W-wa Jeziorki: Farewell to the old, comfortable certainties

We are moving faster and faster towards disclosure. We are not alone. Either there's some monumental four-dimensional chess-style psyop going on, or a crazy idea's gone viral because of social contagion at the highest level, or we are indeed being visited (and has been for some long while) by beings that are not of our world.

Today's hearing of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety and Government Transparency, will go down in history as a significant milestone along the road towards accepting that a technological non-human intelligence is here on Earth.

Those who have been paying attention to the UFO (or UAP to use modern parlance) story will already be familiar with the testimonies of the witnesses, David Grusch, David Fravor and Ryan Graves. All three military men with unimpeachable credentials. To hear them being cross-examined under oath by representatives, giving as authoritative answers as their security clearances allow, shows that this is as serious as it gets. The representatives posing the questions were well briefed on the subject, knowing what to ask. And it is clearly a bipartisan issue.

Today's hearing was entirely different to the May 2022 hearing of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence. The subcommittee heard from Scott Bray, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, and Ronald S. Moultrie, Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, who continued the old story that UFO sightings are usually results no more than airborne clutter or natural atmospheric phenomena, but that the Pentagon does investigate reports with possible national security implications. In other words - a 'nothingburger'.

But today's hearing was vastly different. The witnesses were not career bureaucrats trying to calm choppy waters. From the government-transparency point of view, the issue that irked representatives most was the one about secret projects to reverse-engineering downed non-human craft - the black budgets, the unaccounted spending going (presumably) to private-sector aerospace companies, for many decades.

David Grusch confirmed what he had already said to the media - that this has been going on since the 1940s, and that the US military not only recovered multiple craft, but also 'biologics' - the bodies of non-human entities found with the craft. And the craft have been placed in the hands of defence contractors, to avoid government oversight. The fact that he, a respected figure from the US military intelligence community, said this under oath to a Congressional hearing is huge. Of course, he was pressed for more details - he repeatedly answered that he could give representatives with the right access full details in SCIFs (sensitive compartmentalized information facilities).

While disappointing those who naively expected everything to come out about where the craft are, which corporations are holding them and what the non-human 'biologics' look like, Grusch's responses were guarded. "I can't discuss that publicly, but I did provide information to the intel committees and to the Inspector-General."

As a whistle-blower, Grusch said that he had felt threatened by certain elements that presumably want the story kept secret, while former Navy pilots Fravor and Graves denied that they had ever felt any pressure not to go public with their testimonies, nor had they faced any sort of retribution for doing so.

There are many UFO enthusiasts who expect nothing more than President Biden addressing the peoples of the world alongside an alien against a backdrop of a giant flying saucer; this is not how it will happen. Today's Congressional hearing is part of a long and slow process; I don't want to sound conspiratorial, but I do believe that change must be transitioned gently. The Copernican revolution, which ended the geocentric paradigm, took over a century to gain general acceptance among astronomers.

"If this has been going on for seventy-plus years, how come it hasn't leaked?"

It has leaked - many times - and the stories tend to corroborate. The strategy of ridicule - devised in the early 1950s - has been the best form of maintaining secrecy. Discrediting whistleblowers has also worked in the past, but David Grusch's impeccable credentials and flawless professional behaviour have made him a hard target for the secrecy group and debunkers alike.

"There are billions of camera-equipped smartphones around today - where are the photos?"

Someone uploads blurry, grainy, footage of a point of light moving about in the sky. It proves nothing. Besides, NHIs (non-human intelligences) that have the technology to accelerate from 0 to 10,000 mph and execute 90-degree turns at that speed, leaving no exhaust plume, and needing no wings or rotors presumably also have the technology to cloak. The eyewitness evidence of military pilots, backed up by multiple sensor platforms on jet fighters, early-warning planes, aircraft carriers and guided missile cruisers is hard to undermine.

So - here it is - the full hearing. Over two and half hours. Watched by half a million people within five hours.