If our government knows something about unidentified aerial phenomena, it should tell us.
If our government knows something about unidentified aerial phenomena, it should tell us.
A mericans are fascinated by UAPs — unidentified aerial phenomena (or UFOs, as they used to be called). Aliens and otherworldly creatures have dominated our sci-fi books and movies for decades. Time and again, we’ve asked, “What’s really out there?”
Even though our culture is fascinated by the possibility of alien life, our government has remained noticeably quiet on this subject — until recently.
There are plenty of videos of potential UAP encounters that the Pentagon can’t explain away. But what are they? Some people say they represent secret American technology. Others worry there may be some foreign technology far beyond our own, of which we’re unaware.
I am not convinced either way. But I believe that if this technology already belonged to Russia or China, one of them would have already attacked us with it. Putin’s ego is so big, he would have landed one of these things on the White House lawn and come off the ship bare-chested riding a unicorn to wrestle President Biden.
There are many people who believe it is possible these UAPs are neither American nor from another country, but are rather from out of this world. Who’s to say they aren’t? Certainly not the Pentagon, which isn’t saying much about what they are one way or another.
In June 2021, the Pentagon released a report that was supposed to clear up our questions about the possibility of UAPs, but it was totally bogus. It raised more questions than answers about the unidentified objects in the skies. I could have drawn up a more useful report in the fifth grade for all the information it gave us.
Then, in November 2021, the Pentagon announced it was establishing a new office to collect information on these unidentified objects: the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AIMSOG). You can tell this group was created by a government bureaucrat because the name is 20 syllables long. When this department was created, I said it was a good first step. But I was skeptical the Pentagon would allow it to release much information to the public. So far, that seems to be the case.
On May 17, 2022, the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation held an open hearing on UAPs. It was the first hearing Congress has held on UAPs in 50 years. During the hearing, AIMSOG officials said there are nearly 144 reports from military personnel about possible UAP encounters and eleven of those incidents were “near-misses” with U.S. military aircraft.
Let’s settle something right off the bat: A lot of folks are asking, “Why is Congress holding a hearing on UAPs when there are so many other problems in our country right now?” It’s true. We have a mess of problems right now, and there are other congressional committees that are meant to deal with them. This committee, the House Intelligence Committee, is meant to deal with issues like this. The better question would be, “Why hasn’t this committee done a hearing on UAPs sooner?” I don’t have a good answer to that question.
I went into this public congressional hearing expecting it would be nearly worthless and would reveal nothing. I hoped I was wrong, but I wasn’t.
Federal-government officials aren’t good at much, but they have one extraordinary talent: They can talk for hours without saying anything of substance. That’s what happened with this hearing. It wasn’t the fault of those testifying; I’m sure they are hardworking patriots who do the best they can for their country. But they were the wrong witnesses. They had limited knowledge about the topics the members were discussing.
The thing is, we could have heard testimonies from folks who experienced these encounters firsthand. One of the Navy pilots was at the hearing. I met him after it was over. But, oddly enough, he wasn’t allowed to testify. Instead, we heard from a couple of top Defense officials who shared little information about UAP encounters that we can’t find by typing “UFO videos” into a search engine.
It’s unfortunate we can’t get straight answers from the Pentagon. Then again, maybe it’s just naïve to expect the agency to suddenly reveal all its innermost knowledge just because members of Congress — the branch of government charged with executive-branch oversight — have a few pesky questions.
I’m not sure what else we could have expected, considering we asked the people who created the problem to solve it.
This secrecy shouldn’t surprise anyone, and it’s a great example of why people don’t trust their government. People in the government refuse to shoot straight with us, always evading and giving non-answers to important questions.
So, why the secrecy?
Simply put: It’s all about power. The Swamp is arrogant, and our highest-ranking leaders don’t want American citizens to know the truth.
The first thing the Pentagon needs to do is release all the records it has on UAP encounters. No more separate “public” and “classified” hearings, as happened last Tuesday. Let the American public know what they’re dealing with.
After that, the Pentagon and all our elected leaders need to do everything we can to destigmatize reporting on UAP encounters. The members of the military who have reported these incidents are American patriots, but not everyone treated them as such. Many of their colleagues made fun of them for filing a report. Some of their colleagues dressed up like aliens and mocked them for reporting what they saw. That needs to end. There needs to be a clear and normalized pathway for members of our military to report events like this without fear of retribution from their colleagues or a cover-up from their superiors.
But what will actually happen? In short: probably nothing. The brass at the Pentagon will continue to be evasive, and the American public will remain in the dark.
That is, unless Congress asserts its role as an oversight body and demands truth and accountability from Defense officials and the rest of the executive branch. If UAPs are from another country, our citizens deserve to know. If UAPs are from another world, the people of this world deserve to know. We do not need our government overlords deciding what truth we can handle and what we cannot, and I will continue to fight to bring the truth to light.
When I go outside at night and look at the stars, I can’t help but think about the vastness of God’s universe. A lot of those little pinpricks of light we see in the sky left their stars before the time of Christ. Some of those stars have already collapsed before we see their first light.
It’s arrogant and senseless to say we’re 100 percent certain that we are the only living beings God created. There’s an entire universe He created in His infinite wisdom. Do we really think we’re the best He could do?
If our government knows something about this, we deserve to know.
The truth is out there.