Brane Space: Seriously? Americans Shrug After Bombshell Disclosures In House UAP Hearings.

Saucer landing in D.C. - May Be What's Needed To Finally Halt Coverup

Jerry: Didn't think most could handle the truth

Sketch of dead Roswell EBE Jerry made from memory (1990)

My letter published in The Denver Post

In their operant conditioning, experiments in the Psychology Dept. at my alma mater in the 70s, it was common to dangle a ripe banana in front of a caged ape or chimp - then quickly withdraw it. The objective was to ascertain the animals' degree of frustration in their efforts to snatch the fruit, after 'x' times trying. Usually by the 15th time all the apes, and most chimps had given up in frustration. They were denied what they sought time after time and settled on just attending to their own cages, eating the meager pickings provided and leaving out the grander view- and opportunity. What was the point? They were doomed to fail anyway.

Apparently, the same "meh" - futility syndrome has befallen most Americans in the wake of the House UFO-UAP hearings last Wednesday. Despite bombshell testimony that yes, there are "non-humans" piloting advanced craft in our skies, disposing of the myth we are alone in the cosmos - most could care less.

According to a headline piece ('Congress asks: Are aliens real? Many Americans respond: Meh') in The Washington Post Friday: "Hours of testimony on Capitol Hill from former intelligence and military personnel about close encounters with unidentified phenomena — and more extreme allusions to an ongoing government coverup of alien lifeforms — were just a blip on the public radar."

Translation: Aliens? Ho-hum, pass me a beer! No, not Bud Light.

By contrast, seventy years ago, reports (including in the press) of flying saucers around Washington animated public curiosity about possible aliens and smothered front pages with 2- inch headlines:

Headline in NY Daily News

Headline in Cedar Rapids paper

Today? Many Americans suggested they are "too overwhelmed" by the problems on Earth to care much about what’s outside it. Are you shitting me? Seriously? Are these navel gazers remotely aware of how - at the time of the D.C. saucer swarm- regular preparations were underway for evacuations to fallout shelters? Anxiety over an A-bomb attack was the norm. Think "Cold war". Think kids in school doing "duck and cover" exercises and being handed fallout brochures - with skulls on the front page:

Detailing the effects of radiation. Hence, I refuse to believe today's breed of citizen is so pussified and wussified that his brain (spine?) can't handle a hearing on what is putatively the biggest story of any age.

Hence, I am not buying that today's 'Muricans are so besieged they couldn't be more interested or invested in the hearings. It sounds more like the same ape mind syndrome resurrected, i.e. after too many frustrations with hopes of actual UFO validation being repeatedly dashed, people can't contend with any more disappointment. The solution? Like the banana-deprived apes they give up. They've tossed in the towel on any aspiration to cosmic wonder, which includes getting to the bottom of military, intel officialdom denying access to reality. Like this one from the Air Force,

Project BLUE BOOK - Unidentified Flying Objects | National Archives

Excerpt:

The Air Force research did not locate or develop any information that the "Roswell Incident" was a UFO event nor was there any indication of a "cover-up" by the Government. Information obtained through exhaustive records searches and interviews indicated that the materials recovered near Roswell was consistent with a balloon devise of the type used in a then classified project. No records indicated or even hinted that the recovery of "alien" bodies or extraterrestrial materials.

Which of course is total bull crap given the claim was skewered mercilessly by physicist C.B. Moore of the New Mexico Institute of Science and Technology soon after. According to Prof. Moore, "There were no such balloons in use back then, in 1947. The Skyhook series didn't even come onstream in New Mexico in 1947." Moore ought to know as he was part of a high altitude balloon project based out of White Sands, NM. Adding: "No balloon in use back then could have produced such a large debris field, over such a large area and torn up the ground as well."

The artifact Roger Ramey and his AF stooges produced as a "Project Mogul" balloon was in fact known as a "Rawin target device". And according to Prof. Moore: "Anyone finding such flimsy foil and balsa wood material would have difficulty confusing it with anything out of the ordinary."

Well, unless they were coerced into such acceptance, say by high up AF brass who might include some veiled threats as well. (Compliments of Col. Hunter Penn, an enforcer dispatched out of Wright -Pat to threaten the locals to shut up or face 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.)

But never mind, current Americans bogged down in their social media myopia don't want to hear about it. They could care less whether any off-world visitors are real or not. They need someone to help out with groceries and medical expenses. Will the "aliens" do it? This classic response quoted in the same Friday WaPo piece from one Twitter user was typical:

“Are the alleged aliens gonna stop inflation? are they going to lower the prices of gas, rent, and hot and spicy chicken burgers from mcdonald’s? if not, i suggest the gov. wrap the shenanigans up asap,”

But why expect that? We now have evidence - maybe not first hand but certainly second - that off -world, highly advanced beings are on Earth surveilling us. This is explosive and historical and you care more about the price of spicy chicken burgers? Welcome to a revival of the ape brain in the guise of present day blasé 'Muricans - following the ape behavior in the earlier cited banana frustration experiments. But by way of explanation the WaPo columnist (Annabelle Timsit) offered some background as to why maybe we should not be too harsh with these shrugging twits:

"On Wednesday alone, the hearing convened by a House Oversight subcommittee had stiff competition for the public’s attention. A plea deal involving President Biden’s son Hunter fell apart in court, raising questions about the future of the government’s case against him for tax and gun charges. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was escorted out of a news conference after he appeared momentarily unable to speak, sparking concerns about the Senate minority leader’s health. And the ongoing, dramatic heat waves in Europe and the United States and wildfires in Canada and North Africa continued — with rising warnings about how climate change is rapidly altering life on Earth.

That’s a lot to take in — particularly as psychologists say the human capacity to take in bad news is limited. Many have become overwhelmed about issues beyond their control, especially since the coronavirus pandemic."

Seriously? Threats of atomic war and multiple crises also were beyond control of 1950s citizens but they lived with it. See my previous remarks and the fallout shelter pamphlets.

Then we come to the same WaPo piece carping about lack of evidence, prompting a number of commenters to suspect the WaPo is part of a coordinated coverup, like it was after the film 'JFK' came out [1]. For instance this chestnut paragraph:

"While authorities have set up various groups to analyze sightings of mysterious objects in the sky, none have been able to prove what these “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP are. Yet Grusch, who has sparked controversy in the past with his unsubstantiated claims that the government has a secret repository of downed alien spacecraft and corpses, was cagey about details — and about whether the government has made contact with extraterrestrials. It’s “something I can’t discuss in a public setting,” he said.

"Cagey about details"? Lady, he was skirting any divulgence about classified materials that would have landed him in prison! (Hence, his rejoinder (to Rep. Ogles) to only revealing such materials in the secure confines of a SCIF.) Besides this irrelevant codswallop what exactly does qualify as proof? In science it is not "proof' (as in mathematics) so much as high QA evidence. That includes the videos capturing the UAP from military jets. We also know that what was recovered and shipped to the Wright -Patterson AFB Blue Room included: i) Sections of light, thin aluminum colored metal which were 'unbendable', ii) I-beam structures with weird symbols "like hieroglyphics" embossed on them, iii) Tiny wiring that resembled today's nanofilament wires, iv) thin aluminum cloth like metal that could be scrunched up then released and recovered its original shape.

These were secured in the Bldg. 18 complex - included Bldgs. 18A, 18B, 18C, 18D, 18E, 18F, 18G - the next to last with 4 cold rooms where the EBE corpses were stored. The complex was formally operated under NASIC (formerly Foreign Technology Division or FTD)

With the Post's patsy continuing with this scripted twaddle:

'And as The Post has reported, government officials have so far said that none of the sightings of unidentified phenomena has led to the discovery of extraterrestrial life: the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office determined this year that nearly 200 of 366 recently reported sightings were “unremarkable” and possibly can be attributed to routine objects found in the air, including drones, balloons and clutter, such as plastic bags."

Blissfully unaware that the Air Force's very first iteration "Project Sign" - after the Roswell crash: concluded that "the UFO phenomenon is real and the craft are not manufactured on Earth." But that was before a new set of AF brass (Maj. Aaron J. Boggs and Col. Harold Watson - both out of Wright-Patterson) - deemed the whole UFO shtick nonsense and launched Project Grudge to turn whatever sightings were made into bunkum." As we can see from the Post blurb preceding, things haven't changed in over 70 years.

The denials from the DoD spokespersons (like Sue Gough) then ring hollow. They also insult professional observers' intelligence. Echoing more what we used to hear from the "lone gunman" trolls after the release of the specious Warren Commission Report[1],

[1] The hidden aspect unknown to most is that the CIA had used major newspapers (e.g. Washington Post, New York Times) and their journalists to block information. As noted by Kathryn S. Olmstead (Challenging the Secret Government’,1996, University of North Carolina Press, page 21. “Even when a newspaper or network did not have a formal relationship with the CIA, the agency could still have close ties with its reporters and editors.” Thus, these close ties had a chilling effect on revealing or printing anything other than the Warren Commission’s verdict.

All designed as a medium of political neutralization, not disclosing facts or revealing evidence found.

Project Grudge, as Jerry noted in one 1990 conversation, embodied this template. (Though Jerry reminded me that its precursor, Project Sign, had concluded the UFO phenomenon was real and the craft were not manufactured on Earth.) Grudge's sole purpose was to "torpedo" Project Sign's conclusions and then relegate them to the dustbin. To deflate the true nature of the phenomenon until it disappeared.

What the process boiled down to was one of preemption. Preempt facts and actual evidence with bogus artifacts and call into question any actual observers' sanity (or loyalty). Classic case: The July, 1947 Ramey substitution of a Rawin target device to bamboozle the media and the locals in Roswell that no alien craft had actually landed, it was merely a "weather balloon". A ruse kept up to this date, as per the National Archives Blue Book link above. What was it Leo Tolstoy said that encapsulates this tactic? Oh yeah:

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already. But the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already without a shadow of a doubt."

Applied to the Roswell crash, it meant that even years, hell, decades later, the press and public remain largely uneducated about what transpired and how the facts were buried using preemption. How so? Because they relied on a determined paternalistic officialdom to convey to them the most reassuring (albeit phony) solution. This was in evidence in one comment (from a WaPo subscriber) who wrote, appearing to defend the columnists who weren't swayed by the three whistle blowers:

"Their testimony would have been excluded from any criminal court proceeding as hearsay: They just repeated what someone else told them."

But what's he yapping about? They certainly didn't just "repeat what someone else told them". Not when former Navy Cmdr. Fravor pointedly noted the dynamics of the craft ("tic tacs") caught on video by Navy pilots, e.g.

https://youtu.be/Ce6ZevfbIK0

Ditto a form of preemption apparent in Sean Kirkpatrick's latest comebacks (WaPo, Saturday). Kirkpatrick, on Friday circulated an attack letter on his personal LinkedIn page criticizing much of the testimony from Grusch a retired Air Force intelligence officer. Specifically in the cross hairs was Grusch’s claim that the U.S. has concealed what he called a “multi-decade” program to collect and reverse-engineer “UAPs”, the official government term for UFOs.

Part of what the U.S. has recovered, Grusch testified, were non-human “biologics,” or what my now deceased AF brother Jerry said were called “EBEs” or “extraterrestrial biological entities” by the Wright -Patterson AFB brass. A career intelligence officer, Kirkpatrick was named a year ago to lead the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, which was intended to centralize investigations into UAPs. However, I am sure if Jerry were alive today he’d dismiss it as yet another government whitewashing device, little different from the Warren Commission. All intended to keep the proles quiet, smug and satisfied, but as in the dark as ever about the UAP actual nature.

Kirkpatrick wrote the letter Thursday and the Defense Department confirmed Friday that he posted it in a personal capacity. He wrote in part, “I cannot let yesterday’s hearing pass without sharing how insulting it was to the officers of the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community who chose to join AARO, many with not unreasonable anxieties about the career risks this would entail.”

Possibly. But then you might show greater sincerity and transparency by ceasing efforts to squelch any notion of EBE or other-world manifestation – when it's clear to the most purblind and dumbest nincompoop that’s the only thing it could be.

As far back as the 1960s, however, others like atmospheric physicist James McDonald believed government’s blasé attitude toward UFOs stemmed from incompetence and ignorance. Also a patronizing paternalism such as I noted in my July 26th post. He and astronomer J. Allen Hynek were of the view that the only solution lay in having civilian scientists take the lead in examining the phenomenon, comparable to the panel of civilian scientists recently appointed to advise NASA. Thus, Hynek later broke away from the Air Force's Blue Book and its other sucker- patsy (i.e. smokescreen) operations (e.g. Project Grudge, Robertson Panel, Condon Report etc.) to form his own Center for UFO Studies.

Here's the real skinny: The demand for greater government disclosure about UFOs has a long history, dating back to the very first wave of “flying saucer” sightings in 1947. (Recall also it was Capt. Edward Ruppelt - when he took over Blue Book - who adopted the acronym UFO to use instead of "flying saucer".) But while many have beaten the drum for transparency — inspiring what’s been called the disclosure movement by a largely online community — this goal has been repeatedly stymied. Again, via the preemption tactic I discussed earlier.

Both U.S. military and intelligence officials, agencies have kept a good deal of materials, documents, information about UFOs-UAP classified or retrieved (as at Roswell - but retrieval actions denied) and kept stored in secret while impugning reputations, like Kirkpatrick and is cohort tried with Grusch. Meanwhile the hard evidence and proof sits in lockers or cold storage somewhere - either at Langley or Wright Patterson -out of reach to all but the highest level officials.

Question: If these things don’t really exist, or are actually drones, or aerial garbage, clutter, plastic bags etc. – why keep the files hidden? Inquiring minds really want to know. And if they did they might well help the currently "meh" Americans awaken from their navel gazing stupor.

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