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Congress Just Presented Pentagon UFO Disinformation, And It Was Perfect

The U.S. Congress on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, delivered a very effective form of Pentagon UFO disinformation. A video of a missile fired by a U.S. drone hitting an unidentified object – probably a balloon, missile or drone – not E.T.

Here’s an excellent breakdown by The War Zone:

https://www.twz.com/news-features/revelation-that-mq-9-reapers-are-now-engaging-aerial-targets-comes-from-uap-hearing

The video was delivered to Rep. Eric Burlison without any explanation by an anonymous source shortly before a hearing about UFOs.

And it was very effective: The UFO faithful hailed it as yet further proof of space aliens visiting Earth; most others disregarded it as more of the same, and there was very little media coverage by the big news organs.

In other words, it was perfect disinformation because it achieved its main objectives:

  1. The big mainstream media ignored the hearing.
  2. People who think the UFOs are extraterrestrials had a field day.
  3. The UFO issue was further marginalized … shunted further off into the tall grass of fringe E.T. conspiracy theories.

This is the intention because the Pentagon has developed astonishing propulsion breakthroughs – technologies that could easily be mistaken for E.T. if observed by those lacking a “need to know.”

Secrets that must be protected at all cost, even if that means shrouding these breakthroughs from everyone, including our elected representatives.

Anyway, as long as everyone thinks these technologies are E.T. or nothing at all, these capabilities will remain exclusive to the Pentagon. The more the public, Congress and the media are confused, the better.

I salute our Pentagon disinformation architects.

This is genius!

CNN Commentary and Peter Bergen Podcast About UFOs Highlight Ironic Truth: The Government’s Own Investigations Have Unwittingly Revealed Existence of Top-Secret U.S. Aircraft

So, there’s been a fair amount of media coverage of Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s rather astonishing interview with podcaster and CNN national security maven Peter Bergen.

Here is a link to CNN’s commentary about the podcast.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/opinions/ufos-actual-truth-bergen-german/index.html

The authors conclude that their main takeaway is that the ongoing UFO saga in this country has been perpetuated by a small group of fanatics who ignore rational explanations. Fair enough, but perhaps a more important takeaway is that the UFO investigations undertaken by the government have unwittingly revealed the existence of top-secret U.S. aircraft.

Here is a bit of the CNN commentary, bolded and in brackets, that supports this crazy idea:

[Since the term “flying saucer” was first coined, much of the conspiratorial thinking about UFOs has been spawned by people catching glimpses of highly secret US aircraft and wanting answers. And when the government doesn’t provide answers, the public imagination takes over.

But, in fact, Kirkpatrick says, his investigation found that most UFO sightings are of advanced technology that the US government needs to keep secret, of aircraft that rival nations are using to spy on the US or of benign civilian drones and balloons.

Kirkpatrick says his office dug deep into the Roswell incident and found that in the late 1940s and early 1950s, there were a lot of things happening near the Roswell Airfield. There was a spy program called Project Mogul, which launched long strings of oddly shaped metallic balloons. They were designed to monitor Soviet nuclear tests and were highly secret.

At the same time, the US military was conducting tests with other high-altitude balloons that carried human test dummies rigged with sensors and zipped into body-sized bags for protection against the elements. And there was at least one military plane crash nearby with 11 fatalities.

Echoing earlier government investigations, Kirkpatrick and his team concluded that the crashed Mogul balloons, the recovery operations to retrieve downed test dummies and glimpses of the charred aftermath of that real plane crash likely combined into a single false narrative about a crashed alien spacecraft.

Kirkpatrick also lays out a convincing case that something similar is happening today. He says new technology taking flight now could help explain a lot of the modern era of UFO sightings from the early 2000s on. It’s not just secret government technology, either. Lots of observers get flummoxed when they catch sight of cutting-edge drones and even odd-looking balloons.]

So, yes, Dr. Kirkpatrick points out the specious nature of UFO tall tales, and this is crucial.

However, in reviewing the various high-profile UFO sightings and encounters over the years, it also becomes obvious that just because the UFOs aren’t extraterrestrial, that doesn’t mean there isn’t something else going on here. That “something” is top-secret U.S. weapons and programs, which, at least in some cases, strongly suggest the existence of advanced propulsion systems capable of incredible performance.

Maybe this revelation is almost as significant as the discovery of extraterrestrials. After all, we may already possess the means to travel to E.T.’s neighborhood. Moreover, this quantum leap in transportation technology, if it does exist, is apparently unknown to Congress and even the executive branch of government, meaning its development and deployment are entirely without oversight.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick tells Peter Bergen those UFOs are not E.T., but spherical drones and top-secret U.S. military platforms

Here’s an interesting development in the UFO story: Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick has told podcaster Peter Bergen the UFOs are not extraterrestrial, but top-secret U.S. weapons and new types of spherical drones that could be foreign.

Here are two articles about the interview, one published by a media company called Futurism, and the other in the Daily Mail newspaper.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-alien-hunter-ufos-military

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12992321/UFOs-ex-CIA-scientist-dubbed-Dr-Evil-Pentagon-AARO-cube-sphere-UFO-drone.html

I found these comments (bolded and in brackets) in the Futurism article to be especially relevant:  

[“There [are] a lot of observations of real, advanced US programs,” Sean Kirkpatrick, the now-former director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), told CNN’s Peter Bergen in a new podcast interview. “But none of that is extraterrestrial in nature.”

As Kirkpatrick put it during his appearance on Bergen’s Audible podcast “In The Room,” lots of the initially unidentified crafts folks have historically spotted, from Roswell to those weird Chinese spy balloons, were the result of various secret military, intelligence, or even commercial projects.

“There are a number of advanced technologies that are being commercialized that people don’t recognize,” the veteran Defense Department official, who retired from government service in December, told Bergen.

There’s long been speculation — and some official confirmation — that there are military explanations for UFO sightings, and Kirkpatrick’s recent interviews after leaving the AARO and Pentagon have all but confirmed those suspicions. In his discussion with Bergen, he even explained the dynamics of some of the stranger sightings he’s aware of.

“There’s a large number of people, pilots, and others, who you know, have said, ‘Hey, I saw this giant sphere. It had a cube in it, I don’t understand it, it must be an alien.’ Well, actually, no,” Kirkpatrick said. “The next generation of drones that are being built are spherical drones.”]

Bergen is the host of the Audible podcast “In the Room” and a CNN national security analyst.

So, there you have it. The UFOs are still NOT E.T.

U.S. Government’s Top UFO Researcher, Former AARO Director Dr. Kirkpatrick, Pens Revealing Commentary in Scientific American: The UFOs have nothing to do with E.T.

Well, well, well … finally, a dose of sorely needed clarity regarding the whole UFO calamity in this country.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-i-learned-as-the-u-s-governments-ufo-hunter/

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of AARO, lays it all out, revealing that sensational claims of E.T. UFOs are all hot air driven by a small group of enthusiasts with an agenda.

Also, interesting that he mentions some UFO reports stem from confusion over legitimate government R&D.

So, let’s see the report AARO is preparing for release to the public and Congress. It has the compelling title of Historical Record Report Volume 1.

Thank you, Dr. Kirkpatrick, for providing a much-needed voice of sanity in the roiling sea of malarkey about UFOs.

Let’s see how certain media keen on promoting E.T. fantasies will treat this moment of truth. Will they acknowledge that tales of extraterrestrials are likely all just nonsense? Or will they continue down the ridiculous rabbit holes of conspiracy theories and E.T. fever dreams, hoping for more clicks and the revenue they bring?

After New UFO Briefing, Some Members of Congress Say Pentagon, Intelligence Community are Withholding Information

This NewsNation account of today’s UFO briefing for members of Congress (Jan. 12, 2024) pretty much sums up the whole dilemma: The Pentagon and intelligence community are not telling Congress the truth about UFOs.

House committee receives classified UAP briefing

You know my opinion: It has nothing to do with extraterrestrials and everything to do with top-secret U.S. military hardware, and Congress simply lacks a “need to know.”

So, the Pentagon can’t admit that it’s made a series of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs over the years because then the secret weapons would no longer be, well, secret.

Meanwhile, David Grusch and others are being fed some industrial-strength disinformation designed to muddy the waters, confuse the herd, make us all think that it just might be E.T.

Anyway, here are some key comments from members of Congress:

“I’m more concerned than I was going into the skiff, and I think that they have a lot of questions that remain unanswered,” Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois told NewsNation. “Mr. Grush has made allegations that we’re still trying to figure out the veracity of and we haven’t gotten the answers that we need.”

“There is a movement, whether it’s within the Intelligence Community or not, to prevent us from finding out more information on this,” said Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida. “So, we are going to do what we need to do as investigators to continue to pull on whatever strings and see where they lead.”

New York Times UFO Commentary Instructs Whistleblowers to ‘Show Their Cards,’ But Maybe the Deck is Rigged

Interesting UFO commentary today (Dec. 16, 2023) in the New York Times, under the headline: It’s Time for U.F.O. Whistle-blowers to Show Their Cards

But what if the Pentagon cannot reveal what it knows about UFOs because the UFOs are top-secret weapons? What if the UFOs have never had anything to do with space aliens, not even going all the way back to Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947 near Mount Rainier? What if the Pentagon’s UFO office, AARO, simply cannot “get to the bottom” of the UFO mystery because it’s part of the whole subterfuge? And what if the Pentagon has never actually accepted the notion of UFO transparency, and it only displays a façade of such because it has been forced to do so by Congress?

Further, what if the UFOs are the result of propulsion systems under development since the end of World War II and we all just think they’re extraterrestrial because of popular culture and the Pentagon’s own very effective disinformation program, which is good enough to convince people like David Grusch?

I would imagine Mr. Grusch was fed professional-grade disinformation, possibly in the form of faked data, documents, bogus witness accounts, etc.

Why? So that instead of casting a suspicious gaze toward the Pentagon, the media will become mired in the bottomless swamp of E.T. hypotheses, asking endless questions about space aliens, interdimensional beings, time travelers, crashed aliens, whether the Vatican knows and various “we are not alone” fantasies.

Sure, perhaps now that Grusch has vowed to reveal more of what he was told, we will get a better understanding of the disinformation products upon which he bases his claims. On the other hand, these specious materials might only take us further down the infinite and interconnected rabbit holes of E.T. fictions.

The biggest scandal here is that the Pentagon might have developed and is possibly even operating weapons that represent a quantum leap in propulsion technology, entirely without congressional oversight. Moreover, these weapons might be hiding in plain sight under the guise of E.T. visitations, shielded from Congress and the public through the Pentagon’s robust “black budget.”

I agree with David Grusch: whatever their origin, UFOs are a ‘government transparency issue’

NewsNation informs us that David Grusch has been given permission to tell more of what he was allegedly told by his sources regarding UFOs. 

David Grusch: Congress’ pared-down UAP measure a ‘total failure’

I think it should be fairly obvious by now that he was fed some industrial-strength disinformation, good enough, in Grusch’s view, to justify filing a whistleblower complaint, an extreme measure, to be sure.

Said disinformation was probably in the form of faked documents, data and photos, designed to mire Grusch, and subsequently the media, in the E.T.-hypothesis swamp.

Anyway, perhaps now he will be more specific. I applaud Grusch for seeking the truth about UFOs. I really do sympathize with him; I just think he was fed a line of professional-grade crap.

Unfortunately, none of his efforts will reveal the presence of E.T. because it isn’t E.T.

It’s our own Pentagon, which evidently has made a series of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs, concealed in plain sight under the guise of E.T. visitation.

So, why the disinformation?

Because whenever people start touting ideas about multiple UFO crashes, E.T. corpses, the Vatican knows and myriad and sundry other fictions, the fourth estate for the most part stops paying attention. Instead of the major news organs inquiring into what exactly the Pentagon is up to, we have nothing but silence. Meanwhile, the secondary media are squawking up a storm, harping on every manner of the E.T. hypothesis, a swamp from which it will never emerge. 

Here’s the reality:

1. Space aliens light years ahead of Homo sapiens wouldn’t travel trillions of miles from another solar system only to crash land, multiple times, and then spend an inordinate amount of time over obscure U.S. military training ranges – coincidentally, during military training exercises – where they are encountered by Navy pilots.

By the way, it’s worth noting that human beings have only personally visited one other planetary body, and we had no trouble landing: That’s what that whole Neil Armstrong eagle-has-landed thing was all about. ‘Cause, see, we practiced the landing ahead of time so that we would know how to do it. Brilliant, eh?! That’s the problem with these space aliens; they don’t practice …

But, I digress.

2. It’s not foreign adversaries because the “Tic Tac” encounter happened in 2004. You think Russia or China has had this kind of technological advantage since then, nearly twenty years ago, and they haven’t served up a can of whup-ass all this time?

Balderdash! 

3. That leaves our own Pentagon, an organization that has enjoyed the largest military budget of any country in the world for decades, including a “black budget” containing billions of dollars year after year after year going all the way back to the Cold War’s earliest days, shrouding its R&D from public scrutiny, indeed, even from Congress and the executive branch. The most secretive entity in the history of man, the Pentagon wouldn’t even share its nuclear knowhow with the Brits – AFTER THE END OF WORLD WAR II.

So, whatever efforts we take to uncover what our government knows about extraterrestrials will prove futile because there is simply no evidence, just a multidimensional hall of smoke and mirrors that goes on forever and very effectively serves the purposes of deception, confusion, distraction, misdirection …

The Pentagon is driving this bus, and we’re all just along for the ride.

Bravo to Dr. Avi Loeb: The Schumer-Rounds Amendment to the Defense Bill Won’t Reveal Any Truths if the UFOs Aren’t E.T., But Rather a Product of Our Own Pentagon

In his commentary published today (Dec. 11, 2023) in The Messenger, I think Dr. Avi Loeb nails it when he says efforts at E.T. transparency won’t reveal any truths if the UFOs aren’t extraterrestrial, but rather products of our own Pentagon, or military-industrial complex:  

https://themessenger.com/news/congresss-space-uap-ufo-claims-point-new-physics-or-misinformation

I found these two paragraphs to be most interesting. From The Messenger commentary:

“Given all of that, the fundamental question is whether Grusch possibly exaggerated or even misinterpreted Defense Department information that was brought to his attention — or perhaps repeated unsubstantiated claims that potentially cover up secret research programs within the U.S. military-industrial complex. Although there might be people out there who wish to misinform the American public or adversarial countries, we do not know if this is the case with these or any UAP claims.

“Deciding whether to believe UAP buzz has consequences. Congress is currently debating the level of public disclosure that should be applied to its UAP data. Around the time of Grusch’s testimony, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity for the Armed Services Committee, crafted an amendment, the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, intended to be part of 2024 Defense funding legislation. If Grusch’s testimony reflects misinformation, Congress should ignore the proposed amendment because it would lead to a waste of resources and unwarranted public attention — and not produce the data or evidence that could be used to verify such claims.”

I would take this line of reasoning a little further, adding that it likely isn’t merely “misinformation,” but organized, relentless, professional-grade DISinformation that led to Grusch’s whistleblower saga.

I mean, after all, if Mr. Grusch is not a willing purveyor of disinformation, then we have to assume he was led to believe these things through a sophisticated effort that included faked documents, data, photos, bogus eye-witness claims, etc. In other words, he was fed disinformation from people on the inside.

Anyway, thanks for Dr. Avi Loeb for his insights!

Yes, InsideHook, we’ve always been asking the wrong question about UFOs: Instead of ‘are we alone?’ we might have been asking ‘are we being deceived by the Pentagon?’

I noticed an article about yet another UFO book – this new offering by celebrated author and journalist Garrett M. Graff – and it seems to indicate that the American media might finally be getting it: Yes, there’s a gigantic UFO coverup, but it has nothing to do with space aliens.

Better late than never!

Appearing in a publication called InsideHook, the article touches on an excerpt from Graff’s book that was recently showcased in The Atlantic.

https://www.insidehook.com/culture/we-asking-wrong-questions-ufos

I would argue that until recently the Fourth Estate has snubbed the entire subject of UFOs, leaving it to the realm of so-called “ufologists,” who have always been asking the wrong question. Instead of wondering incessantly whether we’re alone in the universe, they should have been asking whether the Pentagon has developed secret weapons that are so different from conventional aircraft that they could be confused with alien spacecraft.

Unfortunately, the people who have chosen to investigate UFOs are fully invested – both emotionally and financially – in the extraterrestrial hypothesis (i.e., the UFOs are E.T.), which has dominated the whole national conversation about UFOs since the beginning. So, if you set out to prove the UFOs are extraterrestrial, you’re going to find E.T. no matter what.

But there’s an alternative view: The E.T. hypothesis is nothing more than a powerful myth created and reinforced by popular culture and the Pentagon’s own disinformation apparatus.

Perhaps what ufologists should have been asking all along is whether the Department of Defense has developed propulsion breakthroughs since the end of World War II, funded through the Pentagon’s thriving “black budget,” which keeps these innovations hidden from Congress, the executive branch and the public.

If true, this would mean there has been absolutely no oversight for a quantum leap in military technology that is arguably as important as the development of nuclear weapons. Or, possibly even a series of breakthroughs, which if commercialized would literally change the trajectory of human civilization, revolutionizing the transportation industry.

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. After all, there are examples of military training exercises taking place over cities. 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

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. 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 the UFOs are extraterrestrials, or they are just making money off the E.T. hypothesis.

We’re talking about relentless, industrial-strength disinformation, good enough to fool technical experts like UFO whistleblower David Grusch.

So, following this “terrestrial hypothesis” a little further, the Pentagon can’t tell the truth about UFOs without exposing top-secret weapons. The DoD’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), therefore, will never be able to really “get to the bottom” of the UFO mystery because it’s part of the Pentagon, which is responsible for the UFOs in the first place.

That would mean the whole marketing narrative that the Pentagon is suddenly pursuing a policy of UFO “transparency” is totally bogus.  In fact, you could argue that the Pentagon simply cannot be more candid about this subject without endangering national security.

Adding to the whole disinformation aspect, AARO’s outgoing director, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, has curiously co-authored a scientific paper proposing that extraterrestrial motherships could be visiting our solar system and sending “alien probes” to Earth. He has also suggested that metallic orbs have been detected flying all around the Earth — this includes a mysterious object observed recently over the Middle East — and that some of these orbs are showing unusual characteristics.

Hence, the implication is that the metallic orbs ARE the alien probes. And, see, it’s all backed up with hard science in a research paper authored by brainiac Ph.D. physicists! However, it’s worth pointing out that the “orb” seen over the Middle East has been shown to have likely just been a party balloon.

Anyway, thank you Mr. Graff!

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?