Thread by @ClintEhrlich

Smart people are mocking the idea that the U.S. government is hiding alien spaceships and bodies.

They're wrong.

I've researched this issue for years: there is credible evidence the secret UFO program is real.🧵 1/N

I will offer three core arguments.

I. This UFO story is less shocking than people assume, since word of the program leaked decades ago;

II. The new evidence is MUCH stronger than people realize;

III. No alternative theory, including a PsyOp, adequately accounts for the facts.

We'll start with the first argument:

"Where there's smoke, there's usually fire."

In this case, there has long been authentic evidence of a secret U.S. government program involving crashed UFOs.

People familiar with this evidence aren't shocked by what's coming out now.

In 1950, Canada's government initiated a research program – Project MAGNET – into UFO propulsion.

The program was created after word leaked to the Canadians of a top secret U.S. UFO program.

We know this from a declassified memo written by the head of Project MAGNET.

The declassified memo from Nov. 21, 1950 says that:

1. The UFO program is the crown jewel of all America's secrets, exceeding even the hydrogen bomb;

2. It involves an attempt to reverse-engineer UFO propulsion led by Dr. Vannevar Bush, who supervised the Manhattan Project.

The source of the leak to Canada about the American program was a physicist, Dr. Robert Sarbacher.

At the time, Sarbacher was a consultant to the Eisenhower administration's military R&D board.

It was in that capacity that he learned about the secret U.S. UFO program.

In a 1983 letter, Dr. Sarbacher confirmed he was the leaker and revealed that:

1. The secret program involved not only Bush, but Oppenheimer and von Neuman;

2. Crashed UFOs had been recovered, and were composed of exotic materials;

3. The UFOs contained non-human pilots.

So far, we have relied on two documents – one from 1950, one from 1983 – whose authenticity has never been disputed.

They are consistent with the testimony under oath yesterday by ex-intel officer David Grusch about U.S. recovery of non-human spacecraft and bodies.

Grusch is not the first senior government official to publicly allege that a UFO reverse-engineering program exists.

In 1997, shortly before his death, Col. Philip J. Corso – Head of the Air Force's "Foreign Technology Division" – confessed his involvement.

There was other circumstantial evidence that pointed to the existence of such a program.

In the late 1980s, allegations of a UFO reverse-engineering program called "MAJESTIC" or "MJ-12" circulated.

They were based on VAST quantities of mysterious, official-looking documents.

The government officially denied the existence of "MAJESTIC" or "MJ-12."

But the documents were so striking in appearance and volume that an official investigation was eventually undertaken by the General Accounting Office.

The GAO claimed MJ-12 didn't exist, but....

...there was something really weird, which the GAO tried to bury.

Its investigation found a Nov 17, 1980 letter from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, which referenced "MJ Twelve."

The message had been released pursuant to a FOIA request.

When the GAO confronted the Air Force, the Air Force tried to claim the "MJ Twelve" document was a forgery.

Yet nobody denied that the National Archives (ISOO) had released it as an official government record!

This was highly suspicious, to say the least.

Another document supporting the MJ-12 allegations is the "Wilson memo."

Its nominal subject, retired DIA Director Admiral Wilson, has tried to repudiate the document.

But its authenticity has been confirmed by a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.

The document describes a UFO reverse-engineering program that fits the other accounts.

As Corso alleges, it involves transferring UFO materials to the private sector.

As Grusch claims, the program has escaped proper legal oversight by Congress – and maybe even the President.

Before insiders were willing to go on the record, it may have been reasonable to discount the signs of a UFO reverse-engineering program.

But the evidence still existed, and it contained many details.

Those details match what people are now saying under oath.

That last word – "people" – brings us to our second argument: that the new evidence is stronger than commonly understood.

Grusch is NOT a solo whistleblower. Nor is he even the most important witness.

His claims have already been corroborated by colleagues inside the program.

Those colleagues have testified privately under oath to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Thomas A. Monheim.

His investigation found the allegations regarding the UFO reverse-engineering program "urgent and credible."

This is the equivalent of sealed sworn testimony before a Grand Jury.

Obviously, public testimony will carry more weight. We need to keep pushing for it.

But any serious theory of what's happening has to account for why people are already risking jail-time for this story.

Those same people are also talking to the media.

Both @rosscoulthart (formerly of 60 Minutes Australia) and @shellenberger (of the Twitter files) have interviewed these senior U.S. officials.

They insist that they work inside a multi-decade UFO reverse-engineering program.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has reviewed their sworn testimony and the supporting documents.

It convinced the Senators to *legally mandate* proper oversight of "legacy programs" with custody of alien spacecraft and pilots.

That became U.S. law today.

That brings us to the third issue: what theory best accounts for the evidence?

Collectively, the facts are more consistent with an actual UFO program than a PsyOp.

If this were a PsyOp, it would need to stretch back at least 73 years (to the 1950 Project MAGNET memo).

The PsyOp would need to include many different senior military and intelligence officials, of different generations, with consistent stories.

And it would need to have tricked the most powerful members of Congress, with access to the most classified intelligence.

In contrast, if the program is real, all of these facts and details make sense.

People are willing to testify under oath because they're telling the truth.

The records stretch back decades because they're real.

The story is consistent, because it all really happened.