Month: December 2023

New York Post UFO Documentary Uncovers Major Flaws in New York Times 2017 Coverage

This documentary in the New York Post by Steven Greenstreet offers an excellent – and sorely needed – skeptical view of the current state of UFO affairs in the United States.

https://nypost.com/video/spooky-hustlers-how-wacky-ufo-activists-and-crazy-ghost-hunters-duped-congress-into-hunting-ufos/

It’s all pretty confusing, but my main takeaway is that the New York Times needs to set the record straight on its shoddy reporting on the subject. It seems evident that the Times’ coverage back in 2017 was slanted so that people would take UFOs seriously.

And there are some inaccuracies that need to be corrected, most notably that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) highlighted in 2017 didn’t really exist. This was evidently a fake name for something called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, which apparently was tasked with investigating a range of paranormal entities at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah that included alleged encounters with ghosts, demons and various creatures and monsters.

As uncovered by Greenstreet, reporting in the Times excluded this fact, allegedly so that readers would take the report – and the whole subject of UFOS – seriously.

The Times, being the foremost paragon of American journalism, a pillar of the fourth estate, which we all depend on to deliver honest, deception-free reportage, needs to explain what happened here. After all, this article back in 2017 had consequences: It opened the floodgates for a torrent of UFO coverage and has led to actual congressional inquiry. Readers of the Old Gray Lady, and all Americans including members of Congress, deserve to know what happened here as the country grapples with the ongoing mystery of UFOs.

New York Times UFO Commentary Instructs Whistleblowers to ‘Show Their Cards,’ But Maybe the Deck is Rigged

Interesting UFO commentary today (Dec. 16, 2023) in the New York Times, under the headline: It’s Time for U.F.O. Whistle-blowers to Show Their Cards

But what if the Pentagon cannot reveal what it knows about UFOs because the UFOs are top-secret weapons? What if the UFOs have never had anything to do with space aliens, not even going all the way back to Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947 near Mount Rainier? What if the Pentagon’s UFO office, AARO, simply cannot “get to the bottom” of the UFO mystery because it’s part of the whole subterfuge? And what if the Pentagon has never actually accepted the notion of UFO transparency, and it only displays a façade of such because it has been forced to do so by Congress?

Further, what if the UFOs are the result of propulsion systems under development since the end of World War II and we all just think they’re extraterrestrial because of popular culture and the Pentagon’s own very effective disinformation program, which is good enough to convince people like David Grusch?

I would imagine Mr. Grusch was fed professional-grade disinformation, possibly in the form of faked data, documents, bogus witness accounts, etc.

Why? So that instead of casting a suspicious gaze toward the Pentagon, the media will become mired in the bottomless swamp of E.T. hypotheses, asking endless questions about space aliens, interdimensional beings, time travelers, crashed aliens, whether the Vatican knows and various “we are not alone” fantasies.

Sure, perhaps now that Grusch has vowed to reveal more of what he was told, we will get a better understanding of the disinformation products upon which he bases his claims. On the other hand, these specious materials might only take us further down the infinite and interconnected rabbit holes of E.T. fictions.

The biggest scandal here is that the Pentagon might have developed and is possibly even operating weapons that represent a quantum leap in propulsion technology, entirely without congressional oversight. Moreover, these weapons might be hiding in plain sight under the guise of E.T. visitations, shielded from Congress and the public through the Pentagon’s robust “black budget.”

Sen. Schumer: ‘Multiple Credible Sources’ say U.S. Government is Withholding UFO Information from Congress

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) accused the U.S. government of a long legacy of withholding UFO secrets from Congress and the American people.

His comments came during a joint presentation with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) on Dec. 13, 2023.

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/majority-leader-schumer-and-republican-senator-mike-rounds-floor-colloquy-on-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-provisions-in-the-ndaa-and-future-legislation-on-uaps

Here are my major takeaways. Schumer said:

The United States government has gathered a great deal of information about UAPs over many decades but has refused to share it with the American people. That is wrong and additionally breeds mistrust.

We have also been notified by multiple credible sources that information on UAPs has also been withheld from Congress, which if true is a violation of laws requiring full notification to the legislative branch – especially as it relates to the four congressional leaders, the defense committees, and the intelligence committee.

The presentation came as Congress and President Joe Biden are poised to approve the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which was stripped of key UFO-transparency measures inserted through an amendment crafted by Schumer and Rounds.

So, it would appear that the UFO coverup is now official, as key lawmakers acknowledge a long-term effort to hide information about the phenomenon.

Where this will lead is hard to say, but the joint announcement by Schumer and Rounds brings up a host of potential follow-up questions:

  1. Who in government is concealing this information? The U.S. Air Force, the CIA, other intelligence agencies?
  2. Does the information deal with extraterrestrials or top-secret U.S. weapons?
  3. How long is “many decades?” Are we talking all the way back to 1947?
  4. Is the executive branch also being denied this information?
  5. So, was Project Blue Book just a sham?

This is just for starters. The senators’ pronouncement is quite dramatic, and we can only assume that they must be very frustrated in attempts to learn the truth from the Pentagon and intelligence community.

I agree with David Grusch: whatever their origin, UFOs are a ‘government transparency issue’

NewsNation informs us that David Grusch has been given permission to tell more of what he was allegedly told by his sources regarding UFOs. 

David Grusch: Congress’ pared-down UAP measure a ‘total failure’

I think it should be fairly obvious by now that he was fed some industrial-strength disinformation, good enough, in Grusch’s view, to justify filing a whistleblower complaint, an extreme measure, to be sure.

Said disinformation was probably in the form of faked documents, data and photos, designed to mire Grusch, and subsequently the media, in the E.T.-hypothesis swamp.

Anyway, perhaps now he will be more specific. I applaud Grusch for seeking the truth about UFOs. I really do sympathize with him; I just think he was fed a line of professional-grade crap.

Unfortunately, none of his efforts will reveal the presence of E.T. because it isn’t E.T.

It’s our own Pentagon, which evidently has made a series of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs, concealed in plain sight under the guise of E.T. visitation.

So, why the disinformation?

Because whenever people start touting ideas about multiple UFO crashes, E.T. corpses, the Vatican knows and myriad and sundry other fictions, the fourth estate for the most part stops paying attention. Instead of the major news organs inquiring into what exactly the Pentagon is up to, we have nothing but silence. Meanwhile, the secondary media are squawking up a storm, harping on every manner of the E.T. hypothesis, a swamp from which it will never emerge. 

Here’s the reality:

1. Space aliens light years ahead of Homo sapiens wouldn’t travel trillions of miles from another solar system only to crash land, multiple times, and then spend an inordinate amount of time over obscure U.S. military training ranges – coincidentally, during military training exercises – where they are encountered by Navy pilots.

By the way, it’s worth noting that human beings have only personally visited one other planetary body, and we had no trouble landing: That’s what that whole Neil Armstrong eagle-has-landed thing was all about. ‘Cause, see, we practiced the landing ahead of time so that we would know how to do it. Brilliant, eh?! That’s the problem with these space aliens; they don’t practice …

But, I digress.

2. It’s not foreign adversaries because the “Tic Tac” encounter happened in 2004. You think Russia or China has had this kind of technological advantage since then, nearly twenty years ago, and they haven’t served up a can of whup-ass all this time?

Balderdash! 

3. That leaves our own Pentagon, an organization that has enjoyed the largest military budget of any country in the world for decades, including a “black budget” containing billions of dollars year after year after year going all the way back to the Cold War’s earliest days, shrouding its R&D from public scrutiny, indeed, even from Congress and the executive branch. The most secretive entity in the history of man, the Pentagon wouldn’t even share its nuclear knowhow with the Brits – AFTER THE END OF WORLD WAR II.

So, whatever efforts we take to uncover what our government knows about extraterrestrials will prove futile because there is simply no evidence, just a multidimensional hall of smoke and mirrors that goes on forever and very effectively serves the purposes of deception, confusion, distraction, misdirection …

The Pentagon is driving this bus, and we’re all just along for the ride.

Bravo to Dr. Avi Loeb: The Schumer-Rounds Amendment to the Defense Bill Won’t Reveal Any Truths if the UFOs Aren’t E.T., But Rather a Product of Our Own Pentagon

In his commentary published today (Dec. 11, 2023) in The Messenger, I think Dr. Avi Loeb nails it when he says efforts at E.T. transparency won’t reveal any truths if the UFOs aren’t extraterrestrial, but rather products of our own Pentagon, or military-industrial complex:  

https://themessenger.com/news/congresss-space-uap-ufo-claims-point-new-physics-or-misinformation

I found these two paragraphs to be most interesting. From The Messenger commentary:

“Given all of that, the fundamental question is whether Grusch possibly exaggerated or even misinterpreted Defense Department information that was brought to his attention — or perhaps repeated unsubstantiated claims that potentially cover up secret research programs within the U.S. military-industrial complex. Although there might be people out there who wish to misinform the American public or adversarial countries, we do not know if this is the case with these or any UAP claims.

“Deciding whether to believe UAP buzz has consequences. Congress is currently debating the level of public disclosure that should be applied to its UAP data. Around the time of Grusch’s testimony, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity for the Armed Services Committee, crafted an amendment, the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, intended to be part of 2024 Defense funding legislation. If Grusch’s testimony reflects misinformation, Congress should ignore the proposed amendment because it would lead to a waste of resources and unwarranted public attention — and not produce the data or evidence that could be used to verify such claims.”

I would take this line of reasoning a little further, adding that it likely isn’t merely “misinformation,” but organized, relentless, professional-grade DISinformation that led to Grusch’s whistleblower saga.

I mean, after all, if Mr. Grusch is not a willing purveyor of disinformation, then we have to assume he was led to believe these things through a sophisticated effort that included faked documents, data, photos, bogus eye-witness claims, etc. In other words, he was fed disinformation from people on the inside.

Anyway, thanks for Dr. Avi Loeb for his insights!

Since UFOs Aren’t Extraterrestrial, Congress’s Efforts at ‘Transparency’ Won’t Reveal Any Truths

I read with great interest this article in the Daily Beast about the alleged UFO-transparency language inserted into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

https://www.thedailybeast.com/congress-is-taking-a-huge-step-toward-ufo-transparencyand-lawmakers-pushing-for-the-truth-arent-happy

The UFO legislation aims to compel the Pentagon to reveal secrets about objects piloted by space aliens. Problem is, the UFOs have nothing to do with E.T.  These aeronautical phantoms have always just been Uncle Sam, from Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947, to the flying saucer encounters over Washington, D.C., in 1952, and all the way to the present day.

The sightings are the result of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs, kept under wraps and secretly perfected over the decades through the Pentagon’s thriving “black budget,” which keeps them hidden from Congress, the executive branch and the public. These are systems developed not by E.T., but by Homo sapiens, the same species that has brought us myriad technological, scientific and cultural wonders over the centuries, from nuclear weapons to lasers, microchips to nanotechnology to the Mona Lisa, the ancient aqueducts and numerous mysterious mechanisms of yore.

No assist from space aliens needed!

At the same time, awareness of these technologies is so ultra-compartmentalized that even other military personnel who encounter them do not have a “need to know.”

Adding to the public’s overall bewilderment, there has obviously been a very effective disinformation program aimed at confusing the masses into thinking the UFOs are E.T., but they aren’t. That’s popular culture, that’s Spielberg and the X-Files and numerous science-fiction fantasies that employ various plot elements to tell this story or that story.

Piggybacking on these fictional narratives, the Pentagon has brilliantly engineered a concerted, relentless and professional-grade disinformation campaign to ensure that the entire subject is shunned by the fourth estate and shunted to the fringe media. These said fringe media have worked tirelessly to focus the national conversation on endless conjectures about space aliens, interdimensional beings, time travelers, the “Vatican knows …” and various “we are not alone” scenarios.

So, we are led to believe that an extraterrestrial civilization light years ahead of the human race is traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, only to crash REPEATEDLY, and then hang out over obscure U.S. military training ranges where they are encountered by Navy pilots, all the while inexplicably terrorizing the denizens of places like rural Texas.

And, look, the disinformation is working well enough to convince very intelligent, technically-adept specialists like whistleblower David Grusch.

Meanwhile, there should be little doubt that the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, is a purveyor of UFO disinformation.

Exhibit A: Outgoing Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick has suggested that numerous “metallic orbs” might be flying around the world, making unusual maneuvers and such, and that some of these objects remain unknown. Fitting neatly into this story line, he has co-authored a research paper proposing that alien motherships could be visiting our solar system and sending “alien probes” to Earth.

Hence, this implies that the metallic orbs ARE these alien probes.

However, the supposed “orbs” are probably only balloons, as recently highlighted by a research group who determined one such orb captured on video in the Middle East was likely just a party balloon. (https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/24/isnt-that-a-balloon-deflating-a-dod-ufo-video/)

So, these technical boffins at Bellingcat have figured it out, but a physics Ph.D. brainiac like Dr. Kirkpatrick doesn’t know these things are just balloons?

Dr. Kirkpatrick has further reinforced the bogus extraterrestrial hypothesis by recently proclaiming that UFOs spotted by U.S. Navy pilots are either from adversarial nations or alien planets. 

But there’s an alternative view: The UFOs, notably the most sensational ones that perform seemingly physics-defying maneuvers, are neither foreign nor extraterrestrial. They are products of our own Pentagon, and they have been evolving steadily since the immediate postwar period.

At any rate, there have been tantalizing clues that the Pentagon could be harboring these propulsion secrets. For example, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has made some VERY intriguing comments that appear to support the idea that some of the UFOs encountered by Navy pilots could be the product of “secret access programs” developed and operated entirely in the dark.

(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)

In essence, Sen. Gillibrand said information about these weapons 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. The senator appears to be saying that potential whistleblowers may be literally afraid to come forward, citing “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 …”

From a practical standpoint, what this all means is that potentially a quantum leap in propulsion technology that is arguably as significant as the invention of nukes has been developed and operated entirely without congressional oversight.

So, yes, there is a huge UFO coverup, but it has nothing to do with space aliens.

And the E.T. hypothesis is showing no signs of fading anytime soon. But you know what it really is?

The classic rope-a-dope, and we are all, collectively, the dope.

Final U.S. Defense Funding Bill for 2024 Appears to Severely Restrict UFO Transparency

Reading through the final National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), it appears to severely curtail efforts to increase the transparency of UFO or UAP phenomena.

Click to access FY24%20NDAA%20Conference%20Report%20-%20%20FINAL.pdf

At one point, it says UFO disclosure may be postponed if there is clear and convincing evidence that: the threat to the military defense, intelligence operations, or conduct of foreign relations of the United States posed by the public disclosure of the unidentified anomalous phenomena is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure, and such public disclosure would reveal … (Then it goes on to list items such as sensitive intelligence entities, sources and methods.)

The most restrictive language appears to be Section 1687, entitled, “LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN UNREPORTED PROGRAMS”

I found items 5 and 6 to be especially intriguing. Anyway, unless I’m reading this incorrectly, the section appears to prohibit revelations related to:

(5) The development of propulsion technology, or aerospace craft that uses propulsion technology, systems, or subsystems that is based on or derived from or inspired by inspection, analysis, or reverse engineering of recovered unidentified anomalous phenomena craft or materials; and (6) Any aerospace craft that uses propulsion technology other than chemical propellants, solar power, and electric ion thrust.

I guess the obvious question is, what other types of propulsion are there?

If I’m misreading this document, I stand corrected! There just hasn’t been any coverage yet in the media, except for a few very brief articles.