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UFOs display tech US doesn't have and can't defend against, ex-intelligence chief Ratcliffe says
2021-06-28
[Washington Examiner] UFOs exist that appear to display technology the United States does not possess and lacks the ability to defend against, according to a former intelligence chief.

John Ratcliffe, who served as former President Donald Trump’s final director of national intelligence and oversaw the nation’s 18 spy agencies, made the observation while offering insight into a declassified report on "unidentified aerial phenomena," which was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday.

The long-anticipated but very brief document discussed 144 reports of UFOs originating from U.S. government sources between 2004 and 2021. Eighty were observed with multiple different sensors, and most reports described the UFOs as objects that interrupted preplanned military training or other military operations. The ODNI report said "a handful" of the UFOs "appear to demonstrate advanced technology" and "in 18 incidents, described in 21 reports, observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics." Parts of the assessment also remain classified.

In giving his first public reaction to the unclassified ODNI report since its release, Ratcliffe told Fox News host Dan Bongino for a Saturday episode of Unfiltered that UFOs are a matter of national security and stressed that the real number of UFOs that have been observed remains unknown to the public.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#14  Has anyone seen the Alien movies? I always thought it's less about the deadly crawling things that may populate space, and more about the certainty of Americans bringing them home.

'Something is out there'
... and it hates us!
But verily let's go,
ask how it rates us.
Mayhap we shall,
without Sharpton Al
learn to love it
while it face rapes us.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-06-28 23:00  

#13  Yet not one cellphone video. Not space cops then
Posted by: Chuck Snerelet4039   2021-06-28 21:18  

#12  Hyphens... why do they hyphen-hate me?
Posted by: Floque Fleting4635   2021-06-28 16:46  

#11  "It's... CRT!" [ripple of fear]
"Why cain't we jes' zerp 'em?"
"Oh,dear."
"Yo, send us to Durrr,
Where there could be a cure!"
"Fellow Alphans, the answer is clear...
And it's thirteen-thirds light years from here!"
Posted by: Floque Fleting4635   2021-06-28 16:42  

#10  
Not far fetched because

'The Science is Settled' 🙌

Scientists identify 29 planets where aliens could observe Earth👀

Officials are telling us , We are being visited 🛸, and they don't know by who...

"The scientists identified 1,715 star systems where alien observers could have discovered Earth in the past 5,000 years by watching it ‘transit’ across the face of the sun."

Me, I'll say to them,
Y'all drop on by, and we'll have a drink and toast our new acquaintance, you Boys ever had shine, corn squeezens, or white âš¡ lightning ?
It cures whatever ails you, I guarantee!

Posted by: Thomogum Thrains2724   2021-06-28 14:22  

#9  So what's Klingon for "All your base are belong to us!"?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-06-28 13:36  

#8  ^😀
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2021-06-28 13:25  

#7  UFOs exist that appear to display technology the United States does not possess

Out there in Alpha Centauri they rounded up everyone trying to teach critical theory and incinerated 'em ages ago.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-06-28 12:58  

#6  Greetings! I am a Prince from Arbonia, and I bring you good cheer! I have, however, run into bad times, and I need your assistance...
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-06-28 12:50  

#5  
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-06-28 12:41  

#4  Maybe someone doesn't need F-15s or nukes.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-06-28 09:09  

#3  [mumbled freestyle calling for critical space theory moonshot]
Posted by: Rudyard the etc3704   2021-06-28 02:28  

#2  ^Republicans from Space?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-06-28 01:12  

#1  The threat is real and poses an existential danger. A massive research effort is urgently needed. Please send money at once.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-06-28 01:06  

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