Wimping out on UFO disclosure

Maybe leave those chores to Elon Musk?

From the bottom of the ocean to quantifiable residue wafting at least two miles above sea level, the accelerating menace of microplastics (MPs) is finally catching up with us, whether we want to talk about it or not. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that a total of 20 research papers on this self-inflicted catastrophe were published in 2014; just 10 years later, 6,000 articles on MP health effects went to press in 2024 alone.

Humans are ingesting this shit in every conceivable way, from seafood, breathing, municipal water sources, bottled water, pacifiers, even through contact with medical equipment. Careful to avoid confusing correlation with causation – funding resources, after all, have diversified portfolios – scientists are nevertheless tracking horrific particle trends in animal studies, where MPs are linked to elevated cancer, kidney ailments, infertility and heart disease. If only human exceptionalism were a real thing. A limited survey of 250 human heart surgeries revealed MPs in the main arteries of 60 percent of the patient sample.

Identifying the exact culprits, however, is complicated by the fact that MPs are a witches’ brew of 20,000 different chemicals. But as deleterious as their effects are on human innards, research indicates MPs are anywhere from seven to 30 times more likely to cluster in our brains than, say, in our kidneys or livers. They’re associated with brain inflammation, cell damage, gene alteration, and behavioral/cognitive degeneration. The brains of Alzheimer's patients, unsurprisingly, have three to five times more MPs than their healthier counterparts.

Last month, we got another dispiriting update when University of New Mexico toxicologist Matthew Campen started adding lye to donated human brains. From the ensuing sludge, Campen strained out enough MP particles to reconstitute a DQ spoon. Which means, if these results continue to hold, 0.48 percent of our brains are now made of plastic.

This is not our fault

Over the past few months, I’ve been sifting through the ruins of the November election for exculpatory evidence that might absolve us of total responsibility for demolishing a wildly imperfect democracy in favor of the billionaire chainsaw now razing American infrastructure. Allowing the world’s richest person to mobilize federal data thieves called DOGE wasn’t, after all, on the campaign radar. While 47 was fully expected to behave like a man whose nutsack remains caught in a blackmail wringer by the world’s most vilified war criminal, there was nothing in Project 2025 about blaming Ukraine for starting the war, or about bullying allies from Greenland to Panama to Europe, or compromising public safety by firing National Nuclear Security Administration employees, or jeopardizing flight security with hundreds of arbitrary FAA layoffs. The point is, we can’t be held accountable for what we didn’t know.

And even by voting for what we did know, it’s difficult to believe a lucid, clear-headed electorate would’ve made the same choices 40 years ago. We’re not serial arsonists – it’s been 165 years since we set our own house on fire. That’s why it’s less demoralizing to call out microplastics and digital addiction (growing in direct proportion to our cratering literacy and IQ rates) for creating this dystopian present. But the real hell of it? These plastic brain revelations are breaking at a moment when the window dressing for serious progress on the UFO issue – which has consumed 45 years of my precious idle time – has never looked more convincing.

Exhibit A: The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s new Task Force for the Declassification of Federal Secrets. It vows to expose hidden documents that will tell us the truth behind the murders of JFK, RFK, and MLK, what really happened with Covid-19 and 9/11, who diddled minors with Jeffrey Epstein and – oh yeah – all that UFO stuff, too.

Quick question, though: Why did Task Force chair Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announce plans to visit Dealey Plaza 62 years later? Are there still some DNA-stained cigarette butts on the grassy knoll that we don’t know about? And one other thing: What’s this about Luna wanting to commune with the dead? Interviewing the “attending physicians” at the JFK autopsy and members of the Warren Commission? Hey lady, at your public hearing next month? Spare us the grandstanding and just show us the secret docs, OK?

Things will change now

Welp, let’s stay focused on our narrow common ground of UFOs and give everyone the benefit of the doubt until they don’t deserve it. Let’s start with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

At her confirmation hearing, Gabbard gave props to Luna’s House Task Force. She correctly acknowledged their “bipartisan frustrations” over “intelligence failures as well as the lack of responsiveness to your requests for information,” including “anomalous health incidents, UAPs, drones, and more.” Merry Christmas. She told lawmakers she “looked forward” to working with them on “these issues.” And we look forward to evidence of that cooperation.

Disclosure advocates have to be at least a little jazzed over the elevation of Sen. Marco Rubio to Secretary of State. The erstwhile Gang of Eight member showed a lot of integrity by listening to closed-door evidence, then admitting, on a number of occasions, that the USA has a UFO security problem. Ten years ago, that would’ve been disqualifying for a Cabinet position. So we look forward to hearing how international cooperation on the UAP front might buck up our disintegrating alliances.

In 2021, safely out of office, Trump DNI John Ratcliffe didn’t hesitate to tell the world that UFOs are being tracked by satellites. Two years later, following the David Grusch hearing in the House, he called for greater transparency; unfortunately, he added, “the Biden administration made the decision to really not reveal much.”

Regular updates on the horizon

Now that he’s the new boss at CIA, Ratcliffe has a chance to show us what fearless leadership looks like. He’ll probably make it his mission to find out why the Agency’s former director of science and technology, Glenn Gaffney, allegedly scotched a deal that would’ve surreptitiously shuffled UFO material from Lockheed Martin to Bigelow Aerospace nearly 20 years ago. The only thing Ratcliffe needs in order to make that happen is a proper security clearance with a need-to-know card, plus a SCIF to obtain a classified audience with Gaffney, assuming he wants to cooperate. Hopefully, lawmakers who want to find out what Gaffney tells Ratcliffe will be able to secure proper security clearances and their own need-to-know cards. Then they can (hopefully) get properly cleared to tell taxpayers what Ratcliffe says.

In the immediate aftermath of Grusch’s testimony, Rep. Mike Waltz, former Army SF operator, went on record to concede the technological superiority of UFOs. Now that he’s Trump’s National Security Advisor, we can expect big changes, and we look forward to his office issuing regular status updates on how we’re closing that gap.

Let’s not forget new FBI director Kash Patel. In February 2023, following the U.S. shootdowns of a Chinese spy balloon and three unknowns, the former ODNI principal director went on Fox News to say Beijing’s balloons never entered U.S. airspace when Trump was president. As for UFOs flipping the bird at no-fly zones, well, he was a little less adamant. “At the end of the day,” he said, “it’s not a Biden or Trump thing. It’s a United States of America national security thing, and this should be concerning for all citizens.” Well, it’s bigger than that, of course, but he wasn’t incorrect.

We didn’t know until just a few weeks ago that the FBI had a UAP Working Group, and we found out only because former Navy pilot Ryan Graves alerted the media. Founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, the airman who addressed Congress alongside Grusch in 2023 told Politico there were a dozen or so agents exploring the phenomenon across the country. But some were fretting over getting canned for having done their jobs by looking into Trump’s hoarding of unsecured top-secret nuclear documents at Mar-a-Lago and telling the National Archives to shove it. This puts America’s top G-man in a bit of a pickle. But if Patel can persuade these dead men walking to turn over their notebooks before they get tossed and prosecuted, we’ll call that a win.

Stop making sense

But there’s actually another way to do all this. Cued by Ratcliffe’s little Easter egg about UFO data being collected by satellites, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Chris Mellon produced an aggressive blueprint for accountability in The Debrief a few weeks ago. It was triggered by the “incredible disconnect” between the military personnel UAP reports being forwarded to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office versus the utter lack of corroborative data, perhaps even willful noncompliance, from our surveillance umbrella on the high frontier. Furthermore, those guardians of America’s skies, the U.S. Air Force, have contributed nothing to the accountability effort whatsoever – nada, bupkis, zilcho.

Mellon’s recommendations were so specific, he submitted his essay to the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, just to be safe. It included a list of assets – SSPAR, GEODSS, SBIRS, GIMS, IUSS and other sensor-system acronyms most people have never heard of – for lawmakers to interrogate without having to pass new legislation or “costing taxpayers a penny.” His pitch sounds like basic common sense, especially given the absence of detailed incident reporting from North American Defense Command. Without such data, “Congress,” Mellon points out, “cannot assess NORAD detection and intercept capabilities or evaluate the adequacy of U.S. air defenses.”

But there’s a bit of foreboding in the solutions Mellon proposes “in light of the repeated failure to report UAP and UAS incursions into restricted military airspace.” For starters, he says Congress should “request a report from the DoD or IC Inspector Generals” on the effectiveness of those monitoring systems. But IG networks — those independent watchdogs trusted with red-flagging government waste, inefficiency and criminality — are toppling like dominoes before the new regime.

There’s an old Vietnam-era cliché – “We had to destroy the village in order to save it” – now being cheered as a solution to eradicating “deep state” malfeasance, especially as it pertains to the impermeable wall of secrecy surrounding UFO data, which festers at the core of our broken democracy. But starting the fumigation by firing at least 17 IG directors across institutions as diverse as Education, State, EPA, Defense, etc., is like eliminating security guards to foil bank robbers. There’s clearly another agenda at play in UFOland.

‘For research and other reasons’

During a commanding address to the Sol Conference in November, retired Rear Admiral and former acting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration director Tim Gallaudet all but called the credibility-challenged former AARO boss Sean Kirkpatrick a liar for impugning his character. Meaning, the Navy’s former chief meteorologist is obviously undaunted by Washington’s status quo. In November, after submitting his own eyewitness account of a high-level whitewash surrounding UFO disruptions of military exercises in 2015, Gallaudet urged House lawmakers to do their jobs. “The failure of the Executive Branch to share UAP information with Congress,” he told them, under oath, “is an infringement on the legislative branch that undermines separation powers and may be creating a constitutional crisis.”

At the Sol gathering, Gallaudet gave his audience a primer on how public policy gets implemented. It starts, he said, with an executive order or a presidential memorandum. That directive then works its way through an interagency group chaired by a White House official or Cabinet head, who can articulate the plan before taking it to lawmakers. Gallaudet, who served during Trump 1.0, is clearly the ideal candidate for that job. But not under this administration. “I don’t want to go and work for that man again,” he told the Sol crowd.

Good call — so far, the incurious Chief Executive has shown little appetite for chasing UFOs. Never mind that he was briefed and impressed by fighter pilots who tried to warn him they were being outclassed in the sky. Never mind his assurances last September to podcaster Lex Fridman that he’d be releasing beaucoup UAP info if he got re-elected. Just three days into his term, in ironic celebration of the virtues of transparency, Trump’s Executive Order 14176 to declassify JFK/RFK/MLK assassination material pointedly excluded UFO coverup records.

Trump followed that up a few weeks later with a blunt dismissal of the mystery drone wave that swamped the northeast in November/December. Nothing new here, folks, just plain ol’ UAVs “authorized by the FAA for research and other reasons.” His terse statement offered no reasons for why that research involved swarming after Coast Guard vessels or prompting the FAA to ban drone activity over parts of New York and New Jersey or provoking military bases into closing off their air space. But it made the media go away.

Kneel before me, foolish mortals — behold Cybertruck, behold your future!

The historic Oval Office press conference with Trump and Elon Musk two weeks ago erased all doubt about who’s calling the shots. As Musk hogged the microphone in torrents of self-congratulation, his largely silent $250 million, 240-pound trophy was forced to watch in impotent disgust as 3-year-old X Æ A-Xii Musk shushed him up, picked his nose and wiped his boogers on the Resolute Desk. That iconic presidents’ desk – crafted from white oak and mahogany timbers from the HMS Resolute, gifted to Rutherford B. Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1880 – has since been swapped out to be “lightly refinished.”

An aspiring trillionaire is steering this ship now, and as Musk’s little army of hackers drills deep inside bureaucracy’s vaults, who knows what they’ll find, or what they’ve already scarfed up? Nobody’s saying, and the judicial branch may not be elastic enough to stop them from doing whatever it is they’re doing. Congress certainly won’t. What if by some manner of dumb luck, or through an unlocked back door, these Gen-Z nerds stumble into the UFO stash? Think their boss is gonna want the world to get a free look at the key to the future?

Lawlessness begets lawlessness. Conflicted insiders who think humanity has a right to know the truth likely have a narrow window to beat Musk to the punch. The curtains are coming down. If Musk doesn’t already have his hooks in the UFO stuff, he will soon. I can smell it. I have plastic in my brain. And so do you.