The current UFO story is not a Big Nothing, but neither is it a Big Something.
Tucker Carlson addressed it on the first episode (6:43 mark) of Tucker on Twitter, his new show solely broadcast on the social media giant’s platform.
“A former Air Force officer, who worked for years in military intelligence, came forward as a whistleblower to reveal that the U.S. Government has physical evidence of crashed, non-human-made aircraft, as well as the bodies of the pilots who flew those aircraft,” Tucker explained. “The Pentagon has spent decades studying these other-worldly remains in order to build more technologically-advanced weapons systems. OK. That’s what the former intel officer revealed, and it’s clear he was telling the truth.”
Tucker’s conclusion? “UFOs are actually real and so, apparently, is extraterrestrial life.”
He may have gone a bit overboard. As “skeptic” science writer Michael Shermer notes, there is no real evidence here — at least in The Debrief’s June 5 story, upon which most of the journalism is based — just very familiar rumors. Nothing whistleblower David Charles Grusch says is new; hundreds of other alleged whistleblowers have been saying similar things for decades.
What’s different? This time one of these whistleblowers has sworn under oath and given testimony to Congress.
Which is not insignificant. Grusch’s testimony also, allegedly, points to where in the Deep State the secrets lay hiding.
While the story hardly proves “UFOs are actually real” and so “is extraterrestrial life,” it suggests that the Government’s contradictory past press releases on the subject may (just may) be provably identified as the lies they’ve long seemed.
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The only possibilities are [1] that the state conspired to misrepresent the issue in the past and [2] that the state is misrepresenting the issue in the present. These possibilities are non-rival — both may simultaneously be true. But it cannot now tell us that it was lying earlier with at least one of these two propositions being true.
My belief is that the UAP story involves no creatures from outer space, from the oceans’ depths, nor from the bowels of the Earth. I think that it is a matter of mindless geophysical processes, folklore, secret military technology, and one Hell of a psyop. The official stories emerging after World War II were supposed to be flawed. Perhaps the original target of that psyop was the Soviet Union; but, for decades now, we have been the target.
My son is a senior executive at NASA and he has assured me that no one at NASA believes there is any evidence that aliens have ever visited Earth. Every other report is either fictitious or some unexplained phenomenon that is extremely unlikely to be alien. You should not promote these rumors as likely truth.
Although, as stated above, I do not believe that these phenomena correspond to any extra-terrestrial intelligence, a bald, third-hand appeal to the authority of some consensus of experts is simply not a proper argument, and insisting that a theory not be mentioned (which is what Paul has done) lest someone might believe it is madness.
The practices of Mediæval church officials are not those of rational discourse.