GeneticJenHaven't done an update on the #UFO situation in a while so here's an intro for people new to it all and a catch-up to where we're at now. Long thread. On the surface: US government officials are whistleblowing recovery of alien crafts. A bit deeper: Bigfoot, psychics, dinosaur-beaver hybrids etc
Ok a little reminder that there's a random ranch in the US were nothing interesting happened in the 60 years that some people lived there. Then a couple took it over for 2 years, got into serious financial problems, and said it was a hotspot for UFOs. How fortunate for them
This is what we today call Skinwalker Ranch. The couple sold it to gullible millionaire Robert Bigelow, who was obsessed with the paranormal but no physical evidence was found. He eventually sold it to another gullible millionaire obsessed with the paranormal and again no evidence
But back when Bigelow owned the ranch, an enthusiast called Colm Kelleher visited and wrote a book (Hunt for the Skinwalker) where a million things happened to him. Ghosts. Aliens. UFOs. Bigfoot. Dinosaur-beaver hybrids. Werewolves. Monsters. Some people have all the luck! No evidence of any of that but what a book!
Most people who read the book naturally found it hilarious. It's like an X-Files episode except every case Mulder and Scully ever worked on happens in one episode. You can't move for monsters and wormholes
As you can imagine, there were people who took it seriously and believed it all. Unfortunately one of those people was James Lacatski, who worked in the US Defence Intelligence Agency. Fascinated, Lacatski reached out to Bigelow and asked to visit
Despite Bigelow conducting research and finding no evidence whatsoever, Lacatski turns up and immediately sees a ghostly apparition in a kitchen. How lucky! And for it to happen to a respectable intelligence official rather than a random couple trying to sell their ranch! This seems more legit
Bigelow and Lacatski use this encounter as a way to convince friend, paranormal enthusiast, and US Senator, Harry Reid to part with some cash. Hearing the tales from a legit intelligence officer and trusted friend, Harry used his influence to start a program to study Skinwalker Ranch
Senator Reid asked Lacatski, the guy who was convinced by the dino-beaver hybrid stories, to write up the proposal for the program to study the UFOs etc out there. Now... it's difficult to convince the US government to spend money on poltergeists, but all of this can tie back to UFOs if you're creative
The couple who sold the ranch claimed it was a UFO hotspot. UFOs are taken more seriously than ghosts and Bigfoot. So it became the belief of the enthusiasts than everything experienced there was the work of the UFOs or their creators
Portal in the sky? Monsters hunting people? Poltergeists that follow you home? All manifestations of the UFOs. You see, the people involved have a fascination with psychic powers and a belief that humans are actually psychic. Telepathy and UFOs go hand in hand for this group and many UFO folk
The intelligent, other-worldly presence at Skinwalker Ranch uses psychic powers to make people see things like werewolves. They can change how they appear to us, which is very convenient because it means any strange tale can be the intelligence at work. How lucky
But ultimately, it's the UFOs that are real. Everything else is caused by them. So we can call this a UFO program. Or can we? That still sounds like it won't be taken seriously. How about the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program? That's more like it
So Lacatski writes up the program like it's investigating future aerospace technologies, obscuring the fact that this is referring to the UFOs that make people see dinobeavers. It was legit enough that it was accepted and Senator Reid was able to get $22 million funding for it
The program was put out for external companies to bid on but only one company was considered and ultimately won: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. Wait... Bigelow? Did Bigelow just get his friend to give him $22 million to study ghosts? Yes
As before, no physical evidence of any kind was uncovered but again we got a fantastic book. Lacatski himself, leading the Pentagon program, wrote a book called "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon" telling all about the $22 million hunt for Bigfoot and werewolves at the ranch and claiming it was real
Lacatski: we're spending millions on poltergeists
The Pentagon: you're fucking what?
Shit hits the fan and the program is obviously closed down
But the people passionate about the "work" keep it going in their spare time. This is an important point. It's now unofficial
Many of the big players you hear from in recent stories were intelligence officials who "worked on a Pentagon UFO program" (which sounds very legit). They genuinely did work for the Pentagon but were involved in the spare-time UFO stuff after it was closed down. Luis Elizondo etc
You can probably sense the beginnings of a clique here. We've been talking about friends, people getting each other money, people with shared beliefs. There's a passionate group of believers who think something otherworldly is here and not necessarily as simple as biological ET
You can explain UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot, Nessie, and seemingly anything you want if there's an inter dimensional intelligence that communicates with us telepathically and can cause us to experience anything it wants us to. The passionate group seemingly believes this
Why am I telling you about all this? Well it turns out all the recent stuff comes from this Skinwalker Ranch group. There's Luis Elizondo who claimed to lead an official Pentagon UFO research program (he only did once it was a spare-time thing)
There's the famous UFO videos (of balloons) and associated stories printed as the front page story in the New York Times by afterlife and UFO writer Leslie Hope. She got the stories from Luis Elizondo. All the recent interest has exploded from those articles, directly connected to Skinwalker Ranch
Skipping a lot of silly stuff, we now have US Congress speaking to whistleblowers like David Grusch who seems much more legit on the surface. An intelligence officer who heard there might be UFO recovery programs and wanted answers but couldn't get them
So... no evidence. But at least he's not associated with... wait who is that in the room with him after the congressional hearing? Oh no. Never mind, he's pals with Elizondo, Hope etc. This keeps happening. A legit eyewitness who witnessed nothing and is hanging out with the Skinwalker Ranch people
Tbf there are individuals who seem to have nothing to do with the group of course and naturally their claims are still welcomed by the Skinwalker group. Like pilot Ryan Graves who saw a UFO that looked and acted like a radar reflector balloon
But most importantly, a new pattern is emerging and it's been successful for the group:
- Respected intelligence/military officer claims to know about UFO recoveries. Wow, genuinely fascinating!
- Has no evidence, has just heard stuff
- After initial interviews, starts talking about a bit more than just UFO recoveries...
- Speaks of interdimensional beings and controlling the ships with your consciousness and god dammit wait a minute, don't tell me
- Yep, who are the sources they heard things from? Who are they palling around with? Who are they namedropping? Skinwalker Ranch people like Elizondo etc
The latest is a guy called Jake Barber. Claims to be a helicopter pilot with very dubious stories (a friend once came across a giant UFO and concluded it must be drug dealers hahahaha what). Like almost all of the people in these stories, he's been psychic his whole life and seen UFOs
Yeah I maybe should have mentioned how many of these people are involved in remote viewing. Luis Elizondo claims to have been a remote viewer for the government. Apparently this is how we get the UFOs btw. We summon them by telepathically communicating with them the same way they can with us
That isn't something I'm getting from randos on Reddit. That's what this group thinks the US government is doing. Using psychics to bring down UFOs. And indigenous people in the US and around the world are the best at it because they're so insultingly at one with nature so they use them mostly
Oh and children, autistic people, and gays. They're all supposedly good at reaching out and controlling the spaceships, but it's mostly native Americans. I'm sure none of this is going to become more problematic
They're not going into these weirder details in the congressional hearings but the same people in those hearings are sharing these beliefs in interviews and books. Barber, the helicopter pilot, did secret recoveries and one time it was a round UFO with no obvious means of propulsion (like a balloon)
While lifting it up, he had a moment and felt very sensitive. He felt a feminine force that made him cry. He may have received a telepathic communication from the balloon or he maybe he just had a bit of a wobbly but either way that's his story as a "whistleblower"