- A retired U.S. Army Colonel has said continuing to hide information about UFOs could have “catastrophic” consequences for America, amid new claims that government officials agreed to hold back top-secret research 20 years ago.
- Colonel Karl E. Nell called on a Stanford University conference for a “campaign plan” that would force greater transparency and a “Manhattan project” to reverse engineer recovered UFOs or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.
- Washington insiders also heard how in 2004, a CIA thinktank, the Defence Intelligence Agency, and the Pentagon, broadly agreed that information about UFOs should not be declassified, deeming the societal risks too great.