Space Aliens And The Epstein Files

Via the New York Post:

President Trump announced Thursday that he will order top administration officials to identify and release government files related to UFOs and aliens.

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

But some people smell a rat:

United States President Donald Trump's announcement of releasing government files on “aliens” and unidentified flying objects (UFO) did not sit well with a Congressman of his own party, who sought to remind that even with this new release, the Epstein files “are not going away”.

Thomas Massie, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, quoted the White House's post on X (formerly Twitter) about the alien files statement by Trump, and wrote: “They’ve deployed the ultimate weapon of mass distraction, but the Epstein files aren’t going away… even for aliens.”

Wait a moment. I thought the Mom Guthrie kidnapping was supposed to distract everyone's attention from the Epstein files. I think the actual truth of the matter is that, outside UK and Norwegian politics, pretty much everyone has been exposed, nearly everyone who should be held accountable has been, over a period of almost 20 years, and the files are yesterday's news. The fact that yesterday's news -- how long have we known about Andrew? -- is a new threat to the British monarchy is mostly an indication of how far the UK has declined. I may take this up separately.

I have a very strong suspicion that on one hand, the release of UFO and space alien files will never be anything more than, like the release of the Epstein files, a rehash of yesterday's news. After a certain amount of searching on issues like Fermi's Paradox to refresh my thinking, I've decided that Richard Feynman's summation of the overall problem in a 1964 lecture at Cornell, embedded at the top of this post, is the most elegant solution:

From my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the result of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence rather than the unknown efforts of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The historical record we already have has so far done nothing but confirm Feynman's surmise. Take Project Blue Book:

Project Blue Book was the code name for the systematic study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by the United States Air Force from March 1952 to its termination on December 17, 1969. . . . Project Blue Book had two goals, namely, to determine if UFOs were a threat to national security, and to scientifically analyze UFO-related data.

Thousands of UFO reports were collected, analyzed, and filed. As a result of the Condon Report, which concluded that the study of UFOs was unlikely to yield major scientific discoveries, and a review of the report by the National Academy of Sciences, Project Blue Book was terminated in 1969.

. . . By the time Project Blue Book ended, it had collected 12,618 UFO reports, and concluded that most of them were misidentifications of natural phenomena (clouds, stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft. According to the National Reconnaissance Office a number of the reports could be explained by flights of the formerly secret reconnaissance planes U-2 and A-12. 701 reports were classified as unexplained, even after stringent analysis. The UFO reports were archived and are available under the Freedom of Information Act, but names and other personal information of all witnesses have been redacted.

In other words, a massive amount of government data, including everything from the golden age of UFOs in the 1940s and 1950s, is already available. Post Proect Blue Book sightings, like the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident, are fully in the public record and yesterday's news.

The most widely accepted explanation is that the sightings were due to a combination of three main factors. The initial sighting at 03.00 on 26 December, when the airmen saw something apparently descending into the forest, coincided with the appearance of a bright fireball over southern England, and such fireballs are a common source of UFO reports. The supposed landing marks were identified by police and foresters as rabbit diggings. No evidence has emerged to confirm that anything actually came down in the forest.

I've thought for quite a while that the "ancient astronauts" theory arose simply because since the age of scientific observation began in the 1600s, no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life, let alone intelligence, has emerged. Thus it's necessary to interrogate hieroglyphics and the like to discover shapes that may correspond to space ships, themselves out of science fiction, to find any evidence at all.

It's worth pointing out that the History Channel has numerous shows like The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, Beyond Skinwalker Ranch (recently canceled), The Proof Is Out There, and Ancient Aliens that feed on UFOs and space aliens, none of which has advanced any productive evidence.

There's a certain contingent of diehards who are going to claim that notwithstanding Trump's or Bondi's claim that all the Epstein files have been released, the really important stuff, presumably Trump cavorting with nymphets, is still being covered up. By the same token, no matter what's released, a certain number of diehards will claim the real UFO files are still being covered up. But I have the feeling Trump's instincts are correct, and there's going to be nothing new once everything is out.