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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.]”
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.’ . . .”
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 . . . .”
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.
The Political Implications of the UFO Phenomenon and the "ET" Myth
It turns out this whole global economic nightmare really was part of an alien invasion after all.
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.
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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:
“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:
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....
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:
“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:
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:
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:
““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:
So if there’s an unclassified summary released by the Navy keep an eye out for spooked members of Congress murmuring about exogenous threats.
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’?
“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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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:
“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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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?
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’.
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:
““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:
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:
“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?
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:
“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:
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:
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:
“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:
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.
The aliens may not be here, but the hucksters haven’t gone anywhere. That’s the message in Nicholson Baker’s latest piece in New York Magazine about the growing drumbeat of UFO disclosures over the last year. Most notably David C. Grusch’s explosive congressional testimony. As we’ve seen, the retired intelligence official 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 classified 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.
But Grusch isn’t the only figure involved with this public disclosure push. As we also saw, one of the other figures who has been involved with Grusch’s disclosure efforts has been Dr. Hal Puthoff, the first director of the CIA’s Project Stargate remote viewing experiments.
And as Baker’s piece lays out, Puthoff is far from the only figure with a very interesting past who has been helping to make Grusch’s disclosure agenda happen. For starters, there’s the journalist who co-wrote the 2017 New York Times front page article about the Pentagon’s previously undisclosed UFO encounters, Leslie Kean, who was introduced to Grusch in March of 2023. Kean went on to co-author the piece in The Debrief describing Grusch’s claims of alien crafts and biologics. As Baker describes, Kean isn’t just some random reporter but instead the long-time partner of Budd Hopkins, a long-standing figure in the UFO community known for using hypnosis on alleged to extract details of alien encounters.
It also turns out Kean’s work in the UFO space has been assisted by none other than Christopher Mellon. On top of being the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, Mellon is also a member of the powerful Mellon dynasty. It was Mellon who introduced Kean to both Puthoff and Louis Elizondo. As we’ve seen, Elizondo ran the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) program in the Pentagon, and began publicly complaining about the lack of disclosure after his retirement. So it would appear that Christopher Mellon has been playing a kind of behind-the-scenes UFOology matchmaker role in this whole effort. Other UFOology figures who appear to be involved with this disclosure effort — based on their presences at a Congressional hearing that earned them a friendly shoutout from Congressman Tim Burchett — are Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp. Baker describes the pair as being representatives of “the cyclical, circular, profitable nature of American saucerism, which keeps returning to the same themes — crash recovery, alien bodies, cover-up, reverse engineering, and abductions.”
But then Baker’s piece puts some very interesting perspective on the current phenomena by recounting how we’ve seen all this before. The UFO myth has long been promoted by people involved with the Pentagon, after all, including figures like Colonel Philip J. Corso, who published a 1997 memoir claiming to have seen an alien body in 1947 and that the US’s U‑2 flights had a mission of detecting Soviet reverse-engineering of alien technology. Baker’s piece goes on to make the case that the bulk of what people have actually seen was indeed the classic explanation: balloons. The Pentagon really was sending up large numbers of balloons that can explain at least a large number of the UFO sightings.
But then we get to a part of this balloon angle that could be very interesting in the context of not just the history of UFOs but also the history of biological warfare: Operation Flying Cloud. That was the name for the program involving the creation of balloon-based delivery vehicles for the dispersal of pathogens on targeted lands. In particular, the Pentagon was testing balloons that could carry 80-pound gondolas filled with a mixture of turkey feathers and spores of wheat stem rust — a fast-spreading fungal disease. The idea was to spread the fungus over Eastern Bloc agricultural areas to disrupt food supplies. It was known as the E‑77 balloon bomb, with the fields of Ukraine as the main target. By March of 1953, the CIA had three test sites set up on the West Coast. We’re told around 2,400 test-balloon flights were conducted across the US in the early 1950s in preparation for the massive biological-warfare attacks against the Soviets. And while we are also told that this plan was never actually executed, Baker points out that Hungary reported wheat crop yields 40 percent below expectations in July of 1953.
So in addition to the ongoing questions we have to ask about the nature of these networks currently pushing the “aliens are here” narrative, we have to ask: was the UFO myth, in part, in anticipation of balloon-based biological warfare programs? Keep in mind that the US public presumably wasn’t the only audience of all the UFO narratives of that era. Was confusing balloons with UFOs something the Pentagon was trying to do in Soviet populations too? And what else was the Pentagon working on delivering via balloons beyond just funguses?
And that’s all part of why we have to make all these efforts to try to wrap our heads around this UFO disclosure phenomena: A lot of people in military and intelligence circles seem to really want us to believe in aliens as a cover for new military technologies. In the 1950s, that military technology included balloon-based biological warfare. What’s getting covered up today?:
“Thoughtful, sensible-seeming, non-crankish people at Harvard, at The New Yorker, at the New York Times, and at the Pentagon seemed to be drifting ever closer to the conclusion that alien spaceships had visited Earth. Everyone was being appallingly open-minded. Yet even after more than 70 years of claimed sightings, there was simply no good evidence. In an age of ubiquitous cameras and fancy scopes, there was no footage that wasn’t blurry and jumpy and taken from far away. There was just this guy Grusch telling the world that the government had a “crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program” for flying saucers that was totally supersecret and that only people in the program knew about the program. Grusch said he had learned about it while serving on a UAP task force at the Pentagon. He interviewed more than 40 people, and they told him wild things. He said he couldn’t reveal the names of the people he interviewed. He shared no firsthand information and showed no photos. He said the program went back decades, back to the saucer crash that happened in Roswell, New Mexico.”
As we can see, Nicholson Baker wasn’t very impressed with the veracity of David Charles Grusch’s claims during his congressional testimony. No first hand evidence was presented. Just hearsay, essentially.
But Baker’s critiques of this community around UFO disclosures isn’t limited to Grusch’s sourcing. There’s a journalistic angle to this story. As he notes, Grusch’s first public outreach on this topic came view in a 2017 NY Times piece co-authored by Leslie Kean. And as we’ve seen, it was Kean who also co-authored that explosive June 2023 piece in The Debrief presenting Grusch’s claims about the retrieval of alien craft and non-human biologics. The following month, Grusch’s held his remarkable congressional testimony. Kean has been a key partner in whatever is happening here. Which makes her long-standing relationship with Budd Hopkins — known for his hypnosis based interview alleged alien abduction victims — going back to 2004 all the more interesting:
And then we get to this potentially very interesting contact of Leslie Kean in the UFO advocacy community: Christopher Mellon. On top of being the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, Mellon happens to be part of the powerful and influential Mellon dynasty. And who does Mellon put Kean in contact with? Louis Elizondo and Hal Puthoff. As we’ve seen, Elizondo ran the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) program in the Pentagon, and began publicly complaining about the lack of disclosure after his retirement. But Puthoff has an ever more interesting background. Recall how Puthoff — the first director of the CIA’s Project Stargate remote viewing experiments — worked on the US government’s 2008–2012 UFO program called the Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program (AAWSAP) and and knew of whistleblowers who had worked in the alleged secret programs. These are the figures Mellon put Kean in contact with:
Another pair of well established UFOology figures who appear to also be involved with this whole disclosure effort centered around Grusch are Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, who Baker describes as representatives of “he cyclical, circular, profitable nature of American saucerism, which keeps returning to the same themes — crash recovery, alien bodies, cover-up, reverse engineering, and abductions.” It’s worth recalling that 2013 report by Knapp about the neo-Nazi, Richard Bunck, buying large tracts of land near Area 51. As Bakers sees it, this is the network using Grusch to further promote what has become a kind of industry. But as Baker also warns, the UFOology community isn’t the only community with an interest in promoting a UFO mythology. There’s also the military industry complex, which could have a permanent perfect enemy on its hands:
And that potential interest the US military industrial complex brings us to the other major focus of Baker’s piece: the long history of UFO reports and US military projects and all of the disinformation that followed. Like intelligence operative and counterpropagandist Philip J. Corso, who made claims in his 1997 memoir about his experience witnessing an alien body in 1947 or how the US’s U‑2 flights over the Soviet Union were looking for signs of Soviet reverse engineering of alien craft:
But it’s the history of weather balloon, and how they led to a proliferation of UFO sightings, that brings us to the extremely interesting covert program from the 1950s, Operation Flying Cloud: a program to use weather balloons to carry out biological warfare against the Soviets. The tests involved balloons carrying wheat stem rust that could be infect Soviet food production. Thousands of tests. And while, officially, this form of attack was never actually carried out, the reported 40 percent drop of Hungarian wheat production in July of 1953 should raise questions about those assurances:
If the nukes don’t get you, the biological warfare balloons will ensure you starve. That was apparently how the Pentagon was planning on conducting WWIII in the 1950s. So how big a role did testing for offensive balloon-based warfare play in the development of the whole Pentagon/CIA-funded balloon-based UFO phenomena of the 1950s? Who knows, but it stands to reason that biological warfare wasn’t the only offensive capability under consideration. The Japanese used balloon bombs against the US in WWII, after all. There’s all sorts of potential applications. And that was seven decades ago. The ‘aliens’ have had a lot of time to improve their hidden technology, which, of course, is all the more reason for a new and improved ‘aliens are among us’ cover up.