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Is the Eglin Air Force Base ‘Orb’ UFO Encounter the First Big Test of AARO’s Alleged Transparency? And note to @RepTimBurchett – the Pentagon is Never Going to Tell You the Truth …

Alright, so, there’s been a dearth of coverage about this apparently significant UFO event, an encounter over the Gulf of Mexico with an aircraft from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida sometime earlier this year. As I say, coverage has been sparse, and there has been virtually nothing in the big media. Here is an article posted recently by a publication called Liberation Times.

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/us-air-force-reports-mysterious-gulf-of-mexico-incident-to-pentagons-ufo-office

Actually, we don’t even have a date for this encounter. All we know is that it occurred “several months” before news of the encounter spilled out during a congressional hearing on UFOs in July 2023.

As I say, there has been almost NO coverage of this encounter, but according to Rep. Matt Gaetz, who received a classified briefing on it, a U.S. Air Force pilot saw a diamond-shape formation of UFOs over the Gulf of Mexico. The plane’s radar and camera systems failed as it approached the formation, but the pilot still managed to take a photo.

Gaetz, who evidently viewed this photo, described the object as an otherworldly “orb.”

Anyway, the most recent development, according to Liberation Times, is that the Department of Defense has acknowledged that an official report was filed with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and that AARO could release the report after it is approved.

So, we’ve heard a lot about the Pentagon’s newfound UFO “transparency” … let’s see if it proves true. Let’s see if AARO issues the report, complete with the photo the pilot took of this orb thing.

However, I wouldn’t get my hopes up, considering the long legacy of Pentagon UFO obfuscation.

What I would expect, based on this legacy, is that officials will take months to approve the report, knowing that people generally lose interest over time. Then, they will issue a heavily redacted thing, omitting the photo due to “national security” concerns.

I hope to be proven wrong. I really do! Maybe there will be a full report and the entire thing turns out to be something completely mundane – a balloon – and the malfunctioning sensors are totally explained as just an ordinary technological glitch.

Meanwhile, in other UFO news, Rep. Tim Burchett noted that NASA officials told the House Oversight Committee that the space agency’s UFO investigations wouldn’t deal at all with classified information. His comments are included in this Newsweek article – as I say, none of the big media are covering this stuff.

https://www.newsweek.com/congressman-shares-very-elusive-nasa-remarks-ufo-meeting-1829025

I found this segment (bolded font) from the Newsweek article to be particularly enlightening:

“My colleague [Alabama Representative] Gary Palmer asked about classified stuff at NASA, and they said, ‘We don’t have anything classified,'” Burchett said regarding the meeting.

According to the congressman’s video, when pressed further about the issue of classified information, the representatives from NASA gave a “very elusive” response.

“And so, what I think they’ve done is, they sent these two folks in here, like the Pentagon did, that have very little knowledge of the issue,” Burchett continued. “So they can say they can hold up their hand before Congress and swear that they know nothing about the issue, and it doesn’t exist.”

Burchett said that he also pressed the NASA representatives about the testimonies that came out during July’s hearing, as well as videos of UAP that have been declassified and shared with the public.

“So anyway, didn’t get a lot from that, and I’m a little disappointed,” the congressman concluded.

“We’re probably going to have to get some more people from the Pentagon in there to tell us what exactly is going on.”

“I just want the truth,” he added. “Give me the facts.”

In my opinion, since NASA UFO investigations won’t deal with classified information, we won’t learn anything of great substance from the agency on the subject. This is because all of the most sensational encounters, such as the infamous Tic Tac in 2004, likely involve top-secret U.S. military platforms, not E.T.

While I admire members of Congress for their dogged pursuit of the truth, I question their unflinching allegiance to the ET hypothesis (i.e., it’s space aliens). I think the reason the Pentagon isn’t telling the truth about UFOs is because it simply cannot tell the truth about UFOs without revealing the existence of top-secret weapons.

So, yeah, there’s definitely a big UFO coverup, but it has nothing to do with space aliens and everything to do with propulsion breakthroughs at the Pentagon over the past seven decades, advances that have been entirely shrouded from Congress because they are funded through the Defense Department’s “black budget.”  I propose that there has been a quantum leap in propulsion technology, conjured up 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!

So, we might call this supposition the terrestrial hypothesis, which presumes that none of the UFOs is extraterrestrial and that the entire space-alien hypothesis is just a myth fed by popular culture and the Pentagon’s disinformation apparatus.

But, hey, I’m not telling you anything you haven’t already considered at great length, sometimes over intoxicants and amid heated discussion, sometimes quietly and stone cold sober during those solitary pre-dawn hours of darkness.

It’s all in Flying Saucers!

This month in history: Betty and Barney Hill are allegedly abducted by space aliens, but was their tale pure fiction inspired by 1954 movie Killers from Space?

Interesting commentary in Slate about the alleged alien abduction of Betty and Barney Hill on Sept. 19, 1961.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/ufo-uap-encounters-betty-barney-hill.html

The piece discusses a book on the subject by Matthew Bowman, noting that the author believed “context is everything” with regards to the times in which the Hills were living; that what’s really important are the social and cultural mores, conventions and racial biases of the postwar era.

But isn’t this just like saying the actual alien abduction never really happened at all? Because, logically, if it did really happen, who cares about social context? I mean, you’re either alien-abducted, or you aren’t alien-abducted, right? Why would context, or anything else, matter at all?

And I must take issue with the opinion writer’s claim that the Hills’ account constitutes “the first truly credible story of an alien encounter …”

To this, I say, rubbish … Where’s the credibility? Where’s the actual concrete evidence?

Actually, I have often wondered whether the Hills, arguably the most important figures in the whole strange saga of alien abduction in this country, might have borrowed elements from the plot of the 1954 movie Killers from Space.

In the film, a very young Peter Graves plays a scientist involved in top-secret nuclear-weapons research. He is abducted by bug-eyed aliens who perform advanced surgery on him to repair his heart, which is damaged when the aliens induce his jet fighter to crash. 

Some details in the Hills’ story mirrored the plight of Graves’ character. Most notably, he had no memory of the abduction afterward, and only upon receiving an injection of truth serum did he recall the whole episode.

Interestingly, the Hills also had no memory of their abduction and only were able to recall the ordeal under hypnosis, perhaps a softer form of truth serum.

In both stories, Earthlings were exploited by strange-looking space aliens standing over them as they lay prostrate on an operating or exam table.

I also wonder whether the Pentagon’s UFO-disinformation machine might have later harnessed alien abduction as a vehicle to hide its work on advanced propulsion systems that have nothing to do with space aliens and everything to do with the burgeoning “black budget,” which shrouds such weapons development from Congress, the executive branch and the taxpaying public.

The purpose of this mendacity: to keep journalists from asking whether the Pentagon has achieved a quantum leap in propulsion technology, an advance so profound that, if commercialized, promises to alter the trajectory of the human race by ushering in a radical new means of transportation. And it has worked brilliantly. After all, instead of inquiring about what exactly the Pentagon is up to, we are all consumed with whimsical reveries about space aliens, time travel, interdimensional beings, and various ‘are we alone?’ scenarios.

You know my hypothesis, that the UFOs were never extraterrestrial, that they have always been advanced U.S. military weapons, going all the way back to Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947.

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

Article in today’s @washingtonpost by reporter @terrence_mccoy: ‘In U.S., most UFO documentation is classified. Not so in other countries.’ Now, why might that be?

Here’s an interesting — and exceedingly rare — article about UFOs in the Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/06/ufo-brazil-documents-classified/

The bottom line is this: The United States is far more secretive about UFOs than are other countries.

Now, why might this be?

Hmmm … could it be that the United States is hiding something? Could that ‘something’ be that the United States is the source of said UFOs?

I say yes. I say the UFOs have never been extraterrestrial. They have 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 flying wing in 1949, when the aircraft flew low over the capital; during the 1960s when startled pilots were reporting UFOs after 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; and in 1997 over Phoenix, Ariz.; and again in 2000 over rural Illinois, when a raft of cops observed a similar delta-shape craft; then, in 2006 when employees at Chicago O’Hare saw a stealthy disc hovering overhead and abruptly shoot straight up at high speed, punching a hole in the cloud cover that lingered afterward; and, of course, in the various encounters recently described by U.S. Navy pilots.

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, nurtured by the Pentagon’s burgeoning “black budget,” hidden from Congress and the executive branch, for longer than 70 years!

At the same time, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation program to make people think the UFOs are ET because as soon as you entangle the entire subject 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.

It’s really a brilliant approach, one that has fooled even technical experts like whistleblower David Grusch, and likely involves the fabrication of fake data and bogus documents. After all, if the people constructing the disinformation are just as smart as the marks, it can be very effective.

And if you don’t think this professional-grade mendacity is working perfectly, ask yourself, what are we all talking about now? Are we talking about whether the Pentagon might have achieved a quantum leap in propulsion technology, an advance so profound that it promises to alter the trajectory of the human race by ushering in a radical new means of transportation? No. We are asking whimsical questions about space aliens, time travel, interdimensional beings, and various ‘are we alone?’ scenarios.

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

Commentary in socialist publication @jacobin nails the UFO issue cold: Just because they aren’t extraterrestrial doesn’t mean there’s nothing to see here … genius!

Ok, so, this is possibly a first! Someone in the media has finally addressed the two most important aspects of the whole UFO conundrum that’s been confounding America:

Point number one is, just because the UFOs aren’t extraterrestrial, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to see here.

Secondly, David Grusch evidently was fed industrial-strength disinformation to cover up something. So, exactly what was the nature of this disinformation?

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/ufos-aliens-government-secrets-whistleblowers-transparency

Also, I’ll add a third point of my own: What is that “something” the Pentagon is going to such great lengths to cover up? Could that something be a top-secret breakthrough in propulsion technology – developed with tax dollars – a quantum leap that if commercialized would greatly benefit society?

You know my opinion, that the UFOs have never been ET. They have 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 flying wing in 1949, when the aircraft flew low over the capital; during the 1960s when startled pilots were reporting UFOs after unknowingly 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; and in 1997 over Phoenix, Ariz.; and again in 2000 over rural Illinois, when a raft of cops observed a similar delta-shape craft; then, in 2006 when employees at Chicago O’Hare saw a stealthy disc hovering overhead and abruptly shoot straight up at high speed, punching a hole in the cloud cover that lingered afterward; and, of course, in the various encounters recently described by U.S. Navy pilots.

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, nurtured by the Pentagon’s burgeoning “black budget,” hidden from Congress and the executive branch, for longer than 70 years!

At the same time, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation program to make people think the UFOs are ET because as soon as you entangle the entire subject 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.

It’s really a brilliant approach, one that has fooled even technical experts like whistleblower David Grusch, and likely involves the fabrication of fake data and bogus documents. After all, if the people constructing the disinformation are just as smart as the marks, it can be very effective.

And if you don’t think this professional-grade mendacity is working perfectly, ask yourself, what are we all talking about now? Are we talking about whether the Pentagon might have achieved a HUGE technological breakthrough in propulsion technology, an advance so profound that it promises to alter the trajectory of the human race by ushering in a radical new means of transportation and enabling the practical colonization of space? No. We are asking whimsical questions about space aliens, time travel, interdimensional beings, and various ‘are we alone?’ scenarios.

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

Ex-military pilots including @wardcarroll say UFOs could be products of Pentagon ‘black budget’  

Interesting, albeit very brief, article in Britain’s Daily Star newspaper quoting ex-military pilots Ward ‘Mooch’ Carroll and Brian ‘Sunshine’ Sinclair speculating that some of the more sensational UFOs could be top secret U.S. platforms developed within the Pentagon’s black budget, which would conceal these programs from Congress.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/fighter-jet-pilots-say-pentagon-30776191

It appears that people are finally starting to realize that the Pentagon has probably developed an advanced propulsion technology and that the UFOs are likely terrestrial.

So, along those lines, if, for example, the so-called Tic Tac vehicle observed by Navy pilots isn’t ET. Then it’s the Pentagon. Theory would suggest that a vehicle exhibiting that kind of performance is tapping into a different kind of physics, perhaps the much-speculated “fifth force” being investigated by physicists, which wouldn’t necessarily subject its pilots to the same crushing g-forces caused by traditional chemical propulsion systems.

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 entirely in the dark without oversight from Congress.

(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)

Information about these weapons could be restricted to those with a “need to know” only, Gillibrand said. She also, VERY interestingly, compares the covertness surrounding current secret access programs to extreme measures taken during the Manhattan Project, suggesting potential whistleblowers may be literally afraid to come forward, fearing “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 …”

Without some clarity, it’s impossible to know exactly what Sen. Gillibrand is saying, but she seems to be alluding to a conflict between Congress and the Pentagon, with the Pentagon apparently restricting access to information that is directly related to UFO sightings.

You know my opinion: It was never ET. It was always Uncle Sam. It was Uncle Sam back in 1947 when Kenneth Arnold spotted a squadron of UFOs near Mount Rainier, in the 1960s when startled pilots were filing UFO reports after observing overflights of the top secret U-2 and SR-71, and it is today as well. Based on witness testimony, the Pentagon evidently has achieved a propulsion breakthrough – call it antigravity, if you like. However, officials 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 Arnold’s seminal sighting that the U.S. has had some form of field propulsion technology either in development or in operation since then. If this is true, then these systems have been evolving steadily and entirely in the dark for the past 75 years.

At the same time, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation program to make people think the UFOs are ET because as soon as you entangle the entire subject 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 extraterrestrials or are just making money off the ET hypothesis.

It’s really a brilliant approach, one that has fooled even technical experts like whistleblower David Grusch, and likely involves the fabrication of fake data and bogus documents. After all, if the people constructing the disinformation are just as smart as the marks, it can be very effective. And if you don’t think this professional-grade mendacity is working perfectly, ask yourself, what are we all talking about? Are we talking about whether the Pentagon might have achieved a quantum leap in propulsion technology, an advance so profound that it promises to alter the trajectory of the human race? No. We are asking whimsical questions about space aliens, time travel, interdimensional beings, and various ‘are we alone?’ scenarios.

Anyway, if 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 by another, more advanced platform capable of reaching any destination in the world quickly and on short notice, or was it simply superseded by satellites and drones, as is conventional wisdom?
  • 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 inexplicably in the blink of an eye.
  • If we have developed such a propulsion system, have we gone interstellar?     

At any rate, I contend these advanced aerospace platforms are well beyond the test phase but are fully operational. This might explain why some of the encounters have happened over U.S. military training ranges.

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

@johnlennon saw a flying saucer on this day in history, Aug. 23, and it was probably just Uncle Sam spying on him

On this day in history, Aug. 23, 1974, John Lennon and his girlfriend saw a classic flying saucer near his New York apartment building, the United Nations and the East River.

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

From the article:

“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, 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.”

I propose this was likely just Uncle Sam, running electronic surveillance on Lennon, who was deemed a socialist threat, just as we spied on Martin Luther King Jr. and numerous public figures.

And this supposition 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 flying wing in 1949, when the aircraft flew low over the capital; during the 1960s when startled pilots were reporting UFOs after 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; and in 1997 over Phoenix, Ariz.; and again in 2000 over rural Illinois, when a raft of cops observed a delta-shape craft inexplicably darting from place to place in the blink of an eye at low altitude; then, in 2006 when employees at Chicago O’Hare saw a stealthy disc hovering overhead and abruptly shoot straight up at high speed, punching a hole in the cloud cover that lingered afterward; and, of course, in the various encounters described by U.S. Navy pilots.

So, 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!

At the same time, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation program to make people think the UFOs are ET because as soon as you entangle the entire subject 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.

It’s really a brilliant approach, one that has fooled even technical experts like whistleblower David Grusch, and likely involves the fabrication of fake data and bogus documents. After all, if the people constructing the disinformation are just as smart as the marks, it can be very effective.

And if you don’t think this professional-grade mendacity is working perfectly, ask yourself, what are we all talking about? Are we talking about whether the Pentagon might have achieved a quantum leap in propulsion technology, an advance so profound that it promises to alter the trajectory of the human race by ushering in a radical new means of transportation and enabling the practical colonization of space? No. We are asking whimsical questions about space aliens, time travel, interdimensional beings, and various ‘are we alone?’ scenarios.

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

I agree with U.S. Rep. @JaredEMoskowitz, the public does have a right to know the truth about UFOs

It’s very interesting that at least some members of Congress haven’t bought into the whole extraterrestrial hypothesis that has dominated the national conversation about UFOs. Some are actually starting to figure out that all of this UFO business has nothing to do with ET and everything to do with “secret access programs” that are shielded from Congress, the executive branch and the public.

In this Daily Beast article, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), appears to suggest as much when he talks about hidden programs. 

“We can’t over-classify this stuff,” Moskowitz told The Daily Beast in an interview. “The American people have a right to know. They have a right to some level of disclosure.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawmakers-say-the-truth-is-out-there-on-ufosif-they-get-a-new-committee

He later goes on to say that perhaps Congress should look into the funding of secret programs that lack oversight and were alluded to in testimony by whistleblower David Grusch.

From the Daily Beast article:

Lawmakers say they were also left with questions about the use of tax dollars for UFOs after Grusch alleged Pentagon UFO programs are fueled by a “misappropriation of funds.”

“The funding issues that were brought up about how some of these projects are funded… I’d like to hear more about that,” Moskowitz said. “That’s the American taxpayer. That’s their money.”

You know my opinion: It was never ET. It was always Uncle Sam. It was 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 flying wing in 1949, when the aircraft flew low over the capital; during the 1960s when startled pilots were reporting UFOs after 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 shutting down 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 hundreds of people witnessed the same sort of craft; and in 1997 over Phoenix, Ariz.; and again in 2000 over rural Illinois, when a raft of cops observed a similar delta-shape craft; then, in 2006 when employees at Chicago O’Hare saw a stealthy disc hovering overhead and abruptly shoot straight up at high speed, punching a hole in the cloud cover that lingered afterward; and, of course, in the various encounters described by U.S. Navy pilots.

So, 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 and are well beyond the testing phase!

At the same time, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation program to make people think the UFOs are ET because as soon as you entangle the entire subject 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.

It’s really a brilliant approach, one that has fooled even technical experts like Grusch, and likely involves the fabrication of fake data and bogus documents. After all, if the people constructing the disinformation are just as smart as the marks, it can be very effective.

And if you don’t think this professional-grade mendacity is working perfectly, ask yourself, what are we all talking about? Are we talking about whether the Pentagon might have achieved a quantum leap in propulsion technology, an advance so profound that it promises to alter the trajectory of the human race by ushering in a radical new means of transportation and enabling the practical colonization of space? No. We are asking whimsical questions about space aliens, time travel, interdimensional beings, and various ‘are we alone?’ scenarios.

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

@RepEricBurlison is so correct! The UFOs are likely ‘manmade’ …

It’s always refreshing when you read about a prominent, influential person who isn’t fully ensconced in the ridiculous ET hypothesis that dominates the whole national conversation about UFOs.

Burlison on UFO’s: ‘They’re either angels or man-made’

Here, we see a U.S. representative endorsing the terrestrial hypothesis, and thank goodness for that!

So, assuming the UFOs are of terrestrial making and taking that line of reasoning a step further, I would say the observational evidence supports the idea that the Pentagon has achieved a propulsion breakthrough. At this point, with absolutely NO direct evidence supporting the space-alien hypothesis, you have to at least ponder this possibility, especially when you consider the burgeoning military “black budget” year after year after year going back decades, shrouding various programs in complete secrecy, hidden from Congress, the executive branch, and the public.

So, if, for example, the so-called Tic Tac vehicle observed by Navy pilots on a U.S. military training range isn’t ET, then it’s the Pentagon. Theory would suggest that a vehicle exhibiting that kind of performance is tapping into a different kind of physics — perhaps the much-speculated “fifth force” being investigated by physicists — which wouldn’t necessarily subject its pilots to the same crushing g-forces generated by traditional chemical propulsion systems. We might also speculate that some of the vehicles observed are possibly nuclear-powered platforms. Anyway, these vehicles appear to be well beyond the testing phase, but are actually in operation, which is perhaps why they are seen over military training ranges.

Also recently, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has made some VERY intriguing comments that appear to suggest that some of the UFOs encountered by Navy pilots could be the product of “secret access programs” developed and operated entirely without congressional oversight.

(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)

Information about these weapons could be restricted to those with a “need to know” only, Gillibrand said.  She also, VERY interestingly, compares the covertness surrounding current secret access programs to extreme measures taken during the Manhattan Project. The senator appears to be saying that potential whistleblowers may be literally afraid to come forward, fearing “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 …”)

You know my opinion: It was never ET. It was always Uncle Sam. It was Uncle Sam back in the 1960s when pilots were reporting UFOs after seeing flights of the U-2 and SR-71, and it is today as well. 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 Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947 that the U.S. has had some form of field propulsion technology either in development or in operation at least since then. If this is true, then these systems have been evolving completely in the dark for more than 70 years!

At the same time, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation program to make people think the UFOs are ET because as soon as you entangle the entire subject 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 extraterrestrials or are just cynically profiting off the space-alien hype.

It’s really a brilliant approach, one that has fooled even technical experts like David Grusch, and likely involves the fabrication of fake data and bogus documents. After all, if the people constructing the disinformation are just as smart as the marks, it can be very effective.

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

Ion Drive Drone: Is the private sector slowly catching up to the Pentagon?

I read with interest this squib about some startup in Florida creating an ion-drive drone.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12412667/Is-Tic-Tac-UFO-pilots-seeing-Advanced-drones-fly-silently-without-signs-propulsion-mystery-sightings-experts-say.html

Now, don’t you think the Pentagon is light years ahead of anything the private sector is doing?

I say yes, especially when you consider the burgeoning military “black budget” year after year after year going back decades, shrouding various programs in complete secrecy, hidden from Congress, the executive branch, and the public.

Chances are, the Pentagon has something a lot more advanced than this dinky little ion drive.

Chances are, the Pentagon has antigravity propulsion!

So, along those lines, if, for example, the so-called Tic Tac vehicle observed by Navy pilots on a U.S. military training range isn’t ET, then it’s the Pentagon. Theory would suggest that a vehicle exhibiting that kind of performance is tapping into a different kind of physics, perhaps the much-speculated “fifth force” being investigated by physicists, which wouldn’t necessarily subject its pilots to the same crushing g-forces caused by traditional chemical propulsion systems.

And ten-to-one it’s a nuclear-powered platform, possibly a compact fission reactor capable of producing megavolts! These vehicles would be far beyond the testing phase. They would be in operation, and that’s perhaps why they are seen over training ranges.

Recently, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has 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 without congressional oversight.

(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)

Information about these weapons could be restricted to those with a “need to know” only, which excludes Congress and the public.  She also, VERY interestingly, compares the covertness surrounding current secret access programs to extreme measures taken during the Manhattan Project. Gillibrand appears to be saying that potential whistleblowers may be literally afraid to come forward, fearing “under penalty of death” language in non-disclosure agreements.

You know my opinion: It was never ET. It was always Uncle Sam. It was Uncle Sam back in the 1960s when pilots were reporting UFOs after seeing flights of the U-2 and SR-71, and it is today as well. Based on witness testimony, the Pentagon evidently has achieved a propulsion breakthrough. I would argue that when you consider the pattern of UFO encounters going all the way back to Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947 that the U.S. has had some form of antigravity or field propulsion technology either in development or in operation at least since then. If this is true, then these systems have been evolving for more than 70 years!

At the same time, there appears to be an ongoing disinformation program to make people think the UFOs are ET because as soon as you entangle the entire subject 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 extraterrestrials or are just cynically profiting off the space-alien hype.

It’s really a brilliant approach, one that has fooled even technical experts like David Grusch, and likely involves the fabrication of fake data and bogus documents. After all, if the people constructing the disinformation are just as smart as the marks, it can be very effective.

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

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Re: UFOs and secret Pentagon programs: ‘We do not want to be misled. We do not want to be led astray.’

In the following response to a reporter’s inquiry, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand uses some VERY interesting language regarding Congress’s quest for the truth about UFOs.

Here is the brief exchange published Aug. 8 in City & State New York, which covers New York politics and policy. (The full article is here: https://www.cityandstateny.com/personality/2023/08/kirsten-gillibrand-wants-know-truth-about-aliens/389198/)

Reporter: I understand you helped secure full funding for AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) this year, but do you feel like the U.S. is doing enough to research and review unidentified anomalous phenomena incidents?

Sen. Gillibrand: I think this AARO office is excellent and built to do this job. If there are special access programs – they are called SAP programs – that Congress was not read in on, we put an amendment in the defense bill to say they can’t be funded. We do not want to be misled. We do not want to be led astray. We want to get to the bottom of this and this office is perfectly positioned to do that work.

Well, alright, the senator’s a player!

It stands to reason that she wouldn’t have said “We do not want to be misled …” unless she thought there was at least a possibility that Congress was being misled and led astray. It also would appear that members of Congress are FINALLY coming to terms with the fact that the Pentagon is not telling the whole truth about UFOs and that some of these objects are likely top secret U.S. military weapons that are unknown to the public.

You know my opinion: It has always been the Pentagon, it has never been extraterrestrials. 

Here, in a recent opinion piece appearing in The Hill, the writer has hit on a HUGE issue.

From the piece: “Either the U.S. government has mounted an extraordinary, decades-long coverup of UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering activities, or elements of the defense and intelligence establishment are engaging in a staggeringly brazen psychological disinformation campaign.”

A monumental UFO scandal is looming

I vote “staggeringly brazen psychological disinformation campaign.”

The main purpose of disinformation is to hide something. I contend that something is a series of propulsion breakthroughs that, if commercialized, would literally change the trajectory of human civilization. These are advances conjured up 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!

So, along those lines, if the so-called Tic Tac vehicle observed by Navy pilots isn’t ET, then it’s the Pentagon. Theory would suggest that a vehicle exhibiting that kind of performance is tapping into a different kind of physics, perhaps the much-speculated “fifth force” being investigated by physicists, which wouldn’t necessarily subject its pilots to the same crushing g-forces caused by traditional chemical propulsion systems. We are talking instantaneous acceleration.

I also contend that the U.S. has had some form of antigravity or field propulsion technology either in development or in operation going all the way back to the immediate postwar period and that these systems have evolved entirely within the Pentagon’s burgeoning “black budget.” As such, the existence of these systems is hidden from Congress, the executive branch and the public.

Perhaps the last president to have direct knowledge was Ike, but I digress …

Meanwhile, a decades-long disinformation campaign has been engineered to make people think the UFOs are ET because as soon as you entangle the entire subject 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.

It’s really a brilliant approach, one that has fooled even technical experts like David Grusch. Because, after all, if the people constructing the disinformation are just as smart as the marks, it can be very effective.

And if you don’t think the Pentagon’s disinformation machinery is working perfectly, ask yourself, what are we talking about? Are we talking about whether the Pentagon might have achieved a quantum leap in propulsion technology, an advance so profound that it promises to usher in a radical new means of transportation and enable the practical colonization of space? No. We are asking whimsical questions about space aliens, time travel, interdimensional beings, and various ‘Are we alone?’ scenarios.

No one suspects that it’s all been engineered to be that way.

Do you think Mr. Grusch just woke up one day and said, oh, I know, it’s ET?

No, he was fed a diet of high-octane, professional-grade disinformation, likely with fake documents and fake data. Whatever it was, it was good enough to impress Grusch, who is no doubt a very intelligent, very educated person.

And it all fits nicely into a legacy of UFO disinformation going all the way back to 1952, when, I contend, President Truman arranged for a flyover of the experimental antigravity vehicles, much as he had ordered a similar demonstration of the flying wing aircraft, which flew over the White House in 1949.

After the 1952 UFO flap, generals quelled public concerns during a press conference, declaring that an atmospheric phenomenon called a “temperature inversion” caused radar blips mistaken for UFOs. Unfortunately, these objects also were observed visually. At any rate, it was a sham, but the media ate it up, setting the stage for what would follow: a seventy-year-long disinformation conspiracy surrounding UFOs.

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