I can’t vouch for the site public.substack.com, but it says the U.S. government has “12 or more” alien spacecraft. I have seen it referenced by other, more mainstream, news organizations, for what that’s worth. We weren’t supposed to take this stuff seriously, and then we were supposed to accept that “unexplained aerial phenomena” existed but weren’t necessarily aliens in origin, and now we are supposed to believe they maybe are?

But, Grusch said, he soon learned that United States government possessed “quite a number” of different kinds of non-human vehicles. “I have plenty of current and former senior intelligence officers who came to me — many of whom I knew almost my whole career — [and] who confided in me.”

This is not the first time government officials have suggested that the U.S. may possess alien spaceships. “I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials,” said the late Senator Harry Reid, who fought for greater disclosure. “And I tried to get, as I recall, a classified approval by the Pentagon to have me go look at the stuff. They would not approve that.”

Former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Christopher Mellon, recently reported that he has spoken to more than four witnesses who say they know of “a secret U.S. government program involving the analysis and exploitation of materials recovered from off-world craft… Some have supplied information to the intelligence community’s inspector general, others directly to the staff of the congressional oversight committees.”

public.substack.com

Thoughts: (1) There’s always the Fermi Paradox. If we are here, and life arises by some sort of random chance under the right conditions, there just simply should be aliens out there given the size and age of the universe. And there should be a lot of them. (2) Another logical explanation is still that somebody here on Earth has more advanced technology than everybody else here on Earth, and is hiding it from everybody else using disinformation about aliens. Both the U.S. and Soviet Union are known to have done this during the Cold War. (3) Maybe alien civilizations released autonomous probes a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and they are cruising our atmosphere now gathering information. Maybe they are just machines, but machines that interact with known laws of physics in more advanced or different ways than human machines have to date. (4) Maybe aliens are all around us and have the technology to hide themselves from us, and have chosen for whatever reason not to interact with us directly (this is a well-known logical resolution of the Fermi Paradox). Or maybe human governments have or are interacting with them and are keeping that secret from each other and/or from the public. In this case though, it seems odd to me that they would need toys zipping around in the atmosphere to gather information. Surely they would have nanotechnology or remote sensing (which we have) or other ways of gathering information undetected. Or maybe the vehicles are just that – toys.

I tend to believe that intelligent life is out there, based on the logic of #1. But I also tend to suspect these particular vehicles we are hearing about are somebody here on Earth messing with us under the logic of #2. Let’s say the U.S. military-industrial complex has made even a small advance related to, say, the nature of gravitational fields and how to mess with them. That would put them ahead of everybody else, particular so-called “near peer rivals” who are trying to spy and catch up on the technology. They then come up with a propaganda campaign that they strategically leak (with or without cooperation) to a few key politicians and media organizations. That might throw the spies off the trail at least for a little while, and with whatever time that buys the scientists and technologists can try to stay another step ahead.