STANFORD, Ca. – A retired U.S. Army Colonel has said continuing to hide information about UFOs could have “catastrophic” consequences for America, amid new claims that government officials agreed to hold back top-secret research 20 years ago.
Colonel Karl E. Nell called on a Stanford University conference for a “campaign plan” that would force greater transparency and a “Manhattan project” to reverse engineer recovered UFOs or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.
Washington insiders also heard how in 2004, a CIA thinktank, the Defence Intelligence Agency, and the Pentagon, broadly agreed that information about UFOs should not be declassified, deeming the societal risks too great.
The Mail based its report on the first symposium of the Sol Foundation, a nonprofit calling for “serious, well-funded, and cutting-edge academic research into the nature of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and their broad cosmological and political implications.”
The event on Saturday heard from Col. Nell and former CIA scientist Hal Puthoff. Puthoff made the allegations about the 2004 thinktank discussions, which he said had erred toward not disclosing UFO research details to the public.
Slides presented by Col. Nell and published by the Mail showed Nell’s hopes that disclosure about UAP would be achieved by October 1, 2030, admitting there was “risk” that his timeline targets could fall behind.
In the slides, Nell argued his plan, if achieved, would see “Proper Oversight Restored,” “Catastrophic Disclosure Avoid,” and “Scientific Understanding Advanced.”
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