In this engaging episode of the UFO Insight Podcast, our seasoned researcher Marcus Lowth embarks on a riveting exploration of UFO hotspots — locations across the globe with a surfeit of UFO reports and alleged alien abduction claims. These regions, peppered around the planet, are enigmatic nexuses that seem to magnetize unidentified flying object occurrences, a pattern that has intrigued UFO researchers and enthusiasts alike.
The narrative unfolds with a deep dive into ‘UFO Alley,’ a term coined in the UFO research community to denote an area with a high frequency of sightings. A mysterious corridor of the unexplained, ‘UFO Alley’ is a term that encapsulates regions experiencing a surge of UFO activity. It’s a journey through these invisible highways in the sky that so frequently serve as the stage for these otherworldly encounters.
Marcus then sets his analytical gaze on hotspots nestled within the United States, shedding light on the clustering of incidents within these regions. Each location, teeming with its unique blend of sightings and encounters, only amplifies the enigma that surrounds the phenomenon of UFOs.
The journey continues as Marcus travels further south, towards Latin and South American hotspots. These locations, rich with a diverse array of UFO sightings, add another layer of complexity to the global UFO puzzle. In these regions, where the ordinary and extraordinary often meet, the accounts of UFO encounters serve as a testament to the universal nature of the UFO phenomenon.
Finally, the exploration ventures into the Southern Hemisphere with a focus on Pine Gap and the Bass Strait. The episode brings into focus Pine Gap, the top-secret American-Australian joint defense facility often linked with UFO lore, and the Bass Strait, notorious for its cluster of unexplained disappearances and sightings.
The question that looms large in this episode is why some locales seem to be UFO magnets, attracting more than their fair share of encounters. Marcus offers insights, not answers, fueling the debate and, in keeping with the ethos of UFO Insight, leaving listeners to “make up their own mind”.
This episode promises to deepen your understanding of the global distribution of UFO sightings, shedding light on the intricacies of these hotspots. Join Marcus Lowth as he unravels the enigma of UFO hotspots, a voyage that may ultimately bring us a step closer to unlocking the truths of the UFO and alien question.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00-0:40 Introduction
0:40-9:08 UFO Alley
9:08-10:44 Hotspots Around The United States
10:44-20:28 Latin and South American Hotspots
20:28-25:27 Pine Gap and the Bass Strait
25:27-27:12 Summary
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“If we don’t know what it is, tell the American people we don’t know what it is. Don’t play these games.” ~Jay Stratton
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“We’re here to help get to the bottom of what in the world is going on.” ~Dr. Travis Taylor
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The following is from the AlienCon conference in Pasadena, California. This interview took place on March 5th, 2023.
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George Knapp (GK): Well, this is a big one here. I’ve really been looking forward to this one for a long time, since I was asked to do it. I’ve just been thrilled by the opportunity to be here to talk to these two guys. This is a special occasion for them to be on here to respond to the kind of questions that I’ve anticipated asking. The first panelist here is somebody you know really well from television, except he doesn’t just play a scientist on TV, he really is a scientist. He’s got multiple PhDs, master’s degrees. He’s been working in classified programs for the Department of Defense since he was a teenager, including becoming the chief scientist for the UAP Task Force. His name is Dr. Travis Taylor.
GK: The guy he works with now, at a company called Radiance Technologies, is someone he has worked with before at something called the UAP Task Force. The guy who created the UAP Task Force, who was its director. The only person that we know of who worked with AAWSAP, for the DIA…the AATIP program, and then for the UAP Task Force. His name is Jay Stratton.
So let’s get to it. You guys knew, when you decided to go public, when you left the government sector, that, once it became known what you did for the government, you were gonna catch grief. You’ve monitored the UFO world for a while. I mean, you knew it, right? Jay?
Jay Stratton (JS): Absolutely.
GK: Travis, you’re kind of used to it. You’ve been getting it for a number of years. When I made it public last summer, that you were the chief scientist for the UAP Task Force, was there any additional heartburn for you, from that?
Dr. Travis Taylor (TT): Yeah, if I could address that a little bit. I remember one particular headline, something about, “no wonder the Task Force didn’t find anything, they had that ‘Ancient Aliens‘ guy who believes in paranormal stuff.
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TT: And basically, that’s what the headline and the article kind of read was, you know? Number one, I hate the word, paranormal. I don’t like use it, I don’t use the word poltergeist, never believed in ghosts, none of that kind of stuff. Instead of saying that I had two PhDs, three master’s degrees, a bachelor’s degree, a professional engineer and licensed in Alabama, thirty years of experience working in intelligence-community systems, NASA systems and DoD systems. Top-Secret SCI clearance, all those things. Instead of any of that, I was that “Ancient Aliens” guy. But you know? Hell yeah, because Ancient Aliens rocks!
(The crowd went wild)
JS: Travis is forgetting one more thing. When I talked to his boss and convinced him to let me borrow Travis, I said, “He can do all that stuff, he’s got all those degrees, he’s great on a whiteboard. He can explain quantum engineering to General Officers, bring it down to the level that everyone can understand it. But also, he can build stuff.” I didn’t use the stuff word.
TT: No, Jay said, “He can build shit.”
JS: Yeah. Take an engineer that can move from the whiteboard, to the barn, and put something together. When we work in reverse engineering, it’s a hands-on business, it’s an applied business and you need that bigger picture.
GK: There’s a story that came out, I don’t wanna dwell on it too much but it just happened, right in advance of this conference here, this get together. And I think it was meant to slap you around a little bit before you came out in public and answered questions about what you’ve done for the government and at Radiance. And it implies that you have colleagues, Jay, at the Pentagon, anonymous colleagues – which I think is pretty piss-poor journalism to go ahead and say…attack your character and your credibility, after a long, distinguished career and an unblemished record, and trusted with high security clearances – that you’re some kind of an alien nut, and the work you did at the UAP Task Force is really to blame for Balloon-apalooza and for NORAD ignoring balloons and drones and things like that for all these years.
A number of personnel speaking to the Washington Examiner on the condition of anonymity say that they believe that the leadership of the now-defunct Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force co-opted reports of what were likely foreign espionage tools involving small balloons or drones in order to characterize them as extraordinary for purposes of personal bias. They believe that military flight crews were sometimes ill-served by the manner in which their witness reporting was later presented by the UAP Task Force as evidence of truly extraordinary, rather than more conventionally explainable, UFOs belonging to a foreign government.
…officials say the Chinese balloons have been a well-known foreign intelligence concern for a number of years. They say that the UAP Task Force, then led by Jay Stratton, was reluctant to confront the balloon UFO consideration. Stratton’s relationship with Tom DeLonge, a musician who established a UFO research group, and his association with research at Skinwalker Ranch (where anomalous phenomena have been reported) also raised concerns with the Navy.
Stratton adamantly resists this characterization and rejects the aforementioned claim of other officials that the UFO task force was primarily focused on air safety. In a statement to the Washington Examiner, he asserted, “No one involved with the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force ever labeled something a UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, if it was identified as anything known or if it performed in a similar manner to known conventional technology, obviously including balloons. Anyone suggesting otherwise is simply trying to mislead the public into thinking very real UAP are balloons.”
Regardless, one key contention was whether radar returns indicating some UFOs traveling at very high speed (multi-Mach) were truly unconventional UFOs or simply balloons producing bad data returns due to their particular physical profile. Directly knowledgeable personnel convinced of the latter scenario felt ignored by leaders in Congress and the Pentagon when they offered their concerns. They say they believed that the UAP Task Force was diverting government resources to researching truly unconventional UFOs at the expense of addressing Chinese balloons. It bears noting, however, that some UFO reports include military eyewitness sightings of apparently sizable vehicles performing extraordinary maneuvers (with apparently corroborating radar/other sensor recordings of the same object). This type of UFO is not what the complainant sources are referring to.
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GK: You wanna talk about that?
JS: Absolutely. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was chartered to study and look at Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, right? It’s in the name. With that, it highlighted a whole lot of gaps across the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, and our sensor network and our capabilities on the aircraft. Sometimes better capabilities lead to new problems in that the modern, active electronically scanned array radar, things that are in the front nose of an F-18, an F-15, etcetera, [are] highly sensitive [and] can see a lot of things, and I’m not going into great detail here. But, we really had to learn how to sort the wheat from the chaff and highlight what was unidentified and what could be identified. And the multitude of sensors that we had really kind of needed to be retuned. And I can tell you, absolutely, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force saw balloons, our pilots were reporting balloons. At any point, when something went from U (Unidentified ~Joe), to being Identified – it became, you know, a balloon, I think, other, traditional kind of counter…UAS or Unmanned Aerial Systems – that became a counterintelligence concern that went over to a completely different group inside the Pentagon, to deal with. The UAP Task Force was not a large organization. We were science and data driven, focused on trying to understand the bigger-picture phenomena. And, to think, that my small group in the Pentagon…
TT: Which didn’t actually sit in the Pentagon.
JS: True.
TT: And I’m gonna jump in and tell you that right now, because you’re too humble to do it, Jay.
JS: Okay.
TT: Because it’s just horseshit. There was one person on the UAP Task Force that sat in the Pentagon. One. We know him, trust him, a very good person (This person has not gone public and I have no idea who he is. ~Joe). And there’s no way there was an unidentified or anonymous source that sat at the Pentagon on the Task Force, that said this is nonsense (The Rogan article didn’t say that any of the sources (“personnel”) were part of the UAPTF. ~Joe). And the other thing…not one single meeting did we discuss poltergeist activity, dire wolves or anything like that. Every single meeting was professional. We would talk about unidentified things in secure areas that shouldn’t be there, looking with sensors, radar, infrared cameras and other equipment that were assets and most of it classified. And it had nothing to do with anything about Skinwalker Ranch, or any of that stuff. So anybody that’s saying things like that, they’re full of it.
GK: Or they made it up.
TT: Or they absolutely made it up. Because I don’t even understand what the point of that is. I mean, we’re here to help get to the bottom of what in the world is going on, and it makes me…and it really concerns me, George, about this Balloon-apalooza. We actually identified that there were gaps in our technology that our radar systems, and so on, were designed to look for ICBMs and fighter planes, and things that moved really quickly, and they had filters to throw that other stuff out. So we wouldn’t see the UFOs if they came in, right? And also, guess what else we wouldn’t see? Balloons. And we actually even talked about that. So to say that we made all this up and it was balloons? I wanna meet that guy out back.
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GK: The larger narrative that’s been going on – a lot of it was aimed at your friend, Lue Elizondo – is that a group of you guys…you two, Lue, Chris Mellon, a few others, have pulled the wool over Congress’s eyes. You fooled them into believing there’s an alien threat and that’s why we need to study this stuff. You ever use the term alien in any briefing, anywhere?
JS: I have not. I was very cautious to point out what I knew and what I didn’t know and what I think, and focus on the technologies. 100% of the approach to all the briefings I did with Congress, even over to the White House, was, “Here’s what we’re seeing, and based on what we’re seeing, using multiple sensors: radar, ground-based, air-based, ship-based…my assessment, or my team’s assessment of that.” And as you can imagine, I can’t get into a lot of detail, but the first question is: “Is it us?” The second question: “Is it some other nation?” And if you can’t answer those questions, then what is it? And that’s where the word phenomena comes in. Is it a nuts and bolts thing or is this some new weather…Travis and I spent too much time on ball lightning, trying to understand weather phenomena and other things. Phenomena (Emphasizing that it’s plural ~Joe), right?
The biggest job, I was gonna say a moment ago, was moving the paradigm inside of big government to acknowledge that we’ve got a concern, a complex airspace environment up there that has a lot of things going on. And it’s really easy for an adversary to hide in that complex, airspace environment. But do we have other things going on? And the stigma to think outside the box on other things that these could be, is so hardcore that I had to ease everyone into working through the data to understand, “Hey, we still have questions and here’s why we have questions.” I led an effort to change the AEGIS radar to be able to see UAS and to be able to see quadcopters, because we would miss that, right? You’ve seen plenty of news stories of quadcopters coming near our naval vessels. So we had new things put into the fleet in order to try to detect these things and track these things. And then, with that, you still had some anomalies that we had to work through. But at the end of the day, it was all about the technology and trying to prevent an emerging and disruptive technology, and then attributing that to some thing in order to get to that threat word like we talked about yesterday. The capability plus intent.
TT: There was only one time, on one page, and it was a draft, where the word extraterrestrial, or something like that, was written. And we were writing down a list of what could it be? We started with near peers, and then we said, “If it wasn’t near peers, then it’s some oligarch, or group of oligarchs that pooled their money together and done something.” Then we said, “Okay, mother nature’s invented something that we haven’t seen before,” right? And then we said, “Other than that, the only other bucket we could find is if it was extra-something: terrestrial, temporal, dimensional, whatever.” That’s because it’s just the only other bucket we can think of…an unknown bucket. And we even were nervous about putting that list on the official document, and so we didn’t. We left it as, just unknown. We never put the word alien or extraterrestrial on any memo, document, or anything that went forward, other than a draft between us and the few other members of the team that were reading the draft.
GK: Can you tell me a little bit about the everyday workings of the UAP Task Force? Jay, you put it together. It was something else before it became that, it was formalized. But, how did information come in? Did you have to go out and get it, or did people start sending it to you? Was it like pulling teeth, in general?
JS: It was like building a business, was the analogy I use, because 2018 is when I was tasked to start building it and I knew what I needed. As you stated as I was walking on stage, you know, I’ve been involved in the other programs and knew the mistakes, and the paths that we should never go down. Because again, my job is to focus on that potential threat, potential concern…adversary, disruptive and emerging technologies, right? I keep jumping back to that. But it’s really looking at that technology. So, I knew I had a problem, you know, well before 2018 – because I’ve been doing this so long – of pilots reporting things. So, the first stop I made was, you know, with the aircrew, with a variety of the fleet-concentration centers (Any region of the world where large numbers of Navy ships congregate, such as Norfolk, Va. ~Joe) and talking to them and seeing where we’re at. And do they have data, right? Everywhere, I went…data, data, data.
And basically, that’s my customer. That’s who I’m looking in the eyes every day and saying, “We got this, we’re gonna try to figure out the answer for you.” From there, I gotta start trying to get those answers, so I need capabilities and authorities. And that’s where I went out to all of the, you know, across the intelligence community, to the other services, and walked in the door. And at this point, I was senior enough, rank-wise, that I can get in the door pretty easily. And I would go through the situation with them and make them understand that hey, “Here’s what we’ve got, and I need your help to try to solve this puzzle.” And I walked in knowing what I needed and I had an ask for every organization, just like when I asked to get Travis on the team. And I built out this infrastructure that, at the end of the day, was, you know, it kind of hurt me a little bit, in the recent news media, to hear, “Oh, what we need is an interagency, whole-of-government effort.” Well…I built that. And the government let it go away. And we started over again with the new group called AARO. So it’s frustrating, as a government employee, to go through and try to build up this thing, and [we] finally made what the government needs. And, you know, I’m briefing Congress about this whole government, interagency effort. I’m briefing all the way over to the White House. Everybody knew we had this thing, and it just fizzled away when I went away, when I went back to my regular job.
And I’ll explain that real quick, publicly. I was on rotation as a senior executive in the government and those positions don’t grow on trees. So Naval Intelligence loaned me to the DoD and the Pentagon, to lead the Task Force. That loan had an expiration date of January of 2021. So at the end of that loan date, my boss called me back said, “I need you here to do your job.” So I had to leave, and then, as I left, it’s kind of like, all the momentum fizzled away.
TT: Let me add something to that real quick, because, again, he’s too humble to tell you this. So Jay is a two-star, admiral equivalent. He’s a civilian equivalent of a two-star admiral, that’s his rank. And when Jay was asked to go back to his official, other job, you know, he had two official jobs…that’s just the way the government works. And when he was asked to go back, they didn’t backfill the leader of the (UAP Task Force) group with a two-star, admiral equivalent, they filled it with someone of my rank which is like a full-bird colonel equivalent. In the Army and in the Navy, that’d be a captain. And so, he (Stratton ~Joe) could open doors, right? And when he went in rooms, colonels got him coffee. But now they put a guy who’s been getting coffee in charge of the group. It sounds pretty interesting to me, that it’s almost like we were being led to some sort of a dismantling or a failure.
JS: You know, they called it an insult, right? But the people that I heard back [from], after the fact…the criticism was that I was too proactive. So, in the government, being proactive is apparently a bad thing. But…built that out, George…I got us where we needed to be.
TT: And I’ll tell you, we had many meetings, a lot of times, since I was in Huntsville, and Jay was in Maryland, we had a lot of meetings through classified, video conferences. And there would be three or four people in his office, and he was calling people from different offices around DC, across out to California and Denver, you name it, you just pick places. There were people that were in the different services and agencies, because he built a huge team, where then we had a representative, pretty much from every government agency and office.
Jay: That’s about forty different organizations.
TT: And so, it was a huge group of experts and professionals, every single one of them were professionals. I mean, we even had…we were getting prepared to start our first round of experiments, for example. I can’t go into too much detail about it, but it was one of those things where we were gonna instrument out a thing and fly it around…looking and try to gather data. And I was going to be one of the payload specialists with that mission, and like, the week I was gonna go and do the duct tape, certification and all that stuff, COVID hit, and it just shut down everything. No travel in the government, no this or that. And work from home? How do you do classified work from home?
GK: We know that the UAP Task Force gathered a lot of information, that there was a briefing document. I think it’s publicly known, Jay, that you put that thing together.
Jeremy Corbell has confirmed what many of us have suspected:
The classified presentation/briefing used to destigmatize the #UAP topic for our service-members and which contained the unclassified UAP photos/slides/videos from the 2019 USS Russell & USS Omaha events on the West… https://t.co/Of7W34VOFC
GK: A lot of the images and things that you guys studied and analyzed, some of them have come out, many of them have not. How did you get ’em? How hard was it to get ’em? And I’m asking, sort of specifically about, like, [the] Air Force. We know the Navy led the charge on us.
JS: Right.
GK: A lot of the videos and the images that the public is aware of came from the Navy. Don’t see a lot from the Air Force. So, tell me about how you gathered images for this program?
JS: Yeah. Actually, the first image…video I got was from the Air Force, which is surprising now, you know, where we’re at today and some things, and there’s some definite political reasons for the way things ended up. But, reporting…the mission of the Task Force, as I said yesterday in the panel, I said, “Take it seriously, and own it.” Own it is a great example of why, for the first time…George probably dropped his coffee when he saw the response back from the DoD spokesperson saying, “Yep, it’s unidentified.” Right?
GK: I was flabbergasted.
Our thanks to the Black Vault for getting a statement out of the Pentagon. (As a rule, Ms. Gough does not respond inquiries we submit.) https://t.co/NZKdLc4Fuk
JS: That’s the owning. You know, because if we don’t know what it is, tell the American people we don’t know what it is. Don’t play these games. And reporting…centralized-data repository and the data-focus, science-focus, was a big, big, big drum I beat every day, right? And to get that reporting, you gotta work through the stigma, and to work through the stigma, you gotta handle each service, each organization separately, and differently. Because I was Naval Intelligence, and I had a long-standing relationship with naval aviation, that was my focus. If you were there yesterday, I pointed out, the Navy’s got a big air force, the Navy has an army and the Navy’s army has an air force. We’ve got a lot of aircraft. So I knew, right there, I’ve got half the DoD flying capability. If I built that reporting process and that ability and willingness to report in the Navy and the Marine Corps, then I can ease over to the Air Force because we work so closely together, so often.
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The 2019 West Coast Incidents were mentioned a few times during this panel, so if you’re unfamiliar with the controversy, take the time to read about them before moving on.
JS: So I built a formal, reporting process, and some of this has been in the media. But the other thing is, I had this working Task Force. So, data preservation and speed was very important. So, everyone knows, when the 2019 incidents happened, my Task Force was fully functional, pretty much, at this point, and I got a classified email from the carrier-strike-group commander saying, “Jay, we’ve got some UAP.” And I said, “Got it.” I had a guy on board his carrier within a day, in order to start educating, start collecting data, start getting the folks talking, going to each ship, via helicopter, and bringing everything back to DC., immediately. I don’t have to wait for anything. That’s functional. You know, that’s the ability to get out there. And the key is we wanted the data, we wanted to do the analysis, sure. But, to those naval aviators on board the carrier? This is, you know…go back to the 2004 Tic Tac incident, it’s night and day from what those folks had to deal with.
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GK: Travis, give me a sense of…did you know much about Jay before you got asked to join the UAP Task Force? And was your answer, “Yes,” or “Hell, yes”?
TT: Well, I’d never met him in my life. I didn’t have any idea who he was. What happened was, the first week I went to Skinwalker Ranch, I had detected some microwave signals that I thought were dangerous and I thought they were bad actors. And since I had security clearance and worked for the Army, I went to our counterintelligence security people and said, “Hey, I think I’ve detected something and I need to talk to counterintelligence.” And that went to another layer, and to another layer, and they ended up saying, “Well, we got someone that you need to brief at the Pentagon.” So I went to the Pentagon to do the briefing, and Jay and another guy walks into the room. I didn’t know who they were. And they said, “Well, tell us what you got.” And we briefed them. And then, after a few minutes, he kind of asked everybody else [to get] out of the room. And it was just he and I, and his other colleague in the room. And then I did happen to notice, though, that he had a copy of one of my books with him. And so, he had done his homework and I had done mine, apparently.
And he started telling me to give him more details about the signals that we were seeing, maybe what they were, and he had me brief some folks. And then he said, “Well, so this is what I’m doing.” And then he told me about UAP Task Force and asked if I would be interested in helping out. And my answer was, “Hell, yes!” It was in another meeting that we were at, probably a couple months later, where he introduced me as the chief scientist. And that was kind of a surprise to me. So I just continued on with what we were doing, and at that point, he said, “Yeah, you should put that in your header on your email.” And I was like, “Well, okay.” And that’s kind of how it worked. And so I worked for him from 2019 to 2021, when you (Stratton) retired, and then I stayed on with the team for another six or eight months, and then I retired.
GK: The West Coast events. I recognize there are limits on what you guys can say, still. Jeremy and I put out some images that the public has now…the whole world has seen.
The US Navy photographed and filmed “pyramid” shaped UFOs and “spherical” advanced transmedium vehicles; here is that footage.
— Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (@JeremyCorbell) April 8, 2021
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GK: These pyramids, these green pyramid things that have been explained away as bokeh. Can you address that?
TT: Yes, I can absolutely address that. And you know, and I’m not the only person who has addressed that and looked at it. On the Task Force, we looked at it. We have other data that everybody else didn’t get to see, and I’ll have to leave that at that. But, so…I wanna go off on a tangent for just a second. Has anybody ever heard of the idea of Huxley’s monkeys? So, Huxley…it was attributed to him, but it wasn’t actually Huxley, it was actually a priest that came up with it, but for some reason, it’s attributed to Huxley. As a strawman argument on…that evolution doesn’t need any assistance to happen, is that you can take a roomful of monkeys, a roomful of typewriters – so this is back when they had typewriters – and [if you] give them enough time, they would write all of the words in Psalms, and it’s since been kind of skewed towards all the works of Shakespeare. Doesn’t matter. Some big grouping of words that are put in the right order, with the right punctuation.
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TT: And so, Huxley said, “So, your DNA could randomly evolve, and happen just by happenstance, and this is gonna happen, this is gonna happen, this is gonna happen, and so on. And that’s how, you know, it’s gonna happen. Well, it sounds like a good argument. Well, a roomful of monkeys, slapping away at keys, eventually, they would write a full novel. Well, I make all of my graduate students actually work that problem out. And it turns out, that the Universe would have to be 10 orders of magnitude older than it is, for that to actually occur, without some sort of cheating. And so, that’s called a strawman argument. You give someone something that sounds good, and they say, “Oh yeah, I get that.” And then it explains it away.
So, somebody came up with this great idea of saying, “Let’s say there’s a optical distortion that everybody has never heard of. It’s a Japanese word that nobody knows what it means…we’re gonna say bokeh.” And you think, “A flower?” No, it’s not spelled that way! It’s actually a Japanese word that means, like, distortion, it means, you know, blurry. And the idea is, you see photographers use it all the time as an artistic effect, where you take something here, that you wanna take a picture of, you do a slight out of focus, and do a soft focus with the F number (f-stop ~Joe) and it’ll put the things behind you, out of focus, and they will take on the shape of the internal aperture of the optical system. And that’s what bokeh is. So this thing in front of you, that you’re looking at, wouldn’t have this bokeh effect, but everything else, like this, would take on the shape of the aperture [on the] inside. And most apertures nowadays, like the one in your cell phone, is the shape of a stop sign, right? And then they keep that inside so it looks more circular, it looks more like something real.
Well, so the idea (a theory some folks have put forth on #ufotwitter. ~Joe) is that the night-vision goggles that were used, the NVG, the second gen, that was used on the Russell, that SNOOPIE guy had a triangular aperture in it and he had bokeh. Well, maybe you can get one of those and tear it apart, if you want to, but they’re expensive and I don’t wanna tear ’em apart. But, when you look at the actual images, it isn’t…the things in the far field, the stars, are out of focus. They are likely, you know, triangular or trapezoidal, or something along that nature. But you can do that with any type of out-of-focus error. My first PhD, by the way, was in optical science and engineering, and I took so many Fourier transforms of optical images and learned that, to get that PhD, that I was pretty danged good at it. And the one thing I did, was I took the imagery, and I reversed-Fournier transformed it and saw that the thing that was moving, the one object that’s moving, isn’t a star, right? And it’s not out of focus, completely, while the others are. Because there’s actually one frame in this video that is actually in focus and even the stars give you the perfect, it’s called a Bessel sinc square function. It’s a little dot with circles around it. And so it’s in focus for one frame. And then when it goes out of focus, I go, “Okay, now I know what’s happening,” This guy’s focusing the camera on the thing close to him, so they’re seeing it.
Here are a few stills from the video Jeremy Corbell released that show the object in focus but I don’t know if any of these are the frames Taylor is talking about. Thanks to Mike Colangelo for grabbing these.
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TT: So the thing up close, does have some sort of triangular shape to it. I don’t know that it’s a pyramid shape, because it’s two dimensional, right? The TV screen is two dimensional.
A Reminder: Here’s the video Taylor is referencing…
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TT: And also, when you do heat analysis on it, you see it had bright spots on each corner. I don’t know what that is, I’m just saying it had bright spots on each corner. Should I tell…can I tell the rest of it (looking at Stratton)?
(I believe Stratton gave a look to Taylor, as if to say. “It’s up to you.” ~Joe)
JS: My company did an in-depth analysis on this.
GK: Aw, come on.
JS: We got a lot of answers.
TT: Well…so, we…
(The crowd urged them to share details)
TT: Here’s the problem. And you guys got to understand the sticky situation we’re in. So Jay and I, and a few others, we wrote the security-classification guide when we were on the UAP Task Force, and none of this was classified. None of it was. But then, when we left, the new group (AARO) is going in and trying to backdate and change the classifications of some of the stuff, and it could catch us in a trap. And so, we have to be very careful about where we go with some of it, and it’s just been weird, it’s been really weird.
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GK: Let me ask it this way: The work that you guys did, you know, Jay, they get you out at a critical moment, right when you’re just supposed to prepare this report to Congress. [They] pull you out. Doesn’t seem like that was coincidental to me. But your job was to separate wheat from chaff. You’re not looking for drones and balloons, you separate them out. When you can identify a balloon, you take it out, it’s identified.
JS: Right.
GK: Is it fair to say that you had access to a great deal of information that has not been made public, that can’t be, as a matter of national security?
JS: Absolutely. So, you know, the two hats I wore, I was a National-Intelligence-Community-funded senior. So, that means that the Office of Director of National Intelligencepaid my salary. Why is that important? It gives me access, under Title 50, to the entire intelligence community, to deal with this issue. And then I sit at the Office of Naval Intelligence, which, you know, my ID card says U.S. Navy on it, which gives me that Title-10 connection, under what’s…the military program. So, I had two hats and that was important because…and a key reason that we do that is to reduce influence. you know? Following 911, there was an Intelligence-Community directive that prevents political influence in intelligence, right? There’s WMD or there’s not WMD, and you can’t have the White House calling over, driving the assessment. You can’t have a service driving the assessment. So, to be a National Intel-funded guy gave me pretty much the menu of options at our disposal. And I mentioned earlier about changing the menu a bit, modifying the menu a bit in order to better see these kinds of things. But, we had a much bigger picture, obviously, you know, when we were briefing all of the seniors, the briefing was very detailed and very…highly footnoted, I guess you could say, right? And Travis knows this. I went over, every time, with Congress or anyone else, with my ducks in a row, right? I would not have gone and briefed Congress that I believe these triangular-shaped objects to be – at least one real and some stars – without my ducks in a row, and be able to answer every question that’s thrown at me.
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Debunker Mick West believes the slide that Jeremy Corbell released (shown below) shows only stars. Both Corbell and Knapp say Stratton put together the classified briefing that apparently included this unclassified slide, but Stratton has never confirmed that and when Taylor was asked about about the slide on Twitter, I recall him saying he couldn’t address it because he had signed NDAs. I cannot find that tweet/reply. I think it’s safe to assume that this slide was part of the Stratton briefing/presentation.
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West makes his case in this video…
I wonder where someone would get government documents not released to the public? Seems like shenanigans or worse.
Not a lot of UFO people know that the "Green Pyramid" UFO case comes with three videos 1) The "Flasher", showing several stars and one aircraft. 2) "1704", – used for the UAPTF slides, and shows ONLY stars 3) "3007 – shows a light on the ship, and a flickering star, Capella. pic.twitter.com/8n5A4frxo8
West appears to be right about that particular unclassified slide (and video) showing all stars and not two unknown, triangular UAS, as noted at the bottom of the slide. 👇🏼
And if that was actually included in a briefing, I would consider it a mistake. But as West notes, the video he uses in his analysis is different than the video Corbell released and doesn’t show the most important thing: The Corbell video shows at least one moving object which West calls an aircraft or plane. He’s also called the Gimbal and Tic Tac UFOs distant planes so it seems to be his default explanation when debunking.
I stand by the Tic-Tac video being the least interesting video, and probably a distant plane.
I don’t know what the object over the USS Russell was, or if it was triangular in shape, but the most important point is that it was flying in restricted/sensitive airspace and it should not be there. Stratton and Taylor have said they had access to other data, which, unfortunately, none of us have seen. Also remember, this was one incident on one ship. For a more extensive look at the July 2019 West Coast events, I’ll once again urge you to read or listen to the interview Corbell and Knapp did with active-duty Navy commander, John “Guts” Gutierrez, which included segments of interviews with sailors on board the USS Paul Hamilton. When judging 2019, I’d make sure to give proper weight to what was said in that interview and what Stratton and Taylor said in this AlienCon interview by Knapp. Also remember, 2019 wasn’t Stratton and Taylor looking for UFOs. According to Stratton, this all started when…
I got a classified email from the carrier-strike-group commander saying, “Jay, we’ve got some UAP.” And I said, “Got it.” I had a guy on board his carrier within a day, in order to start educating, start collecting data, start getting the folks talking, going to each ship, via helicopter, and bringing everything back to DC., immediately.
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JS: So, I had access to that, I had other things, as Travis said, you know? The carrier strike group has a multitude of sensors, and, I mean, we have other ways to reach across the government.
TT: Two other optical PhDs.
JS: Yeah, I had to be independent, so I was a lot about, you know, going in with the data and saying, “Hey, I have two other optical PhDs in other organizations look at this, without even knowing the other’s looking at it.” And just keep it completely separate.
Do you know the conclusion of the other two optical physicists on the triangular object?
Before I move on from Mick West, I just want to show an example of why he should not be trusted to give an unbiased view of anything related to UFOs. In his video showing that the slide features stars, he also said:
“This great-looking example then made its way onto Stratton’s slide, past three people with PhDs in optics, and on to be used briefing high-ranking officials, who then helped to treat new laws and policies, partly because of this identification.”
There’s no evidence the three people (including Taylor) with PhDs had anything to do with that slide. From what I understand, they were asked to look at the moving object, which is not part of that slide. And we have never seen the entire presentation, so it’s impossible to deduce how much weight one slide had on any high-ranking officials who were shown this briefing, which Corbell says, “contains an estimated 10 videos (FLIR and HUD) and about 10-12 photos documenting some of these UAPs.”
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JS: So I always tried to go in with that kind of understanding of everything I was briefing so that I’m not trying to…I’m certainly not selling anything and trying to get…it absolutely benefited me in no way, to get more funding, to get more people. It benefited the American people, and that’s what I went in there to do.
(Applause)
GK: I’ll move on from the West Coast incident in moment, but one last question. As it’s been reported, more than a hundred objects floating around, a hundred miles out to sea, over ten Navy ships, a lot of it was photographed. It is a national-security matter, I mean, because we didn’t know where they were from. I mean, that’s a legitimate mystery. I’ve seen amateur explanations by twit-fologists and debunkers, and others, who…they have to assume that you guys, the U.S. Navy, the pilots, the sensor operators, are all pretty stupid because they figured it out at home, and you don’t know. I mean, you do have access to a heck of a lot of other information, and you would still qualify those as UAP? Or do you have an answer that you can share about what was going on with that swarm?
TT: Yep.
JS: I mean, what I’ll say is I chased down everything. So a key access that I had was the ability to say, “It’s not us.” That’s a key access. That’s an authority and a requirement that I put in into my wish list to Congress, early on. They said, “What can make this work?” And I said, “Whoever is leading this effort,” – and I wasn’t pushing myself to lead it, believe me – “needs to know what we know, right? Needs to know what we have, and to be able to rule out us…step one.” And that ruling out us is not easy because you’re talking about DoD, IC, as well as DoE.
TT: Lockheed, the private sector.
JS: Exactly. So I had had this Rolodex of process (May not have said “process” ~Joe), every time we saw something new, of stepping through, to validate that first step, make sure it’s not something of ours that I’m chasing here. And then, I would have, you know, later, as the Task Force was built out, I had another Rolodex that I could use of classified emails and start sending out to learn other capabilities. So, as I said earlier, speed is of essence, right? So having my guy fly out to the carrier and get data and get back as fast as we could, that means the body is still warm. So, I’ve got other sensors and visual capabilities that I could put out there to try to find things. So, having that access really put me in a position to make a qualified answer, assessment to provide across the community in both sides of the government…executive and legislative branches. It was a game changer for a little while.
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More on the question of…
Was it our technology that was encountered on the West Coast in July 2019 and was it part of a readiness-assessment test?
On the January 31st episode of “Weaponized,” hosted by Corbell and Knapp, Corbell played audio from interviews he conducted with two witnesses who were onboard the USS Paul Hamilton when the 2019, West Coast incidents took place. The main interview was with John “Guts” Gutierrez (Guts), an active-duty, Navy Commander who has served for 17 years and who has spoke with some of the witnesses.
~~~Audio of interview with Eyewitness #1 begins~~~
Jeremy Corbell (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 sayinghe’s saying it wasn’t a test device, it wasn’t our tech. So explain that.”
Guts: “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 himI’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 eliminate [that] 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
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 signyou 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?’”
Navy's top officer says mysterious ‘drones’ that swarmed destroyers remain unidentified:https://t.co/R0vwjfRPNw
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 eliminatingthese were not ours. That’s the consensus of everybody. That’s, to the best of our understanding, that’sdespite their capabilities, they weren’t ours.”
Guts: “Well, it wasn’t a test, as I think isit certainly wasn’t a test, you know?”
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Back to Knapp, Stratton and Taylor
JS: We were really making some momentum before COVID hit. And when COVID hit, like everywhere else in the world, it really put the brakes on. And I think, to this day, that Travis and I would probably still be there doing it, if not for COVID
TT: I’ll add one more thing that you have to think about. Where was this when it happened? Well, all the information you want is in the video that’s been released. I mean, he tells you right where he is. And if you look, you’ve got the time, the date, you got pretty much the GPS coordinates to go. You can get any Stellarium software, any Orrery software, and then you can see exactly what stars you’re looking at, where everything’s going on. And here’s thing: This was happening in an exercise area that was closed off. So what does that mean? It means there’s no airplanes flying around, it means there’s no ships moving around, right? And any ship, there’s like one, but we’re not gonna talk about it.
Was there an investigation that determined Bass Strait WAS NOT the origin of the 2019 UAP swarms off California? 😉
I wonder if @PacificBasin will comment about how Wikipedia says the units were launched from Bass Strait?
— Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (@JeremyCorbell) June 19, 2022
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TT: The point is, there was no platform. And we did an analysis on the best, battery-life cycle, known at the time. If you put it in a quadcopter, or any other super-efficient, lightweight drone, and you flew it, you needed a place to have launched from, that was close enough before the battery would run out. And that would have been outside of the closed-off area. So, one of the things we were concerned about, was…has one of our peers developed battery technology that we don’t have, right? It wasn’t that we were making stuff up, we wanted there to be an alien spacecraft flying around. We worked for the military. We were looking to see why this was happening, why was there something where it shouldn’t be, and how do we figure out what it is and stop it?
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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 of 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 [2019] 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, and 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 to 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.
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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.’”
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Back to Knapp, Stratton, Taylor and the 2019 West Coast Incidents
GK: And how did they appear out of nowhere and then go nowhere and you can track them? You know, that’s also a pretty interesting question.
JS: Right. And it gets incredibly frustrating because, you know, the intel community, it takes exemptions, and it’s like getting a search warrant, almost, to use any kind of intel-community capabilities to look at that close to the United States. So there’s also, you know, kind of work that has to be done ahead of time to make that work. And, you know, someone in the audience is probably thinking, “Oh, well maybe there’s a submarine out there.” You know, if a foreign submarine got that close to the United States, then I failed at every job that I’ve ever had. I mean, that’s…Naval Intelligence would not let that happen.
TT: Well, we would have jumped to, probably, DEFCON 4 or 3 at that point, too, and we didn’t, so.
JS: That’s exactly right.
GK: Jay, you were, as far as I know, the only person who worked for AAWSAP, AATIP and then UAPTF. Is there anybody else that did all three?
JS: (long pause) No.
GK: Sounds like you were the right man for the job. We know that AAWSAP, you know, part of the origin, a colleague of yours, Dr. James Lacatski, visited Skinwalker Ranch, and he had an experience that was pretty weird. But he felt that there were some national-security issues that could be raised there.
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On October 14th, 2021, Knapp, Dr. James Lacatski and Dr. Colm Kelleher were interviewed by George Noory on Coast to Coast AM. Lacatski, a DIA physicist and rocket scientist, and program manager for AAWSAP described his weird experience in detail. Full transcript can be read here.
Lacatski: We went into the ranch manager’s home and sat down. Now, we were having a casual conversation. You know, I’m certainly noticing that there are twelve or more crosses and crucifixes on the wall, and I was thinking, “Hmm, Jim, I wonder if I really should have come here.” But in any case, you know, we’re having a nice conversation and then Bob and the ranch managers went into, I’d best call it a personal finance discussion, which I felt kind of awkward being there. And I kind of went into a daze, you know, just glancing around the room, seeing what’s the lay of the land in the rooms. And then this object appears, floating in the kitchen. Quite distinct. I mean, I looked away from it and it maintained its position and allowed me, I guess, actively allowed me to come back and look at it and examine it more closely. It was not a blurry vision, it was not a speck in my eye. It was there, it was about 18 inches tall, 18 inches wide, floating in the middle of the kitchen. And that kitchen is quite distinct. Its style is 1950s style, so the colors of the tiles are quite distinct.
Noory: Did it look like it just appeared?
Lacatski: It just appeared. It just appeared and it was very sharp. Now, let me give you an exact description, this Möbius strip and all of this. Take a piece of spaghetti about six inches long. I’m just saying, you know, in practical terms, to form a model of it. [Get] it wet or boil it, and let it drop and start bunching up on itself. But at the very end that you’re holding, allow it to droop downwards, and stick out. Now that was super clear, that portion of it. It was a truncated, it was a solid, light yellow and it was surrounded by a different shade of yellow cloud. So, you know, I’m looking at this taking notes of what it looked like and just a few minutes ago, I looked back at my original drawing of it because I wanted to catch the impact. And, as someone, I guess, I noted to someone and they’ve repeated it (Bigelow repeated it to George Knapp), it looked very much like the cover object of Tubular Bells, the album from back, I guess it was in the 80s.
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Lacatski: Except it wasn’t chrome, it was yellow, and it was solid. Quite clear and then it got fuzzy as the droopy portion went into the cloud. And that was it. There was nothing that dramatic about it. And that’s when we went into a discussion of, you know, I made the comment, “Well, is this your decorating style?” And Jean said, “Oh, yes, this is my decorating style. Strange, though, but, you know, before you showed up, a cross flew out of the bathroom, horizontally, into the wash basket, on top of the washing machine.” So I’m thinking, “Oh, hmm.” Well that’s when we went back and we went right through where the object was, as we all went back and toured the rest of the house and had further discussions about what was going on there. So it’s not a complex story, but that’s it.
Knapp: Just add some context to this. Jim only made one visit on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Agency to figure out whether there was a justification for a study. He’s there on the ranch for a short period of time, he has an experience, this thing appears in the air, and only he can see it, it’s just for him. And that site, that event is what led to the creation of the program and convinced him that something was really going on. He went back to Washington, talked with Harry Reid and set this thing in motion, designed the program. He’s being too modest, I think.
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Back to Knapp, Stratton, Taylor and AAWSAP.
GK:[Lacatski] started a program, Harry Reid funded it, the study began. Travis, you were a pretty big skeptic about the whole thing to begin with, because, I mean, the initial study of that place by Bigelow and NIDS was looking at UFOs, and then it led them into some really strange areas. I know you don’t want to use the word paranormal, but really weird shit that was happening…
TT: Better word.
GK: …in connection with UFO proximity, in principal. You know, none of those NIDS guys, those PhD guys, wanted to be investigating weird, monster/creature sightings. a bulletproof wolf, all that stuff. You can’t write a paper about it, it’s just too darned weird. Jay, was that a limiting factor in your willingness to participate in that and just how weird it got? You’re interested in UFOs and the physics of it, and can this technology be reverse engineered? And then it leads you down paths that are pretty strange.
JS: 100%. As a science-minded guy, it interested me, right? It mean, it pulls you in. But…you know, and I’ll be clear, we said it earlier, you know, the ranch was part of the DIA effort and it was not part of any of the follow-on efforts.
TT: It was never part of the UAPTF, get that clear. Never.
JS: No. However, the ranch, or, the ranch (said with a British accent), as Nick Pope says. But the big-name program… (Not sure if he said, big-name program” ~Joe) I love Nick, I don’t want to insult him. The things seen out there, to this day – and if you’re watching all the awesome, high-definition, footage that’s been caught out there – are representative of the things that our aircrew are reporting. And that’s the drawback. Now, that’s what has kept me, keeping my eye on the ranch, is that draw of the UAP side of it. The other things that George mentioned, are just strange, collateral effects of being there. And if you were in our previous panel, Travis had a really good explanation of your brain trying to interpret what it’s seeing. And I can tell you, 100%, there are technologies out there that can make you see things, that can make you hear things, and can drive all of these things. And some of those technologies are side effects from their originally-designed purpose, that might be power generation or other things. So, it all ties back to the technology for me. It’s not about chasing anything on the ground. It’s about understanding what’s above our heads, and sometimes in our own oceans.
TT: Yeah, and not to completely redo what I did in the panel just before this, I’ll tell you this. It actually isn’t odd to me. It took me a while to get there, though. You know, when I first read your book, and then Kelleher’s book, and heard the stories, I was like, “What? No!” And then, once I got to really dive in, I measured certain signals, started looking at certain things, did a lot more research into what would it take to do some of these things that could be going on there. And then I realized, especially recently, within the last few months, when we had this experiment where they used the Sycamore Google quantum computer to simulate an ante-de Sitter spacetime…a fake, little model universe, and create a wormhole inside that universe using quantum processors. And they needed the quantum qubits to create the negative energy states that keeps the wormhole open. Entanglement, entanglement is what keeps the wormhole open. Then I realized, so, if there is something in our actual Universe that can manipulate space time, it’s gonna have to do the same thing, and it’s gonna be doing this using quantum entanglement to hold open or create a negative-energy state, so it can bend spacetime. And guess what? Our brainshave more quantum processors in it than there are stars in the Universe. Each brain has more quantum processors…a little protein called tubulin. You got trillions and trillions and trillions of them in there, and you’re the most amazing quantum computer there is. And so, if this is affecting spacetime, using a quantum phenomenon, then that’s gonna be putting weirdness into your brain, because your brain is working through the same quantum-entanglement phenomena. And what you’re getting could be noise from whatever the system is, it could be information, but information that your brain has never understood before and has nothing to compare it to. And so it comes up looking like a dog wearing a…a dude with a dog head, smoking a cigarette, wearing a trench coat. I mean, it just it could really be a side effect.
TT: Oh, cigarettes, they were smoking cigarettes. Okay. But see, those are patterns your brain understands, and it could have taken this strange information and just stuck on top of it what it could understand, and that’s how you interpreted that reality.
JS: And see, the ranch is important for you because what Travis and I realized is, we retired from the government, our hands are no longer handcuffed. We don’t have the oversight and the rules that we had to live under for so long. We’re on camera now, in an investigation where we can take our knowledge, and potentially show you the results of that, right? And none of that is classified, right? That’s the beauty of it.
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GK: I’m gonna go there in a second. Before we leave the government sector behind…you leave, and six months later the report is delivered to Congress and then there’s a public hearing, the first one in fifty-four years.
(Video is cued up to the clip referenced and transcribed below)
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GK: And it seemed like they walked back a lot of what you guys had done. Suddenly, the East Coast incidents are bokeh and balloons, the West Coast is drones. Case closed. And then, you know, the transparency that happened while you were there, where the Pentagon would confirm images that they knew were recorded by the Navy, they stopped doing that. And we’ve seen other indications that they’re walking it back. We know that the CIA is not happy about it, we know the Air Force has dragged its feet. And there’s a new organization, AARO, we’d all like to root for it, but a lot of indications that come my way are that, you know, I’m not sure that they’re gonna take it where the public hopes they take it. Can you both address that sort of, where it’s gone since you left? Do you feel that it has regressed in some ways from where you were, where it was when you left?
JS: Well, the fact that the talking point a few weeks ago was we need a whole of government, interagency effort, tells me we don’t have one, right? Yeah, I mean, that just drives me crazy because I put so much work and effort into that and got us where we needed to be as a country. and it was kind of thrown out with the bathwater. Over the years, I had people say, “You’re getting too close. The smoking man’s gonna show up.” The reality is, in over sixteen years of working on this topic, the smoking man never showed up. So, is there a smoking man? But I can tell you that it sure seemed like there was a hidden hand that would shut doors in my face at times, that I had to work around. And I had the personality – I’m trying not to pat myself on the back too much – to get in and people would help me and we would get further and further and further every time. And, it really, really did upset both Travis and I when we were watching that hearing. And I can also promise you that if I were back clinching (Not sure if he said, “clinching” ~Joe) that hearing or front seating that hearing that I could have told them about the Malmstrom incident. I could have told them just about any incident. They just weren’t briefed and prepared to the level that I would have prepped them. And that was a little bit, probably, by design.
TT: It felt like it was by design. When Jay and I were sitting at Radiance in the conference and watching the HIPSI meeting as it was taking place. And when they start talking about the Russell incident. I was like, “That’s not what…we did not brief them that way. That is not what we told them.”
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From the May 17th, 2022, HIPSI (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) hearing on UAP with Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, Ronald Moultrie, and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Scott Bray
Cued up, here… 👇🏼
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Audio of Bray’s Comments: Part 1
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Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Scott Bray: We’ve also made progress in resolving the character of a limited number of UAP encounters. For example, let me show you another video and image taken years apart in different areas. In this video, U.S. Navy personnel recorded what appears to be triangles, some flashing, recorded several years ago, off the coast of the United States. This was recorded while the U.S. Navy ship (The USS Russell ~Joe) observed a number of small, unmanned aerial systems in the area. And importantly, the video was taken through night-vision goggles with a single lens, reflex camera. These remained unresolved for several years.
Several years later, and off a different coast, U.S. Navy personnel, again, in a swarm of unmanned aerial systems, and again through night-vision goggles, and an SLR camera, recorded this image. But this time, other U.S. Navy assets also observed unmanned aerial systems nearby. And we’re now reasonably confident that these triangles correlate to unmanned aerial systems in the area. The triangular appearance is a result of light passing through the night-vision goggles, and then being recorded by an SLR camera. I don’t mean to suggest that everything that we observe is identifiable, but this is a great example of how it takes considerable effort to understand what we’re seeing in the examples that we are able to collect.
In this example, we accumulated sufficient data from two similar encounters, from two different time periods, in two different geographic areas, to help us draw these conclusions. That’s not always the case, though. We recognize that that can be unsatisfying or insufficient in the eyes of many. This is a popular topic in our nation, with various theories as to what these objects may be, and where they originate. And by nature, we are all curious and we seek to understand the unknown. And as a lifelong intelligence professional, I’m impatient. I want immediate explanations for this as much as anyone else. However, understanding can take significant time and effort. It’s why we’ve endeavored to concentrate on this data-driven process, to drive fact-based results. And given the nature of our business, national defense, we’ve had to sometimes be less forthcoming with information in open forums than many would hope.
If UAP do indeed represent a potential threat to our security, then the capabilities, systems, processes and sources we use to observe, record, study or analyze these phenomena, need to be classified at appropriate levels. We do not want, we do not want potential adversaries to know exactly what we’re able to see or understand, or how we come to the conclusions we make. Therefore, public disclosures must be carefully considered on a case by case basis.
Fast Forward to 42:52 into the hearing 👇🏼
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Audio of Bray’s and Schiff’s Comments: Part 2
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Congressman Adam Schiff: With respect to the second two videos, showing the small triangles, the hypothesis is that those are commercial drones that…because of the use of night-vision goggles, appear like triangles? Is that the operating assessment?
Bray: Some type of drone, some type of unmanned aerial system, and it is simply that that light source resolves itself through the night-vision goggles onto the SLR camera as a triangle.
Schiff: And have we, in order to prove that hypothesis, flown a drone and observed it with that same technology to see whether we can reproduce the effect?
Bray: UAP Task Force is aware of studies that have done that (The follow-up by Schiff should have been, “What studies? Can you get those to me by the end of the week? ~Joe).
Schiff: Ok, Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Not long after that hearing and Bray making those claims, Taylor was on a Skinwalker Ranch Insider panel and noted that in the ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP, released in June of 2021, of the 144 UAP reports examined by the UAPTF, one was explained and that was a deflated balloon. He added:
TT: “Recently, I think we’ve explained, maybe, a second one, as it looks to be stars and a drone. But there’s still something a little iffy about that.”
In a blog published by “Liberation Times,” on May 8th, 2023, Pentagon spokesperson, Susan Gough, added some comments about the 2019 events and the alleged triangle-shaped craft above the USS Russell:
“As noted by Scott Bray, Deputy Director for Naval Intelligence, during a congressional hearing in May 2022, the UAPTF was reasonably confident that the triangles correlated to UAS [Unmanned Aerial Systems) in the area, given that the triangles appeared in videos from different occasions where U.S Navy assets observed a number of small UAS nearby.
“As with all UAP cases it inherited, AARO is reviewing the associated data of past cases within its newly developed analytic framework. These triangles may be a combination of known sources, including UAS, and AARO is using its newly implemented analytic framework to definitively determine the sources and peer review the results before officially closing the case.
“As Mr. Bray also noted during his testimony, we can confirm that the objects observed in this case appeared to the viewer as triangular shapes due to the angle of observation and optical system used. As part of the analytic framework, the source of the lights are currently being reviewed against the star/planet alignment at the time, air traffic and other likely UAS systems. As we have stated previously, there is not one solution for all UAP.”
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One more item related to the 2019 West Coast events.
Condorman, who lists himself as an Aerospace Engineer (I’ve interacted with him for several years and have no reason to doubt him), added this in a multi-tweet thread in January of 2022.
I’ve been debating whether to post this or not since there’s all this flak about naming sources. But I decided to do it. If you don’t like unnamed sources, STOP now. Earlier this week I was a testing location and ran into a friend I had not seen since we both worked at LM.
I left [Lockheed Martin] for greener pastures and he left for a government job. I invited him to dinner (gov jobs don’t pay great, lol) and after a few beers (him) and wine (me), I brought up UAP. We started with Tic Tacs and he basically said it was the strangest incident he was aware of.
He then volunteered that he had looked into the east coast sightings and had even visited Mayport Naval Base in 2015. He talked about swarms of spheres, some with pilot-reported cube structures inside of them, and sometimes following a larger craft (Gimbal??)
I was blown away. I then brought up the 2019 west coast incident and inquired if he’d heard of it. He nodded and said it was the SAME. That the same swarms of spheres had flown over our ships for hours over several days. I asked if they had cubes inside and he said they only came out at night so they could not see the cubes, but they gave off the same radar and IR sigs as the east coast. He was sure they were the SAME. He changed the topic after that and we talked about our families and so on. But what a rush.
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Back to Knapp, Stratton and Taylor, as TT comments on how he felt after watching the HIPSI hearing with Moultrie and Bray…
TT: And it seems odd. It felt like we’ve been practicing all year and got to the playoffs and we lost like, you know, forty-two to nothing. I mean, that’s how it felt. It was real weird, a kick in the gut. And it’s one of those things that, it seems like…the question is: Why? You know, I’ve never been a believer in conspiracies, but also, I’m not a big believer in coincidences, right? And the fact that, now suddenly, all of a sudden, there’s all these balloon things happening. And, “Oh, we didn’t know how to track it, and the UAPTF didn’t know what they were doing. They’re a bunch of morons, and so, it was all balloons and it wasn’t UFOs.” Well, we told them that you couldn’t chase the balloons until you fixed the damn radars! And so, it really seems very timely, and almost directed, but I can’t bring myself to believe in a conspiracy.
JS: If I got everything on my wish list, we’d be in a much different place right now. Much different.
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GK: Congress passed a law that allows whistleblowers some protections to come forward. You guys have heard the same things that I’ve heard about people that have already testified, that wanna testify about legacy programs, about, as crazy as it sounds, crash retrievals, metamaterials, craft that were made by somebody else. You both specialize in reverse engineering, I know you’d like to get your hands on that kind of stuff. You said, Jay, that you had never seen evidence of the hidden hand, but you felt it. You think that such a program could exist in the private sector somewhere, that there could be materials like that, that have been hidden from the public? And same thing for you, Travis.
(Stratton motions for Taylor to go first)
TT: Okay.
GK: Do you have any confidence that the whistleblower testimony that’s happening now will lead us somewhere.
TT: Well, let me take the whistleblower thing first and then think about how you (Jay) wanna answer that first question. And I don’t know how I’m gonna answer that. So, I wanna caution everybody. So, think about this: If there was a legacy program, and I’m not saying I know there was or not. If there was a legacy program, say if there was a Roswell crash, and they had a crash retrieval and reverse engineering program, that was in 1947, if you believe all the stories. And so, in 1947, then, whoever created the Special Access Program for that is long retired and probably dead. And whoever may still have legacy continued the next generation, or whatever, if they were still in that program, inside that SAP, it’s unlikely there were new people put into it much longer than ten or twenty years after that. And so they’re getting really close to aging out. And they signed a non-disclosure agreement for life, if it’s a Special Access Program, unacknowledged. You never, as long as you live, reveal that that existed or you’ll go to jail for the rest of your life, for treason. Or espionage, it wouldn’t be treason. I’m not a lawyer so don’t…it’s a whole different… Or maybe that’s a good thing? I don’t know. Anyway…so there was no way for any of these people to actually tell anybody, because nobody in Congress has any knowledge of any of these unacknowledged SAPs, that can be briefed. So, that’s what the whistleblower clause is for, to create a super caveat, a super-access program that they can brief upwards in classification to, and there would be some elected officials that are briefed into that program so we have elected-official oversight. That doesn’t mean they’ll ever tell the general public, but at least you could be somewhat comfortable in knowing that you had an elected official that was at least doing oversight. As far as I can tell, there’s been no oversight for a long time. So, at least there’s that. But we’ll see what happens.
JS: Basically what I was gonna say (audience laughed). You know, if…if there was something like that, industry is the place it belongs, mostly. And the reason I say that is because industry builds capabilities that make the F-22s and the F-35s and so on, of the world…or, for us. But the problem I have is, if it exists that way, then the oversight and the lack of understanding of the sitting members of Congress, that we failed, or someone has worked around them. So, that’s a concern for me. That’s the heart and soul of the whistleblower protection, but if you don’t understand that whistleblower protection, I need to manage expectations. A whistleblower can walk into Congress in the right room and tell them what they know. That does not declassify that information. That only provides them with insight and other places to potentially turn over some more rocks. It would take the President of the United States to declassify that information and provide it to the American people. So, the whistleblower language is not a bad thing, for sure, but it’s not de-classifying the information.
TT: Well, it wouldn’t have to be the President if he was the original classification authority.
JS: Yeah, whoever owns it.
TT: Whoever created the program is called the classifying authority. The president is the authority, he can declassify any damn thing he wants. But the person who creates the program is called the classifying authority and he or she has the authority to do that, too.
GK: That sounded to me like, “Good luck getting this information out.”
TT: I think that’s what we said, yeah.
GK: We have a few minutes left, sadly. I want to ask about Radiance Technologies. When I saw Radiance. there was two news releases they put out about two hires they did, and I was just flabbergasted. One was about Jay Stratton. And it says he worked in these UAP programs for the federal government and was a reverse engineering specialist.
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GK: And then they put out a release that they’d hired Travis Taylor, who’s known for UFO programs and had also worked on classified programs, and they’re gonna work together.
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GK: Jay, the reverse-engineer specialist, Travis, the guy who builds things, and you have to wonder: What the hell are you guys doing down there? Are you building flying saucers? Are you taking one apart? Or, what are you up to?
TT: Anybody wants to bring us a flying saucer, we’ll be happy to reverse engineer it for ya.
JS: So we love the company we’re with and in our heart and soul, yes, we’re founded on reverse engineering. And we’re research and development and we are a solution provider for the government, the Intel Community and the Department of Defense. What that means to me and Travis is the flexibility of job description. And our job description is, basically, go do awesome things and provide the Intel Community with an awesome product, or the Department of Defense. And sometimes, that awesome product is a derivation of something else we may have gotten our hands on.
GK: Can the private sector solve this mystery? Can you guys get your hands on proof…the kinds of things that only the government could get in the past? Is that what you want to do?
TT: Well, that’s exactly what I want to do and it’s exactly what my goal is. I think that…Jay always has told me this isn’t inherently a government problem, UFOs are all over the world, if they’re real, right?
JS: The skies are not classified.
TT: And the skies are not classified. That’s the other thing he says, yes. And so, all of you are part of our sensor network. You’ve got a supercomputer with AI access in your pocket. You get something, start spreading it around and show everybody you know. There are some apps coming online with a couple of different small businesses that are creating, like UFO tracking, like chat sort of apps that, if you see something, you can connect to other phones nearby you and tell them to look for it, too. And so you should look for those apps and try to start making use of those. And that’s all private stuff. I think the way you’re gonna get disclosure isn’t going to be from some guy walking up to a podium at the White House, press room or in the Pentagon, it’s going to be from someone like George here, that has found the right data in the open, public world and we’re gonna see it. That’s what disclosure gonna be.
JS: Yep.
GK: One last question. Jeremy (Corbell) made me ask this.
MOSUL ORB : US military filmed UFO from an active conflict zone – officially designated by the US government and intelligence agencies as a UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) and currently part of the active UAP investigations under the US DoD.
— Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (@JeremyCorbell) January 24, 2023
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GK: You can’t answer it but I’ll ask it anyway. Have you ever seen the Mosul Orb before we put it out?
JS: I can’t comment.
GK: Ahh! Jay Stratton, Travis Taylor, thank you both, very much. Thank you all. Thanks for coming.
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“In the event sufficient scientific data were ever obtained, that a UAP encounter can only be explained by extraterrestrial origin, we are committed to working with our interagency partners at NASA to appropriately inform U.S. Government’s leadership of its findings.”
~Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick – Director of AARO
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Former intelligence and defense contractor, Michael Via, joined me on April 23rd and we analyzed the hearing.
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand – D-New York – (KG): “The hearing will come to order. I’d first like to thank our witness, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, for testifying here and in today’s earlier closed session. And for his long and distinguished career, both in the intelligence community and in the Department of Defense. Dr. Kirkpatrick is the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO. Congress established this office, in law, to get to the bottom of the very serious problem of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (That’s not a typo. KG said “phenomenon.” ~Joe) or UAP. Dr. Kirkpatrick has a very difficult mission. While we have made progress, there remains a stigma attached to these phenomenon. There is a vast and complex citizen engagement, and there’s also very challenging scientific and technical hurdles. So we appreciate the willingness of Dr. Kirkpatrick to lean in on this issue and the work that he has accomplished thus far. And we look forward to both his opening statement and his presentation of examples of the work AARO has done.
In late 2017, media reports surfaced about activity set in motion by the late long-serving Majority Leader, Senator Harry Reid, more than a decade ago. We learned that there was strong evidence of advanced technology reflected in the features and performance characteristics of many objects observed by our highly-trained service members operating top-of-the-line, military equipment. We learned that for at least the past eight years, military pilots frequently encountered unknown objects in controlled airspace off both the East and West Coasts across the continental United States, in test and training areas, and ranges. We don’t know where they come from, who made them, or how they operate. As former Deputy Secretary of Defense, David Norquist, observed, had any of these objects had the label, Made in China, there would be an uproar in the government and media. There would be no stone unturned and no effort spared to find out what we were dealing with. We can look at the recent incursion of the unidentified, PRC (People’s Republic of China) high-altitude balloon as an example. And because of the UFO stigma, the response has been irresponsibly anemic and slow.
Congress established AARO. We made it clear that we expect vigorous action. We added very substantial, initial funding for the office. But despite our best efforts, the President’s budget for Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024, requested only enough funding to defray the operating expenses of AARO. It included almost no funds to sustain the critical research and development necessary to support a serious investigation. It took a letter to Secretary Austin from Senator Rubio and me, and 14 other senators, to get the office temporary relief for the current fiscal year.
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KG: In this hearing, I tend to probe a series of specific issues. In the recent incidents where multiple objects were shot down over North America, it seemed that Pentagon leadership did not turn to [the] AARO office to play a leading role in advising the combatant commander. We need to know whether this will continue, we need to know whether the leadership in DoD will bring AARO into the decision-making process in a visible way, and we need to know what role AARO will play in interagency coordination after the NSC Working Group disbands.
In the fiscal year 2023 National Defense and Intelligence Authorization Act, Congress established a direct-reporting chain from the AARO director to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. The role of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security is limited to providing administrative support. We need to know how this direction is being implemented. UAP are frequently observed flying [at] extremely high or very-low speeds and come in various sizes and shapes. During the recent shoot downs over North America, DoD disclosed that filters on radar systems were adjusted to allow for detection and tracking of diverse sets of objects for the first time. While opening the aperture can overload the real time, analytic process, we cannot keep turning a blind eye to surveillance data that is critical to detecting and tracking UAP. We need to know whether Dr. Kirkpatrick can achieve the necessary control over sensor filters,and the storage and access to raw, surveillance data to find UAP anomalies.
Finally, one of the tasks Congress set for AARO is serving as an open door for witnesses of UAP events, or participants in government activities related to UAPs, to come forward securely and disclose what they know without fear of retribution for any possible violations of previously signed non-disclosure-agreements. Congress mandated that AARO set up a publicly-discoverable and accessible process for safe disclosure. While we know that AARO has already conducted a significant number of interviews, many referred by Congress, we need to set up a public process and we need to know where that effort stands. With that, I’d like to turn to Senator Ernst for her opening statement.
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George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell share their thoughts about the big statement that Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick said during the UAP hearing last week.
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Senator Joni Ernst – R-Iowa – (JE): Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you Dr. Kirkpatrick for your testimony today. I’ll keep these remarks very brief so that we have maximum time for your briefing. The recent downing of the Chinese surveillance balloon, and three other objects, underscores the need for domain awareness. Adversaries like China and Russia are working to hold U.S. interests, including our homeland, at risk. That’s why your testimony is so important. And I so look forward to a progress update on the establishment of your office. As members know, your office evolved from the Navy-led, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, to the All-domain Anomalous Resolution Office known as AARO. Dr. Kirkpatrick, your extensive background in science and technology, research and development, and space, makes you well suited to discuss these emerging challenges. My priority is that we understand the full range of threats posed by our adversaries in all domains. That is what the Joint Force needs to be prepared to fight and win in defense of our nation. This committee needs to know about Chinese or Russian advanced-technology programs to exploit our vulnerabilities, and it needs to know whether your office, along with the IC, has detected potential Chinese or Russian capabilities to surveilor attack us. Finally, we need to ensure efficient, interagency coordination. Multiple elements of the DoD and IC own a piece of this mission. To add value, AARO’s efforts cannot be redundant with others. Thank you again, we look forward to your testimony.
KG: Dr. Kirkpatrick, you can give your testimony.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick (SK): Thank you, Chairwoman Gillibrand, Ranking Member Ernst, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee and Congress. It is a privilege to be here today to testify on the Department of Defense’s efforts to address Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
First, I want to thank Congress for its extensive and continued partnership as the Department works to better understand and respond to UAP in an effort to minimize technical and intelligence surprise. Unidentified objects in any domain pose potential risks to safety and security, particularly for military personnel and capabilities. Congress and DoD agree that UAP cannot remain unexamined or unaddressed.
We are grateful for sustained, congressional engagement on this issue, which paved the way for DoD’s establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office in July of last year. Though AARO is still a young office, the spotlight on UAP in recent months underscores the importance of its work and the need for UAP to be taken seriously as a matter of national security. All leadership that I’ve had the pleasure of working with, whether DoD, IC, DOE, civil, scientific or industrial, view Congress as a critical partner in this endeavor.
AARO has accomplished much in the 9 months since it was established. The AARO team of more than three dozen experts is organized around four functional areas: operations, scientific research, integrated analysis, and strategic communications. In the nine months since AARO’s establishment, we have taken important steps to improve UAP data collection, standardize the Department’s UAP internal reporting requirements, and implement a framework for rigorous scientific and intelligence analysis, allowing us to resolve cases in a systematic and prioritized manner. Meanwhile, consistent with legislative direction, AARO is also carefully reviewing and researching the U.S. Government’s UAP-related historical record.
AARO is leading a focused effort to better characterize, understand, and attribute UAP, with priority given to UAP reports by DoD and IC personnel in or near areas of national security importance. DoD fully appreciates the eagerness from many quarters, especially here in Congress and in the American public, to quickly resolve every UAP encountered across the globe, from the distant past through today.
It is important to note, however, that AARO is the culmination of decades of DoD, Intelligence Community, and congressionally-directed efforts to successfully resolve UAP encountered, first and foremost, by U.S. military personnel, specifically Navy and Air Force pilots.
The law establishing AARO is ambitious, and it will take time to realize the full mission. We cannot answer decades of questions about UAP all at once, but we must begin somewhere. While I assure you that AARO will follow scientific evidence wherever it leads, I ask for your patience as DoD first prioritizes the safety and security of our military personnel and installations, in all domains.
After all, UAP encountered first by highly-capable DoD and IC platforms, featuring the nation’s most advanced sensors, are those UAP most likely to be successfully resolved by my office, assuming the data can be collected. If AARO succeeds in first improving the ability of military personnel to quickly and confidently resolve UAP they encounter, I believe that in time, we will have greatly advanced the capability of the entire United States Government, including its civilian agencies, to resolve UAP. However, it would be naive to believe that the resolution of all UAP can be solely accomplished by the DoD and IC alone. We will need to prioritize collection and leverage authorities for monitoring all domains within the continental United States. AARO’s ultimate success will require partnerships with the interagency, industry partners, academia and the scientific community, as well as the public.
AARO is partnering with the Services, Intelligence Community, DOE and across the U.S. government to tap into the resources of the interagency. The UAP challenge is more an operational and scientific issue than it is an intelligence issue. As such, we are working with industry, academia, and the scientific community, which bring their own resources, ideas, and expertise to this challenging problem set. Robust collaboration and peer-review across a broad range of partners will promote greater objectivity and transparency in the study of UAP.
I want to underscore today that only a very small percentage of UAP reports display signatures that could reasonably be described as ‘anomalous.’ The majority of unidentified objects reported to AARO demonstrate mundane characteristics of balloons, unmanned aerial systems, clutter, natural phenomena, or other readily explainable sources. While a large number of cases in our holdings remain technically unresolved, this is primarily due to a lack of data associated with these cases. Without sufficient data, we are unable to reach defendable conclusions that meet the high scientific standards we set for resolution, and I will not close a case that we cannot defend the conclusions of.
I recognize that this answer is unsatisfying to those who, in good faith, assume that what they see with their eyes, with their cameras, and with their radars is incontrovertible evidence of extraordinary characteristics and performance. Yet, time and again, with sufficient scientific-quality data, it is fact that UAP often, but not always, resolve into readily-explainable sources. Humans are subject to deception and illusions, sensors to unexpected responses and malfunctions, and in some cases, intentional interference. Getting to the handful of cases that pass this level of scrutiny is the mission of AARO.
That is not to say that UAP, once resolved, are no longer of national security interest, however. On the contrary, learning that a UAP isn’t of exotic origin but is instead, just a quadcopter or a balloon, leads to the question of who is operating that quadcopter, and to what purpose. The answers to those questions will inform potential national security or law-enforcement responses.
AARO is a member of the Department’s support to the administration’s “Tiger Team” effort to deal with stratospheric objects such as the PRC High-Altitude Balloon (HAB). When previously unknown objects are successfully identified, it is AARO’s role to quickly and efficiently hand off such readily-explainable objects to the Intelligence, law-enforcement or operational-safety communities for further analysis and appropriate action. In other words, AARO’s mission is to turn UAP into SEP: Somebody Else’s Problem.
The U.S. Government, the DoD and the IC, in particular, has tremendous capabilities to deal with those encountered objects. In the wake of the PRC HAB event, the interagency is working to better integrate and share information to address identifiable stratospheric objects, but that is not AARO’s lane.
Meanwhile, for the few cases in all domains, space, air and sea, that do demonstrate potentially anomalous characteristics, AARO exists to help the DoD, IC, and interagency resolve those anomalous cases. In doing so, AARO is approaching these cases with the highest level of objectivity and analytic rigor. This includes physically testing and employing modeling and simulation to validate our analyses and underlying theories, then peer reviewing those results within the U.S. Government, industry partners, and appropriately-cleared academic institutions, before reaching any conclusions.
I should also state clearly, for the record, that in our research, AARO has found no credible evidence, thus far, of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics. In the event sufficient scientific data were ever obtained, that a UAP encounter can only be explained by extraterrestrial origin, we are committed to working with our interagency partners at NASA to appropriately inform U.S. Government’s leadership of its findings. For those few cases that have leaked to the public previously, and subsequently commented on by the U.S. Government, I encourage those who hold alternative theories or views to submit your research to credible, peer-reviewed scientific journals. AARO is working very hard to do the same. That is how science works, not by blog or social media.
We know that there is tremendous public interest in UAP and a desire for answers from AARO. By its very nature, the UAP challenge has, for decades, lent itself to mystery, sensationalism, and even conspiracy. For that reason, AARO remains committed to transparency, accountability, and to sharing as much with the American public as we can, consistent with our obligation to protect not only intelligence sources and methods, but U.S. and Allied capabilities. However, AARO’s work will take time if we are committed to doing it right. It means adhering to the scientific method and the highest standards of research integrity. It means being methodical and scrupulous. It means withholding judgment in favor of evidence. It means following the data where it leads, wherever it leads. It means establishing scientific, peer-reviewed, theoretical underpinnings of observed data. And AARO is committed to all of those standards.
I’m proud of AARO’s progress over the last nine months. Much remains to be done, but the hard work is under way. Thank you for your continued support. And before we turn to questions, I’m gonna walk you through some of our analytical trends and a couple of cases that we’ve prepared.
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So one of the things that AARO does is high-integrity analysis, as I’ve said. This chart represents the trend analysis of all the cases in AARO’s holdings to date.
I’ll break it down since it’s small and hard to see:
SK: What you’ll see on the left is a histogram of all of our reported sightings as a function of altitude. So, most of our sightings occur in the 15 to 25,000 foot range. And that is ultimately because that’s where a lot of our aircraft are.
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SK: On the far right, upper corner, you’ll see a breakout of the morphologies of all of the UAP that are reported. Over half, about 52% of what’s been reported to us, are round or spheres. The rest of those breakout into all kinds of different other shapes. The gray box (Ambiguous Sensor Contact) is…essentially there is no data on what its shape is. Either it wasn’t reported or the sensor did not collect it.
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SK: The bottom map is a heat map of all reporting areas across the globe that we have available to us. What you’ll notice is that there is a heavy, what we call, collection bias, both in altitude and in geographic location. That’s where all of our sensors exist. That’s where our training ranges are, that’s where our operational ranges are, that’s where all of our platforms are.
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SK: In the middle, what we have done is reduce the most typically-reported UAP characteristics to these fields. Mostly round, mostly one to four meters. White, silver, translucent, metallic. 10,000 to 30,000 feet, with apparent velocities from stationary to Mach 2. No thermal exhausts are usually detected. We get intermittent radar returns, we get intermittent radio returns, and we get intermittent thermal signatures. That’s what we’re looking for, and trying to understand what that is.
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SK: Next slide. So I’m going to walk you through two cases that we’ve declassified recently. This first one is an MQ-9 in the Middle East, observing that blow up, which is an apparent spherical object via EO (electro-optical) sensors. Those are not IR (Infrared).
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SK: If you want to go ahead and click that and play it.
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2022 – MQ-9: Sphere/Orb – With Kirkpatrick Audio
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SK: You’ll see it come through the top of the screen, there it goes, and then the camera will slew to follow it. You’ll see it pop in and out of the field of view there. This is essentially all of the data we have associated with this event from some years ago. It is going to be virtually impossible to fully identify that, just based off of that video. Now what we can do and what we are doing is keeping that as part of that group of 52% to see: What are the similarities, what are the trends across all these, and do we see these in a particular distribution? Do they all behave the same or not? As we get more data, we will be able to go back and look at these in a fuller context. How are we gonna get more data? We are working with the Joint Staff to issue guidance to all the services and commands, that will then establish: What are the reporting requirements, the timeliness, and all of the data that is required to be delivered to us and retained from all the associated sensors? That historically hasn’t been the case, and it’s been happenstance that data has been collected.
Next slide. This particular event, South Asia, MQ-9, looking at another MQ-9. And what’s highlighted there in that red circle is an object that flies through the screen.
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SK: Unlike the previous one, this one actually shows some really interesting things that everyone thought was truly anomalous to start with. First of all, it’s a high-speed object that’s flying in the field of regard of two MQ-9s. Second, it appears to have this trail behind it, right? Which, at first blush, you would think, that looks like a propulsion trail. In reality, if you want to play the first slide, we’ll show you what that looks like in real time. The first video.
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SK: So we’re looking at that, there it goes. Why don’t you play it again, and then pause it halfway through. Right there. Alright, if you might be able to see that trail there behind it. That’s actually not a real trail, that is a sensor artifact. Each one of those little blobs is actually a representation of the object as it’s moving through. And later in the video, as the as the camera slews, that trail actually follows the direction of the camera, not the direction of the object.
2023 – MQ-9: The Trail = A Sensor Artifact
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2023 – MQ-9: Close-up of The Trail = A Sensor Artifact
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2023 – MQ-9: Close-up of Commuter Jet
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SK: We pulled these apart frame by frame, we were able to demonstrate that that is essentially a readout, overlap of the image. It’s a shadow image, right? It’s not real. Further, if you later follow this all the way to end, it starts to resolve itself into that blob that’s in that picture on the top right. And if you squint, it looks like an aircraft…because it actually turns out to be an aircraft. Go ahead and put that on. So you’ll see the tail sort of pop out there. And so what you’re looking at, in the infrared, this is the heat signature off of the engines of a commuter aircraft that happened to be flying in the vicinity of where those two MQ-9s were at.
Why am I showing you this? So the first one that I showed you, we don’t have resolved yet, right? That is an unresolved case we are still studying. This one, we can resolve. But this is the kind of data that we have to work with and the type of analysis that we have to do, which can be quite extensive when you have to pull these apart, frame by frame. Further, we’re now matching all of this with the models of all of those imaging sensors, so that I can say, “I can recreate this, I can actually show how the sensor is going to respond.” All of these sensors don’t necessarily respond the way ya think they do. Especially out in the world and in the field. And I believe that’s all I have. And I will open it up for your questions.
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KG: Thank you so much, Dr. Kirkpatrick. Can you just give us some raw numbers of how many UAPs you’ve analyzed? How many have been resolved, and sort of in what buckets? And then how many are still left to be resolved? Just an update from your January public report, where it was 366 or something, and about 150 were balloons, and about two dozen were drones. You know, just give us an update, if you have one.
SK: Sure. So, as of this week, we are tracking over a total of 650 cases. Now, the report in January basically said about half of the ones at that time, about 150, were likely balloon-like or something like that. That doesn’t mean they’re resolved.
KG: Oh, I see.
SK: Let me walk everyone through what our analytic process looks like. We have, essentially, a five-step process, right? So we have, we get our cases, and all the data. We create a case for that event. My team does a preliminary scrub of all of those cases as they come in, just to sort out: Do we have any information that says this is in one of those likely categories? It’s likely a balloon, it’s likely a bird, it’s likely some other object. Or, we don’t know. Then we prioritize those based off of where they are. Are they attached to a national-security area? Does it show some anomalous phenomenology that is of interest? If it’s just a spherical thing that’s floating around with the wind, and it has no payload on it, that’s gonna be less important than something that has a payload on it, which will be less important than something that’s maneuvering, right?
So there’s sort of a hierarchy of just binning the priorities, because we can’t do all of them at once. Once we do that, and we prioritize them, and we take that package of data, in that case…and I have set up two teams. Think of this as a Red Team/Blue Team, or a competitive analysis. I have an intelligence-community team, made up of intelligence analysts, and I have an S & T team (science and technology) made up of scientists and engineers. And the people that actually build a lot of these sensors are physicists, because, you know, if you’re a physicist, you can do anything, right? And…but they’re not associated with the Intel Community, they’re not intel officers. They look at this through the lens of the sensor, of what the data says. We give that package to both teams. And the Intelligence Community is gonna look at it through the lens of the intelligence record, and what they assess, and their intel tradecraft, which they have very specific rules and regulations on how they do. The scientific community, technical community, is gonna look at it through the lens of: What is the data telling me? What is the sensor doing? What would I expect a sensor response to be? And back that out. Those two groups give us their answers.
We then adjudicate. If they agree, then I am more likely to close that case, if they agree on what it is. If they disagree, we will have an adjudication. We’ll bring them together, we’ll take a look at the differences. We’ll adjudicate: Why do you say one thing and you say another? We will then come to a case recommendation [and] that will get written up by my team. That then goes to a Senior Technical Advisory Group, which is outside of all of those people, made up of senior, technical folks and intel analysts and operators from retired, out of the Community. And they essentially peer review what that case recommendation is. They write their recommendations and that comes back to me, I review it, we make a determination, and I’ll sign off one way or the other. And then that will go out as the case determination. Once we have an approved web portal to hang the unclassified stuff, we will downgrade and declassify things and put it out there. In the meantime, we’re putting a lot of these on our classified web portal, where we can then collaborate with the rest of the Community so they can see what’s going on.
In a nutshell, that is the process, right? So, because of that…that takes time. So of those, over 650, you know, we’ve prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous, interesting value. And now we have to go through those and go, “How much do I have actual data for?” Because if all I have is [an] operator report that says, “I saw X, Y or Z, and my assessment is A, B, or C,” that’s not really sufficient. That’s a good place to start, but I have to have data. I have to have radar data, I have to have EO (electro-optical) data, I have to have thermal data, I have to have overhead data, and we need to look at all that.
Now, from a big-picture perspective, I still have…that’s all still very valuable data, and we’re looking at applying a lot of things, new tools, analytic tools, like natural-language processing, so I can go across all of those reports and look for commonalities. How many of them are being described as round, spherical objects that are maneuvering. How many of them are not maneuvering? How many of them seem to have a plume to it, or node? That’s also going to be very valuable to give us more of a global picture and a trends analysis of: What are we seeing? And help us get to the determination.
So, go back to your question, ma’am, we have…this next quarterly report will be coming out here pretty soon. Our next annual report, you all have given us…moved it up to June/July. We’re gonna be having that done about that timeframe and we’ll be combining a whole number of reports into that one. I think we’re currently sitting at around – if I remember correctly – we’re around twenty to thirtyish, or about halfway through that analytic process. A handful of them have made it all the way out to the other side, gone through peer review, we’ve got case-closure reports done and signed. We’re gonna get faster as we get more people on board and we get more of the Community tools to automate some of the analysis that has to be done.
Senator Joni Ernst – R-Iowa (JE): Thank you, Madam Chair. And Dr. Kirkpatrick, the ODNI annual Threat Assessment states that China’s space activities are designed to erode U.S. influence across military, technological, economic and diplomatic spheres. Likewise, Russia will remain a key space competitor. In the course of your work, have you become aware of any Chinese or Russia[n] technical advancements to surveil or attack U.S. interests?
SK: So that’s a great question. Part of what we have to do as we go through these – especially the ones that show signatures of advanced, technical capabilities – is determine if there’s a foreign nexus. That’s really hard if what we observe doesn’t have a Chinese or Russian flag on the side of it. Now, I think it is prudent to say, of the cases that are showing some sort of advanced technical signature – of which, we’re talking single percentages of the entire population of cases we have – I am concerned about what that nexus is. And I have indicators that some are related to foreign capabilities. We have to investigate that with our IC partners, and as we get evidence to support that, that gets then handed off to the appropriate IC agency to investigate. Again, it becomes an SEP at that point.
JE: Yeah, Somebody Else’s Problem.
SK: Right.
JE: Very good. Thank you. Yes. Is it (laughs) possible that the Chinese or Russian advanced technologies could be causing some of these anomalous behaviors? And you said, there’s seems to be some indicators. So, just for us today, could you describe potential threat[s] that might exist out there if they are foreign nexus?
SK: Sure. In order to do this research appropriately, we have to also be cognizant of what is the state of the art in development across the S&T community. What are the DARPAs of the world doing? What’s the horizon scanning of emerging technologies – appropriate to this subcommittee – what is happening out there? And if somebody could accelerate that capability, how would that manifest itself and what would it look like? And do those signatures match what we’re seeing? There are emerging capabilities out there that, in many instances, Russia and China, well, China in particular, are on par or ahead of us in some areas. So previously, I used to be the Defense Department’s intelligence officer for science and technical intelligence. That was our job, was to look for…what does all that look like? And then, you know, my last several years, of course, in Space Command, doing space. The adversary is not waiting. They are advancing and they’re advancing quickly. If I were to put on some of my old hats, I would tell you, they are less risk averse at technical advancement than we are, right? They are just willing to try things and see if it works. Are there capabilities that could be employed against us in both an ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance), in a weapons fashion? Absolutely. Do I have evidence that they’re doing it in these cases? No, but I have concerning indicators.
JE: Thank you. I appreciate that. And that is why it’s so important that you are working with the Intelligence Community as well. Because you have the science, the data background, but you also need to know, from various sources, what adversaries may be working on. Correct. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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KG: Senator Rosen?
Senator Jackie Rosen – D-Nevada (JR): Well, thank you, Chair Gillibrand, Ranking Member Ernst, this is a really important hearing. I’d like to thank you, Dr. Kirkpatrick, for your service to the country. And as a former systems analyst myself, I really appreciate your flowchart, the description of the process, and particularly the trends analysis going forward, how that’s gonna help us. And you talked about language, the LLMs, the large-language models of artificial intelligence. That’s really gonna help us in the hunt forward, predictive analysis, I think, to some of your point of what we’d be worried about.
But I want to focus on Nevada because I want to talk about the impact of UAPs on aviation safety. So when it comes to Unidentified Aerial Phenomenal…phenomena, excuse me, one of my first concerns is really about the safety of Nevada’s military aviator. So we have airmen stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, naval aviators flying at Naval Air Station Fallon, and service members from across the world, training at the Nevada test and training range. I know you know all this. And unfortunately, the existence of advanced UAPs in the U.S. airspace and over U.S. military installations [is] not a new phenomenon. The Navy’s officially acknowledged that between 2004 and 2021, eleven near misses occurred involving UAPs that required pilot action and follow up reports. As a result, in 2019, the Navy established a protocol for pilots to report on their dangerous encounters. So, could you speak to any ongoing efforts within DoD to ensure the safety of our aviators with a potential UAP encounter? And what’s your relationship with NORTHCOM, NORAD, Space Comm, when it comes to this immediate, real-time response? And how they’re right there in the moment, right?
SK: Absolutely. That’s a great question. So, let me start with…my relationship with the Commands are very good. I just came back from sitting down with with General van Herk, and all the J Staff out at NORTHCOMM a couple of weeks ago, talking through exactly what we need to do to help them get their arms around this. We are also working very closely with Joint Staff. And the Joint Staff has just been very outstanding in helping work through policy and guidance issues to the forces and to the services. And I would like to just make sure that we message back to all of the operators, the importance of their reporting, and the fact that you’re about to get a bunch of new requirements that we’re issuing through the Joint Staff, on all of the data that we’re gonna need you to save and report back to us. It is invaluable and we are working to try to take the most advantage of that, to learn what it is that we’re trying to mitigate.
To get directly to your question: First thing that we’re doing is normalizing our reporting, right? We’re standardizing our reporting and the requirements associated with that. Guidance from the Joint Staff, I think goes out maybe this week, maybe next week, on…that we’ve been working with them for some months, that does exactly what I just said. It gives them timelines, it gives them requirements, it gives them…here’s all the data you have to have. And you gotta retain it. The next thing that comes after that is a plan ord (Planning Order) that will go out to the Commands for mitigation and response. So there’s a couple of things that we have to do. One, I need to work with the Commands and with the IC, and with our…outside of our DoD and IC partners, to extend our collection posture, targeted at some of these key areas that you saw on that heat map that have a lot of activity, so that we can turn on extra collection when an operator sees something. So part of this is generating, as a response function, and what we call a tactic technique and procedure for an operator, when he sees something, calls back to the operations floor, they can turn on additional collection. What does that collection look like? How do I bring all that together so I can get more data on, what is that thing?
JR: Can I ask, really quickly.
SK: Sure.
JR: Do you have the authorities you need to extend your collection posture between agencies or branches of the military? Because that seems to me to maybe be a sticking point. I know my time is just about up. I’d love to follow up about your risk-management methodologies for some of these. But do you have need any authorities that you don’t have to get the data you need?
SK: There are some authorities that we need. We currently are operating under Title 10 authorities, but we have good relationships across the other agencies. But having additional authorities for collection, tasking, counter-intelligence…
JR: That’s something you…
SK: Those are all things that would be helpful, yes.
KG: Thank you. To follow up. Dr. Kirkpatrick, will you help us write that language so we can put it in the defense bill this year, so that we know what authorities you need?
SK: Uh huh.We can do that.
KG: Thank you. We’re gonna start second round, so if you want to stay, you can ask another round. I have at least three more questions.
JR: I have about a dozen more (laughs).
KG: Do you want to go right now in case you have to leave? Yeah, go ahead.
JR: I’m gonna stay on the drones issue because, obviously, we also have Creech Air Force Base, we talked about those Reapers…they’re flying out there. The last category, the Chinese spy balloon, it did cross through the U.S. airspace, shot down by a sidewinder missile, fired from an F-22. Sidewinders cost us close to half a million dollarseach. So, given the cost of these missiles, the cost per flight, all of these other things, like I said…follow up on the authorities, your methodologies, the data collection, they can help us in other ways. But how do you think we can develop a sustainable, affordable response to UAPs, where we need to, that may…that will definitely violate our airspace, not may. Definitely violate our airspace every chance that they can get, because they’re our adversaries and they want this information. So what do you think some cost-effective measures might be that we can get what we need out of that, or take them down? Whatever is appropriate, whatever the appropriate measure is, let’s put it that way.
SK: So that is actually wrapped into the plan ord that we’re working with Joint Staff to send out. What are the Commands need from both a capabilities perspective for kinetic and non-kinetic engagements? What are the response functions of the particular wings or Navy, what have you? And then, what authorities do they need? So one of the challenges that we’ve seen is, you know, there’s an authorities issues with the owners, operators of those ranges, that they need to work through. And we’re working with Joint Staff and OSD. So big picture, we need to do all that. If you want to get down to the specifics for, you know, there are non-kinetic options to engage pretty much everything, right? Whether it’s electronic warfare, whether it’s laser technologies…
JR: That’s where this data…having the good data collection, predicting analytics, you can make some assumptions on possibilities.
SK: That’s right. And we will inform recommendations back to The Department on, here’s what could work, here’s what we’ve seen work, here’s what doesn’t work.
JR: Thank you so much. Thank you, Madam Chair. Appreciate it.
KG: Thank you very much. I just want to just talk a little bit about your logistics, who you report to, how that’s going, whether you need different reporting lines. By congressional legislation, your office is administratively located within the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, but you’re not substantively subordinate to the undersecretary. Rather, you are to direct report to the deputy secretary. Are you taking direction directly from the deputy secretary? Are you able to meet and brief the deputy secretary? Is the office of USD(I&S) working with you to have the right framework?
SK: So, USD(I&S) and the…I currently report to USD(I&S) until they come up with the plan for how they’re going to implement legislation. DoD and DNI are working through that now. I’d have to refer you back to USD(I&S) on what their plan is. Umm…
KG: Do I need to update your reporting structure in the next defense bill or is this something that you think will work its way out, or does it need further clarity?
SK: I think they’re planning on coming back to you with an answer on what that plan is, and I think, at that time, that will inform what you want to do.
KG: Okay, thank you. As you know, Dr. Kirkpatrick, Congress has mandated that your office establish a discoverable and accessible electronic method for potential witnesses of UAP incidents and potential participants in government UAP-related activities, to contact to your office and tell their stories. Congress also set up a process whereby people subject to non-disclosure agreements, preventing them from disclosing what they may have witnessed or participated in, could tell you what they know without risk of retribution from the…or violation of their NDAs. Have you submitted a public-facing website product for approval to your superiors, and how long has it been under review?
SK: I have. We submitted the first version of that before Christmas.
KG: And do you have an estimate from them when they will respond and when you’ll have feedback on that?
SK: No, I don’t.
KG: Okay. We will author a letter – asking for that timely response – to your superiors.
Full text of the letter is below, in my tweet.
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KG: When do you expect that you will establish a public facing, discoverable and access portal for people to use to contact your office, as the law requires?
SK: So, I would like to first say, thank you all very much for referring the witnesses that you have thus far to us. I appreciate that. We’ve brought in nearly two dozen, so far. It’s been very helpful. I’d ask that you continue to do that until we have an approved plan. We have a multi-phased approach for doing that, that we’ve been socializing and have submitted for approval, some time. And once that happens, then we should be able to push all that out and get this a little more automated.
KG: Great.
SK: What I would ask, though, is, as you all continue to refer to us and refer witnesses to us – I’d appreciate if you’d do that – please try to prioritize the ones that you want to do, because we do have a small research staff, dealing with that.
KG: Thank you. And then, do you have any plans for public engagement that you want to share now, that you think it’s important that the public knows what the plan is?
SK: So we have a number of public-engagement recommendations, according to our strategic plan. All of those have been submitted for approval, they have to be approved by USD(I&S). We are waiting for approval to go do that.
KG: Okay, I will follow up on that. And then my last question is about the integration of departments, UAP operations, research, analysis and strategic communications. During the recent UAP incidents over North America, it didn’t appear that you were allowed to play that role. Do you agree that the public perception is generally that you and your office did not appear to play a major role in the Department’s response to the detection of objects over North America? What can you tell us that’s going on behind the scenes, from your perspective? And in the after-action-assessment process, is there awareness that there is a need to operate differently in the future and a commitment to doing so?
SK: When the objects were first detected, I got called by Joint-Staff leadership to come in late one night to review events as they were unfolding and to give them an assessment, based on what we knew at that time. I did that. I worked with the director of the Joint Staff, the J2 and the J3that night and over the couple of following days on, what are the types of things that we are tracking from a unidentified object perspective? What databases do we use? Those sorts of things for normal…for known objects, known tracking. Beyond that, their response, I would have to refer you back to the White House for the decision on how they did the response. We did not play a role in what you would respond, other than that initial, you know, advice on what we are seeing and how we are seeing it.
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KG: Senator Ernst? (KG’s mic was muted so I’m assuming that’s what she said. ~Joe).
Senator Joni Ernst (JE): Thank you, Madam Chair. Dr. Kirkpatrick, I know that your office has gotten a lot of attention recently. And, of course, any new agency, there tends to be a push to increase size and funding. We want to make sure that you’re able to meet your goals, but what I also need to ensure is that we’re not duplicating or replicating existing functions and creating redundancy within DoD and the inter-agencies. So, what steps are you taking right now to make sure that your particular office and function is unique to any of the other agencies that might be involved in these types of cases?
SK: Yeah, that’s a great question. So, I would like to lay down…here’s one of my, you know, sort of my mission and my goal and my vision here. So the vision is, at one point…at some point in the future, you should not need an AARO. If I’m successful in what I’m doing, we should be able to normalize everything that we’re doing into existing processes, functions, agencies and organizations, and make that part of their mission and their role. Right now, the niche that we form is really going after the unknowns. I think you articulated it early on, this is a hunt mission for what might somebody be doing in our backyard that we don’t know about. Alright, well, that, that, that is what we are doing, right? But at some point, we should be able to normalize that. That’s why it’s so important the work we’re doing with Joint Staff to normalize that into DoD policy and guidance. We are bringing in all of our interagency partners. So NASA is providing a liaison for us. I have FBI liaison, I have OSI liaison, I have service liaisons. Half of my staff come from the IC. Half of my staff come from other scientific and technical backgrounds. I have DOE. And so, what we’re trying to do is ensure, again, as I make UAP into SEP, they get handed off to the people that that is their mission to go do. So that we aren’t duplicating that. I’m not gonna go chase the Chinese high-altitude balloon, for example. That’s not my job. It’s not an unknown and it’s not anomalous, anymore. Now it goes over to them…right?
JE: Very good. Thank you, Madam Chair.
KG: Thank you. I want to just to follow up on the filters for surveillance. Outside observers have speculated that DoD sets filters on certain sensors to eliminate objects that are moving really fast or slow, because what we are looking for, militarily, are conventional aircraft and missiles.
(2/2) Today, drones, balloons, and other UAV are growing threats and a review of the settings on these mighty systems is overdue.
“If these radars are so heavily filtered that they did not detect the objects swarming the USS Omaha and USS Russelloff the coast of California in 2019, then perhaps it is time to modify the filtering algorithms of these radars or perhaps feed the same radar data in real-time into a separate filtering process tailored to detect and assess these new potential new threats. Otherwise, we risk needlessly missing vital intelligence information.”
KG: UAP that doesn’t fit into these programs would thereby be weeded out and never noticed. The spectrum of speculation was proven to be true during the UAP incidents over North America, where DoD publicly acknowledged that we were able to start seeing these UAPs only when we opened up these filters. Obviously, our military operators cannot be overloaded with objects that are not conventional aircraft or missiles. Can you nonetheless make sure that the raw data is being captured and subsequently processed so that your office knows what’s really out there? And is that going to cost money, will you expect to pay for that money out of AARO’s budget?
SK: One of the key tenants that we’re trying to do in our science plan is understand what those signatures are. So we get all the raw, for example, radar data, prior to the scrubbing and filtering to allow it to enter into our weapon systems and our detection systems. We are now taking all that data and cross correlating it to what pilots are saying they’re seeing or other observations from other operators. What that allows us to do is then see if there are any signatures in that data that I can pull out, generate – what we’ll call automatic-target-recognition algorithms – that allow us to then use that signature associated with [an] observed UAP, whatever that UAP may be. We will then make those recommendations, of what those changes should be, back to the department. So the deputy secretary had asked me last October to make those recommendations. What changes do we need to make to radars, to platforms, to detection systems, and algorithms, to pull on those algorithms [and] make those changes? That’s gonna take some time, that’s where the research and development comes in, right? It’s not instantaneous. Right now, a lot of the…I won’t say, a lot of the things that fall outside of the ranges of those filters have been identified by people in the loop, and you can’t have people in the loop all the time. It’s just not cost effective. So part of our budget is working through, what does that look like, and then making those recommendations back to the big-program offices for them to put into changes and acquisition.
KG: My last question is about the academic community. Can you give us an update on sort of how you collaborate with the academic community and whether…how the independent study being done by NASA complements AARO’s work?
SK: Sure. Two questions so I’m gonna try to make it quick. In 1979, Carl Sagan said, “Extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence.” I would go one step further, and I would say, extraordinary claims, require not only extraordinary evidence, but extraordinary science. And so how do you do that? You do that with the scientific method, right? And so as AARO is developing and implementing its science plan, it has to do so grounded in a solid foundation of scientific theory, across the entire range of hypotheses that have been presented for what UAP are. That range spans, adversary-breakthrough technology on one hand, known objects and phenomena in the middle, all the way to the extreme theories of extraterrestrials. All of that has physics-based signatures associated with it. Whether it’s theoretical, from the academic community, known from things like hypersonic weapons, or adversary-breakthrough technologies, as we’ve talked about before. Or the known objects that we have to go measure. The idea is, across that entire range, you have to come up with peer-reviewed, scientific basis for all of it. The academic community plays a very big role on the one end of the spectrum, the intelligence community on the other end of the spectrum, and then measurement in the middle. Once I have those signatures identified in validated, peer-reviewed documents, then I have something to point to for all that data. Because all that data is gonna match one of those signatures, right? And then I can go, “Well, it’s that and not that,” or, “It’s that.” And that helps us go through all that.
Where NASA comes in and the study that they’re doing, which I’m supporting, is really looking at the unclassified, data sources that might be used to augment our classified data sources, to understand if there’s a signature there we can pull on. So very similar to the radars, but civil capabilities. So, for example, we have a lot of climate-science satellites, for example, that look at Earth. Lots of them. How many of those is the data valuable in seeing these kinds of objects? The challenge in that is those platforms don’t necessarily have the resolution you need. So if you remember the slide I put up there with the trends, the size of the objects we’re looking for are typically reported to be one to four meters. Well, the resolution of many of the climate science, civil satellites, is much larger than that, which means you’d have a hard time picking out something that’s smaller than a pixel on the imagery, on the data. That’s not to say all of it’s not useful and there are ways of pulling through that data and going… That is what NASA is focused on right now. What are some other data sources that could be used? In addition, things like open source and crowdsourcing of data, we’re exploring public/private partnerships. Ma’am, as you know, we’ve talked about in the past, to look at: Is there a way to smartly crowdsource additional data that might be useful to augment some of my classified sources? And what does that look like? And how would we do it so that we’re not overwhelmed by, you know, everybody who wants to take a picture of everything?
KG: Is there anything else you’d like to tell the committee before we close?
SK: Thank you very much for allowing us to come and share a little bit of insight into what AARO’s up to and what we’re doing. I hope to be able to share a whole lot more in the future. We have a lot of work to do, so if you don’t hear from me outside, it’s because we’ve got a lot of work to do.
KG: Well, thank you so much, Dr. Kirkpatrick, thank you for the hearing.
SK: Thank you.
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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.
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.
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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1/2 From 2022 and a TC special…
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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.
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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Rep. Gallagher pressed DoD officials on UAPs in the first public hearing on the topic in nearly 50 years.
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.
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
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.
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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?
(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.
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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2 Gorbachev: "[Reagan] said, 'We too.' So that's interesting," Gorbachev said to much laughter.
"[Gorbachev] then said to Shultz, 'I'm sorry for having interrupted you, but it was an interesting moment.'"https://t.co/aEaOa2L58a
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 God, right? (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. 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.
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.
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.
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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?
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.
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“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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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.
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.”
You wouldn't know that from their silence, but the U.S. Air Force has tracked thousands of unidentified aerial phenomena incidents from 2004 to 2021. Former DoD Intel chief, @ChrisKMellon, calls out the Air Force for their involvement with UAP. https://t.co/z9wOAJaJs3
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.”
2/2 IMO, if these UAP are not U.S. aircraft, U.S. no longer has air dominance in their own airspace.
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.”
Tried something different by adding an audio summary. Need to be more conversational.
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.”
This is intriguing.
It would take a fighter jet about a mile to pull off this vertical U-turn. The “Gimbal” object does it in only a few hundred feet.
… All without observable propulsion or wings (important at 20,000 ft, where air density is low). 👍 pic.twitter.com/2VT5BzdzdK
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.’”
21 GK: "maybe bodies – the harder the pushback is gonna be. If I were Lockheed and I had this stuff, I wouldn't give it back to us (Lockheed now has that Knapp quote on their vault wall, with the intact craft looming in the background. Thanks, George.😁 ~Joe).
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.”
Could it be seagulls? That's what you said last time. Stick to that rather than changing your answer every time. BTW, where are your peer-reviewed papers on the subject? I keep checking and can't seem to find any. That said, sorry you are not charismatic.
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.”
May 1st 2020 a classified briefing was generated about the UFO / UAP presence via the Office of Naval Intelligence. I was able to obtain information regarding these & other UAP related briefings – as well as – unclassified slides & some intriguing military captured UAP footage. pic.twitter.com/F6V9h64Qfs
— Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (@JeremyCorbell) April 8, 2021
Those familiar with the briefings articulated to me that the goal was to de-stigmatize the UFO / UAP problem & to promote more intelligence collection regarding UAP incursions & encounters with active military deployments.
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.”
George Knapp just made me spit out my coffee this morning with this comment. hahahahahaha. I didn't realize you were also a comic genius Mr. Knapp @g_knapp
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.”
According to John Gutierrez, an active duty Navy commander. The round object in the USS Omaha FLIR video recorded on July 15, 2019 was NOT a balloon or a drone going into the ocean.
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.”
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.”
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.’”
2 "The stills provided prove nothing of the sort. It looks like a balloon or other object hitting the water as seen through a thermal imaging system. Once again, maybe other data exists that is compelling and truly exotic, but this certainly isn't that."
Murgia Tweet: “With video released, does Tyler (Rogoway) still think it’s a balloon?”
Rogoway Tweet: “YES!”
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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.”
"I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel. The #UAPTF has included these incidents in their ongoing examinations" – Susan Gough. Pentagon #UAP#JeremyCorbellpic.twitter.com/DPuw4I11Oj
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?”
~~~ 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.”
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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.”
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.”
So that would lead to the next question. Are our Navy personnel so inadequate, the SNOOPIE teams, radar operators, pilots and trained seaman don't recognize an aircraft 700 feet above their ship?
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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99 JG: "And when you ask him: Did you hear anything? Did you see anything, in terms of like, again, like exhaust, or something like that."
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: “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.”
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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.”
Was there an investigation that determined Bass Strait WAS NOT the origin of the 2019 UAP swarms off California? 😉
I wonder if @PacificBasin will comment about how Wikipedia says the units were launched from Bass Strait?
— Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (@JeremyCorbell) June 19, 2022
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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.”
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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?’”
Navy's top officer says mysterious ‘drones’ that swarmed destroyers remain unidentified:https://t.co/R0vwjfRPNw
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~
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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 water) is 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.”
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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 sobright, 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.”
Col. Boris Sokolov interviewed on the Ukraine nuclear incursion by George Knapp.
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.”
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.”
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“It’s happening every week!!! You know, they put something up from 2019, 2020, something that they knew was already out on social media and people looked at it, and they could just go ahead and say, ‘Here’s a video.’ No, no, show the real video. Show the videos that we know are there and because I’ve seen them. Show the videos that you know are being reported almost on a weekly basis. Report those. If I had the opportunity, right now, if you said, ‘Lue, you have no more nondisclosure agreement to worry about, you can speak your mind,’ people would be blown away.”
~Lue Elizondo
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Well, Lue, welcome to “Need To Know,” and I wish I could say it was a very positive day that we’ve got this hearing happening before Congress, but frankly, I think it was a big pile of steaming bull dung. What’s your take?
Lue Elizondo (Lue): (laughs) Well, Ross, look, very much like the 180 day report, let me, if I can, be as fair as possible. When the 180 day report first came out last year, it kind of fell with a thud, and people, I think, were underwhelmed, initially, with that report, not realizing there was a greater purpose. I think very much the same case here. Let’s, if we can, dissect this a little bit. And forgive me for getting a little bit into the weeds but it’s important. I think a lot of people feel exactly the way you do. I’ve heard it from my colleagues in Congress. In fact, some of the reps (in Congress) are literally spitting on the floor and throwing chairs, right? They’re very frustrated (This explains the very bold language in the 2023, IAA and NDAA ~Joe) Individuals in the government, individuals that were associated with my former program, are all kind of looking at this and saying, “Wow, that was underwhelming.” But let’s look at this for what it is. First of all, this is the first hearing in over 50 years, half a century, where senior members of our government testified before Congress. So there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle now. Two: Where before, during Blue Book, Operation Blue Book, where you had this, and the program Blue Book, you had senior members of the Air Force testifying. Now you have senior members of the Department of Defense testifying, so another level even higher than that, and the senior most intelligence officials in our national security apparatus, testifying on UFOs. And what did they say? They said it’s real, and they said, it’s a national security issue, and we don’t know what these are. So, that’s what they did say. Now, a lot of times, it’s what people don’t say that matters even more.
I also want to let you know, and your audience know, that I think it’s fair to presume here, that there’s going to be some more hearings. This was just the first hearing. I think it was very pro forma (made or carried out in a perfunctory manner or as a formality). To me, I wasn’t surprised. This was Congress painting a box around the Department of Defense and the intelligence community, saying, “Okay, what is the baseline of truth, what do we know, what don’t we know, and what are you doing about it?” Right? Knowing full well, Congress is very well informed, these guys are no fools. They’ve received the briefings, they know exactly what’s going on. They’ve been talking to their constituents, former military members, current military members. They asked very, very good, very precise questions. Now, the response to those questions, were very underwhelming. And I agree with you, wholeheartedly, there was a lot of bureaucracy and political considerations that were discussed, and frankly, there were a lot of contradictions. I wrote down everything. And what I did is I went ahead and looked at all the things that they said, the things that they didn’t say, and the contradictions.
Look, I think The Department is in a very precarious situation right now because they said a few things for the record that they can’t take back. You know, let’s hit those wave tops for a second, Ross. The Wilson documents – something that I’m not at liberty to discuss – were submitted for the first time as public record. I mean (Ross laughs), I wouldn’t want to be in that hot seat right now! I mean, I know what I know, and, you know, whoo! I wouldn’t want to touch that hot potato with a ten-foot pole, and yet, here we are. It’s part of now, public record. Holy smokes, dude, right?
RC: Now Lue, just for a moment, just for our audience, I’m just going to quickly explain to our audience: The Wilson documents, record an alleged conversation between Dr. Eric Davis and Admiral Tom Wilson, the then, recently-retired director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, where Tom Wilson describes attempts that he purportedly made to discover a secret program inside the U.S. Defense Department, which was hiding Special Access Programs, code-word programs, that were concealing an alleged craft retrieval, back engineering program. Correct?
Lue: That’s what the document alleges. And, you know, Congress now is looking at that. Now, that goes to a bigger point, Ross. Look, Congress asked them, “What are you doing?” And it was actually Congressman Gallagher – and by the way, I gotta applaud his courage for doing this – asking specifically, “What are you doing to collect past information that the U.S. government has collected,” right? And the answer was, “Nothing.”
Lue: So, they acknowledged AATIP was real, and they acknowledged Blue Book was real, but there’s 45 years in between where they have admitted we’re not doing anything to go back into our records and collect any information on what we’ve already done. In essence, forget about the millions of dollars we spent of your taxpayer money, we’re just going to reinvent the wheel here and pretend like we never did that. So, that is also problematic. I think that is going to be something that the DoD is going to be held accountable to. So that also happened. Then there was the topic of crash retrievals. Now, something I’m not at liberty to discuss.
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Lue: But what I can discuss is what was said today. They were very careful how the DoD responded. They said the [UAP] Task Force…the Task Force has no recovered material. How long has the Task Force been around? Exactly one year and nine months. Okay? So, you’re right, the Task Force doesn’t have it. Probably someone else does. And furthermore, when you look at what they said, as far as the Task Force is concerned? Just a few months ago, when they were asked how many people are permanently assigned to the Task Force, they said, “Two.” Now! Now, we have assessments being done, analysis being done, we have collection strategies being done and collection requirements. We have worked with our international partners. We have 400 cases we’re working! And oh, by the way, don’t forget, we’re working with our academic and scientific communities. With two people. You see the problem that?
Bryce Zabel (BZ): (laughs/scoffs) Lue, it was kind of shocking to hear, I think it was Gallagher, who said he wanted to put the Wilson memo in without objection, and nobody objected because I was pretty sure nobody knew what it was.
Lue: Yeah.
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Gallagher also entered into the record a copy of unverified 2002 meeting notes referred to as the “Admiral Wilson memo” that purports to reveal government officials and contractors discussing how they have been blocked from accessing information about crashed UFO materials pic.twitter.com/65G0erFyuc
BZ: I mean, do you think that he made that statement, and offered it into the record without anyone else knowing he was about to do it?
Lue: You know, it was clever if he did, but, you know, I’m not surprised because DoD didn’t know a lot of things. Malstrom, for example, right?
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Lue: The response to Malmstrom was, “Well, we don’t look at outside sources. Well, hold on a second. You’re the source!
BZ: You’re the source! (laughs)
Lue: That was a DoD, IIR! You guys wrote it! It got released through FOIA, you have your own commanders coming up and telling you about it. What do you mean you’re not talking to outside sources! You’re the source!!! (all laugh) So, I can’t believe they were saying this for the record!
BZ: How does that happen? How does history get ignored to such a degree that you bring two people in, they know that they’re going to have to testify before Congress, they’re under oath, and they’re not briefed? And they’re not up to date on the biggest cases? And if we’re talking about national security? I think we’ve all agreed, nuclear weapons are a national security issue with UFOs.
Lue: That’s the crown jewels. The crown jewels! The nuclear triad. Absolutely!
BZ: How could they not know? How is it that this happened, on the inside, that such a faux pas could actually occur?
Lue: Well…you know, that’s the bigger question. Are we talking about…it’s one of two things. It’s only one of two things. Either A: They’re lying, or it’s B: Gross negligence. Choose your poison, I don’t really care, but both are not a good situation to be in if you are in the national security apparatus. And by the way, Congress already knows! So, this is becoming a big frustration, as you see, like with Representative Tim Burchett.
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The UFO hearing this morning was a total joke. We should have heard from people who could talk about things they'd personally seen, but instead the witnesses were government officials with limited knowledge who couldn't give real answers to serious questions. pic.twitter.com/hddRYupW3u
— Rep. Tim Burchett Press Office (@RepTimBurchett) May 17, 2022
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.@LelandVittert asked me why Congress held a hearing on UFOs when our country is dealing with so many other crises. It's because this is exactly the sort of thing the House Intelligence Committee is supposed to deal with. Unfortunately, it still didn't give us any answers. pic.twitter.com/wSjK8LzAKV
— Rep. Tim Burchett Press Office (@RepTimBurchett) May 19, 2022
Lue: These guys aren’t stupid! They’ve already…they already know the truth. And so, when DoD comes out, and they kind of do this soft sell, they don’t realize Congress is painting a box around them. Because the next time, and the time after that, and the time after that, there’s more hearings – which, by the way, I think there will be – you’re gonna have more witnesses coming forward. And then, they’re going to contradict what was just said today, and someone’s going to have to be held accountable, or hopefully they have another job by then.
RC: Now Lue, one thing that I want to ask you: When I first interviewed you last year, we talked about the quality of the videos that you’ve seen that you can’t talk about. Now, that video that they showed last night, I know for a fact, I’ve spoken to other people who’ve told me what they’ve seen in the Congress, in the private hearings, they’ve told me they’ve seen far higher resolution videos, better quality videos. Is this bullshit? Did they put up a completely bunkum, bogus, useless video?
Lue: Yeah!!! I mean, it’s happening every week!!! You know, they put something up from 2019, 2020, something that they knew was already out on social media and people looked at it, and they could just go ahead and say, “Here’s a video.” No, no, show the real video. Show the videos that we know are there and because I’ve seen them. Show the videos that you know are being reported almost on a weekly basis. Report those. If I had the opportunity, right now, if you said, “Lue, you have no more nondisclosure agreement to worry about, you can speak your mind,” people would be blown away. And so, this is part of my kind of frustration. It actually makes me sad that the DoD is painting themselves into this corner because it makes them look incompetent. At the end of the day, the truth is coming out, whether an undersecretary wants it or not. Look, undersecretaries, no offense, but you guys come and go. The citizenship doesn’t. Citizens and concerned people don’t. This is what’s important. So, you know, there’s an old Bob Marley adage that goes, “You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people, all the time.” And that’s what’s going on.
Look, Ross, you know what I’ve been through the last four years. When I came out, you know, it’s the typical cycle of going through some sort of traumatic issue. First, you have disbelief and denial, then the reaction when I came out, you know, “We’ll just ignore Lue.” Then it goes to, well, anger and we’re gonna go ahead and discredit the guy.
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Today, when asked if Elizondo ran AATIP, a pentagon spokesperson said, “Luis Elizondo had no assigned responsibilities for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)while he was assigned to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security
Lue: Thank God I’ve got a letter from Harry Reid stating the record who I am, because, if it was up to the Department of Defense, not only was AATIP not part of…didn’t do anything to do with UFOs, which, by the way, that got cleared up today, finally, you know, but I had nothing to do with it. So, these are the missteps that, from a strategic communication perspective, continue to happen, and it’s breaking my heart. Because I was part of DoD, and that’s not the DoD I remember. The DoD I remember was very methodical, very precise, and now what I see is this…almost mass chaos where the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.
Lue: You know, I made a few quotes here. One of the things that was very interesting here…they want to identify known unknowns and avoid technical surprise. Another quote is, “We’re putting all hands on deck on this.” Which, I guess you mean four hands, right? Because you’ve got two people, so, you’re putting exactly four hands on this topic. Great. Thanks. It’s unbelievable. 400 hundred reports, right? So we had 144 during the 180 Day Report. Now you have 400. And oh, by the way, 11 near misses. Now, I think that’s a problem. I also think it’s a problem that we’re not going back in time and looking at all the information the U.S. government has in its possession on this. There are a lot of pockets of expertise. That Wilson memo…let me tell you something: That thing isn’t going to die. That thing is now out for the public and that is going to start a firestorm…one in which I can’t comment on. But, you know, DoD should have saw this coming, and they should have done their best to try to to alleviate the concerns of Congress.
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RC: Lue, can I ask you this? I like Tom Wilson, I’ve exchanged communications with him.
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12 Admiral Wilson's June 2020 letter 2 @rosscoulthart included this, regarding the W/D memo:
"The entire memo attributed 2 Dr Davis, including his characterization of my attitude, emotions & sentiments about other individuals is pure fiction. Many of the people (Oke Shannon,
RC: [Admiral Tom Wilson is] an honorable man. People speak very, very highly to me of Tom Wilson. My understanding is, though, and tell me if I’m wrong: If you are aware of a Waived Unacknowledged Special Access Program (WUSAP) – something that’s hidden, the darkest secrets of all in the U.S. government – you’re obliged to lie about them.
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“You’re going to be lied to because that’s the rule.”
~Dr. Eric W. Davis
www.ufojoe/net/wilsondavis1
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There's a reason I started off my W/D megablog with that quote from EWD. Think Admiral Wilson & his repeated denials. Not saying it proves anything but please THINK. #ufo
Lue: It gets even worse, because, let’s say, hypothetically, and I’m just saying hypothetically, here: If that document is legit, the way in which that document found its way to where it did, the FBI would probably launch, immediately, a full-field counterintelligence investigation. Because that’s not necessarily the orthodox way to capture this type of meeting minutes. (According to the memo/notes, Dr. Eric Davis interviewed Admiral Wilson in a car, parked in the EG&G parking lot in Las Vegas, on October 16th, 2002o. ~Joe) And the fact that a conversation like that may have occurred, if it did occur – in a car again…I’m being very careful what I say here – you know, there’s a lot of people that have reason to be concerned. Now, does this happen every day? Yes, absolutely. These senior people that are going to sit there and try to turn the screws, they’re guilty of it, they do it all the time. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in the back seat of a limousine or a car and people are just having classified conversations, senior leadership. So, it’s a little bit disingenuous. But, there’s real reason to be concerned here. And I understand why, if there’s legitimacy to that – and again, I’m being very careful here: If there’s legitimacy to it – why a lot of people would be very concerned right now because it could predicate a very intense, criminal investigation.
BZ: Lue, I think that’s fascinating as a story, no matter how you look at it, but one of the things that I keep thinking when I’m hearing you talk is, the people at the Pentagon, as you just said, ought to have their act together about this. They’ve seen this train coming for a while. They’ve been told that, you know, the report comes out, they get told they’re going to be here for hearings. So the Pentagon strategically decided, these are the two guys that should come out there. They should know X, Y and Z but not A, B and C, or whatever strategy. Why would they pursue a strategy that puts people out there who appear to know nothing about the history of the situation? Why would they do that?
Lue: Because one degree of separation is a good thing, you
have plausible deniability, right? So you have someone testifying under oath who can’t lie. Hey, if they don’t know, they don’t know! So, they’re not lying. When they say, “Look, we don’t know,” they’re being truthful.
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Excerpt from my June 2020, Wilson/Davis Megablog…
In late 2009, [Leslie]Kean asked [Retired CDR Will] Miller for his overall assessment via email. He wrote, “It’s fact there are folks high in our government who are interested in the subject of UFOs and in many cases, that’s due to them or an immediate family member having a sighting or personal experience with the phenomenon.” He believes many personnel in the highest level of our government, military and intelligence agencies are in the dark when it comes to information about UFOs. Why? Plausible deniability. If they’re asked what they know about the subject, they can say, “Absolutely nothing” and be telling the truth.
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RC: But Lue, give me this reassurance, because one of the things I watched this morning was a Fox News interview with Representative Krishnamoorthi and also, representative Gallagher.
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Fox News – Your World with Neil Cavuto – UFO hearing a long time coming, House Intelligence Committee members say. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., and Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., discuss the first House panel hearing on UFOs in decadeshttps://t.co/4PLuO9fBHH
RC: And I think they acknowledged in that interview that they’d been snowed, that the committee was basically being treated evasively and there was obfuscation by the two witnesses. They know it, don’t they?
Lue: They do.
RC: But do you think there is the political will in the Congress to make public demands and to push, politically, for the Defense Department and the intelligence community to open up?
Lue: Yeah, I think they, if I could say the vernacular, I think they pissed off Congress. That’s never a good idea. You know, Congress has got a lot of power and normally, they’re busy fighting with each other. But, you know, this is a bipartisan issue, and this isn’t gonna go away. There’s a lot at stake here and there’s a lot of people now in Congress that know exactly what’s going on.
BZ: Well Lue, I have to, you know, on the political part of it, I kept thinking to myself: Gillibrand and Rubio and the gang in the Senate had to be watching these games being played this morning…
Lue: Oh yeah.
BZ: …and having their own opinion. And people do like to say that it’s bipartisan. I mean, certainly you got Rubio/Gillibrand, that’s bipartisan. The guys in the committee even complimented themselves on being bipartisan. But, I don’t know that it necessarily sounded 100% bipartisan. The Republican who lead off, seemed to be saying, “You know, I don’t believe in this UFO crap that much, but China and Russia, I’m very interested in that.”
Lue: Sure.
BZ: They even had one guy, I think it was LaHood, who made it sound like he was going to pick up Coulthart and Zabel and waterboard us if we tried to report anything more on this. And the Democrats didn’t quite seem that way.
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Cued up to the LaHood segment…
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BZ: So, I’m wondering, are we seeing the beginning of a political difference between the parties on this because we live in such a polarized country? Is ufology and the UAP issue…is it about to be politicized?
Lue: Really thoughtful question. You know what? I don’t think so. I think they’re all doing their due diligence. They’re trying to approach this from a very matter-of-fact, perspective, which is something I’ve always been a proponent of. Just the facts, ma’am, nuts and bolts. I do think that, you know, there are individuals that have served…I think that individual that spoke said he was a former pilot for the military. So, it’s no wonder they’re taking this from that perspective. I don’t think it’s a political thing. I don’t think it’s a partisan thing. I think there are just as many people on the conservative and the liberal sides that agree, both from the profound, existential aspect of this…potential, existential aspect, all the way to the nuts and bolts, national security, is this a threat. So far, I haven’t seen…now where the politics do come in play is when they have to hold feet to the fire to the Department of Defense. Nobody wants to look silly or stupid and that’s why you heard Carson say in the beginning, he says, you know, “These witnesses were formerly treated as kooks, and we need them treated as witnesses.” Carson is absolutely right. That is exactly the way we need to treat this, and that’s starting to happen. Now, I think, frankly, Moultrie and Bray were a little bit, how shall I say, eager to say things that they plan to do that I’m not sure are really going to come to fruition. They said a lot of nice things, but so far, it hasn’t happened. Look, they just now announced, I think, the director, today.
BZ: Who did they announce and who is he, and what do we know about him?
Lue: Well, I don’t want to speak for the government. My understanding, it’s Sean Kirkpatrick.
BZ: Okay.
Lue: But, you know, that’s not formal. That’s not from me, that’s not official. Let me just caveat that.
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On the UAP/UFO investigatory office, Undersecretary for Intelligence Ronald Moultrie today told a U.S. House subcommittee, "We have, as of this week, picked a director for that effort– a very established and accomplished individual." My May 12 report:https://t.co/RF8FbN0yqe
RC: And is he a good hand? Is he a good hand, Lue?
Lue: Boy, Ross, you’d have to ask me that (This tells me that Lue may have some problems with Kirkpatrick. ~Joe). I believe let’s give everybody a fair shake. How about that? Right? Let’s see what they can do. You know, this is part of my frustration. This is why I do what I do, because I think that people deserve the truth.
BZ: Is it at least good that they finally appointed somebody? Is that progress?
Lue: Yeah!
BZ: Yeah, okay.
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Update: It’s official...
DoD, July 20, 2022: UnderSec for Intelligence Ronald Moultrie "named Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick…as the director of [Pentagon UAP office]."
On May 12, 2022, I was the first to report on Dr. Kirkpatrick's selection to head the UAP office, in this profile:https://t.co/RF8FbN0yqe
The DoD announces changing AOIMSG to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick, most recently the chief scientist at the DIA's Missile and Space Intelligence Center, will be the director of AARO.https://t.co/XW26JNfUP8
— Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (@ExploreSCU) July 20, 2022
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Lue: Yeah. Now the problem is, they’re considering this air trash, space junk and debris, quadcopters and drones, when we’re really talking about breakaway technology. This isn’t…we’re not talking about…look, I hate to say this, folks, but at 30,000 feet, doing 2000 miles an hour, that’s not a quadcopter. Okay? It never has been, it never will be. So, if it helps you have the conversation by having these little anecdotes that we have drones and things? Fine, you know, what? If it helps the conversation in the short term? But, as these hearings progress, more and more details are gonna come out, more and more fidelity, where it will become very clear we’re not talking about drones and quadcopters.
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Update: New legislation language has directed the new UFO/UAP office to refrain from investigating man-made objects.
This is a watershed moment. The Senate is explicitly stating that, of the three categories: “U.S., foreign, or other”, we have sufficient evidence of non man-made objects to mandate study of them by law. Listening yet? https://t.co/XIp9nfpBbQ
BZ: Which is a good point. The one thing that was said, over and over in these hearings this morning…it was like ninety minutes and it wasn’t even barely that. It was, as I think Gallagher said, he thought it was surprising and unsatisfying, right? But the thing that occurred to me is I heard them say over and over, “Well, we should take that up in the classified meeting, okay? That was said something like seven or eight times. My question, I guess, is: What do you think, knowing what you know, to the extent that you can tell us, what was discussed in that classified hearing today, given the things that you heard them say: “We’re going to take that offline for now, we’re not going to answer in a public hearing, we’ll answer that later, classified.” What were they talking about?
Lue: Great question, because it’s leading to, probably, the most important aspect of this entire conversation, in my opinion. I think that we’re going to talk about sources and methods. I think they were going to talk about our relationship with other countries. They said some pretty bold statements there. You know, they said things like, “Well, you know, we’re working with some of our closest allies, and we’re doing this.” No, you’re not. Nice try (laughs). Because, I know who is, and it’s not those folks. There are countries that still don’t want to have this conversation publicly and there’s countries that are willing to have this conversation publicly. I think some of that conversation probably occurred, and then probably some things they don’t want to discuss. They were very careful to say there’s people that are agitating this conversation, but they didn’t want to say who or where they were. I suspect in that conversation, they may have said, “Look, we’ve got this monkey on our back, you know, call the dogs off of us, because they’re making our lives miserable.” I suspect that may have been part of it. I also think, when they were talking about specific foreign countries that may be assisting with us, assisting our efforts? Look, working with our foreign allies is now law of the land. Okay? We are breaking the law if we don’t reach out to the five eyes, Australia, Canada, UK, New Zealand, and our closest allies, we’re wrong! We’re wrong. We have to do it. And so, when they say things that are open ended: “Well, we’re talking to some of our allies.” Well, what does that mean? I mean, are you picking up the phone and saying, “Hey, George, how you doing?” Or are you sharing information, intelligence, classified intelligence information, and are they sharing it with you, through the normal foreign disclosure mechanisms, and non-disclosure policy, NDP-1, which is part of how we work with our foreign allies?
I mean, there are very specific guidelines that dictate that relationship [and] right now, I don’t see it being done. Because I get people calling me from these other countries that are in certain positions, saying, “No one from the U.S. has reached out to us.” Canada just came out, very interestingly, and said…it was one of their congressional representatives, who I have to give credit to. Representative Maguire, up in Canada, is now finally coming out and really picking up the torch on this. Look, they’ve had incidents over in northern Manitoba. We know that. They’re concerned [and] they want to know what’s going on. And by the way, what can they do with the United States to tackle this problem? So, there are countries reaching out. Typically, and historically, Australia and the UK have been very loathsome to publicly acknowledge any interest. I get it, I understand it. But, at least in a classified setting, I think they should be more forthcoming and hopefully more enjoined to work with United States.
RC: Lue, I know you can’t talk about any evidence that’s been given in closed hearings…but, have you given evidence in closed hearings, before the Congress? Are you able to tell us that? And more importantly, is there any prospect at all that you would be deposed under oath, in an open, public hearing?
BZ: I’ll second that question.
Lue: The first question is, and I’ve always maintained, whatever relationship I have in Washington, it’s really up for that party to divulge. Just like I’ve been speaking to Mr. Maguire. I never acknowledged it until he came out and acknowledged it. That’s not my place to say. If people want to know what my dealings are with the U.S. government and Congress, they can ask the U.S. government and Congress and I’m going to just restrain myself from having that conversation.
Lue: Now, as far as going up to Congress, if there are more hearings, which I suspect there will be, you better believe it. I will absolutely go and testify, along with several of my colleagues.
BZ: And Lue, I keep thinking…because we’ve seen that you’ve had people personally attacking you on Twitter and things like that. And there’s been the documentary, so-called documentary that came out from Mr. Greenstreet (Lue laughs) over the weekend. And I look at those and I think, “I bet Lue would would love to be testifying under oath, because wouldn’t that allow you (Lue laughs) and force you to sort of prove your case, once and for all?
Lue: Well, but look, if you’re into tabloids then read tabloids. Twitter’s full of it, everybody knows it. There’s a bunch of hate…they’re called trolls for a reason. I don’t really care. You know, my focus is on the 99% of fair-minded, rational people out there that aren’t, you know, conspiracy-minded individuals. You know, I’m not doing this for me. Everything I’ve ever said has always come to fruition and has always checked out, without exception. Like I said, I had this document in my hand for a reason. I guess they’re calling the good senator a liar, too. And, you know, I’ve got lots and lots of documentation and email that will do more than satisfy who I am and what I’ve done. Brother, haters are gonna hate, and that’s because they have agendas and because, for whatever reason, they’ve made a little cottage industry since they were 15 years old on this stuff, and this is all they know. And by the way, if real disclosure happens, they don’t have a job! Because this is all they’ve been doing, their whole job has been disclosure. Well now that disclosure is really upon us, and we have public hearings, it’s, “No no, no! It’s all lies and obfuscation!” Because otherwise, they’re gonna have to get a job at Starbucks and get a real job. So, that’s the unfortunate side of this and I really don’t have time to get into the weeds with these people who cherry-pick information, because at the end of the day, they’re not journalists.
BZ: Nor should you, but I just wanted to share something with you because I think the personal…people feel like they know you now. I do. This the first time we’ve met on air or anything, except I’ve spent more time talking about you in a public forum than the President. So, you know?
Lue: Oh, no (laughs).
BZ: So here’s the thing that makes me wonder. I got a friend today who texted me and he said, this was the question he posed to me. He said, “Do you believe in Lue Elizondo?” He didn’t say, “Do you believe Lue Elizondo?” which would mean, do you believe what he’s saying is true? He said, “Do you believe in Lue Elizondo?” as if you’re Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, or something. You’ve been mythologized by this process and what do you think about that on a personal basis?
Lue: This is why I’m getting out of social media, because the problem is that the messenger has been confused with the message, something that I’ve always worried about. I knew from day one stepping out on that stage, at some point, I may have to back off and continue working behind the shadows because I’d become a cult of personality. And that’s not what I want. I’m not one of those guys that just wants to sell you a subscription to one of my videos, or I need, “Hey, Like this.” I’ve never done that, ever. I don’t self promote. I live in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming. And the problem is that this topic is too important. Too many people have squandered the opportunity. They start with good intentions, they become cults of personality and now all of a sudden they’re starting to make money off it. It becomes a cottage industry, and it’s, “Don’t listen to anybody else. I have all the answers.” I’m not going to do it here but there’s a long laundry list of these hucksters and fraudsters out there and I will not be part of it. I’m not going to lower myself to that. That is the bottom of the barrel. Nobody cares in real life. Only people that are trolls and that are into that type of thing,
BZ: I would then have to argue, getting out of it is the last thing that you should possibly do. If in fact, those are your feelings, and you want to bring order to the town streets, then you can’t really back out. You’ve sort of made your case, and you have to stay and continue to make it, I think.
Lue: The problem with that is like being on a playground with a bunch of four year olds that hurl insults at you in mud. What are you going to do? You’re going to beat up a four year old? No, it’s a waste of time and energy, and frankly, they don’t know better. So, what I do is I focus my efforts on things like we have now with hearings, and mainstream media outlets where we can carry the message across millions, instead of, you know, a couple of dozen that are stuck in their own narrative.
RC: Now, one of the things that Representative LaHood gave the witnesses a free kick to was the UAP research community. And basically, the response that he got from Scott Bray was that these were spurious chases and hunts by the UFO community, by the UAP community. Can I ask you this? Do you think they are spurious chases and hunts? Do you think this is all just spurious chases and hunts?
Lue: No, absolutely not. No, there’s some very legitimate information out there. I think that’s a minimization. I mean, look, FBI has a hotline for a reason, to report crime. And we have, you know, crime busters, and we offer rewards because we need help from the public. It’s absolutely absurd and ridiculous to say that people into UFOs are, you know, providing wacky information. That’s not indicative of the entire UFO community, that there’s a couple of folks that are truly unhinged and need probably some psychological help, but there’s a lot of folks out there that mean well and have a lot of expertise. Whether as an investigator or with media, and cameras, and I think it’s irresponsible for us to simply say, “Meh, we don’t need a public cell.” I mean, look, you go to an airport or a metro right now, and what does the government say? “We need your help, see something, say something, report it.” And yet with this topic it’s, “Well, you know what? Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” So that shows the, again, the schizophrenic nature in which we are dealing with this.
You got it. Take care of gentlemen, thank you for what you’re doing. It’s really it’s making a difference. Thank you so much. All the best. Take care
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Quick Take: Thanks to the work of Mick West (first suggested by @Flarkey) and a few other folks on Twitter, the lights in the video appear to be a reflection of the iPhone 13 Pro, autofocus system with LiDar. I think Ben Hansen should have been the one to discover that but he apparently missed it. But, as you will see, the pilot says he saw anomalous lights before he started recording, which would mean he saw something besides the iPhone autofocus lights. And whatever he saw, was visible to the naked eye. Plus, there may be other witnesses from other planes that were in the area. If that’s the case, it would confirm that something interesting was in the skies that night, off the coast of Los Angeles. If not, this may have been a big waste of time. It’s too early to tell.
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From Ben Hansen’s YouTube:
A retired F-18 Marine Corps pilot was flying a chartered private jet en route to Maui on 8-18-22.He encountered 5 red, rapidly flashing objects that paced his aircraft for 15 minutes and performed circular motions to the side and over the top of his jet.This is a developing story, but we have pre-released ATC radar tape and radio communication exchanges with Los Angeles Center, ADS-B archival data, and footage from inside the cockpit.At least 2 other airline flights reported seeing the objects once they landed.We’re seeking information from any passengers or pilots on other flights in the vicinity.Media enquiries please contact Ben Hansen through benhansen.com.
Ben Hansen – UFO researcher – TV host of discovery+ UFO Witness, Ghosts of Morgan City, Fact or Faked, and host/producer of lots of other things that travel the airwaves
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August 18th, 2022
Los Angeles area – Over the Pacific coast.
Ben has an advanced copy of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) radar tapes and radio chatter. He’s working on a FOIA request so he can also get a downloaded copy of that. Pilot was lucky enough to get footage, as well.
Retired F-18 pilot for Marine Corps – 20+ years experience flying F-18s and also Blackhawk helicopters. He has every imaginable certification license from instructing, to flying both in military and privatein the private sector,helicopters and jets.
He was flying for a private client from Miami Executive Airport and going to Maui, Hawaii. Around midnight on August 18th, 2022.
Flying into LA airspace at 47,000 feet, flying a Gulfstream G650, traveling .87 Mach, or 668 mph.
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The pilot notices a group of 2-3 lights that he describes as red in color. They almost take on a pinkish/purplish tint in the video but that just may have been because of his phone. They’re pacing his aircraft. He just left the coast, is heading due west over the ocean, and the lights followed him for what he estimates was 15 mins. Ben spoke to him for well over a few hours over the weekend and he maintains that because they were pacing him and at an altitude above where he was, his best estimate (really hard to judge distance and altitude at night) is they were at least a couple thousand feet above his altitude. That could be 5,000-10,000 feet but he’s at 47,000 feet.
The Gulfstream 650 has a service ceiling of about 51,000 feet. Being a military pilot, he said it’s very unlikely that the jets that DO fly higher than that – the U2, or SR-71, which the pilot says do still fly (SR-71) every now and then – were what he saw. It would take a tremendous turning radius (like a whole state and width) to be able to turn around because of the speeds that they have to fly at those altitudes.
These things were doing circles and kind of orbiting around each other.
Ben asked the pilot if it was possible it was one solid structure and that they weren’t really orbiting but that these very-quickly-flashing, lights were maybe part of structure that was just in circular pattern? Pilot sad, “Well, maybe, except that while I was watching these, a 5th light showed up and the object descended and (pilot was hesitant to say this) it looked like a shooting star.It came down, joined the other four lights and they’re doing these circle patterns. They moved from the right of his aircraft, and above me, to almost directly in front of me, and then pass over the top of my plane so where I can’t seelooking at the cockpitI can’t see them any more. And then they move back to the right.” So, they didn’t ever go completely right to left, in front of him, but at some point they’re almost directly in front of him.
This really concerned him so he called Air Traffic Control (ATC) – LA Center, at 12:20am on the 18th of August, and he makes the report. The audio/video of that call may not be the full exchange. They have on their screen: The radar tape, which is kind of blurry. This is something that gets released to the public, but the ATCs were so excited about what they were seeing, when he landed, on their own, they took initiative to find him through his company, called him and said, “It wasn’t just you that saw these.” To pilot’s recollection, there was a United and Delta flight as well that had seen the lights but didn’t want to report it over the radio.
“We have multiple witnesses. This is not something occurring in the cockpit, like a reflection off the windscreen of lights inside the cockpit. Definitely not. Others have seen these and he called it in.”
Ben thanks ATC folks for taking the proactive step of contacting the pilot and getting the information out, and he appreciates that the FAA is taking an active interest in this.
The audio is played but it’s impossible to make out a lot of the early exchange because it’s not great quality.
07:21 – 11:34
Pilot: We have some aircraft to our north here, going around in circles. Any idea what they are?
ATC: No, I do not.
Pilot: It’s strange. They’re going around in circles, somaybe three aircraft.
ATC tells pilot they’re not entering any military airspace and then calls the boss, the operational manager at Los Angeles Operations Center. She tells her boss that the plane reporting the strange objects is 25 miles west of LA at 47,000 feet and, “[the pilot] said that there are three aircraft, high above him, orbiting, and I don’t know quite [what to tell him].”
Boss: “Well, that’s kind weird (laughs).”
ATC: “Should I ask him anything else? He said they were aircraft. I don’t have any hot air space.”
Boss: “I don’t know.”
They both discuss the possibility that these are satellites and she tells her boss that she just wanted to let him know what was going on and the call ends without him offering any advice.
ATC gets back to the pilot and asks for an estimate of altitude and if they are just white lights.
Pilot: “These gotta be at least 5,000 or 10,000 feet above us, on top of us. They just keep going in circles. I was an F-18 pilot in the Marine Corps and I’m telling you, I’ve done many intercepts and I’ve never seen anything like this.”
ATC mentions speaking to the operational manager and the only thing they could think of was satellites, “but I’m sure those aren’t going to be spinning around.”
Pilot: “Absolutely, they’re not satellites. They’re in a big, orbitaljust going around each other and then two more came in and then one came down from above them. They just keep circling.”
ATC. I did report it. I wish I could offer you an answer now but unfortunately, I can’t.
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Ben: You could tell he was hesitant at first (I didn’t sense that from the tape. ~Joe), saying he had two or three craft above him. And then he asked the ATC if they had anything on radar. She said, “No, I don’t.”
(From what I heard, it didn’t sound like he asked about radar but the audio is so bad, it’s possible I misunderstood. This is what I heard. ~Joe)
Pilot: We have some aircraft to our north here, going around in circles. Any idea what they are?
ATC: No, I do not.
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Ben: When ATC called her supervisor, she said she didn’t have any hot air space, which means there’s no military activity planned or that they’ve been warned of, in that area. Ben says, in the west, many times, off the coast (since he flies there a lot), there’s warning notifications put outNOTAMs (Notice to Airman)as to exercise those training routes and there’s nothing going on.
Ben: “[The pilot’s] credibility and what he was telling me about actual intercepts he has madewe’ll get into a little bit later in a different video. But this is the first time he’s visually seen anything.”
We can rule out satellites. This is not Starlink. “They look very, very different and travel in a single line. They can flash and shimmer but they do not do this. And they do not fly and change position fromlooking 5,000-10,000 feet above your altitude, to going in front of your plane, and then back again. Definitely not satellite activity that we’re looking at here. And it’s not something that he’s seeing in the windscreen because we have other witnesses.
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Videos the pilot shot can be seen at:
16:28 – 16:42 and 17:02 – 17:16
He taped the primary flight display, which shows the altitude indicator and elevation and a whole lot more.For those who want those details, watch 13:53 – 15:38.
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The footage isn’t spectacular because an iPhone, “doesn’t do well in low light. These lights are very bright and the flash pattern is not like anything conventional.”
Alleged UAP Footage #1 – 16:29 – 16:42
Alleged UAP Footage #2 – in Slo Mo – 17:03 – 17:15
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“I know some of you who are really hard to please. I’m not here to entertain you (laughs). We’re really lucky he filmed anything. He’s got a lot going in the cockpit. He’s trying to talk to ATC, he’s trying to figure out how to get the best angle to film this.”
As he filmed the flight display and lights, the instrument shows he was 15 miles or so, southwest of the Santa Barbara Channel Islandsand it was 12:20am when he first started seeing these lights.
“Remember, they trailed him, they paced him for at least 15 minutes. 15 minutes, it’s matching his speed of his craft, and they’re dancing in front of him, going above him, [and] going back. You saw that zip by pretty quickly. So he’s witnessing this whole thing, trying to search and see where they’re at now, and he starts filming again.
18:38 – 18:43 – More lights, slo-mo.
19:42 – 21:32 – He’s 25 miles west of LAX (airport), roughly, and you see the city lights below. He’s looking due north, out the right side of his aircraft. Ben believes it’s probably the San Pedro area, looking into downtown LA but not quite as far as the Channel Islands.
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“”The pattern is not easily explainable. Wow! The pattern seems to be: Either going around a solid structure – there’s a point where it looks almost triangular – to random, separate craft that are kind of joining together. So the best argument for separate objects is that that 5th light, which is not shown on the video, but he said joined, and it came down like a shooting star, and then joined the other ones.”
What Is It?
Drones? Okay. Going .87 Mach, or 668 mph. A conventional drone at that altitude (over 50,000 feet or so) and, “moving at that speed and not only moving forward with him, but then changing direction rapidly to come across the top of him and over the top in that turning radiuswe’re not talking about off-the-shelf drones.” If its foreign adversarial, “we’re in deep trouble if that’s somebody else’s drones making maneuvers like that. Because it’s gotta be using some alternative propulsion and inertia-displacing system.”
“We’ve got, very, very fast objects or object. “
23:07 – 23:46 – Interesting side note that the pilot pointed out to Ben while they were on the phone: Towards the tail end of that video segment, there’s a purplish/pink beam that appears to be coming down in the upper left quadrant. Ben’s initial thought was it’s some sort of a lens flare or a reflection caused by the windshield from a really bright light source in front of the aircraft. The Moon? No, because Ben reached out to Marc D’Antonio, MUFON’s chief photo analyst, and the Moon was in the northeast . Plane was heading west so very unlikely this was caused by the Moon. “It could be a very bright star, I suppose, or something, that’s causing that.”
“What we do know is that the lights themselves definitely are not reflections. We. have those two airlines…that had witnessed them. We DO know that they’re not showing up on radar, so whatever these objects are, being solid craft is an assumption, but they’re not showing up radar.So there’s some type of signature management or something going on to why, both his TCAS, which is his onboard radar, is not picking them up, and neither is ATC. Yet people, other pilots, are seeing them, visually, in the sky. ”
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Ben continues to get more information on this developing story/case.
25:49 – 26:47 – Final (of three), brief video. Pilot told Ben he believes this video was the last time that, whatever this was, flew over the top of his craft. Just as the video is ending, they kind of disappear and are pretty much directly in front of him and go over the top of his plane, and he was not able to see them again after that.
To repeat: The duration of this event was 15 mins.
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The ADS-B (see video above) is like a transponder and is now mandatory for most air spaces, for all aircraft to have. It gives you the identification of each aircraft. According to ADS-B, he was going due west. Delta 41 was also there and might have also witnessed this event.
ADS-B also shows there were no flight plans in the area just north of where the Gulfstream (featuring our pilot witness) was flying. No general aviation, military or commercial traffic in the direction (north) of where he took that video.
If you know anybody who was on the flights that left right before or after this event with the Gulfstream, and who may have also seen this: Fiji Airways Flight 811 – Air France Flight 78 – Qantas Flight 12 and United Flight 2650.
It happened between 12:20am – 12:40am on 8/18/22 – Contact Ben. He posts most of his updates on Twitter and Facebook.
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The next day
Pilot lands in Maui and the ATC tracked him down and gave him a copy of the taped footage. “There is information, if true, that the actual tapes might be corrupted or deleted.” Ben says he doesn’t want to jump to any conclusions because that’s not even verified yet. “I would hate to think that it was deliberately done, if it happened.” Even Ben’s copy was somewhat corrupted so he doesn’t know what’s going on yet. ATC also gave the pilot a number to call to make report and he wasn’t sure who he was talking to, just that it was a government agency in Washington, DC. Ben traced down the number to the Joint Air Traffic Operations Command, or JATOC, Air Traffic Security Coordinator.
He thinks this is great because it shows the FAA is taking it seriously by kicking it up the food chain. They said they already had the radar tapes and the reports from ATC. Apparently, there was talk of them compiling this to include this in the Congressional data reports for the next round of UAP hearings.
Ben: Stay tuned bc things are about to get interesting in the next year.
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All related tweets that folks might find interesting…
BREAKING NOW: Retired F-18 pilot flying a Gulf Stream on 8/18 encounters red, rapidly flashing UAPs pacing his aircraft for 15 minutes at Mach .87 circling and crossing overtop at +50,000ft. L.A. ATC radar tape & radio with video from inside cockpit. https://t.co/s4IKE3F9UK
This is a developing story, but at least 2 other airline flights reported seeing the objects once they landed. I'm looking for passengers and/or other pilots who witnessed the UAPs. At the end of the video I've identified commercial flights that may have witnessed them.
The Gulf Stream 650 is considered a "dark cockpit". The pilot explained that if anything is flashing, then it means there is a warning or malfunction. More importantly, the lights were seen moving from the right, to the front, to over the plane and other pilots reported them.
Noted debunker, Mick West, had a take on the lights that’s worth checking out. You can see the comparison below or by clicking on this link:
[UPDATE – the flashing lights in the video appear to be reflections of the iPhone 13 Pro autofocus system. First suggested by @flarkey]
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I really do respect most of @mickwest 's contributions and this is something that needs to be addressed due to the similarity. In this case however, the objects were observed outside the cockpit for several minutes and the call to ATC before he picked up the phone to record. https://t.co/olgwmaMyeP
Can Ben confirm that this is the case? i.e. one assumes that once he got hold of the vid, he confirmed with the pilot that it was the flashing lights far left frame in the vid which the pilot was also seeing with the naked eye??
This is something I have an issue with also. Why position the object in the far left of frame 🖼? Is there a chance that the video doesn’t show what he saw/the object had gone by the time he took his phone out? The flashing lights really do like LiDAR reflections
Yes, there is always the chance that what he captured is not exactly what he remembers seeing. I've forwarded him the comparison and he's very open to consider it. It doesn't however negate his military flight experience or the direct visual that prompted him to record.
As this develops, I expect he will probably want to do an on-camera interview to address the sighting and recording as specifically as he can remember. He's adamant that what he saw before recording was spectacular and as he described.
Also important to the sequence of events is that he just told me he only first reviewed the videos after the lights had all disappeared. So he didn't know if anything had been captured in the camera as he was observing them directly fly over the top of his jet and back again.
The annunciators can be dimmed or turned off, especially when you're flying over the Pacific and need your night vision. More than likely there are also differences in the model versions. This was a 650ER.
Many criminal convictions don't succeed because the burden placed on technology to "witness" for us is impractical. Consequently, the value of eye witness testimony is diminished. As in all investigations, UAP accounts should be weighed by the totality of the circumstances.
And Mick West posted (as an attachment) the MUFON report filed by the pilot, as seen below.
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I can confirm that someone from MUFON did contact him and interviewed him. That report does appear to be consistent with what he said if it was taken directly on MUFON's site.
Great effort by Ben Hansen, but again, thanks to the work of Mick West, @flarkey and a few others, the lights on the video appear to be a reflection of the iPhone 13 Pro autofocus system.
Ben said: The pilot noticed a group of 2-3 lights that he described as red in color. They almost took on a pinkish/purplish tint in the video but that just may have been because of his phone.
Well, I have no doubt that it WAS because of his phone: Those were the autofocus LiDar lights.
The pilot claims he saw anomalous lights, visible to the naked eye, in a circular formation, before he started recording. If true, then the pilot saw something different than what’s on the video and thus, that wasn’t captured on his iPhone. If not, we all got excited over reflections of iPhone lights. The key here is to see if any witnesses from other planes in the area reported similar, anomalous lights. If they did, it will go a long way to proving something interesting was off the coast of Los Angeles on August 18th, 2022. If not, this story will die a quick death. As Ben said, let’s wait until all the evidence is collected and then we can look at it in total.
I will add any important updates right here, as I see them.
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Update – September 5th, 2022
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Ben starts off by doing what I did to start off this blog the other day. And that is, thanking and giving credit to, Mick West for his autofocus/LiDAR explanation. When I saw the comparison, I had little doubt he and the others were right about that.
Ben Hanson (BH): “I do believe, at this point, that he is correct, in that…this little pinkish/purplish light that shows up and flashes in the videos that were recorded by the pilot, are in fact, the infrared, autofocus light that comes on and is sometimes seen in reflections of mirrors, and glass, if the conditions are dark enough. I don’t fault the pilot for not knowing this. In fact, I don’t fault myself. I like to think that I’m pretty up on technology and artifacts introduced in the cameras, however, this only came about in the past year or two when they started adding the autofocus and LiDAR technology to iPhones and smartphones, okay?
So, it’s something that we always have to keep testing and trying and, you know, trying to find out if we can explain, because technology changes so quickly. You also have to remember that what Mick West suggested the pyramid-shaped UFO, that they addressed in, actually, the UFO congressional hearing. This pyramid-shaped UFO that Jeremy Corbell had put forward, it was dubbed, pyramid-shaped…the pyramid shape. I took one of Mick West’s suggestions and went out with my night vision and re-created what we call the bokeh effect. So that, I believe, is why it is shaped in pyramid form. However – and this is really important, with this case as well – don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. Okay? Some of these cases have a lot of nuance, and we want the evidence to be in the video. We went it there, we wanna make up our minds. It is, or it isn’t extraordinary, and boom, case closed. Okay?
In the case with the Corbell video and the bokeh effect, my conclusion is the shape of it could very well be created by the aperture of the night vision. That does not, however, explain in my mind, the unusual flight characteristics of how long these drone swarms were in the area, the related thermal camera that what appears to be going down into the water, the fact that they couldn’t track these things and they talked about anti-drone technology not being able to bring them down. All of that is concerning, and is unconventional in my mind. It has not yet been solved. Okay?
So in this case, Mick West deserves credit and I think people should be open to any person who takes a rational approach and offers explanations, and take a look into it. So what happens, walking you through this really quick, I will put up the video here. You can see the video that he took of the city lights, he was trying to establish the city lights as he was setting up his cockpit for the next transition into the next radar, you know, airspace. And he’s setting up everything, so he’s busy in the cockpit but he’s scanning the skies. And the other video, he took a picture of his instrumentation to establish what was there. And in this case, as well, you can see that he wasn’t expecting to capture anything because the video’s shaky in the cockpit, and that’s when the pinkish lights, you know, are captured in the very corner. So what I was trying to establish in my questioning to him was: Were you actually, directly seeing the object, in the case like the video of the city, where you were then trying to record what you’re seeing? Are you seeing the same thing, at the time you’re trying to record? And he was very honest with me and transparent, and he said, “You know what? I don’t know.”
If you think about it, he’s got three videos less than a minute long, an event that happened fifteen, twenty minutes long. And so he’s really just trying to study the phone against the window, and take some video as he’s scanning the skies. Okay, so he’s looking up, he’s looking around, you know, it’s straining because at the top of the cockpit, the things are going up over him, and he wasn’t sure if he was capturing anything at all. So, having explained that, it seems very rational to me, but he’s very adamant about one thing: He saw objects that have no conventional explanation in his mind. His credentials as a military pilot, you know…he knows what should and should not be in the sky and the capabilities of different aircraft. And he’s seeing these things rotating around each other, above his altitude, going from right, to over the top, to in front of him. And it’s enough that he calls air traffic control, reports it, and all of this happens before he even picks up his iPhone to start recording. So, in my mind, these are two separate issues. He’s very adamant. In fact, he has what I call, witness remorse, right now. It’s been really difficult for him because he wanted it to be something in the video, he wanted there to be evidence of what he saw. And I said, “You know what? It doesn’t matter. You really should forget what other people say, You know what you saw. Separate the video apart from it. It would have been great if you did capture something.” But he’s kind of a changed, man. We can get into that later, but, he’s bought new cameras for his cockpit to film all the time when he’s flying. He really wants to capture something now, because he is disappointed, but that doesn’t change what he saw and what he reported. Okay?
So, where does that leave us now? We would love to find other witness testimony. I myself love corroborating witnesses, collateral witnesses, because the credibility of one, you know, very credible, in my mind, military pilot, is great, but it would be great if we had other aircraft who saw things in the sky. Well, we do. All right? Now, to set this up, I need to explain, briefly, I’ll pull up this map.
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BH: This is a Los Angeles center, air traffic control sector map and we’re looking at Sectors 25 and 28. Okay, just off the coast, to the west of LAX, and Catalina, Santa Barbara, actually going all the way up to Santa Barbara here. This sector, obviously, it’s divided up because not one controller can handle the whole area. So, if you go to www.liveatc.net, there’s live feeds, okay? People/volunteers, they have scanners, radios that they feed into this website, and they’re capturing audio from air traffic control. The audio you’re about to hear is garbled, okay? It’s very low and I’m gonna have to boost it up. When I started out as a pilot, it took me a long time to understand anything that controllers and pilots said. So, even though I’m gonna try and transcribe a lot of what you’re hearing, there’s parts of it even that I can’t hear that are too scratchy. Okay, that’s because the scanners that are picking these up, sometimes, they’re only getting the most powerful radio signal coming from air traffic control, but they’re not getting the pilot side of the conversation. Because that pilot could be a couple 100 miles out over the ocean. All right? So sometimes you only hear what air traffic control is saying. That’s why we filed a FOIA request. Those audio tapes that come back from the FOIA, because it’s recorded at air traffic control facility, you’ll get the controller and you’ll get the pilot side of it. Okay?
So, having said that, American Airlines Flight number Six, coming in from Honolulu. And now, that one’s coming from west to east. It passes Twilight 670, which this pilot was flying out to Hawaii. I would say my best estimate right now, it was about 20 minutes, up to 40 minutes after when they pass each other. And now American Airlines is heading in. And I’m going to put that map up right here, so you can see it way out over the ocean (segment cued up below).
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BH: There, you have Twilight’s 670. And you can see that American is passing, the opposite direction, United 2650. 2650, if you remember, was one of the airlines that I had highlighted before, that may have seen something. Air traffic control said that they were about 70 miles behind our pilot in Twilight 670. So, they’re trailing him, and they did make some radio calls. I won’t play it here in the interest of time. But the controller was asking them to be on the lookout for these objects that the pilot had reported. And at the end of it, United says they didn’t see anything. Now, I will point out, it may or may not be a factor, but you can see the altitude of United 2650 is 34,000 feet. So, they’re actually 13,000 feet below the altitude of the Gulfstream. And it may not seem like much, but five to 10,000 feet in altitude can make a big difference in what you’re able to see with air traffic when you’re flying around. And especially depending on the size of the objects. A typical-sized plane, that’s like two miles away, right? In altitude.
American Airlines, on the other hand, if you take a look at where they’re at, they’re 39,000 feet, which is only 8000 feet below Twilight 670. Or, in other words, like a mile and a half. So, quite a bit closer. May or may not have any factor in this as to why they were able to see something and United was not. But I’m gonna play the audio for you now, and I do owe another shout out to a YouTube user named PDGLS. So they made a comment on the YouTube video and pointed me to a compilation that they had made of air traffic communications that occurred up to an hour after Twilight 670 passed through. And it’s because of them that I went to the files. So again, this is going to be really low and garbled, but I’ll transcribe what we do hear, and then hopefully, when the FOIA comes in, we’ll hear the full communications from this other side. But what you’re going to hear, to me, is quite interesting (Cued up below).
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Air Traffic Control (ATC): “American 6, LA Center. Earlier, probably about twenty minutes ago, I had an aircraft that was outbound at 47,000 feet, and they reported multiple aircraft above them, circling. I just wondered if you saw anything? That was probably between LA and Venti, they reported it several times, and they said that if you’re looking at the Big Dipper, it was near that.
Roger, yeah, that’s what we thought it was here, but the guy said he was a retired F-18 pilot, and he’d never seen anything like it, and it was definitely aircraft. So I was just wondering if you had seen anything. Roger, thanks. I wish we knew what it was. Yeah.”
BH: So the best we can tell that takes place at about 1:21am local time or 08:21 Zulu. And the controller, as soon as American Airlines enters her sector, updates him on the information because they’re in a good position to possibly see something. So, he kind of immediately responds, and we’re only hearing the one side of this, again, because the scanner doesn’t pick up the pilot side of it from this far out. But we’re left to guess that the conversation, from what she says, “That’s what we were thinking, too,” is referring to what I showed in the other video where we have her calling the higher up, her supervisor, and they’re kind of, you know, joking about Elon Musk, and maybe satellites or things like that. So, I’m guessing she…talking to the pilot, the pilot made the suggestion, it might be a satellite or it might be a rocket launch, and she says, “That’s what we were thinking, too,” okay?
Now there’s silence, for about 27 minutes until approximately 1:48am, American Airlines, on their own, is going to initiate contact with air traffic control, and this is the part where you can now hear the pilot speaking, but it’s going to be really low and I’m going to transcribe what’s going.
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L.A. Center: American 6, go.
Pilot: Yeah, we’re seeing some bright lights now off to the north of us, well above the horizon. It gets real bright, and it gets dimmer. It’s in the same general area, but it’s in a different spot.
L.A. Center: American 6, roger. And you said that was to the north of you? And now long was that happening because I think that’s probably the same thing that other aircraft is seeing.
Pilot: Yeah, it’s not (unintelligible) continuously, but maybe 10 seconds apart. Umm, different brought lights come on, get bright, and then go dim.
L.A. Center: American 6, roger, thank you. I’ll report that because they were asking…up higher, if I had any more reports, so thanks.
Pilot: You’re welcome.
L.A. Center: And American 6, thanks for that. It has been reported and you can connect L.A. Center now, one one niner point niner five (119.95).
Pilot: Roger, niner five. American 6, goodnight.
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BH: So there you have it, the straight up audio of what happened. I think it’s quite noteworthy for a few reasons. So, remember, the controller asked them at about 08:20, which would have been 1:20am, to be on the lookout because they knew that they would be passing through that same area. And it was about twenty something minutes before American Airlines comes back to them and says, “We’re seeing something.” Okay? So pilots, they don’t have the time or anything to just make stuff up or, you know, like, tell the controller what they want to hear. This is very serious when you’re talking to controllers and giving them information that could impact the safety of a flight. They know that’s what they’re looking for. And so, when they come up and say, “We’re seeing some bright lights, now off to the north of us, well above the horizon,” he talks about the lights getting really bright and then dim, and it’s in the same general area, I believe he says it’s not continual, or not continuous. We clearly hear that it’s in ten-second intervals. Now again, I hope that we get the FOIA request of the audio tapes will give us the other side of the conversation. But we get the gist of it.
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BH: Now I’m going to overlay a map here (Map is Above) and you can see where American 6 would have been crossing. And in the same map, here you see the Gulfstream going the other way, and it was almost…looks like about an hour before. It would have been over an hour and a bit, before when they would have crossed that same area and where the Gulfstream first started seeing things. Now this is really interesting because even though the description is not that detailed, we don’t know if these lights were actually moving. We’re not going to jump to any assumptions here that these lights are explainable. But they were mysterious enough, that American 6 report seeing them, and tells air traffic control. And you can hear her say, “Yeah, well, the higher ups wanted to know more about this.” In fact, if we had time, I would play for you more audio, because she reached out to, like I said, the United flight and ask them, and also reached out to this plane right here.
BH: Now it comes up, initially, unidentified, and it has no call sign, which some of them don’t. But as they get closer, the ATS-B does provide that information.
BH: It says it’s a K35R. And when the information pops up, we see that’s a KC-135, and it’s owned by the Air Force. They don’t show a destination of where they’re headed, but they were coming out of Honolulu and the controller is now talking to them. So, they’re not going to provide any information, either, but she does provide a little bit more of the whole sighting and what everyone is seeing. So just for fun, let’s go ahead and play that.
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ATC: Rummy93, I have a few aircraft that have reported a…multiple aircraft or lights in circles between LA and the Estel area. Could you let me know if you see anything like that? They said it was probably around 50,000-plus feet. That’s the best description I could get. One of the guys was a retired F-18 pilot. He said he’d never seen anything like it, but it looks like multiple aircraft going in circles at a very high altitude. Well, the most recent report was probably about 30 minutes ago, maybe 150 miles ahead of you. The report before that, he had reported it from, probably 20 miles west of LA, all the way to 280 miles west of LA. Headed west, reported it the north side of him. Said that it was near the Big Dipper at the time, but the sky has moved since then so I’m not sure exactly where it would be. Yeah, thank you. Let me know if you…
BH: So the audio is pretty clear on that, that’s why I’m not gonna attempt to transcribe it. And I want to, again, thank the YouTube commenter who compiled it because they took all the dead airspace out. So it’s really not in live time, it didn’t happen that quickly. Obviously, she’s hearing the pilot side of it. But there’s one part I do have of the pilot responding, but it’s unintelligible, it’s not even worth posting. But we’re led to understand that he did not see anything, okay? At the end of his leaving the sector. So well over two hours goes by the controllers calling out any airline who might be in the area pas sing through and transiting telling them to be on the lookout, giving them those reports of what the now two different pilots had seen things, the Gulf Stream, and now American Airlines reporting something very mysterious as well. At this point, we do not know if it’s the same phenomenon. So I have to stress that, because the characteristics, we haven’t talked to the American Airlines pilots, we have no information at this point. So they’re seeing bright lights that are getting really intense and dimming and Gulfstream is seeing objects that are going in circles and transiting from his right side over the top of his aircraft and pacing him. So could be two different things. We don’t know at this point, but very coincidental that it happens in the same area. And within probably less than an hour, that phenomenon is still occurring in that area. All right. So what does this all mean? Well, like I said, this is a developing story, I can tell you that. I’ve talked with people indirectly, who work in the control facility, and it would seem that we would be surprised how much activity is going on there. Our pilot spoke to Jay talk the next day in Pennsylvania, the joint Air Traffic Operations Command. And according to his recollection, there was some talk of how active the area is there as well. And if you remember to, he was told the next day, the the air traffic control, who tracked him down and called him said there were reports from other airlines. Now remember, go back and read or see the video if you want. But those other airlines, at least two were named according his recollection to different airlines who did not want to talk on the radio. Okay, so what I just played for you here is American Airlines who was on the radio. So it is possible, we’re looking at up to three different airlines at this point, who are reporting unusual activity, same night, same area. And it’s noteworthy enough that it’s come to their attention that this is significant, they can’t explain it. And it’s been reported to the higher ups. So that’s where it is. All right. So to wrap this up, I do have one more thing for you because I was getting tweets and messages from people saying, Here’s a video from tick tock, and I’ll pull that up right here. And and this comes from a pilot named Trent. Okay, and you can see his handle there flying high. Now, people this is really strange, because Mick West sent this to me and others, saying, is this your pilot? Is this the guy you’ve been talking to? Apparently, on August 10. This pilot and his captain posted a little video of them talking about a UFO sighting they had. All right, and then on August 17, he posted an update saying that part of his sighting was explainable as the IR light from their iPhone that was reflecting in the window. Now, August 18th is when the Gulfstream has their sighting. And as my feeling is right now, what was captured in that video was also IR light again, not discounting actually, you know, what he directly observed at all. But this was the same light, our Gulfstream pilot, same explanation that this IR light was causing that reflection, and which is very coincidental. Right? The both would happen kind of the same time and they both kind of figure out what what had happened there. But I will do a deep dive with Trent I plan on doing it might take me a week or two because I’m going to be out of town. I can guarantee you that people are going to be the site dissecting trends videos, because he had at least two incidents and one of them captured on camera where he was heading into lax about an hour out same location and almost exactly the same description the American Airlines had of this light that gets really really bright and then gets dim. Right. He saw this it one time heading into LA and then also So, heading away from Honolulu, a couple hours out, where there were multiple, at least three or four aircraft that were flying alongside of them, they talk plane to plane on a certain frequency. And they were saying, Do you guys see this? And they were talking about what they were seeing. And this video, like I said, we’ll be dissected. And probably people will put more emphasis on the video than the witness testimony is many do. But the fact is, people are seeing perhaps a new phenomenon we don’t know yet at this point. And maybe it’s explainable, maybe it’s not. I will say if you go and look at trends videos, he did mistake Starlink initially, which a lot of people do, and he’s, he’s very transparent about things that can be explained. And so, at this point, though, there, there doesn’t seem to be an explanation for what these pilots had seen. So I will keep you updated. And thanks for watching.
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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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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.”
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).
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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 doesit, 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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May 2019: I was trying to speak to former Pentagon spox Dana White. I was setting up camera for a freelance interview with literally Katy Perry when White called me. I ducked into a dark hallway. White confirmed Elizondo ran AATIP. Blurry pic of me adjusting tripod: #ufotwitterpic.twitter.com/pHhwFVE3wX
— Steven Greenstreet 🐷 (@MiddleOfMayhem) May 25, 2021
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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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“You think the U.S. government has debris from a UFO, in its possession right now”? Tucker Carlson
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.
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?
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.
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.
Bryan Bender: “I asked the new secretary of @usairforce, Frank Kendall, today if he has been briefed on UAPs and if he has thought about what the service’s role should be in defending American airspace against unidentified craft.”
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…
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.
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.
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…
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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1 CJ: "If the general public knew or saw what you saw, what would the next week look like? How would the public react?
Lue: "(5 seconds of silence, including a breath) Somber. Uh, I think there would be this, uh, big exhale, for about a day. And then this turning inward & trying https://t.co/wQBGNxNK9z
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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] reallyreally 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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