I noticed this item in a recent edition of Vetted: The UFO Sleuth podcast and YouTube show.

https://www.vetted.show/episodes/bombshell-allegations-against-hal-puthoff-this-changes-everything

It summarizes a recent interview by Joe Rogan focusing on UFO disinformation: who is likely doing it and why they are likely doing it.

Here are the main points from the Vetted blog as I see them, in brackets, quote marks and bold print.

 [“Why would government agencies want to confuse and mislead the public—and their own citizens—about UFOs? The answer is as complex as the web itself. According to Gentile, and as recounted by Patrick, the U.S. government (and presumably others) may be more invested in safeguarding advanced technology than in revealing any “alien” truths. These disinformation campaigns are not just random acts—they’re strategic moves to distract researchers and keep prying eyes away from sensitive projects.

“…Even now, stories are planted, personalities are manipulated, and the public is kept guessing … There’s a sad irony in all this: those most passionate about the search for truth are often the ones most misled. The frustration expressed by AJ and echoed by Patrick is palpable. Wouldn’t we be farther along in understanding the phenomenon if not for years—decades—of calculated misdirection?”]

To this, I say, amen!

Of course the Pentagon has been creating and distributing UFO disinformation – not only to the public at large but evidently to Congress  as well – 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.

There have been numerous examples of credible sightings of aerospace platforms that are based on a different type of propulsion system than conventional technologies, encounters that roughly began in the United States with Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947.

So, I would propose that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret propulsion 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, let’s assume that if you observe something ON planet Earth, it is probably OF planet Earth. Let’s further assume, therefore, that all of the UFOs encountered over the decades are of terrestrial origin: Some nation on Earth has developed a different kind of propulsion tech, and possibly more than one novel type of propulsion system.

Because these sightings began during the immediate postwar period, the most logical conclusion, then, is that it’s the United States that has developed these systems.

Anyway, let’s call this viewpoint the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, as opposed to the extraterrestrial hypothesis (i.e., the UFOs are space aliens), which has dominated the whole national conversation about this phenomenon since the beginning.

Well, 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 new type of antimissile system being tested by the Pentagon but unknown to most military personnel), 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 “Tic Tac” craft encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, etc., etc.

Why the disinformation? Because 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 E.T. 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)

The goal of this disinformation is not necessarily to convince people that the UFOs are extraterrestrial, but to muddy the whole subject, to distract people who might otherwise suspect that the Pentagon has achieved amazing propulsion breakthroughs that would be highly disruptive if they became known to the public. Breakthroughs that have nothing to do with extraterrestrials, but that were dreamed up and perfected by the same species that has brought us a host of other powerful innovations, from nuclear weapons to lasers, microchips to advanced medical imaging and so on and so forth.

No assist from space aliens needed!

As to why the Pentagon would sometimes be flying these weapons over populated areas, perhaps it’s real-world training, a “living lab” to hone 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, 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? Have we gone interstellar?