It’s all become very strange. And somewhat inscrutable.
When a former Defense Department official tells members of US Congress “We are not alone in the cosmos”, you would think it would become a huge deal, making headlines all around the world.
But will anyone even remember it a week from now?
You might’ve noticed the lengthy UFO or ‘UAP’ related hearings going on in the US Congress since November 13th.
The sessions, which have been widely covered in US media, were significantly hyped up in advance, with online chatter about potentially game-changing or mind-blowing revelations coming on the 13th.
I was a bit sceptical about that.
We’ve heard such talk before. And these latest hearings are simply following on from previous comparable events in the last couple of years, including back in March.
But I kept up with as much of the content of this latest hearing (under the banner ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth‘) as I could without getting bored.
It seemed to have been decided a couple of years ago that this choreographed, gradual ‘disclosure’ would be played out at this time.
And it does feel very choreographed and controlled.
It’s not that some very interesting things aren’t being said (more on that shortly): it’s more that it all feels scripted and stage-managed.
And also strangely lacking in impact.
And a complete turnaround from decades-long American government and media handling of the UFO subject – which was previously based in a mixture of obfuscation, denial or minimising.
It’s also curious when a so-called ‘whistleblower’ has permission to blow said whistle in a seemingly controlled way: Luiz Elizondo, a former Defense Department official and the main witness in this latest hearing, repeatedly answered questions with the proviso that he is not allowed to address certain things.
Half of his answers are only partial, because he isn’t allowed to say more.
That’s not how a real whistleblower works, is it? Or maybe I’m being too cynical.
There’s also a jarring inconsistency in the consensus messaging. The Pentagon announced earlier this year, for example, that they’ve seen no evidence for extra-terrestrial or non-human origin for unexplained aerial phenomena.
Yet what’s been said in these Congressional Hearings is the exact opposite of that.
So there’s mixed messaging going on, to say the least. Is that a deliberate policy of continued obfuscation? Or does it indicate conflicting interests or agendas being in play? Is the Pentagon being undermined? Or is this all a game?
It’s difficult to know.
But, yes, some interesting things were said during these latest hearings: perhaps even on par with the thing former Pentagon intelligence official David Grusch said last year about the US government being in possession of ‘non human biologics’.
But that is also what’s weird. Some of these statements (which we’ll highlight in a moment) should be earth-shaking. They should be major news headlines or front-page stories.
But they’re not.
This strangely muted response to information or ‘revelations’ that, twenty years ago, would’ve set the world on fire is… a bit jarring.
I say that as someone well versed in UFO lore and who’s been following the UFO subject since I was a teenager in the 90s, and combing through old dusty books published long before I was even born.
I’ve never been particularly committed to a specific theory or viewpoint: but have maintained my interest as an objective observer.
Had some of these things been said in an official setting back then, it would’ve blown people away – *and* confirmed things that were, at that time, regarded as wacky or fringe conspiracy theories.
But fast forward to the present landscape and these things are being said in the heart of Washington, with full media coverage, and… no one seems to bat an eyelid.
Is that not weird?
Or is it a symptom of our hyperactive information/media climate in the modern day – whereby information and misinformation are coming at us so rapidly and in such hyper quantities that no one really knows how to process things anymore?
Are we so overly bombarded with ‘news’ and minutiae that we’ve lost the ability to actually process the significance of things anymore?
Certainly, I’ve been thinking for a while that this is part of our modern problem: just the relentless flood of information and misinformation.
For comparison, the infamous Ray Santilli ‘alien autopsy‘ video in 1994 had a massive cultural impact at the time: covered in prime time documentaries, numerous newspaper articles, and lots of water-cooler discussions, as people reacted to it.
The fact that the Santilli video was a hoax isn’t the point here: the point is that its very existence provoked thought, debate and great interest: in that instance about whether aliens were real and whether aliens bodies had been examined by the government or military.
On the other hand, Grusch telling Congress last year that the US had retrieved ‘non human biologics’ from downed craft barely registered in public consciousness at all. It was referenced a few times in the American media… and then no one really talked about it.
It’s a strange change in the level of impact or level of significance in the public consciousness.
By the way, I’ve just been searching for either images or video of the famous Santilli footage, and it’s astonishing how little is there on Google Images or YouTube, especially for something so famous. They really are scrubbing so much of the Internet, aren’t they?
But let’s touch on some of the other interesting things said during this latest Congressional Hearing.
Luiz Elizondo criticised the intelligence community he used to work for, accusing it of decades of “excessive secrecy” to conceal “the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.”
In his written testimony, he said ‘Advanced technologies not made by our Government — or any other government — are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe.’
In one exchange, Elizondo is asked: “Has the government conducted secret UAP crash retrieval programs? Yes or no?“
He replies “Yes“.
He is asked “Were they designed to identify and reverse-engineer alien craft? Yes or no?“
Again, replying “Yes“.
Again, some of these statements should, in theory, be front-page material.
But it’s not really happening.
Has interest in the subject itself simply diminished from where it was a few decades ago?
Or could it also be that people in general are just sceptical of whatever this current back-and-forth is that the US is engaging in regarding ‘UAPs’?
Certainly, as pointed out earlier, there’s a feeling of careful stage-management to these current processes.
A sense perhaps that this controlled process of ‘disclosure’ – or facsimile of disclosure, perhaps – is more sanitised than a more complete or legitimate divulging of information would be: and that the whole charade might be more about servicing an agenda than simply revealing the truth.
Central to that possible agenda could be the intended weaponisation of space, as we’ve discussed here before: as well as the looming spectre of the fabled false-flag ‘alien invasion’, which we also discussed in the same article.
Some of that is regarded as mere conspiracy theory: but let’s remind ourselves that some of what’s been spoken out loud in these Congressional Hearings were also once dismissed as conspiracy theories.
People who talked about retrieved alien bodies (or ‘non human biologics’) thirty years ago were called conspiracy crackpots. As were people who said the US government had recovered and reverse-engineered extra-terrestrial craft (with maybe Robert Lazar, who claimed over 30 years ago to have been involved in reverse engineering alien tech at Area 51, being the exception).
Yet precisely these things are now being admitted to in Congress. What was once fringe has become strangely mainstream all of a sudden.
And the general reaction is so muted. Conspicuously so, in my opinion.
I still suspect that all of this official discussion or ‘disclosure’ regarding ‘UAPs’ is a cynical and controlled programme geared towards preexisting agendas, most likely centered in the military-industrial complex.
That’s why all these things suddenly started moving forward from a few years ago, seemingly in concert: a Congressional Hearing here, careful ‘leaks’ of various UAP footage there, and a continual effort to keep the subject in the headlines – as contrasted to the more familiar policy of cover-up and obfuscation in the past.
Case in point, this evidence of an orb-like unidentified object filmed by the US military in Kuwait was released to the media right as the latest Congressional Hearing was starting up.
Likewise, as I noted previously, the previous UAP hearing just happened to coincide with the ostensibly unrelated ‘Las Vegas Alien’ incident, which made the mainstream news channels in the US.
As I asked then, why did that story make headlines and countless other incidents (some of which boast better evidence) don’t?
And, as noted in this much more in-depth article on the UFO subject a couple of years ago, the current ‘revelations’ seem laser-focused on a narrow and limited scope of incidents and evidences – rather than expanding the discussion to include a fuller examination of decades of incidents and case files.
Highlighting this disingenuous sleight of hand, the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) report in March, saying it had found no evidence of extraterrestrials in UAP incidents, only examined a small number of cases that occurred within a one year time frame. It essentially ignored everything that might’ve been taken into account from outside that time frame.
I understand of course that these current revelations are limited to military case files and data – and not civilian cases.
And I understand that, maybe, they’re trying to slow-walk us towards a paradigm shift, a bit at a time: instead of revealing too much at once and risking a problematic public reaction – which has in fact been a longstanding argument forwarded for a decades-long cover up.
An avoiding of an Orson Welles ‘War of the Worlds’ radio-broadcast type reaction, essentially.
If we’re being generous and trusting, that would be the explanation: and the game in play. A gradual drip-feed of information until the general public has largely assimilated and normalised these ideas – non-human entities, otherworldly vehicles and tech, etc – and isn’t liable to be shocked anymore.
Again, that’s if we’re inclined to be generous and trusting.
I guess we’ll have to see how this controlled programme develops for the next few years – and it will definitely continue unfolding, until it reaches whatever the desired outcome is.
You can watch coverage of the Congressional Hearing here.
