uap Reaction to "‘Fast Movers’ and Transmedium Vehicles" Tim McMillan's latest in The Debrief offers several important new pieces of information: There have been extremely high level briefings on UAP with the Department of Defense, to include the
uap Answering "Who Else Knows" To find out more about Luis Elizondo's resignation, I contacted him for an interview. He graciously agreed. I asked him directly, what did you mean by "who else knows?" He responded at length.
How the Safest Bet on Bipartisanship Became A Trap Early in the morning after the 2020 election it was clear there was not going to be a big blue wave in the Senate. Instead, the arithmetic looked right for
personal Magnetar I got sick in what was supposed to be the closing chapter of my doctorate. At first, my spine and hip hurt. Later, my eyes started to get excruciatingly irritated
A TV Guide to Modern UFOlogy That No One Asked For Popular culture is a shared language to negotiate some kind of sense out of our reality. UFOs have long been part of the warp and weft of television and movies.
intelligence Who Else Knows? The 2017 release of "UFO" videos raised eyebrows and consumed a few short-lived news cycles before largely falling in between the cracks of the national news media. Perhaps this shouldn't
reflections Our Lady of Computation I never got to meet the man I replaced; he was already deployed to Iraq. Our crowded department meant that my predecessor's workspace was claimed before my first day. I was given a plank jammed between two racks in the back of a lab.
fiction Her Many Names Art Credit: From the film "El sueño de Malinche" directed by Gonzalo Suárez, illustrated by Pablo Auladell We do not know the first of her many names. Her birth language
diplomacy The International Stage Charting the course from the Senate to the world stage. How will TTSA's Chris Mellon and Elizondo architect alliances on the international stage?
intelligence Nobody But Us, But For How Long? What does China know about UAP? What happens when American "Nobody But Us" becomes "Fear Of Missing Out"
policy Blurred Vision: UAP Are Not All One Thing National security decision making has always been hard, but it is becoming harder at a superlinear rate.
senate Intelligence Authorization Bill Merged with National Defense Authorization, Passes Senate Yesterday (July 23, 2020) the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization bill (NDAA) on a 86-14 vote. The closely watched "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021" was merged within the NDAA.
policy What if Christopher Mellon succeeds? Christopher Mellon has a plan. As former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and former minority staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), he understands national
policy How Will the Air Force Fare Under the Gaze of the Senate? Imagine this scenario: the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) sits before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) to deliver a report on advanced aerial threats.
science fiction “Chains of the Sea”: The 1973 Science Fiction Novella Influencing TTSA Former head of the DOD's AATIP program shared a surprising reference to an obscure 1973 science fiction novel.
policy Checkmate or Gambit: Christopher Mellon and the Senate UAP Report An analysis of the role of Christoper Mellon as architect of the 2020 Senate Intelligence request for a UAP report
policy Analysis of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence UAP News In the early summer of 2020, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence published an unexpected request for a report on "unidentified aerial phenomena."
nimitiz incident Taking the Skeptical Account of the Nimitz Incident Seriously I have written elsewhere that all of the available hypotheses explaining the Nimitz incident are troubling. This week, I argued that whatever they were ultimately caused by, there is a
uap Why you should be concerned about those Navy UFO videos The 2017 release of "UFO" videos by the Navy should concern everyone -- there is a problem behind every possible explanation.
