I am so conflicted. I’ve been a skeptic about the idea of non-humans visiting us for a very long time, but I really do hope that we will make contact with something in my life time. IN the mean time, there have been experts come and go that have kept me interested, even approaching a full fledged believer.
At the turn of the century, we had Stanton Freedman. A nuclear physicist. This guy was a smart man, I mean really smart. He never made any definitive claims, but he did believe that everything in the UFO discourse of the time was possible. He lent the UFO community its only real sense validity. He wasn’t a man of action about the topic, but was a thinker.
For a man of action, the one that comes to mind was Steven Greer. Back when he was spear heading the disclosure project at the National Press Club with all his witnesses, I was enthralled. I became closer and closer to actually believing. Fast forward ten years, and as interest started waning, Greer turned to grifting pretty hard. He started charging people to watch flares being dropped in the desert and telling anyone who’d pay to listen that they were UFOs. It was clear to me that the whole time, all he was interested in was money. At this point my skepticism grew a harder shell around it.
Then we had Kean’s 2017 articles that I loved. I couldn’t wait to hear more. And she promised more too, but nothing came. We still wait.
Along came Luis Elizondo, a CIA operative who also promised knowledge about something. Dangling snippets of ‘truth’ just beyond our reach. He was constantly excusing his lack of transparency with ideas of ‘the right time’, ‘very soon’, ‘when you hear what’s coming, you’ll know that’s what I was talking about’. He did this with his perfect presentation of an everyman man, fostering trust through careful language, mannerisms and slick charm. I’m not sure I ever trusted him, but he was the best thing we had going for the better part of five years.
After Luis, we have Ross Coulthart. He was a respected journalist who had avoided the limelight for some time, working quietly in the background. He was so quiet, I had never heard of him until David Grusch, a whistleblower, came forward. Here was a journalist who was beginning to use this new momentum to gather more whistleblowers. It seemed that this time, we would finally see a truth. I was so excited. Alas, it was not to be. After dropping some bombshells such as the idea that there are many non-human species currently living on our planet, and that there’s a crashed UFO so large that governments had to build a building over top of it to hide it because it couldn’t be moved, he did something very Greer like. He started endorsing very expensive ‘university’ programs where for a sum of $15,000US, students could learn the truth about UFOs.
FUUUU$K!
In my opinion, there are two scenarios.
1) We have never been visited by anything non-human; or
2) We will never learn the truth.
I am so tired of this roller coaster.
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