Politico "Skull and Bones" faction report
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| Date | 16 May 2022 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic), Congress & law (topic) |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 206 |
| Year | 2022 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2022 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 4 |
On 16 May 2022, the day before the first open congressional hearing on UAP in more than fifty years, Politico reported that unnamed officials had described a faction inside the Pentagon and intelligence agencies that guarded UFO information with a "Skull and Bones-type vibe" and no accountability. Skull and Bones is a famous secret society at Yale University.[1][2]
The report
According to the report, some Pentagon insiders were protecting very interesting information from the public, and officials said a "forcing mechanism" would be needed to make the group share its secrets with Congress. Officials also complained that genuine UAP were rare — perhaps "five things out of 5,000" — and were lumped in with mundane reports, and that superiors tended to dismiss the subject as "air trash".[1]
Context
The report came as the House Intelligence Committee's counter-terrorism subcommittee prepared to hear from Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray on 17 May 2022 — the first such public hearing since 1966. The push followed the 2017 revelations about AATIP and the Pentagon's creation of a UAP office in November 2021.[1][2]
Assessment
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The officials were anonymous, and Politico did not name anyone in the alleged faction. The claim of a hidden faction fits a long tradition in UFO lore, from Majestic 12 to the "Collins Elite", and added to pressure on the officials who testified the next day. The idea later resurfaced in the 2023 claims of whistleblower David Grusch.[2][3]
People and topics
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- MJ-12 — Disputed documents describing a secret committee managing crashed saucers.
- Collins Elite — Collins Elite
On the Timeline
- USS Ronald Reagan orange orb (9 May 2022) — USS Ronald Reagan crew members report a fiery orange UAP above the deck.
- 2022 House UAP hearing (17 May 2022) — Rep. Mike Gallagher asks a Pentagon official about the 'Admiral Wilson memo' at a hearing.
See every 2022 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "UFO 'gatekeepers'", Futurism (16 May 2022), summarising Politico · futurism.com · archived copy
- 2022 United States Congress hearings on UFOs — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Majestic 12 — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- politico.com · politico.com · archived copy
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