Trump Ordered the Pentagon to Make Their UFO Files Public and the Secretary of War Says He'll Comply
Shutterstock Images.I'm probably just being naive. This could be another example of me falling for the approved government narrative once again. Just another example of what they call it when a divorced couple gets remarried, "A triumph of optimism over experience."
And people make a good point when they point out that these promises of a big reveal regarding the existence of UFOs/UAPs do always seem to come around whenever the people running the country would like us rubes to be talking about anything other than how they're running the country. A Weapon of Mass Distraction. A magician's trick to get you focused on the Alien they just pulled out of their sleeve, so you take your eyes off the Epstein Files going into the disappearing cabinet behind them. And yet every time they say "For my next trick, I'll need a volunteer," I'm waving my hand and going "Ooh! Over here! Pick me!!!" And this moment is no exception. I'll admit that.
This latest narrative began last week, as Hubbs pointed out:
Trump was asked about Obama's statement and subsequent backpedal. And as usual, danced around the subject:
… Doocy: “So aliens are real?”
Trump: “Well, I don’t know if they’re real or not. I can tell you he gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information.”
Doocy; “The President can declassify anything he wants to.”
Trump: “Maybe I’ll get him out of trouble. I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”
That's a lot of deflecting. And yet another Commander in Chief passing up yet another golden opportunity to say, "Nah. There are no extraterrestrials. That's all just a psyop. A bunch of bullshit the intelligence guys came up during the Cold War to mess with the Commies and waste their time." After all, if the Chief Executive can't say whether "they're real or not," then why does anything have to be classified in the first place?
Well it looks as though Obama's offhand remark on a podcast, presumably when his guard was down, got a ball rolling. Because Trump has declared this stuff doesn't have to be classified after all:
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Again, we've been down this path before. US Navy pilots. Whistleblowers. Congressional hearings. People, some of them actual experiencers and eyewitnesses, talking on the record, under oath. And the path never leads us to a place where we actually understand what the government has known and when they knew it.
But this one seems to have some actual momentum behind it. It's coming from the top, down. Not some military or spy agency operative coming forward, but the CinC issuing orders to his subordinates:
Source - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said his department is working to comply with President Donald Trump's directive to identify and release government files related to UFOs, UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena), and extraterrestrial life.
The effort marks the administration's next step after Trump announced last week that agencies would begin a disclosure process. …
Hegseth said that the department was "digging in" and would be in "full compliance" with Trump's order. …
He did not provide a timeline for any release.
Hegseth also said he did not expect to be handling the issue and, when asked about extraterrestrial life, said he would review the material and "find out" alongside the public.
OK, that's less than ideal. We all know what it means when a government official goes with "there's no timeline." It's always that they're going to slow walk this thing to the point the release of the information will be in a photo finish with the heat death of the universe. And it's certainly problematic when the guy in charge of a $1.4 trillion operation that is 12% of the total federal budget tries to claim he knows as much about the presence of non-human intelligence on Earth as a community college grad who writes the occasional UFO blog on Barstool.
Unfortunately for anyone who's getting heated up about this, people much more educated than me are here to dump a bucket of ice water over our heads:
Source - Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of the U.S. Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which investigates unidentified flying objects, says people expecting to see evidence of alien life here on Earth may be disappointed.
"There are going to be unsatisfied people," he told CBS News. …
"Nothing would have made me happier in that job but to have discovered alien technology and rolled it out," said Kirkpatrick. "I don't expect to see anything new." …
Federica Bianco, an associate professor at the University of Delaware's astronomy and physics department, echoed Kirkpatrick's perspective.
"The probability that we are the only life form or even the only technical society in the universe is negligibly small," Bianco said. …
"As a scientist and a member of the NASA UAP panel, I haven't seen anything that indicates that we have observed phenomena that violate the laws of physics and require an alien society visiting us to be explained," Bianco said. …
Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium --
Actually, I'm going to stop it right there. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a factory of UFO denial, operating three shifts a day, 365 days a year. I can recite his comments without hearing them. Because he's said it all before. And because he's never even suggested a willingness to listen to any other viewpoint but his own, even if it's coming from the best and brightest our military produces, using the most sophisticated tech we have.
Like retired Navy pilot Alex Dietrich. She was flying with Cmdr. David Fravor during the Tic Tac UFO incident in 2004. And she wants the files declassified. (Cued to the 1:05 mark.):
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But we'll find out when we find out. If nothing else, one of the people running point on all of this, my close personal friend I met once and who gave me a tour of the Capitol, is promising another round of hearings:
Make that "a ton" of hearings. Which it sounds like we'll need if we're ever to get anything worth knowing.
Until then, if this really is about getting everyone distracted from scandals, corruption, fraud, and widespread abuse of power all over the place, than consider me distracted.