The real life Fox Mulder testifies before Congress about UFOs

Stefanik continues to be on the wrong side of history

By Ken Tingley

It was like an episode of the X-Files.

You may remember FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully and their spooky 10-year-run on the TV series.

There was David Duchovny as Mulder, the impassioned FBI agent who was banished to a basement office to investigate UFOs, aliens and the paranormal.

And there was Gillian Anderson as Scully, the science-first sidekick hired to keep Mulder in line, but who gradually acknowledges “the truth is out there” too.

But that was fiction - depending on how you feel about possible life in far away galaxies - and this was playing out in the Rayburn Office Building in Washington, D.C. last week with the testimony of David Grusch.

Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence official who worked with the Pentagon’s task force  investigating UFOs (excuse me UAP - unidentified aerial phenomena), had a day in front of Congress that Mulder only dreamed about.

Grusch testified there were longstanding covert programs within the U.S. government that possess materials of nonhuman origin.

He was saying that life from other galaxies had been visiting earth.

He was saying that the the U.S. was in possession of alien spacecraft and the remains of nonhuman life forms.

He was saying that the U.S, had been involved in “a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program,” but I’m not even sure what that means.

While he admitted he never saw any of these things first hand, he assured members of Congress it came from reliable sources and he would be willing to testified further, but only under secure conditions away from the public eye.

This was “Close Encounters of the Real Kind” coming to life.

How was this not “breaking news” everywhere on the planet?

Reps. Ana Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Matt Gratz (R-Fla.), Tim Burchette (R-Tenn) and Jaren Moskowitz (D-Fla.) have been leading the push to reveal the truth in Congress.

“If there’s not a cover-up, the government and the Pentagon are sure spending a lot of resources to stop us from studying it,” Burchett told the Washington publication The Hill.  

The rest of us were just happy no one was accusing Hunter Biden of being involved.

At one point during the hearing as Rep. Burchett was questioning Grusch, he asked if anyone had been harmed or injured in efforts to cover up the alien technology.

Grusch replied in the affirmative.

I was the expecting the X-Files’ villainous “cigarette smoking man” to be called as the next witness.

Perhaps, this was why Donald Trump was keeping all those classified files. He wanted to land a real estate deal with the aliens on another planet.

The hearing was serious enough news for the Pentagon to respond, saying the Defense Department does not have any “verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”

Perhaps, they don’t have the information because it is top secret.

After months of hearings on the “weaponization of government,” it turns out the more pressing issue might be UFOs.

Maybe aliens can bring us together.

I’ve always been a sucker for a good UFO story, even when it is being told by the National Enquirer.

Part of me wants to believe there is something to this story.

Part of me wants to believe that other worlds exist, and after a week when the climate change news has been more dire than ever, perhaps these nonhuman life forms can show us how to save our planet.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) was one of the few representatives who seemed to be skeptical.

“The concept that an alien species is technologically advanced enough to travel billions of light years and gets here, and is somehow incompetent enough to not survive Earth, and crashes, is something I find a little far-fetched,” Burlison said.

But then again, almost everything we hear coming out of Washington these days is a little far-fetched.

Stefanik backs Trump

After Donald Trumps was indicted for the third time this week, Rep. Elise Stefanik said it was a “sham” indictment.

Despite her Harvard education, Stefanik does not seem to understand how grand juries work.

For the indictment against Trump to be a “sham,” a group of citizens jurors would have to be involved in a conspiracy to get Trump.

None of the federal grand jurors work at the Justice Department, or a political party or the government in general. They are independent regular citizens.

Indictments provide cause to proceed with a criminal case. The grand jury here - like two others - found enough cause to proceed.

The indictment carefully lays out the unlawful actions that Trump took after the 2020 election. That Rep. Stefanik still supports the former president despite mountain evidence of wrong doing shows her lack of moral character.

This is not a political game.

This is about criminal actions.

While Trump is innocent until proven guilty, the evidence in this indictment confirms previous facts released by the Jan. 6 Committee and many different news organizations.

Supporting soldiers

Rep. Stefanik has made it one of her bedrock principles to support the soldiers at Fort Drum, except when it involves sexual assault.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who also represented the soldiers at Fort Drum when she was in the House, has long been a proponent of taking commanders out of the legal equation when those under their command are accused of crimes.

When I asked Rep. Stefanik about the issue when it first came up, she said she was told by commanders at Fort Drum there was not a problem. Her actions have continued to follow that course.

Last week, President Biden signed an executive action that turned decisions about prosecuting military crimes over to independent military attorneys and out of the hands of the commanders.

The changes are long overdue and come after an independent review commission made more than two dozen recommendations in 2021 after studying the growing number of sexual assaults in the military.

Rep. Stefanik has remained silent on the issue.