As Greg and I discussed on our latest YouTube video, this modern batch of ‘UFO whistleblowers’ first came into the scene with a rather measured and cautious attitude: being very careful with what they were willing to say on the record about all they supposedly know, and emphasizing how the nature and origin of UFOs were still indeterminate—they could be advanced weapons from an adversarial nation like China, they frequently pointed out. What was important was to stop denying their existence, and help military service personnel to report their sightings without fear of ridicule or career damage.

Then Grusch popped out of the woodwork, and things started to escalate very rapidly. First he claimed that Italy had secured a crashed disk in the years of Benito Mussolini, and in his latest appearance with Joe Rogan he really went to town with fantastic tales of beautiful non-human entities resembling ‘Greek gods’, and even hints of some sort of interstellar conflagration between at least two factions of alien visitors: the ‘Grays’ and the ‘Reptilians’; entities that have been part of the field’s mythology for decades now (but, it has to be pointed out, are frequently reported by independent UFO experiencers).

It’s interesting how Grusch’s bombshell announcements came just weeks before Jay Stratton—another whistleblower—released a book with his own set of shocking revelations: Like how not only he interviewed people involved in the retrieval of crashed disks (like Grusch claimed he did) but that he himself saw aliens and non-human craft with his own eyes.

One wonders what would poor Lue Elizondo need to do in order to top that claim—as you saw in my strip, I do have one or two suggestions *ahem*…

Seriously, how long can this game of one-up last? Sooner or later people are going to be fed up by the huge cognitive dissonance between the fantastic stories spun by these former G-men, in contrast with the disappointing level of evidence released by the Trump administration. When will WE get to see photos of those alien bodies, and how could something like that would still remain classified for national security purposes?

When an average individual comes to me with their own personal story of a supposed close encounter, or another instance of high strangeness, I tend to be rather open-minded and give those folks the benefit of the doubt; since in many cases they are not seeking fame or monetary gain, but just a receptive ear in order to unburden themselves with something that often leaves a traumatic mark on their lives, which they have not been able to rationalize within the premises of our societal paradigm—they may be totally mistaken about what they experienced, but I am in no position to dictate they didn’t experience something truly unusual.

But when it comes to claims from UFO whistleblowers, my standards do get raised quite considerably. Especially when their only excuse for not providing any evidence to back their claims is blaming the same government they were a part of once. At some point the Ufology field needs to confront these potential spreaders of disinformation and tell them to “put up or shut up.”