Month: May 2025

Article in ‘Den of Geek’ Asks Whether Pentagon UFO Disinformation is Deliberate. Yes, it is, and Here’s Why

I was reading an interesting piece about Pentagon disinformation regarding UFOs, and the writer muses about whether said disinformation is deliberate.

The piece, in a publication called Den of Geek, recounts the disinformation exploits of one Richard Doty, a former intelligence officer who deliberately spread false information about UFOs, linking the objects to alleged space aliens.

Here is a link to the article, written by Alejandro Rojas, who writes about science, entertainment, and the paranormal: https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/why-the-pentagon-needs-to-address-ufo-disinformation/

Here is an excerpt from the article, in brackets, bold print and quote marks:

[“Doty has admitted that during his career as an OSI agent, beginning in 1980, he had been sharing disinformation about aliens and UFOs with the UFO community. Within weeks of the airing of the live UFO program, a man in Nevada named Bob Lazar approached reporters in Las Vegas claiming he had worked on alien spacecraft at Area 51. Despite lacking evidence, Lazar’s claims made headlines, and Area 51, then one of United States’ most secret military bases, quickly became its most famous.

Stories like this leave me wondering how much of the UFO mythos is disinformation created by the U.S. government and why.”]

To this, I say, of course the Pentagon has been creating and distributing UFO disinformation, and there can be only one logical reason for this: to confuse the public about the development of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs by the U.S. government going all the way back to the 1940s. As soon as you entangle the entire subject of UFOs 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.

Over the decades, we’ve seen a series of books and articles by former military personnel who claim to have encountered extraterrestrials. It’s 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)

Of course, these claims can never be verified, and that’s the genius of it. It’s always: Well, I could tell you more, but that’s classified. But then why say anything at all, if you were so concerned about revealing classified information? Why say anything?

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 these are not “experimental aircraft,” but operational platforms. 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, the 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 flying saucers over Washington, D.C., in 1952 (possibly a demonstration ordered by President Truman, much as he had ordered a similar demonstration of the flying wing aircraft in 1949), to the UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems in the 1960s (possibly a test of a new anti-missile technology), 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.

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 secret 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

So, the terrestrial hypothesis proposes that the UFOs have never been about space aliens. Instead, the Pentagon has made a series of 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 an official AARO report reviewing 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.]

Anyway, this 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?

Article in Good magazine recounts John Lennon’s UFO encounter. But was this actually a federal surveilling operation?

I read this interesting mention of John Lennon’s famous UFO encounter over New York City in 1974. The brief article appeared May 8, 2025, in a publication called Good.

https://www.good.is/john-lennon-ufo-sighting

You know my theory: That, like Jimmy Carter’s similar close encounter in 1969, this was probably not space aliens but the federal government running surveillance.

Here is one of my previous posts on the subject:

https://emilvenere.me/2025/01/05/like-john-lennon-was-jimmy-carter-being-surveilled-by-the-feds-leading-to-their-similar-ufo-encounters/

I would argue that Carter’s experience wasn’t any sort of mistaken identity with known objects. Instead, for whatever reason, perhaps he was being surveilled by the federal government. I would further argue that this object was some sort of classified flying platform.

In the John Lennon example, in 1974, the rockstar insisted that he and his partner saw what can only be described as the classic flying saucer hovering just outside their New York City apartment. He later drew a sketch of what they both saw.

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

In Carter’s case, I think we can dispense with the usual speculations that he saw a planet, star or some other prosaic thing. Considering his education and background, he clearly knew the difference.

And in Lennon’s case, we know he was considered a subversive, maybe even an enemy of the state, by certain federal intelligence types.

So, I propose both of these men were being spied upon by our own government.

The spying platform was a top-secret flying craft equipped with an extraordinary propulsion technology that remains secret to this day.

Here is Lennon’s description of what happened, bold and in brackets, from the article cited above in the culture site ultimateclassicrock.com.

[“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,” she said, “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.”]

So, I propose this was likely just Uncle Sam, running electronic surveillance on Lennon, who was deemed a socialist threat, just as we’ve spied on numerous public figures over the years.

This conspiracy theory 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 new flying wing in 1949, when the aircraft flew low over the capital; during the 1960s when startled pilots were reporting UFOs after unwittingly 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; a similar thing over Phoenix, Ariz., in 1997; likewise, a giant delta-shaped thing observed by a raft of cops in 2000 over rural Illinois; the “Tic Tac” encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004; the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare International Airport in 2006, when employees saw a stealthy saucer hovering overhead before it abruptly shot straight up at high speed, punching a hole in the cloud cover that lingered afterward; etc., etc.

So, unless we think these were all space aliens, 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.

Let’s call this idea the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, as opposed to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, which has dominated our whole national conversation about the phenomenon going back decades.

While it is admittedly a radical concept, the terrestrial hypothesis makes a lot more sense than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, then forgetting how to land and crashing in the desert, or inexplicably hanging out over U.S. military training ranges and the like.

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, for what it’s worth, this is my contribution to the various ruminations about John Lennon’s and Jimmy Carter’s curious, and similar, UFO encounters.