Back in July, Congress held a sensational hearing on UFOs, or UAPs , as they are now known. On July 30th, I reported on the findings of that hearing:
- The United States government has a secret program to conceal from the public its knowledge of, and contact with, extra-terrestrial visitors to Earth;
- The program has been operating since the 1930s;
- A secret agency under the U.S. government is in possession of multiple extra-terrestrial vessels, commonly referred to as UFOs;
- When retrieving crashed UFOs, the military also recovered crew members; and
- These UFOs are of extra-terrestrial origin.
After the hearing, things quieted down a bit on the UFO or UAP front. Politics in America went back to its usual dysfunction, with a deadlocked Congress, a fired House Speaker, and catch-your-breath continuing resolutions to fund government a few weeks at a time. Even a simple task, such as ending the switches between normal time and daylight savings time, has proven too daunting—and this idea even had unanimous support in the Senate.
The normal day on Capitol Hill, which is filled with lots of activity and very few results, seems to have shuffled the UAP issue to the side. Fortunately, America does not grind to a halt because Congress does. Not even the UAP phenomenon is standing still. On November 1st, British newspaper The Guardian explained:
The Pentagon has launched an online reporting tool for certain encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena … in an expansion of its effort to be more transparent about its exploration of the unknown.
For the time being, the reporting tool is only open to current or former employees of the federal government. The point is to let those who have first-hand experience of and information on clandestine programs share as much as they can without risking their careers. There is a public reporting option in the works.
According to The Guardian, since the purpose of the reporting tool is to gather information on secret UAP-oriented government programs, it does not stretch its mandate into the analytical field. In other words, it does not exist to explain what UAPs are. Despite the Congressional testimonies in July, this appears to be the main goal with disclosure-oriented initiatives, at least for the time being.
In line with this point, The Guardian quotes Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the program in charge of the UAP-program reporting tool. He has “no evidence of any program having ever existed” that had reverse-engineered any “extraterrestrial UAP.”
This statement is interpreted as a disappointment for those who may believe that UAPs originate on another planet. However, that is not what Kirkpatrick is saying: all he says is that to date, the program he is in charge of has not uncovered any substantive evidence of UAPs being of extraterrestrial origin. Since the purpose of Kirkpatrick’s program excludes analysis that could uncover such origins, his “no evidence” comment has no bearing on the question of where UAPs come from.
As we saw above, there are already people with insight into government UAP programs who are willing to say that these are products of an extraterrestrial origin. This possibility is included in a November 16th article in the Politico where Garrett Garff, a journalist and UAP investigator, discussed possible explanations of the UAP phenomenon.
Garff noted that there is a “stubborn percentage” of UAP observations that cannot be explained “as known phenomena or technology.” After proposing a project for the investigation of UAPs, independent of the military, Garff reports that anywhere between 5% and 20% of observed UAPs cannot be explained. For reference, the late ufologist Stanton Friedman found that early government reports on UFOs placed the ‘unexplained’ share at 21%.
Friedman also noted that the more qualified the observer was, the more likely the observation was to fall under the ‘unexplained’ category. Garff does not delve into that aspect of the UAP observation issue, but he does take a refreshingly open mind to the question of what these phenomena actually are:
there is almost certainly not one single answer to the mystery of UFOs or UAPs. The truly “unexplained” cases … [are] almost surely a pie chart made up of various-sized slices of four (or more!) answers, ranging from the mundane and terrestrial to the truly extraordinary.
In short, Garff encourages us to keep an open mind toward all possible explanations.
Stanton Friedman was a bit more firm in his approach to UFO research, but he also spent several decades on it. He spent decades researching the UFO phenomenon, including being the first civilian investigator of the incident in Roswell, NM. Friedman was indeed convinced that Earth was being visited by beings from one or more other planets, a conclusion echoed by the Congressional testimonies I wrote about back in July.
Garff began researching UAPs a few years ago with the publication of UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government’s Search for Alien Life Here ― and Out There. His prudent open-minded approach to UAPs is analytically appealing, but with due adherence to it, let us nevertheless assume for a moment that:
- There is intelligent, civilized life on other planets;
- On some of those planets, they have achieved the ability to travel through space; and
- A few have visited Earth.
Such visits would be costly, both in terms of material resources and work time for the crew. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that visits to Earth would simply not be the result of leisure travel. More likely, they would be part of organized space exploration, backed by political initiatives and ambitions to eventually make official contact with us Earthlings.
This aspect of the UAP phenomenon is admittedly daunting, but of all the possible explanations we can come up with, it is no more unrealistic than any other. On the contrary, if other UFO authors, such as Charles Hall, are correct, the extraterrestrial origin is a highly plausible explanation.
If we make the reasonable assumption that we are currently in a disclosure phase where the U.S. government is warming the American people up to the idea that UAPs are real, and that they are of extraterrestrial origin, then we can also assume that an official disclosure at some point. Let us take this scenario a couple of steps down the road and see where it leads.
If extraterrestrial visitors indeed want to make official contact, and if we assume that they would do so by initially talking to the U.S. government, how would our beloved leaders in Washington react?
This depends, of course, entirely on how the disclosure is rolled out, but we can reasonably assume that members of the three branches of the federal government would be introduced to the extraterrestrial aliens under a tightly orchestrated program. There would be information sessions for select members of Congress; initially, very few senators and representatives would be included in the program.
At those sessions, the participating lawmakers would, among other things, be informed about what legislative initiatives they would have to take in order to formally and officially establish interplanetary contacts. There would be the need for a treaty between the U.S. government and the government entity that the aliens represent; constitutionally, it is the duty of Congress to ratify any treaties before they can go into effect.
Congress would also be reassured that the sovereignty of the United States, or any other country on Earth, would remain unchanged. Some pundits in UFO circles like to speculate that Earth would have to form a planetary government in order to join a galactic community, but this is pure political fiction. From the viewpoint of government affairs, all that is needed is a form for global cooperation in contacts with extraterrestrials. We Earthlings are pretty good at cooperating on so many other matters without giving up national sovereignty; why should ET contacts be any different?
The reason why there would be a tightly controlled introduction program in place for Congress is not that the announcement of intelligent life on other planets, including visitors to Earth, would create some existential crisis in human civilization. Such an announcement would be preceded by a gradual warm-up of public awareness of the existence of the aliens, a phase that we are very likely in the middle of right now. That period would help reassure that the general public would not react adversely to the announcement that ET is here.
When it comes to UAP disclosure, the biggest worry is not the general public. They are resilient and will take transformative news with strides; at the end of the day, it does not matter if there are people on a planet named Arcturus in the Boötis constellation. We still have to get up in the morning, go to work, and bring home the bacon to feed our kids.
Congress is a different, and in some ways bigger, problem. In addition to concerns over how the arrival of extraterrestrials would affect their political power, our elected officials would have monetary interests in the disclosure of alien contacts. Senators and representatives would be introduced to the aliens under a tightly controlled program in part because Capitol Hill leaks like a broken colander, but more important is the fact that members of Congress are closely intertwined with all kinds of lobbyists. The disclosure of contact between Earth—and especially the American government—and another civilization would be an unprecedented magnet of interest from lobbyists. They would want to have ‘their’ member of Congress placed as closely as possible to the aliens.
Why? Because it would put the clients of the lobbyists ahead of others in getting lucrative business deals with the aliens. It would be an investment opportunity of epic proportions to get a license to produce UFO propulsion technology for Earthly transportation, or to get the first contract on opening tourist resorts on Earth to alien visitors.
Beyond Congress, the executive branch of the U.S. government would be the most critical part of the disclosure program. The president would be the central figure in making the contacts official, and reassuring both the nation and the world that those contacts are peaceful and mutually respectful.
It goes without saying that Joe Biden is not the kind of president who could do this. But who could? Is Donald Trump the man for that job? As I noted in a recent America Report, there are good reasons to doubt that Trump would be a forward-looking president. Much like his most ardent critics on the presidential campaign trail, he has his eyes in the political rearview mirror. He is determined to get even for what he considers to be a stolen 2020 election; his opponents, including Republican former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, are equally determined to keep him out of the White House.
Of the officially declared candidates for president who are still in the race—a year before the election—Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to show capability and leadership. There are others who have not declared their candidacy but who have been in the race in the past. One of them is Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, whose 2016 presidential campaign showed promise but never got enough traction.
Regardless of who is president when it comes to disclosing extraterrestrial contact, his job will be at least as challenging as when Franklin D. Roosevelt led America through World War II. He would have to exercise extraordinary discernment in the balancing of domestic needs against the demands and desires of foreign powers. Just like a member of Congress, he would also have to withstand a formidable onslaught of lobbyists and political ‘friends’ of all kinds.
It is easy to drown in the UAP phenomenon, to lose sight of what it really is. Since we have good reasons to believe that we are dealing with intelligently controlled machines (per the July Congressional hearings), we can safely conclude that we are dealing with alien visitors from another planet. In a manner of speaking, that puts flesh and blood on the UAP phenomenon, which makes it a whole lot more fathomable than it we try to make it out to be something much more mysterious.
When Aliens Land in Washington
Back in July, Congress held a sensational hearing on UFOs, or UAPs , as they are now known. On July 30th, I reported on the findings of that hearing:
After the hearing, things quieted down a bit on the UFO or UAP front. Politics in America went back to its usual dysfunction, with a deadlocked Congress, a fired House Speaker, and catch-your-breath continuing resolutions to fund government a few weeks at a time. Even a simple task, such as ending the switches between normal time and daylight savings time, has proven too daunting—and this idea even had unanimous support in the Senate.
The normal day on Capitol Hill, which is filled with lots of activity and very few results, seems to have shuffled the UAP issue to the side. Fortunately, America does not grind to a halt because Congress does. Not even the UAP phenomenon is standing still. On November 1st, British newspaper The Guardian explained:
For the time being, the reporting tool is only open to current or former employees of the federal government. The point is to let those who have first-hand experience of and information on clandestine programs share as much as they can without risking their careers. There is a public reporting option in the works.
According to The Guardian, since the purpose of the reporting tool is to gather information on secret UAP-oriented government programs, it does not stretch its mandate into the analytical field. In other words, it does not exist to explain what UAPs are. Despite the Congressional testimonies in July, this appears to be the main goal with disclosure-oriented initiatives, at least for the time being.
In line with this point, The Guardian quotes Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the program in charge of the UAP-program reporting tool. He has “no evidence of any program having ever existed” that had reverse-engineered any “extraterrestrial UAP.”
This statement is interpreted as a disappointment for those who may believe that UAPs originate on another planet. However, that is not what Kirkpatrick is saying: all he says is that to date, the program he is in charge of has not uncovered any substantive evidence of UAPs being of extraterrestrial origin. Since the purpose of Kirkpatrick’s program excludes analysis that could uncover such origins, his “no evidence” comment has no bearing on the question of where UAPs come from.
As we saw above, there are already people with insight into government UAP programs who are willing to say that these are products of an extraterrestrial origin. This possibility is included in a November 16th article in the Politico where Garrett Garff, a journalist and UAP investigator, discussed possible explanations of the UAP phenomenon.
Garff noted that there is a “stubborn percentage” of UAP observations that cannot be explained “as known phenomena or technology.” After proposing a project for the investigation of UAPs, independent of the military, Garff reports that anywhere between 5% and 20% of observed UAPs cannot be explained. For reference, the late ufologist Stanton Friedman found that early government reports on UFOs placed the ‘unexplained’ share at 21%.
Friedman also noted that the more qualified the observer was, the more likely the observation was to fall under the ‘unexplained’ category. Garff does not delve into that aspect of the UAP observation issue, but he does take a refreshingly open mind to the question of what these phenomena actually are:
In short, Garff encourages us to keep an open mind toward all possible explanations.
Stanton Friedman was a bit more firm in his approach to UFO research, but he also spent several decades on it. He spent decades researching the UFO phenomenon, including being the first civilian investigator of the incident in Roswell, NM. Friedman was indeed convinced that Earth was being visited by beings from one or more other planets, a conclusion echoed by the Congressional testimonies I wrote about back in July.
Garff began researching UAPs a few years ago with the publication of UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government’s Search for Alien Life Here ― and Out There. His prudent open-minded approach to UAPs is analytically appealing, but with due adherence to it, let us nevertheless assume for a moment that:
Such visits would be costly, both in terms of material resources and work time for the crew. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that visits to Earth would simply not be the result of leisure travel. More likely, they would be part of organized space exploration, backed by political initiatives and ambitions to eventually make official contact with us Earthlings.
This aspect of the UAP phenomenon is admittedly daunting, but of all the possible explanations we can come up with, it is no more unrealistic than any other. On the contrary, if other UFO authors, such as Charles Hall, are correct, the extraterrestrial origin is a highly plausible explanation.
If we make the reasonable assumption that we are currently in a disclosure phase where the U.S. government is warming the American people up to the idea that UAPs are real, and that they are of extraterrestrial origin, then we can also assume that an official disclosure at some point. Let us take this scenario a couple of steps down the road and see where it leads.
If extraterrestrial visitors indeed want to make official contact, and if we assume that they would do so by initially talking to the U.S. government, how would our beloved leaders in Washington react?
This depends, of course, entirely on how the disclosure is rolled out, but we can reasonably assume that members of the three branches of the federal government would be introduced to the extraterrestrial aliens under a tightly orchestrated program. There would be information sessions for select members of Congress; initially, very few senators and representatives would be included in the program.
At those sessions, the participating lawmakers would, among other things, be informed about what legislative initiatives they would have to take in order to formally and officially establish interplanetary contacts. There would be the need for a treaty between the U.S. government and the government entity that the aliens represent; constitutionally, it is the duty of Congress to ratify any treaties before they can go into effect.
Congress would also be reassured that the sovereignty of the United States, or any other country on Earth, would remain unchanged. Some pundits in UFO circles like to speculate that Earth would have to form a planetary government in order to join a galactic community, but this is pure political fiction. From the viewpoint of government affairs, all that is needed is a form for global cooperation in contacts with extraterrestrials. We Earthlings are pretty good at cooperating on so many other matters without giving up national sovereignty; why should ET contacts be any different?
The reason why there would be a tightly controlled introduction program in place for Congress is not that the announcement of intelligent life on other planets, including visitors to Earth, would create some existential crisis in human civilization. Such an announcement would be preceded by a gradual warm-up of public awareness of the existence of the aliens, a phase that we are very likely in the middle of right now. That period would help reassure that the general public would not react adversely to the announcement that ET is here.
When it comes to UAP disclosure, the biggest worry is not the general public. They are resilient and will take transformative news with strides; at the end of the day, it does not matter if there are people on a planet named Arcturus in the Boötis constellation. We still have to get up in the morning, go to work, and bring home the bacon to feed our kids.
Congress is a different, and in some ways bigger, problem. In addition to concerns over how the arrival of extraterrestrials would affect their political power, our elected officials would have monetary interests in the disclosure of alien contacts. Senators and representatives would be introduced to the aliens under a tightly controlled program in part because Capitol Hill leaks like a broken colander, but more important is the fact that members of Congress are closely intertwined with all kinds of lobbyists. The disclosure of contact between Earth—and especially the American government—and another civilization would be an unprecedented magnet of interest from lobbyists. They would want to have ‘their’ member of Congress placed as closely as possible to the aliens.
Why? Because it would put the clients of the lobbyists ahead of others in getting lucrative business deals with the aliens. It would be an investment opportunity of epic proportions to get a license to produce UFO propulsion technology for Earthly transportation, or to get the first contract on opening tourist resorts on Earth to alien visitors.
Beyond Congress, the executive branch of the U.S. government would be the most critical part of the disclosure program. The president would be the central figure in making the contacts official, and reassuring both the nation and the world that those contacts are peaceful and mutually respectful.
It goes without saying that Joe Biden is not the kind of president who could do this. But who could? Is Donald Trump the man for that job? As I noted in a recent America Report, there are good reasons to doubt that Trump would be a forward-looking president. Much like his most ardent critics on the presidential campaign trail, he has his eyes in the political rearview mirror. He is determined to get even for what he considers to be a stolen 2020 election; his opponents, including Republican former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, are equally determined to keep him out of the White House.
Of the officially declared candidates for president who are still in the race—a year before the election—Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to show capability and leadership. There are others who have not declared their candidacy but who have been in the race in the past. One of them is Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, whose 2016 presidential campaign showed promise but never got enough traction.
Regardless of who is president when it comes to disclosing extraterrestrial contact, his job will be at least as challenging as when Franklin D. Roosevelt led America through World War II. He would have to exercise extraordinary discernment in the balancing of domestic needs against the demands and desires of foreign powers. Just like a member of Congress, he would also have to withstand a formidable onslaught of lobbyists and political ‘friends’ of all kinds.
It is easy to drown in the UAP phenomenon, to lose sight of what it really is. Since we have good reasons to believe that we are dealing with intelligently controlled machines (per the July Congressional hearings), we can safely conclude that we are dealing with alien visitors from another planet. In a manner of speaking, that puts flesh and blood on the UAP phenomenon, which makes it a whole lot more fathomable than it we try to make it out to be something much more mysterious.
READ NEXT
The Enterprise State
Play the Ball, not the Man: Cancel Culture’s Attempt To Capture Hungarian Academia
Starmer’s War on Farmers: a New Low for Client Politics