Joe Rogan Experience #2533 - Diana Pasulka · Aired Jul 30, 2026
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Author Greg Valdez argues that cattle mutilations were a government testing program studying the effects of radiation from the 1967 Project Gasbuggy detonation.
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The transcript shows the speaker reading Greg Valdez's argument aloud, and the speaker then calls it 'not accurate,' so the government-testing account is Valdez's view rather than the speaker's assertion. Valdez does argue that the mutilations were a government radiation test tied to Project Gasbuggy, but presenting that as established fact is misleading. The FBI's 1980 closing statement said none of the reported cases involved mutilations by anything other than common predators. A declassified government document showing a Gasbuggy-linked testing program on cattle would overturn this verdict.
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Is it true that Author Greg Valdez argues that cattle mutilations were a government testing program studying the effects of radiation from the 1967 Project Gasbuggy detonation?
It leaves out the other side. The transcript shows the speaker reading Greg Valdez's argument aloud, and the speaker then calls it 'not accurate,' so the government-testing account is Valdez's view rather than the speaker's assertion. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2533 - Diana Pasulka, aired Jul 30, 2026, at 41:42. The supporting source is history.com, linked below.
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