APPETITE FOR DISTRACTION:

UFO RELIGION INVADES U.S. CONGRESS

Feb 14, 2024

Brad Ward, Director, Armor of Truth

THE CULT

Since 2017, when the Pentagon first began declassifying videos of US military fighter pilots tracking and recording UFOs/UAP, many members of the US Congress and agencies within the Pentagon have been enamored with a small group of UFO activists. These alien influencers have wooed legislators into holding multiple hearings where “non-human biologics” are presented as an unchallenged fact. They have also mesmerized the media into reporting all of their claims. All of this done and treated as a legitimate use of government resources without a shred of evidence of anything extraterrestrial.

The United States Congress and The Pentagon are committing disturbing amounts of public resources to the promotion (and defense) of a spooky new UFO cult with members inside and outside of government. Some are propagandists, some are true believers, but all are proselytizers for a movement that has evolved from activism to fit the definition of a religious cult. So far, our leaders have wasted at least $22 million dollars of your tax money and endangered the lives of you, and your family.

Most of the crucial facts are not commonly known. This is about much more than a government cover-up. For many years, nations hostile to the United States have been able to invade American airspace with relative ease. The United States Government has missed many new airborne spycraft technologies that directly threaten American citizens' security because of the influence of the ET hypothesis, and persistence of the cult.

What happened? How did the most secure airspace in the world become public domain? The answer would be comical if it were not so infuriatingly negligent. If a person wants to insulate himself from all challenges to his worldview, the internet makes that easy today. But the consequences are severe.

A UFO "religion" has infiltrated the United States government and sent elected leaders on a wild goose chase for aliens.

These "activists" see their claims as necessarily and objectively true dogma. So, when challenged, it’s either, admit your worldview is false (incoherent) or lash out in anger in a show of spiritual solidarity. The reason they attack Steven Greenstreet and Sean Kirkpatrick personally (ad hominem) is because they have no coherent corpus of truth, and they cannot defend their position using the laws of logic and a reasonable standard of evidence.

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These members of Congress bear a much deeper responsibility. They are morally responsible for securing the United States of America and for advocating for the people they represent. Their negligence has not only embarrassed the nation, but it has endangered the lives of all Americans. The fact is, our government, while seeking out spooky UFO stories, overlooked – for years – the presence of spy craft from adversarial nations that would like to do harm to American citizens.

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While the Governor of Texas is being roundly ridiculed by government officials and the mockingbird media for declaring an actual alien invasion at the US/Mexico border, the United States Congress is, and has been since at least 2017, enabling and defending a small group of committed and volatile religious zealots. Perhaps a more gentle term would be paranormal activists, but these are not merely UFO buffs. Their influence over Congress and the Pentagon is troubling. As you will see here, this small but influential group of billionaires, current and former former officials, journalists, filmmakers, and influencers are spiritually invested in their cause.

"Messengers of God" - Congressman says UFOs could be angels
Rep. Eric Burlison states David Grusch's claims of "nonhuman" beings from another dimension aligns with God's angels in the Bible.
Burlison's UFO-hunting partner in Congress, also believes in Biblical UFOs, and recently said the devil was trying to stop UFO disclosure.
Congressional leaders like Burlison, Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna continue their taxpayer-funded snipe hunt - based on the dubious claims of "crazy" UFO activists and paranormal hustlers.
UFO “religion” influencing Congress to hunt aliens, says top Pentagon official
Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s UFO investigation office, recently retired, went public and revealed the truth about UFOs. He says during his time investigating UFOs at the Pentagon, with top secret access to everything, he found "no evidence of aliens" flying around our skies.
And he says a small group of "religious" UFO activists and "conspiracists" have spent years duping Congress with false and deceptive claims. Some of these religious UFO believers are now angry with Kirkpatrick, with many popular UFO celebrities lashing out with violent and war-like calls to arms. Kirkpatrick's statements support and validate exactly what the Post's Steven Greenstreet has been reporting for the last 2 years.

We’ll take an in-depth look at why this strange worldview has become mainstream enough to dupe even the most well-educated and highest officials in the American government below. But first…

AMERICAN SPIRITUALITY

Under the influence of both Christian spirituality and that triumph of humanism known as The Enlightenment, America has always been pulled by an esoteric undercurrent. Religions require an object of worship and this cadre of esoteric evangelists, for the most part, believes that aliens explain our origins and represent our salvation from the curse of entropy and limitations of the flesh. The object of their faith ultimately is the Self. Their doctrine of salvation is one of personal transcendence via information, technology, and/or intervention from a higher intelligence.

UFO researchers explain how the UFO topic is ultimately a spiritual endeavor

In Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 the House Oversight Committee's national security subcommittee held a hearing about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena to explore firsthand accounts of UFOs or UAPs and government secrecy on the subject and possible threats to U.S. national security.

Following a report published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on January 12, 2023, Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett said, about UFOs, "we've been covering this up since the '40s" and “I think the American public can handle it."

On March 7, 2023, Burchett went further, saying that UFO technology is possibly "being reverse-engineered right now" but we "don't understand" how it functions. He maintains that the U.S. has "recovered a craft at some point, and possible beings".

Tennessee congressman, Tim Burchett said, "We're going to uncover the cover-up." Burchett is a true believer and references the 2017 article by Keane and Blumenthal as groundbreaking and great journalism. Burchett has led Congressional hearings and investigations into UFO/UAP.

This is an embarrassment.

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The seeds of such ideas were planted in America during the social reform movements that sprung from the unorthodox religious cults and utopian communities of the early 19th century. Two Great Awakenings of God’s grace in the 18th and 19th centuries endowed the nation with sound doctrine and established a line of genuine biblical Christianity that firmly ingrained traditional values in America. However, the devil always seeks to corrupt God’s good gifts. Concurrent with the true revivals, many bizarre splinter movements wandered away from Christianity.

EXOTIC ALIEN TECH?

The most common assumption about unidentified objects, phenomena, and craft is that they must be alien technology defying the laws of physics. Some do appear to be exotic bleeding edge technologies, however, more often than not, these objects are surprisingly low tech spy craft.

Low-tech, unsophisticated tricks have been consistently effective countermeasures to billion-dollar surveillance systems since the Cold War era.

In 2010, UK spies in Moscow used a fake rock to hide electronic communication equipment and Russian agents operating inside the US used invisible ink for secure communications. A “sneakernet” is a low tech method of communication that keeps all messages offline. One agent, using an air-gapped computer, saves a message to a USB Stick, the stick is delivered to the recipient. He reads it, responds, and repeats the process. To avoid leaving routing data, metadata, and IP addresses in emails while remaining online, the CIA, to this day, still uses the tried and true method of the email drafts folder. To remain undecided while online, two or more agents share a dummy webmail account where they compose messages to one another and save them to the drafts folder without ever sending them. As it turns out, most of the “unidentified” objects that are reported as advanced or possibly alien technology are low tech drone systems, balloons, or other surprisingly simple platforms for signal detection.

UFO MYTHOLOGY

The term “unidentified” has become synonymous with aliens since 1947 when Washington businessman and private pilot Kenneth Arnold coined the term “flying saucer” to describe the motion of nine high speed objects he spotted near Mount Rainier. Less than 1 month later, the infamous Roswell incident occurred where it has been mythologized over the decades by true believers that a craft carrying three “child-sized” aliens crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.

Annie Jacobsen’s reporting on the incident has provided the most likely explanation of the Roswell UFO story. Far more likely than popular mythology, at least. In 1947, the Soviets did not yet have the nuclear bomb, but they did have Nazi Madman, Dr. Josef Mengele, known widely for his grotesque and inhumane human experimentation programs. Stalin’s expertise was propaganda. Testimony suggests that the two collaborated to create a shocking visual hoax that would have a similar deterrent effect as the USA’s possession of nuclear bombs. The pilots were victims of Dr. Mengele, surgically “altered” to look like aliens; ears removed, noses removed and eye sockets widened to resemble Hollywood’s version of aliens. Stalin’s objective: to create panic in the United States in the spirit of Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast, War of the Worlds.

Declassified documents reveal that the 2nd director of the CIA, Walter Bedell Smith, and the National Security Council were aware that the Soviets might possibly try just such a hoax against America to wreak havoc, and overload US air-defense warning systems. The Roswell incident and Kennth Arnold's oddly well-timed report were the genesis of American UFO mythology and the subsequent mania with UFOs and aliens that exists to this day.

This UFO Narrative is a lie of the most insidious kind. The facts are being withheld on purpose. That is how you know they are manipulating you. Nearly 100 years of compulsory public education where critical thinking has been forsaken has left at least three generations of Americans significantly dumbed down and easily duped. It must be said also that America’s sharp apostasy from faith in the one true living God has compounded this problem.

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

INFORMATION OVERLOAD

In a world where ideas can go from one mind to a million minds at the speed of light, cults are no longer limited to regional or continental influence, confusion is common, and con men have never been more successful. Cults have become hyperreal expressions of their former selves.

The double-edged sword of the internet is, at once, a powerfully effective tool and a catalyst for mass degeneracy, misdirection, and bad information. Today, it is possible for people to become indoctrinated into malicious myths en masse. Reality itself is in the process of disappearing. Some of the symptoms of this trend include the tendency to seek out only the information or opinions that reinforce one’s presuppositions. Critical thinking is forsaken creating echo chambers (a place where one’s beliefs are repeated back to them inside a closed system insulated from dispute and challenge). Additionally, algorithms work to serve the same content back to a consumer over and over again. This causes a powerful reinforcement effect on the metanarrative of entire nations.

“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it—the LORD is his name: Call to me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.” (Jeremiah 33:3)

DRAKE EQUATION

There is a fundamental flaw in the argument most commonly given by those who believe alien life is not only possible but necessary. In fact, it’s more of an assumption than an argument; perhaps wishful thinking. You hear it everywhere, from schoolchildren to scientists to the halls of Congress these days.

They say, “The universe is simply too vast to believe that we’re the only conscious lifeforms in it.” They often go a step further and appeal to Drake’s equation as the best argument for the fact that aliens necessarily must exist. Because MATH!

Frank Drake, also a true believer, was born in 1930 and died in 2022. He was a radio astronomer known for lifelong search for extraterrestrial life. In 1961 Drake created an equation to estimate the number of technological civilizations that might exist in the Milky Way.

The Drake equation: N = R∗x fp x ne x fe x fi x fc x L
N = the estimated number of alien civilisations likely to exist in the Milky Way galaxy.
R = the rate of star formation in the Milky Way
fp = the fraction of those stars with planetary systems
ne = the average number of planets in each planetary system that can potentially support life
fe = the fraction of planets that could potentially support life
fi = the fraction of planets with life that develop intelligent life/civilizations
fc = the fraction of these civilizations that develop technologies with signs detectable in space
L = the length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space

Crunching the numbers, Drake and his colleagues estimated that there could be up to 50,000 civilizations across our galaxy.

Drake established (what became) the SETI Institute to search for civilizations on other planets. In 1960, Drake turned the newly constructed Green Bank radio telescope towards Tau Ceti, a nearby star similar to our Sun. He reasoned that for the previous 40 years, Earth’s increasingly powerful radar, radio, and television transmissions had formed an expanding shell of electromagnetic radiation spreading across space. If any aliens happened to be listening, the signals would alert them to the presence of intelligent life on our planet. For half an hour, Drake and his team listened to the noise of Tau Ceti – a persistent hiss. They were astonished and excited when they heard a series of regular pulses which were clearly artificial. This was the biggest discovery of all time! Further research revealed that the signals were coming from a nearby military base. (Insert sad horn here)

TILTING AT WINDMILLS

In the early 1600s, Miguel de Cervantes wrote the two-part Spanish epic novel titled: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, Don Quixote. It is often credited as the first modern novel, and is certainly one of the most-translated books in history. The plot revolves around the adventures of a member of the lowest nobility, a hidalgo from La Mancha named Alonso Quijano, and his sidekick, a witty and simple farmer called Sancho Panza. Alonso reads so many romance stories that he becomes enraptured with fantasy to the point where he loses his ability to reason. Don Quixote does not see the world for what it is and constructs in his mind a reality that better suits the desires of his heart. Many critics came to view the work as a tragedy in which Don Quixote's idealism is impulsive and impracticable (meaning, flighty, or colloquially crazy).

Cervantes’ novel has given us the modern term “Quixotic” which means extravagantly visionary, impractical, impulsive, and often rashly unpredictable. SETI and the search for extraterrestrial life is a good example of the term “quixotic.” Some of the most intelligent scientists in world history have boldly claimed that it is arrogant to assume that there are no other intelligent inhabitants in our universe.

Drake told a Royal Society meeting in 2010,

“I don’t think the silence is eerie, it is predictable... There may be up to 10,000 civilizations in the galaxy but, given that the galaxy also contains 100 billion stars, that means we will have to search around 10 million stars before we have a realistic chance of finding one. But we will make contact one day. I am sure of that.”

Despite continued efforts to detect intelligent signals from outer space by pointing radio telescopes of increasing power at thousands of stars and across millions of different radio frequencies, SETI scientists have continued to draw a blank. Not a single signal has ever been picked up to suggest that there is any other life form in the universe. Nothing. This is a religious commitment to a false worldview.

Drake’s equation is not evidence or an argument for the mathematical necessity of extraterrestrial life. What it does accomplish is just the opposite. Drake’s equation highlights the truth of the matter by providing further evidence that life is utterly unique in the universe and isolated to one location. Rather than proving that alien life is inevitable, the Drake equation and any other argument for the vastness of space, the constants and conditions required to support life, and the fine tuning of the universe etc. makes it very plain to see that we shouldn’t even be here.

THE MODERN UFO OBSESSION IS AN ANCIENT OBSESSION: THEY OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER

In the early 1800s, Spiritualism (AKA Spiritism) emerged in America popularizing communication with spirits of the dead, often through mediums. By 1840, more than 80 new cult-like utopian communities had been formed. In 1848, the Fox sisters, Margaretta, Leah, and Catherine became famous for claiming to communicate with a spirit through responsive knocking sounds in their Hydesville, New York home. Spiritualist societies and publications proliferated across America in the 1850s and 1860s. Mediums held séances offering messages of comfort and guidance to the living from departed spirits. Prominent American figures became interested, even committed leaders within the movement and by the late 1800s Spiritualism had become a significant influence on American religious and cultural life.

Fascination with transcendence and the afterlife attracted public intellectuals, artists, politicians, businessmen, and Americans from all backgrounds. Spiritualist churches and organizations were established throughout America for worship, education, and most notably mediumship demonstrations. Also known as channeling, the practice involves a person inviting the spirit of departed person to enter their body and speak to the audience. While the practice declined in popularity during the early 20th century, its influence on American culture, literature, art, entertainment, and now politics is undeniable.

In the 21st century the movement saw a major resurgence of interest. New interest in personal power, individuality, and spiritual awareness came in response to a string of events beginning in the early 1990s.

The Iraq War in 1991
The 1993 FBI/ATF raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas
The 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrow Federal Building in Oklahoma City
The 1999 Battle in Seattle where a massive group of anti-globalist protestors succeeded in shutting down a significant meeting of The World Trade Organization
The Y2K or “Millenium Bug'' scare
The 9/11 terror attacks on America
The subsequent egregious legislation (USA Patriot Act) that advanced the attack on the Constitutional rights of Americans
The farcical Global War on Terroism
The financial collapse of 2008 and the Occupy movement

These are some of the major events that caused many people to begin questioning the legitimacy of authority and to question what they thought they believed to be true. This deluge of crises caused another kind of spiritual “awakening” in America. “Question everything” became the new mantra. Social upheaval had jarred many Americans into seeking alternative spiritual paths. It was in this time frame where the New Atheist movement began its war on religion.

Perhaps one of the most significant episodes in the saga of American Spiritualism came in the years leading up to 2012 and the prophecy of the Mayan Long Count calendar. The Maya civilization, known for advanced mathematical and astronomical knowledge, produced a calendar which operated on a cycle of approximately 5,125 years. The end date of this calendar happened to correspond with the modern date of December 21, 2012. The calendar said nothing more than that. But, claims steadily emerged that this “advanced'' ancient civilization possessed secret knowledge of cosmic cycles, spiritual evolution, and profound eschatological insights. Theories about the “prophecy” gained significant attention in popular culture and media as the fateful date approached.

Many individuals, influenced by New Age beliefs, proposed that the end of the Mayan calendar cycle was a signal to future generations of an apocalypse, a new age of spiritual transformation, or a prediction of mankind’s ascension into a new era of higher consciousness. The concept of the "Mayan Prophecy” created a marketing boom in the New Age movement and prepping industry. The book "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" by Daniel Pinchbeck and the film "2012" directed by Roland Emmerich fueled the firestorm of speculation. Meanwhile, scholars and experts in Maya studies argued that the end date of the Long Count cycle did not signify anything other than the end of that calendar. December 21, 2012, came and went without the expected catastrophe. But the phenomenon left a lasting legacy in popular culture and on the spiritual inclinations of Americans.

All of these events played a significant role in the spiritual worldviews of the UFO activists. Gradually, the subject of UFOs and aliens became less taboo and more mainstream. The advent of the internet, the smart-phone, and the opportunity for everyone to have a voice in the debate has established fertile ground for fringe movements to blossom into mainstream players. The re-emergence and growth of Spiritism coincided with the perceived legitimation of the UFO topic. Since the turn of the Millenium, Spiritism, remote viewing, and channeling, have become inextricably merged with the UFO community. Where the primary focus of channelers used to be the spirits of dead human beings, mediums are now claiming to channel aliens, and other inter dimensional beings who claim to be helping humanity to avoid war and to ascend to higher states of consciousness.

Daryl Anka channeling "Bashar" Countdown to Contact

On “Bashar’s” website

https://www.bashar.org

It is explained:

Bashar is a physical E.T, a friend from the future who has spoken for the past 37 years through channel Darryl Anka. He has brought through a wave of new information that clearly explains in detail how the universe works, and how each person creates the reality they experience. Over the years, thousands of individuals have had the opportunity to apply these principles, and see that they really work to change their lives and create the reality that they desire.
Bashar describes the planet as going through a major transformation, an evolutionary leap to the next level of consciousness. The message emphasizes increasing your self-empowerment and your connection to your Higher Self as being key to consciously creating the kind of reality you desire.

JOURNALISM IS NOT DEAD YET

Steven Greenstreet is a filmmaker and investigative journalist. Since 2019, Steven has hosted The Basement Office, a TV show investigating and discussing UFOs and paranormal phenomena. In the first two seasons, Nick Pope, a former UK government official responsible for fielding UFO reports, was Steven’s co-host.

For a full report of Greenstreet’s complete reporting on this debacle and robbery of the American people, including government funding of the study of werewolves, Bigfoot, and demon portals at Skinwalker Ranch see the video linked below titled “Spooky Hustlers.”

The new narrative in UFO or UAP lore was stoked in December 2017 when the now-infamous New York Times article by UFO enthusiast Leslie Keane mentioned a five-year Pentagon program to investigate UFOs. There's a problem though. The story was wrong. It was false. But it sparked the hearings and the spike in interest America has seen since the US government began investigating and openly holding hearings about UFOs and aliens.

WHAT IS TRUTH?

Everyone has a religion. Not everyone knows they have one (some call it worldview). We determine whether a person's worldview is false by their truth claims and standard for evidence. Therefore, it is reasonable to criticize activist JeremyCorbell and investigative reporter George Knapp as proselytizers of a false religion.

We evaluate truth claims by internal and external critique. If a belief is self-contradictory (internally inconsistent), or contradicted by a fact (externally inconsistent), then the belief cannot be true. Any truth claim that fits either of these two criteria is false.

We've heard Jeremy Corbell, George Knapp, David Grusch, Ross Coulthart, et al. make countless truth claims regarding the nature of UAP as of "non-human" origin (alien). However, their truth claims honor no clearly defined standard of evidence. Recently, after Greenstreet challenged their claims with a standard of evidence, and Sean Kirkpatrick published the article in Scientific American saying there is no evidence for anything extraterrestrial, they have resorted to fallacious (ad hominem) attacks on anyone who challenges their claims.

Their lack of any reasonable standard of evidence and especially their appeals to emotion and ridicule when pressed to simply validate their claims is exactly what any investigator would deem unreliable or deceptive.

Likewise, Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthol have demonstrated similar disregard for responsible reporting and were certainly deceptive (by omission of crucial facts, namely werewolves, Bigfoot, and Skinwalkers) in the 2107 New York Times article. That single act of purposeful (and admitted, by Kean) misdirection has caused a massive misuse of US Government resources, distracted our leaders from identifying actual threats from nations hostile to the US, and brought further reproach on an already highly compromised American news media.

These “Spooky Hustlers” are either true believers of a false reality or intentional deceivers. It doesn't matter which at this point, the result is the same. But, there is no third option since they do not present their material "for entertainment purposes only" and have now begun to double and triple down on their dubious claims as if the problem lies with those who require evidence that meets a reasonable standard of scientific certainty.

Mr. Greenstreet is capable of defending himself, but it is clear to many of us following this debacle that were it not for his reporting over the last several years, which actually demonstrates a journalist following the evidence where it leads, and updating his own position when the evidence demanded it (a lost art), these Spooky Hustlers just might have gotten away with their duping delight.

To Steven Greenstreet,

Thanks for restoring some faith that real journalism done in the name of truth lives.