On this day in history, Aug. 23, 1974, John Lennon and his girlfriend saw a classic flying saucer near his New York apartment building, the United Nations and the East River.

(Here’s a little background article I found on ultimateclassicrock.com https://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-ufo/)

From the article:

“I was lying naked on my bed, when I had this urge,” Lennon said in a conversation with Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. “So I went to the window, just dreaming around in my usual poetic frame of mind. … There, as I turned my head, hovering over the next building, no more than 100 feet away was this thing with ordinary electric light bulbs flashing on and off round the bottom, one non-blinking red light on top.”

His girlfriend, May Pang, said: “As I walked out onto the terrace, my eye caught this large, circular object coming towards us. It was shaped like a flattened cone, and on top was a large, brilliant red light, not pulsating as on any of the aircraft we’d see heading for a landing at Newark Airport.”

I propose this was likely just Uncle Sam, running electronic surveillance on Lennon, who was deemed a socialist threat, just as we spied on Martin Luther King Jr. and numerous public figures.

And this supposition fits nicely with my overall hypothesis that the UFOs have never been extraterrestrial. They’ve always been Uncle Sam. They were Uncle Sam back in 1947 when Kenneth Arnold spotted a squadron of UFOs near Mount Rainier; during the flying saucer scare of 1952 over Washington, D.C., when, I speculate, President Harry Truman ordered a demonstration of these weapons much as he had arranged a similar demonstration of the flying wing in 1949, when the aircraft flew low over the capital; during the 1960s when startled pilots were reporting UFOs after observing flights of the top secret U-2 and SR-71; also during the 1960s at U.S. nuclear missile facilities, when, I propose, the military was testing a top-secret anti-missile technology capable of temporarily disabling the rocket launch systems; in the 1980s over the Hudson Valley when bystanders including police officers saw a huge triangular thing floating overhead; in Belgium when numerous credible witnesses saw the same sort of craft; and in 1997 over Phoenix, Ariz.; and again in 2000 over rural Illinois, when a raft of cops observed a delta-shape craft inexplicably darting from place to place in the blink of an eye at low altitude; then, in 2006 when employees at Chicago O’Hare saw a stealthy disc hovering overhead and abruptly shoot straight up at high speed, punching a hole in the cloud cover that lingered afterward; and, of course, in the various encounters described by U.S. Navy pilots.

So, it certainly appears that based on witness testimony the Pentagon evidently has achieved a propulsion breakthrough. Call it antigravity, if you like. I would argue that when you consider the pattern of UFO encounters going all the way back to the immediate postwar period, the U.S. has had some form of field propulsion technology either in development or in operation since that time. If this is true, then these systems have been evolving completely in the dark for more than 70 years!

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 ET or are just cynically profiting off the space-alien hype.

It’s really a brilliant approach, one that has fooled even technical experts like whistleblower David Grusch, and likely involves the fabrication of fake data and bogus documents. After all, if the people constructing the disinformation are just as smart as the marks, it can be very effective.

And if you don’t think this professional-grade mendacity is working perfectly, ask yourself, what are we all talking about? Are we talking about whether the Pentagon might have achieved a quantum leap in propulsion technology, an advance so profound that it promises to alter the trajectory of the human race by ushering in a radical new means of transportation and enabling the practical colonization of space? No. We are asking whimsical questions about space aliens, time travel, interdimensional beings, and various ‘are we alone?’ scenarios.

But, hey, I’m not telling you anything you haven’t already considered. It’s all in Flying Saucers!