They Can't Hide This Much Longer

There are certain companies, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman among them, who are basically sitting on retrieved non-human technology and are reluctant to make an admission about the extent of what they've done with that technology to the government. Journalist Ross Coulthard alleged that two of the largest defense contractors in America hold recovered non-human technology. If Ross is right, the most valuable technology on earth may be sitting on the books of private companies, outside the reach of voters, shareholders, and most of Congress. And that would make disclosure much more than just secrecy. It would be about ownership, money, and who decides when the public finds out. Hey UFOlogers, I'm Christina Gomez, and this is your UFO News Update. While on reality check, a question came from a viewer. If aerospace companies have held exotic materials for decades under private research budgets, what's their way out? Ross starts with ownership. If these companies received craft decades ago and spent billions trying to reverse engineer them, he believes they likely see that work as their own intellectual property. And that explains why they would resist giving it up. He believes there is a legal tool Congress can use, though. What's frustrating this? Firstly, yes, there is a statutory instrument that could be used to force or enable disclosure. And that would be some kind of qualified conditional amnesty where you give the private aerospace companies an opportunity to reveal what they know within a certain time period. Otherwise, they face criminal sanction and possibly confiscation of the assets. Ross, who trained as a lawyer, pointed to the rules of the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission. A publicly traded company like Lockheed Martin must tell shareholders about anything that could move its stock price. There are national security exemptions for classified work, though, but he explains whether those exemptions still protect a company if the information is being kept from Congress itself. He also raised the IRND, which stands for independent research and development. These are company-funded research budgets. Ross argues that using them doesn't excuse a company from accounting to Congress since the Constitution requires taxpayer spending to be reported to Congress. He sees a second risk for these companies as well. Shareholders who sold their stock without knowing what a company held could claim they were never given full disclosure. Ross's understanding is that since the 2017 New York Times reporting, certain members of the Gang of Eight have been quietly briefed, which the Gang of Eight is a small group of top congressional leaders who receive the same sensitive intelligence briefings. In his view, those briefings give the companies a defense. If there is ever a reckoning, they could name a specific senator or representative and claim Congress was told Ross didn't believe that would clear them of contempt of Congress or false reporting, but it would mean that some lawmakers know far more than what they're admitting in public. And Ross also tracked how he believes this all started. His understanding is that the technology moved from government into private industry during the Nixon years, as new freedom of information laws, Watergate and the Church Committee investigations into the CIA put pressure on the White House. The goal, in his view, was deniability. No legal framework was set up to decide who owned that. Even though he wants accountability for people he believes harassed and threatened witnesses, Ross sees full amnesty as the only realistic path to the truth. If a company has held non-human technology for 50 years, should it be offered amnesty in exchange for the truth or should there be no deal at all? Well, you tell me. Ross believes the White House isn't waiting for those companies because a viewer asked about Avi Loeb's plan to place unclassified scientific instruments where orbs kept appearing. Ross backed it and named the first place he would start. And my starting point there would be White Sands, the White Sands Missile Range, where we've exclusively reported that there is an ongoing luring and retrieval operation involving UAPs. This has been authorized by the president. That operation has not been fully confirmed. Ross's read is that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, referred to as the ODNI, the FBI, and small pockets of the Defense Department are helping the White House investigate on its own terms, working around the legacy program instead of through it. He called that unusual for the Defense Department and the CIA, though. Ross wants the Science Advisory Council to give controlled access to national security sites where the phenomenon is seen, so its own sensors can collect data the public can see. His position is that if the government has nothing to hide, the data should come out. If you're finding these useful, take a second to subscribe so you do not miss tomorrow's update. The scientists brought in to do that work are really running into a wall here. But I do know from my friends and sources on the Science Advisory Committee that there is great frustration at the moment, that they're being frustrated in their efforts to secure classified material that ought properly be released to the Science Advisory Council to allow them to make their investigations into UAPs. According to Ross's sources on the council, members feel they are being misled and stalled by the agencies that hold the classified data. The council, chaired by Avi Loeb, reports to the UAP governing board under the ODNI and it stated scope covers only material that is already declassified. The people assigned to answer the question still do not have the classified evidence. While the government's own scientists wait for footage they can't simply get, a private group was showing the footage to a room full of people in Europe. Last week, the Beyond Institute held its first session in Stockholm, Sweden. It was co-founded by astronomer Björn Freyss and explorer Dennis Asperg. Jake Barber joined by remote call and showed a video that wasn't really meant for public release. According to Ross, Barber made a claim he had never made in public before. Jake basically admitted for the first time publicly that the egg-shaped objects that he was familiar with, that he'd been involved in retrieving, were seen coming from a much larger mothership that was either in low Earth orbit or in the upper atmosphere, which is quite something. Ross believes this means the Skywatch team holds much more video than what it has released thus far. Someone in the Stockholm audience filmed the presentation and posted it online, and Ross was critical of that, warning it could make Skywatcher less willing to share with the UAP community. He also expects disclosure to reach the public before it comes from government. In his view, the White House is still deciding how to handle it, and Devin Nunes is among those overseeing the issue at a very high level. Ross wouldn't be surprised if the reveal eventually comes through a mass public event where people call in the phenomenon themselves. And if you remember last week, Ross challenged NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman's claims that NASA had handed over everything relevant to the Pursue Records review. Reality Check asked NASA for a response, and NASA didn't address the question. He's not correct when he says that all information that might detail anomalous events known to NASA have been properly disclosed to pursue to the presidential records, UAP records review. That's not the case at all. It's quite clear that there is a vast amount of information that is still held by NASA which ought properly to be revealed to the PURSUE initiative. Ross believes NASA likely searched only for the word UFO and UAP, and that approach would miss transcripts, audio, video, and astronaut interviews describing anomalous objects in orbit that never used those labels. His view is that Isaacman means well, but he's badly informed, and that a keyword search is not full disclosure. Ross is naming defense contractors, proposing amnesty, and describing a White House working around its own agencies. The scientists appointed to study the issue cannot get classified data, and NASA didn't answer a direct question. Do you think the truth comes out through Congress, through the White House, or through private groups like Skywatcher going public first? Ross's challenge to NASA began with his first response to Jared Isaacman's claims that NASA had turned over everything to the Pursue Review. This video also covers the Defense Intelligence Agency letter saying that the missing OSAP case reports have been found. So make sure to watch this video next. I'm Christina Gomez. That's it for today. I will see you again next time for another UFO News update. Be safe and remember, keep your eyes on the skies.