Long one, sorry.
Have you noticed that the UFO narrative sine the 90's has been largely driven by pop culture (as always) but also by a relatively small group of people? Bigelow and the former NIDS folks never seem to be too far away from any of this.
Also, anyone who starts looking at that stuff long enough - Vallee and even the NIDS crowd – has always seems to come away with the impression that there's a lot more to the phenomenon than just nuts & bolts ETH and start talking about human consciousness.
Not long ago in another thread
@nivek mentioned that he had to step past a number of engineers/technicians to repair a major problem with a piece of equipment at the plant. These are paid professionals who you might think should actually know how that s**t works but apparently didn’t and could only stand and play pocket pool while the operation ground to a halt . But there’s some psychology involved there. First is that they have defined what their job is themselves and what their area of responsibility is. Maybe there's a budget line to consider - which department spends the labor hours? Obviously someone else is to blame for whatever happened, it wasn’t their fault in the first place, they thought someone else was already doing, they weren’t being paid properly for that kind of work anyway or they just couldn’t make the time in their busy schedules. Guaranteed that was the blamestorm that was going on while
@nivek crawled into the machinery and got it going again. As the relative outsider he is probably privately vilified by those schmucks out of jealousy, but now he’s the expert. He owns it now, like it or not. I’ve been there myself and think of it as ‘you bought it you name it’
The military's no different. Those nice uniforms are covering up the same hairy asses everyone else has. In a professional way that’s about what John B Alexander said in a February 19 2019
Open Minds interview, and what he said in his book about UFOs. I think he’s essentially right – that the military is made up of all sorts of people with the same general interests we have and that if there is a program it’s small and cloistered. I also listened to Grant Cameron on the October 16 2019 episode of
The Black Vault. He’s
out there a bit but interesting to listen to. Those two served as the ipecac syrup so I could finally puke out what I have been thinking about this.
The military and defense industry isn't homogeneous at all and human bumblefucking is an ingredient in absolutely every human endeavor. We'd like to think a deep dark Government Response Team lies like a coiled snake waiting for the next incident but in reality you have a group of people with personalities and individual mandates with attached budgets who will act like mother bears to protect them.
Maybe
nobody is or has been doing much specifically about the 'UFO question' at all and when Bigelow showed up as a defense contractor he owned 'it' by default. He had already shoveled buckets of his own money into a personal interest at that point and likely knew a whole lot more about the topic than his peers. Later as a valued defense contractor he became part of the inner circle that TDL has been talking about and brought that interest along with him. Very much like
@nivek showing up there was no doubt a good series of epic blamestorms before it was collectively decided that RB won the prize. Having Harry Reid standing next to you probably didn’t hurt – and neither did a budget courtesy of the taxpayers for a change. So RB bought it, he gets to name it. Apparently there was some discussion about the name as the program existed as alphabet soup before lighting upon TTSA, which it really was or really wasn’t anyway. Because that’s been so clear.
So now we’re just talking nuts and bolts again, not human consciousness or a Grand Unified theory. I’ll leave it to others to wonder about the whales.
TTSA had enough credibility to someone somewhere and must've actually coughed up a chunk of material that sounded appealing enough to the US Army for them to carve out three quarters of a million bucks and resources for them to take an initial look, and that's all it is. Came out of somebody's budget for a reason. And it did that in public. Wouldn't you like to get a couple too many drinks into that one and find out exactly what got said to who? The Army isn’t specifically interested in UFOs. They
are interested in materials that can resist IEDs, are lightweight, strong, nonmagnetic, etc.
So what’s more likely – the scenario I described with RB or TDL’s version of machine guns, secrecy, and his amazing cleverness to crack this nut? Disturbing to think he can beguile the people he has encountered to that degree.
Then I ask why in the hell are we hearing this at all? Now? Has to be a reason but so far all we’ve got is a weird mixture of credibility and profiteering horseshit. You think those engineers and senior government officials we’ve heard from were all Blink 182 fans? Or, maybe someone like RB can quietly have a word to open a door or two for the lad?
Then I ask – if we are hearing about this starting in 2017 is there a motive beyond just humping this thing for cash? There has to be – too many people with credentials attached to this thing. We got the message, we just don't know what to make of it - and maybe that's the whole point. We're left thinking it's ET. Well, could be.
The money is obviously it’s a perk – a bit like Nick Pope peddling his real credentials and an English accent (and possibly selling his mortal soul) to become a talking head expert on nonsense TV shows. That’s done zero for ufology but pays his bills. You read about the history of espionage you’d be surprised at the things people were willing to do for bupkis money. No idea how this has all worked out for TTSA financially. I haven't looked but wonder about any public accountability or financial transparency they might have in that regard.
Then what the hell is it and why
now, in this goddamned peculiar fashion? No stretch for me to say I think it’s either really ET or advanced defense tech. UFOs have been used successfully as a smokescreen before. Hell, Hollywood recycles old movies constantly because they make money. No reason the military couldn’t dust off the UFO stuff again because it still works. I for one wonder just what those X-37Bs do up there for so long. I also wonder if this has been a way to control the narrative, get ahead of a story of some kind to protect defense tech that may have been compromised in some way.
We can argue over the relative likelihood of either but can’t discount them. TTSA has served to rekindle my UFO interest again, that's for sure.
