Last year's Pentagon report, which examined UFO reports, "omitted the truth behind some of the fundamental myths about UFOs," he says the Wall Street Journal.
"The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fueled stories, resulting in the US government serving up misinformation to its citizens."
The congressionally ordered investigation took investigators back to the 1980s, when an Air Force colonel visited a bar near Area 51, a top-secret location in the Nevada desert.
He gave the owner photos of what could be flying saucers. These photos were hung on the walls of the bar, and the idea that the US military was secretly testing recovered alien technology entered local lore.
But the colonel had a mission – disinformation. The photos were doctored, the now-retired officer confessed to Pentagon investigators in 2023.
The whole exercise was a ruse to protect what was really happening at Area 51:
The Air Force was using the site to develop top-secret stealth fighter jets, which were considered a critical advantage over the Soviet Union. Military leaders worried that the programs could be exposed if locals somehow witnessed a test flight of, say, the F-117 stealth fighter, an aircraft that truly looked unreal. They better believe it came from Andromeda.
This is not the only example.
The Journal spoke with Robert Salas, now 84, who in 1967 was a 26-year-old Air Force captain “sitting in a closet-sized bunker, controlling the controls of 10 nuclear missiles in Montana.”
Suddenly, all 10 missiles were deactivated after reports of “a glowing reddish-orange oval object hovering over the front gate… The next morning a helicopter was waiting to transport Salas to the base. Once he arrived there, he was given orders: Never discuss the incident.”
58 years later, the Journal reports….
The concrete and steel casings surrounding America's nuclear missiles were thick enough to stand a chance if they were hit first by a Soviet attack. But scientists at the time feared that the intense storm of electromagnetic waves created by a nuclear explosion could render the material needed to launch a counterattack completely useless.
To test this vulnerability, the Air Force developed an electromagnetic generator that simulated the pulse of a disruptive energy without the need to detonate a nuclear weapon…
But any public leak of the tests at the time would have allowed Russia to know that America's nuclear arsenal could be disabled with a first strike. So the witnesses were not supposed to speak. To this day, Salas believes he was involved in an intergalactic intervention, something the government tried to cover up.
“We were never informed about the activities that were underway, the Air Force excluded us from any information,” Salas told the Journal.
This isn't just about secrecy. Some military personnel were told outright that they were working on alien technology, according to Pentagon researcher Sean Kirkpatrick:
A former Air Force officer was visibly horrified when he told Kirkpatrick investigators that he had been briefed on a secret alien project decades earlier and was warned that if he ever mentioned it he could be imprisoned or executed. The claim would be repeated to investigators by other men who had never spoken about the matter, even to their husbands.
It turned out that the witnesses had fallen victim to a strange ritual.
For decades, some new commanders of the Air Force's most secretive programs, as part of their induction briefings, were shown a photo of a flying saucer. The craft was described as an antigravity maneuvering vehicle.
They told officers that they were involved in the Yankee Blue program, which was part of an effort to reverse engineer alien craft technology. They were told never to mention it again.
Many never learned that this was all fake. Kirkpatrick found that the practice had begun decades ago and seemed to continue to this day.
Investigators are still trying to determine why the officers misled their subordinates, whether as some kind of loyalty test, or as a more deliberate attempt to deceive or something else.
After this 2023 discovery, Kirkpatrick's deputy informed President Joe Biden's director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, who was stunned...
"We're talking about hundreds of people. These men signed confidentiality agreements. They thought it was real."
The article also notes that reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena “spiked” after May 2023, and that “Many pilot reports of floating orbs were actually reflections of the sun from Starlink satellites, researchers found.”
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
