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June 28, 2021
Estimate of the Situation
Bryce Zabel and David Bates talk about covering the UAP/UFO world as a breaking news story that’s moving with the speed of a Tic Tac.
June 25, 2021
That Pesky “Catchall ‘Other’ Bin” for UFOs
The new “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” is more than we’ve gotten in the past but not so much as we deserve.
June 24, 2021
UFOs Are Going Through a Phase
On the eve of the memorable (we hope) UAP Report to Congress, a system has revealed itself so we can figure out where we are in the game.
June 13, 2021
We Can Handle the Truth
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird… it’s a plane… wait, what?!Times are tough. Just over a year ago, the coronavirus sent us indoors to watch the number of victims skyrocket and the economy crater. Even as we start to return to our normal lives, there are reminders everywhere about what a deeply divided nation America now is. We can’t agree on vaccines, social justice, border policy, or even who got elected in the last election.
Demanding to be dealt with are the existential challenges of climate disasters, species extinctions, poverty, refugees and nuclear proliferation. We have issues of war and peace with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, at minimum.
Can we really afford to add aliens to the mix?
The Trail of the Saucers Sampler
The argument is understandable. The world of 2021 seems just too unbalanced and chaotic. An easy argument can be made that to add in the mind-blowing fact that we truly are not alone is more than society can deal with at one time. Disclosure of UFO reality will have to wait to give us time to be prepared. Or so the thinking goes…
It’s a false narrative, and it should be rejected.
The actual truth is that the right time to start coming clean about humankind’s place in the universe is today.
Definition of terms: what we have been getting since 2017 and will likely get more of with the UAP report’s release is leading toward confirmation. That will be when we admit formally that the UAP we see and record are real, we don’t make them, and that the idea that China or Russia makes them is improbable. That’s the first hurdle and we are not quite over it yet.
Disclosure is when we say, well, then it’s time to start investigating the more exotic possibilities and for the government to tell us what it knows. Disclosure probably won’t come with hard drives loaded with terabytes of studies, photos, videos, etc. handed out like candy to the media. We’ll have to fight for that. Let’s put a little more detail into that definition of Disclosure.
Disclosure requires global confirmation of unconventional UFO/UAP reality, made public by multiple official sources, both governmental and private, in a way that allows citizens to investigate and engage the phenomenon openly and without ridicule. Eventually, it must include significant and transparent release of documents and evidence, plus independent investigations with the power to subpoena witnesses and grant immunity.
That’s right. To get this done properly, there will need to be some teeth in the whole matter. There’s nothing healthy about a government having history’s greatest scientific discovery to itself without it being shared with the rest of humanity.
Sounds messy, admittedly. Still, there are arguments for just getting it started.
Disclosure now may not be as counter-intuitive as it seems:
We handled the coronavirus disruption, nationwide protests, and a bitter election at the same time. We are prepped and ready to go.If we do it during this rocky present day, it’s also possible that a discussion of UFO reality would not necessarily force the 24/7 panic in the news cycle that we’ve always feared it would with so much else on our plates.In fact, talking honestly about such an important topic may provide a bit of relief and distraction from what seem like such intransigent topics.Beyond changing the subject, the admission that we’re not alone might actually work to unify humankind on some level, showing us that we are more alike than we think.The idea that another intelligence is interacting with us won’t seem nearly as strange as it used to be, given that we’ve already been getting acclimated to the concept through the entertainment media for many decades now.Despite a recent experience with a limited disclosure from the Navy and the Senate Intelligence Committee, society has hardly come unhinged by the idea and the concept of proven unknown technology still has to fight for our attention.Fears that UFO Disclosure might trigger mass protests, people staying at home, workplace disruption or economic uncertainty, have less bite, given that we are facing all of that right now anyway.Granted, there are compelling concerns, all more than valid, about how to deal with such an astonishingly complex issue. It’s likely that some people within government and private enterprise are wrestling with this very issue even as the words in this article get vacuumed up into search engines.
Time’s UpThe human lifespan, averaged for men and women, between all countries on Earth, according to the United Nations, is 72.6 years. Let’s round up to 73.
On June 23, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold saw nine objects , flying in tandem, near Mt. Rainier in Washington State.Depending on who’s telling the story, the Roswell crash in New Mexico took place in or around July 8, 1947.This year, 2021, will mark the 74th anniversary of those events. That’s correct. Longer than the average human lifetime.
This means that anyone born on Earth when Arnold had his sighting or Jesse Marcel was forced into the coverup has a better than average chance of already being dead. The secret has been held so long and is so entrenched the undertaker is winning this race for disclosure of UFO/UAP reality. Over and over.
Estimate of the SituationIf you read the media accounts, it’s as if the first UFO incident was in 2004 with the Nimitz. This obvious dodge shouldn’t be allowed to stand.
The least likely possibility for what we’re dealing with is that they are us. This would mean that the United States has incredible secret technology that defies the laws of physics as we understand them today. In any case, this battle has been mostly won, given that public officials and, it seems, the UAP report, will confirm this.
Equally unlikely is that Russia or China has leapfrogged us in technology. If that’s true, then we are in a world of trouble from these adversaries, and U.S. representatives and senators should be running through the Capitol with their hair on fire. Look at the reaction Sputnik got in the 1950s. Why would we be less concerned today?
Earthly hardware is simply not a good bet because it lacks context. These declassified Navy videos do not exist in a vacuum as the only evidence of UFO activity. It is an absolute guarantee that neither we nor the Soviet Union had such technology in the 40s, 50s and 60s, and yet UFO reports were common and many were solid cases.
If you haven’t spent some time reviewing the thousands of high-quality sightings, pilot encounters, police and military witnesses and radar confirmations, you should. It’s beyond the scope of this essay to take this on. What can be said is that there’s definitely a there there.
Once you realize that something strange has been going on in our skies (and our oceans) for many, many years, it’s not much of a leap to understand that a secret of this magnitude has not kept itself. With all that activity, some group or groups of people in the know must have been tasked with getting to the bottom of this mystery. Their names have obviously changed over the years. Some were military, others worked in private enterprise, no doubt part of Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex.” Some were American, but others have come from around the world as UFOs seem to have never respected national boundaries. What they have not done, however, is share their work.
Imagine the sheer audacity it took to selfishly cling to UFO secrecy. This meant that multiple generations believed that it was their right to keep the American people ignorant of this mysterious presence. Consider the mentality required to conclude that the best way to deal with UFOs would be to ensure most elected officials are ignorant of this reality and that the American people, hundreds of millions of us, should intentionally be led to believe the entire subject is nonsense. And worse, that those of us directly affected by it should be treated as mentally incompetent and subjected to ridicule for reporting events that we saw and experienced.
By using the twin pillars of Denial and Ridicule, the people themselves were manipulated into accepting a way of looking at the world that simply was not true.
The existence of these anomalous objects have been confirmed by a number of official programs over the years — from the Air Force’s public relations ploy Project Blue Book in the 1950s and 1960s to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) that was funded by Senator Harry Reid in 2007. In between there have been investigations known as Project Sign, Project Grudge, the Condon Report, etc. and possibly even an Above Top Secret group created by President Truman after the Roswell crash that’s still the subject of confusion by disinformation.
Many military aviators, radar operators, and technicians have publicly asserted they have encountered UFOs that simply can’t be explained by Newtonian physics. Think about what that means:
These men and women were trusted with the most expensive weapons systems the world has ever seen, including nuclear bombs. Can we really insist that all of them see things that don’t exist and make false reports?
Senate Watergate Hearings | UPI || A Few Good Men | Columbia PicturesPassing the TorchIn A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson’s Colonel Jessep shouts, “You can’t handle the truth!” His point is simple: there are some things that a democracy needs done that require some of our tougher citizens to keep the rest of us safe by any means necessary, and we don’t really want or need to know the details.
Then there’s the idea that “The People have a right to know.” It’s been invoked to explain everything from the Watergate hearings to the Freedom of Information Act. The idea here is that secrets should not be held forever and that gatekeepers need to stand aside except in matters of deep national security threats and, even then, for only so long.
Obviously, these two points-of-view do not peacefully co-exist. The question before us today, however, is whether or not we, the citizens of the United States (and by extension the world), can handle the truth.
For years, speculation has been that we can’t. It’s been said that religions would freak out yet there is no indication that is true. In fact, polls show that people of all religious faiths have no more issue with the possibility of extraterrestrial life than anyone else. Even the Vatican is actively involved and knowledgeable on the subject. Evangelicals are extremely well-informed on these issues.
It’s been further said that society would collapse as we grapple with our reduced place in the universe, like Native peoples were destroyed by colonists and conquistadors. Other than that human-based anecdotal example, there is no proof, partly because we know so little about what these Others are and what they want. So, absolutely, this could be a problem. But the solution is not to desperately maintain a lie that is falling apart, but to bring us all together where we can openly discuss our options.
Let’s run the facts. As we said, the New York Times has published two widely circulated articles that have spurred fresh reporting throughout the media, social and mainstream. Lue Elizondo has been all over the airwaves as has Commander David Fravor. Elizondo even told Fox’s Tucker Carlson that he believes the government has crash wreckage. Fravor has told everyone who will listen that the craft he encountered was not from this world. Even 60 Minutes has covered this story. We have a public report due by June 25th.
No one seems to be freaking out. Interest in the subject has never been higher.
The opposite of collapse could happen if the truth becomes more widely exposed. We could just as easily see our status elevated if welcomed to a universe that may be teeming with life. It could enrich our society. It might even improve humankind’s self-esteem rather than destroy it, being admitted to an exclusive club.
In any case, it’s not as if life is without layers of uncertainties. Even our own government has felt it necessary to alert U.S. citizens that China and Russia have nuclear armed missiles pointed at Los Angeles and Washington D.C. that if launched intentionally or accidentally would kill millions of Americans and quite possibly lead to an environmental disaster that would destroy most of our planet.
And further in the existential threat department, we’re still in the midst of a global pandemic which has already killed a horrifying number of Americans while wreaking havoc on the economy by triggering policies aimed at slowing the transmission rate of the virus. Disclosure of the Others may come as a big surprise, but it’s not likely to do the damage Covid-19 has. While a virus can make people afraid to see an NBA game in person, the same probably can’t be said of UFO Disclosure.
Of course, the other great example from the headlines of the day is the national outrage over the murder of George Floyd that has brought millions to the streets. It seems unlikely that the simple acknowledgement of UAP reality would be met with the same sustained passion of street protest. It would more likely glue people to their TV sets and internet to soak up the latest theories.
And on and on. The point is that while we don’t know how humanity will respond to learning we’re not alone there is no reason to assume that the entire planetary system will collapse.
The crowd that believes we can’t handle the truth has had their day. The ones who believe that We, the People, have a right to know should get their time to run with this one now.
Long Time Coming | Nancy TokosEye of the BeholderBoth the governments of the world and the Others who are visiting us seem to have agreed over the years on only one thing — that the entire matter should be kept secret. We know this as fact because both sides had the power to end this secrecy. We could have called a news conference and laid out the truth as we knew it. They could have landed on the White House lawn or the equivalent. Neither side has made a significant move toward a new beginning.
On one level, an argument could be made that our officials may be doing this presence’s bidding considering they have chosen to so reveal themselves in such a limited way that their existence has bypassed the acknowledgement of world institutions. Perhaps governments have fallen into an engineered trap of sorts. In the end, we probably can’t do anything about what they want. We can only be responsible for our own actions.
The judicial system will have to assess whether crimes were committed. And while it is likely that more than a few have been, at this point, most were probably done by people who are no longer alive. We have to move on, and deal with the consequences. There may be Truth Commissions like there were in South Africa as apartheid was ended.
Some of the managers of this secret may believe that admitting to past sins makes them appear weak. It won’t. More importantly, the short tempers and quick fuses among our citizens would see right through it as a self-serving explanation that’s as ridiculous as the UFO cover-up itself. The cycle of deception must end for trust and respect of citizens to flourish.
On an issue of this magnitude, truth is a basic human right.
The New World | Duane LooseKnowing only that we are not alone has the power to instantly get humans working together on the same side. We’re not saying that will happen, only that it could, depending on the details. Humans are tribal folk, we love team sports. The problem today is we all see ourselves playing on different teams. Disclosure has the possibility of putting us all on the same side.
Cynics may say, “fat chance.” But really, we are already in a state of chaos that combines elements of the Great Depression, the global pandemic of 1918 and the violent social instability of the 1960s. The status quo has never looked shakier. We’re not so glib as to try the “what have you got to lose?” line, but there is a power in boldness. And if ever there was a time for it, and a subject that lent itself to acting without fear, it would be this one.
Ending the truth vacuum right now could be both a symbolic bombshell as well as a tangible expression that the government wants to kindle more trust from its citizens. It could usher in a new era that is not only cosmic in nature on the one hand, but down to Earth and relevant to relations between human beings on the other.
Between black and white. Red and blue. The U.S. and other nations. Us and them.
No, we will not all join hands, sing kumbaya, or pass the pipes of peace. That may never happen.
Yet don’t underestimate the excitement, wonder and fascination that Disclosure would provide for humanity. Knowing about our place in the universe can even be viewed as a divine birthright given to all people just for being born in this world.
It’s possible that civilization needs Disclosure. It may literally be the inflection point to allow us all to take a step back and reevaluate what we’re doing. What if it’s the pattern interrupt that can help us the very most?
The argument could be made (and probably has been behind closed doors) that it’s too dangerous to admit that lives and treasure have been used to keep the public in the dark about an essential truth of life.
Maybe it’s time to see it from the opposite point-of-view. The sheer danger of continuing a policy that dramatically feeds into the growing contempt people have for their own government should be obvious. If national security was the reason the secrecy was invoked in the first place, we may have evolved to a new place where it’s actually a national security imperative that this policy ends as quickly as possible.
The people themselves have access to greater and more accurate technology than the highest levels of government did in the post-World War II world. Read the news. We are on the verge of revealing this to ourselves. We have all the tools and we are using them every day.
Will it be better for the government if we force them to come clean, kicking and screaming? Or will it be better for the government to lead on the issue? To explain the reasons the cover-up became so deep and sustained, and to share the results of their efforts?
The people would like to check their work. Why not? We paid for it. The product belongs to us.
Crisis and opportunity presents to us. Yes, there is chaos in the streets, in our homes and in our government. Human life is not perfect. We will always be striving to be better to ourselves and our planet.
Disclosure might very well cause us to question everything and, consequently, lead to improving our world and securing our future.
The very reasons 2020 was one of the worst years in history may also create the conditions for actual Disclosure. Now, in 2021, we’re in an environment where shock value isn’t possible anymore. The world’s upside down.
People get ready.
The original version of this article was written by Bryce Zabel and Ryan Robbins, 2020. Updated by Bryce Zabel, 2021.
We Can Handle the Truth was originally published in Trail of the Saucers on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
June 9, 2021
The Trail of the Saucers Sampler
Here’s a collection of stories from our Medium publication on the subject of UFO/UAP reality. All of them are non-paywall and free to read.
Talking UFOs on Coast to Coast AM
How being over-caffeinated in the middle of the night on live radio can focus a mind as few other broadcast experiences can.
June 5, 2021
Congressional UFO Hearings are in Our Future
The Senate’s Watergate hearings made for riveting TV. The Cosmic Watergate of UAP reality will spawn hearings that will blow them away.
The Congressional Hearings to Come
If you want a sense of what the future has in store for us on the UFO/UAP reality issue, give “Godfather, Part II” another look.
June 3, 2021
The Non-Disclosure Disclosure Grinds On
New York Times sources say the UAP report that’s coming soon won’t say that UFOs are alien, but they can’t say they’re not, either.
June 1, 2021
The 1947 Twining UFO Memo Still Matters
Everything old is new again. A “smoking gun” of the UFO era, the Twining Memorandum, written in 1947, is more relevant than ever.
