Civic Register
| 4.25.19

Navy Drafting New Guidelines for Reporting UFOs – Do Sightings Need to Be Taken More Seriously?

Do you support the Navy’s new guidelines for UFO sightings?

What’s the story?

  • The U.S. Navy is drafting new guidelines for reporting encounters with “unexplained aerial phenomena” in response to a series of sightings of unknown, highly advanced aircraft.
  • "There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years," the Navy said in a statement to POLITICO.
"For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report.”
  • The Navy added that as part of this effort, they will be “updating and formalizing the process by which reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognizant authorities. A new message to the fleet that will detail the steps for reporting is in draft."

What are people saying?

  • “Pilots are upset, and they’re trying to help wake up a slumbering system,” Chris Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told the Washington Post.
  • Mellon criticized the intelligence community for its lack of “curiosity and courage” and a “failure to react” to a strong pattern of sightings.
“I don’t believe in safety through ignorance,” Mellon said.
  • Luis Elizondo, a former senior intelligence officer, told The Post that the new reporting guidelines is “the single greatest decision the Navy has made in decades.”
  • “If I came to you and said, ‘There are these things that can fly over our country with impunity, defying the laws of physics, and within moments could deploy a nuclear device at will,’ that would be a matter of national security,” Elizondo said.
“This type of activity is very alarming, and people are recognizing there are things in our aerospace that lie beyond our understanding.”

What do you think?

Do you support the Navy’s new guidelines for UFO sightings? Take action and tell your reps, then share your thoughts below.

—Josh Herman

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