It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you put a headline in my newsfeed that reads “My Dad Was A Famous Alien Abductee. I Thought He Was A Joke — Now I’m Not So Sure” I will click on it.
The article was written by a man who grew up thinking his father was a crackpot for insisting he’d been abducted by aliens … but now he’s not so sure …
I dreamed about being an alien as a kid and was obsessed with fantasy and sci-fi when I was growing up. I would catch the train from Newcastle to Sydney as a teen just to go to the Galaxy Bookshop and hunt for new gems.
So my eyes widened when I read his opening words: “When I first saw the bold headline “Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin,” published June 5, 2023, in The Debrief, I initially didn’t think about whether the headline was true.”
Hang on, what? Of course that can’t be true.
I may love the idea that aliens exist out there somewhere in the cosmos, but I wasn’t about to believe a website called The Debrief, never heard of it.
Then the author said: “In 2017, The New York Times broke news about a previously unknown Pentagon department: the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). This department was involved in investigating what were formerly called UFOs, now referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). More shifting euphemisms and acronyms for us to track. Since then, the news surrounding these phenomena has steadily grown. There was a congressional hearing in 2022, the creation of a governmental department called the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and a NASA hearing devoted to encountered ― or not encountered ― UAPs. And now a new whistleblower, former intelligence official and AATIP task force member David Grusch, claims a government cover-up.”
He also quoted Grusch stated to NewsNation: “These [programs] are retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will, non-human exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed,”
“What once seemed to be the premise for the next ”X-Files” reboot has become front page news, gaining mainstream consideration by the serious, the rational, the institutional and the scientific,” the author added.
I’m not going to believe anything reported in NewsNation either … whatever that is … but a congressional hearing sounded like something I could legit confirm.
I did some Googling and the House Oversight Committee has actually announced that it will hold a hearing on UFOS.
For reals.
It follows the claims by Grusch that the United States is in possession of multiple “vehicles” or “spacecraft” constructed by a “non-human intelligence” and that their existence is being concealed from the public.
Grusch hinted that some of the alien beings were malevolent, and had even killed humans. Grusch also implied that there is some kind of secret agreement between the government and aliens, and that people have been murdered to protect the secret.
Grusch may have watched one too many episodes of The X-Files.
I may also have watched one too many episodes of The X-Files and it has remarkably similar storylines.
I am currently siding with the numerous skeptics, but the phrase “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” has idly crossed my mind.
It has also brought back memories of being accused of being X-Files star David Duchovny’s stalker.
An oldie but a goodie, so I’m going to tell it again.
It was waaaaaay back in the ’90s, when I was the production editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
My office cubicle was plastered with pictures of The X-Files star and I was constantly plotting ways to meet David. My obsession became legend in the corridors of ACP Magazines and the editor of Woman’s Day called one day to say she’d had a tip-off that I was the Aussie fan who’d been sending David sexually explicit jigsaw puzzles (and did I want to sell my story).
It wasn’t April Fool’s Day.
And I was MORTIFIED.
Mind you … all these years later this GIF of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully snogging still conjures explicit thoughts …
Anyways, while I had fantasised about meeting David … and us falling madly in love with each other at first sight … and I’d dreamed about walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes as his date … and I’d even contemplated going on holidays to Vancouver – where The X-Files was filmed – in the hope of running into him … I had NOT been sending him sexually explicit jigsaw puzzles.
So I told the editor of Woman’s Day the rumour was wrong and turned down her offer of payment to reveal all.
And, because my world is far too small and co-incidental, I went on to become the editor of Woman’s Day myself.
Sadly I never went on to meet David Duchovny.
Happily I did get to meet another DD.
As for the UFO hearing, Oversight Committee spokesman Austin Hacker told ABC News: “In addition to recent claims by a whistleblower, reports continue to surface regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena. The House Oversight Committee is following these UAP reports and is in the early stages of planning a hearing.”
The truth is out there … very out there.
Song of the day: David Bowie “Ziggie Stardust”
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