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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 138 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was nonsense from the start. Grusch had no evidence, not so much as a blurry photo or shaky video. All he had was what someone told him. So someone supposedly told him that not only did the U.S. have multiple crashed UFOs and bodies, but that one of them crashed in Mussolini's Italy and the Pope helped the U.S. smuggle it out.

And people ate that shit up. And they're still saying the big revelation is right around the corner, as it has been my entire life.

[–] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

As expected. Many thanks for the update...

[–] melonpunk@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a "trust me bro" claim that the media blindly ate up.

[–] Mewtwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

media

You mean dumbasses that read garbage tabloids.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vanity Fair discusses why respected members of the media didn't publish this so-called bombshell of a story: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/ufo-report-media

[–] Mewtwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It lacked any real facts and proof and the major outlets needed to confirm parts with their sources.

This feels like nothing. I would not be surprised the military keeps dangling these ufo stories to hide the fact they caught a Russian or Chinese advanced aircraft.

[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

credible

it was never credible lol

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Hubi@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was obviously bs from the first second, but how do alt right fantasies play into this? I thought the whole UFO thing was more like old-school conspiracy theories.

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Hubi@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.

[–] lildictator@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is very much moving forward. Senator Marco Rubio has stated that he takes David Grusch's testimony seriously. Rubio is a member of the Gang of Eight, the group of people in Congress who receive the most sensitive US intelligence.

Rubio has stated that Grusch is not the only whistleblower who has come forward and testified to Congress. According to him, over the last two years there have been multiple other highly-ranked officials sharing with Congress their first-hand knowledge of secret programs to reverse-engineer non-human technology, corroborating Grusch's claims.

Senator Gillibrand and Rep. Burchett have publicly announced that in the coming months they intend to hold public hearings to hear the evidence put forth by Grusch and other UFO whistleblowers in various committees in Congress.

If you find the subject intriguing and would like to learn more, I can recommend the podcast Need to Know by Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel. Other good sources of information that have also been proven reliable in the past few years are The Debrief and Liberation Times.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Trust me, no one of any substance put much belief into any of his claims. It was entertained, and found to be a huge bluff.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Obviously, THEY don’t want you to know about it, so they suppressed it after some courageous soul (who’s since been “disappeared”) broke the original story. /s

Nevermind that if UFO crashes were as common as what they’re made out to be, SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE would be able to provide some sort of credible evidence. Even a foreign government somewhere would have declared a discovery at some point and produced a ship or alien bodies, just for the prestige of being the first to declare it.

I don’t doubt that there’s alien life out there some where, it’s just whether or not if they’ve made the travel across many light years, only to crash land as soon as they get here.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

kinda strange seeing "credible" and "UFO" on the same sentence

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