Dr Matt’s Newsletter August 2nd 2023 –A bit of fun with Aliens and UFO’s, and Sister Lucia of Fatima Part 2. Perhaps the greatest miracle of all was Democrats and Republicans working together :-)
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This newsletter starts off with a summary of Chapter 2 from the book, “Calls from the Message of Fatima” by Sister Lúcia, where she describes the first spiritual visions that she and the other children had. However, many of you may be most intrigued by the second section of this newsletter: a fairly deep dive into the controversial area of aliens and UFO’s with video links to ground-breaking testimony in Congress. Military pilots and a whistleblower from the intelligence community gave testimony last week that could be described as “stunning” unless you are one of many people who prefer to dismiss it out of hand…
Yes, we are going to another “third rail” of conspiracy theories. This time they come from whistleblowers in the intelligence community and military pilots rather than from near death experiencers or scientists and doctors as was the case with NDE’s, covid-19, and HIV. However, as chairman Grothman points out in his opening statement, two US presidents, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, both stated they had seen a UFO, so it is not always “men on the street” who have these experiences.
Although one could be frightened by the prospect of aliens with super-technology in our airspace, the behavior reported sounds more like they are teasing the pilots than anything to be frightened about.
Why not more direct contact? Perhaps they are encouraging us to “drop our pettiness”, as native American teacher Don Juan Matus urged us to do. We will all live a bit better if we avoid energizing ego-defenses day-in and day-out. Although this might help those closest to us the most, maybe we would be able to avoid wars like the one in Ukraine, or at least settle them quickly once they ignite, instead of fanning the flames.
That said, I had the most fun exploring “Music of the Week” related to UFO’s. Just as with the entire topic, I used to ignore the many obvious references to UFO’s in well-known popular music. However, I now think that - just maybe - many of these lyrics were based on real events.
Here are the topics in today’s newsletter:
1: Music of the Week – A bit of fun with UFO’s. It turns out some of my favorite classic rock songs referred to UFO sightings, and this has been a recurring theme for decades. Although some of the songs are rather fanciful, my intuition tells me that even those are likely based in real-world experiences. As an example, the song “Arriving UFO” by Yes opens with the lyric,
“I could not take it so seriously really, when you called and said you’d seen a UFO.”
2: Inspiration of the week – Chapter 2 from Sister Lúcia of Fatima, “The Guardian Angel”, tells the story of the first spiritual experiences she and the other children had which occurred two or three years before the major encounter in 1917.
3: Research of the Week: UFO’s in Congress… Whistleblowers and military pilots give details about UFO sightings, now called “UAP’s”, vindicating Bob Lazar, a scientist whistleblower from thirty years ago who was the subject of a recent documentary.
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Matt Irwin
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1: Music of the Week – A Bit of fun with UFO’s - interspersed with sections 2 (Sister Lucia) and section 2 (UAP testimony).
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Police: Spirits in the Material World
Before diving into UFO’s, how about a reminder that our human nature is spirit first, and physical second. The album this came from also has the telling title, “Ghost in the Machine”.
2: Inspiration of the Week – Sister Lúcia of Fatima, Chapter 2: “The Guardian Angel”, from her book, Calls from the Message of Fatima.
I first introduced sister Lúcia’s book in my newsletter on July 6th with her opening sentence: “I address this to all those who have faith, and also to all who do not have the happiness of possessing this gift of God, because we are all pilgrims on our way to eternity, whether we know it or not.”
Last week, I covered Chapter 1 where she described the simple life she and her two younger cousins experienced before the visions, living off their fruit orchards, farm animals, and their work as shepherds. Today we will cover the next chapter titled “The Guardian Angel”, where she shares the very first spiritual experiences the children of Fatima had. These occurred two or three years before the major spiritual event of 1917. She describes how they saw a being of light:
“It must have been in 1914 or 1915, shortly after I began to care for my parents’ flock of sheep and began the life of a shepherd together with the other children. We were surprised by an apparition that completely puzzled us. We were on the slopes of the hill when we saw something like a white cloud in the shape of a human being. It came down from the sky and passed slowly in front of us, above the trees stretched down in the valley at our feet, as if wishing to attract our attention.…” (Page 52).
“This apparition happened several times in different places, and my reply today is the same as it was then: I do not know what it was, nor what it meant. However, I was left with an interior conviction that it was a Guardian Angel. Perhaps in that form, without speaking, he wished to make his presence felt to prepare us for the later accomplishment of God’s designs.“ (Page 52).
After this brief description of the Guardian Angel, she explains that although many people are skeptical, the Bible is filled with descriptions of angels which she has taken to heart. She gives multiple extended quotes from the Bible about angels from Moses, Jacob, the New Testament Gospels, and the Psalms. As an example, here is Psalm 91:9-12:
“If you say, ‘The Lord is my refuge’, … no harm shall come to you. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.”
Next week I will cover Chapter 3, “The Call to Faith” and another vision which she calls, the “Angel of Peace”
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Yes: Starship Trooper
Key Lyric: “Though you’ve seen them, please don’t say a word… Starship Trooper, go sailing on by… Hide the moment, from my very eyes.”
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3: Research of the Week: UFO’s in Congress.
Under a new name, UAP, which stands for “Unexplained Aerial Phenomena”, jaw-dropping congressional testimony was given on July 26, 2023. It validated the reports of a prior scientist whistleblower from 30 years ago, Bob Lazar. See video links at the end of this post to hear and see the testimony for yourself, as well as a documentary on Bob Lazar.
UFO reports have always provoked a lot of skepticism, even more than controversial research previously covered in my newsletter. This research included Near Death Experiences, the lack of infectiousness of HIV, and the extraordinarily low risk from covid-19, especially when people get normal high-quality healthcare and caregiving. So you can see that UFO’s are in good company with my usual newsletter topics 😊.
This topic hit a transformational milestone last Wednesday, July 26, with testimony in Congress. Just as in other controversial areas, it is probable that some mistakes will be realized as time passes, and there may be some people who commit fraud for personal gain or just make up stories for attention. However, the consistency of testimony by military and commercial pilots that was presented to congress is similar to the consistency of NDE testimony, making them both very difficult to dismiss.
In the first opening statement, Ryan Graves states that UAP sightings are not isolated or rare, but are “routine”, and frequently witnessed by well-trained commercial and military pilots. He has collected testimony from over 30 such pilots and says these events are “grossly under-reported”. He decries a paternalistic pattern of hiding this data from the public and even keeping it from elected representatives, blocking congressional oversight.
Many eye witnesses face professional losses, financial losses, social stigma, and even threats to their health and safety. This is why only about 5% of military and commercial pilot sightings get reported. Despite this there are thousands of eye witness accounts going back many decades, including presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
When such reports are made, they are immediately classified as top secret and the eye witnesses never hear anything about the UAP’s again except by talking with other pilots. This is one reason Mr Graves started the organization, Americans for Safe Aerospace, to help them communicate with each other.
I shared skepticism about UFO’s for decades. Although I had an open mind that real phenomena were occurring, I thought that witnesses were possibly reporting spiritual experiences such as the ones the children of Fatima experienced. I have been researching Near Death and other spiritual experiences for over forty years, so it was easy for me to see a connection. For example, the three children of Fatima back in 1917 could have reported their vison as a Guardian Angel, but people might mistakenly say they saw super-being from outer space or even a spaceship, “coming down from the sky and floating above the trees”.
My perspective started to change about two years ago when my then 18 year-old daughter insisted we watch a whistleblower documentary about Bob Lazar. Last week during the congressional testimony I was continuously brought back to that documentary, because pretty much everything Lazar claimed was confirmed. The documentary is much more colorful than the congressional hearing, with dramatic music and poetically mysterious narration, but they both provide a lot of similar information, including about the acceleration, propulsion, and design of the technology Lazar worked on, which he said was recovered from a crash site.
Because Lazar is an engineer and a scientist, he was able to explain things in a way that made sense to me. However, he was just one person, without corroboration from others, so I suspended judgment. After all, it was possible that he exaggerated some parts of his story to give more strength to the scientific discoveries, which were obviously his main passion. He stated he needed to go public to protect himself from threats he was receiving after he stopped working at the facility, and that could also motivate him to alter his story.
I learned about the congressional testimony last week when Robert Malone wrote about it in his Substack on July 27th. I immediately saw the corollaries to what Lazar had described. For example, many comments from the military pilots concerned the impossible acceleration and maneuverability they witnessed. This fit with what Lazar described in the propulsion systems he studied. The military pilots in congress were asked “could any human survive that acceleration?” and gave the unanimous answer “No.”
Blink-182: Aliens Exist
Key Lyric: "What if people knew that these were real? I know the CIA would say ‘what you hear is all hearsay’… My best friend just thinks I’m telling lies."
Democrats on the same side as Republicans? A True Miracle :-)
One very refreshing part of the hearing is that the Democrats and Republicans were not angry at each other, for once. Instead, they were angry at the military intelligence organizations who refuse to give them information even when they have top-secret clearance. This shows that the subject is bigger than partisan politics - something seemingly impossible these days :-).
Below are several links: Dr Malone’s Substack article, a pre-testimony press conference with very upset congressional representatives, the three witnesses’ opening statements, the Bob Lazar documentary, and finally the entire hearing on UAP’s for those, like myself, who want the “whole meal”.
1: Robert Malone Substack on the UAP testimony
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Yes: Arriving UFO
This song is quite blunt about the whole thing:
“I could not take it so seriously, really, when you called and said you seen a UFO.” … “You say I’m a fool: a believer, but look out, in the night - and wait before they arrive to start such sciences anew”.
2) Pre-Hearing Press Conference
In advance of the hearing, Republican and Democratic representatives from congress took questions from the press. The question is barely audible: “Who blocked congress from having access to intelligence reports of UAP’s, and could the “spacecraft” actually have been made by China or Russia?”
In his reply, congressman Richard expresses anger at the intelligence community for withholding UAP information. In a surprise bonus he also calls them out for their refusal to release documents on JFK’s assassination. RFK Jr has explained in many interviews that this was done by the CIA, not by a random lone shooter. This claim is supported by dozens of insiders who made confessions later in life, and a Senate committee ten years after the assassination agreed that the CIA was behind the whole thing.
David Bowie: Starman
“There’s a Starman waiting in the sky he’s told us not to blow it because he knows it’s all worthwhile.” And my favorite quizzical lyric: “Let all the children boogie”.
3) Ryan Graves opening testimony: He and many other Navy pilots saw multiple UAP’s off the coast of Norfolk Virginia, in 2014. One UAP came within 50 feet of their aircraft, and the encounters were extremely common. He then started a witness group, Americans for Safe Aerospace, mainly for former military pilots and commercial airline pilots, and was contacted by 30 different pilots who witnessed UAP’s.
4: David Fravor opening testimony: He and three other pilots had a “close encounter” with a UAP that has become famous, called the “Tic Tac” because of its shape. This happened in 2004 off San Diego.
5: David Grusch opening testimony: Grusch is the only whistleblower to testify, and was limited in what he could say due to his protected status under OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program. He was an intelligence officer for 14 years, and was the co-lead in UAP investigations for several years. He learned of a “multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program”, just as was described by Bob Lazar in the documentary mentioned previously. The link to this documentary is provided below along with a brief introduction.
Grusch became a whistleblower when he discovered that even elected representatives were not being informed of this program, and he also thought the American public had a right to know much of the information that was being withheld.
6: Questions to the witnesses from congressman Richard:
Question: “How do you know these were not our aircraft?”
Answer from Ryan Graves: “They could stay completely stationary in category 4 hurricane force winds. Then they would accelerate to 1.1 or 1.2 mach speed in erratic ways that I cannot explain.”
Question: “Mr Fravor, what astonished you the most about the flight capabilities?”
Answer: “The performance. I think it is far beyond the material science that we currently possess”.
7: Bob Lazar Documentary: Lazar states he was working on the propulsion systems which used gravitational drives. If you have studied Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, you know that space-time actually curves to create gravitational forces, such as the ones that keep the Moon in orbit around the Earth. About mid-way through, Lazar describes in detail how the amplified gravitational forces in these drives allow the craft to “fall forward” at incredible acceleration without pilots feeling any “G-forces”.
Trucker and the UFO by Brush Arbor
A whimsical truck driver’s humorous rant, but it might just be based in a real conversation. He starts off having coffee with other truckers, the conversation turns to flying saucers, and before you know it he is challenging the aliens to a race :-).
Last but not least, below is a link to the entire hearing, complete with question-answer sessions from both Democrats and Republicans. A section I especially liked starts at 1:06:20 when congressman Moskowitz asks about the “laws of physics“:
Moskowitz: “Gentlemen let’s talk about the laws of physics for a second. I heard you talk about speed. When the objects broke the sound barrier did they make a sonic boom?”
Answer: “You’re not able to tell that from within the vehicle. I will say that the objects we saw were spherical, observed at speeds up to Mach 2, and a sphere is a very non-aerodynamic shape.“
Moskowitz: “What about G-Forces in those vehicles. Would a human be able to survive those forces with the technology we have today?”
Answer: “No.”
https://www.c-span.org/video/?529499-1/hearing-unidentified-aerial-phenomena