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Micro-Pod: AARO Senate Hearing — Much To Discuss
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Introduction and Host's Busy Schedule
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Hi, everybody. Welcome back to UFO Focus. I'm your host, Isaiah. I was really hoping to ah put together a pretty detailed analysis, my own analysis of this week's briefing by the government UFO office, UAP office, Aero in the Senate ah this week, but ah Duty calls my day job calls. I'm
Community Reaction to the Briefing
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i'm quite busy right now ah So I'm just putting out this teaser for you um My analysis so far of that briefing I thought it was Fascinating and I thought it was dense and that there's all kinds of stuff to talk about it seems like the general reaction on
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you know what what we were calling UFO Twitter but I'm kind of done with Twitter I'm I'm on blue sky now but anyway the online community etc um seem to be pretty dismissive of this briefing. A lot of very smart people ah were very disappointed by it. I had a different reaction,
Future Podcast Plans
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and we'll explore that when I get this podcast up for reals. But for now, I'm just going to leave you with this clip that I found
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And find, totally intriguing. I want to see if you do too. See what you think about it. If you want to send me your thoughts, you can find me. It's Isaiah Thompson on blue sky um at UFO focus on Twitter. My email is UFO focus podcast at proton dot m.me. Anyway, here's this clip from the hearing. It's Senator
Senator Gillibrand's Role and Public Reaction
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Kirsten Gillibrand, ah sort of in the middle of the hearing.
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and I wanna see what you think about it, and we'll talk about it soon. Oh, and okay, rather than leave you hanging and to guess what I'm talking about or what I'm thinking, I guess I'll give you ah ah a bit of a clue to my thinking. So a lot of the reaction to this hearing in the UFO community that I've seen,
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so far has been sort of like, ah, this was a nothing burger hearing. We didn't learn anything new. No new evidence was presented. And it gets to something that we're going to have to talk about in much more depth, which is like, what is evidence and how do we define
Differentiating Evidence from Proof in UFO Hearings
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evidence? And, you know, let's distinguish evidence from proof and Let's talk about different kinds of evidence. Scientific evidence is great, but it's not the only kind of evidence anyway.
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um I tend to zoom out a little bit more in my thinking on this kind of stuff. I
Impact of Mainstream Coverage on Public Perception
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tend to think about like, you know. What would the average person who doesn't know much about this topic think about?
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in this case, this, you know, what you're about to hear or this hearing. um Especially, well, and another way of putting that is like, if the mainstream news actually took this stuff seriously, right? What kind of headlines could you imagine coming out of this hearing and what you're about to hear? And how would that affect people's thinking? To me, what you're about to hear is Kirsten Gillibrand,
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a respected, high-ranking, powerful United States Senator who has no political, yeah I mean, there is no political gain on the UFO topic. There
Possibility of Extraterrestrial Visits
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is no substantial constituency. She's not doing this for votes. That seems pretty clear to me.
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um
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I forgot where I began my sentence, but anyway, my point is,
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To me, this clip sounds like Senator Gillibrand walking right up to a certain line. The line basically being like, do you think there's actually potentially aliens visiting Earth, right? She walks very close to that line.
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And I don't know, sounds to me like she thinks that might be a distinct possibility. So,
Closing Remarks and Upcoming Content
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see what you think. Okay, bye. See you next time. Thank you. um I recently just read your report from March, your historic report, and I would encourage anyone who's interested interested in this topic to read the report because um when I was asked by a reporter about it, they said, well, it doesn't show any any evidence of secret programs that have aliens.
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That's not how I read the report. What I read the report is the US government took sightings extremely seriously over the last 75 years, so put some of the greatest minds ever to analyze these cases because they assess them as some deeply unknown phenomena that may or may not cause threats, that may or may not be related to adversaries, but are certainly something that the US government need to know about. And what I read from this report is that We resolved numbers of cases, but in almost every instance, whether it was in the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, the nots, half the cases were unresolved. So I don't think this is an example of the government not taking these cases seriously. I think this is an example of our government spending 75 years taking these cases very seriously.
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And interestingly, for the group that put together this report, they didn't have access to any firsthand reporting. And so from my perspective, for whistleblowers and people who want to come in, please come in because the purpose of AERO is so that the senators can do our job to provide oversight, accountability, and transparency.
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We find it very concerning that our pilots, that our Navy officers, that people who have sightings of UAPs are denigrated, are um somehow dismissed or disregarded. um They need to be protected. this is a a huge issue for national security because number one, we don't have domain awareness, which is very problematic. Number two, um we don't have domain superiority if we don't understand how different UAPs are flying, what technology they're using, um what their mission is, what their purpose is. And at the base level, We have so many UAPs around our bases, around our military sites, around our nuclear sites, that it's deeply disturbing that adversaries at a minimum could be using these opportunities to spy, to glean intelligence that will harm our long-term national security. So um I'm grateful that you're taking the whistleblowers very seriously. I'm grateful that Arrow is trying its best to integrate the private sector, the public, into their work.
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Okay, and that's it for right now. ah Again, I really look forward to digging into this whole, I think this is a fascinating briefing. There's a lot to talk about. ah And I look forward to putting that pod up as soon as I can. Thanks again for listening. Please like tweet this podcast out or post it on Blue Sky or wherever, you know, that would be really helpful. If you could leave a good review, that would also be helpful.
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I'll see you soon.