I spent eight years on active duty in the Navy as an Operations Specialist, four of them aboard USS Peleliu in TACRON 11 running the Fleet Air Defense Identification Zone in the Pacific. My job was tracking what was in the air around the strike group and deciding whether it was friendly, hostile, or unknown. If it was unknown, you escalate. I have been working through the declassified 1947 records the way I would work a watch, in the order things actually happened. Here is what I keep seeing...

I spent eight years on active duty in the Navy as an Operations Specialist, with four of those years aboard USS Peleliu in TACRON 11 running the Fleet Air Defense Identification Zone. My job was tracking what was in the air around the strike group and deciding whether it was friendly, hostile, or unknown. Off the West Coast in the Pacific, my watch team logged contacts that didn't behave like anything in any manual we'd been issued. This post isn't about that. It's about why the Senate Majori...

I served as a FADIZ operator with TACRON 11 in the Pacific. My job was tracking and classifying every air contact in our battle group's airspace. I saw transmedium contacts, instantaneous disappearances, and speeds inconsistent with any known platform. We called it equipment error. It wasn't. I stopped in Roswell in 2019 on a road trip and spent hours reading the primary source documents and witness testimony. The cumulative weight of the evidence -- Mac Brazel, Jesse Marcel, Glenn Dennis, do...