the mellow tigger's musings

I find credible many of the stories about sightings of craft. Going back decades, there are just too many stories from too many credible people. Now, we can also add corroboration from radar, infrared, and other technologies. There are also tales of deathbed confessions, but we wade here into territory of second-hand accounts which are less trustworthy.

I find uncredible, however, all of the stories about encounters with aliens. From the modern feel-good stories like "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact Has Begun" (2020) to the older danger stories of Barney and Betty Hill to the even older mixed-outcome stories from Aleister Crowley, I just don't find any of them believable. People either have to be hypnotized to remember something (that maybe never happened at all), or they're stories told by somebody selling something: a book, a retreat, a movie, or an ego that needs soothing. The medical experimentation stories in particular seem unlikely, since they always seem to involve technology comparable to our own, not incredibly advanced like Star Trek or Star Wars fictions. And animal mutilations? That destruction seems unfortunately like a very human thing to do by a disturbed person benefiting from tech tools but without public oversight and accountability. The positive stories border on wishful thinking, with semi-visible healing entities and curious coincidences. Each of these biological encounter stories, however, puts a seed into the human mind that flourishes easily, as we often need narratives to explain our thread of life (past into future) in this universe.

By accepting the stories of extraterrestrial craft, then I also accept the stories of USA government coverup. Beginning with Roswell, which sounds plausibly like a botched coverup started too late, it seems likely that somebody within this government knows a lot of details that they aren't sharing with the public. From there, it also seems reasonable to conjecture that we will soon experience a staged "attack" to provide a fear-mongering narrative that helps perpetuate the continuing suppression of the real details. That's my short-term prediction.

From the sworn testimony provided so far to Congress, it seems that there are multiple civilizations represented by multiple craft designs. If we accept this point, then there are a few ideas that follow from it. Either 1) they are all very nearby while using sub-lightspeed transportation, or 2) they can visit Earth from far away by a transportation technology that isn't limited by the speed of light. Both of these scenarios make imminent invasion seem VERY unlikely. It would put these multiple civilizations either in conflict with each other (for galactic conflict over resources potentially spanning epochs) or in cahoots (begging the question how any such cooperation could be continued for epochs between potential enemies). I just don't believe invasion is likely. I find it FAR more likely that cooperation within certain rules is what explains the activity of these multiple civilizations. Given that UFO encounters seem to span decades, perhaps even centuries and millenia, all without the destruction or enslavement of humanity, then this long history makes the peaceful option the MOST likely explanation for what is happening now.

I suspect that whatever is happening now is less likely the stories of invasion from "Independence Day" (1996), "Buckaroo Bonzai" (1984), or "Three-Body" (2023). Instead, I suspect it is more likely the stories of curiosity and reluctant assistance from "The Abyss" (1989), "Contact" (1997), "Interstellar" (2014), "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), and maybe even an occasional "E.T." (1982).

This recent flashpoint started with the "We are not alone" interview of David Grusch by News Nation. News Nation is a reputable source of information, although this story has a history of being turned down by The New York Times and delayed by The Washington Post so they could spend more time vetting. Vice News provided a nice summary after that interview. But it's not just Grusch. People are giving testimony under oath to Congress and the Inspector General. News Nation also interviewed Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida, who claims that "A lot of these people came to us even before protections were in the law for whistleblowers to come forward".

The USA's Intelligence Authorization Act of 2024 (Section 1104, introduced June 22 but not yet passed) includes provisions that will protect defense contractor whistleblowers who provide information about UFOs. With this mental priming, it's hard to read the 1971 treaty between the USA and Russia, Article 3, and think both nations meant something other than extraterrestrial UFOs.

The bombshell claims reduce to at least one of the following:

1. A lot of very important people with very important titles for their very important positions in governments around the globe are insane, with no systemic response to identify and treat them.
2. There are people within the U.S. government who conduct coordinated lying campaigns whose domestic USA targets include the public, government employees, even Congress and the White House. They withhold information from anyone without an immediate need to know, much like that scene from the fictional movie "Independence Day" where someone told the president, "You didn't need to know" about the aliens. Whistleblowers (many of them, apparently) are now coming to Congress to divulge the maybe-only-lies that they were told. Taxpayers have been funding this psyops department for decades with no Congressional oversight, potentially making its operation illegal.
3. The U.S. government has retrieved several craft of non-human origin, and they have been reverse engineering the technologies involved, including things like materials, energy, and computing tech. These projects began in the 1940s. Other governments know. In particular Russia, China, Italy and the Vatican, Israel, and even Canada know.
4. Aliens are here and not averse to actively interacting with human civilization. They are apparently friendly (even according to a former Pentagon program head) except where the military is involved. Stories of UFO interference with military weapons go back at least to 1967. Now, go back up and read that link to Article 3 for the 1971 treaty between USA and Russia.