I totally get the impulse, but I am getting a little sick of folks just dismissing completely out of hand without even engaging with the information.
From the original Debrief article:
[Grusch] said he reported to Congress on the existence of a decades-long “publicly unknown Cold War for recovered and exploited physical material – a competition with near-peer adversaries over the years to identify UAP crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering to garner asymmetric national defense advantages.”
Edit: oops, meant to reply directly to shminux, my b. Leaving it here for now.
See my other reply, but to add to that: the physical material and evidence that Grusch claims to have (second-hand accounts or no, though he does claim to have names, locations, photos, etc.) is all classified. Grusch could have pulled a Snowden, perhaps, and leaked it all directly, but I don’t think that would have been as effective as what he’s doing right now, because still no one would have reason to really believe him. What he’s doing instead is going through the proper government channels, pulling the proper government levers, with the proper people in the proper positions of power (namely the ICIG and Congress) in order to get his allegations investigated properly.
“Show me the physical material” is right. The thing is, Grusch, and others in his position, are not able to do that without risking serious legal repercussions. Instead, they’re using the proper whistleblower protections and legislation written out to help them come forward with these claims in a proper way that actually gets them investigated by the right people. That’s important. That’s how we actually get answers to any of this (whatever those answers turn out to be). If he just Snowden’d the whole thing, I think people like you would be like “Yeah, bullshit, whatever,” and move on, just like with any of the other wild claims that have come out through improper channels (Bob Lazar, etc.).
If instead he comes to the ICIG and Congress with it and gets them to do a full-on investigation that then produces answers, people like you are going to be much more likely to take the matter seriously.
I totally get the impulse, but I am getting a little sick of folks just dismissing completely out of hand without even engaging with the information.
From the original Debrief article:
Edit: oops, meant to reply directly to shminux, my b. Leaving it here for now.
Words. Show me the “physical material”.
See my other reply, but to add to that: the physical material and evidence that Grusch claims to have (second-hand accounts or no, though he does claim to have names, locations, photos, etc.) is all classified. Grusch could have pulled a Snowden, perhaps, and leaked it all directly, but I don’t think that would have been as effective as what he’s doing right now, because still no one would have reason to really believe him. What he’s doing instead is going through the proper government channels, pulling the proper government levers, with the proper people in the proper positions of power (namely the ICIG and Congress) in order to get his allegations investigated properly.
“Show me the physical material” is right. The thing is, Grusch, and others in his position, are not able to do that without risking serious legal repercussions. Instead, they’re using the proper whistleblower protections and legislation written out to help them come forward with these claims in a proper way that actually gets them investigated by the right people. That’s important. That’s how we actually get answers to any of this (whatever those answers turn out to be). If he just Snowden’d the whole thing, I think people like you would be like “Yeah, bullshit, whatever,” and move on, just like with any of the other wild claims that have come out through improper channels (Bob Lazar, etc.).
If instead he comes to the ICIG and Congress with it and gets them to do a full-on investigation that then produces answers, people like you are going to be much more likely to take the matter seriously.