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In December 2023, unidentified drones flew over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for 17 days, leading to the cancellation of training missions and the relocation of the F-22 Raptors, in just one of several similar events in a short time frame. How is the US Government responding to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (i.e. UFOs)? How are the needs of National Defense and Intelligence being balanced with a long history of UFO stigma? What is their responsibility to release information, and should the fear of public panic impede the release of all information? If we do not understand the origins of these UAPs, what are the potential geopolitical and diplomatic considerations? What are the risks of doing nothing?
Join Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Former Minority Staff Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee Christopher Mellon, who has been at the forefront of the shifting government orientation towards Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, as he walks us through the history, the current status, and what we may be able to anticipate in the future.
Emmy-winning journalist and friend of Vail Symposium Greg Dobbs moderates this program through his lens of over 50 years covering geopolitics around the world (watch his own keynote presentation: “Life In the Wrong Lane: Why Journalists Go In When Everyone Else Wants Out“).
Recommended reading available at The Bookworm in Edwards:
“Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs” by Luis Elizondo
“UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (and Don’t Know)” by Robert Powell
