The Banality of Ontological Shock

Every day for 6 years I've been hearing that we are not alone, but I still have to take out the trash and pay bills.

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It was almost 4PM, and I was running out of time. Two of my kids had a concert at school yesterday evening, and they needed to be there before 5PM. I’d been running all day - gym in the early morning, a 40 minute trip out to the West valley after breakfast where I was setting up a used computer in one of the businesses we run, several trips to Walmart to grab needed parts as I discovered, piecemeal, what I was missing, an hour dash back to the East valley to pick up our two gradeschool kids, since on Wednesdays, school had a 1.5 hour staggered release schedule for upper and lower schools, a quick lunch, a drive home to drop off my passengers filling up every available seat, then a jaunt back to school to grab my 7th grader and realize, as I saw her waving to me from a friend’s car, that my 18 year old senior was apparently leaving with friends — something she had told her mother that morning, but the information had been lost in the hectic busyness of the day. As I pulled into the Costco parking lot, on a mission to grab a couple of cheap pizzas to feed the horde, since we had no time to make dinner, the guy on the Twitter space I was listening to started dropping information bombs.

“The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,” he said, “Whose name is Michael Turner, immediately opposed the provisions on the UAP in the Schumer bill. Now it turns out that that Mike Turner is from the 10th Congressional District in Ohio, which is the home base and not only of the Wright Patterson Air Force Base…”

My ears perked up. Wright Patterson is famous in UFO circles as having been one of the go-to locations for retrieved UFO materials after incidents where they are alleged to have crashed, beginning with the Roswell debris all the way back in 1947.

The speaker was Danny Sheehan, an attorney who has enjoyed a decades-long career working high-profile government corruption cases like the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and Iran Contra. He’s also worked other public interest cases like the Greensboro massacre and Silkwood vs. Kerr-McGee — the latter involving a young American chemical technician working at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Oklahoma who went whistleblower about nuclear safety concerns and was found dead under suspicious circumstances at the age of 28. In the process of litigating the Silkwood case, it was revealed that the CIA had been illegally smuggling weapons-grade plutonium to both Israel and Iran (which was, at the time, under the governance of the Shah).

I don’t personally know anything about Sheehan that isn’t available on the web. I can’t vouch for him, except to say that after listening to him for over two hours, I never once had the impression he was just making anything up. He certainly seems to believe every word of it. And that was enough to make the kinds of things he revealed pretty damned interesting.

Sheehan’s stock-in-trade has been government coverups, and now, he is talking specifics about Aerospace companies and government black ops programs in possession of UFO technology that is being used to develop weapons systems. According to Sheehan, Turner is one of the members of Congress who are on the payroll of those running these programs, and who are working to obstruct the disclosure bill — the so-called Schumer-Rounds amendment attached to the National Defense Authorization Act — that was going through Congress this week.

Which is a weird thing to do if they’re not hiding anything.

Sheehan continued:

[Ohio’s 10th Congressional District is] also the chief field office for Radiance Technologies, which is a a high tech aerospace industry that is working on a program called “Prompt Global Strike,” which is the attempt to back engineer UFO technology which they have apparently secured from the…another aerospace industry. And that they're attempting to build a not just a supersonic missile, but a missile that functions with UFO technology that in fact can travel at 20,000 miles an hour with no air resistance and can turn at a 90°angle at 20,000 miles an hour!

So they've they've apparently been able to back-engineer that specific propulsion system. And that is their chief field office over in in the 10th Congressional District in Ohio. And so the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, the Republican chairman Mike Turner, opposed the bill. And what he said is he opposed the provision that would have empowered the Board of Review that was provided for in the Schumer bill with the power to exercise eminent domain on behalf of the American government to retake possession of any technology that had been put into the hands of any aerospace industry by whatever the deep state element is that has been in charge of this super above top secret seizure of UFO technology from the crashed saucers. And is also in possession of the biological evidence of a non human intelligence, that is, in best our judgment, extraterrestrial in origin, but it presents itself as appearing to be extra dimensional because of the way that it it propels itself in travel.

[…]

And now Turner reached out and enlisted the support of a guy named [Congressman] Mike Rogers. He is the Republican chair of the House Armed Services Committee. And his home district is the 2nd district of Alabama. And that is in Huntsville, Alabama, where the Redstone rocket missile testing facility is — the main one for the United States — and it is the headquarters office of Radiant [sic] Technologies. And Radiant [sic] Technologies, as I mentioned, is the group that is working on this, applying the UFO technology to our US nuclear missiles. And it is, it is called the the Prompt Global Strike program.

That is, trying to design a missile that will travel from the United States launch to the Russia or China in under 2 minutes at at Super UFO speeds and is absolutely unstoppable and is unable to be defended against and would be able to hit the Russia or China before they even were aware of the fact that it was on its way. Because it's totally invisible to radar.

Now this is a horrendous use of the UFO technology on behalf of the United States deep state. And they have been concealing this technology from not only some presidents and secretaries of defense and of course secretaries of state. And they've been, they've been concealing it from the United States Congress, even the Intelligence Committee, because they have been so bent upon maintaining exclusivity over this technology.

That they were lying to Congress about it, asserting that they had never recovered any UFO technology. They were still maintaining up until 2017 that UFOs weren't even real.

I stopped the audio and explained what I was listening to my 12 year old son, Jude, who was my only passenger at the time. He listened attentively, but didn’t seem to care much. I turned off the Jeep and headed inside, Jude in tow. He was half-mumbling, half-singing something about wanting to get his concert over with, and all I could think about was the idea that if what I was hearing was true, we could put a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world in under two minutes, and how that changes everything.

Except for the fact that I had to go grab two pizzas from the Costco food court. Or the fact that I needed to fill up on gas, and was hoping the price had come down a bit more, since it had actually hit $5 a gallon over the summer. Or the fact that I still had to get to my kids’ fall concert by 5PM, and the clock was ticking fast.

You see, one of the strangest thing about being tuned in to this relentless drip of UAP disclosure is how earth-shattering it should be, how serious and credentialed the people are who are pushing disclosure forward, but also how the mundanities of life just keep grinding on, indifferent to the fact that a lot of people we’d be taking incredibly seriously if they were saying literally anything else are essentially being ignored about the biggest news story in history because what they are saying is just too incomprehensible to fit neatly into our everyday lives.

Tucker Carlson, the most-watched media personality in the history of this planet, can do an entire show on this topic on a relatively slow news week and yet somehow nobody I know is even discussing it.

It seems that since people still have to put food on the table and pay the rent, and as long as it’s not an alien invasion with active explosions, everyone’s reaction so far seems to be:

Whatever. What’s on Netflix?

Throughout last evening, I continued, wherever I could steal a few minutes in the car alone, to listen to the Sheehan space. It’s long — over 4 hours — and as of this writing I’ve made it through about 2.5. When I had to bring the little kids home during concert intermission because they were tired and acting up, and my poor wife was exhausted, I used the trip back to pick up my oldest for another dive into the subject.

She’s 18. She’s wicked smart. She’s culturally dialed in. And she’s a lot like me, so I thought I’d give her an executive summary of what I’d heard so far on our way home. She listened politely. She gave the appropriate affirmative comments at the appropriate times.

“You really couldn’t care less about this at all, could you?” I asked.

“No, not really even a little bit.” She said.

“Why?” I asked. “If it’s true, it’s pretty much the biggest story in human history.”

“I don’t know,” she shrugged. “I just don’t.”

I cannot wrap my mind around this. There are three big stories that are going to shape the course of human history over the next 50 years, barring any major surprises:

1. The development of AI to a level that is indistinguishable from Artificial General Intelligence, with the possibility that AGI/self-awareness itself may be accomplished. (This will change everything about the way we interact with the world.)

2. The imminent demographic collapse facing a number of countries that play a significant role in global economics and geopolitics, including China and Russia, in the next 1-2 decades, which, combined with the force re-allocation of the US Navy, will cause the implosion of the Breton Woods Era of global trade.

3. The disclosure of non-human intelligence(s) and their associated technologies, which will have an impact that is difficult to predict without more information.

As I listened to that Twitter space last night, I was suddenly struck by something that unexpectedly drove home the “realness” of topic #3. It came as a response to a question from the audience. Here’s the question:

So in 2025 we're likely to have either President Trump or President Biden. Let's presume both of them know we have evidence of non human intelligence, but neither of them have chosen to disclose. So my question is this from a president's perspective, what needs to happen in our society for the president to disclose biological evidence of non human intelligence?

And then, the answer that triggered my quotidian little epiphany:

Well, the the the answer is clear that the president needs to have the support of Congress to do this. He needs to have the support of the intelligence community, in the intelligence committees in in both House and Senate to support him. One of the reasons that President Biden has been as successful over the period of time he's been in the Senate and served as the Chairman of the the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, served as Vice President, that he understands that, in order to undertake a monumental step of this nature, this has to be done by the collective elements of power inside our American government.

Now given the fact that there exists this deep state element that has been secreting this information and attempting to back engineer it in secret, is becoming the centerpiece of the whole argument that's going on. Only because they're resisting us! You know, if if they will in fact stand down on this, the president has the ability to have this, this board in place that is going to be engaged in a very specifically identified and explicated process by means of which they're going to call out the information that can be provided to the public within 180 days after they receive it. There's a whole process of 300 days being provided to all of the different government agencies and private corporations that possess this information, to put it together in a digitally recoverable form so that the intelligence committees can handle it and and research it.

There's a there's a very responsible position and program that's been put together in this bill pursuant to which to do this. And so what I'm saying is that the president… it would not be politically wise, it would not be judiciously wise for any given individual president just to take it upon himself or herself and simply say “Oh as president I've decided I'm going to release all of this information.” It would be extremely disruptive with regard to the internal functioning of our of our complex government.

The the Schumer rounds bill has a role to be played by the independent board. It has a role to be played by the president himself. It has a role to be played by the Justice Department in passing upon the applications for subpoena power. It has a role for the judicial branch to pass upon the subpoenas that would be issued by the the Attorney General for information and so that this has to be a collective undertaking.

On the part of the executive branch, our legislative branch, and our judicial branch to to show that there is a uniform and unified position on the part of our government coming forward to make this information available.

Now they have to also have communication with other nations in the world. They're going to have to be communicating with Russia and with China and with our other, our allies to let them know that this is going to be taking place.

You know, so there's a whole process, a complex process that has to be undertaken here so that the president has an authority to try to initiate a more forward leaning process of making information available. But a president has to function within the constitutional constraints of our government system and the political realities of our system. And so I would not advise a president to be taking just unilateral action like this.

But I do think, I do think that President Biden should take the initiative to try to establish a treaty, pursuant to which we can have this agreement among all the nations of the world in a way that's effectively enforceable, that none of this technology be allowed to be used to develop a weapon system, which would require the president ordering the standing down of this particular Prompt Global Strike technology that's being developed now by these corporations.

We have to put that on the table and offer to stand back from this. In the same way that we should have stepped back from the use of thermonuclear weapons right at the beginning of the the atomic age. We should have, we should have been willing to forgo the temporary strategic advantage that was given to us by the possession of nuclear weapons, because it's inevitable that the technology is going to leak out, and it's going to become available to Russia and to China and to possibly other countries, and the fact of the matter is we need to take the initiative on this, and the president does have that responsibility, and I think that as a matter of fact this should be made a major issue in any upcoming campaign. You know, the people who want to vie for the presidency should take a position on the need to have a treaty over this issue.

You may be wondering, after wading through that quote, what it is I saw in it.

And you’re right to question.

It isn’t so much what’s there as what isn’t, and what isn’t there is the suggestion that we need some idealized, unilateral, justified-by-the-urgency-of-the-situation power grab.

Instead, what we see is a push for the necessity of checks and balances. Prudence. Restraint. Even, perhaps, some of the momentum-stifling resistance of bureaucracy.

The banality of ontological shock.

You don’t hire a licensed, bonded, and insured plumber to install pipes in a Potemkin village. You don’t build movie sets to city housing code. And you don’t take pains to remove subpoena and eminent domain power from legislation that is specifically limited to retrieved UFOs if there’s nothing to testify about or hand over.

When the thing you’re doing is just for show, if it’s merely a distraction or a psyop, the way to sweep people up is in the big ideas. You play to their emotions. You distract them with razzle-dazzle. You don’t confine the entirety to the process to something that is playing out with all the explosiveness of an afternoon spent watching C-SPAN.

There’s something in the absolute normalcy of this proposed vision, of the application of normal processes and procedures used every day in Washington to make sure nobody gets ahead of themselves, and of the very unsexy assertion that we need a disarmament treaty before the notion that one of our defense contractors has completely upset the global nuclear balance of power triggers repercussions from panicked nations that will no longer see themselves as peers, that it struck me, driving down a dark street on my way back to school for one final pickup last night, that this thing he’s talking about is actually real.

It’s incredibly hard to believe such a thing without more direct evidence. You can, as I have, accept on an intellectual basis that it is impossible to have such a mountain of qualified testimony and experience and sensor data, even if none of it dispositive on its own, and not have something truly anomalous going on. Smoke means fire.

But no matter how many men who face jail time if they lie under oath, no matter how many decorated servicemen and women come forward to talk about what they saw in the air or at sea or in the halls of the Pentagon, we still find ourselves thinking,

“Fascinating. But…really?”

The purposeful use of banality in deploying ontological shock is arguably a necessary tactic if NHIs and their technology are as real as is being widely claimed. As Sheehan noted, there is a significant danger not just in weaponizing Promethean technology, but in dumping disclosure on a populace all at once. To reiterate what Sheehan said in the quote above:

“It would not be politically wise, it would not be judiciously wise for any given individual president just to take it upon himself or herself and simply say ‘Oh, as president I've decided I'm going to release all of this information.’ It would be extremely disruptive with regard to the internal functioning of our of our complex government.”

The alternative could well be the “catastrophic disclosure” that Retired U.S. Army Colonel Karl E. Nell warned about at a recent conference:

On Saturday, Col. Nell called for a 'UAP campaign plan' to compel transparency as well as 'a Manhattan Project' to successfully reverse engineer recovered UAP craft.  

His stated goals, as heard by DailyMail.com at the event, were nothing less than broad transparency on covert UAP programs 'on or before conclusion of the decade.'

In a later slide, Col. Nell projected his strategic hope that so-called 'disclosure' on the UAP issue would be complete by October 1, 2030, although he admitted his timeline targets were 'at risk' of falling behind.

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After apologizing for framing his recommendations to citizen UAP advocates in military terms, Col. Nell detailed tactical 'lines of effort' he hoped the public, government officials and scientists might execute, in parallel, as part of a collaborative effort to advance scientific understanding of UAP.

Perhaps most ambitiously, Col. Nell expressed the hope of direct 'engagement' with the 'non-human intelligences,' or perhaps extraterrestrial beings, piloting UAP sometime in the next decade — a new 'interactive' era of 'scientific discovery.' 

Col. Nell described his proposal as an effort to 'avoid catastrophic disclosure,' meaning a chaotic release of Earth-shattering revelations designed to sow discord, whether by independent actors or by one of the United States' foreign rivals. 

In an echo of the 2004 think-tank exercise detailed by Dr. Puthoff earlier at this Sol event, multiple speakers at the conference floated potential dangers that could arise from future revelations about allegedly secret UAP programs.

Sheehan’s whole stated purpose for participating in the Twitter space, the reason behind the podcast tour he’s been on lately, was to get the American people to call their representatives and demand that the Schumer-Rounds Amendment be passed as is. That it not be neutered of its subpoena and eminent domain powers, which were the things that gave it teeth that might pry loose technology given by the American government to defense contractors in exchange for secret R&D efforts, but who now have no interest in giving it back. We can debate the wisdom of that particular game of cat and mouse. There are good points to be made on both sides. But without leverage, the secrecy game seems likely to only continue as it has for decades.

Late last night, as I finished my last bit of running around and came home with a head full of buzzing thoughts about what in the world is going on that such discussions are happening with increasing frequency and confidence in public, I saw the news that the defense industry lackies in Congress had gotten their way, and the bill had been effectively defanged. Some of the accounts I follow were openly angry.

Others were more sanguine:

Is this the end of the push to regulate disclosure? Certainly not. But it does let some wind out of the sails. Sheehan warned that if they passed a watered-down version of the bill, it would give them cover for not doing something that will actually make progress.

Until the next development, it’s back to the grind. The trash still has to be taken out, dinners have to be made, bills have to be paid, diapers changed, and there’s yet another election season we have to suffer through.

If the aliens are here, and they’re reading this, it’d be nice if they’d help out with a few of those school commutes, though. They’re 40 minutes a piece, and I have to do them multiple times a day.

Then again, that’s the time I use to listen to weird podcasts and Twitter spaces, so maybe it’s a win.