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"I would like to find out whether or not it's true." ~Trump
🛸🇺🇸 Trump, UFOs, "60 Minutes" and Asses 🇺🇸🛸
(Below is the extended video and transcript of the Trump UAP Q&A, plus my analysis and comments.)
"Something goes by [our Air Force jets] at three times their speed. It's not aerodynamic, it's round." ~Trump
"I'm not too much of a believer." ~Trump
What type of Air Force pilots have reported UFOs?
"Young, handsome. They have beautiful, nice flat tops." ~Trump
"Very fit in the posterior." ~Douthat
~
(@Douthat60 did a nice job here with limited time and a ton of topics to cover. And he even snuck in an ass comment! 😉
Also of note: @grahammessick, who was the producer for the "60 Minutes" UAP segment in 2021 with Bill Whitaker, featuring Lue, Mellon, Fravor, Dietrich, Graves and then Senator Marco Rubio, was one of the producers for this Trump interview. That UAP segment has amassed 13 million views on YT.)
~
Ross Douthat: "Your administration, alone among modern administrations, has spent a lot of time releasing footage of UFOs."
President Donald Trump - @POTUS/@realDonaldTrump: "Yeah."
(There have been 7 drops so far of UFO/UAP-related photos, videos, audio and documents.)
Douthat: "Unidentified Flying Objects. I think a lot of that footage for people who are interested in the topic has been interesting but fuzzy, you know, unclear, maybe a little disappointing."
(100%. Interesting is a good word, but the evidence connected to those drops is not enough to prove to the masses that we're dealing with true anomalies.)
Douthat: "Is there anything that you have seen or heard about, or been told about, that would lead you to think that there's something more there than just, we're having a good time looking at things in the sky?"
(Great question, which Trump doesn't really answer. I think Douthat was going for something like this:
"Oh, yes. There's that one video that you wouldn't believe. It needs to be seen by every American." ~Hypothetical Trump )
~
Trump: "It's so amazing that you ask this question because it is one of the questions, in private, I get asked about. More people ask me about UFOs than, I mean..."
Douthat: "I believe it."
Trump: "People that you wouldn't think."
(Who? 🤔)
Douthat: "So, what's the answer?"
Trump: "So, here's the story. I'm not too much of a believer."
(So, is he KIND of a believer? A partial believer? 75% believer? Daydream Believer? What does "not too much" mean?)
Trump: "But I sat in the Oval Office, first term, and a little bit second term, meeting with Air Force pilots that are really good, solid people."
~~~
(As far as who briefed Trump in his first term? Dr. Eric Davis spoke to Peter Skafish of SOL about that, and we know Jay Stratton's stint as the head of the UAP Task Force ended in January of 2021. So, if what Davis said is true, it means the alleged Stratton briefing had to have taken place in Trump's first term, which lasted from January 20th of 2017 to January 20th of 2021. ⬇️)
Dr. Eric Davis: "I do know that Jay Stratton and his colleagues at the UAPTF did brief Trump, but they were briefing him on the UAP problem, not about the crash retrieval topic."
And in a recent interview with Joe Rogan, David Grusch shared this...
Grusch: "Trump understands the subject pretty good, and, you know, he's in the know. And he understands some of the implications."
(Is that accurate? Does Trump know about the crash-retrieval claims? If so, was he briefed on them during his second term - and by whom?
Well, Robert Bigelow said he briefed Trump on UFOs in February of this year, but based on what he said to @g_knapp, I don't believe crash retrievals were covered.)
I made a massive post about that briefing and you can read it here... ⬇️
x.com/TheUfoJoe/stat…
~~~
Trump: "These (Air Force pilots) are not people that you would say are conspiracy theorists. They don't even know what it means, but they're great, great pilots. Young, handsome. They have beautiful, nice flat tops. I'd like to have a haircut just like 'em. They look perfect. Like, Tom Cruise. They looked [like] Tom Cruise. I won't say better."
Douthat: "Very fit in the posterior."
(Nice jab by Douthat since Trump has recently talked about asses of male politicians. Trump didn't seem to notice what Douthat did there. 🙂)
Trump: "They're thin, very thin, and very everything."
Douthat: "Yeah."
Trump: "And...but they're real, they're the real deal. And they've told me things that are very strange, in certain cases. They said, 'Yes, there's something going on out there.' Because they're flying an F-22, which is the best there is, the fastest, the best plane that anyone's ever seen. And something goes by them at three times their speed, and it's round. It's not aerodynamic, it's round. And I said, 'Well, maybe it was a comet?'"
Douthat: "So, that's the mystery."
Trump: "Yeah."
Douthat: "But then, along with those pilots, there's a set of people who have styled themselves as whistleblowers, who have come out and said, 'Actually, there's also a secret program that even presidents don't know about to study this stuff.' Have you seen any evidence that that is the case?"
Trump: "No! And I haven't heard that. But if there is, I'm gonna find out about it right after this interview."
(You think Trump started to dig into that after the interview was over? I hope so, but I'm very skeptical.
Trump answered "No" before Douthat even finished his question. Was he coached to say that if the question came up, or has he really never heard the claim about a secret crash retrieval program?
Major kudos to Douthat for going beyond UFO videos and sightings and asking about the alleged secret Legacy program. Does Trump's denial prove he's never heard anything about it? Well, to know for sure, he'd have to be asked a few follow-ups and this interview wasn't about UFOs. And even then, a denial wouldn't prove he's never been told about a secret UFO program. Maybe he forgot?)
Jay Stratton said this recently to Bret Baier of Fox News....
Stratton: "I don't think [Trump has] seen [the real UFO evidence]. I think he's still being shielded from the truth. And we have to work hard to bring the truth to the president because the president that goes to the microphone to tell the world we're not alone...that's a monumental moment."
But Stratton also said this in his book...
"The Trump administration now knows the truth, that we are not alone in the Universe." ~Jay Stratton - "Out of the Shadows"
(Maybe certain people around Trump know the truth, but he's been shielded to maintan plausible deniability?)
~
Douthat: "Okay."
Trump: "It's an amazing thing, though. I have more interest... And, you know, if you go to Nevada, where they have a very, very common chain-link fence, there's more tourists at that chain-link fence because that's where they say it all happens."
(He's talking about Area 51, which he always mentions when asked about UFOs. But, I think this is the first time he didn't confuse it with Roswell. And no, Area 51 isn't a top tourist attraction.)
Douthat: "Right."
Trump: "I don't know if that's true. I don't think it's true."
(My interpretation: Trump saying he doesn't know or think "that" and "it" are true is about Area 51 allegedly being the location where all the action happens with UFOs and reverse engineering. What he didn't say is, "I KNOW it's NOT true."
But if there ARE reverse engineering programs, I was told they wouldn't be at Area 51.)
Trump: "But did you ever see the people, 1000s and 1000s of people looking over a piece of land?"
(No, because unless he's talking about the Storm Area 51 event in 2019, where several thousand people showed up, there aren't many people who drive into the desert to see warning signs, a gate and a black mailbox, the latter of which is now gone. Plus, the Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, and the Extraterrestrial Highway sign.)
Trump: "There is more interest in that subject than any of the questions..."
Douthat: "But you're interested in it because people are interested in it, not because you're on the way to discovering it?"
(Another great question. A lot of people accuse Trump of ordering the release of UFO files because he realizes so many Americans are interested in the topic and he thinks they'd see him in a more positive light if more files are declassified. Or, that he's doing it to distract from other topics like Iran and/or Epstein. Or, he wanted to one-up Obama who spoke about Area 51 and aliens being real. But maybe Trump really has a personal interest and curiosity about it? I have to see that from him.)
Trump: "I would like to find out whether or not it's true. I will tell you, you have a lot of very solid people that believe it's true."
🛸🇺🇸 Trump, UFOs, "60 Minutes" and Asses 🇺🇸🛸
(Below is the extended video and transcript of the Trump UAP Q&A, plus my analysis and comments.)
"Something goes by [our Air Force jets] at three times their speed. It's not aerodynamic, it's round." ~Trump
"I'm not too much of a believer." ~Trump
What type of Air Force pilots have reported UFOs?
"Young, handsome. They have beautiful, nice flat tops." ~Trump
"Very fit in the posterior." ~Douthat
~
(@Douthat60 did a nice job here with limited time and a ton of topics to cover. And he even snuck in an ass comment! 😉
Also of note: @grahammessick, who was the producer for the "60 Minutes" UAP segment in 2021 with Bill Whitaker, featuring Lue, Mellon, Fravor, Dietrich, Graves and then Senator Marco Rubio, was one of the producers for this Trump interview. That UAP segment has amassed 13 million views on YT.)
~
Ross Douthat: "Your administration, alone among modern administrations, has spent a lot of time releasing footage of UFOs."
President Donald Trump - @POTUS/@realDonaldTrump: "Yeah."
(There have been 7 drops so far of UFO/UAP-related photos, videos, audio and documents.)
Douthat: "Unidentified Flying Objects. I think a lot of that footage for people who are interested in the topic has been interesting but fuzzy, you know, unclear, maybe a little disappointing."
(100%. Interesting is a good word, but the evidence connected to those drops is not enough to prove to the masses that we're dealing with true anomalies.)
Douthat: "Is there anything that you have seen or heard about, or been told about, that would lead you to think that there's something more there than just, we're having a good time looking at things in the sky?"
(Great question, which Trump doesn't really answer. I think Douthat was going for something like this:
"Oh, yes. There's that one video that you wouldn't believe. It needs to be seen by every American." ~Hypothetical Trump )
~
Trump: "It's so amazing that you ask this question because it is one of the questions, in private, I get asked about. More people ask me about UFOs than, I mean..."
Douthat: "I believe it."
Trump: "People that you wouldn't think."
(Who? 🤔)
Douthat: "So, what's the answer?"
Trump: "So, here's the story. I'm not too much of a believer."
(So, is he KIND of a believer? A partial believer? 75% believer? Daydream Believer? What does "not too much" mean?)
Trump: "But I sat in the Oval Office, first term, and a little bit second term, meeting with Air Force pilots that are really good, solid people."
~~~
(As far as who briefed Trump in his first term? Dr. Eric Davis spoke to Peter Skafish of SOL about that, and we know Jay Stratton's stint as the head of the UAP Task Force ended in January of 2021. So, if what Davis said is true, it means the alleged Stratton briefing had to have taken place in Trump's first term, which lasted from January 20th of 2017 to January 20th of 2021. ⬇️)
Dr. Eric Davis: "I do know that Jay Stratton and his colleagues at the UAPTF did brief Trump, but they were briefing him on the UAP problem, not about the crash retrieval topic."
And in a recent interview with Joe Rogan, David Grusch shared this...
Grusch: "Trump understands the subject pretty good, and, you know, he's in the know. And he understands some of the implications."
(Is that accurate? Does Trump know about the crash-retrieval claims? If so, was he briefed on them during his second term - and by whom?
Well, Robert Bigelow said he briefed Trump on UFOs in February of this year, but based on what he said to @g_knapp, I don't believe crash retrievals were covered.)
I made a massive post about that briefing and you can read it here... ⬇️
x.com/TheUfoJoe/stat…
~~~
Trump: "These (Air Force pilots) are not people that you would say are conspiracy theorists. They don't even know what it means, but they're great, great pilots. Young, handsome. They have beautiful, nice flat tops. I'd like to have a haircut just like 'em. They look perfect. Like, Tom Cruise. They looked [like] Tom Cruise. I won't say better."
Douthat: "Very fit in the posterior."
(Nice jab by Douthat since Trump has recently talked about asses of male politicians. Trump didn't seem to notice what Douthat did there. 🙂)
Trump: "They're thin, very thin, and very everything."
Douthat: "Yeah."
Trump: "And...but they're real, they're the real deal. And they've told me things that are very strange, in certain cases. They said, 'Yes, there's something going on out there.' Because they're flying an F-22, which is the best there is, the fastest, the best plane that anyone's ever seen. And something goes by them at three times their speed, and it's round. It's not aerodynamic, it's round. And I said, 'Well, maybe it was a comet?'"
Douthat: "So, that's the mystery."
Trump: "Yeah."
Douthat: "But then, along with those pilots, there's a set of people who have styled themselves as whistleblowers, who have come out and said, 'Actually, there's also a secret program that even presidents don't know about to study this stuff.' Have you seen any evidence that that is the case?"
Trump: "No! And I haven't heard that. But if there is, I'm gonna find out about it right after this interview."
(You think Trump started to dig into that after the interview was over? I hope so, but I'm very skeptical.
Trump answered "No" before Douthat even finished his question. Was he coached to say that if the question came up, or has he really never heard the claim about a secret crash retrieval program?
Major kudos to Douthat for going beyond UFO videos and sightings and asking about the alleged secret Legacy program. Does Trump's denial prove he's never heard anything about it? Well, to know for sure, he'd have to be asked a few follow-ups and this interview wasn't about UFOs. And even then, a denial wouldn't prove he's never been told about a secret UFO program. Maybe he forgot?)
Jay Stratton said this recently to Bret Baier of Fox News....
Stratton: "I don't think [Trump has] seen [the real UFO evidence]. I think he's still being shielded from the truth. And we have to work hard to bring the truth to the president because the president that goes to the microphone to tell the world we're not alone...that's a monumental moment."
But Stratton also said this in his book...
"The Trump administration now knows the truth, that we are not alone in the Universe." ~Jay Stratton - "Out of the Shadows"
(Maybe certain people around Trump know the truth, but he's been shielded to maintan plausible deniability?)
~
Douthat: "Okay."
Trump: "It's an amazing thing, though. I have more interest... And, you know, if you go to Nevada, where they have a very, very common chain-link fence, there's more tourists at that chain-link fence because that's where they say it all happens."
(He's talking about Area 51, which he always mentions when asked about UFOs. But, I think this is the first time he didn't confuse it with Roswell. And no, Area 51 isn't a top tourist attraction.)
Douthat: "Right."
Trump: "I don't know if that's true. I don't think it's true."
(My interpretation: Trump saying he doesn't know or think "that" and "it" are true is about Area 51 allegedly being the location where all the action happens with UFOs and reverse engineering. What he didn't say is, "I KNOW it's NOT true."
But if there ARE reverse engineering programs, I was told they wouldn't be at Area 51.)
Trump: "But did you ever see the people, 1000s and 1000s of people looking over a piece of land?"
(No, because unless he's talking about the Storm Area 51 event in 2019, where several thousand people showed up, there aren't many people who drive into the desert to see warning signs, a gate and a black mailbox, the latter of which is now gone. Plus, the Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, and the Extraterrestrial Highway sign.)
Trump: "There is more interest in that subject than any of the questions..."
Douthat: "But you're interested in it because people are interested in it, not because you're on the way to discovering it?"
(Another great question. A lot of people accuse Trump of ordering the release of UFO files because he realizes so many Americans are interested in the topic and he thinks they'd see him in a more positive light if more files are declassified. Or, that he's doing it to distract from other topics like Iran and/or Epstein. Or, he wanted to one-up Obama who spoke about Area 51 and aliens being real. But maybe Trump really has a personal interest and curiosity about it? I have to see that from him.)
Trump: "I would like to find out whether or not it's true. I will tell you, you have a lot of very solid people that believe it's true."
2:56
"How do you know you can trust what [a non-human intelligence is] saying?" ~BigelowView quoted post on X
Bigelow/Knapp 2: If I Was President, I'd Tell the World We Have Non-Human Craft and Bodies
"The President that took on the challenge of Disclosure and of confirmation...is gonna go down in history as having really accomplished something." ~Bigelow
Do China and Russia also have non-human bodies and craft?
"Oh yeah, freaking yes!" ~Bigelow
~
"You've opened up Pandora's box." ~Bigelow
~
17:44 (I'm using the KLAS YT video for time stamps. As you'll see, I add a lot to these, so they take forever to put together.)
George Knapp (GK): "Would you guess - based on what you know about the topic and how it's been handled over the decades - would you guess that [Trump] had been briefed, or that any other presidents have been briefed? You know that Bill Clinton was not, even though he expressed an interest in it. So at some point, the President has to be told, 'No, we can't tell ya.'"
Robert Bigelow (RB): "I think Bush Sr. knew quite a bit because he was the head of the CIA."
(Dr. Eric Davis says Bush. Sr. told him some interesting things, including that he (Bush) was partially briefed in 1976 about the alleged 1964 Holloman AFB landing and meeting, and more, when he first became the director of the CIA in 1976.
Watch Davis explain it, here.
x.com/Cortex_Zero/st… )
~
RB: "I think Nixon did."
(We have the Jackie Gleason story, where Nixon allegedly snuck away from his Secret Service detail and took Gleason to see non-human bodies at Homestead Air Force Base. But that was a claim from his ex-wife, and Gleason, who died in 1987, never said anything about it, on the record. The controversial Larry Warren (Rendlesham) claims Gleason told him the same story, but that's it.)
Bigelow: "I think Eisenhower did. So, it's kind of hit and miss over historic...over the period of history as to who has and who hasn't."
18:20
Knapp: "Can you tell us what would be in the briefing document that you left behind? Was it cases? Here's a wave of UFOs, here's a case, here was a crash. Anything like that?"
Bigelow: "Yeah, I related conversations I have had with General De Brouwer, who was the chief of the Air Force for Belgium. And there was a very interesting flap that was about 18 months long (1989-1990) with triangular craft. And he was in command of all the Air Force, and he really chased the heck out of these.
"And he told me, he said, Bob, 'I'm just burning fuel, and it makes no sense.' He said, 'We're gonna stop because we're not getting anywhere. All we're doing is getting closer, you know, photographs and things, but we're not getting anywhere. We're not getting any information that is really valuable for us to understand anything.'"
(I wonder if those were OUR triangles? If so, it's still a solid case/flap of anomalous craft.
Dick D'Amato was a longtime (18 years) senior staffer for Senate Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia.)
"Dick D'Amato has returned from Belgium where he met with Colonel De Brouwer, a 'very interesting fellow.' Dick’s conclusion, again, is that the triangular objects are very plain human craft. ~Jacques Vallée's Forbidden Science Volume 4 - November 1992
And then we have this...
@JeremyCorbell: "We hear about all these people on military bases seeing triangles, and you're doing this study, AAWSAP, to try to figure out the physics of how to do that. Do you think it's already been achieved by the U.S. government, or it hasn't, and that's why AAWSAP had a lot of value."
Lacatski: "[three-second pause] It hasn't been achieved to its full extent."
Video...
x.com/TheUfoJoe/stat…
~~~
RB: "And I gave [Trump] other examples of where large amounts of witnesses were involved, and so that he could read about these particular [incidents]. And, of course, the one with Fife Simington in '97 was so interesting. Because there you had a governor who was an actual witness, and he made a joke of it on and brought a guy in an alien suit on stage because he was scared to death."
GK: "It's the Phoenix Lights case."
(Great case for Bigelow to show Trump.)
RB: "The Phoenix Lights, which weren't just lights, it was actually friggin' craft, and it came from northern Arizona. I think it started, actually, in southern Nevada, is where the craft began. In the Henderson area (not far from me. ~Joe), I think, somewhere in there. And, so you see this huge triangular craft, gigantic craft, going slowly, and [Symington] was scared to death.
"But finally, fast forward 10 years later, and he confesses that he was an eyewitness, but he didn't know what to do. So he was there at a point in time when the dynamic of disclosure could have been forced, and actually, confirmation could have been from a governor of the state like that. He was a credible guy.
"So we've had many [incidents] like that in the early 50s, flying over the White House and the Capitol building. We've had so many of those. So, in my report, I included a lot of very dramatic, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt kind of witnesses of exhibitions."
GK: "Did you share with him anything about your knowledge of a classified program?"
RB: "No."
GK: "You got a Top-Secret security clearance, right?"
RB: "Yeah"
GK: "It was for the AAWSAP program for BAASS."
RB: "Right."
GK: "Operated under the DIA."
RB: "Yeah."
GK: "You learned a lot during that program. It's the largest accumulation of UFO info. of any government-funded UFO program ever."
RB: "Yeah."
GK: "You didn't tell him about it."
RB: "It wasn't credible enough, I felt, for him."
(Someone on here watched this interview and told me that Bigelow said the AAWSAP data wasn't credible. That is NOT what he said. Not credible enough for Trump, is what he said. And if you read "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon" or listen any of Lacatki's interviews where he talks about UFOs being under a paranormal umbrella, I think Bigelow made the right decision for an 11-minute briefing for someone (Trump) who seems to be struggling (at least in public comments) with the reality of the basics.)
RB: "[The AAWSAP data is] just something pertaining to me. And whereas, these other examples are historic, and they're in a lot of literature, they're very famous. The amount of witnesses were huge. We operated under a private situation with the Skinwalker Ranch, and he wouldn't relate to...well, we all had hitchhikers, we all took things home with us. You know, we all saw a lot of stuff. Whether it was at the ranch or where we lived, it didn't make any difference where in the United States we lived. We saw a lot of things, but that wouldn't be relevant for him to be able to relate to that, right?"
GK: "Well."
RB: "So, why talk about it?"
GK: "Yeah, I mean, you know, you're kind of jumping into the deep end of the pool when you get into hitchhikers and skinwalkers."
RB: "Yeah."
GK: "Maybe for your first big conversation on this topic, that might not be the place to go."
RB: "No, you know. And I couldn't even...if he said, 'Oh, I need a beer (Knapp laughs),' I couldn't even give him something to drink. You know, maybe stronger than that. So, I didn't wanna do any, you know."
22:15
GK: "You used the term non-human intelligence in the sentence you gave him. Hey, try this as you're climbing aboard Air Force One. Say that to media, and then, you know, close the door."
RB: "Right."
GK: "You said non-human intelligence, not ET. Are they the same, and did you share anything with him about what you think it is?"
RB: "Well, there have been reports of humans on board, right? But the non-human are more interesting. I mean, if a human's on board and he or she has free reign of the craft, that's pretty damn interesting, right? And you don't know where those people are when they're not on board."
(I wonder what cases he's talking about? Travis Walton reported seeing humans with non-humans and John Keel wrote about humans being seen onboard craft.)
~
Bigelow: "But the other ones are...some are scary, you know? It's not surprising, that, in the Universe, everything is [not] gonna look like us. Every intelligent organism is [not] going to look like us. But you have to have... It's also a matter of respect for any really intelligent animal or creature, whatever it is, right? And the more advanced, the more respect because you don't know what they know, and you don't know the future. And they may know. They may know more than just the now."
(In interviews (which I can't find right now), Bigelow has hinted at an unstoppable, not-so-rosy future for mankind. Have people in the Legacy programs told him that the NHI have warned us about our doomed future or some cataclysmic event? Or, has Bigelow encountered these non-humans (or humans) and had them make claims about our future?)
~
23:34
GK: "If you were to have a second conversation with him, would you explain that ET is one idea, but it's not necessarily the only option for a non-human intelligence that's out there?"
RB: "You have to tell me first how much time do I have with the second conversation?"
GK: "[laughs] Let's make it an hour. You have an hour with the President. What would you tell them about who they are, who they might be?"
RB: "Umm... So, I would try to get into the complexity of the relationship. That once you've had confirmation, you know, you've given that text of that little sentence I wrote and quoted there, and you start to go down the path of disclosure, where it's more than than just FLIR videos, and you're seeing other things that are much more crystal clear, you know, in video.
"Or, legitimate people in places that you recognize these people, and they're around something, or with some thing, or somebody that's a holy cow, that's wow, you know. That's a very dramatic kind of disclosure about something landing on the lawn somewhere, you know."
(I have no idea what he's talking about. Anybody else able to decipher that? Is he saying that there's evidence (that he's seen?) of people that we know (a President or head of state?) hanging with a non-human or next to a downed or landed craft?)
RB: "So I think what I would have spent time doing is talking about, how do you establish: You've been in 80 years of denial as a nation, and the world. We have countries who are very upfront, and others that are also in denial. Now you wanna pivot 180 degrees. How do you start that relationship? How do you do that?
"And it's not as though that we've ever been in control. We haven't been in control of anything, ever, for this 80 years of modern history. Nothing. We have no ability to control anything."
GK: "That's a tough thing to tell the President, right? I would think that would be a tough thing for a President to accept."
RB: "Well, you're giving me an hour to talk to him, you said."
GK: "[laughs] Yeah, okay."
RB: "So I'm using my hour."
GK: "All right."
25:46
RB:" So, yeah! So, that's a really intriguing thing is: How do you do that, where do you start? And into a relationship? And I would say more like, well, I would wanna start with, the biggest question I would ask, I would say, what I wanna get from them is... My first question is: What are the chances we are gonna survive ourselves? That we are not going to annihilate ourselves.
"Because they already are familiar with a whole lot of other species on a lot of other worlds or other planets. So, chances are they have a pretty good idea of percentage."
(That assumes a lot, since we have no idea how long they've been around, what they've seen, or where they're from. Unless...Mr. Bigelow has seen evidence that relates to those questions or heard it from folks who work in the Legacy programs?)
RB: "And it's not that we're a spiritual species. You talk to people that have near-death experiences; they're changed for the rest of their life. They've become a spiritual person of a caliber that they've never been.
"Well, we're a long way, as an average, from that category, from that level. There are monsters among us, as human beings, and they're angelic people among us. So we are a danger to another species, we're potentially the Klingons. We have a technological maturity that is not just going on a line, but it's vertical and it's segmented because it's jumping.
"And meanwhile, our spiritual maturity just bumps along the bottom, you know? So, we look at the 20th century; 60 million people were killed. Are we ever gonna get beyond that? So, the thing of it is, we know so little about how to have a relationship. I'm not in any position to really advise, except for the few ideas I have as to where to start, and the how is really super important.
27:49
"It's not gonna be like a 'Close Encounter of the Third, Kind,' which was a really cool movie. And it's not gonna be because of SETI. You know, it's gonna be by some other kinds of means that you're embarking on. And I'm interested in that kind of research."
28:06
GK: "We go back to your meeting with the President. You walk into the Oval Office, they clear off the Resolute Desk, you spread out your seven piles of stuff, and you start making a presentation about each one, in particular about ET, non-human intelligence. You can't say what he said to you. Can you say whether he asked questions? Was he curious?"
RB: "He was distracted by other things. So, he also asked me... He did ask questions, but he asked questions about other stuff that wasn't necessarily just on what I was talking about."
GK: "He's getting your input on other things going on in the world."
RB: "Yeah, yeah."
28:49
GK: "If you had to make a guess, would you guess that you got through to him on this issue? I mean, he hasn't stood in the doorway of Air Force One and made those remarks yet, but he has taken some pretty dramatic steps on this topic since you met with him. Do you think you made a dent?"
RB: "Don't know. I advised him on something that I can measure, and he hasn't taken my advice so far on what I suggested to him, on a totally different, unrelated subject. But so far, he has not taken my advice."
GK: Well, somebody seems to have got through to him, because he's been taking steps that we're seeing real results. I mean, people are either..."
RB: "Well, I'm talking about an unrelated subject altogether. So, yes, there there are a couple of different task forces that are involved. So, there is an initiation of an activity in this subject, [but] it remains to be seen, though, that he gives actual presidential confirmation. I don't, I haven't... Maybe you're more aware than I am. Has that been...has he done that?"
GK: "Not, not really. Nothing like what I'd call confirmation. But that's really what you're talking about. I remember us having a conversation in 2008, right after you had signed the contract with DIA for BAASS to run [AAWSAP]. And you made the case then that what we need is not Disclosure; it's confirmation."
RB: "Yeah."
30:25
GK: "For somebody like the President, I'm not sure if it could be anyone less than the President that steps forward and says this, and it carries the same kind of weight."
RB: "Yeah. It's a big appetizer. You know, you're looking for the entree, and where's the dessert in this whole buffet? But the confirmation is a huge appetizer to start with, and that's why I started with that in my conversation with him. Is, pushing him to try and make a confirmation. And maybe he wants to get personally more comfortable?"
(I have said that I want the entire enchilada NOW, but I'm also a realist, and would take a simple confirmation that somebody else is on this planet with us. That SHOULD wake up the mainstream media and masses, but no guarantees since Trump is so controversial and people might just ignore it, IF he ever did it. I've also said that I'd surround him with people like Schumer, Rubio, Rounds and Gillibrand in order to show that it's bipartisan. And a few firsthand whistleblowers who say they worked hands on, IN one of these alleged Legacy UFO/UAP programs.)
30:57
Bigelow: "And, you know, he will go down in history for a lot of things, for better or worse, that people are on both sides of the fence about him and so forth. But he's involved in so many different things and has been, that I don't know what his legacy is gonna be, I really don't.
"He has an opportunity, in this serious subject, to build a legacy using this as part of the blocks, part of the brick and the structure...the content of a structure that is very unique. So, you can have all the political programs that you want, and so forth, and nobody is gonna really remember those as time goes by, as the decades fade away.
"Nobody can remember Benghazi and Afghanistan and Iraq, different kinds of things, and that's just recent history. You know, the world goes so fast. But the President that took on the challenge of Disclosure and of confirmation, and actually built a satisfactory conclusion of a relationship between human beings and that subject is gonna go down in history as having really accomplished something. And if it's handled right, it can be done successfully."
(To me, it's a no brainer. His presidency would go down as one that changed the world and our species. Or course, I'm sure he has people in his ear telling him that confirmation would cause societal disruption that we're not prepared to handle, and that THAT would be his legacy.)
(32:21)
GK: "A lot of Presidents have made comments, often after they're out of office, on this topic. 'Yeah, gosh, I'm real interested in that.' Or, 'Wouldn't that be something?' Or, 'I think aliens could exist.' Something like that. But nothing like what you're talking about, which amounts to confirmation, saying, 'It's real. They're here. We gotta figure it out,' and stopping it there, not disclosing..."
RB: "Well, the dialogue, the ability to learn something from them is huge. What can we do for you? I mean, that's where...one of the first things I would ask is, not just, are we going to survive ourselves? Yeah, that's pretty damn important. That's like, probably number one, you know?
"But close behind that is: Okay, we've been aware of you for a long time, and the government's never admitted it. But us as a public, we know it, and we're really curious. Is there anything that we can do for you? Not just what can you do... I loved what John Kennedy, what he said famously: Don't ask what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. That huge. So that's giving them a kind of a respect that they deserve."
(Do they deserve respect? I'm not so sure. It all depends on if they're upfront with us and tell us their true intentions. Of course, how do we know they're telling us the truth? Why have you (or some of you) been abducting us against our will, and injuring some of us? See Jim Semivan's abduction story with his wife.
"I don't think [the phenomenon] cares whether it does harm. I think it may go out of its way not to do harm, but, if it does harm...
"I had a hole in the back of my neck, and my wife...unexplained bleeding for 17 days." ~Former CIA Officer, Jim Semivan to @EngagingThe
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33:33
GK: "If you were President, would you announce that yes, we've got crash retrievals, yes, we have reverse engineering programs, and yes, we've got bodies?"
RB: "Yeah, because the rest of the world already knows that. The people that count in Russia and China already know."
GK: "Because they've got their own."
RB: "Oh yeah, freaking yes! Yeah! They've had their missiles shut down, they've had their missiles activated. You know, depending on which country you're talking about."
33:56
GK: "Have you considered the political fallout for a President? Let's say it's Trump, because he might be the guy that would do it and just cast his fate to the winds. But, he makes an announcement: 'Yeah, they're here. Yeah, we've got programs. Yeah, we've got crashes, we've got bodies. That's as far as I'm able to go right now.' What happens to him, politically? Is he able to get anything else done?"
RB: "That's more than I would have said, for him to say. What you just said."
GK: "That goes too far."
RB: "I wouldn't advise him to say, initially, what you just said."
GK: "You just say, non-human intelligence, been here a long time, and leave it at that."
RB: "Yeah, that one sentence is a starter because it's a huge canon. You've opened up Pandora's box, in terms of, 'Oh my gosh, what's gonna happen?' Okay. So now, you can categorize and segment into topics. And you need time to do that, and it needs to be digestible."
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“I have met with people who I know are in the know. One of them told me the truth is indigestible.” ~Jim Semivan to James Iandoli
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RB: "And it needs to be not packaged in a scary kind of way, and it can't be packaged in a way that you're divulging what you shouldn't be divulging. You know, other countries aren't, so there's reasons to have national secrets. There really are. I mean, that's kind of like common sense, right?"
(Well, David Grusch claimed that some other countries aren't divulging for a specific reason."
Grusch on @YesTheory: "So there are certainly friendly governments, both across the pond and say, local to where we...our landmass, that are for this. And a lot of them know that they got a raw deal with the U.S. because they were, basically, part of the secrecy, through kind of agreements like, bilateral, unilateral agreements. And they're like, you know, they kind of wanna be, 'Release me!' Like, you know, because they they do realize it was a bad deal.
"With the ecosystem secrecy, some people, one of their arguments is like, 'Well how would they keep the secret?' I'm, like dude, I was cleared to some of the most nation's most sensitive programs, I used to handle the PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing). You know, I had full access to most DoD activities. And most of the stuff, BROAD programs that were enduring, have NEVER leaked.
"So the U.S. and its allies are very good at keeping secrecies, to include programs that are, let's say, global in nature. And really, it's been leaking like a sieve in some weird way for many decades. Now it's been mixed in with some BS in ufology and stuff, but the general gist of it's actually been out there for a long time. It has been leaking in some sense, so."
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35:06
GK: "We don't want the Russians and Chinese and maybe other adversaries to know how far along we are, or are not, in configuring this out."
RB: "Absolutely. Especially of that. I think that the relationship (with he phenomenon) thing is a mankind relationship. It's not just for America. When you are embarking as a President on trying to initiate a solemn relationship, you're not doing for U.S. of A. only.
"And so, the...and then we probably can do a show on communication (with a non-human intelligence), but it's really complex because, who are you going to have initiate it? Are you going to have politicians initiate? Are you going to have military people? Because everybody has kind of their own mindset. Are you gonna have a bunch of lawyers initiate it? Are you gonna have scientists only, initiate it?
(And what if we're dealing with more than one non-human intelligence? Who do we communicate with? And what if it's one intelligence pretended to be multiple? How would we even figure that out?)
"[Hynek] cited the 'poltergeist' phenomena experienced by some...after a close encounter; the fact that some witnesses develop psychic abilities after an encounter. 'Do we have two aspects of one phenomenon or two different sets of phenomena?'" ~J. Allen Hynek
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RB: "And how do you know to whom you're talking? You know, how do you know you can trust what they're saying?"
(I'm so glad he said that. We don't, and we don't.)
RB: "Because it depends on the form of communication, and what are you asking for in the way of proof or demonstrations to establish trust, both ways, in the communication process?"
"Because, we haven't had that happen before. It is totally new ground, and frankly, we need The Others' help. We need the help of The Others to help, to guide us."
(Firs off, it MAY have happened within these Legacy programs. And, if we don't know who we're talking to, or if we can trust them, why would we enlist the help of The Others? Doesn't seem to make sense to me.)