Editor’s Note: It is this publication’s stance that the UFO phenomenon is not about “aliens.” It seems more likely to be a combination of disinformation to cover up government programs and demonic forces that pose as “extraterrestrials” to promote a coming great deception. With that said, the standard narrative is being promoted by our government and therefore must be covered.
The upcoming congressional hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), set for September 9, promises to push the boundaries of government disclosure further than before.
Titled “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection,” the event arrives more than two years after David Grusch’s explosive 2023 testimony that first thrust the issue into the national spotlight. Grusch, a former intelligence official, alleged that the U.S. government and private aerospace companies possess “exotic craft and materials” recovered from crash sites, including what he described as “biologics”—non-human organisms. Those revelations, drawn from interviews with dozens of insiders, sparked widespread calls for accountability and fueled bipartisan frustration over perceived secrecy.
This new hearing, organized by the House Oversight Committee’s national security subcommittee, shifts the focus to firsthand accounts, a move that could lend fresh credibility to long-standing claims. Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), who represents Missouri’s 7th District and has become a driving force behind these efforts, told The Daily Wire that at least two witnesses will share direct experiences with UAP.
This marks a clear break from earlier sessions, where testimony often relied on relayed stories rather than personal encounters. Burlison’s involvement extends beyond the hearing itself; he’s collaborating with Grusch, now on his staff, to prepare a batch of interrogatory letters aimed at extracting more details from various government and private entities.
Burlison made it clear that these letters represent the real breakthrough. “I want people to know, regardless of how the hearing goes, to me, the most important thing that’s going to come out of it is the interrogatory letters that we will be dropping at the time of the hearing,” he said.
These documents, carrying official weight, could compel responses on everything from retrieval programs to potential national security risks. In an era of eroding trust in federal institutions, Burlison’s push reflects broader concerns about hidden programs wasting taxpayer dollars or compromising defense capabilities—issues that have echoed through prior UFO discussions.
Grusch’s earlier claims set the stage for this moment. During his 2023 appearance before the same subcommittee, he described a “multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program” run without congressional oversight.
He stopped short of detailing specifics in public, citing classification, but insisted the evidence pointed to non-human origins. The Pentagon has repeatedly denied these assertions, with spokespeople stating no verifiable proof of extraterrestrial activity or reverse-engineering efforts exists. Yet, Grusch’s testimony, backed by interviews with over 40 military and intelligence veterans, prompted the creation of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to investigate further—though critics argue it remains too opaque.
Building on that foundation, recent hearings have amplified the urgency. In November 2024, witnesses like Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon counterintelligence officer, testified about advanced technologies monitoring U.S. military sites that defy known human engineering. Elizondo, author of Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs, claimed the government has recovered nonhuman specimens and operates under excessive secrecy.
“UAP are real. Advanced technologies not made by our Government – or any other government – are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe,” he stated in prepared remarks.
Retired Navy Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet added to the chorus, recounting a 2015 naval exercise where a UAP video mysteriously vanished from official emails the day after circulation.
These accounts align with pilot testimonies from years past. Cmdr. David Fravor, during the 2023 hearing, detailed his 2004 encounter off California’s coast: a seamless, tic-tac-shaped object that hovered over the ocean before accelerating beyond comprehension.
“I think what we experienced was, like I said, well beyond the material science and the capabilities that we had at the time, that we have currently or that we’re going to have in the next 10 to 20 years,” Fravor said.
Similarly, Ryan Graves, a former F-18 pilot, described routine sightings of cube-shaped objects inside transparent spheres during East Coast training flights. Such reports, captured on advanced sensors, suggest not isolated anomalies but a pattern warranting serious scrutiny.
As the September 9 hearing approaches—starting at 10 a.m. ET and streaming live on YouTube—lawmakers from both parties continue to demand better reporting mechanisms. The stigma around UAP discussions has faded somewhat, but witnesses like Elizondo warn of retaliation against those who speak out, including what he called “administrative terrorism.” With Burlison’s letters poised to probe deeper, this could be the session that forces long-withheld answers into the open, addressing not just curiosity about the unknown but core questions of transparency and security in American governance.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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