Interesting comments from Rep. Eric Burlison, quoted in The Hill saying the Pentagon isn’t telling Congress the truth about “special access programs” that are being confused for extraterrestrial technology and reported as UFOs.

GOP lawmaker calls for House to form committee on UAPs

Here is a relevant passage from The Hill article, dated March 12, 2024, in brackets and bolded:

[Burlison said Tuesday that his concerns were that the Pentagon is not being completely forthright in its denials about UAP programs. He said Defense officials were not truthful to members of Congress in private when sharing classified information.

“They weren’t transparent to us in a SCIF setting,” Burlison said. “So they could have brought forward evidence. They could have explained what these Special Access Programs actually do. But they are not willing to do that with Congress.”

“So to me, it’s about time that they opened the kimono, that they show us exactly what’s happening, because they should,” he continued. “If they’re doing something that’s good for the American people, if they’re being responsible with taxpayer dollars, they should have nothing to hide.”]

I guess Rep. Burlison didn’t get the memo from Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which was formed by Congress to investigate UFOs.

In his second opinion piece in Scientific American, Kirkpatrick pretty much confirmed that many UFOs are top-secret Pentagon programs that must remain hidden from the public.

Here is an excerpt from the Op/Ed, bold and in brackets, to support this idea, and also here is a link to the Op/Ed: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-investigate-ufos-but-without-the-distraction-of-conspiracy/

[There also is the possibility that some observed and reported phenomena are associated with past or ongoing national security programs completely unrelated to extraterrestrials. Unfortunately, some who have been peripherally involved in these programs are taking advantage of the lack of understanding of security compartmentalization among the public—and some members of Congress—and feel that exposure of national security activities is a public right.

The harm of such exposure would be incalculable: billions of dollars and decades invested in military capabilities exposed to our potential adversaries to satisfy ill-informed curiosity. While some staffers and members of Congress may claim that they and the American people have a right to know of every classified research program, Congress already has an established process for notification of sensitive programs to the bipartisan leadership of both the Senate and House as well as the chairs and ranking minority members of the Senate and House intelligence committees, often referred to as the Gang of Eight. It is incumbent on both the speaker of the House, the Senate majority leader and both chairs of the intelligence committees to ensure that there is no risk of exposing any national security programs in a rush to find extraterrestrials, and that documents are reviewed within appropriate channels. If these members of Congress deem it appropriate not to share classified information, they are doing their job. These are not town hall topics.]

Well, there you have it.

The Pentagon is never going to tell the truth about its propulsion breakthroughs over the decades, astonishing advances that are so unconventional people think they’re witnessing E.T.

And I don’t know, maybe the absolute secrecy is warranted, given how dangerous the world truly is.

But, hey, it’s not E.T. … it was never E.T.