Here's the scoop on the new UFO "whistleblower"

Same story, same people... new name.

Want to know where this current UFO “whistleblower” (quotes intentional) David Grusch came from?

UFO authors Kean and Blumenthal

You may know the names Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal. They are both career-long UFO authors and advocates of alien visitation and life-after-death. Their biggest splash — which is really the main reason most who know them might — was their 2017 article in the New York Times which kicked off the modern UFO rage: “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program”. This was the O.G. that introduced Lue Elizondo to the world as a “whistleblower”. Supposedly he ran the Pentagon’s UFO program called AATIP, and “blew the whistle” because the Pentagon was not spending sufficient money and attention on the UFO “threat”.

In the years since, investigative journalists such as Steven Greenstreet, Jason Colavito, Keith Kloor, and a host of others have shown that virtually everything in that article was false, and was known by Kean and Blumenthal to be false. AATIP was a personal project of UFO financier Robert Bigelow (a former owner of Skinwalker Ranch) and Elizondo was his sole employee, and it had nothing to do with the Pentagon and no official connection to anything. Kean, Blumenthal, Elizondo, Bigelow, and a whole cast of other lifelong alien visitation advocates had carefully crafted this narrative and planned the release of this NY Times article to coincide with Elizondo “coming forward” with alien visitation advocate Chris Mellon (who actually had been an intelligence official), and the launch of burned-out rock musician Tom Delonge’s “To The Stars Academy” which went on to produce UFO-themed comic books, albums, and one short-lived UFO TV series.

Kean and Blumenthal have also, in the years since, admitted that their article was overhyped in order to increase interest, and they spun it to focus on UFOs as a national security issue, and that they intentionally downplayed the research this crew actually focused on — interdimensional poltergeists and life after death — because they didn’t want to harm their article’s credibility.

And so, it is with great skepticism that you should approach this “new” “news” about “whistleblower” (all quotes intentional) David Grusch claiming to be a former intelligence official with information about alien craft.

Here is this new article; note its byline: Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal. To anyone familiar with all this, that alone should have been sufficient notice that no further reading is warranted. We’ve since learned that the three of them pitched the article all over the place for nearly a year; presumably the New York Times feels adequately burned by them and did not take their calls. So they had to publish it in The Debrief, a website well known for its overtly credulous reporting on UFOs.

I’ll skip to the good part. When you assemble all these puzzles pieces, David Grusch has no personal knowledge of alien bodies or crafts, but he heard all about it from Eric Davis (Davis, Grusch, Elizondo, Kean and Blumenthal appear to all be personal friends). Eric Davis’s connection to all this is that he was one of Robert Bigelow’s “scientists” at Skinwalker Ranch, which they called the National Institute of Discovery Science.

So this new, grand revelation — that the whistle must be blown upon — is that some guy heard from one of the old Skinwalker Ranch ghost hunters that he thinks the government has alien bodies and alien crafts.

Seriously.

But give Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal a typewriter and a blank press release form, and you’re going to hear all about Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office and the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, and anything else they can squeeze in there to make this sound like it’s a huge gigantic earthshaking revelation that we all need to pay close attention to.

In short, it’s not a good time to read any UFO news. Just skip it. Preserve your brain cells.

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