Sunday Story: The UAP Series Part 2 - This is probably all nonsense, right?
Craig Whitton- Nov 10, 2024
- 13 min read
Updated: Nov 13, 2024
Welcome back to Part 2 of the Sunday Story UAP series. Last week, we shared with you that a huge number of people in positions to know have been saying the same thing: That there are things flying around that we cannot explain. Who has said it? Lots of people.
Senator Chuck Schumer, who serves as the Senate Majority Leader.
Senator Marco Rubio, who has served on the Gang of 8 - the group that’s supposed to know all the secrets.
We can keep going - there are plenty of more examples of high-ranking officials making statements like the ones listed above. And before you ask “Why is it just an American thing?” It’s really important for you to know it’s not - the Peruvian Air Force has had an on-again-off-again UAP office since 2001; the Chileans too. The French released the COMETA report in 1999 that mirrors the comments above. For a Canadian connection, consider the comments of former Minister of Defense Paul Hellyer, or for an Israeli example, the comments of Haim Eshed who had the same role there.
This is why we’ve been saying that this has the potential to be massively disruptive. That list above is just a fraction of a significant number of serious and qualified people who are invested in this issue and making the same general public statements: “There are things flying around we cannot explain” and in some cases, “they are operated by a non-human intelligence”.
Let’s ignore that “Non-human” part and embrace a fully skeptical mindset for this week’s Sunday Story. This simply must be nonsense, right? We’re talking about UFOs, and in this era of Q-Anon claiming JFK is coming back from the dead, this must just be another bone-headed conspiracy gaining traction in the social media driven post-truth era, right? Doesn’t that explanation make the most sense?
Maybe it does - after all, we’re no strangers to crime and corruption as a species. Some would say that being a grifter - one who says things that are false in order to get money from people - is the second oldest profession on earth. So let us engage in a bit of a thought experiment that suggests all of the above people (and many more) are totally wrong about this issue. That can only be explained by one of two reasons: They are massively stupid, or they’ve been fooled on purpose.
We can likely eliminate “massively stupid” right away actually - because as we shared last week, there are videos that the US Government has confirmed are real and authentic that show objects moving in ways we cannot explain. That means someone had to make the videos, which means the list above aren’t stupid people - they’ve been presented with evidence that has shaped their view, and so that leaves that they’ve been fooled on purpose - meaning someone had to at least create the videos and do a whole bunch more work to sell this hoax. It’s still possible that this was a misunderstanding, but the existence of and confirmation of those videos make it seem more a matter of intentional deceit for our “it’s a hoax” hypothesis to play out. So what do you think - what would a hoax like this take?
First and foremost, it would take the creation of fake videos of objects moving at very high speeds. Not just the three videos we shared last week, but allegedly several other videos that are still classified and show these objects in even greater detail - all of these would have to be faked as step 1. But that’s no big deal - we’ve seen Jurassic Park and those dinosaurs were reasonably convincing, even though we knew they were CGI, so obviously we have the technology to fake these videos. We also suppose that you could get away with faking only the public videos from last week, but then you’d have to get a bunch of people with access to insider information and convince them to lie about the existence of these other, “better” videos. That’s doable - people lie all the time - but it’s starting to get thinner already. These folks aren’t just lying - they are lying really consistently for years, and that’s hard to do.
Then you’d also have to convince multiple pilots to lie - F-18 pilots like David Fravour and Alex Dietrich would not only have to be convinced to make up a story about seeing the “Tic Tac” Object, but they’d actually need a lot of really good training so that they’d be able to stick to the same consistent story for years.
Once you finished convincing the pilots to lie, what else would you need to do? Well, you’d also have to convince radar operators to fib while simultaneously getting rid of the data tapes the radar data is stored on. You see, every single part of the 2004 Tic Tac incident was caught on radar according to statements by the radar operator involved that day. However, apparently someone came and took all the data tapes of the incident, something that according to those on this case, has never happened before. Not only have the hoaxers convinced this Navy radar tech to lie, but they’ve also managed to get some pretty important data to go missing from one of the most advanced warships in the world. That seems like a hard to do successfully.
Working our way through the logic, you’d then need to also convince members of the executive branch and their staff that this is a real issue - Presidents don’t usually say things like Clinton, Obama, and Trump said above without good reason. That means convincing more people to agree to tell your lie to these folks - and now we’re getting into the class of people who can check to see if you are full of it or not. For example. David Grusch was one of the whistleblowers who gave oath-sworn testimony before congress last year where he stated he had uncovered evidence of a secret crash retrieval program that included biological specimens of non-human origin - no small claim, to say the least. He was also the guy who was responsible for coordinating the daily intelligence briefings to the President, so he’s in a position to check on his assertions about crash retrievals before going public (indeed, that was his job on this issue, which is why he uncovered the information he did).
So maybe you wouldn’t need to convince Grush to lie, but for this to be a hoax, at least some of the systems that feed the President of the United States their information would have to be totally compromised. And since it’s been over a year since Grusch’s testimony, it should be reiterated that this was under oath, and if he was lying under oath he’d be arrested by now. So not only did Grusch get fooled, but the systems that are supposed to keep a guy like Grusch accountable are also compromised, including the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community who heard Grusch’s whistleblower statement and declared what he had to say as “Credible” and “Urgent”, and the former and first-ever Inspector General of the Intelligence Community who acted as Grusch’s lawyer.
Oh, and a whole bunch of elected reps are now fooled too, because after meeting with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community in January of 2024, who investigated Grusch’s claims, they said the following things:
“Let me give you a hypothetical because I’m not going to share anything from a classified briefing, but if someone makes 10 claims and someone says ‘well we didn’t investigate all 10 because they weren’t all in the report, but hey, we found these 6 very credible, then you would want to attack those 6 - that’s what I’m saying” - Rep. Jared Moscowitz (D - Florida)
“I think that he’s a credible witness. I think he’s telling the truth” - Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R - Florida)
“We got some pretty definitive stuff that…made what I think more credible” - Rep. Tim Burchett (R - Tennessee)
“There was some interesting information. This is a topic that I think is a national security issue and it’s really important that there’s disclosure and transparency. I think that’s what the public wants, I think it’s also a very serious topic and we’ve gotta just take it with seriousness. It is not a joke” - Rep. Robert Garcia (D - California)
“What most American people fear is true…there’s a concerted effort to conceal as much information as possible” - Rep. Andy Ogles (R - Tennessee)
“Grusch is Legit” - Rep. Tim Burchett
“Based on what we heard, many of Grusch’s claims have merit” - Rep. Jared Moscowitz
We’ve also seen a lot of legislative activity on the UAP issue. Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds co-sponsored a 65 page amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that explicitly mentions that the US Government has been hiding information about UAPs, and 65 pages of legislation doesn’t come out of nowhere. With the hearings this coming week, and an entirely new administration coming in January - most of whom have vowed to make Disclosure a top priority - it seems that the energy and attention to this issue has reached a level of awareness and engagement (both by the public and those in leadership) that it is likely not possible to put the toothpaste back in the tube; so many folks care about this issue that the momentum seems to be to put more resources into it to figure out what is going on.
Now imagine it’s all a hoax, as some of you probably think. Given the brief overview of what we’ve shared above, can you imagine how many of the systems that we rely on every single day that would have to be broken or compromised for a hoax such as this to take place?
If all these people have gone completely mad, we have a huge problem, given the above examples encompass everything from Presidents with their fingers on nuclear buttons to the pilots flying jets over major cities with full armaments to leaders of the largest military forces in the world to the bipartisan representatives from red states, blue states, and swing states, and more. If this is truly because people have gone mad, then how do you think folks will react when this is revealed? The hatred of neighbour-versus-neighbour that we’ve seen over the election seasons since 2016 aren’t making folks gain confidence in the systems we rely on, and the scope of this lie means that it might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Things have fallen apart over toilet paper shortages and mask mandates folks - these systems we rely on are not robust. And this analysis assumes a degree of misunderstanding, which as we’ve previously mentioned, seems highly unlikely at this point; it’s more likely a lie being driven on purpose if the “hoax” explanation is the right one.
To put it bluntly: this gets way worse if this is an intentional lie. But is it possible that this is all fabricated on purpose by someone will ill intentions?
Absolutely it is! In fact, making stuff like this up is very much on-brand for intelligence agencies around the world. Most of my readers will remember the Iraq war, largely predicated on manufactured intelligence about weapons of mass destruction. But there are those who would argue that Iraq was an “oopsie”, not an intentional action, and maybe some think we’re being unfair to intelligence agencies with our comments about hoaxes being “on-brand”. But then, maybe those who think we’re being unfair aren’t aware that the CIA once convinced a bunch of people in the Philippines that vampires were real - draining bodies and all to sell the story - just to shut down a revolution, or that the NSA admitted to at least exaggerating the Gulf of Tonkin incident to usher in American’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Or that time the CIA experimented with LSD and mind control in the form of MKUltra, where later one of their test subjects ended up being the Unabomber. Or that time the FBI harassed Martin Luther King via the infamous “suicide letter” in an attempt to derail the Civil Rights movement. These are not conspiracy theories folks - these all happened. So it’s certainly not stretching belief to think that our intelligence agencies have fabricated all this stuff about UAP too, right?
It’s certainly possible - but imagine how that will impact our current society. Public trust in government is near all-time lows, and belief in UFOs are at all-time highs. Imagine how all of these folks will feel if the energy and attention being paid to this issue now - millions of dollars and other precious resources like legislative bandwidth - has an end result of “We’ve been fooled by a rogue intelligence operation”. If this is one of our adversaries fooling us with a hoax - like a Chinese or Russian-run lie, then the effectiveness of this is terrifying. What other things do our political and military leaders believe to be true because of operations like this? Even more concerning is if it’s not an adversary - that would mean that this operation is being run by the Americans themselves (or an allied nation) on the American people.
The trouble is, that’s most likely super-duper illegal. In the 1970s, the US Government stood up a process that came to be known as The Church Committee. This committee was all about looking at how the Intelligence apparatus was engaging in activities that targeted American citizens, recognizing that’s generally not good for a healthy democracy, and what followed were several executive orders to prohibit exactly that (with additional laws in modernity further outlawing Intelligence operations on American citizens). Now, one of the ways we’ve managed to get around this is through the Five Eyes alliance - basically, Canadians will spy on Americans, and Americans will spy on Canadians, and then we’ll just share that data so technically no nation is spying on their own people. But if that’s the case, the 5-Eyes alliance has fallen for the hoax too.
What remains is to answer why an organization would engage in this kind of a hoax, and when wearing our official skeptics caps and eliminating the possibility of non-human intelligence and flying spacecraft, we have to look at terrestrial prosaic motives for such behaviour, and thankfully that’s pretty easy - it’s almost always about money. And we’re talking about a lot of money here. The Pentagon has a massive budget - $3.8 trillion in assets, and $4 trillion in liabilities, and was only able to pass 7 out of 29 sub-audits of this budget, making this the 6th year in a row where the Pentagon has failed to pass audits since it started doing them in 2018. As the character Julius Levinson in Independence Day quipped upon the President noticing the expansive development of the secret base at Area 51: “You don’t think they really spend $20,000 on a toilet seat, and $30,000 on a hammer, do you?”
Generally, when a healthy democracy’s population suddenly realizes it’s actually quite unhealthy - think Watergate, the Vietnam war, the invasion of Iraq - it’s remarkably disruptive to the economic, cultural, and political landscape. We’ve never encountered a scandal this big in modern times as a society, and so it’s hard to say what the exact implications of this reveal would be - but it would likely be quite disruptive. Remember how upset people got at Obama for wearing a tan suit and eating Dijon mustard? This seems like a bigger deal than that, to say the least.
So there we have it - the totally skeptical, “there are no things flying around” perspective explained in terms of good old fashioned corruption. There is for sure a motive present here - money tends to drive corruption all around the world after all - but the means of this hoax leave us raising our eyebrows. For the majority of the authors career, he was investigating incidents that ranged from mundane to complex, and has 15 years of experience in evaluating evidence based on a “Balance of Probabilities”. This means that whatever the evidence says is most likely to be true is regarded as true, and it's the standard in administrative law. When we apply that skillset to the “It’s a Hoax” analysis above - the evidence doesn't add up, on a balance of probabilities, to support the idea that it's all fake. The sheer number of people that would have to be fooled, and the number of people involved in fooling them, is immense. It’s worth noting that word of such a program - a program designed to fool a whole bunch of important people into believing there are unexplained things flying around - has never reached the public (at least, not one that our research turned up). In contrast, there’s a veritable parade of leaked information coming out saying that there are things flying around we cannot explain.
To be clear: it is possible that this is all a hoax - a very harmful one that is still quite disruptive and worthy of awareness for leaders. However, we’re hopeful that the above analysis explains why we rank this as an unlikely explanation. To further illustrate the point, when examining just the Nimitz incident in 2004 - where UAP were sighted by multiple pilots in multiple planes, captured on video, and captured on radar from several ships and aircraft, and all of these stories, video, and data corroborate each other - it seems more likely than not that there were real objects flying around, just as the pilots said.
Faith in our systems is important, no matter one's stance on this. Therefore, even the most die-hard skeptic should demand that we get to the bottom of this issue - government transparency and accountability, and trust in our systems of governance and protection are critical, and this issue threatens them all. That’s why we’ve been talking about UAP publicly - at Authentik, its our mission to help leaders like you prepare for disruptions so you can lean into them and make them transformations instead, and even taking the most mundane explanation for all of this activity means that this is potentially a highly disruptive issue, even if it is just a hoax.
But it probably isn't a hoax. It's something else, however to give some more space for skeptics to get on board, that "something else" could be explained without having to invoke little green men and flying saucers; it's possible that these objects could be explained within the context of our current technology. Next week, we'll explain how by telling you the story of a unique Canadian link to the man who invented the Ionic Breeze for the Sharper Image Catalog...and how that same man may have also cracked anti-gravity technology. Yes, really.
Let's focus on why this matters and why you should care: If this is not a hoax (which is what our position is), and these things are flying around as described (which seems to be the case), one of the most probable explanations is that someone has figured out a new way of using energy that we don’t publicly understand. For these objects to move the way they do a single time would require more energy than the total energy produced by nuclear power in a year. And the objects are flying around like this way more than once, apparently.
In sum: If this is all a hoax, then it’s representative of a massively unethical runaway force (or perhaps intentional operation) that could destabilize people's faith in systems, so it has a significant degree of disruptive potential
If this is not all a hoax, then what we’re talking about are objects that seem to have a potential energy source that could transform our economy, culture, understanding of defense, and balance of world power.
This is disruptive. Or - more hopefully - transformational.Leadership will decide.
Thanks for reading, and we’ll see you next Sunday.
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