UFOs are back with a vengeance. They’ve been all over mainstream news in the last few years, and most recently after former intelligence officer and so-called UFO whistleblower David Grusch testified under oath before the US senate on Wednesday 26 July.
Grusch worked for the US Defence Department until 2023. His job was to analyse reports of UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena – the fashionable euphemism for UFOs), and while he was there, he saw some incredible things. Well, he didn’t actually see them, but he spoke to people who did. Or perhaps he spoke to people who had spoken to people… But in any case, he got the nod from the intelligence services to go public. Which is very sporting of them, given that intelligence agencies around the world are known for deception, manipulation, assassination, human experiments and God knows what else. If you doubt that, look up MKULTRA.
Biologics From Another Dimension
In any case, the stories told by Grusch are pretty remarkable. He claimed under oath that the US government had retrieved crashed craft of non-human origin and had been reverse engineering the technology since the 1930s. Furthermore, some of the craft had pilots – or as Grusch referred to them – ‘biologics’ that were not of this world. In his testimony and previous interviews, Grusch seems careful to avoid referring to aliens as such, suggesting they could be ‘biologics’ from another dimension.
However, details in Grusch’s testimony are scant. He hasn’t seen anything himself. Nor has he revealed any names, and this leads to the suspicion that these claims might be the result of Chinese whispers. On the other hand, Grusch supposedly had very high security clearance – in other words, he was in close contact with the murky world of espionage and big dollar defence. This automatically makes him a rather shady character, in my book. Call me cynical if you like.
And if we had been reverse engineering these amazing craft from beyond our world for nearly a hundred years, surely we’d all have our jet packs by now?
The Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough denied any claims of aliens or extraterrestrial materials (interestingly, she didn’t address the suggestion that the craft and beings were from another dimension rather than another planet).
The Big One
These claims that the big alien reveal is about to happen are nothing new. We’ve all heard of the supposed crashed flying saucer in Roswell. The authorities later claimed it was just a weather balloon, though it may actually have been a spying device designed to float high in the atmosphere and pick up signs of Soviet nuclear tests. But for many, the Roswell Case was the one. This case would convince the sceptics and prove that the UFO believers were right all along. Nope.
There was also the time when the Secretary General of the United Nations saw a woman and three little aliens fly out of her New York apartment and be beamed up into a UFO hovering overhead. In some versions of the legend, the very important witness was named as Boutros Butros- Ghali, though I’ve also seen it told as happening to Kofi Annan, too. Budd Hopkins – often considered the father of alien abduction research – wrote about it in his book Witnessed: the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions. Let’s just say the evidence for this tall tale relies on unreliable witnesses, unreliable hypnosis and unreliable mysterious phone calls… This case was also seen as the one – the case to end all cases. Nope.
So, regarding the Grusch claims, if you’re expecting major revelations from the powers that be that they have retrieved crashed saucers and ‘biologics’, I fear you will be disappointed. At least if the past history of ufological ‘cases to end all cases’ is anything to go by, and I think it is. With UFOs, the big disclosure of the TRUTH is always round the corner, is coming any day soon, and this one will be the case to end all cases… the one.
I think there’s more chance of Mr Godot turning up.
Which Bastards Want us to Believe This and Why?
This raises the question of why we are being given this ‘news’ now.
News isn’t something out there that’s waiting to be discovered by intrepid journalists and then communicated to their readers and viewers. News is created, curated and spun. If something’s on the news, then that means that someone powerful wants us to believe it, or at least be distracted by it.
So the first question to ask about any news item is: WHICH BASTARDS WANT ME TO BELIEVE THIS AND WHY?
The same applies to the current UFO flap. So, which bastards want us to believe in an alien (sorry, biologic) invasion and why? Have US intelligence agencies suddenly decided to embrace transparency, come clean and let the noble whistle-blower tell the world the truth? This seems highly unlikely.
It’s certainly possible that the US authorities want to distract the populace and the world media from the disastrous war in Ukraine, which is not going as planned. Russia has not collapsed under the unprecedented sanctions loaded upon it, and Ukraine’s much vaunted spring offensive has not succeeded. Ukraine, the USA, NATO and the collective west are staring defeat in the face. Anything that diverts the headlines away from the catastrophe might seem worth a shot.
There are also domestic issues that US elites might want to draw attention away from. One is Hunter Biden’s gun and tax related legal shenanigans, and the other is that more and more of America’s senior politicians are too senile to string a sentence together.
Another possibility is that the defence and intelligence agencies are hoping that trumpeting a vague non-human threat might release more funding for weaponry allowing for further militarisation of space. As countries start to turn their back on the dollar, Russia confronts NATO expansion and China grows in power and influence, could the militarisation of space be a desperate means for the moribund US empire to hang on to its global hegemony, as Caitlin Johnson has recently argued? Is the Empire preparing to strike back… from space? I don’t know, but it seems more likely than biologics from another dimension.
Of course, it’s also possible that Grusch is a fantasist – there are a lot of them about. Some perfectly sane people struggle to distinguish reality and fantasy and have what we might kindly call an overactive imagination. They’re known as ‘Fantasy Prone Personality’ types, and could make up four per cent of the population.
Maybe it’s all one big hoax, like the alien autopsy footage broadcast in 1995, and later made into a movie starring Ant and Dec. That fake footage of actors pretending to be scientists dissecting a latex little grey man was also the one, by the way. The case to end all cases… You get my point.
Who knows. We live in interesting times. May we one day return to more boring times.
Until then, I’m sticking with my paranoid question about these crashed saucers and the ‘biologics’ from the Twilight Zone – Which bastards want me to believe this, and why?
Paul Weatherhead 