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Sounds like Grusch is upstanding, but I suspect he's been trolled by the rest of them.

You can just imagine; "hey Eagle, the UFO guy's coming to ask about that UAP report, you know, the one where the IR tracker locked-on to a speck of dust. Let's mention the (nudge, hehe) black-ops alien testing site we saw when we went to file the report"

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You don't troll someone to the point of letting them go testify under oath to the IG.

Epic troll

You do if you work for a different 3-letter organization

It also seems like you’d need to troll someone extraordinarily thoroughly for them to have enough material to testify to congress for hours. Even assuming ET is the least likely explanation, it’s at least very curious what else could have resulted in the testimony described in the article.

While I think I believe this whistleblower, the CIA is _definitely_ willing to troll someone to the point of letting them go testify under oath to the IG. I'm pretty sure they _have_. Not to mention all the LSD they dosed people with.

As the other commenter mentioned - these people troll each other all the time. It's practically the job description for a large portion of them, in fact.

And it doesn't even have to be anybody is trolling him directly. The trolling could be happening several layers deep. And can be entirely unintentional -- just a matter of a few genuinely naive or deluded people somewhere.

We, the general public, simply do not have enough information at this point to judge this man's testimony, or the evidence that he provided.

We have enough knowledge of physics to say these are extraordinary claims that require some extraordinary evidence.

We do have a long, colourful history of "reputable" people (aka "I worked at the gov" or "I have a Harvard degree") making such claims (and not just about aliens but various hidden US gov tech) and combined with that we can do basic reasoning about how the US gov operates, the extreme difficulties/limitations of interstellar travel, how information can turn into a "telephone game", the other 1.25 million people with the same top secret clearance, the claim basically amounting to hearsay with no direct witnesses or participants in the program, etc.

I'm personally not waiting at the edge of my seat.

i like that option ;D

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