UFOs & Corporate Secrecy

The “urgent” and “credible” case of the David Grusch’s whistleblowing complaint.

First came the 2017 New York Times article, but nobody seemed to pay it much attention. Then came the 2020 admission by the Pentagon, but we had bigger fish to fry that year. Now we are several years into a deeply weird situation and nobody seems to notice.

The situation is this: the United States has confirmed numerous sightings—confirmed by multiple expert eyewitnesses and numerous sensors—of what they call Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena, or “UAP.” “Unidentified Flying Object” is just too X-Filesy for our contemporary tastes. These UAP exhibit astonishing properties, including but not limited to:

1)     Anti-Gravity Propulsion: they appear to have the capacity to overcome limits imposed by Earth’s gravitational field, show no signs of propulsion, all with non-aerodynamic flight surfaces; in brief, they appear to warp space around themselves in a manner consistent with current theories of anti-gravity propulsion developed by physicists.

2)     Sudden and Instantaneous Acceleration: seemingly related to anti-gravity propulsion, these phenomena have been shown to accelerate from 0 to 3600kph.

3)     Hypersonic Without Signatures: these phenomena have been shown to, for example, drop from 80,000 feet to sea leaves in 0.78 seconds with no sonic boom.

4)     Low-Observability and Cloaking: even when observed with instruments, clear and detailed imagery—even the subjective imaging of the naked eye of the observer—is difficult; they appear and disappear, shimmer with distortion, and so on. Some of the movements are also consistent with how we would expect objects with 4 or 5 spatial dimensions to pass through 3 dimensional space.

5)     Transmedium Travel: the phenomena can freely move from airspace into the ocean, and back, from airspace to outer space, and so on.

There is an actual UAP Task Force, overseen by Congress. Now, with new whistleblower protections in place, a high-ranking intelligence official (David Grusch) has come forward with a whistleblower complaint that the Officer of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community has deemed “credible” and “urgent.” Senator Marco Rubio confirms this whistleblower is not alone and that a number of strange claims have been made by a network of whistleblowers who claim to have worked on “reverse-engineering” these phenomena, which they identify as “craft” and “not of this Earth.”

Marco Rubio on David Grusch:

“There are 1 of 2 things here that are true. Either what he is saying is partially true or entirely true, or we have some really smart, educated people with high clearances and very important positions in our government who are crazy and are leading us on a goose chase. …Either what they're telling us is true or we've got some people in important positions that are doing this for some reason. So either one is a problem. We’ve got to figure this out. We can't ignore it.”

Let’s take a moment to breathe and gather ourselves here. The United States claims that yes, there are craft not of this world in the skies, and now one of its top intelligence officials—one who prepared the Presidential daily briefing and delivered it to the White House—is alleging that a number of these craft have been recovered and are being studied in reverse-engineering projects. This is no random unverified guy—he’s a significant intelligence official whose story, according to Rubio, is corroborated by a number of other significant intelligence officials.

What they allege is not some vast conspiracy in which the government has kept us in the dark for decades, but something far more banal and comprehensible. We all know the degree of competence necessary for the United States government to carry out a conspiracy of this kind for decades eludes them—it is not in the nature of a government with high turnover, accountability protocols, intense internal political jockeying, and so forth to carry out a project of the kind imagined by many conspiracy theorists.

But that is not what is alleged. On the contrary, what’s alleged is that this has been kept secret due to the entry of private military contractors into the process from the beginning. Specifically, large military industrial companies—the closest thing the United States does have to a completely unaccountable institutional complex. The “military-industrial complex,” so-called from the days of Eisenhower, is a product of the post-World War II era convergence of military and corporate power. We are all familiar with the way they provide and are provided political cover for their activities by cultivating Congressional relationships, by burying their goody lists in every nook and cranny of the legislative process.

What’s alleged is that whenever an incident involving UAPs comes to the attention of military authorities, this internecine network of Special Access Programs—public-private “partnerships” that effectively privatize aspects of the federal government—drops its veil of proprietary secrecy and authoritarian compartmentalization (nobody knows what anyone else is working on, they all get little pieces here and there) in order to conceal the technology for their own exploitation. The technology is being worked on in order to give the US government—which, in this case, is synonymous with its military industrial companies—an edge on global competition. The rumors surrounding Grusch, if they are to be trusted, suggest that progress is very slow and halting—as one would expect with individuals working in isolation with foreign materials, unable to connect the dots, unable to share their research, unable to bring in fresh and expert eyes in when needed.

Never before have high ranking intelligence officials made allegations of this kind. Never before has the US government made claims of the kind it has already made.

Leaving us with two options:

1)    This is true.

2)    This is a complicated intelligence operation of some kind.

Either is a big story. Either is a big deal. The stigma surrounding the issue is doing much of the work of keeping people from paying attention to this. We would do well to drop the stigma and start looking at the situation at hand. Many say: “Where is the evidence?” Well, supposedly there is a lot of this evidence that is being shown to Congress as per the whistleblower complaint. And now, there’s S.2103 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 and the following language contained in it:

“NOTIFICATION AND REPORTING.—Any person currently or formerly under contract with the Federal Government that has in their possession material or information provided by or derived from the Federal Government relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena that formerly or currently is protected by any form of special access or restricted access shall—

(1) not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, notify the Director of such possession; and

(2) not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, make available to the Director for assessment, analysis, and inspection—

(A) all such material and information; and

(B) a comprehensive list of all non-earth origin or exotic unidentified anomalous phenomena material.”

The problem with accessing the evidence is that it has been kept behind a wall of private intellectual property run by the most authoritarian and secretive arm of the US military industry. The legislation gives these companies—rumored by the late Senator Harry Reid to be Lockheed Martin—an out to avoid prosecution. We will have to wait and see what comes of this, but whatever comes of it, it is a deeply troubling situation.