WHAT DO ALIENS, GORBACHEV, WATERGATE, JESUITS, AND THE DEEP STATE HAVE IN COMMON?
The UAP Disclosure Act with Daniel Sheehan
When it comes to working together to face external challenges, no challenge could be greater than that which could be posed by extraterrestrial life… and yet this seemingly abstract problem could be more pressing than you think. In 2023, Air Force Colonel David Grusch spoke before the US Congress to present his firsthand evidence of alien spacecraft remains and non-human ‘biologics’. In his testimony, he claimed that parts of the United States Government and defense contractors were hiding these facts from disclosure to Congress. So, in response, the Senate unanimously passed what is known as the ‘UAP Disclosure Act’ -- legislation which would compel defense contractors and the CIA to disclose all information to Congress and then mandate a structured disclosure of parts of this sensitive information to the public. The parts of this act which grant Congress enforcement power are being held up by a handful of Congressmen in the House.
But do Colonel Grush’s claims hold any weight? And if they did, would global powers successfully co-ordinate on issues pertaining to extraterrestrial life? And why aren’t parts of the US Government sharing information with other parts of USG?
To answer those questions and more, Jason Pack spoke to Daniel Sheehan on this week’s rather different episode of the Disorder Pod. Daniel is the head of the New Paradigm Institute. A Harvard educated civil rights lawyer who has worked on many high profile cases like Watergate, Daniel tells Jason about his discussions with Gorbachev about UAPs, why he believes information about UAPs is being withheld, and why he thinks releasing this ‘information’ to the world is the right thing to do.
Listen to the pod here.
So the story behind how I discovered this issue, is I was listening to The New Lines Institute’s THE LEDE podcast and it blew my mind to hear about Congress UAP disclosure act. I thought if it is good enough for Chuck Schumer to care about this issue it is good enough for me. It also put a totally different spin on what global coordination should and must be about. This really plays into my view that all top table issues today are really coordination problems. When it comes to working together to face external challenges no challenge could be greater than extraterrestrial life… it should be a case where the Bedouin proverb of my cousin and I against the outsider should mean that in the face of non-terrestrial challenges Russians and Americans … Republicans and Democrats… Brexiters and social justice warriors should all rally together… and yet..
It turns out that partisan squabbling and attempts to gain an advantage of some defense contractors over other defense contractors has meant that parts of the US government may have been hiding evidence of UAPs from other parts of USG and from congress and that just as disclosures is being mandated by the Democratic controlled Senate it is being blocked in the Republican controlled house… it is a nightmare of enduring disorder level dysfunction… where coordination failures abound. Daniel Sheehan takes Disorder listeners through these coordination failures as well as the myriad conspiracy theories that surround them.
By way of introduction to this poorly understood and poorly covered issue by mainstream media I’d like to start by sharing some quotes from Daniel’s New Paradigm Institute’s mission statement document which makes clear why this is an Enduring Disorder issue after all:
The mission of the New Paradigm Institute is to inform the public of the true facts surrounding UFOs/UAP and to mobilize them to secure full and responsible disclosure of the information about UFO technology and nonhuman intelligent visitors held in secret from the Congress for 80 years by the military/intelligence/aerospace industry complex. The means that we will employ will be strategic litigation, policy development and implementation, deep research, public and academic education, and national, international, and grassroot organizing.
Sounds rather conspiratorial, but the very allegation is quite relavent to notions of the Enduring Disorder. And reading more about The Institute it is very clear how their mission and the UAP issue itself is connected to collective action is also spelled out:
Global Collaboration
The issue of UAP transcends national borders. It is a global mystery that requires global solutions. By pushing for disclosure, we are advocating for international cooperation and dialogue. We seek a global treaty for disassembling nuclear weapons and using space technology for only peaceful purposes benefiting all humanity.
In case this is starting to sound a little kooky to you, we address that in the pod as, Alex and Jason discuss: why Daniel’s argument of a ‘shadow government’ feels unlikely, their own experience of times when governments don’t share information coherently between departments, and whether Colonel Grusch feels like a credible whistleblower.
SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT:
In 2023, a whistleblower addressed congress. Air Force Col David Grusch came before congress to present his first hand evidence of alien spacecraft remains that parts of the USG and defense contractors were hiding from disclosure to Congress. (For more on the exact facts and chronology of this case as well as the Senate’s hearings and legislation pls follow the links in the BACKGROUND LINKS SECTION). Although the facts of story has been covered in the press, At this stage it is still impossible to ascertain what the exact fire is behind the smoke of this story. Col Grush and his allies allege that that there is a massive cover up that extends from the early post-WWII period to Rosewell and other famous UFO sightings incidents all the way to the present day. Grush also alleges that there is a coherent attempt by a cabal inside the CIA and some defense contractors to gain an advantage over other defense contractors by hiding certain evidence and technologies gleaned from the UFOs.
Scott Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, plays a video of unidentified aerial phenomena during a House intelligence committee hearing in May 2022. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
According to this theory parts of the US government may have been hiding evidence of non-human biologics and UAPs (what used to be called UFOs) from other parts of USG and from congress and that just as disclosures are being mandated by the Democratic controlled Senate under the UAP disclosure act, the key aspects of this legislation which would make it enforceable are being blocked in the Republican controlled house… If the Grusch narrative is to be believed it is a nightmare of enduring disorder level dysfunction… where coordination failures abound. This is the narrative not only of Colonel Grusch but of Daniel Sheehan… I want to be clear at the outset, I am not expert on this story and I think we need to approach it with a healthy dose of skepticism. What is known is the Majority Leader Chuck Schumer did pass the UAP disclosure act unanimously in the Senate and Congress is trying to compel disclosures but it too doesn’t have the full story or underlying data. So essentially after studying this issue, I have concluded: We are at the he said-she said phase.
However, despite the natural skepticism with which one should approach a story like this we also know that when accomplished and experienced people like Colonel Grush and our guest today call attention to various facts and various discrepancies we also need to pay close attention. Not only to what they might reveal about UAPs and non-human biologics (as they too may not have seen any evidence) but to the ways in which government institutions do not share information and coordinate optimally together. This coordination failure and transparency failure aspect of the story is certainly real no matter what the underlying UAP data may or may not show
BACKGROUND LINKS SECTION:
US Congress passes stripped-down measure to release UFO records: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/15/ufo-records-release-congress
UAP disclosure bill revised; two key provisions stripped: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/uap-disclosure-bill-revised-two-key-provisions-stripped/ar-AA1lp4RL
About the New Paradigm Institute: https://newparadigminstitute.org/
For more Sheehan’s advocacy: https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/daniel-sheehan-exposes-five-powerful-republicans-blocking-ufo-disclosure-act-as-the-clock-ticks-down
For a reputable British science journalist’s take of Congressional UAP issues: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/14/what-happens-if-we-have-been-visited-by-aliens-lied-to-ufos-uaps-grusch-congress
Sheehan on the Lede Podcast talking more about the details of the UAP disclosure Act: