Inside the UFO Program

A depressing interview on the Brian Keating podcast just shows that nothing has changed.

Over-classification is the problem, and its not just in aerospace. There is zero incentive for a career government bureaucrat to declassify anything.

Kirkpatrick said it himself- “the American people don’t need to know this stuff”. He is telling the truth as he sees it, but he is just a tool making excuses and clinging to the axiom that “amateurs can’t do anything useful”, the usual “not enough funding” and falling back on the old “national security” canard. Well, the bureaucracy is hopelessly entangled so nothing is ever going to get declassified, and civil servants have no incentive to change that. “Inter-agency process” is no excuse when you are hiding things that violate the laws of physics. You don’t need theoretical physicists? The “reverse-engineering” excuse is just that- an excuse. Anything sensor-related more than ten years old is already obsolete. It’s hilarious how he passes the buck and blames NASA. He blames the populace when he should be blaming the bureaucrats. This is just gatekeeping and elitism at its finest.

The US government is hopelessly gridlocked by turf wars, litigiousness, intellectual stagnation and obsolete Cold War protocols. Just like the legacy corporate media is being overtaken by citizen journalists, the research into non-human intelligence needs to be taken up by citizen scientists.