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  • A New Front in the Fight for Our Planet:

    A New Front in the Fight for Our Planet:

    Why Environmental Organizations Should Pursue UAP Disclosure

    Submitted t0 the Montana Environmental Information Center

    By Richard O’Connor, M.D.

    For decades, organizations like the Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) have waged courageous legal and legislative battles against the coal and petroleum industries. MEIC’s attorneys have walked into courtrooms in Helena, MT and Washington, D.C., armed with scientific data, public trust doctrine arguments, and an abiding love for Montana’s rivers, skies, and communities. Those battles have mattered enormously, and the people who fought them deserve every ounce of credit we can give them.

    But I want to ask a harder question — one that I believe every serious environmentalist needs to sit with: What if we are now spending our finite time, money, and political energy fighting the wrong war?

    What if, while we are in court battling over the margins of coal ash regulations and natural gas pipeline permits, the key to ending the fossil fuel era entirely is locked away in a classified government vault — and has been for decades?

    I am not speaking in metaphor. I am speaking about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (aka UFOs), and about the extraordinary physics that a team of credentialed scientists has now published in a peer-reviewed journal. The numbers they have produced should stop every environmentalist cold.

    The Day the Physics Changed

    On November 14, 2004, the USS Princeton — a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser equipped with one of the most sophisticated radar systems in the world, the SPY-1B — was conducting routine training exercises off the coast of Southern California with Carrier Strike Group Eleven, which included the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Over the preceding two weeks, Princeton’s radar operators had been tracking objects behaving in ways that defied any known explanation: objects appearing at altitudes of 80,000 feet or higher, then dropping to near sea level in seconds, with no sonic booms, no heat signatures, and no exhaust.

    On that November morning, the objects returned. The Princeton’s radar tracked one of them drop from 28,000 feet to sea level — approximately five miles of altitude — in 0.78 seconds. That’s an average velocity of 24,475 mph. The ship’s captain ordered an intercept. Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich of the U.S. Navy, both experienced combat aviators, were dispatched in F/A-18F Super Hornets. What they found hovering above a churning disturbance on the ocean surface was a smooth, white, wingless, cylindrical object roughly 40 feet long — approximately the size of an F/A-18 itself — with no visible flight control surfaces, no exhaust ports, no wings, and no discernible means of propulsion. The object accelerated away at a speed that Commander Fravor, with decades of military aviation experience, described as unlike anything he had ever seen.

    A second pilot, Lieutenant Chad Underwood, captured a similar encounter on his aircraft’s Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) pod — footage that the U.S. Department of Defense officially declassified and authenticated in 2020. That video, which shows the object moving against the wind with no heat trail and no propulsion signature before abruptly departing the frame, is now part of the public record.

    The incident would likely have remained a classified curiosity except for what came next: a group of credentialed scientists decided to do what scientists do. They ran the numbers.

    The Physics No One Is Talking About

    In 2019, Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, a professor of physics at the University at Albany (State University of New York) and former NASA research scientist, together with Robert M. Powell and Peter A. Reali of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, published a paper titled “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles” in the peer-reviewed journal Entropy (Vol. 21, No. 10, 939). The paper is open access and freely available through the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central database.

    Dr. Knuth and his colleagues did not speculate. They used established physics, conservative assumptions, and standard kinematic equations to calculate what the observed maneuvers of these objects would require in terms of acceleration and energy. The results are staggering.

    The Tic Tac object tracked by the USS Princeton’s radar during its 0.78-second descent from 28,000 feet was calculated to have undergone an acceleration of approximately 5,880 times the force of Earth’s gravity — written as 5,880 g. For perspective, the human body begins to lose consciousness at approximately 5 g. The airframe of an advanced military fighter jet is stressed to withstand perhaps 9 g briefly. A conventional aircraft or missile subjected to 5,880 g would be reduced to fragments in an instant. The Tic Tac exhibited no such structural failure. It left no sonic boom. It left no heat signature commensurate with the energy its movement implied. It simply moved.

    The authors of the paper went further. They estimated the peak power output required to execute maneuvers of this nature. Their calculations, accounting for a craft of the observed size, produced an estimated power output of approximately 1,100 billion watts for specific maneuvers — with other maneuver sequences requiring estimates that reach into the tens of thousands of billions of watts.

    To grasp what that number means, consider this: a single household incandescent light bulb consumes 60 watts. A typical American home uses roughly 1,200 watts on average. The entire nuclear power generating capacity of the United States — every nuclear plant operating in this country — produces approximately 100 billion watts of electricity in total. But the comparison that should truly stop you cold is this: according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the total electricity-generating capacity of the United States from every source combined — every natural gas plant, every coal plant, every nuclear reactor, every wind turbine, every solar panel, every hydroelectric dam — amounts to approximately 1,190 billion watts. The power estimated for a single maneuver of a single craft the size of a fighter jet is nearly equal to the entire generating capacity of the United States of America. All of it. At once.

    The paper’s conclusions are characteristically restrained in the way that good science demands. The authors write that the extreme estimated flight characteristics reveal that these observations are either fabricated or seriously in error, or that these craft exhibit technology far more advanced than any known craft on Earth. Given the weight of the witness testimony — which we will examine next — the authors favor the latter conclusion.

    The Witnesses Are Not Cranks

    Environmental advocates are accustomed to dealing with the credibility wars that industry wages against scientific witnesses. We know what it looks like when fossil fuel companies try to discredit researchers, and we know how important witness credibility is to every argument we make in court and in the legislature.

    By any standard we would apply to testimony in an environmental proceeding, the witnesses to the 2004 Nimitz encounters are exceptionally credible.

    Commander David Fravor retired from the U.S. Navy after 18 years of service, including combat deployments. He has spoken publicly and repeatedly about what he witnessed on November 14, 2004, describing an object that appeared to react to his aircraft, mirroring his movements before departing at a speed he described as instantaneous compared to anything in his experience. Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich, his wingman that day, has provided independent corroborating testimony. Lieutenant Chad Underwood, who captured the FLIR video, has spoken in detail about the object’s failure to produce any heat signature in the infrared spectrum consistent with any known form of propulsion.

    The radar operators aboard the USS Princeton had been tracking anomalous objects for approximately two weeks before the November 14 intercept. Senior Chief Operations Specialist Kevin Day, who has spoken publicly about his experience, tracked the objects on the Princeton’s SPY-1B radar over that extended period, watching them behave in ways that he could not reconcile with any known aircraft. The SPY-1B is not a consumer product. It is one of the most sophisticated phased-array radar systems in the U.S. military arsenal, designed specifically to discriminate real targets from noise and electronic countermeasures.

    The encounter was cross-corroborated by multiple sensor platforms simultaneously: the Princeton’s surface radar, the airborne radar of an E-2C Hawkeye early warning aircraft, the F/A-18s’ onboard radar, and the ATFLIR infrared imaging system. Dr. Knuth and his colleagues note explicitly in their paper that they selected cases for analysis specifically because they involved multiple professional witnesses observing the UAV in multiple modalities — sight, radar, and infrared imaging simultaneously — making fabrication or simple misperception extraordinarily unlikely.

    In December 2017, the New York Times broke the story of a classified Defense Department program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which had been studying UAP encounters in secret. This was followed in 2020 by the Pentagon’s official authentication of three UAP videos, including the Nimitz FLIR footage. In 2022, Congress established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) specifically to investigate UAP incidents. In 2023 and 2024, multiple members of Congress held public hearings at which former military and intelligence officials testified under oath about the existence of UAP programs and, in the case of former intelligence official David Grusch, about alleged government possession of non-human craft, alien bodies (“biologics”), and materials.

    We are not talking about fringe claims. We are talking about a subject that has moved into the domain of serious congressional oversight, peer-reviewed scientific literature, and authenticated Department of Defense documentation.

    What This Means for the Planet

    Now let us return to the question that ought to matter most to every person who reads this magazine.

    The climate crisis is, at its foundation, an energy crisis. Everything we burn — coal, natural gas, oil — we burn because we need energy. We need energy to heat our homes, power our factories, run our transportation systems, and sustain our food supply. The fossil fuel industry does not survive because people love carbon emissions. It survives because it has, for over a century, offered the most energy-dense, transportable, and economically accessible fuel source humanity has possessed.

    Everything MEIC does — every lawsuit, every legislative intervention, every public comment against a new mine or pipeline — is, at its core, an attempt to make fossil fuels more expensive and more difficult to develop, in the hope that we can hold back the tide long enough for alternatives to become economically viable. It is important work. It is necessary work.

    But it is also, increasingly, a rearguard action. The fossil fuel industry has resources that dwarf those of every environmental organization in Montana combined. Every courtroom victory we achieve is met by industry with an appeal, a regulatory workaround, or a lobbying campaign in the next legislative session. We win battles. The planet keeps warming.

    Now consider the possibility — seriously, soberly, as the scientists are beginning to do — that there are craft flying through our skies that are generating power on the order of 1,100 billion watts from a propulsion system that leaves no exhaust, no heat dump, and no sonic boom. Whatever is powering those objects, it is clearly not combustion. It is not nuclear fission in any configuration we understand. It is, based on the physics, something categorically beyond our current technological vocabulary.

    If that technology could be (or currently is) understood — even partially — it would represent the most significant scientific and engineering development in the history of our species. A propulsion and energy system that can produce thousands of billions of watts from an object the size of a small aircraft, with zero detectable emissions, would make every coal plant, every gas well, every oil pipeline as obsolete as the horse and buggy. Not marginally cleaner. Not incrementally more efficient. Obsolete.

    The fossil fuel industry would not survive contact with such technology. MEIC would not need to fight any more pipeline battles. Montana’s rivers and skies would not need defending from extraction industries that would simply have no customers.

    The Argument for a Strategic Pivot

    I am not suggesting that MEIC shut down its legal operations tomorrow. I am suggesting that the organization, and the broader environmental movement, needs to begin treating UAP disclosure as an environmental issue — because it is, potentially, the most consequential environmental issue of our time.

    What would that look like in practice?

    It would mean demanding, in MEIC’s public communications and legislative advocacy, that the U.S. government fully disclose what it knows about UAP propulsion systems. It would mean joining the growing chorus of voices — including members of Congress from both parties — calling for the release of classified materials related to UAP technology. It would mean funding or supporting scientific research, like the work of Dr. Knuth and his colleagues, that takes this subject seriously as a matter of physics rather than folklore.

    It would mean recognizing that the peer-reviewed science already exists. Dr. Knuth’s paper is not a speculative document. It is a careful application of Newtonian mechanics to observed data, published in a legitimate scientific journal, indexed in the National Library of Medicine, and freely available for anyone to read. The paper concludes that these craft exhibit technology far more advanced than anything on Earth, and it invites the scientific community to take that conclusion seriously.

    It would mean having the intellectual courage to say, publicly, what the physics implies: that somewhere — whether in classified government archives, in the hands of private defense contractors, or in the materials that witnesses like David Grusch have described under oath — there may exist evidence of energy and propulsion technology that could, if disclosed and made available to scientists, end the fossil fuel era within a generation.

    Environmental organizations are not strangers to courage. MEIC has taken on coal companies, oil pipelines, and hostile state legislatures with limited resources and enormous tenacity. That same tenacity, directed at the question of what our government knows about non-human technology and energy systems, could open a door that no amount of courtroom litigation has ever been able to open.

    A Word About Credibility

    I anticipate the objection. It goes like this: If MEIC starts talking about UFOs, we will lose credibility with the policymakers, judges, and journalists we need to take us seriously on climate and environmental issues.

    This objection deserves a direct answer.

    Fifteen years ago, the suggestion that UAP should be taken seriously as a scientific subject would have been professionally risky for any credentialed researcher. Today, a professor of physics at a State University of New York campus has published peer-reviewed work on the subject. The House Committee on Oversight has held multiple hearings. The Pentagon has authenticated video footage. Former senior intelligence officials have testified under oath. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has begun issuing statements acknowledging the scientific significance of the data.

    The credibility risk has changed. What would have seemed eccentric in 2005 is, in 2026, a matter of active congressional investigation and published scientific literature. The question is no longer whether UAP are real. The Pentagon has told us they are real. The question is what they are and — critically — what they can teach us.

    An environmental organization that says, clearly and soberly, “We believe that the peer-reviewed scientific evidence regarding UAP flight characteristics demands that our government disclose what it knows about these propulsion systems, because that knowledge may be the key to ending the fossil fuel era” is not making a fringe argument. It is making a logical argument, grounded in published physics, from a position of principled advocacy for the planet.

    That is exactly what MEIC has always done.

    Montana Is Already in the Crosshairs — And the Government Knows It

    There is one more dimension of this story that belongs in any honest conversation about Montana’s environment, and it is perhaps the most sobering of all.

    Malmstrom Air Force Base, located just outside Great Falls, is home to the 341st Missile Wing, which operates and maintains approximately 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles dispersed in silos across a vast swath of the Montana plains — in Cascade, Fergus, Judith Basin, Meagher, Wheatland, Golden Valley, and Musselshell counties, among others. These weapons, each carrying a nuclear warhead of enormous destructive power, make Montana one of the most strategically significant — and strategically targeted — pieces of real estate on the planet. If the United States and Russia or China were ever to exchange nuclear strikes, Montana would not be a bystander. It would be among the first places on Earth to be hit, and hit repeatedly.

    Every river MEIC has defended, every wilderness it has protected, every community it has helped shield from toxic contamination — all of it exists within the blast and fallout radius of what would happen to this state in a nuclear exchange. Environmental law, however well crafted, offers no protection against a 300-kiloton warhead. This is the ultimate threat to Montana’s environment, and it is one that almost no environmental organization in the country is talking about in connection with UAP.

    They should be. Because UAP have a documented history of showing up at Malmstrom — and they have not been friendly to the missiles.

    In March 1967, then-Lieutenant Robert Salas was on duty as a deputy missile combat crew commander, stationed 60 feet underground in a launch control facility at Malmstrom AFB. In the early morning hours, his flight security controller called from the surface, reporting strange lights in the sky making maneuvers no known aircraft could perform — stopping on a dime, reversing course, moving in total silence. Salas told him to keep watch. Minutes later, the controller called again, his voice frantic: a large, glowing, pulsating red oval-shaped object, roughly 30 to 40 feet in diameter, was hovering directly over the facility’s front gate. Guards had drawn their weapons. Salas woke his commanding officer. And then, one by one, alarms began flashing on the launch control console. All ten of the nuclear-armed Minuteman ICBMs under the facility’s control went to a “no-go” status — unable to launch.

    Eight days earlier, on March 16, an almost identical event had occurred at another Malmstrom launch control facility — Echo Flight — where ten more missiles had simultaneously gone offline while security personnel reported a UAP hovering directly above one of the launch sites. In total, at least twenty nuclear-armed missiles under Malmstrom’s control were disabled during a roughly two-week period in March 1967, coinciding directly with documented UAP sightings at the facilities.

    The Air Force investigated. The Boeing company, which manufactured the Minuteman systems, was brought in to determine what had caused the shutdowns. Their conclusion, according to subsequent accounts, was that the guidance and control systems (“logic couplers”) had been disrupted by an external electromagnetic signal — one that had penetrated deep underground through jamming systems designed to prevent exactly that kind of intrusion. No official report was published , nor was any conventional explanation ever publicly confirmed. Salas and other personnel were ordered by Air Force investigators to sign non-disclosure agreements and never speak of the incidents. Salas honored that silence for nearly thirty years, finally breaking it in 1996 after discovering a published reference to the incidents in a UFO research book. He has since testified publicly before Congress, signed sworn affidavits, and written three books on the subject.

    Salas is not alone. Captain David Schindele was a Minuteman ICBM launch crew commander and deputy commander stationed at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota in September 1966 — just months before the Malmstrom incidents. On his very first duty shift at a launch control facility near Mohall, he was met by security personnel who described an object, estimated to be 80 to 100 feet wide, with bright flashing lights, that had hovered just outside the perimeter fence during the night. Every one of the ten nuclear missiles at that facility had been taken offline while the object was present. Schindele and everyone who witnessed the event were told, in no uncertain terms, that it had never happened — that they were never to speak of it. He carried that secret for nearly forty years. He has since written a book titled It Never Happened, Volume 1: U.S. Air Force UFO Cover-up Revealed and has testified at public forums including the Citizens Hearing on UFO Disclosure held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

    Former nuclear missile targeting officer Captain Robert Jamison, also stationed at Malmstrom in that period, independently corroborated the pattern. He was dispatched on one occasion to re-target missiles at the Oscar Flight launch facility that had inexplicably gone offline, only to learn upon arrival that the county sheriff had reported a UFO in the area at the same time the missiles failed. Jamison’s summary, offered at the 2021 National Press Club press conference alongside Salas and Schindele, was blunt: “Even though I never saw a flying saucer or a UFO, I do know they exist because they knocked down our missiles. That just doesn’t happen every day.”

    The pattern of UAP incidents at nuclear weapons facilities is not limited to Montana and North Dakota in the 1960s. It stretches across decades and continents. Dr. James Lacatski, the Defense Intelligence Agency rocket scientist and intelligence analyst who designed and managed the U.S. government’s largest acknowledged UAP investigation program — the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, or AAWSAP — has stated publicly that UAP interventions at nuclear weapons facilities have occurred not once or twice, but “dozens of times”. He made that statement during an appearance on Weaponized, the investigative podcast hosted by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and award-winning investigative journalist George Knapp. Almost none of these incidents have ever been officially disclosed to the public, precisely because they are classified. The men and women who witnessed them were ordered to silence.

    What is the message in all of this? Captain Salas, who has thought about little else for thirty years, believes he knows. When asked at a congressional hearing what he thought the disabling of nuclear missiles was meant to communicate, he was direct: the visitors, in his view, were sending a message about nuclear weapons — a message that our most destructive technology is known to others, that it is being watched, and that its continued existence is, at minimum, a matter of concern to intelligences beyond our own.

    Whether one accepts that interpretation or not, the environmental implications are stark, and they are entirely separate from any question about the origin of these craft. Montana’s Minuteman missiles are, today, primary targets for any adversary contemplating a first strike against U.S. nuclear capabilities. If those missiles were ever to become the aiming targets for Russian or Chinese ICBMs — and military planners on all sides agree that they would be — the environmental devastation visited upon Montana would be devastating and permanent. The rivers, the wilderness areas, the air quality, the human communities that MEIC has spent decades protecting: all of it would cease to exist in any meaningful sense.

    This threat is not on the radar of environmental organizations. It is not the subject of any lawsuit MEIC has filed, any legislative testimony it has delivered, or any public comment it has submitted. It is invisible to the environmental movement not because it is unreal, but because it is classified — because the government that controls these weapons has, for sixty years, refused to tell the public what it knows about the craft that have already demonstrated the ability to neutralize U.S. nuclear weapons.

    That is the final argument for UAP disclosure as an environmental cause. It is not merely about clean energy, though the energy implications alone are transformative. It is about the survival of the place we are trying to protect. You cannot save Montana’s environment after it has been incinerated and made radioactive. And the only path to ensuring that it is not incinerated runs through a full, honest accounting of what our government knows — about the weapons pointed at this state, about the craft that have already visited those weapons, and about the technology that may offer humanity a way out of the nuclear trap it has built for itself.

    What You Can Do Right Now: Join the Fight for Disclosure

    None of this will change on its own. Classified programs do not declassify themselves. Secret keepers do not voluntarily open their vaults. The history of every major government transparency movement — from the Pentagon Papers to the Church Committee hearings to the declassification of CIA programs that once seemed permanently buried — tells the same story: secrets yield to sustained, organized, public pressure. Nothing else has ever worked. Nothing else will work here.

    The good news is that the organizational infrastructure for that pressure already exists, and it is gaining momentum in Congress right now. We must let the secret keepers know that we are ready to officially receive the truths recently expressed by Col. Karl Nell:

      “So, non-human intelligence exists, non-human intelligence has been interacting with humanity. This interaction is not new, and it’s been ongoing, and unelected people in the government are aware of that.”

    The New Paradigm Institute and its grassroots campaign Citizens for Disclosure, led by legendary civil rights and environmental attorney Daniel Sheehan — a man who has spent more than fifty years taking on the hidden architecture of government power, from the Pentagon Papers case to the Iran-Contra investigation — is working directly with members of Congress to draft and pass a bipartisan, standalone UAP Disclosure Act. Sheehan is co-drafting the legislation alongside Representatives Eric Burlison of Missouri, Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, and Tim Burchett of Tennessee — a bipartisan group (https://uapcaucus.com) that has become the most persistent and vocal UAP transparency coalition in Congress. The bill would establish a UAP Records Collection at the National Archives, create an independent review board with real subpoena authority, mandate the release of UAP records more than 25 years old, provide legal immunity for Legacy Program whistleblowers who come forward, and ensure that disclosure is conducted responsibly while safeguarding legitimate national security concerns. As Representative Burlison has stated plainly: “I’m asking you to act and push on members of Congress, because otherwise they won’t do anything about it.”

    This is not a fringe effort. It is a bipartisan, constitutionally grounded legislative campaign, backed by former senior intelligence officials, military officers, and credentialed scientists, working through the normal channels of democratic government. It is exactly the kind of effort that a broad public coalition can push over the finish line — if enough people show up.

    That is where you come in. And that is where MEIC, the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, and every other environmental organization in this country come in.

    Environmental groups have something the UAP disclosure movement urgently needs: organized, passionate constituencies that know how to apply political pressure, how to contact legislators, how to show up at hearings, how to generate media attention, and how to sustain a campaign over years. The UAP disclosure movement, in turn, has something the environmental movement urgently needs: a potential path to the most transformative clean energy breakthrough in human history, and a new argument for why the existential threat of nuclear war — and Montana’s place at the center of it — demands a level of government transparency that has never yet been achieved.

    These two movements belong together. An alliance between NPI and environmental organizations like MEIC would represent exactly the kind of unexpected, broad-based coalition that changes political calculations in Washington. When the people demanding disclosure are not only UAP researchers and retired military officers, but also the hunters and fly fishermen who care about the Blackfoot River, the ranchers who worry about what a nuclear exchange would do to Montana’s vast grazing lands, the parents who want their children to inherit a living planet rather than an irradiated one — that is when the secret keepers have to start paying attention.

    Learn more about NPI and the UAP Disclosure Act. Visit newparadigminstitute.org to read the legislation, understand the arguments, and sign up for action alerts. NPI’s Citizens for Disclosure initiative exists specifically to mobilize ordinary citizens into this campaign. There is a chapter in Montana.

    Contact your elected representatives. Montana’s U.S. Senators and House Representatives need to hear from their constituents on this issue. Tell them you support the UAP Disclosure Act. Tell them you believe government transparency about UAP technology is an environmental issue, an energy issue, a national security issue, and a fundamental question of democratic accountability. Ask for their pledge to support the UAPDA. Tell them the people of Montana — who live next door to 150 nuclear-armed missiles and who have spent decades fighting to protect one of the most beautiful environments on Earth — deserve to know what their government knows.

    Urge MEIC and other environmental organizations to engage. Ask MEIC to formally express support for the UAP Disclosure Act and to explore a working alliance with NPI. Ask the Sierra Club’s Montana chapter to do the same. Ask every conservation and environmental organization you belong to why UAP disclosure is not yet on their policy agenda — and make the case that it should be.

    Share this conversation. The most powerful thing any citizen can do in the early stages of a movement is expand the circle of people who are paying attention. Share this article. Talk to your neighbors, your colleagues, your hunting and fishing partners, your fellow hikers. The conversation about UAP has been confined too long to a small community of specialists and enthusiasts. It belongs to all of us — because the implications of what is already in the public record touch every one of us, and every living thing on this planet.

    The secret keepers have held their ground for eighty years by relying on one simple advantage: most people were not paying attention. That advantage is shrinking. Congress is paying attention. Scientists are paying attention. Former intelligence officials are paying attention. The question is whether the broader public — and the organizations that claim to speak for the future of this planet — will pay attention before the window closes.

    Conclusion: The Bigger Fight

    The coal companies and the oil industry have benefited enormously from the public’s willingness to accept the premise that there is no alternative — that hydrocarbon combustion is the best we can do, that the transition to clean energy must be agonizingly slow, that each new pipeline and each new mine is a regrettable necessity.

    What if that premise is false? What if the alternative is not solar panels and wind turbines alone, but a form of energy generation so far beyond our current technology that it operates without any of the physical signatures we associate with power production? What if it has been observed, documented, tracked on military radar, and filmed on military cameras — and what if governments have kept that knowledge classified for reasons that have nothing to do with the good of the planet?

    Dr. Knuth and his colleagues have given us the physics. The witnesses have given us their testimony. The Pentagon has given us authenticated footage. Congress has given us hearings. Captains Salas and Schindele have given us their sworn accounts, at great personal cost, of what happened beneath the Montana and North Dakota plains sixty years ago. What remains is for the environmental movement — which has always been, at its best, a movement willing to speak uncomfortable truths to powerful interests — to demand the transparent UFO Disclosure that could change everything.

    MEIC has spent decades defending Montana’s environment against the destructive power of the fossil fuel industry, battle by battle and courtroom by courtroom. That work is honorable and it matters.

    But the biggest battle may not be in the next courtroom. It may be in demanding that our government tell us what it knows about the craft that left no exhaust over the Pacific Ocean in November 2004 — what is powering them, what they were doing over the missile fields of central Montana in 1967, and what their presence among us means for the future of this planet and every living thing on it. Once we know the truth, we can take it from there.

    The paper discussed in this article — “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles” by Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell, and Peter A. Reali — was published in Entropy, Vol. 21, No. 10 (2019), and is freely available at https://doi.org/10.3390/e21100939 and through the U.S. National Library of Medicine at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7514271/

    The Montana Environmental Information Center can be reached at meic.org.

  • Why UFO Secrecy Matters to You

    Why UFO Secrecy Matters to You

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  • My Question for the June 27, 2024 CNN Presidential Debate

  • NASA Director Bill Nelson: “The NASA UAP Study Team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin.”

    NASA Director Bill Nelson: “The NASA UAP Study Team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin.”

    Premise: What we are currently witnessing in the ebb and flow of UFO Disclosure is an internecine struggle between the Executive and Legislative branches of our government that concerns which of those branches will control the UFO/UAP narrative during peacetime and, eventually, which will primarily manage our evolving relationship, diplomatic or otherwise, with the non-human intelligence (NHI) responsible for decades of UFO/UAP sightings and close encounters.

    It is unwise and even dangerous to have either of these two branches of our government maintain an exclusive prerogative to manage our evolving relationship with the NHI behind the UFO/UAP.

    More than hypothetical.

    Recently, a new Disclosure Project witness named Michael Herrera has appeared on the UAP/UFO scene (begin at 1:06:16). Previously a US Marine, Mr. Herrera has spoken publicly (whistleblown) about being held at gunpoint in October 2009 while personally witnessing, along with 5 other Marines, a large, silent, disc-shaped UFO hovering off the ground as some unknown cargo was off-loaded from it, by humans, in a jungle near the city of Padang on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

    After listening to Mr. Herrera, my assessment is that he is telling the truth. If he’s telling the truth, this brings up raft of questions. How did these humans get their hands on an operable UFO? Was that UFO made by humans and who were the humans that were operating that craft? If it was made by humans, was it a product of a US government reverse engineering “black” program that Senior Intel officer turned whistleblower David Grusch has told us about? If it is (I’m assuming it still exists), how was the original UFO it was copied from acquired? Did the original UFO it was copied from come from a non-human intelligence (NHI), like extraterrestrials? If so, was it acquired from a “UFO crash”, or was it brought down to Earth by some kind of kinetic or directed-energy weapon through an aggressive military action that any human, and especially any government on this planet, would consider an act of war? If it was brought down through an act of war, what role, if any, did our US Department of Defense (DoD) play in this? Is our nation engaged in a hot war with some species of extraterrestrials that every US citizen knows nothing about? Were the 3 UFO shoot-downs that happened this past February and that citizens were subsequently told nothing about actually US military actions taken against an extraterrestrial adversary as part of that war? If we are at war with an extraterrestrial species, does Congress know about this? If we are at war with an extraterrestrial species, who in the US DoD and/or the Intelligence Community knows about this? Why in 2016 did General Mark Milley (begin at 00:34:10) tell the soon-to-become US military officers graduating from Norwich College that they would be serving in a complex world and would be “dealing with little green men”? I think we all know what he was implying.

    If I knew for a fact that any of this somewhat informed speculation is true, I would be blowing my whistle right now and, apparently, many are. In a recent article written by Michael Shellenberger, Andrew Mohar, and Phoebe Smith published on September 25, 2023 in Public (subscription required), these journalists inform us that approximately 30 new whistleblowers have stepped forward to reveal to the Inspectors General of the Intelligence Community (Thomas A. Monheim) and Department of Defense (Robert P. Storch) and to certain Congressional committees what they know about UFO “crash” retrieval and reverse engineering programs taking place as black Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (USAPs) that are being illegally funded by some clandestine factions within our own government.

    Below I will explain why Congress must address all of this NOW and why NASA’s new UAP Independent Study Team is (unwittingly by those involved) intended to be yet another long-term stall tactic, like Project Blue Book, employed by the DoD to shore up its now crumbling UFO cover-up.

    NASA’s September 14, 2023 briefing.

    During the September 14, 2023 briefing summarizing NASA’s UAP Independent Study Team‘s (UAPIST) recommendations addressing how NASA might contribute to the study of UAP/UFOs, NASA Director Bill Nelson made it (suspiciously) certain that the listening audience heard his words as he repeated his message twice – no evidence of extraterrestrials!

    That the NASA UAPIST deliberately excluded classified data and historical reports from law enforcement agencies, the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), collections of historical data from, for example, NICAP, NARCAP, CUFOS, SCU, or the personal archives of previous UFO researchers like Ted Phillips, Dr. James McDonald, Stanton Friedman, or even the AIRCAT files of NASA’s own Dr. Richard Haines, I was left with the distinct impression that NASA did not want to find evidence of extraterrestrials associated with UAP/UFOs. At least not yet. If they did want to now, they would have pressed for “whole of government” access to the Department of Defense’s (DoD), the Intelligence Community’s (IC), and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) stacks and substacks of classified files on UAP/UFOs they have amassed over nearly 80 years of UAP activity on and around planet Earth. But NASA didn’t do that. In fact, NASA deliberately avoided doing that. Why?

    They didn’t do that because, NASA says, they want to be able to be completely honest and transparent in sharing everything they might discover about UAP/UFOs through their scientifically rigorous, “whole of government” (excluding, of course, all classified government UAP data) study of UAP/UFOs with the world. NASA’s 34-page report could have been summarized in a single sentence, “We have decided to trash 76 years of UFO history and begin anew.” NASA essentially threw the work of many dedicated UFO researchers who gave the best years of their lives, attempting to acquire hard-earned data to understand UFOs during a period when UFOs were much more anathema than they are today, right into the dumpster. This, despite that, at the end of the day, every single one of those researchers mentioned above, and including Dr. J. Allen Hynek, did conclude that some UAP/UFOs were, most likely, of extraterrestrial origin. How much farther down the road than that conclusion will NASA’s study of UFOs take us? Not much farther. Ever.

    Please carefully note that these promises coming from NASA are the very same promises made by those who were involved with Project Blue Book, the USAF’s “comprehensive” study on UAP/UFOs ranging from 1952 until its deflating conclusion in 1969. The world waited 17 years for that “scientific study” which also concluded with “no evidence of extraterrestrials”. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

    If we want to find Easter eggs, we don’t look for them in the beer and wine section of our grocery store.

    But maybe that’s where NASA administrator Bill Nelson shops for his Easter eggs? The reason the UAPIST did not find evidence to support UAP/UFOs having an extraterrestrial origin in any peer-reviewed scientific literature is because that data isn’t there. For decades, most reputable and published scientists have deliberately avoided having anything to do with UAP/UFOs, knowing that engaging with this subject would torpedo their careers. They certainly did not publish peer-reviewed scientific papers in reputable scientific journals touting their firm conclusion that some UAP/UFOs might have an extraterrestrial source. To do so would have been suicide so far as their careers were concerned. They sheepishly complied with the deliberately constructed social taboo created and maintained by the US legacy media at the behest of the US DoD that has surrounded UAP/UFOs for our entire lifetimes. Today, a few heroic scientists like Dr. Avi Loeb, Dr. Garry Nolan, Dr. Kevin Knuth, and Robert Powell, among a few others, have chosen to jump the fence and leave the corral. My hat is off to them. They are examples of independent thinkers demonstrating the scientific integrity we expect from true men of science.

    About NASA. Is Director Bill Nelson to blame?

    “Under the supervision and direction of the President, the Administrator shall be responsible for the exercise of all powers and the discharge of all duties of the Administration and shall have authority and control over all personnel and activities thereof.“

    Director of NASA Bill Nelson was nominated by and serves at the pleasure of President Biden. Although NASA is deemed to be an independent civil agency within the US government, NASA effectively falls within the Executive branch of our government. NASA has a close working relationship with several agencies within the US Department of Defense. For practical purposes, NASA can be considered to be an illegitimate stepchild of the DoD. So, now we have not one, but two official government agencies, NASA and the AARO (All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office) under the thumb of the DoD who are apparently tasked, for the time being, with convincing American citizens that no UAP/UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.

    No evidence of extraterrestrials?

    Eyewitness testimony from credible witnesses is considered quite valuable in our courts. Maybe we should have the Judicial Branch of our government run this show? It does not take a genius to conclude that the UAP/UFO craft repeatedly observed to be obviously operating under intelligent control and reported in our skies for 7 decades by tens of thousands of sensors (human eyeballs) and by radar and FLIR imaging, that have exhibited the “5 (or 6) observables” described by AATIP Director Luis Elizondo, that have been chased and fired upon by military pilots while UAP jammed their avionics and weapons systems multiple times, that have massively but silently glided low and slow over Phoenix while witnessed by hundreds of credible people including Arizona’s ex-governor and private pilot Fife Symington, that have landed on dry lake beds and multiple schoolyards in front of hundreds of children (and in one case physically stood no more than 2 meters away from them), that have temporarily disabled our nuclear weapons multiple times at multiple locations, that have physically abducted citizens against their will thousands of times, that have left > 2000 ground landing traces documented by UFO researchers like Jacques Vallee and Ted Phillips, and that have “crashed” (or were shot down?) and been recovered, in some cases with their pilots, multiple times as testified before Congress, under solemn oath, by senior Intel Officer David Grusch and also by Major Jesse Marcel Sr., Lt. Col. Jesse Marcel, Jr., and Col. Phillip Corso, among others, are, in fact, technologically sophisticated craft that are not of present-day human origin. They are, by definition, “extraterrestrial”. The sentence above is so unmanageably long because the evidence supporting this foregone conclusion is, by now, voluminous. But NASA threw all of that in the garbage. Either NASA’s UAPIST of esteemed scientists cannot put 2 and 2 together, or they have been instructed not to. I opine the latter. They have chosen to willfully remain in the corral. If they are knowingly and willfully participating in what is intended to become the latest iteration of Project Blue Book 2.0, while also intending to delay an announcement that some UAP/UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin for another 17 years, then may they choke on their NASA paychecks.

    But we know those NASA UAPIST scientists are not stupid. They must know they are choosing to play a role in a theatrical production, a screenplay designed and intended to allow the US DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) to gracefully exit from their sordid past history of constantly gaslighting America’s citizens about UFOs, of illegally misdirecting funding previously appropriated by Congress for other specific reasons, of emotionally and physically abusing private citizens to maintain their cover-up of UFOs, of corrupting America’s mainstream media with their threats of exclusion, of covering up the importance of crop circles and cattle mutilations, of never informing American citizens about UFO/NHI nuclear weapons shut-downs and, perhaps most threatening of all, potentially engaging in acts of war against the NHI responsible for UAP/UFOs. These are all gangster behaviors. The list of misdeeds is almost as long as that of the evidence supporting UAP/UFOs being extraterrestrial in origin.

    In short, the scientists involved with NASA’s UAPIST have elected to furnish “the US government” with a (distant) future, “Eureka! Who knew? UAP are of extraterrestrial origin after all!” headline it will so desperately need to help extricate itself from the absolute mess it has created and that one would expect after so many decades of UFO cover-up. God forbid this charade takes another 17 years to play out. These malleable scientists may consider themselves to be American patriots, but I do not. Our government’s dirty (putrid) UAP/UFO laundry needs to be aired and measures taken to prevent such a fiasco from ever happening again. Congress needs to exert its muscle about this, and it needs to do that NOW! We may be at war with some species of extraterrestrials and not even know it. Canadian Minister of Defense Paul Hellyer told us this could happen, and now it is beginning to appear that he was correct.

    Is NASA playing word games?

    “Extraterrestrial” may be an imprecise descriptor of who or what the NHI behind UAP/UFOs we are dealing with is or where they come from because the American public has never been informed of this, if this is already known. Several other more precise descriptors (artificial intelligence, time machines, bionic beings, interdimensionals, extratempestrials, cryptoterrestrials, ultraterrestrials, etc.) denoting the nature of and place of origin of the NHI behind UAP/UFOs may well, by now, be known by some (a few) in NASA, the DoD, and the Intelligence Community (IC). Given NASA’s statement above, we might infer that NASA has determined that the NHI behind UAP/UFOs are not specifically “extraterrestrial”, meaning they do not stem from other planets within our solar system or beyond. Has NASA apparently informed us of this in the UAPIST’s report? Once again, we are left hanging in a state of cognitive dissonance with NASA being the latest iteration of government agencies, perhaps unknowingly, tasked with gaslighting the American public about the true nature of UAP/UFOs. And we are paying for this ongoing charade. Today we are paying mostly in US dollars. As the combined threats of global climate change, global nuclear war, and possibly a hot war with extraterrestrials continue to escalate, we may soon be paying with our lives and those of our children. The UFO cover-up must end. Potential new technologies that may prove beneficial in helping solve these looming and existential challenges may be forthcoming if we can lift the lid on the UFO cover-up. All of us can help make this happen.

    Playing word games with America’s citizens as we are forced to divine NASA’s meaning of the word “extraterrestrial” is a far cry from the “transparency” that Bill Nelson and others connected with NASA’s UAPIST promised during the press conference in which the UAPIST’s report was unveiled to the American public. Nelson’s statement, “The NASA UAP Study Team did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin” may simply be yet another disingenuous statement intended to dissuade public interest in UAP, a tactic that has been employed for decades to maintain the “integrity” of the UFO cover-up. If we consider Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s/AARO’s almost identical message to the public, “no evidence of extraterrestrials”, we can be certain that this is the official statement all informed chorus line participants in the NASA and AARO efforts to “study” UAP/UFOs will abide by until otherwise instructed. NASA has been compromised.

    We can now be certain that NASA has become part of the UFO cover-up because, contrary to NASA and AARO’s claims, there is no doubt that some other-than-present-day-human NHI is responsible for some of the tens of thousands of UAP/UFO reports over the past 7 decades. Even if we ignore the historical evidence cited above, recently, informed individuals like David Grusch, Luis Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Dr. Eric Davis, Col Phillip Corso, and Dr. Hal Putoff, among others, have essentially told us that some UAP/UFOs are of NHI/extraterrestrial origin, and they would know. Now we have reports of 30 more whistleblowers who have stepped forward to tell their OAP/UFO-related stories. The lid on UFO secrecy must be about to blow. You can help with that.

    Our system of checks and balances is out of balance.

    In an ideal world the responsibility of managing our nation’s relationship with the NHI behind UFOs/UAP would be transparently shared between the Executive and Legislative Branches of our government, with each performing its role in checking and balancing the other. This model presumes that both Branches of our government would be equally informed about the real existence of the NHI behind UFOs/UAP – who they are, where they come from, why they are here, how long they have been here, that they have disabled our nuclear weapons, that they have been abducting citizens against their will, and that some of their craft have been recovered and delivered to clandestine and highly classified Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (USAPs) tasked with reverse engineering the recovered UFO/UAP.

    However, we now know that such equally shared knowledge and responsibility concerning the management of UFOs/UAP has never been the case and, perhaps, never will be if the DoD has its way. If you recall, the Executive Branch of our government was first on the scene of the UFO that crashed near Roswell in 1947 and, with this new windfall technology and profound knowledge, has effectively mandated that the management of mankind’s evolving relationship with UFOs/UAP and the NHI behind them is and will remain an exclusive domain of the Executive Branch of the US government. Many US citizens are unaware of the grave implications of this situation as it presently stands. Our government was not designed to properly function without effective checks and balances. According to our Constitution it is only Congress that is authorized to declare war on behalf of the citizens of this country, yet it may be possible that our DoD is involved in a hot war with extraterrestrials that both Congress and the American people know nothing about. We need to open our eyes, and soon!

    “No reason to conclude”?

    In the last paragraph of the NASA Independent UAP Study Team’s report we read this:

    “At this point there is no reason to conclude that existing UAP reports have an extraterrestrial source. However, if we acknowledge that as one possibility, then those objects must have traveled through our solar system to get here. (Author: this is a questionable assertion. The NHI may be manipulating time rather than 3D space.) Just as the galaxy does not stop at the outskirts of the solar system, the solar system also includes Earth and its environs. Thus, there is an intellectual continuum between extrasolar techno-signatures, solar system SETI, and potential unknown alien technology operating in Earth’s atmosphere. If we recognize the plausibility of any of these, then we should recognize that all are at least plausible.”

    In reading the NASA report, NASA’s UAPIST logic appears to be that the discovery of extrasolar or even near/on-Earth “techno-signatures” of alien life will lend additional support to the extraterrestrial hypothesis as the explanation for UFOs/UAP. But NASA should acknowledge that the discovery of extrasolar or near/on Earth techno-signatures of alien life will never prove that the UFOs/UAP stem from a non-human intelligence.

    In fact, there is no scientific study that solely addresses the techno-signatures of UFOs/UAP that will conclusively prove that UFOs/UAP stem from a non-human (or other-than-present-day human) intelligence.

    The best we can hope for is NASA stating their conclusion that some UAP/UFOs may be of other than present-day human origin. However, the question of whether UFOs/UAP could be the product of a traditional foreign adversary or a natural phenomenon we do not yet understand will always remain until our nation, on behalf of all of mankind, will finally:

    1. Begin earnest attempts to peacefully communicate with the NHI behind UFOs/UAP, and;
    2. Reveal the UAP/UFO craft that have already been physically recovered and make them available for study by the wider (global) scientific community.

    Reducing the stigma.

    We can find a quantum of solace in NASA finally and officially engaging with the systematic scientific study of UFOs/UAP. In their report, the NASA UAPIST makes it clear that NASA is now taking UFOs/UAP seriously and will allocate some of its considerable expertise toward studying UFOs/UAP. The NASA UAPIST notes that, by their officially addressing UFOs/UAP, this will further reduce the (deliberately imposed) social stigma that has shackled the UFO/UAP subject for decades. And with its report’s final sentence, the NASA UAPIST is clearly admitting that some UFOs/UAP may be the techno-signatures of the technologically advanced NHI behind the UFOs/UAP. But the NASA UAPIST will never get any further than this in their assessment of UFOs/UAP in the absence of transparent and full UFO Disclosure.

    We have reached the point where Congress MUST exert its own considerable power to wrest the long-standing, exclusive control over the UFO/UAP narrative from the Executive Branch and place it transparently and equally in the hands of Congress and the American people. That is where it belongs. The Executive Branch is already fully aware and can make recommendations to Congress in light of that awareness, but weaponizing UFO/UAP energy and propulsion systems can no longer take precedence in a world that is dealing with a burgeoning population and its resultant global climate change. Nor should our world be forced to exist under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation without ever having been officially informed about the several instances when the NHI behind UFOs/UAP have shut down those nuclear weapons – and likely for very good reasons.

    Conclusion

    NASA is not to be trusted any more than the United States Air Force insofar as the study of UAP/UFOs is concerned. They have signed up for a long period of guaranteed paychecks for those involved in the UAPIST in their pursuit of understanding UAP. NASA’s theatrics will only serve to further delay what has become inevitable.

    As their conscience weighs more heavily on them, their forward progress in reverse engineering UAP/UFOs is stymied by secrecy, their lives become increasingly affected by global climate change and they conclude, as I have, that our nation may be engaged in a hot war with an extraterrestrial/NHI species that none of us have been told anything about, more UAP/UFO whistleblowers are going to step forward. Now that some credible scientists have chosen to engage, citizen -led efforts to study UAP/UFOs like Dr. Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project will find some of the evidence they are looking for to support the real existence of and non-human origin of UAP. They will tell us UAP are metallic, they move really fast, they develop tremendous G forces under acceleration and deceleration, they produce enormous amounts of energy, and they are able to make acute turns at tremendous speeds etc. They are going to acquire the scientific data to back up the long-standing claims that UAP/UFOs are real and unlikely to be of human origin. In other words, using the scientific method, they will tell us lots of things about UAP/UFOs that we already know. But then they will have the data to back up those claims.

    But what we need more than this at this moment is an aggressive Congressional intervention to put a final end to the UFO cover-up. Senator Schumer’s Amendment 836, otherwise known as The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, will be of immense benefit in achieving this goal if Congress will only pass that amendment. Alternatively, we need a UAP/UFO landing on the White House lawn which may not be far off if our DoD is engaged in a hot war with extraterrestrials. Given what we are hearing from whistleblowers like Michael Herrera, to me it’s feeling like that moment may be closer at hand than we realize. Go to www.declassifyuap.org and tell your representatives in Congress to support The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023! Please do this now.

  • Are You Looking for the Truth? Well, Here It Is.

    Are You Looking for the Truth? Well, Here It Is.

    The Jesse A. Marcel Library endorses all of the information presented in this video except “Marciel”. His name was Marcel.

    In this video lecture, psychologist Dr. Jerry Kroth does a wonderful job of characterizing our currently flawed consensus reality and suggests where we need to go from here. We have a lot of catching up to do – and we may still have time!

  • Congress Must Question IG IC Thomas A. Monheim in Both Open and Classified Hearings. Then Tell the People.

    Congress Must Question IG IC Thomas A. Monheim in Both Open and Classified Hearings. Then Tell the People.

    Below is The Debrief article that introduced UFO whistleblower David Charles Grusch to the public. This article, in part, led to the July 26, 2023, US House of Representatives (HOR) Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs’ hearing on UFOs/UAP. It was Inspector General Intelligence Community (IG IC) Thomas A. Monheim who referred David Grusch to the Congressional Intel Committee with the admonition that Grusch’s allegations were “urgent and credible”. He should be questioned about this under oath.

    https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/

    It is a felony to lie under oath to Congress.

    On July 26, 2023, US intel officer turned UFO whistleblower David Grusch testified to Congress, under oath, the following:

    The full July 26, 2023, HOR National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on UFOs/UAP
    • He is coming forward with this information due to his sense of obligation to honor the oath he took to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
    • From 2019 to 2021 he served on the original UAP Task Force (UAPTF). (The UAPTF at that time reported to the Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist.)
    • The United States Government (USG) has retrieved multiple extraterrestrial (ET) spacecraft, some damaged but some intact.
    • The US government has known about the existence of crashed spacecraft of non-human origin since 1933 when such a (crashed) craft was recovered near Magenta, Italy and was then “scooped” by the United States’ military.
    • “The Program” (the term used by Grusch) to study and reverse-engineer these multiple non-human spacecrafts has existed within the US Department of Defense (DoD), liaising with privileged private US aerospace companies, for many decades.
    • Non-human (ET) UFO pilot remains, which Grusch refered to as “biologics”, have been recovered, retained, and studied in “The Program”.
    • “The Program” is directed by a group of career government officials who are both in and out of government.
    • For decades there has existed a counterintelligence / disinformation campaign intended to disenfranchise American citizens from this critical information, and he is aware of the “tradecraft” that has been applied to accomplish this mission. He will detail that “tradecraft” in a classified setting.
    • He and many other potential whistleblowers (~ 40?) have been harassed and threatened in malicious attempts to discourage their coming forward to Congress and to the public with this information. Grusch refers to this as “administrative terrorism”.
    • He declines to answer in this public hearing but would answer in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) whether some people have been murdered to keep these facts away from the American public.
    • He can provide a list of insider individuals “in the know” who are either hostile to or supportive of disclosing this information to the public.
    • He alleges misappropriations of government (taxpayer) funds that are illegally funneled to corporations based on IRAD (Independent Research and Development) invoices rather than competitive government bidding.
    • He stated he believes the “secrecy” and the deliberately constructed stigma surrounding UFOs/UAP has become a threat to the national security of the United States.
    • On April 22, 2022 Grusch briefed the head of AARO, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, about “his concerns” and provided Kirkpatrick with details of “where to look”.

    History

    The UAP Task Force (UAPTF) was established by The Pentagon at the behest of Congress on August 4, 2020. Retired intel officer turned whistleblower David Grusch testified that he was on the staff of the original UAPTF. On November 23, 2021, the UAPTF inexplicably morphed into the awkward sounding AOIMSG, the Airborn Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group that was headed by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, PhD. Within 8 months, AOIMSG devolved into the present-day All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), established on July 20, 2022, that continues to be headed by Dr. Kirkpatrick. Grusch has never claimed that he worked with AARO but has noted that he reported certain findings to AARO during his subsequent work with the NRO (National Reconaissance Office) and/or the NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency). In a letter (below), Dr. Kirkpatrick denies this.

    In his book In Plain Sight, journalist Ross Coulthart writes that during a series of phone calls with a dying US Dept. of Naval Research director Nat Kobitz, Coulthart asked him about “The Program” to reverse engineer recovered alien technology. Kobitz admitted to Coulthart that “The Program” does, in fact, exist. Listen to Coulthart’s account of that exchange as presented through Project Unity:

    Thanks to Jay at Project Unity for your work to enlighten our world!

    Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, PhD

    When we listen to Dr. Kirkpatrick’s recent interview with ABC News correspondent, at the 6:20 mark we hear this exchange:

    DWYER: “You can say categorically that you have seen no convincing, confirmable evidence of intact spacecraft kept by the US government?”

    KIRKPATRICK: “No, I have seen nothing that leads me to that conclusion.”

    DWYER: “Is it possible there is some secret program that you are just not aware of?”

    KIRKPATRICK: “I don’t think so. I have access to anything and everything I need.”

    At 6’20” mark Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick denies that he has “seen” any conclusive evidence of ET craft or technology.

    So, there is a glaring conflict between the testimony given under oath to Congress by David Grusch and what Dr. Kirkpatrick casually states in this interview with ABC’s Devin Dwyer. Must American citizens parse every single word spoken by our employees in government to get to the truth about non-human UFOs/UAP and the legacy programs in place to reverse-engineer them?

    On July 28, 2023, this letter of rebuttal, allegedly written by Dr. Kirkpatrick and posted to his LinkedIn account, appeared on social media. I saw it on Twitter.

    The letter is undated. There is no DoD letterhead. The letter is unsigned. Regarding the contents of the letter, we should question the following:

    1. Why is Dr. Kirkpatrick responding to Grusch’s allegation (that he gave Kirkpatrick the names of corporations, divisions, and individuals involved in “The Program” on April 22, 2022) via his personal LinkedIn page in a letter that does not carry the DoD or DNI letterhead, i.e., in an apparently unofficial capacity?
    2. If AARO is trying to remove the stigma attached to UFOs/UAP, why does Kirkpatrick claim that those who chose to work for AARO did so “with not unreasonable anxieties about the career risks this would entail.” Such a statement subtlety reinforces the UFO/UAP stigma.
    3. During the July 26 hearing there was no specific statement from Grusch that any member of AARO was personally responsible for the retaliation, harassment, threats, and even murders that Grusch alleges or intimates have occurred, yet Kirkpatrick’s response suggests that such allegations against AARO were made by Grusch. I did not hear that in Grusch’s testimony.
    4. Kirkpatrick states that Grusch refused to speak with AARO. Grusch stated that he spoke with Kirkpatrick about “his concerns” on April 22, 2022. Thus, Grusch presented his concerns to AOIMSG which was also headed by Kirkpatrick in April 2022. Therefore, Kirkpatrick has received the information from Grusch about “The Program” but has either ignored it or, for some reason, failed to act on it. Either way, one of these two men is lying.
    5. Kirkpatrick states that some information Grusch has presented to Congress has not been presented to AARO. Given that Congress specifically mandated the establishment of AARO to get to the truth about UFOs/UAP, this allegation seems highly unlikely. If Kirkpatrick doesn’t have that information, how would he know this?
    6. During AARO’s briefing of the Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities chaired by Kirsten Gillibrand in April 2023 (3 months ago), Dr. Kirkpatrick went out of his way to make this statement, for the record, but not under oath: “AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics.” He added that, “In the event sufficient scientific data were ever obtained that a UAP encountered can only be explained by extraterrestrial origin, we are committed to working with our interagency partners at NASA to appropriately inform U.S. government leadership of its findings.” In other words, that will never happen.
    7. In the last paragraph of his rebuttal, Kirkpatrick doubles down on his position that “AARO has yet to find any credible evidence to support the allegations of any reverse-engineering program for non-human technology.”

    AARO’s Remit

    The AARO Executive Council (AAROEXEC), led by Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security (USD(I&S)) Ronald Moultrie, will provide oversight and direction to the AARO along these primary lines of effort:

        1. Surveillance, Collection and Reporting
        2. System Capabilities and Design
        3. Intelligence Operations and Analysis
        4. Mitigation and Defeat (of what?)
        5. Governance
        6. Science and Technology

    In none of these “lines of effort” is AARO instructed to break down the doors of the corporations, divisions, and individuals that have been named by Grusch as part of “The Program”. AARO has not been tasked with analyzing historic UFO events like the Roswell incident, the Phoenix Lights incident, the Aztec NM incident, the Ariel School contact event, the Tehran Iran incident, the Varginha Brazil incidents, the 1952 UFOs over the US Capital incident, or any other past UFO events. Nor has AARO been tasked with following up on the claims of any whistleblowers like Robert Salas regarding multiple instances when UFOs have disabled US nuclear weapons. None of this is supposed to be in the wheelhouse of AARO, so why has Dr. Kirkpatrick gone out of his way, once again, to rebuke the whistleblowers and the Congressional subcommittee that held last Wednesday’s hearing while reiterating his pronouncement that AARO “has yet to find any credible evidence of any reverse-engineering program for non-human technology”? Is the meaning of “He who doth protest too much” reflected in Dr. Kirkpatrick’s somewhat bizarre behaviors? I think so.

    Of course, Dr. Kirkpatrick and AARO have not found such evidence. They have not been looking for such evidence because it is not in their job description! Why does Dr. Kirkpatrick seem to want us to think that it is, that they have looked, and they have found nothing in regard “The Program”, extraterrestrials, recovered spacecraft, etc.?

    Grusch’s Term “Tradecraft” – What Does it Entail?

    Control the narrative by controlling classified access to information through claims of national security. That AARO (the only officially acknowledged USG office we have to investigate UFOs) and (counter)intelligence officer Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick answer only to officials only within DoD and DNI is an obvious case of “the fox guarding the hen house”. These are the very same USG organizations within the executive branch that have been involved in gaslighting American citizens about the “nonexistence” of recovered non-human spacecrafts, programs to reverse-engineer those spacecrafts, and the non-human intelligence (NHI) behind those crafts. This, despite citizens reporting UFOs in the skies all over the world for decades. By keeping UFO-related information confined within the DoD and DNI and protecting that information under the guise of national security, the media and the public can only rely on patriotic whistleblowers like Col. Jesse A. Marcel, Jr., MD, David Grusch, Capt. Robert Salas, Col. Philip Corso, Capt. David Schindele, and many others to wrench the truth from those in the DoD and DNI who, like Dr. Kirkpatrick, have no intention of ever revealing any truth about UFOs to American citizens.

    Control the narrative by keeping things confusing. It’s no longer UFO. Now it’s UAP. It’s UAP Task Force. No, now it’s AOIMSG (“pronounced AIMSOG”), the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. Wait, instead let’s go with AARO, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. It’s not “aerial”, now it’s “anomalous”. Get the (confusing) picture? This is our government allegedly working for us.

    Control the narrative by controlling a malleable and cooperative mainstream media. It is July 29, three full days after the historic revelations of the July 26, 2023, 10 AM EST Congressional hearing on UFOs/UAP. The story of this event has not appeared in a single front-page headline of the New York Times or the Washington Post. Alarm bells. We find ourselves (gratefully) relying on independent online news sources like News Nation and various online podcasts like Need to Know, Weaponized, and Project Unity to help us understand what is happening. When convenient or necessary, the secret-keepers will use MSM news outlets like ABC (above) to reinforce the notion that “no evidence of extraterrestrials has been discovered.” Today’s example is on full display with SETI’s Seth Shostak penning this article for publication through MSNBC. These are very recent cases of the “extremely unethical and immoral” counterintelligence campaign of misinformation and disinformation (gaslighting) Grusch has mentioned that has been waged against American citizens for decades.

    Control the narrative by denigrating or compromising witnesses and whistleblowers. This strategy is exactly what we see in Dr. Kirkpatrick’s letter above as he derides David Grusch and the House Subcommittee for besmirching the work of AARO and implying that accusations of harrassment and threats were leveled at AARO – which did not really happen during the hearing. Watch it (above) for yourself. Dr. Kirkpatrick paints AARO as a whistleblower – friendly organization, inviting whistleblowers to his office within the DoD that has been hostile to UFO Disclosure from the beginning. Whistleblowers are allegedly referring to AARO as a “honey pot” to attract and then “manage” them via tried-and-true measures of counterintelligence. If I could be a whistleblower, AARO is the last place I would look to for support. Go to Congress. Go to Ryan Graves via Americans for Safe Aerospace. Go to George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell. Luis Elizondo or Chris Mellon. Go to any of these other than Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick at AARO. In my opinion he is not to be trusted.

    Control the narrative by stirring sentiments of American patriotism. In his letter Dr. Kirkpatrick exhibits this strategy in full bloom, emphasizing how devoted AARO is to truth and transparency. How Grusch’s testimony is an insult to AARO, its employees, and to the (widely beloved) US Dept. of Defense. He expounds on how AARO ‘s staff are “pouring their hearts” into finding the truth while being wrongfully maligned by David Grusch. There is a battle for your mind going on here, and AARO must not be allowed to prevail. The DoD and IC are being painted into a corner, there exists no graceful way out of what is coming, and they will fight tooth and nail with all of these “tradecraft” counterintelligence strategies to worm their way out of the profound mess they have created through decades of misleading the public about UFOs.

    Control the narrative by lies of commission and omission. Dr. Kirkpatrick may not have personally seen evidence of non-human technology, or recovered alien spacecrafts, or non-human “biologics”, or “The Program(s)” where these are physically housed, but we can be certain he knows that these exist. He simply has not officially looked for these programs, despite the fact that he was made aware of them in April 2022. Looking for them has never been part of his or AARO’s formal job description. Do not call this man to testify to Congress under oath. That move will mark the end of the beginning of UFO truth and transparency.

    Conclusion

    It is critical that more USG whistleblowers, preferably first-hand whistleblowers, step forward at this moment in time in support of Grusch’s claims! Grusch reassures us they are out there, and they also want this information revealed! Your country and this planet need your testimony. Please come forward!

    It is rumored that another open public hearing will take place in September 2023 in the Senate when Congress returns from its summer recess. Given what we now know, this should happen “toot suite” upon their return to Washington DC. Every allegation made by Grusch is of such importance that no more time should be wasted entertaining the rantings of Dr. Kirkpatrick, Mick West, Steven Greenstreet, Dr. Seth Shostak, Michael Schermer, James Oberg, and others like them who are part of a shrinking faction of citizens and officials within our government who have, for decades, been hiding this information from Congress and the American people by every means at their disposal.

    Congress MUST take the reins of the UFO narrative. We do not want a military mindset bent on “mitigation and defeat” of the non-human extraterrestrial civilization(s) currently in contact with this planet and with our civilization to control our responses to what is happening. Any non-human intelligence arriving here will be, a priori, much more advanced in their technology, and that likely includes their weaponry. We live in an ancient and infinite Universe. There will be many intelligent civilizations out there who will arrive here before we get there. Intelligence explores. It’s what they do. Greeting them with nuclear weapons raised will not be a foreign policy in our best interests. A little humility will go a long way here. We are a nascent civilization, and we are at a crossroads.

    Global climate change (GCC) is real. Our only planet is literally on fire. Ocean temperatures of 101 F are today reported off the coast of Florida. Sensitive corals are dying worldwide. Both the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing.

    Canada and Europe are being ravaged by the worst wildfire seasons they have ever experienced. Billions of creatures died in the horrific wildfires of Australia in 2019.

    In this paper titled Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles, a professor of physics at SUNY, Dr. Kevin Knuth, PhD, Robert Powell, and Dr. Peter Reali made an approximate calculation of the UFO’s energy output during the Tic Tac UFO incident using data recalled by USS Princeton radar officer Kevin Day. Knuth’s estimate was 1100 GW (that’s 1000 million watts), more than 10 times the current amount of nuclear energy produced in the US today! Recovered NHI technologies released to the world’s scientific community today might allow us to transition away from fossil fuels in short order and avoid the full-blown consequences of GCC tomorrow.

    Our civilization is facing an existential crisis on many fronts. Vladimir Putin is brandishing nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine. The NHI’s apparent warnings about our nuclear weapons should not go unheeded much longer. The US DoD should partner with ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, sign the UN’s Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and begin the complex process of banning nuclear weapons worldwide.

    UFO whistleblowers, time is wasting. It is time to speak now or, perhaps forever, hold your peace. Your move.

  • Hey Sierra Club! Wake Up and Smell the UFOs!

    Let’s begin with this man, David Charles Grusch telling journalist Ross Coulthart about the US government having deeply buried (“black”) programs to reverse engineer recovered non-human spacecraft, some wrecked and some intact. By the way, he has also testified to this under oath to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IGIC) who referred him to Congress. The IGIC characterized his testimony as “credible and urgent”.

    When you have time, you really should listen to the entire interview. It’s pretty amazing.

    (Thanks to News Nation for allowing the JAML to use this video under fair use laws!)

    Inside this summer’s 2023 edition of Sierra magazine is an article titled Planes, Trains, and Decarbonization written by Dayton Martindale. The article is presented from the perspective of a person who is (admirably) deeply committed to minimizing his/her carbon footprint that comes with any form of travel, but especially air travel. Overall, the airlines will not be happy with Martindale’s article or his recommendations. In consolation, Martindale does point out that, for trips over 1000 miles, jet travel does produce a lesser carbon impact than diesel-fueled train travel with its frequent stops and starts and more empty seats.

    But in the end, Martindale advises a “horse and buggy” approach to our decisions surrounding our future travel plans. Martindale suggests that we travel less, move slower, use buses, trains and cargo ships more often, electrify a national high-speed rail system (yes!), and essentially phase-out most air travel. Martindale writes, “As we make our societies greener and more humane, we may find that the 120-year technology of the aeroplane is no longer best suited for the world we are trying to build.” I couldn’t agree more about air travel for a variety of reasons but, for me in what has usually been a time-pressured life, the destination has always been the better part of the journey! Like, I want to get where I am trying to go – now! So, for me, UFOs seem pretty cool!

    What is glaringly missing from the Sierra Club’s and Martindale’s approaches to addressing global climate change and reducing the carbon load of travel is an apparent total lack of awareness of what has been happening with the UFO/UAP whistleblower testimonies of individuals like David Grusch (above), Michael Herrera (below), and unnamed others. These individuals have been testifying under oath to Congress and to the UFO/UAP investigative office established by Congress, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) led by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick. Their testimonies all have to do with US government Special Access Programs (SAPs) tasked with reverse engineering previously captured and recovered “spacecraft” of non-human origin! Yes, you read that right.

    These UFO technologies, if they can be pried out of the Department of Defense (DoD) by Congress and studied by scientists, might allow us to seek a new and previously unforeseen solution toward mitigating or even reversing global climate change. UFO energy systems could give humanity a new edge with an all-new energy technology having the potential to completely replace fossil fuels as our civilization’s main source of energy! If this is possible, this must be accomplished post-haste. Like “Manhattan Project” style.

    And get this. Do you remember how the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies came out with that PAPER written by Dr. Kevin Knuth, PhD, Robert Powell, and Dr. Peter Reali, PhD wherein they estimate the power output of the UFO that USS Princeton radar officer Kevin Day tracked on the Princeton’s SPY-1 radar to be (+/-) 1100 GW? That’s gigawatts. That’s 11 X 1000 million watts! That number sets my hair on fire! I’m all perked up and listening now, but is the Sierra Club? According to Dr. Knuth, 1100 GW is about 10 times the nuclear power the US currently generates! What do you think about those watts, Sierra Club and Dayton Martinsdale? Do you all agree that a number like that could really make an impact on global climate change and give our young people today some hope for their futures? Trains, planes and automobiles are so yesterday, and I am tired of being marginalized because of my “belief” in UFOs. Now, shit’s gettin’ real!

    So, let’s now have a listen to what Senator Marco Rubio had to say to News Nation just a few days ago on June 26, 2023.

    Rubio: “Some of these claims are beyond the realm of anything we have ever dealt with…”

    OK, so there’s that, but that’s not all! On June 12, 2023, Dr. Steven Greer, M.D. hosted yet another UFO whistleblower event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. One of those whistleblowers was a man named Michael Herrera, a previous US Marine. Mr. Herrera told of an encounter his unit had in 2009 with what certainly sounds like a UFO both in its size, its shape, and in its performance characteristics. Please listen to Mr. Herrera’s story in the video below.

    Ex-Marine Michael Herra watched a UFO at 150 meters distance unloading what appeared to be contraband.

    I hope you listened carefully to what Mr. Herrera had to say. Everything he describes about the UFO he and other members of his unit witnessed (where are they when we need them?) fits with what we have all heard about UFOs before. Disc-shaped. Huge. Almost silent. Hovering. Shot off like a bullet. Each of these descriptors has been heard thousands of times from eyewitnesses telling of their civilian or military UFO encounters. What’s perhaps more remarkable about Mr. Herrera’s experience is that there were other people there, human people, who may have been US Special Forces (or some other paramilitary group) that held Herrera and other members of his unit at gunpoint while some type of contraband was being loaded onto the “UFO”. Mr. Herrera’s testimony is chock-full of some very serious implications. Those implications will, for the time being, remain unexplored in this article as we are focusing here on the energy technology exhibited by this craft.

    Here I just want to point out to Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, Wild Montana, and to all other environmental organizations whose leadership might listen to David Grusch’s and Michael Herrera’s testimonies that the “UFOs” they are talking about are, most likely, not running on diesel, gasoline, coal, wind, or even solar energy. It appears that some government or coalition of governments has, in fact, successfully reverse-engineered one or more captured and recovered non-human UFOs! (Hmmm – makes me think of Roswell.) This feat was apparently accomplished at least 14 years ago, probably at some taxpayer expense, so who knows how much farther along this technology has been developed by now? This energy technology apparently existed before the concentrations of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere reached the dangerous levels we are seeing today! Holy climate change solution, Batman!

    I have previously written twice to the Sierra Club leadership about why they need to give UFOs their undivided attention. I have never received a response to my letters, only more requests for more donations. When I wrote my previous letters to Sierra Club leadership, this new whistleblower testimony did not exist. Now it does. Maybe it will finally get some action.

    So, how about this, Sierra Club. You guys start using any political clout the Sierra Club has at its disposal to demand immediate action from all legislators you deal with on both the state and national levels to uncover the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about UFOs – and then tell us all about it! Unless and until I start seeing meaningful action from Sierra Club in pushing our US Congress hard for UFO Disclosure, I will not be donating another penny to Sierra Club. The same goes for The Nature Conservancy and Wild Montana, two other environmental groups we regularly donate to who are also missing in action when it comes to UFO Disclosure. I want to see an article in the 2023 autumn edition of Sierra magazine touting all that Sierra Club has done over this summer to help bring about UFO Disclosure and bring these new energy technologies out into the light of day! Our world needs this, and we need it now!

    Sierra Club, don’t tell me to go “back to the past” for my methods of travel. Let’s instead go back to the future! For my next mode of travel, fly me in a UFO and let me dream among the stars! In other words, UFO Disclosure now!

    Richard K. O’Connor, M.D.