Richard Dolan - Are They Preparing Us for Alien Disclosure?

Source: Richard Dolan Intelligent Disclosure, YouTube
Speaker: Richard Dolan
Published: 2026-09-09
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Cited documents: Disclosure Foundation Policy Brief No. 6 and The Psychological Impact of UAP/NHI Disclosure
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TL;DW

Richard Dolan reviews Jennice Vilhauer's account that the UAP Science Advisory Council met at ODNI on August 31 and was told a US contingency plan exists for confirmed non-human intelligence; he treats this as evidence of planning rather than a decision to announce NHI and warns that the reports may be circulating within one small Washington network. He focuses on Disclosure Foundation Policy Brief No. 6 and its companion study, which propose an HHS-led task force, aggregated monitoring of crisis-line use, psychiatric care, school counseling, pastoral care, search activity, and social-media reactions, plus coordinated clinical, educational, and public communication. Dolan argues that this structure would let institutions implicated in UFO secrecy manage public interpretation, then draws on official UFO records, Leonard Stringfield, and David Grusch to argue that disclosure should instead include historical records, contractor scrutiny, protected witnesses, limited immunity for some participants, and an independent body with access to the evidence.

[00:00:01.839] Hi everyone.
[00:00:04.000] There's a new UAP story making the
[00:00:06.400] rounds. And on the surface, it sounds
[00:00:08.000] kind of huge. On the surface,
[00:00:11.599] Dr. Janice Vilhower, a member of the
[00:00:13.759] government's new UAP Science Advisory
[00:00:17.680] Council, says that the council met at
[00:00:20.320] the office of the Director of National
[00:00:22.880] Intelligence, that's ODNI,
[00:00:25.199] on August 31st, as as I'm speaking just
[00:00:27.519] a little over one week ago. And during
[00:00:30.800] that meeting, according to Velhau,
[00:00:34.800] the they were told that the United
[00:00:36.480] States government has a preparedness
[00:00:38.399] plan in the event that nonhuman
[00:00:41.520] intelligence is confirmed. And she also
[00:00:45.040] says that the United States is prepared
[00:00:46.800] to take an international role in this.
[00:00:50.480] So that's all interesting. That gets
[00:00:52.000] your attention. Uh Vilhower attached her
[00:00:54.719] name to this account. So, this is not
[00:00:56.559] just an anonymous rumor. Like, she's
[00:01:00.160] identified the setting uh and the group
[00:01:02.640] that received the briefing. So, this is
[00:01:06.080] a little more interesting than like the
[00:01:07.680] the typical anom anonymous rumor that
[00:01:09.680] you'd get floating around Washington or
[00:01:12.720] uh the UFO community for sure.
[00:01:16.960] Even so, a couple of things. So, first
[00:01:18.799] of all, we haven't seen the plan. We
[00:01:21.280] don't know who wrote this plan. We don't
[00:01:23.520] know which agencies
[00:01:25.520] participated in it. Uh we don't know
[00:01:28.400] that what what would activate it. We
[00:01:30.320] don't know whether it says that
[00:01:32.079] non-human intelligence is actually real.
[00:01:35.280] Like that last point. So you can have a
[00:01:38.000] contingency plan for what the government
[00:01:41.680] might do if NHI, non-human intelligence,
[00:01:45.920] is someday confirmed.
[00:01:48.320] That's a little different from a
[00:01:49.680] government document, a document
[00:01:51.600] acknowledging that NHI has already been
[00:01:55.439] confirmed. So those are two different
[00:01:56.560] totally different things. And right now
[00:01:58.240] we don't really know what what what's
[00:02:00.000] going on with all that. So what we have
[00:02:01.840] is Vilhower's account of what the
[00:02:04.320] council was told. So okay,
[00:02:07.200] so something is happening. I guess we
[00:02:08.959] can say that. Uh we certainly cannot say
[00:02:11.920] that this currently deserves the word
[00:02:14.160] disclosure.
[00:02:16.080] Um but this story did not appear out of
[00:02:18.000] nowhere. So there's been a series of
[00:02:19.760] developments during the last few months
[00:02:22.400] and I would like to review some of these
[00:02:24.800] developments just a little bit with you.
[00:02:26.560] So back in June, the government created
[00:02:29.680] uh an inter agency UAP governance board.
[00:02:35.120] So that's another new acronym for us. A
[00:02:37.280] UAP governance board. Uh, an ODNI
[00:02:39.840] official confirmed this to Christopher
[00:02:42.879] Sharp of the Liberation Times. And, uh,
[00:02:46.319] here's a couple of Chris's articles on
[00:02:47.920] this. The one on the left is the one
[00:02:50.480] that discusses this. Uh, according to
[00:02:53.120] that official, the board brings together
[00:02:56.000] the military, uh, law enforcement, the
[00:02:59.840] intelligence community, civilian
[00:03:02.400] agencies.
[00:03:04.319] So its work is supposed to include uh
[00:03:07.200] UAP investigations and intelligence
[00:03:09.760] collection of course and also they're
[00:03:13.200] going to coordinate the declassification
[00:03:15.920] process.
[00:03:17.760] Oh and they also support arrow uh in a
[00:03:20.080] pretty big way. So, so that governance
[00:03:23.840] board is supported by outside adviserss
[00:03:27.840] including the UAP science advisory
[00:03:31.200] council that's led by Avi Lobe and
[00:03:33.519] Vilhower serves on that council. So,
[00:03:35.840] we've got all of these different
[00:03:36.720] organizations here. Got the ODNI,
[00:03:39.280] they're involved. You've got the
[00:03:41.440] governance board, the UAP governance
[00:03:42.879] board, and now you got the UAP science
[00:03:44.879] advisory council. All of these groups.
[00:03:48.000] So, okay. Okay, so that was from June.
[00:03:49.840] And then in July, Christopher Sharp
[00:03:52.319] reported that a presidential speech had
[00:03:56.480] been prepared for Donald Trump. I'll
[00:03:59.120] just show you that other article again.
[00:04:00.799] This is the one on the right there. Uh,
[00:04:03.519] and according to Sharp's sources for
[00:04:06.640] this, the speech would acknowledge that
[00:04:09.360] some UFOs are of non-human origin.
[00:04:13.840] Um, Sharp was pretty careful in this
[00:04:16.560] article. I think he he said nobody
[00:04:18.799] really knew whether Trump would ever
[00:04:21.120] deliver this speech. Uh and it's
[00:04:23.840] absolutely the case. Presidential staffs
[00:04:25.520] will often prepare all kinds of
[00:04:27.919] contingency speeches for events that
[00:04:30.960] never happen. That's that's all the
[00:04:33.360] time. So the fact that we have a draft
[00:04:36.240] really all that does is it tells us that
[00:04:37.840] someone wanted the language ready.
[00:04:39.600] That's interesting. But it still doesn't
[00:04:41.360] tell us anything about uh what President
[00:04:43.680] Trump might have decided. Obviously we
[00:04:45.520] have no idea.
[00:04:47.520] Uh the other thing in that article by
[00:04:48.960] Sharp from July is that he mentioned
[00:04:51.199] that there were disclosure advocates
[00:04:53.199] both in the public realm and some
[00:04:56.240] somehow from within that were lobbying
[00:04:59.360] the White House on on this measure. So
[00:05:02.639] um so then that's that. So then on July
[00:05:04.880] 30th, uh, Vilhower,
[00:05:08.080] uh, a scientist named, uh, Carlos Ira
[00:05:12.240] and Chris Melon published a policy brief
[00:05:15.440] through the Disclosure Foundation.
[00:05:18.160] And this this is very interesting. I'm
[00:05:20.160] going to get into this in a little
[00:05:21.360] detail in just a moment. So, this called
[00:05:23.280] on the administration to establish a
[00:05:25.919] national preparedness effort through the
[00:05:29.039] Department of Health and Human Services.
[00:05:32.240] I'm going to have that linked uh below
[00:05:34.400] in the description and also a longer
[00:05:37.280] version of that paper uh which you you
[00:05:39.919] may want to read both of them. So
[00:05:41.520] anyway, and then so that led to a month
[00:05:43.759] later at the end of August and as I open
[00:05:46.960] this talk, Vilhower attended the ODNI
[00:05:49.120] meeting, came away saying that the
[00:05:50.639] government already had a preparedness
[00:05:52.639] plan. So all these these various
[00:05:54.880] developments I think they fit together
[00:05:57.199] and there's two ways that I could look
[00:06:00.639] at them or you could look at them. So
[00:06:02.320] one possibility is that they're
[00:06:05.199] describing
[00:06:06.960] one single effort but that's happening
[00:06:09.759] across the White House uh ODNI the
[00:06:13.520] governance board and its outside
[00:06:15.600] adviserss.
[00:06:17.440] And there's another possibility that I
[00:06:19.199] I'm keeping in mind and I really wonder
[00:06:22.240] about this. So we might be watching just
[00:06:24.080] a relatively small Washington network
[00:06:26.800] reinforcing itself. So you have a
[00:06:28.960] situation where uh disclosure advocates
[00:06:31.919] urge the administration to prepare and
[00:06:35.199] then uh outside advisers propose plans.
[00:06:39.600] Journalists then hear from sources that
[00:06:42.319] preparations underway.
[00:06:44.560] Then the advisers enter government
[00:06:46.080] meetings and they're told that a plan
[00:06:49.280] exists. So each new report appears to
[00:06:53.120] confirm the others. And you know
[00:06:55.360] everyone involved could be uh sincere
[00:06:57.600] about this but the information may still
[00:06:59.680] be coming from the same small circle. um
[00:07:03.599] consistency inside that circle can
[00:07:06.160] create the appearance of independent
[00:07:08.479] corroboration. I don't really know how
[00:07:10.639] that this breaks down, but for now I
[00:07:12.560] guess I'll just see say that I see
[00:07:14.560] genuine government activity somehow
[00:07:17.840] around UAP. So there's coordination,
[00:07:20.000] there's advisers, you got records
[00:07:21.919] reviews, there's contingency planning.
[00:07:24.800] Uh all of that is true. I don't yet see
[00:07:27.039] evidence that a decision has been made
[00:07:30.639] to acknowledge nonhuman intelligence.
[00:07:35.440] So this policy brief so this uh shows
[00:07:39.759] how some of the people close to this
[00:07:42.800] process imagine
[00:07:45.919] uh how disclosure will should be
[00:07:47.840] handled. So I really want to focus on
[00:07:50.000] this policy paper just a bit. So
[00:07:52.479] Vilhower is a clinical psychologist. So
[00:07:56.240] you would expect her to approach
[00:07:57.759] disclosure as a problem of psychological
[00:08:00.879] adaptation by the public uh public
[00:08:03.199] health in general. So the paper that she
[00:08:06.800] co-authored with Chris Melon and um one
[00:08:10.400] other gentleman
[00:08:12.560] uh
[00:08:14.080] seems to me that they are well they're
[00:08:17.360] calling first of all they're calling for
[00:08:18.800] a health and human servicesled
[00:08:21.759] task force. It's called the National
[00:08:24.639] Disclosure Preparedness Task Force
[00:08:28.000] involving
[00:08:29.759] mental health professionals,
[00:08:32.080] educators,
[00:08:33.599] religious leaders,
[00:08:35.760] journalists,
[00:08:37.279] and I guess of course, government
[00:08:39.519] agencies.
[00:08:41.200] So in the paper,
[00:08:43.279] she and her co-authors expect that most
[00:08:45.920] people will probably adapt just fine to
[00:08:49.440] UAP disclosure, but the concern that
[00:08:52.399] they have is that there's a smaller
[00:08:54.399] vulnerable pop population that could
[00:08:57.279] need help when mental health services
[00:08:59.839] are already strained.
[00:09:02.320] So, which I guess I could imagine uh
[00:09:05.440] might actually happen after a disclosure
[00:09:07.360] about UFOs or excuse me, UAP.
[00:09:10.480] So, fair enough. You can imagine some
[00:09:13.440] experiencers reliving trauma if there's
[00:09:16.160] an announcement. Uh you can imagine
[00:09:19.040] people with like serious psychiatric
[00:09:21.760] problems, they might have a hard time
[00:09:24.160] processing this information as well. So
[00:09:28.320] preparing clinicians for that
[00:09:29.760] possibility like I can understand that.
[00:09:32.640] So there's other things that this paper
[00:09:34.320] recommends. Um
[00:09:37.279] they talk about needing to protect
[00:09:38.880] government and military personnel
[00:09:41.519] um and aviators, you know, uh commercial
[00:09:43.839] pilots um and just civilians, ordinary
[00:09:47.120] people in general from any kind of
[00:09:48.959] professional retaliation
[00:09:51.120] regarding this subject.
[00:09:53.600] um it's quite reasonable who who's going
[00:09:56.160] to argue against that. Now more
[00:09:59.680] significant is their proposal for
[00:10:03.120] nationwide
[00:10:04.720] behavioral health monitoring.
[00:10:08.480] Yes, nationwide behavioral health
[00:10:10.640] monitoring. So there's actually two
[00:10:12.640] documents here. So there's the nine-page
[00:10:16.320] uh briefing policy and I'll just show
[00:10:18.560] you that here
[00:10:20.880] that uh was written by Vilhower, Carlos
[00:10:25.040] and Christopher Melon. And then you have
[00:10:28.320] uh this document here. This is a much
[00:10:30.959] longer research paper. This is written
[00:10:32.720] by Vilhower and five other
[00:10:34.800] psychologists. And I'm going to again
[00:10:36.880] link both of these for you in the
[00:10:39.200] description box below.
[00:10:42.480] So, the policy brief, the nine-page
[00:10:45.360] document, contains the actual proposal
[00:10:48.320] for federal monitoring. So, I'm just
[00:10:51.040] going to go through this rather
[00:10:53.120] carefully because it really warrants
[00:10:55.519] some close attention.
[00:10:58.000] Uh, it basically it doesn't b it does
[00:11:00.560] say health and human services should
[00:11:02.079] create a system to monitor the public
[00:11:04.959] health effects of any major disclosure.
[00:11:07.760] It's kind of a big thing right there. uh
[00:11:09.760] and it tells us what that means. So the
[00:11:12.000] government would watch for changes in
[00:11:15.519] things like crisis line calls,
[00:11:19.279] psychiatric visits uh and admissions,
[00:11:23.600] uh demands for counseling in schools and
[00:11:25.920] universities,
[00:11:27.920] reported anxiety and sleep problems,
[00:11:32.399] requests for pastoral care,
[00:11:35.760] and just disruptions in general in
[00:11:38.800] health and social services.
[00:11:41.680] So that's a lot. I mean, you're talking
[00:11:43.360] about
[00:11:44.880] drawing information from
[00:11:47.519] hospitals,
[00:11:49.120] crisis lines,
[00:11:51.360] schools,
[00:11:53.279] counseling services,
[00:11:55.680] religious organizations,
[00:11:58.160] and probably a variety of other
[00:12:00.959] institutions,
[00:12:02.880] and then watching for changes following
[00:12:05.200] a disclosure event.
[00:12:07.839] So the authors say this information
[00:12:10.160] should be aggregated. So what that would
[00:12:13.120] mean is it's collected and combined into
[00:12:16.480] group level statistics. So like
[00:12:18.240] individual information is not included.
[00:12:19.920] So for example, crisis line calls
[00:12:22.399] increase 15% nationally. Uh psychiatric
[00:12:25.440] admissions rose in this region and that
[00:12:27.519] region. Uh more students requested
[00:12:30.320] university counseling and things like
[00:12:31.760] that. So ideally the people behind those
[00:12:35.360] numbers would remain unidentified.
[00:12:38.720] So all the government would get to see
[00:12:40.160] would be patterns and totals
[00:12:43.839] not your individual name or case
[00:12:47.040] histories or anything of that sort. Uh
[00:12:49.600] that's what their their proposal would
[00:12:50.959] be. So, and they say in the brief that
[00:12:52.720] the government needs to protect
[00:12:54.639] individual uh privacy and must not
[00:12:57.920] create registries based on people's
[00:13:02.320] beliefs or anomalous experiences. And
[00:13:04.959] I'm thinking, who's even thinking of
[00:13:06.639] creating registries? Like, is this is
[00:13:08.800] this in someone's uh you know, to-do
[00:13:11.440] list? Uh, I don't know where that came
[00:13:14.560] from, like why that's even an idea, but
[00:13:16.639] they're saying, "No, you don't want to
[00:13:18.240] create registries based on people's
[00:13:20.480] beliefs about UFOs or UAP or your
[00:13:22.800] anomalous experience." Well, that's good
[00:13:24.160] to know. Uh, and that the this
[00:13:26.720] information must not be passed on to
[00:13:30.000] intelligence and law enforcement
[00:13:32.560] agencies for who knows why. So, that's
[00:13:36.240] nice that they want to put those
[00:13:37.839] protections in there, but uh, yikes. I
[00:13:40.880] mean so they're also revealing the
[00:13:44.000] danger inherent in this system right
[00:13:46.480] like once you build a national apparatus
[00:13:50.079] for tracking the population's response
[00:13:52.800] to disclosure you have created something
[00:13:57.199] and I mean where could that end
[00:14:00.079] how would this system operate even like
[00:14:02.000] who would have access to the information
[00:14:05.839] how long would the whole thing continue
[00:14:08.160] like is is there a way to prevent
[00:14:10.000] mission creep.
[00:14:13.839] So anyway, that's the brief. So there
[00:14:16.160] there's a longer research paper that
[00:14:19.040] actually goes considerably further. So
[00:14:21.199] that proposes
[00:14:23.360] uh uh largecale surveys, focus groups,
[00:14:27.279] psychological experiments and and what
[00:14:29.360] it actually calls big data analysis of
[00:14:32.880] social media reactions.
[00:14:36.240] So that suggests uh like tracking search
[00:14:39.680] activity uh what they call information
[00:14:41.839] seeking behavior uh tracking
[00:14:44.240] institutional trust, how well do you
[00:14:46.800] trust the government, uh mental health
[00:14:49.760] service use and things like changes in
[00:14:53.199] public belief uh as as the whole
[00:14:56.079] disclosure process continues.
[00:14:59.279] So this this goes way beyond preparing a
[00:15:03.120] few therapists for distressed patients.
[00:15:06.639] Like they these people are envisioning a
[00:15:09.600] nationwide system for measuring how the
[00:15:14.240] population thinks and how it reacts and
[00:15:17.279] behaves during disclosure.
[00:15:20.959] So, back to the brief, there was one
[00:15:22.399] other section in the brief which which
[00:15:24.000] sounds like you can almost uh
[00:15:28.240] read right past it. It sounds like
[00:15:29.519] boilerplate. Uh a section where the
[00:15:31.600] authors advise government communicators
[00:15:34.560] uh like it's necessary to distinguish
[00:15:36.639] between established facts, reasonable
[00:15:40.079] inferences, and unresolved questions. I
[00:15:44.079] read that the first time. I'm like,
[00:15:45.199] well, that's that doesn't really say a
[00:15:46.639] whole lot. But then I thought about it.
[00:15:47.760] I'm like, who who decides what counts as
[00:15:50.399] an established fact? ODNI,
[00:15:54.240] Arrow, the Pentagon,
[00:15:56.639] and what happens when those institutions
[00:15:58.480] control the evidence like ODNI
[00:16:01.199] or the Pentagon? So, that that's
[00:16:03.920] certainly a part that would bother me
[00:16:05.440] that does bother me. You think about
[00:16:07.120] this. Washington or people in Washington
[00:16:10.720] are con they're confronting the
[00:16:12.320] possibility
[00:16:14.160] of the most profound revelation
[00:16:18.720] probably in human history right up
[00:16:20.880] there. And what do they want to do? They
[00:16:23.519] immediately want to build another
[00:16:24.639] apparatus around it. a task force uh an
[00:16:28.160] inter agency strategy,
[00:16:31.600] behavioral health monitoring,
[00:16:34.720] clinical protocols,
[00:16:37.440] educational guidance,
[00:16:40.639] coordinated messaging,
[00:16:44.079] approved experts explaining to the
[00:16:45.920] public what what the public's just been
[00:16:48.079] told.
[00:16:49.839] It's like it's an instinct with these
[00:16:51.360] people. They can't help themselves. I
[00:16:52.800] think like the answer is always more
[00:16:55.040] management, more getting our fingers
[00:16:57.360] into your business, more coordination,
[00:16:59.440] more US government right there in front
[00:17:01.279] of you. Uh, ODNI would control the
[00:17:04.799] releasable information. Health and human
[00:17:07.520] services would track the public
[00:17:10.079] response.
[00:17:12.000] educators, clinicians,
[00:17:15.600] religious leaders,
[00:17:18.240] journalists. These would be the ones
[00:17:20.640] helping people absorb the authorized
[00:17:23.679] account.
[00:17:26.240] If this doesn't turn disclosure into a
[00:17:28.559] managed social process, I don't know
[00:17:30.240] what does.
[00:17:32.080] I mean, Vilhower may sincerely want to
[00:17:33.919] help vulnerable people. I I have no
[00:17:35.679] reason to doubt this. Uh but I just have
[00:17:38.720] to say the structure that she and her
[00:17:40.559] co-authors are proposing gives enormous
[00:17:46.000] interpretive power to institutions that
[00:17:50.880] at least several of them are surely
[00:17:53.360] deeply implicated in UFO secrecy to
[00:17:57.120] begin with.
[00:17:58.720] I mean, this here's like this paper
[00:18:01.280] talks repeatedly
[00:18:04.559] about trust, about credibility, stigma,
[00:18:09.520] propaganda,
[00:18:11.919] uh, honest communication.
[00:18:14.880] That's great. Here's a word that never
[00:18:16.799] appears. Cover up. Not once.
[00:18:20.880] Neither do you get any of the history
[00:18:23.039] behind the whole collapse of public
[00:18:25.919] trust, which, you know, let's just lay
[00:18:27.919] it out, suppressed evidence, intimidated
[00:18:30.720] witnesses, uh, destroyed records,
[00:18:34.400] manipulated journalists and scientists,
[00:18:37.840] secret programs,
[00:18:40.400] the denial of information to Congress,
[00:18:42.960] for starters. Like, omitting this is is
[00:18:46.960] staggering to me. Like this paper
[00:18:51.760] imagines humanity learning that NHI,
[00:18:57.039] that aliens exist,
[00:19:00.160] followed by government agencies and all
[00:19:03.440] the approved professionals helping
[00:19:05.840] everyone adjust.
[00:19:08.240] Well, let let's compare that to
[00:19:11.600] what we might consider an actual
[00:19:14.400] disclosure or a genuine disclosure. Like
[00:19:17.679] one that actually genuinely matters to
[00:19:21.520] people. Like I'm just going to say
[00:19:24.960] actual disclosure
[00:19:28.320] is virtually certainly going to reveal
[00:19:32.960] let us say certainly going to reveal
[00:19:36.160] that parts of the United States
[00:19:37.600] government have known about this
[00:19:39.039] phenomenon for generations.
[00:19:41.840] It will expose
[00:19:44.799] hidden evidence if it's genuine,
[00:19:47.679] recovered technology,
[00:19:50.559] uh recovered biological material and
[00:19:52.480] maybe one or two or more live beings for
[00:19:54.960] all I know.
[00:19:56.960] Uh programs operating beyond lawful
[00:20:00.000] oversight.
[00:20:02.400] So in that type of a situation, the
[00:20:05.280] public would be confronting
[00:20:08.480] an institutional betrayal that I don't
[00:20:10.559] even know if we would have words for the
[00:20:12.480] enormity of that. So under those
[00:20:15.760] circumstances, if you were to be angry,
[00:20:18.240] that is a perfectly rational response.
[00:20:21.520] And so to treat that anger as a
[00:20:24.080] behavioral health problem, that that's
[00:20:26.880] outrageous.
[00:20:30.720] And that brings us to the history that
[00:20:34.080] that paper avoids.
[00:20:36.799] And you may ask, well, Richard, what is
[00:20:38.480] this history? What evidence do we have
[00:20:40.880] that a UFO coverup has actually existed?
[00:20:44.640] Well, I spent many years thinking about
[00:20:46.240] this, writing about this, talking about
[00:20:47.840] this. I can't give you the entire
[00:20:50.720] document trail regarding the 80y year
[00:20:55.440] long UFO coverup. uh not more than a
[00:20:58.559] sliver of it, but let's take a look at
[00:20:59.919] that sliver.
[00:21:01.760] So, I will uh let's look at one or two
[00:21:04.960] interesting documents and I'll just talk
[00:21:07.200] about them a little bit. On September
[00:21:08.880] 23rd of 1947,
[00:21:11.520] the year that flying saucers exploded
[00:21:14.640] into our consciousness,
[00:21:16.960] Lieutenant General Nathan Twining, head
[00:21:18.880] of air material command, sent a
[00:21:21.280] classified memorandum to the commanding
[00:21:23.200] general of the Army Air Forces. Twining
[00:21:26.080] wrote that the reported phenomenon,
[00:21:28.559] these flying saucers, was quote,
[00:21:30.159] "Something real and not visionary or
[00:21:33.760] fictitious."
[00:21:35.280] And it goes on,
[00:21:37.520] he describes objects displaying extreme
[00:21:40.320] climb rates, maneuverability,
[00:21:43.039] evasive action,
[00:21:45.520] and one of my favorite lines, circular
[00:21:47.840] or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom,
[00:21:51.200] and domed on top.
[00:21:54.559] Uh
[00:21:56.640] then you have like as as uh 1947 turned
[00:21:59.280] into 1948, things just got crazier and
[00:22:01.840] crazier in terms of these sightings uh
[00:22:04.240] in the American Southwest over Los
[00:22:06.159] Alamos, over the Oakidge nuclear
[00:22:08.720] facility in Tennessee,
[00:22:11.039] uh over the Hanford nuclear uh site in
[00:22:15.120] the state of Washington where they built
[00:22:16.799] made plutonium.
[00:22:19.120] uh these flying saucers were being seen
[00:22:23.120] with regularity and were being
[00:22:25.280] documented by military personnel and it
[00:22:28.320] was becoming kind of a a thing of
[00:22:30.640] concern. So we have uh a number of
[00:22:33.360] documents about this. I'm going to point
[00:22:36.000] uh show one of them here to you. This is
[00:22:37.360] an FBI document from January 31st, 1949.
[00:22:43.360] It's a really good one. stated that
[00:22:45.520] flying saucers were considered top
[00:22:47.360] secret by intelligence officers of both
[00:22:50.640] the army and the air force. This is
[00:22:52.080] after the FBI participated in a meeting
[00:22:55.039] on this subject with all of these um
[00:22:58.000] military intelligence people. And then
[00:22:59.840] it went on and had some really
[00:23:01.200] interesting things to say about the
[00:23:03.200] phenomenon as it was being discussed. Um
[00:23:06.080] talked about repeated observations over
[00:23:08.320] Los Alamos and other military
[00:23:10.720] installations. Uh it mentioned that the
[00:23:13.120] witnesses included uh agents from the
[00:23:16.000] air force office of special
[00:23:17.360] investigations,
[00:23:19.200] military pilots, airline pilots, base
[00:23:22.320] security personnel, uh civilians, and
[00:23:26.000] then they talk about the performance
[00:23:27.600] estimates which were just astonishing.
[00:23:30.159] So the memo, it's all here in this memo.
[00:23:32.240] They said, "Recent observations
[00:23:33.600] indicated a minimum speed of 3 miles per
[00:23:37.679] second and a maximum of 12 miles per
[00:23:42.159] second. That converts to uh 10,800
[00:23:46.480] miles hour at the low end and over
[00:23:49.440] 43,000
[00:23:51.200] miles hour at the high end. So they
[00:23:52.880] calculated the mean to be about 27,000
[00:23:56.960] miles per hour. 27,000 miles per hour.
[00:24:02.080] U and by the way, they were just like
[00:24:03.919] guesstimating it. They they had
[00:24:05.760] instruments known as the lights that
[00:24:07.679] were taking these measurements were very
[00:24:09.679] sophisticated uh as as useful today as
[00:24:12.480] they would have been back then. They
[00:24:13.840] were accurate.
[00:24:15.520] So the memo also described um not just
[00:24:19.279] speed but vertical changes in the flight
[00:24:21.919] path. So these objects were maneuvering.
[00:24:24.240] They weren't just following a a
[00:24:25.760] ballistic trajectory like a missile
[00:24:27.840] would. So you think about the
[00:24:30.080] contradiction even back then. So in
[00:24:32.000] public, Americans were hearing uh about
[00:24:35.120] oh hallucinations and hoaxes and
[00:24:38.320] conventional aircraft and misidentified
[00:24:42.159] natural phenomena
[00:24:45.039] inside the government. This was
[00:24:48.000] considered top secret
[00:24:50.640] and intelligence officers were
[00:24:52.400] discussing objects maneuvering
[00:24:55.440] around the center of the American atomic
[00:24:59.520] weapons program
[00:25:01.840] at tens of thousands of miles per hour.
[00:25:05.520] So the government had information of
[00:25:07.279] incredible public importance and what it
[00:25:09.760] gave the public it gave a completely
[00:25:11.679] false impression of what its own
[00:25:13.679] agencies were encountering.
[00:25:17.520] And that
[00:25:19.600] concern continued for years and years
[00:25:22.159] and years, definitely throughout the
[00:25:23.919] great UFO wave of 1952.
[00:25:28.000] That was a summer that brought repeated
[00:25:30.000] military encounters and radar events,
[00:25:33.520] uh, including the famous incidents over
[00:25:35.520] Washington DC.
[00:25:37.760] Jets were scrambled. Radar operators at
[00:25:41.200] Washington National Airport and Andrews
[00:25:44.320] Air Force Base were tracking unknown
[00:25:47.200] targets. Pilots saw strange lights in
[00:25:51.360] the same areas where the radar people
[00:25:53.120] were tracking their targets.
[00:25:55.520] These events reached the White House.
[00:25:57.120] They reached the CIA.
[00:25:59.200] And then what happened? Big press
[00:26:00.640] conference. Dismissed it all as weather
[00:26:03.279] phenomena. But in the classified world,
[00:26:06.320] totally different conclusion.
[00:26:09.039] So, uh, after all of this massive wave
[00:26:11.840] of sightings had gone through the whole
[00:26:13.760] spring, the whole summer, the fall of
[00:26:15.279] 1952,
[00:26:17.440] very dramatic period, the CIA is busy
[00:26:20.960] here. And u there is one memo by the
[00:26:25.360] director of CIA scientific intelligence.
[00:26:28.559] His name was H. Marshall Chadwell.
[00:26:33.440] And uh let me pull this slide up here
[00:26:35.840] for you.
[00:26:37.679] He's writing to the CIA director Walter
[00:26:39.919] Beetle Smith. And uh these words
[00:26:42.799] definitely deserve to be heard clearly.
[00:26:47.039] Says sightings. Well, first of all, he
[00:26:48.480] starts says at this time the reports of
[00:26:50.480] incidents convince us that there is
[00:26:53.200] something going on that must have
[00:26:55.440] immediate attention. And he says,
[00:26:57.360] "Sightings of unexplained objects at
[00:26:59.760] great altitudes and traveling at high
[00:27:02.159] speeds in the vicinity of major US
[00:27:04.960] defense installations are of such nature
[00:27:07.679] that they are not attributable to
[00:27:10.320] natural phenomena or known types of
[00:27:13.200] aerial vehicles.
[00:27:15.760] Just, you know, let that sink in a
[00:27:17.679] little bit. So this is the CIA's senior
[00:27:20.880] scientific intelligence official.
[00:27:23.760] He's writing to the director of the CIA
[00:27:27.360] and Chadwell said there was something
[00:27:30.320] going on that required immediate
[00:27:31.840] attention. Uh he ruled out natural
[00:27:34.240] phenomena. He ruled out known aircraft
[00:27:37.440] for the incidents that were causing
[00:27:40.080] concern. Stop short of naming the
[00:27:42.240] source.
[00:27:44.080] But you have to ask yourself once
[00:27:45.760] natural phenomena American aircraft,
[00:27:48.240] Soviet aircraft become implausible,
[00:27:51.200] the conventional options begin
[00:27:53.200] disappearing very quickly.
[00:27:55.919] And this went on in lots of different
[00:27:57.600] places. So u there were a number of of
[00:28:01.679] these events around Oakidge, Tennessee,
[00:28:04.240] which make this very very concrete as
[00:28:06.080] well. So Oakidge was central to the
[00:28:08.559] American nuclear program. Uh its
[00:28:11.440] airspace was restricted. unknown objects
[00:28:14.799] nevertheless appeared over there
[00:28:17.200] repeatedly from the late 1940s into the
[00:28:21.200] 1950s.
[00:28:22.880] Uh some of these were were seen
[00:28:24.880] visually. Some of these were detected on
[00:28:27.440] radar. Sometimes both fighters were sent
[00:28:30.960] after them. Uh one of those incidents
[00:28:33.120] happened on June 21st, 1952.
[00:28:36.080] Just before 11:00 at night, an unknown
[00:28:38.559] object entered the restricted area. A
[00:28:41.600] ground witness watched it. Radar tracked
[00:28:44.799] it. An F-47 fighter on combat patrol
[00:28:48.880] pursued it. And during the encounter,
[00:28:52.559] the object maneuvered uh several times
[00:28:55.200] toward the fighter. The pilot believed
[00:28:57.679] that this thing was trying to ram his
[00:28:59.200] jet or his is his fighter plane. And
[00:29:02.480] then the object uh left the area. And
[00:29:05.520] then one year later on in July 19th,
[00:29:08.159] 1953, another witness, a senior employee
[00:29:10.960] at Oak Ridge saw another object over the
[00:29:14.960] restricted airspace. And this report
[00:29:16.960] came from the Atomic Energy Commission,
[00:29:19.279] forerunner of the Department of Energy
[00:29:21.279] and it went to the agitant general in
[00:29:23.200] Washington. So according to the witness,
[00:29:25.279] this object emerged from a high white
[00:29:27.679] cloud and remained visible for about
[00:29:30.240] five minutes. At different times, it
[00:29:32.320] looked cigar- shaped. Uh at other times
[00:29:34.320] it looked round. Uh it was described as
[00:29:37.360] extremely black with the appearance of a
[00:29:39.760] deep black metallic exterior and a fine
[00:29:43.039] gloss. That's in the report. There's a
[00:29:44.880] lot of detail in there. Uh the object
[00:29:46.960] did not produce any sound. It didn't
[00:29:49.039] have any lights. It left no vapor trail.
[00:29:51.520] So the according to the witness, it flew
[00:29:53.840] east at tremendous speed. That's a
[00:29:56.080] direct quote. For about three miles,
[00:29:57.919] then it stopped. So tremendous speed,
[00:30:00.159] three miles stop and then two more
[00:30:02.399] objects joined it and then the three
[00:30:04.320] objects formed a spread V formation and
[00:30:07.200] they just left eastward at tremendous
[00:30:09.919] speed in the words of the memo.
[00:30:12.640] So this is again near one of the most
[00:30:15.279] sensitive nuclear facilities in the
[00:30:16.799] United States. And by the way, these
[00:30:18.880] these events, all of them move through a
[00:30:22.000] whole range of government, military, and
[00:30:25.279] intelligence channels very very far
[00:30:27.440] removed from the public presentation of
[00:30:30.240] Project Blue Book, which was supposed to
[00:30:32.640] be the official uh investigation of the
[00:30:36.080] flying saucers of the UFOs. But Blue
[00:30:38.159] Book didn't get these cases.
[00:30:41.360] Now, you know, sometimes people will
[00:30:43.919] hear dates like 1949 and 1952 and they
[00:30:46.720] like, "Ah, that's ancient history."
[00:30:49.679] From my perspective, I see it exactly
[00:30:51.360] the other way. To me, their age gives
[00:30:54.159] them incredible importance.
[00:30:57.200] We're looking at objects potentially
[00:30:59.200] traveling at tens of thousands of miles
[00:31:02.880] per hour during the late 1940s.
[00:31:07.200] We're looking at objects capable of
[00:31:09.039] hovering, stopping,
[00:31:12.240] accelerating, changing direction,
[00:31:15.039] operating in formation, and reacting to
[00:31:17.919] military interception.
[00:31:20.960] When you look at their behavior in these
[00:31:22.880] reports, it suggests a very precise
[00:31:26.080] control and a very advanced operational
[00:31:29.919] capability.
[00:31:32.559] They behave like mature technology, not
[00:31:35.600] like uh you know uh you know something
[00:31:39.360] that we're just testing.
[00:31:41.600] They they look they operate very
[00:31:43.600] precisely controlled fully operational.
[00:31:46.559] I think this is important to recognize.
[00:31:49.600] You know, more than 50 years later, the
[00:31:51.360] the tic-tac appeared during the Nimmits
[00:31:53.519] encounter of uh 2004.
[00:31:56.559] And once again,
[00:31:58.640] you had highly trained military
[00:32:00.240] personnel encountering an object with no
[00:32:03.200] visible wings, no conventional
[00:32:05.440] propulsion. Uh this object also hovered
[00:32:08.720] and accelerated rapidly and responded to
[00:32:11.519] an intercept and appeared at a
[00:32:13.919] pre-arranged combat air patrol point
[00:32:17.760] uh 60 miles away.
[00:32:20.159] before
[00:32:21.840] our own jets got there.
[00:32:25.519] Some people have suggested that the tic
[00:32:27.120] tac was an American black budget
[00:32:28.720] project. Well, all right. Uh if you want
[00:32:32.240] to go there, then what was operating
[00:32:33.840] over Los Alamos and Oakidge or White
[00:32:37.440] Sands and and Washington half half a
[00:32:40.320] century earlier?
[00:32:42.320] Uh if those early pro uh objects were
[00:32:45.600] secret American technology,
[00:32:49.200] well then I think you just have to say
[00:32:51.200] the United States had mastered a
[00:32:52.960] revolutionary form of aerospace
[00:32:55.279] performance
[00:32:56.799] immediately after the end of the sec
[00:32:58.480] second world war.
[00:33:00.720] like they would have had enough control
[00:33:02.480] over this technology to conduct
[00:33:05.440] absolutely precise operations
[00:33:09.039] not only around sensitive facilities
[00:33:11.039] around uh the United States and evade
[00:33:13.519] military aircraft but to do this around
[00:33:16.240] the world because this was a global
[00:33:19.279] phenomenon and around the world on a
[00:33:22.480] virtually daily basis.
[00:33:25.279] So we did that.
[00:33:28.399] Uh this technology if we if we did
[00:33:30.240] create it had no visible effect on the
[00:33:31.840] Korean War, on Vietnam, the American
[00:33:34.240] space program, uh the Gulf War, the
[00:33:37.519] global war on terror, uh or any
[00:33:40.320] acknowledged generation of military
[00:33:42.000] aviation.
[00:33:44.159] You think about our aerospace technology
[00:33:46.880] during those years, it changed
[00:33:48.000] incredibly. You go from propeller
[00:33:50.640] aircraft in the 40s to jets and missiles
[00:33:55.120] and satellites,
[00:33:57.279] stealth aircraft, now drones.
[00:34:01.360] And yet UFO performance or UAP
[00:34:04.399] performance remained ahead of every
[00:34:06.960] generation.
[00:34:09.119] So thing about these early cases is that
[00:34:12.159] they they create a technological
[00:34:14.879] continuity problem for the secret
[00:34:17.839] project explanation.
[00:34:20.079] I would say their age is part of the
[00:34:21.839] evidence.
[00:34:24.000] So I'll leave that there for now. I want
[00:34:26.079] to talk a little bit about the
[00:34:27.200] management of this as a public problem,
[00:34:29.359] a public narrative. Um because that's
[00:34:32.240] kind of related to this this uh policy
[00:34:35.440] brief that I've been talking about. So,
[00:34:38.000] back in January 1953, again, ancient
[00:34:40.879] history, the CIA convened what would be
[00:34:43.679] come known as the Robertson panel, um
[00:34:47.200] met in secret. They reviewed some
[00:34:50.079] selected UFO material for a few days,
[00:34:52.800] not even a full work week really. But
[00:34:55.440] that recommendation
[00:34:57.359] shaped official policy for years and
[00:35:00.079] years and years. So, what did they do?
[00:35:02.160] They called for a broad effort to reduce
[00:35:04.960] public interest in UFOs. how through
[00:35:07.920] debunking efforts and what they called
[00:35:10.240] education.
[00:35:12.079] So they suggested using mass media,
[00:35:16.400] advertising,
[00:35:18.400] schools
[00:35:20.320] and uh entertainment companies like Walt
[00:35:22.400] Disney all for this purpose. Um they
[00:35:25.280] also recommended monitoring civilian UFO
[00:35:29.119] organizations. They had to be watched
[00:35:31.119] because they had potential for
[00:35:32.800] subversion. Yes,
[00:35:35.680] was in there. Meanwhile, however,
[00:35:38.880] military reporting of UFOs continued
[00:35:42.079] under very strict controls. There's a
[00:35:45.040] document known as Janap 146, uh, which
[00:35:48.480] created very explicit channels for
[00:35:51.200] pilots to report sightings of UFOs that
[00:35:54.960] were considered important for national
[00:35:56.560] security. That had nothing to do with
[00:35:58.640] Project Blue Book. These reports went to
[00:36:01.520] places like Air Defense Command and the
[00:36:04.000] Secretary of Defense and the CIA and
[00:36:07.440] other agencies like that. So then in
[00:36:10.640] 1969, the US Air Force closes Project
[00:36:13.040] Blue Book and says to the public, "Well,
[00:36:15.680] you know, we've ended our UFO
[00:36:17.760] investigation. We've got the whole thing
[00:36:18.960] solved. There's really nothing to this."
[00:36:21.359] Well, the government did not stop
[00:36:23.200] investigating UFOs.
[00:36:25.920] all the sensitive UFO reports continued
[00:36:28.000] to go through all the systems that
[00:36:31.040] people just never even knew existed. You
[00:36:33.680] know, the visible investigation was
[00:36:35.839] closed down while all the national
[00:36:37.440] security reporting continued.
[00:36:40.880] So, all of that, all of those official
[00:36:42.720] documents, everything that I've just
[00:36:44.079] said there, that is take to the bank.
[00:36:46.800] It's cut and dry. Uh government
[00:36:48.800] documents make it absolutely crystal
[00:36:50.480] clear. Even a number of the recent uh
[00:36:53.040] so-called trunch releases from the Trump
[00:36:55.440] White House. A lot of those PDF
[00:36:56.880] documents
[00:36:58.560] uh actually make this very clear as
[00:37:00.480] well. A lot of that information is right
[00:37:02.079] in these documents.
[00:37:04.079] So all of that establishes things like
[00:37:06.640] secrecy, deception, and genuine concern
[00:37:10.800] about these unknown, highly advanced
[00:37:14.560] objects.
[00:37:16.079] But now what the documents don't
[00:37:18.240] establish definitively
[00:37:20.480] is recovered craft or alien bodies. So
[00:37:23.599] let me just talk about that for a minute
[00:37:25.119] because that brings us to a different
[00:37:27.359] body of evidence.
[00:37:29.920] Still quite valuable.
[00:37:32.240] So one of my heroes in the UFO research
[00:37:35.280] uh business was Leonard Stringfield.
[00:37:37.440] Never got to meet Leonard Stringfield. I
[00:37:38.960] always regretted that. Died in 1994.
[00:37:41.920] But this is a man who spent about two
[00:37:44.079] decades investigating claims of UFO
[00:37:47.839] crash retrievals from the late '7s up
[00:37:50.560] until 1994.
[00:37:52.800] Uh he communicated with military
[00:37:54.960] officers, intelligence personnel,
[00:37:59.440] medical professionals, engineers,
[00:38:03.119] and just people who said they had
[00:38:05.280] participated in
[00:38:08.320] recovery, transport,
[00:38:10.720] examination,
[00:38:12.640] or storage operations of of craft or
[00:38:16.400] sometimes of actual alien bodies.
[00:38:20.320] So by the time Stringfield died in 1994,
[00:38:26.640] he said that he had 45 firsthand sources
[00:38:31.760] who claimed to have seen alien craft or
[00:38:35.200] or andor bodies
[00:38:38.160] in US government custody. 45 firsthand
[00:38:41.200] sources. He had many many more that were
[00:38:44.079] one step removed like for example the
[00:38:46.400] spouse of a deceased service member
[00:38:48.960] something like that um much more than 45
[00:38:52.160] of those but he had 45 firsthand
[00:38:54.320] witnesses quite a lot. So he followed
[00:38:56.880] hundreds of leads. Uh some of them went
[00:38:59.359] nowhere but some were quite amazing. But
[00:39:01.920] again and again his sources described
[00:39:05.520] uh small humanoid bodies,
[00:39:08.560] unusual anatomy,
[00:39:10.960] uh autopsies,
[00:39:13.280] uh highly secure transportation,
[00:39:15.839] military recovery teams,
[00:39:18.720] restricted facilities,
[00:39:20.960] uh extreme compartmentalization. All of
[00:39:23.119] this came through again and again in his
[00:39:24.560] in his uh accounts that he received and
[00:39:27.119] Wright Patterson Air Force Base that
[00:39:29.440] came up repeatedly.
[00:39:32.160] Uh witnesses often described um orders
[00:39:35.440] to remain silent or their fear of losing
[00:39:39.040] their pensions or their clearances or
[00:39:41.200] their careers or or worse.
[00:39:45.359] So, 45 firsthand sources, maybe not the
[00:39:48.000] same as a declassified program file, but
[00:39:50.240] you you just can't dismiss that with a
[00:39:53.440] shrug. If they were all lying or
[00:39:56.560] mistaken, you still have to wonder why
[00:39:59.680] military, medical, and intelligence
[00:40:02.880] people
[00:40:04.640] often separated by many, many years and
[00:40:07.760] totally different circumstances, are
[00:40:10.160] producing the same basic account to
[00:40:13.040] Stringfield.
[00:40:14.720] So that was Strafield. Then comes David
[00:40:16.800] Grush. 2023, David Grush testifies under
[00:40:20.960] oath before Congress
[00:40:23.359] that he had learned through his official
[00:40:25.200] duties
[00:40:26.800] of a multi-deade crash retrieval and
[00:40:29.760] reverse engineering program.
[00:40:32.560] He said he had interviewed approximately
[00:40:34.720] 40 witnesses over four years.
[00:40:38.720] He said that non-human biological
[00:40:41.760] material had been recovered.
[00:40:44.960] He said people with direct knowledge
[00:40:48.320] remained inside the program.
[00:40:51.520] He said that he had been denied access
[00:40:53.680] and that he could provide specific names
[00:40:56.720] and program information in a classified
[00:40:59.359] setting.
[00:41:02.000] So you look at these two investigations
[00:41:03.440] and they are both investigations
[00:41:05.599] separated by several decades.
[00:41:07.119] Stringfield and Grush. They converge on
[00:41:10.960] recovered craft,
[00:41:13.119] biological remains,
[00:41:16.079] technology study,
[00:41:18.400] tight compartmentalization,
[00:41:21.040] and concealment from lawful oversight.
[00:41:23.920] That's a tremendous amount of smoke
[00:41:25.760] here.
[00:41:28.000] Not all the evidence is of the same
[00:41:29.680] strength, sure, but the weaker material
[00:41:32.160] does not erase the stronger material.
[00:41:34.800] the pattern is very consistent.
[00:41:38.400] So when you take that testimony and you
[00:41:40.400] place that beside the official record of
[00:41:43.200] extraordinary performance, nuclear site
[00:41:45.520] incursions, secret reporting channels,
[00:41:48.880] and deliberate public debunking,
[00:41:52.160] I think we have a reasonable conclusion.
[00:41:55.200] This is very difficult to avoid. What
[00:41:57.599] does this look like? It looks like a
[00:41:58.960] long-standing cover up that has
[00:42:00.720] concealed evidence of a nonhuman alien
[00:42:04.000] presence here on planet Earth.
[00:42:07.599] And I want to choose my words carefully.
[00:42:09.680] So the document record proves the cover
[00:42:12.800] up of extraordinary UAP activity proves
[00:42:15.119] it. The full crash retrieval program
[00:42:18.480] that is unacnowledged.
[00:42:21.839] Okay. But this is clearly what things
[00:42:24.240] look like. I would I would say it looks
[00:42:27.119] like that to any reasonable mind
[00:42:28.960] objectively reviewing the evidence.
[00:42:32.560] So I want to return now to this suppose
[00:42:35.680] supposed preparedness plan. So if the
[00:42:39.200] government is preparing to acknowledge
[00:42:42.319] non-human intelligence, let's just say
[00:42:45.359] uh I would say psychological support
[00:42:49.839] could have a place. Sure. it belongs far
[00:42:53.200] down the list of urgent
[00:42:55.680] responsibilities. Pretty far down. Uh
[00:42:58.480] here's what I think the government would
[00:42:59.839] have to do before it deals with any of
[00:43:01.920] that other stuff. Uh it would have to
[00:43:03.839] tell us what it knows. It would have to
[00:43:06.480] tell us how it knows what it knows and
[00:43:10.400] how long it has known what it knows. It
[00:43:12.720] would have to release the historical
[00:43:14.480] records.
[00:43:16.000] It would have to address crash retrieval
[00:43:18.800] and reverse engineering allegations.
[00:43:22.560] It would have to explain how
[00:43:24.560] congressional oversight was avoided.
[00:43:28.720] Private contractors would have to be
[00:43:30.240] examined.
[00:43:32.160] Witnesses would need secure channels. Uh
[00:43:35.200] they would need legal protection. They
[00:43:37.280] would need access to Congress.
[00:43:40.480] I might imagine that some form of let's
[00:43:43.520] say limited immunity might be required
[00:43:45.760] to bring some participants forward.
[00:43:48.400] Immunity would not be a blanket eraser
[00:43:50.880] for serious crimes. I don't want to be
[00:43:52.720] misunderstood here. Uh
[00:43:55.680] you probably have to find some balance
[00:43:57.119] in there. I mean if you want to
[00:43:58.160] criminalize everyone who is even
[00:44:00.720] somewhat involved in this, you're
[00:44:02.240] probably not going to get a whole lot of
[00:44:03.680] information.
[00:44:05.200] But that's a whole other problem. we can
[00:44:07.040] hash that out if it ever even comes up.
[00:44:10.800] Um, you would need a genuinely
[00:44:12.720] independent body that would have access
[00:44:15.280] to the evidence. Genuinely independent.
[00:44:17.680] How that would be construed, that have
[00:44:19.760] to be, we'd have to figure that out. Uh,
[00:44:22.160] intelligence agencies cannot retain
[00:44:25.520] exclusive control over the facts while
[00:44:28.640] at the same time asking the public to
[00:44:31.040] trust their account of those facts.
[00:44:35.680] Uh there would also need to be a
[00:44:36.960] historical reckoning like who created
[00:44:40.240] the policy of debunking like you we'd
[00:44:42.480] want to know these things who
[00:44:44.000] intimidated witnesses even if these
[00:44:46.240] people are not any longer alive who
[00:44:48.800] withheld records who lied to elected
[00:44:51.839] officials
[00:44:53.520] which presidents knew what what were
[00:44:56.240] they told if they knew anything?
[00:44:59.200] how much scientific work has gone into
[00:45:01.520] these programs and what's been buried
[00:45:03.359] inside classified or these corporate
[00:45:06.079] programs
[00:45:08.160] like those issues
[00:45:11.760] those issues would create a much greater
[00:45:14.400] crisis of trust than any simple
[00:45:18.319] announcement that non-human intelligence
[00:45:21.760] exists.
[00:45:23.920] So this is why
[00:45:27.040] that policy paper just feels so detached
[00:45:29.520] from reality. At least in my view, it's
[00:45:32.160] like it's preparing institutions
[00:45:34.960] to manage the public response, but at
[00:45:38.400] the same time it's leaving the whole
[00:45:40.000] history of institutional misconduct, I
[00:45:42.800] would say treachery untouched.
[00:45:46.319] It it's imagining disclosure uh like as
[00:45:49.920] if it arrives as this is authorized
[00:45:53.200] announcement from a government and and
[00:45:55.599] its legitimacy government legitim
[00:45:58.160] legitimacy is completely intact.
[00:46:01.839] That's not very likely. That might be
[00:46:04.079] the disclosure Washington would prefer.
[00:46:05.839] I have no doubt. But it definitely will
[00:46:08.640] not be the final form of disclosure that
[00:46:11.040] the public is going to be accepting. I
[00:46:12.720] think we can say that pretty
[00:46:13.760] confidently.
[00:46:16.079] So, I started this talk by discussing a
[00:46:18.560] potential
[00:46:20.560] UAP disclosure statement. Uh, let me
[00:46:23.760] just tie that up before I wrap this all
[00:46:26.240] up. I I guess the most likely
[00:46:27.920] explanation for the current story is
[00:46:30.240] probably the one that Christopher Sharp
[00:46:32.079] has been reporting for the last few
[00:46:33.839] months. Uh, a White House centered
[00:46:36.800] effort
[00:46:38.400] involving UAP records. We've got that
[00:46:41.440] going on. uh an inter agency board, some
[00:46:45.200] outside advisors,
[00:46:47.440] and contingency planning.
[00:46:50.160] I don't really know if that amounts to
[00:46:51.760] anything. If that's just like, you know,
[00:46:54.560] let's just
[00:46:56.800] give the people something something to
[00:46:58.720] talk about if anything's going to come
[00:47:00.240] out of this. I mean, I suppose in
[00:47:02.319] theory, you could say that could
[00:47:04.800] eventually lead somewhere.
[00:47:07.680] Doubtful. Very doubtful. I mean,
[00:47:09.440] Washington produces plans all the time
[00:47:11.440] that stay on shelves forever. So,
[00:47:15.359] that public process that we've already
[00:47:18.160] been talking about, I guess I will judge
[00:47:20.240] it by what it releases and what access
[00:47:23.359] it creates. And there's still like a lot
[00:47:25.359] of promises that they're giving us. And
[00:47:27.599] so far, we haven't really seen any of
[00:47:29.760] those promises to come to fruition. it
[00:47:32.640] um if if it actually produces like
[00:47:35.359] meaningful historical records
[00:47:38.319] um and and like protected firsthand
[00:47:41.680] testimony
[00:47:43.839] if it produces meaningful congressional
[00:47:47.040] access
[00:47:48.960] and evidence that independent people can
[00:47:51.760] examine.
[00:47:53.839] Those would be those would be useful.
[00:47:55.760] Those could be those could be things
[00:47:57.200] that we could say, "Okay, we'll accept
[00:47:59.520] that. Let's have more." That's a big ask
[00:48:02.640] and I I'm really not expecting it. I
[00:48:04.960] doubt that many people really are. Um if
[00:48:08.400] however this whole process
[00:48:10.960] produces
[00:48:13.119] uh another
[00:48:15.520] carefully worded acknowledgement
[00:48:19.599] followed by coordinated messaging
[00:48:22.960] and public health monitoring
[00:48:26.319] and
[00:48:28.079] continued secrecy around legacy
[00:48:30.160] programs. Uh well then we're looking at
[00:48:33.200] nothing other than disclosure
[00:48:34.400] management.
[00:48:36.880] So when I hear that Washington has a
[00:48:38.880] plan to prepare us for NHI, I would like
[00:48:41.920] to see it. I would like to know what
[00:48:45.280] these officials believe people must be
[00:48:48.079] prepared to learn.
[00:48:50.319] Are they preparing for the discovery
[00:48:52.720] that we've never been alone?
[00:48:56.079] uh like if that were to happen one day
[00:48:58.640] or are they preparing for the public to
[00:49:00.960] learn that its own government has hidden
[00:49:04.480] the most important fact in human history
[00:49:06.559] for 80 years give or take. Like until we
[00:49:10.480] see the plan
[00:49:12.960] uh until we see the evidence and the
[00:49:15.359] historical accounting this is not
[00:49:18.079] disclosure
[00:49:19.599] not by a long shot.
[00:49:22.240] So something seems to be happening in
[00:49:24.800] Washington. Okay, we want to watch it
[00:49:26.800] closely and and we also just want to
[00:49:29.200] remember who controls the information,
[00:49:32.400] who built the old secrecy system, and
[00:49:36.480] who now wants responsibility for
[00:49:39.520] managing our reaction when some portion
[00:49:43.599] of the truth finally comes out.
[00:49:48.079] After 80 years, a managed fragment of
[00:49:50.960] the truth uh just ain't going to cut it.
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