Dec 03, 2023
Written By [Christopher Sharp](https://www.liberationtimes.com/?author=610434e320e3e945538177b1)
Written by [Christopher Sharp](https://twitter.com/ChrisUKSharp) \- 3 December 2023
In a Liberation Times interview, ex-Watergate and Pentagon Papers lawyer Daniel Sheehan, representing whistleblowers alleging hidden and potentially unlawful programs involving materials of non-human origin, warned that the window is closing to preserve the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) language in the U.S. Senate’s 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The language, [known as the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023](https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-rounds-introduce-new-legislation-to-declassify-government-records-related-to-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-and-ufos_modeled-after-jfk-assassination-records-collection-act–as-an-amendment-to-ndaa), put forth by Senate leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Mike Rounds, advocates for a controlled disclosure regarding the potential existence of materials and biologics with unknown or non-human origins.
Currently, lawmakers from the House and Senate are negotiating the final version of the NDAA to be signed by President Biden. Negotiators have been working for months and hope to release the text of a final bill as soon as next week.
Sheehan is President of the [New Paradigm Institute](https://newparadigmproject.org/uap-disclosure-act/), an organisation advocating for the UAP Disclosure Act to pass in its current form, and is closely involved with negotiations currently taking place, which will determine its inclusion within the final NDAA.
Sheehan informed Liberation Times that Senator Roger Wicker, the Republican ranking member of the Senate’s Armed Services Committee, is the latest politician to join a small cohort of Republicans in opposition to the UAP Disclosure Act.
“They’ve brought on this guy, Roger Wicker, who’s the Republican Senator from Mississippi,” Sheehan told Liberation Times.
Sheehan pointed out that the only opposition to the UAP legislation comes from five influential Republican politicians: Senators Wicker and Mitch McConnell Minority Leader of the Senate), and Representatives Mike Turner, Mike Rogers, and Mike Johnson (Speaker of the House):
“98% of everybody in Congress is in support of this bill. It’s just these five guys holding it up.”
Sheehan told Liberation Times that the resistance against the UAP language is headed by Representatives Mike Rogers and Mike Turner, Chairs of the House’s Armed Services Committee and Intelligence Committee. Sheehan and other sources revealed that both individuals have faced pressure from private defense contractors and the intelligence community, influencing their opposition.
Asked to specifically name the entities pressuring Representatives Turner and Rogers, Sheehan pinpointed Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Radiance Technologies, and the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. While the Liberation Times has been unable to further substantiate the involvement of these organisations, Sheehan states:
“The two chairpersons have been gotten to by the private aerospace industry and by the CIA. Who knows what positive offers they’ve been made for additional campaign contributions, or what kind of threats have been made to them? The CIA’s covert operations people are capable of delivering.”
The Directorate of Operations functions as the clandestine branch of the CIA and serves as the nation’s authority for coordinating, de-conflicting, and evaluating clandestine operations across the United States Intelligence Community.
Sources indicate to Liberation Times that the CIA’s Office of Global Access (OGA) works closely with the Directorate of Operations in conducting retrieval missions involving crashed or landed crafts of non-human origin.
Sheehan added:
“The Operations Directorate is the dog that wags the tail in the CIA.”
According to Sheehan, the CIA is responsible for dispersing non-human materials to aerospace companies, and, he says, Radiance Technologies is one of its newest customers:
“Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and, now Radiance Technologies, are given particular discrete aspects of the technology to try to figure it out.”
Sheehan said that the three contractors could potentially be subject to lawsuits due to the alleged arrangements with the CIA, commenting:
“It makes those particular companies subject to massive antitrust lawsuits by other companies that are trying to be honest and trying to compete against them.”
[Speaking to journalist George Knapp last year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWs07SR3GT8) , Tim Tinsley, President of Radiance Technologies said: “I’m waiting for one of those” when asked by Knapp if he’d accept a contract to figure out how a UFO worked.
Radiance Technologies maintains an office in Beavercreek, Ohio, situated within Representative Turner’s congressional district. Additionally, its headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, is conveniently located near Representative Rogers’ district.
Since 2010, [over $30,000 was given by Radiance Technologies to Representative Rogers](https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-d-rogers/summary?cid=N00024759&cycle=2022) and [over $60,000 to Representative Turner](https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/michael-r-turner/contributors?cid=N00025175&cycle=2010&recs=100&type=C). Although not large amounts in comparison to other contractors’ donations, it is still a significant amount for a smaller entity such as Radiance Technologies.
A case for close relations and, potentially, influence, can be made.
In 2009, [Citizens Against Government Waste analysed the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2010](https://web.archive.org/web/20170210180737/https://www.cagw.org/media/press-releases/pork-alert-house-department-defense), noting that $4,000,000 had been requested by Representative Turner for Open Source Research Centers intended for Radiance Technologies.
Representative Turner is also frequently photographed with Radiance Technologies employees and [in 2016 Turner cut the ribbon to open its 9,000-square-foot office location in Beavercreek](https://www.radiancetech.com/radiance-technologies-opens-new-location-in-ohio/).
Representative Rogers also appears to be familiar with Radiance Technologies’ employees and in 2020 he was a guest of honour as Radiance celebrated its 20th anniversary by [opening a new 104,000-square-foot facility in Huntsville](https://cummingsresearchpark.com/2020/02/18/radiance-technology-celebrates-opening-of-new-facility-with-ribbon-cutting/).
At the event, Representative Rogers [said](https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=482751422366275):
“When you look at what Radiance is working on, it’s not just on the cutting edge of what this town’s doing, it’s on the cutting edge of what we’re going to be needing in the future as we try to defend our country and fight the wars of the future. AI, cyber, hypersonics; all those things are essential for us being able to fight the wars of the future and you’re on the cutting edge of that.
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“I’m thrilled about the success that you’ve had as a company. I can tell you that you have some great leadership as well as great employees. and I’m certain that you’re going to continue this success in the future. Congratulations.”
In contrast to Radiance Technologies, Lockheed Mart
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