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UFO Disclosure: Demanding Nothing from Nobody

What exactly is it they want disclosed...? And who exactly has that...?

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Brian Dunning
Dec 04, 2025
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Michael Shellenberger

Public figures tend to come and go from the spotlight, and during the past few years we’ve seen of them try to reclaim the public’s attention by coming out as a UFOlogist. UFOs seem to be the flavor of the month — and have been on the list for years now.

One of these is Michael Shellenberger. Like so many leading “intellectual” UFOlogists, he orbits the Intellectual Dark Web and has made a name for himself being iconoclastic about whatever’s “woke”, e.g., he’s among those who disguise their climate denial by acknowledging it’s real, but denying that it presents a problem. His pinned tweet is a 947-word tome (that’s a full 5 minute read) arguing how wrong it is for the government to cover up their knowledge of the beautiful truth that UFOs are aliens or Chinese.

(Like most modern UFOlogists, Shellenberger disguises the word aliens as NHI (non-human intelligence). This rebranding comes to you from the same UFOlogists who brought us the rebranding of UFOs as UAP. Apparently, aliens and UFOs sound silly, but NHI and UAP sound official and businesslike. So let’s use those so we don’t sound as silly as what we’re still really saying.)

His recent call for disclosure highlighted how obviously foolish the whole idea is:

First of all, we can’t let him get away with so flagrant a straw man as this:

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