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“It’s not really secret,” Sen. Rounds responds to WSJ report of false flag UFO program
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“It’s not really secret,” Sen. Rounds responds to WSJ report of false flag UFO program

Ep. 372 — Sen. Mike Rounds (6-18-2025)
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High school students pose for a picture with their US Senator in the US Capitol © Ask a Pol UAPs
US Sen. Mike Rounds poses for a photo with constituents visiting the US Capitol (June 18, 2025). Photo: Matt Laslo

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Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) — Armed Services & Intelligence Committees

LISTEN: Laslo & Rounds

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Ask a Pol asks:

Were you ever able to check out that Wall Street Journal report on an alleged Air Force secret UFO program meant to fake American pilots out?

Key Rounds:

“It’s not really secret,” Sen. Mike Rounds exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “Let me put it this way, there was no surprise in the discussion of it. I thought that was pretty well common knowledge that that had been going on for years.”

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ICYMI — UAP Caucus up in arms over WSJ report

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Caught our ear:

There’s a former member of the intel community who says the US government has AI with unparalleled predictive qualities. Have you seen that?

“I don’t know if I could define that,” Rounds tells us. “That’s what I better leave it at.”

ICYMI — advanced artificial inteligence…

Source: X

I’m curious if that’s what you guys meant by non-human intelligence in your UAPDA [UAP Disclosure Act]?

“No,” Rounds replies. “No.”

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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), slightly edited for clarity.

Transcript: Sen. Mike Rounds (6-18-2025)

Aides click pictures of Senator Rounds and visitors in from South Dakota. Photo: Matt Laslo

Scene: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo waits in the wings as Sen. Mike Rounds poses for a picture with school children visiting the nation’s capital from South Dakota.

Man on phone while a politician addresses constituents in US Capitol. © AskaPolUAPs.com
Senator Rounds says goodbye before quickly shuffling down the hall to address visitors. Photo: Matt Laslo

As the senator makes his way to down the hall to deliver a speech to another group of visiting voters, Laslo swoops in for a quick, if packed, interview.

Matt Laslo: “I know you’re in a hurry, I’ll be quick — were you ever able to check out that Wall Street Journal article?”

Wall Street Journal report:

Source: Wall Street Journal via MSN, June 6, 2025.

Mike Rounds: “You got to remind me again which one it is.”

ML: “The UAP / UFO one…”

MR: “Oh, I…”

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ML: “…saying there’s like a hidden — or a program that’s been secret.”

MR: “…well, it’s not really secret, I mean…”

ML: “Yeah?”

MR: “...it’s been…”

ML: “Well, that was kept secret from Air Force members.”

MR: “Let me put it this way…”

ML: “Yeah?”

MR: “...there was no surprise in the discussion of it. I thought that was pretty well common knowledge that that had been going on for years.”

ML: “Oh really?”

MR: “Oh yeah, I mean…”

ML: “Interesting.”

MR: “...that’s what — I mean, the F-117 and other stealth products…”

ML: “Yeah?”

MR: “...that people hadn’t seen before…”

ML: “Yeah?”

MR: “...and some of the earlier ones, clearly anybody that could suggest that it was something…”

ML: “Yeah.”

MR: “...other than what it was, I was fine with them to — I never gave it a second thought that that wasn’t.”

ML: “There’s a former member of the intel community who says that US government has AI with unparalleled predictive qualities. Have you seen that? I’m curious if that’s…”

MR: “I don’t know if I could define that.”

ML: “Yeah?”

MR: “That’s what I better leave it at.”

ML: “Well, I’m curious if that’s what you guys meant by non-human intelligence in your UAPDA [UAP Disclosure Act]?”

MR: “No.”

ML: “No?”

MR: “No, no.”

ML: “Interesting.”

Elevator arrives.

MR: “No.”

ML: “Preciate ya!”

MR: “Okay.”

The senator and his aides enter a room tucked in back of a bank of elevators on the first floor of the US Capitol.

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