Dick D’Amato’s Official Position on UFO Crashes Article also mirrored over The UFO Chronicles https://www.theufochronicles.com/2020/05/senate-staffer-dick-damatos-ufo-statement.html Recently, I discovered Dick D’Amato’s current official position on UFO Crashes. He was a senior US Senate staffer, who met numerous UFO researchers on the matter back in 1990s. According to archive.org recording, the statement is present on his official website at least from 2013. It reads in full below. --- start of quote --- 1980'S INQUIRY INTO UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL CRASH IN NEW MEXICO “In the 1980's and 1990's, I served on the staff of the Senate Democratic Leader, Senator Robert C. Byrd, and my responsibilities involved helping manage the budgets of the Department of Defense and the National Foreign Intelligence Program. My duties included responding to a Senators and committees request for information, analysis, and legislation on a variety of national security issues. In this context, a senior Senate Committee chairman asked me to conduct a preliminary inquiry into allegations that came to his attention regarding unidentified aerial crashes in the 1940's in New Mexico. I met with a number of people who had made public statements on the matter. I reported my conclusion to the Senator that the basis for such allegations did not appear to merit any further Senate investigation. Beyond this inquiry on behalf of the Senator, I have no personal opinion on the matter and consider the inquiry to have been closed for over 20 years.” --- end of quote --- Screenshots included.
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I often hear claims based on the DoD statement how the Pentagon’s UFO program AATIP - Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program - exclusively ended in 2012. However, there are also fair objections from those who were involved with the program. Even the original NYT article referenced other sources claiming "while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence”.
On top of that, if the program really ended in 2012, it would not make sense for two AATIP videos (Gimbal and Go Fast) - originally released in the NYT and Washington Post - to be part of the research effort since those incidents happened three years later (in 2015). Those two videos fit better with the active post-2012 AATIP period, which means data were still collected during the 2015 time frame. Additionally, letter of resignation of former AATIP point main Luis Elizondo (referenced in the original NYT article), deals with obstacles and opposition up to that point (October 2017). Of course, these counterpoints will not settle the debate for everyone, but it is equally fair to present them. |
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