“Nothing to see here. Move along!”

Joseph Burkes MD 2023

On a social media page promoting human initiated contact (CE-5) with flying saucer intelligences, I posted a link to a NewsNation video describing the astounding revelations of former Pentagon official David Grusch. He has publicly stated that the US government for decades has been attempting to reverse engineer “non-human” (aka “alien”) technology. 

Somewhat surprising, the first comment made on my posting was that David Grusch provides “no evidence or new information on any breakthroughs or technology, nothing…” Here is my reply in edited form. 

It is true, that no specific new evidence is being offered, but just to make that statement misses the main point of his coming forward. Mr. Grusch, until quitting the DOD recently, reportedly had access to 2000 Special Access Programs. This required that he possess the highest clearances that would enable him to communicate with people who were in those projects, some of which were reverse engineering programs focusing on “non-human” technology. 

He is forbidden by law to reveal those secrets in public, but he has apparently been cleared to state those secrets exist. He thus has provided to Congress, in classified settings, a road map that they can follow, if they dare to do so! We are talking about the code names of programs, the names of corporate contractors, and personnel. Congress is now in the position to uncover the deepest and darkest secrets of the military-intelligence-industrial complex that has maintained the UFO truth embargo for 80 years. 

David Grusch is unlike those in the carnival like UFO subculture who claim they are talking to unnamed “insiders,” and then continuously repeat unsubstantiated claims. Mr. Grusch has been vetted by multiple professional journalists who have verified that he was indeed a high-ranking intelligence employee in the US Department of Defense. 

Rather than sitting back and declaring that there is nothing new here, as I imagine those maintaining the cover up might also add, “nothing to see here, move along!”, contact and disclosure activists can use this as an opportunity to employ every political and social means at our disposal to demand that the US Government and the media, and the smug academic establishment must now investigate his claims. We can urge them to follow the road map that David Grusch has given the US Congress to discover the truth. 

I am suggesting that informed citizens write letters and call elected representatives and the media to demand that they do their jobs by investigating David Grusch’s explosive revelations. Such a campaign would require considerable effort, far more that simply stating that this young man offers “no evidence or new information on any breakthroughs or technology, nothing.”

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I am a retired internal medicine physician living in California. From 1992 through 1997 I volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for the CSETI's Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative.

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