Nobody Cares About David Grusch’s UFO Revelations

“UFO whistleblower” David Grusch told Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. government has uncovered extraterrestrial bodies and spaceships from crash sites, and the internet responded with a collective shrug.

It seems as though the wildest hopes of the UFO community have come true (and many believers have certainly put their faith in Grusch) but the general indifference from the public speaks volumes.

What is the significance of Grusch’s claims?

Speaking under oath, Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer, told Congress that the U.S. government has secretly been retrieving unidentified flying objects for several decades, and claimed that “non-human” “biologics” were found at crash sites.

Following a flood of strange sightings in the sky, the Pentagon decided to take UFO sightings seriously and created a group in 2021 to “look into it,” as Joe Rogan might say. As part of the effort to reduce social stigma, UFOs have been renamed UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena), which nobody seems to like.

Grusch’s testimony marks a significant turning point, as decades of lore cultivated by the UFO community has spread from conspiratorial podcasts and UFO forums to Congress.

Why does no one seem to care?

A few years ago, perhaps the public would have been more excited, but seems like the problems accumulating on planet Earth have made the mysteries of the universe seem almost irrelevant.

Others attributed the Pentagon’s sudden interest in UFOs as a cynical effort to expand military funding.

Some joked that if aliens really were known to exist by the U.S. government, former President Donald Trump would surely have blurted out the secret a long time ago.

If Grusch’s extraordinary claims are true, then humanity’s place in the universe has been forever altered, along with our perception of reality itself. But a global pandemic, burning planet and troubled economic climate has made the grand mysteries of the universe seem like a distraction.

Not to mention, Grusch has already told these stories in an interview with NewsNation. Suspiciously, the details align perfectly with popular science fiction tropes, featuring unimaginably sophisticated spacecraft piloted by alien beings who crash on a regular basis, almost exclusively in the western world.

Indeed, Grusch’s full story is a wild ride, featuring Mussolini and the Vatican conspiring to cover up evidence of alien life, before the U.S. supposedly took over and took care of all those crash landing sites in secret; Men In Black, it seems, was a documentary.

There is still no evidence

Alas, even for those who “want to believe,” there is no evidence. Not a single clear photo or video of an alien body exists; nothing for us to argue over the legitimacy of.

The most excited the general public has ever been about aliens was surely the “Storm Area 51” meme that briefly seized the internet in 2019.

Grusch and others are asking the public to believe a story in which extraterrestrial (or interdimensional) life knows how to cross the terrifyingly vast chasm of emptiness that makes up the majority of the universe, but can’t stop crashing on our planet, like bumper cars.

Some have even claimed that aliens are vulnerable enough to have their vehicles shot down (and reverse-engineered) by us, the hairless apes of planet Earth, who spend their time arguing over Barbie and “woke M&Ms.”

That being said, there’s nothing wrong with investigating these claims; if enough people believe that this is a phenomenon worth looking into, then by all means, the U.S. government should look into it. The general public, however, needs extraordinary evidence if these extraordinary claims are to be believed.

Brian Cox, English physicist and BBC presenter, had the most down-to-Earth response to the claims, writing on “X,” the site formerly known as Twitter:

“I watched a few clips and saw some people who seemed to believe stuff saying extraordinary things without presenting extraordinary evidence. Therefore I have nothing more to say, other than: It would be great if true – it would take a bit of the pressure off our civilisation if we weren’t the only means within the Milky Way by which the Universe understands itself. Sadly, as of today, I still feel that pressure, so can we perhaps focus on not messing our world up rather than hoping that, to paraphrase Sagan, someone will float down to save us from ourselves.”