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Officials in Washington have been slowly, and somewhat strangely, beating a drum about UFOs for a while now. I say strangely because some of them — including Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley — seem awfully blithe about what would only be the most important event in the history of the world.
I had expected that drumbeat to reach more of a crescendo this week with the congressional testimony of a man named David Grusch. He’s a decorated combat officer who served in Afghanistan before going on to represent the National Reconnaissance Office in the Defense Department’s investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena or UAPs, the new government name for unidentified flying objects.
During the House committee hearing, Grusch spelled out what we’d been told to expect last month: Because of his decades of service in the military and intelligence communities, he wants us to buy the highly improbable claim that dozens of colleagues have all let him in on a covert “multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program” — not that he’s seen any of it firsthand, of course.
So now he’s blowing the whistle, he says. The government has recovered vehicles that didn’t originate on Earth. And “non-human” biological matter. Alien ships and bodies, in other words.
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