Seemed a mundane story until I read a piece in the normally laughable   
   Washington Examiner characterising the move as a first strike against   
   the proposed rider to setup an official investigative group.   
   Seems the Pentagon wants to retain an exclusive right to invetigate   
   UFOs and implictly keeping under wraps most of what it knows or finds   
   out about them. Viva Loeb and his open science ideas! :)   
      
      
   Pentagon forms task force to probe UFO presence in restricted areas   
   Daily Sabah, 24 Nov 2021 09:57Z   
   The United States Dept of Defense late on Tue said it will   
   establish a new group to investigate reports on the ...   
   [The move has been described by some reports as a kind of preemptive   
   strike against proposed legislation to setup such a group under   
   control of the Congress].   
      
   Pentagon launching new UFO investigation unit, replacing Navy group: report   
   Fox News, 24 Nov 2021 09:57Z   
   The federal govt is embarking on a new attempt to explain the   
   unexplainable. The Defense Dept is launching the ...   
      
   Pentagon announces plans to streamline UFO reports and analysis   
   CNN, 23 Nov 2021 23:54Z   
   The Dept of Defense announced its plans to streamline the collection   
   and analysis of UFO reports across the govt ...   
      
      
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   Australian Academy of Science appoints ANU professor and   
   nanotechnology pioneer Chennupati Jagadish as president   
   The Canberra Times, 24 Nov 2021 12:49Z   
   [The Prof, who prefers to be called just "Jagadish", has an   
   interesting back-story incl growing up in a small off-grid village in   
   India and studying for high school using a kerosene lamp. He says his   
   main objective as Academy Pres will be putting more emphasis on the   
   development of science students and young scientists and improving   
   the confidence in science among the general public. Good luck with the   
   hillbillies, guy :)].   
      
   [Fourth Wave:]   
   COVID infections break pandemic records across Europe as fourth wave   
   continues to wreak havoc   
   ABC News, 24 Nov 2021 20:35Z   
   Europe is once again the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting   
   new curbs on movement and making health experts think again about booster   
   vaccination shots.   
      
   `This is urgent': Bipartisan proposal for UFO office pushes new boundaries   
   Politico, 18 Nov 2021   
      
   Secrets Of The UFOs: Australian military witnesses to UFOs speak out   
   7news/Spotlight, 20 Nov 2021 04:16Z   
   "I went to the communications centre and checked if there was any comms'   
   with aircraft or passing ships. There was nothing ...   
   [I watched the news special. Mostly a repeat of material used in   
   previous programs.   
    One new case came to light involving AUS Navy.  Supposedly RAN   
   personnel regularly "see things" off the AUS coast.  One witness   
   related a "light" that hovered and zig-zagged away after appearing   
   somewhere off Cairns.   
   The program went again through the Westall HS sighting in the 60s.   
   Mostly old information and old footage from same witnesses. New claims   
   that a report had been written but has become "lost" despite 30y   
   release rule. Other UFO reports are in National Archives. Not Westall case.   
   New witnesses claim they were silenced by US military people. Then 12   
   yo related she was told she must be silent forever about the incident   
   but was now breaking her silence.   
   She was told it was a "very special balloon" they had seen. Yet at same   
   time it was also "a matter of national importance". Not clear if they   
   meant AUS or US importance.   
   Other witnesses related there were 1 upto 5 objects involved. Some   
   describe disk. Science teacher -- who also claims he was threatened   
   by combination AUS and US military -- describe cigar.   
   Witnesses vary in whether or not anything landed. Some saw no   
   landings. Some say one. Some say more.   
   Program said Fire Brigade and Police attended the sighting.  But also   
   within short time of reporting incident the AUS Army and RAAF turned   
   up with radiation and metal-detecting equipment and started digging in   
   the area of the alleged landing.   
   One witness claims several light aircraft "chased" the one or more   
   objects seen].   
      
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