According to Gemini
Based on reports and social media activity around May 8-10, 2026, the Trump administration's release of 162 declassified UFO/UAP files was met with significant skepticism, apathy, and, in many corners of Reddit, open scorn.
There's more at the link
Again, IMO, as usual so far, a release with unfulfilled promises.
What will be the impact of the release of these files on the disclosure movement?
The mostly negative responses may have many saying: Look at them, they can’t be satisfied
And most of the ardent politicians who are braying for disclosure are republicans and are they going to criticize this underwhelming release of these files by their president? I doubt it. What is their response?
They will probably tell us that the remaining releases will be better
The debunkers will I believe be very underwhelmed and say something like: you see there is nothing to disclose.
And as for all those FBI files, the bottom-right-hand corner of the folders seems to indicate they are not classified.
And finally, what about the crashed saucers and biologics of Grusch? Isn’t that supposed to be what disclosure is all about? Those legacy programs that hold the proof of disclosure that all these UFO leaders have been braying about for so long.
Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
Metaphysical/Occult
Space Brother Era
Spiritual/religious/demonic or angelic
New Age Hypothesis
Conspiratorial view
ET Hypothesis
It started in 1947 with the 9 saucers seen by the ex-military pilot Keneth Arnold on the 24^(th) of June, John the Baptist's birthday. A special day for Freemasons.
I mention that because underneath, I will write about UFOs from the spiritual, metaphysical, and occult perspectives.
That sparked the obvious discussion about extraterrestrial visitations from outer space.
In fact, the first official USG investigation into UFOs, Project Sign, in 1948, many of those involved concluded the UFOs were extraterrestrial, but that was suppressed by higher-ups who wouldn’t allow that to be concluded.
‘Edward J. Ruppelt, a director of Project Blue Book, noted in his 1956 book that there was a "bitterly divided" faction, with some officers and scientists believing in an extraterrestrial origin, although this was never adopted as the official position.” AI overview
Metaphysical/Occult
During the early and mid-fifties, the ET hypothesis was first challenged by UK specialists who concluded that this was a likely interdimensional phenomenon on the occult side of reality, not ET-based.
Alongside that, some American occult-based researchers, such as Meade Layne (1882 – 1961), began espousing similar ideas that UFOs were a metaphysical phenomenon rather than extraterrestrial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meade_Layne
Coming of the Space Brothers
Also, during that era, we had what became known as the space brother era of Ufology, 1950 to early 60s, when supposed experiencers like George Adamski (1891–1965) claimed to have been contacted by ET craft from Venus and, in some cases, even Mars, and to have been taken aboard crafts and driven around the universe.
Other well-known space brothers include George Van Tassel (1910–1978), New Jerseyan Howard Menger (1922 – 2009), and Truman Bethurum (1898–1969), among many others.
Even though science has largely debunked these UFO supposed contactees, this era is very rich, one can say, in exotic UFO contactee lore. This is a controversial but legitimate UFO school of thought.
Metaphysical/Occult...continued
Again, along the same timeline developed within occult and even masonic circles was and still is the interterrestral or ultraterrestrial UFO hypotheses.
Some of this is based on the famous magician and mystic Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) and his associate, the rocket scientist Jack Parsons (1914 -1952), occult magical activities, which saw Crowley introducing a familiar-looking ET figure he had supposed to be communicating with named Lam, looking very much like the familiar small ET we all know of today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/1nm98d6/aleister_crowleys_lam_gray_aliens/
Some even speculate that the occult magical ritual that Parsons performed in 1947, the Babalon working, along with the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as his magical assistant, started the ET phenomenon by “letting something in.”
So, we can say that the Space Brother era and the occult UFO ideas were somewhat along the same timeline.
But of the two, the occult UFO doctrine has maintained a degree of respect unlike the unscientific space brother era. Well-known Ufologists like John Keel and Jacques Vallee, along with his ( Vallee's) research partner J. Alan Hynek (he and Vallee were, or are, somewhat believers in the Rosicrucian philosophy), were adherents to the idea that the UFO phenomenon is likely of interdimensional or ultra-terrestrial origin.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hellier/comments/ge2kqf/the_secret_rituals_of_the_men_in_black_allen/
Spiritual/religious...God or the Devil
Alongside these genres of Ufological thought is the religious, yin and yang, or the idea that UFOs are demonic, angelic, or heavenly based. This covers some of the religious spectrum within its contours.
We have the information from well-known UFO researcher Nick Redfern’s so-called Collins Elite from his 2010 book, The Final Events
Where is entailed the story of the US military Christian fundamentalist factions' overt attempt to suppress interests in UFOs based on their private religious beliefs that the UFOs are demonic.
Also, the UFO abductee, the late Dr. Karla Turner, expressed similar trepidations about sinister UFOs and aliens abducting humans.
And even outside of a religious context, the famous UFO abductee researcher, Budd Hopkins, bitterly castigated the “aliens” for abducting humans and exposing them to such horrors.
This attitude is countered by many pro-UFO alien New Agers, and even Dr. John Mack, who claim these abductions are often positive events in the lives of abductees.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1qbjxg4/what_do_you_think_of_dr_karla_turners_perspective/
Interestingly, there aren’t too many well-known UFO believers who think it is an angelic phenomenon, but there certainly are many who think so, but just aren’t as well known as the other genres. Diane Pasulka has explored this angle extensively in her books, so it may be an angelic phenomenon or a new religious experience.
Another great source of this angle is the book by Jacques Vallee, who examines the potential danger of UFO religious cults in
Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults
Conspiratorial View
Last but not least is the general proposition by some that the UFO phenomenon is some kind of mainly USG scam to use as a prop to do all kind of nefarious activities to produce secret weapons or used as an excuse to prop up an eternal defense budget of colossal proportions or some Illuminati, Bildegergers scheme to produce a one-world government through what is known as project Blue Beam, an alleged USG scheme to produce:
“a fake alien invasion or "second coming" using holographic technology to establish a New World Order. Originating in the 1990s by Serge Monast, it claims this, coupled with mind control, will replace all religions with a new-age belief. AI overview...
That idea, along with the general conspiratorial view, is problematic... Though I don’t want to be critical of any of these UFO perspectives and want to present an objective and impartial outlook, this view doesn't explain that this is a worldwide phenomenon, not just American.
Finally, I'll briefly outline this poster's view...I am an ardent believer in the UFO phenomenon. My personal philosophical view is known as Integral Philosophy, which holds that all or most ideas have degrees of truth and that reality is rarely black-and-white. So, the UFO phenomenon, like most things in our existence, may have grains of all or most of these factions. A little here, a little there, and some in between, and some we haven’t even covered, perhaps!
Stay Tuned!
This is the basic theory based on the analysis of the evidence of the long-range UFO disclosure scam. It all started in 1953 with the Robertson Panel edict:
>a. That the national security agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired;
Then, in Hollywood, we had numerous crazy UFO alien movies of a particular farcical nature flooding the market.
Then the overt fraudulent Aliens from Mars and Venus space brother Adamski types flooding the UFO market.
Roswell
Long after Roswell was buried, since its 1947 coming out, in the late 70s and early 80s, we had the all-of-a-sudden return-to-Roswell story in a book written by the Bermuda Triangle bestselling author Charles Berlitz and soon-to-be intelligence community dupe William Moore (though probably even then an intel informant). [ Moore would later come out at the famous Mufon conference of 1989 and admit openly he was an AFOSI [Air Force intel police) informer and deliberately spread disinformation]
So, in these early years, we saw Roswell return to infamous publicity. Then, more books by many other UFO authors soon followed. All heading to one of the most well-known but often forgotten venomous USG intel episodes that drove one UFO researcher literally to the mental ward, the Paul Bennewitz affair!
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1bzk3v7/paul_bennewitz_and_the_disinformation_campaign/
>For those who don’t know: In the 70s and 80s, a man by the name of Paul Bennewitz was victim of a targeted disinformation campaign that led to his psychiatric hospitalization. Richard Doty, who was an agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations drove Bennewitz insane. Bennewitz, like many of us here, was really invested in UFOs. He began recording strange lights coming from Kirtland Air Force base which turned out to be classified air force projects. So a target was placed on Bennewitz in order to stray him away. Not only that, Doty (and presumably others) began spreading false information from inside the UFO community in order to muddy the waters.
Of course, it wasn’t just Richard Doty, but Bill Moore also lent a hand in the psychological downfall of a good man who was lured into believing ridiculous UFO stories.
These stories, like gruesome tales of aliens holding humans in torturous captivity in underground caverns, were massively spread through the UFO community since that time
But also, many don’t realize that many researchers accuse J. Allen Hynek of being the one who gave Bennewitz that phony, rigged computer that tricked him into believing he was communicating with aliens.
Then, during this era, the famous MJ12 documents were mailed to Bill Moore’s research assistant, Jaime Shandera, and he, along with well-known and respected UFOlogist Stanton Friedman, went on for years trying to prove the documents' veracity. They didn’t succeed, and to this day, the MJ12 documents have caused a great division within the UFO community of believers in them versus the non-believers.
Then came many other UFO false tales sponsored by Intel-connected people that have been buried in the public mind, such as in the early 2000s, the Serpo hoax connected to Richard Doty, Hal Puthoff, and Kit Green, by a group of adept UFO researchers who used then-existing technology to connect the three by IP address to this hoax. All that information has been permanently buried by the end of the Above Top Secret conspiracy site!
Let me briefly, parenthetically, illustrate how the Intel group usually operates, which will lead us to the Intelligence chicanery of this modern era, which started in 2017 with the so-called TTSA group founded by Tom DeLonge.
The intel boys don’t usually initiate these hoaxes and disinformation UFO psyops by themselves. They wait for what is known as a useful idiot or dupe.
Please see this YouTube upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=409SD8MJL7A
Also free on Tubi
What happens when someone comes to a USG military intel group or personage and offers themselves to them to help the UFO cause: Bennewitz did that in the 70s, and Tom DeLonge did the exact same thing around 2017.
He actually went to the now-disappeared retired Air Force General McCasland. McCasland sent him on a journey to intel groups to decide who wanted to exploit him, and he ended up starting a UFO organization, according to his own words, paraphrasing, “to help them show the US public that the US military is heroes regarding the response to UFOs!
Then, TTSA was littered with ex-intel and CIA agents, to the bone, and eventually led by Luiz Elizondo, a DOD intelligence agent, where they made an entirely phony and FAKE back story telling us he resigned from a fictitious UFO organization called ATTIP because he was mad, they didn't give it the attention it should get. (The UFO organization WAS NOT ATTIP. It was AAWSAP, and Elizondo had absolutely nothing to do with it. ATTIP was a nickname for AAWSAP, started by Harry Reid to hide it from the US military brass. The intel schemers behind TTSA simply usurped the name ATTIP and branded Elizondo with it for the sake of their psyop simply to deceive the American people. And it was a resounding success!
So that briefly, is their standard modus operandi when they want to infest the UFO community and American people with UFO disinformation. They often exploit well-intentioned people, as they did with Bennewitz, who came to them first, and now with Tom Delonge. In the case of Bill Moore, they actually recruited him, as he was a prominent Ufologist inside the UFO community. And he eventually participated in the Bennewitz affair and other UFO disinformation schemes before he confessed.
Back to the main story.
So that’s how they usually do this.
As regards TTSA, the motives behind it are similar but not exactly to Steven Greer's ideas about spreading fear about UFOs to the public to start a USG/UFO war of the worlds. Greer goes too far by peddling his own UFO theology. Actually, all they want to do is to do three basic things here:
One, follow the original diktat from the Robertson panel;
>That the national security agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired;
Then, two, along the lines of other USG military industrial complex desires, exploit the UFO phenomenon by spreading the fear meme and advance an eternal bloated defense budget into the economic stratosphere.
Then, particularly and locally, start the Space Force military incentives, as was done in 2019...
Now, surprisingly, TTSA basically went out of business in 2021. They were no longer needed.
The leftover mess from this disinformation psyop is now run by—before the disclosure movement—obscure republicans without any power to do anything substantial, while on the one hand screaming for disclosure, they are only gatekeeping the issue for the farce that it is with their right hands by calling for a meaningless disclosure( that will never happen anyway, and even if it did it would enlighten us about what the UFO Mystery is all about) and destroying disclosure with their left hands. As we see, Republicans in Congress scuttle any real legislation that could force disclosure.
I don’t accuse these congresspeople from the republican party of bad intent, just that they are being used by forces beyond them.
One has to understand that I don’t accuse people of bad intent without proof, as the peddlers of UFOtainment do to sell books (I’m not selling any book or podcast) or to heighten rhetoric to gain popularity through division. I seek to enlighten people on what is happening based on evidence, not ideological, financial, or egotistical self-interest.
I don’t claim any inside information is behind my theories, just the objective analysis of the historical evidence.
Finally, that evidence DOES NOT point to any end-time Armageddon between God and the devil, or between some evil or good aliens (whether divine or demonic), and the USG military, but to an end-time domination by some cosmic force that will guide and dominate the human race back to some kind of balance in the greater cosmic scheme of our existence.
Correcting Thom with Tom on 5/4/26
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