its two most outrageous statements are these:

1. No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security.
2. There has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as “unidentified” represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge.

The “hangout” part of that is that the DoD wants to appear to be forthcoming. After all, they looked into it and despite all their hard efforts they found nothing. The “limited” part is that it’s not true.

The first statement is a flat-out lie, given the history of these objects interfering with the world’s military forces. Even more troubling is the now established fact that they appear in proximity to nuclear weapons time and again. All of which is confirmed by documents and testimony.

The second statement is, you guessed it, also a flat-out lie. From the pilot reports going back to the 1940s through today, our own people, have stated over and over how out-classed they were by whatever technology these objects represent.

The U.S. Air Force position has just been officially negated by the U.S. Navy videos, confirmed by the DoD.

Numerous reports on the subject have been declassified thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, proving clearly that even when the government said they weren’t investigating UFOs they most certainly were.

The point is that at the same time the government has been telling us that UFOs aren’t real or, if there are unidentified craft that they pose no threat, they have also been studying them, quite possibly interacting with them and, all the while, withholding this information from the public.

This is where it gets even more interesting.

In what now seems an act of heroism, Intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former AATIP leader and now a recently resigned spokesman for the group responsible for getting them to the public, To The Stars Academy, made a historic comment on October 11, 2017 (two months before the New York Times report broke). Elizondo said — on the record — that while head of a government funded program studying UFOs he learned, “The phenomena is indeed real.” Mind you, this was only days after he resigned and began to take the case to the public.

NOTE: While your mileage may vary, Elizondo strikes me as a straight-shooter who speaks from heart and experience. It is also true that with his intelligence background, it’s likely that whoever allowed him to cut himself loose knew what they were doing. All of which raises the question as to whether he is an independent truth teller or a tool in a modified limited hangout that he may not even know he’s in.

In any case, Elizondo said he quit out of his loyalty for the Department of Defense because he wanted to change how UFOs were handled and he felt the best way to accomplish this was from the outside. While head of AATIP, try as he might, he couldn’t get UFO data up the chain of command so that then Secretary of Defense James Mattis could have data on these mysterious machines that could, among other things, infiltrate Carrier Strike Group airspace with impunity.

Elizondo also wanted to be free to inform the American public about the existence of UFOs so as to help facilitate a conversation about this reality. Elizondo is not an outlier. Many former Navy aviators, radar operators, and technicians have subsequently publicly asserted they have encountered UFOs that simply can’t be explained by Newtonian physics.

These men and women were trusted with the most expensive weapons systems the world has ever seen, including nuclear bombs. Can we really insist that all of them see things that don’t exist and make false reports?

The Famous Nimitz Video

Whether by design or by accident, the public’s current exposure to UFO/UAP reality is through the lens of one case in particular — the Nimitz case, from the 2000s.

Take Commander David Fravor, a no-nonsense Naval aviator, who, along with his backseater, and his wingwoman and her backseater, all concluded that while flying F-18s on November 14, 2004, they all witnessed the same thing with their own eyes. Namely, they saw a flying object, now known as the “Tic-Tac” that had no wings, no rudders, no ailerons, no fins, no visible propulsion system or exhaust plumes, and yet stayed aloft and could out maneuver anything known within the United States military inventory or any other inventory on Earth.

Just for absolute clarity, this incident involved the occupants of two planes flying at two different altitudes for over five minutes on a sunny day with unlimited visibility. After Fravor and his wingwoman landed, another Naval aviator, Chad Underwood took off, and was able to record video footage of the Tic-Tac. If all this wasn’t enough, Commander Fravor and other Navy veterans reported the original video they saw was not only significantly higher resolution than what the public has seen, but displayed appendages on the bottom of the Tic-Tac that aren’t visible with the publicly released video.

We’re not done here. In addition to these pilots, it seems that a seaborne Spy-1 radar on the U.S.S. Princeton, and airborne radar on the E-2 Hawkeye, both tracked the same object visually. So, pilots, check, radar, check.

The notion that what was encountered on November 14, 2004 was a drone, a 747 in the distance, or some other prosaic thing is, based on these facts, extremely unlikely.

And, yet, the Nimitz incident still has elements of a modified limited hangout embedded in it.

For starters, the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense have had over fifteen years to study the multitude of sensor data collected during Fravor’s encounter. Thirteen years passed between the incident and it getting into the New York Times.

The details of the case were engineered somehow in a way that allowed for Christopher Mellon to get the videos of the Nimitz incident plus two other similar ones. Those videos then got to the New York Times which broke the story.

The videos, however, have not been released in their full length, HD quality, state-of-the-art completeness. Far from it, there are short clips only out there.

At the beginning, the DoD and the U.S. Navy even refused to be forthcoming about who Elizondo was and whether he was legit. That’s been confirmed but it took a while. They also refused to confirm that these videos were legit. That also has been confirmed, but it, too, took a while.

These UFOs or UAP are clearly real, intelligently controlled, and high tech. Not a weather balloon in the bunch. Why has it been so hard to say so?

What To Watch Out For

What would a 2021 version of a “modified limited hangout” look like for the UFO issue?

Well, a committee, in this case the Senate Intelligence Committee (i.e. Senate Watergate Committee) is investigating UFOs (i.e. Watergate) and an official report is being prepared.

It comes down to this. A report will or won’t be prepared by the Congressional drop-dead date of June 25, 2021. That report will or won’t be complete. It will be primarily public as directed or mostly classified as expedient. It will cover only the recent incidents or the ones going back through 70 or more years of military and government investigation.

There’s only one thing we can say for sure. This upcoming report will either say a lot in the report itself, or it will say a lot by what it doesn’t say on those pages now being written.

We shall see.

Here are two articles, referenced above, that provide more details: