#Ralph Blumenthal

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“The whistleblower, David Charles Grusch, 36, a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.

The task force was established to investigate what were once called “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs, and are now officially called “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP. The task force was led by the Department of the Navy under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. It has since been reorganized and expanded into the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to include investigations of objects operating underwater.

Grusch said the recoveries of partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the government, its allies, and defense contractors. Analysis has determined that the objects retrieved are “of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin) based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures,” he said.

In filing his complaint, Grusch is represented by a lawyer who served as the original Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG).

(…)

Grusch’s disclosures, and those of non-public witnesses, under new protective provisions of the latest defense appropriations bill, signal a growing determination by some in the government to unravel a colossal enigma with national security implications that has bedeviled the military and tantalized the public going back to World War II and beyond. For many decades, the Air Force carried out a disinformation campaign to discredit reported sightings of unexplained objects. Now, with two public hearings and many classified briefings under its belt, Congress is pressing for answers.

(…)

Grusch prepared many briefs on unidentified aerial phenomena for Congress while in government and helped draft the language on UAP for the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act, spearheaded by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Marco Rubio and signed into law by President Biden in December 2022. The provision states that any person with relevant UAP information can inform Congress without retaliation, regardless of any previous non-disclosure agreements.

(…)

He said he reported to Congress on the existence of a decades-long “publicly unknown Cold War for recovered and exploited physical material – a competition with near-peer adversaries over the years to identify UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering to garner asymmetric national defense advantages.”

Beginning in 2022, Grusch provided Congress with hours of recorded classified information transcribed into hundreds of pages which included specific data about the materials recovery program. Congress has not been provided with any physical materials related to wreckage or other non-human objects.

(…)

“His assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence,” said Karl Nell, the retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force.

(…)

Grusch said it was dangerous for this “eighty-year arms race” to continue in secrecy because it “further inhibits the world populace to be prepared for an unexpected, non-human intelligence contact scenario.”

“I hope this revelation serves as an ontological shock sociologically and provides a generally uniting issue for nations of the world to re-assess their priorities,” Grusch said.”

[eksopolitiikka]

Haastattelussa John Mackin elämästä kirjoittanut Ralph Blumenthal

Haastattelussa John Mackin elämästä kirjoittanut Ralph Blumenthal

Tieteen sokkeloisissa saloissa vain harvat ovat uskaltaneet kulkea UFO-tutkimuksen kiistanalaisella tiellä. Tohtori John Mack, Harvardin lääketieteellisen tiedekunnan arvostettu psykiatrian professori, on yksi näistä rohkeista pioneereista, joiden tutkimus avaruusolentojen sieppausilmiöstä on herättänyt sekä epäluuloa että kiistelyä. Pulitzer-palkittu toimittaja Ralph Blumenthal on kuvannut yksityiskohtaisesti tohtori Mackin matkan kirjassaan The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. Hän tarjoaa kiehtovan katsauksen sellaisen miehen elämään, joka on valmis haastamaan perinteisen viisauden ja puhdasoppisuuden.

John Mack aloitti UFO-tutkimuksen vuonna 1990 törmättyään abduktiotutkija Bud Hopkinsin töihin. Mack kutsui niitä, jotka väittivät tulleensa avaruusolentojen sieppaamiksi, pikemminkin ”kokijoiksi” kuin ”siepatuiksi”, mikä kuvastaa hänen tuomitsemattomuuttaan ja humanistista lähestymistapaansa. Alle kahdessa vuodessa hän oli järjestänyt Harvardissa luennon, jossa hän esitteli useita kokijoita ja kertoi karmivan kertomuksen naisesta, joka väitti, että avaruusolennot olivat tehneet hänet raskaaksi.

Mackin epäsovinnainen tutkimustapa sai kuitenkin Harvardin kollegoidensa jyrkän vastustuksen, sillä he pitivät sitä epätieteellisenä ja empiirisen näytön puutteena. Myös hänen yrityksensä julkaista tutkimustuloksiaan akateemisissa lehdissä kohtasivat vastustusta aiheen monimutkaisuuden vuoksi. Esimerkiksi New England Journal of Medicine -lehti ei suostunut edes avaamaan hänen julkaisukuortaan. Mack uskoi, että artikkeli ei riittänyt vangitsemaan hänen tutkimuksensa vivahteita. Sen sijaan hän näki, että ilmiötä olisi tutkittava kirjassa.

Harvardin hallinto käynnisti tutkimuksen Mackin työstä vuonna 1994, pian hänen kirjansa julkaisemisen jälkeen. Tutkimus toi esiin maailmankatsomusten yhteentörmäyksen: Harvardin komitean empiirisen, reduktionistisen näkökulman ja Mackin ennakkoluulottoman tutkimuksen, joka koski kokemusasiantuntijoilta saatujen anekdoottisten mutta vakuuttavien todisteiden tutkimista. Huolimatta komitean vaatimuksesta, jonka mukaan todistamatonta ei ole olemassa, Mack pysyi kannassaan ja väitti, että jotakin todella tapahtui, vaikka se uhmasi perinteistä tieteellistä selitystä.

Lopulta Mack selvisi tutkinnasta vahingoittumattomana. Hän sai jatkaa tutkimustyötään ilman seuraamuksia, vaikka häntä varoitettiin hillitsemästä innostustaan. Tämä tapahtuma osoitti hänen luonteensa lujuuden, joka heijastui hänen kirjoituksissaan, puheissaan ja henkilökohtaisessa elämässään. Varoituksista huolimatta Mack pysyi intohimoisesti omistautuneena tutkimustyölleen, kunnes kuoli ennenaikaisesti auto-onnettomuudessa vuonna 2004.

Tohtori John Mackin tarina osoittaa, miten monimutkaista on suunnistaa epätavanomaisilla tutkimuspoluilla perinteisessä akateemisessa ympäristössä. Hänen työnsä haastaa tieteellisen materialismin tyypilliset rajat ja saa meidät pohtimaan mahdollisuuksia, jotka saattavat olla ymmärryksemme ulottumattomissa. Kun jatkamme tuntemattoman tutkimista, hänen tarinansa toimii majakkana, joka muistuttaa meitä siitä rohkeudesta, jota totuuden etsiminen vaatii vastustuksesta huolimatta.

John Mackin intohimo ja omistautuminen UFO-tutkimukselle ei ainoastaan siirtänyt rajoja, vaan myös rohkaisi muita kyseenalaistamaan, tutkimaan ja selvittämään maailmankaikkeuden mysteerejä. Hänen tarinansa on edelleen inspiraationa niille, jotka ovat halukkaita astumaan polkujen ulkopuolelle, ja se on osoitus ihmisen loputtomasta uteliaisuudesta, joka ajaa meitä ymmärtämään paikkaamme kosmoksessa. Hänen kestävä perintönsä rohkaisee meitä aina etsimään totuutta, vaikka se tuntuisi kuinka epätavalliselta tai pelottavalta.

  Artikkelin julkaissut Latest UFO Sightings

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[singularfortean]

Is this latest claim out of ufology bringing us closer to disclosure?

[frank-olivier]

Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean have written an article in The New York Times about Luis Elizondo's upcoming memoir titled "Imminent: The Pentagon Hunt for U.F.O.s," set to be released on August 20, 2024.

A Memoir Offers an Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s U.F.O. Hunt (August 2024)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/16/books/booksupdate/imminent-luiz-elizondo.html

Friday, August 16, 2024

[auroraluciferi]

A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.

The information, he says, has been illegally withheld from Congress, and he filed a complaint alleging that he suffered illegalretaliation for his confidential disclosures, reported here for the first time.

Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record.

The whistleblower, David Charles Grusch, 36, a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.

The task force was established to investigate what were once called “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs, and are now officially called “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP. The task force was led by the Department of the Navy under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. It has since been reorganized and expanded into the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to include investigations of objects operating underwater.

Grusch said the recoveries of partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the government, its allies, and defense contractors. Analysis has determined that the objects retrieved are “of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin) based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures,” he said.

In filing his complaint, Grusch is represented by a lawyer who served as the original Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG).

“We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,” Grusch said, referencing information he provided Congress and the current ICIG.

“The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.”

source

[workersolidarity]

Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin - The Debrief

Well, it's finally happened.

A Govt whistleblower the Govt itself has found to be credible has come forward claiming the US Government has intact and partially intact alien craft and has been studying them for decades.

Surprise! Not a surprise!

[gravity-rainbow]

Grusch said the recoveries of partial fragments through and up to intact vehicles have been made for decades through the present day by the government, its allies, and defense contractors. Analysis has determined that the objects retrieved are “of exotic origin (non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin) based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures,” he said.

[pugzman3]

Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin - The Debrief

[kp777]

By Adam Gabbatt

The Guardian

June 6, 2023

The US has been urged to disclose evidence of UFOs after a whistleblower former intelligence official said the government has possession of “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles.

The former intelligence official David Grusch, who led analysis of unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) within a US Department of Defense agency, has alleged that the US has craft of non-human origin.

Information on these vehicles is being illegally withheld from Congress, Grusch told the Debrief. Grusch said when he turned over classified information about the vehicles to Congress he suffered retaliation from government officials. He left the government in April after a 14-year career in US intelligence.

Jonathan Grey, a current US intelligence official at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (Nasic), confirmed the existence of “exotic materials” to the Debrief, adding: “We are not alone.”

The disclosures come after a swell of credible sightings and reports have revived attention in alien ships, and potentially visits, in recent years.

In 2021, the Pentagon released a report on UAP – the term is preferred to UFO by much of the extraterrestrial community – which found more than 140 instances of UAP encounters that could not be explained.

The report followed a leak of military footage that showed apparently inexplicable happenings in the sky, while navy pilots testified that they had frequently had encounters with strange craft off the US coast.

In an interview with the Debrief journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, who previously exposed the existence of a secret Pentagon program that investigated UFOs, Grusch said the US government and defense contractors had been recovering fragments of non-human craft, and in some cases entire craft, for decades.

“We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,” Grusch said. “The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.”

Grusch told the Debrief that analysis determined that this material is “of exotic origin” – meaning “non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin”.

“[This assessment is] based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures,” Grusch said.

Grey, who, according to the Debrief, analyzes unexplained anomalous phenomena within the Nasic, confirmed Grusch’s account.

“The non-human intelligence phenomenon is real. We are not alone,” Grey said. “Retrievals of this kind are not limited to the United States. This is a global phenomenon, and yet a global solution continues to elude us.”

The Debrief spoke to several of Grusch’s former colleagues, each of whom vouched for his character. Karl E Nell, a retired army colonel, said Grusch was “beyond reproach”. In a 2022 performance review seen by the Debrief, Grusch was described as “an officer with the strongest possible moral compass”.

Read more.

[eksopolitiikka]

Ufologiaa tolkun ihmisille: Typerysten avaruusalus

UFO-tutkimuksen ja ufologian piireissä on välillä taipumusta kulttimaiseen ajatteluun ja yksipuoliseen asioiden käsittelyyn. Ilmiöillä on myös nurja puolensa, josta tässä artikkelissa puhutaan. Toisaalta ufologia on myös jakautunut pieniin leireihin, jotka kiistelevät keskenään. Tämä artikkeli on julkaistu, jotta ihmiset saisivat tasapainoisemman kuvan siitä mitä kulisseissa tapahtuu UFO-paljastuksen edetessä. Kriitikot ovat esittäneet väitteitä, että David Grusch ei […] https://eksopolitiikka.fi/eksopolitiikka/ufologiaa-tolkun-ihmisille-typerysten-avaruusalus/

[claudiosuenaga]

Oficiais de Inteligência dizem que os Estados Unidos recuperaram naves de origem não humana

Os jornalistas Leslie Kean e Ralph Blumenthal trouxeram a público na última segunda-feira, 5 de junho, no site The Debrief, as palavras do ex-oficial de Inteligência dos Estados Unidos David Charles Grusch, que se apresentou alegando que o governo está de posse de vários "veículos" não humanos, graças a um programa secreto encarregado de recuperar materiais de locais de acidentes.

Em entrevista ao The Debrief, um site de notícias com foco na ciência e tecnologia de ponta, Grusch disse que apresentou documentos classificados ao Congresso e ao Inspetor Geral da Comunidade de Inteligência sobre os programas secretos que estavam sendo mantidos ilegalmente longe dos congressistas.

Grusch garantiu que os EUA vêm recuperando tecnologias não humanas de locais de acidentes há décadas. “Não estamos falando de origens ou identidades prosaicas”, disse o ex-oficial de inteligência em relação aos materiais e objetos exóticos detalhados em seu relatório ao Congresso. “O material inclui veículos intactos e parcialmente intactos.”

De acordo com o The Debrief, Grusch atuou como representante do Escritório Nacional de Reconhecimento [National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)] para a Força-Tarefa de Fenômenos Anômalos Não Identificados [Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)] dos EUA de 2019 a 2021. Ele então trabalhou para a Agência Nacional de Inteligência Geoespacial [National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)] até julho de 2022, onde co-liderou a análise UAP e, mais uma vez, serviu como representante da força-tarefa, que desde então foi reorganizada e renomeada como Escritório de Resolução de Anomalias de Todos os Domínios [All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)], que opera dentro do Gabinete do Secretário de Defesa dos EUA.

NRO, NGA e AARO: as três agências onde David Charles Grusch atuou.

Durante esse tempo, ele diz que foi abordado e depois entrevistou vários colegas de alto escalão que lhe forneceram depoimentos orais e documentos detalhando os programas de resgate clandestinos, que foram ocultados da força-tarefa. Segundo Grusch, alguns dos materiais retirados dos locais do acidente eram “de origem exótica” e apresentavam “arranjos atômicos únicos e assinaturas radiológicas”. Esses materiais estão  passando por engenharia reversa para “obter vantagens assimétricas de defesa nacional” para os Estados Unidos sobre seus adversários.

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Chrissy Newton (The Debrief)

Leslie Kean & Ralph Blumenthal: Former Intelligence Official David Grusch Says U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin (June 2023)

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

[irnbru]

US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles

Whistleblower former intelligence official says government possesses ‘intact and partially intact’ craft of non-human origin

The US has been urged to disclose evidence of UFOs after a whistleblower former intelligence official said the government has possession of “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles.

The former intelligence official David Grusch, who led analysis of unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) within a US Department of Defense agency, has alleged that the US has craft of non-human origin.

Information on these vehicles is being illegally withheld from Congress, Grusch told the Debrief. Grusch said when he turned over classified information about the vehicles to Congress he suffered retaliation from government officials. He left the government in April after a 14-year career in US intelligence.

Jonathan Grey, a current US intelligence official at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (Nasic), confirmed the existence of “exotic materials” to the Debrief, adding: “We are not alone.”

The disclosures come after a swell of credible sightings and reports have revived attention in alien ships, and potentially visits, in recent years.

In 2021, the Pentagon released a report on UAP – the term is preferred to UFO by much of the extraterrestrial community – which found more than 140 instances of UAP encounters that could not be explained.

The report followed a leak of military footage that showed apparently inexplicable happenings in the sky, while navy pilots testified that they had frequently had encounters with strange craft off the US coast.

In an interview with the Debrief journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, who previously exposed the existence of a secret Pentagon program that investigated UFOs, Grusch said the US government and defense contractors had been recovering fragments of non-human craft, and in some cases entire craft, for decades.

“We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,” Grusch said. “The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.”

Grusch told the Debrief that analysis determined that this material is “of exotic origin” – meaning “non-human intelligence, whether extraterrestrial or unknown origin”.

“[This assessment is] based on the vehicle morphologies and material science testing and the possession of unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures,” Grusch said.

Grey, who, according to the Debrief, analyzes unexplained anomalous phenomena within the Nasic, confirmed Grusch’s account.

“The non-human intelligence phenomenon is real. We are not alone,” Grey said. “Retrievals of this kind are not limited to the United States. This is a global phenomenon, and yet a global solution continues to elude us.”

The Debrief spoke to several of Grusch’s former colleagues, each of whom vouched for his character. Karl E Nell, a retired army colonel, said Grusch was “beyond reproach”. In a 2022 performance review seen by the Debrief, Grusch was described as “an officer with the strongest possible moral compass”.

Nick Pope, who spent the early 1990s investigating UFOs for the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), said Grusch and Grey’s account of alien materials was “very significant”.

“It’s one thing to have stories on the conspiracy blogs, but this takes it to the next level, with genuine insiders coming forward,” Pope said.

“When these people make these formal complaints, they do so on the understanding that if they’ve knowingly made a false statement, they are liable to a fairly hefty fine, and/or prison.

“People say: ‘Oh, people make up stories all the time.’ But I think it’s very different to go before Congress and go to the intelligence community inspector general and do that. Because there will be consequences if it emerges that this is not true.”

The Debrief reported that Grusch’s knowledge of non-human materials and vehicles was based on “extensive interviews with high-level intelligence officials”. He said he had reported the existence of a UFO material “recovery program” to Congress.

“Grusch said that the craft recovery operations are ongoing at various levels of activity and that he knows the specific individuals, current and former, who are involved,” the Debrief reported.

In the Debrief article, Grusch does not say he has personally seen alien vehicles, nor does he say where they may be being stored. He asked the Debrief to withhold details of retaliation by government officials due to an ongoing investigation.

He also does not specify how he believes the government retaliated against him.

In June 2021, a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that from 2004 to 2021 there were 144 encounters between military pilots and UAP, 80 of which were captured on multiple sensors. Only one of the 144 encounters could be explained with “high confidence” – it was a large, deflating balloon.

Following increased interest from the public and some US senators, the Pentagon established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, charged with tracking UAP, in July 2022.

In December last year, the office said it had received “several hundred” new reports, but no evidence so far of alien life.

The publication of Grusch and Grey’s claims comes after a panel that the US space agency Nasa charged with investigating unexplained anomalous phenomena said stigma around reporting encounters – and harassment of those who do report encounters – was hindering its work.

The navy pilots who in 2021 shared their experiences of encountering unexplained objects while conducting military flights said they, and others, had decided against reporting the encounters internally, because of fears it could hinder their careers.

“Harassment only leads to further stigmatization of the UAP field, significantly hindering the scientific progress and discouraging others to study this important subject matter,” Nasa’s science chief, Nicola Fox, said in a public meeting on 31 May.

Dr David Spergel, the independent chair of Nasa’s UAP independent study team, told the Guardian he did not know Grusch and had no knowledge of his claims.

The Department of Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a statement, a Nasa spokesperson said:

“One of Nasa’s key priorities is the search for life elsewhere in the universe, but so far, NASA has not found any credible evidence of extraterrestrial life and there is no evidence that UAPs are extraterrestrial. However, Nasa is exploring the solar system and beyond to help us answer fundamental questions, including whether we are alone in the universe.”

Pope said in his work investigating UFOs for the MoD he had seen no hard evidence of non-human craft or materials.

“Some of our cases were intriguing,” Pope said. “But we didn’t have a spaceship in a hangar anywhere. And if we did, they didn’t tell me.”

Still, Pope said, Grusch’s claims should be seen as part of an increasing flow of information – and hopefully disclosures – about UFOs.

He said: “It’s part of a wider puzzle. And I think, assuming this is all true, it takes us closer than we’ve ever been before to the very heart of all this.”

[nights-at-the-opera]

This might be The Big One