Heroes and Villains: How the Secrets Task Force is Recasting the UAP Disclosure Show
What six months of "investigation" really accomplished—and why it matters
The Promise Versus the Performance
When Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced the task force in February 2025, the rhetoric was uncompromising. “This will no longer be a task force that makes bold promises only to fade into irrelevance,” she declared, promising to investigate the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations; expose UAP secrets; reveal the Epstein client list; uncover COVID-19 origins; and declassify 9/11 files—all within six months.
Six months later, the task force delivered precisely what its structure was designed to produce: maximum theater with minimal revelation. A single JFK hearing yielded few new insights. The Epstein files were managed directly by the DOJ and FBI, bypassing the task force entirely, with a statement effectively absolving Epstein’s clients from prosecution. COVID origins and 9/11 documents remain untouched. The task force’s UAP activities reveal the most sophisticated aspect of this performance. Rather than conducting genuine investigation, the task force orchestrated a series of strategic non-events:
Cancelled briefings and hearings were postponed. The single FBI briefing that Luna rated “10 out of 10” served not to reveal secrets but to position the FBI as AARO’s replacement for UAP oversight. The result of this activity? The task force secured a six-month extension from Chair James Comer to continue the performance.
The paradox is unmistakable: more UAP stories than ever before, yet less clarity. This isn’t incompetence—congressional leadership wouldn’t extend a failing operation. Someone designed it this way.
Strategic Character Assassination
The task force’s most successful function has been systematically undermining key figures through character assassination. This follows a predictable pattern seen throughout disclosure history: build up credible authorities, exploit their credibility to sell specific narratives, then undermine them at strategic moments. Fill the void with new heroes and villains. Repeat.
The Elizondo Collapse
Luis Elizondo’s credibility suffered devastating damage at the UAP Disclosure Fund panel in May 2025. During the “Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation” event—held in collaboration with the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability—Elizondo, standing alongside Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, presented what he claimed was a photograph of a massive UAP captured by a civilian pilot at 21,000 feet.
The image was swiftly debunked by internet investigators who identified it as two irrigation circles, one darker than the other, creating an optical illusion of an object casting a shadow. UFO analyst Mick West commented: “This UFO photo shows two irrigation circles. The roads are perfectly aligned, and the ‘shadow’ is in the wrong direction. It makes you wonder why Elizondo gets fooled by things like this”.
This wasn’t merely an embarrassing mistake—it represented the collapse of Elizondo’s authority within serious UAP circles, transforming him from credible figurehead to cautionary tale.
Eric Davis and the Species Revelation
At the same panel, physicist Dr. Eric Davis validated perhaps the most extraordinary claims in UAP disclosure lore. When asked by Rep. Eric Burlison about beings allegedly associated with recovered craft, Davis stated matter-of-factly: “Grays. Reptilian-types. Insectoid-types. Nordics”.
These weren’t vague references to unknown phenomena—they were the specific archetypes of UFO folklore, delivered by a credentialed physicist to a sitting member of Congress. The revelation served dual purposes: it provided tantalizing validation for believers while compromising the authority of another key disclosure figure.
The Grusch Co-opting Operation
Perhaps the most sophisticated element of this character control operation has been the strategic neutralization of David Grusch through his employment as a congressional staffer for Rep. Eric Burlison. Announced in March 2025, this arrangement positioned Grusch as a “Senior Advisor” for a four-month temporary role focused on UAP issues.
As a government employee working on an official investigation, Grusch became legally bound to silence while Burlison emerged as his public voice.
Religious Reframing
Burlison’s handling of Grusch reveals perhaps the most strategic aspect of this narrative control operation. In multiple podcast appearances and interviews, Burlison has made extraordinary assertions using Grusch’s name and credibility to validate them:
Grusch convinced him to examine the Nazca mummies because their physiology matched what Grusch saw in classified briefings
Grusch briefed President Trump on Nordic aliens, hybrids, and Gray beings
Grusch introduced him to someone who claims to communicate with angels and converted to Christianity after being told by these beings that Jesus exists
The framing of UAP phenomena through Christian theology aligns with documented efforts by the Collins Elite—religious fundamentalists embedded within the Pentagon and intelligence community who believe UAPs represent demonic forces rather than extraterrestrial visitors.
“They may not fit exactly the Biblical narrative, but whenever I use the term ‘angels,’ to me, it’s synonymous with an extradimensional being,” - Rep. Eric Burlison
By associating Grusch’s crediblity with grandiose religious interpretations, UFO lore, and the Trump administration, this approach accomplishes two objectives simultaneously. It validates Christian fundamentalists who might otherwise be threatened by implications of non-human intelligence. It weakens scientific inquiry by mixing it with faith and keeps UFO believers engaged while undermining Grusch’s authority with the broader public.
The systematic marginalization of established authority figures has coincided with the elevation of new voices whose narratives align with Christian theology, pseudoscience and Trump administration interests.
Peter Thiel’s Anti-Christ Framework
The fingerprints of tech billionaire influence pervade this operation. Peter Thiel’s documented interest in UAPs, combined with his funding of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, and his obsession with end times and the Antichrist suggests a troubling convergence at the intersection of Silicon Valley power, Christianity and political control.
Thiel’s recent comments about the Antichrist provide crucial context that coincides with a rise in Christianity in Silicon Valley and a quasi-religious push for artificial intelligence.
“The way the Antichrist would take over the world is you talk about Armageddon nonstop. You talk about existential risk nonstop, and this is what you need to regulate,” - Peter Thiel
Jake Barber and the Divine Feminine
Jake Barber’s emergence as a UAP whistleblower exemplifies this shift toward spiritually-framed narratives. His claims about “egg-shaped” craft and psychic military teams are designed to capture attention with a story that's both material and psychological. He’s also trying to win defense contracts as the founder of a VC-backed startup called Skywatcher.
Barber describes his UAP encounters in explicitly spiritual terms:
“I felt like something was inside of me I felt like I was possessed by the most beautiful spirit I’d ever been possessed by… it was a very feminine energy… felt like the spirit of God but not in any masculine sense”. - Jake Barber
This “divine feminine” framing provides religious comfort while avoiding the technological implications of advanced non-human intelligence.
Barber’s claims about “psionics”—individuals with alleged psychic abilities used to “communicate, control, and persuade UAPs to land”and a “dog whistle” signal to summon UAP—blend advanced technology elements while appealing to spiritual seekers.
Chris Bledsoe as the Prophet
Perhaps the most sophisticated character elevation has been Chris Bledsoe’s transformation from folksy construction contractor to prophetic voice. Bledsoe’s claims have grown increasingly grandiose and politically aligned, now asserting regular briefings with government officials and direct communication with the Trump administration.
His central prophetic claim centers on April 2026 and a divine figure he calls "The Lady". He predicts a “shift into a new knowledge” coinciding with an astronomical alignment. Most tellingly, Bledsoe claims that when he told the government about 2026, “they immediately put remote viewers on it and all of a sudden all the remote viewers are saying ‘Oh my god 2026 2027 something is going to happen’”. This positions him as a religious prophet that the United States government is taking seriously.
Institutional Power Transfer
The task force’s meeting with the FBI resulted in a push to transfer UAP investigation authority from the AARO to the FBI, which is arguably the most evident aspect of this operation. This apparent turf war masks a deeper strategy: AARO, despite its limitations, operates with some degree of scientific methodology, independence, and congressional oversight. The FBI, under director Kash Patel, brings UAP investigations directly under executive control.
The ongoing battle over SAP access reveals another layer of this institutional manipulation.
“I actually remember being in the SCIF with members of the UAP caucus along with the Department of Defense Air Force Major General Fighter Pilot who was the SAPO Special Access Program Officer… the reason that the members of the UAP caucus were not read into the SAP programs was because their leadership denied AARO’s request. The SAP code, the DoD SAP code requested it. And those requests were turned down by their own leadership. They felt they did not have a need to know.” - Tim Phillips
Former AARO official Tim Phillips has publicly stated that congressional leadership has blocked the UAP Task Force from accessing Special Access Programs (SAPs)—the most classified compartments where recovered UAP materials would likely be housed. Yet when questioned about this blockade, both House Oversight Chair James Comer and Speaker Mike Johnson claim complete ignorance. This contradiction suggests either a deliberate compartmentalization of information within House leadership or a coordinated effort to maintain plausible deniability while systematically limiting the task force’s investigative scope. The result is a task force that appears to be conducting oversight while being structurally prevented from accessing the most critical information—a perfect recipe for managed disappointment.
This shift from scientific to political control ensures that if disclosure comes, it will serve existing power structures rather than challenging them.
Recognition and Response
The task force’s six-month performance reveals a troubling evolution in how democratic oversight can be weaponized. What appears as the breakdown of government secrecy around UAPs is actually its transformation into something far more sophisticated—a system that provides the illusion of transparency while ensuring that real power remains hidden.
Understanding this operation requires recognizing several key dynamics:
The performance of transparency is not transparency itself—dramatic illusion serves to obscure rather than reveal
Character assassination through elevation—building up authorities only to tear them down at strategic moments
Character elevation to reframe the narrative—using authority to make phenomena more accessible to new audiences
Institutional capture through power transfer—moving oversight from congressional to executive control
We must actively stop being led by characters and their projected authority. We must understand that these figures—whether positioned as heroes or villains—are intelligence professionals, politicians, and business people whose primary allegiance is not to truth.
The stakes extend far beyond UAPs themselves. They encompass the future of democratic oversight in an age where narrative control has become the primary battleground for power. As we watch the task force prepare for continued “managed revelation,” we’re witnessing not disclosure but its opposite: the transformation of the demand for truth into a tool for its suppression.
If the Secrets Task Force’s mission was to push the UAP narrative toward Christian theology and bring oversight under executive control, then they deserve their six-month extension—they’ve done exceptional work.