The discovery of alien life could turbocharge religious division and hatred, the UK’s leading UFO expert has warned.

I think this idea is pretty legitimate. People in first world societies, with generally decent minimal education, will mostly be ok, maybe. We forget that a majority of the 8 billion people on the planet live in 3rd world conditions, significantly less or no education, and lots of severe religious indoctrination. There are still countries that execute people for apostasy.

We're not certain it would be all bad, but it's not a topic to dismiss. The possibility of societal disruption due to real disclosure resulting in any disruption to say, the economy, for whatever reasons, could be a reason the powers that be don't want to disclose. Maybe the risk is too great in their view. Just speculating obviously.

So I've been doing a deep dive into all this stuff recently, I find it to be fun and interesting. However, I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what all these whistleblowers are alleging. Basically, the idea is that there is a secretive group of USG employees that know what is going on with UAPs and researching stuff, but Congress and the President know nothing of it and have no oversight of it? Is it just a bunch of high-ranking military people who pass the knowledge on to their successor when they retire? Or is the idea that all of these whistleblowers and Congress are in on it and this is all part of a slow 'controlled disclosure' scenario? Or is it a combined scenario where some members of the Executive Branch DO know about it but others don't?

Obviously, there are no hard and fast answers to this, I just feel like I keep hearing conflicting things about who in the USG knows what, and wondering if there is any kind of rough consensus about this? Probably a fools errand, but I figured I'd at least ask.

Rep. Robert Garcia has proposed a UAP amendment for the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This will serve as a follow up to the amendment previously passed in the 2024 NDAA.

The new amendment would add eminent domain "over any and all recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence that may be controlled by private persons or entities in the interests of the public good." Along with a review board to examine material obtained related to UAP. A version of these had previously been included in the Schumer amendment, but ultimately stripped from the amendment included in the last NDAA.

The amendment can be read here: https://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/GARCRO_115_xml240529153551283.pdf

I haven't watched yet and dont know anything about Shawn Ryan, but this might be worth checking out for 2.5hrs of Tim Gallaudet.

I updated the video's link to SALT's official video. I wasn't expecting them to get the video up so fast, since their other videos seemed to take a while to be uploaded after events. Out of all of the NYC event's discussions, this has been the first and only interview to get uploaded.