Honestly I was pleasantly surprised by this episode. You come across as a sensible, intelligent grownup when you're on the show Walter. So I’m perplexed that you frequently comport yourself like a juvenile delinquent here in the forums. I’d like to see more posts from the guy who appeared on this show. And it was wonderful to hear Alejandro Rojas talk about his work on this story - he seems to see this very clearly, and it's cool that he's actually talked to Luis Elizondo about a speaking engagement (hint hint, Gene).
It’s certainly within the realm of possibility that Luis Elizondo is either a witting or unwitting accomplice in some kind of Pentagon operation, which was the central theme of this episode.
But it strikes me as a completely hypothetical proposition, like “reality could be the hallucinatory dream of a hyperdimensional gadfly” or something. I can’t prove that it’s not. But I can see no indication that it is, either. So it strikes me as idle speculation, and somewhat wicked idle speculation at that. I mean, my neighbor could be a Kremlin spy, but I don’t go around talking to people: “you know, Claude could be a Kremlin spy – have you ever considered that? I mean, what he could be up to in there, talking on the phone at all hours of the day, and walking around in his apartment late at night. What if he’s planning something terrible in there? By the time we figure it out, it could be too late!” Y’know what I mean? Sowing suspicion is a kinda rotten thing to do, without a wisp of evidence to support an argument. Sure, he worked in intelligence (and maybe he still does…shhh…). But crikee, lots of people work in intelligence, but what percentage of them are actively engaged in conducting PsyOps against the American people? Less than 5%, maybe? Less than 1%? Probably closer to the latter than the former.
And what exactly would they hope to accomplish with this? They don’t need any help raising the defense budget – Congress has already voluntarily doubled the annual budget increase that the DoD asked for. And they just voted in favor of the Orwellian surveillance state again. Threat of alien invasion not required here.
So what’s left? Some elaborate plot to make the media take this subject seriously for the first time in half a century, just to then blow it up in our faces to make us all look like fools? What would that accomplish? The media was already mocking us before this story broke – it would be hard to induce an even lower journalistic standard with regard to this subject, than we've already been subjected to for decades.
With those options out of the way, all I can see are agendas that I actually support, like some kind of gradual confirmation/disclosure, and/or slowly leaking out some kind of revolutionary technology from secret programs. I seriously doubt that the DoD would get behind either of those objectives, but they have my full support if that’s their diabolical plan.
But frankly everything seems to point to a far simpler, even mundane explanation: this is exactly what it appears to be. Luis Elizondo thought that he could make more headway presenting his findings to Gen. Mattis and other key people in government, by going public, with the consent of his former employers. And he wants to help advance public awareness and scientific research into the exotic technologies that he’s seen ample evidence for over his 10 years in the program. That’s his story anyway.
And I believe him. I mean, I’ve seen and heard every interview that he’s done, and every interview that Leslie Kean has done about this, and it all jibes. If they’re lying, then they’ve fooled me completely. And I’m not easy to fool – my BS detector is very sensitive, and it hasn’t even budged during their interviews. If they’re acting, then they deserve Emmys. Golden Globes, even.
In fact it baffles me that anyone can hear these people talk and answer questions, and come away suspicious. All of these people: Luis Elizondo, Leslie Kean, Steve Justice, Hal Puthoff, heck – even Tom DeLonge (as wild and frequently misled that he is), all seem completely sincere about what they’re doing. They believe that this phenomenon is real and alien to our civilization, and they want to get the story out in a powerful and compelling manner (which they’ve already accomplished - and more is coming, I’m sure of that), and this new TTSA organization also has high hopes (if extremely optimistic hopes) of figuring out how these things fly, and one day experimenting with it.
It’s like the saying goes “when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras.” People looking for conspiracies all the time are out of their effing minds. Give it a rest already. Or at least offer an actual argument with some kind of supporting evidence.
I’m speaking generally here, not attacking Walter – he was very clear that he was just presenting a hypothetical scenario based on his professional experience. But of course, when you’re a carpenter everything looks like a nail, as they say.
I just can’t find a whisper of evidence that this is, in fact, some kind of covert operation. Or even an intelligible hypothesis for the motivation behind such a thing in this case. And I’m kind of fed up with the online conspiracy theorists rushing to be the first in line make something sinister from everything that happens.
I know – we’ve been hurt before. The Billy Meier hoax, the sociopathic “Dr. Jonathan Reed” and his bogus alien in the refrigerator story, Andrew Basiago and his exotic Martian vacations with Obama, the stupid alien mummy slides, MUFON…we’ve loved and lost time and time again, and now we just want to curl up on the couch with Fluffy and dream of the good ole days when it seemed like the truth about UFOs would surely come out in some majestic Presidential press conference. It’s hard to put yourself out there and embrace the latest shiny new hope that promises a happily ever after.
But it’s time to learn to love again. Because this could be the beginning of something good. Finally.