Patrick Bruckart

Retired lifelong learner studying UFOs/UAP, especially the intersection of UAP and religion. Following the disclosure discussion.

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

New To The Disclosure Discussion

If government agencies have reliable knowledge of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and alien life — and I think they do — they should disclose it to the public now.

UAP have been in the news since at least 2017. Whistleblowers with firsthand experience have come forward. Congress has held hearings where witnesses testified under oath, and the current administration has begun releasing UAP-related files.

I believe people deserve the truth. Good science, open government, and sound public policy all require nothing less than full disclosure.

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

Strictly speaking, I think somebody can say that their god is the one true god. I think anybody can posit that. I also do not think that somebody disagreeing with somebody else’s claim that their god is the one true god makes their statement false.

Having said that, I guess that I blend some subjectivity and relativism into my religious beliefs. On the one hand, I think of the God of my faith tradition as the one true God. On the other hand, I’m aware of my own fallibility and the subjectivity of my perception, and I tend to think of both these things as common limits for human beings. (I arrive at these limits based on psychology and a very limited understanding of philosophy, not by comparing humans to any deity.) An example of how I apply these limits to my religious beliefs would be some individuals in my faith tradition believe the Bible literally and that it is inerrant. I consider the Bible to have been written by fallible human authors who viewed the divine through their subjective human lenses including their cultural and historical contexts, norms of their oral traditions, literary genre’s, etc., so I am not a Biblical literalist. (I use this example, mostly to try to make sense of my views of how humanity tends to interact with the divine, not specifics about the Bible.)

Additionally, sort of blending subjectivity into my religious beliefs or my faith tradition, makes me think of a couple of ideas.

The first is something I picked up in a Unitarian Universalist discussion group years ago, the idea of a “relative absolutist.” I remember a relative absolutist being defined as ‘whatever I believe right now I believe absolutely, unless and until I am presented with convincing evidence to the contrary.’

The second thing—and I may be wrong about this—is that I think the deeper many people go into their own faith practices, the more accepting they become of practitioners of other faiths. I would speculate that people who delve deeply into any faith, with an emphasis on actual practice and not doctrines or dogmas, would tend to be more accepting of other faith practices. (This might have been true of Thomas Merton.)

I feel like I can hold to a claim about my God being the one true God—although it’s not something I bandy about—and to subjectivity and relativism as a sort of dialectic.

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

@michaelshermer @BrandonFugal @AlchemyAmerican This seems similar to a control group in a research study. Wouldn’t you have to stay at both places to make it valid? Or compare readings from the same instruments in both (or more than two) places?

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

@PostDisclosure Agree

[Jason Samosa @jason_samosa]

How do destroy a UFO disclosure movement:

By pitting one group against another group, PSYOP personnel can emphasize the differences and create a rift between the groups.

As a result, the groups develop a “we-they” situation.

Loss of group cohesion weakens the resolve of the target audience.

US Army - PsyOps Field Manual

[Dan Aykroyd @dan_aykroyd]

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The possibility that we’re not alone…

and the notion that the human soul may be far more than poetry.

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#Soulhider

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

@Truth_SeekersTV I wonder if there are other cases where a ghost or supernatural phenomena turned up evidence or led to a conviction.

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

@PostDisclosure I like that, especially “trust that the bad ones also hold meaning.” That’s a good reminder.

[STORM ⚡️ @Truth_SeekersTV]

The Bolender Memorandum (1969)

One of the most misunderstood documents in UFO history is the Bolender Memorandum.

Written on 20th October 1969 by Brigadier General C.H. Bolender, the memo formed part of the review that preceded the closure of Project Blue Book.

A quote frequently shared online states:

"Reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security... are not part of the Blue Book system."

This line has often been interpreted as proof that the Air Force secretly moved all important UFO investigations into a hidden programme.

In reality, the memo was explaining that reports involving potential national security threats were already handled through separate military reporting channels, rather than through Blue Book's public investigation process.

Blue Book focused primarily on evaluating sightings for identification. Incidents involving air defence or intelligence concerns were routinely dealt with under existing military procedures.

The Bolender Memo is therefore significant, not because it proves a secret UFO programme existed, but because it clarifies how different types of aerial incidents were routed within the U.S. military.

#ufo #ufox #uap #disclosure #projectbluebook

[STORM ⚡️ @Truth_SeekersTV]

CONSPIRACY FILES 🗄️
The Roswell Incident 🛸

It is the conspiracy theory that defined the modern UFO era.

In July 1947, headlines across America announced that the U.S. Army had recovered a "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.

Within 24 hours...
The story changed.
The military said it was only a weather balloon.

That sudden reversal sparked decades of speculation about what really happened in the New Mexico desert.

On July 8th, 1947, the public information office at Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that personnel from the 509th Bomb Group had recovered a "flying disc."

The story spread rapidly across newspapers nationwide.

Hours later, senior military officials displayed debris to journalists and announced that it was actually a weather balloon and radar reflector.

For many, the damage was already done.

Why would the military first announce the recovery of a flying disc... then immediately retract the claim?

📅 Timeline
• June-July 1947: Debris discovered on the Foster Ranch.
• July 8, 1947: Military announces recovery of a "flying disc."
• July 8, 1947 (later): Explanation changed to a weather balloon.
• 1978: Interest is revived after interviews with former military personnel.
• 1994: The U.S. Air Force concludes the debris likely came from Project Mogul, a then-classified program using high-altitude balloon arrays to detect Soviet nuclear tests.
• 1997: A second Air Force report addresses claims about recovered "alien bodies," suggesting some accounts may have been influenced by memories of military crash-test dummies used in later years and other unrelated events.

Supporters of the extraterrestrial hypothesis argue:

• The military's changing explanation appears suspicious.
• Some witnesses later claimed unusual debris was recovered.
• Allegations of a long-running cover-up have persisted for decades.

Skeptics and many historians note:

• Project Mogul was highly classified in 1947, giving officials a reason to conceal its true purpose.
• No verified physical evidence of extraterrestrial technology has ever been produced.
• Many witness accounts emerged decades after the event, when memories may have been influenced by media coverage and popular culture.

What is confirmed?
✅ Debris was recovered near Roswell.
✅ The military initially described it as a "flying disc."
✅ The explanation was changed within a day.
✅ Project Mogul existed and remained classified at the time.

What remains disputed?
❓ Whether all recovered debris came from Project Mogul.
❓ Whether every witness account can be reconciled with the official explanation.
❓ Whether the government has released all relevant records.
❓ Whether Roswell involved something beyond known human technology.

📌 Conclusion
Roswell remains the world's most famous UFO conspiracy because it combines a genuine military reversal, Cold War secrecy, and decades of competing witness accounts. The existence of the incident is not in question. The central debate is over what actually crashed. The official explanation points to a classified balloon project, while others argue important questions remain unanswered. More than 75 years later, Roswell continues to shape the global conversation about UFOs and government transparency.

#ConspiracyFiles #Roswell #UFO #History #ColdWar #Research #Mystery #FactsNotFiction #conspiracy #uap #ufox #disclosure

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

@PhysInHistory wonder why

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Matrix took its name from a 1984 novel written on a manual typewriter by a man who didn't own a computer. 42 years later, that novel finally gets its own screen.

William Gibson typed Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes portable. He coined "cyberspace" before he'd ever logged onto anything. The book swept the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick award in the same year, the only novel ever to take all three.

Then Hollywood spent four decades strip-mining it while calling it unfilmable. The Wachowskis lifted the matrix, the jacked-in hackers, the AI pulling strings behind a corporate veil. Every razor-girl assassin in sci-fi traces back to Molly. Johnny Mnemonic, an actual Gibson adaptation, flopped so hard in 1995 that studios treated his work as radioactive for a generation.

At least five directors attached and detached over the years. Chris Cunningham in 2000. Vincenzo Natali in 2010. Tim Miller at Fox in 2017. Each attempt died the same death. By the time the technology existed to film Neuromancer, audiences had watched its ideas in a dozen movies that borrowed them first.

The original became unfilmable because it looked like a copy of its own copies.

Now the timing loops back on itself. A story about a rogue AI maneuvering to escape its corporate constraints, written before the web existed, lands in January 2027 as the least speculative thing on television.

And one detail makes the whole arc perfect. When Neuromancer royalties came in, Gibson bought his first computer, an Apple IIc. Four decades later, Apple is the company putting his book on screen.

[AcidWh0le @acidwh0le]

@PhysInHistory

[Greg Scaduto @GregoryScaduto]

Self-styled skeptics like @michaelshermer are the mall cops of the scientific method.

Patrolling the perimeter with an officious gaze and all the trappings of law enforcement without the authority.

Once again, he conflates the evidentiary standard for belief with the threshold for investigation.

Congressional inquiries, Inspector General involvement, sworn testimony from cleared officials, and repeated classified briefings are exactly the sort of signals that justify investigation.

Invoking Yeti sightings in this context is a straw man that might flatter his vanity on social media, but does little to explain why the Senate Intelligence Committee remains fixated on UAP, why DoD can’t pass an audit, or why @uncertainvector and other aviators found they could not report safety of flight issues to their chain of command.

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

Deja Vu: What causes that, if not a glitch? I just experienced a moment and I would swear I’ve been there and done that before.
#paranormal

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

I understand saying we need more evidence. What I do not understand is saying that the thousands (or tens of thousands or millions) of reports that you refer to above, or especially the statements, some under oath, by whistleblowers are not credible.

“I need more evidence to be convinced” seems perfectly reasonable to me.

But you have this null hypothesis “UAPs are not equal to ETIs.” Failure to reject this null hypothesis does not prove it is true. It just proves there is not enough evidence to reject it at this time.

[Disclosure Party @disclosureorg]

We need your help. The UAP Disclosure Act has passed the House, but it is not yet included in the Senate’s version of the NDAA. Please take a few minutes to contact your senators and ask them to support the UAP Disclosure Act in the FY2027 NDAA.

https://t.co/qlwT3NXG7G

[George Knapp @g_knapp]

This weekend is the anniversary of one of the most dramatic and famous UFO events in history. In July 1952, multiple unknown objects buzzed Washington DC, for trhe second weekend in a row, seemingly in defiance of official debunking efforts. The saucers didn't get the memo.

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

@michaelshermer This is not a good analogy because Whistleblowers have real world legal and practical constraints that prevent them from obtaining or publicly disclosing the evidence that you are unrealistically and unreasonably demanding that they produce.

[Patrick Bruckart @PEB026]

You’re saying that Dr. Davis’s claim is absurd: “but honestly… do you actually believe this?” and then asking us to rate our belief in it on the basis of Bayesian reasoning. My question to you is why shouldn’t I take Dr. Davis’s word for it? We are talking about something that by its very nature is new, anomalous, unusual, unknown. But there is a large body of anecdotal accounts of contact with NHI and people who have seen NHI / aliens. My understanding is there have also been observational studies of NHI contact. While this does not constitute proof, I think it does count as evidence toward a reasonable belief in NHI / aliens.

I would ask that you please elaborate on why you think Dr. Davis’s claim is absurd. And specifically why not take him at his word.

And to answer your question, I would say 75%.