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  • The Ancient Astronaut Theory

    In this thought-provoking episode of the UFO Insight Podcast, our host Marcus Lowth delves into the fascinating world of the Ancient Astronaut Theory. This hypothesis postulates that extraterrestrial beings visited our planet thousands of years ago, significantly impacting human civilization and shaping our history.

    Join Marcus as he scrutinizes the work of Swiss author Erich von Däniken, who played a pivotal role in popularizing this theory. The conversation then expands to explore various legends and myths from antiquity that seem to allude to encounters with otherworldly beings. Dive deep into the enigmatic Indus Valley Civilization, one of the most advanced ancient societies, and examine the reasons behind recording these intriguing legends.

    The discussion further examines the perplexing megalithic structures found across the globe. Marcus ponders whether these awe-inspiring constructions could be evidence of an unknown, advanced civilization, potentially linked to extraterrestrial intervention. As the episode unfolds, Marcus searches for the elusive “missing link” that could bridge the gap between traditional historical accounts and the Ancient Astronaut Theory.

    Listeners will be captivated by Marcus’s extensive research into UFOs, the paranormal, and ancient mysteries, which he has honed over two decades. Don’t miss this enthralling episode that connects the dots between the past and the present, as we continue to unravel the enigma of Earth’s enigmatic history and its possible otherworldly influences. So, buckle up and get ready for a mind-bending journey into the unknown.

    View the original podcast release page here:
    https://www.ufoinsight.com/podcast/the-ancient-astronaut-theory

    You can check out our article on the Ancient Astronaut Theory here:
    https://www.ufoinsight.com/aliens/agendas/ancient-astronaut-theory

    Chapters
    0:00–0:52 – Introduction
    0:52–5:14 – What Is The Ancient Astronaut Theory?
    5:14–7:57 – The Theories Of Eric Von Daniken
    7:57–11:02 – Other Legends From Antiquity
    11:02–13:15 – The Indus Valley Civilization
    13:15–14:57 – Why Were These Legends Recorded?
    14:57–16:17 – Megalithic Structures
    16:17–18:07 – An Unknown Civilization
    18:07–19:54 – The Missing Link
    19:54–22:38 – Summary

    The entire narration script and spoken narration audio track are copyright © UFO Insight.  Music, jingles, and complementary sounds may be used under license.


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  • Transcript: Dr. Garry Nolan on TC: It’s Clearly Been Here For A Long Time And It Doesn’t Necessarily Care So Much About Us. Whose Planet Is This, Really?

    Transcript: Dr. Garry Nolan on TC: It’s Clearly Been Here For A Long Time And It Doesn’t Necessarily Care So Much About Us. Whose Planet Is This, Really?

    “When you see something like that, you never forget it. It’s changes your life in a way that it puts things in perspective. So when you hear other people’s stories about this stuff, I feel inherently like I want to protect them. I want to help them not be attacked for something that they saw, because it’s wrong.”

    ~Dr. Garry Nolan

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    Tucker Carlson (TC): Welcome to Tucker Carlson. Today, the crazy thing about the topic of UFOs is how, when you get into it, how really non-crazy a lot of the people who know a lot about the topic turn out to be. They’re kind of the opposite of what you imagine. They’re not fruity conspiracy nuts, a lot of them are just scientists. Garry Nolan is definitely at the top of that list. He’s a Stanford professor, Stanford, PhD. He’s an immunologist. And he has, over the last decade or two, spent a lot of time studying the harmful effects that apparent encounters with UFOs have on the human brain. This is a field of study, and he is at the very top of it. Dr. Garry Nolan, he joins us in studio. Professor, thanks so much for coming on.

    Dr. Garry Nolan (GN): Thank you so much.

    TC: I was just reading your (Full Bio) again, just to restate the same point, once more: It’s just remarkable, once you get into this topic…I don’t know if mainstream is the word, but it’s not fringe, at all. So just to kind of accentuate that point, explain your background for our viewers, if you would.

    GN: So my main job, my day job at Stanford for the last thirty years, has been the development of technologies to look at cancer, and blood. And so, we’ve spun a number of companies and sold a number of companies that we started out in my lab. Two of them are actually on NASDAQ. And the idea has always been that if money is coming in from the National Institutes of Health, we should give back to the public. And so, in the process of developing some of these, we developed an instrument called CyTOF, which is really all about studying blood cells at a deeper level than anybody has been able to do before.

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    GN: And so, it was circa 2011 or so when some people from the CIA, and an aerospace company (Nolan has confirmed that this was Dr. Kit Green and Dr. Colm Kelleher ~Joe) came to me to ask me for their help on the analysis of some individuals who had encountered some anomalous objects, they said. And they came to my office, unannounced, and then started laying out pictures and data on the table in front of me. And I honestly thought it was a joke. I thought it was… (cross talk)

    TC: You’re a Stanford professor…(laughs), an immunologist, doing medical research and building companies, and all of a sudden, one day the CIA shows up at your office?

    GN: Because they had asked around and said, “Okay, we have these people who’ve been injured.” And one of the things that they wanted to do in a complete medical workup of these individuals was to look at the blood. It’s a natural thing to do. If you’re looking for an inflammation, the blood is one of the places you might look to get sort of a more complete list of everything that’s going on in the body. And so, that’s when somebody said, “Well, if you want to do this [and] do it properly, you gotta go talk to this guy Nolan at Stanford because he has the world’s best instrument that he’s developed for doing it.” And that’s what started it.

    TC: So what was your view of UFOs/UAPs at the time?

    GN: You know, I was kind of a science fiction fan, and I was interested in it as any mainstream individual might have been. But it wasn’t something that I had any kind of focus on in my life.

    TC: So you had no deep knowledge of the topic.

    GN: No deep knowledge.

    TC: Were you surprised that a US government agency was doing this kind of work? I mean, presumably, the question was settled for them.

    GN: Yeah.

    TC: They didn’t wonder if UFOs were real, they knew at that point, right?

    GN: Right. Right. No, of course. I mean, like I said, I mean, at first I thought it was a joke. I mean, I really thought that I was being…somebody was about to put me on Candid Camera, and make a joke of it.

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    GN: But as they started showing me the data, and they were deadly serious. I mean, I tried to lure them into making a joke about it. They were deadly serious about it, because they had basically said, at that point, people have died. And so, and then they showed me some brain images of individuals who had been damaged and internal scarring, you could see through MRIs. And, you know, it’s data, it’s unmistakable. You have to say, “Okay, well, what did that?” I can conjecture, or hypothesize about, you know, is it the Russians, is it UFOs or whatever. But the fact is, there is data that says something is happening and so we need to study it. And that’s what a scientist should do.

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    TC: Of course! Oh, absolutely! But first, some context. Who were these people who had been injured or killed?

    GN: Oh, they were military personnel, people, intelligence agents on the ground, a pilot – a few pilots, actually – who had gotten close enough and they had some sort of effects.

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    TC: Gotten close enough to some sort of unknown aircraft.

    GN: To some sort of object. One of them, on the ground, as well…walked right up to it and touched it. And actually, his case is pretty famous.

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    The Rendlesham Forest Case

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    GN: And even Senator McCain was able to come in and help this individual (John Burroughs) because the Army was denying him – was it the Army or the Air Force – was denying him medical benefits. And so, eventually it reached the office of Senator McCain. And he stepped in and forced the Veterans Affairs to…

    TC: He walked up and touched it? Can you back up and just tell me…what was the story there?

    GN: That was the so-called Rendlesham Forest case in England, where objects were seen over the bunkers where the nuclear weapons were stored. And things were seen…

    TC: In the 70s?

    GN: In the 70s or so, yeah. There’s quite a few documentaries on it. But the individuals who were actually there, I know one of them quite well (once again, John Burroughs). And he was the person who was basically denied benefits and his medical records were classified for quite a while. They wouldn’t let anything out about him. Why?

    TC: So he touched this object?

    GN: Yeah.

    (It was Jim Penniston, co-author of “The Rendlesham Enigma,” who says he touched the craft. ~Joe)

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    TC: Did he describe the object?

    GN: Yeah, he described the object as basically about four or five feet across, with strange writing on it. I don’t know. I mean, it’s a longtime story.

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    GN: I don’t try too much to get into the stories and to the ancient literature because there’s so many arguments and mis and disinformation about it. I’m more interested in: Let’s collect new data and study it, right? Let’s collate the data in a way and try to convince other scientists that the data is real, not that a conclusion is real. So, I try to stay away from that because there’s plenty of arguments and historians who know how to do that.

    TC: You stay right in your lane.

    GN: I stay in my lane because that’s what I’m good at!

    TC: Yeah. Good call.

    GN: So, just stay away from it.

    TC: So this man, specifically, military personnel who touched this object in the woods near a nuclear bunker in Great Britain, what happened to him?

    GN: He had all kinds of…he had nausea, he had long-term consequences to his heart. Now, whether any of this was directly caused by the object or not is open to debate. But, in the immediate aftermath of the interaction that he had with it, there were medical consequences. So, you’d have to imagine that somewhere back then, something happened to him that he’s still dealing with, years later. I mean, long COVID is an example of…there can be a traumatic incident that occurs to your body, and later on, you’re still dealing with it.

    TC: Of course! Well, many of those.

    GN: But part of the issue with him was sort of a PTSD, that nobody would believe him, right? And then when he tried to follow up with the Veterans Affairs Office, the medical offices, they just denied him coverage, which was ridiculous because he served his country, and yet they were ignoring him.

    TC: But the CIA believed him, it sounds like?

    GN: Yes. Well, what happened is that a number of cases like this started becoming known, right? And so, what happens is that these cases and events kind of trickle up the chain, and then get moved across the DoD and put in a bucket. Let’s just call it the weird bucket…until enough of them have occurred, that somebody says, “Okay, there’s something we should be paying attention to.” Havana Syndrome is an example of that, right? That enough individuals in diplomatic offices, etc, were getting sick and so there was a pattern beginning to occur and emerge, and so somebody realized, okay, somebody is probably attacking our personnel in these offices, the diplomatic corps, etc. So, those cases all end up over in a bucket where eventually somebody pays attention to it, and that was what then instigated them to come to me.

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    TC: Interesting. So how many cases, roughly?

    GN: About a hundred?

    TC: A hundred?!

    GN: Yeah. Now of those, about probably 80 to 90% of them ended up being actually Havana Syndrome. So as we were studying these cases, the guy who was doing the work, his name is Kit Green. He’s a neurophysiologist, and is also associated with the CIA, used to be in the CIA. He was going back to what are called the diagnostic codes, because, when you have a new medical issue, you start saying, “Okay, well, what happened to them?” Let’s say they’ve got this kind of phenomena, they got this kind of problem with their lungs, and they’ve got inflammation of the skin, et cetera. And you put them into these codes. And so, it was around 2015-2016 that…and we had, up to that point in time, called this interference syndrome. Something was interfering with these individuals. But then it became obvious that the diplomatic corps issues were happening and that many of the symptoms in those individuals, in the Havana Syndrome individuals, matched some of the, or most of the symptoms that we had in our big bucket. Why? Because they were in the weird bucket at the time and they just ended up being Havana Syndrome, but that was good, in a way, because we were able to take those individuals out and out of consideration [and] I didn’t have to worry about them anymore. It now became a national security concern. But the people who were remaining were the really interesting ones to me because those are the people who claim to have interactions with UAPs, right? So it was kind of like, in science, you first characterize, you collate into categories.

    TC: Yes.

    GN: The categories that are understood, you just step aside, and put them aside and they’re handed off. It’s a huge operation in the government to deal with those. In fact, the Senate Intelligence Committee just came out with a report this morning, that has language specifically in it to look at the Havana Syndrome cases and to understand it. Also has interesting – I don’t know if you saw it – it also has language about UAPs, and basically, admonishing the Defense Department, saying, “You guys have been dragging your feet. No more.” [It also contains] whistleblower language. There was also a situation where they want to go all the way back to 1947…all the Defense Department and the CIA, etc, to collect all the information around events that have occurred. They want all of, interestingly, the NDAs, the non-disclosure-agreements. They want those all listed because the NDAs are associated to people, and that means they can start to name the people who have been involved. They want all of the information on the disinformation and the obfuscation that’s been going on, and they want information about the medical harms that have occurred. And that’s all in the National Defense Appropriations (Authorization ~Joe) Act for 2023.

    TC: So this is way outside your lane, but since you’ve had so much experience dealing with all the people involved, maybe you have a theory? Why do you think DoD, or the U.S. government, more broadly, has lied about this for so long?

    GN: So, I think that they were just afraid of admitting that they don’t have control over the airspace. That’s one thing. But also, it’s really back to what it is that I was saying before: We have the data, to the extent that there is proof that there’s something else here. They didn’t want anybody to know about it because they’re scared of what the reaction might be.

    TC: No, it makes sense. I mean, that’s a human reaction.

    GN: It’s a human reaction. But, the other point is, I think that’s important to realize, is that: When a lot of, let’s say, these events were occurring, and there’s claimed crash materials that might have been collected, this went off to places like Lockheed and all of the big aerospace companies, [and] they wanted to profit off of it.

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    GN: And many of them basically took a lot of the information, set it aside, and they decided, “Okay, well, we’re going to profit off it. We’re not going to tell Congress what this is all about because, if we do, then maybe we have to share this with McDonnell Douglas, or someone else.”

    TC: So if an aerospace – and I’ve heard this theory from very informed people, I don’t think it’s a theory, it sounds true – that, if there are crash materials, and apparently there are, those reside in the custody of not the U.S. government (Nolan: Exactly) but of contractors who work for the U.S. government, aerospace, defense contractors…McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, etc. How could they profit off those materials?

    GN: Well, one, they can continue to ask for black-budget money.

    TC: Oh (both laugh). I should know this, I lived in Washington! Right. The funding continues.

    GN: Right? I mean, the funding can continue. You might hope, eventually, that you can understand it and thereby profit off of it. You know, but my point has been that whatever this stuff is, is hundreds of technology revolutions ahead of us and understandings of physics that we don’t appreciate. So, it’s kind of like, I mean, the old…send a cell phone back to a Neanderthal and see what he does with it. Pound rocks, so.

    TC (laughs) He eats it, yeah. No, it’s totally right. Fascinating. So, it sounds like in the world that you live in, it is taken for granted, which is assumed to be true, that this stuff is real.

    GN: Yes. Yeah, it’s 100% real. I mean, there’s just no doubt about it. I mean, the data is real. And this is what I [hear] when I have these conversations with other scientists who have told me, “Garry, you’re gonna ruin your reputation.” And I’m like, “Well, my reputation has been always going against the grain and look at where I am. I’m perfectly fine going against the grain.” This is real and we need to pay attention to it and it’s just unscientific to not study it.

    TC: Yes. Amen.

    GN: Right? I mean, it’s just wrong. And if you’re going to be that way, you’re a priest, you’re not a scientist.

    TC: Amen. Thank you for saying that. I feel that way about a lot of things that touch science, but this is definitely one of them. So why would the aerospace company – that you have not named, I’ve noticed – why would they be interested in finding [out], along with the CIA, the answers to these questions?

    GN: Technology! You’ve seen the reports on how these things move: Zero to five thousand miles an hour, instantaneous acceleration and deceleration, trans-medium travel.

    TC: Meaning from air to water to water?

    GN: Air to water. Yeah. We can’t do any of that. We just can’t.

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    TC: And moreover, we don’t know how it’s done.

    GN: We don’t know how it’s done. And so that means that there’s a level of physics that can be appreciated and maybe taken advantage of. I mean, hundreds, thousands of years ago, we looked at birds, and we saw they could fly and we said, “We want to fly.” So now we see this happening and now we realize that our physics doesn’t answer how that moves. So, we need new physics. And so that, to me, is the most important aspect of this. But, if we go back to like, where my career came from, I always look at data and say, “What can I do with this and make something out of it to give back? What technology can I create that can be used by everybody?” So, similarly, I look at these materials –  and I do have some public materials – and I say, “If I can understand these at the atomic level, and understand how these things are put together, I might not understand how anti-gravity works but I can now bring in scientists who might be experts in the kinds of atoms that are there and say, “Tell me what this might have been used for, because this is where it came from.”

    TC: But, I mean, all of it…we’re sort of, like, alighting around the central question, which is like, “Who made these things? Who are these people, these things? What is this force? Not human?

    GN: Yeah. I don’t know. I mean…and that’s why it’s so hard for me not to say what I think it really is because if I do say, “It is absolutely this,” people will start to question me.

    TC: Of course. Because you can’t know, right?

    GN: Right. But I think the better way to do it is to convince people that the data is real.

    TC: Let’s move back just one sentence. So, without putting your professional credibility, reputation, on the line, etc. – You’re around people who study this stuff for a living who are the most knowledgeable people on this topic in the world…

    GN: Yes.

    TC: What is their general sense of what this might be?

    GN: That this is not from Earth?

    TC: Right. That it’s not from Earth, that this is some…these are aliens, essentially?

    GN: Right. And, you know, until I see a piece of technology that does something I don’t understand, or until I see an alien body, I’m going to also remain skeptical.

    TC: Of course, as you should.

    GN: But, it doesn’t mean I won’t study it. And people say, “Well, why, if you are so skeptical, still, you’re studying it?” Because it’s the most important thing that could have ever happened.

    TC: Of course! (laughs) That’s why we cover it on the show! Not because…I have no special knowledge, I know nothing, really. But…by definition, it’s the most important. So, is the general belief that these objects, these, whatever this is, is coming from outside our atmosphere, or that it’s coming from beneath the oceans?

    GN: Both, I think. I mean, whatever it is, it’s clearly been here for a long time and it doesn’t necessarily care so much about us. But in terms of, you know…if it wanted to wipe us out, it could.

    TC: Clearly, obviously.

    GN: All you got to do is go out to the asteroid belt and push a big rock our way  and that’s the end of us. We’re the next dinosaur problem.

    TC: Yes.

    GN: So, the next question is: Well, if they’ve been here all along, before we were even civilized, well, whose planet is this, really?

    TC: And do you think that there is evidence that this is an ongoing thing?

    GN: Yeah! Yeah, yeah. I mean, so, I don’t know if you know, the astronomer and venture capitalist, Jacques Vallée? You’ve probably heard of him.

    TC: Of course, yes.

    GN: And…so he’s actually a good friend. And he’s written books about the matter, showing that if you go back into the historical records, things written by the scientists and philosophers and mayors and kings of the day, you know, it’s in the record.

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    GN: This object was seen, it looked like a wheel, or it looked like a shield. And it showed up over our battles, and, you know, et cetera, et cetera. So, you can go back and re-context the observations and say, “Well, if somebody wrote that today, I’d call it a UFO or a UAP, right?”

    TC: Of course.

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    GN: So, it’s been here. I think, really, you know, one thing you have to ask is: Well, why do they show up? And maybe it’s just…and why don’t they land? That’s a question I often get asked. Well, why would you? I mean, do you try to establish diplomatic relations with the ants in your garden when you move into a new house?

    TC: (laughs hysterically)

    GN: (laughs) Right? No, you do what you want and you dig up the yard and you do as you please. You try not to interfere with them. You know, if there’s a nest of birds, you’re not going to interfere, you’re gonna try not to bother them because you’ve got your own business going on, you’re doing your own thing. So, what that thing is, I don’t know.

    TC: There does seem to be some connection between nuclear power, nuclear weapons, nuclear fission itself, and these objects. I mean, if you’ve clearly noticed this?

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    GN: Yes. Well, I think, if you ask yourself the question: How could we negatively interact with them, right? I mean, there’s probably little that even they could do if we blew up a nuclear bomb around them. So, to the extent that we have reached a level of technological capability, where we can be a problem to them, nuclear weapons are one of them, right? I mean, but look as far as where we’re gonna be a thousand years from now. We’re starting to move out, like, with Elon Musk, into Mars, maybe someday we’ll be able to travel to other solar systems, even by conventional means. So, if you are an emerging species in this area of the galaxy and there are elders running around, maybe they want to pay attention to the monkeys who, you know, are usually throwing mud up against each other on the walls and stuff (smiles).

    TC: (laughs) No, it’s a completely… Does this bother you at all?

    GN: No. I think it’s exciting. I mean, why would it bother me? I mean, because I don’t think that they’re here necessarily to harm us. And if they want to, they can, so nothing I have any control over. So..

    TC: Is there any evidence of the hundred cases that you’ve looked at, that any of those human beings were harmed on purpose?

    GN: No. I think it’s just [similar to] if you happen to walk across an airfield and get in the way of the exhaust plume of a jet engine, you’re gonna get harmed.

    TC: Before I ask you to describe what those harms are, because you’ve seen strong patterns, right? In the harms?

    GN: Yeah.

    TC: There are innumerable first person accounts of people who say/claim they have been taken into some craft and experimented upon.

    GN: Right.

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    TC: Have you come across those, and how do you assess them?

    GN: I come across those, but I, you know, have a hard time…it’s like what I was saying before: It’s an encounter, it’s an experience, but whether those experiences are real, or whether or not they’re imposed on these individuals as sort of an altered-reality memory, I don’t know. I mean, here’s an example. There’s a great case, it’s in France. This family – this is just within the last few years – driving down the highway, a mother and two children in the back, they have an open-top car, during the day [on] a crowded highway. They see, over their head, through the window, craft. I mean, it’s obvious. And then the mother’s looking around and noticing that nobody else seems to see this. Okay? So the kids in the back have a camera phone, take a picture. When they get home, they take a look at the picture [and] there’s not a craft, but there’s an object, a small sort of star-shaped object about thirty or forty feet over their car.

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    GN: So, let’s say that that’s the object, but it projected an image of something else. And yet, that’s all they saw. So what happened? It’s sort of like it was a projected, 3D image of something, but it was only seen by them. So, when you start to hear many of these cases, and Jacques Vallée talks about this a lot…that whatever these things are, seem to have the ability to project altered reality into people’s minds. I know that sounds crazy. And I’m just repeating the stories and raised the thing…

    TC: Well no crazier than any other thing that we’ve been talking about.

    GN: Right.

    TC: I mean, it’s all outside the bounds of what we understand the science anyway, right?

    GN: Yeah. I mean… and I have the picture that they took of that star-shaped object, and the story. And Jacques had been the person who went and did the interviews for it. And that was sort of a mind bender for me. The first time that I had seen evidence of something that was different than what people had perceived, right? And so, this notion of a projected reality is something that really has to be part of the discussion at some point.

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    (If the phenomenon can make people see an object that’s not actually there, can they make one person see something and the person standing next to them see something else? Or nothing at all? Here’s an excerpt from a KLAS article on this subject. I believe the senior manager was Dr. Colm Kelleher and Nolan helped out with the immune-system analysis.  ~Joe)

    Statement from a Senior Manager of BAASS

    One of the major successes of BAASS was in adopting the novel approach of utilizing the human body as a readout system for dissecting interactions with the UFO phenomenon. This novel approach aimed to circumvent the increasing evidence of deception and subterfuge by the UFO phenomenon in that multiple eyewitnesses co-located in the same vicinity frequently reported seeing widely different events. The evidence was multiplying that the UFO phenomenon was capable of manipulating and distorting human perception and therefore eyewitness testimony of UFO activity was becoming increasingly untrustworthy.

    The BAASS approach was to view the human body as a readout system for UFO effects by utilizing forensic technology, the tools of immunology, cell biology, genomics and neuroanatomy for in depth study of the effects of UFOs on humans. This approach marked a dramatic shift away from the traditional norms of relying on eyewitness testimony as the central evidentiary arm in UFO investigations. The approach aimed to bypass UFO deception and manipulation of human perception by utilizing molecular forensics to decipher the biological consequences of the phenomenon.

    The result of applying this new approach was a revolution in delineating the threat level of UFOs.

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    TC: So there have been, over centuries, many centuries, reports of livestock being killed, drained of blood, in conjunction with sightings of these objects.

    GN: Right.

    TC: Have you come across anything like that?

    GN: I know of it and I know a woman, Linda Moulton Howe, who did a lot of these original studies.

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    I would recommend any interview with Dr. Colm Kelleher or Christopher O’Brien, or either book of theirs, if you want to delve into cattle mutilations.  O’Brien is more mutilation-centric while Kelleher focuses a lot on the mad cow disease connection.

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    GN: You know, again, its data. I don’t know why anything would want to do that. I really don’t. And I don’t know how it fits into the big picture of this because there’s so many moving parts, it’s very hard to create a consolidated story about it. And, you know, the only way that I can create a consolidated story is to say that there’s more than one thing here, right?

    TC: Right.

    GN: And that these things are somehow in tension with each other. I mean, much like when the colonial Europe went around the world, into Africa, and India, etc., and basically were fighting each other. You know, England, against Spain, and France, etc. Maybe that’s a little bit about what we’re seeing here…is that these things are in some kind of tension with each other, and that there is no unifying motivation.

    TC: Is there evidence that there’s a lot of this kind of activity under sea?

    GN: Yes. Yeah. I mean, plenty, right? The sonar images show these things moving at speeds a dozen times faster than our fastest submarines, with no cavitation, right? No, you know, no, basically bubbles behind them, because the movement would create a vacuum and would, you know, basically make a giant bubble and we’d get this noise. No noise, just sonar images.

    TC: So, given your background in science, is that explicable?

    GN: No, no, it’s not. No.

    TC: Okay.

    GN: You have to imagine a new kinds of physics. But interestingly, the physicists have come up with a unifying, let’s say, mathematics, for what these things might be doing and how they’re doing it.

    TC: Huh. Does make sense to you?

    GN: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, one of them is called…it’s, well, there’s actually a Mexican physicist, he has worked out the equations for a warp drive. I mean, we can’t do it. The amounts of energy required are extraordinary. It’s called the Alcubierre drive.

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    GN: But then there’s a number of other individuals who have then taken his equations, and shown that, yeah, that actually explains how these things might be moving.

    TC: But there’s a lot of data from underwater?

    GN: Correct. But, get that out of the Navy. And that’s part of what the announcement today was all about. This idea that Congress has said, “Enough is enough. We want the data. You’re not gonna hide this anymore. We’re going to give anybody in the entire DoD and intelligence community a secure channel by which you can actually report this. You can basically set aside the NDAs or oaths that you’ve given, because you’re basically reporting it to us, and it will be given to the Senate and the congressional leadership.”

    TC: Right.

    GN: And this is the first time ever that this has been done.

    TC: It’s about time.

    GN: So, I mean, if anybody wants to question whether this is something to pay attention to, you have to realize that these are the senators and Congresspeople who, behind closed doors, have seen the classified briefings, right? They’re the people who’ve seen this in a way…they’ve seen stuff I haven’t seen. And some of them come out, and their eyes are wide, about this.

    TC: Yes. Harry Reid of Nevada was constantly talking about it.

    GN: Yeah. You know, and I actually, briefly, I briefed Congressman Gallagher about this issue before he did the congressional hearings on it about the Wilson/Davis memo.

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    GN: And, you know, these people are taking it seriously. And you have to!

    TC: Amazing.  So tell us about the the injuries. So, again, you’ve seen a hundred cases, what kinds of injuries have people sustained?

    GN: I think the most dramatic are the…because we have MRIs, the things that you see within the body. And so, what we had done was, in looking at some of these MRIs, we had noticed damage in the brain, white matter disease, it’s called. If you know anybody, for instance, who’s had multiple sclerosis, and you look at an image of their brain, you’ll see these white matter objects.

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    GN: Yes, you can see it there (Experiencer graphic (below) from Tucker interview). Those white tracts there are just damage to the brain, right? Those are dead areas of the brain.

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    GN: And so, if you have that dead area of the brain, whatever that function might have been, is now gone, right? So memory, movement, etc., can all be affected. Now the brain can luckily rewire some things and so depending upon the extent of the damage, you can maybe get over it.

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    How to Rewire Your Brain After Trauma

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    GN: But, you know, the ones that you just saw on that image before, on the right, those are serious. And that was what essentially convinced me. But, what I asked for, of these people, I said, “Look, I’m not just going to believe you because you showed me images of these people. I want to meet the people.” And so, I was taken to meet the people and interview them, and I took their blood for later analysis. And so, you know, it was…seeing is believing and validation and verification. I did as much as I reasonably can. Now, they could be lying to me. I don’t know, but I doubt it because I saw some of the, sort of the consequences of their injuries…that you could sort of see how they were acting, etc.

    TC: And did they describe the encounters that they had?

    GN: Yeah, they did. And I shouldn’t talk about some of them because some of those people’s names have kind of become, you know, public. And so, sort of HIPAA rules really prevent from…

    TC: Of course, but without identifying them, what kinds of encounters did they have?

    GN: Uhh, objects on the ground (Landed? ~Joe) that were, you know, glowing, or, you know, moving too fast, or they were there and they got too close to it, and then it just disappeared.

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    GN: And then, afterwards, they get these radiation burns. Very often, some of them have been, basically, on the skin, you see a sclerosis of the skin…reddening, inflammation of the skin.

    TC: Like at Nagasaki.

    GN: Exactly! So, some sort of electromagnetic radiation, we imagine. But then, it’s goes deep enough into some of their bodies, if they got too close, that would cause lasting scarring within the body, which is not something you ever wanna have.

    TC: Huh. And then, the brain injuries.

    GN: Then the brain injuries. And the brain injuries were interesting because one of the things that we noticed in these individuals – and this is sort of a side study, which I’m working on with a group at Harvard – is we noticed that an area of the brain, the caudate putamen in many of these individuals was overdeveloped.

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    GN: And that’s a whole other story. But, basically, we figured out that this is an area where intuition happens, and a lot of these individuals who we had, were…it’s called them high functioning. You don’t get to be a pilot of an expensive craft without being reasonably smart and having intuition.

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    GN: And so, just a side benefit of studying this, allowed us to come up with a medical understanding of where cognition is happening in the brain, and we’re following up with that in a mainstream science way with a neurophysiology group at Harvard. And we’ve validated the original findings.

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    GN: But that was sort of an example of: Because we paid attention to anomalous data, we found an anomaly that really had nothing to do with the injury in the first place, but it told us something about what makes people intuitive and smart. And that is going off in a mainstream direction.

    TC: That’s cool.

    GN: Yeah.

    TC: Was there consistency in symptoms?

    GN: Yes. Yeah. I mean…

    TC: What were some of the symptoms?

    GN: Inflammation and nausea are the two most. I mean, if I irradiate you with a whole body of irradiation, you’re gonna get sick, you’re gonna throw up, you’re gonna – depending upon which organ system was, let’s say, most impacted directly – you’re gonna, basically, have problems with that. But the commonalities were the skin issues, and then some internal issues with the brain. When you see brain damage, that’s when people start paying attention. It’s hard to localize brain damage or damage in the rest of the body, you know, and associate it with something.

    TC: Did you see consistent cognitive symptoms?

    GN: No.

    TC: Okay.

    GN: No, just…I mean, again, it’s like in that image, depending upon where in the brain it happens, where the damage happened to be caused, that function associated with that part of the brain would be hurt.

    TC: Yeah? Scary.

    GN: Like arms not being able to move or, you know, walking, cognition…

    TC: Memory loss, yeah. I don’t remember ever reading about any of the survivors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima suffering cognitive problems, brain damage.

    GN: I would bet that there was.

    TC: So, in other words…

    GN: Who was collecting data back then?

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    Radiation-related brain damage and growth retardation among the prenatally exposed atomic bomb survivors

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    TC: It’s such a great point, right? It’s exactly right. John Hersey? So, the injuries you saw are not inconsistent with, like, exposure to nuclear material?

    GN: Correct. Yeah. And so, what that tells us is…I mean, at the very least, what I would say, is that, you know, let’s say in the next round of UAP directives from Congress, or from the Army, or the Air Force, is…stay away.

    TC: (laughs loudly) Right! Stay away!

    GN: You know?

    TC: (laughing) If you see a glowing craft on the ground, don’t approach?

    GN: Right. I mean, it seems obvious, but, you know, I mean, some of the people who I know were so intrigued by what they were seeing, they felt that they had to walk up and touch it because this couldn’t possibly be real. I mean, I would probably be in that category

    TC: Oh, me, too. Oh, totally.

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    Why Are UFOs Dangerous? – From Hal Puthoff’s 2020 lecture

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    Hal Puthoff (HP): In this room, most of the electromagnetic energy you can’t see. Why? Because it is in the infrared, in the form of heat. And there’s a very narrow band in the electromagnetic spectrum that you can see. And that’s what we call the visible spectrum. And then there are higher frequencies into the ultra-violent and beyond that we don’t see.

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    HP: Now it turns out that one of the side effects of engineering the spacetime metric, to get this kind of flight performance, is that itwe call itblueshifts the frequencies. All the frequencies that are involved, get moved to a higher frequency. It’s just built in to what the equations say, when you generate these anomalous effects. So what that means then, and it has significance for usis the infrared, we don’t ordinarily see, gets blue-shifted up into the visible. So when we hear that these craft are so bright and so luminous when you see them, it’s no surprise.

    And then what was in the visible spectrum, gets shifted up into, let’s say, the ultraviolet. And so, if you get too close to one of these things that are powered up, you’ll get a sunburn, often reported by people who’ve claimed to have gotten close to a craft. And if you get too close, you might actually pick up some of the blue-shifted radiation from the visible that’s now blueshifted up into the soft x-ray region and get radiation poisoning. And there have been cases where that’s been reported.

    [End Puthoff lecture excerpt]

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    GN: You know? And so, you can kind of understand, but, I mean, I think that one of the directives is: Until we know what is going on, stay away. I mean, you know, for all…

    TC:  So put a warning label on UFOs?

    GN: Yeah! Yeah. I would! I, you know… (TC laughs and GN joins in) Demand that they wear a seat belt!

    TC: (Laughs loudly) Did any of the people you interviewed…I just can’t believe you’ve had this experience. I cannot…just to backtrack, I can’t believe you were (laughs loudly) at your office at Stanford the CIA shows up?

    GN: It is out of a movie.

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    Excerpt from, “American Cosmic” by Diana Pasulka

    (Note: The pseudonym of “James” = Dr. Garry Nolan ~Joe)

    The Visit

    James’s reason for affiliating with the more public ufologists was to achieve a goal—to meet serious researchers of the phenomenon so he could carry on with his new research agenda. He needed a community of researchers who played by the rules of science and peer review. Soon after the much-publicized event, he met with success. The serious researchers actually came to him, but his introduction to them was extraordinary and frightening. The title of the television series Punk’d had become a part of everyday, ordinary vocabulary. Being “punk’d” by one’s friends meant that one was the butt of a practical joke while simultaneously being filmed and even streamed in real time online or, worse, on television. It was, to some, an honorary humiliation. James, who lived in a university town, was aware of the show and had seen a few of his friends get punk’d. When the men in black suits knocked on James’s office door, he opened it and stared into two very grim, unhappy faces. Who are these people? he wondered. The men asked if they could come in and talk to him about the artifact and “other things.” James wondered, “What have I gotten myself into this time?” He invited them into his office, and they accepted the invitation, not saying another word. The silence felt to James like a vague sort of threat. He made a joke to lighten the mood, but the men did not respond. After James offered them some water, he decided that he would match their cold demeanor.

    “What is it that you want?” he asked.

    “We want to know what you really found out about the artifact.”

    “I already stated many times I can’t find any evidence it has an alien origin.” “We already know that. We want to know why you got involved and what else you might know.” After a moment passed, James came to the conclusion that he was most likely being punk’d. Amused, and ready for the charade to be revealed, he looked around for evidence of a camera or film crew. There was none. Hmm. With neither side knowing exactly what the other knew, there ensued one of the most interesting conversations of James’s life. One of the men turned out to be, like him, a top researcher at one of the world’s most renowned universities, but with a long association with intelligence agencies (I believe this is Dr. Kit Green. ~Joe). The other man was with a large aerospace firm (I believe this is Dr. Colm Kelleher ~Joe). What started as a disturbing encounter became a meeting of minds. The two visitors seemed grim and serious primarily because their own research into the phenomenon had proved to be very disturbing. They dealt with radiation effects and other biological interactions of the phenomenon with humans, a subject of which James knew nothing. As they talked, he realized that the serious researchers he’d been looking for had arrived, and they weren’t who he had thought they would be. Instead, they were very much like him and not public ufologists. They were not the “Men in Black.” They weren’t interested in publicity. But they were very interested in helping people who needed help. Over the next several months, his two (fully human) visitors exposed him to a nontraditional path that was as much a science as what he practiced at his “day job.” James had found his peers.

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    TC: And just turns your life in this amazing direction. But, umm, I wish that would happen to me. Did any of the people you interviewed see anybody in control of these craft? See any?

    GN: Not in these injury cases, [but] I do know of cases, non-injury associated, where things were seen.

    TC: What kind of things?

    GN: Little beings (smiles). I don’t know what to say!

    TC: I know it sounds crazy.

    GN: I don’t know what to say!

    TC: I just want you to tell me what the eyewitness accounts say. You’re not ratifying this.

    GN: I’m not ratifying it. No, the eyewitnesses always talk about something about that tall, right?

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    GN: You know, they call them the Greys, I don’t know what to say.

    TC: But with humanoid features?

    GN: Humanoid features. Now, I have a problem with humanoid features because, you know, one of my backgrounds is evolutionary biology.

    TC: Yes.

    GN: And so, I don’t see the possibility of something else evolving on another planet that looks like us, you know? Unless God is intervening in very specific ways, almost anything…an octopus could become intelligent and fly around the Universe.

    TC: Yes.

    GN: So, I think that part of what we’re seeing here…I mean, look, if you’re an intelligence, are you going to go down on a planet with a bunch of angry monkeys who might kill you? No, unlikely. You’ll send some intermediary. Well, what kind of intermediary are you gonna send? You’re gonna send something that maybe almost looks like them, but isn’t them? So, I think, and this is, again, from inside the intelligence community, most of what we think we’re seeing are avatars, biological robots that are basically put there to be the minions, if you will.

    TC: And that’s the current view of the intelligence community?

    GN: That is a…it is a hypothesis. I mean, to me, if I were going to another place, or if I were going to study a native tribe of, let’s say, cannibals, maybe I wouldn’t show up in the middle of their village so that I don’t inadvertently become dinner.

    TC: Yes.

    GN: Right? So, you would send an intermediary first. But I’ve used this example, I don’t know if you know Lex Fridman, you probably know Lex Fridman. He’s an interviewer, he’s an AI scientist at Stanford. I did one with him.

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    GN: And using the example of the ants, as well. Let’s say that there was a race of intelligent ants at the bottom of your garden. How do you tell them about Instagram, right? How do you talk with them? How do you interact with them? You would probably make something that looked almost like an ant and you’d put it down there. But then how are you going to interact with them? Well, with pheromones, that’s how they talk. But you do something else, right? You’re speaking about whatever it is you talk about at the dinner table, but to translate down to their terms, you would have to use some sort of an intermediary. So, it’s kind of a lost in translation problem, right? You want to put something there that can interact with them so that they can know that there’s an object, but you, for instance, you’re not going to show up and put yourself in danger. I wouldn’t. I mean, we send drones. You understand what I mean?

    TC: Of course. I’m tracking intently. I just wonder if this has changed your perspective.

    GN: It’s changed everything. I look at everything now and wonder, what’s going on.

    TC: But it also, sort of, by comparison, makes a lot of the things that we debate or fret about seem pretty small.

    GN: Right. You know, and I think Ronald Reagan had a conversation with Gorbachev back in the days of the Cold War, where he said, at one point, “If aliens showed up, would you work with us against them, and drop the Cold War?” I mean, that was that’s a recorded statement.

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    GN: He got in front of the UN and said something similar.

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    GN: And that all came from a sighting that he had had when he was the governor of California, right?

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    Excerpt from How Stuff Works:

    One night in 1974, from a Cessna Citation aircraft, one of America’s most famous citizens saw a UFO.

    There were four persons aboard the plane: pilot Bill Paynter, two security guards, and the governor of California, Ronald Reagan.

    A week later Reagan recounted the sighting to Norman C. Miller, then Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. Reagan told Miller, “We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light. We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens.” When Miller expressed some doubt, a “look of horror came over [Reagan]. It suddenly dawned on him . . . that he was talking to a reporter.” Immediately afterward, according to Miller, Reagan “clammed up.”

    Reagan has not discussed the incident publicly since.­

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    GN: So, basically what he was saying was: Something like this could bring us together. I mean, what law can you remember, in the last year or two, that has complete bipartisan support? This.

    TC: Yes.

    GN: Right? This has brought people together. And people say to me, “Well, why are you talking about it on this show or that show?” I said, “Because this is above politics.”

    TC: Yes, it certainly is.

    GN: It has to be. You know, and if we can’t talk about this in a non-political way, then why are we bothering with anything? We might as well just silo ourselves and build walls around everybody. That’s how I think about it.

    TC: I couldn’t agree with you more. And it’s also inherently fascinating, but it raises a lot of questions, a lot of theological questions, also, people would say.

    GN: Right! Yeah! Well, the Vatican is deeply involved (TC: Yes) in trying to understand this as well. And the Vatican has already come out and said, “If there are aliens, they can also be children of Godright? (TC: Yes) There’s no reason they can’t be. There’s no reason we can’t treat them as, you know, as humans, if you will, even though they might not be, right? That we need to treat them as equals, because…why not? They have no problem with it. And this is more, I mean, especially if you speak more with the Jesuits, right? The Jesuits are a little bit more amenable to this kind of thing. But the Vatican has come right out and said it. End of story.

    TC: Well, they have their own observatory, I believe.

    GN: Yeah. The Vatican Observatory, and the Vatican astronomer has come out and said positive things.

    TC: And they’ve been on this for a long time.

    GN: Yeah. And, you know, there are rumors of stuff that’s deep in the Vatican library that a good friend of mine, who you might want to eventually have on a show like this, is Diana Pasulka at the University of North Carolina. She’s a comparative religion professor. Fascinating work.

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    GN: When you start asking the question: How will the admission that we are not at the top of the food chain anymore, change all the religions, right? Because one of the first questions that somebody’s going to ask is, “Okay, well, if they do show up and want to talk with us, who is their God? How do they see…

    TC: Great question.

    GN: And then, everybody, every other religion will be looking for anything that anything like this says, for a mirror of what they believe in. And that will just start a whole new series of arguments. So that is yet another thing, or another reason why the government might feel a little, you know, hesitancy about bringing this kind of information forward.

    TC: Oh, it’s inherently destabilizing.

    GN: Yeah.

    TC: Yeah. Sure, because if the U.S. military is not the most powerful force in the Universe, then it kind of…

    GN: Then we’re…yeah.

    TC: (laughs) [It] resets your expectation!

    GN: Then the populace might, you know, might, you know, revolt (laughs).

    TC: So, how are you treated at Stanford?

    GN: Uhh, you know, I think, five, six years ago, there was a fair amount of giggling about it, but I, you know, I mean, luckily, I have, you know, frankly, a really good reputation as a serious scientist. I mean, like I said, I’ve commercialized a lot of the things so I…and the stuff we do is, you know, cutting edge. I don’t want to pat myself on the back too much. But, umm, it’s cutting edge. And this is actually what’s brought over some people, is: “If Garry thinks this is real, maybe we should be paying attention to it.” Well, here’s an example. So I’ll go give a talk in Boston, and you know, a bunch of professors will take me out to dinner. Inevitably, after one drink, this question comes up. And not to make fun of me, but to have a serious conversation. And almost inevitably, one of the group has said, “Yeah, well, I saw something when I was a kid,” right? Or one of them comes up to me afterwards and says, “Garry, you know (mumbles)…this,” right? So, if you give people permission in a place where they will not be ridiculed, you have a much more open conversation about a subject matter that’s so important. And for many people, you call them experiencers if you see something like that. I mean, I saw something when I was very young, when I was twelve, as a paperboy. Went right over my head.

    TC: What did you see, where were you?

    GN: This was Connecticut.

    TC: What town?

    GN: Windsor?

    TC: I know it.

    GN: Yeah, you went to Trinity.

    TC: Outside Hartford.

    GN: Yeah.

    TC: Windsor, Windsor Locks!

    GN: Windsor Locks! And it was early in the morning, I was delivering neswpapers, I was walking through the woods between one street and another…

    TC: The Hartford Courant?

    GN: Hartford Courant!. Exactly! Exactly (laughs). And [I was] going from one street to another, through the woods, and this…I saw the lights – it was like March – the tree branches, and my shadow in front of me. And then the shadow started moving and I looked up and this object went – I mean, right at that level of the top of the trees – went right over my head, with lights shining down. I could kind of see the outline of something round. No sign…

    TC: How big was it?

    GN: Probably thirty, forty feet across.

    TC: Wow.

    GN: And…I mean, it was unmistakable. I wasn’t dreaming, I wasn’t asleep, etc. But, I didn’t call it a UFO, I didn’t know what it was. I just didn’t know what it was. And it wasn’t until a decade or so later when, you know, you start seeing movies, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” that kind of stuff. I thought, “Is that what I saw?” You look back, retrospectively, and say…

    TC: But you never forgot it.

    GN: I never forgot. No, it’s one of those moments and thank you…that was actually the point I was trying to get to. When you see something like that, you never forget it, it changes your life, I hate to call it…it’s almost like a spiritual experience. This is what Diana Pasulka writes about, that professor I told you about. And not that I’m not Christian or I’m one thing or another. It’s changes your life in a way that it puts things in perspective. So when you hear other people’s stories about this stuff, I feel inherently like I want to protect them. I want to help them not be attacked for something that they saw, because it’s wrong, first of all, that they shouldn’t be.

    TC: It’s absolutely wrong.

    GN: So you should…I sort of feel like we need to give people that open space. Some of them might be delusional. Perfectly fine. But a lot of them are not. As you said, at the beginning of the show, that there’s any of a number of people who are otherwise credible, who are absolutely dead focused on this now. And so, you know, through the efforts of Lue Elizondo, and Chris Mellon, and many others on the inside that, unfortunately, will not ever be known in the roles that they’ve played to bring this forward, they have given a level of credibility to this that has opened the area up for all kinds of people to move in. I mean, the National Association of Aerospace Engineers (I believe he meant – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) now has a committee on this. It’s a 50,000-strong, or  so, union of scientists, right?

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    NASA has come out and said – you probably have seen this – that they’re studying it, right? They’re saying this is worth study. And they use the same language that we’ve been pushing: It’s data, it’s science…scientists should be interested in things that they don’t understand, and we shouldn’t take anything off the table. It doesn’t mean you…

    TC: (laughing as he says it) Scientists should be interested in things they don’t understand. That’s the whole point!

    GN: That’s the whole point of it!

    TC: (laughs) So that leads to the bigger and very obvious question, which is: How can we have a society in which many people have first-hand experience of these things, in which mountains of data exist, proving that there’s something there that we don’t understand, and yet there’s still this social sanction levied against anyone who mentions it?

    GN: Right.

    TC: What is that?

    GN: Well, I mean, it was directed misinformation and disinformation.

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    Excerpt from The Robertson Panel– January 14-18, 1953

    The Panel’s concept of a broad educational program integrating efforts of all concerned agencies was that it should have two major aims: training and “debunking.” The training aim would result in proper recognition of unusually illuminated objects (e.g., balloons, aircraft reflections) as well as natural phenomena (meteors, fireballs, mirages, noctilucent clouds). Both visual and radar recognition are concerned.  There would be many levels in such education from enlisted personnel to command and research personnel.  Relative emphasis and degree of explanation of different programs would correspond to the categories of duty (e.g., radar operators; pilots; control tower operators; Ground Observer Corps personnel; and officers and enlisted men in other categories).  This training should result in a marked reduction in reports caused by misidentification and resultant confusion.

    The “debunking” aim would result in reduction in public interest in “flying saucers” which today evokes a strong psychological reaction. This education could be accomplished by mass media such as television, motion pictures, and popular articles.  Basis of such education would be actual case histories which had been puzzling at first but later explained.  As in the case of conjuring tricks, there is much less stimulation if the “secret” is known.  Such a program should tend to reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda.  The Panel noted that the general absence of Russian propaganda based on a subject with so many obvious possibilities for exploitation might indicate a possible Russian official policy.

    Members of the Panel had various suggestions related to the planning of such an educational program.  It was felt strongly that psychologists familiar with mass psychology should advise on the nature and extent of the program.  In this connection, Dr. Hadley Cantril (Princeton University) was suggested.  Cantril authored “Invasion from Mars,” (a study in the psychology of panic, written about the famous Orson Welles radio broadcast in 1938) and has since performed advanced laboratory studies in the field of perception.  The names of Don Marquis (University of Michigan) and Leo Roston were mentioned as possibly suitable as consultant psychologists.  Also, someone familiar with mass communications techniques, perhaps an advertising expert, would be helpful. Arthur Godfrey was mentioned as possibly a valuable channel of communication reaching a mass audience of certain levels.

    End Excerpt from The Robertson Panel

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    GN: And so, one of the things, you might want to look at the language of the new bill that just came out today, literally. Lue sent it to me, you know, with exclamation points, saying, “We want you to catalog – you the intelligence services – all the attempts at obfuscation and disinformation, of the U.S. public that you have been doing…

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    Here’s the actual NDAA language…

    “…for the period beginning on January 1, 1947, and ending on the date on which the Comptroller General completes activities under this subsection, compile and itemize a complete historical record of the intelligence community’s involvement with unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena, including successful or unsuccessful efforts to identify and track unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena, and any intelligence community efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public opinion, hide, or otherwise provide unclassified or classified misinformation about unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena or related activities, based on the review conducted under paragraph (1).

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    TC: Beginning with Roswell.

    GN: Beginning with Roswell. 1947, right? Actually, there was a case two years before Roswell, but that is not really very well known.

    TC: Where was that?

    GN: Trinity, actually. It was just very close to Roswell.

    TC: Trinity, New Mexico,

    GN: New Mexico, yeah. Interesting case.

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    GN: But, you know, the reason why that’s important is because, you know, people’s lives were ruined, right? People’s careers were derailed. And it’s not that we need to go back and fix all of that, and, you know, come up with some kind of, you know, monetary compensation for those individuals. But I think, visa vie, the PTSD issue, sometimes people just want to know that when they were called crazy, that somebody finally says, “You weren’t.”

    TC: Of course.

    GN: But going forward, now, I mean, we might not be able to fix the past, but let’s not recreate the past moving forward.

    TC: And the trust is worth telling for its own sake.

    GN: Yeah.

    TC: It’s a virtue to tell the truth, period.

    GN: And, you know, it’s interesting, I think. You know, I go around, and I will talk to people about this issue. So many people have not heard about this, that it kind of surprises me in a way because, you know, I would be interested in it. But then I realized, if it isn’t affecting the bread and butter issues at their table every day, why should they care, right? And so, you know, I think that those of us who are in the middle of it, need to realize that we do live in a bit of a bubble, and that the rest of the world is trying to just survive. And whether or not there are aliens or whatever, it’s not going to change…when it changes their lives, then they might pay attention, right? So, I mean, it is still something which the public finds fascinating, and, you know, if you do a public survey of it, if you were to list that amongst the things that: Do you think this is interesting? People would check, “Yes, it’s interesting.” But they aren’t actively going out and seeking answers yet. Except it’s begun now to open up to the point where the government has said, “Yes, it’s okay.” Now scientists are saying, “Okay, it’s okay now.” All the people who were kind of in the closet are now coming out and saying…

    TC: But it’s been almost eighty years! And even before that, I mean, pilots throughout the Second World War, they called them Foo Fighters, as you know.

    GN: Yes, right.

    ~~~

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    TC: So what we’re seeing is this entire edifice of lies starting to crack.

    GN: Right.

    TC: And clearly, it’s coming down. But, you know, that disinformation manufactured by propagandists in the U.S. government has been taken as truth for generations.

    GN: Right, right.

    TC: So, knowing that…and that’s true, we know that.

    GN: Yeah.

    TC: Does it get you reassessing anything else we think we know?

    GN: Uh…yes, in some ways (laughs).

    TC: (laughs) Like, if they lied about it, what else did they lie about?

    GN: But I’m not sure I want to say it here.

    TC: (laughs) Okay, That’s a…I totally get it. But the answer, “Yes,” is enough. So it has?

    GN: Yes, yes. I think that the nature of our reality is yet to be fully understood (GN smiles and TC laughs). I think that there’s a lot of things that people think are fringe that appear to have some evidence. And my interest, frankly, has been: Can I place this fringe object in the mainstream of science, right? Can I come up with some kind of explanation about how this weird stuff people think is happening, can be real, right? Not that I have to believe it, but what I want to do is place it into our physics or find a bridge and a connection to it, so that we can explain it. Now, what’s good about all of these things is that money now is starting to appear, right? I mean, New Jersey actually now put out a postdoctoral fellowship for people to study UAPs. The state of New Jersey, right?

    ~~~

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    GN: I’m involved with, you know, trying to set up resources to be able to fund researchers for this kind of stuff. Because, you know, scientists inherently will follow the money. I can’t take my NIH dollars and go study UFOs, right? I mean, I have a certain box I have to stay in. But I do have money from an endowed chair that I have, which I can do anything I want with. It’s $400,000 a year. And I have talked to the donors, and they’re fine with me using some of this to study UFOs, right? So I have the money to do it. I also spent a lot of money on my own pocket on it. But now that there is going to be, let’s say, validation, you know, the National Science Foundation could get involved. Lockheed might want to.

    TC: Yes.

    GN: One of the things that’s actually in this new bill is calling for…I think they use the word, “A cadre of academics and scientists who would advise the intelligence agencies on all of these issues.” Not just UAPs, but other things. For the first time! Because there are so many barriers for this. But one of the things that…I wrote a white paper for some of these committees, and I called for that. I said, “You need to bring the scientists in.” Not that we know better than anybody else, because most scientists can actually be dorks (laughs). It’s because you want that outside opinion, you want the crazy opinion, because you just want it on the table, sometimes, because it might be true.

    TC: Yes!

    GN: And, you know, when you do have a decision to make, you don’t want it to be a political decision, at some level. You want it to be science, and you want to use the best science to inform the politics and the policymakers so that they have the information at their disposal. But, we don’t have it yet. So, now we do, now it’s starting to come. And it’s literally in the bill today that says we will now try to establish and find ways to bring scientists on board, in secure manners, right? With classified access. Because, I don’t want to give it to the Chinese. And I certainly don’t want to give it to the Russians.

    TC: Yes.

    GN: Right? So, obviously, this information has to be vetted, whatever we might learn. But then at some level, though, you need to get the information out to academics because the silo approach of the last eighties years has not worked. Having one piece of it at Lockheed, having another piece of it over here, another piece of it over there, they can’t talk to each other, right? By definition of how these things are set up. That isn’t how a laboratory works. That isn’t how science works. I need to know all this other stuff.

    TC: Of course.

    GN: And so, we need to find a way to declassify enough things so that the collective smarts of the country can come to bear on it, to hopefully use it. I mean, I come back to, constantly: If there’s something here, can we use it, and can we take advantage of it? Well, first for the country, and then for the planet. That’s just my interest. That’s always been my approach to life.

    TC: I think the most heartening part of this conversation, not only has it been fascinating, but, is the confirmation that science still exists, scientific thinking, the open mindedness that science requires still exists. It’s not all just superstition.

    GN: Right.

    TC: And reflexive, political orthodoxy. So anyway, I’m grateful that you’re doing this. I’m grateful you’re taken so seriously at Stanford, and above all, I appreciate your telling us all this.

    GN: Thank you very much.

    TC: Dr. Garry Nolan, thank you very much.

    GN: Appreciate it.

    TC: Amazing.

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  • Transcript – Active-Duty Navy Commander Comes Forward & Witnesses Speak Out On 2019 UFO Swarms: We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This. They Just Seemed To Appear

    Transcript – Active-Duty Navy Commander Comes Forward & Witnesses Speak Out On 2019 UFO Swarms: We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This. They Just Seemed To Appear

    “Then it moves to the starboard side, right across, and they scurry across the ship. And they’re kind of, you know, going through wherever they need to go to get to the other side. And they maintain eyes on it, because they’re just shocked at what they’re seeing. And then, probably the most dramatic part of the of the event was…once it moved to the starboard side of the ship, it just shot straight up into the air. And the word that the sailor that we spoke with used was, ‘It just zoomed, it zoomed, it zoomed straight up in the air.”

    ~John “Guts” Gutierrez

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    Episode 2 of, “Weaponized,” with Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp.

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    From the YouTube summary:

    John “Guts” Gutierrez is an active duty Navy Commander having served for 17 years, initially as a helicopter pilot deployed all over the world, and credentialed as an Aviation Safety Officer. He’s a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and has a personal passion for the UAP mystery. In this episode of WEAPONIZED, Jeremy & George talk with John about his life and personal perspective on the current, global UAP mystery. They also talk in-depth about the now famous UFO swarm event series that occurred off the coast of California in 2019. This is a case now widely known due to Jeremy’s & George’s reporting on the events. This dramatic UFO event series included 10 Navy warships that were brazenly swarmed by over 100 Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). For the first time ever – we get to hear what really happened – directly from two military eyewitnesses tasked with responding to the incursions within United States restricted airspace.

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    WEAPONIZED would like to make clear that John is not speaking in any official capacity. He is not representing the U.S. Navy, the DoD or U.S. Government. All views and opinions expressed throughout the podcast by John [and by the anonymous service members] are strictly his/their own – and in no way represent the official position of the U.S. Navy, DoD or U.S. Government.

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    Jeremy Corbell (JC): “This is my good friend, John, who you know. We’ve known each other a long time, John.”

    John Gutierrez (Guts): “We have, we have.”

    JC: “I’m really excited that we’re able to talk.”

    Guts: “Yeah, man.”

    JC: “You know, officially, like, on camera, you know, on audio, for people to kind of learn about you, our friendship, that kind of thing. So, can you tell me, John, a little bit about yourself.”

    Guts: “So, I’m an active-duty, Navy Commander. I’ve been in for about 17 years. Originally, as a helo pilot, is my background. So I definitely have experience in the aviation community. But, you know, I’ve been deployed all over the world, obviously got a chance to meet you along the way. And just just happy to be here.”

    George Knapp (GK): “Can you give us a sense of how you got interested in the UFO topic, and how that led to a friendship with Jeremy?”

    Guts: “Sure, absolutely. You know, lifelong interest, starting as a kid. Wanted to be an astronaut, you know, I guess, like every other kid, but as I got older, that was kind of like, a real goal. And so, that’s eventually how I ended up at the Naval Academy. We can get into that a little bit later, if we want. But lifelong interest, kind of starting with the astronaut aspirations. Turns out, it’s really hard to be an astronaut, by the way (GK laughs). Definitely, they take the cream of the crop for that group. But, you know, kind of, throughout my life, there were always these kind of figures growing up, adults in my life, that, you know, they took the topic seriously. Really, any topic, you know? My mom’s from Central America, and we’d go visit, you know, every summer, growing up. There’s a lot to be said for sitting around a table as a kid, with a bunch of adults around you, having serious discussions about maybe some, you know, call it paranormal topics. And as a kid that made a big impression on me, you know? To hear, you know, my aunt bringing up a story of, you know, ‘Hey, so and so saw something the other night that looked really weird.’ And instead of dismissing it, you know, outright or people snickering or laughing, it’s like, ‘Oh, really?’ And, you know, just having having serious discussions about it. Same thing, you know, my dad was one of the first ones that ever mentioned, you know, Area 51, and the possibility of what’s out in the desert, you know? But again, not, in a joking way, just kind of taking it seriously, you know?

    “And then, of course, there were some, you know…I’m a child of the nineties so, I’m definitely…there was some big pop culture influences on me. X-Files was a big one. And even that, you know, we’d have a family friend come over, a former military guy, a former Marine, and we’d watch an episode of X-Files. And at the end of it, you know, he goes, ‘You know, there’s little bit of kernel of truth in that episode.’ And he’d go into a whole thing about the kernel of truth behind that particular episode. And then, of course, for me, you know, listening to Coast to Coast, you know, which I’m sure you’re familiar with. But, growing up, my dad owned and operated a family restaurant in my hometown. If I wasn’t playing football, or getting in trouble with my friends, I was working, you know, I was working at the restaurant. And, you know, Friday, Saturday nights, we’d be up late, trying to shut things down and go home. And by the time we’d get out of the restaurant, on Friday and Saturday nights, you know, it’s eleven, twelve o’clock at night. And my dad would drive me home, you know, a twenty, thirty-minute drive to the house or whatever, and he’d flip on the radio. And the only think to listen to that’s worth listening to at that hour is a show like Coast. And so, you know, kind of those, again, people trying to have, you know, serious discussions about topics that maybe would be considered unorthodox, or, you know, kind of on the fringes. And then, eventually, I never suspected that what would eventually be my professional career would come crashing so closely with my personal passions and interests, you know? But they definitely have, you know, in a big way, so.”

    JC: “So kind of listening to George on Coast to Coast was really, as a kid, the way that you, like me, kind of got this on your radar through family and just, you know, in the zeitgeist, just listening to the radio.

    Guts: “Yeah. absolutely. And again, just listening to serious people have serious discussions about it. When you’re a kid, you kind of look to those around you to see, well what’s their reaction like, are they taking it seriously, are they laughing, are they not? Luckily for me, the way I was raised, my parents were always very open minded and kind of accepted of what people brought to us. Obviously, with a discerning eye, always. Even though it’s been a personal passion/interest, I’d like to think that I’m somebody who’s taken it seriously and tried to sort the wheat from chaff, as they say. It’s hard. It’s hard to kind of shift through all the noise and all the scatter that’s out there. But boy, I think when you can do that and do it successfully, I think it goes a long way.”

    GK: “So as you pursue your naval career, you rise through the ranks. And it’s obviously not on your front burner, thinking about UFOs.”

    Guts: “No, no.”

    GK: “Maybe in the back of your mind. At what point do you cross paths with Jeremy and how do you begin a conversation with him?”

    Guts: “Let me say, first, too: I’m not here on behalf of the Navy, or I’m not here representing the Navy in any way. It happens to be my career and my profession, which I’m very thankful for and I’m proud of my service, and I wouldn’t change a single thing. You know, the Navy’s been good to me and my family, and I’m married with three young kids and everything we have I owe to the Navy. But in that sense, I’m not here with my Navy hat on, it just happens to be my job. So, please don’t take anything that I’m saying…it’s just my opinion.”

    GK: “Yeah, absolutely because it’s a good point.”

    Guts: “Yeah, no, it’s just my opinion and I think it’s important, when it’s appropriate, to hear from folks that may have either had experiences or just kind of help the public understand, kind of the military perspective. Because it’s hard. There’s a lot of jargon, there’s a lot of nuance, there’s a lot of the military culture. Unfortunately, a lot of what people know, is just what they see in the movies and on TV. And that’s part of it. But the reality is a little bit different.

    “But with Jeremy, we met back in 2015, I think it was. Actually, I think it was a little before the summer of 2014, let’s say. I was listening to Coast, and I had heard that an individual by the name of Bob Lazar was going to be coming out for the first time in a long time, to a certain conference out in Arizona.

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    Guts: “Like I said, it’s the summer of 2014, I think the conference was in February of 2015. So that kind of piqued my interest, obviously, right? I listened to that show and I’d always known kind of who Bob was, and was familiar with his story.

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    Guts: “But I had a friend of mine, who will go unnamed. But another good buddy of mine, active-duty guy. A submariner. But this is a guy that I’ve known for over twenty years now, someone that I trust my life with. And I knew that he was a big Bob Lazar fan, let’s call him. And by fan, I mean, you know, again, someone who was interested in the story, but even more so, you know, really tried to follow the story and try to, you know, try to follow the details to make heads or tails of…is it’s true what he’s really saying, you know?

    “So I knew that my buddy was very interested in the Bob Lazar story. I knew that he was going to be on deployment at the time that Bob had decided to come out, to agree to do the conference. So I said, well, what the hell, I’ve had a lifelong interest in this stuff. I’ve never been to a conference myself, up until that point. And at the time, I was stationed in San Diego, and I go, ‘Well, Arizona’s not too far.’ So, pack up the kids and the wife and, ‘We’re going in the desert to hear people talk about UFOs and to listen to Bob.’ So we get there, and I think I came across you (Corbell) at…you had a booth set up or whatever. And at the time, I think you had a little 10-12 minute clip of Bob that people…again, no one had really heard from him in that way that you had put him out, up until that point. And I think I came up to you and said, ‘Hey man, how much for a signed, Bob Lazar poster?’ Because I really wanted it for my buddy. That’s really what it was. The whole impetus for that was just, I thought it’d be really cool as a homecoming gift for him. You know, being out on deployment, you know, submarine duty is tough. So I kind of wanted something nice for him to come home to and and be able to provide him, ‘Hey, check out what I got for you!’ And no, it wasn’t even for me. So I think that was kind of the start.”

    JC: “Yeah, yeah, it’s funny man. You came up and I didn’t know what to do because I had only printed these posters because people were gonna kill me if I didn’t have something from the little short film, interview thing. And so, finally, I think we met up later that night, and you were like, ‘This is for my buddy and he’s gonna be so stoked.’ Who now, I know, and I’m friends with as well. But that was just kind of cool, that was the first way that we met. It’s kind of funny, like, you know, you’re (Knapp) reporting and with Bob, brings all these people together. We struck up a friendship, and he (Guts) came out to my place out in Pioneertown and it just kind of started from there.”

    Guts: “Absolutely, I think at the time, we exchanged emails. And I remember, it’s funny, you were very gracious.”

    JC: “Okay, good.”

    Guts: “You were very gracious and you weren’t putting on any airs or anything, and real easy to talk to and get along with. And you told me, ‘Yeah, let’s keep in touch.’ I [was thinking], this guy’s…whatever, he’s pulling my leg.”

    GK: “I think it’s important…we’re gonna delve into some really cool areas, sensitive materials and incidents. But I think it’s important to say…”

    Guts: “Nothing too sensitive (smiles).”

    GK: “Yeah, of course. Within limits. We’ll push it as hard as we can (JC and Guts laugh). Whatever we can get away with. It’s important, I think, as people are watching or listening at home, and are assuming, ‘Well, if he’s friends with Jeremy, maybe this is the guy that’s leaking stuff, images and things like that?’”

    Guts: “Oh no, no. No, no, no, no.”

    GK: “You should make that clear about the nature of your relationship.”

    Guts: “Sure. Let me make it abundantly clear: No, I am not Jeremy’s source on anything that he’s put out. I take my job seriously, I’m able to keep my personal passions and, like I said, my professional obligations and duties, keep those two worlds separate. You have to…especially with this job and the world of security clearances and things like that. You have to be able to do that. As an aviator, they train us to compartmentalized a lot of stuff to be able to go fly. So, maybe for someone like me, or a fellow aviator, it’s a little more inherent to be able to do that, because they train you to do that. So kind of keeping those worlds separate is paramount. As close as we are, I would never violate the sanctity of any…”

    GK: “And you’re cognizant of that, too, Jeremy. He’s your friend. You don’t want to put him in a position where he gets in trouble.”

    JC: “I would never do that. And to kind of push that…so people really understand: For me, with Guts, is, he’s a rational-minded person that has  experience as an aviator, long military career, an active, Navy commander. All of this is a perspective that is real important to some of the stuff that you and I are looking at. So, what I’ll do, over the years, is I’d be like, ‘Hey man, I got this witness, they’re coming at me with this story or something. Can I verify…did they go to the Annapolis Naval Academy with you?’ Just in general. Like, is this a real person? What does this word mean? What should I be thinking about? Just basic stuff is how I come to – well I call him Guts, which is his call sign – John, right? The basic thing that I’ll do is utilize his basic expertise to help me sort what I’m looking at. Now, it’s gotten much deeper over the years and he’s seen some of the stuff that we’ve obtained & released to the public. I mean, I’ve never, ever…first of all, I’ll just put it right out there: It’s not a source, and you know that, but, I mean, just publicly, something has to be vetted over and over and over. I have to receive something three or four times to feel that it is valid, and then to go in and look at it. You’ve never asked me, and I’ve never talked to you about sources, which I think is important to kind of…”

    Guts: “Yeah, no…absolutely. To the contrary of your (Knapp) point of, you know, feeding stuff to Jeremy. Absolutely not. I’ve never done anything like that. On the contrary, I’ve been…I don’t know what the right word is…genuinely shocked, surprised, impressed, however you want to put it, of the sources that you do have & maintain. I have no idea who they are. Kind of like you would never put me in that position, I would never put you in that position, either. I don’t wanna know. But, again, as someone who takes it seriously, as someone who has a passion for…certainly the world of aviation safety, that’s kind of the angle that I’m coming at it from. I certainly have an interest [in] the stuff that you put out.”

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    JC: “First of all, the Pentagon has confirmed that what we released was actual Navy film footage. I mean, is it okay to ask you: Were you aware of this material after seeing George and I release it?”

    Guts: “There were a couple of things that you guys had put out that I had been previously aware of. Yeah, absolutely. So, when I saw it again, in the form that you put it out, it was like, ‘Whoa, okay.’”

    GK: “You’re glad it comes out.”

    Guts: “Yeah, it adds a certain level of credibility or validity to the products that you guys put out. It’s real.”

    GK: “Five years, we’ve seen such a dramatic change in how the topic is regarded by mainstream media, Congress is looking at it, the public is energized. I mean, it’s an amazing about face and transformation of events I never thought I would see. But, I’m curious: In private conversations, you’ve told us, the Navy is global, it’s a big place, but it’s also a small place. Can you give us a sense of, during these five years of tumultuous change and so much public attention on the UFO issue and questions, is it discussed among your colleagues? Is it something that you talk about on a regular basis?”

    Guts: “Well, it is and it isn’t. It kind just depends on who you talk to. All my buddies, sure, I’m the Fox Mulder of the squadron. Oh, UFO stuff? Talk to Guts. It is and it isn’t. Certainly, 2017 was a big year. When someone like Commander Fravor comes out and shares his story, that’s a big deal. It’s a really big deal. Someone like Chad Underwood, that you’ve talked to. When they come out and provide their story, it’s a big deal. Ryan Graves and all the rest.”

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    JC: “For people who don’t about this stuff, right? So, you’re talking about Commander David Fravor and Commander Chad Underwood. Commander David Fravor was the guy that chased a UFO for the United States military, famously called the Tic Tac UFO incident. Which is now famous because the NYT and everything…the interviews George and I did with Dave Fravor, and also with Commander Underwood. He’s the guy that filmed the Tic Tac UFO. So we have a witness report from a pilot who was the head of the Black Aces, then you got somebody who he sends out to film this UFO, and films it.”

    Part 1 – Fravor interviewed by Knapp and Corbell

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    Part 2 – Fravor interviewed by Knapp and Corbell

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    Chad Underwood, the man who filmed the Tic Tac UFO, interviewed by Corbell

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    JC: “And it’s FLIR footage that’s put out to the world. So, for people who don’t know, that’s what we’re talking about. When I first I told you I was talking with a Navy commander who chased a UFO, what was your reaction?”

    Guts: “Oh, it’s bullshit, it’s total bullshit. I didn’t believe you, man. And again, that kind of goes back to the whole sorting wheat from the…you gotta have a good bs meter. I don’t have to tell you that. You really gotta have a good bs meter with all this stuff. When you first mentioned that you had somebody of the status of Commander Fravor, I didn’t believe it. That’s too good to be true. It’s a perfect witness, when you think about it.”

    JC: “Why?”

    Guts: “Well, and like I’ve told you before, privately, I wish people, I wish the general public more inherently understood the quality of the caliber of witness, the quality of witness that a guy like Commander Fravor is. Why? Number one, he’s an aviator, so I gotta, you know, I’m biased towards that. Listen, he’s a jet jock. He’s as close to the real-life Maverick, Tom Cruise, that you’re gonna get in real life. He’s the CO (Commanding Officer) of his own jet squadron, The Black Aces, that deploys around the world. Which again, in our world, there’s no one above that, obviously. He’s a Naval Academy graduate. He’s a Top Gun graduate. I believe he was an instructor but don’t quote me on that. But again, this is somebody that, when they speak, people should listen and take what they’re saying seriously.

    “And so, do people talk about it? Yeah, but it’s not prolific. Even today, you’ll come across active-duty folks, ‘Have you ever heard of Commander Fravor?’ And they’ll go, ‘Who’s that?’ I go, ‘How the hell do you not know about that?’ So look, we do talk…at least my perspective is it’s not a dirty little secret or anything like that. If people wanna talk about it, they talk about it. Which is great, because another reason why I would agree to come on and do something like this…there’s stigma with this stuff. There’s been a stigma for a long time and I think we’re turning a corner…it feels like it. But there’s still a lot of work to be done.”

    JC: “How does that show up in your, kind of, line of work. How does the stigma to unidentified flying objects and pilots having to deal with that? Near misses, should we engage or should we not? How does stigma show up in your field?”

    Guts: “Well the way it comes up is, it’s kind of, those who have had an experience and those who haven’t, right? For the guys that have run into this stuff on a daily basis, for them it’s real.”

    JC: “And they have?”

    Guts: “And they have. That’s a fact.”

    JC: “Pilots are running into unidentified flying objects on a daily basis. They’re seeing them, picking them up on radar?”

    Guts: “That’s a fact, okay? For them, it’s real, and stigma be damned. Because you can’t tell a guy, something that just flew by your cockpit at fifty feet away from you…you can’t deny that. The way the stigma shows up is for those who haven’t [had these experiences], who aren’t interested in this stuff and who don’t understand the aviation safety aspects associated with UAP. And so, that’s kind of why I classify it that way. Those who have had the experiences and those who haven’t. And for those who haven’t, it’s just hard for them to wrap their mind around it. It’s still a big mystery. We don’t know what this stuff is.”

    GK: “2017, Jeremy and I were able to break the story of the Tic Tac, twice, on Coast to Coast, months before it came out in the New York Times. And because of how Jeremy treated Fravor with respect, that word gets around. It helps cultivate other sources and it’s served both of us really well. When that story comes out, though, it leads to changes in the Navy. I mean. the Navy comes out and says, ‘We wanna make it easier for our aviators and other service members to go ahead and report this stuff when it happens, so that there’s less stigma attached, it’s not gonna hurt your career.’ The Navy has lead the charge. I wanna know if this is a source of pride for you, when you compare it to, say, the Air Force. Which, I’ll just say it, they’re flat out dragging their butts on this stuff.”

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    GN: “They’ve been uncooperative with Congress, with the UAP Task Force. You know that they’re sitting on a big pile of information that they’re not sharing, and they’ll have to be dragged kicking and screaming. The Navy, at least, ostensibly, is much more cooperative. Are you proud of that, the Navy doing that?”

    Guts: “Without question. Obviously, yeah, I’m biased towards the naval service. But, I am proud. I’m proud of the way that we have tried to tackle this topic, because there’s a real concern  out there. We got guys in the air, coming across things that we don’t know what they are, and the risk for a near, mid-air collision, or God forbid, an actual, mid-air collision, is there. It’s really there. And the fact that the Navy has tried to implement, maybe, easier reporting procedures or guidelines to make it okay for pilots not to be afraid to say, ‘Hey, you know, I saw this thing, I don’t know what it is, but I almost hit it.’”

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    JC: “Have you seen that change? I mean, now, is it easier to report it? Because I remember, you were looking: When are the new commandments coming down on how to report this?”

    Guts: “From personal experience, from my perspective as a helo (helicopter) guy, I don’t think it trickled down to our level, necessarily, because maybe we weren’t, necessarily, the type of platform that was encountering this stuff on a daily basis. But again, if u talk to guys on East Coast, based out of Oceania, certainly the paradigm has shifted for guys like that for sure.”

    JC: “And you’ve directly talked with a lot of these guys?”

    Guts: “Absolutely, absolutely. So yeah, for guys like them, it was definitely a noticeable change. Was it fleet-wide? I can’t speak to that. I don’t really have an opinion on that. But the fact that, like you said, George, the fact that the Navy did at least seem to be taking the lead on it, absolutely, it’s a point of pride for me. I won’t bash my other brothers and sisters in the other services but I can’t speak to what their plans are, what their intentions are with all this stuff. But there have been some glaring silences, if I can classify it that way, from other services that it kind of makes you scratch your head. Because this is not only a Navy thing, it’s not only an East Coast thing, it’s not only a West Coast thing. It’s worldwide. People are seeing this stuff everywhere.”

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    JC: “So you have direct knowledge that unidentified craft, that don’t seem to have the typical, what we’d call, propulsion – what we’d see: rotors, wash, plumes, heat signatures – that these are being encountered by our…we’ll just say, Department of Defense, and we’ll say our…all branches of the military that are in the air, doing this. They’re being encountered. They’re encountering these things that we don’t know whose they are, we don’t know who operates them, we don’t know their intent. I mean, that is…you’re saying that, right?”

    Guts: “Yeah, I mean, that’s my opinion. And again, I’m not speaking on behalf of the DoD or the service in any way. But, no…yeah, I mean, if you’re asking me and my opinion? Absolutely.”

    JC: “That would seem important to me, that our defense systems…my perspective is that that seems important to me. We should know whose vehicles these are.”

    Guts: “Absolutely. Look, at the end of the day, the profession of arms is to defend the country and to defend our allies around the world. And if we’re coming across stuff that we don’t know what it is? We want to know what that is. I’ve heard…there’s been criticism in the media over the years about this threat narrative. Well, I’m sorry but you can’t blame a guy whose job it is, is to access threats and take care of them. I mean, that’s our job.”

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    JC: “Explain that a little bit more for people that are totally new to this. The idea that there are UFOs, they’re unidentified objects, and what’s the threat narrative?”

    Guts: “Well, the threat narrative being that a lot of the language that some people have used when talking about UAP or unidentifieds, is, for example…AATIP. Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The word threat is in the title of the program, right? And there are people that had some problems with that or issues. Why are they looking at this as a threat? We don’t know what they are. Well, again, from the perspective of the profession of arms, from the perspective of the defense and the national interests of the United States, unless you know what you’re dealing with, you kind of have to, unfortunately – again, just my opinion here – it’s a default position that you kind of have to take. Because, at the end of the day, we don’t know what we’re dealing with. So, I think that’s why.”

    JC: “Yeah, I mean, so you’ve got the one perspective, which is that from a national defense-position, we should know who’s making these objects, who’s flying them, what the intent is. If we don’t know, we better find out. And then, from another perspective, it’s a flight-safety issue. You’ve got these objects and people every day, there have been some near misses. And then there’s the bigger existential questions that come after that, another narrative about the UFO phenomenon. It’s been here for so long, maybe we’re just seeing them more because our technology and our radar systems are integrated, we have better camera systems, better radars, maybe it’s always been here. The idea that there’s an increase in frequency…it appears that way to us, but we don’t know for certain because maybe they’ve always been there and we’re just seeing them more. Who knows?”

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    GK: “Can I ask you: Have you become, sort of the unofficial clearinghouse for UFO stories and encounters and tidbits within your circle? I’m asking that in the context of what we talked about before. The Navy’s a small place, you said. So does the word get around, ‘Hey, this guy is interested in this.’ I’m not saying you’re conducting a secret study on behalf of the Navy, but you come across people who have their own stories.”

    Guts: “Yeah, absolutely. You know, just in the course of your natural, you know, meeting people and getting to know folks. You know, that’s not the first thing I tell people when I meet them. But, you know, you get to know people and you work in close quarters, and you’re working long hours, long days and long nights, sometimes….you can get to know people. And once I’ve become comfortable with someone and I feel like, ‘Okay, I can.’ Again, stigma, right? If I’m comfortable, if I trust them, that they won’t think I’m a crackpot, I’ll mention, ‘Hey, you know…’ It’s funny, you know, before, there was no real inroad to that conversation, but now, ‘Hey, ever heard of Dave Fravor? Hey, you ever heard of,’ name your incident or name your case.”

    JC: “Right. Like a lot has changed over the last five years or so?”

    Guts: “Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.”

    JC: “So our Navy people are taking this seriously.”

    Guts: “Well…”

    JC: “Should I reword the question? Is it your experience that people that you see are taking this serious?”

    Guts: “Yeah, yeah. I think they’re…well, they’re certainly taking it more seriously now than they ever have. I’ll tell you that. There’s been a big sea change. And I’ve told, you know, close buddies of mine, you know, that I’ve flown with before, ‘Hey, if you ever see something, don’t be afraid to let me know.’”

    GK: “But you don’t go like, ‘Hey, I’m John, nice to meet you. Have you ever seen an alien?’”

    Guts: “No, no, no, no, no, no.”

    JC: “I mean, that’s not, you know, knowing John, he’s always been really, like, really at times, real skeptical, as he should be. But he always goes for, okay, what’s the core of it? I think one of the big things that we’re going to talk about, but I want to hear about your perspective on what the world has seen, when it comes to the big ones. Let’s talk about, you know, when it comes to the Tic Tac video, when it comes to the Gimbal video. So many people have tried to say, ‘Nothing to see here, move on.’ And they try to dissect it to bits where it’s almost like a syndrome, that they’re not seeing what’s right in front of them. So can you maybe tell us a little bit about those videos that kind of came forward? Did that change the way that you saw stuff? Or was that interesting to you? Or?”

    Guts: “I mean, for me, absolutely. You know, it definitely did. Again, those videos are tough, because if you don’t know what you’re looking at, you don’t know what you’re looking at. And it’s hard to dissect what those videos are presenting to you. But, you know, again, just with my background, and my experience as an aviator, when you look at something like Gimbal, for example, or you look at something like Tic Tac or Go Fast, what have you, any number of videos that have been released.”

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    Guts: “When you’re looking at that stuff, and you realize, ‘Okay.’ And you hear the audio of the pilots as well, talking about it. You got an object going against the wind, the wind’s 120 knots or whatever the heck it is. You see this thing maintaining flight, presumably with no visible means of propulsion or traditional control surfaces. I mean, that’s huge. Now you get somebody, average Joe citizen who says, ‘Well, you know, it’s not in HD.’ Well, okay, that’s…all right. That’s…”

    GK: “Hey, it’s grainy.”

    Guts: “Yeah, it’s grainy, you know.”

    JC: “Neil Tyson said that, it pissed me off. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

    Guts: “To that point, it’s unfortunate that someone who should, at least in my opinion, someone who should know better would say something like that, right? Folks got to remember, you know, the tools and instruments that we’re flying with…number one, they’re not iPhones, okay? They’re not designed to be taking selfies in the air and post them on social media afterwards to get Likes and posts and all that stuff.”

    JC: “These are targeting pods, weapons systems.”

    Guts: “Listen, these are weapons systems that we have been trained on to defend the American people with. These are weapons systems, they’re not designed to capture UFOs, they’re not designed to capture UAP. We’re not UFO hunters, you know?”

    GK: “You’re not there to make a movie or  a TV show.”

    Guts: “We’re not there to make a movie or a TV show, we’re there to defend the nation. So when people talk about the quote, unquote, ‘quality of the footage,’ or the lack of HD or 1080p, or whatever the hell you want to call it, it’s just a little frustrating because people have to realize and remember that look, these systems that we’re using to capture this stuff were not designed to do that. They were designed to wage war on behalf of the American [people], if I’m being blunt. That’s what they were designed to do. We just happen to be in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time. Or however you want to look at it, from which perspective. But people have to understand, that look, these videos, there’s a lot more there that people need to inherently understand and realize, there’s something weird here. It’s not…”

    JC: “And look, the exclusion of information drives me crazy, right? So we can’t go against the Tic Tac information because you got Commander David Fravor standing up there and being like, ‘Oh, no, I saw it. That’s it.’ You know, you’ve got Commander Chad Underwood, coming forward, like, ‘Nope, I filmed it. That’s what happened. As soon as it shot off to the left, I had them call and look on radar all around, it was gone.’ He said, ‘It didn’t move out of the field of view of the camera, it was gone.’ And if you listened to the interview, ya know. And so, what’s frustrating, what’s difficult is we have, like, the Gimbal. Now you can hear what the pilots are saying. And people are saying, ‘Oh, let’s just exclude what they’re saying and let’s just look at the video.’ Well hold up a second. Isn’t that evidence? Isn’t witness testimony, to corroborate visual evidence?”

    GK: “There’s a whole fleet of them out there.”

    JC: “Isn’t that important?”

    Guts: “Yeah.”

    JC: “So it’s so convenient when people try to dissect things to their desire to be able to minimize something.”

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    (On the flip side, the pilot or WSO in the Gimbal encounter said,  “It is a f**king drone, bro.” ~Joe)

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    JC: “So the translation, really, in my eyes, the missing link is a lot of these active-duty people, that won’t go on record, they won’t go forward, for fear of their career, for fear of reprisal. If we could just get people to talk with us about this, to go on record. That’s something that I think really builds up public understanding of what we’re seeing in these cases. Now, we don’t have that yet, for the Gimbal. I think we will at some day, but we don’t right now. But I think our goal is to take all the information and look at it, and not just what’s convenient to us.”

    Guts: “Well, look, I think, especially, you know, over the past few weeks, months…there’s been this weird effort amongst certain outlets to kind of try and just dismiss all this stuff away: ‘Oh, we figured it out, case closed.’ And I know from personal experiences, guys that I know, and other people that I trust…look, there’s gonna be more people coming out, there’s gonna be more folks. There are witnesses out there, and when the time is right for them, I’m sure they’ll come out and say what they have to say, and it will be really hard to stick that toothpaste back in the tube. It’s already out.”

    JC: “Meaning…okay, what would stop somebody from coming forward to the public?”

    Guts: “Well look, sure…a lot of things. The fact that they’re still in the military, they’re still active duty. Stigma. Like I said, I think we’re turning a corner but it’s still out there. Depending on, hey, I don’t know, maybe you’re in a squadron where the CO tells you, ‘Hey, you know, what, I don’t care what the hell you saw.’ And I’m not saying this is happening, I’m just saying, you know, it just…it’s person to person. So the folks that you’re around and you’re with, if they’re not okay with you talking about it, that’s going to be real hard for that person to wanna come out and say something.”

    GK: “So, in this last five years, so much tremendous change. The public is energized, Congress, major media. But, there is considerable pushback. We’ve been saying, publicly, for a while now, ‘The closer you get to the truth, the closer you get to the goods, the harder the pushback is going to be.’”

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    GK: “And it’s not only from within the military and the Pentagon, people don’t want this to be taken seriously, it’s their emissaries in the public sector. Debunkers, who…all right, Tic Tac is a bird, it’s a seagull, it’s a flare, it’s afterburners, it’s a drone, it’s a balloon. You know, all those things. Let’s see what sticks. They’ll throw all that stuff out.”

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    GK: “And we saw the same thing with all the 2019 incidents that we’re going to talk about, the efforts to debunk this stuff. You see those kinds of excuses against the testimony of somebody like Commander Fravor, Commander Underwood, Ryan Graves, people like that. Credible people who are there, who see it, who are experienced. They know what their equipment and their eyes are showing them, are telling them, and yet, these people try to debunk this stuff. You mentioned about media pushback. New York Post has a headline, what is it, ‘2019 cases all explained.’”

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    JC: “Okay, so let’s get to the brass tax. One of the big things that I wanted the three of us to talk about is what actually happened in 2019, off the West Coast. Why this is important to George and myself, is because we broke that story. We broke that story together. So for everybody that doesn’t know about it, in 2019, in the summer, there was a series of work-ups that were going on off the coast of California. So basically, we had about ten Navy warships that were prepping for departure, and during that work-up, there was a three-night period where there was continuous swarms of unidentifieds, simultaneously around ten Navy warships, that I know of. And it was such a dramatic event, and we were like, ‘Wow, this is incredible!’ And then luckily, George and I were able to get a lot of footage, it was part of a UFO internal report, we were able to put out slides from that report. Images, videos, nine pieces of corroborative, visual evidence. Knapp brought in these three images from the East Coast.”

    Read – West Coast: The U.S. Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs

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    Read – East Coast: New Photographs Show Different Shaped Objects.

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    JC: “And we dropped them, basically, all on the same few days. And then, on the West Coast, which was 2019, it was a UFO. People on the ships, it was a UFO-event series. Now, we have done a lot of work in the meantime, and I’ve consulted with you (Guts) on a lot…about these, just, you know, personally, that there was a lot of witnesses to this. Now, a lot of witnesses have said, you know, ‘Jeremy, I want you to know what happened. Here we go, we’re gonna go through it all. But, you know, I’m not coming forward, I’m not going to talk about it,’ right? Now, you weren’t involved in the 2019 series of events.”

    Guts: “No.”

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    JC: “But I think it’s really important that, here is now a case that the public can really sink their teeth into. And I maintain that we provided the best we could, what I would consider a dream case. We have thermal imagery, we have IR – infrared, we have radar footage, and we have what I call, deck footage, just normal optics from the deck of a boat. So, it’s not like, just a story anymore. Now we have all these pieces of corroborated, visual evidence that really need to be dissected. What’s happened since we’ve done that, is, obviously, a lot of people go in and they try to dismiss certain things, because that’s what they want to do. And there’s no real voices of the people involved to stand up and say, ‘Well, hold on, you know, that’s not how it went down.’ But I think that’s going to change today. So that’s what we need to talk about now, is how the media has handled that, durationally, a lot of excitement. And then we have these ridiculous stories that get propagated, the one that George just mentioned…New York Post.”

    GK: “A fine newspaper.”

    JC: “And it’s like, 2019, drones series solved. So before we get into that article or anything, what we need to do is go through each of the pieces of footage and evidence. But I think that I want to hear from you first, before we jump into that. Are you satisfied that we have figured this all out? Or are you here today because you’re not satisfied?”

    Guts: “Well, look…and again, just my opinion and nothing more than that. I think there’s more meat on that bone. The case is certainly not closed on that incident. I wasn’t there personally, but you (Knapp) mentioned before, big ocean. little Navy.  And you come across folks, and again, just in your natural course of your career, folks that I personally know and work with now. Who, again, you get to know them a little bit more, and you kind of figure out each other’s backgrounds. ‘Hey, where have you been before?’ And someone will mention, ‘Oh yeah, I was on USS’ Name Your Ship. Well, you know, that ship, I know, happens to have been involved in that 2019 series, right? Talk to someone else. ‘Oh, yeah, I was on USS, Whatever.’ And you go, “Oh, interesting. Were you there in 2019?’ And they say, ‘Yeah, I was there in 2019.’ Oh, okay. Again, it’s just this natural conversation that happens, where you finally get to hear firsthand accounts of people that were no-kidding there, saw things with either their own eyeballs, or on the systems that they’re trained to work on, right? The systems that they’re trained to fight with. And you get to hear their side of the story, right? It’s not a piece of footage, it’s not an audio recording, it’s no-kidding, talking to the folks, firsthand.”

    GK: “And again, this is…you’re not preparing a classified report for higher ups in the Navy, or contributing to the UAP Task Force,”

    Guts: “No, no, no. This is just…”

    GK: “You’re talking to friends, colleagues…”

    Guts: “I’m talking water-cooler talk, if you wanna call it. Conversations that you have with folks, just in your day to day. And again, we happen to be in the military and we happen to be active duty. But no, it’s not a concerted effort, we’re not compiling a report or anything like that. It’s just like, ‘Oh, you were there? Let’s talk about that.’”

    GK: “But again, your impression is, from speaking to them, people who were there, at the incidents we’re gonna talk about is, these are not normal drones. You didn’t buy these at Kmart.”

    Guts: “No, again…just my own opinion, and talking with folks that were there…yeah, no, it doesn’t…no, unfortunately, the New York Post, I think, got it wrong (laughs).”

    JC: “Okay, well let’s get into it. Bit by bit, let’s get in, so that we all better understand it. So, you wanna start with the Omaha, talk about that?
    Guts: “Sure, yeah.”

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    JC: “Okay. So, with the USS Omaha, one of the first bits that George and I released, appears to be a sphere that appears to go into the water. And there’s a lot in there, so let’s maybe play that first video, and then we can just say, ‘What are we seeing here?’ Let’s bring everybody up to date, so we can start talking about it.”

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    Read – Background: USS Omaha + UFOs In Our Oceans

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    JC: “Okay, so we can, you know, see it there. And we’ve all seen it 100 times. So, you don’t gotta look at the screen.”

    GK: “Thermal-imaging system. This is the dead of night, 100 miles off the West Coast. And this thing is following the USS Omaha.”

    JC: “Simultaneously, in this 100-mile radius, which is, you know, far from shore, relatively, you’ve got these objects. This is a spherical-shaped object, this is thermal. So it’s basically a heat-sensing camera. John, in your experience, like, what are we seeing? Like, should we see plumes of heat? What are we seeing and what are we not seeing here?”

    Guts: “Yeah, and again, this is kind of one of those videos where, unless you know what you’re looking at, it’s hard to appreciate the significance of what you’re…yeah, you see it, blink in and out there and disappear. On that particular video, what you see is what you get. If the image is representing an oval shape, the heat signature of whatever it was putting out was oval in nature. What are we not seeing on that clip? We’re not seeing wings, we’re not seeing stabilators, we’re not seeing rotors, we’re not seeing exhaust, right? It’s a thermal-sensing system, meaning you’re gonna catch that heat. And trust me, I can’t tell you how many thousands of times I’ve seen something like that on my own, you know, flying in the helo. Yeah, you see it. So it’s very obvious.

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    Guts: “The jet exhaust from an F-18, taken off the deck of an aircraft carrier, at night, is very – hell, even during the day – it’s very, very noticeable, it’s very distinguishable. You know, even if you show me a point five (0.5) second clip of that, I can tell you exactly what it is. We’re not seeing that in this video. There’s none of that there.”

    GK: “Could it be a balloon? I mean, it followed that ship for an hour and there were fourteen other ones around it.”

    Guts: “I don’t see how a balloon could, coincidentally, follow a ship for the duration of time period that the crews said it did. And in winds, okay? It’s not the dead…there’s winds out there, you know, off the coast. And typically, a balloon will will drift in the direction of the wind.”

    GK: “Do you know of any drones that look like that, that are round, with no wings, rotor, tail, no known propulsion?”

    Guts: “No. Me personally? No. No. No.”

    JC: “So usually with FLIR, I’ve seen a lot of drone footage with FLIR, and you see, even if it is a military-grade drone, you see the machine.”

    Guts: “Yes, absolutely. If it’s a quadcopter, let’s say, you can see the individual, you know, copters on the four sides of the thing. You can make all that stuff out.”

    JC: “The people in charge of the Omaha that I’ve spoken with, at various levels, all the way down, but people who are directly involved with fighting the ship and capturing: ‘We’ve never seen anything like this. It has no means of propulsion that we can see. And, in fact, it went into the water.’ And something that I know, is that there was a sub that was sent after, to look for wreckage, to look for the craft itself. And it wasn’t there, it was gone. They called it, within these…what I’ve been exposed to, a trans-medium vehicle. And we’re seeing those words reflected now in Congress and Senate with the UFO whistle-blower act: Trans-medium. What does that mean? Something that can penetrate from space, to air, to sea, with absolute impunity. No inertial effect. That’s what they believe, that’s what we reported.”

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    GK: “The question is: Did it go into the water? It seems to disappear into the water or disappear altogether. And some have suggested, ‘Well, it just was over the horizon.’ What do you know? You have further information, though, I think both of you do.”

    JC: “Yes, certainly I do.”

    GK: “Did it go into the water?

    JC: “It did. And not just it, not just one. Remember, so this is like…over the Ohama itself, let’s say we have fourteen targets. I recently have spoken with people who were in charge of going…at the end of the video, you can hear, the dude says, ‘Launch helo,’ right? They did. They launched a helo. And the pilots, and the crew on that helo, reported seeing these things go above their flight altitude to evade them, and then into the water to evade them. So now I’ve got direct eyewitnesses that saw them go into the water, tracked them down into the water. We always thought they were going into the water. That’s what our government told us was happening in these documents we obtained, right? However, now we’ve got eyewitnesses. Now, are they going to come forward to me? Probably not! But, like, I’m telling you, and I’ve been right about everything else.”

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    GK: “So the helo guys, that would be you, that would be you guys.”

    Guts: “Sure. Yeah. yeah. No, that’s a pretty typical response if there was something…cause you don’t know what it is. Hell, maybe there’s somebody that needs help in the water, and that’s why you would send a helo out there to conduct some sort of search and recovery effort to try and recover whatever it was. I’d love to talk to those pilots myself.”

    JC: “That one, I think, would be very easy to connect you with, right? That’s like, just somebody who..and this is something out of his personal interest. If he wants to talk to them, great. I mean, I don’t need the back-up or for you to say it’s real, but the thing is, for your knowledge, that’s so important. So 100%.”

    Guts: “Let’s be honest, I know we’re gonna have to talk about it here more in a second, but…those aren’t the only witnesses.”

    JC: “No, we’re about to go deep, bro.

    GK: “Before we leave the Omaha, one of the other videos that you made public, Jeremy, is the radar screen, which shows…there’s like fourteen of these things popping in and out around that ship. That kind of circumstance. I mean, I’m sure Navy ships encounter drones and balloons and things, whether they’re closer to shore or out in the ocean, but would that be cause for alarm? I mean, you have these targets of unknown origin all around the ship.”

    Guts: “Absolutely. And I hear…look, I follow #UFOTwitter, and I see the banter going back and forth. And, I hear folks, you know, complaining about. ‘Why didn’t you just shoot them down?’ Well hold on a second. People have to understand…again, it’s not like the movies, it’s not like on TV. We’re not just going guns a-blazing everywhere we go, as much as people would like to think that. There is very specific steps that have to happen for any Navy unit to track something and certainly, engage something. When you’ve got something leaving the barrel, I mean, that’s a big deal.”

    JC: “And you’re just off the coast of California. People forget that.”

    Guts: “We’re just off the coast of California, we’re in our own backyard. We’re not going out there, loaded to bear, every time we go. The majority of our flying is training, we’re out there training. And no, we don’t train with live ordnance. In fact, training with live ordnance happens less often than not. So, yes, it is a big deal that unknowns or unidentifieds are swarming our units. Are there procedures in place to counteract that? Sure, but you gotta remember, we’re not overseas. We’re in our own backyard, conducting training.”

    JC: “Which is both more concerning, right?”

    Guts: “Yeah. yeah.”

    JC: “The thing what you’re saying is you look before you pull the trigger.”

    Guts “100%, absolutely.”

    JC: “So, I’ll give my two cents on it, which is directly from some of the individuals fighting these ships. Is that there is this triangle of kinetic action, which is opportunity, intent & capability. I asked a lot of the sailors, and a lot of people involved, ‘Who would be pulling the trigger?’ I was like, ‘So, how do you feel about this, now that it’s all done?’ They said, ‘I feel like I failed in my duties.’ I go, ‘Well, what do you mean?’ It like, haunts some of these folks, right? Because, it didn’t seem like an aggressive maneuver, it seemed more like a surveillance and performance. These were the words that were said to me. Remember, and I’ll be specific because I don’t think people know: Around these ten ships, there was usually one high altitude, and we know that it went up to about 21,000 feet, which is important to keep in mind. And then there was this ballet around them, taunting, coming in at an angle. However, there was action taken. There was action taken and I think we’ll talk about this. Which is that…on two of the ships in particular, there was anti-drone technology that was attempted to be used. And different types. On one of the ships…it was three different types that they…three different ways. All of which were ineffective. And they went out and did a test after, right? Some of the guys went out and did a test after, to see, ‘Hey, does this stuff work?’”

    Guts: “To test the equipment.”

    JC: “It worked like a charm! They would be able to hit things down, return to sender, no problem.”

    GK: “But it didn’t work in this instance.”

    JC: “It did not work in this instance. And I know of, personally, three ships that…what was three, that tried to – was it two or three – that tried to do this actual defense maneuver. Which, you know, obviously it’s like, no big deal. If something’s there, you can get it down. But also, there was attempts to just find out, where are they coming from. So we’ll get more into that, but let’s show the radar footage. I wanna get your opinion on this.”

    ~~~

    Read – Background: Navy UFO Radar Data & Footage from USS Omaha – 07/15/2019

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    JC: “So we’ve all seen this. And I just wanna see…in the middle of the image, that’s the ship, right?”

    Guts: “Yep.”

    JC: “OK. And so, you see these things popping in and out.”

    Guts: The reason this is important is because, again, it’s all about corroborative data, okay? It’s not just the witnesses, it’s not just the thermal footage of an object going in the water. You’ve got a screen capture of real objects around the ship.”

    JC: And there’s up to, I think, fourteen. And the thing is, they’re kind of going in and out of radar. Because in this radar system, if they go below that scan volume, they can kind of disappear for a second. So they were wondering, what’s going on. Turns out, a lot of these were apparently going into the water and having this trans-medium vehicle. Okay, great. So then you’ve got these illuminated objects, about ten to fourteen feet in diameter, that have no control surfaces…that are flying with impunity, and going in and out of the water, going up to like 21,000 feet, at least, that we know of. This is starting to build an interesting case. We’ve got radar now, we’ve got thermal, and a bunch eyewitnesses that people haven’t heard from…YET.”

    GK: As somebody who is completely ignorant of this technology, I’d be wondering: What are they doing? What is the purpose of that? Is it surveillance, intelligence gathering? What would be your guess?

    Guts: Well that’s the million-dollar question, right? Is…who’s operating them? Number one. What’s their intent? Because it’s ambiguous, right? They didn’t crash into the ship, thank God. They weren’t running into people or anything like that. But, they were certainly, like you said and like we’ve heard from folks that we’ve talked to, there was definitely this sense of…maybe some sort of surveillance and performance aspect of it.”

    JC: “Yeah, look what I can do.”

    Guts: “Look what I can do. And we’ll talk about it a little bit later on. But these objects performed maneuvers that are just….I mean, come on. They’re not drones, okay? They’re not conventional drones.”

    JC: “And we’re gonna get into some of what witnesses have said, but I wanna go to the third piece that I think is important. It’s not as visually stunning, it’s the least visually stunning. But the next video is called deck footage.”

    ~~~

    Read: Background: UFO Deck Footage + USS Omaha

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    JC: “And…why this is important to me. So you got like a thermal thing, and you’re like, ‘Okay, that’s probably just…you can discard it and say that’s probably just a balloon.’”

    Murgia Tweet: “With video released, does Tyler (Rogoway) still think it’s a balloon?”

    Rogoway Tweet: “YES!”

    ~~~

    JC: “Then you get radar and you realize, ‘Okay, now this is something more substantial.” Then you get this footage, and I thought it was so important, I released it last because it was the least visually stunning. But why this footage, to me, is important, is because now, you can’t say that that’s just, you know, some hot or cold balloon. Like, okay, well it’s self luminous. So now these things got lights. So all of a sudden, they’re machines, right? This is like…so I found this to be important that they’re self luminous. And this is just some dude on the deck filming: ‘Hey, they’re surrounding our ship, what’s going on?’ But I think that that was lost on a lot of people. Again, it establishes, in my mind, corroborative, visual evidence with each new source of evidence. You get another perspective on, you know, I gotta take this a little more seriously. So that video itself is not super impressive, but do you agree that it’s good to have another layer, right?”

    Guts: “I would never discount any of those pieces. It all…they’re all pieces of the puzzle, okay? They’re all pieces of the puzzle and right now, we don’t know if we even have all the pieces to build the puzzle.”

    JC: “I’m pretty sure there’s some being held back, to be honest with you.”

    Guts: “I think so, too. And so, anything that we can get to try and paint an accurate picture of what happened, I think is important.”

    GK: “We put these images out together, Jeremy first on his website, ExtraordinaryBeliefs.com and me on KLAS TV. And, of course, you know, you have a range of responses from the UFO world, including from people who don’t want this to be true. Either they don’t like us, they wanna slap us down. So they go to the Pentagon and say, “Is this real?” And we made a point that all that footage was in the hands of the UAP Task Force and the Pentagon. And to our absolute astonishment, the Pentagon comes back and says, “Yes, it’s real. It was recorded by the Navy.” It gives us a little bit more credibility and shot down a lot of people who wanted to shoot us down.”

    ~~~

    JC: “And also, I mean, let’s, again, because this is like a brand new conversation we’re having about it. Let’s be clear, for everybody who doesn’t know. Which is that…and I’ve said it before, and we’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: So, we had knowledge of certain assets that were in a UFO briefing that was being passed around within our military and our government, to train people in order how to identify true UFOs & then how to report them. Now this was a classified briefing that was going around within the military, that as journalists, we got wind of. But inside, inherently unclassified, was some – not everything we put out – but some. So, we were able to get that information out to the public. It was never gonna be seen, publicly, but we got it out. But on top of that, we somehow got a bunch of footage that our Pentagon didn’t have. Our UAPTF, the Task Force…they didn’t have it. So we were like, kind of astonished. ‘Well, we should make sure they have it, cause we’re about to release it.’ So, luckily we know people, that was the right way to do it, and we said, ‘Hey, this is coming out, we wanna make sure you got it.’ So we tried to do everything in the right way. Maybe that’s what they so quickly validated that this is real military footage, filmed of unidentifieds, included in the investigation into UFOs. Maybe that’s why, because we did it right, and got it to them. So that’s how it went down, for the audience that doesn’t know about this.

    “But there’s more to it. It wasn’t just one ship, the USS Omaha, there was also the USS Russell that we released, not only video, but also a slide that was contained in that briefing. And this one gets everybody hot and bothered because, first of all, it’s green, right?”

    ~~~

    Read – Background: The U.S. Navy filmed “PYRAMID” shaped UFOs

    ~~~
    JC: “[But first], let’s do the slide of the Omaha, This is an actual briefing slide that is unclassified, however it was contained within a classified briefing.”

    ~~~

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    JC: “As journalists, George and I were able to obtain this image. This is a UAS: Unmanned Aerial System, some people say.”

    Guts: “Sure. Yep.”

    JC: “Spherical in shape, right? They say it right there. Spherical in shape.”

    GK: “They searched the water for wreckage, the search was ineffective.”

    JC: “One of the people that actually designated, like…what these were, [said]: The only we had that we could classify it as, was unmanned, because it wasn’t, let’s say, big enough as a normal craft, to hold a human. So, it was a UFO. It was unidentified, still is unidentified, but we call it an Unmanned Aerial System. And look, this straight out of a briefing (looking at the slide). And what’s so important to me was that it’s not just like we’re making this up, you know? Other things went in front of our eyes when we were investigating all this stuff. We were exposed to other information, is what I’m trying to say.”

    ~~~

    JC: “Let’s move on to the to the last bit of the USS Russell. USS Russell was another ship that was out during this workup. And USS Russell, it had a slightly different experience than the other ships. Same kind of thing, swarms. But when George and I saw the videos, and we saw what was reported, we’ll talk about the slide and what was reported. But let’s watch the video.”

    ~~~

    Read – Background: The Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs

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    JC: “They look triangular by angle of observation. However, we were told that it was in things that passed in front of our eyes, that they were pyramid in shape. And so we reported that and we put it out.”

    GK: “Pretty famous now, this is all over the place.”

    Guts: “I’m familiar with with this clip. And, you know, look, at the end of the day, whether it’s a pyramid, or a triangle, or whatever the hell it is, I think what’s lost on people, again, is the fact that that there was a there there to begin with. There was something there.”

    JC: “Let’s describe it. So what you’re referencing is that there’s this big argument about the shape of it, right?”

    Guts: “Sure.”

    JC: “That’s what people are saying. It’s a lens effect. And actually, they went all the way up to Congress. At first, it was the little NVG, Night Vision. It was a PVS-14, is the standard issue since 2001, to our armed services. So the guy’s got this, and he’s filming through it with a camera. So first, they said this one had a triangle aperture, right? And that’s what’s causing this effect, this distortion, right? And then, I was like, looking at it because I got one. And I’m like, ‘Nah, man. Nah.’ They’d have to like, consciously put tape on it. So then, they kind of backtracked, moved the goalposts. Now it’s the camera that’s doing this. We started asking people involved, and the funniest thing someone said to us was, ‘Look, if it was pyramid in shape, it would still look like a pyramid, even if there was an aperture issue.’ Which I thought was hilarious, right? That’s true. But I’m not staking my claim…”

    GK: “We don’t have a dog in this fight. We don’t care if it looks like a pyramid. Is it an unknown craft? That’s what we wanted to know. And yeah, it is.”

    JC: “Yeah!”

    Guts: “What matters is there was something there that wasn’t supposed to be, that we don’t know what it was.”

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    JC: “Seven hundred feet, as you’ve said to me a bunch, over the last few years.”

    GK: “There’s a rangefinder, it was seven hundred feet above the deck.”

    JC: “And there were three of them. And so, we don’t have all the videos from that, you know, but there were three of them, close proximity to one another, seven hundred feet off of the tail of it, right? And it would follow the ship, and at one point, the ship stopped, and the object stopped.”

    ~~~

    GK: “Am I correct in saying that both of you have spoken with crew members who were there?”

    JC: “Oh, yeah. People…”

    Guts: “Yes.”

    GK: “So I don’t know…where we. You have, John?”

    Guts: “Yeah. Yeah, I’m aware of people that were on those ships at that time.”

    JC: “And I can say I’ve filmed and recorded with people that were not only there at that time, but had the responsibilities and duties that would directly give me information about how these things were dealt with. And I think, really importantly…so let’s just get to the the basic understanding: I don’t care if these things are shaped like Mickey Mouse. They’re craft of unknown origin, flying with impunity, moving along, intelligently controlled. We don’t know whose they are, we don’t know where they came from, where they launched, where they landed. And we took action against them from the USS Russell, in three different ways: anti-drone technology. And all of which were ineffective. Now, when you talk about witnesses, and we’ve both talked with people involved. And again, I have filmed and recording with, you know, they don’t want it out, they’re active duty, but they gave me a good, by letting me record with them. But I’ll tell you this… Do you (Guts) want to talk about this? We both…one of the witnesses told us, as they were watching it. What did these things off the USS Russell…what did they do?”

    ~~~

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    Guts: “One eyewitness account in particular that was…it was pretty extraordinary. First thing they noticed was these lights, kind of up in the sky. What distinguished these lights from any others is kind of the follow-on maneuvers that it executed.”

    JC: “On the USS Russell.”

    Guts: “On the USS Russell.”

    JC: “And this is a sailor that we that we both know.”

    Guts: “Yes. Yeah.”

    JC: “And that was there, and saw it.

    Guts: “Yeah, they were up topside, you know, outside of the ship, as opposed to some of the other folks who we’ve talked to who are kind of fighting from the inside of the ship, who can’t corroborate what they see on their screens, visually, with their eyeballs, right?”

    JC: “That would be like, it had a SPY-1.

    Guts: “Yeah.”

    JC: “The USS Russell had a SPY-1.”

    Guts: “Sure.”

    JC: “The SPY-1 itself, by the way, has some unique properties. But that SPY-1, they’re inside the ship, so they’re kind of getting that internal data of how they’re moving, the distances, all that stuff, where they’re coming from, but then there’s people topside.”

    Guts: “But then there’s people topside, right? And so this one individual in particular that we’re talking about, what they saw was, again, these lights up in the sky, and all of a sudden, they just dropped down to the horizon level, you know, almost instantaneously, right? Drops down on the horizon, and all of a sudden it starts approaching the ship from the stern, from the rear of the ship. Once these lights come forward, first it goes up the port side of the ship. And it’s funny, to hear them talk about it, it’s almost like they…as this object or light, or whatever it was, was kind of flying around the ship, the sailors on the deck are following it, right? So first they’re on the aft end of the ship, and the object moves forward, so they move forward, right? So now they’re on the port-forward side of the ship. And it’s just floating there, a couple hundred feet in the air. Then it moves to the starboard side, right across, and they scurry across the ship. And they’re kind of, you know, going through wherever they need to go to get to the other side. And they maintain eyes on it, because they’re just shocked at what they’re seeing. And then, probably the most dramatic part of the of the event was…once it moved to the starboard side of the ship, it just shot straight up into the air. And the word that the sailor that we spoke with used was, ‘It just zoomed, it zoomed, it zoomed straight up in the air. And when you ask them, ‘Did you hear anything? Did you see anything, in terms of like, again. exhaust?’”

    JC: “Or a sonic boom.”

    Guts: “Right. Did you hear it? Right, exactly. And of course, the answer is, ‘No’”

    GK: “So, this sounds like a drone I could buy at Walmart then, or something (JC and Guts laugh). Obviously it is not.”

    Guts: “Yeah. Yeah. No, obviously it’s not. And again, if we’re gonna take that sailor’s account at face value, which I do, and again, I know the individual and I trust that what they’re…they’re telling it like it is. They’re telling what they saw, right? It’s dramatic. And no, it’s not a drone from Walmart that you can get, or anywhere else for that matter. That I know of.”

    JC: “Yeah. And this is one of many eyewitness. It’s a little frustrating. I’m saying that what’s missing is these people coming forward and saying, ‘Look, I was part of that, and this is what I encountered.’ It’s just hard to get people to come and do that because of the nature of working in the military. But these accounts…”

    GK: “This whole issue about drones has been used to discredit and debunk many of these incidents and to strip it of its aura of mystery. Can you, without giving away or crossing a line, can you just talk about drones and whether you see them? You’ve served both domestically in the Navy and around the globe? Do people send up drones and take pictures of Navy ships? Do you see adversary drones that are intelligence-gathering operations?”

    Guts: “This is what I’m comfortable saying. What I’ll say is this: The short answer? Yeah. Yeah. We’re out there and we’re as on the front lines as you can get, around the world. And so, do we encounter drones? Yeah, we absolutely do. And it’s only gotten, you know, as drones have proliferated around the world, they’ve become cheaper and easier to get a hold of and operate. Yeah, it’s something that we encounter, you know, pretty regularly. You know, me personally, on deployments around the world, yeah, we’ve come across it. So it’s definitely something that we have to take into account whenever we’re going over the horizon and working around the world.”

    GK: “Well, we’ve read public accounts, media accounts that show that our adversaries are developing drones. We’re seeing, you know, you can’t talk about this, but in the Ukraine, drones have taken a very pivotal role in that conflict that’s going on. So, China, Russia, we’re sure they’re developing some advanced drones. I mean, do you see – I don’t know if you can talk about this – drones of a more sophisticated level that, you know is being flown by some potential adversary?”

    Guts: “Unfortunately, I’m gonna have to politely decline to comment on that. But like I said, you know, in short, they’re something that we have to take into account, that we didn’t really have to take into account, you know, ten, twelve years ago, like we do now. It’s something that we have to consider when we’re going abroad and you know, operating (internationally?).”

    GK: “On the drone question. So, it also depends on where you are. So Jeremy, you’ve got some great information and testimony based on where these…you don’t encounter Kmart drones a hundred miles out to sea.”

    JC: “Yeah, so what we’re gonna do now is kind of bring a new body of evidence and information to people because, for me, it’s like, you know, I’m getting all this information, and it’s starting to really make me understand what’s happening. The argument has never been, by the way, drone. Drone is just a designation of something that doesn’t have an immediate, physical, biological pilot in it. And it’s usually determined by the size of the craft, and by the maneuverability. But again, remember, that drone that we’re looking at is spherical, with no flight control system, so I’m already a little skeptical that this is a Walmart thing.”

    ~~~

    JC: “So what I think now is, with the Paul Hamilton, let’s talk about that ship. It hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. And this was one of the ten ships that was part of this 2019 swarm. And very uniquely, the Paul Hamilton was in closest proximity to a ship called the Bass Strait, which is a cargo ship that’s run by Pacific Basin.”

    ~~~

    JC: “And I wanna start with an image that comes up that the media has said, which is that the case has been solved. So Zack, can we bring up the first image from The New York Post? Their horrible, disingenuous, ridiculous, parroted reporting of untruth, because you’re about to see it.”

    ~~~

    JC: “So if people can see that: Mysterious drone attacks on US warships solved. I don’t agree with that assessment, (Knapp laughs) and let’s get to specifically why. But to tell you what that’s saying. So there was a cargo ship that was right by the Paul Hamilton. And it has been propagated, this mythology, that the these hundred-plus drones, within a hundred-mile radius, were launched from, and landed back to this ship called the Bass Strait. In fact, it’s propagated so much you can even find it on Wikipedia now. It’s already, you know, it’s just…okay, Wikipedia. There we go. Just go ahead and read it, George.”

    GK: “‘Pacific Basin is the owner and operator of Bass Strait, a cargo ship that launched a series of drones that surveilled and harassed United States Navy ships, including the USS Paul Hamilton, in the waters off of Southern California in 2019.’ No equivocation. It is the ship that launched these drones.”

    JC: “Yeah, so let’s get that garbage off the screen because it’s false, okay? So but here’s the deal, man. The reason why you find it trickled down to Wikipedia is because this has been a false narrative that has been propagated by, you know, subpar journalists and subpar journalism sources, and they try to trickle it down all the way. Now, somebody just reads that, they’re like, ‘Oh, great. Case solved.’ So let’s back the fuck up. Okay, Paul Hamilton. So, I think what we should do, is we should…we have two witnesses that were willing to put their voice out there and you can affirm that they are actually…”

    Guts: “Yeah. No, these are guys that I know personally. One of them I work with every day.”

    JC: “Oh, wow! Okay, there we go.”

    Guts: “Guys that I’m very familiar with.”

    JC: “Okay. So…yeah, it’s funny, man, people are happy to share on the level that they can about these experiences. So I’m going to play, I think an audio clip would be good for…”

    GK: “We’re not using the names, though, right?”

    Guts: “No, no,”

    JC: “No way. So this is Paul Hamilton, ten ships, 2019 swarm. Individuals that were there. Two of them. Wanna get their perspective on a few things. So first was, you know, asking: Is this a test? Was this just some U.S. government tasks during workups, right? And we’ll just listen to it and talk about it after?”

    ~Audio Begins~

    JC: “What did you think was going on during this encounter series? Did you think this was a test?”

    Eyewitness #1 (E1): “So like, we didn’t really think anything of it, other than that it was like the people testing us. Like, purposefully sent out drones to go harass us. So, it’s like the most high-end technology, followed us. And then after the first night, that was pretty apparent that it wasn’t. But like, at the same time, it’s like, ‘Hey, you need to track this more closely. You need to follow them and see where they go afterwards.’”

    JC: “Isn’t it typical, though, if that were the scenario, and you were being tested, at some point afterwards, you would be made aware that you were being tested? And whether or not you passed or didn’t pass the test?”

    E1: “Yeah.”

    JC: “And that never happened?”

    E1: “No (laughs), no, because like, it wasn’t a test. Unless there’s like a secret at like the highest level and no one’s told anyone, that wasn’t a test during SWATT. But like, the mindset at the time was test during SWATT, but also looking back, with like, kind of a clear eye, it’s like, that makes no sense to have a test that lasts that long, at night, after a really busy day, when we’re shooting like, live ordnance during the day. It would just get into the safety of like, what we were doing, and it wouldn’t make any sense for them to do that.”

    ~Audio Ends~

    JC: “So, can you explain to us, like, you know, so this is somebody that’s saying…he’s saying it wasn’t a test device, it wasn’t our tech. So explain that.”

    JG: “So, you know, what you hear that individual talking about in the beginning is, you know, at first, that’s kind of the assumption everybody makes, right? Yeah, okay, we’re being tested, you know? They’re sending out drones, the tests are different tactics and procedures to respond to this thing. But then it starts happening night after night. It’s happening at hours that are really, really outside of the hours of testing, if you want to call it that, right? Because you got to remember, these ships are participating in other training events throughout the entire day, okay? And shooting live ordnance, you heard him talk about that. And like I told you before, whenever we shoot live ordnance, that’s a big deal, okay? Certainly, in real-world actions, but also in training, you know? We don’t do that lightly and there’s a lot that goes into that. So, the idea that we would be executing a high-stress, high-level event during the day, and then to be tested with drone swarms in the middle of the night… Because you gotta remember, you got to put yourself in the mindset, in the shoes of these guys back in 2019. This is happening, you know, about 2200 to like, 0300 at night, you know? 10 o’clock at night till about two or three in the morning sometimes, right? And, I mean, is it totally out of the question that we would be tested at that time? No, but when you consider and you heard him…I’m glad you heard him say it: Safety, right? No matter what we’re doing, we’re always gonna operate with a certain level or amount of safety precautions imbued into the training event, so that we don’t do something stupid, or God forbid, get somebody hurt, you know? So you heard him talk about that.

    “You heard him talk about how, okay, night one, okay, it’s probably a test. But then, something that you heard him say was that folks higher up in the chain of command started asking, ‘Hey, start gathering all the data that you can about this and feed it up.’ Okay? And who knows, maybe it was a test of our information-gathering capabilities. But that is not something that would be typically done, right? There’s much more important aspects of our tasks and procedures that need to be tested, not how information flows up and down the chain of command. That’s easy. You can easily put a report together and send it up to whoever it needs to get to.”

    JC: “Without a hundred objects, with no point of departure or landing.”

    Guts: “Exactly. So, night one? Sure, maybe. Night two, three, four, or whatever it is? They realize, okay, this is real and there’s something else going on here. And oh, by the way, again, folks higher in the chain of command are asking for us to stay on this case, you know?”

    JC: “So, to go to your point there, is that, okay, first we ell this was our technology and it was just a test. It started becoming very apparent to everybody on the ships, you know, whoa, this is real, like, we gotta deal with this. This is not just some, you know, even like a black projects test, which, by the way, is not something you do, like, you know, in that training area, around… But I’ve talked to people that have encountered black projects, and there is a process.”

    Guts: “Oh, there’s a whole process. Absolutely. I haven’t had this happen to me, personally, but I know of guys, personally, who have seen stuff they shouldn’t have seen

    JC: “Commander Underwood did and he told me the process.”

    Guts: “There ya go. He has, you know, you come across something that you see, that you’re not supposed to see, well, you’re gonna get a call. Especially as an aviator, you know, as soon as you land on deck and you start doing all the necessary paperwork required for any flight, anyway, you’re also gonna get a call from the appropriate intelligence folks and be like, ‘Hey, sorry, I need you to come by the intel shop and you gotta fill out…’ It’s a huge hassle, right? (laughs) And I can imagine that for someone, you know, a civilian, let’s say, ‘Man, I’d love to see something like that!’ No, not really (laughs). It’s kind of a pain in the ass.”

    GK: “And at the end of that process, do they say, ‘You didn’t see that’?”

    Guts: “At the end of that process, you know, you sign…you agree to whatever paperwork they tell you, that, ‘Hey, you can’t talk about this.’ That didn’t happen with anybody in 2019. Certainly no one that we’ve talked to, and not that I’ve heard of through other channels, either.”

    JC: “And also, the head of the Navy was asked about this and made a statement. And they (media) were like: ‘Have you figured this out? Whose are they?’”

    ~~~

    JC: “It is undetermined. Everybody we know, involved in this [has said], ‘We don’t know whose these were.’ But let’s just start with eliminating…these were not ours. That’s the consensus of everybody. That’s, to the best of our understanding, that’s…despite their capabilities, they weren’t ours.”

    Guts: “Well, it wasn’t a test, as I think is…it certainly wasn’t a test, you know?”

    JC: “So, I wanna play another clip now and this one is really important. We kind of put this forward in one of our first episodes, you know, that these things were coming from the west. And it took me a while to understand it, and you really…this is why I like, go to Guts, ‘Hey, man, does this mean anything?’ He’s like, ‘It means a lot.’ Okay, so let’s hear what he had to say, and then I want to hear John’s reaction.”

    ~Audio Begins~

    JC: “So from what direction was this swarm coming?”

    Eyewitness 1 (E1): “It was actually coming in the west.”

    JC:” It was coming from the west.”

    E1: “Yeah, from the west.”

    JC: “So over water.”

    E1: “Over water, away from land. I mean, like, the only thing we have over there is like, Hawaii, which probably was closest thing west of us.”

    JC: “And when they were departing, what direction were they departing to?”

    E1: “They would depart in different, on different bearings than they came in on.”

    JC: “So normally, always from the west and then departing in a different direction?”

    E1: “Yeah, yeah. Not exclusively, but yeah, pretty constantly, it’d be a different bearing. Which is weird, right? Like, so if you deploy a drone to go check something out, it would come back. So that was like, something significant enough for us to like, report the drone’s going in a different direction than they came.”

    ~Audio Ends~

    JC: “Okay. What is he saying and why is it important?”

    Guts: “So again, you know, the whole fact that these things were coming from the west. When you hear him say, you know, I think the closest thing to the west is Hawaii, right (laughs)? And, you know, Hawaii is, you know, I don’t know how many thousands of nautical miles from the coast of San Diego. There’s nothing out there, there’s just open water to the west, okay? And like they mentioned, if it were a drone, or a typical drone being operated by a typical drone operator, typically, if you’re gonna go check something out…if I’m sitting here with a drone and I got the joystick in my hand, and I’ve got the drone on my lap here, and I’m gonna launch it across the street, I’m gonna go straight there and come straight back, right? It takes battery power to, you know, whenever you have long durations of time of flight. Just the controlling aspect of the drone, you want to maintain eyes on and all the time. I guess you could make the argument that, ‘Well, you know, if you’re really trying to surveil, you kind of don’t want to come in on the same bearing that you’re coming out on.’ But regardless, these things were always coming from the west and then departing into into another direction and there’s nothing out to the west, but ocean.”

    JC: “Yeah. So even if we’re talking off of another ship, let’s be really clear. So what’s happening is, in this 100-mile radius, swarms simultaneously on ten ships. And we’re giving one example of Paul Hamilton where these objects are appearing from the west, where there is no landmass, there’s no ship that’s going to be launching them from the west, and then they’re departing after long periods of durational use, they’re departing in another direction. So this causes a problem of where’s the launch, where’s the land?”

    Guts: “Yeah.”

    ~~~

    On July 27th, 2021, during the 4Bidden Disclosure Conference, Lue Elizondo had this to say about drones. 

    Lue: “Let’s look at the best drone technology we have, and I’m gonna be very careful what I say here, make sure I don’t upset anybody back in DC. But let’s say – here’s our little pen again –  this is a drone. There’s two types of drones, for the most part, and there’s other ones as well. There’s hybrids and [inaudible] and whatnot. But you have those that can take off vertically, kind of like a quadcopter, and they can hover and they can loiter around for a little while. And then you’ve got those that are fixed wing and they can fly long range but they have to fly fast enough to create lift and to continue to move. So think a Predator or something like that. The ones that move fast and fixed wing could fly really far, but they have a very hard time loitering. They have to fly racetracks, they can’t just stop and hover and loiter for twenty, thirty minutes. And just like the quadcopters that can hover, they have a hard time loiter ability because you need fuel and fuel is weight, and weight to a rotary wing vertical lift is the devil. So you want to be as light as possible and that’s why a lot of these little quadcopters are so light.

    “So if you wanted to launch something over a Navy ship that can hover over the flight deck as has been reported through the Omaha and the Kidd incidents, then you’re talking about a drone capability that is probably not a fixed-wing, long-range capability. It means it has to be launched from somewhere near by. Even two, three miles, as far as you can with some of the more, if you will, commercially available, control systems. Even the best military systems you have some much longer capability, but you still have to launch them and you have to recover them, you don’t just let them crash into the ocean because then they can be found, right? So they have to be launched from somewhere and they have to be controlled from somewhere by someone. And there’s an infrastructure, a huge footprint, that is required to do that. You need a trained operator to do it, with enough juice where you can send out a signal to your quadcopter, your quadcopter can react and then enough, if you will, payload on this, so it can send the signal back to the operator. The operator knows where the drone is, it’s looking at pictures and all that stuff, and then be able to fly the drone all the way back.

    “So there’s more practical challenges with trying to create something like that. If you’re talking about a fixed-wing drone, that’s a little easier but it’s got to keep moving, it’s got to be moving fairly fast, and it’s not just going to stop and hover. So, therein lies the problem. If you want a loiter, you’ve got to launch it from relatively nearby. Now, the Navy has sea-domain awareness. They are the best at knowing anything that’s in the ocean. These guys know. That’s how we catch these drug runners coming in on these little tiny submersibles that you can barely see. There’s a reason we catch them. So we know, if there’s, let’s say, a Chinese frigate nearby that’s launching drones, we know that. A lot of these ships have transponders on them, AIS. We know, unless they’re squawking black, meaning they’re not transmitting, then we have other ways to find out who’s in our area and we have very high-fidelity radar systems and we have electro-optical systems. So, it’s unlikely. I’m not saying it’s impossible because the Chinese have harassed us before and vice versa with unmanned, aerial vehicles and aerial systems and by the way, that technology is improving, exponentially, almost every year, so at some point these things may have that capability that we’re seeing, but right now, they don’t, and that’s the problem. The foreign, adversarial technology isn’t where it needs to be for us to see the things that we’re seeing, it’s not there yet. It might be there in ten, fifteen, twenty years, but it’s not there now. And that’s why this is a problem, that’s why we need to have this conversation because if it’s not U.S. technology, and it’s not foreign, adversarial technology then whose technology is it, right? I mean we have to have that conversation. You can’t have an intellectual, a truly, objective conversation about this topic, and not introduce that as potentially, potentially part of the calculus.

    ~~~

    And a few months before that, on May 20th, 2021, Elizondo had this conversation with researcher, Richard Dolan, about the possibility of drones over Navy ships.

    Lue: “When you really look at it, you look at what is required to have something that can hover over the flight of a boat for hours at a time, and not a single one of these have been shot down, not a single one of these have ever been recovered from the ocean, not a single one of them has had a mechanical issue, not a single one has been able to be intercepted.”

    Dolan: “It seems insane.”

    Lue: “And by the way, we have helicopters on these ships and not a single one has been caught by one of our helicopters or aircraft. You know, okaaaay. But you really got to do a lot of mental gymnastics then, to prove to me that that is some sort of drone technology. I’m not saying it’s impossible. What I’m simply saying is you’ve got to build a case then to prove that. Because at this point, that’s a greater feat than saying it’s a UAP. Really. Because at that point, it’s, ‘Okay, well, we’re really talking about something then that, if a foreign adversary has, is really incredible.’”

    ~ ~ ~

    Back to Knapp, Corbell and Guts…

    George Knapp (GK): “The other part would be tracking them. So let me play dumb devil’s advocate. Let’s say you’ve developed a super-duper, double-secret probation drone that can fly hundreds of miles, and you launch it from, say, San Diego, or Catalina and it’s gonna buzz these ships. You should be able to track those things. Those ships should be able to track them.”

    Guts: “Yeah.”

    GK: “Coming there and going back.”

    Guts: “That’s a great point. So even on the systems that they were tracking them on, they always came from the west. So it’s not like at launched from San Diego, did a big circle around, and then came from the west. No. It was always coming from the west, originally. Does that make sense?”

    GK: “Yeah, but there’s no drone that you know of…”

    Guts: “Not that I know of? No, no.”

    GK: “That could have that kind of range or fly from Hawaii from the west.”

    Guts: “No, no.”

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    Jeremy Corbell (JC): “And the other thing is, we’re hearing from somebody very isolated, who was there from the Paul Hamilton. But those that I’ve spoken with, who were in a position to know this on the Omaha, said, ‘I’m gonna regret saying this to you, Jeremy. But they just seemed to appear. That’s when we started talking about the fact that were going into the water.’ So, the the idea is, if they’re going off radar, off scan volume, and even optically, as I told you, the helo pilots are seeing [them] go into the water. They’re likely coming out of the water, too. So that’s what’s really interesting. This possibility that they’re trans-medium, emerging from the water and descending into the water.”

    GK: “Could there be a submarine out there that’s launching drones, somewhere in the water? And if so, would we able to detect a sub and detect where those drones are coming from?”

    Guts: “Right, umm…”

    GK: “Right, you can’t…”

    Guts: “I think I’m gonna, yeah…I think I won’t be able to…yeah.”

    JC: “But even if you, I mean, I can tell you from public, you know, stuff…that is not a technology that is currently readily available by any nation to be in our waters that I’m aware of, public knowledge, or anybody else that I know, that would know. So this idea that…look, if there was a foreign nation’s submarine within that radius of those hundred mile ships, that were launched, wouldn’t that kind of be big news, don’t ya think?”

    Guts: “Yeah, that’d be a big deal.”

    JC: “Yeah, I think that’d be a big deal. So it’s kind of a ridiculous idea that people…they’ll just throw it out there, like, ‘They were probably launched as swarms by subs.’”

    GK: “We know that that has been thrown out there, that even newspapers have done it. The New York Times. So, in advance of the anticipated Halloween release of this UAP report to Congress, the New York Times does a hit piece. Call it a pre-bunking, where they have these general, generic explanations. Oh yeah, same thing is that New York Post story, we’ve explained this all, it’s no big deal, it’s gonna be drones. And, of course, we don’t know of any drones that fit the bill for this.”

    JC: “And so, I’m unsatisfied, so far, as we’re going through this exercise together. I’m unsatisfied, so far, that we have figured this out. I’m unsatisfied [that] it’s some sort of other nation’s sub. That would be huge news, man, you know, off the coast of California, you know, within that hundred-mile radius, about fifty miles, that circle begins. So let’s kind of keep going down and see if we can figure this out. But the people that are there, it means something when we can hear from them directly. I’m really grateful I can play these. So, I also want, for these witnesses. I think that it’s important that, you know, the question is asked: Can you talk about this? Can you talk to me about this? Because I think it’s important that people understand, they were never asked to not talk about it. So I just want to play this clip.”

    ~Audio Begins~

    JC: “Did anybody ever tell you, before, during or after that: That’s classified, you can’t talk about it?”

    E1: “Nobody explicitly or implicitly said, ‘Never talk about this incident right here.’”

    JC: “Nobody ever had you sign a Page 13, or an NDA, saying this is our own black tech, and we tested it on ourselves, don’t talk about this?”

    E1: “The opposite. No one said anything about it.”

    JC: “No one ever brought up the possibility, ‘Hey, that’s an adversarial drone’?”

    E1: “But like, it’s pretty common, like, if something crazy happened, and we think that an adversary has an upper hand, then I could see them saying that.”

    JC: “But the point is, that’s not what happened.”

    ~Audio Ends~

    JC: “So I think it’s important that we recognize that I’m just talking to an individual in a way that is very…it’s okay to do that. They were never asked not to talk about it. Is that correct?”

    Guts: “Yeah, well, I’m sure, you know, look, people are going to have questions: How are they talking about this without, you know, without catching flack? Because you can talk about it. There’s nothing that they…there’s nothing classified about talking about something that you saw, you know? In this context.”

    GK: “You’re here, as an American citizen. First Amendment rights.”

    Guts: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Both myself, and yeah, surely, you know, these guys, yeah, they’re, again…they happen to be there because of the capacity of their job. But we can talk about it because there’s nothing inappropriate that we’re gonna mention.”

    JC: “Most people that have gone on camera with me or done interviews, officially, on record, the reason I can’t put it out is because they’ve asked me not to, because they’re still in their careers. If they’re in real high command, they don’t want it for that reason. If they’ve just starting out in their career, they don’t want it for that reason, a lot of times. So, it’s like, you know, I have to respect that, but at least I’m gathering the information.”

    Guts: “Well, it goes back to stigma, too. Again, it’s not accepted everywhere, in all circles, that you can talk about it. And again, if somebody really wanted to pick a bone with these guys, you know, I’m sure they could. But in terms of, you know, no, there’s nothing that they’re…they’re not breaking any rules, you know, by talking about it.”

    JC: “So, I’m still unsatisfied that these are just a foreign nation’s drones. So we’re gonna continue down this. This one’s really interesting. This is a new witness, also, from Paul Hamilton, that gave us a number of quotes, talking about drones at sea, in general, on that deployment. Let’s talk about that.”

    ~Audio Begins~

    ~~~

    JC: “So, on one of the videos that I released, our government said that this was evidence of a trans-medium vehicle, something going into the water. One of these objects that you were able to see from your ship, it actually went into the water. Did you see that at all?”

    Eyewitness 2 (E2): “I didn’t see anything go into the water like that, if that (video of Omaha sphere possibly going into the wateris actual clear footage from a vessel. At that point, it’s different than what I saw, whenever it goes into the water. But I will say that its movement is exactly why we made the first drone calls and when we were first being dismissed, when we were so adamant that they were drones and how it sort of is flying, and then suddenly stops like that, in a way that even, like a helicopter wouldn’t. And it didn’t seem like it was a very stable hover. And up and down in that same way, and it seemed like it would have that for an (Unintelligible. Maybe, “movement”?) as well. We did have conventional drones flown by adversarial nations and non-adversarial nations, as well, in our vicinity, throughout that deployment. That was why we were initially like, these are not aircraft that we typically deal with or see around here. And we had operated, I can’t tell you, I probably spent four months total at sea in that specific area, and before and after, and hadn’t…I didn’t see anything to that effect, flying with that pattern. And we didn’t see it over the course of the deployment, either, anywhere, so…”

    ~~~Audio Ends~~~

    JC: “So he’s looking at the video from the USS Omaha thermal, and seeing it go into the water. You know, his point was, we saw adversarial, and our own drone technology. This was not that. So what did you get from it?”

    Guts: “Yeah, that’s a big deal. Just what you said. You’ve got all these different data points. Okay, I’ve seen that before, I know what that looks like. I’ve seen this before, I know what that looks like. What we saw in 2019, in the summer, that doesn’t match, you know, these other encounters that we’ve had. Known encounters that we’ve had of, ‘Oh, this is drone from so and so.’ And, you know, or, ‘This is our drone.’ And you hear him talk about the movement, right? You know, even as a helo guy, I can tell you, you know, if we’re flying along, and I want to come to a stop, right, and I can hover, it takes time to execute that maneuver. And even if you try and yank and bank and, you know, come to as quick of a stop as you can, there’s still drift, there’s still momentum on the airframe that that drags you along, and it’s not an instantaneous stop. What he’s talking about what they saw, was. Stable hover, you know, following the ship, what have you, and then coming to a complete stop and maintaining a stable hover. I mean, nothing that we fly does that. So, that’s important to keep in mind.”

    JC: “So drone just means unmanned. I’ve never been one to argue about that term. That’s a false argument. When we first reported it, it just meant it was unmanned. It doesn’t have like a, you know, a mouse in there. You know, it’s unmanned. What he said that was so important to me is that, we see drones, like, that’s something we deal with. It’s something that our military deals with. None of us are saying that’s not. Like, that is a real issue. This is not that. So we’re trying to figure out what this is. And now it gets kind of interesting, because we’re talking about capabilities of these things. This next piece is how they named them, drone classification, right? So I’m asking: How do you name them drones or whatnot? Let’s hear what this individual has to say.”

    ~~~Audio Begins~~~

    JC: “Why do you think there’s this predisposition to refer to them as drones, or call them that?”

    E2: “I mean, based on our understanding, the most reasonable explanation would be some sort of a drone or a UAV. And then you sort of go to the connotation that’s attached with calling them what they actually are, which is an unidentified flying object, a UFO. They are, technically that, but that doesn’t mean that they’re extraterrestrial. Like, that’s the connotation that comes with using that phrase, even though that is the proper phrase for what we saw and what we classified them.”

    ~~~Audio Ends~~~

    JC: “So, he’s talking about classifying these as drones. I have something to add to that, but what would you get from what he just said?”

    Guts: “Again, to me, you know, the subject of stigma is so, unfortunately, you know, I think that’s what he’s talking about there. You know, if you call it a UFO, which is what it is, right? It’s an unidentified flying object. There’s a lot of baggage with that. Hell, even UAP, you know?”

    JC: “Because it makes people automatically think it’s extraterrestrial or something.”

    Guts: “Yeah. Right, right.”

    JC: “No one’s saying that.”

    Guts: “No one’s saying that.”

    JC: “But there’s some sort of stigma.”

    Guts: “Absolutely. And, again, to distinguish between, you know, like we talked about before, how, you know, a helo would have to kind of come to a slow stop. And even a drone. It’s not completely instantaneous, you know, coming to a complete stop, like they’re talking about, so. No, it’s just, they’re calling it that because that’s kind of the baseline, you know…”

    GK: “You gotta call it something.”

    Guts: “You gotta call it something, right? And so it’s a baseline go to, to be able to say, ‘Well, I’ll just call it a drone,’ you know, and move on.”

    GK: “And in response to our reports, we’ve seen some other fairly lazy media reports that come out and say, ‘Well, look, here’s the documents, they call them UAVs, they’re drones!’ It’s because you gotta call them something.”

    Guts: “You gotta call them something. Just because they’re calling it that, does not mean that that’s what they were.”

    ~~~

    JC: “Since I’ve spoken to one of the individuals whose job it was to create the designation that we’re seeing here today, which is UAS, Unmanned Aerial System. And I asked, I said, ‘How do you feel about that designation that you made?’ And this individual said to me, ‘That was my only choice. We need to call them something, and I was told by my command to find what is the current description of what we’re calling an unmanned aerial system.’ I said, ‘Are you are you significantly happy that that was a good determination for what you saw?’ [He said], ‘Absolutely not.’ So it’s just, yeah, you gotta call them something.”

    Guts: “It’s a default. You gotta call it something. You can’t write, ‘blank.’ You can’t write, ‘UFO.’ You gotta call it something.”

    JC: “Maybe they’ll start calling them UAPs now, I don’t know. So I just wanted to go into why these terms become caught on to, to propagate, when maybe they shouldn’t. Okay, the next one that I wanna go to is, you know, I’m very curious in this conversation about, is this what you consider a conventional propulsion system, right?. So let’s see what they have to say.”

    ~~~Audio Begins~~~

    JC: “Can you tell me a little bit why this doesn’t fit with a conventional drone?

    E2: “We were always trying to listen, and we couldn’t really hear anything, which is also different from what we’ve experienced with drones that are in close, as these appeared to be. You would hear something, a lot of the times.”

    JC: “Like you would hear rotors, whirling of blades, something like that? Conventional propulsion.”

    E2: “Correct. For like, more of a conventional drone, a national (?) drone. It would still have like, a low hum of an aircraft flying, which you would hear.”

    JC: “And you don’t recall hearing that from these?

    E2: “No.”

    JC: “What else, in general, just doesn’t add up with the conventional drone idea?”

    E2: “Just in general, we were a good amount off of land, and I’m not sure if I can disclose exactly how far away we were. But it was not a range that a conventional drone should ever be able to traverse, especially for the amount of time that we were seeing these. Nothing we know of can stay out here for that long. The amount of time that we were seeing them was well beyond…I mean, if they flew out there, they would probably need to fly back. So I know that it wasn’t a civilian…it absolutely wasn’t civilian, because there’s nothing available or even that you could modify to do what we saw.”

    ~~~Audio Ends~~~

    JC: “So he’s having problems with just like, the drone classification, because by the proximity to this individual and the people that he was with  – and they’ve had a lot of these experiences, as you’ve heard – they didn’t have the typical sound that you would hear from any of these. And that’s one aspect. And then he’s talking about durational flight, right?”

    Guts: “Yeah, it’s a big deal. You know, even on the deck of a ship, you know, you’ve got the wind noise and the waves crashing against the hull and all this and that, from personal experience. I can tell you, you can still hear the whirring of blades or, you know, like he talked about the hum of a drone. You can still hear that cut through the din of all the other noise. That’s one aspect that’s important to keep in mind. They didn’t hear any of that, okay? And, something that’s not mentioned in that clip that I know, guys that I’ve talked to have said, ‘These things got so close to the deck of the ship or to the ship’s superstructure, I could have taken a softball and chucked it out and hit it.’ So that’s close, okay? If something was that close, you would hear it, number one. Number two, just the distance, the sheer distance that these things were being observed out at sea. You know, again. Hell, let’s call it even thirty miles, you know? If a ship is out to sea at thirty miles, that means this thing, at a minimum, had to have flown sixty miles to get there and back to wherever it was coming from, right? Because, like we talked about before, I think we’ve established pretty clearly, it was not coming from the Bass Strait. But again, noiseless and the distances that we were seeing them, or that they were seeing them, encountering them out at sea”.

    JC: “So we have noiseless, we have instantaneous motion.”

    Guts: “Yeah.”

    JC: “We have the idea that they can somehow become trans-medium. All of these things are adding up to like, I’m not…”

    GK: “They’re not trackable, too. They appear, they disappear. You didn’t track them coming in.”

    JC: “Low observability.”

    Guts: “Low observability.”

    GK: “You didn’t see where they went or where they came from.”

    Guts: “Right, right.”

    JC: “Okay, so I’m starting not to believe bad magazines like the New York Post, right? I’m starting to find that the case is not solved yet. Let’s continue (laughs). So this is cool. Another aspect that didn’t kind of add up for me…because everything takes power out there. Wow, I’ve started to hear this a bunch. This individual was witness to what was a spotlight so let’s listen to what they have.”

    ~~~Audio Begins~~~

    JC: “Tell me about the spotlight. I’ve got a lot of reports about this, that were happening at that time.”

    Eyewitness 2 (E2): “At one point, one of them shined a spotlight on us, and just generally knowing the strength of the spotlights, I don’t think it could have reached more than, I don’t even know, maybe like a mile, which is very close for something like that to be. With the amount of illumination that we saw, it did seem like they were close. It must have been within that range.”

    JC: “The spotlight Do you remember what color it was?”

    E2: “White.”

    JC: “Did the brightness or the strength of the spotlight surprise you at all?”

    E2: “It did, yeah.”

    JC: “And why is that?”

    E2: “It was just, it was very bright and it was completely unexpected. And this was maybe the third night that we had been seeing these aircraft, whatever they were. And that was not something we had previously experienced.”

    JC: “Was this an intermittent thing, did it strobe, was it steady, about for how long?

    E2: “It was probably a two-second illumination. It was pretty bright, because on the bridge of a ship, we keep it completely dark so that we can see any light, anything possible at night. It went from pitch black, to very illuminated, very quickly.”

    JC: “Interesting.”

    E2: “Yeah, so that was a bit jarring, shocking. I’m not sure if that…it should have been longer, if that’s been reported elsewhere. But that definitely happened at least once on my watch and was something we saw.”

    ~~~End Audio~~~

    JC: “So some of these swarms, some of the these individual objects would just light up the ship like a spotlight. And that’s something that we continue to hear.”

    GK: “Why does that stand out to you?

    Guts: “Well, so, look… Sure, conventional, typical, you know, commercial, off-the-shelf drones, I’m sure they’ve got the capability to have lights on them or whatever, okay? But you got to think of it in the context of this description: A spotlight that he says, you know, it’s pitch black outside, and all of a sudden…in speaking to some of these guys myself, you know, you hear them talk about it, and it’s like, ‘I mean, dude, it was bright as day.’”

    JC: “He was surprised by how bright…”

    Guts: “Surprised at how bright it was, okay? And then you talk about the duration, you know, because at least two seconds. And again, for someone who’s maybe not familiar, they go, ‘Oh, well it sounds like a flash,’ right? Like the flash of a camera or something. Well, no, the flash of a camera is, I mean, almost instantaneous, right? Shuttering on and off. A two-second illumination for that large of a light, illuminating that size of ship, as bright as they said it was, that’s just so not typical of something that we would encounter, regardless of drones in the area. I mean, for your ship to be illuminated like that…I don’t know, a flare of some sort would have to be used. But even that’s like, you know.”

    JC: “We keep hearing this. It’s like people will hold their hands out in front of their face and not be able to see their hands. It’s so bright. So whatever this is, has high power and it’s not being, it’s not being, umm. It’s brazen!”

    Guts: “Yeah. It’s brazen, and the other thing you gotta remember, it takes energy to be able to produce that strength of light, right? So now we’re talking about a drone that can fly tens of miles out to sea, on its own, stay on duration for hours at a time. It’s noiseless, okay? It’s performing maneuvers that are just, you know, almost unbelievable. And now it’s got a spotlight, so it’s got even more energy now to be able to produce a spotlight for, you know, for two, three seconds to illuminate an entire Navy warship like that? It’s really not adding up to what people would think.”

    GK: “It would be incredibly disconcerting that these are unknown craft, small, maneuverable, they can come in and out of the water, and then it’s messing with you. It lights up the whole bridge of the ship., That’s scary. But you’ve heard other incidents like this.”

    Guts: “Oh, no. Yeah. And it’s not the first time that an object has illuminated a Navy…in fact, on another deployment, somewhere in the world, this time on a much bigger ship, an LHD (Landing Helicopter Dock), which for someone who doesn’t know, it’s kind of like a…when you look at it, it looks like an aircraft carrier, but it’s not as big. But it’s a kind of a mini-aircraft carrier. Big, big ship, though, okay?”

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    Guts: “And no, some sailors that I’ve spoken to, personally, they talk about being out on deployment, in the middle of the night, they’re standing bridge watch. And all of a sudden, you know, on the horizon, they see a light, kind of flicker on, and all of a sudden, start tracking towards the ship. And then as soon as they lose sight of the object over the ship, presumably, directly over the head of the ship, all of sudden, it casts this light, that again, is, like Jeremy mentioned, is so bright, and so blinding that they’re disoriented within the bridge of the ship. Because again, it’s at night, it’s pitch black outside. We keep the ship bridge dark at night on purpose to preserve your night vision, right? And then a huge spotlight that just illuminates everything, whereas if it were daytime. And this particular case, it wasn’t two seconds. It was enough time for the sailor to, you know, they talked about being so disoriented that they’re kind of putting their hands up. That’s what she talks about. She goes, ‘My hands were in front of my face and I couldn’t see. It was so bright, I couldn’t see my own hands in front of my own face.’ And they talked about being so disorientated, they’re kind of like getting their bearings and putting their hands up on the consoles to kind of brace themselves, you know, in the bridge of the ship. And then, (snaps his finger) boom, it just shuts off like that.

    JC: “The object came in and…she was so great about it, she’s like it, ‘It left at a different speed in which it came in.’ Because what happened was, it hovered, shot the light, and then (snaps fingers), zoom, gone. It’s just interesting.”

    Guts: “Again, it just speaks to the unconventional nature of this encounter and others that we’ve had.”

    GK: “Hopefully I’ll get one of those next Christmas, Jeremy, I can get one of those drones. These are super-duper drones (JC and Guts laugh).”

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    JC: “It’s so hilarious that people keep trying to dismiss it that way. And remember, you said small a second ago. Remember, we know the size. I mean, these were significant, physical objects. I’d say ten to fourteen (feet) is the best estimate from each person with the data. We might even know a little bit more about the Russell soon. So, no matter what the shape, or what these vehicles were, they were substantial. But we really got into, right now, what people are saying, is that the ship called the Bass Strait launched, you know, these objects, these units, okay? And that’s been now propagated, and it is 100% false and I want to hear from somebody who has direct knowledge of this. And that’s why this is the next little bit of audio. One of the duties of this person was to monitor the Bass Strait in real time. And let’s see what this person has to say.”

    ~~~Audio Begins~~~

    JC: “I want to talk about origin. There’s been a lot of talk that these objects,, if not launched from land, that they were launched from a merchant vessel. So the Bass Strait is…a lot of people are trying to pin this on the Bass Strait. Can you tell me a little bit about that, about origin, and what you know about the Bass Strait?”

    Eyewitness 2 (E2): “This was the closest that we ever came, on our ship, to figuring a possible origin outside of coming from land somehow. Like you said, traversing those thirty to fifty miles that we were from the nearest islands. So, at one point, we did see what look like multiple-air contacts around a merchant ship that was operating in our vicinity of our strike group. And it was a foreign-flagged merchant ship and we reached out to them. They denied. They weren’t a vessel of interest that we had been worried about or anything. But, I think it was like five to ten of the aircraft circling around it and we never saw it actually land on this vessel.”

    JC: “Was it your impression that the contacts did not belong to the merchant vessel? And can you verify that you asked the merchant vessel and they denied that they were theirs?”

    E2: “Yeah, I can verify the latter, for sure. And that was also why I sort of skirted around saying many details about that merchant vessel because I’m not sure where the investigation went afterwards. I sort of helped compose the message that we sent off, because I’d seen it and like I said, we didn’t see them land on it. And that was what we really wanted to see. Like, we really wanted to see either a launch or a landing. We didn’t know if possibly this vessel had a foreign nation’s intelligence detachment on board or something like that, doing this. They did deny they were the source and they also never landed or launched them, so. We really wanted to see that because we just wanted an answer because we were tired of it. It was not launching, it was not receiving the drones as much as we wanted it to. We were like, ‘This is the source. This has to be it, we finally figured it out.’ And it seemed like it probably wasn’t, just based on the fact that we never saw them land or take off.’”

    ~~~Audio Ends~~~

    JC: “Why is this important?”

    Guts: “You know, and again, this kind of goes back to the, you know, the warfighter in all of us, you know? Like, you’ve talked about before, you know, you’ve spoken to folks who, you know, they’re not happy with how this unfolded, you know? We’re out there, we’re trying to do our job, and yet we’re getting peppered, almost like we’re in a boxing ring getting jabbed. Getting jabbed, getting jabbed, getting jabbed, and we can’t punch back. And so, finally, like, you hear, and I can commiserate with that feeling of almost, not helplessness, but just frustration that you’ve got a job to do, we’re all trained warfighters to defend the country, but each other and our ship, right? And we’re getting harassed by these damn things. And finally, we see, ‘Oh, okay, aha! There’s the culprit right there, and we’re gonna query the hell out of them and tell them to knock it off or whatever the case is,’ right? And what do you hear that guy say? He goes, ‘So we finally see them there. And we wanted it so bad for it to be the source of our frustrations over these past few nights,’ and not once did they see anything either land or take off from this merchant vessel. So, it just speaks to the…I feel bad a little bit, you know, because I can hear and I can feel and I can commiserate with the frustration expressed.”

    JC: “He wanted an answer.”

    Guts: “He wanted an answer! You know, he wanted an answer, and it’s almost like, you know, you’re harassed by these things for so many nights in a row, and finally, you think you’ve got that answer and then, the carpet’s pulled from underneath you, you know, and it’s not.”

    JC: “So the big thing for me is that people can just make up any shit they want and they can publish it, and it starts to be trickled down as truth through tabloids, all the way to Wikipedia, and it’s bullshit. And it’s direct bullshit. And knowing that, is one thing. You (Knapp) and I will know certain things, but getting somebody who’s there, whose job it was to watch the Bass Strait, make sure it was not the source of these. Now we finally have that person on record, verified, that was his duty, and he, sadly, can’t report to us that this was some sort of adversarial drone being launched off this ship. Which, of course, it wasn’t, with over a hundred, in a hundred-mile radius, right? That never made sense. This excuse, that, case closed, never made sense. But to get it through, you have to hear from people directly there.”

    GK: “We also know that there was further investigation, that the Bass Strait was in port when this was still going on. That it was not responsible for launching what was buzzing around these ships.”

    JC: “So you and I have already reported on that numerous times, and now let’s just give it one more go. Which is that we have direct information and knowledge of who and how the Bass Strait was investigated, after the day of events, and they were determined not to be the place of origin, landing or launch of these hundred-plus units in the hundred-mile radius. So guess what? Case open and now we have to kind of think a little bit further. But just to kind of show that this individual can talk to us about it, I just wanna play one last little quote.”

    ~~~Audio Begins~~~

    JC: “Did anybody ever say to you, ‘Don’t talk about this. This is a black project, we’re testing our own technology. We don’t want people to know about it. Don’t talk about it’?”

    E2: “No, I’ve never been spoken to, really, about the event, until now.:

    JC: “No one ever had you sign an NDA or a Page 13? No one ever gave you a verbal order, direct or indirect, or otherwise that you can’t talk about it. Is that correct?”

    E2: “Correct.”

    ~~~Audio Ends~~~

    JC: “So why are we doing that? Just to make sure everybody understands, this is not like some off-the-record kind of, like, you know, he can talk to me, this is absolutely fine. But it’s so much clearer that I’m really grateful that some people are letting us, you know, share this with the public and whatnot. So, George and Guts, is this case closed, have we figured this out?”

    Guts: “No, in my opinion, absolutely not.”

    JC: “Right, right.”

    GK: “No, we don’t know all the central questions: Whose they were, who was operating them, where they came from, where they went to, what their total capabilities are? These are not any kind of drones or AAVs or UASs that we are aware of, that our military’s aware of, so all the big questions about them are still unanswered. It is not a case closed, it is not a case explained, it is an ongoing mystery.”

    JC: “So the great UFO swarms of 2019 still need to be investigated. No answers have really been given, in a way. Now the thing that really takes it and elevates it for me is the performance. When you talk with the people that were there, you know, regardless of shape, we’ll get down to the nitty gritty of that maybe when there’s more information that comes out. Although, the idea of it, is that these had performance capability that I hope, I wish, that we had as a country, but this is not a performance capability that anybody has ever seen before and this is what really makes it interesting to me. A mystery.”

    GK: “2019 was a big year for a variety of reasons. We haven’t even talked about what started us down this road, is that, on the East Coast. So, Oceania, this gigantic Naval Air Station. I reported in 2018, I had been hearing from Naval aviators and sources that they weren’t flying out of Oceania into the w-72, which is the training area in the ocean. And every single day they were seeing these unknowns, and it was a legitimate security issue, aviation-safety issue, because they’re flying along and there they are. And the Navy, the UAP Task Force, what became the UAP Task Force, is trying to encourage these aviators to go ahead and report it. And I know, when I said it in 2018, I don’t think anybody believed me, that they were seeing them every day, but it was true, and it came out later.”

    JC: “Right, it sounded like too much, but then you turned out to be correctly reporting the information.”

    GK: “So in 2019, at the urging of some Navy officials who were working on the UFO investigation, UAP investigation, some aviators finally went along with the program and took some pictures. They had a cell phone and they took some pictures. And on one flight, this one crew captured images of three different objects. And they don’t look like the Starship Enterprise. They’re odd looking. One of them, the Navy called it ‘The Acorn.’ Other people, after I put the image out, they tried to call it a Batman balloon, It was not a balloon. It was not a balloon, And they call it The Acorn.”

     

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    GK: “Then there was one that just looked like a sphere.”

     

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    GK: “And then the third one that was labeled ‘Metallic Blimp with Payload.’”

     

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    GK: “And again, they didn’t have amazing characteristics like the ones on the West Coast, but they would sit there for days at a time, right off the coast, obviously doing some kind of surveillance of the training exercises and the base itself. And it was disconcerting to the Navy that they would sit there. They could sit there for days at a time, at 30,000 feet in 120-knot winds, and not move!”

    JC: “That’s what something that Lieutenant Ryan Graves has brought up and other people that actually have dealt with this issue is, the durational capability is astonishing. Look, this is somebody’s technology, and I’m certainly not pretending to know. I don’t know if these UFOs are from another world, another planet, extraterrestrial. I’ve never said that. I don’t know.

    GK: “I got these images, by the way, at a briefing, two months later. And I sat on them because I didn’t think I was authorized to do it. And then people started talking about it in public, the Batman balloon, and I figured, well, I went back to the sources [to] see if I could make it public and did. And, you know, that was sort of our first foray into what became a heck of a year reporting because that led then to the West Coast videos and images that we got. And at the same time, East Coast, West Coast, far, far away, at the same general timeframe, in that same year, there was another incident that you guys know pretty well.”

    JC: “Yeah, let’s talk about that. Right before we hit that, I just want to say now, so that people are aware that this will be coming out with us: There were other swarm events of UAPs, whatever you want to call them, UFOs, that happened also on the East Coast and also around the world, other seas. This is something that I have direct knowledge of and we’re going to break that story. We just want people to grasp this 2019. Hey, don’t just, you know, believe these tabloids stuff, get in there a little bit, here’s more information. There’s a lot more to this story and this type of event series. But I like where you’re going with this conversation.”

    GK: “This is a really disturbing incident that we got ahold [of] before anybody knew about it and it was reported, and then just dropped, and ignored. It’s in Guam.”

    JC: “That is true. And I found out that my buddy over here (Guts), was there. So I think that you’re probably the best person to speak about what we’re talking about.”

    Guts: “Yeah, so you had reached out to me about an incident that you’d become aware of , and yeah…”

    JC: “You see how he’s already…he doesn’t proactively tell me, ‘Hey, man, I heard about UFOs.’ It’s like, I have to find out the story, and then I’d be like, ‘Hey, man, can you tell me, did anything like this happen?’”

    Guts: “Yeah, so in terms of stuff that I’ve seen, and people like to ask me all time, ‘Have you seen anything?’”

    JC: “Yeah, that’s what I want to know. Have you [seen] anything?”

    Guts: “Let me start off by saying this: Yeah, sure, there have been things that I’ve seen flying, certainly at night you know, on NVDs, on Night-Vision Goggles, that, you know, lights that you see that are kind of weird and unexplainable, but nothing that I would consider the mothership, you know? Certainly nothing like you’ve heard.”

    JC: “Just things you can’t explain.”

    Guts: “Yeah, just things you can’t explain that definitely make you scratch your head, but then you’ve got a mission to do and you go and do the mission. Unfortunately, you don’t have a whole lot of time to investigate, and we’re not UFO hunters, as much as we might want to be.”

    JC: “You’re not, maybe I am (JC & Guts laugh)! Come on, man!”

    Guts “So we’re out there, I’m out there in Guam, [and] there’s a Navy squadron stationed out there on an Air Force base, and we had become aware of an incident that…or incidents, I should say, that had occurred over a span of a few nights, over a particularly sensitive area on Guam.”

    JC: “Why is it sensitive?”

    Guts: “Well, out on Guam, they’ve got a – and this is public knowledge. I’m not disclosing anything here – there’s what’s called a THAAD missile battery out there. I think it’s Terminal High Altitude Air (It’s Area. ~Joe) Defense system, I think is what it is.”

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    Guts: “I think the Air Force and the Army, it’a an Army/Air Force, jointly run…”

    GK: “Anti-missile technology?”

    Guts: “Yeah, exactly. So it’s defense capabilities, right? And I think that’s all I’m comfortable to say beyond that. But nonetheless, it’s a defense system that we have. Guam, in and of itself, has been a strategic military location going back to World War Two. So there’s a THAAD missile battery out there, missile-defense site out there. Well, in early 2019, our squadron was approached by the Air Force because what had been told to us was that there had been these, I guess you call them incursions, of lights, over the THAAD site, okay? And what really kind of struck all of us in the squadron, you know…because we hear about this thing, lights, and everybody right away starts talking, ‘What the hell, what do they want us to do here? What are they talking about?’ Well, what was interesting, [and] what we would talk about in the wardroom was, again, the witness descriptions of these particular lights, okay? And what they were seeing was…the guys that are standing guard duty out there, were seeing, first what started as a light that just all of a sudden appears on the horizon, okay? They described it as coming in at treetop level. And all of a sudden, it starts approaching their position, okay? Again, coming from over water, because, you know, Guam’s an island, surrounded by water. So really, any direction that it’s coming from is coming from over water. But in the particular direction it was coming from, yeah, it’s coming from over water. Treetop level, and it’s approaching their position. And just as they’re starting to get on the radio to kind of start communicating with one another about, ‘Hey, do you see this light? Where’s it going? We need to figure this out.’ It blinks out. Well, it blinks out and then about two, three seconds later, it all of a sudden, pops up (snaps his fingers) over here. You know, ninety degrees offset from the original direction. So if you can imagine a light seen at your 12 o’clock position, it blinks out, and then a few seconds later, it pops up at your nine o’clock position. Is it the same light? Is it a different light? How did it move from here to there so quickly?”

    JC: “This troubling because this is a very restricted area…”

    Guts: “Oh, this is a very sensitive…100%, a restricted airspace. Even us as the helicopter squadron stationed on Guam, there’s what’s known as a TFR: a Temporary Flight Restriction. Well it’s not temporary, it’s always out there. It’s a constantly-active TFR, where you are not allowed to fly within a certain radius of this area. Mainly for the emissions that are getting radiated out of this site. It can mess with your electronics, it can mess with…at least, certainly, our systems in the helicopter.”

    JC: “So like, if somebody had set-up, like a, you know, a commercial drone to do surveys, just the energy output of this area would would mess with those, likely?”

    Guts: “Presumably. I mean, that was the reason why we were never allowed to fly in and out of there. And also, you know, you can never determine when a missile would be shot off, and so, God forbid, you don’t want to be in the fire zone of this thing, in case you’re flying through. So we always had to skirt around this thing and fly around it, We always knew where it was and we always made sure to stay outside of this.”

    JC: “Okay, so this is a big deal. There’s something being flown in this restricted airspace.”

    Guts:: “Yeah, it’s a big deal.”

    JC: “And it’s weird because you’ll see a light, and then immediately, at a 90-degree…”

    Guts: “Well, so what ended up happening over a couple nights in early 2019 was…these guys were essentially involved in a cat and mouse chase with these lights, okay? And the guys on the ground, over the THAAD site. It’s funny, you know, similar to 2019 (West Coast ~Joe), they’re getting harassed by this thing. They can’t figure out where it’s coming from, they can’t figure out where it’s going. So they enlisted our help in trying to figure out what these things were. The Air Force didn’t have any rotary-wing assets out there to be able to…they didn’t have any helicopters out there to be able to chase these things, but they knew we were out there. And so they said, ‘Hey, Navy, can you guys help us out here? We want you guys to…’ What we ended up doing was, after three or four nights of harassment, they finally got fed up and said, ‘You know, we need you  guys to help us out.’ What they asked us to do was stand up what’s called an alert, right? So, we’re at the end of our flight day, whatever it happens to be, we had a crew, specifically designated every night, to stand this alert, where, if we got a call, they would want us to launch and try and find these things, right? And just essentially observe and report. Really, their desire would be to eventually knock it down, if we could, but we didn’t have any of that sort of technology on the helicopter at the time. And so, that’s really what it was. It was stand up an alert, if we get the call, go and see what you can find out.

    “And sure enough, there were a couple times that we were given the call. And in fact, there was one night where me and my crew and the other helicopter that we were flying with, we were doing training out in the southern end of the island, and it’s the end of a long night and it’s about ten or eleven o’clock at night. We’re heading back to the base on the north end of the island, which is next to the THAAD site where these incursions had been happening. And it just so happened that we were out there at the same time that they got one of these calls. They go, ‘Hey, they’re back. The lights are back.’ [We say], ‘Okay, what do you want us to do?’ [They responded], ‘Well, just, you know, they’re over here and we want you to go check it out.’ But again, all the while, maintaining…we’re staying clear of that radius, of that TFR that’s always out there. And I wish I had more of a dramatic account to talk about, but long story short, we go up there to try and find these things, and we couldn’t see them. The guys on the ground insisted that, ‘Hey, they’re right over here. Okay, now they’re over here.’ Again, this cat and mouse game going back and forth. Well, we never saw anything, we never saw anything with our eyeballs, we never saw anything on our night vision goggles. We never saw anything on our FLIR, that we have on the helicopter, Forward-Looking Infrared. We never saw anything.”

    JC: “You should have been able to see these objects?”

    GK: “On sensor systems.”

    Guts: “On some thing, if you were to… Again, the guys on the ground were so emphatic that they were seeing these things, you would think that we should have been able to see something, but we never could. That flight was not the only flight where we launched on these things. There were other crews, other nights that got launched. And again, it was always in the middle of the night. The earliest it ever happened was maybe ten, eleven o’clock at night. but typically it was around one, two, three in the morning. So…yeah, we had other crews get called up and get the call to launch. They would fly out there, chase this thing around, or try to, anyway, but we never saw anything.”

    GK: “Around the world, as I’ve reported, there have been instances of UFOs that have been over missile sites, including nuclear missile sites, American, Russian. And they’ve interfered with the launch-control systems. There have been dramatic incidents where it’s direct interference.”

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    GK: “Is there anything like that that happened with this THAAD system, or could you even say?”

    Guts: “Not that I’m aware. But even if I was aware, I don’t think I would be comfortable talking about that. But not that I’m aware.”

    GK: “But the fact that whatever this unknown surveillance system, if that’s what it was, was taking such an interest in that facility? It’s a critical…”

    Guts: “Yeah, because there’s, you know, if you look at Guam, there’s multiple bases throughout the island, right?. You got an Air Force Base to the north end where we flew out of, there’s a Navy base in the south. In fact, there’s even a submarine base on the southern end of the island that subs go in and out of. So, there’s multiple…I mean, there’s other high-sensitive units and platforms in and around…”

    GK: “But it was all there.”

    Guts: “But it was always, all there.”

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    GK: “Again, just to characterize it: Guam is such a critical, national security facility but it’s like the frontier, it’s like Fort Apache. You’re the first line of defense if bad actors from that region of the world fire something this way.”

    Guts: “Yeah, absolutely.”

    JC: “I think we’re dealing with a lot of different truths, right? There are incursions of…even just, you know, drones with tape on, you put on some weaponry, and you fly it into a base. That happens all the time. You know, I have individuals that I know, their job is to defend certain bases, from that, when they’re overseas. A buddy of mine, at twenty-three miles away, was able to target in, using an aerostat with a thermal camera. It’s like, basically, a floating platform, weapons platform. And at tweet-three miles away, it was able to disable a drone, instantaneously.”

    Guts: “Wow.”

    JC: “There’s apparently no issue that we have. There’s Return to Sender, which sends the bomb back. So, we are dealing with that. That is something we will increasingly deal with when it comes to our technologies. However, we have to really say that the things we’ve been talking about, they don’t fall within those explanations. In fact, they kind of mimic what has been going on with the UFO phenomenon, you know, since the beginning of our military. This is not a new thing. Pyramids, spheres, cubes and cigars are the common shapes of UFOs, and these have been seen by our military throughout the entire time. And that’s just something you (Knapp) and I know through all of the information that we’ve had. So I just…I think that we have to be very careful to dismiss things because these new techs are coming up and it’s so easy to call it something that’s, you know, it has a certain type of maneuverability as a commonplace thing. So I’m really grateful that we were able to kind of, in my eyes, unsolved the case. It was bothering me (laughs).”

    GK: “Let me ask…this is like, call this weapons porn. But I had a question about, you know, me as a civilian, I’m thinking: They’re flying over our ships, over our bases, shoot those damn things down. And I was thinking about this Navy-weapons system, I’ve seen video on YouTube. It’s almost like a super Gatling gun, that is an anti-aircraft system. I don’t know what it’s called.”

    https://youtu.be/dKrpEfNaQO8

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    JC: “High-energy beam weaponry.”

    GK: “Well, I was thinking of the guns that shoot like a thousand bullets in a minute that would just, basically, knock down a missile.”

    Guts: “Okay. CIWS, a close-in weapon system. So basically, it looks like an R2-D2-type thing on it, yeah.”

    GK: “So that could clearly take one of these things down (Guts laughs), shouldn’t it?”

    Guts: “Yeah. Again, look, I’m not a CIWS expert, I’m not a Surface-Warfare Officer. I’m sure we could easily find someone to talk on that. But, presumably, yeah, I mean, in theory, yeah, you got something that’s flying around your airspace and you don’t want it to, there are ways to take those things down.”

    GK: “Just thinking, at some level, there are investigations into this UAP mystery, we know, and some of them are sincere and people are there who want to get to the bottom of it. And some that just sort of wanna cover it over and wallpaper it, and make it go away, I think. But, you gotta think that there’s people in the Navy, and maybe the Air Force, that are sitting around thinking, ‘These damn things keep flying over our bases, we sure would like to shoot one of those down and see what the hell it is. Don’t to think?”

    Guts: “My opinion? Yeah, it’s frustrating. You know, especially again, with that warfighter mentality, you know, you want to be able to punch back. You know, if you’re getting just peppered in the ring and not able to throw a counter punch, it’s frustrating.”

    GK: “And then you gotta worry, well, do we set off an international incident, or more importantly, an interplanetary incident? We shot down Meep Thorp from Krypton or something like that (Guts laughs).”

    JC: “I wanted just to, also, thank you for talking with us, and I just want to kind of hit the nail on the head here, which is that: I mean, you’re my friend and I like calling you and telling you some of the stuff that I’m learning and passing it by you, and it’s exciting. I appreciate that part of our friendship.

    Guts: “Sure.”

    JC: “I do, you know, have concerns, though. I mean, you know…or I did for you. Like, you’re an active commander in the Navy and there’s stigma associated with talking about this. And I know we’re just talking right now, you know, everything we’re seeing is personal opinion, right, between us. But do you have any kind of concern that that stigma would affect you or that there’d be any reprisals because you’re talking about this with us? I mean, it’s a hot topic right now, within our Department of Defense, is UFOs, UAPs. Just as an individual, you’re talking with us, but do you have any concern?”

    Guts: “You’re talking about blowback or something like?”

    JC: “Yeah, explain it to me.”

    Guts: “No, no, no, no, no. Look, not at all, man.

    JC: “You’re immune to the…”

    Guts: “Yeah, no, well, look, it’s not that…look, it’s like this: The stigma is real. I think conversations like this help to fight and reduce that stigma, which hopefully would encourage folks if they do have some sort of, you know, weird encounter, would report it, right? And bring it up to somebody who can try to get it up the proper chain of command.”

    JC: “Through the proper chain of command and stop calling me (Guts laughs). No, no, I want people to.”

    Guts: “But no…look, I’m not afraid…look, part of my part of my training as a helicopter pilot was also that as an aviation safety officer, okay? And for those of us that have been through that course…there’s a lot of courses in the military that they send you through, you know? Some more robust than others, some more menial than others, and there’s a lot of real dry topics out there. But this one in particular, the aviation-safety-officer course, for me, anyway, it really changed…we’re always safety conscious, you know, we always try and do things as safe as possible. But man, going through that course really kind of drives home the point of aviation safety, looking out for your brothers and sisters in the air, mitigating risks as much as you can, and making sure that at the end of the day, you know, you go out over the horizon [and] you come back with everyone that you left with. And so, that course in particular really, really drove home the point of, hey, when there’s an issue, when there’s an aviation-safety concern that puts your fellow brothers and sisters in harm’s way, you gotta deal with it.

    “And to me, I see this UAP issue in general, in the same light. There is an aviation-safety-flight concern. It should be addressed. We shouldn’t be afraid to talk about it just because it’s a little weird or it’s unknown, or we don’t know what the hell it is.”

    GK: “It’s a national-security issue.”

    Guts: “It’s a national security issue. We shouldn’t let that…because of its inherent and weird nature, we shouldn’t bar that from trying to figure out what this is. Again, if for nothing else, for the safety of those that that we send up…people who put their lives on the line every day to go up and defend the country. So no, in terms of blowback? No, look, I’m not doing this on behalf of the Navy, by any means, but in general, it’s what they trained me to do.”

    GK: “We’re getting close to the end here. I just give props to the U.S. Navy for being so forthright on this, for leading the charge.”

    Guts: “Yeah. yeah.”

    GK: “I mean, you know, you and your colleagues talking about…and I know a career Navy guy (Jay Stratton. ~Joe) who was part of AAWSAP and AATIP and the UAP Task Force. He has led the charge towards changing Navy policy to encourage aviators to come forward. So glad, that somebody is doing it because, you know, as we’ve remarked, some of the other services are not so…are a little more reluctant to get involved.”

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    Guts: “I’m proud. I’m proud of the service I’m in, I’m proud of the career I’ve had. I mean, I’m not done. I’m proud I get to do the work I get to do and I’m glad that the Navy is, you know, seems like they’re taking steps to address these issues.”

    JC: “Well, I’m glad that you’re, you know, willing to have the conversation. We made the joke back and forth, it’s like, if we were both into chess and we just wanted to talk about that, that’s no problem. But, for some reason, this this idea of like…UFOs have been with us forever, this idea that unknowns. Why can’t we just talk about it like we would any other subject?”

    Guts: “Right.”

    JC: “So that’s what we’re doing. We’re doing what we’re hoping other people will do.

    Guts: “Yeah.”

    JC: “I do gotta say, though, that, you know, it’s great…so the Navy has really spearheaded coming forward, and we see so much progress. We see this whistleblower legislation that has just, you know, created this opportunity for people to come forward about the UFO topic, who work inside and that kind of thing. So you see all this progress being made, but I was so disappointed when they did the hearings. Just to be clear, we presented, you know, nine pieces of corroborative evidence. They took that hearing and they just showed one piece and tried to pretend that that was the totality of the 2019 events. That was so disingenuous to Congress.”

    GK: “There are those who’d like it to go away, they’d like the media attention to stop, they’d like conversations like this to end. The closer we get to the goodies, the more pushback there’s gonna be. Media and other places.”

    JC: “Yeah. Well, thanks so much, man. It was good to hang out and I’m glad we finally got to have this conversation all together.”

    Guts: “I appreciate it.”

    JC: “Hopefully, it sheds a little light on all this information that we were able to get. And I suspect, there’s going to be more coming from us.”

    Guts: “I think so too.”

    GK: “Oh yeah.”

    ~~~

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  • Elizondo TOE Transcript – What I Learned About UFOs Challenged My Understanding Of The Universe And Our Place In It

    Elizondo TOE Transcript – What I Learned About UFOs Challenged My Understanding Of The Universe And Our Place In It

    “Imagine everything you’ve been taught, whether it’s through Sunday school, or through regular, formal education in school, or what our political leaders have told us and yes, even maybe our mothers and fathers around the dinner table have told us or maybe at bedtime, about who we are, right? Our background and our past. What if all of that turned out to be not entirely accurate? In fact, the very history of our species, the meaning what it means to be a human being and our place in this Universe. What if all that is now in question? What if it turns out that a lot of the things that we thought were one way, aren’t. Are we prepared to have that honest question with ourselves? Are we prepared to recognize that we’re not at the top of the food chain, potentially?”

    ~Lue Elizondo 

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    Curt Jaimungal (CJ): During this entire interview, it’s best to read between the lines of what Lue is saying, as while ostensibly equivocating, he’s actually saying quite a bit. Breadcrumbs are judiciously dropped. Tweet the hashtag #UFOAmnesty, and I’ll retweet it @TOEwithCurt.

    This is the second interview with Luis Elizondo, and his longest interview ever.

    (The first TOE interview with Lue can be seen here)

    CJ: Luis Elizondo is a former U.S. Army counterintelligence Special Agent, mostly known as the director of the now defunct AATIP, a program initiated by the Defense Intelligence Agency in order to study on unidentified aerial phenomenon, also known as UFOs. Thank you to Shortform for sponsoring this video and click on the timestamp in the description if you’d like to skip this intro.

    For those new to this channel. My name is Curt Jaimungal, and I’m a filmmaker with a background in mathematical physics, dedicated to the explication of what are called theories of everything, from a theoretical physics perspective, but also delineating the possible connection consciousness may have to the fundamental laws, provided these laws exist at all and are knowable to us. Now this UFO phenomenon may seem tangential to the exploring of the variegated landscape of TOEs, that is theories of everything, however, if you watch episodes like the Kevin Knuth episode, you’d see that there’s an intimate connection between some of the deep mysteries of the Universe and this phenomenon. Thus, I’m interested and don’t view this enigma with the stigma that the majority of the scientific community has. If you enjoy witnessing and engaging in real time conversation on the topics of consciousness, psychology, physics, and so on, then do click on the link in the description for the Discord and for the Subreddit. There’s also a link to the Patreon that is patreon.com/curtjaimungol, if you’d like to support this podcast as the sponsors and the patrons are the only reason I’m able to do this full time, and it would be extremely difficult to explore topics like geometric unity or loop quantum gravity or even string theory, which is coming up without the sponsors, without being able to do this full time because of patrons like yourself. Again, that link is patreon.com/curtjaimungal. Thank you, regardless of your decision.

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    The third sponsor is joining us for the first time and that’s Shortform, which is a place that you can go if you don’t have the time or the inclination to read an entire book, yet, let’s say you want to know the gist of it so that you can be conversant as if you’ve read it. And I mean that in the best sense. More on short form later quick

    Note, this podcast is also on iTunes, Spotify, Google podcasts and so on. I hear many comments asking where it is. It’s in the description if you’d like to follow on an alternate audio platform.

    Thank you and enjoy this conversation, one of the most revelatory conversations with Luis Elizondo to date. That’s primarily thanks to you, as this was an AMA, that his questions were gleaned from you. Thank you for watching/listening and thank you Lue for your generosity. Enjoy.

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    https://youtu.be/wULw64ZL1Bg

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    Luis Elizondo (Lue): Jennifer says hi.

    CJ: Tell Jennifer, like…I know how much my wife contributes to my success. It’s mainly my wife’s success, so I imagine much of your success was your wife’s success.

    Lue: Absolutely correct. Curt, it is, it is. Absolutely, it is, it is. You know, behind…I tell everybody, behind every great man is a greater woman, or a greater person. Obviously, I come from an older generation. But usually, the success of anybody is always dependent upon a close circle of trusted people behind them that are, you know, really helping make things happen. So, you’re absolutely right.

    CJ: Okay. Anything you want me to be aware of before we go live, anything you want to say?

    Lue: You know the rules, man. There are no rules. You know, you can ask me whatever you want.

    CJ: How’s your day going?

    Lue: You know, it’s going considerably well, versus the alternative, right? There’s an old saying: Any day above ground is a good day and I definitely subscribe to that.

    CJ: I know that you’re in such a whirlwind. Primarily, what is it? Interviews, or what?

    Lue: No, I wish. It’s a combination of many things. When I first presented those five slides on how we are having this conversation, legislative engagement, executive engagement, etc, all those take a lot of effort every day, a lot of care and feeding. They’re like children, really, that are constantly wanting attention. And so, you have to feed the beast accordingly, you have to make sure you give just the right amount of information to those specific silos, if you will, or pillars, to keep them happy. But, of course, therein lies part of the challenge, because you can’t give all sides the same information, necessarily, because, obviously, the information you talk to with the executive leadership, sometimes is classified and you can’t give that, necessarily, to the public, but you can still have the same conversation without providing classified information. And so, that’s how you have to thread that needle. And it’s a constant, I guess you could call it, spinning of plates. And hopefully, you don’t drop any of them. And so, it takes a lot of a lot of time, takes a lot of effort and a lot of a lot of coordination.

    For each one of those…this is what I don’t think people understand: When you look at the collective achievements or accomplishments we, collectively, have made, all of us, over the last four years, each one of those bullets is is hundreds, if not sometimes a thousand hours, working behind the scenes to make things happen. It’s a lot, a lot of work. And I still have a day job and I’m still trying to do my best to have this conversation. Every time I have one of these interviews, and you can attest to this, Curt, I don’t get paid for this. Call me a liar but have you ever paid me to do an interview?

    CJ: No.

    Lue: No, right? And I don’t ask for it and I won’t accept it, to do one like this. And so, it takes time away from my other stuff. It’s a lot, a lot of work, but I think it’s worth it, in the end. I think, ultimately, this is a conversation that needs to be had and I think we all have a part of it

    CJ: Do these conversations make you nervous?

    Lue: Uhh (Sigh). You know, conversation doesn’t make me nervous, people make me nervous. It’s probably just a product of my upbringing and maybe my choice of career, profession. I think dialogue and conversation’s great. It’s funny you should ask me that, Curt, because there’s a…my wife and I, my wife jokes quite a bit with me and she sometimes doesn’t know if I’m being serious or not, just because of my sense of humor. And I told her, I said, “After forty or fifty years around the sun, the one thing I’ve learned, it’s…you know, I love humanity, it’s humans I don’t like.” And there’s a difference. I love the idea of humanity, but unfortunately, individually, as human beings, I think there’s a lot of room for improvement for all of us, to be honest with you. And so therein lies the problem. To have a conversation that’s concerning humanity, I have to engage humans and that’s what I find challenging sometimes. Because humans are…we’re emotional beings, we can be fragile beings, and sometimes we can be violent beings to each other. And that violence can manifest itself, not just physically, but sometimes just in words and hatred. And so, that’s what I find so challenging. Just simply trying to have a conversation and there’s people out there that want to stifle that conversation, for whatever reason.

    CJ: Okay, well, let’s minimize your trepidation by saying anytime you need to refill your coffee, or go to the washroom, people who are watching, just bear with us, because we’re going on for quite some time. So here’s a question from myself.

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    Lue: By the way, I have to ask: What do you think of my coffee cup? I know people are expecting like machine guns and tanks and whatnot, right? But I have flowers to celebrate fall, right?

    CJ: I have hearts.

    Lue: Ohh, you beat me. Okay (laughs). Damn you, Curt.

    CJ: We’re conspicuous for so many reasons. Okay. Is there any evidence that these, whatever we want to call them, aliens, creatures, future humans, whatever we want, let’s label them X. Is there any evidence that these X can shapeshift, can look like other humans or other creatures?

    Lue: You know, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you mimicry is something that is common in nature and it’s even common in what we do. There are species who defend themselves in the animal kingdom. Let’s take the coral snake versus, let’s say, the king snake. The coral snake is very deadly. The king snake has the same colors except for some of the color arrangements are in opposite order and these animals mimic other animals for protection.

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    Lue: Now, let’s look at it from a humanistic perspective. We, have something where we call light deception on, for example, Navy ships. In the old days, we would string lights in a way that would try, at night, to make a big, large destroyer appear to be a fishing boat, right? A trawler. And light deception is part of camouflage, part of survival. So, if there is a species that is far more advanced than human beings. it’s not inconceivable. Look, we can go to the panda exhibit in the zoo in China, and see that zookeepers will often wear these (laughs) kind of…it appears ridiculous to us, but not so ridiculous to the pandas. The zookeepers are required to wear a panda suit, a big, furry teddy bear suit so when they go into the enclosure to clean up the enclosure or whatnot and provide food, they don’t disrupt the local panda population, as least as possible. Of course, it’s entertaining to us to see a bunch of humans walking around in furry panda suits, but at the end of the day, it’s effective.

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    Lue: So, I don’t think it’s inconceivable. The problem is when we start going down the road of, you say shapeshifting and things like that, immediately we start going into the world of “woo,” quote, unquote and paranormal. And again, there’s nothing wrong with that, I’ve written articles on paranormal, right? Everything by definition in science is paranormal until becomes normal, frankly. But the problem is that we don’t have hard evidence, we have a lot of anecdotal evidence. A lot of people report seeing things, that these UAP can look like an aircraft, sometimes disguise itself like a 747 or that the occupants can make themselves look like human beings. I don’t really know, During our time at AATIP, we were focused primarily on the nuts and bolts of this and what our military eyewitnesses and collection capabilities were telling us. At the time, we didn’t really have any reports of quote, unquote, “shapeshifting.”

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    The Incommensurability Problem and The Fermi Paradox

    by Eric Davis, Astrophysicist at the National Institute for Discovery Science

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    I submit that this absurdity of UFOs is not absurd (nonsensical, bizarre, ill-behaved)! This “absurdity” is merely a reflection of the cognitive mismatch or the Incommensurability Problem that is likely to exist between humans and the UFOs.

    In this particular case, the UFOs are sending the message and we are the recipients. The message(s) they are sending to us are icons: icons fashioned by the phenomenon and sent to us via some yet to be determined sensory modality. The differences between our respective cultures, biologies, sensory modalities, histories, dimensional existence, physical evolution, models of nature and science, etc. are directly responsible for our total lack of understanding of the UFO phenomenon and what their message is. We cannot see what UFOs believe to be (iconical) similarities in the message that is intended for us. These stated differences directly impact our conventions of interpretation in such a way as to impair our recognition of the “similarity” between the sign and the signified contained within the icons of the UFO message, further impairing our ability to “see and understand” their message.

    The difference between the sensory modalities of UFO phenomena and humans is responsible for our inability to properly detect the UFO message (icons) and correspond with them intelligently, or in their view, they are unable to correspond intelligently with us. This difference may also prevent us from correctly interpreting what their icons are if we do in fact recognize them. In this regard, recall that we will project our own species-specific experiences onto their icons (messages) thus manifesting the appearance of “absurdity” during the human-UFO interaction. UFO abduction cases could exemplify this such that the “absurd” activities (or scenes) concurrent with abduction events could merely be the iconical defense mechanism deployed by the UFO to protect itself from the victim/subject much like the way Spilomyia hamifera protects itself from insect eating birds by mimicry.

    Kuiper and Freitas suggest that ETI probes visiting Earth would find it necessary to hide themselves from our detection mechanisms until they have assessed our technological level or potential threat and hazards. They would employ an adaptive multi-level risk program to avoid danger. Low observable stealth such as simple camouflage through mimicry, which works well in nature, may be the technique of choice used by visiting ETI-probes/UFOs already experienced in surveillance. Examples of mimicry techniques are ETI-probes/UFOs entering the atmosphere with either the look or trajectory of a meteor or hidden within a meteor shower, behaving like dark meteors without the associated optical signature, hiding within an artificial or natural cloud, behaving as pseudostars sitting stationary over certain regions, or mimicking man-made aircraft’s aggregate features, including perhaps the mysterious unmarked black helicopters (why should a shape-shifting UFO not be able to mimic a contemporary aircraft). Another possibility is mimicry techniques employed for the manipulation of human consciousness to induce the various manifestations of “absurd” interactions or scenery associated with the UFO encounter. This in combination with the mimicry of man-made aircraft and helicopters aggregate features was prominent in the Cash-Landrum UFO case.

    The current ETI Hypothesis for UFOs is not strange enough to explain the facts of the phenomenon. However, there is no experiment that can distinguish between phenomena manifested by visiting interstellar (arbitrarily advanced) ETI and UFOs. In either case, the technology exploited by such intelligences would appear to the present human race as being indistinguishable from magic and appear nonsensical, bizarre and ill-behaved (or absurd).

    End Excerpt

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    Lue: Now cloaking, that’s a different story. We do have some information that indicates that these things do have an ability to try to evade some of our sensors. For example, radar, You get these nonsensical, what looks like spoofing or radar jamming occurring. You have the low observability portion of the five observables, that includes things like active camouflage and cloaking and again, low observability. It’s hard to see. And so, there is information that we have that pertains to that.

    CJ: Okay, speaking about cloaking, Is there any evidence that suggests UFOs are associated with orbs, at least anecdotally? Firstly, what’s the reason for that? And then second, is there any evidence that you know that suggests that these orbs may be more plentiful than we think, perhaps around us, whether in homes or outside cityscapes, just cloaked?

    Lue: Yeah, the problem with the word orb is you’re not going to get a common definition from most people. Everybody thinks an orb means something else. Some people think an orb is a little plasma ball, others say it’s much, much bigger and intelligently controlled. You know, orb is kind of a general catch-all. When you say, “Is an orb related to a UFO?” Well, by definition, it is a UFO. It’s unidentified and it’s flying, or it’s in our atmosphere, and it’s an object, it’s something. We don’t know what it is. So, by definition, an orb is a UAP, but the question is, is it a UAP in the sense that we’re talking about UAPs, whether lenticular-type shape or maybe a cylindrical shape or a triangular vehicle? I think the jury’s still out. There does seem to be some information that suggests that orbs, as you call them, are sometimes associated with other UAP sightings, that there are UAPs in the sky, and then you see these little balls of light.

    The problem is, it’s a very generalized term. We now know for a fact that things such as ball lightning are real. Is that an orb? Well, yeah, at times it looks like an orb to me. Other times, when you have large amounts of energy being released into the atmosphere in the environment, let’s talk about tectonic movement, for example, where these titanic forces right underneath the surface of the Earth, creating this plasma effect in the atmosphere, where you get these different colors shooting into the sky, and again, orbs, if you will, being reported and seen and even captured on camera. But that’s an orb that I think we can all agree is probably being manufactured naturally. Now, are there orbs that are intelligently controlled? Well, we did talk about that at AATIP. You know, one of the questions was: When you look at the different shapes and sizes of vehicles, orbs tend to be almost like a, I guess in a vernacular sense, think of a UAV, think of a drone. They tend to be described as being much smaller, highly maneuverable, different colors, sometimes red, sometimes green, sometimes yellow, sometimes blue. Is it possible that those colors are indicative of mission set, right? Are the blue ones doing certain things where the reds are doing something else, and their purpose is something else, where the yellows and whites are doing something else? It’s certainly plausible. I don’t dismiss that at all. The problem is we just don’t have enough information because it appears that these orbs tend to be [so] small that it’s really hard to argue the case that they are being occupied by any type of biological organism. Now, it doesn’t mean that they’re not. It just means that we haven’t seen that yet. We don’t know what these are. Are these perhaps some sort of unmanned, reconnaissance capability that are kicked out, not much different than we use drones ourselves, right? To do certain types of reconnaissance missions. We don’t know, it’s certainly plausible.

    CJ: The reasoning behind my question is that Tom DeLonge, I recall, was saying one shouldn’t do CE-5. I’m going to get you to explain what CE-5 is. But anyway. One shouldn’t do CE-5 and when one does it, often orbs are associated with it, and one thinks, “Oh, that’s great, because I’m inducing some contact.” And Tom said, “Be careful. One shouldn’t do that lightly.” So that to me implies that there’s something nefarious or potentially, nefarious about these orbs.

    Lue: Well, I mean, look, I would say the same thing: Don’t mess around with electricity unless you’re a licensed electrician. Be careful because you can get zapped. That’s true with anything. That’s not just orbs, that’s electricity, that’s swimming pools, that’s everything. I can’t speak for Tom. I don’t know what Tom meant by that. But I can tell you that general word of caution, I think, is appropriate for just about anything out there. If you don’t know what you’re getting into, just be mindful. There are potentially things that go bump in the night and it’s not all necessarily good, or bad,

    CJ: It’s not all sunflowers, like your cups.

    Lue: Well, anytime you go snorkeling…look, I’m an avid scuba diver, I’ve been scuba diving my whole life. There’s always a remote risk, when you go scuba diving in some of these beautiful coral reefs, you know what? There’s a risk you’re gonna come up against a shark. Now, not all sharks are going to do anything but if you’re carrying a bag of fresh fish that you wound up spearing and are now bleeding out of this bag and dead, chances are you may attract a lot more attention than just a curious shark. You may be attracting a hungry shark and now you gotta kind of pay attention. So, I think that’s wise advice on just about everything that we do. I live here in Wyoming where a lot of people like to go spelunking, and adventuring into caves. But again, you have to have the right equipment. Be careful when you go into a cave, make sure you’ve got light, make sure you’ve got gear that can get you in and out and rope and whatnot.

    CJ: Okay, now let’s get to some of the audience questions. This one comes from Stephanie: Is there information being recorded or being encoded into less mainstream information media channels that can be parsed out, John Nash style, like “A Beautiful Mind” that can help us arrive closer at the truth of this phenomenon?

    Lue: So I’m going to need your help, Curt, kind of detangling that question because I’m not familiar with the reference. But, when you’re saying encoded, can you repeat that question one more time? I want to answer it and I just want to make sure I’m understanding the question.

    CJ: Okay. Just deciphering. Essentially, what someone of sufficient intelligence can decipher that there are different drops being placed by, let’s say, disclosure people in the government.

    Lue: Oh, I see what you’re saying! Breadcrumbs. What I refer to as breadcrumbs.

    CJ: And that one can decipher it.

    Lue: Umm, well, you know, I’ve always left breadcrumbs every interview I’ve ever do, for the last four years. I think people can now go back through a lot of what I’ve said in the past and come back and say, “Oh, so that’s what he was referring to. Now, we know.” Because certain people have come out, whether it’s Jim Lacatski and his book or other folks. I can’t speak on behalf of the government and other people. I suspect that…what I can say is, I think that we are at a point now where we don’t have to leave the breadcrumbs that we have been in the past. I think the time has come for us to be even a little bit more straightforward and a little bit more clearer. The difficult part is when you’re dealing with security clearances and NDAs, which everybody hates to hear. That’s becoming a three-letter word that I think is probably going to be etched somewhere on my tombstone and people are going to be throwing tomatoes at it from here to eternity because they hate it. But they hate it because they don’t really understand what it means and why you have them. Those NDAs definitely get in the way of having a complete transparent conversation but I also think that we are having it, I think…we’ve come a long, long ways.

    And, as far as answering this specific question, as far as leaving breadcrumbs, I can’t speak for anybody else. I don’t know precisely what the government…because the government isn’t just this one huge, if you will, monolithic enterprise. It’s comprised of people and each of those people have their own interests and their own desires and their own agendas, and so, I can’t speak for them. I can only speak for me. I think, certainly, if people were to look at all the talks I’ve given and really look at them, and listened to them closely, they will see that a lot more has been said than might necessarily be acknowledged.

    CJ: Okay, this one comes from Ross Coulthart. Since you left the DoD, have you been warned not to talk publicly about certain things? And if so, what?

    Lue: Yes, I have been warned. I have been warned, first of all, not to discuss classified information, which I have heeded, thus far, and will continue to do so. I’ve been threatened. There are individuals in the Pentagon that did not like what I do, and how I did it. And so, once Secretary Mattis’ Public Affairs Officer, Dana White, left, they started to change the narrative a little bit.

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    Lue: I was told that I would be labeled crazy, and that they would come after my security clearance, which they did. They actually did try to do that and they were true to their word. But fortunately, I had some some some friends and allies that knew exactly what I was doing beforehand  and it wasn’t quite so easy for them to be able to do that. But to put it simply, yeah, I’ve been warned.

    CJ: So you’ve been warned. Have you ever gotten in trouble? Ross has a sub question. Have you gotten into trouble for acknowledging that the U.S. has recovered non-terrestrial materials?

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    Lue: Well, they’re watching me very closely. There’s elements that are trying to get me into trouble, so that’s why I walk a very fine line. I walk right up to that line, but I won’t step over it, because they’re waiting for me to screw up. They’re waiting for me to say one word that I shouldn’t say, in order to use that against me and silence me. So yeah, I mean, I have gotten in trouble, they tried to come after my clearance, like I said, and unfortunately, I had to seek legal counsel to protect my constitutional rights to do so. It seems that they’ve backed off a little bit, for now, but I’m not fooling myself. I know that there’s wolves circling just beyond the limit of the fire that I’m standing next to, waiting for an opportunity. So, I’m very mindful of that. But, I will also say that there’s some really good elements. I’ve had an opportunity…sometimes through the worst of adversity, you get a chance to see people at their best.

    And I’ve learned that there are people on the inside that really do want to have the conversation and that want to see things done right. And these are senior people. Some of these are very, very, very senior people, and they were willing to put their professional careers on the line to defend me and protect me. That means a lot, that makes me feel good. Because I’ve always been that way. I could have called people out by name three or four years ago just to defend my credibility, and I never did. People are now realizing that a lot of those people are now finally coming out of the shadows. And, you know, my life could have been a lot easier had I called them out to defend me, but I didn’t, because I made a promise to them that I would never reveal their identities until they were ready to do so. And that’s just the way I am. To me, principles mean everything. Either you’re a person of principle or you’re not. Doesn’t matter how bad the going gets, you gotta stick by your word. So, it’s been a mixed bag for me. Make sure Ross, we tell Ross here the full story, that even though I’ve had people coming after me, I’ve also had a lot of people rally around me and to me, I’d rather focus on those folks. Those are the folks that just makes you want to do this even more because they’re willing to get your back.

    CJ: And are you allowed to say those folks’ names?

    Lue: They haven’t come out of the shadows, yet, they’re in the process and we’ll let that play out. But I think it’ll be quite obvious when they step out, because people are going to go, “Oh, that person? Oh my goodness. I didn’t know that person was with Lue.” So I’ll leave it at that. Another breadcrumb, right?

    CJ: Right, right. I have a follow up question to what you just said, which is there are wolves that are watching you like a hawk. Is there another reason outside of national security that they they don’t want you to disclose what you may disclose or they’re worried you may?

    Lue: Yeah, I mean.

    CJ: What is their worry outside of that?

    Lue: There has been forbidden truths, we can call them, if you will. There have been forbidden truths in the history of not just our country, but many countries. Truths that could upset a balance. A balance that’s  been around for a long time. Let me give you case in point. Let’s say there were some people that were doing their job by running a UFO program in the past but because certain things happened, presidents were no longer briefed, people in Congress were no longer briefed, who should have been, and now they’re running an operation that’s considered rogue, but it’s still an important mission. Turns out, all of a sudden now, let’s say, hypothetically, the cat’s out of the bag…what’s going to happen to those people when when the government realizes they were running operations, for better or for worse, without any oversight, without any legal oversight, right? Who’s gonna be held accountable for that? The fact that they did not brief, legally, like they were supposed to, certain members of Congress and committees and oversight committees and the chain of command. That’s potentially criminal action.

    Let’s say, I’ve said this before, let’s say you have two competing companies, you have Aerospace Company A and Aerospace Company B. And Aerospace Company A, for whatever reason, gets a favor and some sort of really exotic, game-changing material is provided to that company to do this analysis. Meanwhile, Company B, who is competing fairly, doesn’t get that material. Turns out Company A now starts getting a lot of contracts, defense contracts, and becomes a multi-billion dollar company, while Company B, who never had the advantage of having that material, goes into bankruptcy. Hundreds of people lose their jobs and stockholders lose their investment. Keeping in mind that both companies are supposed to be treated fairly and have fair competition when it comes to U.S. government contracts. Now what happens? Where’s the liability? And, by the way, now these companies are doing good things for the United States, but they got there because they had an unfair advantage, competitive advantage, potentially. Again, I’m not…this is hypothetical, right? Where’s the liability there? You’re talking trillions and trillions of dollars worth of liability. And who made those decisions to do that, who’s going to be held culpable for that? The security exchange commission would not be very happy to know that two publicly-traded companies that were competing for a contract, one had an unfair advantage, the other went bankrupt. That’s a problem. That’s a real problem.

    And so, you’re talking about big, big money interests. You’re talking about things that are going into that gray world that go beyond just government interest. You’re talking about banking. You’re talking about some of the biggest names on the planet that have a lot to lose. Or a lot to gain, in hindsight. So, I think we always have to be careful that governments have always had interesting ties to certain interests. And that’s true of all governments, that’s not just the U.S., that’s everybody. And we need to be mindful of that because you could be putting some people in a very uncomfortable position. And I’m aware of that and that’s why I’ve been very delicate how I approach this topic. I’m not trying to beat anybody up, I’m not trying to expose anybody and say, “Ah, ha, ha, gotcha! See there!” I’m trying to have the conversation in a collaborative, meaningful way where everybody wins, nobody has to get burned, right? It’s not a zero-sum game, I’m not…

    CJ: Hypothetically, do they view it like that? Like, there’s a potential where everyone can win? Or do they view it somewhat a zero sum.

    Lue: Well, I can’t speak for them, I can’t tell you what they think, all I can tell you is what I think and my approach. And my approach is to say, “Look, guys, we’re not trying to expose anybody. This is not a witch hunt.” Despite what you may see on social media, where everybody wants their pound of flesh, that’s not going to get us anywhere. We need to be adults about this and we need to have a conversation that, if you really want the truth to come out, you better be willing to compromise. We’re not going to sit there and put people to be eaten by the lions just to satisfy someone’s ego or beef that they might have with somebody else. The truth is more important than that. This is not about, “See, I told you so!” or being vindicated. This is about having a conversation that can affect all of humanity and we have to be willing to set aside some of that, if you will. And understandably so. You’ve got lots and lots of decades worth of people covering this up. I know there’s a lot of animosity and resentment as a result of that by people saying, “You’ve been lying to us for all this time,” but we got to be willing to put that aside if we really want to move forward, in my opinion.

    CJ: You’re referring to animosity from the general public or animosity from some of these wolves?

    Lue: No, the general public who want their pound of flesh because people have been covering this topic up for too long, knowing that it’s real and then lying to the American people.

    CJ: Potentially, how long is too long, potentially? Is it centuries? Is it decades?

    Lue: Well, there’s information that goes way back…I live here in Wyoming and I live next to members of the Crow Nation. And if you’ve ever had a chance to talk and really engage with indigenous people, first of all, they’re very, very private. Two, they have an incredibly rich history. Their oral traditions and oral history doesn’t go back a few 100 years, it goes back millennia. In fact, when Europe was facing its dark ages, and mankind almost went extinct in the European continent and we were burning books, indigenous people over here were experiencing a golden era. That wasn’t the case over here. And the way they look at nature, the way they look at this topic, UAP, is not like we look at it through Western eyes. In fact, they don’t view it as a threat at all. In fact, they don’t view it even as paranormal. They view it as normal, as part of nature, their natural environment, as real as the lakes and the sky and the trees on the mountains are. And it’s just accepted as part of the greater Universe. And I think there’s some beauty there. They’re not held hostage by their fears. In fact, they embrace it. And that goes to show that you don’t have to view this topic as an either or. It doesn’t have to be viewed as a threat, or as some sort of saving opportunity for our species. It could just be a natural part of our existence. Again, do I subscribe to that? I don’t know. But I certainly think it’s another way, another perspective that we should consider. If that is the case, and they’re right, then we’ve been dealing with this for millennia. I can tell you that having a chance to talk to some people in the Vatican, they describe these flaming Roman shields in the sky that would follow them from battlefield to battlefield, what they would they call a Clipeus, which is the shape of the Roman shield. That’s documented, that’s there.

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    Lue: In fact, I think, if I’m not mistaken – I haven’t read it from Jacques Vallée – but from my understanding, Jacques Vallée even wrote a little bit about that.

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    Lue: But I’ve seen that evidence myself. There is documentation of these strange things in the sky going back a long, long time. So, I don’t think it’s necessarily modern. Maybe our understanding is a little bit more advanced and maybe consider that modern, but I don’t think we’re dealing with a new phenomenon. I think we may be dealing with a new recognition, and perhaps, hopefully, at some point, a new understanding. But I don’t think this is a new phenomenon to mankind. I think we’ve been faced with this phenomenon for quite some time.

    CJ: You mentioned millennia, which is thousands of years. I’m wondering, potentially, tens of thousands, potentially millions, or do you think it’s cut off around nine thousand or so (CJ was smiling as he said the nine-thousand part. Sarcasm)?

    Lue: Well, that’s hard to tell because we, only as a species, Homo sapiens sapiens had been around roughly for 100,000 years. And we only really gotten into written language in the last five, six thousand years, really, and gone from hunter gatherers to more of an agrarian-type society, organized society. Which is, if you take 100,000 years, and you compare the last five-thousand years, really only five percent of our entire time, rummaging around on this planet, has been in somewhat of a civilized fashion. You know, and then if you look at that, to the context of it’s been, only in the last thousand years, two-thousand years, we understood the Archimedes steam engine, right? And we really didn’t even fully appreciate it until the Industrial Revolution just a couple hundreds years ago. So, now you’re talking about 0.2% of mankind’s time on Earth, we’ve been industrialized, we’ve been civilized. So how much of our own history do we really know? Well, we can go back 5000 years, pretty easily. 8000 years, things start to get a little murky, right? And anything much beyond that, we really have no clue about.

    And the question is: Have we, as a species been aware of this phenomenon much longer? Well, let’s look at what we do know. The general consensus is that the American population, when I say American, I don’t mean United States. I mean North America, South America, Central American population, really began about 20,000 years ago during the land bridge when you had a migration coming over the land bridge and settling this part of the planet. But, in reality, it turns out now that a lot of scientists believe that there were many migrations, and many migrations before that primary migration 20,000 years ago. In fact, there may have been multiple migrations going back, perhaps even 100,000 years ago.

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    Lue: So, is it possible that our society was aware of these things, maybe even interacted with these things in a certain fashion? Sure, it’s possible, absolutely, it’s possible. I mean, most of our history we have no idea about. It’s like spending an entire day and having amnesia, except for the last five minutes before you go to bed. Where the hell was I? What was I doing? What did I eat? Who did I speak to? What did I say?

    CJ: What I’m wondering is, what you’re referencing is written history and I’m curious about archaeological evidence that you’re aware of…that potentially exists.

    Lue: Ahh. Interesting. So, let me give you a real-world example and I’m not going to either refute or defend it. But again, I live here in Wyoming and there is a legend here called the little people of the Pryor Mountains. And for generations, the indigenous people have reported what appeared to be this fearsome pygmy warrior tribe of humanoid type creatures that lived in the mountains. And for many, many, many years, it was completely considered myth.

    CJ: Folklore, right.

    Lue: Folkore. And it turns out that scientists began uncovering artifacts up in the mountains that, to some degree, reinforced the notion that there was some sort of small hominoid type of creature living in the mountains. They found small tools, they found small bones that appear to be coming from some human-like creature. (Not sure if that’s what Lue was talking about) I don’t know, I don’t know the details, thoroughly. I haven’t had a chance to really explore it or study it. But that part is true, that people are now beginning to look back and say, “Well, wait a minute. Is that possible? Because we’re starting to find archaeological evidence.” So, it’s interesting. Here, I can walk up into the Bighorn mountains, and they’re pulling out spearheads, spearheads that are 11,000 years old. Now think about that for a minute. 11,000 years old. If that spearhead could talk, what people did it come from, what were they hunting? What did this place look like? Environments change in a blink of an eye. Look at the Sahara desert in 5000 years. There was a lot of wildlife living in the Sahara region before it became a desert, and that was in recent human history, by the way. We were inhabiting the planet when that happened. There are drawings on the side of rock walls that illustrate how the alligators, crocodiles, if you will, and animals that live, not just on the savanna, but in the wetlands, all cohabitating there.

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    Lue: So this Earth is very dynamic. Every time we have a – for us, it seems like a long time – but every time we have an ice age, every roughly 10, 15,000 years, the entire topography of Earth changes, the climate changes, animals change, people change, right? I think it’s very possible that there is, potentially, some sort of archaeological evidence. The question is, would we recognize it if we saw it? And that’s another big, big question we have to ask ourselves. Let me ask you this as a scientist, Curt. If I said to you, “Curt, you have a task. You can make it out of whatever you want, any material you want. Your goal is to…in a million years, you have to create something now that will last a million years, to prove you were here. What would you do, how would you do it? Think about it, go ahead.

    (Audio cut off but I believe on the livestream Curt said he would need time to think about it and answer it later)

    Lue: No, no, no. No, I love you, man but we’re gonna we’re gonna have this mental exercise right now. I think it’s important. And by the way, it’s not a trick question and I’m not playing “gotcha.” Just, what would you give me…just some examples that you might throw out there to say, “Okay, I would make something out of this or out of that, or…”

    CJ: There are some metamaterials that seem to be harder than diamond, so whatever is a hardest material, it would be made out of that. Also, just so you know, I don’t classify myself as a scientist. I’m more of a hobbyist, let’s say. So that’s what I would do.

    Lue: So you’d find some sort of hard material that would outlast just about anything else on Earth, right? Where would you put that material?

    CJ: Orbit, is one place

    Lue: Okay. And hopefully a non-retrograde orbit, right? So geosynchronous and hopefully nothing would perturb it. In a million years, chances are something would, but okay, hypothetically in orbit, good. Here on Earth, it’s really hard to make anything that lasts more than a few thousand years. You can even make the pyramids and look at them now and say, “Wow, those things are 5000 years old and they don’t look so great and probably, in another 5000 years, they’re not gonna look good at all. And they may last, eventually, until you might have a hill of sand in 100,000 years, but that’s going to be about it. And that’s made out of rock, right? Mount Rushmore, same thing. It’s going to be gone in 10,000 years, you won’t probably even recognize it, it will be too worn. Even mountains, in millions of years, become deserts. Right? Time moves on. Then you have the subduction zones of Earth that eventually, if you wait long enough on the surface of the planet, it all gets recycled anyways. It’s all going to get sucked down into the mantle and get spit out the other end as new land.

    So nothing is indelible on this planet, it’s constantly changing. And to create something that can last the the sands of time, so to speak, is a lot harder than one might think. The few examples we have here on Earth, that are manmade, you can look to the pyramids, you can look at things like Stonehenge, but that’s a blink of an eye. Those were just made a few thousand years ago, and they’re not going to be around for a whole long lot of time. That’s just not the way Earth is. So if we’re trying to find some sort of marker, chances are you’re not going to find it buried in the Earth unless it only happened maybe the last 5000 years ago or so, right? Even some of the most most dramatic examples of terraforming. Let’s look at, for example, the meteor impact crater in Arizona that happened 60,000 years ago. That’s already filling in.

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    Lue: In another 100,000 years from now, you might not even know anything ever happened because of the processes of Earth and what this planet does. It’s constantly erasing what’s on the surface, and it’s constantly burying what lies beneath, deeper and deeper and deeper until eventually, it gets recycled.

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    Lue: So, that’s a hard question. What would last long enough for us to go back and say, “Wow, this is an indicator of alien life on this planet 100,000 years ago?” What would you have to do to achieve that, to accomplish that? It’s a lot harder than one might think. And then again, would you recognize it?

    One might say, well, DNA. DNA is a perfect example. If you wanted to do something that was enduring for humanity, that we could look back 100,000 years ago and say, “Yes, that was absolutely manipulated by an intelligent life form.” Well, deoxyribonucleic acid may be one way to do it. You can put coding and sequencing in there that will perpetuate over time and time and yes, you’ll have some big degradation over generations, but in essence you could do something that way. And basically, it’s a biological marker, right?

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    Lue: So, we have to be careful when we say we look for evidence because evidence isn’t just necessarily a spearhead found in the Big Horn Mountains from 11,000 years ago. It’s not necessarily a pyramid sitting in the middle of the desert. It could be far more sophisticated than that. You said put it in orbit, right? Well, what if we put that, rather than in orbit, we put it into the human body. So, anyways, I know it’s a very long-winded way to answer that question.

    CJ: Yeah, let me ask a quick follow up and then we’ll get to Super Chat questions, audience questions and so on. Are there places that we should be looking for evidence that you feel like we’re not. So, for example, I mentioned archaeological investigation sites. The reason I brought that up is some people say craft were found. Okay. But you’re also saying there may be other markers, maybe possibly biologically, for example…

    Lue: You know, near-Earth, celestial bodies like the Moon, where you don’t have atmospheric friction, you don’t have the tectonic processes that we have here on Earth that are constantly recycling. Someone might want to put something on the Moon, reminiscent of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” where you have these monolithic markers. That’s certainly one way to do it. You could put something where you don’t have those same processes occurring where maybe you might be able to extend your time twice as long for leaving some sort of archaeological evidence. The evidence could be right here, could be right in front of us, could be within genetic sequencing. It could even be more obvious than that. It could be the very fact that we’re alive and we’re on this planet, is an example of some intelligent life, somewhere, making a decision that life needs to exist on this planet. We need to be open to all of that, we really do. I think we need to cast a very wide net and this is why I always say, “All options have to be on the table until they’re not on the table.” Because, you may be surprised. Something that’s super, super intelligent probably isn’t going to build a pyramid that’s only going to last 20,000 years. They’re going to do something that’s far more enduring, something that will really be, no kidding, maybe a million years.

    CJ: I understand. Alright, this question comes from Terry.

    Lue: So I gotta ask, real quick, Curt. Forgive me, and I know I’m gonna get a lot of hate for this: What is a Super Chat? I hear it a lot. What’s a Super Chat?

    CJ: Well, a Super Chat is when someone pays $5 ,$50, $100 sometimes.

    Lue: Wow.

    CJ: Most of these or $5 to $10. You’ll get your check.

    Lue: (laughs) Don’t even say that because people are gonna believe it! Curt, clear the record, man. I’m not getting paid a penny for this.

    CJ: I’m kidding, I’m kidding everyone. And thank you so much for supporting this podcast. I appreciate it a tremendous amount. It’s not easy to do this full time and this is a place where I have almost no knowledge in, Lue, as you could probably tell by the sophomoric nature of my questions

    Lue: Curt, I don’t think anybody does, you’re not alone, brother. You think I do? You think…if I had all the answers, you think we’d be where we are today? No, I’ve got more questions than answers, but that’s okay. My fears, when people say they do have all the answers, those are the people that I don’t trust, because I know they don’t. I’ve been in this for a long time for the U.S. government and I damn sure don’t have all the answers, so no, don’t worry about it.

    CJ: Okay, let’s get to the Super Chat by Terry. Mr. Elizondo has called the UAP, “craft” multiple times and made comments about not knowing who is piloting them. This seems like an assumption, at least without proof. Does this mean there’s proof, let’s call that evidence because proof in science doesn’t exist, that these are craft with pilots?

    Lue: Well, let’s break it down. Craft is a noun, it’s a physical object that allows the transportation of something from point A to point B. Whether it’s a hovercraft, right? Or a spacecraft, or an aircraft, it’s a vehicle. And so what defines a vehicle? Well, physical material. There’s something to it, nuts and bolts. I’ve made it very clear, already, my opinion about…my assertion that there is material that is related to this topic that has been recovered, in the past. That’s all I can say about that.

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    Lue: But that’s why I use the term craft. It’s maybe not the best term, but to me, it’s fairly accurate, at least until I can find another term that’s more accurate. As far as piloted or manned? I’m not sure manned is the right way to say because that means there’s a human behind it and I’m not sure that’s the case. But being piloted or intelligently controlled…well, the way they maneuver and the way they respond to us, think of in the scientific world, stimulus versus reaction. We can provoke and elicit responses from these things. So, Dave Fravor said, “When I came in to close the gap on this thing, this thing reacted to me. First of all, it pointed at me, and then it maintained a safe distance and mirrored my maneuvers.” So, there is some sort of intelligence behind it. That’s not random. That’s not Brownian movement, right? That’s a deliberate action by something…

    CJ: There’s justification in calling it craft, other than there may be (inaudible)

    Lue: Correct. And something or someone is making a decision how these things perform and react. So, I think it’s fair to say that they are intelligently-controlled craft of some sort. Now, much beyond that, I think that’s up for debate.

    CJ: Are there potential photos that exist that show occupants in some of these, quote, unquote “craft”?

    Lue: Well, there’s a lot of photos that show a lot of things. The question is, are they real, are they legitimate?

    CJ: Are there potential photos that have [been] potentially deemed as legitimate, that have that quality?

    Lue: Umm, there are very compelling photos out there that seem to show something inside, some sort of occupancy, and I’ll leave it at that. Because it gets really murky, much beyond that and there’s a lot that can can be speculated. And so I try to avoid speculation as much as possible. But yes, I’ve spoken to enough people, firsthand knowledge, that not only report the crafts that we know exist, but potentially some sort of intelligence inside these vehicles.

    CJ: You mentioned it gets murky, murky as in low resolution or murky…what do you mean by murky?

    Lue: I mean in every aspect. The source of the information, how the information was obtained, under what circumstances, resolution of photographic evidence, all of it. And so, that’s why we have to be very careful.

    CJ: Okay. This question comes from James. Ross Coulthart said it would be good to offer a deal to those who kept the program secret. They get some immunity in exchange for getting us the truth. I think he referenced truth and reconciliation. Would you guys back a change.org-style petition for this? Do you think that The Others would like it?

    Lue: Absolutely. I think Ross is 100% correct. I think we need to offer amnesty from criminal and civil prosecution if we want them to come out of the shadows. There’s a lot of pressure right now and I’m sure they don’t, whoever’s part of that cabal, doesn’t appreciate that type of pressure. And so, if we could offer some sort of truth and reconciliation, I think something to that effect would be very helpful in this cause and say, “Look, we’re not gonna label you. In fact, we’ll give you anonymity and confidentiality. What we’ll do is, if you provide us this information, we’ll make sure that…kind of like a witness protection program except no one will ever know you were part of this except for very few people. I think that’s a great idea. I think that’s what we should be doing.

    CJ: Ross suggested, in the previous interview, a hashtag called #NASATellTheTruth and so we ran with that. And part of that was tongue in cheek. But then it had me wondering…well, what would be an effective way of getting this information disclosed quicker and more truthfully?

    Lue: Well, NASA…look, you guys, it’s working. NASA is now starting to have conversations and the director of NASA himself is beginning to entertain questions about about this topic.

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    Lue: So I think that’s great, I don’t think that’s tongue in cheek at all. It’s working. I’d give yourself a big pat on the back because I just saw a headline two days ago where he’s talking with Avi Loeb, and they’re going to be having this conversation. So, don’t look now but you just achieved part of what you’re trying to achieve.

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    CJ: Thank you, Lue. What would you recommend? What’s another avenue? So Storm Area 51 is a horrible idea? Anything else?

    Lue: You’re gonna get a bunch of young kids in trouble and potentially really hurt.

    CJ: This person, James, recommended a change.org petition. Truth and Reconciliation is also recommended by Ross. What do you see as an efficient and effective plan?

    Lue: I think we also have to start to continue to take an active role in our politics and voting people in who want transparency. We have been victimized too long by our ignorance. We have allowed people to get into the government that don’t have our best interests at heart, that are motivated by politics and not diplomacy. And where information is traded like a commodity. And so, secrecy is something that is abused for the wrong reasons and I think that’s problematic. There are some points of light right now in Congress, we see, between Senator Harry Reid, [who] is an absolute American hero. You have, on the other side of the aisle, Marco Rubio, you have Congressman Gallego and Tim Burchett, and Walker and some other folks now finally coming out and saying, “Hey, enough’s enough.” That’s fantastic, that’s how you make a difference. And, making sure that the general public goes to them and encourages them and tells them, “Thank you for doing this.” That goes a long way. These people are taking a huge risk to have this conversation and the more they hear from the public, that it’s okay to pursue this, the more willing they’re going to be to do it, and to have the conversation.

    And it’s working, I just came back from DC myself. I’m not gonna say who I spoke with, but that goes a long way, that means a lot to them. And it gives them the motivation, and the top cover to start asking the hard questions and start poking the executive branch in the chest and saying, “Alright, what do we know about this? And oh, by the way, Secretary of the Air Force, Kendall, with all due respect, don’t come back and say, ‘It’s not a priority,’ just because we can’t prove it’s a threat or not. That’s like saying a submarine pops out of the Potomac River next to Washington, DC and because it’s not wearing an American flag, and you don’t know if it’s a threat, it’s not a priority. That’s the wrong answer.” Again, with all due respect to Secretary Kendall, lest we forget who you work for. It’s not up to you to decide what is of national priority. Let me remind you, it’s not your Air Force, it’s our Air Force and you’re doing a job we told you to do. And if you don’t want to do it, or you’re unable to do it, then we’ll find somebody else who can and you can go back to doing what you were doing before. That’s my word of advice. I paid my dues in the trenches and I know what I swore to do and uphold. Sometimes people in positions of power need to be reminded of that by the people, by the way. So that’s what you guys can do.

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    For those who don’t know what Elizondo is talking about and missed Kendall’s comments, here’s tweet 1 of 5 with the full text below if you don’t want to click on it.

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    Kendall: “I’ve given a great deal of thought to defending American airspace but not against UFOs. If asked to do that then we will do it. This is a thing that’s been around for a great many years. I’ve given a great deal thought to defending American airspace but not against UFOs. I know a lot people take it very seriously and I think we should take the phenomenon seriously and try to investigate it. I don’t consider it an imminent threat to the United States or the human race, these phenomenon occurring. But they obviously tweak a lot of peoples’ curiosity and encourage speculation. So if we’re asked to take that on, we will. I would have to see evidence that it was something worthy of the attention of theAir Force as a threat. Our job is to protectagainst threats. I have a lot of known threats out there that we’re working very hard to protect the [US] against. I’d like to focus on those.”

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    CJ: Dan Z. of That UFO Podcast and the link to his podcast will be in the description, his and Andy’s.

    Lue: Great guy, by the way, he’s doing a lot of great work. Great lead-in, by the way, because when you’re asking what can you do? That’s a guy who’s…and like what you’re doing, is exactly what you guys should be doing.

    CJ: Great, great. AATIP focused on military encounters. Did you ever come across cases where people had experienced high strangeness similar to that found on Skinwalker Ranch? For example, have any pilots reported things like the hitchhiker effect (The alleged hitchhiker effect is when you visit a haunted location or location such as Skinwalker Ranch and something anomalous “attaches” itself to you. When you go home, it causes poltergeist-like effects and other phenomena to wreak havoc in your house and on your family. In the Skinwalker cases, many times, it was the wives who experienced the brunt of the phenomena after their husbands spent time on the ranch.) 

    Lue: You know, what a great question and I know (laughs)…oh my goodness, I’m gonna have to buy Dan a beer for that one. Great, by the way, he’s putting me on the spot and that’s a great question. I want to answer this as accurately as I can without without giving anybody the wrong impression. There’s a reason why the sixth observable is biological effects, okay? That, by definition, is high strangeness. People, after an encounter, experiencing certain physiological and psychological things. Again, let me…to put it succinctly, yes, but not the same as the Skinwalker Ranch.

    CJ: Differences being?

    Lue: Well, Skinwalker was looking at a lot of the paranormal aspects. As you say, in the vernacular, you know, shapeshifters and ghosts and you know, poltergeist, that type of activity, whereas AATIP was looking at nuts and bolts UFOs. But there were some parallels. Some people…and the problem is, we really don’t know enough about that, about the UAP issue to really speak cogently on that. People have had biological effects and that’s as far as we were prepared to go at the time because that could be quantified and qualified. You can look at physiology and morphology and you can look at things like that and you can look at tissues and things like that. You can quantify and qualify. The other stuff is a lot harder, especially anything dealing with a psychological episode. When I saw psychological, I don’t mean it in a bad way, not like it’s made up. I mean, everything we do is interpreted as psychologically right? There’s a mental process that goes along with the physical experience. PTSD is a perfect example. PTSD is very, very real but it’s a psychological response to a physiological and emotional-type situation. And very much the same way. People will will process data differently, just like PTSD, and no different in this topic. You have people, in some cases, I’ve talked to who, like Dave Fravor, just wants to get behind the wheel of one of these things and learn how to fly it. Then you have other people who’ve been deeply and emotionally impacted by this and still carry that with them. For whatever reason, they’ve come up close and personal and it caused some sort of conflict, internally.

    I’ll tell you a great guy, a super, super guy. He was on one of the episodes of “Unidentified,” and he carried the secret around. He told his chain of command, he was up in Canada doing a maneuver with the United States and him and his buddy were situated fairly close to each other, guarding an ammo field there, like a depot, out in the middle of nowhere and encountered a UFO. Well, they go to report it, but his buddy recants the story and says, “No, it’s all made up,” because of the backlash that they received. And he always maintained the story, and he was left out in the cold, people thought he was crazy and he carried that around for a long, long time until one day, his buddy came out and vindicated him. He says, “You know what?” Because I talked to the guy. He said, “It was real, every bit of it. I was there, but I didn’t want to catch crap any longer. So, I recanted the story, and I left my friend out there to flap in the wind, so to speak.” And that caused, I’m sure, a lot of issues. Imagine being part of something extraordinary and then the person that saw [it] with you telling the world, “Nah, we were just kidding, we didn’t really see it.” And you know you did and have to carry that for twenty, thirty years only to come back later.

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    Lue: His name’s Dave Marceau. He’s a great guy. If you ever get a chance to meet him, I highly recommend you have him on your show. He carried that around in his soul for decades and you should ask him the type of emotional cost it took on him. People call you crazy, people call you a liar, people call you all sorts of things. Only at the end to find out that, you know what? You were right (laughs), it did happen. And the witnesses are coming out now and saying, “Yeah, it did happen.” You say hitchhiker effect. Some folks swear that once you have one of these encounters, there’s this hitchhiker effect and now, all of a sudden, all sorts of weird things start happening to you and your family. There’s an individual that I am very, very, very close to who was very senior in this effort who, at some point, when he comes out of the shadows, you should probably have this conversation with that person. Because he’ll tell you, absolutely yes. But again, I don’t have any data that can be quantified or qualified, so I cannot speak definitively on it. I think we have to remain open that there’s a whole lot of things that are possible.

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    Watch the David Marceau segment on “Unidentified” starting at 12:23…

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7v802h

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    CJ: I know you said you don’t have data that’s quantifiable, but I’m curious about this hitchhiker effect, or the sixth observable. Is that associated with proximity to the craft or length of time looking at the craft, like another variable? What is associated with this?

    Lue: Damn. Great question! Man! Let me take a pass on that for now. That will be addressed. Great question.

    CJ: Sure. We’ll get to Scott Larkin, who says, “Lue I believe your service to God and country will be understood more clearly in the history books. Are you aware of the CIA’s paper known as The Adam and Eve event? How much of what is going on is currently related to this pending event?

    Lue: I’ve heard of it but I don’t know anything about it. I’ve always made it very clear, up until recently, I really haven’t done much reading on this because I never wanted to have any type of bias, even subconsciously. People get mad at me and go, “Well, didn’t you read this report, didn’t you read that report?” Look, I read government reports, man, that’s what I did, that was my job, and I didn’t want to muddy the waters by, you know, all these other things out there. There’s a lot of stuff that’s interesting there’s a lot of stuff that’s crap. There’s a lot of conspiracy bs out there that’s just nonsense and garbage, and then there’s some stuff that’s pretty accurate. So, I’ve heard of the Adam and Eve, if you will, but I’m not overly familiar with it so it wouldn’t be really good for me to comment because I don’t know the details of it. Now, if you can paraphrase for me, I can give you my opinion on it. Are you aware, Curt, of that?

    CJ: No, I was going to get you to explain to the audience as well as myself.

    Lue: Yeah, I wouldn’t be the guy to do that.

    CJ: Someone, wants to know, for those who maybe don’t know: What’s the main difference between AAWSAP and AATIP? What involvement, if any, did you have with AAWSAP?

    Lue: Well, now I can talk about it because the guy came out. So, Jim Lacatksi is a great guy, super smart. I’ve always said he’s probably the greatest rocket scientist our government had, at the time. Incredibly brilliant gentleman, and also was one hell of a risk taker. So, AAWSAP, think of Ford Motor Company as AAWSAP. And they make a lot of models. They make the Bronco, they make the Crown Victoria, they make the Mustang. Think of AATIP as the Ford Mustang. It is a sub-model built under/within the Ford plant. And it’s a sports car. It’s one of the many different lines of models.

    CJ: There’s that word sports car again.

    Lue: Sports car, right.

    CJ: Bob Lazar reference. (I believe he meant Lazar Sport Model UFO.)

    Lue: So what happens with AAWSAP, think of Ford Motor Company, eventually going out of business, for whatever reason, but the Ford Mustang is so popular that the Ford Mustang continues to be built under its own moniker and continues to be built as the Ford Mustang but there’s no other cars now being built by the mechanic, it’s just the Ford Mustang.

    CJ: So it’s a baby of and the parents died?

    Lue: Yeah. So it started off…look, there would be no AATIP without AAWSAP and without Jim Lacatski. That’s a fact. But when that program went away, AATIP continued. And that’s why you have all the videos out there from the Roosevelt and all these other incidents that will be coming to light and continue to come to light because a lot was done under AATIP. But it was military focused, only. We did not deal with civilian information at all. It was military focused and we did have funding. I’ll leave it at that. I’m not going to say anything to disparage my good friend, Jim. Jim is a good man and he’s done a lot for this country. But I can’t speak for AAWSAP and I’ve said that from day one. As you noticed, I’ve always said, “I can’t speak for AAWSAP [but] one day that guy will come forward and hopefully we can stand shoulder to shoulder and he’ll finally get the credit that he deserves.” But AAWSAP wasn’t AATIP and AATIP wasn’t AAWSAP. I was AATIP, he was AAWSAP and if you want to know more about the AAWSAP stuff, you’d probably have to ask him.

    CJ: Okay, now, you mentioned the word “woo” quite a while ago and just so you know, I don’t…firstly, I don’t use that word because that word is used disparagingly. And also because much of what’s considered pseudoscience becomes science. And also, what you categorize as being paranormal depends on your assumptions of what normal is, and we don’t have a theory of everything, so it’s difficult to say. Given that, what’s your opinion on remote viewing, and I believe you dabbled in that. So I would like to know more about that.

    Lue: Okay, so remote viewing is defined as a human cognitive capability to observe things separated by space and time, in essence. I’m not going to discuss what I’ve done in my career, I’ve done a lot of things in my career for my country. Most of it, as you probably agree, has never seen the light of day and it’s not really germane or relevant to this discussion of UAP. The UAP topic is only one aspect of my career and my service to my country, but the rest is private, unless it doesn’t need to be. I don’t think a discussion on remote viewing has anything to do with UAPs or my time in the AATIP program and I think it’s just a distraction. And I’ll leave it at that.

    (Lue did talk about remote viewing a bit more in this panel discussion)

    CJ: Okay, so this question comes from AWAF: With the phenomenon being so evasive, what level of confidence do we have that global disclosure will be a net positive for engagement with it? As an analogy, we know hornets exist, but poking the hornet’s nest is ill-advised.

    Lue: Can you repeat that, Curt, one more time? I think that’s a really…getting it right, that’s actually a really, really interesting question.

    CJ: With the phenomenon being so evasive, what level of confidence do we have that global disclosure will be a net positive for engagement with it? As an analogy, we know hornets exists, but poking the hornet’s nest is ill-advised.

    Lue: Well, let’s define engagement. Is engagement the same as poking? I don’t think so. International engagement is getting everybody on the same sheet of music about the topic. It’s not necessarily being provocative, it’s not necessarily poking, quote unquote, “the hornet’s nest.” What it is, it’s an acknowledgement that the hornet’s nest exists, and that hornets exist, so we should probably understand them. I’m not at all advocating that we go and poke the hornet’s nest. What I’m advocating is that we need to study the hornet and we need to study where the hornet lives, and how it lives and its relationship to its environment and ultimately, its relationship to us, if any.

    CJ: I think the last time we spoke about trans-medium, that it would go from water to air, back and forth. Is there any evidence of trans-medium with respect to rock? Can it move through solid material?

    Lue: I’ve heard people speculate that. We haven’t seen that but there were some scientific models, specifically a couple of calculations that I was privy to the mathematics, specifically, that indicate if you can get a certain number below a zero, then, quote, unquote, “it can cut through through rock like butter.” But I’m not a math expert and I’m certainly not gonna validate or verify that because I don’t know. All I saw were a bunch of numbers and letters of the alphabet put in front of me (laughs) in a very long strain of what I presumed to be valid equations. But I don’t know. Math for me was a minor. I think I got up to Calc[ulus] III.

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    In the Vallee/Davis paper, “A Six-layer Model for Anomalous Phenomena,” the second layer features objects that are, “described as physical and material but they are also described as:

    Sinking into the ground (This would seem to include rock and solid material ~Joe) 

    Shrinking in size, growing larger, or changing shape on the spot

    Becoming fuzzy and transparent on the spot

    Dividing into two or more objects, several of them merging into one object at slow speed (Aguadilla? ~Joe)

    Disappearing at one point and appearing elsewhere instantaneously

    Remaining observable visually while not detected by rada

    Producing missing time or time dilatation

    Producing topological inversion or space dilatation (object was estimated to be of small exterior size/volume, but witness(s) saw a huge interior many times the exterior size)

    Appearing as balls of colored, intensely bright light under intelligent control

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    Lue: And, true story, I’ll share this with you. I appreciate math and love certain aspects of math, but I’m not necessarily great at math. And finally, I was going up to Calc III and my professor failed me the first time around. So I had a chance to make it up and I go back to the same professor. And, by the way, my professor really didn’t like me very much and really, I didn’t take it as seriously as I should. And so, time and time again, I’d come in and I wouldn’t do good on the test. And finally, I told him, I said, “Look, I’m having trouble here with this class.” He says, “Yeah, you are.” And he said, “Look, I don’t think this is for you. You’re not a great student in Calc III.” And I said, “No, I agree with you. But you got to pass me because I’m making some decisions in my life and this is really the last class I need to graduate.” And he said, “Well, you’re just not making the standard.”

    CJ: And you intimidated him with their muscles?

    Lue: No, on the contrary, what I told him is that I…I said, “Listen, I don’t like being here any more than you want me being here and I’ll make you a promise: If you fail me again, I promise you I will continue to be here and take your class every single day until you retire.”

    CJ: Oh wow.

    Lue: And he looked at me and he said, “So I guess we have mutual understanding (laughs) that you’re just gonna barely pass.” And I said, “Sir, that’s all I need. I’m not looking for an A, I just need to pass this class and I’ll be out of your hair forever.” And he said, “Okay, we have an agreement then.” And I just barely passed that class. And yeah, it was either Calc II or Calc III, and we made an agreement. I wouldn’t take Calculus anymore for the rest of my life and, there you have it.

    CJ: That number that was less than zero, or could be less than zero, do you happen to remember if it was mass?

    Lue: I have no idea, brother. I know who gave it to me, I don’t want to reveal that person right now.

    CJ: Okay, let’s forget about that.

    Lue: Honestly, by the time they got through the whole…my eyes had rolled in the back of my head about three times. And they were obviously very excited as they were writing these formulas down and said, “Bam! There’s the answer.” And I’m like, “Huh? What? Where?”

    CJ: See, for me, math is what turns me on.

    Lue: I love it. No, don’t get me wrong. I wish…I absolutely love math, it’s just doing it that, for me, is kind of kind of challenging.

    CJ: Okay, so Alien Alcoholic asks: Potentially, have there been biological samples recovered from craft?

    Lue: Let’s rephrase that question. Have there, potentially, been biological samples recovered? Yes. I’m not going to expound any more on that.

    CJ: Right. Right, so let’s forget about the craft.

    Lue: And be careful when I say that. I’m being purposely very open and vague at the same time, right? What does that mean? Well, it means what it means.

    CJ: Senzu Bean: Has he ever considered that when the UAP changes direction or speed, it may actually be warping space time…like certain warp drives I’m sure you’ve heard of? That way, the space time around the UAP is warped and so it’s not technically moving, and thus, the biological entities, if there are one, or any, wouldn’t feel g-forces. Have you considered that?

    Lue: Yeah, it’s right on the money, except for it is moving but the principles of what the question is are right on the money. Yes.

    CJ: And then, I just want to say…I always love when people say this at the end: “Hopefully my question makes sense, as I’m not a native English speaker. Kind Regards.” Hey man, your question makes complete sense.

    Lue: You know, he speaks better English, or she speaks better English than most most English speakers. So congratulations. I understood the question perfectly and it’s a great question. And, yeah.

    CJ: Okay, so this question comes from Steve Cambian of Truth Seekers, and I’ll put a link to his podcast in the description: Given the debate about your involvement with AATIP and your actual role., would you be able to prove your leadership role by releasing tax forms? In short, could you simply release your tax forms to prove your employment, leadership role and your salary for those years?

    Lue: (laughs) Of course I could but tax forms just tell you were working at a particular office, that’s all it does. And, of course, then, people start looking at your salaries and start making all sorts of inferences. The bottom line is that the government has already validated and verified that I work within the USDI. Senator Reid has already validated I worked on AATIP. You had the spokesperson for the Pentagon, Dana White, under Secretary Mattis, already verify that I was working AATIP.

    Lue: You have Jim Lacatski verifying I worked and ran AATIP. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. No, I’m not going to get into a tit for tat. Either that or I’m the world’s greatest clairvoyant, because everything I’ve talked about has come to fruition, to include the release of the videos that are on the 1910, with my signature on it.

    CJ: Both are remarkable.

    Lue: I mean, at this point, if people still question that, then, I don’t know what to tell you. Go get a hobby. No, I’m not gonna sit here at this point in time…there’s an IG evaluation and investigation specifically because of how they mishandled this. And then they come out and they say, “Oh, by the way, we deleted all Lue’s emails.” I mean, if you’re that much of a sucker, and you actually, still, at this point, are at all questioning what my role is, then I don’t know what to tell you. Sorry.

    CJ: Okay, this question comes from Ena: What can we do, personally, to prepare ourselves, and perhaps even others, for a post-disclosure world?

    Lue: You know, hold on a second.

    CJ: Are we taking a break? You need to…

    Lue: No. No, actually, I was trying to find an email that…never mind. I had an email that I’ve never shown but I was about to say, “Here, boom! How’s that for proof?” But no, don’t worry about it, I don’t even want to get into that. You know what? I’m not gonna satisfy anybody’s, at this point, questioning. All that is…and by the way, as time goes on, even more evidence is coming. So, you know,

    CJ: You find it to be a distraction and a waste of time, we have much greater issues?

    Lue: Well, and at this point, it’s just insulting, It’s like, dude, I can’t think for you at this point. I mean, if at this point, you’re still on the fence on that, then find something else to do, because it’s…yeah, it’s…

    CJ: It would be like seeing Obama’s birth certificate and then saying that he’s still from Kenya? You’d be like, “What more do you want from me?”

    LE: Yeah, it’s like, dude, what more do you want? You have the guy who ran the program, the senator himself saying I ran it. I mean, you have the Pentagon saying it. Now you have “60 minutes,” who, by the way, backed it up with General Mattis himself. I’m like, “What more you want?” I mean, you want a video of me going in and out of the office when I was there? Well, you’re not going to get that, you know? Sorry. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of people out there that are still…I consider agent provocateurs. They’re just trying to confuse the situation and for whatever reason. I mean, rather than looking at the last four years and saying, “Wow, look how far we’ve come!” they’d rather go back and, it’s…

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    CJ: Have you heard of Anjali?

    Lue: I have.

    CJ: Okay, see, people keep telling me to look her up and then many other people keep saying, “Don’t bother, she’s way out there,” which also makes me want to look her up even further. And I think I’ve been on some polls and you’ve been on some polls as who should she take with her as a representative or as one of several representatives for the planet Earth.

    Lue: Well, I never said I’d go with her, first of all, so I don’t know why someone’s using my name in a poll, without my permission, saying that they’ll take me anywhere. No one’s taking me anywhere unless I want to go somewhere. Two, the old saying, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Nothing would make me happier if she can take somebody to a magic cave underground and have communication with with another life form. But, if that’s the case, then what are you waiting for? Why not go now? Just bring a camera crew and go now. You don’t need to make a big deal of this, just go and do it and prove it. We’ve seen this in the community so many times before, with people making these bold claims. And, you know, man I really hope I’m wrong, I’d love to eat my hat. I’ll be the first one…there’s an old saying we have, “If I’m wrong, I will kiss her butt in front of Macy’s window.” Nothing would make me happier than [for] that to be true. But everything about how this is unfolding, doesn’t seem legit to me. It seems showboat. When you have someone sitting on a chair with…well, any ways. Look, I don’t want to be judgmental. Enough people are judgmental about me, I know how it feels. I want to give Anjali a fair shake but you better produce, because if you don’t, you got a lot of people riding on this and all you’re going to do is hurt the cause with some outlandish claim like this. If you can’t prove this outlandish claim, all you are gonna be responsible for is being another one of those people that are tinfoil hat and the reason why this topic was never taken seriously. So, add yourself to the list if you can’t deliver.

    CJ: When I looked at her – and I didn’t look at her much, I just saw a couple videos – I didn’t sense any dishonesty. But I didn’t have anything like a close gander, let’s say. So, you sense some grandstanding or showboating?

    Lue: No, no, look, I’m not gonna judge anybody, I’m not, I’m not. I’m just simply saying that if you’ve got extraordinary claims like that, you’ve got to deliver, you’ve got a responsibility now and you better not have an excuse not to deliver that.

    CJ: Alright, so this question comes from Ayna: What can we do, personally, and even societally, to prepare ourselves and others for a post-disclosure world?

    Lue: I’m not sure we need to prepare at all. I think we’re perfectly prepared. I have faith in human beings that we will look at this from a rational perspective. Our paradigm is challenged every day. We just had, in the media, China launch a hypersonic cruise missile around the world. That’s a change in the way we see ourselves, especially with potential, foreign adversaries. We have our paradigms change every day. People are told that they have cancer every day. People are told that spouses are cheating on them, every day. People are told that they’re pregnant and are gonna have kids, every day. People are told about the death of a loved one, every day. We’re human beings, that’s part of life. I think…I’m not sure there’s anything we can do to prepare. I think just be ourselves and be willing to ask the hard questions and have the patience to find the answers. Let’s not be so quick to jump into some sort of preconceived narrative just because it makes us feel good, right? Because we all want to understand things that we don’t. We all have this natural fear of things we can’t understand. We must be tempted not to create an artificial narrative, just so we feel better. We need to really explore this for what it is and have the courage to do so. That would be my advice. By the way, you do some really good questions, I really appreciate that. Questions that people haven’t asked me before. Yeah man, really good. By the way, let me also caveat here. You’re gonna get…I do have some people that really don’t like me and I’m sure they’re going to take out that hatred on you. So I apologize ahead of time. If anybody is screaming at you, I get some haters in my camp that tend to be rather vocal, so I hope they’re not driving you too crazy. I’ve got a nice little vocal, I almost consider…I call them my chorus, because I know, every time I come out and say anything, like on your show, that chorus is going to come out any minute now. And I can already hear them warming up their voices.

    CJ: The last time we spoke, there were two comments that you said that stood out to me. One was the somber, the somber heard around the world, in a sense.

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    CJ: And then you clarified that or you added to that by saying sobering. I was wondering, we can get to that. And then also, you mentioned that the charlatans of the world will be shown to be charlatans. And I, again, don’t know much about this UFO community but people in the comments were saying, “Did he mean Steven Greer?” So, why don’t you comment on that? You can be as diplomatic as you like, I know that you’re relatively a diplomatic person.

    Lue: Yeah. Let me start with somber or sobering. Imagine everything you’ve been taught, whether it’s through Sunday school, or through regular, formal education in school, or what our political leaders have told us and yes, even maybe our mothers and fathers around the dinner table have told us or maybe at bedtime, about who we are, right? Our background and our past. What if all of that turned out to be not entirely accurate? In fact, the very history of our species, the meaning what it means to be a human being and our place in this Universe. What if all that is now in question? What if it turns out that a lot of the things that we thought were one way, aren’t. Are we prepared to have that honest question with ourselves? Are we prepared to recognize that we’re not at the top of the food chain, potentially? That we’re not the alpha predator, that we are maybe somewhere in the middle? It’s interesting because I was having discussion with a friend, not too long ago. A really, really…we call them gray beards in the government. A really, really smart guy. I’m not gonna mention his name, but I was talking to him probably a couple months ago. And this is a guy who was always paid to solve the hard problems for the U.S. government. Cold War. How do we solve that, right? How do we do these big things? How do we go in and beat the Russians at their own game? So this guy I respect tremendously and we had a conversation, and he said, “You know, Lue, mankind’s been around for a little while and for most of that time mankind’s been around, we’ve been smack in the middle of the food chain. We ate a lot of things and a lot of things ate us, and that’s just the bottom line. And about 70,000 years ago, something fundamentally changed, something changed, and our species was instantly catapulted to the very top of our planet, as far as predatory animals.” And now, all of a sudden, we became the most feared, we were the most lethal and the most successful. In fact, most of the large species that existed on this planet went extinct because of us, believe it or not. because we started eating all of it. There were a couple species that did very, very well with our ascension, our immediate ascension. And we brought a couple species with us, the dog is an example, where the dog species benefited greatly with mankind’s ascension as the alpha predator and wound up succeeding very well off of that. That changed the entire global landscape of our planet, almost overnight. Large animals went extinct because of us.

    What if it turns out that there’s another species that is even higher on that ladder than we are? Do we need the social institutions that we have today? Will we need governmental and religious organizations that we have today, if it turns out that there is something else or someone else that is technologically more advanced and perhaps, from an evolutionary perspective, more advanced? Have we been wasting our time, all this time? Or, are we doing exactly what we’re supposed to be doing? Does it turn out that mankind is in fact, just another animal in the zoo? Or…because we thought ourselves as a zookeeper before, but maybe we’re just another exhibit inside the zoo? What would that mean to us? So, when I say sombering and sobering, I mean that there’s gonna come a point in this conversation where we’re gonna have to do a lot of reconciling with ourselves, whatever that means, from whatever philosophical background you have. This is going to impact every single one of us the same and yet equally and yet differently. And I think that’s important. You know, do we find ourselves in a situation where history may have to be rewritten? So that’s what I meant.

    Now, as far as the charlatans, I’m not going to give any attention to individual charlatans because they already have enough attention. They know exactly who I’m referring to. These are individuals who have made a cottage industry, a career, of taking people’s hard earned money and deceiving them. And not only deceiving them, but having them sign non-disclosure agreements to make sure they don’t tell the world that they’ve been deceived. And preying upon people who, for whatever reason, believe in them. People who say, “My narrative is the only narrative, and anybody else who tells you otherwise is trying to hurt you. I have all the answers. I have the solution.” Anybody who says that, I think is a charlatan and I think we need to be very, very mindful of that, they’re very dangerous. And they’re dangerous for several reasons. Because if they’re lying to you about that, they’re probably lying to you about other things in their life, their past life and their current life. Which may or may not come to light at some point. These are people who have taken advantage of people for a very long time and you have to be careful.

    CJ: What else are the motivations of some of these charlatans or potentially could be their motivation, other than financial or influence?

    Lue: Well, look at any religious charlatan, it’s the same thing. It’s a cult of personality. It’s somebody who, for whatever reason, thinks it’s all about them and they manage the narrative. It goes to the basic core of pride and ego in human beings and narcissistic behavior. Real, true, deep psychological issues. Some sociopathic, to be honest with you.

    CJ: Is there any gold in that rubble?

    Lue: I’m sorry?

    CJ: Is there any gold in that rubble, as in, is all of what they’re saying, some of these charlatans, we don’t have to name names.

    Lue: No, I think there’s always fibers of truth in a blanket of lies because that’s what holds it together. There are some aspects of truth. The problem is, when you take that truth and you distort it. There’s people in history that were very good at convincing large amounts of people that they have the answer, right? I don’t need to go back into history to say which ones those are but you have characters like Jim Jones, Heaven’s Gate is an example. Even Hitler, to some degree, where they were very charismatic people who got people in this web and they didn’t realize it until it was too late. And I just think when you’re creating all these shell organizations and pass throughs, and paying people off to do things for you to deceive other people, I think is problematic. Again, I’m not gonna say…I’m not gonna mention names, I think most people are smart enough to see through it. My concern are those people who are already sucked into it. It becomes a cult and it becomes brainwashing and manipulation and that’s my concern, because it gives a terrible name to the effort. And making false accusations…I think is…there’s an old saying and I’ll see if I can remember it: Ye be careful of the knife ye uses to stab at the back of others, for surely that knife will be used against you in the future, or at some point. Anyway, being just, you know, right karma. Karma is a bitch (laughs), be careful. Mother Nature has a vote and she’s got a way of always squaring things up at the end, and that’s what I’ve seen, anyways.

    CJ: Remember earlier, I was asking you, “What can we do as a culture?” I think, based on some of your statements, what we can do is something like we’ve already been doing, which is, keep talking about it so that we can de stigmatize it. I know that I don’t particularly like the word destigmatization, I think it’s been taken by certain people but essentially to destigmatize. However, there does seem to be the tendency from those who are believers in or who are part of the UFO community, who deride people like…see… Neil deGrasse Tyson and other skeptics deride the UFO community and I don’t think they should do that.

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    CJ: But then I also don’t think that they should be met with condescension as well because I think that that comes back at you. I think that love and extending an arm and an olive branch is what will…

    Lue: Curt, you’re right, you’re absolutely right. That’s a good point. Let me talk a little bit about Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. First of all, he’s one of the few shows that I used to watch a lot. I loved his perspective. And let’s talk about his background. This is a person who was a bit of a maverick. He cut his teeth and became…really made his bones by supporting and defending a theory that really was a hypothesis at the time, an outlandish hypothesis. And that was, there were these supermassive objects in our Universe that were so dense that they created a gravity well, they created a black hole in space time where light itself couldn’t even escape. And although we can’t see it directly, we can’t prove its existence, we think they’re there, right? Now, a lot in the scientific community said, “That’s hogwash! It’s a theoretical anomaly that isn’t real.” And yet, Neil deGrasse Tyson did exactly that. He supported the hypothesis and the theory that there are these things you’ll never be able to see with the naked eye but they fundamentally…they’re there, and they’re hundreds of millions of light years away.

    Well, it’s funny because that same spirit used to prove something you can never see, that is there, for some reason, he seems to have forgotten that in this topic because we’re talking about the same thing. We’re talking about something that is hard to see directly, sometimes, but we can see its impact on the environment around it, and to some degree, maybe warping space time. But it’s not hundreds of millions of miles away, it’s right here. And I don’t understand how you can support, on one hand, the scientific study and research into something called a black hole and not be open minded to something like UAP. To me, it’s the same thought process. Now, going back to what you say, as far as ridiculing them? No, we shouldn’t ridicule them. What we need to do is help them see the contradiction in their argument and not in a mean and spiteful way, either. I think we need to have a conversation because we need people like Neil deGrasse Tyson, we need people who are very smart to look at this problem and not just reject it because of stigma and taboo.

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    Neil deGrasse Tyson was accused of sexual misconduct by 4 women. He’s keeping all his jobs.

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    Lue: But the problem with the scientific community today is that they’ve rejected science in favor of scientism and scientism is no different than any other religion. It’s where you are so married to the scientific methodologies, that you no longer can accept new hypotheses and theories, and you reject them flatly. And I think that’s problematic because, as I’ve said before, every single principle of science today, whether it’s a theory, or a law of science that we accept as just a normal part of everyday life in science, started off as someone’s wacky, zany idea, way back when. Everything! And so, I don’t understand how we continue to find ourselves in the same hole every time. We keep saying, “Well now, that’s impossible. But, dammit, every time you say that, we get proven wrong. Haven’t you learned your lesson? Haven’t you taken your notes from the U.S. Patent Office when they said that bold claim that now everything in the world has been invented in a few years and there’s no need for a U.S. Patent Office anymore?

    CJ: Right, right.

    Lue: I mean, how short sighted can you possibly be? That’s the antithesis of scientific pursuit and endeavor. And, I think, if you were to ask me my true feelings on this, which again, I don’t offer very often: Science and religion, when you are standing at their base, they could not be any farther apart. Think of a pyramid. Go into The Great Pyramid of Giza, and standing on one side of the pyramid and say, “This is science!” And then, walking around all the way through this other pyramid and say, “This is Faith, this is religion.” And the two could not be further apart from each other. And yet, when you start to climb that pyramid, on whichever side you go on, they start to get closer and closer together. In fact, at some point, at the very top, the difference between science and religion are indistinguishable. They are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they are together, they’re one, they’re one in the same. And in fact, I think part of the problem is that in science and in faith, we’re asking two fundamental different questions. This is why the two don’t get along down at the base of the pyramid. This is why they seem so opposite. Because one is asking how and the other is asking why and they’re two different questions. And that’s why the two don’t seem to comport with one another. But ironically enough, the further you go up the ladder, the more you realize they actually require each other, they actually lean on each other, they actually support each other, and at the very top, there’s no difference between science and religion. They become one and they support each other, I think, anyways, that’s my perspective from from what I’ve seen in life.

    CJ: You know, you mentioned a phrase, it’s a phrase I don’t particularly like.

    Lue: I say a lot of things that people don’t like so I apologize, Curt, ahead of time.

    CJ: No, no. I apologize if I’m about to offend you. It’s, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” The reason I don’t like that is because people like Neil deGrasse Tyson, any skeptic will say that any claim that they’ve already deemed as being untrue. And even Dr. Bryan Keating, who is a friend, and he almost won the Nobel prizes. He’s an experimentalist physicist. He said, “I don’t ask my graduate students, ‘Go find the extraordinary evidence,’ it’s not a different class of evidence that’s called extraordinary. Also, what’s the extraordinary evidence that any of us are conscious? There’s actually zero evidence that you can point to, scientifically, outside of what people say. And then, well, what are you gonna take what people say? Well, you could just ask a computer, ‘Are you conscious?’ and so on and so on.” So that’s why I don’t particularly like that phrase.

    Lue: Well, I don’t disagree with you, I think that’s a really good point. I think I was taking it more in the vernacular, right? So, if you’re going to say something has been substantiated by observation, over and over again, multiple times to substantiate x equals three, right? And now you’re going to come out and say, “No, actually, x equals four,” then you are going to need evidence that is beyond what it currently is available to prove that, because all the evidence right now is suggesting x equals three and yet now you are claiming x equals four. Well, it is, by definition, extra-ordinary, the ordinary claim being x equals three, right? In simple algebra. But now you’re making an ex-tra or beyond ordinary claim that x does not equal three, it equals four. So therefore, you’re going to need beyond ordinary evidence, beyond what showing x equals three, to prove now your theory that x equals four. And so, from my perspective, when I say extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence, I don’t necessarily mean perhaps the way a lot of people mean it. I just mean it’s beyond, just like the word normal versus paranormal, by definition, extra ordinary, extraordinary. But I see your point, and I think you’re right. I think part of the problem is that we get too comfortable in the current understanding of our current paradigm and we’re not willing to challenge, sometimes, very simple things.

    Case in point is I just had this conversation not too long ago, publicly, about fractals. They’ve been in front of us all along, ever since we were living in caves. And yet, it’s only recently realized that that may be part of the secrets of the Universe, right? That fractals exist everywhere. They exist physically, they exist even from a psychological perspective, the way we relate to one another. And it’s been in front of us all…it’s obvious, it’s not really extraordinary at all. It’s actually blatantly obvious, and we just never saw it. So yeah, that’s a good point. I think you’re right, and maybe I need to rephrase that in the future. I’ll consider that because I think you may be right. Maybe that’s not entirely a good way to go about it. You know, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Maybe we’re beyond that in the conversation. So great, thanks for sharing that with me. And no, by the way, you did not insult me at all. In fact, I appreciate that a lot.

    CJ: Okay. Thanks, man. Rooter Router says, “Great show! Can you ask Lue the following? Based upon what you’ve learned, Lue, would you consider yourself to be an idealist or a materialist? And if you are unsure what those words mean?”

    Lue: No, I know what they are. Is there an Option C (laughs)?

    CJ: Which would be what? A mix?

    Lue: Can it be both? Or neither?

    CJ: That’s something I’ve been wondering. Is there a duality between those two? There’s plenty of dualities in math and physics where you think it’s the option between two but turns out that they’re equivalent ways of describing a system.

    Lue: Yeah, exactly. I’m not sure it’s an either or, I’m not sure they’re mutually exclusive. My background was science. In science, I found my solace, which I enjoyed.

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    I fell in love with science, because where there’s science, where there’s mathematics, there’s truth. “I often tell people, there’s a whole universe around you, and if you know how it works, it will give you a better appreciation of what life is about.”

    ~Lue Elizondo – by Billy Cox – An Excellent Read

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    Lue: I grew up kind of an angry young kid, had some some tough times since a kid. But science to me was unwavering. She was always there for me, she never lied to me. And so, I get lost in science. And I do believe in the scientific method. It works. Is it perfect? No, but it’s the best thing that we got right now that we know to test and apply theories. But at the same time, there’s something more, you said about human consciousness, you can’t prove it. There’s no mathematical formula, no physical evidence to prove consciousness and yet here we are having a conversation. So, I don’t think the two are mutually…I don’t consider myself a materialist or an idealist. Like I said, I make fun of the fact that I love humanity, it’s humans I don’t like, right? How is that possible, right? Because humanity is a collective of all the humans and yet. But, I’m probably a little bit of both. I think there’s an indelible aspect to a human being that transcends physicality. We have a body, obviously, and we have a brain, and our brain is inextricably tied, for metabolic processes to survive, to the body. The heart has to pump blood to get blood to the brain, otherwise the brain dies. And in the same respect, the brain is regulating all the autonomic processes for the body. So breathing, which is automatic, thank God for most of us, anyways, and heartbeat and temperature and whatnot.

    So the brain is a biological organ that is inextricably tied to the overall vehicle, which is the body and that’s organic as well. But there’s probably something more to the human being. There’s probably something more that is not necessarily physical. Because a computer has a processor, a computer has a body, right? The laptop I’m talking to you on right now, it’s got a processor that’s thinking, if you will, for the computer. But it’s not a conscious, living being, it’s not a sentient being. So the question is, what is that extra component, that extra ingredient that makes us human, that makes us a living, breathing, not only animal, but truly human? What separates us from everything else on this planet? And there’s that third ingredient [that] can be described potentially in cultures as the soul or the id or the chi or, you know, put your nom du jour you want on there. But I think a lot of people agree that there’s something different.

    Case in point, the notion of love. You can’t really describe it, it’s hard to describe. You can’t see it, you can’t touch it and taste it. But it’s there and it motivates a lot of people’s actions. In fact, love, to some degree, actually works against individual survival, and yet, a mother’s instinct to throw herself in front of a train to save her child is almost reflexive. There’s something there that recognizes the value of human life, human dignity. I could be in a car accident and lose use of my arms and my legs but I’m still Lue Elizondo. I could suffer a traumatic brain injury and have a severe TBI (traumatic brain injury), and be mentally impaired, but I’m still Lue Elzondo. What makes Lue Elizondo, Lue, is something a little bit different, something that you can’t really put your finger on. And so, back to this duality, materialist versus idealist. I’m probably a little bit of both because I believe in science but I also know that there’s limitations to science, and there’s limitations to human beings. And there’s limitations to you and me and everybody else. And that’s okay. And they’re aspects to being human that are probably, potentially, more human than human, to use an old cliche.

    So, great question. If I can ask you, Curt, a question I never asked you, just take a break here for a minute and ask you: What got you into this? Why did you want to get into this topic and have this conversation with your background? I mean, I suspect you have your reasons, but I’d love to know why?

    CJ: Originally, I was what people would categorize as an adamant atheist, and that was recently, too, just a few years ago. And I’m not saying I’m a theist now but I’m not an atheist. And just so you know, some atheists will say they don’t believe in God because, well, the concept of God is velutinous and amorphous, how do you pin it down? Well, then technically, you can’t say you’re an atheist because you can’t be anti, what’s cloud-like, you find yourself being cloud-like. (I’m struggling to hear if he really said cloud-like but that’s what it sounds like).

    Lue: You can’t be against nothing (laughs).

    CJ: So, either way I was speaking with someone who told me. “You know, aliens exist” and I gave him my standard spiel, which was, “Well, why do they look like us? It’s too human. It came out, the reports of aliens spike every time there’s a movie, so it seems culturally related.” The standard skeptic response.

    Lue: Yeah, anthropomorphism, etc., yeah.

    CJ: Right. And also, look, given our exponential curve for technological progress, why do these craft seem all alike? Now, of course, they’re varied in terms of shape and size. But still, they’re recognizable as craft. And let’s say you’re coming from a planet far away, then even if you were to travel there, time is…you can travel there almost instantaneously but thousands of years may have passed, and so then your technology would have increased.” But I had the standard, skeptical response. And then he said, “Curt, just watch this.” He sent me a few videos and I watched them and then I was…I think I’ve said this before…if I have any skill, it’s not math or physics, it’s body language. I watch people’s body language like a hawk, and I can tell when they’re insecure about a certain aspect of what they’re saying, when they don’t feel intelligent enough, when they feel intimidated, when they feel like they have to…well, you can continue on the list. And I didn’t see deception in what I saw. And so that got me interested and I decided to speak to Jeremy Corbell because I was a filmmaker. I still categorize myself as that. And he was one and still is. So I was like, “Okay, let me speak to Jeremy, he has a movie on Bob Lazar.”

    And since then, well, I’ve been interested in it because of the physics, but I’m also interested in the deep mysteries of the world. And it seems like UFOs tie in to them. And even if they don’t, it’s still incredibly informing. So, that’s my interest in it. And luckily, or unluckily, I don’t have a scornful, despising mind like most of the scientific community. I don’t look upon the subject with ridicule. In fact, I don’t particularly like when people ridicule other people. I think that’s an indication they should examine themselves for what they’re holding to be a self-evident truth and question their own motivations for believing in it. Because if there’s an emotion attached to it, then there’s some unconscious motivation for holding that belief that isn’t purely a dispassionate assessment of the evidence. So that’s my reason.

    Lue: Very well said. Let me ask you a further question, if I may then. Not that I’m interviewing you. This is actually a question for your audience, too, but I can’t talk to your whole audience other than addressing you, so, I’ll address you. We look in terms of everything from a humanistic perspective, and we want to make sense from nonsense. It’s just kind of in our DNA, right? When we are talking about the topic of UAP, I think everybody deep down inside has this innate desire for it to quote, “make sense.” Put it in a neat little box and it makes sense to us. The problem is, the more we talk about UAPs, the more we exchange ideas, and then the more we begin to formulate our own opinions about UAPs. And so, what happens when the topic of UAP, the truth, doesn’t comport? Because we’re all doing this, right now, subconsciously. Subconsciously, every person does it. We are creating these little boxes that we want to check off, regarding this topic of…it’s from outer space, it’s from inner-dimension, it’s this, and they want this and they can do that, and they can do today.

    CJ: I see what you’re saying.

    Lue: And we are building those boxes without even realizing it. So, when we ask the questions, we’re actually asking the questions in a way to check those boxes that we’ve already made up, psychologically, in our brain and in our subconscious, right. We have to avoid doing that. And it’s so natural that we don’t even realize we’re doing it. How do you avoid the temptation to ask, really, the big question without being tempted to fill in the little boxes? You know, a lot of the questions your wonderful audience has asked, may not even realize, but they’re trying to check those boxes that they’ve made for themselves in their brain. They’ve preconceived these little boxes that they must have an answer to this box. Because this box then relates to this and this and this and this gives me a bigger, overall picture and the answer that I’m looking for. But, what if this is even far more bizarre than that? How do we ask a question to something we don’t even know what questions to ask? Meaning, maybe it’s not even in the realm of our ability to really get to the root of this because we’re looking at everything from a human perspective, human motivation, human interest, human desire, fears. You know, what if it’s something completely different?

    And so, in essence, we need to avoid creating these little boxes, prematurely, in our mind. Which is hard, because that’s what we do as a species in everything that we do, right (laughs)? Take dating, for example. When you go on a date with somebody, what’s the first thing you do? Do I like them? Are we compatible? Do we like the same things? Do we like to eat the same dietary? Am I a vegan? They’re a meat eater. You know, these little boxes that we put in our brain, you know, already, before you’ve even asked the question. We have these these little voids that you want to fill. And the question is, how do we avoid that temptation? How do we pull ourselves out of a human paradigm to ask the questions that maybe aren’t human questions at all? I don’t know. I just offer that up to you because…

    CJ: That’s a great point. There’s a term for that, it’s called enthymemes. Have you heard of that?

    Lue: No, no, please explain.

    CJ: It’s just an unstated assumption. You don’t realize you’re making it when you’re asking a question or putting forward a statement. So, for example, let’s imagine worms. They see humans and they just conceive of humans as godlike. Then they would ask, “Well, they must eat the best dirt. What dirt do they eat?” They don’t realize they’re asking the wrong question.

    Lue: (laughs) Exactly! Precisely what my point is! So, what do you call it, enthymeme?

    CJ: E-N-T-H-Y-M-E-M-E. If you want a fun physics one, which I could say in like twenty seconds, Ed Witten, so one of the world’s greatest physicists, said…no-go theorem. So you can’t have a particle that is massless and has greater than half spin and also carry a charge. That’s Lorentz covariant, which means it follows Einstein’s equations. Okay. Which seems like it means there’s no such particle as the graviton because graviton has spin, too, and is mass-less. Okay. However, this unstated assumption, that you don’t realize and even Ed Witten didn’t realize he was making it, was that the graviton is in the same space time.

    Lue: Right.

    CJ: And so, this is one of the reasons that there’s this AdS/CFT correspondence, where you have holography. You’ve heard of the holographic principle?

    Lue: Yeah, absolutely. Sure. Sure, I follow them.

    CJ: Because it seems like, well, there’s a correspondence between CFT, so, Conformal Field Theory, and then having gravity on the boundary of that, or vice versa. So gravity could be somewhere else and there’s a correspondence between those…

    Lue: Correct, Correct, Correct.

    CJ: But it’s actually extremely tricky to extract that from the statement that you can’t have a particle that is of greater than spin 1/2 and massless and so on and so on. It’s difficult to see the assumption in that statement. So that’s what an enthymeme is.

    Lue: Yeah, that’s fantastic. Yeah, I appreciate that, thank you, Curt, for sharing that. If anything, that was worth, totally me being here (laughs). I really appreciate that.

    CJ: Oh, man. I feel so relaxed with you and I’m so honored that you’re spending some time with me, man.

    Lue: Well, it’s collective, right? I mean, you’ve got a great audience, you’re asking great questions and I almost feel like this is like a fireside chat. If we could all just be sitting together out here in Wyoming and eating around a fire, this is exactly what I’d be spending my time doing. I wish I could do this more often, I really do. Unfortunately, much of my time is committed to other endeavors within this effort. But I think this is important, because ultimately, look, we’re going to solve this mystery together, all of us and this isn’t going to be up to Lue. It’s not going to be up to Curt. It’s not going to be up to, you know (scoffs), Greer, or anybody else. It’s up to all of us and that old saying…what was it? I saw it recently, somebody, a couple things. I saw one really neat on the internet with somebody who was being angry and someone said, “Come, let us share smoke by the fire.” It’s an old, kind of an indigenous proverb, right? Saying, “Hey, let’s share smoke at the fire. Let’s stop grinding the axes. Let’s put our differences aside and let’s come together.” I like that.

    Another thing, too, by the way…I don’t know who does it…it’s completely off topic and random but I’m going, since I’ve got a little bit of time here, I’m going to say it anyways. There is an artist that has been drawing me and I gotta tell you, I don’t know if he likes me or hates me (It’s mostly negative. ~Joe), but man, it is amazing artwork, man. This person has somehow managed to capture…it’s kind of like a comic-book style and he usually draws me with these tiny little beady eyes.

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    CJ: What’s their name?

    Lue: I don’t know! I don’t know. I’ve seen it a few times. I don’t know if it’s like a Japanese anime style but it’s really neat, though. And again, I don’t know if they’re if they hate me, or they love me or indifferent.

    CJ: I’m pretty sure it’s a positive feeling. They wouldn’t spend so much time…

    Lue: But man, I gotta tell you, [a] really really talented artist man. I actually screen grabbed a couple of those and just saved them and showed my wife. I said, “Man, look at this. This is really clever.” One of them is, it’s (laughs), I guess, jokingly, you know,  all the work I’ve done in the government and then all of a sudden now I’m being assigned a UFO program and there’s this kind of, you know, reaction, which actually wasn’t too far from the truth (laughs). But, just really, really talented. So a big shout out to whoever you are out there. Again, whether you’re a fan or a hater, know that I’m your fan, either way, so you’re very talented at artwork.

    CJ: If you find the person’s name or person if you are watching this, just leave some comments and I’ll put your link in the description as well.

    Okay, I got to get to some more SuperChat and audience questions. They’re eager. Do It Yourself Craft asks: What’s his take on the alien abduction experience?

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    Lue: Interesting, they’re fascinating, but they’re just that. They’re an experience. And with every person who talks about how these things may be here for peaceful purposes and, you know, just because they’ve never attacked us, means that they’re benevolent, there’s just as many people who are terrified and report the opposite experience. I’ve said this before, for [the] record: Look, if you take a member of my family against their will somewhere, that’s kidnapping. And God forbid, if you touch them, now that’s assault. Both are criminal offenses, from my perspective. I don’t care what your intent is. Bottom line. So, if abductions are happening, well the word of abduction itself is a criminal act, right? It’s kidnapping. It’s not taking you on a date, it’s abduction. If that indeed is happening. The problem is, it’s very hard to quantify and qualify that aspect of the conversation because at the end of the day, you’re just relying on eyewitness testimony. There’s no gun camera footage, there’s no radar data to suggest that. It’s just someone’s personal experience. And when you do that, you have to consider all sorts of stuff. You know, you have to…you’re now talking about aspects that involve psychology, aspects that involve sociology and aspects that involve philosophy.

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    Excellent article by Ralph Blumenthal

    Alien Nation: Have Humans Been Abducted by Extraterrestrials?

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    Lue: You know, we all interpret data differently, as human beings. Processes occur differently in our brains, and biochemically, even. So it’s very hard to do anything with that data from a military perspective, from a DoD perspective, because eyewitness testimony is one thing and even that’s tricky sometimes. But when you start talking about experiences, physical experiences from people, and they vary so much, in some cases, in some cases they’re similar. There’s not a whole lot I can do with that data. So, although it’s extremely interesting, fascinating, in fact, it was never really a core part of our research in AATIP. Again, because scientifically, it’s very hard to quantify and qualify, and there’s nobody else that can that can say, “Yes, I saw this person…” Now there’s a few, small anecdotal examples here and there where people say, “I saw the person disappear,” or something like that, but that doesn’t help us. We need more information or more data. I will tell you…. (long pause) No, actually, no, I’ll wait (laughs). Sorry. Next time. Yeah. It’s interesting.

    CJ: Someone asked: Why is it that we have cattle mutilations, predominantly? We don’t hear much about sheep, and chickens, and so on. Why is it not on other livestock? Well, I’m sure there’s a minor amount, but why is it predominantly on cattle? Or at least, predominantly, we hear about it on cattle?

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    Lue: Yeah, we don’t know why. It could be something as simple as just, you know, the bovine genetic sequencing. It could be the fact that you can put a genetic tracer in an animal and follow the natural mutations of the genetic sequencing, the genotype and phenotype manifestations over time. You know, if I were to, let’s say, in the 1950s, put a marker, a specific marker in a specific herd of cow or head of cattle, and then watch as that genetic marker changes over time, there’s all sorts of things you can find. It could also be that certain animals are like canaries in a mine. They seem to be more sensitive, [for] whatever reason, to environmental changes or something to that effect. And so, you know, that is the animal of choice. We don’t really know and there’s still a lot of debate on what that is, what cattle mutilations are. Some will speculate that it’s UAP-related, some will speculate that no, it’s some sort of secret government program for tracking biological weapons testing, others opine that it’s something completely unrelated, it’s natural, it’s caused by coyotes and natural attrition of the herd. We don’t really know, but assuming, let’s just assume for a moment, I hate to say that word…let’s presume, because you know what assuming  does, right? So we’ll presume here instead of assume. Let’s just presume that it does have some sort of relationship to UAP, for example. Why would we, why would anybody, why would anything be interested in one particular species? There’s all sorts of reasons why. It could be that there is a special susceptibility to certain things. Again, going back to the canary analogy, right, that for whatever reason. It also could be that they’re widely available. I’m living here in Wyoming, there’s more head of cattle here in Wyoming than are people. That’s a true statement. We have more cows than we have people.

    CJ: That’s one of the hypotheses I was thinking about. Have you heard of The MacCready explosion? If you look at the amount of any animal, by mass, which one is most plentiful on the planet, it’s not humans, it’s actually cattle. Or cattle is second to humans. So I’m wondering, how much of it is just because there’s so many of them that…just by the law of numbers?

    Lue: Well, there’s a lot. Huge numbers, and they’re all over the world and a lot of them that are really remote. So, if you wanted to get in and get out and do something, a cow is a pretty easy target. Cheetahs run really fast, right? And alligators bite (both laugh).

    CJ: Those are great points, yeah. Okay, so before I rudely interrupted you, you were saying there was the reason of being plentiful, of being, perhaps, susceptible, like a canary in the coal mine, and then you were going on. What was the next?

    Lue: Yeah, it could also be that they have been…so cows are one of the few species that have been specifically manipulated by human beings. You know, there was a time where our species hunted something called an Aurochs and Aurochs was predominant all over the planet, and we hunted them, frankly, to extinction. What you see now in the domesticated cattle is really a crossbreed. It was made by, it was invented by humans. It’s kind of the animal that never was, to some degree. We’ve crossbred a lot of stuff so we now have this domesticated livestock that we used as a food source. Maybe there’s something in that? Maybe there’s something significant or specific, as it relates to that? We could go on and on, frankly, we could spend another two and a half hours just speculating on, why cows. There’s a lot of different reasons why, potentially, you know, the fact that it is a primary food source for a lot of people on this planet, does that have something to do with it? Is there something relevant to that, that is of key interest?

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    Lue: “I had the privilege of speaking to a veterinarian, up here in Montana, of all places. And he was a former official, and he’s a veterinarian, and he’s called a lot of times to these cattle mutilations. And he is absolutely, 100% convinced that it is something that is not natural, and that is being done. Farmers will report lights in the sky. Later on, they discover these animals with what appears to be cauterization of the wounds. A lot of sexual organs, particularly, removed. And then some really other unique pieces to the puzzle where, you know, maybe one tiny bone is missing in the entire animal. And that’s it. Like it was just removed for the sake of removing it and studying it. And so, yeah, I mean, it’s something that’s interesting that’s been around for a while. A lot of people have…you’re not the first to ask me that, that’s for sure.

    CJ: SR asks: Not sure if this has been asked: Has Lue ever heard of Zimmernacht Whistleblower, or under any other name appearing on Reddit? And if yes, is there any truth to it at all?

    Lue: Well, I don’t read Reddit, very often. Again, if I want to abuse myself, I’ll just get on Twitter. They do a great job doing it, I don’t need any more (laughs). And then second of all, no, Zimmernacht, I’m not aware of. I’m not familiar with that unless there’s some sort of vernacular that is also referencing that. I have no idea about that.

    CJ: Stojan Carlosic asks: What does Lue think of the set of documents named Allies of Humanity?

    Lue: I’ve read a lot of documents. I don’t necessarily know about “Allies of Humanity,” what that is, unless it is something that involves different species that have been alleged to exist. I don’t know, I don’t know what that is. (Lue shared a panel with Marshall Summers this past summer. Summers wrote/channeled The Allies of Humanity series of books. You can read a full transcript of that very interesting discussion. Lue probably didn’t recognize the name.)

    CJ: Matt wants to know: What are…this goes back to the worms asking which dirt demons eat.

    Lue: (laughs) Great analogy, by the way. Only the very best dirt.

    CJ: So, what questions should we, as the audience, as myself, perhaps even as you, which questions should we be asking that we aren’t?

    Lue: Man! Well, you’re doing it. This is it! This is exactly why we’re having this conversation, right? To figure that out.

    CJ: So when you were saying that we have some unstated assumptions and we have boxes, you’re not saying that you’re immune from that?

    Lue: No! No, I need your help, too, to break out of that. No, absolutely I’m not immune to it. No, absolutely not. I have the same bias as everybody else. No, this is something we need to figure out, collectively. No, this is not a trick question I’m asking and then say, “Ha ha! I have the the answer.” No, no, no, I’ve got the same challenge you do, we’re in the same boat. We need to figure this out. And this is why I say we need academics and scientists and everybody else on board and philosophers and everybody, because they’re the ones that are going to help us figure out how to do that. I’m just a dude, I’m just one guy. I might not be super dumb, but I’m not necessarily the smartest guy, either. I don’t have the answers to all these things.

    CJ: You’re extremely, extremely…you’re extremely bright, man. It’s humbling.

    Lue: Oh, no, no. I appreciate it, but no, I can assure you… (laughs)

    CJ: Speaking about humbling, when you mention the word sober and somber, to me, the reason why is not because we’re more special than we think we are, but we’re much less.

    Lue: Yeah.

    CJ: So then I was wondering…Is perhaps another motivation for people, that wolf pack around you, not just a financial motivation, not just national security, but also perhaps self preservation? Because…

    Lue: Absolutely, self preservation! Yes, that’s a huge part of it! In fact, it also goes to pride and ego and self preservation. I mean, these are innate components of the human psyche and we need to be aware of it. And a lot of people don’t even realize they’re that way. You know, it comes from a place of self preservation, ultimately, survival. Control, and to some degree, even resources. It’s almost part of our character. You look at any any type of society, whether you have a society where you have a monarchy, a king or a queen, making authoritative decisions, or even to some degree, presidents or, you know, popes. And again, I’m not against any of this, I’m just simply saying that we, as a species, we always want answers, we always want someone to have the final say and narrative because we like our life to be defined. When you look at the way an average city organizer…the reason why they make our streets and grids north and south, east and west is, because subconsciously, it helps us know where we are, at any given time. We do have a compass, right? Even a watch tells us where we are in time, right? We are a species that doesn’t like…we fear the unknown. And when you look at Carl Sagan’s pale blue dot for the very first time, and you realize that everything in existence that we know of has occurred on that tiny little, pale blue dot, which is, three pixels large in the vastness and vacuum of space, in just one ray of light from the sun, that makes people pretty uncomfortable. The fact that, you know, other than towards the center of the Earth, there’s no such thing as up or down. There’s really no such thing as left…if you go left, far enough, you come back right again. Up is relative. Up just means I’m moving away from the center of the Earth. That’s all. There is no real up or down. We don’t know if we’re flying sideways somewhere in the Milky Way, in the Universe, or if we’re upside down. There is no upside down.

    My point is that when you really look at the Universe for what it is, we have no idea where we are. None. We are spinning in an obscure, spiral arm of some obscure galaxy we happen to call the Milky Way that’s on a collision course with another galaxy called Andromeda, in the next 250 million years or so. But in reality, we have no idea where the hell we are or where we’re going or where we’ve been. And so, we build these anecdotes and histories and whatnot because it helps us make sense from nonsense and that’s what we like as human beings. That’s why when you put people in a solid white room or even the furniture’s white, most people will report not only being disorientated but being uncomfortable because there’s no relativeness within the room. In fact, that’s why death is so scary for so many people because it’s the great unknown, and it’s something that, as a species, we fear a lot. Nobody wants to know that they’re lost. That’s why safety and security is so important in a lot of relationships, right? People always say, “I just want safety and security, that’s all. I want to know that that person is going to be there for me and I can rely upon them,” right? They want stability, they want an anchor. And that’s not a bad thing, that’s who we are. But we also have to realize there’s a lot of things in this Universe that are gonna force you to reevaluate. And that’s really, really uncomfortable. Once you really realize that you are truly, we are alone out here in the Universe, from a human perspective, right? I’m not saying from a living thing. I’m saying from a human perspective. That’s scary for a lot of people.

    To the best of our knowledge, we are the only humans in the universe. And of course, we have a bunch of animals we can play with on our little planet that we call Earth and it kind of makes us feel good. But, it’s looking more and more like every single day that there’s more out there. It’s just not human. And then the question is, “Okay, well, what are their intentions? What are their motivations? Do they want to work with us or do they want to subjugate us? Or, are we going to be tomorrow’s dinner menu, right? All these things go through the minds of people. And they’re good questions, and questions, frankly, we don’t have an answer for yet. And that makes people really, really uncomfortable and unsettled. And I think we need to be aware of it.

    So back to your question: Am I subject to the same box bias that you are and everybody else? You’re damn right I am! Yeah. And we need to figure out how to look at this topic…look at, potentially, a non-human topic, through non-human eyes, is what I’m trying to say. We may have to take our human glasses off that kind of filter everything in human terms.

    CJ: How do we do that?

    Lue: Well, that’s my question, right? How do we do that? This is exactly why we’re having this conversation. What could people be doing? Having that conversation. Exactly. That’s exactly what we could be doing, and we are doing.

    CJ: Can I add to what you said, if you don’t mind, like a thirty second…it’s on point, hopefully. This Pale Blue Dot, which I imagine is something…I don’t know about it. I imagine it zooming out and seeing how insignificant we are relative to…

    Lue: So let me tell you about the Pale Blue Dot. There’s a couple of pictures that have really, really…if you really want to look at something that’s pretty amazing. The first image is called the Pale Blue Dot. Carl Sagan, I think it was the Voyager – it might have been the Pioneer…I think it was the Voyager spacecraft [that] was leaving Earth’s orbit, by somewhere around Moon and then it turned around and took a picture of the Earth.

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    Lue: And then, as it was billions and billions of miles away, as it’s about to leave the solar system, so to speak. It was actually the inner solar system, but to the best of our knowledge at the time, it was the solar system. This is before the heliosphere and whatnot. He had a great idea and said, “Why don’t we turn that spacecraft around and take one more picture of Earth and see what it looks like?” And so, he did. And NASA turned it around and took a picture of Earth. And at first they couldn’t find it until one scientist pointed it out and said, “What’s that?” And you should look it up on Google. It’s pretty amazing. Look at it with the original photo, not zoomed in. And you all of a sudden get this sense of vastness and most will agree, maybe even a little insecurity because you’re like, “Whoa, that’s a fragile little tiny ball in the middle of nowhere.”

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    Lue: And then another picture is taken by…it was the Lunar Orbiter. It might have been the Apollo 11 mission where they’re rendezvousing with the lunar lander. And in there, there’s a picture of the lunar lander, with a picture of Earth behind it.

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    Lue: And in that picture, you realize, for the first time, that all of humanity, everything that has ever existed, everything that anybody had ever hoped, dreamed, or wished for…every war, every famine, every crisis, every human being that ever lived, and animal and living thing that we knew of, was all contained in that one picture, except for one person. And that was the one human being taking that picture from the Lunar Orbiter. And that’s very humbling, because then you realize, you know, wow, we really are all in this together. And, you know, for better for worse, we’re family, we’re a community. And those are the two pictures. I would recommend people take a look at those. For me, that was very impactful. You know, they say a picture’s worth a thousand words. Well, in this case, a picture’s worth five billion people. Pretty interesting.

    CJ: Let me play with that, if I can do so for a little bit and let me see if I can say this. I haven’t articulated this out loud. There are some YouTube videos that show the vastness of space, how immense it is, you just keep zooming out and out and out, and outward. And then some people feel dread and meaninglessness. But, to me that seems like a relic of territorial domination, when we used to tell a country’s power or stature from how much it owned? Because what difference does it make if we’re 1% of 1% of 1%, spatially or temporally of the galaxy? All of what matters, maybe that’s not what matters at all, maybe space and time and being located in it, isn’t what matters. If it was, then we could go to the Holocaust and say, “Well, it doesn’t matter because look at how small of a region it is, and how temporally bounded it was,” and say, “so it doesn’t matter.” But it matters. The birth of your daughter matters, the death of your son matters, every single thing that matters, is bounded, temporally and spatially. So perhaps what matters most isn’t how much space do we take up, but maybe it’s our heart, maybe it’s our capacity for pain, maybe it’s the ability to show love, despite being hurt, and to trust again? Maybe that all from another realm is something it’s huge, maybe it’s vastly huge in the way that we look at ourselves as small, maybe it’s huge. And to make an analogy in the realm of consciousness, if it’s a space, like space and time. But we don’t know. And in fact, all that we do know is what matters isn’t…like, your favorite piece of music is not, it’s only three or four or five or ten minutes long. It’s not an infinite amount of time.

    Lue: Well, Curt, the value of the human being, again, may not be what’s up in here (points to his head), and the body, it may be that that piece that we talked about before, right? That that indelible part of the human that is hard to define. Whether you call it a spirit or whatever you want to call it, you know, a soul. You’re right. I think there’s…that’s the value of a human being. It’s not that $2.03 worth of carbon that my body is worth or the nine pounds or so of my brain. Or maybe, in my case, much less weight (laughs). But there’s something else that creates the value for a human being. But I’ve said this before, and let me reiterate this for anybody who hasn’t heard this yet: We talk about the human being occupying this small moment of space in this infinitely vast, you know, 92 billion light-year Universe, across from side to side. And yet, and yet, within every single human being, Curt, is almost an equal amount of space. What do I mean? Well, let’s look at an atom. One times 10 to the negative 26. When you compare that to the human body, we are that universe, we are that vastness, we are to the atom, we are the Universe, and we are just as big.

    CJ: Interesting, interesting, right.

    Lue: And so, we really sit right in the middle of the scale of the Universe. And that’s important because it as big as the Universe outside is, it’s just as big inside. And we’re just now beginning to explore the realities of that and what that means. And so, you know, there’s beauty in that. But, of course, for a lot of people, there’s a lot of discomfort, right? And uncertainty, right? And insecurity. So yeah, I get it, man. I understand it’s one of those things that, ultimately we’re wrestling ourselves. Why are we so insecure? And why does this topic make us so insecure? Well, because we’re forced to look in the mirror and question ourselves, and reconcile the fact that we really don’t know where we are and we really don’t know where we’re going. Despite the best and the brightest in our governments that we appoint and say, “Yes, we are giving you the authority to tell us things,” right? But in reality, it’s kind of an illusion. It’s just like money. The only reason why money means anything is because we’ve all made a moral contract to agree that yes, it’s valued. But it doesn’t really have value, it’s a piece of paper. There’s no real intrinsic value behind it, other than we’ve all agreed to the illusion that yeah, it means something. Well, it’s the same thing with governments and authority and some religions that we have invested this authority to tell us, as a species, give us answers, give us meaning, right?

    CJ: So you think those at the top feel insecure that they may not have the answers?

    Lue: Oh, well, they don’t. A lot of them don’t have the answers. It’s not that they don’t feel…we know they don’t. And I think if they were to be true to themselves, they know they don’t (laughs). You know? I mean, look at politicians.

    CJ: Do you think they do? Do you think that they think that they have the answers, or do you feel like they know they don’t?

    Lue: I don’t think they think deep enough to even recognize it. I think they think they have answers for the paradigm for which they are living in. They don’t understand that there’s a much bigger reality there. For their little reality that’s been conceived and painted for them, yes they’re coloring within the boundaries of the lines. It’s like me when I take notes in this book, you know I’m confining my notes only to the boundaries of the paper, right? That’s all I can have to write with. Some people have bigger paper…

    CJ: Are those notes classified and you just revealed some classified…?

    Lue: No. No, no, no, never classified.

    CJ: Screenshot that and zoom in (both laugh).

    Lue: I think, you know, that’s…for me. You know, I look at it that way. Some people just have a bigger notepad to write notes. You know, but maybe we get to a point where we realize that even that we need a notepad is – now I’m getting very esoteric – and maybe the fact that we’re even using a notepad is limiting us.

    CJ: The limitations of language?

    Lue: Maybe the key here is that, you know, maybe we need to get rid of notepads altogether. It doesn’t matter how big of a notepad you have because, you know, you’re never going to be able to contain all the information in a notepad.

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    CJ: That’s one of the claims of Añjali, is that we need to get past the limitations of language, for whatever reason the aliens have told her this, and that we need to start communicating telepathically or realize the limitations of language. Just as an aside.

    Lue: Well, I’m not sure you need aliens to tell you that. I think that’s something age-old man has known for a long time. You know, that old cliche, right? Well, I love you beyond words. Well, what does that mean? We’re limited by language. Language is the closest we can get, right now, to reading each other’s minds, but, at the end of the day, we’re still limited. But I definitely don’t need aliens, necessarily, to tell me that, that’s just kind of a reality for us, I think.

    CJ:  Kevin asked: Given the clues, Lue, DeLonge and others have been laying down, it seems like we’re dealing with cryptoterrestrials, not necessarily aliens. Is this what Admiral Byrd found during Operation Highjump?

    Lue: It’s absolutely possible that this is something that’s been on this planet for a very long time. And it’s just as natural to Earth as we are. It could very well be its own, you know, crazy as this may sound, could be its own animal kingdom, just like the hidden world of protozoa and whatnot of the microorganisms and that animal kingdom that was invisible to us until just a couple 100 years ago. Could be, you know? The likelihood of it, I don’t really know, but it’s def…I mean, it is a possibility, you can’t say no.

    CJ: Umix asks: Can you ask them about Project Crystal Knight, aka Project Serpo, which was featured at the end of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters? (It wasn’t featured at the end of Close Encounters. That scene showed military folks (who had apparently been abducted/taken decades earlier) being returned by the aliens, without showing any signs of aging. ~Joe)

    Lue: I am not familiar enough with it to speak in any type of authoritative way. It’d be pure speculation, so I’ll leave it, unfortunately. I wish I could answer it for you.

    CJ: Matt asks: Have you, Lue, had any holy shit moments, where you learned a truth about something so over the top that it wasn’t even on your question list? Speaking of question lists.

    Lue: Oh yeah (and then he laughs). Yeah.

    CJ: Okay, let me continue then, so you have more to riff off of. How many times have extraordinary revelations occurred to you as you were learning about this phenomenon?

    Lue: So, as it relates to UAP, there were a few. I’m beginning to put my thoughts down on paper. There were quite a few. And, you know, each time it challenged my perspective on things, it challenged my understanding of the Universe and our place in it. But not quite yet prepared to have that conversation. But I will have it at some point.

    CJ: Did you ever lose sleep over it?

    Lue: All the time.

    CJ: Gus asks: If Lue is under NDA, how can he write a book with new and definitive information regarding the UAP phenomenon? I don’t think this question is meant to be snarky at all, I think it’s genuine

    Lue: Yeah. It’s gotta go through a security-review process and my intent is to put everything I can down there and then whatever the government decides…no different than Lacatski. Whatever the government decides to redact, and you’re going to know what parts are redacted and what parts are not. And, you know, you gotta try, but it’s not my call, I’ve got to get it reviewed. So, how can I? Well, I can by going through the right processes, and that’s how you do it. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do it, so I intend to do it the right way.

    CJ: How long does that process take, when you give them a book and then you have to…

    LE: Well, it’s not up to me. It can be a while, but that’s what I’m gonna do. And I’ve got a great partnership with Harper Collins, who is willing to take this journey, so. And by the way, there’ll be a very specific reason, very obvious, when that book comes out. A lot of people are making presumptions and assumptions of my motivation. They haven’t a clue. They have no clue what I’m doing. It’ll be very clear.

    CJ: What will be obvious?

    Lue: It will be crystal clear of why I’m writing this book, when it comes out. People are gonna go, “Oh, wow!” So…

    CJ:  Jesus is the Light asks: One question for Lue. I’ve never heard this one asked: If UAPs are trying to prevent us from nuclear war that supposedly may happen in the future – now this is predicated on the future-human hypothesis – when was this supposed to take place? Is it less than 10 years from now? Obviously, we’re in wild, speculative territory.

    Lue: Yeah. I mean, we don’t know they’re trying to prevent a nuclear war. That’s, again, a presumption by some people. Let’s not forget that, in Russia, they actually turn them on. So that, you know, I don’t know if that’s preventing a nuclear war. And by the way, if that’s the case, they didn’t prevent us dropping a bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, you know, there’s already flawed logic there that they’re trying to prevent anything. We don’t know that. We are presuming. So, we need to be very careful with that. As far as any type of future war? Your guess is as good as mine. That’s a whole different territory that I’m definitely not qualified to answer.

    CJ: Okay, this is a question that I’ve thought about. Wiley Lafferty asks: Who are the government people that come to confiscate cameras and data, threatening witnesses to remain silent about their experience? This has happened to military and civilian witnesses. He says, “AATIP?”

    Lue No, it wasn’t AATIP. I mean, no, it wasn’t AATIP. But yeah, there were people who definitely tried to intimidate people. And, you know, all I gotta say is that wouldn’t be wise to do it with me and my colleagues. I don’t get intimidated very easily. You know, we’re kind of the people who, if you poke us, we’re gonna poke you right back. I don’t know why people got intimidated in the past. The only way I would ever shut up from this, is if someone really came in and said, “Lue, we need you to be quiet, this is hurting national security.” But that hasn’t happened. I’m the kind of guy, if you try to intimidate me, you’re making a big, big mistake. And I’ll leave it at that. Because, my background is specific enough where you better come at me with everything you got.

    CJ: Is there any truth to Men In Black?

    Lue: Well, I mean, sure. The question is: Who are they? You know, there’s been elements in the past where U.S. investigators…I mean, the truth is, we wear black suits sometimes. I mean, I have three of them, you know? The problem is that Hollywood has kind of portrayed it a certain way. For us, you know, black suits were fairly functional. Look, I mean, this is gonna sound silly, but you wear them because they’re like wearing jeans but formal attire because you can spill food on black suits and all that kind of stuff and kind of wipe it away and you know, it’s a little bit more forgiving than another type of suit. So, and historically tend to be more of the cheaper suits, just because they’re black, they’re not really fancy material or stuff like that. So, historically, black suits have always been synonymous with government and what people refer to us as government stiffs. There’s always been Men In Black, I was one of them. I was a counterintelligence special agent, but I never intimidated people like that. And so the question is: Who’s doing that, and why are they doing that and under whose authority are they doing that? That’s my problem. If they’re operating without any authority, then, you know, you’ve got problems, because we had to all operate under rules and authorities and if you’re not, and you’re running rogue and you’re going around intimidating people, you know? I can’t stand bullies, man. I don’t like bullies. I’m not that guy. Anybody who knows about the way I was raised and what I had to go through, you know, I tend to be a bit of an anti-bully. I tend to try to… (laughs)

    CJ: Bully the bullies?

    Lue: Yeah, you know, that’s kind of…

    CJ: Or put the bullies in their place?

    Lue: Yeah. They weren’t going to be bullies much longer, I can assure you. I’d love to keep talking about this, I had a fantastic time with your folks. Hopefully, I didn’t waste anybody’s time. I know you’re gonna get people saying, “Oh, Lue didn’t answer my question and Lue avoided this and that.” I’m sorry in advance, they’re going to do it. They got some haters, they’re gonna nail you on it. But, you know, I’d love to do this again with you and if there’s anything I haven’t addressed, let’s do it next time.

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    This was Lue’s answer to Richard Dolan on May 20th, 2021, when asked about intimidation.

    Richad Dolan: So, I believe that you have said in interviews – and this is going off ofI’m not exactly 100% sure, but I’m pretty sure that you might have said – that someone mysterious and unidentified from elsewhere in the DoD beat you to the punch a couple of times, collecting records of radar or optic data, or electronic data, or even physical debris as evidence of UAP encounters, before you got there to investigate. Now, the fact is, if you did say thatthat M.O. is identical to what Project Blue Book investigators, years and years ago, said many times. So who were these agents? Where do they get the authority to supersede yours, if this happened? I mean, your authority came directly from the Secretary of Defense, so how would that have been the case? And, I’m wondering, what might have been reported in the interactions with these beings when youI’m trying to think how I want to ask this. Do you have any evidence that these operatives were in factwhat can you say about this?

    Lue: I will tell you that, in my experience, there were some elements that were interfering with our capabilities to collect and analyze data and information. This kind of goes to the whole, I guess, the speculation of some sort of secret government society or Men in Black or whatnot. I haven’t had any encounters. Now, I will say without going into much detail, I did have a very, at one point, a very close colleague of mine, that told me emphatically that that body exists but I haven’t had any encounters and I suspect if it does exist

    RD: Wait, that there’s a mysterious like, let’s say, quasi, Men In Black-type organization that is out there that is acquiring UFO data?

    Lue: You can call it whatever you want. Another organization that’s doing some type of similar work and maybe on the black side of the house, black operations. I don’t want to feed any more conspiracy theories because, frankly, I don’t really know. But I did have a colleague share with me that they were convinced that there was an element within the government that did do that type of stuff and would intimidate people. I haven’t had any personal experience. It’s probably because either, oneI’m considered too reckless and they know that I would completely and probably, if they came into my front door, I’d shut the door behind him and try to interrogate them. Or, I’m too stupid. Maybe I’m too much of a loose cannon, possibly, maybe. I don’t know why. If there is that secret organization, again, I’ve never come across them, they’ve never tried to intimidate me, personally. But again, that that could just be because maybe I’m not worth their time? If it does exist.

    [End Excerpt]

    ~~~

    CJ: Thank you, man, I appreciate your generosity, again, immense generosity. And as well as for what you’re doing.

    Lue: Well, and I appreciate what you’re doing, and I appreciate what your audience is doing because you guys are making the difference. You know, you keep asking me, what can you do? You’re doing it. This is exactly what you can do, and you’re doing it better than anybody else. So, thank you.

    CJ: Until next time.

    ~~~

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  • Dr. Garry P. Nolan – Dec. 10th, 2021 Transcript: “They May Be From Another Level of Reality That We Don’t Understand”

    Dr. Garry P. Nolan – Dec. 10th, 2021 Transcript: “They May Be From Another Level of Reality That We Don’t Understand”

    “To have a group of scientists who are supposed to be leading thinkers, debase people who are interested in thinking about new ideas is, to me, that’s heretical.”

    ~Dr. Garry P. Nolan

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    I read the article and share my take on it. If you go back to the beginning, you’ll see I also read segments from my Dr. Kit Green interview that is related to this.

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    Transcript of Dialogue Between Dr. Garry P. Nolan, Jesse Michels on Physiological Effects of UFOs on Humans, and Analysis of Alleged UFO Debris

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    Dec 10, 2021

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    Below is a transcript made by David Haith (and supplemented by me) of an interview Jesse Michels of the American Alchemy podcast conducted with Dr. Garry P. Nolan of Stanford University, with a brief “appearance” from Dr. Hal Puthoff of EarthTech International. The discussion focused on Nolan’s research and testing of, recovered materials that allegedly came from a UFO, and also, the brain effects and anomalies of people who have experienced close contact with UFOs.

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    Jesse Michels (JM):  Dr. Gary Nolan is a well-respected microbiologist and geneticist at Stanford. Along with his PhD students, he spun-up multiple companies that have sold for nine figures.

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    JM: I’m here with my friend Dr. Gary Nolan, here at the Nolan Research Lab at Stanford. Very few people, I think, marry traditional science and the study of anomalous kind of heterodox subjects like UFOs and aliens. Where did your interest stem from, originally?

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    Dr. Garry P. Nolan (GN): Somewhere, very early on, I started reading science fiction.

    JM:Do you have any favorite authors?

    GN: More recently, Iain Banks and Arthur C. Clarke, obviously amazing.

    JM: And Arthur C. Clarke wrote, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” right?

    GN: Right, right.

    JM: And I always found interesting, because of the monolith in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

    GN: Yeah.

    JM: Which is this sort of thing placed on Earth that inspires tech innovation. It’s almost like John Mack would talk about a lot of these alien sightings being slightly more advanced, but barely comprehensible tech for the time, almost inspiring tech innovation.

    GN: I often think of it as laying breadcrumbs in a direction.

    JM: What are the areas of microbiology that you’re currently most excited about?

    GN: So, right now, primarily, I would say we’re interested in cancer and understanding how cancer is put together.

    (Clip of the Nolan Lab:  GN: This is a set of robots…you program each station.)

    GNScience, in its essence, and scientists, are capitalists. Most of the biology scientists in the country have some relationship to studying cancer. Why?  Because the NCI, the National Cancer Institute, is one of the biggest institutes in the country for doling out money. So you follow the money. And if there’s no money for doing this research and there’s no positive feedback for it, and if anything, negative feedback, then the science doesn’t advance.

    JM: This is a crucial point. Despite the upper echelon of society actually being pretty interested in UFOs, it suffers from a severe lack of resources. Just look at the main UFO program over the last 15 years out of the Department of Defense. It’s called AATIP or the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. AATIP has a $22 million budget (It was AAWSAP that had the $22 million budget, not AATIP, and they studied UFOs AND related phenomena ~Joe).  Just compare that to fighter-jet budgets, which often exceed $100 billion. In other words, discovering extraterrestrial life and even propulsion that could be stepwise better than what we currently have, gets less than one percent of the current F-35 budget.

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    At the Making Contact online conference in August, Professor Jeffrey Kripal, PhD, of Rice University echoed similar thoughts: Money and resources are needed to get professionals involved and that includes scientists, theologians and philosophers. All need funding. Then we can train young people to study these anomalies. Until that happens, nothing will change.

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    GN: From my point of view, when I got involved…the CIA came to my office. I mean, at first I thought it was a joke, I really did. I was looking across the way here at some of the other offices to see if there was a camera. And so, they said, “We asked around, and everybody said that you’ve built the best tool called cyTOF. I was introduced to others who were…I think you people called them “The Invisible College” – it was people like Jacques, people like Hal Puthoff, Eric Davis and Robert Bigelow and Colm Kelleher.

    And then they showed me MRIs of some of these people and most of those people had interactions with UFOs and these were Department of Defense and intelligence people, so supposedly and reasonably, credible individuals. So in looking at the MRIs of some of these people, we noticed an area of the brain that seemed to be disturbed, let’s say, or different in many of these individuals. So it’s an area that I’ve talked about before, between the head of the Caudate and the Putamen, that had increased neural density and it was larger in all these individuals.

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    GN: And so you just ask the question, okay, what’s unique about these individuals? Well they’re all highly functioning and you have to make snap decisions. And so, what is that? That’s intuition. One way to explain it would be intuition or just highly intelligent. And then surprisingly, when we looked in the family members, we found that the family members had it, which was fascinating. So that means that structure had a genetic component, whatever it was.

    JM: Here’s a question: Do you have a genetic and phenotypic (relating to the observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment) predisposition to seeing the UFOs? Or, post contact, do you now have a more neuronally dense caudate nucleus and putamen and more psychic?

    GN: No, I don’t think it’s changed. They’re just able to, as you say, see it – they’re able to recognize it for what it might be and not dismiss it.

    JM: Maybe it’s allowing us to kind of widen the doors of our normal, limited scope of perception?

    GN: Right.

    JM: You’re seeing these UFOs that exist kind of interstitially in reality that other people just can’t see…

    GN: Our senses are a filter to stop our brains from being overwhelmed with reality, and so what we see is a limited aspect of everything around us.

    JM: But that is a different model of reality than people currently have today but it’s one I’m sympathetic to, which is that the sensory organs are not necessarily productive, they’re reductive (tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form).

    GN: Oh yeah, absolutely, no, they’re reductive. Yeah.

    JM: On a default state of almost greater omniscience, but an inability to make sense of things.

    GN: Right. I just don’t know whether or not it is an antenna or anything like that. It just allows us to interpret things better, right? So, for instance, there’s a form of Japanese chess, which is a smaller number of pieces, etc.

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    GN: So they took masters in this, they set up brainwave [measurements] to figure out what area of the brain might be involved with intuitive moves…where you, basically, you make the unexpected, but brilliant, correct move, and at those moments, the caudate putamen lit up.

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    JM: That’s interesting

    GN: I find that fascinating. And we’re actually working on using both autism and schizophrenics because this area of the brain, in both autism and schizophrenia, can be damaged. But if you think a little bit about it, schizophrenics hear things and see things that nobody else sees. So, are they all crazy?

    JM: Well that goes into the transmission theory. I think schizophrenics just…it’s like a transmitter being broken or oscillating between different frequencies.

    GN: They can’t turn it off.

    JM: They can’t turn it off.

    GN: They can’t turn it off.

    JM: So we went deep on brain structures – the other component of this is materials. I think a lot of people will be incredibly excited that there are even UFO materials that have been possibly left behind..

    GN: So, Jacques Vallée has collected these kinds of materials from all over the world.

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    JM Narration and Video – Jacques Vallée is pretty impressive in his own right. He helped develop a computerized map of Mars while at NASA and he developed one of the early versions of the internet called ARPANET with Doug Engelbart. He’s also the inspiration for the French scientist played by Francois Truffaut in Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

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    JM Narration and Video Continue: Jacques was the original person who put forth the multi-dimensional hypothesis, the idea that aliens could co-exist alongside us, but remain unseen. For this, he received a lot of backlash from other ufologists. In short, he was too weird even for the weirdest. Jacques Vallée publishes his address online so people who witness UFO crashes across the country can send him the parts. But he has no real way of doing analysis on the parts without sending them to a Dr. Garry Nolan, who can do spectroscopy and real material analysis on them.

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    GN: The first question is: Well, what was unique about many of these samples? They were ejected from these objects.

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    JM Narration: One of the most interesting samples Nolan mentions is from Ubatuba, Brazil, where a fisherman witnessed an exploding orb off the coast and collected some of the parts.

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    GN: It turned out it was magnesium at an extremely high level of purity, but that’s strange because magnesium burns like hell. So, obviously, it had something else in it. So yeah, we did a mass spectrometry analysis of some of those pieces with a highly sensitive instrument, it’s over in the engineering department, called a NanoSIMS. It’s a Secondary Ion Mass Spec(trometer), as it’s called.

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    GN: And basically, what it lets you do, is determine, not just the elements, by their mass, but also the isotopes, by their mass. And one of them was anomalous, the magnesium ratios were way off. I mean, not even close to being natural. It’s interesting, right?

    JM So you would never find this in naturally occurring…

    GN: You would never find it in nature.

    JM: And you’d need some sort of centrifuge or something to create that isotope ratio?

    GN: Yes.

    JM: Would that be possible?

    GN: Oh, it’s possible, it’s just expensive beyond, you know…

    JM: Most people don’t have access to a centrifuge…

    GN: …especially when these things were found. And the [more important?] question is: Why would you do it?

    JM: Why would you do it, what’s the motivation?

    GN: What’s the motivation for it? Is it something that they’re using and they need that ratio to accomplish something? Or is it a byproduct of an effect that where they take the natural things and then they’re doing something and this ends up being the outcome. And then when they’re done with it, they go, “Ehh, pffft (makes a noise of spitting something out of his mouth),” and they throw it out, right? Whether or not these objects are trying to show us something or, they don’t care, we see this happening and that, maybe tells you something. You know you can sort of reverse engineer, from first principles, maybe what that is. Nobody that I know has figured it out.

    JM: When you look at the five observables of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, things like trans-medium travel, the ability to sort of break conservation of momentum and stop on a dime. Are these, possibly, isotope ratios that unlock these features?

    GN: Yeah! That’s what you have to come to a conclusion…it’s used in something. Maybe some of these things that we see are not even technological, maybe they are some kind of living thing.

    JM I remember Commander David Fravor of the Nimitz sighting in 2004, him sent looking at the UFO, and it’s almost as if the thing sees that he’s looking at it and it’s conscious and almost breathing. Why isn’t the government immediately funding this research, I mean it feels insane?

    GN: You tell me. I mean, maybe they have done it. Maybe the stuff that we have…somebody is sitting around saying, laughably, “They’re wasting their time on exhaust. We have the engine!”

    If something came from the Andromeda galaxy and it’s a million years ahead of us, it lands on Earth. It has technologies that we don’t understand.

    JM: Some people think that aliens might be us from the future.

    GN: Yeah!

    JM: And if you think about the way we’re evolving, it’s probably smaller bodies, bigger heads…

    GN: Yeah!

    JM: Sort of what you would see a grey alien looking like.

    GN: Yeah. I’ve always been interested in the five percent I don’t know. I’ll publish the ninety-five precent I do know, but I’m always interested in the stuff that I can’t explain because almost every major discovery has been somebody looking at anomalous data and then constructing a new theory of reality, right? And that’s Thomas Kuhn, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” The notion that almost every scientific revolution was fought tooth and nail by the more conservative skeptics saying “You can’t possibly be right.”

    JM: And Thomas Kuhn was friends with John Mack, who was the head of the Harvard psychiatry department, who spent the latter part of his career studying alien abductions.

    GN: I didn’t know that.

    JM: Yeah! And he encouraged him to do the study.

    GN Cool! Well that’s interesting. I’m going to use that in my talks.

    JM: You should.

    GN: You know, that’s, I think, where we’re at right now. The preponderance of evidence, now, and the Department of Defense admitting that these things are real. That the data is real. There’s no conclusions , (but) the data is real.

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    The Mack/Kuhn connection was also new to me so let’s take a quick look at what Mack had to say about Thomas Kuhn in this David J Brown interview in 1996.

    David J Brown: “Could you say something about your interaction with Thomas Kuhn, regarding your approach to researching the abduction phenomenon?”

    Dr. John Mack: “I knew Thomas Kuhn as a child because our parents were friends. I used to go there every Christmas for eggnog and liver pate’. When I started doing this work I went to see him, and he was interested. He cautioned me in various ways. He advised me to just collect data, to try to suspend judgment, and look out for the traps of language – like real/unreal, exists/doesn’t exist, happened/didn’t happen, intra-psychic/outside. He advised me to just report – to record what people were feeling and saying. And that’s what I’ve tried to do.

    “The other thing that he said was don’t worry about science, because in this culture science has become a new kind of theology. What you’re really interested in, he said, is trying to learn something and gain knowledge, whether it’ll satisfy science or not. Science prefers to study primarily within the purely material world, he said, but don’t worry about that. Now the other thing he said was to just publish in scientific journals, and don’t write a book. This was because he had gotten so much intense interest and flack around his book that sometimes he was troubled about it. He’s kind of a shy man.”

    David J. Brown: “His book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, has became standard introductory reading in virtually every History of Science course in the world.”

    Dr. John Mack: “In some ways he seemed to lament the reception of his book. I don’t think that’s right that he did. His book – as with any popularization of any important and complex concept – is going to be misunderstood by a lot of people who are going to want to cloak themselves in his mantle. But I think that if you have something you want to say, it’s okay to do it in a book.”

    David J. Brown: “Why did you write “Abduction?”

    Dr. John Mack: I didn’t take his advice on that one, and I did write a book. First of all, I couldn’t get what I had to say down in an article, because it’s too complex, and the cases were too elaborate. I wanted to lay out a kind of map of the whole phenomenon as best I could from what I experienced. I thought it was important, regardless of whether these beings are to be taken literally as material entities, or whether they’re something more complex and subtle that crosses over from the unseen into the material world. Whatever it is – daimonic or material reality – it seemed to me important, and a big story that I wanted to report. So that’s what I did.

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    Back to the Nolan interview…

    JM: The theory maybe I like best is the Jacques Vallée/Diana Pasulka theory that 1947 Roswell crash represented this dividing line, and before that people were seeing angels, demons, leprechauns, fairies, whatever this sort of local contemporary lore of where the sighting took place was. And then after aliens became something in the zeitgeist, that’s what people started to see. But you’re seeing some sort of kind of proto-architecture of a thing that involves beings and crafts and then you’re recollecting it in this way that is comprehendable to you, given kind of like the noble myth or the myth of the time.

    GN: Right. I use the example of…let’s say that there’s a race of intelligent ants out in your garden. They don’t have a clue what’s going on up in the kitchen, right? They couldn’t understand it if they wanted to and neither could you understand what their communications are. How do you talk to them? Well the first thing you would probably do is make a little thing that looks like an ant and put it there and have it do something. And so, maybe that’s what it is? I mean alien means alien, right? I mean, it’s so far different from us that it’s doing its best to talk to us in ways that it can do. They’re either from another planet in this galaxy or elsewhere – underground or nearby or whatever – and they just show up to look at us and because they’re basically maybe looking at their past. Or they’re interdimensional, or they’re from another level of reality that we don’t understand. All speculation, but fun. You can run your mind down those possibilities and realize how much bigger a universe you live in than what you’re dealing with day to day. 

    To have a group of scientists who are supposed to be leading thinkers, debase people who are interested in thinking about new ideas is, to me, that’s heretical.

    JM: And it feels like it’s gotten worse in terms of established scientists. Like, we talk about the Fermi Paradox, which is like the sort of mental model or like question of like, why don’t we see aliens? That’s Enrico Fermi, that guy created the theoretical underpinnings for splitting the atom, he was in the Manhattan Project. Sort of as conventionally well-regarded as it gets, and he was thinking about aliens in his off time at Los Alamos . So it’s like, why can’t we do that?

    GN: When your mind expands to a certain point, in terms of what you might consider reality to be, other entities live there.

    JM: So, this should be a rallying cry to anybody watching on the financing front, is there any way we can see the materials?

    GN: I mean, I have some in a locked bank account.

    JM: (Laughs)

    GN: Honestly. I don’t have it hanging around here. I can do a video for you and send it.

    JM: This is also an easy flight so I can come back.

    GN: Okay.

    (ONE WEEK LATER)

    JM: Professor Garry Nolan, thanks for having us back. We’re here a week later, very exciting, we have parts of possible UFO crashes, so what’s the background on what we’re looking at now?

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    JM Stand Alone Video: Okay, the parts were a little anticlimactic and small, but he claims to have much bigger parts that we can’t see due to national security sensitivities. But let’s just take these three facts combined about the parts that are on the table:

    1. Observers with no real monetary incentive to lie, claimed to see a vehicle that broke the bounds of our current understanding of aerospace limitations.
    2.  The materials contain isotope ratios that do not exist, naturally, on earth
    3. A top Stanford microbiologist isn’t ruling out the fact that these parts could be of extraterrestrial origin.

    Given all that, even though these pieces are small, I think they should get you pretty excited.

    Back to interview…

    JM: And we now know that isotope ratios might have more to do with the properties of the material themselves and the features and what the material can actually do in the physical world than we had previously thought, right?

    GN: Right, correct. The odd thing was that the other piece, which supposedly came from the same event, had exactly the correct isotope ratios as to what you would find on earth. The material up front was, what we would say, is inhomogeneous or partially mixed. It’s kind of like if you were to take chocolate ice cream and vanilla ice cream and then just do a little bit of a swirl, you would see a mixture and we would call that inhomogeneous. Why would you mix some of these elements? There’s actually, again, no good reason, there’s no metal that people normally make that have some of the mixtures that we’ve seen. That’s interesting.

    JM: That’s worthy of investigation.

    GN: Yeah, sure!

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    JM Voiceover: So that covers all of the anomalies about the pieces of magnesium coming from Ubatuba.

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    JM Voiceover: But what about the other sample on the table? Those are pieces of bismuth.

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    JM Voiceover: Nolan actually couldn’t recall how it was procured so we had to call Hal Puthoff to get the full scoop.

    GN: Hi Hal.

    JM Stand Alone Video: Dr. Hal Puthoff has one of the most interesting careers of all time. He was first a laser physicist and then out of Stanford Research Institute, he started the government’s psychic spy program. Since then, he’s been doing frontier tech research and has briefed multiple Presidents on UFOs.

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    JM: So do you know the original story of how it was kind of procured, originally?

    Hal Puthoff, PhD (HP): The initial the story was that it was sent anonymously by someone claiming to be an army officer.

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    JM Stand Alone Video:  Long story short, this army officer was going through his grandfather’s archives when he found this rare sample.

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    HP:  And Then written in the diary was, that it was a piece from Roswell.

    JM Stand Alone Video: True or not, these thin layers of bismuth magnesium are very hard to reproduce. Hal claims that they even have the properties to micro size wave guides for terahertz frequencies.

    HP: It turns out that it reduces the size of the required microwavable guide for terahertz frequencies, down to about 1/30th of the wavelength, which is amazing. So it means you can basically put 30 waveguides in the volume of a single waveguide at terahertz frequencies.

    JM: Got it, thanks a lot, Hal. I really appreciate it.

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    For a lot more details, I’m going to include a segment from Dr. Puthoff’s lecture back on February 8th of 2020 in Berkley Springs, West Virginia at the Arlington Institute’s, “Transitions Talk.”

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    Dr. Hal Puthoff: “So let me give you a couple of examples. We have one here called ‘Metamaterials for Aerospace Use.’ I can talk about an open source sample, I can’t talk about others. And many of you have probably, if you’ve seen various TV programs and interviews and so on, you’ll know about this.

    “There was a sample that was sent anonymously by a military source. He claimed that his grandfather had been involved in a crash retrieval operation and had gotten some material from it. He didn’t want to identify himself, but he sent it forward for analysis.

    “That’s what it looked like. It was a multi-layered, piece of material. And Linda Howe was the one who got it and began shopping it around and trying to get analysis of it. She’s really a stalwart person to try to find out about this. It had layers of bismuth. The size of that is less than a human hair. Those are the black areas you see through here. And then they were separated by layers of magnesium, which are the lighter areas. And so that’s what the sample actually looked like.

    “There’s been a lot of controversy, a lot of discussion about this because, after all, here you see something that does look like it was in a crash. The thin lines were the bismuth lines.

    “So, what do we really know about this? The chain of custody is non-existent. The provenance is questionable. So for all we know, it could be a hoax, it could be a fraud, it could be some slag from a foundry floor of some factory. But nonetheless, it was an unusual sample, so we decided, okay, well then we should at least take a look at it, have an open mind. Early on, Linda Howe, the researcher who had this sample given to her by Art Bell, went around to many institutions and groups to try to get some analysis. First of all, a survey of academic publications, interviews with people from organizations involved in special materials and so on. Even went to archives of the national labs like Los Alamos or wherever and nobody had any data on this kind of construction having been made.

    “And then there was someone else she went to, and they tried to seecould they just duplicate the material. In fact, they had trouble bonding the magnesium and bismuth layers together. So, it wasn’t clear exactly how you would make it. And then finally, in talking to materials experts, they say, ‘Well, let’s just say somebody could make this. What would you use it for?’ And all the material scientists said, ‘I don’t have a clue. I can’t even imagine the reason for constructing something like this.’

    “However, what happens is, a couple of decades go by, or more, and suddenly we have our whole science of so-called metamaterials has been coming into the fore and developing kinds of stuff. And lo and behold, a paper gets published, which says, you know, if you had a bismuth layer of just this size – it happened to match what we had – and it is separated by magnesium layers of about the size that we see, this would have a very special property. This came out of a metamaterial research and not directly associated with the material.

    “So, it turns out this would make a terahertz wave guide. What’s a terahertz? Well, you hear about megahertz and gigahertz, and the microwave spectrum, and then you hear about infrared radiation. Well, terahertz sort of lies in that no man’s land as far as technology development goes. Above microwaves, above gigahertz but less than the wavelength of infrared heat.

    “So it turns out that ordinarily, when you have a wave guide and you want to send a signal from one place to another, you know, you have a pipe, for example. And the pipe generally has to be about the size of the wavelength. A half a wavelength, for example. Well in this case, there’s a frequency band around five terahertz and the wavelength is a certain size. Well it turns out, in this special kind of material, those thin bismuth layers would transmit those signals at 1/20th the size of the wavelength. And so that means , you now have sub-wavelength, waveguide effects.

    “So what that means is, if you wanna transmit a lot of data at terahertz frequencies, and usually you gotta imagine a stack of waveguides to do it with, now suddenly you’ve got this whole thing micro-sized down and you can carry out your task. And it’s only because of metamaterials being developed. No, there were no metamaterials being developed back in the days when the sample was found, that’s for sure. But anyway, so there’s a possibility this has an important effect.

    “So actually, what we see here then, and this happens in many cases, you get a material sample, unusual characteristics and you wanna evaluate it. Method of manufacture is difficult to assess or reproduce, as it was here. The purpose of function is not readily apparent. But then our own science advances on over the decades, and finally we get to a place where we can imagine a possible purpose or function comes to light, which was the case here. We still have this in a pipeline to do a lot of experiments on that haven’t done yet because we haven’t raised the funding for it. But there’s more to be done.

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    Back to the Nolan interview…

    JM: What can you do with terahertz that we can’t with current, regular? Just pack in more information?

    GN: Well, it’s…pack in more information, faster, farther. Terahertz is the next thing for communication…that if we can get terahertz waves working efficiently, there’s a whole slew of other electronic and radio communication things that can be done, that can’t be done now.

    JM: Shouldn’t there be things that we’re doing with these materials that show what environments they can sort of withstand or what possible properties they have as well?

    GN: Yeah.

    JM: So like super-high velocity, literally like slingshotting them as fast as you can or like putting them in super-cold environments or super hot. The trans medium thing, making sure they don’t rust underwater because a lot of the UAPs seem to submerge underwater and then come out of the water. Like basic things like that, based on the observables.

    GN: I mean, you could run electricity across them, see if anything’s different. Are they conductors, are they insulators? Again, this is why I think it’s important to get this kind of information out so that even a skeptic could suggest what should be done. I mean, there’s a number of people who who have them. I get emails, occasionally, from people. Actually, there’s one that I just got in the last few weeks, an email from somebody who…it’s a glowing object that drops molten metal. I haven’t seen it yet, I’ve just seen pictures of it. But it’s interesting enough that I’m actually going to follow through on that one

    JM:  We should have some sort of standardized process.

    GN: Exactly – there’s like a flow chart that you could put together of what should be done and once you’ve got that process, things just go in one end and come out the other. And then you give it to the true believers and to the skeptics and let them fight with data. rather than hearsay.

    JMDo you think if they’re hyper-intelligent aliens, they’re aware that you’re looking into them? Presumably.

    GN: Presumably! Or they don’t care. Or they say, “There’s nothing you’re going to be able to figure out about this, so we don’t care.” Or it’s left behind almost as a, “you figure it out and you can have it.” You know, the breadcrumb trail. 

    JM: That’s what it feels like.

    GN: Yeah.

    JM: Last question for you: Roswell 1947. Trinity, that crash was 1945

    GN: Mm-hmm.

    JM: …where the sort of larger piece came from. Do you think that aliens are possibly interested in us splitting the atom? So, do you think they’re interested in not only nuclear power and our own possibly destruction of ourselves, but figuring out the building blocks of base-layer reality. And so when we split the atom they become more interested and then maybe they’re interested in the fact that we’re figuring out our own genetic building blocks as well?

    GN: Well, I mean, from their perspective – let’s say a million years ahead – they know that we’re maybe a few hundred years from spreading in our local galactic arm, even if only by conventional craft. Do they want a bunch of angry monkeys running around with bombs? They probably want to keep tabs on us. I would. I mean, if I’ve got a neighbor who is bristling with armaments and always cursing and throwing stuff around, I might want to keep tabs on them. And we’re a bunch of angry monkeys right now.

    JMDr Nolan, appreciate it, this was awesome.

    GN: Thank you.

    JM: And I hope we make real progress, I hope we go through the step sequence of science that it takes to figure out what the hell these things are and what they do.

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