It surely does now.
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.
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“Who represents Bigfoot?”
BFRO
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The Aliens don’t recognize Biden’s Seventh Grandchild!
Yeah we never heard the investigation report once the cops got to the scene. I just know if I have a crashed ship and 2 aliens with big eyes looking at me I would likely grab my gun and phone.
“Full PUBIC display?”
A little gender Candor....ah?
Common sense would tell us that no aliens traveling across light years of space would stop at Earth to observe humans. Of course, they might have just needed to make a bathroom stop...and we do have some good fast-food restaurants (Chic-fil-la can be pretty good).
It surely does now.
Yeh, the foods good but the crime is terrible. 😆
You either believe UFOs are mechanical entities from civilizations hundreds of light years away or you believe Einstein’s theory of relativity. You can’t believe both. Now that is not to say that advanced alien civilizations don’t exist or do not know we exist. Humans have been transmitting logical radio transmissions for over 120 years first in analog and the digitally. It is not unreasonable to assume an alien civilization say fifty light years away has heard them and learned much about us, our planet and its atmosphere. Now it would be a physical impossibility for a mechanical device carrying biological entities to actually visit but an advanced civilization could send radio waves that use our atmosphere as a video screen. This would account for sightings of rapidly moving images that leave no physical trace. Who knows? Perhaps there are a string of alien civilizations linked by long distance radio transmissions. Perhaps one day soon our computers may receive a truly wondrous transmission.
Or at a Wendy's in Atlanta.
That could start a galactic war.
The more that comes out about this stuff, the more it sounds "paranormal" and not so sci-fi. More like Amityville Horror than Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Lectroids from Planet 10.
That species was trapped and eaten into extinction right about the time baseball was invented.
While likely to wind up at such a contractor, it depends on if our current understanding of physics would allow us to understand what we got our hands on, and could figure out how to make it work. An example would be an F-35 in the hands of the military in the 1930s. While hydraulic systems might be easily understandable, the software and various chips would be a mystery. Not to mention some of the metallurgy. And that’s same species and technological ‘culture’. Wonder what would happen with something built by a species that has a different technological ‘culture’, and utilizes scalar fields, for instance. And that would be something close to what we know. Just my 11 cents.
The non-human intelligence might not be extra-terrestrial at all... They may have been here the entire time. We’ll see I guess.
Yes and a lot of other issues.
I agree with those generals.
Attention Ben:
SURRENDER EARTHLINGS!! YOU ARE DOOMED!!
“I wouldn’t think it would be such an emotional subject. It’s no more a distraction than the most recent decline in Bud Light sales.
But some people really get bent out of shape about it.”
Because it is not understood. And what we do not understand we claim as Demonic and ungodly. It is the 12 century syndrome still in effect.
Sometimes spell check is not your FRen’ !
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