How UFOs Shed Light on Air Force Secrecy: Navigating the Shadows of Transparency
NDAA legislation mandated inquiries into the production, transportation, and storage of nuclear weapons or components, as it pertained to incidents involving UAP incursions at nuclear weapons facilities.
The former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), Lue Elizondo provided an interesting hypothetical analogy in a Theories of Everything podcast, after being asked why the US government, or more specifically the United States Air Force has not been transparent about UAP and it’s nuclear connection over the decades.
Elizondo puts us into the mind of an American General, perhaps in the late 1950s or 1960s, and your job is to protect National Security, “your job is to be paranoid.”
In the 1960’s United States Government (USG) is aware of the unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) penetrating US airspace containing nuclear assets while outperforming anything we have, making us essentially defenseless.
The USG is aware UAP are observing our nuclear equities, which could hypothetically be interpreted by the military as preparation for battlefield, presumably scouting our weaknesses, and monitoring locations and quantities of our nuclear assets. The infiltrators don’t appear to be benevolent as there is no indication that they’ve ever assisted humanity, meaning they’re either malevolent, or like us, unpredictable.
Elizondo alludes that just having discussions openly about UAP, as Congress is doing right now, may give an indication to “others” that we are aware of their behavior, and are investigating their actions, as indicated by the ongoing National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) UAP legislation language.
Speculating further he said, some members of the military, who may have known about UAP decades ago, felt that it was their patriotic duty not to inform the American public of a possible threat, to which we had no defense while risking mass hysteria.
In his rather unsettling conclusions, the mere fact that not keeping UAP related information secret could create a reaction that the United States is not prepared to address.
Unsurprisingly, Elizondo disagrees with the idea of concealing critical information from the public and said:
“…do I think if that ever happened to be the case, that that’s a good explanation, no, I still think that we have to be honest with the American people.”
The transparency of the US Air Force concerning UAP is likely influenced by incidents at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana and again at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. These incidents reportedly involved the disabling of intercontinental ballistic missiles by UAP, prompting a reassessment of the military’s approach to acknowledging and addressing the phenomena.
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How does this analogy aid our comprehension of the Air Force’s inclination to stay silent, and what insights does it offer into the reasons and methods behind their approach?
The technology utilized by the United States military has significantly advanced since the 1950s and 1960s, while the USG has likely been conducting research with exotic materials for decades. This suggests that the USG might have sufficient confidence in their defense capabilities to engage in a dialogue with the American public which would help answer, “why now.”
Conversely, Elizondo’s hypothetical candor may be providing insight to Congressional leadership as his ongoing struggles with the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Air Force (USAF) have not fostered cooperation with Congress.
Surprisingly, Senator Kristen Gillibrand, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, called for investigations outlined in the 2022 NDAA legislation associated with the production, transportation, and storage of nuclear weapons or components as it pertains to UAP incursions at nuclear facilities.
Providing some ground work for the responsibility of the United States ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile systems (ICBM), falls on the Air Force Global Strike Command and was established for the improvement of the management of the USAF portion of the United States’ nuclear arsenal, which accounts for two-thirds of America’s nuclear deterrent with the third being the Navy’s ballistic missile submarine force.
The Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force. AFGSC provides combat-ready forces to conduct strategic nuclear deterrence and global strike operations in support of combatant commanders.
Air Force Global Strike Command is the Air Force’s service component of the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM).
Additionally, the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) is Air Force Materiel Command’s (AFMC) center of expertise for nuclear weapon systems. The AFNWC is the single AFMC voice for integrating nuclear weapon systems requirements and nuclear weapon system resource management.
The United States Air Force has never made an official statement regarding UAP incursions at nuclear weapon facilities.
Capturing the Phenomenon
Australian investigative journalist and host of News Nation’s Reality Check, Ross Coulthart said that sources told him “there has been consideration given to offensively trying to bring down these objects.”
Bob Fish, a former communications officer in the US SCI, recounted in Ross Coulthart’s book "In Plain Sight" that the US government had acquired frequencies detected emanating from UAP entering Earth’s atmosphere nearly four decades ago.
While Fish made these observations in the 1970s, some believe the alleged UAP frequencies were known as far back as 1960 when James McDonald said that UFOs emitted signals which oscillated between 2995 to 3000 MHz frequency of 600 Hz.
According to Fish, these frequencies allowed the United States military to detect, track and predict UAP locations.
"There was a specific electronic signature (frequency) emanating from them when they were going into or coming out of the water, so they were easy to track. On several occasions they filmed the UFO as it transitioned from water to air or vice versa." — Bob Fish, In Plain Sight
If true, it’s likely the military intelligence agencies would want to lure UAP into close proximity with the aid of the frequency intelligence and nuclear material as bait.
In at least one interview Elizondo said, “electromagnetic pulse (EMP) may have the ability to affect the flight, or movement of UAP.” Studying UAP activity with “luring techniques has gleaned some success.”
If successful, this could provide a myriad of potential opportunities for study, including the possible option to bring one down.
While difficult to ascertain under what circumstances shooting UAP down would be a reasonable course of action, beating your adversaries to an understanding of this advanced technology is likely the primary motivation. Presuming exotic materials are already in the possession of the USG or Aerospace contractors being researched and reverse engineered, they may need more pieces of the technological puzzle to unlock its mysteries, but at what cost?
The explanation that the United States Air Force has been aware of UAP since the 1960s, yet has not disclosed this information to the American public, raises significant questions about transparency and national security. The fear of public reaction and the perceived inability to defend against the phenomena underscore the complexities and uncertainties surrounding disclosure.
However, the lack of transparency by the government regarding UAP has significantly compromised our democratic principles making it difficult if not impossible to have faith in our elected representatives and the Constitution that binds their duty to the American public.
As we confront this reality comprehensive and transparent communication from the USG becomes increasingly urgent, let us hope the wiser minds prevail.
Trail of the Saucers is published by Stellar Productions and edited by Bryce Zabel, the co-host of the new UAP/UFO podcast, “Need to Know with Coulthart and Zabel.”
