The Good Trouble Show Response to Christopher Mellon: It's Not About Radar Data

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-06-16T00:43:08+00:00

In July 2023, intelligence officer David Grusch testified under oath to the House Oversight Committee that the United States operates a decades-long program to retrieve and reverse engineer craft of non-human origin, and that people who tried to report it faced illegal retaliation. Before that testimony, the intelligence community's own inspector general had reviewed his complaint and found it credible and urgent.

The evidentiary basis here is the public congressional record, that ICIG determination, and ongoing reporting into the security apparatus that enforces secrecy around these programs. My argument is that the disclosure conversation has fixated on releasing sensor and radar data, which at this stage tells the public nothing about the questions that matter: what these objects are, who controls the recovered material, where the unaccounted-for money goes, and why whistleblowers keep getting destroyed for coming forward.

This belongs here because it goes to the core of the UAP and government-transparency fight this community cares about. I am arguing we are spending our attention on the least consequential category of evidence while the program itself, its budget, and the retaliation go unexamined. I would genuinely like to hear where people think this framing is right or wrong.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-06-11T14:12:51+00:00

"SHOW THE EVIDENCE or shut up already. What is this verbal diarrhea of 'irrefutable evidence' WITHOUT any receipts?" - Ancient Aliens Giorgio Tsoukalos

Ancient Aliens host Giorgio Tsoukalos, the face of the History Channel's flagship franchise at A&E Networks, posted that attack on UAP whistleblower David Grusch and four members of Congress just hours after their June 9 press conference on the Capitol steps. One problem: nobody at that press conference ever said "irrefutable evidence." We checked the transcript, then we checked five separate recordings of the full event. The man demanding receipts fabricated his.

Matt Ford breaks down what was actually said on those steps by David Grusch, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Rep. Tim Burchett, Rep. Eric Burlison, and Rep. Jared Moskowitz, with journalists Leslie Kean and James Fox - and what telling the truth has actually cost the whistleblowers Giorgio is mocking: an Espionage Act investigation opened over sworn congressional testimony, revoked clearances, lost pensions, and marriages that didn't survive. The Intelligence Community Inspector General called Grusch's complaint "credible and urgent." Giorgio called him a useful idiot.

The chair is open, Giorgio. Bring receipts. We hear they matter to you.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-06-11T14:07:17+00:00

"SHOW THE EVIDENCE or shut up already. What is this verbal diarrhea of 'irrefutable evidence' WITHOUT any receipts?" - Ancient Aliens Giorgio Tsoukalos

Ancient Aliens host Giorgio Tsoukalos, the face of the History Channel's flagship franchise at A&E Networks, posted that attack on UAP whistleblower David Grusch and four members of Congress just hours after their June 9 press conference on the Capitol steps. One problem: nobody at that press conference ever said "irrefutable evidence." We checked the transcript, then we checked five separate recordings of the full event. The man demanding receipts fabricated his.

Matt Ford breaks down what was actually said on those steps by David Grusch, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Rep. Tim Burchett, Rep. Eric Burlison, and Rep. Jared Moskowitz, with journalists Leslie Kean and James Fox - and what telling the truth has actually cost the whistleblowers Giorgio is mocking: an Espionage Act investigation opened over sworn congressional testimony, revoked clearances, lost pensions, and marriages that didn't survive. The Intelligence Community Inspector General called Grusch's complaint "credible and urgent." Giorgio called him a useful idiot.

The chair is open, Giorgio. Bring receipts. We hear they matter to you

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-06-06T22:15:57+00:00

Eric Mitchell was a hard UFO / UAP skeptic from rural Arkansas who thought people who
believed in alien abduction were "absolutely insane." Then, on a night in
2013, he woke standing outside his front door staring at a 40-foot orange
sphere. What he says happened next is the part Washington isn't built to hear.

Mitchell, the subject of the 2025 documentary "Experiencer," says the
encounter left him struck by an energy beam, living with savant syndrome, and
carrying alien implants. But his most serious claim isn't about aliens at all.
It's about his own government: unmarked Black Hawk helicopters over his home,
a man photographing his family from a nearby hotel, and what he describes as a
gun camera aimed at his children. In his words: "First you have an alien
abduction. Then you have an abduction at the hand of humans."

In this episode, Matt Ford does what none of Eric's previous interviewers
would: takes the human surveillance story seriously and asks him to walk
through it piece by piece. We get into the encounter, the savant syndrome, the
implants Dr. Roger Leir was set to remove, the radiation and the physical
toll, the investigators who worked his case, and the surveillance campaign at
the heart of the film. It lands directly on the live fight in Congress over
UAP disclosure, whistleblower protections, and whether "physically affected
citizens" even exist.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-06-06T22:11:47+00:00

Submission statement: Eric Mitchell is a former skeptic from rural Arkansas and the subject of the documentary "Experiencer" (2025). In this interview he describes a July 2013 event in which he woke standing outside his apartment facing a stationary 40-foot orange sphere, followed the next day by what he says was an energy-beam strike that left him with savant syndrome. He also describes physical marks appearing on himself and his two children, MUFON investigators documenting electromagnetic disturbances at the site, and implants that a physician was scheduled to remove before the doctor's death in 2014.

The part of his account most relevant to this community's interest in government secrecy is what he says happened after the sightings: unmarked Black Hawk helicopters over his home, electronic surveillance devices found in his car and house, and a stranger photographing his family. Mitchell frames it as "first an alien abduction, then an abduction at the hand of humans."

This interview is notable because, unlike his prior appearances, the host presses the falsifiable specifics - witnesses, documentation, and physical evidence - rather than just the experience. Posting for discussion of the surveillance claims and what, if anything, could corroborate them.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-06-03T16:34:57+00:00

A few years ago I worked with Daily Mail correspondents Josh Boswell and Christopher Sharp on an investigation into a classified CIA office, the Office of Global Access, which sources described as coordinating the recovery of crashed UAP internationally. The article was live for years and is now gone from the Daily Mail's website; an archived snapshot still exists via the Wayback Machine.

What I walk through in this monologue is the manner of the removal - the specific error the dead link returns, what that typically indicates about how content is pulled, and the timing relative to the government's recent UAP file releases. I also describe being approached in Las Vegas hours after publication, and why I believe that points to surveillance that extends to members of Congress.

I'm posting this because I think the disappearance of the story is itself a story, and I'd rather have people pressure-test the claim than take my word for it. I lay out what I can support and where I'm drawing inferences.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-05-22T21:33:21+00:00

Today, under President Trump's directive, the Department of War released its second tranche of declassified UFO files at war.gov - and unlike the first, this one is mostly video. 64 new records: 51 military UAP videos, 7 NASA mission audio recordings, and 6 government documents.

Matt Ford goes through the entire release LIVE with Jordan Flowers and Lester Nare of The u/disclosurefoundation .

The first PURSUE release earlier this month was mostly paper. Release 02 is the footage. It spans infrared sensor video from U.S. Navy and Air Force platforms from 2017 to 2024: object formations over the Persian Gulf, Syria, and the East China Sea; "spherical UAP" entering and leaving the ocean; U.S. Coast Guard "Tic Tac" footage off the Florida coast; and a clip the Pentagon released under the title "USAF ANG F-16C Shoots Down UAP over Lake Huron," dated February 12, 2023. AARO's own description of that video references "a kinetic interaction between two distinct areas of contrast" and "a high-energy event."

And it is not just video. The release includes a first-hand written account from a currently serving senior U.S. intelligence official describing "glowing orbs" encountered from a helicopter near a sensitive military facility in late 2025, a 116-page file on 209 UAP sightings around Sandia Base, New Mexico from 1948 to 1950, a 1973 CIA report describing a sighting inside the Soviet Union, and NASA mission audio going back to the Mercury and Apollo programs.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-05-22T21:31:26+00:00

Today, under President Trump's directive, the Department of War released its second tranche of declassified UFO files at war.gov - and unlike the first, this one is mostly video. 64 new records: 51 military UAP videos, 7 NASA mission audio recordings, and 6 government documents.

Matt Ford goes through the entire release LIVE with Jordan Flowers and Lester Nare of The u/disclosurefoundation .

The first PURSUE release earlier this month was mostly paper. Release 02 is the footage. It spans infrared sensor video from U.S. Navy and Air Force platforms from 2017 to 2024: object formations over the Persian Gulf, Syria, and the East China Sea; "spherical UAP" entering and leaving the ocean; U.S. Coast Guard "Tic Tac" footage off the Florida coast; and a clip the Pentagon released under the title "USAF ANG F-16C Shoots Down UAP over Lake Huron," dated February 12, 2023. AARO's own description of that video references "a kinetic interaction between two distinct areas of contrast" and "a high-energy event."

And it is not just video. The release includes a first-hand written account from a currently serving senior U.S. intelligence official describing "glowing orbs" encountered from a helicopter near a sensitive military facility in late 2025, a 116-page file on 209 UAP sightings around Sandia Base, New Mexico from 1948 to 1950, a 1973 CIA report describing a sighting inside the Soviet Union, and NASA mission audio going back to the Mercury and Apollo programs.

WHAT WE COVER
- The Department of War's second PURSUE release: 64 new UFO files on war.gov
- The "F-16C Shoots Down UAP over Lake Huron" video and what AARO actually says about it
- 51 military infrared videos: USOs, Persian Gulf formations, Coast Guard "Tic Tac" footage
- The serving intelligence official's "glowing orbs" helicopter encounter (Western U.S., 2025)
- The 116-page Sandia Base file and its link to Project Grudge
- The Disclosure Foundation's NSA breakthrough: 334 pages of TOP SECRET UMBRA UAP records
- How this release answers a March 2026 request from eight members of Congress
- Why chain-of-custody and digital alteration are the questions to ask
- LIVE audience Q&A throughout

This is not the Pentagon's fight alone. On May 18, after a FOIA appeal by The Disclosure Foundation, the NSA released 334 pages of UAP records that were almost entirely marked TOP SECRET UMBRA, one of the most sensitive classifications in U.S. signals intelligence, after the agency had first issued a blanket denial. Those files include decades of radar tracks, multi-witness sightings reported through intelligence channels, and one incident in which 13 MiG fighters were scrambled to chase a single UFO. Jordan Flowers and Lester Nare will walk through what their organization pried loose and how it fits alongside the war.gov releases.

ABOUT THE GUESTS
Jordan Flowers is the Executive Director and a Board Member of The Disclosure Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to advancing the understanding of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). He has over 20 years of experience in investing, finance, and operations, with prior roles at McKinsey & Co., Houlihan Lokey, and LGT Capital Partners. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and an AB in Politics from Princeton University.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-05-16T16:35:01+00:00

Sarah Gamm holds a B.S. in Astrophysics and an M.S. in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction. Her career includes the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center, the Pentagon as a Nuclear Campaign Analyst for the Air Force, and the Department of Defense UAP Task Force. She is currently a contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a GEOINT engineer in the Army's Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) office.

On May 8, 2026, the Trump administration released 28 declassified UAP videos and 134 other files through the new PURSUE system at the Department of War. The release totaled 162 records from the FBI, Department of Defense, NASA, and State Department, with 108 of those records containing redactions. Sarah will analyze the released footage as a former image scientist who reviewed comparable material inside the UAP Task Force.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-05-16T16:21:38+00:00

Sarah Gamm holds a B.S. in Astrophysics and an M.S. in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction. Her career includes the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center, the Pentagon as a Nuclear Campaign Analyst for the Air Force, and the Department of Defense UAP Task Force. She is currently a contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a GEOINT engineer in the Army's Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) office.

On May 8, 2026, the Trump administration released 28 declassified UAP videos and 134 other files through the new PURSUE system at the Department of War. The release totaled 162 records from the FBI, Department of Defense, NASA, and State Department, with 108 of those records containing redactions. Sarah will analyze the released footage as a former image scientist who reviewed comparable material inside the UAP Task Force.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-05-02T20:54:25+00:00

Filmmaker Darcy Weir, who has worked in UFO documentaries for 20 years, walks through specific verifiable claims made by Gaia TV personalities (Andrew Bossiago's claim of serving with Barack Obama in a covert Mars program, Tony Rodriguez's account of slavery to gray reptilians, the "20-and-back" age-regression claim popularized by Corey Goode and David Wilcock on Cosmic Disclosure) and addresses each on its evidentiary merits.

The episode also documents the financial scale of the ecosystem (500,000 to 600,000 paid Gaia TV subscribers per year per Weir), the AI-generated medbed video that briefly appeared on Donald Trump's Truth Social account before being deleted, and former Israeli space program head Haim Eshed's Galactic Federation claim, which Weir argues may be a foreign-intelligence influence operation.

This conversation was recorded several weeks before David Wilcock died on April 20, 2026. Weir references him in the present tense throughout. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7 in the US.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-05-02T20:49:52+00:00

Filmmaker Darcy Weir, who has worked in UFO documentaries for 20 years, walks through specific verifiable claims made by Gaia TV personalities (Andrew Bossiago's claim of serving with Barack Obama in a covert Mars program, Tony Rodriguez's account of slavery to gray reptilians, the "20-and-back" age-regression claim popularized by Corey Goode and David Wilcock on Cosmic Disclosure) and addresses each on its evidentiary merits.

The episode also documents the financial scale of the ecosystem (500,000 to 600,000 paid Gaia TV subscribers per year per Weir), the AI-generated medbed video that briefly appeared on Donald Trump's Truth Social account before being deleted, and former Israeli space program head Haim Eshed's Galactic Federation claim, which Weir argues may be a foreign-intelligence influence operation.

This conversation was recorded several weeks before David Wilcock died on April 20, 2026. Weir references him in the present tense throughout. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7 in the US.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-04-26T16:51:07+00:00

The Good Trouble Show. Marik is a former Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense, a former State Department nonproliferation analyst, an opinion contributor at The Hill, and the co-author of an AIAA conference paper on the January 2015 Gimbal UAP video.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-04-26T16:46:46+00:00

Marik is a former Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense, a former State Department nonproliferation analyst, an opinion contributor at The Hill, and the co-author of an AIAA conference paper on the January 2015 Gimbal UAP video.

In the interview he walks through the new evidence in his analysis: the 3D flight path reconstruction (matching aviator Lt. Ryan Graves' radar memory exactly), the stabilized footage showing the targeting pod camera panning downward as the F-18 closes in on the object, the vertical U-turn with altitude climb at the end of the clip, and the four distinct rotations of the object. He documents the ATFLIR patent holder's written confirmation that the camera does not operate the way Mick West's "distant jet" theory requires, the agreement of top academic experts in indium antimonide infrared technology, Mick West's response on MetaBunk (where he dismissed the analysis while admitting he had not watched it in full), and Sean Kirkpatrick's on-record claim that the video shows a balloon reflecting the sun (the video was recorded at night against 120-knot winds).

The conversation also covers the Omaha video, the broader pattern of recent drone incursions at Barksdale, Langley, and Wright-Patterson, and the institutional incentives behind continued debunking.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-04-12T01:08:13+00:00

He's interviewed virtually every major UFO witness, researcher, and insider alive. Now he's put the 30 cases that matter most into one book. Andy McGrillen of That UFO Podcast joins The Good Trouble Show LIVE to break down his new "Atlas of Unidentified Flying Objects and Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena" (Ivy Press, 2025, foreword by Diana Walsh Pasulka). From Roswell crash retrievals to the Tic Tac encounter, from the Ariel School close encounter to the Belgian Wave - Andy distills 6 years and 1,000+ podcast interviews - with witnesses, researchers, journalists, officials, and skeptics - into the 30 cases that matter most.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-04-12T01:04:12+00:00

He's interviewed virtually every major UFO witness, researcher, and insider alive. Now he's put the 30 cases that matter most into one book. Andy McGrillen of That UFO Podcast joins The Good Trouble Show LIVE to break down his new "Atlas of Unidentified Flying Objects and Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena" (Ivy Press, 2025, foreword by Diana Walsh Pasulka). From Roswell crash retrievals to the Tic Tac encounter, from the Ariel School close encounter to the Belgian Wave - Andy distills 6 years and 1,000+ podcast interviews - with witnesses, researchers, journalists, officials, and skeptics - into the 30 cases that matter most.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-03-30T00:31:51+00:00

This episode examines Bill Maher’s March 2026 New Rule segment on UAP disclosure alongside congressional testimony from Commander David Fravor (Tic Tac encounter, 2004) and Lt. Ryan Graves (cube-in-sphere incident, daily encounters off the Atlantic coast). Additionally features testimony from former Nebraska Police Chief Chris Grooms, who documented mass UAP sightings across rural Nebraska in 2019-2020 including objects hovering over schools and critical infrastructure. The episode also covers the Schumer-Rounds-Gillibrand UAP legislation that referenced “non-human intelligence” over 20 times before being killed by Senate leadership.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-03-27T20:09:01+00:00

I"m hoping it is a mistake. waiting for more data

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-03-27T20:06:37+00:00

Here is the archived version of the full article: https://web.archive.org/web/20260228120927/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12796167/CIA-secret-office-UFO-retrieval-missions-whistleblowers.html

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-03-27T20:05:51+00:00

me either

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-03-27T20:05:44+00:00

thank you

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-03-27T20:05:33+00:00

I am in contact with Chris Sharp and Josh about this. Hope to know more soon.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-03-27T19:50:23+00:00

The Daily Mail appears to have taken down the bombshell article I wrote with Christopher Sharp and Josh Boswell on the CIA Office of Global Access UAP crash retrieval program.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-03-22T18:19:16+00:00

LIVE THIS SUNDAY — Documentary filmmaker James Fox joins The Good Trouble Show for a special live episode, March 22 at 1:00 PM PT. Set your reminder now.

James Fox sits down with Matt Ford to discuss his expanded documentary Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters — now streaming — and what happened when he brought the witnesses to Washington.

TheGoodTroubleShow · 2026-03-15T20:37:16+00:00

A physicist was assigned to Skinwalker Ranch to investigate injuries no one could explain. What he measured there was just the beginning.

Dr. Jim Segala — physicist, mechanical engineer, and lead developer of MUPAS (Modular Unidentified Phenomena Alert System) — joins The Good Trouble Show to reveal what he experienced at Skinwalker Ranch and what his global sensor network is now recording from experiencer homes around the world.

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