{"id":82398,"date":"2018-09-07T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/why-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-are-a-national-security-risk-and-also-an-opportunity-for-progress"},"modified":"2018-09-07T02:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T09:22:22","slug":"why-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-are-a-national-security-risk-and-also-an-opportunity-for-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/why-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-are-a-national-security-risk-and-also-an-opportunity-for-progress","title":{"rendered":"Why Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Are A National Security Risk And Also An Opportunity For Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-are-a-national-security-risk-and-also-an-opportunity-for-progress.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A career\u2019s worth of intelligence work for the U.S. Government has taught me one key lesson: national security is a lot like playing a game of chess. You have to anticipate your opponent\u2019s every move in order to remain one step ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosing your strategy will be used against you. But if you recognize certain opportunities, you can win the match.<\/p>\n<p>When I headed the government\u2019s highly sensitive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), I worked with a team to assess whether a particular chess piece \u2014 in this case in the form of an unfamiliar aerial technology \u2014 was a threat to our side of the chess board.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@luis_elizondo\/why-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-are-a-national-security-risk-and-also-an-opportunity-for-progress-5f219768fa8f\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@luis_elizondo\/why-unidentified-aerial-ph...219768fa8f<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A career\u2019s worth of intelligence work for the U.S. Government has taught me one key lesson: national security is a lot like playing a game of chess. You have to anticipate your opponent\u2019s every move in order to remain one step ahead. Disclosing your strategy will be used against you. But if you recognize certain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1490,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-government","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}