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The Recent Big UFO Reveal Suggests — not Space Aliens — but Semi-Official Disinformation Designed to Confuse the Issue Entirely

Let’s get one thing straight: The black triangle UFOs are not illusions. They’ve been seen by too many credible witnesses, from cops to accountants, schoolteachers to military officials.

These things have been observed at low altitude. During a series of encounters in 2000 in rural Illinois, police said the object floated silently across the sky and then darted from place to place, showing instantaneous acceleration.

Again, they observed this at low altitude. One officer attempted to take a photo of it with his crime-scene Polaroid camera. Of course, it’s of very poor quality, but it does capture the pattern of lights in the rear of the craft. Something was there.

We have the Hudson Valley sightings in the 1980s, where, again, police officers and many witnesses observed a very similar object: a large, delta-shape craft that glided overhead with no audible sound.

We have the Belgium UFO flap of 1989-1990, where military pilots attempted to intercept some of these UFOs.

We have the Phoenix lights in 1997, an astonishing event in the annals of ufology in which none other than the governor of the state witnessed a huge triangular craft fly directly overhead. He and other observers described the ofject in detail. They didn’t just see lights; they saw a structured craft.     

So, after several decades of such sightings and encounters, it is likely that our military and intelligence agencies have gathered evidence in the form of photos and videos. Yet we’ve seen none. The only kinds of  photos and videos that have been released thus far are nondescript dots and blurry blobs that could be anything.

Maybe the reason we haven’t seen any photographic or video evidence of these triangular objects is because these are all top-secret Pentagon weapons and revealing them to the public also would be revealing them to our adversaries, constituting a major national security crisis? After all, it is still technically illegal to publicly disclose secret military weapons.

Meanwhile, we continue to have a steady flow of disinformation from former military and intelligence officials. These stories include allegations that:

  1. Extraterrestrials are inhabiting the earth’s oceans.
  2. A bunch of space aliens have crash-landed on earth.
  3. The U.S. military is reverse-engineering E.T. spacecraft tech.
  4. The bodies of space aliens have been recovered.
  5. Various species of space aliens are visiting the earth.

Of course, such tall tales are never accompanied by any actual hard evidence. It’s one of those “trust-me” things.

Let’s assume such disinformation is designed to cloud the issue, drawing public scrutiny away from secret Pentagon weapons and the sprawling “black budget” that conceals them. Hey, if it’s space aliens, it couldn’t be the Pentagon, right? Or, maybe it’s China or Russia, some dubious information sources have suggested, leaving aside the fact that the so-called Tic Tac encounter happened in 2004, and you have to assume that if these authoritarian countries possessed such a technology more than twenty years ago we would have seen it in military applications by now.

No, only the Pentagon has the discipline, continuity of purpose, resources and technical wherewithal to maintain such a military conspiracy of perhaps unprecedented scale and duration.

When Barack Obama recently declared in some talk-show venue that “government” is terrible at keeping secrets, I’m sure he’s right about Congress and the executive branch, which tend to leak like a collective sieve. However, he is NOT correct if by “government” he means to include the Pentagon, an agency well skilled in the art of subterfuge.

The stealth fighter was developed in complete secrecy. The public didn’t even know it existed until its maiden mission.

And space aliens were not responsible for temporarily shutting down U.S. missile facilities in the 1960s. Based on excellent reporting in the Wall Street Journal, we now know this was the Pentagon, employing a classified electromagnetic-pulse technology to test whether the missile systems could withstand a direct hit from a Soviet nuke. This was never revealed to the public, and we still don’t know what kind of platform was used to put this electromagnetic system in place over these missile bases.

The SR-71 and the U-2 were operated covertly for years, with disinformation and black-budget secrecy shielding them from public view. Meanwhile, commercial pilots were reporting these planes as UFOs because they outperformed any known aircraft.

So, yes, the Pentagon is fully capable of keeping secrets, especially big ones.

Anyway, now it appears that we’re going to get another dose of disinformation, disseminated by the same general cast of characters, this time on the steps of Congress.

Here is an article circulated by PR Newswire that announces the event, scheduled for today (June 9, 2026) at 1 p.m.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/push-for-uap-ufo-transparency-intensifies-as-members-of-congress-and-whistleblowers-call-for-release-of-groundbreaking-conclusive-files-302784861.html

We can only hope that perhaps this event won’t hew the constant drumbeat of E.T. disinformation. Maybe it won’t be another dog-and-pony show, repeating second-hand fictions that simply cannot be corroborated.  

All of this is happening after two considerably large tranches of UFO records released by the Pentagon over the past month have included not one iota of evidence for any of these sensational claims. There were no pictures of dead aliens or crashed spacecraft. There is no evidence of reverse-engineered technology and absolutely nothing to indicate that planet earth is being visited by various species of extraterrestrials.

Perhaps this is because the whole extraterrestrial hypothesis is incorrect, at best, and an elaborate, decades-long sham-conspiracy at worst?

I mean, the most compelling document in the May 22 tranche was filed by an alleged intelligence officer, who is anonymous, and supposedly encountered orb-like UFOs at an unnamed military range somewhere in the United States in late 2025. Unfortunately, no videos or photos accompany the report, even though the intelligence officer says he or she was riding in a military helicopter dispatched on a reconnaissance mission specifically to look for UFOs, meaning it would have been a priority to record data including video and pictures. The alleged intelligence officer tries to justify this flaw in the story, saying they didn’t get a chance to take photos because they were too busy assessing the potential danger posed by the UFOs, even though the entire series of encounters supposedly lasted about ONE HOUR. It seems highly unlikely that such a mission would have relied on one person sitting in a helicopter to shoot photos with a handheld camera when modern military helicopters are equipped with state-of-the-art camera systems.

Considering everything, it’s time to pause the extraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs and begin to fully entertain the terrestrial hypothesis. For example, the Tic Tac object encountered in 2004 by Navy pilots over a U.S. military training range, is, in fact, a U.S. military platform. That’s why it was observed there. Furthermore, the fact that this encounter took place over a training range would suggest that these are not “experimental aircraft,” but operational platforms.

This terrestrial hypothesis also proposes that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret platforms and that these weapons are entirely unknown to Congress, the president, the public and even other military officials who lack a “need to know.”

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 with appropriate clearances. Everything from those flying saucers over Washington, D.C., in 1952 – possibly a demonstration ordered by President Truman, much as he had ordered a similar demonstration of the flying wing aircraft in 1949  – to the UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems, the huge triangular thing over the Hudson Valley, the Phoenix lights, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, the Tic Tacs, etc., etc.

According to this terrestrial hypothesis, then, there simply can’t be UFO transparency because the UFOs are top-secret U.S. weapons, so disclosure is all-but impossible. 

As to why the Pentagon would sometimes 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 have been examples of military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This excellent article in The War Zone documents one such exercise over Los Angeles: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38753/those-mysterious-gray-helicopters-were-landing-on-multiple-downtown-la-rooftops-last-night

Here is a relevant excerpt from the excellent War Zone article:

“There is no substitute for the real thing, though, especially for aviation units. A “live” urban area, especially one as big and bustling as the greater Los Angeles area, is full of real-life potential hazards and bystanders, from power lines to other helicopters, which need to be navigated around. Atmospheric conditions, including the bright lights of the city, can impact what pilots see through their night vision goggles, as well. Buildings like James K. Hahn City Hall East and the towers at California Plaza provide a valuable break from routine training involving landing and taking off from and otherwise flying around better-known structures, no matter how realistic they might be, at established training facilities.”

So, there is precedent for covert military training in real-world environments like U.S. cities.

Moreover, the terrestrial hypothesis proposes that the Pentagon has made a series of 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, but they are not necessarily new at all.

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 an official AARO report reviewing sightings and encounters since 1945, have unequivocally stated that witnesses, including members of the military, have unwittingly observed top-secret technologies and have mistaken these systems for extraterrestrial visitation.

Here are some excerpts from the AARO “Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)” published in February 2024:

• AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before-seen experimental and operational space, rocket, and air systems, including stealth technologies and the proliferation of drone platforms.

• AARO concludes many of these programs represent authentic, current and former sensitive, national security programs, but none of these programs have been involved with capturing, recovering, or reverse-engineering off-world technology or material.

In many cases, the interviewees named authentic USG (U.S. government) classified programs well-known and understood to those appropriately accessed to them in the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch; however, the interviewees mistakenly associated these authentic USG programs with alien and extraterrestrial activity

AARO assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not exist; are misidentified authentic, highly-sensitive national security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology exploitation …

• The interviewees and others who have mistakenly associated authentic sensitive national security programs with UAP had incomplete or unauthorized access to these programs; discussion of these programs outside of secure facilities presents a high risk of exposing national security information.]

This terrestrial hypothesis further proposes that UFOs have never been extraterrestrials. Instead, there has been an extraordinary, multi-decade-long conspiracy to keep propulsion advances secret, in part by masking them under the rhetoric of space-alien disinformation. And there’s justification for this extraordinary effort since, hypothetically, these are technologies that can never be used in the “white world” of military defense contracts or NASA programs. They must always exist solely in the black world. Otherwise, soon our adversaries would have them, and that must not happen.

This hypothesis maintains that these are advances conceived, engineered, tested and perfected not by extraterrestrials but entirely by Homo sapiens, the same species that has brought us nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, microchips, fiberoptics, lasers, radar, microwave ovens, jet propulsion, untold medical miracles, the Antikythera mechanism,  the Pantheon, the Mona Lisa, and so on and so forth.

No assist from space aliens needed!

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.

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!