I’m convinced that the only group with more crackpots than religion, is the world of Ufologists.
In fact, a case could be made that by virtue of their magical thinking and emotional reasoning, lunacy is inextricably hardcoded into the DNA of both domains. For that reason alone, I feel very few things that adherents claim should ever be accepted at face value.
But then once in a blue moon, data is presented that is so unusual that it threatens to completely overturn our pre-conceived biases about a given subject. Even our biases about the domains of crackpots.
As I discussed last month, there’s been big spike in social media chatter about UAP’s (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) in 2023.
All the major cable news outlets, especially following the David Grusch congressional hearing in July, have likewise been running regular stories on the phenomena. Last week, nearly every mainstream news outlet featured a story about the 2,000 UAP sightings being reported just in the state of Maryland alone.
While the mainstream articles have been (mostly) sober-minded, social media chatter on places like TikTok and Instagram have been predictably untethered to reality and broadcasting the most exaggerated, speculative and conspiracy-driven elements of the phenomena.
One small example are the people on TikTok claiming there’s a 30-mile wide UFO parked somewhere in the Antarctica, with a large reptilian population guarding it. There are hundreds of competing variations on these ideas, each one more unhinged than the next. They pop up on my TikTok feed and provide entertainment while I’m on the toilet, alongside a sprinkling of “informative” yoga stretch videos and cat memes. On a good day, I get about 15 seconds of amusement between flushes. Most get skipped.
But I don’t ignore everything on the subject of UAPs.
It’s my conclusion, that if there’s one source that knows what’s behind UAP encounters, it must be the federal government.
Whether that phenomena is merely US secret technology being tested, mass hallucination, a deceptive psyops programs intended to screw with our enemies or actual non-human technology interacting in our world– it’s the federal government’s job to investigate and safeguard those facts. While we can’t say that they know everything as it relates to UAP sightings, they certainly know more than Joe Rogan. Or anyone else, for that matter.
And the official statements and documents they have recently released about the phenomena, are worth paying attention to.
Not because they provide some cryptic message to the legions of UFO enthusiasts, but because they objectively and at face value say things that are unsettling and strange. And we should be asking questions.
Exhibit A:
One previously-classified Defense Intelligence Agency report, released via FOIA in 2022
The document is available here on the Defense Intelligence Agency’s official site, along with many other previously-classified UAP reports. I find this one particularly strange and surprisingly forthright.
The average person has no interest in reading a 38-page document about the physical effects of exposure to ultra high frequency radiation, written in dense “gov’t speak”. It’s a slog to get through and it refers to bizarre phenomena in such rather matter-of-fact language, that it’s easy for a reader to gloss over what’s actually being said.
For those who have better things to do than cozy up with “Anomalous Acute and
Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues”, I will break it down– because it might be kind of important. And it just might be telling us the general direction where government disclosures are heading in the next few months or years.
Here’s the Cliff’s Notes:
1. On June 5, 1993, three unnamed antenna engineers, working at an undisclosed location, experienced an “accident”. (Already sounds like the premise for a sci-fi movie, right?)The Defense Intelligence Agency curiously puts the word accident in quotes (pg. 5). This is because an official medical narrative of the event, which was not classified, framed the incident as a simple accident on a radio antenna involving a skip winch tipping over. The de-classified Pentagon report tells a very different story.
2. For the three victims, the physical effects of the “accident” were severe. The engineers suffered heating and burn injuries consistent with a near-field radiological event, including inexplicable “skin eruptions”, fever, diarrhea, cardiac palpitations and loss of hair All experienced neurological effects, including “cognitive and neuromuscular” problems as well psychiatric effects like severe anxiety and sleep disturbances. One of the three would later suffer from “malignant transformations”. Pretty gnarly stuff, but common symptoms consistent with ultra high frequency radiation exposure.
3. The discrepancy between the public report and the classified one, involves how these men suffered the radiation injuries. The medical report says they slipped on an antenna that they were servicing. The Pentagon doc reveals that the three men actually experienced an “anomalous aerospace-related event” (pg. 5, Preface). WTF is that? The DIA defines “anomalous” in the preface as “irregular, incongruous and inconsistent with their domain”. The DIA does not give any specific details about the actual incident. It simply assumes that the readers of the classified document (other intelligence agencies within the Pentagon) already accept the reality of “anomalous aerospace technology“.
4. The DIA document repeatedly references things like
“advanced aerospace systems from UNKNOWN PROVENANCE” (pg. 5),
and also states that
“Humans have been found to have been injured from exposures to ANOMALOUS VEHICLES [emphasis mine], especially airborne, and when in relatively close proximity“(pg.6).
The summary also admits that “extensive, but controversial investigations…” (pg. 5) surrounded this “accident”.
What is LESS controversial, according to the DIA,
“is [the] relatively comprehensive literature on reported deleterious effects from exposure at close ranges to perceived ANOMALOUS AIRCRAFT OF APPARENT ADVANCED DESIGN.” (pg. 9).
The word “anomalous”, in reference to advanced aerospace vehicles, appears in the report 29 times.
5. The DIA suggests that in certain cases where the physiological effects (physical injury from near-field radiation exposure) from reported contact with anomalous vehicles cannot be denied, the crackpots should not be dismissed out of hand. This is astonishing to me.
“Amongst the systems described are those of special interest in this effort: claimed injury from near-field exposures to aerospace anomalous vehicles and systems. As will be described, the pattern and circumstances of injury very often belie nay-sayer attempts to discredit witnesses, analysts, and those who suffer directly or indirectly from the systems. Even those who are, from time to time, delusional…are not necessarily poor reporters of information outside their particular and personal delusion”. (pg. 11)
6. The Defense Intelligence Agency even gives a hypothesis on why people close to an “anomalous vehicle” of “unknown provenance”, might be experiencing near-field exposure effects. Mind you, this is one hypothesis. But this isn’t some YouTuber or TikTok user speculating. This is an intelligence branch of the federal government talking about anomalous devices that may warp space/time and impact human bystanders. And this document was classified for 12 years, until last year:
“To give but one hypothesis with regard to exotic mechanisms, there is the possibility that those are effects predicted by General Relativity Theory that would correlate with some of the reported data in which the blackbody heat spectrum of an object (an anomalous craft) would be blue-shifted (increased in frequency) under conditions of spacetime manipulation for lift and propulsion. Were a human exposed to blue-shifting at relatively close range, symptoms associated with broadband radiation – microwave, visible, UV, soft X-rays – could be expected… Medical data supports this option.” (pg. 14)
7. The DIA acknowledges and makes reference to one particular unexplained medical phenomena of near contact exposure to anomalous vehicles/objects:
“An observation made often, in the literature of aerospace related reports of anomalous object after-effects, clinically valid, but not linked to any observed heating effect, is the appearance of what appear to be 1-3 cm localized circumscribed erythematous, occasionally gangrenous, and sub-dermal wheals, boils, and serosanguinous abrasions. These injuries appear concomitantly with what are otherwise felt to be burns from microwave or other RF injuries, except they are often found on clothed parts of the body, at a distance from the worst second degree burns. And, dermatologically, they can’t be diagnosed as thermal or RF-related injuries.” (pg.18)
8. In its summary, the paper suggests that studying the physical phenomena associated with these craft of unknown origin may be of assistance in understanding future mysterious aerospace systems which could be threats to US interests. Slightly ominous, or is it just me?
“This paper relates, summarizes, and analyzes evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems. Additionally, an argument is made that the subsequent work can inform (e.g., reverse engineer), through clinical diagnoses, certain physical characteristics of possible future advanced aerospace systems from unknown provenance that may be a threat to United States interests“. (pg 6)
Any suggestion that I am reading into this de-classified intelligence report and inserting some kind of magical or crackpot bias, need only consult the classified paper’s references in pages 26-29– which cite several documents, books and authors unambiguously connected to UFO encounters and effects of exposure to UAPs. Jacques Vallée is cited here, for god’s sake! In a Pentagon paper! (For those that don’t know, Vallée is an 84-year old author, scientist and prominent Ufologist)
The government paper makes a startling admission, which does give credence to what many UFO enthusiasts have been saying for decades.
“Classified information exists that is highly pertinent to the subject of this study, and only a small part of the classified literature has been released”. (pg. 11)
This doesn’t mean that crackpots aren’t sill delusional victims of their own magical thinking. It simply means that sometimes, while stumbling around in the fog of their own wild imaginations, crackpots may actually trip on something of historical importance.
And we shouldn’t let their evident pathologies dissuade us from acknowledging the parts that very well might be true. No matter how unhinged they may seem.
