Hi Everyone, 

I recorded a short video exploring the issue recently raised by Ross Coulthart concerning Luis Elizondo, that Lue has a history with what we often refer to as the Legacy Program, and that moreover this was initiated by James Clapper back in 2017 or so as a way to move the UFO discussion away from crash retrievals into safer territory. Essentially a government managed form of controlled disclosure. 

I am not saying Ross is entirely wrong. I honestly don’t know what I think. But I do think the idea of steering the public away from crash retrievals doesn’t make much sense to me. Ross stated that it took David Grusch in 2023 to “wrong foot” the plan. But I distinctly recall Lue’s 2019 interview on Fox with Tucker Carlson where he explicitly stated that UFO crash retrievals were a real thing. I hunted down that clip and included in this video. 

I think my main goal in this video isn’t to take sides. Good god there’s too much of that going on already. I do think that I want to understand what actually happened before I make a moral judgment, which I notice roughly 90 percent of the Youtube public has done. 

Anyway, it’s a short video. I might follow it up with a question I don’t really address but should. While Ross says the managed disclosure initiative was in order to steer the public away from talk about crash retrievals, I honestly don’t find this persuasive at all. Who, in 2017, was threatening to blow up the C/R program? No one outside of the (then still small) UFO community was interested. 

However, there are some reasons why a managed disclosure program might have occurred. Because it certainly isn’t impossible, that’s for sure. But the question would be: managed toward … what? What outcome? Slow public acceptance of the inevitable? Fake alien invasion? Something else? 

So I might come back to that question. Meanwhile, here’s this. 

Richard