A top Pentagon official has attacked this week’s widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs, calling the claims “insulting” to employees who are investigating sightings and accusing a key witness of not cooperating with the official U.S. government investigation.

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    1 year ago

    Who should we trust more:

    the 3 military personnel/whistleblower who requested to be sworn in under oath

    Or the person who frequently denies to be put under oath and instead vents on LinkedIn

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      In their defense, the only reason the government allowed him to talk about it WAS because it’s hearsay. The government allowing him to talk is neither a denial or confirmation of the anything he said. The interesting part to me was that he said he was willing to talk specifics in a SCIF, but for some reason wasn’t allowed use of one. Also the hearing, while talking about UAP, is actually more about how congress has been allegedly kept from oversite of a government program and that’s illegal.

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    Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s letter, published on his personal LinkedIn page and circulated Friday across social media, criticizes much of the testimony from a retired Air Force intelligence officer that energized believers in extraterrestrial life and produced headlines around the world.

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    Lol, did he want him to walk in with an alien?

    He must realize that, if he had first hand evidence, he’d have been dead by now if he was talking like this.

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    I mean if these guys were grifters, surely there would be more than just one retired guy saying they are liars. No?

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    I don’t discount aliens outright, in fact I do believe, but I’d imagine any type of meta being would not be bound by physical bodies, and would more so exist within consciousness itself.

    I do think the whole proceeding is some flavor of sham though.