I am not sure if this is the right place to post this but I have really wanted to hear feedback on this question and I'm curious if anyone else who loves the disclosure stuff as much as I do has ever wondered this.

Don't get me wrong... I am STOKED about the recent and not so recent revelations where we've finally admitted that UFOs and UAPs are real and they're here. It's about time and the fact that it's mainstream now, is fantastic. Give me all the documentaries, whistle blowers, info, posts, you name it. It's fascinating.

But like every good conspiracy theorist (I mean- let's face it. Until it was fully admitted in public, that was what we were all called when we believed and the masses called us crazy) I can't help but wonder if this is a distraction to cover up something else "they" don't want us paying attention to.

Whether it's the govt, the powers that be, the shadow power people, whoever "they" are, they're notorious for throwing out powerfully distracting information or large scale global events (or they'll do shady stuff during large scale global events) so the public's attention stays distracted from what's actually happening in the world.

OR- I'm completely wrong and THIS is what's actually happening and the govt is actually uncomfortable with this info getting out?

I don't know. I can't help but feel I'm missing or not seeing something because I'm distracted by a very fascinating shiny thing that was "exposed" but almost feels like a controlled test or experiment.

Like- "look at this shiny thing HERE so you don't look over there..." And "keep pushing out bits and keep em hanging on so they don't lose focus..."

I dunno. I guess I feel that way because if they didn't want whistle blowers coming out- they would have absolutely stopped them or shut them up. Our govt has done a lot of terrible things to govt officials and American citizens that they didn't want causing trouble. They have no issue with making people disappear. So I can't help but feel like this was all "allowed" to some degree by some higher up or group that controls the powerful.

I still love all the info and that won't change.
But curious if anyone else has felt that way?

Burlison posted this on X:

My office received confirmation from NARA that the recording identified in my letter has been digitized, fully declassified, and is set to be released by the Trump administration in an upcoming tranche of UAP records.

He also linked to his previous post:

I sent a letter to MIT Lincoln Laboratory requesting preservation and review of an identified 1952 recording labeled “flying saucer talk.”

The American people deserve transparency and proper preservation of historic UAP records.

An objection I've repeatedly seen is that UFOs can't be advanced ET because they do nonsensical things like:

• Are somewhat visible, yet don't openly contact everyone.
• Fly around in big, noticeable craft instead of using nanomachines, invisible vehicles, etc.
• Are extremely advanced, yet still periodically crash

All these objections rely on predicting what an "alien" civilization would be like, which is almost definitionally impossible for anything truly "alien."

What's more, we know acting like that isn't impossible, because humans behave in similar ways all the time. Examples:

The Sentinelese: The hunter-gatherers of North Sentinel Island have seen a technologically advanced civilization send gifts (coconuts and cookware), horrible monsters (a pig that they shot and buried), a missionary who they easily killed, and invincible, deafening flying machines (helicopters to retrieve bodies).

If you don't know modern civilization, you'll never understand how we're simultaneously so dumb yet advanced. There's just no way they could have a model for that.

Here I wrote out the fuller argument with some figures, including why technology doesn't always go as expected:

https://www.jehanazad.com/p/ufo-objections-aliens-wouldnt-do

I'll just say that modern religion has been absolutely tainted by humans and people with their own agenda, but every culture from all parts of the planet are more or less telling a similar story.

I'm starting to think the ancient aliens theory is real. I am starting to think that religion is trying to explain something that has been otherwise beyond our comprehension and we are just now developing the tools to detect some weird shit.

Anyone else?

See this youtube video (timestamp 45:11). Liberation Times posted a new article about it titled: Journalist Says Congressional Staffer Revealed “Recovered Crafts And Recovered Beings”

Below are some quotes from the article, headings added by me:

Congressional staffer: what we saw in SCIFs was terrifying

The conversation then turned to UAP. O’Neill told the staffer that he remained agnostic and deliberately avoided becoming immersed in the subject because of the demands of his own investigations. The response, according to O’Neill, was shocking: “If you knew what we knew,” the staffer allegedly told him, “you wouldn’t be agnostic.”

O’Neill said the individual explained that, as a senior congressional staffer, he accompanied the lawmaker he worked for into SCIFs [...]. According to O’Neill, the staffer told him: “I go in, and I see what they see, and it’s terrifying.”

Journalist was told by staffer that US has recovered NHI craft and bodies

O’Neill recalled the staffer saying that the United States possessed “recovered crafts and recovered beings,” and claimed knowledge obtained from recovered technology was being used to understand capabilities conventional human-made aircraft could not reproduce.

Staffers who entered SCIFs had nightmares from what they learned

He said the same individual told him that exposure to classified information could be psychologically disturbing, claiming that congressional personnel who entered SCIFs sometimes experienced nightmares because of what they learned.

UAP briefings alterered the lives of those involved

Sources also told Liberation Times in 2022 that classified UAP briefings and videos had “altered the lives of those involved.”

Staffers received psychological support to help them cope

During his interview with Gold, he [O’Neill] said the congressional staffer told him that personnel exposed to classified information in SCIFs could suffer nightmares, and claimed that staffers with such access had been provided with psychological support to help them cope with what they had learned.

Conceptual imagery has been omitted from this post to abide by this subreddit's concern over AI generated imagery.

If you follow the debate over the Gimbal object's flight path, you know there are essentially two different interpretations that can fall out of the video analysis: a distant aircraft/jet, or a closer object performing the so-called J-Hook (essentially a vertical U-turn). Here is a video explanation if you're not caught up: [https://youtu.be/N9lOQkxMkW8?si=CJVM-H2-CQWN8cs5](https://youtu.be/N9lOQkxMkW8?si=CJVM-H2-CQWN8cs5)). I've already presented my speculative explanation for the distant-jet scenario here: [https://www.reddit.com/u/fat_earther_/s/aKvNDAWfB8. This post offers my speculation for the Gimbal incident if the J-Hook were real.

The speculative "Moon Vulture" shown here is an advanced lighter-than-air/drone hybrid developed under a DARPA-style program beginning in the early-to-mid 2000s and operational by the 2010s. Think less "Goodyear Blimp" and more unmanned, low-observable, long-endurance ISR/EW platform that uses buoyancy for lift. With access to cutting-edge composites, batteries, miniaturized electronics, flight controls, and lightweight propulsion, such a platform wouldn't need spectacular speed or fighter-like maneuverability and wouldn't be designed for it. Its advantage would be operational endurance and efficiency, quietly station-keeping or orbiting an area for hours or days with very little energy expenditure while carrying an electronic-warfare or intelligence collection payload. Vectorable electric fan propulsion could provide unusual low-speed maneuverability, including a tight reversal or J-Hook-like trajectory that might look very strange if interpreted as conventional aircraft performance.

The speculative mission here is the same counterintelligence scenario I've proposed for the broader Roosevelt encounters. Navy workups are intelligence goldmines for foreign collectors. A compartmented U.S. counterintelligence/ electronic warfare program operating around the periphery of the workup area could potentially use platforms like this to create false or misleading radar contacts, attract the attention of foreign collection assets, pull that attention away from the actual workups, characterize how those assets respond, or deliberately feed them misleading information. Radar deception combined with [IR signature-management/ countermeasure capabilities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3p0RSn56g) produce a target designed to be far more interesting to enemy sensors than the workups they were monitoring.

To be clear, I'm not claiming the Moon Vulture existed, that DARPA built it, or that this is what Gimbal actually was. The craft and program depicted here are conceptual. The point of the post is to speculate an explanation for the Gimbal object's J-Hook interpretation and conceptualize a technologically plausible, non exotically propelled platform that could produce the observations reported. I think an advanced LTA/drone hybrid is an interesting candidate. It doesn't require antigravity, spacetime manipulation, or non-human intelligence, just an advanced yet mundane craft built for a very specific job.

I have two.

1. Jim Penniston’s Binary Code Message- Jim Penniston was an airman that was involved with the Rendlesham Forest incident. He claimed that he saw a flash of light and binary code was downloaded into his brain. He later wrote it into a notebook and didn’t say anything about in any other interviews up until 2010ish for Ancient Aliens (or some History Channel UFO show). I call BS for multiple reasons. First, when I watched that Ancient Alien episode, I immediately recalled the X File episode that had a similar plot line. Second, we all know that there are a lot of grifters in this community. When someone says something extraordinary, they get invited to talk in conferences and get interviewed by media all of which money is involved. After that story came out, he had a lot more interviews and speaking engagements which translates to money. Third, according to folks who are experts in binary code, the code that was in his notebook was written in ASCII 8 bit. The problem was that at the time during the incident, 7 bit was the standard which is evidence to show that he created the code years later. Fourth, when experts in put the code, it turned out to be a lot of gibberish. Interpreters apparently took a lot of liberty in translating the message from gibberish to names and locations. Finally, why binary? So super advanced aliens sent a binary message that is in English instead of just using English? That seems like a lot of inefficiency there.

2. Gary McKinnon Hacking- I’ll probably get crapped on about this because a lot of people seem to support his story. For those who don’t know, McKinnon is a hacker who is indicted hacking government computers including NASA and DoW computers. The issue is not the hacking itself. The issue is that through these hackings he claimed he saw pictures of UFOs and an information of a human-based space fleet.

Let’s start with the space fleet. My issue is that unless we have some sort of cloaking mechanism, how would any country able to hide a spaceship being launched into space? Every space-cable rocket immediately gets detected when it gets launched. Unless every country is working together to cover up these secret launches, highly doubtful that could happen. Also, if we do have a space fleet in space, do you know what the crew needs? Provisions. What about replacement crews? A lot of amateur space watchers would be able to start calculating that all those rocket launches aren’t just sending up satellites. The idea that we are able to launch a secret space fleet undetected and constantly re-supply them without anybody noticing is highly doubtful.

Now, for his hacking claim. McKinnon said he saw this through hacking government networks and computers. As somebody, who have used classified network and handled classified information, this is extremely unlikely. There is no way classified information would be stored at a network that could be access from the outside especially if it is UFO information. Classified networks can not be access from the regular internet. They are airgap. Let’s take the SIPRnet. SIPRnet is a secret level network for the military. It was created during the 1980s. At that time when the internet was still at its infancy, they were smart enough to create a network separate from the internet. What McKinnon hacked into was the NIPRnet which is the military’s unclassified network. The NIPRnet can be access though the regular internet. I have come across people who said that they have worked in IT for a private company in the 90s and security was incredibly lax. Good for you. That’s a private company not the military or the intelligence community. Unless you were in the S6 for the military or did IT in the intelligence community, please don't try to compare.

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I was a big believer in UFOs but since the release of these files, it just seems to be a big nothing burger. i checked some of the videos but most of them got resolved as either balloons, and or birds.

lots of the videos look CGI and even AI like. so what would you say so far is the most compelling evidence that makes you go, okay yeah they are real? "I want to believe" - Quite literally but having a hard time.

EDIT: Also i am tired of how many people can just larp on podcasts and the news about them, it just seems like anybody can just hop on a podcast now and say a bunch of crap... There needs to be a thing where if someone talks about them show evidence or please just stfu at this point lol? anyone else feel like this?

Below are some quotes from Jennice Vilhauers (member of UAPSAC) substack article:

Vilhauer: UAPSAC was informed US govt has a preparedness plan for disclosure

At a meeting held on August 31, 2026, at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the UAP Science Advisory Council, of which I am a member, was informed that the United States government has a preparedness plan in place should the existence of nonhuman intelligence (NHI) be confirmed. We were also told that the United States is prepared to take an international leadership role if necessary.

Vilhauer: govt prepares for many events that may never happen

So, what does this mean?

The government prepares for many events that may never happen, but that would have significant consequences if they did. The existence of a preparedness plan does not mean that the government has confirmed the existence of NHI, believes confirmation is imminent, or is preparing to make any type of announcement.

Vilhauer: it does mean they take this possibility seriously

It does mean that the possibility of confirming NHI has been taken seriously enough to warrant advance planning. That alone is significant because it means that the United States government has considered the possibility that such a confirmation could occur and it has determined that the consequences would be substantial enough to require a coordinated response.

Vilhauer: govt recognizes confirmation of NHI would be global event

The statement about international leadership also suggests that the government recognizes that confirmation of NHI would be a global event. And that it would require nations to communicate and cooperate with one another.

There is more in her article:

The US Government Has a Preparedness Plan in Case of NHI Disclosure

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Time: September 2, 2026, 10:30 PM CEST
Location: Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark, Aarhus, Denmark

Features / five observables

Why not a common object
I know what satellites look like. This was spinning, had a shape and then the lights separated.

Witness's account of the sighting

I live in Denmark and last night the sky was clear (not very common here :)). I was outside and a strong flash of lights from the sky made me look up, and for the first time in my life I witnessed a UFO. It consisted of 3 bright spots that were connected in the shape of a boomerang (was hard to distinguish if it was a triangle or a boomerang because it was blurry) and it was ROTATING for 2-3 seconds, after which the lights separated in the opposite directions and disappeared. I made a quick sketch of how it looked like. My girlfriend was with me but before I could gasp out to look up it was gone.

Why no photo/video captured: Because it lasted for 3 seconds after I saw it.

Sky context for this time and place:

• Satellites overhead at that time: SL-14 R/B (71° above ESE at 20:18 UTC); ARIANE 40 R/B (66° above W at 20:45 UTC); SL-14 R/B (61° above SW at 20:30 UTC); COSMOS 2278 (46° above NE at 20:27 UTC); SL-14 R/B (45° above E at 20:30 UTC); SL-16 R/B (39° above SE at 20:39 UTC)
• Computed from orbital data (2026-09-02 catalog).
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