Tucker the UFO Sucker, Government Mutes, and Bird Watchers

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Cow-ardly

Books like Keith Wolverton’s classic Mystery Stalks the Prairie (1976) or Linda Moulton Howe’s An Alien Harvest (1989) document episodes of anomalous cattle deaths. While supernatural or extraterrestrial explanations garner the most publicity, these researchers also suggest the possibility of a human actor—a quasi-paramilitary, bovine special forces that travels in black helicopters committing psy-ops on unsuspecting ranches. The U.S. Forest Service recently proved them right.

A March report from The Fence Post revealed details about the government-sponsored “aerial gunning” of 65 head of unmarked cattle by a sharpshooter riding in a helicopter. The unlucky beasts were sentenced to death after complaints about their grazing location within New Mexico’s portion of the Gila National Forest. The USFS’s approach resulted in a messy mission that left multiple bodies rotting across sections of the wilderness.

Not only did their sloppy sortie result in the slaughter of a feral herd that might have been corralled or resold, it also fulfilled every cattle mutilation researcher’s fantasy scenario by exposing federally-funded air-raids on livestock.

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Tucker’s a Sucker for UFOs

Speaking of cattle mutilations, newsreader Tucker Carlson recently examined the subject with two professional meat-cutters, known as “The Bearded Butchers.” The conversation centered around the necessary level of expertise required for someone to make the surgical, clean incisions observed in many strange animal deaths.

The guests ruled out an untrained assailant, explaining how an amateur slasher would leave telltale signs that would expose their handiwork and alluded to extraterrestrial surgeons as a possible culprit.

Adding to his coverage of fringe stories, Carlson’s primetime show brought on former AATIP employee, Luis Elizondo, to discuss details of newly released FOIA documents pertaining to UFOs.

Fox News, the network that sponsors Tucker Carlson’s show, is a conservative news outlet that caters largely to Republican viewers.

This is relevant considering the results from the 2005 Baylor Religion Survey, which indicates that politically right-leaning individuals are less likely to believe that UFOs are from another planet.

Only 17.7% of respondents who identified with the political-right Strongly Agreed or Agreed with the statement: “Some UFOs are probably spaceships from other worlds.” (The percentage was 28.2% for respondents who favored Democratic candidates; it rose to 35.1% for those who preferred a candidate outside the two-party system.)

This statistic makes Tucker’s “UFOs-as-extraterrestrial” spin all the more curious.

The people who primarily watch the channel that airs his show do not believe that alien aircraft are buzzing Earth. Ultimately, he isn’t pandering to his audience when he delves into the topic.

Carlson ended his April 6 interview with Elizondo by asking if it was silly to suggest that aerial craft seen in videos and reports were engineered by a foreign military, especially in light of growing evidence that the technology in use is beyond our current capabilities. Russia’s drawn out battle with Ukraine makes it clear that they don’t possess any advanced machinery or breakthrough gadgetry.

Carlson summarized Elizondo’s meandering, qualifier-laden answer thusly: “So it’s not human.”

When held up against the skeptical beliefs of his target demographic, Tucker’s consistent reportage on otherworldly UFOs and cattle mutilations begs further investigation.

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Give Pope a Break!

Poor Nick Pope. The UFO researcher is taking an undeserved beating in the press for suggesting if aliens were monitoring Earth, they could be doing so via drones disguised as common animals like seagulls or houseflies.

Unsurprisingly, his comments ended up as fodder for distorted headlines and articles designed to miss the point. “A UFO expert believes seagulls… are actually alien spies” scoffed an editorial in the Toronto Star. The column doubles down on the misleading rhetoric, wrongly stating that Pope “claims seagulls are alien spies.” Pope never said he “believed” or “claimed” anything—he simply suggested the possibility.

That hypothetical context didn’t matter to the Star—they found it easier to label Pope’s cursory speculation as a “flutter into Crazy Town.”

So while the press will extol unsubstantiated reports about ET-pregnancies and UFO side-effects, Pope’s speculation about how an advanced alien intelligence might choose to infiltrate our planet using inconspicuous monitoring devices is for the birds? Got it.

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