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The United States Congress has finally held a public hearing into claims that the government was concealing a longstanding programme that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

Now before you get too excited, the outcome was a predictable ‘maybe, maybe not’ – as can be gleaned from the lack of worldwide headlines shouting “We’re Not Alone!”

Were we really expecting them to roll out an alien ship?

Three retired military veterans testified on Wednesday before a House Oversight Subcommittee that was Congress’s latest foray into the world of UAPs. Unidentified aerial phenomena is the term governments use to make UFOs more legit, and probably to piss off the tie-dyed communities living in trailers along the Area 51 fence.

The US government has however begun taking the issue of UAPs more seriously in recent years, pushing for more research as the sightings could be a national security matter.

Retired Major David Grusch, one of the veterans who testified on Wednesday, said he was asked in 2019 by the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programmes relating to the task force’s mission. “I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access,” he said.

When asked whether the US government had information about extraterrestrial life, Grusch said the US likely has been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s. US Representative Tim Burchett supported the idea that the government was concealing information, saying at the opening of the hearing that “we’re going to uncover the cover-up”.

Perhaps more predictable than the outcome of the hearing was the Pentagon’s denial of the cover-up claims. Or as Bill would have said, “I did not have relations with that alien.” Obviously, if the government says it’s all kak, it must be.

US Department of Defense spokesperson Sue Gough said investigators have not discovered “any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently”.

Grusch claims that after he became a government whistleblower, his life was made very difficult by the men in black. He went further to describe some of the tactics used against him as ‘brutal and very unfortunate’, hurting him both ‘professionally and personally’.

He declined to be more specific about the retaliatory tactics, citing a continuing investigation, but confirmed that others who came out publicly had also been subjected to this treatment. Grusch was however reluctant to answer some questions, even under oath, repeatedly saying he could not comment in a public setting because the information is classified.

You can have a look at the highlights below:

So lots of smoke and no fire. It must be hard to prove a cover-up if the cover-up is covered. The truth may still be out there, but so far the world only has some shaky YouTube videos and a handful of ex-intelligence people’s information-less testimony. Once hearings like this contain fewer words such as likely, and claim, we might get somewhere.

Who knows what the truth is? Maybe the aliens are already here and the Royals likely hate Meghan because she wouldn’t take the lizard-injection and join the Illuminati as they download our consciousness via a smartphone app disguised as a porn site.

The world really doesn’t need aliens in the mix right now.

[source:aljazeera]