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A new handbook on how to deal with UFOs has been issued to police chiefs across the United States by the Major Cities Chiefs Association.
Inside the 11-page document titled “Reference Guide,” police chiefs are warned about UFOs creating “significant safety risks to law enforcement air support units.”
The handbook is broken up into 11 sections with titles like Law Enforcement Considerations, Whistleblowers, and UAP Reporting Mechanisms. (UAP is the government’s new term for UFOs and stands for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.)
“Police officers in the field have historically reported observing UAP while on and off duty, reporting details to dispatch and sharing the information with other local or federal law enforcement agencies, and the U.S. military,” the handbook reads. “Therefore, local law enforcement may have an interest in understanding the potential risks UAP pose to officers when encountered in the field and determine how the details of these incidents are tracked and analyzed to develop appropriate policies and tactics to respond.”
It also covers how the United States Department of Defense (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force), Congress, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), NASA, and various international organizations have dealt with UFOs in the past.
For example, in Section.3 U.S. Government UAP Programs, assorted high profile UFO topics like Project SAUCER, Roswell, Project Blue Book, NASA’s 1960 Brookings Report, the 1964 CIA Evaluation of UFOs, and Project TWINKLE are all briefly discussed and links are provided for each which lead to more information.
In Section.2 Law Enforcement Considerations, the Major Cities Chiefs Association writes under the heading Unknown Threat to Public Safety, “Reports released by AARO and ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] among other U.S. Government and non-profit entities claim that UAP present a clear threat to national security, since their capabilities and origins are unknown.
“Some agencies speculate these phenomena and objects could potentially originate from foreign governments or other entities and be capable of collecting sensitive data or conducting attacks.
“Although incidents of UAP causing harm or inflicting injury on civilian populations has never been reported, their motives and threat capabilities are unknown.
“Therefore, it’s in the interest of law enforcement to be aware of trends and reporting on UAP due to the unknown threat they may pose and their continued presence in controlled and restricted airspace where police air support units operate.”
Nigel Watson, author of Captured by Aliens? A History and Analysis of American Abduction Claims told DailyMail.com the guide could be “very handy” for police officers.
“Certainly there is now a case to be made that terrestrial UAPs do pose a threat to air safety and national security, but as with this guide, it gets mixed with the science fiction rumors of remarkable non-terrestrial vehicles that have little credibility,” he said.