How To Become A Respected Expert On Instances Of Extraterrestrials Visiting The Planet Earth

   Humans are an odd lot, which is an incontrovertible, indisputable truth.

   And millions of us odd humans believe that aliens flying around in what were once called UFO's and have now been re-labeled as UAP's (much like water pipes became hydro conduits) have either landed intentionally or crash landed on earth, or have buzzed through earth's atmosphere on an interstellar joyride, which is not an incontrovertible, indisputable truth.

   Yesterday, a congressional hearing (under the auspices of the House Committee On Oversight And Accountability) was convened at huuuuggggeee cost to the taxpayers of these here United States in order to allow testimony from a number of U.S. citizens who are claiming that they have witnessed UAP's with their very own eyes. What made the testimony of a few of those U.S. citizens notable was that three of them were formerly United States Military aviators, fighter pilots to be specific.

   Most prominent amongst the former fighter pilots was former USAF Major David Grusch, who has filed a whistle blower complaint alleging in his capacity as an intelligence officer working for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency he has read reports/heard from "multiple esteemed and credentialed current and former military and Intelligence Community individuals that the U.S. Government is operating with secrecy - above Congressional oversight - with regards to UAPs"

   In layman's terms, Major Grusch stated "I heard it from a friend who heard from a guy he worked with that his late Uncle was part of a hush-hush government project that is covering up aliens from space coming to earth!"

   If my analysis of his statement seems to be a tad too sarcastic or irreverent to you, no apologies, for that is essentially what he is saying. 

   Decide for yourself  - you can read his opening speech here: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Dave_G_HOC_Speech_FINAL_For_Trans.pdf

   I'll admit when I first heard his speech my reaction was that he sounded very intelligent and very credible.

   Then I sourced a copy of his speech on the internet and read and reread and critically analyzed the statements he made in the speech/testimony and ended up with a lot of questions.

   My first question of course was, "What is the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency?"

   Short explanation: A U.S. agency that analyzes photos (from satellites? drones? cell phones?) and other sources of information regarding the earth and it's features, naturally occurring or otherwise. 

   Here, see for yourself: https://www.nga.mil/

   Why would a U.S. agency that studies photos of the earth be considered an Intelligence Agency? Your first clue is the domain name - in this case, .mil.

   My guess is the NGIA is engaged in analyzing satellite photos in a search for military assets, or the location of secret nuclear or chemical weapon repositories - the usual activities of a military intelligence agency.

   I would also further a second guess that the people who are employed by that agency are very, very, nay, extremely OPSEC and COMSEC conscious.

  OPSEC stands for Operational Security, COMSEC stands for Communications Security. Happy now?

   Why would I make such guesses? Well, like Major Grusch I was a member of the USAF (though I hardly served as gallantly or in such a vital capacity - I was a lowly E-4 at the height of my career, my primary AFSC being Graphics and my secondary AFSC being Search and Recovery. While neither of those jobs suggest that OPSEC or COMSEC would have much importance or bearing on my career, it most certainly did, just as it does for each and every individual serving in the military of whatever country they are citizens/subjects of.

   Worldwide, military organizations are secretive - there is a global level of paranoia among the military class - loose lips sink ships and all that.

   So when I heard Major Grusch state that he was rebuffed in his attempts to gain access to secret files/evidence he thought existed - simply to satisfy his curiosity - I chuckled a little. 

   I mean, c'mon dude, you do not need to be a Major to know what "Need to Know", means, and you don't need to be a Major to know that the U.S. Military is going to limit access to information even to people at the highest levels due to past experiences with people at the highest levels becoming blabbermouths, and not the whistle blower kind of blabbermouths either, the reveal-valuable-military-info or get-valuable-intelligent-assets-killed kind of blabbermouths.

   See Peter Debbins, David Henry Barnett, William Kampiles, Clyde Lee Conrad, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, John Anthony Walker (and his son Michael), Lona Cohen, Ronald Humphrey, Jonathan Pollard, Ana Montes, David Sheldon Boone, etc., etc., 

   All of the above were respected, intelligent, admirable-in-their-duties types who turned traitor.

   And don't give me any of that "but Major Grusch was a decorated USAF officer and a fighter pilot!", bullpuckey. I've known quite a few former US military (USAF and otherwise) officers and more than my share of fighter pilots, and while ninety to ninety five percent of them were incredible humans who operated at the highest levels, about five to ten percent of them just knew how to play the game right or knew how to fly jets well enough to pass muster.

   Fighter pilots are notoriously foolhardy, BTW, goading each other into joining the 410 club and buzzing the homes of family and friends for the thrill of it.

   See former pilots (some military, some not) Major Richard Harwood Pearce, Major Daniel Duggan, Steven John Lalas, Captain Phillip Tyler Seldon, Captain Craig Button, Andrew Aycock, Commander Duke Cunningham, etc. 

   But I'm digressing mainly because being skeptical of any persons claim of seeing UFOs/UAPs requires falling down an impossibly deep rabbit hole full of sworn-on-a-stack-of-bibles testimony from UFO/UAP enthusiasts who all seem to share an insane level of passionate belief that not only are UFOs/UAPs real, they are not "unidentified" at all, they are for real real, and the government is hiding the truth from us! (like, rivals the religious fervor of 16th century English Puritans level of passionate belief).

   Which I just do not have time for.

   So instead of being skeptical of Major Grusch's claims (or the claims of any of his like-minded believers) anymore, I'm just going to list the ways and means that will allow you to become, like them, a respected expert of the existence of extraterrestrials who have visited the planet earth.

   The first thing you absolutely must do somewhat goes without mentioning, but of course I must mention it. 

   Right out of the gate you must first accuse the government of covering up the evidence. I can guarantee you without the slightest hesitation that accusing the government of a cover-up, no matter which government you live under, be it the U.S.A., Canada, Peru, Kazakhstan, or even New Zealand, you will soon have followers who will swear that you are absolutely, 100% correct in your assertion(s).

   Second, align yourself with like-minded individuals who have already gained some measure of notoriety with claims of alien visitation to Earth. Especially helpful to your cause will be developing relationships with successful people who have lots of money to further your cause such as Robert Bigelow, John B. Alexander, Linda Moulton Howe, Dan Aykroyd, Luis Elizondo, Jerome Clark, and maybe Joe Rogan.

   Third, ignore the need for critical thinking or that old chestnut "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof." Always assert that you know what you saw/heard/read/were told, etc., is the truth.

   Fourth, ignore generally accepted scientific reasons for the improbability of your beliefs such as the incredible astronomical distances involved, the Drake Equation (N= R fp ne fl fi fc L), the unbelievable hostility of outer space as an environment (yeah, yeah, Star Trek and other television shows and movies make it look relatively safe to travel through space, but it is, in actual fact, not), and the lack of one single shred of the aforementioned incontrovertible and indisputable evidence.

   Fifth, disregard critics and any of those annoying "debunkers" as either close-minded, ignorant truth-deniers or government stooges.

   Sixth, throw statistical probabilities out the window. Just because the human race is the only known life form (on a planet teaming with millions of other life forms) that has developed the technology to record it's history, travel through the air without the aide of naturally occurring wings or other flight-allowing bodily growths/functions, and created the technology to destroy itself many times over with a horrific combined nuclear arsenal, doesn't mean that on some other planet a bazillion miles away (and quite possibly further still) another even more developed species similar to the human race (though with bigger heads and smaller bodies) somehow developed an obsession with visiting our small blue marble in order to mutilate cows, anal rape select individuals, and tease fighter pilots with their superior aircraft maneuverability. 

   Seven, and this is a biggie, publish. Publish or perish, that's not just a rule of academic survival, it's the law of the extraterrestrial-visitors-to-earth-belief jungle.

   And finally the eighth and final rule of becoming a member of the extraterrestrial visitations to earth club (expert level) is just believe, for the sake of believing. 

   Because the truth is out there.