• chaogomu@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Dude seems to be selling his story all over the place.

        The US government then came in and said he’s not revealing any classified material. Which is government speak for dude is lying his ass off, but we don’t actually care enough to deny anything that he’s claiming, because that would just fuel more conspiracy theory bullshit.

        If he actually believes his own bullshit, then he has serious mental issues.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        David Grusch also says the Pope helped smuggle a UFO out of Mussolini’s Italy to the U.S. and I have no idea why anyone gives someone who says something that nutty any credibility.

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          Literally all of the evidence I have been able to find backing his claims is him saying “just trust me this definitely happened.” He hasn’t shown any documents. He claims to have them, and that he’ll give them to congress, but has not publicly released them.

          It’s your standard conspiracy grift- make up something that’s plausible for you specifically to know, back it up with nothing because there’s nothing to back it up with, do the media circuit spreading your bullshit, sell a bunch of books, retire.

          His entire argument to congress is basically “the military isn’t telling you about everything they do, and I say they have alien bodies and spacecraft” which… yeah, I 100% believe that the military doesn’t tell everything they do to congress because congress is full of people who would openly release classified materials to the public just to do it. It makes logical sense for the military not to tell them all of the programs they have going at any given time, even if I think that isn’t constitutional and shouldn’t actually be allowed. That doesn’t prove anything though.

          He’s trying to use the military hiding information from congress to back up his claim that they have an alien bodies program and it just doesn’t work. But stupid people will happily eat it up though!

          Unless the military actually releases info that corroborates what he is saying I’m not going to believe a word of it.

          • justgohomealready@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            Except that he has delivered classified documents and evidence to authorities with the right clearances? Of course he can’t just publish classified documents, unless he wants to end up like Snowden. He is following the correct procedures for whistleblowers, and that’s why you get to see nothing but people with the right clearences do. Multiple congressmen have had classified briefings on the subject and they don’t think Grusch is lying.