Funny thing to me is how obvious and simple it is, that the real conspiracy is just congressional leaders telling certain subsets of people what they want to hear, for their political support.
Occam's Razor.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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That may have been the case about 5 yrs ago but I'm not so sure now.
And certain ufologists doing the same for profit. Disclosure is always just around the corner. In the meantine, here is my book, come visit me at the ufo convention or watch me on my history channel show.
Now you listen here guy, just tell us where the UFOs are and nobody has to get hurt.
Sounds exactly like something an alien would say.
~~We~~ They prefer the term "extra terrestrial". Err, so I'm told.
https://www.aaro.mil/AARO-Reporting-Information/
Check out the reporting requirements: You must be a current or former government employee, and you must submit documents that are unclassified and contain no confidential information.
Which means nothing of consequence will ever be reported.
Cue Kirkpatrick:
"As of the time of my departure, none, let me repeat, none of the conspiracy-minded “whistleblowers” in the public eye had elected to come to AARO to provide their “evidence” and statement for the record despite numerous invitations. ”
Hopefully the next director will take the job seriously
Hey I didn't elect those idiots. My idiot believes in... let me check... shootin shit and drinkin wine? Is that really his congressional bio?
“[The Defense Intelligence Agency] concluded that not only did no such material exist, but taxpayer money was being inappropriately spent on paranormal research at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah,” Kirkpatrick said.
If paranormal activity exists anywhere it's at Skinwalker ranch.
Skeptical author Robert Sheaffer believes the phenomenon at Skinwalker to be "almost certainly illusory", given that NIDsci found no proof after several years of monitoring, and that the previous owners of the property, who had lived there for 60 years, say that no supernatural events of any kind had happened there. Sheaffer considers the "parsimonious explanation" to be that the Sherman family invented the story "prior to selling it to the gullible Bigelow", with many of the more extraordinary claims originating solely from Terry Sherman, who worked as a caretaker after the ranch was sold to Bigelow.[12]
In 1996, skeptic James Randi awarded Bigelow a tongue-in-cheek Pigasus Award for funding the purchase of the ranch and for supporting John E. Mack's and Budd Hopkins' investigations. The award category designated Bigelow as "the funding organization that supported the most useless study of a supernatural, paranormal or occult [claim]".[13]
In 2023, ufologist Barry Greenwood, writing in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, criticized the $22 million research program led by James Lacatski. He emphasized the lack of any documentary evidence from the ranch after many decades of exploration and characterized Skinwalker as "always in the business of selling belief and hope".[14]