There are (Leaky) Headlines – and then There are Unbelievable (Squeaky) Statements that Need to be Seen to be Believed!
In this first of many weekly posts, expect regular on-topic updates including Breaking News, tidbits and hearsay from around the UFO/UAP world. We’ll also occasionally chronicle through more in-depth profiles or discussions the individuals, ideas and other related items that simply capture the imagination around a subject that seems to have no bottom.
But first, a select review of the headlines that continue to pour out of the news media organizations like the many firehouses currently blasting at a five-alarmer. It’s understandable that in the run up to the “Big Report” about what the military and the U.S. government know about UFOs on or around June 25 that the buzz was going to be big. But to longtime observers and researchers in the UFO/UAP trenches, even the most jaded have been taken aback at the sheer volume of stories, Op Ed pieces and in-depth broadcast segments. The striking of the hornet’s nest has been spectacular!
So while we all await what The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense report to Congress and the American people, let’s ride the On Ramp to see what’s being reported – and what’s not.
Holy s***. They’re going fast': Radar shows the USS Omaha being SWARMED by 14 UFOs in same incident spherical aircraft was filmed disappearing into Pacific Ocean: If you’re not up-to-speed- and going fast, The Daily Mail presents a good rehash of events like the swarming of several U.S. warships by unknown objects in 2019.
It also links to the 60 Minutes interview with former Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves talkin’ UAPs, as well as the Fox News interview with John Ratcliffe, the former Director of National Intelligence under The Don. Then, there are the photos of the “pyramid-shaped” objects, reportedly leaked in April this year by a Pentagon investigation of UFOs by the UAP Task Force, the group “gathering evidence” for the Big Report this month. Why are they leaking two months in advance? Perhaps to better manage -- or mismanage -- the public’s expectations? (May 27, 2021)Even More BACKSTORY: Want to dive in further in to see how much of this all got started? Bryan Bender’s excellent reporting in Politico is a must-read: How Harry Reid, a Terrorist Interrogator and the Singer From Blink-182 Took UFOs Mainstream: The hidden history of how Washington embraced a fringe field of science. (May 28, 2021) Of course you can also find these details in my book.
Politico illustration for its must-read backstory on how we got here with UFOs/UAPS and the media blitz.
Headline of the Week Dept: GOV’T: DEFINITELY, PROBABLY NOT ALIENS, MAYBE. The original Huffington Post headline (June 4, 2021) commenting on the leaked details recently of the Big Report obtained by the NY Times (see next bullet point). Why was it scrubbed for a less ah, colorful one?! (“U.S. Can’t Link Aerial Phenomena To Aliens But Still Doesn’t Know What They Are: Report – i.e., BORING)
Senator Sam Ervin
That Times Story….: U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, but Can’t Rule It Out, Either (June 3, 2021): I’m old enough to remember Senator Sam Ervin (D-No. Carolina) from the Senate Watergate hearings, preface every question to the law-breaker Watergate burglars before him with this simple statement of disbelief (here updated to reflect what the good Senator might say if these “Pentagon types” were before him in a similar congressional setting}: “You mean to tell me… our own Defense department doesn’t know what the hell these things are?! You’ve only been looking at them for 70 or more gol dern years!”
CSETI’s Response to the Times Story: “The latest Pentagon report continues a 75 year-long disinformation campaign. First: It asserts that the US does not have advanced aircraft that behave as shown in recent US military videos. This is patently false. In every case, those videos show classified anti-gravity electromagnetic field propulsion craft made by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman et al,” claims Dr. Steven Greer, MD, and CSETI founder on the CSETI newsletter/blog.
“Secondly: It denies we have evidence of extraterrestrial beings visiting earth. This is also false as abundant evidence proves this fact as found in the book Unacknowledged and the documentary Unacknowledged -and by the direct first -hand testimony of over 900 Disclosure Project whistleblowers.” [In full disclosure, I served as CSETI’s PR guy in the ‘90s].That’s Show Biz? Speaking of CSETI: After spending some quality time under the stars during a recent CE-5 exercise in Joshua tree (Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind) with Greer and others, Demi Lovato is getting her own show about trying to make contact.
Color Me Unimpressed: As we wind down on the latest, your Chronicler tends to side with the DNYUZ story that asks – and answers – “What will the report say? It may say not much,” although it quotes the bewilderingly squeaky statement made by John Brennan, the former director of the C.I.A., about this never-ending story.
Surely They Jest Dept.: “Finally, Keith Kloor at Wired ask, seemingly with tongue in cheek (but maybe not), asks, Will The New York Times Ever Stop Reporting on UFOs? “Over the last few years, the paper has published more than a dozen UFO-related stories…It’s certainly odd that a story so few seem to take seriously keeps landing in the headlines, especially at this juncture.” (May 17, 2021)
You got a problem with that buddy?! Stay tuned. Headline writers are hopefully just getting their ink even wetter.