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UFO reporting hotline is MIA
politico.com ^ | LARA SELIGMAN and JOE GOULD

Posted on 08/11/2023 10:07:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

There’s no phone number. No email address. Not even a website.

More than a year since the Pentagon launched an office to investigate UFO sightings, there is still no hotline for pilots and others to report mysterious objects directly to the investigators.

Some witnesses say they’re getting frustrated and feel forced to turn to Capitol Hill or outside groups to tell their stories. Others say it discourages them from attempting to flag such incidents at all because they’re worried about recrimination if they report to the FAA or military supervisors.

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The Pentagon has denied the claims. At the same time, it has encouraged witnesses to come forward with any information related to the effort to investigate UAPs — but has not yet provided a public avenue to do so.

AARO is required by law to launch a public-facing website where witnesses can directly report potential UFO sightings. But the website is tied up in Pentagon red tape: It is still “under development” after officials submitted a first version to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks for review before Christmas, Gough said.

The existing reporting mechanisms only receive two or three reports a month, said Lt. Ryan Graves, the first active-duty military pilot to come forward with his experience seeing a UAP in 2018. Graves recently founded a nonprofit group to support other pilots who see things they can’t explain, Americans for Safe Aerospace. Van Voorhis is also working with the group.

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TOPICS: UFO's
KEYWORDS: fringe; joegould; laraseligman; ohsomysteriouso; ufo; ufos
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1 posted on 08/11/2023 10:07:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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FR Rules (Source):

Do not enter onto a thread on a topic you don't like just to disrupt, rattle cages, poke sticks, insult the regulars, or engage in trolling activities, etc.

2 posted on 08/11/2023 10:08:53 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I suspect it would get overloaded with all kinds of bogus reports.


3 posted on 08/11/2023 10:08:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Ping


4 posted on 08/11/2023 10:09:44 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Do not enter onto a thread on a topic you don't like just to disrupt, rattle cages, poke sticks, insult the regulars

Well, that sorta takes all of the fun out of it.

5 posted on 08/11/2023 10:10:25 AM PDT by BipolarBob (5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions.)
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To: RoosterRedux

With a) the borders perfectly controlled, or b) the borders wide open, why would anyone care about aliens?


6 posted on 08/11/2023 10:18:17 AM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: dfwgator
I suspect it would get overloaded with all kinds of bogus reports.

I suspect they would regard every report a bogus.

7 posted on 08/11/2023 10:19:32 AM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: RoosterRedux
There’s no phone number.

Not yet, they're probably trying to set up a call center in India.......

8 posted on 08/11/2023 10:20:00 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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“We haven’t had any reported sightings for years now”.

See, this is how they do things. Of course not, you shut off the ability to do so.


9 posted on 08/11/2023 10:21:07 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: RoosterRedux

Just contact the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) to report a sighting.

https://nuforc.org/


10 posted on 08/11/2023 10:23:30 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: RoosterRedux

NUFORC has been a very good, reliable reporting site for decades. We don’t need another one.


11 posted on 08/11/2023 10:24:20 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: null and void
The Naval Air secured training areas off the east and west coasts have so many close calls with UFO/UAPs that pilots are worried about a collision. That's a $30+ million asset at risk.

But the DOD doesn't want to hear about it. So pilots are going directly to Congress.

12 posted on 08/11/2023 10:26:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

“Squirrel” commenters are deeply disappointed LOL


13 posted on 08/11/2023 10:26:34 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Magic Fingers

Heheh. They’ve moved to another tree.


14 posted on 08/11/2023 10:29:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Report them to MUFON


15 posted on 08/11/2023 10:36:04 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Hot Tabasco

LOL. As usual, the Pentagon just wants to be frugal.;-)


16 posted on 08/11/2023 10:36:10 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Cold Heart

I don’t think military pilots think MUFON or NUFORC would resolve their concerns.;-)


17 posted on 08/11/2023 10:38:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Openurmind

This is like Bud Light opening a customer complaints office, refusing to tell anyone how to contact it...and then announcing to the press, “We’ve had absolutely zero customer complaints this year!”


18 posted on 08/11/2023 10:43:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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How would the Pentagon do it?

They haven’t done anything so far.


19 posted on 08/11/2023 10:44:17 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BipolarBob

That’s like 75% of posts...


20 posted on 08/11/2023 10:46:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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