I think the White House and Intelligence Agencies are watching the reaction. Watching the media Watching Twitter Watching the markets Watching the Church Watching the scientists Watching their adversaries We know there is more to come. And I genuinely believe they’ll release as much as they can, as long as we can handle it. So… let’s discuss freely and most importantly, stick together 🌎

Yesirree people are seeing weird stuff and they have been for a long time. It sure is nice to see it reported by the likes of @ABC News.

Another good one

At this point, I think reports of orbs are the most convincing evidence we have of new phenomena. I’ve never seen one myself, but I’ve spoken with a few people who have, both through UAP/UFO connections and also just through conversation with people outside of the community. The best personal story I heard was when I was at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. It was a quiet moment in the physicians work room. This was around 2020-2021. I brought up the UAP stuff to my colleague next to me, a hospitalist there, and she shared a story of a small green orb, to my memory the size of a softball or kids mini-basketball, that floated through the wall of her mother’s room one night, hovered over her bed for a short period of time, and the floated through the door and down the hall. This case here, along with the USPER orb case from the last drop, and also there’s a military case of a bright white light in the Aurora Borrealis (we published this through AIAA) a couple years ago, are all compelling.

Curiosity about UAP is strong among Americans, and belief in non-human intelligent life are held by many. The great majority, 6 out of 7, think the government knows more than it is telling us about UFOs. About 1/2 think they might be alien spacecraft and 1/2 think they are natural or human activity. Nearly 2 of 3 think there is intelligent life on other planets. 1 in 6 have seen a UFO. Interestingly, 1 in 5 think we’ve already made contact with intelligent life. @CBSNews

Sounds like Grusch is speaking on behalf of the individuals with first-hand knowledge, who cannot speak for themselves because they’d be violating their NDAs. Hence the event. Grusch states he’s seen videos and audio of UAP stuff. He *presumably* spoke to the folks who can first-hand corroborate those videos and audio (I don’t think he would be making these statements if he hadn’t?). And they’re asking the White House to use Executive Order to allow the first hand folks to speak without fear of going to jail.

I’m going to say something none if you will like: He thinks what’s been released so far has to do with ETs. He has no idea what’s being released or what’s known. It’s been delegated to other folks of course. All that he knows is that it’s popular, and that’s all he cares about

This is precisely where I’m at with AI in my clinical workflows. I use Perplexity and it does everything I need. Every Epic tool right now I find slow and useless (and what a waste of computing energy!). And for folks who want to “Big Bro” me for using Plex - I can ask it to search medical literature and I believe it does so well enough (though not nearly as well) as OE to answer my questions. I’m also a general internet so Plex is better for some of the questions that I need answered where good answers won’t be found in medical literature. And to be honest - you have to Log-in the OE every time which is a pain in my butt and distracts me from the patient.

I’ll die on this hill. AI models need to be trained at the individual clinician-level, not the population-level, in order to achieve widespread adoption. Physicians think about problems differently from one another, and do their work differently as well. A single AI model to be used “for all” will only be used by a minority of physicians and will be abandoned by the rest. Rather, AI systems need to be thought of as the individual clinician’s agent. And like a dog, I think that each clinician is going to have to spend substantial time working with and training the model to make it work in the way they need it to. Until I see this - a lot of this AI software is mostly hype to me.

First I’ve heard of this and will probably be my thesis from now on about how AI will affect the physician work force.

Pretty wild to me, personally, that I spent about 3-5 years of my medical training pretty much obsessed with empathy. How it’s taught, how its affects physician-patient relationships, and how it affects clinical care. For what it’s worth - the way that empathy affects and changes people is well-described in nursing literature and is the core of transpersonal health models (as opposed to biomedical or biopsychosociospiritual models).

Having spent more than 6 years actively on the UAP topic, this is the best UAP case since the Nimitz Tic Tac. In fact, you can argue that it’s now the best evidence of UAP available because of the documentation, photos, and classified videos that accompany it. On second-hand authority, the FBI has been quietly and very effectively been investigating UAP for at least 2-3 years (I.e., I spoken directly with people who spoke directly with the FBI). These FBI investigations and the information therein, including this case, are solid evidence. While the Nimitz was equally fascinating and at this moment has stronger eye witness testimony, the data accompanying the Nimitz, is gone. According to an AARO officer I met with last August, it was simply lost. At least, that was that officer’s understanding. The event occurred in 2004, before the military was interested in UFOs and UAPs. The Tic Tac obviously wasn’t a foreign asset, so the data simply wasn’t maintained. They don’t keep everything. If you wish to believe it was intentionally deleted or siphoned away, I will not dissuade you. I’m personally open to the idea that such activities have occurred based the stories I’ve heard, the same as what you’ve heard, through social media. But in any case - the hard data on Nimitz is gone, regardless of the reason. @HeyLukOverThere has been stead-fastily covering UAP events on his instagram for years. His re-tellings are generally reliable and accurate. His overview of the FBI documents in this video is trustworthy. The rigors of this case are extremely compelling. If anyone knows the officials, military, and pilots involved in this case, I hope they will come forward. @RogueUAPTF @Condorman6 One detail that may be hard for folks who are new to the topic is that the UAP were not discs are other objects as commonly depicted in Sci-Fi and other media representations. They are orbs/lights. For new readers to the topic - many UAP, especially nighttime sightings - are orbs and lights. This does not diminish their significance nor intrigue. This is a fact of what’s being observed, and it’s what’s been observed by pilots I’ve spoken with directly as well. Also, they’re not new. Like the Foo Fighters in WWII. We could speculate on whether the lights/orbs are the entire UAP itself, or whether they are a power source and the rest of the vehicle is obscured. But at this point, speculation and debate won’t really help. So let’s hold off. The fact is, something unusual is up there. And they appear to observers as an orb or light. Dan did a great job with visuals, but I have a couple asks. 1. Can content creators on UAP X/Twitter make a better, fuller rendition of this event? 2. I’m hoping friends in the community can give this tweet a boost with likes/RTs: @UFOB_ @disclosureorg @PostDisclosure @Akam1129 @SicCoP1 and maybe even leaders like @ChrisKMellon @rosscoulthart @LueElizondo @uncertainvector @JeremyCorbell I think we would do well to encourage @DoW_AARO and @POTUS to focus on releasing these videos. @RepEricBurlison says they exist. We’d love to see them. Tagging media, too. @GadiNBC @KristinFisher @jaketapper @BretBaier @AC360 @DanaBashCNN. Please cover this event. Last - I’m not new to UAP x/twitter, but I haven’t fully introduced myself. I joined around 2019 as @ ufodoctor (someone else has that handle now). I’m an assistant professor of medicine and previously did my scientific-investigator training at Northwestern primarily in medical social sciences. My medical residency was at GW in Washington DC. For 4 years, I’ve been working with the @AIAA_UAP Integration & Outreach Committee to lessen stigma and advance organizational policies to improve UAP reporting. Experiencers - I see you. I’ll have more to say about all of the vivid UAP and UAP-related events in time. Many Thanks, DB 🩺

I was lucky to meet Jon and several AARO officers at their invited workshop last August when we discussed narrative UAP data. There’s a lot to say about the experience. But most of all, I trusted Jon. He seemed to get it. And to care about people. He was so much more well-suited for the role than his predecessor. Now, I’m not sure about who Jon’s boss is, and all the beaurocratic hoops they have to get through for literally ANY of their external or internal activities, including their external communications. But all in all - I left the workshop thinking that maybe AARO will turn out to be Professor Snape in all this. Misunderstood. Slightly different motives. And overall trying to execute on their responsibilities to do what’s best for the topic. Again - this was my sense of Jon and the officers that I met. I spent two full days with them. Where I get stuck, though, is how much oversight they have to deal with, and whether their superiors have the same priorities.

Navy Post Graduate School Journal devoting an issue to UAP! Link below @GallaudetTim

I’m kind of floored by this book. Neil DeGrasse Tyson has mocked and ridiculed alien abductees and experiences for years. To see this book, with this cover, and with his continued statements that “he’d love to be abducted” is appalling. Imagine if he had made years of homo- or transphobic comments about the LGBTQ community and wrote a guidebook 10 years ago called “Life After Marrying Your Best Friend.” Or if he had been unrelentingly dismissive of the suffering of the Palestinian people, and then written “The Path to Peace in the Middle East.” Altogether, though, I’m not surprised that he’s written it. His arrogance toward alien/NHI experiencers are a quintessential example of why the aerospace science community isn’t ready to handle the challenges of studying UAP without help. To date, the most confronting thing that NASA and the aerospace science community has probably, quite honestly, discovered was that Pluto was no longer a planet. Beyond this, I don’t think they’ve ever studied something with quite as much potential to change people’s world view (called ontological shock or fracturing), nor any topic that has had such an impact on individual people. In medicine and public health, there are important steps that you follow when studying topics that affect stigmatized or marginalized populations. And there’s a way to help ensure that scientific findings about those topics are appropriately applied to and accepted by the populations whom they affect. This book does the opposite, and it’s therefore a woeful application of science - hard science or not - to the UAP problem. Fortunately, there are other scientists capable of studying the technical aspects of UAP who fully grasp the social and societal necessities in the approach to their study, including interdisciplinary collaboration. Want to know what it might be like to meet aliens? Don’t read Neil’s book. Read Abduction by Dr. John Mack.

No we’re not. People are allowed to have beliefs about UAPs and UFOs. There’s not enough data. So unless you’ve seen one yourself, all we’re left with is beliefs (or some version of beliefs, which includes how you make sense of what you read or hear). And ultimately, it’s completely normal to believe angels, demons, god, superstitions, and the like. So let’s tolerate diverse attitudes and opinions on the nature and origin of UAP. Instead, let’s focus on getting better data and getting all of the info out there that we can.

Literally incredible

Thank you @AC360 and @AdamFrank4 for discussing. And I’m all for diverse opinions and attitudes about these videos. After all, they are debatable, and none are conclusive nor as compelling (at least for now) as they ought to be to match that statements that have been made about a secret US crash retrieval program. But please - Mr. Frank, @neiltyson, and others - can we please stop with the laughter and giggling. @SenSchumer and @SenatorRounds, who actually received the classified briefings, were not laughing when they discussed UAP on the senate floor. @RepEricBurlison does not giggle when he talks about how hard it is to get the higher quality videos and testimony out to the public. David Grusch does not snicker as he describes the legal and administrative battles that he has to pursue to carry the substance of his whistleblower complaints into the public domain. And the people who have experienced seeing aliens and yes, even having been abducted by them - whether or real, imagined, or mistaken - take 0 comfort in how demeaning it is when you treat the topic this way. You can be skeptical. You can as for more. You can assure people there’s no scientific evidence of extraterrestrial life. But please. Stop. Laughing. It ultimately undermines your credibility. And a more professional discussion of what UAP are and what the government knows is long overdue. DB 🩺