Estimate of the Situation

Joe Biden Has a Decision to Make about UFOs

He managed to speak not a word about UAP in the 2020 campaign. Soon he’ll have to respond to government reports and reporter’s questions. It’s a new day of reckoning.

Like it or not, President Joe Biden is going to get asked about UFOs. More specifically, he’s going to get asked about UAP, now that 60 Minutes is out of the closet, the Senate report is imminent from the Director of National Intelligence, and even the Defense Department’s own Inspector General is looking into it. Let’s not forget either that Vice President Kamala Harris was on the Senate committee that asked for the UAP report we’re about to get.

Will he give us a taste of the Joe Biden candor or will he find a way to deflect and deny?

Imagine that Biden does one of his famous TV sit-downs with, say, Anderson Cooper, Lester Holt, George Stephanopoulus, etc. and that one of those reporters unleashes this on him:

While the world remains legitimately focused on Covid, last year, the Department of Defense confirmed that three U.S. Navy videos of F-18 pilot encounters with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are legitimate, and they have further admitted they have a UAP Task Force set up within the Office of Naval Intelligence to look into it. At the same time, the Senate Intelligence Committee has asked for a full report from the office of the Director of National Intelligence that is expected to be produced by the end of June. Additionally, the Inspector General’s office for the Department of Defense has indicated that it, too, will be looking into the DoD policy regarding these unexplained craft we’re seeing.

Given all of this, and the continuing worldwide sightings by other nations, plus a significant 70-plus year history of sightings by credible witnesses, can you describe your Administration’s policy toward this issue, particularly military encounters, and will you now guarantee to provide the American people with a transparent review of the information without resorting to undue classification?

The Follow-Ups

Depending on what President Biden might say to these questions, there are follow-ups that could happen in such a sit-down.

Frankly, it won’t take being trapped on a location set with an established TV anchor to force Biden on the record. He takes questions from reporters and holds news conferences. He could easily get asked any of these any day from this point on:

• What criteria does your Administration believe it should apply to the declassification of UFO/UAP data?
• Given that these UAP vehicles have repeatedly shown an interest in the world’s nuclear arsenals, going back to the 1940s, including missile silos, nuclear-powered ships and even power plants, what do you think explains this?
• 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?
• Last year, The New York Times wrote an article exploring the idea that the U.S. government is in possession of crash wreckage of these Advanced Aerospace Vehicles from “off-world” sources. Former Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, a friend of yours, has stated that he believes there have been such crashes and that Lockheed-Martin has wreckage in its possession. Does the U.S. possess crash wreckage from “off-world” vehicles? Have such materials been transferred from government custody to private companies?
• What do you think happened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? Will you issue an executive order mandating a review by an independent investigator and declassification of any related materials?
• Have you seen the full versions of the Navy videos: Gimbal, Go Fast and Flir? What do they show that is not in the short clips released to the public? Will you now declassify the full versions?

• If the United States doesn’t make these UAP we’re seeing, do you believe they come from Russia or China? If not, what assumption should Americans make about their origin or creation?
• Has you ever seen a UFO himself, or have any of your friends?

The Decision Ahead

Of course, the questions that President Biden could be asked about UFO/UAP reality are endless, and you probably have a few of your own to add to this above list. The point simply is that by legitimizing the subject through Navy confirmation of the videos, the creation of a UAP Task Force in the Pentagon, a Senate Select Intelligence Committee demand for a UAP report from DNI, and an Inspector General investigation with the Department of Defense, well, it’s hard to see how the subject can be dismissed as laughable or completely deniable. That train has left the station.

The subject of UFO/UAP reality is now fair game. It’s a national issue and, in particular, it’s being treated as a national security issue. This means the people have a right to demand that the President of the United States weigh in on this issue.

Biden will be asked soon. Period.

The call he is going to have to make is how he is going to handle it. He has only a few basic choices.

• Deny. He could maintain the policy of denial and ridicule that has defined the subject for seven decades from 1947 to 2017. This seems out-of-touch, given that his own government appears to now to be taking UAP seriously.
• Dodge. He could say he’s had briefings and that he’s not prepared to answer questions on the subject until he has seen all the reports. In that case, he would probably assure everyone that he is aware of the issue and looking into it seriously.
• Disclose. He can engage on the issue in an open and transparent way. He can still maintain a degree of secrecy on classified issues and explain why he feels that is necessary. At the same time, he can lead the national (and, potentially, international) dialogue on the issue. He’s likely to carefully state what he knows, dodge many of the underlying implications, but acknowledge that it’s a real issue. Or he could go off-script as he is famous for doing and the games could really begin.

In the back of his mind, President Biden will know that with all the activity going on today, the UFO/UAP reality issue is going to be part of the 2022 election cycle. Only he has the opportunity to get ahead of the issue and show leadership that has never existed in a national way before.

He will probably choose the third option — a modest amount disclosure based on openness and transparency — and see what happens. It’s really his only move.

People get ready.

Trail of the Saucers is edited by Bryce Zabel and currently includes writing from senior contributors Carolyn Brouillard and Mark Hammons, plus the work of Ryan Sprague, Kevin Brackley, Michael Lindemann and others. The links below touch on the topics raised in this article.