The road to UAP disclosure is long (I've said that it will take humanity 300 years to fully acclimatise to the fact that non-human intelligences are on our planet, and we're only some 80 years into the journey). Getting to grips with the notion that Homo sapiens isn't the most technologically advanced species upon our Planet Earth will not be easy, especially for the scientific community.
Yesterday's revelation by David Charles Grusch marked a massive milestone. In the clip below, he is being interviewed by Ross Coulthart for NewsNation, which broke the story on the same day as the Leslie Kean/Ralph Blumenthal piece for the Debrief. [Update October 2023: This is not the original clip, which has since been taken down, but a report about the interview aired later.]
Grusch's decision to step forward and blow the whistle is the direct consequence of the amendment to the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act 2022, which protects would-be UAP whistleblowers from reprisals. This stems from pressure from American citizens on their congressional representatives, leading to pressure from Congress on the machinery of power. From the 2017 disclosure of the US Navy aerial footage of the so-called 'Tic Tac' UFO in the New York Times, to journey towards UAP disclosure has accelerated in recent years. It's been a long time coming, but the atmosphere around Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena today is quite different today than it was back in the 1990s or 1960s. With credible people like Lue Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Garry Nolan on board and speaking out - and slightly more sceptical but open-minded scientists like Avi Loeb, Robin Hanson or Eric Weinstein - this is no longer a fringe topic attracting loopy conspiracy theorists. The 'pseudoscience' tag cannot be applied to any of the above names.
So... imagine yourself in a hangar on a US Air Force base (reputedly Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, or Area 51 in Nevada), in the presence of an object which, on your close inspection, has evidently not been made by human beings. But has it come from another solar system? Another galaxy? Another time? Another dimension? Serious commentators refuse to speculate. So no one's talking about 'extraterrestrials' - the term is 'non-human intelligences'.
It is clear from analysis of sightings of anomalous phenomena over the years that whilst the vast majority (95%? 98%?) can be explained away, there remain those which cannot be dismissed as Venus low in the sky, a distant lighthouse, a Bart Simpson balloon or swamp gas - those which are more than mere missightings or fabrications. UFO sightings work like the Drake Equation; you start with a huge number of reports, and boil down from them just a tiny number of cases that stubbornly defy explanation. Over time, a consistent picture builds up from eye witness accounts, corroborated sometimes by sensor data (civilian or military radars, cameras etc).
What we have here is a US intelligence-community insider corroborating rumours that have been circulating since WW2.
Those who've followed the UFO story (as I have since childhood, when my father borrowed a few flying saucer books for me from Ealing Public Libraries in the 1960s), will be familiar with everything David Grusch says. For those new to UFO lore, this is all incredible, dismissible.
For those who have followed the story - consider this analogy. You are a member of the jury. You have been on this case, on and off, for 30+ years. You've sat through countless witness testimonies, some clearly crackpots, others telling very credible stories. You've been asked to consider vast amounts of evidence, mostly in writing, some on video. The basic story is falling into place. Some crazy hypotheses are being re-examined; some rejected out of hand; others are slowly becoming accepted by fellow jury members. There's still no smoking gun, but the foreman of the jury asks you to consider the balance of evidence - and on that basis - what do you say?
Applying Occam's Razor, what else could it be? A disinfo/PsyOps project aimed primarily at China, to let the Chinese Communist Party wonder about how much alien tech the US and its private-sector defence contractors could have reverse-engineered since the alleged UFO crashes at Trinity (1945) and Roswell (1947)? A message to Putin and friends not to f*ck around?
I suspect it will be easier for spiritually inclined people to readjust to a new paradigm in which we are not alone in the universe. I have felt this for decades, so it's not the great ontological shock it will be to scientists whose neat Standard Model will start to unravel at the seams. Science is set to have some of its fundamental beliefs shaken to the core.
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