Brane Space: WSJ: Pentagon Disinformation Fueled America's UFO Mythology? - More Codswallop Fed To Snookered Journalists

UAP captured off E. coast by Navy pilots in 2015

My late AF brother, Jerry, had access to Roswell alien bodies at Wright-Patterson AFB.

'Don't believe any crap about a UFO mythology.'

What is the Pentagon trying to hide in respect of UAP-UFOs? Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha (WSJ, June 7-8, p. A1:

are totally convinced the Pentagon implemented decades of disinformation to distract 'Ufologists' from the true fact of "real" (i.e. human) development of weapons at Area 51. As they write in their piece (after referencing a fake UFO photo put up inside a bar near Area 51 by an AF Colonel on an actual mission of disinformation.

Fake Saucer photo put up in bar near Area 51 by military disinformationist (WSJ, p. A10)

"The whole exercise was a ruse to protect what was really going on at Area 51. The Air Force was using the site to develop top secret stealth fighters, viewed as a critical edge against the Soviet Union. Military leaders were worried that the programs might get exposed if locals somehow glimpsed a test flight of an aircraft that truly did look out of this world. Better they believe it was a UFO.

This episode, reported now for the first time, was just one of a series of discoveries the Pentagon team (investigating UAP) made as it investigated claims that Washington was hiding what it knew about extraterrestrial life. The effort culminated in a report, released last year by the Defense Department, that found claims of a government coverup to be baseless."

Hell, of course they would! Just like the Warren Commission found claims of a conspiracy in the JFK assassination to be "baseless". But we now know that was deliberate misdirection, and a coverup in itself. See e.g.

Dallas Journalists Need To Grow Up And Face The Reality of Conspiracy In Kennedy Assassination

Let's get back to the UFO "coverup" of the disinformation assertion. If true, why did the DoD find it necessary to destroy a critical radar tape made during the Nimitz incident, and why was this never investigated? Seems to me the Pentagon effort amounted to an actual coverup of evidence, not fake stories and plants to fool the little 'flying saucer' goobers.

The whole 2004 Nimitz incident was the featured (lead) topic of a 60 Minutes report:

Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs - YouTube

Watch USS Nimitz ‘Tic Tac’ UFO: Declassified Video Clip | HISTORY Channel

Then years later (July, 2023) former Navy Commander David Fravor delivered a detailed account of the objects he encountered in his House testimony,

Video Navy commander David Fravor gives detailed description of his encounter with a UAP - ABC News

Noting how the object shifted its longitudinal axis and paced his fighter - which was at 15,000 ft. altitude, while the object was at 12,000 ft. It then "rapidly accelerated in front of us and disappeared". Adding:

"We started to turn back and then the controller interrupted and said 'Sir, you're not going to believe this but that thing turned around is at your cap point, roughly 60 miles in less than a minute.'

Those actions reflect a 'mythology'? Seriously? You can calculate the speed, as Cmdr. Fravor notes, and it works out to: (60 miles/ min) x (60 min/hr) = 3600 miles per hour, or over MACH 4. We then learn his group returned to the Nimitz, where he then spoke to one of his crews ready to take off, and "they went out and got that roughly ninety second video."

Adding:

"What you don't see is the radar tape which was never released and we don't know where it is right now. But there was active jamming the object put on our AG373 radar. I can get into modes later if you want.

What was shocking to us is the incident was never investigated, tapes were never taken, leaving it just a great story with friends. It wasn't until 2009 Jay Stratton contacted me to investigate, he was part of the AATIP program with Lou Alizondo."

Why was the incident never investigated? Why, instead, do we get dodgy, dopey stories about "protecting stealth fighters at Area 51" like the one fed to the WSJ writers and other media? Take the WSJ's hack Holman Jenkins Jr. who trotted out his own bunkum (in a March column) in which he wrote:

"The 60 Minutes segment was retracted by CBS’ correspondent Bill Whitaker who states plainly the Pentagon did little to dispel speculation these images taken with night vision equipment were not UFOs but ship’s log identification as drones. At the time and the Navy suspected they came from a Hong Kong flagged freighter sailing nearby."

We may never know what brand of MJ munchies Holman was snacking on when he wrote this drivel - or indeed CBS’ Bill Whitaker – if he really made the assertion Jenkins insists he made about the ship’s logs. (Or if the Pentagon got to him) . What we can do is inquire whether Jenkins (or CBS' Whitaker) knew all the salient facts, data points when they made their phantasmagoric conjectures. Or whether they relied on the well-known disinformation campaign that's been ongoing since 1947.

But asserting the ships logs were off and the experienced Nimitz pilots were actually pursuing 46 ft. long Chinese drones in 2004- off San Diego- take us into magic mushrooms la-la land.

Luis Elizondo, former director of The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), splattered this twaddle into a million pieces in his superb monograph, Imminent. (Noting the AATIP was an unclassified but unpublicized investigatory effort funded by the United States Government to study unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP). It originated with the Defense Intelligence Agency.)

Specifically, as Elizondo notes, what places the Nimitz 2004 sighting in the realm of the "UAP gold standard" is the fact that:

- It was made not merely by distant sightings or videos of but a close up encounter of TWO pilots (Lt. Cmdr. David Fravor, Lt. Jr. Grade Alex Dietrich) in their U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets. Further, occupying the rear seat of Fravor's Hornet was Jim Sleight (the WSO) responsible for weapons targeting.

- It was supported by state of the art technology including Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared Radar (ATFLIR) used by a 3rd pilot (Lt. Chad Underwood).

- The incident was noteworthy given the convergence of high caliber intelligence gathering from multiple radar systems (and ATFLIR) and the unanimous testimony of experienced military pilots in an encounter at close quarters.

Mistaking the object for a Chinese drone? No way in hell! As Elizondo details the encounter (pp. 74-75):

"The object was about 46 feet long - about the length of a semi-truck and shaped like an elongated oval. The pilots would later recall the object's gleaming whiteness as if the exterior were covered with a white, candy- coated shell."

A 46 foot long "drone" it was assuredly not. And more to the point (op. cit.):

"As Fravor closed in on the object it instantly trained itself on his fast approaching aircraft. It gained altitude as if intending to meet Fravor and Sleight somewhere in the middle but it mirrored Fravor's maneuver in a way that never permitted him to get closer.

As Fravor and Sleight approached the object it disappeared over the horizon in a split second. Never before had Fravor or Sleight encountered this type of performance. Whatever the technology it was more capable than anything in our inventory by several magnitudes."

Or in any foreign nation's "inventory"!

Why then - given these details- was the radar tape for the Nimitz encounter never released? Why was the incident never investigated? Simply put, the Defense Dept. did not want any evidentiary aspects of the Nimitz incident seeing the light of day. Which further explains why specific cockpit videos were also never made public.

Indeed it was during the July 2023 congressional hearing ('Inside Capitol Hill's Latest UFO Hearings', TIME, Dec. 9, 2024, p. 16) wherein we learned the cockpit videos vanished. This was based on the testimony of Ret. Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet who:

"was on deployment in January, 2015 when one of the cockpit videos that were declassified in 2020 was first captured. According to his testimony, he and a handful of other Navy officers received an email with the video attached. However, the email vanished from their inboxes 'without explanation'. "

The point here? The very items that would have destroyed the Pentagon's fake UFO disinformation tomfoolery were obliterated from the actual UAP evidentiary record. In the absence of such hard evidence the deniers could claim anything they wanted and even farm out concocted disinfo to the media - like the twaddle the 2 WSJ columnists got stuck with.

Incidents like these support my late Air Force brother Jerry's contention that there has been a 75+ year deliberate effort to conceal alien artifacts and existence. This a result of governmental and military paternalism, convinced Americans simply aren't ready to accept the truth of extraterrestrials roaming our skies with impunity - and a U.S. military unable to do a damned thing about it. But even more critical, as Luis Elizondo notes, is such ruses can be used to keep the re-engineering of alien artifacts a top secret.

Indeed, the WSJ writers themselves appear to get a brief (very brief!) moment of sobriety when they wrote:

"More recently, things took an ominous turn when a handful of former Pentagon officials went public (at 2023 House hearings) with allegations of a government program to exploit extraterrestrial technology and hide it from Americans. Those claims led to the Pentagon investigation."

Which ought to have given the WSJ columnists pause (i.e. Why the further investigation?) instead of falling for the smokescreen hook, line and sinker (In short order, good little DO-Be Sean Kirkpatrick had the All-Domain Anomaly Office (AARO)ready to shoot down any incidents remotely suspicious and convert them to prosaic piffle. E.g. The sightings near our military installations reduced to "birds, balloons, garbage and assorted drones" cluttering up the skies. This led to the predictable conclusion:

"To date, AARO has found no verifiable evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have access to or have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology,"

Yeah, right. Here's the real skinny: Had Kirkpatrick or any of his AARO minions had a remote scintilla of serious intent they'd have taken up the offer of Ret. Maj. David Grusch to see his UAP re-engineering evidence in a SCIF. ( Special compartmentalized intelligence facility which is required for to access sensitive or classified materials.) Kirkpatrick and his Pentagon buddies refused which tells me their whole AARO project was a sham. Intended to misdirect and misinform rather than to inform.

Back to Ret. Rear Admiral Gallaudet. He went on to warn these sort of dodges are "not only a disservice to public knowledge but a risk to public safety as well." Adding:

"There is a national security need for more UAP transparency. In 2025, the U.S. will spend over $900 billion on national defense, yet we still have an incomplete understanding of what is in our airspace,"

As another witness, Michael Shellenberger (a journalist who submitted 214 pages into evidence) noted:

"The intelligence community is treating us like children. It's time for us to know the truth about this. I think we can handle it."

Yet despite the evidence and firsthand testimony of military pilots - charged with our defense no less (i.e. against Russian or Chinese incursions)- it was all treated with a giggle factor.

Incredibly, there's been less blowback and criticism over techie billionaires using resveratrol (WSJ, Dec. 7-8, p. A1) to try to live to 150 years than actually documented UAP which bear all the attributes of alien craft allowed to zoom through our skies and disrupt military radar at will. And all the DoD's illustrious technology producing fake UFOs hasn't been worth doggie lickspittle in stopping the real ones from intruding on 'secure' military sites or operations.

From the Preliminary Assessment Report (2022), before being 'massaged' into final UAP report

Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

"144 reports originated from USG sources. Of these, 80 reports involved observation with multiple sensors. Most reports described UAP as objects that interrupted pre-planned training or other military activity."

As for the Area 51 malarkey, Jerry was aware from early that was another distraction. (Wright Patterson AFB was the actual site for storing the alien bodies and artifacts.) As he told me, my brother Mike, and wife Janice, in a 1990 discussion, e.g.

Caption from 1990 VHS tape segment

UFO Discussion L-R: me, Jerry, Mike, Jerry's wife

"They always use Area 51 to play the saucer groupies who insist the aliens and their ships are there. But that's just bullshit. I saw the actual bodies at Wright Patterson in what was then known as the Blue Room."

Jerry was adamant that the particular room (18 F) to which he had access (in the Wright AFB Building 18 complex) contained four 'cold' rooms. These were where the corpses of the EBEs (extraterrestrial biological entities) were stored. The whole complex was formally operated under NASIC (originally the Foreign Technology Division) and basically had oversight concerning disposal and storage of craft wreckage. This included re-engineering for adapted weapons or other use.

Jerry could say little at the time about the re-engineering of the craft (from Roswell and others) but he speculated that the primary reason for the hush-hush is that the USAF wanted to do it on the 'down low' and didn't want the Russians or any of our allies knowing about the program. Hence, it became the conscious choice to always use disinformation or even threats to manage the details of any encounters.

Flash forward to the House UAP hearings in the summer of 2023. Recall that Ret. Major David Grusch had been emphatic, testifying under oath, that the Air Force had a program to recover and re-engineer extraterrestrial craft.

Asked specifically to elaborate on any "non-human spacecraft" or artifacts recovered, Grusch responded he could not discuss such materials in open session so suggested use of a SCIF at the hearings. (Required for congress to access sensitive materials.)

He was not "cagey" about it at all, as some media buffoons implied. He merely recited the conditions under which the hardest evidence - including 4k imagery - could be divulged without him being imprisoned under The Espionage Act (which was used to put former AF officer Reality Winner in a federal slammer for 5+ years for leaking docs pertaining to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections).

Finally, the facts of artifact recovery were exposed in the 2024 book 'Imminent' by Luis Alizondo, who wrote (p. 129, Ch. 13):

"We were told specifically (as members of the AATIP group) that a defense contractor associated with the Legacy Program ( cf.

Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program)

was in possession of UAP materials of nonhuman origin, made by some civilization from a distant planet. When Jay (team member) went to inquire for us, the contractor acknowledged that yes, they were in possession of this material. They said they would give us access to it but first we had to get permission from the secretary of the Air Force."

Of course, no such permission was given. Why would it be when the entire aim was to conceal the whole re-engineering effort? None of this would have been known by Mr. Schectman and Ms. Viswanatha who were only fed the tale of what the 'gate-keepers' wanted them to know and released for their article. Perpetuating the baloney that the real reason for the 8 decades of debunking was a "smokescreen" to protect development of Stealth aircraft and other human devices at the Groom Lake (Area 51) site.

If alive today to behold all this dodgy, duplicitous government runaround what would Jerry say? I can just imagine him first howling at the gullibility of the two WSJ reporters ("Dumb fucks!") and then adding:

"The mistake the AARO jokers made was overkill. They tried to blow away the serious UFO incidents with their bonehead fakes - like that dumb UFO bar image. But then doubled down by trying to cover up their own attempts at fakery. Anyone knows that this kind of overkill gives away the hand of the manipulators."

Luis Elizondo's parting words, which I know Jerry would endorse, ought to make us focus (p. 248)

"You, as a citizen of this planet, have as much to say about this issue as they (the political leaders) do. Don't ever let them forget that. This fight demands courage, It starts with talking. We can no longer stick our heads in the sand and pretend we are alone in the universe. We know we are not alone."

And:

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Expert tells congress U.S. has reverse engineered UFO technology | CGTN America

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Holman Jenkins Loses It Again On UFOs - Claims Nimitz Pilots Were Really Chasing 46' Long "Chinese Drones"

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