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>Temporary nonattributed objects, or those that are positively identified as man-made after analysis, will be passed to appropriate offices and should not be considered under the definition as unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena

Uh. That doesn't say some are not man made. It says some they don't know what it is, while some they are sure are man made.

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"This implies that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee believe (on a unanimous, bipartisan basis) that some UFOs have non-human origins," von Rennenkampff continued."

No, it does not imply that at all.

Obama-era Pentagon general disagrees. Care to back up your assertion?

"A large question, of course, is why Congress is seemingly admitting this now, in public. After all, lawmakers are privy to classified information that the general public isn't. “It strains credulity to believe that lawmakers would include such extraordinary language in public legislation without compelling evidence,” Marik von Rennenkampff, an Obama-era DoD official,\ ... "

I am not shocked that the journalist found an ex-DoD official with poor reading comprehension of technical language. Why does that shock you? And why do you share his incorrect read of the language?

Never said it shocked me. You're just making 'argument by assertion', a typical logical fallacy. A cogent reply would have explained how the quote in question did not imply the existence of UFOs created by humans, the subject of our discourse. Instead, you make an ad hominem attack on the subject matter expert.

I doubt that you read the article, and I won't respond again to an insincere interlocutor.

"... UFOs by non-humans ..."

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