As a kid who grew up watching the History Channel obsessively, I am no stranger to conspiracy theories. There are just so many things that we don’t have answers for and I have such an interest in figuring them out. If it says anything, I went to Roswell and White Sands Missile Range, the site of the Manhattan Project, on my honeymoon.
I usually like to keep my articles fact-based with only minimal speculation, so I tend to steer clear of subjects like these for the sake of my credibility. However, this has become more of a mainstream topic lately, with several officials now talking about it as a fact, not theory. It’s been in several campaign promises in recent years and it only seems to be getting more popular, so I figured it was finally time for it to get its own article.
So, uh. Let’s talk about aliens, I guess.
In 2023, David Grusch, a former Air Force officer and intelligence official, testified to Congress that the US Federal Government has had secret programs that have been running for decades, with the sole purpose of reverse engineering aircrafts from crashed UFOs. He claimed that the first crashed spacecraft was found in 1933 in Italy, which was then under the dictatorship of Mussolini. He claimed the US was able to obtain the craft with the help of the Vatican.
He also alludes to the Roswell incident as being another cover-up where the US Government recovered a crashed alien aircraft. He even testified under oath that the government has recovered “non-human biologics” from crashes, specifically referring to them as “dead pilots”, which confirms that they were alien beings.
The entire subject of UFOs was nothing more than a conspiracy theory up to this point. Everyone speculated, but nothing had been officially confirmed. The subject was seen as a taboo to talk about to officials, because it was considered unserious. Funny enough, the event that changed that was the 2019 “Storm Area 51” Facebook page. Made as a joke, it invited people to meet at Area 51 at the same time, because “they can’t stop all of us.” Regardless of its legitimacy, it was covered on all major news outlets and made politicians realize just how many people were truly interested in learning the truth about if aliens existed or not.
In response to the overwhelming support for the “Storm Area 51” page, Trump announced that he would be reviewing and releasing classified UFO videos. On April 27, 2020, the famous “Tic-Tac” UFO video was released, along with some other UFO footage that the military deemed “unexplained”. Trump also promised during his 2024 campaign to release more info about aliens and UFOs if he was re-elected, and that promise has just come true.
This Friday, the Department of War announced a new website where they would be releasing tons of new UFO videos and files on aliens to the general public. At the time of writing, 17 pages worth of links have been released on the website. As a conspiracy theorist, I am so interested in what else they will reveal. However, as a skeptic of the government, I am concerned about what the timing of this means.
Are we going to see these aliens or UFOs in person soon? Does someone else have access to these files and are threatening to release them, so the Government is releasing them to get ahead of it? Or are we just finished reverse-engineering them, and that’s why it is safe to disclose them now?
It’s no secret that our country is massively ahead of the rest of the world in several areas of military tech. We have a specialized radar-absorbing coating that we use on our stealth aircrafts that make them 99% invisible to radar detection. We have had this technology since 1945 and we have been using it on aircrafts since at least the 1960s. China announced in 2019 that they have finally reached “near-stealth” capabilities, and in 2023, Russia announced they have reached the ability to absorb up to 95% of radar radiation.
Also, the B2 bomber was made in 1987 and no other countries have anything that even comes close to its technology. It’s a forty year old machine that still looks like something out of a sc-fi movie. Other countries are testing similar crafts, but none of them have the range and stealth that the B2 has.
Of course, it’s just a conspiracy theory and pure speculation, but these gaps in technology are nearly impossible to explain in my opinion. I think they give David Grusch’s testimony some weight.
Wernher von Braun was a German-American aerospace engineer. He designed the first artificial object that reached space for Nazi Germany in 1944, and then came to America after WWII and was influential in our own technological advances in the decades after. His assistant, Dr. Carol Rosin, claimed that von Braun gave her a warning shortly before his death in 1977: “The last card they hold is the alien card, the extraterrestrial card and none of them are hostile. It’s a lie.” There’s no way to verify this quote beyond her testimony, but it’s worth mentioning as an interesting take regarding our government’s intentions with releasing this info.
Since being elected Vice President, JD Vance has stated that he is “obsessed” with the UFO files. In March, JD Vance was asked his opinions on aliens. He answered “I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons.” His response was definitely concerning, especially considering he is an official who presumably has access to things that we can’t see.
But what do I think about all of this? I think that I am fascinated by what I do not know, but I also have no problem accepting that there is a huge chance I will never find out the truth about these things. I don’t expect the government to ever show their whole hand, so I expect anything that is released to be a drip-feeding of the tiny things they no longer want or need, just to keep us satisfied that they are doing something. I don’t know that I believe that the UFOs are demons or angels or whatever, but I am open to anything. The Bible says that humans are made in God’s image, but it doesn’t say anywhere that we were the only creatures made.
I think it’s okay to hold out on forming a solid opinion until we have more evidence. I’m personally keeping my eyes on the skies, but my skepticism of anything that is released at an all time high, because, as I’ve said in a previous article, things are getting weird.
Taryn Ogletree is a local small business owner and author with previous experience of several years in finance.