Last week on May 8 the imbecilic White House administration conveniently declared that the “Department of War” (which doesn’t actually exist), was releasing “Government files related to Alien and Extraterrestrial Life, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and Unidentified Flying Objects,” with the idiot-in-chief posting on his failing and flailing social media site, “Have Fun and Enjoy!”
Aside from excessive eyerolling over the ever ubiquitous random capitulation of inane words, one also ponders what this racist, xenophobic moron meant by “Aliens and Extraterrestrial Life.” An inept redundancy, or something more sinister?
Was he actually implying these are two separate entities, as in ETs versus humans that he and his ignorant ilk deem “illegal aliens”? Because last month at a hearing regarding combined habeas cases, Judge Jeffrey Bryan advised the US Attorney for Minnesota, Daniel Rosen, that he wouldn’t rule out prison for contempt by agents not returning property seized from detained immigrants. The judge went on to admonish an ICE supervisor as she testified that, “Aliens are people…not space aliens.”
As if it came straight out of my Other Worldly novels. But back to this supposedly big-deal-reveal of “UFO files.” American Historian Heather Cox Richardson had this to say: “It’s hard to see the release of this information at this moment as anything more than a distraction from the many stories in the news that show the administration in an unflattering light.” As my OW protagonist Rowan Layne would say, ya think?
The chair of the Michigan Democratic Party also weighed in: “If aliens had flown over Epstein Island, you could be damn sure Trump would keep their secret. Whether aliens are out there or not, I’m more concerned about the American people here on Earth struggling to pay for food [and] rent.”
Not to mention Americans struggling to maintain the right to vote, but that’s another story I couldn’t cover this week as planned due to this insipid red herring (as opposed to red orb) of a diversionary tactic—which pretty much failed spectacularly, unless you’re a duped and demented MAGA minion. My favorite snarky meme seen on social media was: “So if they’re using UFOs now to distract us from the Epstein Files, is this technically Alien vs. Predator?”
Wading into the woo-woo water was our local 2nd Life Media outlet covering “Alamogordo Town News” with the cheeky headline, “Washington Declassified the UFO Files. Alamogordo Already Knew.” The article stated, “The Pentagon released 162 classified UFO files. The trail they trace—Trinity, White Sands, Holloman, Roswell—runs straight through the desert outside your door.” Once again, ya think? Also, if you haven’t already, please check out my post from April 20 regarding the Holloman Landing at our local Air Force base in April of 1964.
The 2nd Life Media article then noted that, with this release, the White House declared the American people could “decide for themselves.” Please. “Alamogordo residents already decided—decades ago,” the article began—presumably including those of us who aren’t Alamogordo residents, but are living in the Tularosa Valley that encompasses White Sands Missile Range—“Because the story inside those 162 files doesn’t begin in Washington. It begins here. In our desert. Over our airbase. Above the white sands where America detonated the first atomic bomb and fired the first captured German rockets into the sky. The government’s UFO story and Alamogordo’s story are not parallel histories. They are the same story.”
As Rowan Layne would say, boy howdy. But she’d also note that this article failed to make a distinction between Washington DC and Washington State. Something that actually matters to some of us who grew up just outside the Nation’s Capital, as opposed to in the Pacific Northwest. It therefore also matters that the Pentagon is in Arlington, Virginia.
Anyway, the article goes on to explain how the released files “span from 1947-2025, drawing from the FBI, DoD, NASA, and State Department.” However—and here’s the kicker—“None of it confirms extraterrestrial contact. The Pentagon included a disclaimer noting that report language reflects the ‘subjective interpretation’ of the individual writers. Critics called the release a political distraction. Believers called it a breakthrough.”
This believer and former DoD lawyer begs to differ with that last statement. I would not and did not consider this a breakthrough. More like a breakout of bullshit from pathological liars using and further abusing historic and notorious government subterfuge and coverup to suggest they were now going to be heroes revealing “the truth.” Because those hazy photos are a laughingstock to anyone who knows better—kind of like a recent Supreme Court decision.
As far as I’m concerned, a recent photo (accompanying this post) of cloud formations taken by me during a local sunset—in La Luz, not Alamogordo, with White Sands National Park in the nearby distance—offer more intriguing and imaginative suppositions as to what UFOs might actually look like, and where they are likely to be…especially in my OW novels. But I suppose this is all typical fodder coming from the absolute mother of all liars desperate to escape accountability for his crimes. Hence, it’s past time to let the sun set on this diabolical administration.
Happy Mother’s Day. The truth is still out there.