So, I’ve been relishing all the mainstream media coverage of Luis Elizondo’s new memoir, where he penned some really over-the-top revelations and allegedly spills the beans on all sorts of UFO secrets.

A New York Times review actively promotes the book for what its authors see as a credible and sincere account by Mr. Elizondo, and maybe it is. I would not presume to know with certainty. Anyway, here is a link to that review: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/books/booksupdate/imminent-luiz-elizondo.html

However, alternatively, I wonder if his new book is just the latest example of government disinformation, a legacy that in my opinion goes back many years and includes The Day After Roswell, published in 1997.

(If you are interested, please read my review of The Day After Roswell, which I regard as a masterpiece of disinformation, here, https://emilvenere.com/files/138490884.pdf)

So, let’s do whatever one does to relax, sit back and venture off into unfamiliar territory when it comes to UFOs. Let’s call this territory the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, and it goes something like this:

1) The UFOs are not extraterrestrial, and they have never been. Instead, the Pentagon has made a series of astonishing technological breakthroughs in propulsion going all the way back to the first important UFO sighting, that of Kenneth Arnold in 1947. These technologies are so unconventional they could easily be mistaken for something from another planet.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has alluded to this possibility in his writings and statements. He and AARO’s official UFO report, which reviews sightings and encounters since 1945, have unequivocally stated that witnesses, including members of the military, have unwittingly observed top-secret technologies and have mistaken these systems for extraterrestrial visitation.

Here are some excerpts from the AARO report:

• AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before-seen experimental and operational space, rocket, and air systems, including stealth technologies and the proliferation of drone platforms.

• AARO concludes many of these programs represent authentic, current and former sensitive, national security programs, but none of these programs have been involved with capturing, recovering, or reverse-engineering off-world technology or material.

• In many cases, the interviewees named authentic USG (U.S. government) classified programs well-known and understood to those appropriately accessed to them in the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch; however, the interviewees mistakenly associated these authentic USG programs with alien and extraterrestrial activity. 

• AARO assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not exist; are misidentified authentic, highly-sensitive national security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology exploitation …

• The interviewees and others who have mistakenly associated authentic sensitive national security programs with UAP had incomplete or unauthorized access to these programs; discussion of these programs outside of secure facilities presents a high risk of exposing national security information.]

2) Back to the terrestrial hypothesis, secondly, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation effort to make people think the UFOs are E.T. because as soon as you entangle the entire subject within the intellectual morass of space aliens you relegate the whole story to the fringe. Books and other media are carefully designed to confuse people, including journalists, so that they won’t start to wonder whether it’s been the Pentagon all along that’s been flying these things.

Hey, I get it, people want to believe! I used to be there, but after many years of looking at all the available information I have found no compelling evidence that space aliens are responsible for UFOs.

The only thing that is clear is that something is there. The UFOs do exist. So, I would propose that instead of jumping automatically to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, we first fully entertain and explore the terrestrial hypothesis. So, for example, the “Tic Tac” object encountered in 2004 by Navy pilots over a U.S. military training range, is, in fact, a U.S. military platform. That’s why it was observed there. Furthermore, the fact that this encounter took place over a training range, as opposed to a test range, would suggest that it was not an “experimental aircraft,” but an operational platform. I would also propose that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret platforms, entirely unknown to the public and developed over the past seven decades or so, thanks to a burgeoning “black budget” that keeps these programs hidden from Congress.

Logically, then, this terrestrial hypothesis would suggest that a whole bizarre inventory of encounters involving U.S. military personnel and civilians alike have always been top-secret Pentagon technologies known only to a small circle with a “need to know.” Everything from those UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems back in the 1960s, to the huge triangular thing observed over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the “Phoenix lights” in 1997, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois in 2000, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, the Tic Tacs, etc., etc.

Moreover, the performance characteristics of these objects were such that there is one overarching likelihood suggested by this historical record of sightings: The U.S. military has developed exotic and highly unconventional propulsion systems that it has hidden from the public all these years.

As to why the Pentagon would sometimes be flying these weapons over populated areas, perhaps it’s real-world training, a “living lab” to perfect tactics and to study how well they perform against state-of-the-art, white-world technologies like F-16s. There have been examples of military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This excellent article in The War Zone documents one such exercise over Los Angeles: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38753/those-mysterious-gray-helicopters-were-landing-on-multiple-downtown-la-rooftops-last-night

Anyway, the terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs leads to many follow-up questions and concerns, chief among them: Is there a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force that is far more capable than either of those entities? If so, how far have we gone? Do we have military bases in deep space?  Are any of these top-secret platforms nuclear-powered?

And if all of this sounds too crazy, is it any stranger than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, only to crash land or inexplicably hang out over U.S. military facilities?