According to John Ratcliffe, the former Director of National Intelligence, U.S. intelligence analysts have “
high confidence” that foreign adversaries – such as China or Russia – are not behind the most extraordinary UFO sightings. In a stark summation of the government’s assessment of the phenomenon, Ratcliffe
stated that some UFOs exhibit “technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.”
After reading the classified version of the government’s recent UFO report, Sen.
Mitt Romney (R-Utah) echoed Ratcliffe’s comments,
ruling out highly advanced Chinese or Russian aircraft as likely explanations for the mysterious objects. In an interview about the military’s UFO encounters, Romney referred to “technology which is in a whole different sphere than anything we understand.”
But sightings of unknown craft exhibiting highly advanced technology are
not a recent phenomenon. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first director of the CIA,
said that objects “operating under intelligent control” displayed
extraordinary technology in the
decades after World War II.
Haines’s comment is the latest sign that a seismic shift in the government’s official stance on UFOs is underway.
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