1. LUE ELIZONDO ARGUMENTS AGAINST AIOMSG, THE ASTRO OFFICE IS BORN
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DoD Announces the Establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) | NOV. 23, 2021
Today, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in close collaboration with the Director of National Intelligence, directed the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security to establish within the Office of the USD(I&S) the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as the successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The AOIMSG will synchronize efforts across the Department and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interests in Special Use Airspace (SUA), and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security. To provide oversight of the AOIMSG, the Deputy Secretary also directed the USD(I&S) to lead an Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council (AOIMEXEC) to be comprised of DoD and Intelligence Community membership, and to offer a venue for U.S. government interagency representation.
Incursions by any airborne object into our SUA pose safety of flight and operations security concerns, and may pose national security challenges. DOD takes reports of incursions – by any airborne object, identified or unidentified – very seriously, and investigates each one. This decision is the result of planning efforts and collaboration conducted by OUSD(I&S) and other DoD elements at the direction of Deputy Secretary Hicks, to address the challenges associated with assessing UAP occurring on or near DOD training ranges and installations highlighted in the DNI preliminary assessment report submitted to Congress in June 2021. The report also identified the need to make improvements in processes, policies, technologies, and training to improve our ability to understand UAP.
In coming weeks, the Department will issue implementing guidance, which will contain further details on the AOIMSG Director, organizational structure, authorities, and resourcing.
WashingtonExaminer: „Pentagon launches a deliberate and calculated effort to undermine bipartisan legislation moving through Congress“
2. A BATTLE FOR DISCLOSURE IS ABOUT TO BE UNDERWAY:
Adopting Sun Tzu's mantra that "victorious warriors win first and then go to war," the Defense Department has launched a preemptive strike on Congress. Specifically, a strike against congressional efforts to ramp up government research of UFOs (what the government refers to as "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena").
On Tuesday, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks announced the formation of a group to lead the government's UFO investigations. Attesting to the Pentagon's affinity for absurd acronyms, the group will be called "AOIMSG." The Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group will be supervised by the AOIMEXEC, or the Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council.
AOIMSG's mission: "To synchronize efforts across the [Pentagon] and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interests in Special Use Airspace (SUA), and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security."
This might sound like progress from a department that has spent much of the post-Second World War period saying UFOs are fictional. Unfortunately, it's anything but that.
In reality, this is a deliberate and calculated effort to undermine bipartisan legislation moving through Congress. That legislation centers on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's amendment to the 2022 Defense Act.
Now refiled with bipartisan support, Gillibrand's amendment would significantly strengthen the government's investigation of UFOs. Most notably, the legislation would do several things the AOIMSG ignores.
These include forming a well-resourced Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office, focusing on "transmedium" UFOs (which operate underwater, in the air, and in space) instead of the AOIMSG's focus on only those in controlled "airspace." The amendment would mandate an oversight committee that includes a range of nonmilitary experts and some civilian academics.
Congress would also mandate regular reporting, engagement with foreign allies, and a coordinated effort to research and possibly replicate UFO technologies. This seriousness matters because the most advanced UFOs are believed to be intelligently controlled vehicles of exotic propulsion, intent, and origin. As an extension, the United States better hope China and Russia don't figure out how to build these UFOs first.
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On that last point, Gillibrand's amendment also includes an explicit requirement for the Pentagon to brief Congress on UFO incidents involving nuclear platforms.
As first documented by Robert Hastings, UFOs bear particular interest in the military's nuclear platforms. They also saturate around high technology sites (such as those involving research into theoretical physics). The high number of UFO sightings by naval aviators operating off of U.S. aircraft carriers have been validated by the government (albeit classified in nature) as partly being a result of those platforms' nuclear reactors .
The AOIMSG does none of these things. The AOIMEXEC supervising committee will be made up only of U.S. government personnel. Moreover, the Pentagon announcement only references a responsibility to investigate UFOs only in "special use areas" such as military flight areas. It ludicrously underplays the nuclear connection here, saying incursions in these areas "may pose national security challenges." (You think?).
And, considering 70 years of effort to ignore and intimidate personnel who report UFO incidents, the Pentagon insists it takes reports of incursions "very seriously." The CIA and Air Force are of particular concern here. I can report that both remain reluctant to undertake UFO-related research and reporting (the Debrief's Tim McMillan has also reported on the Air Force concern). They are unlikely to alter their approach unless Congress enforces change.
Put simply, Congress should pretend as if Hicks's announcement never happened. It should pass the Gillibrand amendment and compel real action.
3. BIPARTISAN GILLIBRAND/RUBIO SENATORIAL BILL OVERVIEW & DETAILS
From page 330 of the document on congress.gov:
Code:
SA 4810. Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr.
BLUNT, and Mr. GRAHAM) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr.
REED and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities of the Department of
Defense, for military construction, and
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal
year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place in title XV, insert
the following:
SEC. lll. ESTABLISHMENT OF STRUCTURE
AND AUTHORITIES TO ADDRESS UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF ANOMALY SURVEILLANCE, TRACKING, AND RESOLUTION OFFICE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act,
the Secretary of Defense shall, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, establish an office within an appropriate component of the Department of Defense, or within a joint organization of the
Department of Defense and the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence, to assume—
(A) the duties of the Unidentified Aerial
Phenomenon Task Force, as in effect on the
day before the date of the enactment of this
Act; and
(B) such other duties as are required by
this section.
(2) DESIGNATION.—The office established
under paragraph (1) shall be known as the
‘‘Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking, and Resolution Office’’ (in this section referred to as
the ‘‘Office’’).
"Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking and Resolution Office is born." Nicknamed & Acronymed to:
A.S.T.R.O.
4. NOW IT IS A BATTLE OF ASTRO VS. AIOMSG
Basically, that means it's the Senate/Congress who want open public hearings for the people by the people also with info available to the public Vs. a closed-off project from the DoD or Department Of Defense, if you will who might end UAP transparency, altogether.
A battle for #UAPTransparancy where the UAPTF Is also being replaced by ASTRO or Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking and Resolution Office, or AIOMSG & and one should hope for ASTRO to remain victorious nonetheless in their efforts.
Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) Replaces UAP Task Force
Per the Department of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, on November 23, 2021:
Today, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in close collaboration with the Director of National Intelligence, directed the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security to establish within the Office of the USD(I&S) the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as the successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The AOIMSG will synchronize efforts across the Department and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interests in Special Use Airspace (SUA), and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security. To provide oversight of the AOIMSG, the Deputy Secretary also directed the USD(I&S) to lead an Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council (AOIMEXEC) to be comprised of DoD and Intelligence Community membership, and to offer a venue for U.S. government interagency representation.
Incursions by any airborne object into our SUA pose safety of flight and operations security concerns, and may pose national security challenges. DOD takes reports of incursions – by any airborne object, identified or unidentified – very seriously, and investigates each one. This decision is the result of planning efforts and collaboration conducted by OUSD(I&S) and other DoD elements at the direction of Deputy Secretary Hicks, to address the challenges associated with assessing UAP occurring on or near DOD training ranges and installations highlighted in the DNI preliminary assessment report submitted to Congress in June 2021. The report also identified the need to make improvements in processes, policies, technologies, and training to improve our ability to understand UAP.
In coming weeks, the Department will issue implementing guidance, which will contain further details on the AOIMSG Director, organizational structure, authorities, and resourcing.
The Deputy Secretary’s memo on the establishment of the AOIMSG is attached [below].
You can see her initial direction to OUSD(I&S) to begin the planning effort for formalizing the UAPTF’s mission here:
AS PER THE LEGISLATION, *THIS* IS THE CURRENT STATE OF THINGS AS THEY ARE NOW.
Legislation update - New UAP amendments (SA4810 - 18th Nov 2021) The Congressional Record for 18th Nov 2021 has been released & contains further amendments to the UAP language introduced by the Senator Gillibrands Amendment. It is now SA4810. Congressional Record:
https://tinyurl.com/CongressionalRecord18thNov (
https://www.congress.gov/117/crec/2021/11/18/167/201/CREC-2021-11-18.pdf) SA4737 & SA4810 Comparison:
SA4737vsSA4810.pdf (
SA4737vsSA4810.pdf) Differences include: The office name has changed from Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office to Anomaly Surveillance, Tracking and Resolution Office The acronym is now ASTRO. Additions of the Appropriations Committees in House and Senate being recipients of the report. The Senate is now out of session until next week.
"The recent “bipartisan oversight hearing” on UAPs, evidently convened in secret by Representative Adam Schiff, chair of House Intelligence, shows that preparations are underway. "
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