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In an interview with Fox News Channel host Jesse Watters on Monday keyed to so-called UFO whistleblower David Grush's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience last week, Harvard astronomer and UAP Science Advisory Council head Avi Loeb said he is actively working with the Department of Defense to find the bodies of space aliens allegedly hidden after the government recovered crashed saucers. Jesse Watters: You’re hearing from multiple whistleblowers that we have obtained bodies and craft. They have to be hidden somewhere. Have you zeroed in on where? While I am fairly certain Loeb--who does not have the legal authority to find any government secrets--is simply referring to his repeated call for the government to reveal any unseen UFO evidence, it is nevertheless startling to hear him seemingly claim to be looking for the bodies of crashed space aliens.
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In a new interview with Joe Rogan, UFO Disclosure celebrity David Grusch made an extraordinary claim that he had seen “contemporary” footage of “beautiful” dead Nordic aliens several years ago, which he both failed to reveal to Congress in his sworn testimony and which he is now sharing in great detail with Joe Rogan, despite the footage supposedly being classified and therefore illegal to discuss in any form for someone who holds a security clearance, as Grusch does. Grusch did not explain how he supposedly gained access to this footage, though he implied it was leaked to him. This follows a pattern where Grusch tops his previous claims with an increasingly implausible new one every time attention on him fades below his required celebrity threshold. AJ Gentile, the Why Files YouTuber and podcaster who presents conspiracy theories and paranormal claims with a fig leaf of skepticism, is suing his ex-manager for the return of nearly $750,000 in commissions taken from brands advertising on his show a single one-year period. Considering that commissions are just a fraction of the earnings moving through that show—20% per the contract Gentile included in his legal complaint—we can start to see just how much money there is in teasing the audience with stories of giants, UFOs, and other Fortean nonsense. Meanwhile, former UAP Task Force leader—and self-proclaimed victim of a werewolf stalker—Jay Stratton posted an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir to Instagram in which the UFO investigator claims that he induced the U.S. government to use a nuclear-powered submarine as bait to lure UFOs for his team to attempt to “capture.”
This weekend, Politico ran a credulous magazine piece on UFOs keyed to the meeting of Avi Loeb’s dubiously legal UAP Scientific Advisory Council, which has not filed the required federal paperwork for a group officially advising the federal government. In the piece, Politico reporter Ilan Greenberg makes the rather ahistorical claim that “there is a growing stream of intriguing chatter from people who had or have higher than top secret clearances who normally would not be expected to indulge in UAP speculation.” But they do—all the time, going back to Harry Truman. His examples are particularly poor, Barack Obama’s comments, not from this year (which caused such a stir) but from 2021, and Marco Rubio’s “interest” in UFOs, which he had before he ever entered government. That’s not a “growing stream,” and it fails to account for the obvious fact that the current generation of officials grew up in a UFO-saturated media environment, so of course they have interest in them and speculate about them, just like nearly half of the older adults in their age bracket.
Dan Farah, the filmmaker behind The Age of Disclosure documentary that took Washington by storm last year, has made good on his promise to acquire the rights to former UAP Task Force director Jay Stratton’s forthcoming UFO memoir Out of the Shadows in order to turn it into a drama series, Variety reports. Farah, who negotiated Stratton’s book deal with the TV deal as a sweetener, has secured the services of Sopranos writer Terrence Winter to enter intro preproduction on the series, which they claim will be political thriller mixed with a domestic drama centering on the impact on Stratton’s family life of his investigation into the government’s UFO coverup conspiracy. There is currently no pickup deal from any network or streamer, and it is unclear who might want an inferior version of The X-Files when the real thing is returning to television soon for its latest reboot. Stratton alleges that supernatural werewolf (almost certainly a black bear) began stalking his family after he spent time at Skinwalker Ranch. His memoir will be published on October 13.
Several big names in the current UFO Disclosure movement appear to have achieved consensus that the aliens will reveal themselves next year—or, at least, that’s what they want you to think they said until the inevitable course-correction next year when they will claim they never said it. Over the past couple of years, Chris Bledsoe, Ross Coulthart, Lue Elizondo, and others have all targeted the months around the start of 2027 for a rumored UFO revelation will leave the benighted masses awestruck at the grandeur of cosmic beings they, of course, have already prostrated themselves before and to whose glory they are now immune. After Bledsoe reiterated his 2027 prediction this weekend, the constellation of 2027 predictions went viral on UFO social media.
While this caused a frenzy in social media ufology circles, it sounds to me like Trump babbling about the last thing he heard from Tim Gallaudet or one of the other kooks trying to get the government to fund more ufology. (I wrote about Gallaudet and his interest in underwater UFOs and Atlantis back in April.) They have been pushing undersea UFOs for the past year, apparently having conceded that all of our satellites and telescopes have failed to find flying saucers zipping into Earth from other stars. See, for example, a late June episode of Ancient Aliens featuring interviews with several legislators with the ear of the president, including Reps. Anna Paulina Luna and Eric Burlison, who spoke about underwater alien bases.
The coincidence in timing is notable. Osbourne made his comments three weeks ago, not long after the Ancient Aliens episode aired, but the Cleared Hot Podcast had such low viewership that no one noticed until this week, when a clip began circulating on social media and was picked up by the tabloid press. A recently released survey conducted in July found that Americans believe more in extraterrestrial visitation and UFOs due to news coverage of the subject. The survey of 2,000 Americans, conducted by Talker Research, found that younger adults were more heavily impacted than older adults, and men were more likely to believe and to be excited about the possibility of alien visitation than women. According to the published report: Our survey of 2,000 Americans asked people whether recent UFO or UAP news coverage has changed their opinion on the topic and found that 37% now believe more than they used to. The survey also found that, contrary to claims by ufologists and their allies in Congress, only 17% of Americans said they would be fearful of aliens or concerned about their presence, contradicting ufology claims of "ontological shock" and "civilizational collapse" should aliens reveal themselves.
The respondents also claimed, weirdly, that while news coverage shaped their UFO beliefs, they did not feel that alien-themed media impacted overall belief in aliens, perhaps reflecting the reticence of Americans to believe that their ideas are being shaped by media messages. The long and short of it is that the propaganda campaign UFO believers instituted starting in 2017 to seed the media with stories about government cover-ups and UFO threats is working and is shifting the Overton Window and thus the beliefs of the audience for these messages.
As many of you are undoubtedly aware, David Grusch made some rather bizarre claims on the Dr. Phil podcast this week, and one of the wildest was the allegation that Dick Cheney ran a space alien prison for extraterrestrials with psychic powers: “I know people who have had direct interactions in a detainment situation, which sounds very Star Trek and sounds very crazy, but it is true,” Grusch told Phil McGraw. “And I talked to a cabinet member, a former cabinet member about that, who directly worked the issue for a particular former vice president. You can guess which one, Darth Vader.” “Darth Vader” was a nickname given to Cheney, who served as George W. Bush’s vice president from 2001 to 2009, because of his hardline policies and aggressive defense of executive power, a moniker he embraced and said he was “proud” of.
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