Pentagon’s UAP Disclosure
Substack SR 1218. Pentagon’s UAP Disclosure
On the one hand, POTUS wants to exclude the alien vote. He’s incarcerating and deporting aliens as fast as he can. On the other hand, might POTUS welcome the alien vote? Not aliens from Mexico, to be sure. I mean aliens from a planet orbiting Zeta Two Reticuli.
Now, if the Zeta Reticulan pictured here has not pre-registered or has misplaced his family’s birth certificates, such an alien’s vote would be nullified. However, UFO aficionados and UAP researchers would be glad to cast an approving vote for him in thanks for our government’s disclosure. We who love UFOs might vote for MAGA out of gratitude for government disclosure.
Did I get this right?
A UFO Page on the Department of War Website
Might we wish to thank Pentagon Pete, who, following the president’s dictates, has just launched a UFO page on the Department of War website? The initial information dump includes FBI files. These files include notabilia such as investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs. Videos too. More to come.
Everyone in global UFODOM should be grateful for this. I am. “This is a significant moment for the disclosure movement,” declares the indefatigable disclosurist, Danny Sheehan. “America is just ready,” says Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett. Harvard astronomer and director of the Galileo Project, Avi Loeb, greets the release as a matter of “great importance for national security and mainstream science.”
Next month, we will greet a new Steven Spielberg film, “Disclosure Day.” Religious Studies scholar Diana W. Pasulka celebrates the film’s coming. Yet, Pasulka cautions us. Even with a surfeit of information, we still might not fully understand just what UAP is. More than the quantity of information is required. Insight is also required. Will insight appear in those disclosure files or films? “Almost everything people encounter about UFOs in films, television, and popular media is inaccurate or distorted. Almost everything. There are occasional fragments that ring true, but they are as rare as genuinely unexplained UFO cases themselves.”
One of the prevalent fallacies at work in disclosure discussion is the not-so-subtle tie between unidentified objects seen in the sky and the extraterrestrial hypothesis. “We are not alone,” we often hear as part of the disclosure conversation. Yet, it is not clear there is a necessary connection between unidentified sky objects and ETI.
Will Pentagon Pete’s website page prove we are not alone in the cosmos? Will it prove that, since President Dwight Eisenhower’s military-industrial-extraterrestrial complex, America has been working in partnership with ETI on behalf of technological progress and world peace? Does extraterrestrial nonhuman intelligence enhance terrestrial governmental intelligence?
To put it bluntly: will Pentagon Pete introduce us to at least one visiting space alien?
Conclusion
Let me pick up where I left off in the Substack post, “ UFOs, Presidents, and Disclosure.” Despite the new UFO page on the US Department of War website, I hesitate to expect a dam of information to break open, flooding us with qualitatively new UAP knowledge. The initial drop of FBI files is welcome, to be sure. I thank Pentagon Pete for this. But if you’re expecting proof of nonhuman intelligence secretly guiding the most unintelligent governmental administration of my lifetime, I recommend you lower your expectations.
As mentioned before, I think two things may be going on with our good friends, the UFO disclosurists. First, since Donald Keyhoe published Flying Saucers are Real in 1950, an inchoate imaginary conflation of US military power and alien technological power has become a mythologeme, what some call a ‘meme’. This meme has entered our cultural self-understanding. To believe that the Pentagon has reverse-engineered advanced ETI technology elicits within at least some American hearts a sense of national pride. This pride could be misdirected.
Secondly, the failure to secure secret government information – contrary to logic – is itself a success. Failure bolsters both belief-without-proof in alien angels watching over us to protect us from nuclear war, as well as belief-without-proof in an alien blessing of US national security. Should a definitive disclosure occur, the hopes bound up in these as-yet-unproven beliefs would risk factual deconstruction.
Now, my two surmises should not be taken as proof of any sort. This applies neither to proof of the existence of alien friends nor to proof of their non-existence. I’m simply trying to point out the cultural overlay, the lens through which we interpret the public debate.
Having said this, I still applaud Danny Sheehan, Steven Greer, Luis Elizondo, and POTUS #47. My sour grapes derive from the suspicion that this dramatic act of UAP disclosure represents a crude way for today’s Washington regime to garner the UFO vote for the upcoming November 3, 2026, election.
Substack SR 1218. Pentagon’s UAP Disclosure
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Meet Ted Peters. Ted Peters is Research Professor Emeritus at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and California Lutheran University. Today, he pursues Public Theology at the intersection of science, religion, ethics, and public policy at the Graduate Theological Union, where he co-edits the journal, Theology and Science, on behalf of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. His book, God in Cosmic History, traces the rise of the Axial religions 2500 years ago. He tackled the implications of genetic innovation for the future of humanity in Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom? (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002) as well as For the Love of Children: Genetic Technology and the Future of the Family (Westminster/John Knox 1997). His own essays are collected in Science, Theology, and Ethics (Ashgate 2003) and The Voice of Public Theology (ATF 2023). More recently, he has published an edited volume, Promise and Peril of AI and IA: New Technology Meets Religion, Theology, and Ethics (ATF 2025), and, along with Arvin Gouw, an edited collection, The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics (Bloomsbury 2025).
Relevant to this post is the second edition of Ted’s book, UFOs—God’s Chariots? Flying Saucers in Politics, Science and Religion (New Page 2014). Soon to be released is a collection of essays, A Handbook on Astrobiology, Astrotheology, and Astroanthropology, co-edited with Carolina Azucena Sanz de la Fuente and Arvin Gouw, with ATF.
Visit Ted Peters’ website, TedsTimelyTake.com.
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