I'm glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available.— Harry Reid
US Senator (D)
Senate Majority Leader
4/27/2020 | Twitter
I am saying most of [the evidence] hasn't seen the light of day.— Harry Reid
US Senator (D)
Senate Majority Leader
5/16/2021 | The Phenomenon
I actually wanted to get this information out and declassify it before I left office but we weren't able to get it down into an unclassified format that we were able to talk about quickly enough.— John Ratcliffe
Director National Intelligence
3/22/2021 | Fox News
If UAP do indeed represent a potential threat to our security, then the capabilities, systems, processes, and sources we use to observe, record, study or analyze these phenomena need to be classified at appropriate levels. We do not want potential adversaries to know exactly what we're able to see or understand or how we come to the conclusions we make. Therefore public disclosures must be carefully considered on a case by case basis...— Scott Bray
Deputy Director Navy Intelligence
5/17/2022 | Congressional hearings
Finally my biggest failure of 2014, once again not securing the disclosure of UFO files.— John Podesta
Chief of Staff to President Clinton
2/13/2015 | Twitter
I did attempt to discover if there were any secret government documents that reveal things, and if there were, they were concealed from me too. I wouldn't be the first president that underlings had lied to or career bureaucrats have waited out. There may be some career person sitting around somewhere hiding these dark secrets even from elected presidents, but if so they successfully eluded me and I am almost embarrassed to tell you I did try to find out.— Bill Clinton
US President (D)
2014 | The Phenomenon
At some point, the information about 'alien' stuff and true US national defence information crosses paths. Patriots with clearances do not want to be traitors to their country or their way of life. For instance, if I told you the exact electromagnetic signature of a high-match UFO that US sensors search for, but don't attack, and you put it in a book, the Soviets/Chinese would manufacture a bomber with sigint/elint countermeasure equipment that generated that exact signature.— Bob Fish
Defense communications intelligence
2021 | In Plain Sight, p 103
If there is some recovered debris say, it is so deeply buried and squirreled away that it's outside of those normal oversight processes and that's why there is a problem in this area.— Christopher Mellon
Dep. Asst. Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
5/16/2021 | The Phenomenon