REMEMBER THOSE BIG HEADLINES last summer, when a retired Air Force Intelligence officer named David Grusch testified in Congress about the U.S. government’s secret UFO “retrieval” program?
“Whistleblower tells Congress a stunning tale of crashed alien spacecraft and dead pilots,” blared the Dallas Morning News.” The “stunning” part was true.
While speaking to the media, Grusch also said that World War Two Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, tipped by Pope Pius XII, had helped retrieve a flying saucer and turned it over to the Americans. Even the New York Post noted that Grusch “did not provide any evidence for these claims.”
Still, cable news outlets and YouTube content creators latched on to Grusch like a pack of vampires.
Skeptics pleaded, yet again: Show us the evidence.
And then in mid-2023 a reporter discovered that Grusch, who had worked in Pentagon satellite intelligence agencies, had had a mental health and substance abuse crises in 2014 and 2018 . The flying saucer brigade cried foul, but also pledged to keep up the fight. Actual “proof” of a spaceship or an alien, they assured us, was imminent.
As it happens, that is the title and battle cry of a new book published this week by Luis Elizondo, another prominent former intelligence officer-turned UFO truther. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs, is generating a fresh wave of media buzz and excitement among UFO believers. Might it live up to the hype and finally prove the existence of our extraterrestrial overlords?
Don’t hold your breath.