Joe Rogan Experience #2533 - Diana Pasulka · Aired Jul 30, 2026
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The Bush administration convened a group of scientists to discuss the disclosure of alien crafts and biological remains.
The finding
What the evidence shows
A Pentagon review (AARO), publicly released in March 2024, confirms that a Northern Virginia group studied the consequences of a hypothetical disclosure sometime between 2004 and 2007. That same review reports that two former White House officials said the White House neither requested the study nor knew about it, which contradicts the claim that the Bush administration convened it. The claims about alien craft and biological remains come from secondhand accounts by Grusch and Puthoff, and the study's conclusions are not public. A signed White House tasking memo or funding record for the 2004 exercise would overturn this verdict.
Read the supporting source · theuapconvergence.substack.com ↗Quick answer & review status
Quick answer
Is it true that the Bush administration convened a group of scientists to discuss the disclosure of alien crafts and biological remains?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. A Pentagon review (AARO), publicly released in March 2024, confirms that a Northern Virginia group studied the consequences of a hypothetical disclosure sometime between 2004 and 2007. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2533 - Diana Pasulka, aired Jul 30, 2026, at 1:43:05. The supporting source is theuapconvergence.substack.com, linked below.
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