This morning, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat called for alleged UFO “whistleblowers” to put up or shut up in their seemingly endless quest to tease alien revelations that are always on the verge of arriving but never actually come. Douthat, who says he doubts any multi-generational conspiracy to hide extraterrestrial technology exists, also called out senators like Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for being “superweird” about UFOs. But if only Douthat knew just how weird. Only a few hours earlier, Josh Boswell published a sensationalized story in the Daily Mail alleging that the team of lunatics, grifters, and profiteers behind the recent resurgence in ufology secretly wrote the very legislation they attempted to launch a media and public protest campaign to pass. This summer, Schumer introduced a bizarre amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have created a commission to declassify UFO documents while authorizing the government to seize any materials in private hands that ufologists suspected might be of alien origin. (Ufologists in and out of government have a very poor track record of distinguishing “alien” objects from industrial waste and natural phenomena.) Republicans in the House watered down the language, in part over concerns that the bill’s eminent domain language was overbroad. Defense contractors and the Pentagon also expressed concern about the breadth of Schumer’s language. But where did that overbroad language come from? Sources told DailyMail.com the legislation was drafted with input from former officials who worked on the Pentagon's programs investigating 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena' (UAP). Boswell based his story on anonymous sources and did not provide any official confirmation on the record from Senate sources. However, since the overall tone of the article and cast to the information contained in it strongly suggests that it was inspired by the UFO spook crew now orbiting Garry Nolan’s Sol Foundation, which stood to benefit from the law, it would seem logical to conclude that the facts Boswell reported represent their version of events.
If true, it is utterly astonishing, both for the gullibility of both of my New York senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand (who is belatedly becoming a bit more skeptical of the looney tunes) and for the ability of people who have made absurd, and possibly deranged, claims to infiltrate government and influence Congress. I can’t help but think that it suggests a vulnerability that foreign adversaries could use as a template to set off legislative bombs in our national defense infrastructure.
There is a strong ethical problem with Grusch and other UFO advocates going on cable news and podcasts to advocate for legislation they wrote without disclosing their own role in writing it, doubly so when their colleagues and compatriots call for the public to protest Congress in support of the law. They are not objective observers neutrally supporting a cause; they are entrenched special interests who stand to profit directly from the program of patronage they are attempting to create. Danny Sheehan, an attorney for abduction researcher John Mack and for Elizondo who advocates for various UFO conspiracy theories and who formerly ran a “UFO ministry,” also said he consulted on the Schumer amendment. Sheehan accused House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner (R-OH) of working with defense contractors to cover up space aliens. “Turner is from the 10th congressional district in Ohio, which includes Wright Patterson Air Force Base,” Sheehan told Boswell, “and we know that's where the technology was taken back in 1947 from Roswell.” Yes, Chuck Schumer consulted with a Roswell conspiracy theorist, siding with a myth-monger over the United States Air Force, which released its final report on Roswell in 1997, exposing the false conspiracy claims. But the bigger question remains: How can the Senate majority leader be relying on cable TV lunatics who believe in poltergeists, werewolves, and UFO hoaxes to write laws? The real scandal isn’t some supposed UFO coverup but the ease with which a small group of seemingly deluded UFO cultists have captured high-ranking members of Congress and were undone only because their top-down approach of converting high-ranking officials to steamroll the rest ran into a wall when Turner and House Armed Services Committee chair Mike Rogers didn’t go along with their plans.
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The Sky Isn't Falling
12/16/2023 04:27:43 pm
Some of this stuff sounds like it's straight out of Scooby-Doo. Which one of these clowns is the dog and which one's wearing the ascot?
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An Over-Educated Grunt
12/16/2023 06:34:28 pm
Normally I'm leery of saying "do we REALLY need to obligate funds to this?" because as soon as you do that people do the same to your funding, but... I can think of way better uses for even the trivial amount in federal terms obligated to this nonsense. Half an F-35 would be better than this.
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Jim
12/16/2023 07:11:53 pm
If this " team of lunatics, grifters, and profiteers" are secretly influencing high levels of government, does this make them part of the deep state ?
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An Over-Educated Grunt
12/17/2023 11:36:28 am
I think what pisses me off most about this is that these people will STILL try to sell themselves as outsiders, despite literally being the people who wrote the law on the issue, and continue the con of "UAP secrets THEY don't want you to know about." They are THEY.
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Joseph Waters
12/17/2023 01:34:52 pm
Yes, I should think so. Jason is making a major assumption that these guys believe the garbage they are peddling, or that Shumer does. This could be some kind of intelligence operation.
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Clete
12/17/2023 05:44:26 pm
They are deep in something, but I don't think its the state.
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Kent
12/17/2023 10:11:48 am
Like the Iranian atomic bomb The Big UFO Reveal is always just around the corner. Those from Team Think Right who always knew Schumer was deranged had better brush up on their "Welcome, Friend!" The overly-broad version would be a great way to get my house Marie Kono'ed for free: "That's from space, that's from space, that's from space but it was made with the Replicator, that's from space..."
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Bob
12/17/2023 11:38:33 am
Look, the people you describe are in fact grifters if not clowns. But...why is it that when it's about government getting my information the answer is "Well if you've done nothing wrong and have noting to hide you have nothing to worry about!
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An Over-Educated Grunt
12/18/2023 07:56:34 pm
Except that if you require a report, someone has to write it, fifteen people have to review it, and at the end of all that someone has to receive it. Even if the answer is "nope, nothing to see here," there are hours wasted on what is obviously some elected idiot's pet project. If I'm going to waste my hours, I want them wasted on something meaningful to me, not a wild-Alf chase for an obvious con man.
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Christian Lambright
12/27/2023 11:29:40 am
Sorry Jason, this time around you're clearly mislabeling your article and posting a click-bait title, which only shows you either can't control or don't recognize the influence your own bias has on your thinking. The DailyMail article does NOT AT ALL show that the Schumer's Law was secretly written by the 'usual suspects' as you slantedly stated it. The DM article merely says that there was 'input' from Stratton, Taylor, and Elizondo. Input could mean anything, even just asking their opinion, but it is not the same as having written the legislation. So, shame on you for overtly posting disinformation. (Fwiw, even I think there's something more behind the three people named by the DM, but we need honest unbiased facts and reporting before making accusations, not slanted misleading information.)
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