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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How stupid would a person have to be to be distracted from an actual news story about the President by a UFO story in a local magazine that mostly covers restaurants?
FReepers say this is unpossible
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Notice, the Govt Guy never gives the Evidence the Promised.
Stringing you along.
LOL!
Jennifer Lawrence says “Yeah, uh-huh, sure thing!”
This thread has WEINER post!;-)
I chuckle when I hear that stuff is a “distraction” as if people are not capable of paying attention to two things at once. Lol.
Outrageous media coverage about lots of stuff these days are not nearly as interesting as the UFO story.
You’ve blown it all sky high
By telling me a lie
Without a reason why
You’ve blown it all sky high
“But the cargo planes were REAL.”
Yup—the real Cargo Cultists are the folks who expect UFOs and their occupants to show up and announce themselves to please the doubters.
Read the Dolan books.
There is nothing amusing about them.
Not exactly a religion.
Part of the fun of posting UFO threads is to see how upset some people get about the subject.
There is no proof of anything. Just anecdotal reports (which might be just hallucinations). Why do people get so upset?
“Who represents Bigfoot?”
Well, the sasquatches used to be well represented in DC back when Janet Reno was around, and after that they had Michelle Obama to advocate for them, but I’m afraid right now they are a bit lacking.
exactly
UFO Landing pad and runway by Martin Riebeeky, Houten, Netherlands
God Save the Sasquatches!
“Instead even OANN and others are neck-deep in this garbage, and every third FoxNews article is UFO/AARO.”
Well, you seem to be under the notion that these outlets exist to push a political viewpoint. They don’t. They exist to get clicks. And sensationalism always gets clicks.
Yea you are probably right. Its what they have needed all along.
If that were true, Hunter would be making UFO reports and claiming he was abducted by aliens over the weekend and couldn't have left the cocaine in the White House.
Ask people you know, "Have you been reading all the news about UFO's...they're everywhere!???"
You will get a lot of blank states.;-)
The only people who actually care about UFO's are the ones who scream "squirrel" every time there's a UFO thread.
Where....omy god where is that squirl? thank god there is nothing going on to distract me from finding that pesky Squirl..
I like to keep up with what is going on, but the squirrel thing has me baffled. What does it refer to? It certainly sounds pejorative.
Are they calling Ronald Reagan a squirrel. He said he saw an UFO and mentioned at least twice an invasion from outer space.
You would be hard pressed to find a military pilot or passenger jet pilot who has not seen and UFO. I have talked to some and they tell me they are told to keep quiet.
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