I haven't posted for a long time on this blog, but I have found myself posting a LOT on twitter and Reddit, and that's a bit disatisfying, because it's difficult to draw together all I am thinking without posting enormously long threads. So I am returning to this blog instead.
I've been interested in UFOs since I was a child. I've read a lot about the subect over the last 50 years or so, and there are some cases which impress me and others that do not. In case you have been reading the mainstream media and don't know why this subject is current, the most recent interest in the subject began in 2017 with the publication of an article by the New York Times, and the release of three videos from the Pentagon, of unexplained phenomena.
Since the release of those films, there have been many efforts to debunk them, but a pilot who saw what is now known as the "tic-tac" UFO, David Fravor, appeared on a 60 minutes episode, and in many other places, to explain that he saw it with his own eyes, and it isn't something which the US or any other world government has the capability to build: an object that can fly without any visible means of propulsion, no heat signature, no wings or direction apparatus, and at speeds which would produce G forces heavy enough to kill a human.
The three films were released by the efforts of Lue Elizondo, who had worked for one of the groups organized by the Pentagon ostensibly to research the phenomenon of UFOs. They change the names of these groups every five minutes, and some people have doubted that he has ever worked for the Pentagon, because it appears that the project he was employed by was defunct by the time he claims to have worked for it. This is possibly an attempt to obfuscate the official involvement in UFO research, I have no idea.
The most recent development was that an ex-navy pilot, Ryan Graves, was astonished to find that the things he had been dealing with while he was a pilot, objects which looked like a cube in a transparent sphere, were still getting in the way of current pilots, and nothing appeared to be known about the phenomenon and there was no official way to report an interaction with objects which might be dangerous for pilots operating in the same area. Such was the fear around UFOs and being associated with them that only 5% of pilots would even bother reporting a near-miss incident.
He had top level clearance and a brief to investigate and yet was being refused by people working on a secret project of some sort. He gathered information about the project, and discovered that people involved in it had been harmed. The project was allegedly to back-engineer technology recovered from UFO crashes and also the biologic entities who were piloting them. The level of secrecy about the project meant that it wasn't under the oversight of congress, and was an illegal project for that reason.
He reported this over a year ago, and gave evidence to the Inspector General, who is responsible for intelligence services. I don't know what happened as a result of those submissions. Here we are a year later. The Inspector general has said his claims are "urgent and credible". David Grusch says that he has suffered reprisals following his submission, which was in effect a whistleblowing submission about this project. Ross Coulthart, an Australian journalist who has reported on other UFO cases, interviewed Grusch on NewsNation a few weeks ago,
On Wednesday this week, congress heard witness statements from Ryan Graves, David Grusch and David Fravor. On many occasions David Grusch said that he was unable to reveal something in open session, but would be able to in a closed session - in "a skiff " is how it sounds, but is actually a SCIF, a sensitive compartmented information facility. I do not understand the regulations for the provision of a SCIF, but this had been denied.
There are two parts to the information that was disclosed to congress. Firstly that UFOs are real, that the US have had crashed spacecraft and alien artefacts since the 1930s and that they have recovered aliens, or non-human bodies.
The second is that there is this secret project which is run without oversight, sucking up government money with no official status or reporting. And the implication of what Mr Grusch said about it is that it has gone rogue, has used possible threats and perhaps violence against people who have threatened the secrecy.
The revelation for people like me who have followed the subject for a long time, is not that UFOs exist. I have been convinced by many of the reports from people who have had contact with them, that this is true for a long time. I have believed since the 1970s that non-human technology has been seen and made contact with some people. But like clairvoyants and supernatural encounters, there are charlatans mixed up in the verifiable and truthful accounts, and it seems that this project has had a vested interest in keeping people thinking there is nothing to see except tinfoil-hat wearing fanatics.
The revelation which has shaken the UFO community is that it isn't official government which has been concealing and ridiculing the existence of UFOs but some secret project which is even hidden from congress. I don't think this can always have been the case, and I am assuming it must have involved the military at various points, if only to secure and transport material from crash sites etc.
The recent documentary on the Varginha incident in Brazil indicated that the US collected the remains of a pilot and the vehicle he travelled in. There was eye-witness testimony about the other-worldly nature of the alien, which was very close to many accounts of demonic creatures, along with a horrible smell, which made me begin to wonder how many of the accounts in previous centuries of demons and demonic creatures were actually aliens.
That there are accounts going back hundreds of years about strange things in the sky, is an answer to those who think that it is possible that our own secret projects might have produced things which can fly so fast and withoutvisible means of propulsion. These things have been seen way back in history - there is a famous picture of a swarm of the things in the 15th century, and many paintings featuring what appear to be flying objects. People have dismissed them in the past as fantasies, but when they resemble so closely the things which are being reported by pilots today, that assumption needs to be reassessed. And if they have been flying in our skies for six centuries or more, we have to admit that we definitely didn't have any such technology at the time.
David Fravor asserts that we don't have the technology to reproduce the actions of the tic tac that he encountered and wont have for at least 10-20 years. And being a Top Gun pilot, he should know. Many people have asked if it is possible that the government is testing new technology by sending it out to encounter fighter jets, but given the expense of these things, that doesn't make any sense at all. As he said, they have testing ranges for that.
What astonishes me is how little interest most people have in the evidence that was given. "Show me the pictures! Give me the evidence!" they cry. It isn't something they would say about drug trafficking or human trafficking or all the many different subjects that congress and other parliaments deal with every day. David Grusch says that he has followed all the protocols of his high-level clearance and has provided that evidence to those who are cleared to receive it. The whole point of his testimony is that a secret project which has imposed security restrictions and NDAs on the people within it, has managed to subvert government to the point where people are unable to come forward with their evidence without incurring severe penalties - which appear to include brutal reprisals or death.
If that isn't newsworthy enough for the British press, one has to ask why. If aliens are proven to exist, would that not be headline news? If US government is unable to control a secret project which operates without any oversight, isn't that news too? The congress hearing to take evidence from the witnesses into the congressional record was held on Wednesday. It was briefly covered by most of the newspapers, and then vanished from the front pages, and the twitter
what's happening sidebar only included it for a couple of hours.
what's happening sidebar only included it for a couple of hours.
I find it astonishing that people aren't more interested and curious about it. There has been evidence in plain sight about the reality of UFOs for decades, and they do not seem to be interested or informed about that. I worry about those who don't show an interest, firstly because it indicates an almost incredible lack of curiosity, but also because I think the revelations to come may indeed be an ontological shock - basically a challenge to your world view and what you recognize as possible.
