21.05.2021
Krasser kann der Unterschied zwischen den wirklichen Bemühungen das UFO-Phänomen zu untersuchen derzeit zwischen der "Schlagzeilen-Ufologie" und der UFO-Forschung an der Beobachter-Melde-Basis nicht sein.
Wie Sie als Leser sicherlich schon gemerkt haben, gehe ich hier auf unserem Blog nicht auf jedes Blätterrauschen der Ufologenwelt ein. Es widerholt sich hier Alles im Kreis und man kämpft gegen Windmühlen an, kaum ist die eine Legende beiseite gelegt steht der nächste Hype um widerlegte Legenden an.
Aktuell sind dann diese Schlagzeilen weltweit verbreitet in welche mehr reininterpretiert wird als sie tatsächlich sind:
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Hierbei dreht sich es nach wie vor um die NAVY Aufnahmen welche nur durch ihre ufologische Auslegung ihre Prisanz haben. Tatsächlich sind sie genauso gut bzw. schlecht wie die vielen anderen UFO-Videos welche weltweit als "die Beweise" gehandelt werden.
Was in der jüngsten Berichterstattung nicht erwähnt wird, ist, dass "nicht identifiziertes Flugobjekt" weder "außerirdisches Raumschiff" noch "extrem fortschrittliche Drohne" bedeutet. Und die bisher veröffentlichten Videos haben alle offensichtliche mögliche terrestrische Erklärungen.
Alle paar Monate gibt es weitere durchgesickerte UFO-Videos / Fotos von der UAP Task Force (UAPTF) des Verteidigungsministeriums (DOD).
Aufgrund ihres offensichtlichen offiziellen Charakters gehen bestimmte UFO-Befürworter und die Medien
in Hyper-Drive bei der Förderung von ihnen, als ob sie der neue "beste Beweis" für UFOs wären
für exotisches Handwerk. Die meisten davon scheinen jedoch konventionelle Erklärungen zu haben.
Zum Beispiel die Demonstration von Mick West, dass das "Pyramiden-UFO" -Video nicht im Fokus steht
und es sich sehr wahrscheinlich um ein Flugzeug und Hintergrundsterne handelt und überzeugender sind. Jeder mit
der Erfahrung, Sterne nachts abzubilden, ist mit der Eigenschaft unscharfer Aufnahmen vertraut und weiss die
Probleme bei Video-Aufnahmen.
Dies bringt uns zu der Frage, warum die UAPTF überhaupt sich die Mühe macht, diese Bilder zu sammeln, wenn sie offensichtliche Erklärungen haben? Darüber hinaus können diese Militärs nicht heraus finden, was sie sehen, wenn sie sie aufnehmen?
Und diese schlechte Handhabung kennen wir ja auch von den diversen Offenlegungen weltweiter geheimen UFO-Akten der Militärs.
Sie müssen sich nur das Projekt Blue Book ansehen zu welchen wir hier auf dem Blog ein Update nach dem anderen bringen, um diese Fragen zu beantworten. Wenn ich die Fälle aus den frühen 1960er Jahren überprüfe, bin ich erstaunt über die vielen Satellitenfälle. Der Echo-Satellit wird häufig gemeldet, obwohl einige der Dateien darauf hinweisen, dass die Beobachter dies für möglich gehalten haben und vergleichen es mit dem Echo-Satelliten. Der Grund, warum diese Berichte eingereicht wurden, war, dass Project Blue Book solche Berichte für nicht identifizierte Objekte erstellt wurde. Es gab wahrscheinlich einen zusätzlichen Schwerpunkt auf dem Versenden von Berichten durch lokale Kommandeure um mögliche sowjetische Raketentests oder Satelliten zu identifizieren.
Dies ist hier nun auch wahrscheinlich der Fall. Die UAPTF hat wahrscheinlich angefordert, in irgendeiner Form sollen alle militärischen Einrichtungen alle Fotos, Bilder, Videos, Radardaten oder Beobachtungen an die UAPTF senden
zur Bewertung, egal wie banal sie erscheinen mögen. Sie möchten die Hauptursache all dieser UAP-Berichte ermitteln und können es nicht.
Sie möchte, dass Informationen zurückgehalten werden. Das alles hat einen vertrauten Klang. Ich glaube, die UAPTF wird irgendwann sagen es keine Beweise dafür gefunden hat, dass diese UAP-Berichte eine Bedrohung darstellen und dass viele / die meisten von ihnen nur Ballons, Flugzeuge und andere weltliche Phänomene sind. Kommt Ihnen das bekannt vor?
Der Condon-Bericht und das Blue Book kamen vor über fünfzig Jahren zu diesem Schluss.
Anthony Bragalia sprach von der UAPTF und setzte seine Verteidigung fort, dass die Dokumentation, die er über FOIA erhalten hatte, definitiv darauf hinweist dass das Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) tatsächlich abgestürzte UFO-Trümmer erhalten und analysiert hat.
John Greenewald war anderer Meinung und lud Bragalia zu seiner Podcast-Besetzung ein, um darüber zu diskutieren. Bragalia konnte wirklich keine solide Verteidigung bieten, entschied sich jedoch, die Auseinandersetzung mit Kevin Randles Podcast fortzusetzen, wo er und John eine Debatte mit Randle als Moderator führten.
Kurz nachdem das Programm im Internet veröffentlicht worden war, schickte Bragalia E-Mail und erklärte, dass er die Debatte gewonnen habe. Hört man den Podcast zeigt es, dass Bragalias Behauptung, wie so viele seiner Behauptungen, nicht durch solide Beweise gestützt sind. Nach meiner Meinung, Bragalia verlor tatsächlich die Debatte, weil er ging, als Kevin Randle ihm sagen musste, er solle die Klappe halten, weil Bragalia es weiter versuchte ihn zu unterbrechen. Wie ein Kind nahm er sein Spielzeug und ging, als er sich nicht durchsetzte. Das klingt nicht nach einer „gewinnenden“ Debatte Strategie.
Ich denke, Greenewald fasste Bragalias Motivationen am Ende des Podcasts am besten zusammen:
... er weiß es besser als alle anderen, wenn er sagt, dass es seine Außerirdischen sind ... er wird niemals zulassen, dass jemand anderes das in Frage stellt, und ich denke das ist traurig.
Es ist ein schlechter Ansatz, der ihn schon früher in Schwierigkeiten gebracht hat, besonders mit diesen Roswell-Folien ...
Meine Beobachtung von Bragalia über die Jahre (die mehrfach in SUNlite dokumentiert wurden) ist, dass es einen deutlichen Unterschied gibt zwischen dem, was er sagt was wahr und dem was tatsächlich wahr ist. Seine Schlussfolgerungen basieren auf seiner höchst subjektiven Interpretation der Dokumentation anstelle einer objektiven Prüfung, die erforderlich ist, wenn es um Beweise dieser Art geht.
Bruce Maccabee beschloss, eine Erklärung abzugeben, aus der hervorgeht, dass die UAPTF zu dem Schluss kommen würde, dass einige UAPs kontrolliert werden von "NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE" (NHI).
Nennen Sie mich skeptisch, aber ich denke, dass Maccabee nur dieselbe alte Ankündigung wiederholt
Diese "Offenlegung" ist gleich um die Ecke. Nichts, was ich bisher gesehen habe und was durchgesickert ist, nichts deutet darauf hin, dass die UAPTF zu diesem Schluss kommt.
Was in meinen Augen der größte Fehler dieser Herren ist, sie es auch nach Jahrzehnten noch nicht verstehen
man sich kritisch gegenüber Augenzeugenaussagen stellen muss. Die Zuverlässigkeit von Zeugenaussagen sind nicht immer gegeben, auch wenn sie von "Elite-Zeugen" wie Piloten, Polizisten sind. Belegt ist es ausreichend von vielen Fällen in denen die Beobachtung auf normale Stimulus zurückzuführen waren.
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Background zu den Drahtziehern dieses UAP-Hype
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How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers
A collection of well-funded UFO obsessives are using their Capitol Hill connections to launder some outré, and potentially dangerous, ideas.
On April 30, the online UFO community lit up with excitement. The New Yorker, the most luxe of news magazines, published a major UFO articleby Gideon Lewis-Kraus alleging there was good reason for the U.S. government to get back into the business of hunting flying saucers. On May 16, CBS’s Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes broadcast stories about UFOs, with Florida Senator Marco Rubio sternly intoning about the importance of treating them as a potential national security concern. All month, major media have jumped on the bandwagon. Magazines published think pieces. Ezra Klein gushed about the “spaciousness of mystery” in The New York Times. Morning Joe invited Lewis-Kraus on to chat about UFOs, and Gadi Schwartz did multiple spots across NBC’s broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms breathlessly hyping new videos from the Navy showing fuzzy shapes in the sky.
For UFO believers, this was the moment they had been waiting for. UFOs were everywhere, and they were suddenly respectable. With a new intelligence report on UFOs due to be delivered to Congress in June, even the U.S. government seemed poised to take UFOs seriously again. For many on UFO Twitter, only one word could describe this seemingly spontaneous explosion of UFO excitement: disclosure, the longed-for moment of revelation when believers prophesy the Pentagon will confirm UFOs are real and unearthly, and everything will change. “It’s happening,” UFO YouTuber Jane Kyle tweeted about the 60 Minutes story: “#disclosure.”
But the real story isn’t disclosure, and it’s stranger than any UFO sighting. Behind the creamy pages of high-end magazines and the marble columns of the Capitol, the media elite and Congress are being played by a small, loosely connected group of people with bizarre ideas about science. It’s easy to dismiss UFOs as a fantasy or a fad, but the money, the connections, and the power wielded by a group of UFO believers—embedded in the defense industry and bent on supplanting material science with a pseudoscientific mysticism straight from the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens—poses a danger to America more real than a flying saucer.
And it all started with poltergeists from another dimension.
If there were a moment of original sin in our story, it took place in 1966. J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who pioneered the scientific study of UFOs for the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, told his friend, French UFO researcher Jacques Vallée, his deep dark secret: In terms of his scientific outlook, he wasn’t a strict materialist; instead, he was guided by his fascination with mysticism and the occult. Over the next decade, the two men toyed with the notion that UFOs weren’t alien spaceships at all but, rather, space poltergeists from another dimension. The two men’s discussions had a profound impact on a friend with an office near Vallée’s in the 1970s, an ex-Scientologist and physicist named Harold E. “Hal” Puthoff. Puthoff, who studied psychic phenomena at the Stanford Research Institute, where he championed debunked spoon-bender Uri Geller, was also a defense contractor, and the intelligence community recruited him for a bonkers effort to use psychics to spy telepathically on the Soviets, later known as “Project Stargate.” In 1984, one Stargate “psychic” claimed to travel back in time one million years to commune with Martians.
Puthoff was the brains behind what the intelligence community referred to as the “remote viewing program,” and he worked with an informal group of colleagues on a range of paranormal issues, a team that Vallée termed the “invisible college.” Over the next half-century, Puthoff would help to keep interest in UFOs alive inside the government.
In 1995, Project Stargate ended in failure. Government interest in UFOs and the paranormal might have faded away just as surely if not for the interest of a wealthy hotel magnate, Robert Bigelow, who had spent a lifetime obsessed with the paranormal and became a patron of UFO conspiracy theorists. Bigelow went into business with Area 51 conspiracy nut Bob Lazar, and he funded the research of dubious alien abduction investigators Bud Hopkins and John Mack.
“Invisible college” members moved through a series of paranormal initiatives and organizations in the 1990s, culminating in Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science, a private organization in which several members studied UFOs and the paranormal between 1995 and 2004. Vallée sat on its board. NIDS primarily researched—and failed to prove—the supposed paranormal mysteries of a patch of desert in Utah called Skinwalker Ranch. Puthoff and the NIDS team believed it to be a supernatural gateway to the space ghost dimension. (The ranch is now the set of a paranormal reality TV program.) Remarkably, they managed to convince a visiting Defense Intelligence Agency scientist, and the DIA partnered with Bigelow to investigate space ghosts.
Bigelow leveraged his friendship with Democratic Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who thought Bigelow to be “brilliant” and who received tens of thousands in campaign donations from him. Reid and two other senators moved to expand the Skinwalker Ranch investigation into a fully funded government program, despite the Pentagon’s complete lack of interest in UFOs or space spooks, mandating that the military research “aerial threats” at a cost of $22 million over five years. Bigelow, the only bidder, received the contract to research these “threats.”
The only public accounting of the program’s research was a list of its theoretical papers on stargates, wormholes, and other sci-fi topics that “invisible college” members like Puthoff obsessed over, as well as a proprietary 494-page 2009 “ten-month report” from Bigelow’s team in which Puthoff, Vallée, and others wrote about UFOs, “interdimensional phenomena” at Skinwalker Ranch, and alleged technology aliens implanted in a UFO abductee. Pentagon officials quickly concluded that releasing such an absurd report “would be a disaster,” as one unnamed official told The New Yorker. Eventually, Team Space Ghost developed a bizarre mythology, imagining that an organized cabal in the Pentagon actively suppressed UFO work because it feared UFOs were demons and that researching them might provoke Satan.
The program’s funding ran out in 2012. But its supporters have continued to labor tirelessly to push its ideas into the mainstream. Ex-official Luis Elizondo says he continued the program’s work through a different office before he left the Pentagon for reality TV. (The Pentagon denies Elizondo’s account and insists he had no “assigned responsibilities” for the program.) Despite claiming to believe UFOs were an imminent national security threat, he didn’t take his concerns to national security journalists or to Congress. He joined up with Puthoff and Team Space Ghost at their new entertainment company, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, styled TTSA.
They were not master manipulators. But they succeeded in manipulating the media anyway.
Their first effort involved joining forces with fading rock star Tom DeLonge of Blink-182. DeLonge reached out to former Obama White House counselor John Podesta in 2016 for help meeting with investigative journalist and paranormal enthusiast Leslie Kean or “somebody else more elevated than her” to help promote his UFO entertainment ventures.
In many ways, Kean was the perfect vehicle for a UFO story. She knew everyone involved. In 2002, Kean joined the Sci-Fi Channel and Podesta to sue the government for the release of UFO information. A regular at UFO researcher gatherings, Kean had been the last romantic partner of Budd Hopkins, and they were together when she published a credulous book on military UFO sightings in 2010 with a foreword by Podesta. (Hopkins died in 2011.) She later joined UFODATA, a UFO research organization, where she met a scion of the Mellon family, Christopher K. Mellon, a former defense official and Senate staffer. Mellon had been briefed on Project Stargate when in office and professed a love of UFOs. He became an investor in TTSA, staffed by Bigelow veterans like Puthoff. When Elizondo brought his story to TTSA, Mellon knew whom to call.
The TTSA team met with Kean on October 4, 2017, and she gushed over them in the Huffington Post six days later. The Huffington Post was exactly the kind of second-tier pop culture media like Rolling Stone, Politico, and Joe Rogan’s podcast that TTSA courted at first, lacking connections at more elite publications. That’s when dumb luck hit. Kean had an idea.
After the meeting, Kean contacted retired New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal, whom she knew because of their shared connections in the alien abduction world. Blumenthal was working on a biography of John Mack, a colleague of Hopkins also funded by Bigelow. Blumenthal called the Times and convinced the paper to run the story—and it was a good story—that a billionaire had scored himself a personal military UFO research program. But Blumenthal and Kean framed the story as one of military interest in UFOs, not Bigelow’s, thus shaping media and congressional perceptions of the program.
Kean and Blumenthal’s first Times UFO story ran on December 17, 2017, on page one. Blumenthal had given TTSA something the “invisible college” had tried and failed to gain for years—elite respectability. Major media now ran countless stories, citing the Times as excuse, with little mention of space ghosts or anything that might make the program seem unserious. This lent it more credibility. TTSA used Mellon’s connections to meet with Senate staffers primed by the Times coverage. Senators, including Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, radicalized by media coverage and lobbying from Mellon’s team, subsequently requested briefings from the Pentagon, allegedly to understand what they were reading in thenews. Mellon praised Rubio for using last year’s Intelligence Authorization Act to require that the military and intelligence agencies produce a report about UFOs. “It further legitimizes the issue,” Mellon said. It could also create a rush for new defense contracts.
By this spring, the imminent report, and prodding from Mellon and Kean, prompted another round of uncritical media coverage. Kean and Elizondo were profiled in the aforementioned credulous New Yorker article tied to the congressional report Mellon had lobbied for, and within days, Elizondo and Mellon—who left TTSA for their own unnamed new national security UFO venture—were everywhere in the media, from 60 Minutes to CNN, reinforcing a threat narrative the Pentagon and UFO skeptics did not recognize.
The threat narrative was a brilliant bit of framing, turning a story of poltergeist hunters battling a cabal of demon-believers into a national security issue. But this influence campaign masks the deeper transformation its advocates want to bring about: Puthoff and his colleagues seek to delegitimize material science in favor of a magical, neo-medieval view of reality founded on spirit—or, in their terms, “consciousness” and psychic powers. Elizondo still speaks of demon cabals, otherworldly beings, and UFOs operating beyond human perception—just not on 60 Minutes. UFOs, newly relevant as a security threat, are only the vanguard of a larger effort to undo the failure of Stargate and elevate spirit over matter. It’s bad science and dangerous as government policy, the kind of magical thinking that leads to lunacy and disaster.
CBS’s David Pogue literally chuckled during his Sunday Morning UFOreport, telling viewers we should “live and let live” and not challenge UFO believers. Klein and Lewis-Kraus said they would be sad without a UFO mystery to enjoy. HBO Max announced a valorizing biopic about Kean, Elizondo, and Mellon. So long as a compliant media plays along with the “fun” of UFOs, the clumsy effort to use them to break down modern science continues unabated. And Bigelow is prepared: Blumenthal recently gave him a lavish New York Times profile to launch his new think tank for “consciousness science” and afterlife studies. Bigelow appointed Hal Puthoff, members of the “invisible college,” and Leslie Kean to its board.
We know the consequences of embracing bad science and replacing facts with conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. Stalin’s embrace of Lysenkoism ravaged Soviet science for decadesThe Trump administration’s science denial and conspiracy theories devastated American health and American democracy. We have a good idea what will happen, and we shouldn’t let enthusiasts of space ghosts have the run of Washington to steer money and policy in the direction they want. If they insist UFOs are a national security threat, then the national media must take them at their word. No more chuckles. No more rhapsodies about mystery. We must hold Team Space Poltergeist to the levels of skepticism, seriousness, and scrutiny it pretends to demand. Quite literally, the future depends on it.
Jason Colavito is an author in upstate New York writing about history, science, and popular culture. He is the author of The Legends of the Pyramids and is working on a book about James Dean, flying saucers, and sex panic in the 1950s.
Quelle: The New Republic
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Update: 26.05.2021
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The aliens haven't landed: Why you should be skeptical of recent reports on UFO sightings
Close examination of the supposed UFO videos by myself and others has shown them to be far more mundane than first thought.
The deluge of media reports from "60 Minutes," The New York Timesand others about UFOs (also known as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) is difficult to make sense of.
Has the government admitted that UFOs are real? What are all those different blurry videos? What's this UAP report that's (maybe) coming in June?
I've been following the story for the past four years, and I'll try to make sense of it. First, some context.
Since the 1950s there have been UFO enthusiasts, people who think that the reported sightings represent incredible new technology, possibly aliens, that, once studied, will elevate all of humanity to the next level — ushering in an era of flying cars, free energy, and possible human-alien cultural exchanges.
Many in the UFO community believe the government is holding back progress toward this dream by not sharing everything they know about UFOs. So, they attempt to lobby the government to fess up — something they refer to as "disclosure."
Earlier this month, when President Barack Obama was asked on the Late Late Show about UFOs, he made a few jokes, then said: "There's footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so … people still take (it) seriously, trying to investigate and figure out what that is."
For many UFO fans this was a high point in a recent wave of what they see as confirmation that "disclosure" is just around the corner.
This wave started more than three years ago with the publication of a New York Times article "Glowing Auras and Black Money" about the existence of a semi-secret government program that investigated UFO sightings. The article was accompanied by two UFO videos, and a third came out a few months later.
Things reached a fever pitch in April 2020 when the Department of Defense re-released those same videos, explaining they had been improperly released previously, and confirming that they were taken by Navy personnel and that they showed something classified as "unidentified."
After that, the Pentagon basically clammed up, replying to inquiries with boilerplate responses stating they would not say anything.
Media interest was significant. The admission that they were Navy videos of unidentified phenomena was taken as confirmation that "UFOs are real," and since "UFO," in common parlance, is equivalent to "alien," it was interpreted as, "Government admits aliens are real."
UAP report request part of COVID bill
The tidal wave of "disclosure" dripped on. In August, the Defense Department announced the establishment of a "UAP Task Force" to "detect, analyze and catalog … incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace (including) examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing."
Then in December, a request for a report on the UAP situation was shoehorned into the coronavirus relief bill.
The three videos that partly drove this wave were vaunted as prime examples of "official" UFOs. Claims were made that they showed impossible physics or evidence of advanced technology, possibly anti-gravity warp drives (hinting at aliens).
What the 'UFO videos' really show
However, close examination of the videos by myself and others over the three years since they were released has shown them to be far more mundane than first thought.
The "glowing aura" mentioned in the New York Times headline turned out to be a processing artifact common to thermal cameras.
The supposed impossible accelerations in the "Tic-Tac" video were revealed to coincide with (and hence caused by) sudden movements of the camera, leading to the conclusion that the object in the video was not actually doing anything special.
The video titled "Go Fast" was claimed to show an object with no heat source (and hence, no conventional engine) moving impossibly fast over the surface of the ocean.
But some 10th-grade trigonometry showed it was actually much higher than it seemed, creating an illusion of motion, and the actual speed was more like wind speed, meaning it was probably just a balloon.
The most compelling video, "Gimbal,” seems to show an actual flying saucer skimming over clouds then coming to a stop and bizarrely rotating into an aerodynamically impossible position.
But closer examination of this video showed that when the "object" rotated, other patches of light in the scene rotated.
The only possible explanation being that the rotation was a camera artifact, and that the "flying saucer" was simply the infrared glare from the engines of a distant aircraft that was flying away. An examination of the camera's patents revealed the gimbal mechanism responsible for the apparent rotation.
Since then, two more videos from the UAP Task Force were leaked. Both initially seemed amazing: a flying triangle and a zig-zagging submersible sphere.
But, like the previous three, they became more mundane under closer examination.
I found that the triangle looked and acted exactly like an out-of-focus airplane, and the sphere was shown not to zig-zag, probably to be another glare, and to disappear behind the horizon rather than under the water.
Given the disappointing mundanity of the video evidence, what are we to expect from the upcoming UAP report, due in June?
Well, UAPs represent a serious issue for the military. If aircraft incursions cannot rapidly be identified, or if a pilot cannot make sense of what they are seeing, or if radar returns show what looks like super-fast moving objects, then those are real problems.
There's also the inevitability that foreign adversaries are developing novel forms of drones for spying and combat purposes, which we will need to detect and counter.
These are all real issues, and that's what a comprehensive report should discuss, along with suggestions for better tracking and investigating such incidents.
Mysteries remain. What the pilots who reported engaging a giant flying Tic-Tac saw is still unidentified, as are the objects in several other incidents. The causes of ghostly or rapidly moving radar returns are likewise, in many cases, unknown — although since the system is classified, if it's a system glitch or inadequacy, then the Pentagon isn't going to tell us.
We'll also continue to have no good answer for many photos and videos, simply because the object shown is too far away for whatever camera is being used. But "unidentified" means just that. It does not mean advanced technology.
If the quality of the leaked evidence is any indicator (and it probably is), then there's not going to be any significant revelations about the existence of physics-defying craft, and certainly no strong evidence of visiting aliens.
While the genuine issues that Obama raised deserve serious examination, there will be no disclosure because there is nothing to disclose.
Mick West is the founder of Metabunk.org, a forum about the debunking of conspiracy theories. He is the author of "Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect"
Quelle: USA TODAY