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In reply to the discussion: Why I know there's something to UFOs. [View all]Kid Berwyn
(17,368 posts)19. Fox Noise reporter asked, President Biden responded...
UFOs? Ask Obama, Biden quips when questioned about unidentified aerial phenomenon
Earlier this week, former President Obama appeared on late night TV and said the government cannot explain the videos of unidentified aerial phenomenon.
May 21, 2021, 8:01 PM EDT
By Dartunorro Clark
The truth may be out there but President Joe Biden isnt saying so.
The president ducked a question Friday on "unidentified aerial phenomena" the subject of renewed interest as the Senate awaits a report from U.S. intelligence agencies on the matter when a reporter asked him about recent remarks by his former boss.
President Obama says there is footage and records of objects in the sky these unidentified aerial phenomena and he says we dont know exactly what they are. What do you think? a reporter asked Biden near the end of a joint news conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House.
Biden smiled and responded, I would ask him again, before thanking everyone and exiting so quickly he didnt take his translation earpiece out.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/ufos-ask-obama-biden-quips-when-questioned-about-unidentified-aerial-n1268225
Background...
Barack Obama just said something *very* interesting about UFOs
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Wed May 19, 2021
Excerpt...
In an appearance on The Late Late Show earlier this week, Obama confessed this: The truth is that when I came into office, I asked, right, I was like, Alright, is there the lab somewhere where were keeping the alien specimens and space ship? And you know, they did a little bit of research and the answer was no.
Which, OK, he was joking. But then Obama said more about UFOs and this is where things got really interesting.
Heres Obama:
What is true, and Im actually being serious here, is that there are, theres footage and records of objects in the skies, that we dont know exactly what they are. We cant explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so, you know, I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.
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For many years, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) was a lonely voice in Congress on the existence of UFOs.
Back in 2007, Reid pushed for the creation of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which was housed within the Department of Defense and about which almost nothing was (or is) known. In a 2017 profile of the program headline: Glowing Auras and Black Money: The Pentagons Mysterious U.F.O. Program The New York Times wrote:
The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.
Reid, in an interview for the show Nevada Newsmakers in 2019, was unapologetic for the $22 million he had earmarked for AATIP over his time in the Senate. We know that China is doing it, Reid said in reference to studying unidentified flying objects. We know that Russia, which is led by someone within the KGB, is doing it, too, so we better take a look at it, too. Added Reid: We got a volume of research that was done, $22 million worth of research. It showed that not two people, four people or six people or 20 people but hundreds and hundreds of people have seen these things, sometimes all at the same time.
In April 2020, when the Pentagon released three videos of unidentified aerial phenomena a HUGE breakthrough in the government acknowledging their existence, Reid was nonplussed.
Im glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available, tweeted Reid. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed.
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http://www.cnn.com/2021/05/19/politics/barack-obama-ufos/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold
Nothing but respect for Harry Reid, a great American.
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You'll know the mother ship when you see it, it'll be hanging in the air the way that bricks don't.
Towlie
May 2021
#7
Great record of the long history, written a decade before "Messengers of Deception."
Kid Berwyn
May 2021
#50
Would be a mistake to apply the typical alien movie narrative to whatever is going on.
BannonsLiver
May 2021
#16
If there was some department in the government that really know about the UFOs
captain queeg
May 2021
#2
You're right, this was just a 'show' and no way was really going to reveal anything of importance.
SWBTATTReg
May 2022
#89
I once saw something similar but with multiple lights looking like stars zig zagging
BSdetect
May 2021
#40
I think Clarke's three laws apply if we're going to speculate on what extraterrestrial
highplainsdem
May 2021
#15
Think about the technology we had on earth just 150 years ago compared to today. Then what
doc03
May 2021
#21
Here is an honest theory about UFOs..Yes there is a strong possibility of some alien race exceeding
Stuart G
May 2021
#23
How do we know that these things are not just debris that enters the earth all the time?
Maraya1969
May 2021
#24
I think you run into a problem when you use Trump to norm-reference human behavior
Bucky
May 2021
#35
Who has more credibility? The fool who is the most prolific liar in US history,
Roisin Ni Fiachra
May 2021
#51
There are no UFOs as stupid trump thinks. He is fooling you all to make you think
akbacchus_BC
May 2021
#52
We live in a time where there are high def cameras in literally everyone's pocket.
Dave Starsky
May 2021
#53
"But people are saying they're seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly."
Caliman73
May 2021
#56
Definitely. Science, even with its flaws, is the best method that humans have of discovering fact.
Caliman73
May 2021
#70
Check out today's (Friday, May 28) POLITICO mag, then go through the thread.
Kid Berwyn
May 2021
#86