John Greenewald highlights the UAP-related wording in the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of next fiscal year’s proposed intelligence budget. The actual numbers in the November 22nd document show UAP occupy a relatively small financial portion of a section heavily emphasizing threats from known human actors. This Cost Estimate pertains to the Intelligence Authorization Act as reported by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. On a related issue, Washington, D.C. area WTOP’s Michelle Basch informs that Government Employees Who are UFO Witnesses May Soon Break Their Silence. Basch mentions some machinations in the House that might affect passage of the National Defense Authorization Act. UFO investigator Richard Lang remarks on the possibility of folks coming forward with UAP-related information, while Virginia MUFON State Director Sue Swiatek offers positive context. (Hat-tip Richard Thieme.) International notice of the historical US UFO situation comes in The Portugal News’ question whether the CIA Started the UFO Stigma? Former F-16 pilot Chris Lehto sees the 1952 UFO flap over the D.C. area as seminal for a “hush-curtain” still hanging over witness reporting. But huge amounts of sightings have been documented. The U.S. News & World Report notes an extremely positive civilian effort to archive, study, and disseminate such information. See AP reporter Toby Martinez’ succinct but comprehensive National UFO Historical Records Center Coming to Albuquerque, New Mexico. (WM)
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