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Biden/Harris Know All About the UAP Issue

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris now serves on the Senate Committee on Intelligence which just demanded a report about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in 180 days.

Now that the drama about who will be running for Vice-President on the 2020 Democratic ticket has been decided, it’s probably a good time for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to speak frankly to each other about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and its implications over a potential term in office that runs from 2021 to 2025.

They Know What UAP Stands For

The Biden/Harris ticket will soon need a policy about how to deal with UAP, the new acronym that indicates Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Not necessarily because it’s at the top of their “To Do” list, or they want to talk about it publicly, but because they are likely to be asked about the issue while on the campaign trail (virtual or otherwise).

The state of play they inherit is that the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense, the Senate Committee on Intelligence, Marco Rubio, Harry Reid, the New York Times, CNN, Politico, Popular Mechanics, Scientific America, half the Twittersphere and even Donald Trump Jr. and his dad have just dumped UFOs smack dab into the middle of a potential march to the White House.

While UAP policy may not be in their particular wheelhouse, both Biden and Harris, because of their experience and classification, must know the issue has been building a while now. Even if they just read the papers, they have to know that this issue has gotten very serious very quickly.

Let’s remember that Biden was in office during the 2015 Navy encounters and, it must be assumed given his description of his relationship with President Obama, that he was on the receiving end of a classified briefing or two. This is not a provable fact, but a supposition. Still, it would be easy-peasy for a reporter to just ask him, “have you ever been briefed on these Navy videos, yes or no?”

It’s an excellent question for Kamala Harris as well, given that she knows plenty herself, maybe more than Biden does these days. She serves on the Senate Committee on Intelligence.

Right. That committee.

The Senate Committee on Intelligence

Quick refresher —

In June, the Senate Committee on Intelligence submitted a draft of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. While it mostly dealt with new funding to the nation’s multiple intel organizations, the Committee also called for the creation of a primarily unclassified report on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”

That’s right, the government wants the deets. And they actually want them pretty damn fast. After the Intelligence Authorization Act is signed into law, the Committee wants a report on UAP from the Director of National Intelligence within 180 days of its enactment. That’s six months, half a year only, and it means that it will land squarely into the political landscape of any first year of an incoming Biden/Harris Administration, should they win the election.

Here’s the specific language the Committee used:

“The Committee supports the efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (UAPTF) at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) to standardize collection and reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena, any links they have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations. However, the Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat.”

Here’s an excellent summation of that report from The Drive.

On June 3, 2020, the Committee voted to report the bill, with pages of UAP language, by a vote of 14 ayes and one no. Senator Harris voted “aye.”

As for Biden, his likely briefings about the 2015 U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt event (which may have included the Nimitz case from 2004) probably helped thin his hair to its current state.

Questions Will Be Asked

The questions are waiting for Biden and Harris now, and they’ll get them in a virtual town hall, a news conference or even a presidential or vice-presidential debate. The predicate to them may sound something like this:

Just this year alone, the Department of Defense has confirmed that three U.S. Navy videos of pilot encounters with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena that took place in 2004 and 2015 are legitimate, and they have admitted they have a UAP Task Force set up within the Office of Naval Intelligence. The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked for a full report from the intel community in the next 180 days. And the New York Times has written a series of articles that claim, among other things, that the U.S. government may be in possession of crash wreckage of these Advanced Aerospace Vehicles.

The specific questions reporters could ask after making that statement may include:

• Will you declassify UFO data? Release the high-resolution full versions of the Navy videos if they exist?
• Are you aware that these UAP vehicles have repeatedly shown an interest in the world’s nuclear arsenals, including missile silos, nuclear-powered ships and even power plants? What would you do about it?
• Are systems in place with other world powers so that mistakes are not made in a UAP encounter with military forces that could lead to hostilities with China or Russia? If not, will you now set them up?
• Does the U.S. possess crash wreckage from “off-world” vehicles? What do you think happened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947?

In addition to what Biden and Harris know from their own briefings, there are plenty of people in the Democratic political universe to help them formulate their responses.

After all, even though the current climate favors Republicans talking about this from President Trump to Senator Marco Rubio (the Acting Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee) to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, it is Democrats who have shown more interest in the recent past. Their UAP research advocates have included former Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid, Obama Counselor John Podesta, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and even President Bill and candidate Hillary Clinton, all of whom seem to care a lot about the topic.

What to Say When Asked?

Rule #1 then: be a competent briefer who can talk about the issue without sounding like a wack job.

They can then point out that most sightings can be explained away. Yet anyone who has done any research knows that a large, stubborn, significant collection of them have always defied easy explanation. That will involve mentioning the thousands of high-quality sightings, pilot encounters, police and military witnesses and radar confirmations.

No answer has to put a candidate out on a limb anymore. They can simply point out that the existence of these anomalous objects has been confirmed by a number of official programs over the years — from Project Sign and Project Grudge to 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 funded by a trio of U.S. senators (mainly Harry Reid) in 2007. And, of course, there is the current UAP Task Force, now hard at work inside the ONI.

They don’t have to own the issue, only sound competent to manage it once in office.

The Famous Nimitz Video

The best advice for the Democratic ticket is to know this one case rock-solid because the coverage it’s received shows signs of actually penetrating the public’s consciousness.

Nimitiz is part of the most significant development in years, of course: the release of those three videos from the United States Navy — Gimbal, Go Fast and Flir1— first described in the New York Times in December 2017.

Multiple pilots all have stated that while flying F/A-18 Super Hornet’s they witnessed 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.

The Bottom Line

As confirmed by the Department of Defense last year, these objects are real, intelligently controlled, and high tech. Not weather balloons, drones or some other prosaic explanation. The important question is who is making them?

Neither Biden nor Harris is going to go all woo-woo when talking about this, however, and if any reporter invokes the ET thing, they are going to get pushback.

They will simply say that they look forward to reading the report that will be delivered to the U.S. Senate shortly after they take office. They’ll point out that UAP doesn’t mean alien at all. The truth may be they are made by our adversaries, like China or Russia, who have leap-frogged us in technology. That, of course, is all about national security and anyone who runs the country needs to take its implication seriously. They may personally suspect a more exotic technology, but they don’t have to admit that in the heat of a campaign.

With a public battered by coronavirus, racial justice protests, and a sputtering economy, it may seem like an unnecessary distraction for candidates to have to discuss such matters.

Even so, given that the framework for the issue is no longer sci-fi but national security, it’s likely to be asked in one of the three scheduled 90 minutes long presidential debates or in the single vice-presidential debates. That’s six hours of questions and answers. Time enough.

If/when that happens, cable news will blow up with scientists, celebrity abductees, whistleblowers, witnesses, pilots, and God knows who else, all talking about this subject.

What is going to be needed from the Biden/Harris ticket during the election is a simple clean admission that is honest and straightforward.

Unless things get weird.

Given that the New York Times has been talking about crash wreckage from off-world vehicles and Trump has been speculating about Roswell, anything is possible in the run-up to the election. If Trump starts talking about bodies and autopsies, for example, it does boggle the mind a bit to imagine how Joe Biden would try to hit that curve ball.

It now seems better than even money that the Biden-Harris ticket will win in November. If they do, they’ll have so much on their plates to deal with. Yet, when it comes to UAP, they’ll have to do more in the next four years than just answer questions. They’re going to have to take action, and they need to be thinking now about what exactly that means.