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I Agree With Elon Musk: UFOs Are Real, But They Have Nothing To Do With Space Aliens

Interesting to see Elon Musk repeating previous statements casting serious doubt on the extraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs.

His latest comments came during a Katie Miller podcast, as reported in this article in the International Business Times on Dec. 12, 2025.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/musk-claims-ufos-are-not-aliens-they-could-new-weapons-program-1762436

Here are the most relevant bits from the article, bold and in brackets:

[‘I have seen no evidence of aliens,’ Musk told Miller, before addressing the notion that a major player like SpaceX might be withholding cosmic knowledge. He confirmed he had directly questioned his highest-level staff. ‘No one on the SpaceX senior team has any evidence of aliens … For Musk, these mysterious objects aren’t vehicles from another star system, but rather terrestrial prototypes developed by governments right here on Earth, likely the US government. His assessment is cold, cynical, and centred firmly on national security, suggesting these are not interstellar explorers but rather advanced military hardware.

‘UFOs… it could be like a new weapons programme… or hypersonic missiles. It’s just basically a weapons prototype. It’s not aliens.’]

So, this would suggest that all of UFO sightings and encounters reported by everyone from Gordon Cooper to Jimmy Carter were actually top-secret Pentagon platforms known only to a small circle of people with the appropriate classification status.

In other words, hardly anyone really has a need to know because these technologies are so important to the national defense.

This is a viewpoint that I share, but it doesn’t explain why we have numerous former U.S. military personnel going on national television claiming to have evidence that these UFOs are extraterrestrial.

However, there is one very plausible reason for this: A concerted, organized and professional-grade disinformation program designed to confuse the public and journalists alike about the nature of these vehicles. After all, if it’s E.T., then it couldn’t be the Pentagon. The secret remains safe.

Why would such a disinformation program be warranted?

Because the secret is so profound, the breakthroughs in propulsion (which have nothing to do with extraterrestrials) are so sensational, that keeping these technologies hidden from the public is a major priority. Once the secret is out, it wouldn’t be long before everyone would figure it out, much as other nations acquired nuclear weapons after World War II.

At the same time, we are not seeing this kind of disinformation in any other country. Now, why is that? Perhaps because there isn’t a need for it in any other country.

People have asked the perfectly logical question: If the United States possessed such a propulsion advance, why not use it, to, say, beat China back to the Moon. The reason is quite simple: because then it would be out, and then soon everyone would have it.

So, you see, these platforms cannot be employed for any overt purposes.

Based on the historical record, it would seem that these propulsion breakthroughs go all the way back to the first truly important UFO sighting, that of Kenneth Arnold in 1947.

If is my hypothesis that the sightings of 1952 over Washington, D.C., were likely a technology test ordered by then President Harry Truman, much as he had earlier ordered a test of the Flying Wing aircraft, when the experimental plane flew at low altitude over our nation’s capital in 1949. (I explore this idea in my novel Flying Saucers.)

You might say this is a crazy idea, but is it any crazier than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, only to forget how to land, crashing not once, but numerous times?

It’s worth noting that the only time in spaceflight history that humans landed on another planetary body we managed to do so without crashing, and more than once. That’s what that whole ‘The Eagle has landed” thing was all about.

We know the UFOs are real. They are not a figment of anyone’s imagination. I will point to just one case, that of the giant triangular craft spotted by police offices in rural Illinois in 2000. It was observed at low altitude by cops, one of whom took a photo of it with his Polaroid camera. Granted, the photo is blurred, but you don’t try to take a photo of an illusion or a hallucination. You just don’t.

Moreover, Musk suggests these sightings are possibly “prototypes,” but I would suggest these are not prototypes but fully operational platforms. The “tic tac” encounter was in 2004, so if it was a prototype then, it surely wouldn’t be by now. Anyway, that’s my take on the mysterious realm of UFOs, which continues and is very real.

Wall Street Journal Blows Lid Off Pentagon’s UFO Disinformation Machine. The American People, and the UFO Community, Have Been Had!

The Wall Street Journal has conducted an investigation that has revealed a Pentagon UFO disinformation effort going back decades aimed at making people think the objects are extraterrestrial to distract from top-secret U.S. military programs.

Here is one retelling of the Journal’s investigation, posted on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1l58uui/wsj_the_pentagon_disinformation_that_fueled/

Among the major takeaways:

  • The Pentagon has been issuing UFO disinformation for decades to distract from top-secret programs.
  • Incoming military officials have been the victims of UFO “hazing,” a practice in which they are fed disinformation to make them think top-secret programs are reverse-engineered extraterrestrial tech.
  • Bizarre UFO encounters over U.S. missile installations in the 1960s were top-secret Pentagon tests to determine whether the silos would be vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses from Russian nukes. Even the officials who operate the installations did not know about the secret tests, leading them to think all these years that it was E.T.
  • The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, omitted revelations about the Pentagon disinformation efforts in its big report released last year, but the information in some redacted form will be included in the next report from AARO, whenever that’s going to be released.

MAJOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS:

  • The electromagnetic test apparatus used over the nuclear missile launch facilities was suspended from or housed within some kind of platform. What was that platform?
  • What are all of the other top-secret programs that were being protected by disinformation? Were any of these new or different types of propulsion systems that might appear to be from an alien planet if you didn’t know otherwise?
  • Is the Pentagon UFO disinformation continuing to this day? So, are some of the people who have been testifying recently before Congress agents of the Pentagon disinformation machine?
  • Is the disinformation being used to hide the existence of a host of top-secret programs in aviation and space travel? If so, is there a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force but is far more capable than either of those entities.
  • Have all of the major UFO encounters and sightings over the decades stemmed from top-secret U.S. technologies, starting with Kenneth Arnold’s sighting in 1947 and the UFOs over Washington, D.C., in 1952?

‘Vetted’ Podcast and Rogan Interview Acknowledge That Pentagon UFO Disinformation Likely Aims to Distract from Top-Secret Military Programs

I noticed this item in a recent edition of Vetted: The UFO Sleuth podcast and YouTube show.

https://www.vetted.show/episodes/bombshell-allegations-against-hal-puthoff-this-changes-everything

It summarizes a recent interview by Joe Rogan focusing on UFO disinformation: who is likely doing it and why they are likely doing it.

Here are the main points from the Vetted blog as I see them, in brackets, quote marks and bold print.

 [“Why would government agencies want to confuse and mislead the public—and their own citizens—about UFOs? The answer is as complex as the web itself. According to Gentile, and as recounted by Patrick, the U.S. government (and presumably others) may be more invested in safeguarding advanced technology than in revealing any “alien” truths. These disinformation campaigns are not just random acts—they’re strategic moves to distract researchers and keep prying eyes away from sensitive projects.

“…Even now, stories are planted, personalities are manipulated, and the public is kept guessing … There’s a sad irony in all this: those most passionate about the search for truth are often the ones most misled. The frustration expressed by AJ and echoed by Patrick is palpable. Wouldn’t we be farther along in understanding the phenomenon if not for years—decades—of calculated misdirection?”]

To this, I say, amen!

Of course the Pentagon has been creating and distributing UFO disinformation – not only to the public at large but evidently to Congress  as well – and there can be only one logical reason for this: to confuse the public about the development of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs by the U.S. government going all the way back to the 1940s.

There have been numerous examples of credible sightings of aerospace platforms that are based on a different type of propulsion system than conventional technologies, encounters that roughly began in the United States with Kenneth Arnold’s seminal sighting in 1947.

So, I would propose that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret propulsion platforms, entirely unknown to the public and developed over the past seven decades or so, thanks to a burgeoning “black budget” that keeps these programs hidden from Congress.

Logically, then, let’s assume that if you observe something ON planet Earth, it is probably OF planet Earth. Let’s further assume, therefore, that all of the UFOs encountered over the decades are of terrestrial origin: Some nation on Earth has developed a different kind of propulsion tech, and possibly more than one novel type of propulsion system.

Because these sightings began during the immediate postwar period, the most logical conclusion, then, is that it’s the United States that has developed these systems.

Anyway, let’s call this viewpoint the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, as opposed to the extraterrestrial hypothesis (i.e., the UFOs are space aliens), which has dominated the whole national conversation about this phenomenon since the beginning.

Well, 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 a “need to know.” 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 in the 1960s (possibly a new type of antimissile system being tested by the Pentagon but unknown to most military personnel), the huge triangular thing observed over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the “Phoenix lights” in 1997, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois in 2000, the “Tic Tac” craft encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, etc., etc.

Why the disinformation? Because as soon as you entangle the entire subject of UFOs 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 E.T. or are just cynically profiting off the space-alien hype.

Over the decades, we’ve seen a series of books and articles by former military personnel who claim to have encountered extraterrestrials. It’s a legacy that in my opinion goes back many years and includes The Day After Roswell, published in 1997. (If you are interested, please read my review of The Day After Roswell, which I regard as a masterpiece of disinformation, here, https://emilvenere.com/files/138490884.pdf)

The goal of this disinformation is not necessarily to convince people that the UFOs are extraterrestrial, but to muddy the whole subject, to distract people who might otherwise suspect that the Pentagon has achieved amazing propulsion breakthroughs that would be highly disruptive if they became known to the public. Breakthroughs that have nothing to do with extraterrestrials, but that were dreamed up and perfected by the same species that has brought us a host of other powerful innovations, from nuclear weapons to lasers, microchips to advanced medical imaging and so on and so forth.

No assist from space aliens needed!

As to why the Pentagon would sometimes be flying these weapons over populated areas, perhaps it’s real-world training, a “living lab” to hone 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

Anyway, this terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs leads to many follow-up questions and concerns, chief among them: Is there a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force that is far more capable than either of those entities? If so, how far have we gone? Do we have military bases in deep space?  Are any of these top-secret platforms nuclear-powered? Have we gone interstellar?

Article in ‘Den of Geek’ Asks Whether Pentagon UFO Disinformation is Deliberate. Yes, it is, and Here’s Why

I was reading an interesting piece about Pentagon disinformation regarding UFOs, and the writer muses about whether said disinformation is deliberate.

The piece, in a publication called Den of Geek, recounts the disinformation exploits of one Richard Doty, a former intelligence officer who deliberately spread false information about UFOs, linking the objects to alleged space aliens.

Here is a link to the article, written by Alejandro Rojas, who writes about science, entertainment, and the paranormal: https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/why-the-pentagon-needs-to-address-ufo-disinformation/

Here is an excerpt from the article, in brackets, bold print and quote marks:

[“Doty has admitted that during his career as an OSI agent, beginning in 1980, he had been sharing disinformation about aliens and UFOs with the UFO community. Within weeks of the airing of the live UFO program, a man in Nevada named Bob Lazar approached reporters in Las Vegas claiming he had worked on alien spacecraft at Area 51. Despite lacking evidence, Lazar’s claims made headlines, and Area 51, then one of United States’ most secret military bases, quickly became its most famous.

Stories like this leave me wondering how much of the UFO mythos is disinformation created by the U.S. government and why.”]

To this, I say, of course the Pentagon has been creating and distributing UFO disinformation, and there can be only one logical reason for this: to confuse the public about the development of astonishing propulsion breakthroughs by the U.S. government going all the way back to the 1940s. As soon as you entangle the entire subject of UFOs 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.

Over the decades, we’ve seen a series of books and articles by former military personnel who claim to have encountered extraterrestrials. It’s a legacy that in my opinion goes back many years and includes The Day After Roswell, published in 1997. (If you are interested, please read my review of The Day After Roswell, which I regard as a masterpiece of disinformation, here, https://emilvenere.com/files/138490884.pdf)

Of course, these claims can never be verified, and that’s the genius of it. It’s always: Well, I could tell you more, but that’s classified. But then why say anything at all, if you were so concerned about revealing classified information? Why say anything?

The only thing that is clear is that something is there. The UFOs do exist. So, I would propose that instead of jumping automatically to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, we first FULLY ENTERTAIN and explore the terrestrial hypothesis. So, 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, as opposed to a test range, would suggest that these are not “experimental aircraft,” but operational platforms. I would also propose that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret platforms, entirely unknown to the public and developed over the past seven decades or so, thanks to a burgeoning “black budget” that keeps these programs hidden from Congress.

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 a “need to know.” 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 in the 1960s (possibly a test of a new anti-missile technology), the huge triangular thing observed over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the “Phoenix lights” in 1997, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois in 2000, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, the tic tacs, etc., etc.

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 secret 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

So, the terrestrial hypothesis proposes that the UFOs have never been about space aliens. Instead, 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.

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:

• 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.]

Anyway, this terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs leads to many follow-up questions and concerns, chief among them: Is there a shadow space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force that is far more capable than either of those entities? If so, how far have we gone? Do we have military bases in deep space?  Are any of these top-secret platforms nuclear-powered?

Article in Good magazine recounts John Lennon’s UFO encounter. But was this actually a federal surveilling operation?

I read this interesting mention of John Lennon’s famous UFO encounter over New York City in 1974. The brief article appeared May 8, 2025, in a publication called Good.

https://www.good.is/john-lennon-ufo-sighting

You know my theory: That, like Jimmy Carter’s similar close encounter in 1969, this was probably not space aliens but the federal government running surveillance.

Here is one of my previous posts on the subject:

https://emilvenere.me/2025/01/05/like-john-lennon-was-jimmy-carter-being-surveilled-by-the-feds-leading-to-their-similar-ufo-encounters/

I would argue that Carter’s experience wasn’t any sort of mistaken identity with known objects. Instead, for whatever reason, perhaps he was being surveilled by the federal government. I would further argue that this object was some sort of classified flying platform.

In the John Lennon example, in 1974, the rockstar insisted that he and his partner saw what can only be described as the classic flying saucer hovering just outside their New York City apartment. He later drew a sketch of what they both saw.

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

In Carter’s case, I think we can dispense with the usual speculations that he saw a planet, star or some other prosaic thing. Considering his education and background, he clearly knew the difference.

And in Lennon’s case, we know he was considered a subversive, maybe even an enemy of the state, by certain federal intelligence types.

So, I propose both of these men were being spied upon by our own government.

The spying platform was a top-secret flying craft equipped with an extraordinary propulsion technology that remains secret to this day.

Here is Lennon’s description of what happened, bold and in brackets, from the article cited above in the culture site ultimateclassicrock.com.

[“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,” she said, “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.”]

So, I propose this was likely just Uncle Sam, running electronic surveillance on Lennon, who was deemed a socialist threat, just as we’ve spied on numerous public figures over the years.

This conspiracy theory 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 new flying wing in 1949, when the aircraft flew low over the capital; during the 1960s when startled pilots were reporting UFOs after unwittingly 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; a similar thing over Phoenix, Ariz., in 1997; likewise, a giant delta-shaped thing observed by a raft of cops in 2000 over rural Illinois; the “Tic Tac” encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004; the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare International Airport in 2006, when employees saw a stealthy saucer hovering overhead before it abruptly shot straight up at high speed, punching a hole in the cloud cover that lingered afterward; etc., etc.

So, unless we think these were all space aliens, 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.

Let’s call this idea the “terrestrial hypothesis” for UFOs, as opposed to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, which has dominated our whole national conversation about the phenomenon going back decades.

While it is admittedly a radical concept, the terrestrial hypothesis makes a lot more sense than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, then forgetting how to land and crashing in the desert, or inexplicably hanging out over U.S. military training ranges and the like.

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

Anyway, for what it’s worth, this is my contribution to the various ruminations about John Lennon’s and Jimmy Carter’s curious, and similar, UFO encounters.

Is ‘Age of Disclosure’ Just More Pentagon Disinformation Designed to Confuse People About UFOs?

A new documentary purporting to prove the existence of space aliens on earth is probably just more disinformation intended to confuse the public. Here are a few articles about the work:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/movies/the-age-of-disclosure-congress.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/the-age-of-disclosure-documentary-oscar-eligible-screening-uap-aliens-rcna245109

https://nypost.com/2025/11/16/entertainment/filmmaker-declares-existence-of-ufos-no-longer-a-question-as-doc-probes-80-years-of-secrets/

The Age of Disclosure includes statements from many sources, including those having held high positions in government. 

But it appears that this is just more disinformation, subterfuge intended to hide the development of advanced propulsion technologies by the Pentagon that have nothing to do with alien beings.

And based on reader comments it’s working splendidly.

As you can see, in most cases the media have largely accepted the totally unverified claims in the film. Generally, the public, and journalists, have entirely overlooked the possibility that the UFOs encountered by military personnel are advanced U.S. technologies, hidden from the public for many decades. These are technologies that, if moved into the commercial sector could provide huge economic, social and cultural benefits.

Meanwhile, the more skeptical media and members of the public, when faced with the wild assertions made in the program, tend to discount the entire genre of UFOs as ridiculous or delusional. They view such programs purely as moneymaking schemes; they don’t suspect that there is an underlying truth to these claims but that this truth has nothing to do with space aliens. They don’t consider the possibility that UFO encounters being reported are actually the result of startling advances in propulsion tech, systems that if viewed by the casual observer or even military personnel lacking a ‘need to know’ might seem like something from an alien civilization.

As a result, judging from the public reaction to this program, the only people taking it seriously are the gullible and those who are already convinced that the UFOs are extraterrestrial.

So, the disinformation is working!

And it works by issuing false information about UFOs that simply cannot be verified. You will often hear sources say they could tell us more, but that’s classified. But this makes no sense because if you were so concerned about protecting classified secrets, you wouldn’t say anything at all. You would just keep your mouth shut.

On the other hand, if your goal is to lead the public astray from what’s really going on, this is a brilliant tactic. This is because if you don’t put out specific information, such as documents, photos, etc., etc., you can’t be debunked. It’s all so vague, yet, compelling to enough people. 

It’s a tactic that, in my opinion, has been very successful over the decades.

But the UFOs have never had anything to do with extraterrestrials.

One very telling clue is that this epidemic of UFO encounters, specifically with military personnel, seems to be a uniquely American phenomenon. This is a glaring problem. After all, it’s a big planet. If E.T. were traveling here, messing with our military pilots, wouldn’t we also be getting similar reports from foreign military branches in the U.K., Europe, Asia, which cover far more territory than the United States?

We aren’t.

Sure, there was the amazing Belgium UFO flap of the 1990s, and also the Iran UFOs of the 1970s (when Iran was a U.S. ally), but I contend those were top secret U.S. platforms being tested over allied skies. After all, if we had lost one, we could have easily retrieved it. It didn’t happen over Russia, it didn’t happen over China, it didn’t happen over any other adversarial nations. And besides, these encounters are ancient history. The most sensational U.S. UFO encounters have been happening well into the 2000s.

The giant triangular thing over rural Illinois involving police officers, one of whom took a photo with his Polaroid, was 2000; the Tic Tac was 2004; the Chicago O’Hare flying disc was 2006.

So, why are we seeing these primarily over the United States?

I contend it’s because the Pentagon is testing these platforms under real-life scenarios, much as it does other military tech (those missions over Los Angeles involving special-ops helicopters, etc.)

Anyway, I would chalk up the Age of Disclosure as just more of the same; expertly produced, successfully executed disinformation.

Like John Lennon, Was Jimmy Carter Being Surveilled by the Feds, Leading to Their Similar UFO Encounters?

Reading all these articles about Jimmy Carter’s fascinating 1969 UFO encounter reminds me of another public figure who had a similar, as-yet unexplained encounter: John Lennon.

Here is an excellent article about the Carter affair in Mashable: https://mashable.com/article/nasa-space-astronomy-jimmy-carter

I would argue that Carter’s experience wasn’t any sort of mistaken identity with known objects. Instead, for whatever reason, perhaps he was being surveilled by the federal government. I would further argue that this object was some sort of classified flying platform.

In the John Lennon example, in 1974, the rock star insisted that he and his partner saw what can only be described as the classic flying saucer hovering just outside their New York City apartment. He later drew a sketch of what they both saw.

Here is my previous post about Lennon’s encounter, as well as an excellent link regarding the whole bizarre event.

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

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

In Carter’s case, I think we can dispense with the usual speculations that he saw a planet, star or some other prosaic thing. Considering his education and background, he clearly knew the difference.

And in Lennon’s case, we know he was considered a subversive, maybe even an enemy of the state, by certain federal intelligence types.

So, I propose both of these men were being spied upon by our own government.

The spying platform was a top-secret flying craft equipped with an extraordinary propulsion technology that remains secret to this day.

Here is Lennon’s description of what happened, bold and in brackets, from the article cited above in the culture site ultimateclassicrock.com.

[“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,” she said, “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.”]

So, 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.

This conspiracy theory 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; a similar thing over Phoenix, Ariz., in 1997; likewise, a giant delta-shaped thing observed by a raft of cops in 2000 over rural Illinois; the “Tic Tac” encountered by U.S. Navy pilots in 2004; the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, when employees saw a stealthy flying saucer hovering overhead before it abruptly shot straight up at high speed, punching a hole in the cloud cover that lingered afterward; etc., etc.

So, unless we think these were all space aliens, it certainly appears that based on witness testimony the Pentagon 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.

Let’s call this idea the terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs, as opposed to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, which has forever dominated our whole national conversation about the phenomenon.

At any rate, this terrestrial hypothesis, as crazy as it sounds, makes a lot more sense than space aliens traveling trillions of miles from another solar system, then forgetting how to land, crashing in the desert in the proximity of U.S. military research and development facilities, or inexplicably hanging out over U.S. military training ranges and the like.

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

Anyway, for what it’s worth, this is my contribution to the various ruminations about Jimmy Carter’s curious UFO encounter.

Joe Rogan Says Trump Knows ‘Something’ About UFOs … I Agree: He Knows They’re Top-Secret Pentagon Weapons

More UFO-related comments from Joe Rogan, as reported in this HuffPost article.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-rogan-trump-ufo-secrets-drone-sightings_n_676d7b4ee4b0b8149e959568

Here are some relevant bits from the article, bold and in quotes:

“When I confronted Mr. Trump [during our interview], he was very cagey, very cagey…He didn’t tell me shit,” Rogan said Tuesday. “It was basically like neither confirm nor deny.”

“I think he knows something, I [just] don’t think he’s interested,” the former “Fear Factor” host added.

Yeah, I agree, and I thank Joe Rogan for keeping the subject alive. If anyone knows the value of protecting trade secrets, it’s Trump.

But I don’t think he’s keeping UFO secrets because of anything having to do with space aliens. I think he’s keeping secrets about UFOs because he knows that they are top-secret Pentagon weapons.

I guess a central problem is that the people traditionally driving the whole UFO bus have always been those who are convinced that it’s E.T. … Spielberg, Leslie Kean, a whole slew of “ufologists” … there has never been a diversity of thought on this subject.

The national conversation has always been dominated by the E.T. hypothesis. It has never been centered on the terrestrial hypothesis — the idea that the UFOs have been top-secret U.S. tech going all the way back to Kenneth Arnold’s seminal encounter in 1947.

For whatever reason, people can’t accept that concept. But they’re just fine with E.T. traveling trillions of miles from another solar system only to forget how to land, crashing in the desert, or for some godforsaken reason hanging out over U.S. military training ranges and the like.

The point is, people are either fully ensconced in the E.T. hypothesis, or they just dismiss the entire subject as nonsense. There is no middle ground.

Then, you have what appears to be state-sponsored disinformation: former military officials writing books about their alleged first-hand encounters with E.T., etc.

Of course, these claims can never be verified, and that’s the genius of it. It’s always: Well, I could tell you more, but that’s classified.

But then why say anything at all, if you were so concerned about revealing classified information? Why say anything?  It makes no sense.

Also, regarding the whole New Jersey drone flap: If there’s anything to it at all, chances are it has something to do with the Pentagon.

Just like all UFO flaps of yore, the sightings will suddenly stop and we’ll never receive any definitive information from the government. People will joke about it, forget about it, and that will be the end of it.

Perhaps it was some sort of military exercise and officials have gathered all the data they need. Meanwhile, people started seeing all sorts of things in the sky that had nothing to do with the initial exercise: planes, hobbyist drones, balloons, etc., etc., which is typical of past UFO flaps. This confuses the media, and journalists invariably pay more attention to these false reports than the hundred or so sightings that actually had some merit.

Is this by design?

Anyway, maybe it was nothing at all. But either way we’ll never know, and that’s how it always is.

So, I agree with Joe Rogan: Trump knows something.

But, no, it’s not space aliens.

Interesting Article in The Debrief about NSF Meeting Touching on Advanced Aerospace Tech

So, interesting article in The Debrief about a recent meeting hosted by the National Science Foundation focusing on advanced aerospace technology.

Reading between the lines, it seems that people are seriously considering the possibility that advanced propulsion systems do exist and that we need policies addressing said advanced propulsion tech.

It would also seem at least possible that people are addressing the likelihood that mankind’s reach has exceeded his grasp, and that this does pose a potential problem. At least, that’s one of my takeaways.

I guess one serious dilemma is that we can’t devise policies if we don’t officially recognize that we have this technology. I mean, if Congress doesn’t have a need to know, how can Congress create policies about these technologies?

Anyway, here is a link to the article … excellent piece by writer Chrissy Newton.

https://thedebrief.org/national-science-foundation-hosts-interagency-meeting-on-disruptive-technology-with-uap-in-focus

Here are some of the most relevant bits, from my POV, at least, bolded and in quotes:

“Others in attendance included Rhodium Scientific founder Olivia Holzhaus,  former fighter pilot and Americans for Safe Aerospace co-founder Ryan Graves, and Jay Stratton, the former Director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), who shared perspectives on government engagement with UAP research.

“Ryan Graves, who characterized the meeting as being “70 percent edge and deep technology and 30 percent UAP,” said he was there primarily to discuss his personal experiences involving the anomalous phenomena his organization promotes awareness of.

“ ‘I was there to talk about my experiences, both as a pilot and as someone who had to interact with these things (UAPs) for a period of time,’ Graves told The Debrief.

“ ‘I had a long career at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, where I was a Senior Technical Fellow and led the Revolutionary Technology organization, focusing on developing and transitioning breakthrough technologies,’ ” says Charles Chase, Co-Founder of UnLAB. “This experience gave me good insight into advanced technologies, military systems, and threats.’ ”

For Chase, the most promising disruptive technologies are those that he says can reduce conflict and its drivers by creating abundance.

“ ‘Falling behind could mean that disruptive technologies are developed without regard for peaceful applications, increasing global instability,’ ” Chase said. ‘Without leadership, the U.S. might lose its ability to shape the ethical use of advanced technologies, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by others.’

“However, government policy plays a critical role in how edge science evolves. Determining what comes first—policy adjustments or technological advancements—remains a crucial part of the equation.

“ ‘Investing in edge science, or what I call frontier science, is essential to maintaining national security, driving economic growth, and giving the U.S the ability to help shape the future by using technological advancements for good,’ ” said Jay Stratton, former director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) and Chief Operating Officer with QuantumFrontier, LLC, in a statement provided to The Debrief.

“Often, policies are created retroactively to manage new developments within culture and society, such as the internet, AI, social media, or nuclear weapons. Ideally, governments would anticipate cultural market trends and scientific and technological advancements to design proactive policies supporting national defense and cultural and economic goals.

“ ‘ But the problem with policy is that you can be wrong, right?’ ” Graves says.

“ ‘I expect there’ll be more,’ Graves told The Debrief.

“Indeed, as governments and private technology companies gear up for the new year, a wave of similar edge-science meetings and summits is already on the horizon. Several groundbreaking discussions are scheduled before the end of the year, and even more are slated for 2025.”

So, looking forward to more on this extremely important topic in the near future!

Security Experts to N.Y. Post: The Mystery Drones Over New Jersey are Likely Top-Secret Pentagon Tech

Finally, the media are figuring out that the mystery drones over New Jersey are probably top-secret Pentagon technology, being tested out before it is certified ready for the battlefield.

It’s about time!

Here is a link to the excellent N.Y. Post article: (https://nypost.com/2024/12/11/us-news/security-experts-share-startling-theory-about-nj-drones/)

Here are the most relevant bits, bolded and in quotes:

“ ‘My first guess is these are potentially government programs kept within what’s known as a ‘Special Access Program,’ which is purposely put together to keep even the most cleared people out — it truly is to keep it secret,” said Clint Emerson, a retired Navy SEAL and owner of security company Escape the Wolf.

‘That’s why the government’s like, ‘We don’t know.’ They’re being truthful,’ he said, adding that the circle could be as small as a dozen officials. ‘They don’t even know the program exists.’

Emerson said it’s impossible to know what the drones might be doing — but he suspects the secret is the technology they’re carrying, not the devices themselves.

‘It could be different types of collection capabilities — so, different types of cameras, like high-definition, infrared or thermal,’ he said.

A second payload, for instance, could be hardware that grabs all the cellphone data in a given environment.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has said the drones over his state don’t seem to pose any threat — and experts say it could be the US government testing new tech.

‘How much data can we collect with this? Let’s say we got 10 drones, they fly in a grid, how much cellphone traffic can we pick up? Not actual conversations. But just the signature of millions of cellphones. What can 10 drones pick up going over an area?’

‘That’s a legitimate test,’ he said. ‘They’re not invading your privacy. That’s legitimate data. And that’s a f–king capability.’

And what better place to do that than New Jersey, the country’s most densely populated state.

‘That would be my number one guess: It’s a very closely held program, and they’re doing what they need to do to ensure their technology actually works,’ said Emerson.

‘The beauty of a [special access program] is they’re kinda in their own lawless little world,’ Emerson said. ‘They can go do whatever they want, and they don’t have to tell anybody.’

Kelly McCann, a security expert and former Marine special missions officer who worked for the Office of Naval Research, echoed Emerson’s comments and said he thinks the government is testing out some ‘operational capacity.’ ”

So, applying this line of reasoning to the historical record of UFO sightings and encounters going all the way back to 1952 in the United States, this means virtually all of those episodes were the Pentagon testing, demonstrating, training in the use of top-secret programs.

Everything from those saucers over Washington, D.C., while Harry Truman was president, to those UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems in the 1960s, the giant triangle over the Hudson Valley in the 1980s, the Phoenix Lights in 1997, the other giant triangle witnessed by police officers over rural Illinois in 2000, the Tic Tac in 2004, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, etc., etc. …

It was never E.T.

It was always the Pentagon.

Anyway, thank you New York Post for finally publishing the obvious!