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As former government officials shared details about mysterious incidents near military facilities, the Pentagon reportedly remained stumped about UFO “mother ships.”

Increased transparency has done little to resolve the questions of the curious seeking answers about observed unidentified flying objects, also referred to as unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP). Now, as 50 pages of U.S. Air Force records have been released regarding incursions, a former senior security official for the Pentagon Chris Mellon is speaking up about craft seen “releasing swarms of smaller craft” near U.S. military bases.

Speaking with the Daily Mail, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush addressed such “mother ships” witnessed near the Pentagon as well as near a Lockheed Martin facility in California.

“For at least 17 nights last December, swarms of noisy, small UFOs were seen at dusk ‘moving at rapid speeds’ and displaying ‘flashing red, green, and white lights’ penetrating the highly restricted airspace above Langley Air Force Base in Virginia,” reported the Mail.

Mellon explained a “similar series of intrusions has also occurred over Palmdale, CA” where Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works” made the F-22 Raptors.

Offering his own account, retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly spoke with The Wall Street Journal about what he referred to as “Close Encounters at Langley.”

“The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home base of the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port,” detailed the Journal which noted that federal law prohibits downing drones near military bases if they aren’t posing an imminent threat and that spying didn’t count.

More than two weeks of incidents prompted two weeks of White House meetings and reports to President Joe Biden concerning what occurred in and around the Virginia base said to have at least half of the Air Force’s F-22s stationed there and that was only one example of unexplained drone activity.

Edwards Air Force Base 412th Test Wing Chief of Media Operations Mary Kozaitis told The War Zone, “We have observed multiple UAS (uncrewed aerial systems) activities over Plant 42 during the last few months. The number of UASs fluctuated and they ranged in size and configuration.”

“The FAA was made aware of the incursions and Edwards continues to monitor the air space to ensure the safety of base personnel, facilities, and assets. As a reminder to drone enthusiasts, overflight of Plant 42 is strictly prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution, fines, and loss of operator privileges.”

“Two of the notable aspects are the fact our drone signal-jamming devices have proven ineffective and these crafts are making no effort to remain concealed,” Mellon told the Mail. “In fact, in some instances, it is clear they want to be seen as though taunting us.”

That suggestion aligned with The Hill contributor, an Obama administration DoD appointee, Marik von Rennenkampff who suggested, “The multiple, consistent reports of bright, flashing lights and formation flying suggest that some actor — be it a drone operator or otherwise — was putting on a show of impunity, at considerable risk, over a key military facility.”

“If this was a foreign intelligence gathering operation, the brazen nature of the incursions makes it some of the worst collection tradecraft imaginable,” he added.

Likewise, Mellon said, “I make no claims regarding their origin, perhaps many are Chinese drones.”

“But their brazenness, range, flight duration, reliability, resistance to countermeasures, and indifference to detection are confounding,” the ex-Pentagon official went on. “In some cases ‘mother ships’ have been reported.”

Meanwhile, journalist Michael Shellenberger stood by his own reporting that the Pentagon was hiding its own secret UFO program from Congress dubbed, “Immaculate Constellation.”

Covering government reports about UAP at length, Shellenberger noted a whistleblower had said, “The Executive Branch has been managing UAP/NHI issues without Congressional knowledge, oversight, or authorization for some time, quite possibly decades.”

In response to his report, Department of Defense spokeswoman Sue Gough asserted, “The DoD has no record, present or historical, of any type of SAP (special access program) called ‘Immaculate Constellation.’”

Shellenberger followed that up with his own statement, “I stand by my story.”

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