Posted on 07/12/2023 1:45:46 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
It’s been a busy few weeks for Stephen Bassett, Washington’s veteran UFO lobbyist.
Early last month, an ex-U.S. intelligence official who once worked with the Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force went public with claims that the federal government has recovered non-human spacecraft. The former official, David Grusch, does not claim to have seen the crashed spacecraft himself. Rather, in an interview with The Debrief, he said he had heard accounts of their existence over the course of his work. And in an interview with NewsNation, Grusch went even further. “Well, naturally, when you recover something that’s either landed or crashed,” he said, “sometimes you encounter dead pilots and, believe it or not, as fantastical as that sounds, it’s true.”
Washingtonian recently caught up with Bassett for his thoughts on Grusch’s allegations and how they might impact UFO-related issues in Washington.
What do you make of Grusch’s claims?
Absolutely legit. One hundred percent legit. He was at the task force. His whole background is legit. So the idea that he would make up false reports from non-existent people and take that to the DOD? It’s a one-in-a-million shot. So it’s legit, period.
What’s the significance of the claims he’s made?
In other words, [Grusch is saying,] “Yeah we have alien tech. Yes, we have crashed vehicles. And yes, we have bodies.” It’s not a surprise to me. The people in my world have been stating this, and putting the evidence forward that we’ve had these vehicles, for years. Now [Grusch] just confirmed it. Well, this was a bomb going off and that really sets a lot in motion and creates a lot of problems for the Senate [Intelligence] Committee and for the White House, because they are not ready to deal with alien craft and bodies.
Where do you think the issue goes from here?
[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman] Mark Warner is in a really tough position now. Grusch has put the Christmas tree up and [Congress has] no choice but to start hanging ornaments on it. They have got to get those witnesses in front of that committee as soon as possible, or this thing is going to become completely out of hand. So the next thing that is going to happen is that Warner, or possibly Warner and [Senator Marco] Rubio together, will make a formal announcement and a press release that hearings on this will start on such and such a date.
DC’s UFO Lobbyist Doesn’t Buy the White House’s Extraterrestrial Denial
In light of Grusch’s claims, how far away are we from what you call “disclosure”—or the confirmation by the U.S. President of the existence of the extraterrestrials? Once they get the witnesses to testify, which would almost certainly include Grusch and anybody else prepared to testify directly to ET technology in our hands, which means Roswell was real, which Grusch has alluded to—two weeks.
Two weeks?
From the day the hearings start. Because here is the situation: The hearings are going to be probably the most watched hearings in history. So hundreds of millions of people are watching this testimony unfold. They are watching these questions being asked. The media is going nuts. Articles every day. Groundbreaking. After two weeks of that, what are you [as the U.S. president] going to do? You’ve got to go and make an announcement and say, “Look, I’ve talked to the Secretary of Defense. I’ve talked to the key Congressional leaders, and I’ve watched this testimony, and it’s pretty convincing. I think that we now can be assured that in fact, this is nonhuman in origin.” Or [Biden] may say “extraterrestrial presence.” But it is nonhuman, and it’s not our tech. That’s disclosure. Capital D. Bingo. That’s it.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingonian.com ...
Freepers should watch the hearings even if they will have trouble resisting the temptation to yell “squirrel”.
;-)
As an aside, I am surprised there is a such a thing as a professional "UFO lobbyist"...
That's the job for me!
Who represents Bigfoot?
Another fuzzy picture will be released soon!!
The UFO pysop continues.
Youve just created a job for yourself.
where is the mother ship?
In other words the DC folks need a distraction from Biden, both himself and the Republicans that are facing calls to impeach Biden.
I am still waiting for my flying car.
There's a big bonus if you can destroy the reputations of military pilots who have seen one. There's a smaller bonus for people willing to damage the reputations of commercial pilots.
“professional “UFO lobbyist”.
I think that job description belonged to Stephen Bassett for decades.
He was always claiming that disclosure was coming “any day now”—for thirty years!
When I attended a UFO conference years ago he was the only speaker that was so pathetic I had to walk out in the middle of his talk.
Precisely. To think otherwise is just damn silly. The latest bright shiny bauble to dangle before the easily distracted.
Dear UFO creatures:
Thanks for stopping by.
Whatever you want the answer is no.
Have a safe trip back.
Goodbye.
Sincerely,
Ben
an aside, I am surprised there is a such a thing as a professional “UFO lobbyist”...
That’s the job for me!
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The ultimate Foreign agent rep. But try to cash a check from some unknown nebula at a credit union around heren
Absolutely. Conservative news outlets should reject this distraction out of hand.
Instead even OANN and others are neck-deep in this garbage, and every third FoxNews article is UFO/AARO.
People who yell squirrel and the same government agents who are encouraging military drag shows.;-)
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