UFO Origins Unknown, But Could Be ‘Really Terrifying’

FRIDAY PDB – If these Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) aren't extraterrestrial, our earthly adversaries are going to crush us. NASA data, analysis needed to help DoD understand UFOs: Commission.

Mike Gold, a former NASA official and member of the study team, said that if any UAP proves to be extraterrestrial, “that would probably be the best-case scenario, because if these systems are from terrestrial adversaries, that is really terrifying.”

“The NASA independent study team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin, but we don't know what these UAP are,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said, stressing that the key reason for NASA's involvement is to “shift the conversation about UAP from sensationalism to science.”

Gold summed up: 

“The report stated we don't know what's occurring, and the fact that we don't know what's occurring in America's skies, in space and underwater — that there are these anomalies — should be of great interest, if not concern, for all of us as American citizens. And for far too long, we've written off pretty significant incidents and reports.”

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here's a roundup of today's other top defense stories from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.

Not the President's Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL'S DAILY BRIEFING – the PDB:

POLITICS

SOMEONE IS LYING – Milley denies claims he told Trump to attack Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley offered his first public denial this week of claims that he told former President Trump to attack Iran during his administration.

Ukraine's Zelenskyy expected to visit Capitol Hill next week. His visit comes as Congress is debating providing as much as $21 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion.

NATIONAL SECURITY

Sen. Warren: Congress should investigate Musk over hindered Russian navy attack. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on Wednesday Congress should investigate Elon Musk's role in preventing a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian military ships in the Black Sea.

Americans broadly support military strikes in Mexico. About half of Americans support sending U.S. military personnel into Mexico to fight drug cartels, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, though there is less backing for sending troops without Mexico's approval.

WAR FOR NORTH POLE – With eye toward Russia and China, NORTHCOM concludes special mission in the Arctic. “It's really both competitors we see operating up there, routinely.

CHINA THREAT

China appears to have suspended spy balloon program after February shootdown, US intel believes. The incident occurred earlier this year, when one of the country's high-altitude spy balloons transited the entire U.S.

PURGE? China's defense minister under investigation for corruption. U.S. and Chinese officials say Li Shangfu, who has not been seen in public for weeks, likely will be removed from his position.

RUSSIA THREAT– UKRAINE WAR

FIX THIS! – US weapons headed to Ukraine at risk of theft from lax security, IG says. US arms and ammo moving across Europe and transferring to Ukraine at a logistics site in Poland risk being lost or stolen because security measures aren't being observed consistently.

Ukraine seeks upper hand in cat-and-mouse game of naval drones. Russian forces have learned from recent attacks with explosive-laden unmanned surface vessels.

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 569. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed what he described as Ukraine's destruction of a sophisticated Russian ‘Triumf' air defense system in the annexed Crimean peninsula.

F-35 stealth fighters land in NATO-member Denmark to replace F-16s, some of which will go to Ukraine. The four F-35s are the first installment of the U.S.-made planes ordered by the NATO member to replace its aging fleet of F-16s.

NORTH KOREA THREAT

US, South Korean, Canadian warships train in Yellow Sea ahead of Incheon anniversary. They drilled together Thursday in response to continuing tension with North Korea, and ahead of the reenactment of a pivotal Korean War landing.

SPACE THREAT

THANK TRUMP FOR SPACE FORCE – US seizes initiative on space security for the first time in decades. Something very interesting has happened recently in the usually staid diplomatic world of outer space security.

Firefly launches Space Force ‘Victus Nox' mission. The mission to low Earth orbit was a demonstration of ‘tactically responsive space' operations.

DoD space protection strategy: resilience, defense, and offense by another name. The unclassified strategy communicates “our commitment to protect the Joint Force from adversary hostile uses of space.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

US Marines pair with Swedes on exercise while learning lessons from watching Russia. A joint military exercise this week in Sweden's archipelago in the Baltic Sea sends a strong signal of NATO's resolve in the face of Russian aggression.

HUGE DEAL – US military is scouting more Philippine bases for shared access. Pentagon is seeking access to more bases in the Philippines, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command told reporters Thursday.

US, Saudi Arabia conduct ‘biggest, most complex' live fire CENTCOM counter-drone. They just wrapped up the second iteration of a counter-unmanned aerial system (c-UAS) exercise showcasing how different emerging and already-fielded technologies from both nations could defeat threats posed by adversaries.

After Niger coup, Air Force looks for other countries to host drone base. Still, ISR operations have resumed from Nigerian sites.

UN envoy for Sudan resigns and warns that the conflict could be turning into full-scale civil war. The U.N. special envoy for Sudan was earlier declared unwelcome by Sudan's military rulers.

Russia seeks to expand naval presence in the Mediterranean. U.S. officials expected to visit Libya to lobby against Russian presence.

COMMIE LIARS – Cuba issues conflicting statements on use of its citizens in Ukraine war. Cuban Foreign Minister said Thursday his country rejects the participation of its citizens as mercenaries in war, hours after Cuba's ambassador in Moscow said Cuba did not oppose the legal participation of its citizens in Russia's war in Ukraine.

BIDEN'S AFGHAN DISASTER

Secret records: Government says Marine's adoption of Afghan orphan seen as abduction, must be undone. The Feds warned a Virginia judge that allowing an American Marine to keep an Afghan war orphan risks violating international law and could be viewed around the world as “endorsing an act of international child abduction.”

US MILITARY

Navy will miss recruiting goals by 7,000 sailors this year. This, according to acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti.

Entire Air Force to miss recruiting goal, the first failure in 25 years. The Air Force will miss its annual enlisted recruiting goal across all three components for the first time since 1999.

END of PDB

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