{"id":10273,"date":"2021-06-16T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=10273"},"modified":"2021-06-16T12:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:09:44","slug":"pentagon-reports-classified-annex-discussed-by-expert-david-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/pentagon-reports-classified-annex-discussed-by-expert-david-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Report&#8217;s &#8216;classified annex&#8217; discussed by expert David Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report released by the Pentagon on unidentified aerial phenomena will include a classified annex which is likely to withhold details of experimental military aircraft, says Hallam expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/david-clarke\">Professor David Clarke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/pentagon-ufo-reports-classified-annex-24293326\">Daily Star<\/a>, he said: &#8220;That would be information about military technology of the type we&#8217;ve been talking about, about the things that the Americans have built.&#8221; Professor David Clarke also disputed the possibility of the US government including information that links to aliens and believed it&#8217;s more related to national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The news has also been covered by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shu.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=03229e2cd78c49d0b6ed57f8a&amp;id=aaac13d7da&amp;e=a874ef3521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"16\">Scottish Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report released by the Pentagon on unidentified aerial phenomena will include a classified annex which is likely to withhold details of experimental military aircraft, says Hallam expert Professor David Clarke. In an interview with Daily Star, he said: &#8220;That would be information about military technology of the type we&#8217;ve been talking about, about the things that the Americans [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20701,"featured_media":9988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[172,1699,1737,1724,1733,411],"class_list":["post-10273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-david-clarke","tag-national-archives-ufo-project","tag-pentagon-report","tag-uaps","tag-ufo-sightings","tag-ufos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2021\/03\/David_Clarke_web3.jpg?fit=900%2C598&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2FH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10305,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/pentagon-ufo-report-likely-to-be-damp-squib-says-david-clarke\/","url_meta":{"origin":10273,"position":0},"title":"Pentagon UFO report likely to be &#8220;damp squib&#8221;, says David Clarke","author":"Phoebe Bolton","date":"23\/06\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Expert in contemporary legend, Dr David Clarke, has been quoted in an article published by the Guardian\u00a0about the upcoming release of a Pentagon report on the activities of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. 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