Rep. Eric Burlison: David Grusch Told Me About 'Nordic Aliens' And 'Grays'
The cult of UFO disclosure is an old time religion
David Grusch, the “UAP whistleblower” at the center of a sensational congressional hearing in 2023, has a new job. He works for Rep. Eric Burlison of Missouri, who is a member of the “UAP caucus” in Congress. Speaking in an X.com space on Friday, Burlison revealed information that his new employee has told him about the “non-human biologics” that visit earth regularly.
“The Nordic aliens are a few hundred years more advanced than we are,” Burlison told the audience, “but they’re not super-advanced.” They are mere elder siblings to humanity, whereas the aliens who meet our earthly need for intergalactic paternalism come straight out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind or The X-Files.
They’re not, like, he said the grays, whatever’s sending the grays, is extremely advanced, like thousands and thousands of years more than us, because it’s doing all the antigravity stuff, all the crazy, all this crazy stuff that’s very highly advanced. A lot of it, what he says, with the grays, is psionic. So they basically don’t have physical interfaces, they’re using their mind, and there’s an interface that picks up thought, and … that’s how they operate these vehicles, is out of psionic. But the Nordic people somewhat resemble humans, and they have been experimenting with cross-breeding with humans, and he says that there are aliens that are crossbreeds living in the world. And I asked him, “Okay, do they know that they’re a crossbreed? Or do they, like, how would you know that they’re a crossbreed?” And he didn’t have an answer for that. Like, he didn’t know if they knew … but he said, the briefings he’s had, describe .. you know, talked about them. And he said when Trump was briefed on this topic, because he finally had a briefing, and he was in the middle of impeachment, like he was being impeached, so he was going through that, and then he had like this existential briefing that just kind of rocked his world view. He joked in the briefing, whenever they said that there were these halfbreeds, he joked that Adam Schiff must be one of them.
Arthur C. Clarke famously said that any technology sufficiently advanced beyond our comprehension is effectively indistinguishable from magic. Grusch has described magic, which is supposed to be more credible because the aliens have had “thousands and thousands of years” to advance beyond our primitive understanding of physics.
Except that is not how science works. Birds and bees knew how to fly tens of millions of years ago, then humans worked out the physics to do the same. No animal has ever been shown to transmit its thoughts. After more than a century of dubious experiments in parapsychology, no human has ever demonstrated the power to transmit their own thoughts without language. Psionics remain a fantasy science, not an actual science.
Nor is scientific advancement infinite. We are in fact seeing a slowdown of significant scientific breakthroughs as they become harder to achieve all the time, suggesting that technological progress has limits. Moreover, humans may be limited to the earth-environment where we evolved, as our bodies require nutrients that may not be common on other planets with biospheres, whereas the life on another planet will have evolved to take advantage of its native biome. Nor should we expect alien chromosomes to fit well with human ones, even if we look similar. Put simply, making alien crossbreeds might be impossible, and even if you could make them, it would not guarantee their survival on earth.
Here is the relevant clip of the X.com space.
To me, this anecdote — Trump cracking a joke about Adam Schiff being a “halfbreed” — seems like a MAGA-pleaser. It should be easy enough to fact-check. Surely Donald Trump would remember such a momentous briefing. He has no special loyalty to classification regimes, so surely he would not hesitate to confirm or deny it. I do hope someone in the Washington press corps asks this question. (I will not hold my breath.) In the meantime, if Burlison is correct about the details Grusch gave him, it is the clearest confirmation to date that the disclosure cult is in fact an old time religion.
When I write “the disclosure cult,” I am referring to the crowd of people around David Grusch who maintain that a decades-long cover-up of alien crash retrievals and reverse-engineered technologies continues in our day, and furthermore that revealing the hidden secrets of Area 51 to the world will usher in a New Age through “ontological shock.” It is in fact a restatement of Aquarianism, the occult belief in transformative spiritual epochs on earth: when the flying saucers are revealed, there will be world peace, goes the story. David Grusch is properly understood as a spiritual leader. He actually says he wants to bring a “spiritual awakening” to the world.
Nordic aliens are a familiar trope from the bricolage of UFO religion. Building on the work of theosophists like Helena Blavatsky, German alternative religions of the late 19th and early 20th century racialized the extraterrestrial. Adolf Hitler ultimately chose the swastika, a symbol borrowed from Theosophy, to represent his political party, but this racialized narrative has evolved.
Indeed, the most famous cult leader in ufology, the Swiss prophet Eduard ‘Billy’ Meier, ascribed the existence of the human race itself to alien races, with Nordic aliens being the most spiritually advanced, in his revelatory texts. If David Grusch has ever mentioned the Pleiades as the origin of his Nordic aliens, then Rep. Burlison might as well skip the middleman and get his ‘information’ through a donation to the Semjase Silver Star Center in Switzerland.
Then there are ‘the grays.’ We owe this cultural trope to Betty Hill, who along with her husband Barney became the first couple to ever report being abducted by aliens. At first, Betty described the aliens as having large noses, which she compared to the famously-large nose of comic actor Jimmy Durante. Over the years, however, Betty’s dreams, hypnotic regressions, and increasing interest in New Age religion altered her narrative, and the aliens became utterly noseless.
Their appearance in the 1977 Steven Spielberg film Close Encounters fixed the popular culture image of the ‘grays’ abducting humans, while The X-Files popularized the trope of little gray aliens experimenting on humans. None of this is original to David Grusch.
When Burlison confirmed the story that he had hired Grusch with Blake Burman of NewsNation in March, he called Donald Trump “the disclosure president.” Importantly, Grusch is working for Burlison, not the committee. Burlison wanted Grusch to help him “navigate the intelligence community,” found Grusch a “very credible witness” whose “credentials are amazing,” and felt he could be helpful “knowing what questions to ask” in pursuit of transparency.
When Burman asked Rep. Burlison whether he had access to Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, the representative admitted he did not have “a direct line.” But he noted that Grusch has “direct lines” to significant people, such as “Tulsi,” naming Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who belongs to a cult.
Burlison also called himself “a skeptic.” If he is paying David Grusch actual money, then I frankly wonder what he means by that word.
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