Ok, so I savored with great relish a most rare sight within the hallowed pages of the Washington Post: a story about UFOs!

And the article reveals a sad truth: It is very profitable for news organs to endorse the ET hypothesis, regardless of the facts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/18/newsnation-ufo-david-grusch-intercept-coulthart/

However, the Post is missing a couple of HUGE issues related to this whole strange UFO saga.

David Grusch was obviously fed some serious, industrial-strength disinformation from colleagues within the Pentagon. The purpose was to make him think the UFOs are extraterrestrial. To accomplish this goal, the disinformation must have been pretty convincing and sophisticated, including fake data, bogus documents, etc.

So, why the disinformation?

The main purpose of disinformation is to hide something. I contend that something is a propulsion breakthrough at the Pentagon, a quantum leap that might easily be mistaken for something out of this world. A monumental advance conjured up entirely by Homo sapiens, the same species that has brought us nukes, microchips, lasers, microwave ovens, skyscrapers, the Mona Lisa, etc., etc., … no assist from space aliens needed!

So, along those lines, if, for example, the so-called Tic Tac vehicle observed by Navy pilots isn’t ET, then it’s the Pentagon. Theory would suggest that a vehicle exhibiting that kind of performance is tapping into a different kind of physics, perhaps the much-speculated “fifth force” being investigated by physicists, which wouldn’t necessarily subject its pilots to the same crushing g-forces generated by traditional chemical propulsion systems. We are talking instantaneous acceleration!

At the same time, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation program to make people think the UFOs are ET because as soon as you entangle the entire subject within the rhetorical quagmire of space aliens you relegate the whole story to the fringe. The public and the media don’t take it seriously. The only people who do take it seriously are those who are already convinced that it’s extraterrestrials or are just making money off the ET hypothesis.

So, instead of asking whether the Pentagon has developed new propulsion tech that would literally change the trajectory of human civilization if commercialized, we’re all asking whimsical questions about ET, time travel, interdimensional beings and various ‘are we alone?’ scenarios.

Anyway, In support of the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, I offer some intriguing but admittedly vague comments by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who seems to be suggesting that some of the UFOs could be the product of “secret access programs” developed and operated without the knowledge of Congress or the executive branch.

(Her comments can be heard in this video recorded Aug. 14, 2023, by The Post-Star newspaper in Glens Falls, N.Y., https://poststar.com/u-s-sen-kirsten-gillibrand-discusses-uaps/video_a1403028-3adc-11ee-95e2-6f6281509e11.html)

Information about these weapons, she suggests, could be restricted to those with a “need to know” only.  She also, VERY interestingly, compares the covertness surrounding secret access programs to extreme measures taken during the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb. Gillibrand appears to be saying that potential whistleblowers may be literally afraid to come forward, fearing “under penalty of death” language in non-disclosure agreements.

Here is a segment that I transcribed from the video posted by The Post-Star newspaper:

Gillibrand: “So, Oppenheimer is about developing the bomb during World War II. And all those scientists who worked on that project had to sign non-disclosure agreements. And what I’ve heard about those non-disclosure agreements is that because it was wartime it had provisions that said including if you disclose under penalty of death.  And so the big worry is that the people who signed non-disclosure agreements to work on any type of program for the military that it had language in there that made them think that that was true. So, there is a lot of fear. So, I don’t know if we’ll ever get to the bottom of it. I don’t know if we’ll ever get the information about special access programs that are need-to-know only, that Congress is not read in on. I’m trying to get to the bottom of it. I put a provision in the defense bill this year that said you can’t fund any special access programs if you don’t go through Congress …”

Anyway, I’m very gratified that the Washington Post has deigned to write about UFOs, but disappointed that journalists have forgotten how to ask questions.

Here’s one to start with: Why was David Grusch fed disinformation, and from whom?

Also, it would be great if some news organization could succeed in getting some clarity from Sen. Gillibrand about her recent comments regarding UFOs. She is a U.S. senator, after all!