To me, the AARO report echoes what I and other skeptics have been saying for years: claims about secret government programs reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology are based on “circular reporting” and “hearsay” and “none of the interviewees have firsthand knowledge of these programs”.
To me it’s always been clear that the Skinwalker Gang have been endlessly citing themselves as the sources of claims they have never actually verified or proven with first hand evidence or testimony. They’re an echo chamber of nutjobs who tried to trick the military into revealing evidence. As if that would have ever worked. As if the largest military on the planet would ever drop its pants and reveal its secrets to guys who think werewolf-ghosts are real.
If there really are ET “ships” buzzing the Earth, I don’t trust the Skinwalker Gang (Jay Stratton, Travis Taylor, Hal Puthoff, Eric Davis, Robert Bigelow, Harry Reid, David Grusch) and their buddies (Daniel Sheehan, Jeremy Corbell, Linda Moulton Howe, Kit Green, Tim Gallaudet, Karl E. Nell) to reveal anything remotely true. These guys all have red flags, lies, pseudoscience or outright hoaxes in their backgrounds. Some are massively delusional.
Some relevant quotes from the report:
“The claim: a separate interviewee claimed that circa 1999, a former, senior U.S. military officer told the interviewee that that he touched the surface of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. The interviewee stated that the senior officer gave a detailed description of a craft floating in a building. The officer told the interviewee that approximately 150 individuals were working on the program and that the program was kept “outside of government” so the technology could remain proprietary.
The finding: An interviewee stated that a former military member, who was also an interviewee, had stated that he had touched an off-world aircraft. AARO contacted and interviewed the former military member who denied any knowledge of off-world technology in possession of the USG, a private contractor, or any other foreign or domestic entity. The former military member attested that he could not remember if this encounter with the original interviewee had ever occurred, but opined that if it had happened, the only situation that he might have conveyed was the time when he touched an F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter at a facility. The former military member signed an MFR attesting to the truthfulness of his account.”
Also here’s a segment where the report discusses the group of people behind most of these claims:
“Although investigating UFO/UAP was not specifically outlined in the contract’s statement of work, the selected private sector organization conducted UFO research with the support of the DIA program manager. This research included: reviewing new cases and much older Project BLUE BOOK cases, operating debriefing and investigatory teams, and proposals to set up laboratories to examine any recovered UFO materials.”
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“AAWSAP/AATIP also investigated an alleged hotspot of UAP and paranormal activity at a property in Utah—which at that time was owned by the head of the private sector organization—including examining reports of “shadow figures” and “creatures,” and exploring “remote viewing” and “human consciousness anomalies.” The organization also planned to hire psychics to study “inter-dimensional phenomena” believed to frequently appear at that location…”
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“Just prior to DoD’s cancellation of the program, the private sector organization proposed as a new line of effort to host a series of “intellectual debates” at academic institutes to influence the public debate, which included hiring supportive reporters and celebrity moderators. The goal of this proposed public relations campaign was to assume that “E.T. visitations are true” and that the moderators would steer debate away from “dead-end discussions” and the “morass” about discussing “evidence.” A stated goal of this proposal was to increase public interest in government “disclosure” around the “E.T. topic” and explore the consequences of disclosure on the public.”
And then later:
“AARO researched and interviewed numerous people, programs, and leads. It has determined that modern allegations that the USG is hiding off-world technology and beings largely originate from the same group of individuals who have ties to the cancelled AAWSAP/AATIP program and a private sector organization’s paranormal research efforts. These individuals have worked with each other consistently in various UAP-related efforts.”
So the report is saying what has been said for years: a small pool of UFO nuts within government – themselves with equally nutty links to Scientologists and the “psychic” movement of the 1970s – have created an echo chamber in which they constantly cite themselves as proof of their own claims. You will never get them actually pointing to actual evidence, because they’re just endlessly sourcing second, third and fourth hand stories from themselves.
This becomes most clear when you look at the backgrounds of these people. The former Director of the Pentagon’s UAP task force is Jay Stratton, who believes he’s been haunted by ghosts and believes there are werewolves and ghosts at a location in Utah called Skinwalker Ranch. He is now a contributor to the “Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” TV show.
The former chief scientist of the Pentagon’s UAP task force is Travis Taylor. He is now employed by the “Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” TV show where he does laughably fake science.
A former scientist for AAWSAP, The DoD program that preceded the UAP Task Force, is Hal Puthoff. Puthoff was a Xenu-believing Scientologist who believes in telepathy and telekinesis and other psychic power claims like remote viewing. Puthoff, with another paranormal pseudoscientist, performed the notorious studies on fraudster and stage magician Uri Geller. Puthoff believes he proved that Geller does indeed possess psychic powers of telepathy and remote viewing. He now runs a paranormal pseudoscience firm and contributes to the “Skinwalker Ranch” TV show.
Another former lead scientist for AAWSAP is Eric Davis. Eric Davis also believes he’s encountered ghosts and paranormal creatures, and now works for Puthoff’s private paranormal science firm, and contributes to the “Skinwalker Ranch” TV show.
Davis and Puthoff also previously worked for NIDS, the program which preceeded AAWSAP and was run by Robert Bigelow, who also previously owned Skinwalker Ranch. Bigelow wanted to investigate werewolves and interdimensional poltergeists on Skinwalker Ranch, and convinced his close personal friend Senator Harry Reid to give him tens of millions of dollars in federal funding to do so.
David Grusch worked with Stratton and Taylor on the UAP Task Force, and has also been working unofficially with Eric Davis and others like Daniel Sheehan and Garry Nolan for years.
And of course, hovering over Grush’s shoulder in congress is Jeremy Corbell, a confirmed hoaxer. Remember his first claim to fame: he said a guy called Kewper Stein was in the military and revealed an important “death bed confession”. In this confession, Stein revealed that he worked for the President and was given the “math secret to gravity”. In reality, of course, there was no evidence that Stein was in the military, and contrary to Stein’s claims, he was not on his “death bed”.
Despite everyone else involved in this interview not believing Stein, Corbell nevertheless released a “death bed video” with the help of Linda Moulton Howe (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Linda_Moulton_Howe), who is notorious for pushing hoaxes. She literally believes “extraterrestrials created Jesus” and placed him on earth “to teach mankind about love and non-violence.” She’s also lied and pushed ordinary metal as a “hunk of UFO”, a claim which the Skinwalker gang repeated and took to AARO.
So this whole Skinwalker gang are a bunch of conmen, cranks and liars, and they’re simply doing what they’ve always done: citing themselves as “evidence”, in an attempt to pressure government into releasing secrets they imagine exists.
To me, it seems obvious that David Grusch is merely a continuation of the same cast of cranks and paranormal believers with DoD affiliations that have been making their exact same evidence-free claims of aliens and interdimensional travel for decades. It’s possible they managed to convince Grusch it’s all true, and now he’s repeating their claims, with a new more reputable face on it. Which is also why many of the people they cite – CIA man Kit Green, who believes an obviously fake alien autopsy video is real, Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who thinks he can talk to dead people, Karl E. Nell who peddles pseudoscience etc etc – are also neck-deep in looney woo.
IMO this group believed they could bluff the military into revealing more, and pressure politicians into forcing disclosure, but their plan collapsed at the first hurdle. They had nothing – no real evidence or credible testimonies – to muscle and pressure with. And it was naive of them to assume that, if secret ET tech programs exists, a plan so obvious would have forced the military into revealing it.
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