Written by Christopher Sharp - 9 March 2022

• The delayed Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) 2022 has been unveiled, and it includes language that suggests gears are shifting regarding UAP efforts.

• The involvement of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), opens the door to its potential involvement in exploiting UAP technology, something referenced within the NDAA 2022.

• Incidentally, Rep. Mike Turner (although unlikely to be involved), has recently been made a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Turner is a firm advocate of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which sits within his Congressional district.

• NASIC’s involvement opens the door to defense contractors, who can play a key role in the U.S. Government’s UAP efforts.

• If the likes of Lockheed Martin wish to stop the brain drain of young talent and avoid being overshadowed by the likes of Elon Musk’s Space X, now is the moment to act.

Yesterday, the much-delayed U.S. Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) 2022 was unveiled within a government-wide spending package, and it includes language that suggests gears are shifting regarding the U.S government’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) efforts.

The IAA legislation (in its current form) means the new UAP Office (whose mission has been legislated by Congress) will now be providing quarterly UAP reports, in addition to the bi-yearly reports required by the National Defense Authorization Act 2022 (NDAA) legislation.

But the most prominent sentence came as a surprise to many:

“The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense shall jointly require that each element of the intelligence community and component of the Department of Defense with data relating to unidentified aerial phenomena makes such data available immediately to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, or successor entity, and to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center."

The involvement of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), opens the door to its potential involvement in exploiting UAP technology, something referenced within the NDAA 2022, which requires the UAP Office to provide….

“An update on any efforts underway on the ability to capture or exploit discovered unidentified aerial phenomena.”

NASIC, which is based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base would likely lead any reverse-engineering efforts involving UAP.

Incidentally, Rep. Mike Turner (Republican), has recently been made a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Turner is a firm advocate of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which sits within his Congressional district.

Although, it must be clarified that the UAP language originated from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence version of the IAA, adopted on July 28, 2021. That means Turner is unlikely to have been involved.

The IAA language has also emerged following the establishment of a Space Force intelligence analysis group within NASIC, something which could be of potential significance.

Of potential importance is this: NASIC’s involvement opens the door to defense contractors, who can play a key role in the U.S. Government’s UAP efforts.

Exploiting UAP Technology

If there is recovered UAP hardware, defense contractors will be involved.

Let’s go back to 1976, to illustrate how the reverse-engineering process works.

On 6 September 1976, a 29-year-old Soviet pilot named Viktor Belenkois defected. Belenkois flew his secretive MiG-25 Foxbat from a base east of Vladisvostok to Japan’s Hokkaido island.

He avoided Japanese air defenses for 46 minutes before landing at Hakodate, a small civilian airport.

This was a huge intelligence coup for the U.S. 

At the time, the MiG-25 Foxbat was the fastest fighter in the world. It had a top speed of Mach 2.83 but could burst to Mach 3.2 when intercepting an SR-71 Blackbird. For context, the F-15, America’s fastest fighter at the time, could barely reach Mach 2.5.

Alarmingly, the Foxbat was also the launch platform for the early versions of Soviet anti-satellite missiles.

As expected, the Soviets demanded the return of their aircraft and pilot.

But the United States was busy.

The United States Air Force Foreign Technology Division (now known as NASIC) went to work along with the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, supported by Japan’s Self-Defense Force.

The Foxbat was disassembled, placed in crates, and ferried to Hyakuri Air Base near Tokyo in a C-5 Galaxy escorted by an F-4 Phantom.

At Hyakuri, it was picked apart, examined, and its Foxfire radar and Tumansky R-15 engines were ground-tested.

Though reverse engineering was directed by the Foreign Technology Division, most of the engineers doing the work were from defense contractors, such as McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.

Two months later, when reverse engineering efforts were complete, the disassembled Foxbat was sent back to the Soviet Union inside crates on board a cargo ship.

With the exception of ‘shipping’ a craft back, one could imagine a similar effort reverse-engineering UAP, and multiple defense contractors would play a key role.

Such an effort could provide the catalyst to prove beyond doubt whether UAP does reflect non-human intelligence.

And it could lead to new transformative technologies.

Contractors Will Define The Future Of UAP Efforts

To illustrate how reliant the Department of Defense (DoD) and other agencies are on contractors, one source from a defense contractor provided the following comments to Liberation Times:

"I have worked with NASA, DARPA, and the Naval Research Laboratory and know they rely heavily on contractors.

I once sought help from NASA on designing an aircraft that would maximize sonic booms (yes, maximize, not minimize) and everyone I spoke to except for one engineer was a NASA contractor.

While my contact with NASIC has been minimal and limited to performance modeling adversarial craft, I expect they follow the same model as the other government agencies in their reliance on contractors."

Without contractors, the DoD and any UAP Office could not function.

Their expertise and systems will be vital to the Office’s future success, especially when exploiting technology.

From a macro sense, it’s a team game though, which will require the cooperation of other nations and agencies, including the Department of Energy (DoE) and NASA.

Of note, the DoE typically does not rely on contractors. It operates facilities that design, assemble, and disassemble nuclear weapons, including Los Alamos National Lab.

Perhaps any coordination between the DoD and DoE would also necessitate the involvement of more contractors within the DoE, to accomplish the UAP exploitation efforts.

But make no mistake, involving contractors in the UAP effort is big news.

If the likes of Lockheed Martin wish to stop the brain drain of young talent and avoid being overshadowed by the likes of Elon Musk’s Space X, now is the moment to act.

Being involved with any UAP engineering effort (especially if non-human) would likely invigorate recruitment for the likes of Lockheed Martin.

Indeed, one could imagine young graduates wishing to be part of a new technological golden age like no other.

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