Some Thoughts on Rep. Don Bacon's Wednesday UFO Hearing

 

New York Democratic senator and Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, is pushing for legislation for a board review of classified documents that relate to UFOs, though they insist on calling them UAPs.

This is a rare bipartisan effort with Republican Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota and Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida having voiced support for the legislation, which is attached to the National Defense Authorization Act.

This measure would require government agencies to organize their information on UFOs and provide it to a review board, which has yet to be established. The nine-member board would be appointed by President Biden. These would be people who would advocate disclosure but with an eye to national security. The President would have the authority override their decisions, which could mean providing more data or deleting some of it.

Two things about this bother me. One is that the data would be collected by the National Archives and two, the initial legislation was modeled after that passed for the release of documents relating to the Kennedy assassination. We all know how well that has gone and I will note here, apropos of nothing, that President Biden to override the release of the Kennedy files to some extent.

I will note one other point that strikes me as somewhat ironic. Some of this renewed interest in UFOs was sparked by the comments of whistleblower David Grusch. He talked of crashed craft, alien bodies and documentation. Don Schmitt and I have been talking about that for thirty years and unlike Grusch, we named names and presented documentation. For some reason the mainstream media was too sophisticated to pay attention us. I hope for better results now.

Don Schmitt and me on the Impact Site near Roswell, New Mexico.

In the previous post, I provided the name, CV, and some documentation related to what Patrick Saunders had said to me and what he told family and friends. I can think of no reason for him to have created this fantasy about having participated in the cover up, and telling his son about the craft and bodies. He also confirmed, in writing, much (some?) of what Don and I published in our earlier books about the UFO crash as I noted in the Post that follows this one.

And now we learn that on Wednesday, July 26, Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett, along with several colleagues will hold hearings about the latest in UFO information. Three of the witnesses being called to testify have been identified, and I have seen nothing to suggest there might be others on the list.

I am slightly disappointed because we will be treated to the same information that has been circulating for the last several months in some cases and a few years in others. Those being called are David Grusch, who has already said that he can’t name names at this point and that he can’t present documentation. Maybe at this hearing that will change, but without these sources available to be scrutinized, this is little more than hearsay.

The problem here is that Grusch mentioned a 1933 UFO crash and recovery in Italy. The material fell into American hands at the end of World War II. The story has been investigated by Italian UFO researchers and found to be no more reliable than the tales of MJ-12 that originated in this country. I explored this case just a few weeks ago and have to wonder that if I could learn as much as I did in a matter of hours, why Grusch believed the tale in the first place.

The other two are Ryan Graves and David Fravor, both former Navy pilots who have told their stories in the past. I’m not sure what more they can add to what has already been reported. They can just tell their stories again and I don’t know if there is going to be any sort of additional information about the sightings such as electronic confirmation.

Then there was the statement by Representative Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, a retired brigadier general who told the Wall Street Journal that he had never seen a UFO, but “If I had, I’d have shot it down.”

What an incredibly ignorant thing to say. By what authority would he have shot it down? Were there standing orders that allowed him to engage a UFO? What makes him think that if he was attempting to engage a UFO, he would have been able to shoot it down? We have numerous tales by pilots in foreign lands who have engaged UFOs with no results. That would suggest that a technology that has defeated the problems of interstellar flight might be able to defeat an attack by conventional terrestrial weapons. The real problem is that such a cowboy move would suggest that we are a hostile race, probably not the image we would want to project to a spacefaring race.

And I see in his biography that he wasn’t a fighter pilot; he earned no Distinguished Flying Cross or Air Medals. Given his role in the Air Force, I’m not sure how it would have shot down anything at all. But I digress…

Getting back to the main point, I wonder if there are no additional witnesses, then what is the purpose here? If, on the other hand, Representative Burchett is looking for something more than a report of this information but would rather have some testimony about the UFO crashes that Grusch mentioned, then I suggest he examine the Roswell case. There are tapes, video and audio, from the men who were involved in the recovery operation. These range from Edwin Easley, the Roswell Provost Marshal who made it clear that he had been swore to secrecy to Patrick Saunders who talked about threats he took seriously. You can read some of that on the posting that follows.

All I am saying is that we know what the men who have been identified as witnesses are going to say, and unless Grusch provides some names and documentation, then we will learn nothing new. And yes, you can say the same thing about the information that Don and I have, but there is a difference. It has not been shared over so much media, and we do name names and have some documentation.

We do need to wait until the hearings on Wednesday to see exactly what is said, but unless there are some surprises, this will be more hype without a payoff. Eventually, we all will become bored with the hype and ask for the substance. I suggest that given the research conducted into the Roswell case by Don, Tom Carey and me, we could eliminate some of that boredom. I hope for the best but fear the worse… But then, all this has happened before… The Deep State can and does hide the truth.