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FTR #639 The Aliens Are Coming! The Aliens Are Coming: NOT! (Part II)

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Fur­ther devel­op­ing a point of infor­ma­tion intro­duced at the con­clu­sion of FTR#638, the broad­cast begins by not­ing that a sci­en­tist has designed a pro­to­type of a sophis­ti­cat­ed elec­tri­cal fly­ing saucer. As dis­cussed in that pro­gram, there are firm indi­ca­tions that UFO’s are real, but do not come from “out­er space” and are not pilot­ed by “aliens.” UFO sight­ings con­tin­ue to make the news, with a well-pub­li­cized inci­dent in Texas gar­ner­ing world­wide, main­stream press cov­er­age. Next, the broad­cast revis­its the con­cern about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of an “inter­galac­tic war” expressed by for­mer Cana­di­an Min­is­ter of Defense and Deputy Prime Min­is­ter Paul Helly­er. The Japan­ese Defense Min­is­ter also is con­cerned about inter­plan­e­tary war­fare. The “main­stream­ing” of belief in extrater­res­tri­als is a phe­nom­e­non to be very care­ful­ly con­sid­ered. Are we being psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly pre­pared for some sort of “alien” appear­ance? The Vat­i­can has also weighed in on Space Aliens and UFOs, opin­ing that belief in the exis­tence of “extrater­res­tri­als” is not incon­sis­tent with Catholic dog­ma. A fas­ci­nat­ing man­i­fes­ta­tion of “ET Belief” con­cerns an alleged race of tall, blond “aliens” who will save us in our time of per­il! This belief in the exis­tence of “good,” tall, blond aliens who will save us should be con­trast­ed with mate­r­i­al high­light­ed in FTR#170–reca­pit­u­lat­ed on the sec­ond side of this pro­gram. “Every­body is descend­ed from space aliens, except for the black race.” The clear impli­ca­tion is that they are infe­ri­or!

Pro­gram High­lights Include: The report­ed pres­ence of mil­i­tary air­craft around the “UFO’s” sight­ed recent­ly in Texas; review of the opin­ion that ETs are real and that we may find our­selves in an inter­galac­tic war– expressed by the for­mer head of the British Min­istry of Defense’s UFO inves­tiga­tive body!

1. Fur­ther devel­op­ing a point of infor­ma­tion intro­duced at the con­clu­sion of FTR#638, the broad­cast notes that a sci­en­tist has designed a pro­to­type of a sophis­ti­cat­ed elec­tri­cal fly­ing saucer. As dis­cussed in that pro­gram, there are firm indi­ca­tions that UFO’s are real, but do not come from “out­er space” and are not pilot­ed by “aliens.” Is pro­fes­sor Roy’s dis­cov­ery actu­al­ly the first appear­ance of this type of tech­nol­o­gy, or has it been devel­oped before? “Fly­ing saucers may soon be more fact than mere sci­ence fic­tion. Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da mechan­i­cal and aero­space engi­neer­ing asso­ciate pro­fes­sor Sub­ra­ta Roy has sub­mit­ted a patent appli­ca­tion for a cir­cu­lar, spin­ning air­craft design rem­i­nis­cent of the space­ships seen in count­less Hol­ly­wood films. Roy, how­ev­er, calls his design a ‘wing­less elec­tro­mag­net­ic air vehi­cle or WEAV. . . .”

(“Pro­fes­sor Designs Plas­ma-Pro­pelled Fly­ing Saucer;” Sci­ence Dai­ly; 6/12/2008.)

2. UFO sight­ings con­tin­ue to make the news, with a well-pub­li­cized inci­dent in Texas gar­ner­ing world-wide, main­stream press cov­er­age: “Con­sta­ble Lee Roy Gai­tan saw the bril­liant red orbs hov­er­ing in the sky and hollered for his fam­i­ly to come out. It’s prob­a­bly an air­plane, said his wife, Wendy, who did­n’t budge from the couch. Only 8‑year-old Ryan went to the front yard. That’s a UFO, the boy said. . . . Soon, scores more said they had seen the same thing. . . . On a cold Jan­u­ary night in near­by Selden, Steve Allen, 50, and a few friends stand­ing around a fire saw a set of bril­liant white lights that were quick­er and qui­eter than any­thing they had ever seen. The lights stopped near Stephenville, recon­fig­ured to form an arch ‘shaped like the top of a foot­ball,’ Allen said, and realigned them­selves into two ver­ti­cal lines of ran­dom­ly flash­ing lights. . . . . Ten min­utes lat­er, the group saw the lights com­ing from the oppo­site direc­tion. Trail­ing them close­ly, Allen was cer­tain were two mil­i­tary jets fol­lowed by two mas­sive red orbs. . . . [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s.]”

(“Texas Town Recov­ers from its UFO Mania” by Denise Gel­lene [Los Ange­les Times]; San Jose Mer­cury News; 6/20/2008; p. 8A.)

3. Next, the broad­cast revis­its the con­cern about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of an “inter­galac­tic war” expressed by for­mer Cana­di­an Min­is­ter of Defense and Deputy Prime Min­is­ter Paul Helly­er. “A for­mer Cana­di­an Min­is­ter of Defense and Deputy Prime Min­is­ter under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three non-gov­ern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions to ask the Par­lia­ment of Cana­da to hold pub­lic hear­ings on Exopol­i­tics — rela­tions with ‘ETs.’ By ‘ETs,’ Mr. Helly­er and these orga­ni­za­tions mean eth­i­cal, advanced extrater­res­tri­al civ­i­liza­tions that may now be vis­it­ing Earth. On Sep­tem­ber 25, 2005, in a star­tling speech at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to that caught the atten­tion of main­stream news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines, Paul Helly­er, Canada’s Defense Min­is­ter from 1963–67 under Nobel Peace Prize Lau­re­ate Prime Min­is­ter Lester Pear­son, pub­licly stat­ed: ‘UFOs, are as real as the air­planes that fly over your head.’ Mr. Helly­er went on to say, ‘I’m so con­cerned about what the con­se­quences might be of start­ing an inter­galac­tic war, that I just think I had to say some­thing.’ Helly­er revealed, ‘The secre­cy involved in all mat­ters per­tain­ing to the Roswell inci­dent was unpar­al­leled. The clas­si­fi­ca­tion was, from the out­set, above top secret, so the vast major­i­ty of U.S. offi­cials and politi­cians, let alone a mere allied min­is­ter of defense, were nev­er in-the-loop.’ Helly­er warned, ‘The Unit­ed States mil­i­tary are prepar­ing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an inter­galac­tic war with­out us ever hav­ing any warn­ing. He stat­ed, ‘The Bush admin­is­tra­tion has final­ly agreed to let the mil­i­tary build a for­ward base on the moon, which will put them in a bet­ter posi­tion to keep track of the goings and com­ings of the vis­i­tors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide.’ . . .”

(“For­mer Cana­di­an Min­is­ter Of Defense Asks Cana­di­an Par­lia­ment To Hold Hear­ings On Rela­tions With Alien ‘Et’ Civ­i­liza­tions” [PRWeb].)

4. The Japan­ese Defense Min­is­ter also is con­cerned about inter­plan­e­tary war­fare: The “main­stream­ing” of belief in extrater­res­tri­als is a phe­nom­e­non to be very care­ful­ly con­sid­ered. Are we being psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly pre­pared for some sort of “alien” appear­ance? “Japan’s Defense Min­is­ter Shigeru Ishi­ba is con­sid­er­ing how his Self-Defense Forces could respond to an attack by space aliens while adher­ing to lim­its on mil­i­tary action under the coun­try’s war-renounc­ing Con­sti­tu­tion. Ishi­ba is the sec­ond Cab­i­net mem­ber to pro­fess his belief in uniden­ti­fied fly­ing objects after Chief Cab­i­net Sec­re­tary Nobu­ta­ka Machimu­ra . . . .”

(“Defense Min­is­ter Ishi­ba Con­sid­ers Japan’s Options in UFO Attack” by Stu­art Big­gs; Bloomberg New Ser­vice; 12/21/2007.)

5. The Vat­i­can has also weighed in on Space Aliens and UFO’s. ” . . . In the inter­view by the Vat­i­can news­pa­per L’Osser­va­tore Romano, Funes said that such a notion ‘does­n’t con­tra­dict our faith’ because aliens would still be God’s crea­tures. Rul­ing out the exis­tence of aliens would be like ‘putting lim­its’ on God’s free­dom, he said. . . .”

(“Vat­i­can: It’s OK to Believe in Aliens” by Ariel David; Asso­ci­at­ed Press; 5/14/2008.)

6. A fas­ci­nat­ing man­i­fes­ta­tion of “ET Belief” con­cerns an alleged race of tall, blond “aliens” who will save us in our time of per­il! This belief in the exis­tence of “good,” tall, blond aliens who will save us should be con­trast­ed with mate­r­i­al high­light­ed in FTR#170, reca­pit­u­lat­ed on the sec­ond side of this pro­gram. “Every­body is descend­ed from space aliens, except for the black race.” The clear impli­ca­tion is that they are infe­ri­or! Tall, blond “aliens”-good. Black ter­res­tri­als-bad. Does­n’t sound too God­damn “extrater­res­tri­al”! Sounds very, very ter­res­tri­al! In fact, it sounds Nazi! ” . . . ‘The aliens gave me warn­ings of a pos­si­ble future in which the plan­et and/or the human race could face destruc­tion. They asked me to share with you what role they will play if we are threat­ened as a species or if there is a threat to the Earth itself. . . . The Tall Blonds are here to help pro­tect the plan­et from out­side forces that may not be know to us at this time.’ . . .”

(“Blue Star” by Miri­am Del­i­ca­do.)

7. The sec­ond side of the pro­gram is com­prised of a re-broad­cast of FTR 170, “Plan Nine from Bercht­es­gaden.” Record­ed on 9/19/1999, the pro­gram dis­cuss­es an occult con­cept of “The Nine,” who are-take your pick-space aliens, the ances­tors of every­one and every­thing (except the black race), espe­cial­ly the ancient Egyp­tians. If this sounds a lit­tle far-fetched, it is. Sad­ly, some peo­ple believe in it. The cen­tral ele­ment in this con­cate­na­tion is the notion that all humans are descend­ed from space aliens, except for the African race. Mr. Emory notes that the Nation of Islam prop­a­gates a phi­los­o­phy that fea­tures the notion that Eli­jah Muham­mad, founder of the orga­ni­za­tion, is orbit­ing the earth in a giant moth­er ship. At “The appoint­ed Hour” the ship will land-pre­sum­ably with oth­ers of its kind-and spir­it all the black folks to some sort of “Heav­en.” In his ancil­lary dis­cus­sion, Mr. Emory com­pares this fan­ci­ful notion with the Nazis’ plan to “reset­tle the Jews in the East.” Of course, we know just how and where they actu­al­ly were “reset­tled.” Mr. Emory sees the sce­nario described here as a cross between Mar­cus Gar­vey’s Black Star Lin­ers and the box­cars to Auschwitz. (Gar­vey gar­nered a large fol­low­ing in the ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry propos­ing that there would be a black “reverse dias­po­ra,” in which the descen­dants of the African slaves would be returned to Africa in large ships dubbed Black Star Lin­ers Note that FTRs 67, 167, 178 also dis­cuss “Aryan” and/or blond aliens.

8. For pur­pos­es of con­ve­nience, the descrip­tion for FTR#170 is pre­sent­ed here: With the end of the mil­len­ni­um draw­ing near, it is increas­ing­ly impor­tant to be aware of pos­si­ble polit­i­cal manip­u­la­tion of peo­ple’s apoc­a­lyp­tic fears and hopes. In that con­text, a chan­nel­ing cult called “The Nine” bears par­tic­u­lar exam­i­na­tion. Pur­port­ing to be the “Ennead” (the nine gods of ancient Egypt), they have links to many dif­fer­ent indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions includ­ing: Andri­ja Puharich (con­nect­ed to the CIA’s mind con­trol pro­grams of the 50s and 60s), Rus­sians asso­ci­at­ed with the Gor­bachev regime in the for­mer USSR, the Esalen Insti­tute and numer­ous New Age orga­ni­za­tions. This orga­ni­za­tion espous­es a racist, ariosophist phi­los­o­phy that main­tains that all of the Earth­’s peo­ples are descend­ed from The Nine-and the “Extrater­res­tri­als” from whom they sup­pos­ed­ly evolved–(and, con­se­quent­ly, supe­ri­or) except for the black race (who are, con­se­quent­ly, infe­ri­or With the New Age move­ment grow­ing and with 42% of Amer­i­can col­lege grad­u­ates believ­ing that we have been vis­it­ed by space aliens, the dan­ger that the views of The Nine could achieve wide­spread accep­tance and lead to geno­cide is not one that should be too read­i­ly cast aside. (It should be not­ed that there is con­vinc­ing evi­dence that so-called UFO’s are real, but do not come from out­er space. Should they be deployed in con­junc­tion with oth­er types of secret tech­nol­o­gy, the views of The Nine could be rein­forced in a very con­vinc­ing way As not­ed above, Andri­ja Puharich, whose orga­ni­za­tion has done much to pro­mote The Nine, was involved with the CIA mind-con­trol pro­grams. Those pro­grams were ini­ti­at­ed from a research base devel­oped by the Nazis in World War II.

Discussion

8 comments for “FTR #639 The Aliens Are Coming! The Aliens Are Coming: NOT! (Part II)”

  1. It turns out this whole glob­al eco­nom­ic night­mare real­ly was part of an alien inva­sion after all.

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | May 14, 2012, 9:13 pm
  2. http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/former-canadian-defense-minister-says-stop-wars-and-space-aliens-will-share-technology/

    For­mer Cana­di­an defense min­is­ter says: Stop wars and space aliens will share tech­nol­o­gy
    Jan­u­ary 7, 2014 Post­ed by News under Extrater­res­tri­al life, Intel­li­gent Design, News

    Fur­ther to “The hid­den ben­e­fits of the pur­suit of ET. And the hid­den costs.”, 1960s-era Cana­di­an defense min­is­ter Paul Helly­er apt­ly demon­strates one of the lat­ter, as the Nation­al Post tells it: “Paul Helly­er: Aliens would share tech­nol­o­gy if earth stopped wars.”

    Notice how con­ven­tion­al mor­al­iz­ing (“war is bad”) hits the world head­lines if space aliens can be linked to it, with no evi­dence what­so­ev­er and no expec­ta­tion of any.

    Like:

    green space alien Prez sez: “War is bad.”

    Pope sez: “War is bad.”

    Crick­ets say noth­ing intel­li­gi­ble.

    The zoid from plan­et Zon­go sez “War is bad.”

    World hed­ders chime in.

    Whaa?! The up side to all this is the cof­fee break. The down side is, war real­ly is bad, and nonex­is­tent alien opin­ion is a waste of band­width even on a slow news day:

    Helly­er, 90, told Rus­sia Today last week that he believes there are 80 dif­fer­ent species of extrater­res­tri­als, some of whom “look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one.

    Hap­pi­ly, very few of them are dan­ger­ous; in fact, the uni­verse is just like down­town Toron­to, where your UD news writer and Paul Helly­er both lived for decades. Amaz­ing coin­ci­dence.

    Helly­er described a cos­mos sim­i­lar to that of Star Trek and says that there is a “fed­er­a­tion” of aliens that has a rule to not inter­fere in our affairs — the same as Trek’s “prime direc­tive.”

    The aliens got that idea from Star Trek, actu­al­ly. They con­clud­ed that it was a safer pol­i­cy for them than sui­cide bomb­ing, which they had for­mer­ly espoused.

    Note: The com­ment at the Nation­al Post are hilar­i­ous; many relate to Helly­er out­fit­ting all the armed ser­vices in iden­ti­cal green garbage-bag uni­forms, a morale-bust­ing move.

    Fol­low UD News at Twit­ter! The Sci­ence Fic­tions series at your fin­ger­tips

    Posted by Vanfield | January 8, 2014, 11:29 am
  3. Why does Whatdoesitmean.com do what it does? Pre­cious moments like this:

    The Wash­ing­ton Post
    World Views
    Iran­ian news agency says the U.S. is secret­ly run by Nazi space aliens. Real­ly.

    By Max Fish­er
    Jan­u­ary 13 at 11:31 am

    Iran’s semi-offi­cial news out­lets have some­thing of a rep­u­ta­tion for tak­ing con­spir­a­cy the­o­rism to the next lev­el. They’ve writ­ten on Israel’s secret plans to annex Iraq, the con­spir­a­cy by West­ern media to fab­ri­cate quotes by Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Has­san Rouhani con­demn­ing the Holo­caust and the secret Jew­ish­ness of the British roy­al fam­i­ly. You may notice a cer­tain theme here.

    On Sun­day, the hard-line semi-offi­cial Fars News dropped one of its biggest bomb­shells yet: The Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment has been secret­ly run by a “shad­ow gov­ern­ment” of space aliens since 1945. Yes, space aliens. The alien gov­ern­ment is based out of Neva­da and had pre­vi­ous­ly run Nazi Ger­many. It adds, for time­li­ness, that the con­tro­ver­sial NSA pro­grams are actu­al­ly a tool for the aliens to hide their pres­ence on Earth and their secret agen­da for glob­al dom­i­na­tion. This is all assert­ed as incon­tro­vert­ible fact with no caveats.

    There are so many won­der­ful details here. As proof that aliens were secret­ly behind the Nazis, the report explains that Ger­many built hun­dreds of sub­marines toward the end of the war, far more than would have been pos­si­ble with mere human tech­nol­o­gy. It does not explain why aliens with access to inter­stel­lar trav­el built subs that were so gross­ly inca­pable against the British navy, or why all-pow­er­ful extrater­res­tri­als were unable to help the Nazis resist an inva­sion by Allied forces that are mere cave­men rel­a­tive to their own tech­nol­o­gy. So far, these are pret­ty unim­pres­sive aliens.

    In any case, after los­ing the war, the aliens appar­ent­ly installed them­selves as the secret force behind the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment. Pres­i­dent Oba­ma is said to be a tool of the aliens, though anti-alien fac­tions with­in the U.S. gov­ern­ment are fight­ing to top­ple him. Their present aim is to install a glob­al sur­veil­lance sys­tem that will, some­how, allow them to final­ly impose a one-world gov­ern­ment and enslave human­i­ty.

    The best part to all this, to me, is the sourc­ing. Fars News takes us through a ver­i­ta­ble hall-of-mir­rors of sources “con­firm­ing” their scoop. The prog­en­i­tor of it all, of course, is osten­si­bly NSA leak­er Edward Snow­den, who has wait­ed until now to reveal that the real rea­son for all those NSA pro­grams is aliens. As best I can tell, Fars claims that Snow­den gave this infor­ma­tion to Rus­si­a’s Fed­er­al Secu­ri­ty Ser­vice (FSB). They also say it was inde­pen­dent­ly con­firmed by for­mer Cana­di­an defense min­is­ter Paul Helly­er. (Helly­er, who is 90, does indeed argue that aliens have vis­it­ed Earth many times, though I haven’t seen him com­ment on this par­tic­u­lar sto­ry.) The FSB, they say, put all this infor­ma­tion down in a secret report, which was inex­plic­a­bly obtained by the ultra-fringe con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry Web site, Whatdoesitmean.com.

    ...

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | January 15, 2014, 10:34 pm
  4. It sounds like the Amer­i­can polit­i­cal are­na might be get­ting anoth­er Pence soon: Vice Pres­i­dent Mike Pence’s broth­er, Gre­go­ry, filed papers with the Fed­er­al Elec­tion Com­mis­sion to run for his broth­er’s old con­gres­sion­al seat and is con­sid­ered a strong favorite for that seat. Oh good­ie.

    But that’s not the only Pence-relat­ed news about peo­ple decid­ing to run for con­gress, although the fol­low­ing news is admit­ted­ly very tan­gen­tial­ly relat­ed to Pence: Bet­ti­na Rodriguez Aguil­era, a mem­ber of Miami’s Cuban exile com­mu­ni­ty who is also the moth­er-in-law of Pence’s deputy chief of staff Jar­rod Agen, is also run­ning for con­gress. It doen­s’t sounds like her odds are near­ly as good as Gre­go­ry’s, large­ly because she has a his­to­ry of talk­ing about about her alien abduc­tion expe­ri­ences. And a lot of oth­er stuff of that nature.

    So what kind of aliens? Well, there are scant details in the fol­low­ing arti­cle, but the details do give us a hint as to which alien genre she’s draw­ing from: when Rodriguez Aguil­era was sev­en years old she was alleged­ly obduct­ed by 3 large-bod­ied blond aliens. In addi­tion, in the fol­low­ing youtube video of her talk­ing about this expe­ri­ence it notes that these were blue eyed aliens too. Yep, we have anoth­er case of the “tall blonds”. And that means the brand of alien that appar­ent­ly abduct­ed Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff’s moth­er-in-law who is now run­ning in the GOP pri­ma­ry is the “Nordic” brand of alien. The white suprema­cist alien of choice. Sur­prise:

    Mia­mi Her­ald

    Mia­mi politi­cian says aliens took her on a space­ship. Now she’s run­ning for Con­gress.

    By Alex Daugh­er­ty And Patri­cia Mazzei
    Octo­ber 16, 2017 7:00 AM

    WASHINGTON

    Flori­da has a U.S. sen­a­tor who once flew aboard the Space Shut­tle.

    A con­gres­sion­al can­di­date from Mia­mi can go one bet­ter: Bet­ti­na Rodriguez Aguil­era says she’s been aboard a space­ship too. But this one was crewed by aliens. As in extrater­res­tri­als.

    Three blond, big-bod­ied beings — two females, one male — vis­it­ed her when she was 7 years old and have com­mu­ni­cat­ed tele­path­i­cal­ly with her sev­er­al times in her life, she says. (Sen. Bill Nel­son served as pay­load offi­cer aboard the Space Shut­tle Colum­bia in 1986. All sev­en peo­ple aboard were from Earth. As far as is known.)

    Rodriguez Aguil­era, 59, a Repub­li­can who is run­ning to replace retir­ing Mia­mi Repub­li­can Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehti­nen, recount­ed her expe­ri­ence with the ETs dur­ing a 2009 tele­vi­sion inter­view.

    She described “going up” inside the space­ship — though whether it went into space or just hov­ered around town was left unclear.

    “I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that con­trolled the ship — not like air­planes,” Rodriguez Aguil­era said.

    In two sep­a­rate videos post­ed to YouTube years ago, one by local Span­ish-lan­guage sta­tion Amer­i­ca TeVe and anoth­er by a polit­i­cal crit­ic with the user name DoralGirl26, Rodriguez Aguil­era spoke on tele­vi­sion in detail about her extrater­res­tri­al expe­ri­ences. She said the alien beings remind­ed her of the famous stat­ue in Rio de Janeiro, Christ the Redeemer, with arms out­stretched.

    Among the things she said she found out from the aliens:

    * There are 30,000 skulls — “dif­fer­ent from humans” — in a cave in the Mediter­ranean island of Mal­ta.

    * The world’s “ener­gy cen­ter” is in Africa.

    * The Coral Cas­tle, a lime­stone tourist attrac­tion South Mia­mi-Dade, is actu­al­ly an ancient Egypt­ian pyra­mid.

    * “God is a uni­ver­sal ener­gy.”

    She also said that the aliens had men­tioned Isis, though she didn’t clar­i­fy if they meant the ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion or the ancient Egypt­ian god­dess.

    The Mia­mi Her­ald asked Rodriguez Aguil­era about her expe­ri­ences Fri­day. She respond­ed with a state­ment that waxed astro­nom­i­cal, but sad­ly failed to men­tion close encoun­ters of any kind.

    “For years peo­ple, includ­ing Pres­i­dents like Ronald Rea­gan and Jim­my Carter and astro­nauts have pub­licly claimed to have seen uniden­ti­fied fly­ing objects and sci­en­tists like Stephen Hawk­ing and insti­tu­tions like the Vat­i­can have stat­ed that there are bil­lions of galax­ies in the uni­verse and we are prob­a­bly not alone,” she said. “I per­son­al­ly am a Chris­t­ian and have a strong belief in God, I join the major­i­ty of Amer­i­cans who believe that there must be intel­li­gent life in the bil­lions of plan­ets and galax­ies in the uni­verse.”

    Rodriguez Aguil­era was a Doral coun­cil­woman from 2012–14 and served as the city’s first eco­nom­ic devel­op­er. She works as an entre­pre­neur and has taught lead­er­ship sem­i­nars at local uni­ver­si­ties.

    She declared her can­di­da­cy in late August and raised about $10,000 dur­ing the most recent fundrais­ing quar­ter, she said — a pal­try amount she attrib­uted to halt­ing her cam­paign dur­ing Hur­ri­cane Irma.

    Rodriguez Aguilera’s daugh­ter is for­mer Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee His­pan­ic out­reach direc­tor Bet­ti­na Inclán Agen. Her son-in-law, Jar­rod Agen, is Vice Pres­i­dent Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff.

    Mia­mi attor­ney Rick Yabor, a fre­quent polit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor in Span­ish-lan­guage media, said Fri­day that Rodriguez Aguilera’s account could hurt her con­gres­sion­al cam­paign. Mia­mi-Dade Com­mis­sion­er Bruno Bar­reiro and for­mer school board mem­ber and Mia­mi-Dade Coun­ty may­oral can­di­date Raquel Regal­a­do, both far bet­ter known than Rodriguez Aguil­era, are also run­ning in the Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry.

    ...

    ———-

    “Mia­mi politi­cian says aliens took her on a space­ship. Now she’s run­ning for Con­gress.” by Alex Daugh­er­ty And Patri­cia Mazzei; Mia­mi Her­ald; 10/16/2017

    “Rodriguez Aguilera’s daugh­ter is for­mer Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee His­pan­ic out­reach direc­tor Bet­ti­na Inclán Agen. Her son-in-law, Jar­rod Agen, is Vice Pres­i­dent Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff.”

    Three blond, big-bod­ied beings with blue eyes that clear­ly had a male and female gen­der:

    ...
    Three blond, big-bod­ied beings — two females, one male — vis­it­ed her when she was 7 years old and have com­mu­ni­cat­ed tele­path­i­cal­ly with her sev­er­al times in her life, she says. (Sen. Bill Nel­son served as pay­load offi­cer aboard the Space Shut­tle Colum­bia in 1986. All sev­en peo­ple aboard were from Earth. As far as is known.)
    ...

    That’s def­i­nite­ly the Nordics, aliens ‘from the Pleiades’ who just hap­pen to look like tall Scan­di­na­vians.

    And she did­n’t just get abduct­ed by them when she was sev­en but also com­mu­ni­cat­ed with them sev­er­al times through­out her life. One won­ders what cos­mic wis­doms were passed along. Hmm....

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | October 23, 2017, 9:27 pm
  5. Here’s a recent update on the US mil­i­tary’s poli­cies regard­ing UFO sight­ings by pilots: in response to a grow­ing num­ber of US Navy pilots who wit­ness UFO sight­ings dur­ing their flights, the US Navy has final­ly for­mal­ly draft­ed a pro­to­col for pilots to report these sight­ings. Yep, there appar­ent­ly was­n’t an actu­al for­mal sys­tem for Navy pilots to report UFOs before despite years of pilots mak­ing these anom­alous sight­ings of objects that appeared to defy the known laws of physics until now:

    Politi­co

    U.S. Navy draft­ing new guide­lines for report­ing UFOs
    The ser­vice says it has also ‘pro­vid­ed a series of brief­in­gs by senior Naval Intel­li­gence offi­cials as well as avi­a­tors who report­ed haz­ards to avi­a­tion safe­ty.’

    By BRYAN BENDER
    04/23/2019 06:06 PM EDT
    Updat­ed 04/23/2019 08:14 PM EDT

    The U.S. Navy is draft­ing new guide­lines for pilots and oth­er per­son­nel to report encoun­ters with “uniden­ti­fied air­craft,” a sig­nif­i­cant new step in cre­at­ing a for­mal process to col­lect and ana­lyze the unex­plained sight­ings — and des­tig­ma­tize them.

    The pre­vi­ous­ly unre­port­ed move is in response to a series of sight­ings of unknown, high­ly advanced air­craft intrud­ing on Navy strike groups and oth­er sen­si­tive mil­i­tary for­ma­tions and facil­i­ties, the ser­vice says.

    “There have been a num­ber of reports of unau­tho­rized and/or uniden­ti­fied air­craft enter­ing var­i­ous mil­i­tary-con­trolled ranges and des­ig­nat­ed air space in recent years,” the Navy said in a state­ment in response to ques­tions from POLITICO. “For safe­ty and secu­ri­ty con­cerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seri­ous­ly and inves­ti­gates each and every report.

    “As part of this effort,” it added, “the Navy is updat­ing and for­mal­iz­ing the process by which reports of any such sus­pect­ed incur­sions can be made to the cog­nizant author­i­ties. A new mes­sage to the fleet that will detail the steps for report­ing is in draft.”

    To be clear, the Navy isn’t endors­ing the idea that its sailors have encoun­tered alien space­craft. But it is acknowl­edg­ing there have been enough strange aer­i­al sight­ings by cred­i­ble and high­ly trained mil­i­tary per­son­nel that they need to be record­ed in the offi­cial record and stud­ied — rather than dis­missed as some kooky phe­nom­e­na from the realm of sci­ence-fic­tion.

    Chris Mel­lon, a for­mer Pen­ta­gon intel­li­gence offi­cial and ex-staffer on the Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee, said estab­lish­ing a more for­mal means of report­ing what the mil­i­tary now calls “unex­plained aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na” — rather than “uniden­ti­fied fly­ing objects” — would be a “sea change.”

    “Right now, we have sit­u­a­tion in which UFOs and UAPs are treat­ed as anom­alies to be ignored rather than anom­alies to be explored,” he said. “We have sys­tems that exclude that infor­ma­tion and dump it.”

    For exam­ple, Mel­lon said “in a lot of cas­es [mil­i­tary per­son­nel] don’t know what to do with that infor­ma­tion — like satel­lite data or a radar that sees some­thing going Mach 3. They will dump [the data] because that is not a tra­di­tion­al air­craft or mis­sile.”

    The devel­op­ment comes amid grow­ing inter­est from mem­bers of Con­gress fol­low­ing rev­e­la­tions by POLITICO and the New York Times in late 2017 that the Pen­ta­gon estab­lished a ded­i­cat­ed office inside the Defense Intel­li­gence Agency to study UAPs at the urg­ing of sev­er­al sen­a­tors who secret­ly set aside appro­pri­a­tions for the effort.

    That office spent some $25 mil­lion con­duct­ing a series of tech­ni­cal stud­ies and eval­u­at­ing numer­ous unex­plained incur­sions, includ­ing one that last­ed sev­er­al days involv­ing the USS Nimitz Car­ri­er Strike Group in 2004. In that case, Navy fight­er jets were out­ma­neu­vered by uniden­ti­fied air­craft that flew in ways that appeared to defy the laws of known physics.

    Raytheon, a lead­ing defense con­trac­tor, used the reports and offi­cial Defense Depart­ment video of the sight­ings off the coast of Cal­i­for­nia to hail one of its radar sys­tems for cap­tur­ing the phe­nom­e­na.

    The Pen­tagon’s UFO research office, known as the Advanced Aero­space Threat Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Pro­gram, was offi­cial­ly wound down in 2012 when the con­gres­sion­al ear­mark ran out.

    ...

    “In response to requests for infor­ma­tion from Con­gres­sion­al mem­bers and staff, Navy offi­cials have pro­vid­ed a series of brief­in­gs by senior Naval Intel­li­gence offi­cials as well as avi­a­tors who report­ed haz­ards to avi­a­tion safe­ty,” the ser­vice said in its state­ment to POLITICO.

    The Navy declined to iden­ti­fy who has been briefed, nor would it pro­vide more details on the guide­lines for report­ing that are being draft­ed for the fleet. The Air Force did not imme­di­ate­ly respond to a request for com­ment.

    Advo­cates for treat­ing such sight­ings as a poten­tial nation­al secu­ri­ty threat have long crit­i­cized mil­i­tary lead­ers for giv­ing the phe­nom­e­non rel­a­tive­ly lit­tle atten­tion and for encour­ag­ing a cul­ture in which per­son­nel feel that speak­ing up about it could hurt their career.

    Luis Eli­zon­do, the for­mer Pen­ta­gon offi­cial who ran the so-called AATIP office, com­plained after he retired from gov­ern­ment ser­vice that the Pen­tagon’s approach to these uniden­ti­fied air­craft has been far too blasé.

    “If you are in a busy air­port and see some­thing you are sup­posed to say some­thing,” Eli­zon­do said. “With our own mil­i­tary mem­bers it is kind of the oppo­site: ‘If you do see some­thing, don’t say some­thing.’ ”

    ...

    Eli­zon­do will be fea­tured in an upcom­ing doc­u­men­tary series about the Pen­ta­gon UFO research he over­saw. He said the six-part series will reveal more recent sight­ings of UAPs by dozens of mil­i­tary pilots.

    Both Eli­zon­do and Mel­lon are involved with the To The Stars Acad­e­my of Arts and Sci­ences, which sup­ports research into explain­ing the tech­ni­cal advances these report­ed UAPs demon­strate.

    ———–

    “U.S. Navy draft­ing new guide­lines for report­ing UFOs” by BRYAN BENDER; Politi­co; 04/23/2019

    “To be clear, the Navy isn’t endors­ing the idea that its sailors have encoun­tered alien space­craft. But it is acknowl­edg­ing there have been enough strange aer­i­al sight­ings by cred­i­ble and high­ly trained mil­i­tary per­son­nel that they need to be record­ed in the offi­cial record and stud­ied — rather than dis­missed as some kooky phe­nom­e­na from the realm of sci­ence-fic­tion.”

    So it appears that the US Navy was sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly dis­miss­ing UFO sight­ings from its own per­son­nel and was­n’t even offi­cial­ly record­ing these sight­ings, let along study­ing them. And note how it was­n’t just pilots visu­al­ly mak­ing these anom­alous sight­ings while fly­ing. Radar and satel­lite data would also find objects going at speeds like Mach 3 and these data was appar­ent­ly sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly ignored:

    ...
    Chris Mel­lon, a for­mer Pen­ta­gon intel­li­gence offi­cial and ex-staffer on the Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee, said estab­lish­ing a more for­mal means of report­ing what the mil­i­tary now calls “unex­plained aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na” — rather than “uniden­ti­fied fly­ing objects” — would be a “sea change.”

    “Right now, we have sit­u­a­tion in which UFOs and UAPs are treat­ed as anom­alies to be ignored rather than anom­alies to be explored,” he said. “We have sys­tems that exclude that infor­ma­tion and dump it.”

    For exam­ple, Mel­lon said “in a lot of cas­es [mil­i­tary per­son­nel] don’t know what to do with that infor­ma­tion — like satel­lite data or a radar that sees some­thing going Mach 3. They will dump [the data] because that is not a tra­di­tion­al air­craft or mis­sile.
    ...

    Now, this won’t be the first effort to for­mal­ly study UFOs in the US mil­i­tary. Con­gress secret­ly set aside mon­ey that fund­ed the Advanced Aero­space Threat Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Pro­gram inside the Defense Intel­li­gence Agency. But that pro­gram, which was start­ed in 2007, was wound down in 2012 after the con­gres­sion­al fund­ing ran out:

    ...
    The devel­op­ment comes amid grow­ing inter­est from mem­bers of Con­gress fol­low­ing rev­e­la­tions by POLITICO and the New York Times in late 2017 that the Pen­ta­gon estab­lished a ded­i­cat­ed office inside the Defense Intel­li­gence Agency to study UAPs at the urg­ing of sev­er­al sen­a­tors who secret­ly set aside appro­pri­a­tions for the effort.

    That office spent some $25 mil­lion con­duct­ing a series of tech­ni­cal stud­ies and eval­u­at­ing numer­ous unex­plained incur­sions, includ­ing one that last­ed sev­er­al days involv­ing the USS Nimitz Car­ri­er Strike Group in 2004. In that case, Navy fight­er jets were out­ma­neu­vered by uniden­ti­fied air­craft that flew in ways that appeared to defy the laws of known physics.

    Raytheon, a lead­ing defense con­trac­tor, used the reports and offi­cial Defense Depart­ment video of the sight­ings off the coast of Cal­i­for­nia to hail one of its radar sys­tems for cap­tur­ing the phe­nom­e­na.

    The Pen­tagon’s UFO research office, known as the Advanced Aero­space Threat Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Pro­gram, was offi­cial­ly wound down in 2012 when the con­gres­sion­al ear­mark ran out.
    ...

    So that’s rather excit­ing. Espe­cial­ly for the pilots.

    But the UFO buffs prob­a­bly should­n’t get super excit­ed about stun­ning new rev­e­la­tions. The Navy is plan­ning on keep­ing this data pri­vate. Although, accord­ing to Luis Eli­zon­do, an intel­li­gence offi­cer who ran the Pen­tagon’s Advanced Aero­space Threat Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Pro­gram, it’s still pos­si­ble some unclas­si­fied infor­ma­tion will be pub­licly released. And even if this data isn’t released to the pub­lic, it still might be made avail­able to Con­gress:

    The Wash­ing­ton Post

    Navy: No release of UFO infor­ma­tion to the gen­er­al pub­lic expect­ed

    An image from footage shot by the Navy that shows an encounter between U.S. fight­er jets and “anom­alous aer­i­al vehi­cles” fly­ing at 25,000 feet. The clip is fea­tured in a video cre­at­ed by the orga­ni­za­tion To the Stars Acad­e­my. (To The Stars Acad­e­my of Arts and Sci­ence)

    By Paul Sonne
    May 1, 2019

    The U.S. Navy has draft­ed a pro­ce­dure to inves­ti­gate and cat­a­logue reports of uniden­ti­fied fly­ing objects com­ing in from its pilots. But the ser­vice doesn’t expect to make the infor­ma­tion pub­lic, cit­ing priv­i­leged and clas­si­fied report­ing that is typ­i­cal­ly includ­ed in such files.

    Joe Gradish­er, a spokesman for the office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Oper­a­tions for Infor­ma­tion War­fare, said in a state­ment that the Navy expects to keep the infor­ma­tion it gath­ers pri­vate for a num­ber of rea­sons.

    “Mil­i­tary avi­a­tion safe­ty orga­ni­za­tions always retain report­ing of haz­ards to avi­a­tion as priv­i­leged infor­ma­tion in order to pre­serve the free and hon­est pri­or­i­ti­za­tion and dis­cus­sion of safe­ty among air­crew,” Gradish­er said. “Fur­ther­more, any report gen­er­at­ed as a result of these inves­ti­ga­tions will, by neces­si­ty, include clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion on mil­i­tary oper­a­tions.”

    He added, “There­fore, no release of infor­ma­tion to the gen­er­al pub­lic is expect­ed.”

    The Navy’s recent deci­sion to draft for­mal guide­lines for pilots to doc­u­ment encoun­ters with unex­plained aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na comes after the rev­e­la­tion in late 2017 that the Pen­ta­gon ran a secret “UFO” office that spent $22 mil­lion over five years to col­lect and ana­lyze “anom­alous aero­space threats.” Fund­ing for the office, known as the Advanced Aero­space Threat Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Pro­gram, or AATIP, offi­cial­ly end­ed in 2012, though oper­a­tions con­tin­ued.

    Among oth­er things, the pro­gram result­ed in the release of footage from the cock­pit cam­eras of mil­i­tary air­craft, which appeared to doc­u­ment oval-shaped ves­sels that resem­ble fly­ing Tic Tacs.

    Reports of curi­ous sight­ings from mil­i­tary air­craft aren’t new. Dur­ing World War II, Allied mil­i­tary pilots wit­nessed unex­plained objects and fire­balls that they dubbed “foo fight­ers”— a term that lat­er inspired the name of the epony­mous rock band. A num­ber of offi­cial gov­ern­ment inves­ti­ga­tions looked into such phe­nom­e­na in the post­war peri­od.

    Now, the Navy has agreed to a more for­mal­ized process for cat­a­logu­ing and inves­ti­gat­ing reports from pilots, a deci­sion wel­comed by for­mer U.S. offi­cials who want the mil­i­tary to take the mat­ter seri­ous­ly and remove the stig­ma in the armed forces of report­ing such inci­dents.

    Even though the Navy indi­cat­ed it has no plans in the immi­nent future to release the data, unclas­si­fied por­tions of the infor­ma­tion or broad overviews of the find­ings could come out, accord­ing to Luis Eli­zon­do, an intel­li­gence offi­cer who ran AATIP before leav­ing the Pen­ta­gon.

    “If it remains strict­ly with­in clas­si­fied chan­nels, then the ‘right per­son’ may not actu­al­ly get the infor­ma­tion. The right per­son doesn’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mean a mil­i­tary leader. It can be a law­mak­er. It can be a whole host of dif­fer­ent indi­vid­u­als,” Eli­zon­do said.

    For exam­ple, in the future, the Navy the­o­ret­i­cal­ly could release broad sta­tis­tics about the num­ber of sight­ings and the results of the fol­low-up inves­ti­ga­tions with­out dis­clos­ing any clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion. Even if the infor­ma­tion isn’t made avail­able to the pub­lic, it could be report­ed to Con­gress.

    Frus­trat­ed that a poten­tial secu­ri­ty threat wasn’t receiv­ing the atten­tion and fund­ing he thought it deserved, Eli­zon­do left the Pen­ta­gon in 2017 and joined a start-up that pro­motes UFO research for sci­en­tif­ic and enter­tain­ment pur­pos­es. The orga­ni­za­tion is col­lab­o­rat­ing on a six-part His­to­ry Chan­nel series due out this month that will explore Elizondo’s work on the issue.

    In a con­ver­sa­tion with The Wash­ing­ton Post, Eli­zon­do praised the Navy for chang­ing its pol­i­cy and tak­ing a pub­lic stance and cred­it­ed law­mak­ers on Capi­tol Hill for begin­ning to take the mat­ter seri­ous­ly. He said he expects the effort to lead to more infor­ma­tion gath­er­ing and shar­ing at the Pen­ta­gon and ulti­mate­ly a bet­ter under­stand­ing of the “enig­ma” report­ed by mil­i­tary pilots.

    There is no agreed upon expla­na­tion for some of the sight­ings report­ed to AATIP.

    ...

    ———–

    “Navy: No release of UFO infor­ma­tion to the gen­er­al pub­lic expect­ed” by Paul Sonne; The Wash­ing­ton Post; 05/01/2019

    ““Mil­i­tary avi­a­tion safe­ty orga­ni­za­tions always retain report­ing of haz­ards to avi­a­tion as priv­i­leged infor­ma­tion in order to pre­serve the free and hon­est pri­or­i­ti­za­tion and dis­cus­sion of safe­ty among air­crew,” Gradish­er said. “Fur­ther­more, any report gen­er­at­ed as a result of these inves­ti­ga­tions will, by neces­si­ty, include clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion on mil­i­tary oper­a­tions.”

    Accord­ing to the Navy, any report gen­er­at­ed as a result of these inves­ti­ga­tions will, by neces­si­ty, include clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion. Hence the lack of any expec­ta­tions of releas­ing this to the pub­lic. But that does­n’t mean unclas­si­fied sum­maries can’t be release. Plus, Con­gress can see the clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion:

    ...
    Even though the Navy indi­cat­ed it has no plans in the immi­nent future to release the data, unclas­si­fied por­tions of the infor­ma­tion or broad overviews of the find­ings could come out, accord­ing to Luis Eli­zon­do, an intel­li­gence offi­cer who ran AATIP before leav­ing the Pen­ta­gon.

    “If it remains strict­ly with­in clas­si­fied chan­nels, then the ‘right per­son’ may not actu­al­ly get the infor­ma­tion. The right per­son doesn’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mean a mil­i­tary leader. It can be a law­mak­er. It can be a whole host of dif­fer­ent indi­vid­u­als,” Eli­zon­do said.

    For exam­ple, in the future, the Navy the­o­ret­i­cal­ly could release broad sta­tis­tics about the num­ber of sight­ings and the results of the fol­low-up inves­ti­ga­tions with­out dis­clos­ing any clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion. Even if the infor­ma­tion isn’t made avail­able to the pub­lic, it could be report­ed to Con­gress.
    ...

    So if there’s an unclas­si­fied sum­ma­ry released by the Navy keep an eye out for spooked mem­bers of Con­gress mur­mur­ing about exoge­nous threats.

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | May 10, 2019, 1:48 pm
  6. It’s that time again. Time for anoth­er star­tling round or UFO rev­e­la­tions. Reports about “uniden­ti­fied anom­alous phe­nom­e­na” detect­ed by the mil­i­tary isn’t any­thing new at this point. But this lat­est sto­ry does seem to be dif­fer­ent.

    For starters, while the sto­ry is focused on the whistle­blow­ing recent­ly-retired intel­li­gence offi­cial, David Charles Grusch, it’s not just about Grusch. Oth­er fig­ures involved with the US mil­i­tary’s var­i­ous UAP analy­sis pro­grams have now stepped for­ward and backed Grusch up. Beyond that, every­thing Grusch is talk­ing about has already been cleared for pub­lic dis­clo­sure by the Pen­ta­gon back in April, the month Grusch retired to take his case to the pub­lic.

    So what is Grusch claim­ing? Well, that there’s been an eight decade secret peer-com­pe­ti­tion between the US and strate­gic adver­saries to retrieve and reverse engi­neer non-man-made objects. This includes intact vehi­cles. So based on that time­frame, Grusch appears to be ref­er­enc­ing the var­i­ous UFO sight­ings start­ing back around WWII (the FooFight­er phe­nom­e­na, etc). Beyond that, Grusch asserts that this all has­n’t just been hid­den from the pub­lic but Con­gress too. Ille­gal con­tract­ing is also part of the alle­ga­tions, sug­gest­ing there could be pri­vate com­pa­nies involved with these pro­grams too.

    And that brings us to the reprisal com­plaint part of this sto­ry: Grusch has been work­ing on dif­fer­ent UAP analy­sis pro­grams in recent years. He served as the recon­nais­sance office’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the Uniden­ti­fied Aer­i­al Phe­nom­e­na Task Force from 2019–2021 for the Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office (NRO). And then at the Nation­al Geospa­tial-Intel­li­gence Agency (NGA) as the co-lead for UAP analy­sis and its rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the task force from late 2021 to July 2022. Accord­ing to the reprisal com­plaint, in July 2021, Grusch con­fi­den­tial­ly pro­vid­ed clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion to the DoD IG con­cern­ing the with­hold­ing of UAP-relat­ed infor­ma­tion from Con­gress. He believed that his iden­ti­ty, and the fact that he had pro­vid­ed tes­ti­mo­ny, were dis­closed “to indi­vid­u­als and/or enti­ties” with­in the Depart­ment of Defense and the Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty out­side the IG’s office. Months of reprisals fol­lowed that con­fi­den­tial fil­ing.

    A reprisal com­plaint was filed in May of 2022, with Charles McCul­lough III — the orig­i­nal Inspec­tor Gen­er­al of the Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty — rep­re­sent­ing Grusch. A whistle­blow­er inves­ti­ga­tion was then launched and at that point Grusch began his com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the staff of the Con­gres­sion­al intel­li­gence com­mit­tees in pri­vate closed-door ses­sions. Inter­est­ing­ly, new whistle­blow­er pro­tec­tions for DoD whistle­blow­ers were put into law with last year’s Defense appro­pri­a­tions bill and Grusch’s case is now seen as an ear­ly test of those new pro­tec­tions.

    So what are we look­ing at here? This isn’t just a lone nut whistle­blow­er or dis­grun­tled ex-gov­ern­ment employ­ee. Grusch appears to have as much cred­i­bil­i­ty as one could hope for and back­ing from the Pen­ta­gon and Con­gress. For years now, it’s seems like the steady drum­beat of these sto­ries were prep­ping the pub­lic for some sort of giant dis­clo­sure event. Are we look­ing at final prepa­ra­tions for the ‘big reveal’?

    The Debrief

    Intel­li­gence Offi­cials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Ori­gin

    LESLIE KEAN and RALPH BLUMENTHAL
    June 5, 2023

    A for­mer intel­li­gence offi­cial turned whistle­blow­er has giv­en Con­gress and the Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty Inspec­tor Gen­er­al exten­sive clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion about deeply covert pro­grams that he says pos­sess retrieved intact and par­tial­ly intact craft of non-human ori­gin.

    The infor­ma­tion, he says, has been ille­gal­ly with­held from Con­gress, and he filed a com­plaint alleg­ing that he suf­fered ille­gal retal­i­a­tion for his con­fi­den­tial dis­clo­sures, report­ed here for the first time.

    Oth­er intel­li­gence offi­cials, both active and retired, with knowl­edge of these pro­grams through their work in var­i­ous agen­cies, have inde­pen­dent­ly pro­vid­ed sim­i­lar, cor­rob­o­rat­ing infor­ma­tion, both on and off the record.

    The whistle­blow­er, David Charles Grusch, 36, a dec­o­rat­ed for­mer com­bat offi­cer in Afghanistan, is a vet­er­an of the Nation­al Geospa­tial-Intel­li­gence Agency (NGA) and the Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office (NRO). He served as the recon­nais­sance office’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the Uniden­ti­fied Aer­i­al Phe­nom­e­na Task Force from 2019–2021. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analy­sis and its rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the task force.

    The task force was estab­lished to inves­ti­gate what were once called “uniden­ti­fied fly­ing objects,” or UFOs, and are now offi­cial­ly called “uniden­ti­fied anom­alous phe­nom­e­na,” or UAP. The task force was led by the Depart­ment of the Navy under the Office of the Under Sec­re­tary of Defense for Intel­li­gence and Secu­ri­ty. It has since been reor­ga­nized and expand­ed into the All-Domain Anom­aly Res­o­lu­tion Office to include inves­ti­ga­tions of objects oper­at­ing under­wa­ter.

    Grusch said the recov­er­ies of par­tial frag­ments through and up to intact vehi­cles have been made for decades through the present day by the gov­ern­ment, its allies, and defense con­trac­tors. Analy­sis has deter­mined that the objects retrieved are “of exot­ic ori­gin (non-human intel­li­gence, whether extrater­res­tri­al or unknown ori­gin) based on the vehi­cle mor­pholo­gies and mate­r­i­al sci­ence test­ing and the pos­ses­sion of unique atom­ic arrange­ments and radi­o­log­i­cal sig­na­tures,” he said.

    ...

    “We are not talk­ing about pro­sa­ic ori­gins or iden­ti­ties,” Grusch said, ref­er­enc­ing infor­ma­tion he pro­vid­ed Con­gress and the cur­rent ICIG. “The mate­r­i­al includes intact and par­tial­ly intact vehi­cles.”

    In accor­dance with pro­to­cols, Grusch pro­vid­ed the Defense Office of Pre­pub­li­ca­tion and Secu­ri­ty Review at the Depart­ment of Defense with the infor­ma­tion he intend­ed to dis­close to us. His on-the-record state­ments were all “cleared for open pub­li­ca­tion” on April 4 and 6, 2023, in doc­u­ments pro­vid­ed to us.

    Grusch’s dis­clo­sures, and those of non-pub­lic wit­ness­es, under new pro­tec­tive pro­vi­sions of the lat­est defense appro­pri­a­tions bill, sig­nal a grow­ing deter­mi­na­tion by some in the gov­ern­ment to unrav­el a colos­sal enig­ma with nation­al secu­ri­ty impli­ca­tions that has bedev­iled the mil­i­tary and tan­ta­lized the pub­lic going back to World War II and beyond. For many decades, the Air Force car­ried out a dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paign to dis­cred­it report­ed sight­ings of unex­plained objects. Now, with two pub­lic hear­ings and many clas­si­fied brief­in­gs under its belt, Con­gress is press­ing for answers.

    Karl E. Nell, a recent­ly retired Army Colonel and cur­rent aero­space exec­u­tive who was the Army’s liai­son for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with Grusch there, char­ac­ter­izes Grusch as “beyond reproach.”

    Christo­pher Mel­lon, who spent near­ly twen­ty years in the U.S. Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty and served as the Deputy Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense for Intel­li­gence, has worked with Con­gress for years on uniden­ti­fied aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na.

    A num­ber of well-placed cur­rent and for­mer offi­cials have shared detailed infor­ma­tion with me regard­ing this alleged pro­gram, includ­ing insights into the his­to­ry, gov­ern­ing doc­u­ments and the loca­tion where a craft was alleged­ly aban­doned and recov­ered,” Mel­lon said. “How­ev­er, it is a del­i­cate mat­ter get­ting this poten­tial­ly explo­sive infor­ma­tion into the right hands for val­i­da­tion. This is made hard­er by the fact that, right­ly or wrong­ly, a num­ber of poten­tial sources do not trust the lead­er­ship of the All-Domain Anom­aly Res­o­lu­tion Office estab­lished by Con­gress.”

    But some insid­ers are now will­ing to take the risk of com­ing for­ward for the first time with knowl­edge of these recov­ery pro­grams.

    Jonathan Grey is a gen­er­a­tional offi­cer of the Unit­ed States Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty with a Top-Secret Clear­ance who cur­rent­ly works for the Nation­al Air and Space Intel­li­gence Cen­ter (NASIC), where the analy­sis of UAP has been his focus. Pre­vi­ous­ly he had expe­ri­ence serv­ing Pri­vate Aero­space and Depart­ment of Defense Spe­cial Direc­tive Task Forces.

    “The non-human intel­li­gence phe­nom­e­non is real. We are not alone,” Grey said. “Retrievals of this kind are not lim­it­ed to the Unit­ed States. This is a glob­al phe­nom­e­non, and yet a glob­al solu­tion con­tin­ues to elude us.”

    At the Nation­al Geospa­tial-Intel­li­gence Agency, Grusch served as a Senior Intel­li­gence Capa­bil­i­ties Inte­gra­tion Offi­cer, cleared at the Top Secret/Secret Com­part­ment­ed Infor­ma­tion lev­el, and was the agency’s Senior Tech­ni­cal Advi­sor for Uniden­ti­fied Aer­i­al Phe­nom­e­na analy­sis/­Trans-Medi­um Issues. From 2016 to 2021, he served with the Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office as Senior Intel­li­gence Offi­cer and led the pro­duc­tion of the NRO director’s dai­ly brief­ing. Grusch was a GS-15 civil­ian, the mil­i­tary equiv­a­lent of a Colonel.

    Grusch has served as an Intel­li­gence Offi­cer for over four­teen years. A vet­er­an of the Air Force, he has numer­ous awards and dec­o­ra­tions for his par­tic­i­pa­tion in covert and clan­des­tine oper­a­tions to advance Amer­i­can secu­ri­ty.

    Accord­ing to a 2021 NRO Per­for­mance Report, Grusch was an intel­li­gence strate­gist with mul­ti­ple respon­si­bil­i­ties who “ana­lyzed uniden­ti­fied aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na reports” and “boost­ed con­gres­sion­al lead­er­ship Intel gaps [in] under­stand­ing.” He was assessed by the recon­nais­sance office’s Oper­a­tions Cen­ter Deputy Direc­tor as an “adept staff offi­cer and strate­gist” and “total force inte­gra­tor with inno­v­a­tive solu­tions and action­able results.”

    Grusch pre­pared many briefs on uniden­ti­fied aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na for Con­gress while in gov­ern­ment and helped draft the lan­guage on UAP for the FY2023 Nation­al Defense Autho­riza­tion Act, spear­head­ed by Sen­a­tors Kirsten Gilli­brand and Mar­co Rubio and signed into law by Pres­i­dent Biden in Decem­ber 2022. The pro­vi­sion states that any per­son with rel­e­vant UAP infor­ma­tion can inform Con­gress with­out retal­i­a­tion, regard­less of any pre­vi­ous non-dis­clo­sure agree­ments.

    In his state­ments cleared for pub­li­ca­tion by the Pen­ta­gon in April, Grusch assert­ed that UFO “lega­cy pro­grams” have long been con­cealed with­in “mul­ti­ple agen­cies nest­ing UAP activ­i­ties in con­ven­tion­al secret access pro­grams with­out appro­pri­ate report­ing to var­i­ous over­sight author­i­ties.”

    He said he report­ed to Con­gress on the exis­tence of a decades-long “pub­licly unknown Cold War for recov­ered and exploit­ed phys­i­cal mate­r­i­al – a com­pe­ti­tion with near-peer adver­saries over the years to iden­ti­fy UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the mate­r­i­al for exploitation/reverse engi­neer­ing to gar­ner asym­met­ric nation­al defense advan­tages.”

    Begin­ning in 2022, Grusch pro­vid­ed Con­gress with hours of record­ed clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion tran­scribed into hun­dreds of pages which includ­ed spe­cif­ic data about the mate­ri­als recov­ery pro­gram. Con­gress has not been pro­vid­ed with any phys­i­cal mate­ri­als relat­ed to wreck­age or oth­er non-human objects.

    Grusch’s inves­ti­ga­tion was cen­tered on exten­sive inter­views with high-lev­el intel­li­gence offi­cials, some of whom are direct­ly involved with the pro­gram. He says the oper­a­tion was ille­gal­ly shield­ed from prop­er Con­gres­sion­al over­sight and that he was tar­get­ed and harassed because of his inves­ti­ga­tion.

    Grusch said that the craft recov­ery oper­a­tions are ongo­ing at var­i­ous lev­els of activ­i­ty and that he knows the spe­cif­ic indi­vid­u­als, cur­rent and for­mer, who are involved.

    Indi­vid­u­als on these UAP pro­grams approached me in my offi­cial capac­i­ty and dis­closed their con­cerns regard­ing a mul­ti­tude of wrong­do­ings, such as ille­gal con­tract­ing against the Fed­er­al Acqui­si­tion Reg­u­la­tions and oth­er crim­i­nal­i­ty and the sup­pres­sion of infor­ma­tion across a qual­i­fied indus­tri­al base and acad­e­mia,” he stat­ed.

    Asso­ciates who vouched for Grusch said his infor­ma­tion was high­ly sen­si­tive, pro­vid­ing evi­dence that mate­ri­als from objects of non-human ori­gin are in the pos­ses­sion of high­ly secret black pro­grams. Although loca­tions, pro­gram names, and oth­er spe­cif­ic data remain clas­si­fied, the Inspec­tor Gen­er­al and intel­li­gence com­mit­tee staff were pro­vid­ed with these details. Sev­er­al cur­rent mem­bers of the recov­ery pro­gram spoke to the Inspec­tor General’s office and cor­rob­o­rat­ed the infor­ma­tion Grusch had pro­vid­ed for the clas­si­fied com­plaint.

    Grusch left the gov­ern­ment on April 7, 2023, in order, he said, to advance gov­ern­ment account­abil­i­ty through pub­lic aware­ness. He remains well-sup­port­ed with­in intel­li­gence cir­cles, and numer­ous sources have vouched for his cred­i­bil­i­ty.

    “His asser­tion con­cern­ing the exis­tence of a ter­res­tri­al arms race occur­ring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engi­neer­ing tech­nolo­gies of unknown ori­gin is fun­da­men­tal­ly cor­rect, as is the indis­putable real­iza­tion that at least some of these tech­nolo­gies of unknown ori­gin derive from non-human intel­li­gence,” said Karl Nell, the retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force.

    In a 2022 per­for­mance eval­u­a­tion, Lau­ra A. Pot­ter, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intel­li­gence, Head­quar­ters, Depart­ment of the Army, described Nell as “an offi­cer with the strongest pos­si­ble moral com­pass.”

    Grusch is rep­re­sent­ed by Charles McCul­lough III, senior part­ner of the Com­pass Rose Legal Group in Wash­ing­ton and the orig­i­nal Inspec­tor Gen­er­al of the Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty, con­firmed by the U.S. Sen­ate in 2011. At that time, McCul­lough report­ed direct­ly to the then-Direc­tor of Nation­al Intel­li­gence, James R. Clap­per, and over­saw intel­li­gence offi­cers respon­si­ble for audits, inspec­tions, and inves­ti­ga­tions.

    In May 2022, McCul­lough filed a Dis­clo­sure of Urgent Concern(s); Com­plaint of Reprisal on behalf of Grusch with the ICIG about detailed infor­ma­tion that Grusch had gath­ered begin­ning in 2019 while work­ing for the UAP Task Force.

    An unclas­si­fied ver­sion of the com­plaint pro­vid­ed to us states that Grusch has direct knowl­edge that UAP-relat­ed clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion has been with­held and/or con­cealed from Con­gress by “ele­ments” of the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty “to pur­pose­ly and inten­tion­al­ly thwart legit­i­mate Con­gres­sion­al over­sight of the UAP Pro­gram.” All tes­ti­mo­ny Grusch pro­vid­ed for the clas­si­fied com­plaint was pro­vid­ed under oath.

    Accord­ing to the unclas­si­fied com­plaint, in July 2021, Grusch had con­fi­den­tial­ly pro­vid­ed clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion to the Depart­ment of Defense Inspec­tor Gen­er­al con­cern­ing the with­hold­ing of UAP-relat­ed infor­ma­tion from Con­gress. He believed that his iden­ti­ty, and the fact that he had pro­vid­ed tes­ti­mo­ny, were dis­closed “to indi­vid­u­als and/or enti­ties” with­in the Depart­ment of Defense and the Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty out­side the IG’s office. He did not allege that this infor­ma­tion was improp­er­ly dis­closed by any mem­ber of that office.

    As a result, Grusch suf­fered months of retal­i­a­tion and reprisals relat­ed to these dis­clo­sures begin­ning in 2021. He asked that details of these reprisals be with­held to pro­tect the integri­ty of the ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion.

    The Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty Inspec­tor Gen­er­al found his com­plaint “cred­i­ble and urgent” in July 2022. Accord­ing to Grusch, a sum­ma­ry was imme­di­ate­ly sub­mit­ted to the Direc­tor of Nation­al Intel­li­gence, Avril Haines; the Sen­ate Select Com­mit­tee on Intel­li­gence; and the House Per­ma­nent Select Com­mit­tee on Intel­li­gence.

    The com­plaint was draft­ed and signed by McCul­lough and his man­ag­ing part­ner. It end­ed with Grusch’s sig­na­ture attached to his state­ment that “I do solemn­ly affirm under the penal­ties of per­jury that the con­tents of the fore­go­ing paper are true and cor­rect to the best of my knowl­edge.”

    A whistle­blow­er reprisal inves­ti­ga­tion was launched, and Grusch began his com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the staff of the Con­gres­sion­al intel­li­gence com­mit­tees in pri­vate closed-door ses­sions. Accord­ing to Grusch, cer­tain infor­ma­tion which he obtained in his inves­ti­ga­tion could not be put before Con­gres­sion­al staffers because they did not have the nec­es­sary clear­ances or the appro­pri­ate inves­tiga­tive author­i­ty.

    ...

    Grusch’s will­ing­ness to take risks and speak out appears to be embold­en­ing oth­ers with sim­i­lar knowl­edge who believe in greater trans­paren­cy.

    Jonathan Grey, the intel­li­gence offi­cer spe­cial­iz­ing in UAP analy­sis at the Nation­al Air and Space Intel­li­gence Cen­ter, is speak­ing pub­licly for the first time, iden­ti­fied here under the iden­ti­ty he uses inside the agency.

    NASIC, head­quar­tered at Wright Pat­ter­son Air Force Base, is the Depart­ment of Defense’s pri­ma­ry Air Force source for for­eign air and space threat analy­sis. Its mis­sion is to “dis­cov­er and char­ac­ter­ize air, space, mis­sile, and cyber threats,” accord­ing to the agency’s web­site. “The center’s team of trust­ed sub­ject mat­ter experts deliv­er unique col­lec­tion, exploita­tion, and ana­lyt­ic capa­bil­i­ties not found else­where,” the web­site states.

    Grey said that such immense capa­bil­i­ties are not mere­ly rel­e­gat­ed to the study of the pro­sa­ic. “The exis­tence of com­plex his­tor­i­cal pro­grams involv­ing the coor­di­nat­ed retrieval and study of exot­ic mate­ri­als, dat­ing back to the ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry, should no longer remain a secret,” he said. “The major­i­ty of retrieved, for­eign exot­ic mate­ri­als have a pro­sa­ic ter­res­tri­al expla­na­tion and ori­gin – but not all, and any num­ber high­er than zero in this cat­e­go­ry rep­re­sents an unde­ni­ably sig­nif­i­cant sta­tis­ti­cal per­cent­age.”

    ...

    Mel­lon, the for­mer Deputy Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense for Intel­li­gence, has been instru­men­tal in arrang­ing clas­si­fied brief­in­gs for mem­bers of Con­gress and oth­er offi­cials about UAP, which include ref­er­ences to exot­ic retrieved mate­ri­als. The first brief­ing he facil­i­tat­ed on retrievals of unex­plained objects was pro­vid­ed to staff mem­bers of the Sen­ate Armed Ser­vices Com­mit­tee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to staff mem­bers of the Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee two days lat­er, as report­ed by The New York Times.

    Mel­lon says that once the mem­bers of Con­gress gain greater aware­ness of the infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed to their staff and the Inspec­tor Gen­er­al, they will be in a posi­tion to quick­ly deter­mine the truth if they have the will to do so.

    ...

    Clas­si­fied brief­in­gs are often pre­sent­ed for Jonathan Grey and his team at NASIC. “High-lev­el, clas­si­fied brief­ing mate­ri­als exist in which real-world sce­nar­ios involv­ing UAP, as evi­denced by his­tor­i­cal exam­ples, are made avail­able to Intel­li­gence Per­son­nel on a need-to-know basis,” he told us. “I have been the recip­i­ent of such brief­in­gs for almost a decade.”

    The Nation­al Defense Autho­riza­tion Act for FY2023 tasked the Sec­re­tary of Defense, in con­sul­ta­tion with the Direc­tor of Nation­al Intel­li­gence, with estab­lish­ing for the first time a secure mech­a­nism for the autho­rized report­ing of sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion to defense chan­nels.

    In addi­tion, the leg­is­la­tion asks for report­ing on “mate­r­i­al retrieval, mate­r­i­al analy­sis, reverse engi­neer­ing, research and devel­op­ment” involv­ing uniden­ti­fied anom­alous phe­nom­e­na cur­rent­ly and going back decades.

    Dr. Gar­ry Nolan, a Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Pathol­o­gy at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty and a renowned inven­tor and entre­pre­neur with more three hun­dred pub­lished papers, has start­ed over half a dozen com­pa­nies based on tech­nolo­gies out of his lab­o­ra­to­ry. Nolan has pre­vi­ous­ly applied some of those tech­nolo­gies to the analy­sis of exot­ic mate­ri­als, pub­lish­ing the first peer-reviewed paper exam­in­ing such mate­ri­als.

    “Human civ­i­liza­tion was utter­ly trans­formed by some­thing as small as a grain of sil­i­con or germanium—creating the under­pin­ning of the inte­grat­ed cir­cuits that under­ly com­pu­ta­tion and now even arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence,” Nolan said.

    Study­ing even small sam­ples of pur­port­ed anom­alous mate­r­i­al could lead to cur­rent­ly incon­ceiv­able ben­e­fits for human­i­ty, he said. “What might be rep­re­sent­ed here could be hun­dreds of tech­nol­o­gy rev­o­lu­tions ahead of us. It could be more trans­for­ma­tive for human­i­ty than what the micro­proces­sor accom­plished. Imag­ine what we could do with even a grain of knowl­edge about how they oper­ate.”

    To encour­age poten­tial wit­ness­es to come for­ward, the whistle­blow­er leg­is­la­tion for­bids any fed­er­al employ­ee from retal­i­at­ing against any­one pro­vid­ing autho­rized dis­clo­sure.

    “Whistle­blow­ing is essen­tial to the checks and bal­ances of our gov­ern­ment – and no fed­er­al employ­ee should feel dis­cour­aged from step­ping for­ward due to fear of retal­i­a­tion,” Rep. Andre Car­son told us. In May 2022, Car­son presided over the first open Con­gres­sion­al hear­ing on UAP since 1968.

    The case of David Grusch marks a cru­cial test of these new whistle­blow­er pro­tec­tions and their abil­i­ty to pro­tect future whistle­blow­ers who decide to come for­ward.

    Jonathan Grey says secrets have been nec­es­sary. “Though a tough nut to crack, poten­tial tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments may be gleaned from non-human intelligence/UAP retrievals by any suf­fi­cient­ly advanced nation and then used to wage asym­met­ri­cal war­fare, so, there­fore, some secre­cy must remain,” he says. “How­ev­er, it is no longer nec­es­sary to con­tin­ue to deny that these advanced tech­nolo­gies derived from non-human intel­li­gence exist at all or to deny that these tech­nolo­gies have land­ed, crashed, or fall­en into the hands of human beings.”

    Grey not­ed that the hypoth­e­sis that the Unit­ed States alone has bul­lied the oth­er nations into main­tain­ing this secre­cy for near­ly a cen­tu­ry con­tin­ues to pre­vail as the pri­ma­ry con­sen­sus amongst the pub­lic at large. “My hope is to dis­suade the glob­al pop­u­lace from this archa­ic and pre­pos­ter­ous notion, and to poten­tial­ly pave the way for a much broad­er dis­cus­sion,” he said.

    Grusch said it was dan­ger­ous for this “eighty-year arms race” to con­tin­ue in secre­cy because it “fur­ther inhibits the world pop­u­lace to be pre­pared for an unex­pect­ed, non-human intel­li­gence con­tact sce­nario.”

    “I hope this rev­e­la­tion serves as an onto­log­i­cal shock soci­o­log­i­cal­ly and pro­vides a gen­er­al­ly unit­ing issue for nations of the world to re-assess their pri­or­i­ties,” Grusch said.

    Leslie Kean and Ralph Blu­men­thal, with Helene Coop­er, co-authored the Dec. 17, 2017, front-page arti­cle in The New York Times that dis­closed the exis­tence of a secret Pen­ta­gon pro­gram inves­ti­gat­ing UAP.

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    “Intel­li­gence Offi­cials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Ori­gin” LESLIE KEAN and RALPH BLUMENTHAL; The Debrief; 06/05/2023

    “Grusch said it was dan­ger­ous for this “eighty-year arms race” to con­tin­ue in secre­cy because it “fur­ther inhibits the world pop­u­lace to be pre­pared for an unex­pect­ed, non-human intel­li­gence con­tact sce­nario.””

    An eighty-year arms race in pur­suit of exot­ic non-human-made objects. That’s what we are told has been hid­den not just from the pub­lic, but from Con­gres­sion­al over­sight too. For eighty years, accord­ing to David Charles Grusch, a dec­o­rat­ed Air Force intel­li­gence offi­cer who had been work­ing as the Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office (NRO) UAP Task Force rep­re­sen­ta­tive from 2019–2021, the then went on to serve as the dec­o­rat­ed for­mer com­bat offi­cer in Afghanistan, is a vet­er­an of the Nation­al Geospa­tial-Intel­li­gence Agency (NGA) co-lead for UAP analy­sis. It’s hard to think of some­one bet­ter posi­tioned to make these ’80-year cov­er-up’ alle­ga­tions.

    And that brings us to one of the oth­er very notable aspects of this sto­ry: Grusch does­n’t appear to be engag­ing in this whistle­blow­ing as some sort of act of defi­ance but instead has had his pub­lic on-the-record state­ments “cleared for open pub­li­ca­tion” in April of this year. Impor­tant­ly, he’s mak­ing these pub­lic dis­clo­sures using new whistle­blow­er pro­tec­tions that were part of last year’s defense bill. So it’s almost as if Con­gress passed a law last year to enable this sto­ry to come out:

    ...
    The infor­ma­tion, he says, has been ille­gal­ly with­held from Con­gress, and he filed a com­plaint alleg­ing that he suf­fered ille­gal retal­i­a­tion for his con­fi­den­tial dis­clo­sures, report­ed here for the first time.

    ...

    The whistle­blow­er, David Charles Grusch, 36, a dec­o­rat­ed for­mer com­bat offi­cer in Afghanistan, is a vet­er­an of the Nation­al Geospa­tial-Intel­li­gence Agency (NGA) and the Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office (NRO). He served as the recon­nais­sance office’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the Uniden­ti­fied Aer­i­al Phe­nom­e­na Task Force from 2019–2021. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analy­sis and its rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the task force.

    The task force was estab­lished to inves­ti­gate what were once called “uniden­ti­fied fly­ing objects,” or UFOs, and are now offi­cial­ly called “uniden­ti­fied anom­alous phe­nom­e­na,” or UAP. The task force was led by the Depart­ment of the Navy under the Office of the Under Sec­re­tary of Defense for Intel­li­gence and Secu­ri­ty. It has since been reor­ga­nized and expand­ed into the All-Domain Anom­aly Res­o­lu­tion Office to include inves­ti­ga­tions of objects oper­at­ing under­wa­ter.

    ...

    In accor­dance with pro­to­cols, Grusch pro­vid­ed the Defense Office of Pre­pub­li­ca­tion and Secu­ri­ty Review at the Depart­ment of Defense with the infor­ma­tion he intend­ed to dis­close to us. His on-the-record state­ments were all “cleared for open pub­li­ca­tion” on April 4 and 6, 2023, in doc­u­ments pro­vid­ed to us.

    Grusch’s dis­clo­sures, and those of non-pub­lic wit­ness­es, under new pro­tec­tive pro­vi­sions of the lat­est defense appro­pri­a­tions bill, sig­nal a grow­ing deter­mi­na­tion by some in the gov­ern­ment to unrav­el a colos­sal enig­ma with nation­al secu­ri­ty impli­ca­tions that has bedev­iled the mil­i­tary and tan­ta­lized the pub­lic going back to World War II and beyond. For many decades, the Air Force car­ried out a dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paign to dis­cred­it report­ed sight­ings of unex­plained objects. Now, with two pub­lic hear­ings and many clas­si­fied brief­in­gs under its belt, Con­gress is press­ing for answers.

    ...

    At the Nation­al Geospa­tial-Intel­li­gence Agency, Grusch served as a Senior Intel­li­gence Capa­bil­i­ties Inte­gra­tion Offi­cer, cleared at the Top Secret/Secret Com­part­ment­ed Infor­ma­tion lev­el, and was the agency’s Senior Tech­ni­cal Advi­sor for Uniden­ti­fied Aer­i­al Phe­nom­e­na analy­sis/­Trans-Medi­um Issues. From 2016 to 2021, he served with the Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office as Senior Intel­li­gence Offi­cer and led the pro­duc­tion of the NRO director’s dai­ly brief­ing. Grusch was a GS-15 civil­ian, the mil­i­tary equiv­a­lent of a Colonel.

    Grusch has served as an Intel­li­gence Offi­cer for over four­teen years. A vet­er­an of the Air Force, he has numer­ous awards and dec­o­ra­tions for his par­tic­i­pa­tion in covert and clan­des­tine oper­a­tions to advance Amer­i­can secu­ri­ty.
    ...

    It also appears that Grusch left the gov­ern­ment in April — the same month the Pen­ta­gon cleared his state­ments for pub­li­ca­tion — with the intent of rais­ing pub­lic aware­ness about the decades of secret “com­pe­ti­tion with near-peer adver­saries over the years to iden­ti­fy UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the mate­r­i­al for exploitation/reverse engi­neer­ing to gar­ner asym­met­ric nation­al defense advan­tages”. So we’re look­ing at a pub­lic rela­tions cam­paign giv­en a stamp of approval by the Pen­ta­gon designed to raise pub­lic aware­ness and force gov­ern­ment over­sight of these clan­des­tine pro­grams. It’s not how these things typ­i­cal­ly play out:

    ...
    Accord­ing to a 2021 NRO Per­for­mance Report, Grusch was an intel­li­gence strate­gist with mul­ti­ple respon­si­bil­i­ties who “ana­lyzed uniden­ti­fied aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na reports” and “boost­ed con­gres­sion­al lead­er­ship Intel gaps [in] under­stand­ing.” He was assessed by the recon­nais­sance office’s Oper­a­tions Cen­ter Deputy Direc­tor as an “adept staff offi­cer and strate­gist” and “total force inte­gra­tor with inno­v­a­tive solu­tions and action­able results.”

    Grusch pre­pared many briefs on uniden­ti­fied aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na for Con­gress while in gov­ern­ment and helped draft the lan­guage on UAP for the FY2023 Nation­al Defense Autho­riza­tion Act, spear­head­ed by Sen­a­tors Kirsten Gilli­brand and Mar­co Rubio and signed into law by Pres­i­dent Biden in Decem­ber 2022. The pro­vi­sion states that any per­son with rel­e­vant UAP infor­ma­tion can inform Con­gress with­out retal­i­a­tion, regard­less of any pre­vi­ous non-dis­clo­sure agree­ments.

    In his state­ments cleared for pub­li­ca­tion by the Pen­ta­gon in April, Grusch assert­ed that UFO “lega­cy pro­grams” have long been con­cealed with­in “mul­ti­ple agen­cies nest­ing UAP activ­i­ties in con­ven­tion­al secret access pro­grams with­out appro­pri­ate report­ing to var­i­ous over­sight author­i­ties.”

    He said he report­ed to Con­gress on the exis­tence of a decades-long “pub­licly unknown Cold War for recov­ered and exploit­ed phys­i­cal mate­r­i­al – a com­pe­ti­tion with near-peer adver­saries over the years to iden­ti­fy UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the mate­r­i­al for exploitation/reverse engi­neer­ing to gar­ner asym­met­ric nation­al defense advan­tages.”

    Begin­ning in 2022, Grusch pro­vid­ed Con­gress with hours of record­ed clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion tran­scribed into hun­dreds of pages which includ­ed spe­cif­ic data about the mate­ri­als recov­ery pro­gram. Con­gress has not been pro­vid­ed with any phys­i­cal mate­ri­als relat­ed to wreck­age or oth­er non-human objects.

    ...

    Grusch left the gov­ern­ment on April 7, 2023, in order, he said, to advance gov­ern­ment account­abil­i­ty through pub­lic aware­ness. He remains well-sup­port­ed with­in intel­li­gence cir­cles, and numer­ous sources have vouched for his cred­i­bil­i­ty.
    ...

    Mak­ing this all the more notable, and offi­cial-seem­ing, is how Grusch’s reprisal com­plaint was filed by Charles McCul­lough III, the orig­i­nal Inspec­tor Gen­er­al of the Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty con­firmed in 2011. Accord­ing to that com­plaint, the fact that Grusch con­fi­den­tial­ly pro­vid­ed clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion to the DoD Inspec­tor Gen­er­al’s office in July of 2021 was some­how shared with peo­ple out­side the office. As a result, accord­ing to the com­plaint, Grusch began expe­ri­enc­ing months of retal­i­a­tion and reprisals:

    ...
    Grusch is rep­re­sent­ed by Charles McCul­lough III, senior part­ner of the Com­pass Rose Legal Group in Wash­ing­ton and the orig­i­nal Inspec­tor Gen­er­al of the Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty, con­firmed by the U.S. Sen­ate in 2011. At that time, McCul­lough report­ed direct­ly to the then-Direc­tor of Nation­al Intel­li­gence, James R. Clap­per, and over­saw intel­li­gence offi­cers respon­si­ble for audits, inspec­tions, and inves­ti­ga­tions.

    In May 2022, McCul­lough filed a Dis­clo­sure of Urgent Concern(s); Com­plaint of Reprisal on behalf of Grusch with the ICIG about detailed infor­ma­tion that Grusch had gath­ered begin­ning in 2019 while work­ing for the UAP Task Force.

    An unclas­si­fied ver­sion of the com­plaint pro­vid­ed to us states that Grusch has direct knowl­edge that UAP-relat­ed clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion has been with­held and/or con­cealed from Con­gress by “ele­ments” of the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty “to pur­pose­ly and inten­tion­al­ly thwart legit­i­mate Con­gres­sion­al over­sight of the UAP Pro­gram.” All tes­ti­mo­ny Grusch pro­vid­ed for the clas­si­fied com­plaint was pro­vid­ed under oath.

    Accord­ing to the unclas­si­fied com­plaint, in July 2021, Grusch had con­fi­den­tial­ly pro­vid­ed clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion to the Depart­ment of Defense Inspec­tor Gen­er­al con­cern­ing the with­hold­ing of UAP-relat­ed infor­ma­tion from Con­gress. He believed that his iden­ti­ty, and the fact that he had pro­vid­ed tes­ti­mo­ny, were dis­closed “to indi­vid­u­als and/or enti­ties” with­in the Depart­ment of Defense and the Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty out­side the IG’s office. He did not allege that this infor­ma­tion was improp­er­ly dis­closed by any mem­ber of that office.

    As a result, Grusch suf­fered months of retal­i­a­tion and reprisals relat­ed to these dis­clo­sures begin­ning in 2021. He asked that details of these reprisals be with­held to pro­tect the integri­ty of the ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion.

    The Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty Inspec­tor Gen­er­al found his com­plaint “cred­i­ble and urgent” in July 2022. Accord­ing to Grusch, a sum­ma­ry was imme­di­ate­ly sub­mit­ted to the Direc­tor of Nation­al Intel­li­gence, Avril Haines; the Sen­ate Select Com­mit­tee on Intel­li­gence; and the House Per­ma­nent Select Com­mit­tee on Intel­li­gence.

    The com­plaint was draft­ed and signed by McCul­lough and his man­ag­ing part­ner. It end­ed with Grusch’s sig­na­ture attached to his state­ment that “I do solemn­ly affirm under the penal­ties of per­jury that the con­tents of the fore­go­ing paper are true and cor­rect to the best of my knowl­edge.”

    A whistle­blow­er reprisal inves­ti­ga­tion was launched, and Grusch began his com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the staff of the Con­gres­sion­al intel­li­gence com­mit­tees in pri­vate closed-door ses­sions. Accord­ing to Grusch, cer­tain infor­ma­tion which he obtained in his inves­ti­ga­tion could not be put before Con­gres­sion­al staffers because they did not have the nec­es­sary clear­ances or the appro­pri­ate inves­tiga­tive author­i­ty.
    ...

    Also note one of the oth­er intrigu­ing alle­ga­tions that report­ed­ly came from oth­er peo­ple in the UAP pro­gram who approached Grusch: ille­gal con­tract­ing against the Fed­er­al Acqui­si­tion Reg­u­la­tions. That sure sounds like a hint that this giant coverup as a cor­po­rate com­po­nent:

    ...
    Grusch’s inves­ti­ga­tion was cen­tered on exten­sive inter­views with high-lev­el intel­li­gence offi­cials, some of whom are direct­ly involved with the pro­gram. He says the oper­a­tion was ille­gal­ly shield­ed from prop­er Con­gres­sion­al over­sight and that he was tar­get­ed and harassed because of his inves­ti­ga­tion.

    Grusch said that the craft recov­ery oper­a­tions are ongo­ing at var­i­ous lev­els of activ­i­ty and that he knows the spe­cif­ic indi­vid­u­als, cur­rent and for­mer, who are involved.

    Indi­vid­u­als on these UAP pro­grams approached me in my offi­cial capac­i­ty and dis­closed their con­cerns regard­ing a mul­ti­tude of wrong­do­ings, such as ille­gal con­tract­ing against the Fed­er­al Acqui­si­tion Reg­u­la­tions and oth­er crim­i­nal­i­ty and the sup­pres­sion of infor­ma­tion across a qual­i­fied indus­tri­al base and acad­e­mia,” he stat­ed.

    Asso­ciates who vouched for Grusch said his infor­ma­tion was high­ly sen­si­tive, pro­vid­ing evi­dence that mate­ri­als from objects of non-human ori­gin are in the pos­ses­sion of high­ly secret black pro­grams. Although loca­tions, pro­gram names, and oth­er spe­cif­ic data remain clas­si­fied, the Inspec­tor Gen­er­al and intel­li­gence com­mit­tee staff were pro­vid­ed with these details. Sev­er­al cur­rent mem­bers of the recov­ery pro­gram spoke to the Inspec­tor General’s office and cor­rob­o­rat­ed the infor­ma­tion Grusch had pro­vid­ed for the clas­si­fied com­plaint.
    ...

    But also note that these claims aren’t sim­ply that exot­ic non-man-made mate­ri­als were found. Intact and par­tial­ly intact vehi­cles have appar­ent­ly been sal­vage. Beyond the obvi­ous defense appli­ca­tions from reverse-engi­neer­ing such objects, just imag­ine the poten­tial com­mer­cial val­ue of such objects. Tril­lions and tril­lions of dol­lars are poten­tial­ly at state here if this is real:

    ...
    Grusch said the recov­er­ies of par­tial frag­ments through and up to intact vehi­cles have been made for decades through the present day by the gov­ern­ment, its allies, and defense con­trac­tors. Analy­sis has deter­mined that the objects retrieved are “of exot­ic ori­gin (non-human intel­li­gence, whether extrater­res­tri­al or unknown ori­gin) based on the vehi­cle mor­pholo­gies and mate­r­i­al sci­ence test­ing and the pos­ses­sion of unique atom­ic arrange­ments and radi­o­log­i­cal sig­na­tures,” he said.

    ...

    “We are not talk­ing about pro­sa­ic ori­gins or iden­ti­ties,” Grusch said, ref­er­enc­ing infor­ma­tion he pro­vid­ed Con­gress and the cur­rent ICIG. “The mate­r­i­al includes intact and par­tial­ly intact vehi­cles.”
    ...

    Final­ly, there’s the fact that this isn’t just a sto­ry about a sin­gle well-cre­den­tialed whistle­blow­er. Mul­ti­ple indi­vid­u­als in a posi­tion to ver­i­fy these claims have now come for­wards and are pub­licly talk­ing too:

    ...
    Oth­er intel­li­gence offi­cials, both active and retired, with knowl­edge of these pro­grams through their work in var­i­ous agen­cies, have inde­pen­dent­ly pro­vid­ed sim­i­lar, cor­rob­o­rat­ing infor­ma­tion, both on and off the record.

    ...

    Karl E. Nell, a recent­ly retired Army Colonel and cur­rent aero­space exec­u­tive who was the Army’s liai­son for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with Grusch there, char­ac­ter­izes Grusch as “beyond reproach.”

    Christo­pher Mel­lon, who spent near­ly twen­ty years in the U.S. Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty and served as the Deputy Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense for Intel­li­gence, has worked with Con­gress for years on uniden­ti­fied aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na.

    A num­ber of well-placed cur­rent and for­mer offi­cials have shared detailed infor­ma­tion with me regard­ing this alleged pro­gram, includ­ing insights into the his­to­ry, gov­ern­ing doc­u­ments and the loca­tion where a craft was alleged­ly aban­doned and recov­ered,” Mel­lon said. “How­ev­er, it is a del­i­cate mat­ter get­ting this poten­tial­ly explo­sive infor­ma­tion into the right hands for val­i­da­tion. This is made hard­er by the fact that, right­ly or wrong­ly, a num­ber of poten­tial sources do not trust the lead­er­ship of the All-Domain Anom­aly Res­o­lu­tion Office estab­lished by Con­gress.”

    But some insid­ers are now will­ing to take the risk of com­ing for­ward for the first time with knowl­edge of these recov­ery pro­grams.

    Jonathan Grey is a gen­er­a­tional offi­cer of the Unit­ed States Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty with a Top-Secret Clear­ance who cur­rent­ly works for the Nation­al Air and Space Intel­li­gence Cen­ter (NASIC), where the analy­sis of UAP has been his focus. Pre­vi­ous­ly he had expe­ri­ence serv­ing Pri­vate Aero­space and Depart­ment of Defense Spe­cial Direc­tive Task Forces.

    “The non-human intel­li­gence phe­nom­e­non is real. We are not alone,” Grey said. “Retrievals of this kind are not lim­it­ed to the Unit­ed States. This is a glob­al phe­nom­e­non, and yet a glob­al solu­tion con­tin­ues to elude us.”

    ...

    His asser­tion con­cern­ing the exis­tence of a ter­res­tri­al arms race occur­ring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engi­neer­ing tech­nolo­gies of unknown ori­gin is fun­da­men­tal­ly cor­rect, as is the indis­putable real­iza­tion that at least some of these tech­nolo­gies of unknown ori­gin derive from non-human intel­li­gence,” said Karl Nell, the retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force.

    ...

    Jonathan Grey, the intel­li­gence offi­cer spe­cial­iz­ing in UAP analy­sis at the Nation­al Air and Space Intel­li­gence Cen­ter, is speak­ing pub­licly for the first time, iden­ti­fied here under the iden­ti­ty he uses inside the agency.

    NASIC, head­quar­tered at Wright Pat­ter­son Air Force Base, is the Depart­ment of Defense’s pri­ma­ry Air Force source for for­eign air and space threat analy­sis. Its mis­sion is to “dis­cov­er and char­ac­ter­ize air, space, mis­sile, and cyber threats,” accord­ing to the agency’s web­site. “The center’s team of trust­ed sub­ject mat­ter experts deliv­er unique col­lec­tion, exploita­tion, and ana­lyt­ic capa­bil­i­ties not found else­where,” the web­site states.

    Grey said that such immense capa­bil­i­ties are not mere­ly rel­e­gat­ed to the study of the pro­sa­ic. “The exis­tence of com­plex his­tor­i­cal pro­grams involv­ing the coor­di­nat­ed retrieval and study of exot­ic mate­ri­als, dat­ing back to the ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry, should no longer remain a secret,” he said. “The major­i­ty of retrieved, for­eign exot­ic mate­ri­als have a pro­sa­ic ter­res­tri­al expla­na­tion and ori­gin – but not all, and any num­ber high­er than zero in this cat­e­go­ry rep­re­sents an unde­ni­ably sig­nif­i­cant sta­tis­ti­cal per­cent­age.”

    ...

    Clas­si­fied brief­in­gs are often pre­sent­ed for Jonathan Grey and his team at NASIC. “High-lev­el, clas­si­fied brief­ing mate­ri­als exist in which real-world sce­nar­ios involv­ing UAP, as evi­denced by his­tor­i­cal exam­ples, are made avail­able to Intel­li­gence Per­son­nel on a need-to-know basis,” he told us. “I have been the recip­i­ent of such brief­in­gs for almost a decade.”
    ...

    How many peo­ple inside the US gov­ern­ment were involved with these pro­grams over the decades? How about out­side the US gov­ern­ment? Or oth­er gov­ern­ments? These are just some of the ‘san­i­ty-check’ ques­tions raised by these mon­u­men­tal claims.

    It’s also worth keep­ing in mind that, as we enter the era of advanced AI, there’s undoubt­ed­ly going to be all sorts of inter­est vehi­cle designs com­ing through the pipeline that appear very non-human in ori­gin because they weren’t designed by a human at all. You have to won­der how this mythol­o­gy is going to syn­er­gize with that emerg­ing tech­nol­o­gy. It will also be very inter­est­ing to com­pare the ‘alien tech’ from the 1940s vs ‘alien tech’ dis­cov­ered more recent­ly. Do we see any notice­able tech­no­log­i­cal leaps?

    Final­ly, there’s also the gener­ic ques­tion as to whether or not the biggest fear about the pub­lic impact of ‘ET’ dis­clo­sures is fears of a giant pub­lic freak out or, rather, a giant pub­lic sober­ing event that maybe gives us a col­lec­tive sense of per­spec­tive human­i­ty clear­ly lacks at the moment. Odds are the folks run­ning ultra-secret tech research pro­grams for decades aren’t super keen on hav­ing a sober informed pub­lic.

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | June 6, 2023, 5:46 pm
  7. Curi­ouser and curi­ouser. That’s the clear theme of the increas­ing­ly wild UFO recov­ery claims be put for­ward by a grow­ing num­ber of for­mer Pen­ta­gon offi­cials involved with the US mil­i­tary’s var­i­ous UFO assess­ment pro­grams. As we saw, it was the whistle­blow­ing of David Charles Grusch, a recent­ly retired intel­li­gence offi­cial who has filed a com­plaint with the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD)‘s Inspec­tor Gen­er­al (IG) office over what he asserts were reprisals he expe­ri­enced after con­fi­den­tial­ly pro­vid­ing clas­sifed infor­ma­tion to the DoD IG about UFO-relat­ed infor­ma­tion that was being ille­gal­ly-with­held from Con­gress. Infor­ma­tion about 80 years of a secret glob­al arms race involv­ing the dis­cov­ery and reverse engi­neer­ing of non-man-made vehi­cles. And while it did­n’t sound like Grusch had direct evi­dence for these claims that he could make avail­able, there are a num­ber of oth­er for­mer Pen­ta­gon offi­cials involved with UFO-relat­ed pro­grams who have already come for­ward to vouch for Gruschs’s char­ac­ter and integri­ty and the gen­er­al verac­i­ty of his claims. It’s a weird sto­ry, made all the weird­er by all of the seem­ing­ly seri­ous peo­ple back­ing it.

    And it just keeps get­ting weird­er. With some some­what weird­er fig­ures also get­ting involved. In par­tic­u­lar, it looks like Daniel Shee­han is play­ing a legal advi­so­ry role for Grusch. As we’re going to see, while Shee­han is best known for his work on sto­ries like the Pen­ta­gon Papers and Iran Con­tra, he’s been get­ting increas­ing­ly involved in UFO dis­clo­sure-relat­ed work in recent years and appears to be deeply involved with this sto­ry. So much so that he’s shared with reporters a claim that even Grusch has­n’t made yet: Accord­ing to Shee­hen, a whistle­blow­er told him about a recov­ered UFO that seemed to defy the laws of space and time, with one mem­ber of the sal­vaging team enter­ing the rel­a­tive­ly small vehi­cle and find­ing the space inside was larg­er than a foot­ball field. And while this per­son only spent a few min­utes inside the vehi­cle, hours had passed out­side. That’s the kind of tech­nol­o­gy Shee­han is claim­ing they are cov­er­ing up.

    Anoth­er inter­est­ing fig­ure involved with this is CIA research Dr. Hal Puthoff, the first direc­tor of the CIA’s Project Star­gate remote view­ing exper­i­ments. Puthoff. who was part of the 2008–2012 UFO pro­gram, claims to have briefed Con­gress on clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion about UFO ‘reverse engi­neer­ing’ pro­grams and also claims to know some of these pro­grams’ whistle­blow­ers.

    We also got anoth­er inter­est­ing detail from Grusch about the time­line for this decades-long secret alien arms race: the ear­li­est UFO recov­ery project he learned about was in 1933 Milan, Italy, by Mus­solin­i’s gov­ern­ment. The US appar­ent­ly took con­trol of the secret­ly-recov­ered craft in 1944. It’s some very inter­est­ing con­text for the WWII Foo Fight­er sight­ings.

    So the more ‘con­crete’ these claims appear to be get­ting in terms of the appar­ent cred­i­bil­i­ty of the indi­vid­u­als mak­ing them, the wilder the claims them­selves are get­ting. Which is also pre­sum­ably going to be an endur­ing theme of this sto­ry until it’s either revealed as a hoax or we all some­how just for­get about it:

    Dai­ly Mail

    EXCLUSIVE: Crashed UFO recov­ered by the US mil­i­tary ‘dis­tort­ed space and time,’ leav­ing one inves­ti­ga­tor ‘nau­seous and dis­ori­ent­ed’ when he went in and dis­cov­ered it was much larg­er inside than out, attor­ney for whistle­blow­ers reveals

    * Lawyer Daniel Shee­han tells DailyMail.com that a whistle­blow­er told him of a crashed UFO recov­ered by the US mil­i­tary that ‘dis­tort­ed space-time’
    * ‘They had a guy go into it and it was the size of a foot­ball sta­di­um, while the out­side was only about 30 feet in diam­e­ter.’ Shee­han said
    * Shee­han has been help­ing bring whistle­blow­ers like for­mer senior Air Force intel­li­gence offi­cer David Grusch to Con­gress

    By Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com

    Pub­lished: 12:45 EDT, 10 June 2023 | Updat­ed: 16:38 EDT, 10 June 2023

    A crashed UFO recov­ered by the US mil­i­tary ‘dis­tort­ed space-time’ and was ‘big­ger on the inside’, claims a top attor­ney involved in bring­ing UFO whistle­blow­ers to Con­gress.

    Daniel Shee­han says he was told the mind-bog­gling tale by a whistle­blow­er who alleged­ly took part in an ille­gal­ly-undis­closed pro­gram retriev­ing crashed non-human space­craft – and who has now briefed Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee staff.

    The lawyer’s sto­ry is the lat­est in a series of stun­ning claims this week of UFOs in the gov­ern­men­t’s hands, which began on Mon­day with an on-cam­era inter­view of for­mer senior Air Force intel­li­gence offi­cer David Grusch alleg­ing that the US gov­ern­ment pos­sess­es mul­ti­ple crashed ‘non-human’ craft.

    The Depart­ment of Defense says it has ‘not dis­cov­ered any ver­i­fi­able infor­ma­tion’ to sup­port any of the claims.

    But Shee­han has been help­ing bring whistle­blow­ers like Grusch to Con­gress in an attempt to expose what he believes is a gov­ern­ment cov­er-up of encoun­ters with extrater­res­tri­als.

    The attor­ney told DailyMail.com that one alleged recov­ery, recount­ed to him by a sup­posed crash retrieval pro­gram insid­er, involved a 30ft saucer par­tial­ly embed­ded in the earth, with some fan­tas­ti­cal prop­er­ties.

    ‘They tried to hook a bull­doz­er to it to pull it out. And it pulled out a shape like a pie slice, almost like it was part of the way it was con­struct­ed,’ Shee­han said.

    ‘When it came loose a cou­ple feet, they stopped imme­di­ate­ly. They did­n’t want to destroy the integri­ty of the machine.

    ‘They had a guy go into it. He got in there, and it was as big as a foot­ball sta­di­um. It was freak­ing him out and start­ed mak­ing him feel nau­seous, he was so dis­ori­ent­ed because it was so gigan­tic inside.

    ‘It was the size of a foot­ball sta­di­um, while the out­side was only about 30 feet in diam­e­ter.’

    Shee­han said that space was not the only warped dimen­sion around the craft.

    ‘He stag­gered back out after being in there a cou­ple of min­utes, and out­side it was four hours lat­er,’ he said. ‘There was all kinds of time dis­tor­tion and space dis­tor­tion.’

    Physi­cists have the­o­rized that propul­sion of an advanced craft could the­o­ret­i­cal­ly involve warp­ing space-time around it to negate the effects of grav­i­ty.

    But Shee­han declined to give fur­ther details – includ­ing a loca­tion and date of the inci­dent – and said he was unable to pro­vide evi­dence for the claims.

    The lack of details, doc­u­ments and pho­tos are lead­ing skep­tics to dis­miss as tall tales the sto­ries of off-world UFOs stored by secret gov­ern­ment pro­grams.

    Mil­i­tary intel­li­gence offi­cials who have voiced their sup­port for Grusch since he came for­ward pub­licly point out that he has placed him­self at con­sid­er­able risk if he is lying – as all his claims have been sub­mit­ted to the DoD and Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty Inspec­tor Gen­er­als on penal­ty of per­jury.

    Jim Shell, a for­mer Chief Sci­en­tist of the Space Inno­va­tion and Devel­op­ment Cen­ter at Air Force Space Com­mand, wrote on LinkedIn Mon­day in sup­port of his for­mer col­league Grusch.

    ‘I will vouch for the integri­ty of Dave Grusch! Get­ting to the bot­tom of this is elu­sive and prob­lem­at­ic, to say the least,’ Shell wrote. ‘I will assert no mat­ter the con­clu­sion of extrater­res­tri­al mate­ri­als or not, the DoD and IC secu­ri­ty appa­ra­tus is in trou­ble and unwit­ting accom­plices are fos­ter­ing an abu­sive sys­tem.’

    A for­mer Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office (NRO) con­trac­tor Jeff Nevin replied: ‘Same here Jim I worked with Dave for years.’

    Shee­han said Grusch, 36, had giv­en scores of clas­si­fied doc­u­ments, and even pho­tographs, to the DoD Inspec­tor Gen­er­al.

    ‘He’s giv­en them over 100 clas­si­fied doc­u­ments. But he has­n’t been able to show all of them to all the staff in the Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee because some don’t have the ade­quate clear­ances,’ the lawyer said.

    ‘The prob­lem is that the peo­ple who have those kinds of clear­ances are part of the peo­ple who’ve been con­ceal­ing it for 75 years.’

    ...

    Like Shee­han, Grusch’s claims so far have all been sec­ond-hand, recount­ing what he was told by alleged crash retrieval pro­gram insid­ers while he inves­ti­gat­ed UFOs for the Pen­ta­gon.

    But in an inter­view this week with French news­pa­per Le Parisien, he allud­ed to poten­tial first-hand knowl­edge too.

    Jour­nal­ist Gael Lom­bart asked if he had ‘seen any exot­ic gear with your own eyes?’ and Grusch replied: ‘I saw some very inter­est­ing things that I’m not allowed to talk about pub­licly right now. I don’t have approval.’

    Grusch is not alone in his dis­clo­sures, accord­ing to senior intel­li­gence offi­cials.

    On June 3 for­mer top defense intel­li­gence offi­cial Christo­pher Mel­lon wrote an essay for Politi­co, reveal­ing he had ‘referred four wit­ness­es’ to the gov­ern­men­t’s UFO inves­ti­ga­tion task force, the All-domain Anom­aly Res­o­lu­tion Office (AARO), who ‘claim to have knowl­edge of a secret U.S. gov­ern­ment pro­gram involv­ing the analy­sis and exploita­tion of mate­ri­als recov­ered from off-world craft’.

    Nobel Prize nom­i­nee and CIA sci­en­tist Dr. Hal Puthoff, who worked in the gov­ern­men­t’s 2008–2012 UFO pro­gram called AAWSAP, told DailyMail.com in April that he had briefed Con­gress on clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion about UFO ‘reverse engi­neer­ing’ pro­grams, and knew of whistle­blow­ers who had worked in the alleged pro­grams.

    Michael Shel­len­berg­er, author and founder of news site Pub­lic, report­ed on Wednes­day sev­er­al uniden­ti­fied intel­li­gence sources who claimed they had seen ‘cred­i­ble’ and ‘ver­i­fi­able’ evi­dence that the gov­ern­ment or mil­i­tary con­trac­tors have at least 12 ‘alien space crafts’.

    Pub­lic’s report said some of their sources were the same peo­ple who briefed Grusch.

    ‘Every five years, we get one or two recov­ered for one rea­son or anoth­er, from either a land­ing or that we catch, or they just crash,’ one alleged whistle­blow­er told the pub­li­ca­tion. ‘I know of at least 12–15 craft.’

    A defense con­trac­tor told Pub­lic: ‘There were at least four mor­pholo­gies, dif­fer­ent struc­tures. Six were in good shape; six were not in good shape. There were cas­es where the craft land­ed, and the occu­pants left the craft unoc­cu­pied. There have been high-lev­el peo­ple, includ­ing gen­er­als, who have placed their hand on the craft, and I would have no rea­son to dis­be­lieve them.’

    One gave a spe­cif­ic – but whacky – descrip­tion of the alleged craft, say­ing it ‘looked like a chopped up heli­copter, with the front bub­ble of a Huey heli­copter, with the plas­tic win­dows, or more like a deep sea sub­ma­rine, with a thick piece of glass bub­ble shaped.’

    ‘Where the tail rud­der should have been, it was a black, egg-shaped pan­cake, and instead of land­ing gear it had upside-down rams horns that went from the top to the bot­tom and rest­ed on the ends of the horns,’ the source told Pub­lic.

    Engi­neer­ing and mil­i­tary news site The Debrief, which pub­lished the first inter­view with Grusch on Mon­day, also includ­ed a quote from a retired Army colonel who worked with Grusch on the gov­ern­men­t’s UFO task force, agree­ing with his claims.

    ‘His asser­tion con­cern­ing the exis­tence of a ter­res­tri­al arms race occur­ring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engi­neer­ing tech­nolo­gies of unknown ori­gin is fun­da­men­tal­ly cor­rect,’ Col. Karl Nell told the Debrief.

    Shee­han has expe­ri­ence with legal wran­gling involv­ing clas­si­fied mate­r­i­al. He par­tic­i­pat­ed in land­mark cas­es includ­ing the Pen­ta­gon Papers in 1971 and the Water­gate break-in of 1972, and is cred­it­ed with launch­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion into the Iran-Con­tra scan­dal of the 1980s.

    But for years he has turned his atten­tion to UFOs, work­ing close­ly with whistle­blow­ers to peel back state secre­cy on the top­ic.

    He rep­re­sent­ed Lue Eli­zon­do, who helped run the gov­ern­men­t’s UFO office until 2017, in a whistle­blow­er com­plaint to the Inspec­tor Gen­er­als of the Defense Depart­ment and Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty alleg­ing a cov­er-up of mil­i­tary encoun­ters with uniden­ti­fied craft.

    And he says he also coun­seled Grusch – though he does not offi­cial­ly rep­re­sent him.

    ‘I had been talk­ing with him and was work­ing with him legal­ly about what to do,’ Shee­han told DailyMail.com, adding that now the Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office (NRO) vet­er­an was rep­re­sent­ed by lawyer and first Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty Inspec­tor Gen­er­al (ICIG) Charles McCul­lough III.

    ‘They can kick some butt,’ Shee­han said.

    On Fri­day, McCul­lough’s firm, Com­pass Rose, post­ed a state­ment on its web­site say­ing it had ‘suc­cess­ful­ly con­clud­ed its rep­re­sen­ta­tion of for­mer client David Grush.’

    ‘The firm filed a nar­row­ly-scoped whistle­blow­er dis­clo­sure with the Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty Inspec­tor Gen­er­al (‘ICIG’) and asso­ci­at­ed per­son­nel mat­ters – and had rep­re­sent­ed Mr. Grusch since Feb­ru­ary 2022,’ the state­ment said.

    ‘The whistle­blow­er dis­clo­sure did not speak to the specifics of the alleged clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion that Mr. Grusch has now pub­licly char­ac­ter­ized, and the sub­stance of that infor­ma­tion has always been out­side of the scope of Com­pass Rose’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion. Com­pass Rose took no posi­tion and takes no posi­tion on the con­tents of the with­held infor­ma­tion.

    ‘The ICIG found Mr. Grusch’s asser­tion that infor­ma­tion was inap­pro­pri­ate­ly con­cealed from Con­gress to be urgent and cred­i­ble in response to the filed dis­clo­sure. Com­pass Rose brought this mat­ter to the ICIG’s atten­tion through law­ful chan­nels and suc­cess­ful­ly defend­ed Mr. Grusch against retal­i­a­tion.

    ‘We wish our for­mer client the very best in the next steps of his jour­ney.’

    Grusch served as the NRO rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the UFO task force from 2019 to 2021, and then co-led ‘uniden­ti­fied anom­alous phe­nom­e­na’ (gov­ern­ment-speak for UFOs) analy­sis for the Nation­al Geospa­tial-Intel­li­gence Agency until July 2022.

    He filed his first whistle­blow­er com­plaint to the DoD Inspec­tor Gen­er­al in July 2021, alleg­ing that defense offi­cials had failed to prop­er­ly dis­close UFO crash retrieval pro­grams to Con­gress.

    Last year’s annu­al mil­i­tary fund­ing bill, the Nation­al Defense Autho­riza­tion Act (NDAA), includ­ed a new clause allow­ing whistle­blow­ers to report pre­vi­ous­ly undis­closed UFO ‘mate­r­i­al retrieval, mate­r­i­al analy­sis, [and] reverse engi­neer­ing’ pro­grams to the Pen­tagon’s AARO team with­out fear of pros­e­cu­tion for vio­lat­ing their secu­ri­ty oaths and non-dis­clo­sure agree­ments.

    But Shee­han said sev­er­al whistle­blow­ers have been going straight to Con­gress instead, fear­ing that AARO does not have the author­i­ty to inves­ti­gate their claims – only hav­ing the abil­i­ty to probe clas­si­fied pro­grams in the mil­i­tary under ‘Title 10′ author­i­ty, and not intel­li­gence ser­vices pro­grams under ‘Title 50’.

    He said oth­ers are con­sid­er­ing a third route which Grusch took: using long-exist­ing fed­er­al whistle­blow­er pro­tec­tion laws to report alleged­ly ille­gal UFO cov­er-ups first to the DoD IG, and then to staff of the Con­gres­sion­al intel­li­gence com­mit­tees.

    Grush lat­er filed a sec­ond com­plaint to the ICIG, excerpts of which were pub­lished by News­Na­tion this week, claim­ing the Pen­ta­gon had retal­i­at­ed against him for speak­ing out.

    A source briefed on Grusch’s case told DailyMail.com that he was sub­ject­ed to ‘harass­ment’ includ­ing plac­ing air tags in his wife’s car to mon­i­tor its move­ments, and fly­ing drones over his home.

    In an inter­view pub­lished in Le Parisien on Wednes­day, Grusch was asked if he feared for his life, and answered: ‘At one time, there were threats of this nature.’

    ‘They tried to attack my secu­ri­ty clear­ance, they made alle­ga­tions of mis­con­duct against me, things of that nature,’ he told the paper.

    ‘To pro­tect the ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion on my behalf, I can’t give too many details. I think in a few months I’ll be able to.’

    Grusch also revealed tan­ta­liz­ing new details of his claims to Con­gress about the alleged UFO crash retrieval pro­gram in the Le Parisien inter­view.

    He said that ‘mem­bers of the Five Eyes alliance, i.e. Cana­da, the UK, Aus­tralia and New Zealand’ had been involved.

    And he even said that the ear­li­est recov­ery he learned of was a ‘bell-like craft’ that sup­pos­ed­ly crashed in north­ern Italy in 1933.

    ‘It was kept by Mus­solin­i’s gov­ern­ment until 1944 when it was recov­ered by agents of the Office of Strate­gic Ser­vices [an his­toric US intel­li­gence agency]. Iron­i­cal­ly, it pre­dates any­thing the pub­lic has heard about for decades, such as Roswell, etc.’

    In a state­ment, DoD spokes­woman Susan Gough said: ‘To date, AARO has not dis­cov­ered any ver­i­fi­able infor­ma­tion to sub­stan­ti­ate claims that any pro­grams regard­ing the pos­ses­sion or reverse-engi­neer­ing of extrater­res­tri­al mate­ri­als have exist­ed in the past or exist cur­rent­ly.’

    ———–

    “EXCLUSIVE: Crashed UFO recov­ered by the US mil­i­tary ‘dis­tort­ed space and time,’ leav­ing one inves­ti­ga­tor ‘nau­seous and dis­ori­ent­ed’ when he went in and dis­cov­ered it was much larg­er inside than out, attor­ney for whistle­blow­ers reveals” By Josh Boswell; Dai­ly Mail; 06/10/2023

    “Daniel Shee­han says he was told the mind-bog­gling tale by a whistle­blow­er who alleged­ly took part in an ille­gal­ly-undis­closed pro­gram retriev­ing crashed non-human space­craft – and who has now briefed Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee staff.”

    Daniel Shee­han is on the case. And he’s mak­ing claims that go far beyond what David Grusch is mak­ing, with tales of a recov­ered craft that seemed to defy the phys­i­cal laws of space and time. Ccu­ri­ouser and curi­ouser:

    ...
    The attor­ney told DailyMail.com that one alleged recov­ery, recount­ed to him by a sup­posed crash retrieval pro­gram insid­er, involved a 30ft saucer par­tial­ly embed­ded in the earth, with some fan­tas­ti­cal prop­er­ties.

    ‘They tried to hook a bull­doz­er to it to pull it out. And it pulled out a shape like a pie slice, almost like it was part of the way it was con­struct­ed,’ Shee­han said.

    ‘When it came loose a cou­ple feet, they stopped imme­di­ate­ly. They did­n’t want to destroy the integri­ty of the machine.

    ‘They had a guy go into it. He got in there, and it was as big as a foot­ball sta­di­um. It was freak­ing him out and start­ed mak­ing him feel nau­seous, he was so dis­ori­ent­ed because it was so gigan­tic inside.

    ‘It was the size of a foot­ball sta­di­um, while the out­side was only about 30 feet in diam­e­ter.’

    Shee­han said that space was not the only warped dimen­sion around the craft.

    ‘He stag­gered back out after being in there a cou­ple of min­utes, and out­side it was four hours lat­er,’ he said. ‘There was all kinds of time dis­tor­tion and space dis­tor­tion.’

    Physi­cists have the­o­rized that propul­sion of an advanced craft could the­o­ret­i­cal­ly involve warp­ing space-time around it to negate the effects of grav­i­ty.

    But Shee­han declined to give fur­ther details – includ­ing a loca­tion and date of the inci­dent – and said he was unable to pro­vide evi­dence for the claims.
    ...

    Just imag­ine how many clas­si­fied doc­u­ments Don­ald Trump could hide in his bath­room if it had alien space-warp­ing tech­nol­o­gy installed.

    And accord­ing to Shee­han, Grusch had mul­ti­ple options for exe­cut­ing his whistle­blow­er com­plaint thanks, in part, to the fact that last year’s defense bill includ­ed a new clause explic­it­ly for UFO whistle­blow­ers to report direct­ly to the Pen­tagon’s AARO team with­out fear of pros­e­cu­tion for vio­lat­ing their secu­ri­ty oaths and non-dis­clo­sure agree­ments. And yet Grusch did­n’t file his com­plaint with the AARO but instead filed a com­plaint with the DoD IG and then Con­gres­sion­al intel­li­gence com­mit­tee staffers. Why? Because of fears that the AARO itself does­n’t actu­al­ly have the author­i­ty to inves­ti­gate their claims. So it sounds like Con­gress may have set up a kind of UFO whistle­blow­er dis­clo­sure trap that Grusch is get­ting around by bring­ing his com­plaint direct­ly to Con­gres­sion­al staffers:

    ...
    Grusch served as the NRO rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the UFO task force from 2019 to 2021, and then co-led ‘uniden­ti­fied anom­alous phe­nom­e­na’ (gov­ern­ment-speak for UFOs) analy­sis for the Nation­al Geospa­tial-Intel­li­gence Agency until July 2022.

    He filed his first whistle­blow­er com­plaint to the DoD Inspec­tor Gen­er­al in July 2021, alleg­ing that defense offi­cials had failed to prop­er­ly dis­close UFO crash retrieval pro­grams to Con­gress.

    Last year’s annu­al mil­i­tary fund­ing bill, the Nation­al Defense Autho­riza­tion Act (NDAA), includ­ed a new clause allow­ing whistle­blow­ers to report pre­vi­ous­ly undis­closed UFO ‘mate­r­i­al retrieval, mate­r­i­al analy­sis, [and] reverse engi­neer­ing’ pro­grams to the Pen­tagon’s AARO team with­out fear of pros­e­cu­tion for vio­lat­ing their secu­ri­ty oaths and non-dis­clo­sure agree­ments.

    But Shee­han said sev­er­al whistle­blow­ers have been going straight to Con­gress instead, fear­ing that AARO does not have the author­i­ty to inves­ti­gate their claims – only hav­ing the abil­i­ty to probe clas­si­fied pro­grams in the mil­i­tary under ‘Title 10′ author­i­ty, and not intel­li­gence ser­vices pro­grams under ‘Title 50’.

    He said oth­ers are con­sid­er­ing a third route which Grusch took: using long-exist­ing fed­er­al whistle­blow­er pro­tec­tion laws to report alleged­ly ille­gal UFO cov­er-ups first to the DoD IG, and then to staff of the Con­gres­sion­al intel­li­gence com­mit­tees.

    ...

    In a state­ment, DoD spokes­woman Susan Gough said: ‘To date, AARO has not dis­cov­ered any ver­i­fi­able infor­ma­tion to sub­stan­ti­ate claims that any pro­grams regard­ing the pos­ses­sion or reverse-engi­neer­ing of extrater­res­tri­al mate­ri­als have exist­ed in the past or exist cur­rent­ly.’
    ...

    Also note that Grusch is indeed claim­ing to have received what sounds like retal­i­a­tion over his com­plaints, while pre­dict­ing that he may be able to give more details in com­ing months. So if Grusch real­ly is fac­ing death threats by pow­er­ful forces intent on silenc­ing him, the pow­ers that be had bet­ter hur­ry up and bump him off:

    ...
    Grush lat­er filed a sec­ond com­plaint to the ICIG, excerpts of which were pub­lished by News­Na­tion this week, claim­ing the Pen­ta­gon had retal­i­at­ed against him for speak­ing out.

    A source briefed on Grusch’s case told DailyMail.com that he was sub­ject­ed to ‘harass­ment’ includ­ing plac­ing air tags in his wife’s car to mon­i­tor its move­ments, and fly­ing drones over his home.

    In an inter­view pub­lished in Le Parisien on Wednes­day, Grusch was asked if he feared for his life, and answered: ‘At one time, there were threats of this nature.’

    ‘They tried to attack my secu­ri­ty clear­ance, they made alle­ga­tions of mis­con­duct against me, things of that nature,’ he told the paper.

    ‘To pro­tect the ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion on my behalf, I can’t give too many details. I think in a few months I’ll be able to.’
    ...

    And while Shee­han isn’t pro­vid­ing evi­dence for these remark­able claims, it’s not like he’s only just got­ten involved with this top­ic all of sud­den. He’s been rep­re­sent­ing UFO whistle­blow­ers for years now, includ­ing Luis Eli­zon­do. Recall the reports from back in 2019 describ­ing how pro­to­cols were only only just then being for­mal­ly draft­ed for allow­ing Navy pilots to report UFO sight­ings. The fig­ures pub­licly push­ing for that new pol­i­cy at the time includ­ed Chris Mel­lon, a for­mer Pen­ta­gon intel­li­gence offi­cial and ex-staffer on the Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee and Luis Eli­zon­do, a for­mer Pen­ta­gon offi­cial who ran the so-called Advanced Aero­space Threat Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Pro­gram (AATIP) office that was wound down in 2012 when the con­gres­sion­al fund­ing ran out. Mel­lon and Eli­zon­do were both work­ing togeth­er back in 2019 and, sure enough, we see Mel­lon writ­ing an essay for Politi­co last week about this top­ic. We’re look­ing at a group effort here and Daniel Shee­han is part of the group. That’s part of the con­text of his claims about space-time-warp­ing vehi­cles:

    ...
    Shee­han has expe­ri­ence with legal wran­gling involv­ing clas­si­fied mate­r­i­al. He par­tic­i­pat­ed in land­mark cas­es includ­ing the Pen­ta­gon Papers in 1971 and the Water­gate break-in of 1972, and is cred­it­ed with launch­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion into the Iran-Con­tra scan­dal of the 1980s.

    But for years he has turned his atten­tion to UFOs, work­ing close­ly with whistle­blow­ers to peel back state secre­cy on the top­ic.

    He rep­re­sent­ed Lue Eli­zon­do, who helped run the gov­ern­men­t’s UFO office until 2017, in a whistle­blow­er com­plaint to the Inspec­tor Gen­er­als of the Defense Depart­ment and Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty alleg­ing a cov­er-up of mil­i­tary encoun­ters with uniden­ti­fied craft.

    ...

    Grusch is not alone in his dis­clo­sures, accord­ing to senior intel­li­gence offi­cials.

    On June 3 for­mer top defense intel­li­gence offi­cial Christo­pher Mel­lon wrote an essay for Politi­co, reveal­ing he had ‘referred four wit­ness­es’ to the gov­ern­men­t’s UFO inves­ti­ga­tion task force, the All-domain Anom­aly Res­o­lu­tion Office (AARO), who ‘claim to have knowl­edge of a secret U.S. gov­ern­ment pro­gram involv­ing the analy­sis and exploita­tion of mate­ri­als recov­ered from off-world craft’.
    ...

    Oth­er fig­ures who appear to be part of this group effort to brings this issue into the pub­lic fold include Jim Shell, a for­mer Chief Sci­en­tist of the Space Inno­va­tion and Devel­op­ment Cen­ter at Air Force Space Com­mand, and for­mer Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office (NRO) con­trac­tor Jeff Nevin. There appears to be a grow­ing num­ber of peo­ple pub­licly com­ing for­ward and mak­ing these claims. It’s anoth­er impor­tant detail in this unfold­ing sto­ry: while we aren’t actu­al­ly ever shown any evi­dence for these increas­ing­ly remark­able claims, there’s a grow­ing num­ber of peo­ple pub­licly com­ing for­ward to act as char­ac­ter wit­ness­es:

    ...
    The lack of details, doc­u­ments and pho­tos are lead­ing skep­tics to dis­miss as tall tales the sto­ries of off-world UFOs stored by secret gov­ern­ment pro­grams.

    Mil­i­tary intel­li­gence offi­cials who have voiced their sup­port for Grusch since he came for­ward pub­licly point out that he has placed him­self at con­sid­er­able risk if he is lying – as all his claims have been sub­mit­ted to the DoD and Intel­li­gence Com­mu­ni­ty Inspec­tor Gen­er­als on penal­ty of per­jury.

    Jim Shell, a for­mer Chief Sci­en­tist of the Space Inno­va­tion and Devel­op­ment Cen­ter at Air Force Space Com­mand, wrote on LinkedIn Mon­day in sup­port of his for­mer col­league Grusch.

    ‘I will vouch for the integri­ty of Dave Grusch! Get­ting to the bot­tom of this is elu­sive and prob­lem­at­ic, to say the least,’ Shell wrote. ‘I will assert no mat­ter the con­clu­sion of extrater­res­tri­al mate­ri­als or not, the DoD and IC secu­ri­ty appa­ra­tus is in trou­ble and unwit­ting accom­plices are fos­ter­ing an abu­sive sys­tem.’

    A for­mer Nation­al Recon­nais­sance Office (NRO) con­trac­tor Jeff Nevin replied: ‘Same here Jim I worked with Dave for years.’
    ...

    And then we get to anoth­er very intrigu­ing fig­ure to see involved in all of this: Dr Hal Puthoff, who was famous­ly the first direc­tor of the CIA’s “Project Star­gate” psy­chic remote view­ing exper­i­ments. On the one hand, of course we’re see­ing some­one with Puthof­f’s back­ground involved with this. On the oth­er hand, what does that tell us about what we’re see­ing unfold here? And then there’s the fun ques­tion about the kind of deep state bureau­crat­ic ker­fuf­fles that would have arisen had any of the the CIA’s remote view­ers ever claimed to have remote­ly view these UFO research facil­i­ties:

    ...
    Nobel Prize nom­i­nee and CIA sci­en­tist Dr. Hal Puthoff, who worked in the gov­ern­men­t’s 2008–2012 UFO pro­gram called AAWSAP, told DailyMail.com in April that he had briefed Con­gress on clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion about UFO ‘reverse engi­neer­ing’ pro­grams, and knew of whistle­blow­ers who had worked in the alleged pro­grams.
    ...

    And while Grusch does­n’t appear to be out­right claim­ing to have first hand evi­dence of any of these remark­able sto­ries, he did hint at pos­sess­ing such evi­dence and also hint­ed that he might be in a posi­tion to do so in a mat­ter of months. This sto­ry could get a lot weird­er fast:

    ...
    Shee­han said Grusch, 36, had giv­en scores of clas­si­fied doc­u­ments, and even pho­tographs, to the DoD Inspec­tor Gen­er­al.

    ‘He’s giv­en them over 100 clas­si­fied doc­u­ments. But he has­n’t been able to show all of them to all the staff in the Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee because some don’t have the ade­quate clear­ances,’ the lawyer said.

    ‘The prob­lem is that the peo­ple who have those kinds of clear­ances are part of the peo­ple who’ve been con­ceal­ing it for 75 years.’

    ...

    Like Shee­han, Grusch’s claims so far have all been sec­ond-hand, recount­ing what he was told by alleged crash retrieval pro­gram insid­ers while he inves­ti­gat­ed UFOs for the Pen­ta­gon.

    But in an inter­view this week with French news­pa­per Le Parisien, he allud­ed to poten­tial first-hand knowl­edge too.

    Jour­nal­ist Gael Lom­bart asked if he had ‘seen any exot­ic gear with your own eyes?’ and Grusch replied: ‘I saw some very inter­est­ing things that I’m not allowed to talk about pub­licly right now. I don’t have approval.’
    ...

    And as the addi­tion­al details from Michael Shel­len­berg­er’s “Pub­lic” Sub­stack out­let reveals, this is a larg­er pub­lic dis­clo­sure effort involv­ing even more insid­ers mak­ing these remark­able claims. Includ­ing an unnamed defense con­trac­tor who claims that “one or two” new craft are found every five years or so. If defense con­trac­tors real­ly are involved with these ultra-secret block ops research pro­grams, the prof­it motive and poten­tial­ly invalu­able nature of such tech­nol­o­gy is anoth­er fac­tor to keep in mind in this sto­ry. On the one hand, it’s not hard to imag­ine a major defense con­trac­tor would be keen­ly inter­est­ed com­mer­cial­iz­ing this tech­nol­o­gy. Which rais­es the gen­er­al ques­tion of how much does sim­ply putting the ‘made by aliens’ label on tech­nol­o­gy increase, or decrease, its poten­tial com­mer­cial val­ue? We’re in a lot of dif­fer­ent unchart­ed ter­ri­to­ry here:

    ...
    Michael Shel­len­berg­er, author and founder of news site Pub­lic, report­ed on Wednes­day sev­er­al uniden­ti­fied intel­li­gence sources who claimed they had seen ‘cred­i­ble’ and ‘ver­i­fi­able’ evi­dence that the gov­ern­ment or mil­i­tary con­trac­tors have at least 12 ‘alien space crafts’.

    Pub­lic’s report said some of their sources were the same peo­ple who briefed Grusch.

    ‘Every five years, we get one or two recov­ered for one rea­son or anoth­er, from either a land­ing or that we catch, or they just crash,’ one alleged whistle­blow­er told the pub­li­ca­tion. ‘I know of at least 12–15 craft.’

    A defense con­trac­tor told Pub­lic: ‘There were at least four mor­pholo­gies, dif­fer­ent struc­tures. Six were in good shape; six were not in good shape. There were cas­es where the craft land­ed, and the occu­pants left the craft unoc­cu­pied. There have been high-lev­el peo­ple, includ­ing gen­er­als, who have placed their hand on the craft, and I would have no rea­son to dis­be­lieve them.’

    One gave a spe­cif­ic – but whacky – descrip­tion of the alleged craft, say­ing it ‘looked like a chopped up heli­copter, with the front bub­ble of a Huey heli­copter, with the plas­tic win­dows, or more like a deep sea sub­ma­rine, with a thick piece of glass bub­ble shaped.’

    ‘Where the tail rud­der should have been, it was a black, egg-shaped pan­cake, and instead of land­ing gear it had upside-down rams horns that went from the top to the bot­tom and rest­ed on the ends of the horns,’ the source told Pub­lic.
    ...

    Final­ly, we get to this incred­i­ble addi­tion­al detail from Grusch about the time­line for this alleged decades-long glob­al arms race: the ear­li­est UFO crash recov­ery he learned about hap­pened in 1933 Milan, Italy, by Mus­solin­i’s fas­cist gov­ern­ment. Some sort of ear­ly Foo Fight­er pro­to­type per­haps?

    ...
    Grusch also revealed tan­ta­liz­ing new details of his claims to Con­gress about the alleged UFO crash retrieval pro­gram in the Le Parisien inter­view.

    He said that ‘mem­bers of the Five Eyes alliance, i.e. Cana­da, the UK, Aus­tralia and New Zealand’ had been involved.

    And he even said that the ear­li­est recov­ery he learned of was a ‘bell-like craft’ that sup­pos­ed­ly crashed in north­ern Italy in 1933.

    ‘It was kept by Mus­solin­i’s gov­ern­ment until 1944 when it was recov­ered by agents of the Office of Strate­gic Ser­vices [an his­toric US intel­li­gence agency]. Iron­i­cal­ly, it pre­dates any­thing the pub­lic has heard about for decades, such as Roswell, etc.’
    ...

    There’s been a fun hoax pho­to of Adolf Hitler shak­ing hands with a grey alien mak­ing the rounds on the inter­net recent­ly, which experts have point­ed out was a mod­i­fi­ca­tion of a pho­to of Hitler shak­ing hands with Mus­soli­ni. And while it’s a hoax pho­to, it’s a reminder that, as mas­sive a rev­e­la­tion as it would be to learn that alien space­craft real­ly had been recov­ered, that’s real­ly just open­ing chap­ter. We can pre­sum­ably talk to the aliens too. And if the his­to­ry of alien hoax­es is any indi­ca­tion of what to expect, those aliens are prob­a­bly going to be Nazi-friend­ly author­i­tar­i­an bas­tards. So, you know, don’t get too excit­ed for the upcom­ing ‘big reveal’.

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | June 12, 2023, 5:37 pm
  8. Scoo­by Doo, where are you? It’s not the ques­tion we prob­a­bly expect­ed to have to ask. But fol­low­ing some utter­ly bizarre reports out of Peru, we have to ask. Because it appears that a group of ille­gal Peru­vian gold min­ers have been dress­ing up as aliens for the past month in order to ter­ror­ize the res­i­dents of a remote vil­lage in the jun­gle. At least that was the offi­cial assess­ment of an inves­ti­ga­tion fol­low­ing reports from alarmed vil­lagers of 7‑foot tall ‘Face Peeler’-like aliens with large heads, glow­ing yel­low eyes, and the abil­i­ty to hov­er. Yep. They were using jet­packs, accord­ing to the inves­ti­ga­tion.

    Now, on its own, that’s an odd­ball sto­ry. But it’s worth not­ing that this isn’t the only report of tall aliens with large glow­ing eyes that we got recent­ly. Las Vegas has its own inci­dent involv­ing tall aliens with large glow­ing eyes. The inci­dent, which took place just after mid­night on May 1, fol­low­ing a large glow­ing object that was observ­er and record­ed falling from the sky. Short­ly after­ward, a 911 call from a Vega area fam­i­ly report­ed some­thing crashed in their yard and a tall alien-like crea­ture with glow­ing eyes could be seen near the object. And that was more or less the end of that sto­ry. So who knows what, if any­thing, was ever recov­ered from that yard. But with two inci­dents of tall aliens with glow­ing eyes in recent months — at the same time we’re get­ting all the offi­cial hype around the ‘UFO whistle­blow­ing’ fea­tur­ing David Charles Grusch and hints of an loom­ing major dis­clo­sure — it’s prob­a­bly worth ask­ing if these inci­dents are some­how con­nect­ed.

    And, more gen­er­al­ly, it’s all reminder that, at the same time we can expect the devel­op­ment of UFO-like tech­nol­o­gy to emerge at some point, there’s a sim­i­lar trend for alien-cos­tume tech­nol­o­gy that we should also expect.

    Ok, first, here’s that report on the Las Vegas alien inci­dent from back in April. An inci­dent with lit­tle to con­firm it, oth­er than the fact that there was indeed a large glow­ing object that fell from the sky that night:

    The Los Ange­les Times

    ‘They’re 100% not human’: Las Vegas police inves­ti­gate reports of extrater­res­tri­al sight­ings

    By Alexan­dra E. Petri
    June 9, 2023 10:16 AM PT

    Big, shiny eyes. Tow­er­ing near­ly 10 feet tall. 100% not human. Aliens.

    That’s the 911 call that came into dis­patch­ers last month from a Las Vegas area res­i­dent report­ing extrater­res­tri­al life in his back­yard, just about an hour after local police wit­nessed an object falling from the sky.

    The para­nor­mal inves­ti­ga­tion by police did not turn up any answers.

    “On May 1, 2023, at approx­i­mate­ly 12:29 a.m. LVMPD dis­patch received a call about a sus­pi­cious sit­u­a­tion,” the Las Vegas Police Depart­ment said in an email state­ment. “Offi­cer con­duct­ed a pre­lim­i­nary inves­ti­ga­tion and closed the event as unfound­ed.”

    At around 11:50 p.m. on April 30, body cam­era footage from an offi­cer with the Las Vegas Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police cap­tured a bright, glow­ing object cut­ting through the sky, accord­ing to local TV chan­nel 8 News Now..

    About 40 min­utes lat­er, a local res­i­dent placed a 911 call to report that some­thing “100% not human” was star­ing at him from his back­yard short­ly after he and his fam­i­ly saw an object fall from the sky, the sta­tion report­ed.

    “There’s like an 8‑foot per­son beside it, and anoth­er one’s inside us, and it has big eyes and it’s look­ing at us — and it’s still there,” the caller, who said that he and his fam­i­ly had seen some­thing fall from the sky, told the dis­patch­er.

    “I swear to God this is not a joke, this is actu­al­ly — we’re ter­ri­fied,” the caller said.

    Local TV chan­nel 8 News Now first report­ed the sto­ry and obtained the video and audio from that weird evening, includ­ing the 911 call and body cam­era footage.

    The dis­patch­er clar­i­fied the sit­u­a­tion with the caller, care­ful to choose the right words.

    “So, there’s two peo­ple — there’s two sub­jects in your back­yard?” the dis­patch­er asked.

    “Cor­rect, and they’re very large,” the caller said. “They’re like 8 foot, 9 feet, 10 foot. They look like aliens to us. Big eyes. They have big eyes. Like, I can’t explain it, and big mouth. They’re shiny eyes and they’re human. They’re 100% not human.

    ...

    “I’m so ner­vous right now,” one of the respond­ing offi­cers said while en route to the house. “I have but­ter­flies bro.” He con­tin­ues to say that peo­ple “saw a shoot­ing star, and now these peo­ple say there’s aliens in their back­yard.”

    Offi­cers inter­viewed the fam­i­ly on their front lawn.

    “What did you see?” one of the offi­cers asks.

    “It was like a big crea­ture,” one wit­ness said, adding it was around 10 feet tall.

    The offi­cer tells them about the inci­dent his col­league saw just before the call came in.

    “I’m not going to BS you guys. One of my part­ners said they saw some­thing fall out of the sky, too,” the offi­cer said. “So that’s why I’m kind of curi­ous. Did you see any­thing land in your back­yard?”

    A man in a robe said some of his fam­i­ly mem­bers saw “a big some­thing with light” plum­met from above.

    Police con­tin­ued to inves­ti­gate that evening, ask­ing neigh­bors if they too had wit­nessed any unusu­al objects fall from the sky. KLAS report­ed the inves­ti­ga­tion last­ed for sev­er­al days.

    ...

    ———-

    “‘They’re 100% not human’: Las Vegas police inves­ti­gate reports of extrater­res­tri­al sight­ings” by Alexan­dra E. Petri; The Los Ange­les Times; 06/09/2023

    ““There’s like an 8‑foot per­son beside it, and anoth­er one’s inside us, and it has big eyes and it’s look­ing at us — and it’s still there,” the caller, who said that he and his fam­i­ly had seen some­thing fall from the sky, told the dis­patch­er.”

    There’s an 8 foot tall per­son with big eyes stand­ing next to the appar­ent space­ship that fell in their back­yard. Very tall peo­ple who look like aliens with big shiny eyes, and a big mouth. That was the report from an alarmed Las Vegas fam­i­ly back in April. And while we haven’t heard any evi­dence that any­thing was actu­al­ly recov­ered from their yard, there was a bright glow­ing object caught on video falling from the sky:

    ...
    At around 11:50 p.m. on April 30, body cam­era footage from an offi­cer with the Las Vegas Met­ro­pol­i­tan Police cap­tured a bright, glow­ing object cut­ting through the sky, accord­ing to local TV chan­nel 8 News Now..

    About 40 min­utes lat­er, a local res­i­dent placed a 911 call to report that some­thing “100% not human” was star­ing at him from his back­yard short­ly after he and his fam­i­ly saw an object fall from the sky, the sta­tion report­ed.

    ...

    “I swear to God this is not a joke, this is actu­al­ly — we’re ter­ri­fied,” the caller said.

    ...

    The dis­patch­er clar­i­fied the sit­u­a­tion with the caller, care­ful to choose the right words.

    “So, there’s two peo­ple — there’s two sub­jects in your back­yard?” the dis­patch­er asked.

    “Cor­rect, and they’re very large,” the caller said. “They’re like 8 foot, 9 feet, 10 foot. They look like aliens to us. Big eyes. They have big eyes. Like, I can’t explain it, and big mouth. They’re shiny eyes and they’re human. They’re 100% not human.
    ...

    So that was weird. And seem­ing­ly ran­dom, although not entire­ly ran­dom in that we got this sto­ry right around the same time we got that flood of sto­ries about the ‘UFO whistle­blow­ing’ fea­tur­ing David Charles Grusch about an impend­ing mas­sive dis­clo­sure of UFO recov­er­ies going back decades. Las Veg­as’s prox­im­i­ty to Area 51 was also pret­ty ‘on brand’ for that kind of ‘UFO dis­clo­sure’ theme.

    And then, a few days ago, we got the even more bizarre reports out of Peru. Reports that don’t sound exact­ly the same as the Las Vegas inci­dent, but there are some notable sim­i­lar­i­ties. Once again, tall aliens with glow­ing eyes were seen, although in this case they weren’t seen loi­ter­ing around a crashed space craft. Instead, the tall aliens with glow­ing eyes were appar­ent­ly ter­ror­iz­ing the res­i­dents of a tiny remote Peru­vian vil­lage every night for the past month. And these aliens can fly. Or at least hov­er:

    The Dai­ly Mail

    Ter­ri­fied Peru­vian vil­lagers claim they are under attack from 7ft-tall ‘aliens’ dubbed ‘Face Peel­ers’ as they plead with author­i­ties to send back­up

    * Mem­bers of the Iki­tu tribe claim they have suf­fered repeat­ed attacks by ‘aliens’
    * They have called for assis­tance from the Peru­vian mil­i­tary and start­ed con­duct­ing their own night patrols to pro­tect the vul­ner­a­ble vil­lagers

    By Chris Jew­ers

    Pub­lished: 06:10 EDT, 8 August 2023 | Updat­ed: 06:33 EDT, 8 August 2023

    Ter­ri­fied vil­lagers in a rur­al Peru­vian dis­trict have claimed they have come under attack by 7ft-tall aliens they have dubbed Los Pelacaras, or The Face Peel­ers.

    Mem­bers of the Iki­tu tribe from the San Anto­nio native com­mu­ni­ty have report­ed mys­te­ri­ous fig­ures in dark-coloured hoods attack­ing the vil­lagers, who live in the rur­al dis­trict of Alto Nanay, north east of Lima, Peru.

    After one such ‘attack’, a 15-year-old girl had to be tak­en to hos­pi­tal.

    Accord­ing to the com­mu­ni­ty leader, Jairo Reátegui Dávi­la, the teenag­er nar­row­ly escaped but ‘as a result of the strug­gle they cut part of her neck.’

    Now, accord­ing to local media, mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty are con­duct­ing night patrols to pro­tect women, chil­dren and the more vul­ner­a­ble vil­lagers, and have called on the author­i­ties to send in the mil­i­tary.

    Some com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers said they can’t sleep because they are in fear.

    Locals described the ‘extrater­res­tri­als’ as hav­ing large heads and yel­low­ish eyes, and said the mys­te­ri­ous fig­ures are immune to their hunt­ing weapons.

    They claim they have attacked them every night for near­ly a month since July 11.

    Lati­na Noti­cias, a Peru­vian news out­let, quot­ed Dávi­la as say­ing he had come face-to-face with one of the so-called aliens.

    ‘We have met almost face to face. His face is hard­ly vis­i­ble. I have seen his whole body float­ing at a height of one meter,’ he said, sug­gest­ing the being was hov­er­ing.

    The group have now request­ed a mil­i­tary pres­ence from the author­i­ties, how­ev­er it report­ed­ly takes a 10-hour riv­er trip to reach the com­mu­ni­ty from Iqui­tos City.

    ‘We need sup­port for our com­mu­ni­ty. The chil­dren do not sleep and the moth­ers stay up all night,’ Dávi­la said. ‘They appear to be armoured. I shot one of them twice and he was­n’t injured, he rose and dis­ap­peared.

    ‘We’re very fright­ened about what’s hap­pen­ing here in our com­mu­ni­ty.’

    He added: ‘Their shoes are round-shaped, which they use to float... Their heads are long, they wear a mask and their eyes are yel­low­ish. They are experts at escap­ing.’

    Some vil­lagers described the aliens as being like ‘pelacaras’, strange beings from folk­lore that feast on human faces, fat and organs.

    Accord­ing to reports, the police reached the remote area on board a speed­er ves­sel and toured the vil­lage perime­ter, includ­ing the area where the teenag­er was alleged­ly attacked.

    ...

    Accord­ing to a 2017 nation­al cen­sus, there are around 1,350 peo­ple who iden­ti­fy as being a mem­ber of the Iki­tu com­mu­ni­ty.

    ———-

    “Ter­ri­fied Peru­vian vil­lagers claim they are under attack from 7ft-tall ‘aliens’ dubbed ‘Face Peel­ers’ as they plead with author­i­ties to send back­up” By Chris Jew­ers; The Dai­ly Mail; 08/08/2023

    “Locals described the ‘extrater­res­tri­als’ as hav­ing large heads and yel­low­ish eyes, and said the mys­te­ri­ous fig­ures are immune to their hunt­ing weapons.”

    Tall. Large heads. Glow­ing eyes. Where have we heard that before?

    ...
    They claim they have attacked them every night for near­ly a month since July 11.

    Lati­na Noti­cias, a Peru­vian news out­let, quot­ed Dávi­la as say­ing he had come face-to-face with one of the so-called aliens.

    ‘We have met almost face to face. His face is hard­ly vis­i­ble. I have seen his whole body float­ing at a height of one meter,’ he said, sug­gest­ing the being was hov­er­ing.

    ...

    ‘We need sup­port for our com­mu­ni­ty. The chil­dren do not sleep and the moth­ers stay up all night,’ Dávi­la said. ‘They appear to be armoured. I shot one of them twice and he was­n’t injured, he rose and dis­ap­peared.

    ‘We’re very fright­ened about what’s hap­pen­ing here in our com­mu­ni­ty.’

    He added: ‘Their shoes are round-shaped, which they use to float... Their heads are long, they wear a mask and their eyes are yel­low­ish. They are experts at escap­ing.’
    ...

    It sure would be inter­est­ing to have a more detailed com­par­i­son of the Las Vegas ‘aliens’ and these Peru­vian ‘Face Peel­ers’. Did the Las Vegas aliens decide to go on a Peru­vian vaca­tion?

    For­tu­nate­ly for the vil­lagers, no, it does­n’t appear that the aliens went on a Peru­vian human hunt­ing expe­di­tion. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the expla­na­tion is prob­a­bly more dire for the fate of their vil­lage: ille­gal gold min­ers were ter­ror­iz­ing the vil­lagers with jet packs. At least that was the assess­ment of the Peru­vian author­i­ties fol­low­ing their inves­ti­ga­tion:

    The Dai­ly Dot

    Sev­en-foot ‘Green Gob­lin’ aliens ter­ror­iz­ing vil­lage turn out to be ille­gal gold min­ers
    The ‘extra-ter­res­tri­als” with ‘unique float­ing abil­i­ties’ were men wear­ing jet packs.

    Mar­lon Ettinger
    Post­ed on Aug 9, 2023

    Vil­lagers from a tribe in rur­al Peru were ter­ror­ized for weeks by what one news report called “7ft Armoured Aliens [r]esembling Green Gob­lin from Spi­der-Man.”

    But a recent inves­ti­ga­tion by the local prosecutor’s office revealed that the men were actu­al­ly ille­gal min­ers seek­ing to sow ter­ror among the tribe while they com­mit­ted “illic­it activ­i­ties.”

    The group launched night­ly attacks on the vil­lagers in Alto Nanay, a dis­trict in an Ama­zon­ian region north­east of Lima, Peru’s cap­i­tal.

    Z News Ser­vice report­ed that the “extrater­res­tri­al beings” had “large heads and yel­low­ish eyes,” and had been attack­ing the vil­lage at night since July 11.

    ...

    The vil­lage is a 10-hour trip by riv­er from the clos­est author­i­ties, who vis­it­ed after the vil­lagers asked for a mil­i­tary pres­ence to help fight the invaders after one “alarm­ing inci­dent” where a 15-year-old girl was grabbed from behind and had her neck cut when she resist­ed, accord­ing to a news report.

    Some Twit­ter users expressed skep­ti­cism about the sto­ry before the prosecutor’s report came out.

    “If it is gen­uine­ly true that a small indige­nous Peru­vian vil­lage is being ter­ror­ized by large armored humanoids with advanced weapon­ry” wrote user @BoltzmannBooty, “I sug­gest check­ing whether their pres­ence hap­pens to be hold­ing up any min­ing or log­ging rights in the area.”

    If it is gen­uine­ly true that a small indige­nous Peru­vian vil­lage is being ter­ror­ized by large armored humanoids with advanced weapon­ry, I sug­gest check­ing whether their pres­ence hap­pens to be hold­ing up any min­ing or log­ging rights in the area https://t.co/mW01NWxuJW— 12 Ball (@BoltzmannBooty) August 7, 2023

    Users also point­ed to sto­ries from 2019 and 2020 doc­u­ment­ing ille­gal gold min­ing activ­i­ty in Alto Nanay, the region where the alien attacks alleged­ly hap­pened.

    2019: “In the area of ??Alto Nanay [the attack loca­tion], author­i­ties report­ed that ille­gal min­ing activ­i­ties involved child labor. Two wood­en boats turned into dredgers were seized along­side a range of equip­ment need­ed to extract the pre­cious met­al.“https://t.co/0xN6OtUaTf pic.twitter.com/VW8sG8Mik6— 12 Ball (@BoltzmannBooty) August 7, 2023

    In one, author­i­ties report­ed ille­gal gold min­ing involv­ing the use of child labor.

    In the recent reports of alien attacks, the vil­lagers claimed that the aliens wore “pro­tec­tive armor” and had “unique float­ing abil­i­ties, using round-shapes shoes with a red light.”

    After the attacks began, report­ed La Repúbli­ca, a Peru­vian news­pa­per, the vil­lagers took to patrol­ing at night to repel attacks from the armed men.

    ...

    Accord­ing to pros­e­cu­tor Car­los Cas­tro Quin­tanil­la, the men used “high tech equip­ment like jet­packs, which let them rise and descend in the sky.”

    He iden­ti­fied the group as ille­gal gold min­ers from Brazil and Colom­bia, which bor­der the Ama­zon­ian region to the North and the East.

    La Repúbli­ca reports the min­ers search for gold in the Peru­vian jun­gle by using harsh chem­i­cals to dredge the waters, leav­ing them pol­lut­ed in their wake.

    ———-

    “Sev­en-foot ‘Green Gob­lin’ aliens ter­ror­iz­ing vil­lage turn out to be ille­gal gold min­ers” by Mar­lon Ettinger; The Dai­ly Dot; 08/09/2023

    “Accord­ing to pros­e­cu­tor Car­los Cas­tro Quin­tanil­la, the men used “high tech equip­ment like jet­packs, which let them rise and descend in the sky.””

    They weren’t aliens. They were crim­i­nals pre­tend­ing to be aliens to scare the vil­lagers away so they could ille­gal­ly pol­lute their lands as they scour for gold. We’re in full blow Scoo­by Doo ter­ri­to­ry here. Which, inter­est­ing­ly, observers sus­pect­ed from the begin­ning:

    ...
    But a recent inves­ti­ga­tion by the local prosecutor’s office revealed that the men were actu­al­ly ille­gal min­ers seek­ing to sow ter­ror among the tribe while they com­mit­ted “illic­it activ­i­ties.

    The group launched night­ly attacks on the vil­lagers in Alto Nanay, a dis­trict in an Ama­zon­ian region north­east of Lima, Peru’s cap­i­tal.

    ...

    Some Twit­ter users expressed skep­ti­cism about the sto­ry before the prosecutor’s report came out.

    “If it is gen­uine­ly true that a small indige­nous Peru­vian vil­lage is being ter­ror­ized by large armored humanoids with advanced weapon­ry” wrote user @BoltzmannBooty, “I sug­gest check­ing whether their pres­ence hap­pens to be hold­ing up any min­ing or log­ging rights in the area.”

    If it is gen­uine­ly true that a small indige­nous Peru­vian vil­lage is being ter­ror­ized by large armored humanoids with advanced weapon­ry, I sug­gest check­ing whether their pres­ence hap­pens to be hold­ing up any min­ing or log­ging rights in the area https://t.co/mW01NWxuJW— 12 Ball (@BoltzmannBooty) August 7, 2023

    ...

    In the recent reports of alien attacks, the vil­lagers claimed that the aliens wore “pro­tec­tive armor” and had “unique float­ing abil­i­ties, using round-shapes shoes with a red light.”
    ...

    Also note there very dis­turb­ing child abduction/labor angle to this sto­ry: these ille­gal gold min­ers are known to use child labor, which adds a whole new dis­turb­ing con­text to the appar­ent attempt to seize a 15 year old gir:

    ...
    The vil­lage is a 10-hour trip by riv­er from the clos­est author­i­ties, who vis­it­ed after the vil­lagers asked for a mil­i­tary pres­ence to help fight the invaders after one “alarm­ing inci­dent” where a 15-year-old girl was grabbed from behind and had her neck cut when she resist­ed, accord­ing to a news report.

    ...

    Users also point­ed to sto­ries from 2019 and 2020 doc­u­ment­ing ille­gal gold min­ing activ­i­ty in Alto Nanay, the region where the alien attacks alleged­ly hap­pened.

    2019: “In the area of ??Alto Nanay [the attack loca­tion], author­i­ties report­ed that ille­gal min­ing activ­i­ties involved child labor. Two wood­en boats turned into dredgers were seized along­side a range of equip­ment need­ed to extract the pre­cious met­al.“https://t.co/0xN6OtUaTf pic.twitter.com/VW8sG8Mik6— 12 Ball (@BoltzmannBooty) August 7, 2023

    In one, author­i­ties report­ed ille­gal gold min­ing involv­ing the use of child labor.
    ...

    So assum­ing we have our expla­na­tion, it’s worth ask­ing: just how plau­si­ble is it to use a jet­pack in the jun­gle? Is that fea­si­ble? And that brings us to the fol­low­ing BBC report from March of 2022 about what was report­ed­ly a first: jet­packs were being test­ed for use by remote para­medics out in the wilder­ness:

    BBC

    Lake Dis­trict: Jet suit para­medics ready for sum­mer lift-off

    Pub­lished
    26 March 2022

    Para­medics in the Lake Dis­trict hope to be using jet suits to reach med­ical emer­gen­cies this sum­mer.

    One mem­ber of Great North Air Ambu­lance (GNAA) staff has com­plet­ed his train­ing to use the suit unas­sist­ed and two more are to begin short­ly.

    Once oper­a­tional, medics will be able to fly up a fell in 90 sec­onds rather than tak­ing 30 min­utes by foot.

    The use of jet suits in med­ical emer­gen­cies is believed to be a world first.

    Tri­als of the futur­is­tic-look­ing kits start­ed in Sep­tem­ber 2020 but were halt­ed by the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic and dif­fi­cul­ties in find­ing a spon­sor to cov­er the costs.

    ‘Awestruck’

    The jet suit con­sists of two mini engines on each arm and one on the back allow­ing the pilot to con­trol their move­ment just by mov­ing their hands.

    It pro­duces up to 144kg of thrust so it can ascend quick­ly, sav­ing valu­able time, by “fly­ing” close to the land.

    GNAA oper­a­tions direc­tor Andy Maw­son, who has com­plet­ed the train­ing, said: “We’re still awestruck by it, every­one looks at the wow fac­tor and the fact we are the world’s first jet suit para­medics but for us it’s about deliv­er­ing patient care.

    “When I start­ed as a para­medic I nev­er thought I’d be work­ing with a heli­copter, nev­er mind this.”

    Cur­rent­ly it takes the GNAA heli­copter 25 to 30 min­utes to reach a patient in the Lake Dis­trict, once the crew has found an area flat enough to land.

    The char­i­ty, which works close­ly with moun­tain res­cue teams, believes there is a major advan­tage in the Lakes as the jet suit can be used in poor con­di­tions — such as low vis­i­bil­i­ty and strong winds — which would pose a chal­lenge to a heli­copter.

    The suits have been proved to be effec­tive in 35mph winds and, accord­ing to GNAA data, could be used on 15 to 20 med­ical cas­es a week.

    Para­medics will need to fly with 10 to 15kg of med­ical kit, includ­ing a defib­ril­la­tor and patient-mon­i­tor­ing devices which are strapped in pouch­es on the pilot’s legs and chest.

    ...

    Mr Maw­son said: “Dur­ing tri­als we asked walk­ers what they thought, as the jet suits are loud, you can hear them com­ing and every­one thought it was unbe­liev­able, they were cap­ti­vat­ed and their feed­back was so pos­i­tive.

    “Who knows — hope­ful­ly not — but maybe one day a para­medic in a jet suit like me, could be help­ing one of those walk­ers.”

    ———–

    “Lake Dis­trict: Jet suit para­medics ready for sum­mer lift-off”; BBC; 03/26/2022

    “Tri­als of the futur­is­tic-look­ing kits start­ed in Sep­tem­ber 2020 but were halt­ed by the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic and dif­fi­cul­ties in find­ing a spon­sor to cov­er the costs.”

    Well, ok, wilder­ness jet­packs are a real­i­ty. That was the case as of 2022. And then, a lit­tle over a year lat­er, we get Scoo­by Doo jet­pack night ter­ror inci­dents in Peru. Is this a coin­ci­dence?

    And that rais­es the obvi­ous ques­tion: so did the descrip­tion of the vil­lagers kind of match this jet­pack tech­nol­o­gy? It’s worth not­ing that the vil­lagers ref­er­enced glow­ing round boots in rela­tion to the hov­er­ing, while these jet­packs use arm-based thrusters. It’s also worth not­ing that these jet­packs are report­ed­ly very loud:

    ...
    The char­i­ty, which works close­ly with moun­tain res­cue teams, believes there is a major advan­tage in the Lakes as the jet suit can be used in poor con­di­tions — such as low vis­i­bil­i­ty and strong winds — which would pose a chal­lenge to a heli­copter.

    The suits have been proved to be effec­tive in 35mph winds and, accord­ing to GNAA data, could be used on 15 to 20 med­ical cas­es a week.

    Para­medics will need to fly with 10 to 15kg of med­ical kit, includ­ing a defib­ril­la­tor and patient-mon­i­tor­ing devices which are strapped in pouch­es on the pilot’s legs and chest.

    ...

    Mr Maw­son said: “Dur­ing tri­als we asked walk­ers what they thought, as the jet suits are loud, you can hear them com­ing and every­one thought it was unbe­liev­able, they were cap­ti­vat­ed and their feed­back was so pos­i­tive.
    ...

    So did the vil­lagers hear loud nois­es and observe arm thrusters? Was some sort of qui­et jet­pack tech­nol­o­gy in use? That remains part of the mys­tery. A zany bizarre mys­tery that dou­bles as an act of ter­ror­ism against this vil­lage. Which is also a reminder that our upcom­ing era of tech­nol­o­gy-fueled alien hoax­es will prob­a­bly involve a lot more ter­ror. Zany bizarre ter­ror as the case may be, but gen­uine ter­ror.

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | August 11, 2023, 4:32 pm

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