Pandora’s Box Is About To Be Opened As Congress Searches For UFO Answers
Written by Christopher Sharp - 1 July 2022
Things are bubbling under the surface.
Big things.
If suspicions are true, Pandora’s Box is being opened as we speak.
At this moment, language is being introduced and altered as two budgets take shape: the National Defense Authorization Act 2023 (NDAA) and the Intelligence Authorization Act 2023 (IAA).
In recent years, previous versions of both Acts played significant roles as Congress commenced its Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) investigation.
IAA 2021 established the Navy’s UAP Task Force and NDAA 2022 established the current UAP Office, for the moment named AOIMSG.
However, it’s the Acts of 2023, which may be remembered by history as truly pivotal. There are already clues too.
On 22 June 2022, Chair of the Senate’s Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner (D-VA), released a press release announcing the passing of IAA 2023 (within the Committee), with a series of bullet points that summarise the Bill’s key points - one explicitly mentioned UAP and two did not but may have an indirect impact on Congress’s UAP efforts.
Going Transmedium
The highlight which directly relates to UAP states that the Intelligence Committee’s IAA 2023 will be:
‘Enhancing oversight of IC and Department of Defense collection and reporting on Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena.’
Although UAP, as defined within NDAA 2022, already accounts for transmedium aspects of the phenomena, relating to the ability to seamlessly transition between space, air and water - this is the first hint that a name change is around the corner, which will soon reflect such capabilities.
‘Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena’ (as stated in the Warner text) accounts for transmedium capabilities, but it’s still clunky. Don’t be surprised if the same politicians who proposed the shortly-lived proposed acronym ‘ASTRO’ for the UAP Office, currently known as AOIMSG, create a new term to replace UAP.
Unidentified Transmedium Phenomena (UTP) may now in fact be on the table. But nothing is for certain yet.
Renaming UAP is another way Congress can push back against obstructers within the Pentagon.
Congress demands the investigation to be much more expansive, beyond air and beyond U.S. military ranges, as proposed by the first version of AOIMSG.
Do not be surprised by more involvement from U.S. Space Command, Space Force, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Reconnaissance Office and the Department of Energy.
They can coordinate a holistic approach to the UAP issue going forward. And by extension, the overt involvement from more organisations will further pressurise the United States Air Force into cooperating.
Transparency And Reforming Declassification
Another highlight of the soon-to-be-unveiled IAA 2023 will be:
‘Increasing transparency and promoting efforts to reform the declassification process.’
Transparency has long been a problem, and figures, such as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Scott W. Bray, who recently approved a new ‘Security Classification Guide’ on UAP, have not helped matters.
Reforming the declassification process is vital and would be something supported by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, who in January 2022, warned that the current system posed major issues, which could impact the USA’s democracy and security, stating:
"It is my view that deficiencies in the current classification system undermine our national security, as well as critical democratic objectives, by impeding our ability to share information in a timely manner, be that sharing with our intelligence partners, our oversight bodies, or, when appropriate, with the general public,"
This relates to many matters, which are threatening U.S. security and democracy, and also includes UAP, where elements of the public and some within Congress do not trust supposed gatekeepers within the intelligence community and Pentagon.
Figures, such as former AATIP Director, Lue Elizondo, have previously claimed there is greater and more compelling footage of UAP, which has not been released. Declassifying such material could prove very important.
From Liberation Times’ understanding, some members of Congress have seen such footage, which has changed their lives quite profoundly.
Such politicians will undoubtedly want footage (which does not undermine national security) to be released to the public alongside data, to educate the public on why (far from being a topic of ridicule) the national security, scientific and existential questions and implications posed by UAP must be seriously investigated.
But it’s not just the public that has been frustrated by suspected bad actors from within the intelligence community and Pentagon - politicians have also encountered obfuscation and perhaps even been misled.
If correct, it has caused a democratic deficit.
It seems that Congress has historically had no oversight regarding encounters between America’s military forces and UAPs, which is especially true of the United States Air Force, which has not been forthcoming on the issue, as highlighted by former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon.
And it is the understanding of Liberation Times that not all information was even shared with the UAP Task Force, even from the U.S. Navy, according to sources.
For instance, the UAP swarms, which according to the Pentagon were drones that harassed U.S. warships off the southern coast of California in July 2019: at the May 2022 Congressional hearing on UAPs, Scott Bray, stated that objects described in briefing slides as ‘seemingly triangular in shape from the angle of observation’, were in fact drones and that the “triangular appearance is a result of light passing through the night vision goggles”.
To this date, it has not been explained how the Pentagon concluded the objects (of unknown origin) were drones beyond the assessment that they (according to Bray) correlated with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the area.
To add, no one (to public knowledge) has provided testimony from those who filmed the triangles, which were previously conveyed to journalist and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell as pyramid in shape.
Despite focussing on the so-called drone footage from July 2019, Bray did not account for the fact that this was just one part of a series of events, which took place throughout July 2019.
Footage also from July 2019 (released by Jeremy Corbell) shows an object hovering above the ocean before appearing to descend into the water. According to Corbell, submarines could not trace the object, which remained stationary before descending, despite winds of 31 knots.
This video hasn’t been explained.
The fact that Bray looked to explain one video and not the wider events of July 2019, including apparent transmedium capabilities, could appear misleading to those within Congress.
Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
As reported by POLITICO, politicians are not impressed by UAP briefings given so far.
The UAP office currently known as AOIMSG has been beset by slow progress and still possesses staff in the single digits - which does not reflect the seriousness of a glaring national security issue that may mean the U.S. does not have control of its own airspace.
According to one source who spoke to POLITICO, reports lack adequate analysis or data which could be made available through dedicated surveillance systems. So far, none of the briefings have provided enough information and analysis to determine the origin of UAPs.
Whether they are Russian, Chinese or from an unknown intelligence, has not been determined in many instances.
So far AOIMSG has been a failure, so expect politicians to take matters into their own hands.
The following highlight, included within Warner’s press release, provides a glimpse of what we might expect to see in the near future:
‘Strong congressional oversight of, and protections for, IC whistleblowers who come forward to report waste, fraud or abuse.’
Whether it appears in the IAA or NDAA, text may soon be unveiled which provides immunity to UAP whistleblowers.
And that could trigger new hearings which would fully open Pandora’s Box.
AATIP and the UAPTF were always on the outside of the UAP issue, but staff within those organisations understood that there may be a wider coverup of huge proportions, where the information continues to be hidden from the public, Congress, the U.S. President and perhaps even high ranking Pentagon officials.
Should, as expected, immunity be provided to those with knowledge of rumoured secret UAP programs and captured craft of unknown origin, then there is no going back.
One big revelation from any hearing can change the world forever.
And according to sources of Liberation Times, that one big revelation may already be inevitable.