Opening The Kimono*?

Over the last 50-60 years there have been a lot of conspiracy theories floated: JFK, RFK, MLK, the moon landing, Epstein, and did Katy Perry actually go up in that rocket?

Conspiracy theories are born when people don’t believe that they’ve been told the whole truth by governments that love to keep secrets.

For example, consider the JFK assassination. There were two commissions:

• The Warren Commission (1963-1964) concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

• The House Select Committee on Assassinations (1976-1979): Concluded that JFK was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy” but did not definitively identify co-conspirators.

Even after those investigations and the release of thousands of documents, there are still roughly 3,000–4,000 confidential documents, including 500 IRS records, 2,400 newly discovered FBI files, and some court-sealed or privately restricted records.

Regardless of all the document releases what do the conspiracy theorists say? That the government is still hiding the truth.

Another major conspiracy is UFOs. For years the military has hidden what happened at Roswell when a “flying disk” reportedly crashed there in 1947. Public pressure caused the creation of Project Blue Book (1952-1969) which attributed most sightings to stars and swamp gas. Seriously, swamp gas. During this time and into the 2000s a stigma was attached to anyone in the military or aviation who reported UFO sightings. With the threat of ruining careers, folks were afraid to report sightings.

But sightings continued and an increase in public pressure caused the creation of several programs to investigate UFOs.

Public involvement by the government began in 2007 when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid got funding for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). AATIP was followed by the UAP Task Force which performed similar investigations.

Recent developments have resulted in some amazing disclosures:

• As early as the 1950s the U.S. military was said to be working on “gravity drive” which would propel a craft with no exhaust or heat.

• In December of 2017 The New York Times published an article about the 2004 "Tic Tac" UFO incident. That eye-opening story told us that there were objects observed that could not be explained.

• Recently, whistleblowers testifying under oath have come forward to make some pretty spectacular claims:

  • The government possesses “intact and partially intact” craft and non-human “biologics” from UFO crash sites.

  • The U.S. possesses UFO technologies not made by any known government and is engaged in a “multidecade, secretive arms race” to reverse-engineer them.

  • The Pentagon has a secret UFO intelligence-gathering effort involving high-resolution UFO imagery.

The government’s official position is that UFOs are a national security concern due to their presence in restricted airspace and potential technological implications. While it admits many cases are unexplained, it avoids endorsing extraterrestrial hypotheses, citing lack of conclusive evidence. Declassified videos released in 2020 by the Pentagon show real, unexplained objects, reinforcing acknowledgment of the phenomenon.

So, what I’m seeing is, over decades, a slowly evolving recognition by the U.S. government of the existence of UFOs. This evolution went from total skepticism to bureaucratic lip service to begrudging acceptance to semi-transparent disclosure.

Why? Well, that’s the point of this article.

Here’s a conspiracy theory for you:

The Tic Tac UFOs observed 20 years ago are ours. The U.S. has developed a technology that bends the laws of physics and lets small drones perform amazing feats of aeronautics at unheard of speeds. This technology came from alien spacecraft. Aliens do exist.

Sound crazy?

Well, on April 17, Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy gave a speech to the Endless Frontiers Retreat in Texas. In that speech he made the following statement: “Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space” in the golden age of American innovation.

Wha wha what? Why would he make a statement like that except to begin the process of a public disclosure of a new technology?

I believe the government is slowly coming clean about UFOs because they have been reverse-engineering alien spacecraft and want to publicly use that technology. At the same time, they need to acknowledge that aliens do exist and are tempering the public’s shock of that admission by slowly alluding to their existence.

So, have I donned a tinfoil hat? What do you think about all this?

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* When I worked in technical sales, once non-disclosure agreements were signed, we would describe our proprietary technology to a prospect. We said that was “opening the kimono.”