Congressional Hearing to Feature Lue Elizondo and Other UFO Kooks

While obviously not the biggest news in a week that delivered a devastating blow to the rights and freedoms of American minorities, nevertheless, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives released the lists of witnesses for a November 13 hearing on UFOs entitled “Exposing the Truth”—and it’s every bit as bad you’d expect in an era dominated by conspiracy theories, fanatical supernatural beliefs, and fraud. Steven Greenstreet did a great job outlining just how stupid the hearing is going to be with this helpful infographic:

As you can see, the witness list is a grab-bag of people infamous for being wrong, spreading untrue claims, and being embedded in the supernatural hijinks at Skinwalker Ranch. This is not a serious inquiry into UFOs but a canonization of the Skinwalker Ranch mythology as government ideology, the kind of conspiracy theory as history that is too often becoming part and parcel of government and media. 

It's a disappointment, but I can't say it's unexpected. 

Meanwhile, George Knapp, another satellite orbiting Skinwalker Ranch, released a six-hour documentary series on Netflix entitled Investigation Alien. While the show mostly repeats familiar old stories, including cattle mutilation claims, it also features GOP Rep. Tim Burchett, who tells Knapp that he knows where crashed UFOs are being stored, but won't say lest they be destroyed. He can join Ross Coulthart and Jeremy Corbell on the team of people who claim to know UFO secrets but, gosh darn is, just won't tell you.