Posted on 07/12/2023 1:45:46 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
It’s been a busy few weeks for Stephen Bassett, Washington’s veteran UFO lobbyist.
Early last month, an ex-U.S. intelligence official who once worked with the Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force went public with claims that the federal government has recovered non-human spacecraft. The former official, David Grusch, does not claim to have seen the crashed spacecraft himself. Rather, in an interview with The Debrief, he said he had heard accounts of their existence over the course of his work. And in an interview with NewsNation, Grusch went even further. “Well, naturally, when you recover something that’s either landed or crashed,” he said, “sometimes you encounter dead pilots and, believe it or not, as fantastical as that sounds, it’s true.”
Washingtonian recently caught up with Bassett for his thoughts on Grusch’s allegations and how they might impact UFO-related issues in Washington.
What do you make of Grusch’s claims?
Absolutely legit. One hundred percent legit. He was at the task force. His whole background is legit. So the idea that he would make up false reports from non-existent people and take that to the DOD? It’s a one-in-a-million shot. So it’s legit, period.
What’s the significance of the claims he’s made?
In other words, [Grusch is saying,] “Yeah we have alien tech. Yes, we have crashed vehicles. And yes, we have bodies.” It’s not a surprise to me. The people in my world have been stating this, and putting the evidence forward that we’ve had these vehicles, for years. Now [Grusch] just confirmed it. Well, this was a bomb going off and that really sets a lot in motion and creates a lot of problems for the Senate [Intelligence] Committee and for the White House, because they are not ready to deal with alien craft and bodies.
Where do you think the issue goes from here?
[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman] Mark Warner is in a really tough position now. Grusch has put the Christmas tree up and [Congress has] no choice but to start hanging ornaments on it. They have got to get those witnesses in front of that committee as soon as possible, or this thing is going to become completely out of hand. So the next thing that is going to happen is that Warner, or possibly Warner and [Senator Marco] Rubio together, will make a formal announcement and a press release that hearings on this will start on such and such a date.
DC’s UFO Lobbyist Doesn’t Buy the White House’s Extraterrestrial Denial
In light of Grusch’s claims, how far away are we from what you call “disclosure”—or the confirmation by the U.S. President of the existence of the extraterrestrials? Once they get the witnesses to testify, which would almost certainly include Grusch and anybody else prepared to testify directly to ET technology in our hands, which means Roswell was real, which Grusch has alluded to—two weeks.
Two weeks?
From the day the hearings start. Because here is the situation: The hearings are going to be probably the most watched hearings in history. So hundreds of millions of people are watching this testimony unfold. They are watching these questions being asked. The media is going nuts. Articles every day. Groundbreaking. After two weeks of that, what are you [as the U.S. president] going to do? You’ve got to go and make an announcement and say, “Look, I’ve talked to the Secretary of Defense. I’ve talked to the key Congressional leaders, and I’ve watched this testimony, and it’s pretty convincing. I think that we now can be assured that in fact, this is nonhuman in origin.” Or [Biden] may say “extraterrestrial presence.” But it is nonhuman, and it’s not our tech. That’s disclosure. Capital D. Bingo. That’s it.
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I know I kid you about this stuff. But I appreciate your posting it. The pot is starting to simmer and something will blow.
The only think that keeps pecking at the back of my mind is the uproar about shark attacks in the summer of 2001. Those stories got the lead because nothing else was going on. I wonder if we are living through that again.
I will be paying attention. This is better than watching lousy summer movies!
LOL!
Exactly! I don’t buy any of it. Just like the crash in Arizona last month, in an age when even 10 year olds have highly capable video recording on their phones, no one got a picture or a video. No picture of the wreckage. No picture of the impact. And if we have had this technology, why are we not using it. Let me tell, you if it got to a defense contractor, and it would, you are telling me they would not have been profiting off of it for the last few decades? Of course they would. I will believe it when they pry the aliens out of my cold dead hands.
"Welcome to California..."
YAWN
Did they find any cookbooks in the crash debris ?
Nessie.
Ronald Reagan famously said that the one sure path to global governance was if there was an alien invasion.
They will use this as a pretext to consolidate their power in an iron-vise grip.
"It's a squirrel." "Look shiny object!" "All UFO articles should be banned from publication!"
I wouldn't think it would be such an emotional subject. It's no more a distraction than the most recent decline in Bud Light sales.
But some people really get bent out of shape about it.
Someone got ahold of some stuff they shouldn’t be using.
James Tiberius Kirk bopped with Gaila.
Maybe they’re not too bad?
Passport Bros may have another choice.
At this point if the White House said there were UFO’s and held a press confrence with actual Gray’s and Lizard People I would not believe them.
Project Blue Beam.
Yes. It was called “How to Serve Man”.
I wonder if the gardening threads on FR are equally distracting?
The last UFO hearings were horrible.
They put two ignorant Air Force brass on the stand—and the guys flunked basic UFO history as well as being totally ignorant of more recent stuff.
The key is to only allow witnesses who actually know something about the topic—regardless of their rank.
Basic reading any witness should have mastered:
https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-National-Security-State-Chronology/dp/1571743170
https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-National-Security-State-1973-1991/dp/0967799511
Make the witnesses pass a quiz before allowing them on the stand.
But what if they want to take a large sample of democrats back for their zoo?
We also have a religion of UFO disclosure...somewhere out there are highly intelligent Gods who come to Earth and they will save us from the many boogie men here on Earth!
Until they plunk down a dead body of an alien being on a table in full pubic display , I call this all a load of crap.
We have an unexplained phenomenon for which there is NO verifiable physical evidence of UFOs after 80 years of observation, We have only shadows, theories, and stories , pure speculation being treated as fact.
Now if there was a physical presence of aliens in their UFOs, over the 80 year there should have been at least one private citizen who showed physical evidence of it. All we have is political posturing, and “They days gonna come, its almost here.”
All that without a shred of privately derived empirical evidence which connects beyond doubt to extra terrestrial activity. We witness a religion similar to the post WWII Cargo Cults of the Pacific.
“Freepers should watch the hearings even if they will have trouble resisting the temptation to yell “squirrel”.”
Yeah, cause at least the Kabuki Theatre will have a SciFi theme that might hold some interest (for all us Trekkies)...instead of the same ole lying leftists plot.
“Who represents Bigfoot?”
Bigfoot is one of the aliens
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