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Episode 5 - UFO Hearings and Government Games
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We discuss the two UFO hearings to date and discuss the lack of transparency around the topic. While these hearings are historic and a great step in the right direction, those of us familiar with the topic are aware they are hiding a whole lot. We think they understand the basics of the UFO phenomenon as well as we do.
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Our UFO Research Summary.
in April of 2023 the second in a
historic series of UFO hearings occurred
on the floor of Congress Dr Shan
Kirkpatrick representing the all doain
anomaly resolution office or Arrow gave
an update on the progress this newly
formed office has made thus far while
the amount of cases the office is
investigating grew significantly from
510 to 650 cases Dr Kirkpatrick claimed
their efforts to resolve these sightings
have been hampered by a lack of data and
although many cases remain unresolved Dr
Patrick made the claim there was no
conclusive evidence of Otherworldly
technology among the cases arrow is
investigating join us as we
discuss hey everyone welcome to the 14
wins podcast this is bones and uh we
have r x here with us of course hey
everyone uh that was a great intro uh we
are going to get into uh the change of
view from the federal government on the
topic of
uaps and the the hearings uh they've had
and uh the ones they plan to have very
soon right yeah this next one should be
really cool that what the talk is now is
that they're going to have pilots and
experiencers and people on the floor
who' come in close contact with these
things and they're going to not have the
Department of Defense in the room and
ah and that's important that's important
because the public if that all happens
the public this summer will be here
hearing firsthand on the floor of
Congress from people who come into had a
close encounter right and it's basically
like so they can speak more freely and
not have a presence there that you know
they might see as their Superior yeah
and can Stomp Them Down anything they
say so yeah it's it's big there's a it's
a huge change uh what's the the timeline
is is crazy because they had that uh
hearing Congressional hearing uh just um
in May of uh 2022 and then that was like
uh was it 50 years since the last one
which was 1970 right so so things are
changing fast things are changing fast
and what I think we would most like to
tell you is that these UFO hearings are
somewhat performative so there everyone
in that room including the department
defense and most of Congress some of
them who've taken an interest and then
some of them have just been shown
information there's been disclosures to
to Congress already so the the gang of
eight is a is a intelligence uh
Committee in in the in Congress and they
are the ones who pretty much get to see
everything and they they have to make
some really big decisions about our
defense and the gang of eight has
already said that they have
seen lots and lots of
footage oh okay wow and they said that
the footage that they've seen made them
believe that this was not human so
they've already seen that and then there
were have been other members of Congress
who said this representative Tim bersett
said that he he had seen this Matt Gates
had said he he had seen this so there
have been other members of Congress who
have also seen the
video and there's a lot of talk about
video in in this world and I'm like I do
not understand it someone has to explain
to me why more video is really going to
help but it will
right some I I just don't understand the
societal mechanism here but it will like
people want more video the reason I
don't really understand it at all is
that there are hours of good footage in
the public there are hours of footage
where investigators have gone and talked
to the witnesses had had the the video
reviewed by forensic video analysts and
it holds up and you see an orb flying
around just like Dr Shan Kirk Patrick
showed you at that at that UFO hearing
what does it tell you yeah it it tells
you we don't
understand about 99% of what's going on
basically
right and they're acting like they're
hearing it for the first time or this
conversation is happening for the first
time and as you just pointed out the
last UFO hearing was 50 years ago right
they haven't once mentioned Project Blue
Book right that was their project and I
so this this is really important to
understanding all this because these UFO
hearings we're going to talk about like
what's happening with the government and
and this this what's what's really
happening and let me just cut through it
and give you the quick summary is that
they have crafts and bodies they have
material evidence okay
the dod knows that Department of Defense
knows that the CIA knows that there
there there there's parts of them right
parts of the FAA know this okay but the
cons you can't keep a conspiracy like
this hidden even as well as they have I
would say there's plenty of evidence out
there but as well as they have and they
have done pretty bang up job of keeping
this at least out of our level of belief
and and you can't do that but it's a
very small group of people that have
this
information that information is now more
widely known throughout the government
NASA just did a press conference you
know and I don't know when this will air
but to us that was two days ago so NASA
just did did a press conference about
UFOs one of the first things that they
said was 95% of UFO sightings are
misidentifications great oh okay here's
my problem with that cuz Kirk Patrick
said the same thing number one that's
true number two they're no longer
UFOs right
exactly good point you identifi them
take them off the freaking
list therefore the percentage that I'm
talking about is the 100% of a
unidentified sure that's we're talking
we've always been asking about and if
you want to
make this ridiculous statement of 95% of
UFO uh Mis sightings or
misidentifications then great the
follow-up question is what is the
freaking 5% genius that's what we've all
been asking that's all we're talking
about here like right and 14 wins like
we're we're not we don't have to hide it
we don't have to pretend like oh you
know what I'm really doing is studying
some sort of white anomalous nature
object that no dude what we're talking
about is intelligently moving craft you
know that have been seen for over a
hundred years like that's what we're
talking about right and the fact that we
have to keep telling them that is is
ridiculous right it's part of the
misidentification and part of the
gaslighting they're they're well aware
what we're asking and they're well aware
what we're talking about and you could
see that some people people in Congress
like Senator Gilder brand were
frustrated she was frustrated by that
hearing because she knows everything
that we've been talking about right they
know ev Everything on 14 wins the name
that they call us now is uh for people
like you and I is open source
analysts okay it's a much better name
than what they used to call us right
right sure I won't say what those names
are but uh open source analysts I like
let's call us that we deal with publicly
available information if we think we
find something that shouldn't be public
or isn't public like and we we don't
certainly don't go looking in anywh we
shouldn't but you know if that if that
ever shows up you know maybe we see it
on social media we would rather find a
public source to to corroborate it right
that we can share with you because just
like we talked on the the last show
about conmen it's really about the
evidence and your theory can be the
theory I want to hear it but it's got to
be based on evidence for anything right
for it to be based on anything I mean so
you're always going to have the
naysayers um but you know you could you
could tell that things are changing
because they they had you talked about
the conman you talked about people who
were in cahoots with the CIA just to to
the Muddy Waters to muddy the waters you
know uh spread confusion on the topic
but but that last hearing
uh they from what I remember they based
they had that hearing because there were
over a hundred sightings in just the
previous year and so it's it's it's
they're getting overwhelmed maybe
they're just the confusion is getting so
high they're like okay we have to talk
about this publicly because everyone's
confused and and we just don't know what
it is so yeah that's it what what this
is one of those things good lead in
because this is I'm going to I'm going
to tell you based on the
evidence I think that this is true a
number of people have said this
including the whistleblowers like Lou
alzando and Chris Bellon have said that
there's they're on one side of this
fight and there is another side in the
government that wants to keep this
secret so okay just like we've been
talking about information
analysis I have been doing some of this
information analysis with my uncle who's
very interested in what's going on in
the uh Ukraine war and I I said okay
like let's take a look at your
information and let's see how it plays
out unfortunately we can't do anything
but sit here but see how it plays out if
your information is correct we we would
expect it to play out this way if your
information is incorrect we would expect
it to play out this way we can test it
sure and we did that right and and I
think what we found out is Russian
propaganda is lying um yeah surprise
surprise so so you know that that but it
was a good exercise right and we can do
the same thing here what we can do is
say are Chris melon and Lou alzando
telling the truth is there one faction
in the government that's pushing for
disclosure and anothers it's not based
on all of the evidence what they're
saying is
true I would say that there is clearly
one faction that is trying to stuff this
back into the bottle and one faction
that's trying to bring it out and we're
watching that happen during these UFO
hearings H so that's the
performative that's the performative
aspect of it and who holds the keys to
that information so if everyone if
everyone knows it and half of them want
to tell us the other half don't who gets
to decide right right right that's very
important because when it comes to the
Department of Defense it's Congress that
that ultimately has oversight through
what they call the power of the purse
Congress decides on
the department of defense's budget so
when they want to this is why Department
of Defense kind of has to play ball with
Congress and the Congress has leverage
here because at some point they could
say hey we're going to pull your funding
unless you tell us that's why they've
already come clean about a lot of the
stuff with Congress now okay they're
saying well we don't want to tell
everybody everything there's another
group here that really is holding I
think again this is this is my analysis
CIA is is really holding on to this
information as it should be probably
like you know this is probably where it
should go it's suppose that's what they
do it's what they do a part of what they
do yeah but then they as I've mentioned
they've run misinformation and
disinformation campaigns on the American
public so how far does this really need
to go is that really necessary I mean
how long can you really sustain this
there's clearly people there that are
holding on to something they can't hold
on to for much
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longer CIA does not report to
Congress right they report in to the
executive ultimately to the executive
branch so they don't rely on Congress
for their
budget when when Congress says we want
to tell people that truth they're going
to have to get buy off from first
they're going to have to get it unclass
Declassified through the dod and then
they're going to have to get buy off
from the CIA ultimately the
President right so that brings us to the
to the next big tidbit of juicy gossip
that's happening which is that the big
push from this team and all of the
inform all the evidence matches the
information the big push from Chris
melon being the I think the most visible
and Power powerful face of this movement
but there's clearly people behind him is
to put the UFO disclosure issue into the
2024 election campaigns oh interesting
and it very much looks like that's
working oh man but I'd like to point out
that's going to that relies on us too
right like we have to we have to back
that play in the
public right so we talked about
identifying con artists and people on
the the other side people stalking these
whistleblowers on Twitter and trying to
make them look bad clearly look like
they're on the other side right right
there's always going to be that now y um
now that that's a really uh you know
it's pretty powerful topic there it uh
it instantly reminds me of Jimmy Carter
who was I believe the first president to
try to use U the UFO topic as an actual
campaign issue is that correct yeah I
think he might be the first you know he
he he witnessed a UFO uh as a governor
and there's a new book about this that's
causing a lot of stir um President
Carter and UFOs and he's he witnessed a
uh a UFO as a governor and then he said
okay I'm going to make this part of my
campaign that UFO disclosure should
finally happen right and then as the
tail goes he he he wasn't able to really
get the government to give up this
information so not even a president you
know had the ability to really get there
I think Bill Clinton mentioned this too
like he didn't he tried he said and then
Hillary Clinton was saying that she was
going to try to make this part of her
campaign and then a bunch of stuff came
out in her emails which were a big deal
about UFOs and um it involved the
Rockstar Tom and John podesta and all
that stuff like so oh yeah so they were
planning it looked like they were
planning some kind of disclosure at that
point too but with Carter he ended up as
the as The Story Goes and and and I hear
heard it from so many sources I I think
it's likely true uh he ends up getting
the the document finally because I guess
they all get some readout on this and in
you know side note m gorbachov
from the from USSR said that the premier
of Russia also gets a readout on this
and carries around information related
to this as well as nukes you know um
interesting yeah yeah so he get he
Carter got his readout on the UFO
phenomenon and it's important to note
that Carter was a devout Protestant
fundamentalist Christian right right so
imagine what this would do to your
worldview even if it was ETS it ETS
aren't written about in the Bible so if
you thought that's all the all all there
was that existed and then this hits you
it it's a big shake up yeah but if it's
anything close to what we're talking
about I'm 14 and winds and we're pretty
sure it is um you know it gets a lot
bigger than that so whatever it was it
was a shakeup and I I I still for what
it's worth I I don't want to get into
this right now but I think people can
still have faith and and all of this
stuff be true so it it shook him and
Carter uh started crying so well and the
book makes it clear he didn't say
started crying he said he came back in
the the the person who had gave him the
document came back in to get the
document and he was the tears were in
his eyes wow no kidding yeah yeah so it
shook him uh yeah and then that now he's
so koi about it he won't really talk
about it
um kind of acts like oh yeah that was
never a big part of my campaign like he
probably regrets it I'm
sure I'm sure he got that document right
right we whatever it was it was somber U
great I don't know I think that there's
also that that that's a good lead in
because what's what's ending up
happening through these UFO hearings is
a
disclosure so right when Kirk Patrick
came in one of the things that he said
that really got my goat was was oh this
won't happen through blogs and social
medias and and it will happen through
scientific papers and I was like
dude first of all you know scientific
papers require a
hypothesis
experimentation a conclusion you know
results like an event does
not right there's a type of a scientific
paper called a brief report which could
cover an event but an event does not
someone witnessing something does not if
you have a if you have a theory on what
this is it belongs in a paper right and
that's where we've been all this time
we're getting back to the podcast but
we've been working on a freaking paper
this whole time for peer review like so
I get it but anywhere like you don't
need a paper for an event like right
that's stupid and he knows that you know
he it was an attempt it was it was a it
was a crappy scholarly elitist
aristocratic attempt to throw cold water
on the subject right right and and you
could see I or at least I thought I saw
Jill brand visibly annoyed by
that and then he he you know he has to
go into the whole misidentification
thing which I'm like well we've already
covered that bro um right and then he
said something very interesting he
says and we have not encountered objects
that could not defy the laws of known
physics we have not yeah yeah in his
study huh and then he proceeds to show a
video of an orb flying with no visible
means of
propulsion no combustion flying out of
it and I'm I'm like okay well can I
think of ways you could make that orb do
that sure right you could too right
bones you're you're you're you're very
familiar with drn tech right like we
could figure that out
magnets right right like so he's playing
games with this you know like he's
playing games with this idea oh yeah
it's and that's the performative side of
it all and but and you know completely
uh ignoring the fact that you know the
reason the sample size is getting is
getting bigger too so and it seems to be
happening quicker or we're just finding
them uh easier I don't I don't know what
what the deal is but there is a reason
for these hearings there really is and
it's it's because this stuff is
happening more
often or these and if it's related to if
it's we don't know uh when I'm saying
this stuff it's really General but uh
we're talking about these uaps that have
that kind of come and go um Airline uh
Air Force pilots are seeing it enough
people have seen it there's there's a
sample size that's growing fast and it
needs needs to be out in the public so
we could just figure out what the heck
it is that's right and absolutely our
our paper corroborated that so you know
we'll see you know it'll come out for
peer review and and people can make of
it what they want but this paper you
know crypted sightings and those crypted
sightings are which are you know in our
view the ones we're interested in our
UFO related and those crypted sightings
are increasing by every measure right
and we tried to remove for the fact that
information is more accessible
now right so in you know we can all you
you see a huge rise in reports
paranormal reports and UFO reports as
soon as the internet gets going right
but you know what I would uh like to
leave everyone with a with an
interesting thought uh which is this
reporting has become easier for us this
phenomenon seems very aware of
us right so it seems to be aware that
we're able to record it because it can
change our technology in very unique and
sophisticated ways so I I I would guess
that it's it can see our data um right
if it can go in there and scrub a
picture which we've found instances
scrub one picture off of somebody's
camera uh phone camera like if it can do
that then um you know it can probably
look at our data so it's aware of what
we're doing and one thing that we should
all consider when it comes to this
disclosure event is how is the other
side going to react we don't really know
what this phenomenon is it's clearly
wanted to stay hidden the government's
gone all the world governments have gone
along with that because why would you
want to admit that there's something out
there that you can't explain sure and it
it it may defy some people's religions
or or it may you know get in the way of
any fundamentalist view of religion if
it's not written in there you know what
I mean so it could be extremely
disruptive to
definitely it will be yeah so and so
hope you know hopefully this uh slow
public discourse of it all will or maybe
it's it's part of a plan that uh it uh
having this slow discourse will um avoid
any type of you know massive public
Panic yeah or just or just disruption or
cultural disruption you know it's just
the implications are huge as a annoying
as this slow trickle of information is
like that the reasons for it are
starting to become more clear I think to
us right right um it's not to say it
should be held back like we're saying
yeah we get it there this is this is
some deep consequences but it's time
definitely well cool that was a good one
I like that uh this is this is going to
be a a growing story so I know we're
going to be talking about this a lot
yeah I think we'll come back and read
visit this one for sure all right so
that pretty much concludes our podcast
uh thanks for listening everyone thanks
romx for your uh insightful uh
banter but uh yeah it's always good
talking to you and um look forward to
doing it again good talking to you as
well looking forward to the next one
take care all
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