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Anomaly-NOW! 12/03/2025 – Weekly News/Media Round-Up

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The End of Houston Sky: Three Decades of UFO Research and What We Still Don’t Know

 

**A 30-Year Wait Finally Ends**

 

After three decades in limbo, Houston Sky’s 12th and final issue has arrived. This UFO newsletter, compiled by editor Gail Neeson, brings together voices from 1996’s most prominent ufologists—including Stanton Friedman and Philip J. Class—alongside classic quotes from J. Allen Hynek and Charles Fort. What makes this release particularly poignant? Contributor Tom Dooley notes that despite decades of rigorous investigation, the UFO phenomenon remains stubbornly unexplained.

 

Miles Lewis reflects on this milestone while unpacking recent developments in anomaly research. He examines the Society for UAP Studies’ third international symposium (which drew attendees from across Europe and the United States), where presentations ranged from France’s GEPAN physical analysis program to Gary Nolan’s discussion of objects traveling at **8,000 miles per hour**. The conversation then shifts to “The Age of Disclosure” documentary and its notable omissions—including the AAWSAP program and Jacques Vallée’s extensive research—before diving into revelations about George Bush Sr.’s alleged knowledge of UFO programs and a 2005 Washington panel that recommended continued secrecy.

 

From Charles Eisenstein’s consciousness-based interpretation of disclosure to Dean Radin’s research on psychic abilities’ genetic basis, this episode explores how we understand (and perhaps co-create) anomalous phenomena.

 

Tune in for the complete discussion.

 

Timestamps below are approximate before final editing:

  • 00:00:01 – Anomaly Now: Weekly News Roundup
  • 00:04:49 – UFO Research Stagnation and Archive Preservation
  • 00:08:22 – SOL Foundation 2025 Conference Review
  • 00:12:50 – Age of Disclosure Documentary Review
  • 00:17:15 – Pentagon UFO Program Controversy and Disclosure
  • 00:24:03 – Jacques Vallée and Government UFO Disclosure Wargaming
  • 00:28:08 – Government UFO Secrecy and Disclosure Scenarios
  • 00:32:01 – Bush Sr. Confirms Holloman Film and Corso Materials
  • 00:33:37 – Secret UFO Disclosure Panel and Government Secrecy
  • 00:36:41 – Secret UFO Reverse Engineering Program Revealed
  • 00:39:32 – Military Suppression of UFO Research Evidence
  • 00:43:05 – Conspiracy Theories and UFO Disclosure Politics
  • 00:48:11 – Peterson References and UFO Documentary Reviews
  • 00:51:00 – Finding Truth Beyond Fear of Alien Contact
  • 00:53:23 – Narratives as Co-Generators of Reality
  • 00:56:10 – Abundance Through Consciousness and Interbeingness
  • 00:58:49 – Mind-Altering Discoveries and Ancient Earth Mysteries

 

 

  • **UFO research lacks rigorous scientific methodology** – Despite three decades of investigation by prominent ufologists, the phenomenon remains largely unexplained, suggesting the field needs more structured, international collaborative approaches rather than anecdotal documentation.

 

  • **Historical context and legacy researchers are being erased** – Modern documentaries like “Age of Disclosure” focus on recent military figures while omitting pioneering researchers like Jacques Vallée and decades of foundational work, creating a distorted narrative of UFO investigation.

 

  • **Recent conferences treat UAPs as physical objects worthy of serious study** – International symposiums are now examining unidentified aerial phenomena through a scientific lens as tangible entities rather than fringe topics, marking a shift in how the research community approaches the subject.

 

Miles Lewis hosts Anomaly Now, discussing the recent release of Houston Sky, a UFO newsletter’s 12th and final issue after a 30-year delay. Editor Gail Neeson compiled perspectives from prominent ufologists from 1996, including figures like Stanton Friedman and Philip J. Class, exploring three decades of UFO studies. The newsletter features classic quotes from J. Allen Hynek and Charles Fort, past sighting reports, and contributions from researchers like Tom Dooley, who notes that despite decades of investigation, the UFO phenomenon remains largely unexplained and requires more rigorous study. The speaker reflects on their decades-long work in UFO and anomaly research, expressing hope that future generations will understand the field’s significance despite current controversy. They celebrate the recent Houston Sky magazine issue 12, praising contributors like Carl Flock and Lucius Farish. The speaker directs listeners to Anomaly Archives’ website, Patreon, and various resources including newly public lecture videos from Greg Bishop and Joseph Green. They encourage donations and highlight Greg Bishop’s positive review of the recent SOL Foundation 2025 conference held in Italy, emphasizing the international scope of UFO phenomena research. The Society for UAP Studies held its third annual international symposium, attracting attendees from across Europe and the United States to discuss unidentified aerial phenomena. Notable presentations included researcher Beatrice Villarreal, Colonel Carl Nell, and Luc Denis from France’s longstanding GEPAN study, which analyzed UAP as physical objects rather than illusions. Dr. Diana Pasolka presented remotely on Marian apparitions as data sources for UAP comparison. Gary Nolan spoke with Jake Barber of the Skywatcher Group, ex-military personnel claiming to track UAP at southwestern U.S. locations, including objects traveling at 8,000 miles per hour. The documentary “Age of Disclosure” garnered significant attention, offering a professionally produced exploration of alleged global UAP cover-ups, though some observers expressed concerns about its emphasis on military-industrial perspectives over broader phenomena analysis. The speaker critiques “The Age of Disclosure” documentary for focusing narrowly on Lou Elizondo, Jay Stratton, and Chris Mellon’s recent efforts while omitting crucial historical context. He notes the absence of discussion about classic close encounter classifications, the AAWSAP program, key figures like James Lacatski and Bob Bigelow, and references to Jacques Vallée’s extensive research. While acknowledging the documentary’s value for newcomers, the speaker argues that those deeply versed in UFO history through Vallée’s Forbidden Science journals will find little new information. He highlights Lieutenant General James Clapper’s recent admission about tracking anomalous activities at Area 51, questioning why this significant revelation demands further investigation. The speaker discusses Micah Hanks’s podcast episode reviewing the Age of Disclosure documentary, highlighting the Arlington Institute’s 2004 classified wargaming exercise. According to reporting, Hal Puthoff was invited to a White House-sponsored panel to assess whether the government should disclose a crash retrieval program and its potential economic and religious consequences. Puthoff concluded disclosure wasn’t feasible due to massive financial and societal upheaval. However, investigators later found no evidence the White House actually sponsored the event, suggesting the panelists may have been deliberately misled about the program’s legitimacy. The speakers discuss Jacques Vallée’s Forbidden Science journals, which document convoluted claims about government UFO knowledge involving figures like George Bush Sr., Hal Puthoff, and Eric Davis. Vallée describes skepticism around these accounts, noting that John Peterson disputed loose talk about confidential meetings with a general. The journals reveal scenario exercises simulating ET contact and detail Eric Davis’s alleged phone conversations with Bush Sr. about reverse-engineered alien versus Nazi technology, though the sourcing remains questionable and largely attributed to Puthoff and Davis themselves. The speaker discusses revelations from Eric Davis regarding former President George Bush Sr.’s knowledge of UFO programs, including General Trudeau’s involvement and awareness of the Holloman film, which Bush confirmed as “the real thing” with “obscene” security protocols. A 2005 Washington panel on UFO disclosure, attended by Hal Puthoff and representatives from 64 societal sectors, ultimately recommended maintaining secrecy due to concerns about uncontrollable public reactions. The narrative traces documented interactions between Bush Sr. and military-intelligence figures dating back to 1968 congressional hearings, while also referencing a hidden infrastructure allegedly operated by a CIA-Air Force-Department of Energy-aerospace contractor consortium managing decades-long UFO reverse engineering programs. Jacques describes a Lockheed retired vice president’s account of how the Air Force coordinated with contractors to collect and study crash materials from Nevada, work that eventually ceased with materials stored away. The speaker connects this to CIA coordination with aerospace contractors and the Atomic Energy Commission. He then discusses recent UFO disclosure developments, including Navy preparation plans from 1998, disclosure wargaming workshops, and contemporary statements from officials like Secretary of State Rubio regarding recovered alien technology given to private contractors, while noting speculation about political motivations behind potential disclosure announcements. The speaker discusses Michael Schellenberger’s testimony before Congress regarding government withholding of information about anomalous phenomena, which included a 212-page document compiling publicly available evidence. The document contains 25 references to futurist John Peterson, tracing his involvement with UFO-related initiatives from 1993 onward, including his role with the Lindbergh Foundation and the Arlington Institute. The speaker highlights intriguing connections between Peterson, Navy officials, and alleged disclosure initiatives, while noting that Catherine Austin Fitz previously reported the Navy commissioned the Arlington Institute for disclosure planning. Though cautious about drawing conclusions, the speaker suggests these numerous references and connections warrant further investigation. The speaker discusses reviews of “The Age of Disclosure” documentary on UAP research. Garrett and Klaus from Patterns Tell Stories provided coverage despite recent production slowdowns. A review from James Krasinski at the Vatican Observatory website critiques the film’s claims about Vatican knowledge of extraterrestrials, questioning its evidence. Krasinski, a Catholic priest, argues that discovering extraterrestrial life wouldn’t shake humanity’s worldview as the documentary suggests, citing existing beliefs and theological precedent. While recommending the documentary for its compelling presentation, Krasinski criticizes its reductionist narrative portraying power structures negatively and ultimately calling for Congressional intervention to uncover UFO truth. The speaker discusses Charles Eisenstein’s philosophical perspective on unidentified aerial phenomena and disclosure. Eisenstein argues that narratives are not merely descriptions of reality but actively co-generate it, suggesting the disclosure debate is fundamentally a struggle over what becomes real. He contends that fear-based narratives about extraterrestrial threats perpetuate separation and scarcity mindsets, whereas embracing interconnectedness and abundance consciousness could unlock transformative technologies. Eisenstein proposes that humanity’s collective consciousness and relational understanding directly shape material reality and that advanced capabilities become available only when we transcend fear-based worldviews. The speaker discusses intriguing research by Dean Radin and Whitley Strieber on the genetic basis of psychic abilities, suggesting everyone possesses psychic potential to varying degrees, though genetic factors may prevent some from expressing these abilities. The conversation covers related topics including telepathy, brain function, and consciousness research. The speaker concludes by thanking listeners and encouraging them to support the Anomaly Archives through subscriptions and Patreon donations.

 

TRANSCRIPT

 

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Anomaly Now, transmitting to you from Austin, Texas. I’m your host, Miles Lewis. This is the weekly news and media roundup for the 501c3 nonprofit Scientific Anomaly Institute, a .k .a. the Anomaly Archives. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday season. The holiday season is still upon us, obviously, and it’s just a headlong rush until the new year, 2026, coming at you fast. Well, boy, I came within 12 feet of a bobcat over my Thanksgiving festivities. That was really, truly amazing and exciting. Was blessed to witness that beautiful creature so close. Thank you to the alerts of the hawks and crows screeching their alarm bells. Anyway,

 

well… We’ve got a ton of stuff and going to rush right into it. But I wanted to also say I mentioned last episode that our new good friend Gail Neeson had resurrected for the finale final issue of her 1990s era Houston Sky UFO newsletter. Well, hey, why is it backwards?

 

it backwards? Wait a minute. That camera’s not supposed to be backwards. Yeah,

 

that’s not right. Wait a minute.

 

Okay, here we go. Yes, the 12th and final issue of Houston Sky, 30 years delayed. Thank you, Gail, for sending this to me. I really had such a great time reading it over. I’m really excited for something like this to be… out there in the world again. Just fantastic. It’s about 12 pages. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, 12 pages for the 12th issue. Cover article brief by Gail Neeson, Ufology the Last 30 Years from the Tabloids to the Pentagon, filled with lots of little quotes and interesting tidbits here and there. You know, the… There’s the unexpected leap, a quote from J. Allen Hynek circa 1972. When the long -awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science, but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump. So much great stuff. Oh, and on hierarchies, a great quote, Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, 1919. I think we’re property. But as usual, just a great bunch of stuff here. Flashbacks to… from the past 11 issues of Houston Sky, an interesting UFO sighting report from a friend of Gail’s circa 1976, six UFOs rise from Acapulco Bay, and the meat of it being synopses from various leaders in the UFO field,

 

in the UFO field, many of whom sadly have passed on. But each entry was their synopsis of their beliefs at the time, back in 1996, when she was first gathering material for this 12th issue. And some of those people include Richard F. Haynes, W .L. Barney Garner, Larry Bryant, Francis Ridge, Stanton Friedman, and Philip J. Class, among others. Just so much great stuff in here. Really so happy to see something like this. It really gave me so much joy. There’s a nice UFO notebook column by William D. Bill Eatwell. Thank you, Bill, for your support of the Anomaly Archives. And thank you, Gail, for your support as well. Bill Eatwell’s column is UFOs, a possible extraterrestrial threat. So much more in here. Oh, and there’s a bit here by… by Tom Dooley that I was going to go ahead and read. Thomas P. Dooley, retired Navy officer and nuclear power specialist, established deduction ambient monitoring project, co -founder, board member, fund for UFO research, board member, mutual UFO network, radiation section of MUFON Field Investors Guide, admin CFM coalition. That’s the CUFO, FUFER, MUFON coalition. He’s also, thank you, Tom Dooley, the person who helped. get the Bob Girard collection donated to our archive so many years ago. Quote, Tom says, Regardless of the seeming advances in the study of UFOs, after all these many years, the phenomenon has pretty much remained stagnant in terms of what we really know. The basic report of an object in the sky or near the ground still leaves us without a reasonable, plausible explanation of just what it was that was perceived and what its nature might be. We may pretend we have an inkling as to what it is all about, but unless we work much harder and much smarter, other tens of years will pass before anyone will be able to step forward and say, I now understand. My hope is that after the passing of the present madness that has surrounded an important portion of my life’s work, there will be a restructuring of perspective and a focusing of goals that will allow the hard workers looking for the truth. to finally get started in advancing a science. Working in this business with honest diligence has been the most sobering and humbling experience of my life. I anticipate at least several more years of work. I hope I’m here to hear the words I now understand by whoever may say them. Anyway, yeah, great other stuff by Carl Flock, Lucius Farish, Jim Mosley, and so many others, including Eugenia Macer’s story, Robert Durant. leo sprinkle and there’s a little bit about anomalous archives in here that makes me very happy and proud and i just everything about this this issue of houston sky issue 12 is is just so wonderful and a wonderful flashback to the way things used to be thank thank you gail and yeah i need to put

 

wonderful flashback to the way things used to be thank thank you gail and yeah i need to put the PO box in the show notes. So folks, and on also the page for,

 

where don’t we have that right here? Yeah, here we go.

 

right here? Yeah, here we go. Oh, yes. Of course you can find out more about the anomaly archives at our website, anomaly archives .org. We’ve got tons of information online. We have a patrion .com slash anomaly archives account. You can follow along the news headlines at our flip board. That’s flip board. dot com slash at anomaly archives and click through and see all the thousands and thousands of links there news articles so much to get through yeah so yeah you can go to our website and see more on Houston sky there links to scanned copies of all the past issues numbers 1 through 11 and yeah just really it made it really made

 

made it really made my holiday so all right and yes we’ve recently been celebrating giving tuesday yesterday this being december 3rd 2025 a wednesday per our usual wednesday show of this anomaly now variety there’s links at our website you can you can always donate it doesn’t have to be giving tuesday we always need the help and we’d appreciate it if you’d consider donating either via paypal or facebook

 

right and yes we’ve recently been celebrating giving tuesday yesterday this being december 3rd 2025 a wednesday per our usual wednesday show of this anomaly now variety there’s links at our website you can you can always donate it doesn’t have to be giving tuesday we always need the help and we’d appreciate it if you’d consider donating either via paypal or facebook Or if you scroll down on the page, you’ll find links to how other ways to support us, including PayPal. Excuse me. And as well as our PO box where you can you can send old style checks. So or yeah, don’t send cash to the mail. That’s dangerous. However you want. All right. Well, let’s see. Oh, I also want to draw people’s attention to, of course, I think last time we mentioned that. Greg Bishop’s Anomaly Academy lecture from last year, October of last year. Can Hard Data and Materialism Solve the UFO Mystery, the UFO Enigma? That is available now for the public, previously only available to our patrons through our Patreon account.

 

And now, we also have made available Joe Green, Joseph Green’s lecture. A Theoretical Approach to Conspiratorial Thinking, and you can find all the ones that we’ve uploaded starting with our first one, June of 2024 with Brent Raines, July of 2024 with Professor Wham, Joshua Cutchin presenting an old, old lecture from 2014 featuring Rob Riggs on the Texas Bigfoot Enigma, and as I said, Greg Bishop and Joe Greens are the most recent ones added to our public. anomaly archives youtube channel feed so check that out lots of great material over on our youtube channel so all right well i did want to draw your attention to the review of the recent sol foundation the sol 2025 conference that was held over in italy our good friend greg bishop has written a review that’s posted over at the SUAP, societyforuapstudies .org website. Excuse me. And man, sounds like it was a beautiful, amazing event there in Italy, very much highlighting the international global aspect of this UFO phenomena. As he says here, Greg writes, in an effort to recognize the efforts and accomplishments of the international community, the U .S.-based study and policy group known as SOL, chose this classy European venue to convene their third annual symposium on all things related to the subject of UAP. Judging by languages, judging by languages heard during frequent breaks, about half the attendees traveled from the United States, others arrived from Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, Spain, Portugal, and the Ukraine, among others, to share their views and information about the UAP enigma, which has always been international.

 

He mentions the talk by Beatrice Villarreal, as well as U .S. Army Colonel Carl Nell, and also chairman of the Association Aeronautique et Astronautique de France, Luc Denis, reported on physical observables that his group in the longstanding French government UAP study called GEPAN, that’s G -E -I -P -A -N, I’m not going to try to pronounce the French version. have done with decades of data using UAP as a matter of physical presence and not simply illusory. Lots of other great anecdotes from this fantastic conference. Of course, I think most of us have heard that Dr. Diana Pasolka did present all as well, but she did so remotely. And she talked about the importance of the history of Marian apparitions and miracles, quote, as an excellent source of data to compare with UAP. And there were, of course, presentations by one of the SOL founders, SOL Foundation founders, Gary Nolan. In the evening, Nolan sat down for a chat with Jake Barber from the Skywatcher Group, an organization of ex -military personnel who are claiming continued interactions and recordings of apparent UAP at undisclosed locations in the southwestern United States. Spoiler alert, at least one of them is in West Texas. Barber said that they had recently tracked an object traveling at quote, 8 ,000 miles per hour. According to their instrumentation, one of their goals is to allow anyone to have a firsthand experience of the phenomenon through techniques they are developing. Asked about the science behind their method of research and reporting, Barber said, if we can get to a place where we have a meaningful impact, then we don’t care about peer review, unquote.

 

Hmm. I thought there was something else from Barber in here, but maybe I’m misremembering.

 

Let’s see.

 

Nope, that’s, I guess, it. Well, anyway, you can read the rest of that over at societyforuapstudies .org under the headline by Greg Bishop, Across Languages and Landscapes, Reflections on Saul 2025. Of course, the big news, I guess, is folks have been, you know, highly anticipating the arrival of the Age of Disclosure, quote -unquote, an explosive documentary that reveals an 80 -year… global cover -up of non -human intelligent life and a secret war among major nations to reverse engineer advanced technology of non -human origin. So I did have the pleasure of watching this thanks to some local friends. We got together and watched it at a friend’s house. And I must say, we had some amazing conversations after the presentation, after watching The Age of Disclosure. We also… stopped at several points to answer questions or ask questions of each other. Did they just say what we think they just said? What’s the basis for that? What do you think of that? So a really wonderful evening was had by all. And I must say, it is, as everybody is saying, an incredibly well -done, highly polished production. It is… a really professionally done documentary. That said, you know, my feeling about it, I’ve not been very reserved about my misgivings about this post -2017 era that we find ourselves in that seems so dominated by these specific voices from the military -industrial -intelligence complex. They’re focusing on military sightings, military encounters, and military witnesses, and the couching of everything in terms of a threat, which certainly that is an important aspect of the UFO phenomenon. But there’s been less of a focus on the biologics, as David Grush. Alleged whistleblower has seeded our language with that term now to describe possible quote -unquote alien bodies or the pilots, the UFOnauts behind the phenomenon. There seems to be less talk about the classic CE3, close encounters of the third, first, second, and third kind. These close encounters with entities associated with the objects, let alone quote -unquote alien abduction, contact, bedroom visitation type experiences. There definitely seems to be a very deliberate distancing, jettisoning of any talk or discourse on those subjects. What I also find really striking about this movie is you will never hear the word ASAP, A -A -W -S -A -P, which was the real main overarching program that was created with the 22 or so million dollars that is constantly referred to now as ATIP. And, you know, perhaps there’s a very clear explanation that I am not privy to. Maybe it’s in Lou Elizondo’s book, Eminent. Maybe it’s in Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. But this Age of Disclosure documentary really focuses on the work of Lou Elizondo. his boss, Jay Stratton, but then Lou Elizondo became the boss, and Chris Mellon. Their efforts over time at the end of this program, after it was defunded, it’s so confusing. As we’re going to see when I reference the works of Jacques Vallée, there seems to be a lot of confusion and mystery and gaps in the official record of what actually went on. during the period that Jay Stratton and particularly Lou Elizondo were involved. But obviously these have all been points of contention and controversy. But yeah, you know where in this program, The Age of Disclosure, this documentary, will you hear the names James Lakatsky or references to OSAP or even Bob Bigelow and Bass, B -A -A -S -S, the program that got the money from Harry Reid’s efforts to do this quote -unquote Pentagon UFO program. Again, maybe there’s a misunderstanding here on my part with regards to the differences between this effort done by Bass, this OSAP project, which then later becomes nicknamed ATIP. There’s a lot of mystery here, folks. But yes, the documentary is pretty phenomenal. There’s a lot of really interesting things in it. But at the end of the day, the comment that I feel really encapsulates my feeling about it is this will be good for people who are new to the UFO scene and really haven’t studied it deeply. If you studied it deeply, if you’ve… read the works of Jacques Vallée, especially his journals, volumes four, five, and six,

 

his forbidden science journals, four, five, and six, when we’re going to be quoting a lot from five and six, then none of this is new. And it actually gives you a much clearer vision of the history and how these things have unfolded over the last several decades. of this 80 -year global mystery. But one of the big things that people are talking about is U .S. Air Force Lieutenant General James Clapper saying, when I served in the Air Force, there was an active program to track anomalous activities we couldn’t explain, many connected with ranges out west, notably Area 51. And so I do want to play this clip here that I believe is actually from… the new documentary, and so I should stress that this is, of course, for fair use public education purposes.

 

Let’s see here. It’s only about 30 seconds.

 

only about

 

30 seconds.

 

Now, it’s my understanding that that may have been shot separately previous to all the other interviews in this documentary, that this was not, that that was some other documentary or some other pre -existing footage. where he mentions this. I could be mistaken, but that’s my understanding. There’s this Reddit thread where that clip you can view as well. Of course, this has gotten a lot of attention.

 

Where is what I’m looking for?

 

for?

 

Yeah.

 

Oh, dang it.

 

Well, I don’t have… Oh, yes, here we go. Over at liberationtimes .com. U .S. Air Force silent on alleged covert UFO tracking program revealed by James Clapper. Christopher Sharp writes about this. Again, this is people trying to explore the issue of what Clapper was talking about. And in fact, you can find over on YouTube this Disclosure Foundation video put out by Chris Mellon, where he too is saying, that this needs to be investigated. Why didn’t Arrow uncover this? This is all very important and worth investigating. And I did want to draw your attention also to this Micah Hanks episode of his Micah Hanks podcast, the November 26, 2025 Age of Disclosure review episode. Of course, he’s talked a lot more about it in other episodes as well, but in this one, and I do have a clip I wanted to play where he explicates some of the situation that relates to Clapper’s comments and Melon and the backstory there. So let’s see if I can play that.

 

see if I can play

 

that. Where’d it go?

 

So, yeah, again,

 

for those who’ve been deeply involved in looking at UFOs for a long time, there’s a lot of us with a lot more background on this. And thus, we want to, again, point out the importance of the work of Jacques Vallée and his journals, Forbidden Science Volumes 1 through 6. particularly Volumes 5 and 6. I know I’ve referenced this many times on the show, and some of these bits I’ve read before, but I really do feel they give you a good sense of how long this information’s been out there.

 

that Micah talked about in that episode is the reports of the Arlington Institute Disclosure Wargaming program. And this comes up, there’s several things that come up in the Age of Disclosure documentary that deal with the idea of the Arlington Institute Wargaming, of the idea of the government wondering, should we do a, should we… finally disclose the truth and what are the big ramifications, societal, religious, economic, and that sort of thing. And, you know, in the Wall Street Journal article that came out, was it scrap metal or an alien spacecraft? The Army asked an elite defense lab to investigate this version of it’s reproduced over MSN .com. You know, there’s… their whole section on the Arlington Institute aspect of this, where they say Puthoff, Hal Puthoff, who also had a long history with exotic U .S. programs, creating one for the CIA in the 1970s, told Kirkpatrick’s team of another mysterious incident that had fueled UFO belief. He said he had been invited to a 2004 panel in Arlington, Virginia, the type the government often quietly funds through think tanks to field new ideas. This one, Puthoff said, he was told was sponsored by the White House. And given a very specific prompt, help the president decide whether or not he should finally disclose the existence of a crash retrieval program and assess the possible upheaval the revelation would ignite. What would be the effect on the stock market, on religion? Would aerospace companies sue the government into bankruptcy when they learned their rivals had decades ago been given access to alien technology? Now, again, that’s a central theme of… of the age of disclosure. And it’s one of the things that’s being promulgated by Marco Rubio, who is one of the, you know,

 

venerated people featured in the documentary. And this article goes on to quote,

 

article goes on to quote, I believe Hal Puthoff, quote, we added up all the numbers and we said, no way we can’t handle disclosure. Puthoff said in an interview, Kirkpatrick’s team investigated whether the White House really sponsored such an event. The chief executive of the think tank that hosted the discussion, John Peterson, told Kirkpatrick a former senior Pentagon space official had notified him that President George W. Bush was preparing to make public all the secrets held by the government about aliens. I was told that it was real. that it was happening, Peterson said in an interview. But months later, when Peterson asked the former official about the monumental truth about to be revealed, the reply was, quote, I don’t even know what you’re talking about, unquote. Bush’s chief of staff from that time told Kirkpatrick that he didn’t know about the panel or any such plan to disclose aliens’ secrets. Both Kirkpatrick and Peterson ended up with the only explanation they could think of. Arlington Institute and the panelists had been tricked. For what reason remains a mystery? So, That’s the version put out by the Wall Street Journal, mainly endorsing Arrow and Kirkpatrick’s perspective that this was just, yes, this happened, but it’s nothing like what has been described in terms of it being official from the government or from a particular president’s initiative. But this mentions, it’s a very convoluted situation. There are so many references to this. in Forbidden Science, Volume 5 by Jacques Vallée. There’s also the references to Bush. And all of this largely comes from either Hal Puthoff or Eric Davis. And the stuff related to George Bush specifically comes from Eric Davis. That also features in Age of Disclosure, wherein there are the claims that George Bush Sr. was very aware of UFOs, had interactions with Colonel Corso, the man who allegedly ceded the crash retrieval materials to the aerospace companies for reverse engineering purposes, and also that he was aware of the infamous Holloman Air Force Base alleged UFO landing and interaction with beings that came off of one of the craft. This is an old story that goes back decades, I believe to the seventies and Valet and Valet being tempted by the carrot of disclosure back, I think in the eighties when the film, a famous UFO film was, was going to feature this because the air force or their contacts were saying, if you feature this in your documentary, we’ll give you the footage of it. That’s never been seen before. Well, anyway, that’s a whole other story, but. So here’s some of the bits from Jacques Vallée’s Forbidden Science Journals,

 

Vallée’s Forbidden Science Journals, Volume 5, September 2003. These are things that relate to John Peterson of the Arlington Institute and these stories. A disturbing follow -on conversation at the Duck Club with Peterson, upset that Joe Firmage spoke loosely about his meeting with the general. which happened, he said, seven years ago, about 1996. The purpose of the meeting was to, quote, try to get some money and was confidential. I had to point out that Joe, Bernie, Hal, and Ed Mitchell, plus the Greer people, were all talking about it freely, even mentioning there were, quote -unquote, one or more secret UFO projects under Aldridge. Peterson retorted this made no sense. The general in question doesn’t even talk to him anymore. The initial meeting had to do with several black projects. But he never said that he’d seen any hardware and certainly not a craft. I’m thinking, speaking of the general. And then skipping over down on the next page, Hal has been part of a John Peterson semi -official scenario exercise that included role -playing, the press, the government, the military, etc. in various situations of potential ET contact. Now that’s September 2003. And the…

 

Washington or the Wall Street Journal article was saying 2004 panel in Arlington, Virginia. So as we’ll see, there actually are references to multiple exercises like this having been done at different times. What we just read was on pages 197, 198 of volume five. Jumping ahead to page 227. It’s a long one, I think. Las Vegas, March 2004, the Fiesta Rancho Casino Hotel on Rancho Drive. Hal and I had taken early flights in order to meet at the airport before others arrived. Without preamble, he told me Eric’s story. Eric was the person who interviewed Wilson in the EG &G parking lot. He’d contacted the Admiral about his project to restart a chapter of AFIO Association of Former Intelligence Officers. in Las Vegas, and the topic drifted to ufology. Yeah, this is where it gets pretty crazy. Eric is now in touch with the vice chairman of the association, who is none other than former President George Bush Sr. They’ve spoken twice on the phone. The first phone call was initiated by Bush, who gave Eric some advice about AFIO and his future career. Eric told him about his interest in the Corso revelations. Could it be that Corso was mistaken in dealing with the material? he was handling? Could that have been Nazi hardware? Erich asked. Impossible, replied Bush. The two topics were clearly separated. By that time, 1947, all German secrets had been processed and filed away. They were not used as cover for anything else. That’s all a quote from Bush, according to Erich Davis. Bush remembered General Trudeau. He showed interest in pursuing the discussion, asking Erich for his recent physics papers. He knew of the remote viewing project, but didn’t recall Hal’s name. The second conversation was more interesting because it got into the Holloman film, which remains a fixation for Hal, Eric, and me. The former president was aware of it. Was it a training film, a special ops exercise? No, he replied, quote, it was the real thing, unquote. There was a secret project and the security was obscene, quote unquote. Yeah.

 

Again, that’s page 227. 2004. Again, that’s the other thing mentioned in Age of Disclosure, these references to Bush as told by Eric Davis. And told to the whole NIDS 2 .0, Bigelow, Gang, Howell, Eric, Jacques, etc. Flash forward to page 300, December 2005. Al was recently part of a panel assembled in Washington under semi -official auspices to discuss the potential impact of publicly revealing the reality of UFOs. Attendees were broken up into 64 societal sectors and eight subcommittees. Initially open to disclosure, all members ended up recommending secrecy because violent reactions to disclosure would be uncontrollable. Religious zealots would go on a rampage, clamoring for witch hunts. Hal doesn’t know who organized the workshop or why. Yeah, that’s shortly after this 2004 incident. And it says, assembled in Washington, as opposed to Arlington, Virginia. And then, let’s see, we have on page 333,

 

Austin, Texas, October 2006. There’s a long entry, part of which on page 333 says, over lunch, we spoke of nanobacteria and of the day after Futures study panel where Hal had participated. It had been set up by a senior advisor. As we enjoyed the fine Texas autumn day and excellent Mexican food, Eric mentioned that Bush Sr. recalled being briefed by Trudeau at the time of the 1968 Mendel Rivers congressional hearings. Okay, so yeah, again, Eric with this supposed insider accounts from, George Bush Sr. that go back to 1968. Bush supposedly having an interest in having interactions with Trudeau. Lower down on the page, October 2006. Let’s see. The Trudeau -Bush Sr. conversation mentioned by Eric Davis would have related to the hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives held July 29, 1968. It was presided by J. Edward Roosh, and George Miller was the chairman of the full committee where Alan Hynek was introduced by none other than Donald Rumsfeld. Miller had given a short address in the form of a warning, stressing that the committee wasn’t set up to criticize the Air Force in any way. Okay, so those are the references I wanted to read from in Volume 5. And in Volume 6, there are some other interesting bits here. Okay, so this is… Forbidden Science, Volume 6, page 111, January 2012. My inquiries about the sightings near Palmdale have led me to a certain retired vice president at Lockheed. Oh, yes. So, okay. So the other big thing, I remember watching the Age of Disclosure with my friends on Friday, two Fridays ago, whenever.

 

The one thing that felt new to me in the… documentary, Age of Disclosure, was the org chart, so to speak, for the quote -unquote legacy program, the supposed long, decades -long UFO reverse engineering program and how it operated. There’s a…

 

It would be described as, they discovered a hidden infrastructure run by a consortium of the CIA, the Air Force, the Department of Energy, and private aerospace contractors, a subversive government, as one insider put it, overriding the real government. This is from an article I’ll mention in a little bit.

 

But then, so I’m still reading Forbidden Science 6. I’m barely, you know, a fourth of the way through it. And I was like, well, that was new to me, so to speak. But then I, literally the very next day, I pick up Volume 6, Forbidden Science Journals, and start reading it and come across this. Again, page 111 and 112. January 2012, Jacques writes, My inquiries about the sightings near Palmdale have led me to a certain retired vice president at Lockheed, a colleague of legendary aircraft designer Bob Rich. founder of the Skunk Works. They were once in charge of studying materials picked up from crashes in Nevada. Old story, he said. The method is simple. The Air Force would call them as cleared contractors, indicating where the objects were. They would go out with trucks, gather them up, and study the materials. For some reason, funding halted and the stuff was stored away. Like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. For a while, as the rumor goes, it was held at Class 3 storage facilities near Chatsworth. There was a contract to maintain the secure lockers. It didn’t support science. So why was the research stopped? Here again, there’s a straightforward answer. The military brass often shows a fundamental bias, while events like saucer interventions smell strongly of evil influence. But why not expose it then? I can only speculate about the answers.

 

Yeah. To me, that really sounded like and reminds me of what I was just saying is talked about in the documentary, that the CIA coordinated with Air Force and aerospace contractors and the Atomic Energy Commission this whole process. Okay.

 

Now, I find all this very, very fascinating, obviously. And I was recently reminded, as I go through cataloging all these old videos I’ve downloaded over the years and photos I’ve downloaded and stuff like that, I come across a lot of material.

 

And there’s this video by a UFO disclosure advocate. In fact, this individual, Michael Sala, has this website, exopolitics .org, and I’ve never found him to be a very reputable researcher. He’s just not on par. He’s a believer. But, you know, okay. Anyway.

 

This article, U .S. Navy plan to prepare for extraterrestrials among us, secretly developed in 1998. There’s a video that goes along with this. And it puts forth some very interesting information. It’s about three minutes long, or three and a half, three and a half minutes long. I’m going to play that right now.

 

So the dates for all this really, they’re all over the place.

 

all this really,

 

all over the place. It basically,

 

you’ve got the stuff in the late 90s, you’ve got the stuff in the early aughts, early 2000s, and then Something happening in 2003, 2004. Multiple wargaming workshop scenarios for disclosure being funneled through John Peterson’s Arlington Institute. Well, here is a video of John Peterson called A Historic Moment in Our Story, Postscript Insights with John Peterson from the Postscript Arlington Institute YouTube channel. circa August 2023. And I’m going to play this other clip here of him. It’s about two minutes long.

 

other clip here of him. It’s about two minutes long.

 

Yeah, and that’s part of a very long video. And this was largely in response to the 2023 hearings. And of course now, you know, we have… Michael Schellenberger, who was one of the people who spoke at one of these UAP UFO hearings with his article, Secretary of State Rubio believes U .S. recovered alien tech and gave it to private military contractors. Quote, we are headed toward massive disclosure, unquote, says a senior advisor to America’s top diplomat and Trump’s national security advisor. You know, a number of people have spun the conspiracy. theory that this could be an attempt by the current administration to influence the elections. It’s an old conspiracy trope in the UFO community that, you know, who’s going to be the disclosure president? Who’s going to be that historic figure to make this announcement? And would anybody believe it? Now, with such a divided country, divisive times that we live in, It’s easy to see that half the country might believe in half the country might not, depending upon how it unfolds. But and there’s been also the suggestion that Mark Rubio has been walking back the statements that he made in the documentary. But in a recent appearance on the Sean Hannity show, he says he does not walk them back. But he did clarify that he hasn’t seen any of this. He’s heard testimony from others who claim to have seen firsthand the evidence for these legacy crash retrieval reverse engineering programs.

 

on this topic. We do have some links to articles, reviews of the documentary that speak to that issue specifically, but they’re a bit more political than I want to get.

 

But yeah, so you also might recall that when Schellenberger appeared before the hearing,

 

when Schellenberger appeared

 

before the hearing, the UFO hearing, He submitted this document. United States Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community are withholding information about anomalous phenomena from Congress. Testimony by Michael Schellenberger to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation and the Subcommittee on National Security of the Border and Foreign Affairs of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee for a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena exposing the truth November 13, 2024. And in this… 212 page document that is basically a massive collection of publicly available information. It’s a really nice amassing of this kind of information that we’ve been covering. And a lot of what we’ve covered is in here. And in this 212 page document,

 

this 212 page document, there are 25 references to John Peterson, including As far back as this 1993 reference to the Lindbergh Foundation, note Lindbergh founded the Lindbergh Foundation, of which John Peterson was decades later the chairman. And this reference to December 1994, Jacques Vallée writes, there are two UAP projects being funded by Lawrence Rockefeller. One is run by Stephen Greer, which collects testimony from government insiders and works on UAP communication projects. And the other is run by Marie Galbraith, charged with obtaining, quote unquote, the best data. A later entry claims futurist John Peterson’s ideology, C3 December 1999, is at play in the organization. Quote, the aliens are here. Real good guys. We must be prepared. A revolution is coming. Disclosure, et cetera. And he notes. Peterson states he was twice the runner -up candidate to be the Secretary of the Navy, and he served in senior positions for a member of presidential political campaigns in the 1990s. Well, this is interesting because, as it says here, Peterson is also the founder of the Arlington Institute, TAI, a group connected to claims the Navy charged the Arlington Institute with figuring out a plan to disclose ET, quote, live among us, and claims TAI may have awareness of the conduit between private industry and government UAP work. Peterson is also a board member of the Lindbergh Foundation. Now, it’s interesting that Peterson says that he was twice the runner -up candidate to be Secretary of the Navy, and that it appears that the allegation has been there, as you saw in that video clip, and these allegations from Catherine Austin Fitz, that when she served on the board of the Arlington Institute, that they were tasked by the Navy And that it was the secretary of the Navy who commissioned this war game workshop scenario disclosure day after scenario, but then later denied it. Again, it’s just so, I don’t know. Is there something personal there with Peterson and the secretary of Navy position? I don’t know. But like I say, there’s a ton of other references to Peterson in this document, including the ones referenced by Jacques Vallée and his forbidden science journals. It just goes on and on. So there’s a lot of, there’s just a lot of data there. And maybe it’s just smoke, but I suspect there’s a fire there somewhere. Anyway, we need to probably wrap this up, but there are some great reviews out there. Garrett of Patterns Tell Stories UFO podcast has his review, Age of Disclosure review, my thoughts on 2025’s new UFO documentary, The Age of Disclosure. This is one of those that I… won’t really be quoting from because it does get into some very important political issues. But there’s a lot of good data here that I think is worth your time and energy. I think Garrett and Klaus of Patterns Tell Stories have done a pretty good job of covering this stuff, though their production on their show has kind of dropped off of late. You know, life gets in the way, right? But some very interesting stuff here, including, of course, the… telltale references to people like Michael Flynn and Peter Thiel and Colonel Colonel. But among the other reviews, there’s this other one over at Scraps from the Loft that talks about the legacy program, represents the ultimate hubris of the military industrial complex, the belief that a small group of unelected officials has the right to gatekeep reality itself, which also reminds me of, oh, did I? Dang it, I think I… Let me see if I accidentally closed one or more of the other reviews. Yes, this one from the Vatican Observatory website. That’s vaticanobservatory .org by James Krasinski from The Living Room Cinema. My initial reaction to the documentary, The Age of Disclosure, a documentary on the current state of UAP research and disclosure. He goes into a lot about the specifics. There’s some things in the Age of Disclosure documentary that kind of upset him or he thought struck him as, how do you prove that? What’s your evidence of that? Namely, the claim that the Vatican knows the truth about extraterrestrials, et cetera, something like that. And tries to give his reasons for why he doesn’t think he’s really a biased reviewer. But nonetheless, I did want to read… That is the end of it here.

 

He ends it with a few paragraphs that start. So has my stigma and bias as a Catholic priest tainted this post? Perhaps. But I would like to conclude with a commentary that may surprise the makers of this documentary. There was a clear narrative woven of fear of what would happen if someday we learned that we are not alone in the universe. There was a presumption set forward that this would shake the foundations. of how we would understand the world we live in. I disagree with this assessment. Polls can be found that 65 % of people believe in life beyond our common home. Scripture teaches us that humans were not the only intelligent beings created by God. The Pokernican revolution has already shaken our understanding of the world we live in, and it keeps on shaking. Science fiction literature has been a type of speculative think tank of not wondering if there is intelligent life other than humans, but how would contact with those beings unfold? If anything, if there is proof of intelligent life other than humans, this is another statement that deserves a reflective post. Last time I checked, whales and dolphins are rather intelligent, just different from human intelligence. Knowing what that is could actually bring clarity and calm to our world. We would no longer need to speculate about what is out there. We would begin the process of engaging an answer to this fundamental question instead of trying to develop intelligent speculations. So do I recommend this documentary? It is a bit pricey to rent online, but it is very gripping. I’m not one to either encourage or condemn media. If you do watch it, approach it with openness and a critical mind. I think there is a lot of fascinating things it presents that we need to take seriously. Sadly, the narratives at times were predictably typical of painting the tired cultural picture of power structures bad, rebel citizens fighting the powers that be good. Whenever I watch documentaries, reductionist narratives never bode well in whether or not I trust what I am watching. The reductionist narratives of this documentary created by… Excuse me, starting over. The reductionist narratives of this documentary created my biggest hesitation at the end of this documentary. At the very end, there was a type of kumbaya moment when the call was made to look to the United States Congress to push for the truth. So, the answer to finding the truth about UFOs, UAPs, is to trust the United States Congress. No disrespect meant to the elected officials of my home country, but that sentiment invites me to reiterate a recurring theme in this review. Italicies. The most important factor in the believability of these types of extraordinary events is one’s credibility and reputation. Another review by Charles Eisenstein at his Substack. UAPs and national security. Again, I want to read just the very end of it. He tends to get a bit metaphysical and philosophical, but he says, earlier I raised the idea that UAPs generate a separate inertial frame of reference in order to execute maneuvers that violate physical conservation laws, for example, of momentum. we can take the mind -bending notion of distinct coexisting realities further. I’ll leave it to the reader to decide whether I am speaking literally or metaphorically in what follows, a distinction that is itself an obstacle to understanding. It isn’t just that a public moving away from the story of separation is less susceptible to fear narratives, war rhetoric, and false flags. It is that malicious ETs and Illuminati controllers are ontologically excluded from the reality field that humanity generates. as it heals, forgives, shares, and cooperates. They have increasing difficulty becoming real. Earlier, I mentioned the paradox that the idea of an evil world -controlling cabal feeds the us -them fear mindset that allows the cabal to wield power. But here is a deeper paradox. The myth of the cabal feeds the reality in which the cabal even exists. Can you get a sense of what is at stake here in the disclosure wars? We are in a struggle over reality itself. What shall be real? What shall exist? The relation between myth and reality is not what the story myth of separation holds. Narratives aren’t just descriptions or interpretations of an external observer -independent reality. They are co -generators of reality. Nor are they constructed merely of concept. They are organic parts of an embodied state of being, of consciousness, and of relationship. Therefore, the war over what is real is also a struggle for who we are. War, even struggle, is much too small a concept to encompass the magnitude of the drama we have entered. Indeed, that narration loops back into the same old story of separation. I’m sorry, it is hard to avoid New Agey or pseudoscientific wording here while maintaining brevity, so let me appeal to another source of knowledge. It is the conviction that we are not at the mercy of what they will do. We are not at the mercy of what they are. We are in a moment of choice. Fear -based calls for disclosure invoking extraterrestrial or foreign threats will not open the door we want to walk through. For that, we must inhabit a new story that no longer names us as discrete separate units in a world of other, ever insecure, ever at war. When that shifts, amazing technologies of abundance will become available. In a sense, they already are available. Scarcity in this world is usually the result of maldistribution, not objective lack. It is the result of how we see and relate to each other. It is the result of who we suppose ourselves to be. So, in fact, the purpose of new paradigm technologies is not to bring about abundance. Quite the reverse. They will become available once we accept abundance, which comes from understanding our interbeingness. Then they become available for their true purpose, which is to vastly expand our creative powers. We will accede to those powers when we are ready for them. All right. Tons of other news that I’ll put in the show notes for tonight’s episode. Did I play everything I did? Okay. We’ve got cryptozoology links like Bigfoot sightings inspire new off -Broadway musical. Hunting for Bigfoot relies more on science than skeptics think. The FBI released Bigfoot’s official file. The Beast of Ben Varden, Isle of Weird. Historians answer questions about the origins of meanings of mysterious creatures. Also great links in the consciousness, health, mind, body, psi, parapsychology, connections, topic area. Oh, yes. The terrifying reason many people don’t have psychic abilities. I am very intrigued by this. This is a talk, I think, between Dean Radin and Whitley Streber about Dean Radin’s new research into the genetic, the possible genetic underpinnings of psychic ability in humanity. And it being more a matter that, yes, everybody is psychic to a greater or lesser degree, but there may actually be a genetic component keeping. Those people who don’t seem able to exhibit it from having the gene or the components. I’m sure this is going to be very controversial. It worries me even just saying that. But yeah, some other headlines like your brain is naturally telepathic. Research suggests meaning our minds are all connected. Brain malfunction and miracles. And some, yeah, that’s these two articles by, I believe. Peter Rogowitz. Oh, no, no. Or was it Michael Grosser? I’m sorry. Am I getting right?

 

I getting

 

An experience that blew my worldview and other articles. Yeah, all kinds of stuff. Mind -altering brain weapons no longer. Only science fiction, say, researchers. And some great frontier archaeology articles. Life on Earth began about one billion years earlier than previously thought. New research finds. I think that is, in fact, yep, an article over at thedebrief .org. Neanderthals’ disappearance may not have been from extinction. Controversial new study argues that also is over from thedebrief .org. All right, well, thank you so much for joining us. Really appreciate your tuning in. Please like and subscribe, hit the notification bell, all that good stuff. Please join our Patreon. Become a patron of the Anomaly Archives. If you can donate, that’d be great. You can go to patreon .com slash Anomaly Archives. You can also find all the links to this and everything else over at Anomaly Archives. Thank you so much. Good night.