As Mark Twain said, history doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.
In a previous post,The UFO Pretzel, I wrote that I was skeptical that the new public government UFO investigation would turn out any different than the first (Project Blue Book) and based on the recent report issued by the Pentagon’s AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office), it looks like I was right- which sucks.
Twenty-year U.S. intelligence community vet Chris Mellon (former Tom DeLong TTSA comrade) published a lengthy piece calledThe Pentagon’s New UAP Report is Seriously flawed that details just what Hot Garbage the government’s “new” attempt to explain-away what UFO/UAP really are.
“…who ever heard of a government report being submitted months before it was due? Especially one so rife with embarrassing errors in desperate need of additional fact-checking and revision? Was AARO Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick rushing to get the report out the door before departing, perhaps to ensure that his successor could not revise or reverse some of the report’s conclusions?” wrote Mellon in The Debrief.
Besides the many names-dates-and-places type errors, there were glaring omissions and other Big Problems cited by Mellon:
“The Congressional legal mandate, meaning by statutory law, required that this AARO historical report present the detailed history of UAP as recorded in US Government records. However, AARO instead presented a summary history of the records of flawed USG investigations of UAP, rather than what was actually mandated.”
I haven’t read the report in its entirety, but after reading Mellon’s long and detailed point-by-point analysis, I saw enough to conclude that those currently in charge of the UFO/UAP cover-up within the military-industrial complex (MIC) simply re-ran the Project Blue Book/Majestic-12 playbook and that the cover-up was back on- at least for now- or as long as they can keep the whole ruse going- maybe as long as effing possible, like Bagdad Bob did during the U.S. invasion of Iraq .
The MJ12 operation documented by Friedman, Wood and others, and written about by Col. Philip Corso in his book, The Day After Roswell, used it’s public UFO investigation (Blue Book) to both debunk UFOs as mistakes, misidentifications and hoaxes and to provide cover for the real UFO investigation, which took place in Top Secret territory.
So the public gets to hear about the Venus sightings, the Chinese spy balloon shootdowns and the foreign drone flyover stories (even though they’re not), while the MJ12ers gather intelligence on extraterrestrial activities and reverse-engineer recovered extraterrestrial technology in secret.
That’s the game. When UFOs become newsworthy- focus the public’s attention on the 90 percent that aren’t meaningful and downplay and dismiss the remaining 10 percent, which can’t be explained.
The recent AARO report – in the context of former intelligence officer David Grusch’s congressional testimony about the MIC’s ET crash retrieval program – shows that the same game is being played today- here in 2024.
Those who produced the AARO report actually had the stones to make the long-ago disproved Blue Book debunking claim that most UFOs are mistakes, misidentifications and hoaxes (which is true) and that the remaining unexplained sightings would likely be explained if more data were available (which is not).
Blue Book’s own study, known as Project Blue Book Special Report 14 debunked this claim over 70 years ago. The study, conducted by Battelle Memorial Institute at the direction of Blue Book head Ed Ruppelt, showed that when more data was available REAL UFO sightings became less explainable- not more.
You know, because they’re like, extremely foreign technology- like nothing anybody has ever seen…
Blue Book did its best to obscure this “inconvenient truth” back then, and now AARO is serving up this re-heated Hot Garbage as the latest wisdom.
There are many other examples that show the report to be pure Bantha poodoo – too many to address in a single blog post – but one glaring example that shows just how meaningful the report is – is congress’s mandate that the AARO report document government attempts to manipulate public opinion about UFOs.
According to AARO- no such thing. Nada. Zilch.
Yet, right off the top of my head I can cite the well-documented 1953 CIA Robertson panel (which included alleged MJ12 member Lloyd Berkner) that recommended Blue Book enlist the astronomical community to help debunk UFOs in order to negate the special status that the phenomenon had attained in pop culture as magical devices that just might be extraterrestrial. Not to mention the Condon investigation… I could go on and on.
The AARO report doesn’t acknowledge or cover the 2004 Tic-Tac incident or other similar events caught on military video authenticated by the Pentagon, which is really strange since it was these incidences that ultimately resulted in AARO. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Condon investigation also failed to investigate the “swamp gas” type UFOs that led to its inception.
Even more glaringly – if that’s possible – the AARO report doesn’t document one single UFO/UAP incident that occurred at a nuclear site, despite, you know – Roswell – and other well-known examples (see Salas, Malmstrom AFB) that have occurred since the inception of the nuclear age.
Like a really bad J. J. Abrams Star Wars sequel, the current version of the government’s official UFO investigation is just a totally lame and pathetic remake of the original- repackaged as something new.
Luckily, there’s usually another episode and a chance to undo the mistakes made by the previous regime, just like Rian Johnson did with most of Darth Abrams’ faux force farce in his sequel, Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Stay tuned for the next episode: Zero Doubt, or maybe, Revenge of the Skinwalker… I don’t know yet. It’s a working title.
UPDATE: I originally posted this on June 10, around 7-7:15 PM pacific time in the U.S. UPDATE #2: I enhanced the post as appropriate on June 10 11:45 PM pacific time. Updated again June 12- editorial improvements.