On May 17th, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee held a public hearing in Washington, D.C., on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). Most of us know them as UFOs or Unidentified Flying Objects.
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray represented the Pentagon during the 90-minute hearing. It was the first open Congressional hearing on the issue of UFOs – rather UAPs – in more than 50 years.
What’s important is that the United States Government – the same government that hired Doug Parker to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health has acknowledged that UFOs are real by any other name.
Late last year, the Department of Defense, in close collaboration with the Director of National Intelligence, directed the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security to establish within the Office of the USD(I&S) the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as the successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF). Part of the Congressional hearing was devoted to a progress report from the USD(I&S) and the DNI on implementing legislation establishing the AOIMSG. Well, it’s about time.
Following form, this is an open letter to the Standards Board requesting that standards be implemented to protect California’s employees from alien UFOs, UAPs, and abductions by aliens. California has frequently been a national leader in establishing new standards, and it has another opportunity to lead the way.
Congress agrees. As stated by the Subcommittee Chair Representative André Carson (D-Ind.), “Today, we know better. UAPs are unexplained, it’s true. But they are real. They need to be investigated. And any threats they pose need to be mitigated.” (emphasis added).
Real Physical Danger
Last month, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by the British tabloid The Sun, we also learned some very interesting things from the over 1,500 pages of declassified documents released from the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The AATIP was part of the DNI and the predecessor to the UAPTF, now the AOIMSG.
Specifically, one of the disclosed documents, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, undertakes an analysis of injuries claimed by aviators during aerial encounters with UAPs. In addition, tucked away in Appendix A, entitled Schussler Catalog of UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects (Frequency Distribution), is a summary of 356 selected cases of UFO-induced physiological effects on humans during close encounters.
The establishment of potential injuries has been documented.
First, it is incumbent upon all employers to undertake a risk assessment to gauge the exposure workers may have to the many conditions likely to result from a close encounter with an extraterrestrial. This assessment needs to be in close collaboration with representatives of workers. It should result in an effective Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) informing management, supervisors, and workers of the steps to be taken if a worker exhibits any of the physiological effects documented by the AOIMSG.
Second, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board should convene an advisory committee, in conjunction with Cal/OSHA and in close communication with the USD(I&S), DNI, and AOIMSG to develop a standard to inform employers of what is required of them should there be a close encounter or abduction. The advisory committee – Official Management/Labor Group Looking into Outer space Loss control or OMGLOL – should be established at the soonest possible moment to deal with the now firmly established, government admitted reality of space aliens. The Standards Board wouldn’t want the legislature to get ahead of the issue and create requirements.
The requirements should follow the outline of the COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). Undoubtedly, local health districts (LHD) should be consulted in the development of this standard. That is particularly the case of Alameda County (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Kern County (Edwards Air Force Base), and Los Angeles County (Cal Tech), where there may be particular exposure to close encounters.
California employers whose workers also perform services in Nevada should update their IIPPs to the extent that workers are in close proximity to Area 51.
There are many suggestions for what should be included in the proposed UFO/UAP standard. The Standards Board should be looking at potential exposures in case aliens are among us, in case they come among us in a landing, the potential for abductions, and certainly not to be forgotten, the potential for probes. There could be exposure to new and exotic types of propulsion.
Some suggestions may be coming from a new enlightened organization – known as WokeSafe. Among them are tinfoil hats which may not work, and tinfoil masks to protect against whatever viruses – known or unknown, earthly or unearthly – the aliens may be carrying.
And of course, any standard and every IIPP should include instructions about when employees should use the words Klaatu Barada Nikto.
The Safety and Health community is encouraged to contribute to the discussion. HelpDesk@Cal-OSHA.com is the address. Some responses may be published.