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.”