Comment by nabla9 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by nabla9 | Hacker News Reader

Journalism should take nutjobs more seriously. Conspiracy theories are now near mainstream and politicized. But NYT and other centers of quality journalism decided to treat them as entertaining filling for lazy news week. They were not untruthful. They just opted to do lots of reporting, very little investigation.

Asking basic questions like "What is your military rank?", instead of accepting "former military intelligence officer" would have exposed how small potatoes Luis Elizondo was and how impossible it was for him to lead any task force in Pentagon. He was there as a hang-around without responsibilities because Senator Reid insisted.

Hacker News UFO investigators: What is Luis Elizondo's military rank? The truth is out there.

Was he enlisted, non-comissioned or junior comissioned? Was he disenrolled from ROTC or did he graduate? Find a source that is not based on what he claimed.

David Grusch and his testimony to Congress along with the other military pilots is really what kick started this whole thing

Before Grusch were the pentagon videos. December 16, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos

Videos were released, targeting data never was. And now we're having a massive news cycle about this report, and about the people testifying to congress, and lots of attention on this person or that persons reputation. You can't buzz around a carrier battle group for 3 days without someone getting a lot of data on your aerodynamic performance.

But for decades now, all that radar, targeting and high resolution surveillance data has been tightly controlled, and will be missing from this report just like it was from every other report.

David Grusch's claims are even more far out, but they are connected to Robert Bigelow and others. Benito Mussolini and alien bodies, the Vatican and the Five Eyes

It's really sad. I have lots of sympathy for Grusch. He has been twice committed to involuntary psychiatric treatment. All these ufo-nuts are not really good for him.

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