The NY Times' Five Year UFO Anniversary
Need To Know
Bryce Zabel
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🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Bryce and Ross mark two anniversaries in this episode. It's been one month since the deadline for Congress to release a new UAP report. And we're close to the five-year anniversary of the New York Times article on the $22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program at the Defense Dept. It's regarded as the first truly series piece by a mainstream media organization on UFO research. And as for the Congressional UAP report that was due at the end of October? Bryce is not happy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Need to Know. |
| 0:10.0 | Real talk about the reality of unidentified aerial phenomena. |
| 0:15.0 | From Australia, Ross Colthart, from the U.S. Bryce Zabel. |
| 0:24.1 | Well, I guess we're going to be talking about anniversaries today. |
| 0:30.8 | I mean, it's been around a month since that October 31st report on UAP was supposed to come out and we're still waiting. |
| 0:38.6 | But more than that, it's been almost five years since that classic New York Times reporting sort of ushered in a new age of UAP. I mean, happy anniversary, Ross. Nice to have it. It's one hell of an anniversary, Bryce. |
| 0:44.6 | Frankly, I don't know what to say. I am being besieged with people demanding to know what I |
| 0:50.5 | know about why there's been this delay in the Congress. |
| 0:54.4 | And look, my best spin on it made is that, frankly, the office that's supposedly meant to |
| 1:00.3 | be doing this report is so chronically under-resourced, understaffed, under-focused on by the |
| 1:07.2 | Pentagon that it hasn't been able to get the report completed on time. People |
| 1:11.7 | are telling me there will eventually be a report, but they're saying, don't get too worked |
| 1:17.5 | up about it. This isn't unusual in the Washington DC scheme of events. But frankly, I'll be |
| 1:24.4 | honest with you, mate. It doesn't send a very good message. What'm not. I'm not happy at all. I got to tell you, I'm not happy. I'm not willing to cut that slack. I mean, if you recall, there were supposed to be, and we'll be talking about this more later, but there was a report that was due on June 25th, 2021, and it came out on June 25th, 2021. |
| 1:46.0 | This one, I was saying, well, if it comes out on October 31st, that'll be, you know, eight days before the election. |
| 1:52.0 | I thought it would be even a part of the election. |
| 1:54.0 | Instead, it's just gone away, and there's no accountability. |
| 1:57.0 | I mean, people aren't, you know, raising their voices and being upset about this thing. |
| 2:02.4 | And that, I think, is a little strange to have something this important and not have any follow-up. |
| 2:07.7 | I mean, I think about, okay, there's senators that have been involved, Rubio and Gillibrand, for example. |
| 2:15.2 | Why aren't they saying anything? Why haven't they called a news conference? |
| 2:18.6 | That's what worries me, mate, because at the moment, I mean, I'm talking to people, |
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