We’re entering a new phase of the Rob blog.
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Question 1: Why are people talking about aliens?
For the past decade or so, there has been an increase in Congressional oversight of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).
At face value, Congress was alarmed by the number of unresolved cases accumulated by the Air Force over the years, ranging from pilots seeing things to sensors picking up things that don’t match typical patterns. (Hundreds of reports over about 40 years, I believe).
What if, Congress asked, a stray pilot notices the next new Chinese spy plane, but is afraid to report it due to stigma against UFOs?
I won’t go and grab any references here but if you google you’ll surely find some; Congress has created requirements that these be investigated, and protections for service members who raise claims.
And so, over the last decade or so, the backlog of unsolved mysteries has been worked through. I heard that about 99% of the cases were eventually determined to be weather, balloons, malfunctions, etc.
Until
Two months ago, a guy
a) was as an intelligence officer
b) resigned his post
c) a month later gave an interview with a somewhat obscure web magazine, with the permission of his former bosses
d) in which he claimed he had direct evidence that the US government had:
Collected multiple damaged and intact alien craft since World War 2
Kept this secret
Collected remains of aliens
Pressured other countries which also knew about this to keep it secret by coercion
And, worse still, he alleges that taxpayer funds have been misappropriated, misspent, and not subject to typical audit processes during these activities.
“Well, naturally, when you recover something that’s either landed or crashed … sometimes you encounter dead pilots and, believe it or not, as fantastical as that sounds. It’s true.” Original story here.
Then what happened
Ever since, Congress has been unified in a bi-partisan process of question gathering.
Several members of Congress have said they have sources that, in some way corroborate some form of information about some kind of knowledge the government is covering up that may, in fact, be related to extraordinary claims that may have been made.
There is bi-partisan support for further whistleblower protections and hearings.
The Rubio Tapes
UFO-mania reached peak fervor in our household when Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) gave an interview on some TV channel in which he said:
His committee has held classified hearings
Some high-ranking officials have come forward corroborating… something…
When asked if the claims were credible, Rubio said basically “well it’s too early to say, we should retain an open mind and not assume anything”
Got it.
Now, Schumer is in on it, bringing to the floor a ‘stunning’ new bill that basically requires, by law, that the military spill the beans on ET.
Question 2: What could this mean?
I offer a few theories.
Theory 1: Multiple government agents have direct evidence that the US government:
Collected multiple damaged and intact alien craft since World War 2
Kept this secret
Collected remains of aliens
Pressured other countries which also knew about this to keep it secret by coercion
Furthermore, these agents have chosen this time to come forward, and definitely will make the evidence known, just have not done so yet.
Theory 2: The US Military has classified information or has classified technology related to aeronautics that it does not disclose even to certain highly-cleared individuals.
In other words:
What is under this tarp?
Nothing, definitely not Chinese spy planes and defectors, definitely not aliens.
“Andre, you’ve lost another submarine?”
The idea that we have a Chinese Red October under a tarp somewhere might be my new favorite theory.
Theory 3: The US Military and/or intelligence community is alarmed by the increase in online-conspiracy theories, which some law enforcement agencies describe as the single greatest threat to national security, and are having a little experiment.
Meaning, somewhere within the 800 billion or so dollars and 2 million employees that make up the defense of this nation and our treaty partners, someone thought to themselves, “man, what happened to old school conspiracies? How hard would it really be to get aliens to go viral again?”
You get about three individuals with actual clearances to be willing to lie, or frankly just tell some Paul-Bunyan sized tales and hope no one looks too closely, and be protected from perjury, and bam.
This could be done for no more than the cost of 40-50 of Los Angeles’ new public-safety bus stops, and could have as much if not more of an impact on public safety.
I can’t remember which one, but literally just this week one of the people I read on substack introduced a post by saying “It seems like everyone is so distracted by the odd, but probably nothing UAP story that there is less pressure on the real investigations like COVID origins etc.”
Theory 4: Bonus-theory. It’s theory 3, but it was started during the cold war and has taken until now to be get through paperwork and launch.
What’s most likely? I’ll let you decide.
But I definitely think it is more likely that the mania is being in some way exploited or cashed in-on. This has all the signs of the public being led on.