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Vetted: The UFO Sleuth — BREAKING: CIA Whistleblower Drops UFO Bombshell. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
What's up, Veterans Patrick here with Vetted, time stamps down below. We got a lot to cover. So let's jump in. Because we have to release something because Trump has, that's his edict. We have to do disclosure, but we can't release everything because we have recovered crafts and recovered beings. And if we release, for instance, what we know about those videos, about philosophy and how they are able to vanish and move and go on and all that, we're developing that technology for our defense program, our warfare. And we can't release all that because then the enemy has it. And they're going to develop the same technology. That's why everything is limited. All right, Veterans, please hit that like button that really helps out the videos. And of course, if you're not already subscribed, hit that subscribe button. All right. So you're seeing that clip and well, you're seeing it out of context because we probably wonder, who is that guy? What is he talking about recovered craft, recovered beings? What? Okay, we're going to explain this because there's a lot more to this story.
So it all started with this article right here from Liberation Times. Journalist says congressional staff are revealed, quote, recovered crafts and recovered beings. So I see this article I'm thinking, what is this about? Let me look into it. And then I realized this is about journalist Tom O'Neill. And he recently testified about the MK Ultra program. Take a look. Almost 50 years ago, the last congressional hearings into MK Ultra took place just a short walk from here in the Dirk's, and Senate office building. At those hearings convened in August and September of 1977, representatives of the CIA told Congress and the American people that it's 25 year effort to control human behavior have been a colossal failure. Because I believe Congress was never told the truth about what this program actually achieved. In fact, I believe the agency misled Congress in 1977 when a characterized
MK Ultra as a failure. My name is Tom O'Neill and in 1999, I was accepted, I accepted a magazine assignment to write a story about murders committed by a group of hippies called the Manson family. All right. So we've established who the guy is, right? Journalist Tom O'Neill, he recently testified about the MK Ultra program. So how was he on a podcast talking about recovered craft and recovered bees? Well, let's get to that point. I found a podcast interview where this is discussed, right? Whereas as I've shown in a clip, but let's get to that point, right? So this is a much longer clip and I've broken it down into different sections. And we're just going to go through each section. So let's begin. This is so complicated because for years, I think people always saying things are conspiracy theories and anything like that doesn't seem to go on. And this is incontroversible proof that it does. Yeah. And then I want to understand then, you know, Congress is trying to find out what's going on. So it's not that they don't know. So then who is, I guess, the CIA?
And are these the people who know potentially about aliens and things? Would the president even know about all of this stuff? Like who are these shadowy people? Well, what's interesting is when this was active, supposedly the president didn't know about it. So we had Eisenhower, then we had Kennedy, then we had, well, Johnson knew about it because Johnson made it a point to find out what we could do to stop what, again, he thought was going to be a revolution. If he knew about it, Kennedy must have known about it. Well, Kennedy died, you know, in 63. And it was on, I don't think supposedly they wouldn't tell him because he would have stopped it. And the head. So when, when Kennedy fired Dallas, you know, about a year before he was assassinated, the new CIA director who I think was Cump McComb, he never knew about it. He ran the CIA and they kept it a secret from him. It was so compartmentalized because they knew what they had an inspector general. And he said, what we're doing is an illegal operation.
We need to, you know, figure out how to stop doing this. I know we've begun. I can't remember what this memo is. It's amazing, but that guy, all of a sudden, he's not the inspector general anymore. So, you know, some people said, Dallas was more powerful than each of the presidents that he was a CIA director under it. You know, so they might know about UFOs, for example. Yeah, you know, so this is how the conversation begins, right? This is a talk about UFOs, about Tom. And then, you know, they're just talking about sort of this idea that, you know, presidents and other people in power have been left out of this secret, right? And other people have essentially in the government been in control of it, right? The greatest secret humanity has ever faced. And the presidents and the, you know, top people in power don't know about, right? So that's how the conversation begins. Well, this is where it's going to get interesting. This is where Tom is going to reveal that he had an interesting encounter
at an interesting event. Take a look. It's weird because when I went up to the hearings, I went about three or four days early because there was a disclosure conference at the Capitol by these very respectable former elected officials who aren't elected now or staffers who have started this very kind of buttoned up sober disclosure group. And I think they're called disclosure something, something. And they had an authorized conference in the Capitol building for a whole day and about 10 different senators and Congress people spoke to them. It wasn't a hearing. Nobody took a note just, you know, what do we expect the government to tell us if they're going to tell us how do we tell that kind of thing? And they invited me there just because they wanted me to be present. I said, I don't know anything about this, but I'll come, sure. You know, I was going to, I just came a day earlier than I would have. And in the middle of it, I left to meet with the Democratic staff of the committee
that was going to be questioning me a week later. And on the way, I'm not supposed to tell this, but whatever. On the way to the meeting, the staffer for the Congressperson said, you're coming from the disclosure conference, right? I said, yeah, how'd you know? He goes, well, we all work together. We know everything that's going on because, you know, they had all been colleagues at one point because a lot of them are former congressional staffers or members. And I go, yeah, yeah, I go, what'd you think of it? I go, I don't know. It's over in my head. He goes, well, what do you think about UFOs? And I said, honestly, I'm agnostic on UFOs. I keep an open mind. I can't go down those rabbit holes because I'm trying to do a second book. Yeah. And I can't keep up with all my reporting on, you know, murder and CIA and FBI and government shit. If I go into the UFO area, it's too much of a distraction. So I read the headlines and I listen to people, but I don't listen closely. And he goes, oh, well, if you knew what we know, I'm like, we what?
He goes, you know, I'm the head of staff or Congressperson and so on. So I'm like, yeah, he goes, we go into skips. I don't know if a skiff is a place where elected officials like senators and Congress people are shown classified material. It's a safe place and it's like a little room in like a catacombs in the capital or the White House and they're shown highly secret documents. So this guy was probably this person I've said is gender. It was probably the mid to late. Narrowed it down 50% now of the population. I know. Yeah. Maybe he was non-binary. He wasn't the lady's, but he said, I go and I've, so I think he's on his third Congressperson. So that's his job is like he runs the staffs for the Congress people. He goes, so I go into this skiffs with them and I have to sign these confidentialityos. And I should be telling you this and I'm not going to give you specifics, but I go in and I see what they see and it's terrifying and you wouldn't be agnostic.
Oh, that can't be true. Is it true? I want to believe. All right. So let's break this down. All right. So this is the quote, UFO or UAP conference that he's saying he's at right here. This is from the Disclosure Foundation. He couldn't remember the name, but that's what it was. The Disclosure Foundation. And this happened earlier in the summer. We covered it. Lots of people covered it. Everyone's been talking about it. Okay. So he went to this thing as a guest to sit and watch it. And halfway through it, he just, he went to a meeting with some other Congressional staffers because he had gone earlier for a hearing. He was going to testify in, right, about MK Ultra and CIA and all that stuff. So that's that's what we're set up. And while he's there, he meets this staffer who tells him about skiffs that he's gone in, right, secured compartmented information facilities. So basically this staffer shouldn't be telling anybody what he's seeing inside, first of all. And he's basically telling him if you saw what we saw, you wouldn't be agnostic about this.
So that's where we're at with that, right? And this is where it's going to get juicy. So then I said to him, I go, you know, you're talking to someone who's a real layperson. I have friends, I mean, I know like Danny Jones, you're talking about Jesse Michaels. He's the one who has American Alchemy. These guys have podcasts that they do just on UFOs. And not Danny does lots of stuff, but Jesse's almost all UFOs. And I'm like, if he were here, he would know exactly what to ask this guy. And I said, all right, well, they keep releasing, you know, supposedly new photos, new videos. Why are they still kind of blurry? And he said to me, he said, oh, God, I'm going to get in trouble. This is just in Europe, right? This fog has... He said to me, the reason it's... He didn't use the word limited hangout because we have to release something because Trump has... That says, eat it. We have to do disclosure. But we can't release everything because we have recovered crafts and recovered beings.
And if we release, for instance, what we know about those videos, about philosophy, and how they are able to vanish and move and go on and all that, we're developing that technology for our defense program, our warfare. And we can't release all that because then the enemy has it and they're going to develop the same technology. That's why everything is limited. So I'm never going to be asked back, but that's okay. You know, and he told me a couple of other things and I'm like, okay, I'm now kind of a believer. What else did he tell you? All right, so we're going to get to those other things here in just a second. But let's focus on this. This is the big bombshell from this clip that everyone is going to be talking about. So essentially, Tom is saying that this staffer told him, right, that the US government has recovered craft, recovered beings, and it's all about the race to reverse engineer or engineer this technology.
So our adversaries don't take the lead, essentially. Right, so that's why we haven't done the full disclosure like people want. We're just putting out bullshit because the real shit we can't show, because if we do, then our adversaries will know about it and this, that, and the other. Right, so that's the gist of it. So yes, I have a few questions. One, again, why is he allowed to tell this guy, this journalist, on the record, loosely in public, about recovered craft, recovered beings, and basically the entire American military strategy for why this stuff shouldn't get out. And then Tom's just repeating it on a podcast for the adversaries to hear. Right, does that make any sense that the entire playbook would be revealed like this? Right, again, it doesn't make any sense at all. And they just say recovered craft, recovered beings, they don't say, not human,
right, doesn't say nonhuman, does say alien. Now again, that's what he's implying, and that's what we're taking from it. But just saying this is a caveat, but again, how would this staffer be allowed to reveal that? The stuff he's learned, right, the sort of military strategy. It sounds like a nation strategy to not reveal this stuff. And he's sort of implying that Trump knows about it. Right, Trump knows that this is happening. There's a lot to take from this. So I don't know, you know, I'm going to be curious to read the comments on this video and about this particular interaction. Again, this guy isn't in the UFO community. He just went to this UFO disclosure foundation event while he's there. This staffer starts talking to him and tells him this stuff. That's what he's and then he's repeating it on a podcast. Honestly, very typical, as we're podcasts or four. But my thing is, why would the staffer be allowed to reveal that stuff? That information would be classified. All of that would be classified.
So again, I don't know, let me know what you think the comments now. Let's move on to some of the other things that this person mentioned. What else did he tell you? Well, the thing is so much of the science is over my head because I'm in dummy. But he was talking about Jeff Propulsion and the stuff that, so they basically have crafts. And they, I think it's in these new, I haven't seen Spielberg's movies, but I know that a lot of the people who believe this stuff believe that we have recovery and they're hidden somewhere and then they're reassembled and we're trying to figure out how they work. He said, we figured out how they do what they do that normal man-made crafts can't do and we're developing those that weaponry. The other interesting thing he said during the hearing or during the meeting was at that point then there's three more people like him for the different three other congressmen. And he said, remember what I told you about the skiffs? I think I don't know how it even came up, but he said
something about, maybe I was talking about how horrible it is to write about a pregnant woman getting stabbed 17 times and that kind of stuff. And he goes, well, it's like I told you, we have nightmares from what we learn in skiffs. And he goes, in fact, I was the one, and I'm really saying who he was. He goes, I was the one who got them to pass, not pass a bill, but pass some kind of make a rule that each of our staff, people who are staffed to us, anyone that has to go into skiffs who's not elected has to get psychiatric care, because you need to learn how to live with these secrets and they haunt you. So there were four people with him at the hearing sitting on the crowd. I mean, at the prep meeting. And I said, so all you guys are in free therapy. And they all said, yeah, and then one woman said, I'm not, I go, oh, why not? Because you're fine. She goes, no, no, because I just started here. And I'm an intern. Do I get free therapy? You know, she didn't even know about it. So I think it's
pretty serious. But I don't really know much more. I would tell you, actually, if I had anything else to tell you, I'd tell you off the record, but I think I've told you pretty much everything he's said of your UFO guy. No, but we've done a bit on it every now and then. I'm probably the same as you. Like, well, it just seems, it seems impossible. All right. So therapy part is kind of interesting. So everyone has to do therapy based on the things that they hear working in, you know, on the hill. Right. And DC. I got it. That makes sense. No problem. Doesn't mean aliens, but, you know, there's another interesting part because after this, they do talk about more stuff. But I just didn't include it. But some of the stuff they talk about is, you know, the interviewer is like, Hey, why is it just in America? Why is it just in this one? And then the, you know, Tom, this journalist, like, well, they do talk about other countries, you know, having this stuff. So if other countries have it, and of course, I've heard that too, right? We've talked about that on here multiple time. Like there's all kinds of countries with their own UFO lore. But it defeats
the argument of, well, we don't want to talk about it or because our adversaries. But if they have it too, don't you want to be the first country to announce it? You'll be known in history. That's what doesn't make sense. Right. You're saying you're, you're, it's this race against the adversaries, but you're saying they also have it. So why wouldn't you just come out and talk about it? If they have it too, you're not revealing anything, they don't know. Right. So I don't know. Again, this is also confusing. And I just can't get over the fact of why this staffer would reveal that information to Tom O'Neill. Right. I get the information. I'm hearing it, recovered craft, recovered beings. I get it. Okay. I'm just saying, how can he reveal that? And the strategy of America, we can't reveal it because our adversaries, you know, also reveal the stretch. So anyway, let me know what you think the comments are better. Before we go, I do have one last thing. My friend Ryan Sprague who runs the somewhere in the sky's podcast is holding a free UFO conference.
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