The Government’s UFO Hearings Are Just a Distraction
‘Disclosure’ might be one of the most hackneyed buzzwords in ufology, especially when it’s prefaced by the word “government.”
“When will we get disclosure?”
“We want government UFO disclosure now!”
These interminable demands from the UFO community, and now the general public, have grown louder since 2017’s New York Times exposé, “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program.”
The explosive piece explained how the Navy regularly encountered what it termed, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” with “unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities.”
After the article’s release, the Department of Defense admitted the videos and encounters it referenced were, in fact, legitimate and that it could not explain them. In further interviews with Navy pilots, including Cmdr. David Fravor, — whose experience became the most widely discussed — the name “TicTac” was given to the craft, for its resemblance to the breath mint.
To the uninitiated general public, this was a shocking admission. The government is admitting UFOs are real? And they’re concerned it could be a threat to national security?
Even to those who had spent countless hours down the myriad rabbit holes of internet UFO theories, where the line between mythos and fact is increasingly blurred, this was kind of surprising. Typically, the DoD would give some fantastic excuse, like the infamous ‘swamp gas’ claim, or a politician would hold a press conference and dress up his assistant as an alien to make a mockery of it all — that’s how it’s always worked!
But while some in ufology were initially taken aback by these concessions, the awe only lasted so long before the term “PSY-OP” and other colorful pejoratives were hurled toward any belief that the government would actually divulge what it knows.
And rightfully so, certain whistleblowers have outlined how the labyrinthine layers of government bureaucracy are specifically designed not to reveal anything of substance; all the important, paradigm-shifting secrets are hidden within Unacknowledged Special Access Programs. These notorious USAPs are funded by the intelligence apparatus’ $84 billion black budget, require no congressional oversight, and are managed with impunity by private-sector, military-industrial contractors.
Yet the media waits with bated breath for a House Intelligence hearing on what the Pentagon might tell us on the subject. Sure, it’s progressive that certain congresspeople are now trying to ease the stigma of reporting unexplained encounters for military personnel, but would they actually disclose something groundbreaking to the public?
The TicTacs Go Back Decades
While the recent House Intelligence hearing on UFOs was the first government panel on the phenomenon since Project Blue Book ended in 1969, the groundbreaking revelations have been few and far between. Last summer, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) delivered its ‘preliminary assessment’ on UFOs in the form of a big nothingburger.
However, later releases from military documents, as well as off-handed comments from retired, high-ranking spooks, revealed some interesting information, including reports of pilots suffering radiation burns and military aircraft being suspended in mid-air.
Again, these are pretty wild revelations to the mainstream media, but redundant evidence to those who have been studying the phenomenon. It seems to confirm that these craft are powered by some type of radioactive, anti-gravity technology that employs zero-point energy or another highly theoretical technology capable of warping spacetime — a technology the military recently admitted to having studied in order to create a weapon that can “make the hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker, in comparsion.”
Then, late last year, the ODNI released another report stating it could not explain 143 of 144 military encounters with UFOs.
When asked about the report at a press conference, director of national intelligence Avril Haines, said she entertained the possibility that exotic technology observed in these UFOs could potentially be extraterrestrial. This statement came on the heels of NASA administrator Bill Nelson saying something to the same effect — two shocking public admissions from a government that has, for decades, concocted mundane dismissals and denials of the phenomenon.
But if you ask any researcher with a modicum of knowledge on key events in ufological history, you’ll find that descriptions of the “TicTacs” are corroborated by numerous UFO encounters dating as far back as WWII.
The foo fighters encountered by both Axis and Allied forces exhibited the same mind-boggling maneuvers, displayed no means of traditional, thermodynamic propulsion, and showed no obvious signs of hostility toward human aircraft.
Then there’s Bob Lazar’s testimony about a spacecraft he allegedly reverse-engineered at S4, the secret compound within Area 51. According to Lazar, the craft he studied was powered by an exotic, highly unstable nuclear isotope called Element 115, which would be synthesized by Russian scientists decades later. Could this extremely radioactive element, now called “Moscovium,” potentially explain the radiation burns reported by pilots?
Lazar also described the way in which these craft moved, explaining how they went “belly up” before zipping off at high-speed — video footage of the “TicTacs” released by the Pentagon and discussed by Cmdr. Fravor show this exact maneuver.
The Likelihood of Government Disclosure
Though it’s easy to be skeptical about the government’s willingness to disclose what it knows about UFOs, the truth is that there are many in government who really would disclose this information to the public, if they were actually privy to it. Over the past few years, several high-profile politicians have attempted to find out what could be buried away in bureaucratic backchannels or intelligence agency vaults. Even President Obama has come out on national television saying he tried to access that information.
But alas, those aforementioned USAPs are likely hiding these secrets, as they contain the potential to disrupt the power dynamic of the global elite; the ones who profit from multinational conglomerates in fossil fuels, banking, and military contracting. A group that will do anything to maintain the secrecy of the technology it has, or at least frame any disclosure scenario through a lens of fear while weaponizing it in any way possible.
With all the evidence we have and the fading taboos in discussing the phenomena, whose narrative should we trust? The one of fear and hostility, in which UFOs that have never attacked or engaged with us — outside of showing us they have the ability to shut down our nuclear weapons systems — are a threat to national security? Or the narrative that they are likely here to send us a message (read: warning) that our current trajectory of planetary self-destruction may be leading to our demise?
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UFOS: The Evidence No One Is Talking About
UFOs… whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, there is actually a mounting body of evidence regarding the UFO phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. If you look past all of the alien horror films, the fake blurry UFO videos, and the Ancient Aliens memes, you’d be surprised at how many former high ranking government officials, scientists, and military contractors believe that UFOs should be taken more seriously.
Former Canadian Minister of National Defense, Paul Hellyer, believes we’re already being visited: “At least four alien species have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.” In 2016, Hillary Clinton stated on Jimmy Kimmel that she would search for more UFO files if elected. Hillary’s former campaign manager and former Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and Obama, John Podesta, has repeatedly said he believes the UFO phenomenon is something very serious and worth investigating. Before Podesta left his position at the White House, he tweeted, “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisoutthere”
10-year-NASA contractor, Rob Bigelow, who develops space habitat pods, gave this shocking statement during a 60 Minutes interview: “There has been and is an existing presence, an E.T. presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions – I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.” Those millions of dollars Bigelow spent was authorized by the Pentagon’s top secret UFO research program called the Aerial Threat Identification Program. Rob Bigelow was the sole contractor.
Bigelow continued to explain that you don’t have to go anywhere to find ET life because it’s right underneath our noses. He also said he’s had his own close encounter with an ET. He declined to go into further details. In The New York Times article “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program” they mentioned Bigelow even has recovered UFO debris and metal alloys stored in one of his facilities in Las Vegas. They stated, “researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes.”
When former Nevada senator and co-founder of the UFO research program, Harry Reid, was interviewed about the debris on CBS 8 Las Vegas, he said he knew nothing about it. However, he was glad that they declassified the program because “now we have scientific evidence.” What scientific evidence is Reid referring to? Whatever the case may be, the Pentagon spent nearly $110 million dollars on the program, proving our government takes UFOs seriously.
The last time the government publically had this level of interest in UFOs was in the 1950’s when UFO sightings were all the craze and were being investigated by the U.S. Air Force under Project Blue Book. After 17 years of research, Blue Book ended in 1968 when the Air Force concluded that most of UFO sightings could be debunked as Venus, satellites, birds, and swamp gas. But here’s what most people don’t know. In 1993, declassified documents from 1952 revealed that the CIA’s Psychological Strategy Board made it a mandate to purposefully debunk all UFO reports for national security concerns. They concluded that when it came to the subject of UFOs, the American people were dangerously gullible and prone to, “hysterical mass behavior.” They feared the Soviets would use UFOs as a distraction to overload intelligence channels and then carry out a genuine attack on American soil.
These documents also revealed that the CIA planned on partnering with the mass media, Hollywood, business clubs, and even the Disney Corporation to discredit all UFO research. How effective they were at implementing that plan is unknown. However, the CIA was successful at debunking UFOs using Project Blue Book.
After reviewing 6 years of data in only 12 hours (just 1% of all the research), the CIA made a hasty conclusion that most of the UFO reports could be explained and that further investigation was not worth the effort. The CIA then ordered the Air Force to stop talking about UFOs and begin a debunking campaign to lessen public interest.
U.S. Congressional hearings in the 1960’s later revealed that Project Blue Book was completely incompetent. Personnel were using improper scientific methods, they were completely understaffed, and were horribly trained. Scientific advisor to Project Blue Book, J. Allen Hynek, an initial skeptic of UFOs, later admitted the Air Force were improperly labeling UFO sightings as explained, despite the absence of any substantial evidence. After Blue Book, Hynek became a ufologist and said that the UFO phenomenon deserved serious scientific examination.
Regardless of the backlash, the CIA and Air Force’s debunking campaigns still worked. UFO research became taboo, people became disillusioned, and the media covered UFOs less and less. The influence of these disinformation campaigns have even discouraged government officials from speaking out. The former governor of Phoenix, Arizona, Fife Symington, during the 1997 Phoenix Lights event is a perfect example.
The Phoenix Lights were witnessed by 20,000 people or more. Shortly after the sighting, the governor made a huge joke about the event during a national press conference. He had a handcuffed man in an alien costume enter the room and said people are taking all of this too seriously. The explanation given at the time was that the lights were flare exercises conducted by the Air Force. However, in 2011, the governor later came forward in the documentary “Secret Access: UFOs on the Record” and confessed that he saw the lights right above him near his house. On CNN he said, “it was probably some form of an alien spacecraft.” Symington explained at the time he was driven to give an explanation instead of just saying “I don’t know” and admitting to complete vulnerability. He continued to say public officials need to be more open and more courageous in dealing with issues like this and that it’s time to square up and do the right thing. The Air Force’s flare explanation was later debunked because they conducted their exercise at 10pm. Thousands of people were reporting the lights as early as 8:30pm.
The UFO ridicule factor, created by the CIA, has succeeded in deterring citizens and public officials from the public discussion of UFOs. However, in the last two decades, more than 500 former government officials, scientists, and contractors have come forward about their concerns over the phenomenon. Hundreds of declassified and leaked UFO documents can be found online, thanks to FOIA requests and tireless researchers. Hopefully more people will learn the truth on the government suppression of UFO research and begin to study the UFO phenomenon with proper scientific methods and an open mind.
