Garrett Graff
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 28 Apr
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One of the puzzles to me in looking at this is our government appears to be just as baffled as the ordinary public and far less interested in figuring out the answer to any of this mystery than I think it should be. To me, as a taxpayer, as a citizen, as a journalist, I want the government to be more interested in the subject of UFOs than it appears to be.
And that there's a fairly significant number of respectable, credible witnesses to UAP UFO phenomenon that have come forward that I want the government to try to do better to answer. There has been a lot of attention since 2017 to this series of sightings by Navy pilots, Navy aviators, who have come forward to describe encounters with
phenomenon in the sky that they believe represent technologies that are more advanced than anything that the US government has. Some of this has been backed up by instrument data, by infrared videos and things like that. And the thing that's just really striking to me is the government isn't more interested in figuring out what that mystery is.
And I hope that this new conversation that we're having about UFOs in the modern era helps spur more serious investigation of some of these credible sightings.
I think both are true. The government certainly doesn't share information everything that it does understand about UFOs and UAP sightings and that there are some layers of a public cover up because UFO sightings intersect with two of the most sensitive areas of sort of day to day government secret keeping.
One is our own advanced technologies, you know, what public UFO sightings actually represent, you know, classified planes, rockets, satellites, spacecraft, drones that the US has developed but doesn't talk about publicly. I mean, that's certainly some chunk of public UFO sightings that the US government doesn't like to talk about.
The second layer that the government doesn't like to talk about is its own sensor technology, which is the US has enormously complex and enormously advanced sensor systems that it doesn't really like to talk about.
what UFOs and UAPs it detects, because that would then give away some of that answer of what the US government is able to see, listen to, watch, hear, detect on a day-to-day basis, information that would be enormously valuable for our adversaries.
The modern Pentagon office that's in charge of this says that it's able to answer now all but about two to five percent of the sightings that get reported to it.
And some of that is just a huge percentage of these things are very straightforward. Oh, that looked weird to you, but that was just an obviously scheduled plane or a known satellite crossing the sky. But there are some chunk of this as a phenomenon that we just really have no idea what it is.
Yes, absolutely. And that, to me, is the core of this whole mystery, which is, what is that 1% to 2% to 5% of known recorded sightings that just no one can answer? And we know that those sightings exist. We know that people have investigated some chunk of them and that they remain.
Just as puzzled as anyone, you know, what more should we be doing to try to dive into and uncover and unravel those mysteries?
Area 51 is the Air Force's and CIA's secret flight test site. It dates back to the early stages of the Cold War. It's where the U-2 spy plane and other secret classified planes have been developed and tested over the years. I think part of the lure of it in these UFO conspiracies is that the government is incredibly secretive about what flies out of there.
It doesn't like talking about what's being tested there. We know that that is where the government It takes secret planes to be tested and evaluated, whether those are manned or unmanned systems. And I think a lot of people have imagined that that's where the government sort of would take a crashed spacecraft
if the government ever managed to recover one but i think after looking into all of this and having covered national security for 20 years in washington i'm pretty dubious that the u.s government is capable of a sophisticated long-term cover-up of a crashed alien spacecraft you know it just seems as with all conspiracy theories
Yes, and that, in fact, is just my sort of most basic reasoning for why you shouldn't believe the government conspiracies about secret UFOs or bases under Area 51 or bodies is the government is capable of keeping secrets, but the government is not really able to keep secrets that are really big, that are known by a large number of people for very long.
And so, you know, do I believe that the government could cover up a crashed alien spacecraft, you know, for a couple of hours, a couple of days, a couple of weeks, a month or two, maybe a year or two? Probably.
But the idea that there is some massive government program that has been ongoing for 80 years where no one has accidentally emailed a budget briefing to their roommate about the UFO program, I just don't really believe. And my challenge with
really any government conspiracy is that they presuppose a level of competence, foresight, planning and strategy that is just not on display in the day to day work that the government does.
little of all of the above, that you see the government really studying the skies on a daily basis. But what they're searching for are adversary technology, Russian satellites, Chinese spacecraft, you know, Iranian drones. You know, the government will react to some of these sightings if they come in in certain channels or appear to threaten national security.
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