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AARO is purveying UFO disinformation when its director pens a research paper about ‘alien probes’ and suggests E.T. might be in our ‘back yard’

By now 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 these objects could be extraterrestrial. 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 could be these alien probes.

The problem is, the supposed “orbs” are probably only balloons, as recently highlighted by a research group that 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/)

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 ever since the end of World War II, when U.S. pilots observed mysterious glowing objects over the European theater.

Some have proposed that these were a product of Nazi Germany. We know that times of war provide a unique catalyst for the development of radically novel technologies. We know that the Nazis brought us Wernher von Braun, who led work to develop Germany’s V-2 ballistic missile and who was a critical force in the design of NASA’s Saturn V moon rocket and the early success of the U.S. space program; the Nazis brought us designs for the first jet-powered flying wing aircraft; the Nazis brought us the first turbine engines and jet aircraft; the Nazis brought us the first operational cruise missile. Of course, along the way they brutally murdered thousands of slave laborers.

It is an ugly fact of history that the United States didn’t seem to have many ethical or moral reservations when it came to employing former Nazi scientists and engineers after the war. We did not hesitate to capitalize on Nazi-era advances in our struggle to establish global dominance and keep pace with the Soviets during the burgeoning Cold War that pitted both nuclear powers against each other. So, there is precedent for Nazi scientists and engineers being embedded into American research and development programs.

Then, according to this “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, after the war, just as von Braun was helping the United States gain space dominance, other Nazi scientists and engineers were helping the Pentagon develop advanced field-propulsion platforms. Call them flying saucers, if you like.

Fast-forward to the year 2023, and these vehicles have been steadily evolving, entirely in the dark with the help of the Pentagon’s thriving “black budget,” which shrouds knowledge of them from Congress, the executive branch, and the public.

When the late, great Sen. Harry Reid launched his investigation into UFOs, this exposed recent UFO encounters by U.S. Navy pilots. But these UFOs weren’t extraterrestrial. They were top-secret U.S. weapons, the knowledge of which is extremely compartmentalized, so much so that even the Navy pilots who encountered them did not have a “need to know.”

So, the UFOs were never extraterrestrial. The entire E.T. hypothesis, therefore, is nothing more than a powerful myth created and reinforced by popular culture and the Pentagon’s own disinformation apparatus.

Why?

Because so long as people, and the media, believe the UFOs are extraterrestrial, they won’t suspect that the Pentagon has achieved a series of propulsion breakthroughs. In this column in The Hill, we see how effective the Pentagon’s ongoing disinformation efforts have been: https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4301944-aliens-or-a-foreign-power-pentagon-ufo-chief-says-someone-is-in-our-backyard/

At any rate, under the terrestrial hypothesis, AARO can’t “get to the bottom” of the ongoing UFO mystery because in doing so it would be exposing top-secret Pentagon weapons.

This may sound too fantastic, but is it any crazier than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, only to crash repeatedly, then to hang out over obscure U.S. military training ranges, inexplicably tormenting the denizens of places like rural Texas?

Excellent Q&A in Politico, but was ‘alien probes’ research paper penned by AARO director a form of Pentagon disinformation?

This is an excellent Q&A in Politico in which Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Defense Department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, was asked some pointed questions, chief among them whether he regretted penning a scientific paper about the possibility that “alien probes” might be visiting Earth.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/12/sean-kirkpatrick-ufos-pentagon-00126214

Here is a key exchange between Politico writer Lara Seligman and Kirkpatrick:

(Seligman: Is that why you wrote that paper with Harvard professor Avi Loeb about the theory that UAPs are probes from an alien mothership?

Kirkpatrick: That was the start of that work where we were looking at, if you want to believe these hypotheses, what are the signatures that you would expect to see from that? Because if I don’t see any of those signatures, with any of the data that we see, then that’s not a valid hypothesis. That’s how science works. Right? You have to have a hypothesis. You have to have measurables with that hypothesis, and then your data has to meet it. And you have to lay that out in a peer-reviewed journal so that you have something to pin it against.

Seligman: That paper though with your name attached made it look like you were backing the theory. Is this something that you regret?

Kirkpatrick: That paper was in draft when it was leaked. We hadn’t actually finished that paper and it needed a lot of editing before it went out.

Seligman: It wasn’t leaked. Avi Loeb posted it online.

Kirkpatrick: Well, yeah, he posted it without permission.

Seligman: Do you regret your involvement in that?

Kirkpatrick: No, because it’s the same principle. We are standing up for the facts. We are standing up for the scientific method. And this is how you go about doing it. You either do it or you don’t.)

You could argue that this paper was possibly a form of disinformation, intentional or otherwise, that fits perfectly into a playbook going all the way back to 1952, when generals in full military panoply told a roomful of journalists that those flying saucers over Washington, D.C., were nothing more than an atmospheric phenomenon called a “temperature inversion.”

I propose it was actually a demonstration ordered by then President Harry Truman, much as he had ordered a similar demonstration of the flying wing aircraft in 1949, when the plane buzzed the White House in attempts to prove its potential prowess.

So, why would the Pentagon want us all to think UFOs just might be E.T.? It could all be an elaborate diversion engineered to maintain secrecy because when you entangle the subject of UFOs within the intellectual quagmire of extraterrestrial visitations, you relegate the entire subject to the fringe. Then, instead of wondering whether the Pentagon might have achieved a series of propulsion breakthroughs, the conversation gets mired down with incessant questions about aliens, time travelers, interdimensional beings, ruminations over what the Vatican knows, and various “we are not alone” scenarios.

In articles about his upcoming departure, Kirkpatrick has suggested that the UFOs encountered by U.S. Navy pilots over military training ranges are either space aliens or foreign adversaries.

Excuse me, sir, but there’s another possibility. That these could be top-secret U.S. military platforms that harness a different kind of propulsion technology. Knowledge of such weapons could be ultra-compartmentalized so that even the pilots who encounter these objects don’t have a “need to know.”

And these are not necessarily “experimental” platforms, but rather fully operational weapons.  After all, these objects were encountered over military training ranges.

So, this notion of E.T. visitation – the extraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs that has dominated the conversation so far – could be nothing more than a powerful myth created and reinforced by popular culture and the Pentagon’s own disinformation apparatus. I would argue that when you consider the pattern of UFO encounters going all the way back to 1947 that the U.S. has had some form of advanced field propulsion technology – call it antigravity, if you like – either in development or in operation since then. If this is true, then these systems have evolved entirely within the Pentagon’s “black budget,” keeping them hidden from Congress.

According to this “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, the evolution of these vehicles began during the immediate postwar period and they have been kept under wraps since that time, all the while becoming more and more sophisticated while shrouded entirely from Congress, the executive branch and the public.

As to why the Pentagon would be flying these weapons over populated areas, maybe 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 are many examples of military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This 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, it’s as good a theory as space aliens traveling trillions of miles across the gulf of space to hang out over obscure U.S. military training ranges, inexplicably tormenting the denizens of places like rural Texas.

There have been tantalizing clues that the Pentagon could be harboring top-secret weapons under cover of national security. For example, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has fairly recently 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 …”

Sen. Gillibrand seems to be alluding to a conflict between Congress and the Pentagon, with the Pentagon restricting access to information that is directly related to UFO sightings.

Getting back to Dr. Kirkpatrick and AARO, he and it can’t really “get to the bottom” of the UFO mystery in this country because, in doing so, they would be revealing top-secret U.S. weapons.

At the same time, the American media have been unable or unwilling to plumb the depths of this issue. For example, there have been NO articles about whether the foreign military branches in, say, Europe and Asia, are experiencing the same epidemic of UFO encounters as the U.S. Navy.

I’m not talking about thirty years ago, but now. Are the foreign military branches CURRENTLY experiencing the same sort of mysterious encounters in their own restricted airspace?

This would seem to be a logical question. After all, it’s a big planet. Are we to believe that E.T. is focusing solely on the U.S. military?

Balderdash!

We know of at least one foreign military that apparently isn’t having the same sorts of UFO incursions into its airspace: Australia’s.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Faustralia-ignored-the-united-states-led-five-eyes-meeting-v0-cj8xo0tc8pvb1.png%3Fs%3Dae4671b2245bdb09754c9976b78c993e1ef4f9cc

Don’t you think, if the other major military powers thought they were being harassed by E.T. on a regular basis, that they would be freaking out, calling for some kind of urgent global investigation?

They aren’t.

And, when you come right down to it, the ONLY reason the Pentagon decided to “take UFOs seriously” is because it was forced to by a clueless Congress.

Now, why might that be?

Perhaps because the Pentagon already knows exactly what these are.

Has Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Discovered Undersea UFO Base Off California Coast, and, If So, Is This Part of Secret Pentagon Infrastructure?

Ok, so, I find this extremely interesting, or, as the late, great Arte Johnson would say, eentahresting! An article in the Daily Star, a UK tabloid, quotes retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet saying he has discovered what could be an undersea UFO base near Catalina Island.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ex-navy-admiral-claims-discovery-31259577

(From the Daily Star article: “The anomaly looks like a wedge taken out of a thing called a knoll. It’s an underwater ridge basically – and a wedge from it was totally carved out and horizontally displaced by two kilometres. I just want to find an explanation for it, but it does cause one to speculate. Is that evidence of an undersea UAP interaction with the sea floor? Or even a location for undersea infrastructure where these things go?”)

While I have no doubts that there could be an undersea U.S. military base in this location, I find it very unlikely that it involves space aliens. After all, this area is teeming with U.S. military activity.

So, rather than extraterrestrials, if this is, indeed, a structure, it seems far more likely that it’s an unknown Pentagon facility. Moreover, it seems probable that the U.S. military has a bevy of undersea and underground bases and facilities that are unknown to the public. It also seems likely that the military has used or is using specialized, possibly nuclear-powered, boring machines — or subterrenes — mechanical earthworms that slice through solid rock like butter, melting and vitrifying everything in their path.

At any rate, it should be VERY interesting to see where this goes. Gallaudet’s comments suggest that he could pursue this further, possibly even with some sort of expedition.

War Zone article reveals juicy tidbits from AARO UFO press briefing: Satellite surveillance has found no space aliens and after questioning likely Grusch sources, no evidence to support his E.T. claims …

I found this article in the War Zone about Tuesday’s UFO presser to be very enlightening.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/balloons-no-ufos-found-by-satellites-shoot-down-video-coming-says-aaro-chief

My main takeaways: The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has reviewed many satellite images, finding plenty of balloons but no space aliens.

Secondly, the office will soon release videos of UFOs being shot down by military aircraft earlier this year.

Thirdly, whistleblower David Grusch has not contacted AARO to talk about what he knows, or thinks he knows, information that seems to contradict a statement by Grusch that he briefed AARO’s head Sean Kirkpatrick. Also, VERY interestingly, AARO has interviewed Grusch’s likely sources and found no corroboration of his extraterrestrial claims.

From the War Zone article:

(Grusch also testified that he briefed Kirkpatrick on his claims in July of 2022 and that Kirkpatrick never followed up. You can see that exchange in this video below.

Tuesday, Kirkpatrick said that Grusch has yet to respond to requests by AARO to meet and that the last time the two spoke was five years ago. Kirkpatrick said he was in the intelligence directorate of U.S. Space Command at the time and the conversation “was not on this topic.”

“I think we’ve interviewed most of the people that he may have talked to, but we don’t know that. And we have extended an invitation at least four or five times for him to come in over the last eight months or so, and has been declined.”

Citing privacy concerns, Kirkpatrick declined to offer any specifics about who he talked to or just what they said. He did, however, say that “I currently have no evidence of any program having ever existed to do any sort of reverse engineering of a sort of extraterrestrial UAP.”)

This raises various questions, including. 1) Why the disconnect between Kirkpatrick and Grusch, and why no corroboration after interviewing Grusch’s likely sources? 2) Did these people lie to Grusch? Did these people feed Grusch disinformation? 3) Why has Grusch not spoken to AARO?

So many questions …

Pentagon’s AARO UFO Office Tells Potential Whistleblowers Not to Include “Sensitive or Classified” Information on New Reporting Form, But How Could it NOT Be Sensitive or Classified Information?

I’m racking my brain trying to figure out how UFO whistleblowers who work or worked for the government are going to report about their first-hand knowledge of top-secret UFO-related experiences without including “potentially sensitive or classified information.”

I mean, just by its very nature, such information would be sensitive and/or classified, right? And if people did report sensitive or classified information, would they be subject to punishment?

Here are a couple of articles in the mainstream media (the New York Post and Politico) reporting on the new development, announced on Oct. 31, 2023.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/31/news/pentagon-unveils-ufo-reporting-portal/

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/31/pentagon-announces-long-waited-ufo-reporting-form-00124574

I agree with Rep. Burlison about UFOs: Earthlings have developed an advanced propulsion technology, but it’s not ‘foreign’ and it’s not ‘experimental’ …

Well, well, well … this Deseret News article dated Oct. 30, 2023, shows that Congress is FINALLY catching on, and I totally agree with Rep. Burlison: The Pentagon has developed an advanced propulsion technology, but I would argue this isn’t “experimental” … these appear to be fully operational platforms. 

https://www.deseret.com/2023/10/30/23935375/congress-select-committee-ufo-tim-burchett

I found this comment from Rep. Burlison to be particularly significant because it’s the first time I’ve seen any public figure candidly suggest that the UFOs represent a breakthrough in propulsion technology.

From the Deseret News article:

(But Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., was convinced that an entity — tied to the federal government or foreign — was developing an “advanced form of propulsion” after the meeting with intelligence officials.

“What it appears to be is somebody has discovered something — some advanced form of propulsion or technology — that may actually change all of our lives,” Burlison told Laslo. “But clearly it’s in an experimental phase or we’re experimenting with it.”)

It’s encouraging that members of Congress are figuring out that the UFOs aren’t about extraterrestrials at all. They are about the Pentagon developing a series of propulsion breakthroughs originating decades ago. I would argue, based on the history of UFO sightings going all the way back to 1947, that the Pentagon has had some form of field propulsion either in development or in operation since that time and that these platforms have been entirely hidden from Congress and the public through the Department of Defense’s burgeoning “black budget.”

If this is true, then this means the Pentagon has made an astonishing advancement – call it antigravity if you like – that if commercialized would literally change the trajectory of human civilization, revolutionizing the transportation of people on Earth and ushering in the practical colonization of space.

Moreover, the Pentagon can’t tell the truth about UFOs because in doing so it would mean exposing a top-secret weapon. At the same time, the DoD’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), can’t really “get to the bottom” of the UFO mystery because it’s part of the Pentagon.

I guess one of the most important issues surrounding this conspiracy is that there is absolutely no oversight for a scientific development that is arguably as important as the discovery of nuclear weapons. The Pentagon is solely in control.

And if you think this is just too insane, is it any crazier than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, only to crash land repeatedly or to inexplicably hang out over places like rural Texas and obscure U.S. military training ranges?

It seems fairly obvious that the whole extraterrestrial hypothesis is just a myth promoted and reinforced by popular culture and the Pentagon’s own disinformation apparatus. Why? Because as soon as you entangle the whole subject of UFOs within the intellectual morass of space aliens, you relegate the story to the fringe. No one takes it seriously, and the only people who do take it seriously are consumed with fantasies about extraterrestrials, time travelers, interdimensional beings, alien abduction, the Vatican knows all about it and various “are we alone?” scenarios.

But, hey, I’m not telling you anything especially new. It’s all in Flying Saucers!

NewsNation: Pentagon Denies Access to UFO Secrets Because Members of Congress Lack Proper Security Clearance

There’s a lot to unpack in this NewsNation article quoting frustrated congressional representatives who — in trying to learn the truth about UFOs — were told by the Pentagon that they lack the proper security clearance. The article was just posted this afternoon on Oct. 27, 2023.

‘I didn’t learn anything:’ Burchett on classified UFO briefing

This is priceless, but I finally agree with Scott Perry about something when he says “… this isn’t our government … We just get to live here in America and the government doesn’t answer to us.”

Though, I must say that I’m not surprised. Pentagon officials will never tell the public the truth about UFOs because, in my opinion, in doing so they would be revealing details about top-secret weapons.

According to the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs (i.e., it isn’t space aliens), which I personally subscribe to, the UFOs are entirely inventions of Homo sapiens, the same species that has brought us nukes, microchips, lasers, microwave ovens, skyscrapers, calculus, non-linear algebra, the Mona Lisa, etc., etc. … no assist from space aliens needed!

Anyway, you have to admire members of Congress for pressing the Pentagon about UFOs. And I totally agree with Rep. Eric Burlison when he says, “We owe it to the American people to let them know where the money is being spent.”

At the same time, I think people still haven’t grasped the reality that the UFOs have nothing to do with E.T. and everything to do with propulsion breakthroughs at the Pentagon over the past seventy-five years.

That’s why Navy pilots are encountering these objects over U.S. military training ranges. And they aren’t “experimental aircraft,” but top-secret operational platforms that are well beyond the testing phase.

But, hey, I’m not telling you anything you haven’t already considered at great length, sometimes in the early, early morning while under the influence of various intoxicants, sometimes while stone-cold sober in the clarifying light of day.

It’s all in Flying Saucers!

Technical analysis of Middle East orb UFO shows that it’s likely just a party balloon, but shouldn’t the Pentagon know this already?

Ok, so I found this analysis to be nothing short of revelatory. It was prepared by an organization called Bellingcat, which describes itself as an “independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists …”

Using geolocation and mathematics, specialists at Bellingcat clearly show that the orb UFO observed by a U.S. military drone over the Middle East in 2022 is probably just a party balloon measuring a maximum of .43 meters, or 1.4 feet. The illusion of motion and speed is also clearly explained away by a phenomenon called parallax, the analysis concludes.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/24/isnt-that-a-balloon-deflating-a-dod-ufo-video/

Yet, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, an official at the U.S. Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), claimed during a congressional hearing that AARO has been unable to identify the object. He makes other statements suggesting similar orb-shaped UFOs could be truly mysterious, saying they are capable of “very interesting apparent maneuvers …”

Pardon my cynicism, but I find it very hard to believe that Dr. Kirkpatrick doesn’t know this thing was a balloon. Anyway, hopefully the AARO will soon weigh in on all this, but it sure seems like an important issue to address. Also, in a related matter, what ever happened to the Eglin Air Force Base orb? Was that also just a balloon, and is AARO going to issue a report about that encounter, along with the photo that was taken by the pilot and seen by a U.S. representative?

So many questions …

News column about UFOs touches on something crucial: They could be top secret U.S. military weapons being ‘clandestinely’ tested …

This column published by Globetrotter and appearing in the Sri Lanka Guardian on Oct. 5, 2023, touches on what I view as the most probable explanation for the UFO enigma over the past seven decades or so: That they are likely top-secret U.S. weapons.

What if UFOs Have Been a Cover for High-Tech—and Human—Defense Research Programs?

Hallelujah! I’ve been saying this for years. Anyway, here are the key takeaways from the column, well-crafted by journalist John P. Ruehl:

“Many secret military aircraft were frequently mistaken for UFOs, such as the U-2 reconnaissance plane, introduced in the 1950s, which featured a gray frame that often reflected the sun. The SR-71 “Blackbird” meanwhile started service in 1966 and wasn’t declassified until the 1990s. Its distinctive shape, speed, and altitude capabilities were often mistaken for a UFO. The B-2 Spirit, introduced in the late 1980s, also had a unique aerodynamic design and its ability to control lift, thrust, and drag at low speeds often gave the appearance that it was hovering.

Since the Cold War, secretive experimental military aircraft have continued to generate UFO reports. But unexplained phenomena have also fueled conspiracy theories. In November 2004 off the coast of San Diego, Navy pilots filmed UFOs demonstrating rapid acceleration, physics-defying sudden changes in direction, and other feats in videos eventually released to the public in 2017 … The U.S. military’s reluctance to disclose UFO/UAP information is often linked to the need to protect classified technology. Military agencies can choose to neither confirm nor deny such information exists. But when the government transparency website, the Black Vault, submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Navy for more UFO/UAP videos, it was denied because it would harm national security and ‘may provide adversaries valuable information regarding Department of Defense/Navy operations, vulnerabilities, and/or capabilities.’

Releasing these videos without additional information may also be an effective way for the U.S. military to hint at its own new technological capacities for various strategic, political, and scientific reasons. Suddenly revealing these technologies could result in rising geopolitical tensions and trigger a reaction, while merely hinting at it may also serve as a deterrence to adversaries. Gradually preparing the public for emerging technologies is equally as important, while encouraging speculation about UFO/UAPs could divert attention away from classified projects.

By clandestinely testing experimental new technologies on their own defenses without resorting to lethal forces, military agencies can also gain valuable insights into their capabilities and vulnerabilities in real-world scenarios.”

I agree with this assessment. Although, I would argue that the Pentagon isn’t necessarily “testing experimental new technologies … ” but training personnel on these technologies. These platforms certainly do not appear to be experimental. They appear to be operational and well beyond the testing phase. Maybe that’s why U.S. Navy pilots have encountered these objects over military training ranges, not over test ranges.

At any rate, I have proposed my own version of the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs in my novel Flying Saucers. According to this hypothesis, the evolution of these vehicles began during the immediate postwar period and they have been kept under wraps since that time, all the while becoming more and more sophisticated and shrouded entirely from Congress, the executive branch and the public. This supposition presumes that none of the UFOs are extraterrestrial and that the entire space-alien hypothesis is just a myth fed by popular culture and the Pentagon’s disinformation apparatus.

As to why the Pentagon would 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 are many examples of military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This 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, it’s as good a theory as space aliens traveling trillions of miles across the gulf of space to inexplicably hang out over U.S. military training ranges and terrorizing the denizens of places like Stephenville, Texas.

But, hey, I’m not telling you anything you haven’t already surmised. It’s all in Flying Saucers!

About Spielberg’s ‘Encounters’ UFO Documentary, I Propose ‘Big Black Delta’ is One of Ours

So, I’ve been reading with alacrity all of the reviews of Spielberg’s new Netflix UFO documentary Encounters. One of the highlights is the giant delta-shaped object observed by multiple witnesses in Stephenville, Texas.

Here is one news article, published by the New York Post:

https://nypost.com/2023/09/28/spielberg-produced-ufo-doc-has-more-than-300-witnesses-for-spaceship/

Anyway, I propose this object is a top-secret U.S. military weapon. The same craft has been observed during various other encounters over the past three decades.

My hypothesis is that Big Black Delta is among a group of antigravity platforms that also includes the Tic Tac vehicle observed in 2004 by U.S. Navy pilots – advanced-propulsion weapons that have been developed entirely by Homo sapiens, the same species that has brought us nukes, microchips, lasers, microwave ovens, skyscrapers, the Mona Lisa, etc., etc., … no assist from space aliens needed!

According to this “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, the evolution of these vehicles began during the immediate postwar period and they have been kept under wraps since that time, all the while becoming more and more sophisticated and shrouded entirely from Congress, the executive branch and the public. This supposition presumes that none of the UFOs are extraterrestrial and that the entire space-alien hypothesis is just a myth fed by popular culture and the Pentagon’s disinformation apparatus.

As to why the Pentagon would 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 are many examples of military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This 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, it’s as good a theory as space aliens traveling trillions of miles across the gulf of space to hang out over Stephenville, Texas.

Regarding Big Black Delta specifically, I dedicate many pages of my book Flying Saucers to this hypothetical platform.

There have been tantalizing clues that the Pentagon might be hiding the existence of such weapons under cover of national security. For example, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has recently 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 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 …”

Sen. Gillibrand seems to be alluding to a conflict between Congress and the Pentagon, with the Pentagon restricting access to information that is directly related to UFO sightings.

In my opinion, UFOs have never been about E.T. Based on witness testimony, it certainly appears that the Pentagon evidently has achieved a propulsion breakthrough – call it antigravity, if you like – which is unknown to Congress. However, the Pentagon can’t admit that it has antigravity because, well, then it would no longer be secret. It all makes perfect sense, in a convoluted kind of way.

I would argue that when you consider the pattern of UFO encounters going all the way back to 1947, the U.S. has had some form of antigravity or field propulsion technology either in development or in operation since then. If this is true, then these systems have evolved entirely within the Pentagon’s “black budget,” keeping them hidden from the public.

At the same time, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation program 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. This is industrial-strength disinformation, good enough to convince technical experts like David Grusch. Then, once you start talking about E.T. crashes and dead aliens, interdimensional beings, time travelers, and the Vatican’s in on the whole secret, 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 extraterrestrials or are just making money off the E.T. hypothesis.

So, if this terrestrial hypothesis is correct – and the Pentagon does, indeed, have antigravity, this raises a whole host of follow-up concerns and questions, including:

  • Do we have a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force? If so, do we have military bases in deep space?
  • When the SR-71 blackbird was retired in 1990, was it replaced with another, more advanced platform capable of reaching any destination in the world quickly and on short notice. Is Big Black Delta that platform?  
  • In addition to antigravity, have we developed a propulsion system that harnesses the Casimir effect? This might explain the incredible performance observed by police officers in southern Illinois in 2000. At least one of the officers said the ship darted from place to place, instantly leaping several miles at a time.
  • If we have, indeed, developed such a propulsion system, have we gone interstellar?    

Of course, in exploring the terrestrial hypothesis there are many additional potential questions you could pose.

But, hey, I’m not telling you anything you haven’t already pondered. It’s all in Flying Saucers!