Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace • David Grusch, former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency officer and UAP Task Force member • David Fravor, former commanding officer of the Navy's "Black Aces" squadron, are sworn in at "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency," a hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, July 26, 2023.
I came to the UFO topic a skeptic, and I was wrong. Whatever the ultimate origin,
it's a Trojan Horse for very real terrestrial issues. Part 1 starts with whistleblowers, and the retaliation they faced for coming forward.
I came to the UFO topic a skeptic. Like most people, I assumed it was mostly prosaic explanations with a bit of disinformation mixed in, and I didn't expect to find anything real underneath. I was wrong. Whatever the ultimate origin turns out to be, I've found the UFO topic is a Trojan Horse for very real terrestrial issues.
Releasing the UFO files is not enough. The flaws that allowed this to happen have to be fixed. This is Part 1 of a multipart series on those flaws, starting with whistleblowers and the retaliation they faced for coming forward.
- Part 1: Whistleblowers
- Part 2: Overclassification
- Part 3: Oversight
The UFO Conspiracy Isn't a TheoryThe UFO topic is often dismissed as a
conspiracy theory. I used to call it one myself. But a conspiracy and a conspiracy theory are not the same thing.
- Conspiracy. A secret plan or agreement between two or more people to do something unlawful or harmful.
- Conspiracy theory. The belief that an event is the work of a secret plot by powerful groups, held even when other explanations are more probable.
After years of investigation, one of the few things in this topic that I can definitively say isn't a theory is the conspiracy itself. I've seen the retaliation firsthand. An op-ed never finished after a break-in. Cords cut. And account-takeover attempts conveniently timed just before they came forward for email addresses that are not public.
