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A Veteran Area 51 Observer Sees No Aliens There, Yet Further Evidence That UFOs Are Not Extraterrestrial

Like most tabloid fare, this article about veteran Area 51 researcher Joerg Arnu contains very little useful information. Yet, it is important because Arnu expresses his opinion that the base does not harbor extraterrestrial technologies. The article appeared recently in The Sun newspaper.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31060141/area-51-fbi-new-weapons/

Area 51 has been central to alien conspiracy theories over the years. It is crucial to unfounded claims that the U.S. government is hiding technologies captured from crashed alien spacecraft. In fact, you could argue that without space aliens at Area 51, the whole connection between UFOs and extraterrestrials falls apart.

If anyone were to detect evidence of E.T. at Area 51, you would think it would have been Arnu, who has dedicated decades to pursuing the truth about what goes on at the base.

Here are some relevant excerpts from The Sun article:

“While Arnu believes the base primarily focuses on military technology – he respects others may have different interpretations.

“He said: ‘Who am I to say that my opinion is the right one?‘

“I think it’s military, but the alien people think there are 21 underground levels of torture facilities for aliens …

“From his analysis of hundreds of satellite images and his visits to the secret site, Arnu believes the government is developing cutting-edge stealth aircraft, advanced drones, and experimental weaponry – that could revolutionise modern warfare.

“Over his years of research, Arnu has observed several indications that cutting-edge military technologies are being developed at Area 51.“

Well, there you have it. The UFOs are still not E.T.

Elon Musk is correct about UFOs: They aren’t E.T., they have always just been the Pentagon

I couldn’t agree more with Elon Musk about UFOs, in comments he made to Tucker Carlson and reported in this New York Post article.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/09/us-news/elon-musk-reveals-his-thoughts-on-ufo-sightings-in-the-us-with-tucker-carlson/

Here is the nut graph from the Post article: “The tech mogul claims that the government is likely regularly testing out ‘new aircraft, new missiles, and things’ that are classified at such a high level that even those high up in the chain of command in the US military may not be aware (they) are being tested.”

It also seems like he’s onto something with this observation, as reported in the New York Post article: “He argued that the government would villainize aliens if it knew of their existence to easily green-light military spending.”

Anyway, what this all means is that it’s high time that we started to seriously entertain 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 U.S. weapons and have mistaken these systems for extraterrestrial visitation.

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 of people with the appropriate clearances. 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 Tac” encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004, etc.

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

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?

Meanwhile, it certainly appears that there has been a disinformation effort to confuse people, and the media, about the whole subject of UFOs — various tales 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)

So, I would argue that you have opposing forces working against each other. You have AARO conducting legitimate investigations into UFOs, but then you have other elements, some of them possibly even within government, working to promote disinformation, contradicting AARO.

Why? 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, especially journalists, so that they’ll dismiss the whole business of UFOs as nonsense and won’t start to wonder whether it’s been the Pentagon all along that’s been flying these things.

Pentagon’s Former Top UFO Hunter Confirms to Scientific American that Many Sightings Represent U.S. Tech ‘Edge’ Over Adversaries, and We Should ‘Take Some Comfort in That.’

There are some nuggets of news in this interesting interview in Scientific American with the Pentagon’s former top UFO hunter, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-governments-former-ufo-hunter-has-a-lot-to-say

My main takeaway is that Dr. Kirkpatrick confirmed, again, that many UFO sightings, even those by experienced military aviators, are not encounters with space aliens at all, but top-secret U.S. military tech. He also says these objects likely represent a technological “edge” over our adversaries.

Here are some of his key comments, in exchanges with journalist Dan Vergano, in brackets and bolded:

[Vergano: It’s fair to say that you had access to all the classified world that people have pointed to before as hiding some sort of program like this in the past, and you looked there, and you found no evidence of this story that the government has somehow been sitting on aliens for the last 60-plus years.

Kirkpatrick: That’s right. So everything that people have pointed to, we went and investigated and found no evidence to support that. Again, a lot of these things are real R&D or real state-of- the-art programs, not extraterrestrial, but it is completely understandable why someone who did not know that would draw that conclusion.

Vergano: You know, there’s been a lot of concern that excessive classification is playing a role here, that people can’t even knock down these claims. Is that a fair complaint, or how would you describe that? Like, you can’t tell somebody that they didn’t see something they’re not to see because you’re not allowed to talk about it. Has that been a factor here?

Kirkpatrick: Uh, in some instances, yes, obviously, because if somebody inadvertently got access to something or had unauthorized access to something, you can’t go and explain to them everything about it. And so that’s where you get into another issue of who actually has access to that information on the Hill. Most people don’t understand [that] congressional members don’t all get access to everything.

Vergano: Is there anything you’d say to the more general reader, like, who thinks, “Okay, well, people aren’t talking about UFOs—the government must know something,” I mean, like, who maybe are maybe more amenable to, like, a reasonable argument?

Kirkpatrick: Well, what I would say is that the government spends a lot of time and effort developing advanced technology for a variety of reasons. Some of this is just people having observed things or seen things or got access to things that they shouldn’t have—that they don’t understand. And just because they don’t understand it, they seem to leap to “it must be extraterrestrial,” as opposed to, well, it could just be maybe the United States has an edge. So I would take some comfort in that.]

So, there you have it, further confirmation that many UFOs are top-secret U.S. weapons.

But doesn’t this inject a dose of irony into the whole UFO conversation, since the government’s own UFO investigations have inadvertently revealed the existence of top-secret U.S. platforms?

I also feel that we are dancing around the eight-hundred-pound gorilla in the room: the flying “Tic Tac”  encountered by U.S. military pilots, which seemingly defied the laws of physics. This encounter was in 2004, so I think we can rule out that it was our adversaries. We would surely have known by now that China or Russia had made this kind of quantum leap in propulsion technology.

Therefore, if it’s not E.T., and it’s not our adversaries, that means the U.S. military has made a quantum leap in propulsion technology.

This seems kind of important … just saying …

Washington Post UFO column fails to ask: What if it’s not ET?

A column about UFOs in the Washington Post asks the familiar question, what if we are being visited by ET?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/01/we-need-talk-about-ufos-again/

Perhaps the more interesting question might be, what if it’s not ET at all? The Pentagon never intended to release the now-famous Tic Tac UFO videos and only did so after they were leaked. I propose an entirely different scenario: The UFOs are ours. Not “experimental aircraft,” but fully operational platforms. The reason we are seeing them so frequently around U.S. military facilities, especially during training missions, is that they are in training themselves. They are training for the next war. If this scenario were true, that would mean the recent investigations, first detailed by the New York Times in 2017, have unwittingly exposed a Pentagon program. Curiously, we see that Sen. Rubio recently proclaimed these UFOs are penetrating sensitive military airspace, seemingly at will. He claims these are not of the U.S. military and that they could be ET, or even our geopolitical rivals. But then in the same breath he says we have no worries …  huh? You mean to tell me that if the U.S. military knew its airspace was being penetrated  — even at times dominated — by invaders from space or elsewhere that there would not be more of a sense of urgency about the whole matter? Instead, Sen. Rubio tells us the much-anticipated UFO report will be late and that it won’t reach any hard conclusions … that seems mighty suspicious to me.