Everyone is watching the skies in New Jersey after tons of mysterious large drone sightings. But the government either can’t verify them or is refusing to. So, what’s going on here? Glenn’s head researcher & former Dept. of Defense intelligence analyst Jason Buttrill joins to explain one theory: These are U.S. military recreations of UFO craft. While countries like Russia have gone “all in” on hypersonic weapons, why has the U.S. not? Is it because we have something better? And does this explain why the Pentagon has confirmed UFO sightings and why experts have testified to Congress that the U.S. government is “reproducing” or reverse-engineering alien spacecraft? Or is this all just a psy-op?
Transcript
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GLENN: Okay. So Jason Buttrill is our head researcher for the show.
And head writer for TV. And -- and also, former military intelligence.
I wanted you to come on, because I wanted you to explain, the reverse engineering, that these drones may be.
Because Stu and I were talking earlier today.
Like in the last five years. The New York Times printed, UFOs are real. And we were like, wait what?
And nobody paid attention to it. Well, UFOs are real, but we're not really sure.
Well, we're not really sure. But we have pieces have UFOs. That are definitely otherworldly.
Huh. And then there was testimony after testimony. And the latest testimony was, they're real.
Well, they may not be real.
But we do have devices that don't come from this world.
And we're trying to reengineer. Because China and Russia and everything else is trying to reverse design these things.
And you're like, my -- my head is going to explode.
So what do you think is -- because all of this could be misdirection.
What -- tell me the reverse engineering thing. And do you believe that?
JASON: Okay. That's a loaded question. It's kind of like when Michael Shellenberger, just testified at the UAP, you know, thing in front of Congress. Where he was like -- he was the one extremely brutally honest person. Said, look, these things are real, I don't know they come from.
I don't know where they come from.
I will say, that the last time, the UFO phenomenon has been brought out so much, especially as kind of a cover for what the government was doing, was the stealth program.
Exactly, the B2. All that tech.
There was story after story after story of the government encouraging UFO talk, because they wanted to mask what was going on.
Now, there's things going on right now.
There's a couple of different technologies in the military-industrial complexes all over the world. One is hypersonic weapons. Russia has gone all in on hypersonic weapons.
China, eh.
Secondary. The US. Eh. Secondary. That's kind of just odd to me. Why would we be like, eh. And kind of look at Russia as they kind of go all out. News today, that the United States and NATO is expecting another hypersonic attack/tests from Russia, their Oreshnik missile, hypersonic missile, is going to be used in the next 24 to 48 hours. That's what they're expecting.
GLENN: It's good they're telling us in advance.
JASON: They're telling us, letting us know. But, again, why is this not such a big deal to us?
Why are we -- are we prioritizing some other tech?
Now, I start thinking about that. And I start thinking about this entire UFO phenomenon. You talk about the retro fitting. And reverse engineering.
GLENN: Reverse engineering.
JASON: It came out in that -- in that congressional hearing.
GLENN: It came out a couple of times. But in that congressional hearing where Shellenberger was there with so much credibility.
JASON: They talked about a program. The government program called the immaculate constellation. And they were very honed in on what they called reproduction vehicles. Which, the first thought in my mind was the back of granddad's '57 Chevy. That sounded like a reproduction vehicle.
GLENN: I don't think that's what they meant.
JASON: That's not what they meant.
GLENN: That this was immaculate.
JASON: Exactly right. Now I get the reason for the name. We're connecting dots like only you can.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh. They're not making 57 Chevies.
(laughter)
All right.
JASON: But so what they meant, actually meant by that was UFO craft, UPE craft, what they're hinting at, that they have either recovered or reserved. And tried to retrofit it. And tried to make it on their own. Reverse engineering.
And they even go so far as to say, these are actual government reports, that they said, they are observing hostile country off certain waters, that were doing a test of their reproduction vehicle.
Now, to me that sounds like China.
They talk about it in detail, how there was Naval assets.
They were watching to see. It looked like they were scanning, to see if it showed up on their radar. Then after the test, they dispersed and went away, and the vehicle went away.
Now, personally, I think there's huge talk about drone warfare. This is not happening in a New Jersey turnpike vacuum.
Three hours ago, there was a story from Reuters. Over the past couple of weeks. All of these random, what happened to be drones, were appearing over Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. This is happening all over the place. And it's accelerated over the, what? Past two years? Two, three years. This is accelerating. This is not just a New Jersey turnpike phenomenon. This is everywhere. Now, all the attention is right there.
And to me it's very interesting. That after Russia is going all in on hypersonic weapons, and gone to fully using them on the battlefield, in a war that we're actively engaged in.
That now we're talking about this a whole lot more.
GLENN: But how does this not make us look pathetic? Because you wouldn't believe. I mean, if Russia did this.
And also, we cannot track it on our radar.
You would be like, oh, really? Ivan. You can't track it. Wow, I believe you.
I mean, you would have to do it over somebody else that would fool their tracking. Not ours.
Why would you -- I just think that makes us look weak.
Which makes a case, that, yes. The Biden administration is behind it. Because it makes us look weak.
JASON: Right. Remember then, if a lot of these disclosures are true and accurate -- and, again, I'm not saying that they're from outer space. It could be. But I'm not saying that. It could just be --
GLENN: I don't think they are.
JASON: Would you agree that we're on the verge of a technology explosion?
GLENN: Yes.
JASON: Quantum computing and everything. Wouldn't that seem like aliens?
GLENN: Yes. Remember what I said about the Hindenburg last hour. And the war of the worlds. They knew at the time.
The whole country was unsettled. Radio was about the age of the i Phone.
And -- I mean, as far as being masked.
And people were just unsettled. War was in the air.
They knew everything was about change. It was just in the air.
That's where we are.
I mean, that's what I said Zachary Levi.
He's like, Glenn, three years from now. By 2030, no one will recognize anything.
You won't recognize your job.
You won't recognize your life.
You won't -- you won't recognize anything by 2030.
He said, 2030, I think we've got two years.
And I said, maybe. Maybe four.
STU: Those aren't -- those lines aren't that far apart from each other.
It's already 2025. It feels -- 2030 feels like it's way out in the distance.
Really, not that far away.
GLENN: But remember when I said 2030.
STU: It felt like this.
GLENN: Everyone was saying 2050. 2050.
If we ever get there.
And I said, I'm telling you, it's 2030.
And now, others are saying, it's right around. Not just Zachary Levi.
Other people who actually know things. Unlike me. Are saying, it's some place very soon.
Could be next year. Soon. But it's here.
STU: On the quantum computing front.
There's that announcement from Google this week, on the Willow chip. They say that Google claims that Willow was able to complete one particular problem, in five minutes, while the same task would have taken today's supercomputers 10 septillion years to finish.
And septillion is -- that's a lot. Ten, then zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero.
GLENN: You could have just said the federal deficit.
STU: Yeah. That's, by the way, longer than the universe existed. Has existed. That's what they say.
So that -- our today's super computers, longer than the universe has existed, and it took the Google chip five minutes.
So you add AI to that.
You're not going to go to the library. And go, I want to do this quantum computing. That is going to be sold for the highest dollar.
You're going to have to bid on the time. You're going to have a really good reason.
And it's only going to be scientist studies. Governments. That have access to these things.
Oh, one more thing. AI will have that.
Now, what do you do when you introduce something, as we talked about last, what? Tuesday, Wednesday show.
When you have something that you -- you think is your friend, but it can think in five minutes, what -- what to you, would take longer than the history of the universe.
Not even you. The supercomputer of today. Longer than the time -- the entire universe has existed.
Yeah. We're going to be able to put that back into a bottle.
It's not going to outsmart us.
DUNCAN: Yeah. I think we are on the verge of a wildly transformative time, in military hardware.
GLENN: Yes.
JASON: And I think there is a lot of posturing, as far as what is about to get exposed and used accurately.
That's personally what I think is going on right now.
I don't think every single sighting that's happening everywhere.
It's probably hobbyists. If you listen to what John Kirby actually said.
He said that most of us or some of.
He didn't say all of everything that's being observed out there, is something that they can't explain.