As Black Mirror and The Simpsons have an uncanny habit of showing us, TV shows can sometimes bizarrely seem to predict the future. While it’s just a case of life imitating art, the latest claims from former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz definitely sound like they’ve been pulled from an episode of The X-Files. Hey, if Ryan Coogler needs some inspiration for his upcoming reboot, get Gaetz on the phone.
Up there with conspiracy theories about flat Earth, 9/11, and John F. Kennedy, our obsession with popping on a tinfoil hat and speculating about aliens continues. Well-timed for SpaceX’s Artemis II launch that will take humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972, Gaetz has set tongues wagging about a supposed human-alien hybrid breeding program. Coming shortly after former President Barack Obama seemed to suggest he believed in aliens, and President Donald Trump vowed to release all the U.S. government’s files on alien life, Gaetz has thrown fuel on the fire that the general public isn’t privy to all things E.T.
Many question why Gaetz didn’t mention any of this earlier (Brandon Bell / Staff / Getty)
Suggesting something sinister is going on in the bowels of Area 51, Gaetz told Benny Johnson that there’s a secret breeding program with the intent of communicating with lifeforms from other worlds.
Referring to a whistleblower who was a “senior enlisted man with the U.S. Army,” Gaetz claimed: “I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication.”
As Johnson pushed Gaetz on the workings of biologics and interracial alien mating, it became clear this was just the start of the story.
Gaetz maintained that a uniformed member of the army came into his office in a non-classified setting, with members of his own staff apparently witnessing the interaction. He continued: “The military ran a very secret program, where aliens that were living were in forced breeding programs with humans that had been abducted from war zones and even the caravans of migrants.”
All all pretty sensationalist stuff, although Gaetz noted that he didn’t verify this himself. There were supposedly between six and 12 locations around the USA where this hybrid breeding program was taking place, with the whistleblower wanting members of Congress to descend on the various locales all at once and catch the breeding in progress.
Mainly, there are questions about why Gaetz didn’t reveal this apparent cover-up during his time in office and the legitimacy of the story because he didn’t verify it himself.
Gaetz also mentioned former United States Air Force (USAF) officer and intelligence official David Grush, who previously claimed that the government had obtained ‘non-human’ biological matter from alien crafts, but again, said he hadn’t seen physical evidence.
Responding to the clip of Gaetz, one person said: “Anyone with a decent understanding of biology would know that what he’s saying is nonsense. Matt Gaetz is either a credulous idiot, or (more likely) he’s going down the conspiracy podcaster route.”
Another alleged: “The republicans are SCRAMBLING literally saying just about anything to take away the attention from the Epstein files and the Iran war…it’s truly laughable.”
A third joked: “I think have the people running the government and running these tech companies are probably hybrids. Why they can’t act normal in public half the time.”