Below, a reporter, Ross Coulthart, claims he has a source that says he witnessed the recovery of an "egg-shaped" non-human craft, "silverish-gray, seamless, no control surfaces or propulsion visible" during the 1980s, and that the government's assessment is that this is a "probe" to collect information about the earth, and also, to Steal Our Women. (I assume the latter.)
He also says the craft was stored at... Area 51.
The former intelligence official who testified to Congress a couple of weeks ago, David Grusch, recently told the BBC that the US has been studying the recovered alien technology and reverse-engineering it.
Um... like in Independence Day.
He warned that America's alleged top secret UFO portfolio opens 'a Pandora's Box for potential military weapons development-type reverse engineering activities.'
And, for the first time, Grusch's attorney in his active whistleblower complaint, Charles McCullough, also came forward to speak publicly on his client's allegations.
McCullough, the former Inspector General of the US Intelligence Community (ICIG) appointed by President Obama in 2011, told BBC radio that Congress needs more information on UFOs 'to properly oversee things going on in the executive branch.'
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I dunno, does anyone else feel a twinge of doubt when these claims of alien visitation so closely resemble the UFO lore seen frequently in popular media?
Marik von Rennenkampff, an analyst with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and non-proliferation, and an Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense, says that there is a huge government scandal about to be revealed -- but it might be one of two scandals.
The first possibility is that the US government will be revealed to have hidden the proof of alien visitation and lied to the public about it for decades.
The second possibility -- which I know commenters have suggested before -- is that US military and intelligence officials are leaking a false story in order to run a psyops campaign on the population for unknown purposes.
The decades-long saga of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is barreling headlong toward one of two stunning conclusions.
Either the U.S. government has mounted an extraordinary, decades-long coverup of UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering activities, or elements of the defense and intelligence establishment are engaging in a staggeringly brazen psychological disinformation campaign.
Either possibility would have profound implications for democracy, the role of government and perhaps also humanity's place in the cosmos.
For these reasons, it is imperative that Congress and federal law enforcement agencies devote significant resources to investigating a series of remarkable UFO-related developments.
Importantly, a third explanation for recent events -- that dozens of high-level, highly-cleared officials have come to believe enduring UFO myths, rumors and speculation as fact -- appears increasingly unlikely.
[T[he officials and lawmakers who have reviewed Grusch's classified evidence are taking his extraordinary allegations seriously.
The inspector general of the intelligence community deemed Grusch's allegations that UFO-related information was inappropriately concealed from Congress "credible and urgent." Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) confirmed the inspector general's finding.
I. Charles McCullough, III, the intelligence community's first inspector general and now an attorney in private practice, represents Grusch and sat directly behind him during a July 26 congressional hearing. It is extremely unlikely that such a high-profile lawyer and former top federal official would represent anyone making the kinds of extraordinary claims that Grusch is without robust evidence.
When asked during the July 26 congressional hearing whether he believes that the U.S. government possesses UFOs, Grusch stated, "Absolutely, based on interviewing over 40 witnesses over four years."
Grusch continued, "I know the exact locations [of retrieved UFOs], and those locations were provided to the inspector general and...to the [congressional] intelligence committees." Critically, Grusch stated, "I actually had the people with the first-hand knowledge provide a protected disclosure to the inspector general."
It is unlikely that Grusch, speaking to Congress under oath, would perjure himself so brazenly over such specific, falsifiable facts, particularly with his high-profile attorney sitting directly behind him.
To that end, it is safe to assume that more than three dozen individuals did indeed tell Grusch of a decades-long UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering program, and that those with "first-hand knowledge" provided corroborating information to the intelligence community inspector general.
Yeah but... see, we've known that people have been claiming they saw UFOs and even recovered UFO craft for decades. These stories and claims are as old as the hills.
So yes, Grusch says "a bunch of people say they saw crashed UFOs." Well, yes, we've known about these claims and rumors since the sixties (or earlier).
What new evidence says that these age-old claims are actually true?
I can't help feel that the only "proof" we have that these stories are true is the disclosure that the government has an office investigating these claims... which we've also known since the sixties. Project Blue Book, anyone?
The fact that a government that has trillions of our dollars to spend and creative bureaucrats who can invent a hundred trillion ways to spend those trillions does not mean that a theory has any actual merit behind it.
This story follows the patterns of many "stories:" Something that isn't really a story is now a story because the media has decided to start treating it as a story.
Like the Summer of Shark Attacks just before 9/11.
Possible government/Regime psyop, you say?
Anyway:
At the hearings from a couple of years ago, the chief whistleblower, Grusch, said that the aliens may be "interdimensional."
He cites the holographic principle, an actual theory (which I think it well-proven) that anything in three dimensional space can be "projected" on to, and fully represented on, a two-dimensional surface that surrounds it. In other words, if you think about the entire universe, and then imagine a two-dimensional membrane around it, the three-dimensional universe can be projected on to that membrane and that membrane would contain all the information of the three dimensional world.
He doesn't explain how but he suggests our alien visitors may be using this principle to transit the universe at faster-than-light speed. He seems to be saying that sufficiently advanced aliens can project themselves on to this two dimensional membrane, then zip around that membrane unbound by normal lightspeed limits, and then pop back out into the three dimensional world where they like.
While the holographic principle is well-established (at least as a mathematical precept), that business about being able to freely convert yourself into a two dimensional being and zip around the skin of the universe is just a sci-fi speculation.
One of Trump's many, many terrible picks, General Milley, says that he won't "doubt" Grusch's testimony, but that he himself has seen no evidence of alien crashes.
Some UFO sightings by military personnel are "difficult to explain," said Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but the nation's top general insists he has seen no evidence to back up public allegations that the Pentagon has recovered extraterrestrial beings or has engaged in decades of cover-ups to hide the truth from the American public.
In an exclusive interview with The Washington Times, Gen. Milley acknowledged that some reports of what the government now calls unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, lack easy explanations despite serious, ongoing research inside the Pentagon and a growing belief that at least some of the craft could pose national security threats. He made the comments less than two weeks after former U.S. intelligence officer David Grusch told Congress under oath that he is aware of "a multidecade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program" and even suggested that the Pentagon has been secretly keeping extraterrestrial bodies in storage.
Gen. Milley didn't address the credibility of Mr. Grusch's testimony but made clear he has seen no evidence backing up the extraordinary claims.
"The guy was under oath. I'm sure that he was trying to say whatever he thought was true. ... I'm not going to doubt his testimony or anything like that," Gen. Milley told The Times during a wide-ranging interview in his Pentagon office on Friday. "I can tell you, though, that as the chairman, I have been briefed on several different occasions by the [Pentagon's] UAP office. And I have not seen anything that indicates to me about quote-unquote 'aliens' or that there's some sort of cover-up program. I just haven't seen it."