The Hearing on the Hill: THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS!
“The UFO hearing this morning was a total joke. We should have heard from people who could talk about things they'd personally seen, but instead the witnesses were government officials with limited knowledge who couldn't give real answers to serious questions.”—Rep. Tim Burchett, Republican, 2nd congressional district, based in Knoxville, Twitter
Take a hard look at this this video clip here. Blurry. Almost impossible to watch. Lots of blue-sky nothing of what is being called a UAP. It was the first of three images presented during today’s hearing on UAP/UFOs by the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee. And for someone who’s been mentally and physically chronicling this stuff for most of his life, that unremarkable clip pretty much summed up the tone and telltale signs of another sitting government body unable to come clean on what it knows and when it knew it.
On the congressional stand, which began to look increasingly like a penalty box as the 90-minute Show Me Nada saga dragged on, were Ronald S. Moultrie under secretary of Defence for intelligence and security and Scott W. Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence. It was Bray who had the audacity to show this poor-quality clip – once classified no less! Maybe Bray lost a bet to Moultrie and was forced to parade this dog-ate-my-homework video to a mostly acquiescent panel. I gotta say however, it says a lot about a UFO hearing when the most candid (and comic relief) moment occurs when Moultrie admits he goes to Sci-Fi conventions sometimes – but he doesn’t dress up!
Defenders of the Known Universe and its Unknowns at a Sci-Fi convention (credit Vox)
“The short clip appears to show a flying spherical object traveling at extremely high speeds in the sky. According to reporting in The Hill, “The roughly eight-second video clip with a 2021 timestamp shows a pilot operating an aircraft in a U.S. Navy training yard when a strange object flies near the cockpit of the plane at a high speed. While the UFO is traveling so fast in the video that it can be hard to spot, the object appears to be a grey, spherical shape. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray said this was an example of an encounter that has mystified the Pentagon.”
Mystified?!
For the government: Scott Bray, seeing more national security threats than McCarthy? (credit AP)
Chris Mellon, one of the current high-profile Disclosure advocates along with Luis “Lue” Elizondo, and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence | Former Minority Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, was more sanguine in his assessment of this morning’s serving of cold gruel. Mellon tweeted Tuesday, “That was a frustrating hearing as well as a reminder both of how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go.” But how do you really feel, Chris? You were inside this elite club for a long time and most likely had access to data that may never see the light of day, given the slog that is setting in on government “UFO transparency.” If Orwell were around, he’d amend his famous adage, “War is Peace, Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength,” to include “Obfuscation is transparency.”
The loneliest lobbyist in DC, Steve Bassett, founder of The Paradigm Research Group, which lobbies congress to end what he calls “The Truth Embargo,” was also mostly politic in his assessment: “This exactly what I expected and went as well as expected. It was an ice breaker, a stage setter, a confidence builder. Adam Schiff did not have to be there. His presence signals a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee is coming.”
Richard Boylan, PhD, another lifer in what Dr. Steven Greer, MD, (CSETI) famously calls “the UFO ghetto,” didn’t mince words (in ah, full transparency, I was Greer’s PR guy for much of the ‘90s). Richard has made some outlandish statements on topic in the past, but occasionally when he beats his chest, I like what comes out: “The two 'star' witnesses, the top Defense Department officials in charge of UFO information, evaded and lied about what they knew when questioned by the Congressmembers. That Intelligence Hearing has to have set a Record for most evasions and mis-directions in one hundred minutes.”
Also for the government, Ronald Moultrie: He won’t do dress up for Sci-Fi Conventions — or do Disclosure for Congress. (credit Rueters)
“The Intelligence Subcommittee wasted an immense opportunity to finally tell the public the truth - that we are being visited by people from the stars (1); that they are advanced, peaceful people (2); and that the government already know a lot about the 'UFO' spacecrafts they travel in (3),” Boylan ranted in an email to fellow long-suffering students of Saucerology. “Instead, the Congressional Subcommittee spent that precious time plodding through Government Data-Collecting and Reporting Procedures. In the end, the public got no more information than it already knew. Actually less, because the witnesses gave the impression that collecting UFO sighting reports is as far as the government has gotten. THAT IS A BALD-FACE LIE!”
Get ‘em Dick!
…AND A CHEESEHEAD SHALL LEAD THEM?!
For people who have been following this issue for years, it was bound to be disappointing, given that most of the discussion today was about predictable housekeeping duties. My biggest complaint? Very little reference to the historical bona fides of this immense topic from either the boys in the box or the other boys up on the dais – except for Green Bay Republican Rep. Mark Gallagher. Moreover, the officials today gave the impression that monitoring this phenomenon only goes back to early 2,000. If you swallowed any of it, you might want to get a stronger mouthwash.
The honorable representative from Cheeseland – and I want to say courageous, but come on, all this stuff is practically common knowledge after 70+ years -- pointed out that there is indeed a long history here – Blue Book, dating back to the ‘40s through ‘60Ss; Roswell (the only man-enuff official in the room to yell the equivalent of fire during the hearing); and the most telling statement that Gallagher insisted be put into the record (good move, mate, Go Pack!) the incursion of UFOs over a nuclear facility at Malmstrom Air Force base in Montana, March 16, 1967. A missile system there was tampered with by a UAP/UFO, making it inoperable! Moultrie and Bray pleaded ignorance, but looked like their pants had fallen to their ankles.
Now there’s your National Security Threat – a phrase you heard so often today during the big show that it began to sound like the McCarthy hearings from the ‘50s.
On the other hand, what IF “they” are NOT threats – the objects with no identity, the phenomenon – and the DOD mucky mucks -- that dare not speak its name ? What if this vastly superior technology and its reportedly unknown intelligent operators are trying to send us a different message, one of non-hostility, one that underscores the futility and fatalism of the planet’s stockpiled nuclear weapons, one that says, why can’t y’all get along?!
An abiding UFO cliche that is hopefully running out of gas in age of the interwebs -- Why don’t they land on White House Lawn – should have been put to bed back when this happened in July 1952. But Americans forget their history almost as fast as they create it, especially the muddied milestones that Mr. Gallagher was reminding us of today. There were 3 flyovers in that month 70 years ago of multiple objects of the United States Capitol building on July 19, 20 and 26! According to David Michael Jacobs’ straightforward historical accounts in his 1975 must read book, The UFO Controversy in America, each incident created multiple migraines for the Pentagon and President Truman – and resulted in the longest and largest Air Force press conference since WW II to calm people the f*** down and to allay their fears. But it’s largely forgotten now, much like today’s rigged rodeo will be.
War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Disclosure is shuck and jive.
