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Does the US government want ycIn UFO arcana, one of the figures claiming a whistleblower’s knowledge of a secret U.S. program to reverse-engineer recovered alien technology is a man named Bob Lazar.Here’s how Lazar has told the story: As a physicist educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Caltech, he was hired by the U.S. Navy in the 1980s to work as a technician at “S-4,” a subsidiary of Area 51. By his account, the facility contains nine recovered flying saucers; in addition, Lazar has claimed glimpses of alien cadavers and briefings on human contact with the Zeta Reticuli star system.Heady stuff, this — except that Lazar isn’t actually a physicist, he was never hired by the Navy, he didn’t graduate from MIT or Caltech, and his only possible connection to military installations is a brief stint at a contractor firm associated with Los Alamos.So to believe his story, you have to believe that once he turned whistleblower, the Men in Black magically erased all evidence of his resume. Alternatively, you can just assume that Lazar is an all-American bunkum artist — an impression that his later career as a chemical salesperson frequently in trouble with the law does little to dispel.The Lazar story is a useful backdrop to the latest round of claims about secret U.S. programs involving alien technology, which just appeared on the technology website The Debrief. Useful, first, because of the familiarity; once again, we have a whistleblower claiming knowledge of long-hidden work on otherworldly crafts.But useful also because of the difference. The would-be whistleblower in this case, David Grusch, isn’t touting fraudulent credentials; he’s a former national security professional who was assigned to the then-newly-created Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (lately rebooted as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) from 2019-22. That assignment appears to be the basis for his claims, he’s operating through normal national security channels in making this report, and he has other figureswith some kind of governmental background speaking in his support.That doesn’t mean that you should believe him. My general view is that the UFO-encounter phenomena seems in continuity with supernatural experiences reported across the long premodern past — abductions into faerie realms, especially. As such, the experiences are more likely to offer evidence of either some kind of strange Jungian unconscious or of actual supernatural realms than they are to involve interplanetary visitors from Zeta Reticuli.The possibility of literal spacecraft stashed in U.S. government hangars, meanwhile, piles up two immense-seeming improbabilities. First, that nonhuman species cross oceans of space or leap interdimen-sional barriers using unfathomable technology and yet somehow keep crashing and leaving souvenirs behind. Second, that human governments have been collecting evidence for generations without the truth ever being leaked, uncovered or just blurted out by Donald Trump.But this whistleblower’s mere existence is evidence of a fascinat-ROSSDOUTHAT
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