Finally, we have a member of Congress acknowledging something fundamental about the entire UFO saga in this country: That the Pentagon is likely hiding the existence of top-secret propulsion technologies, even from the president and members of Congress.

Here are the most relevant comments from an article this morning (Nov. 27, 2024) in the Washington Times newspaper, in bold print and quotations (Also, here is a link to the article, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/27/rep-nancy-mace-ufo-secrecy-keeping-president-unite/)

“At a minimum, publicly available Pentagon information strongly suggests there is incredible aerospace technology being fielded today that the American public, and even most members of Congress, are unaware of.

‘I’m not saying share everything. Maybe there are weapons programs we’re testing that it’s a fair thing we don’t want the American public to know about,” Ms. Mace said.

In a worst-case scenario, Ms. Mace said, individuals or departments within the Pentagon, intelligence community and other corners of the government could be keeping secrets from the White House itself.

‘Are they keeping the president of the United States in the dark?’ she said.”

Anyway, I’ve been saying this for years, and it’s a point of view we might call the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, and it goes something like this:

• The UFOs are not extraterrestrial and they have never been. Instead, the Pentagon has made a series of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs going all the way back to the first important sighting, that of Kenneth Arnold in 1947.
• Instead of jumping automatically to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, we should first fully entertain and explore the terrestrial hypothesis. So, for example, the “Tic Tac” object encountered in 2004 by Navy pilots over a U.S. military training range, is, in fact, a U.S. military platform. That’s why it was observed there. Furthermore, the fact that this encounter took place over a training range would suggest that these are not “experimental aircraft,” but operational platforms. I would also propose that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret platforms, entirely unknown to the public and developed over the past seven decades or so, thanks to a burgeoning “black budget” that keeps these programs hidden from Congress.
• Logically, then, the terrestrial hypothesis would suggest that a whole bizarre inventory of encounters involving U.S. military personnel and civilians alike have always been top-secret Pentagon technologies known only to a small circle with a “need to know.” Everything from those UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems back in the 1960s, to the huge triangular thing observed over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the “Phoenix lights” in 1997, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois in 2000, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, the Tic Tacs, etc., etc.
• Moreover, the performance characteristics of these objects were such that there is one overarching likelihood suggested by this historical record of sightings: The Pentagon has developed exotic and highly unconventional propulsion systems that it has hidden from the public all these years.
• Meanwhile, it certainly appears that there has been a disinformation effort to confuse people, and the media, about the whole subject of UFOs, publishing books by former military personnel who claim to have encountered extraterrestrials. It’s a legacy that in my opinion goes back many years and includes The Day After Roswell, published in 1997. (If you are interested, please read my review of The Day After Roswell, which I regard as a masterpiece of disinformation, here, https://emilvenere.com/files/138490884.pdf)
• As to why the Pentagon would sometimes be flying these weapons over populated areas, perhaps it’s real-world training, a “living lab” to perfect tactics and to study how well they perform against state-of-the-art, white-world technologies like F-16s. There have been examples of military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This excellent article in The War Zone documents one such exercise over Los Angeles: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38753/those-mysterious-gray-helicopters-were-landing-on-multiple-downtown-la-rooftops-last-night
• Anyway, this terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs leads to many follow-up questions and concerns, chief among them: Is there a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force that is far more capable than either of those entities? If so, how far have we gone? Do we have military bases in deep space?  Are any of these top-secret platforms nuclear-powered?

At any rate, bravo Rep. Nancy Mace, bravo! Better late to the party than not at all!