What happened to the drones?

A Mysterious Manifesto

Well, the unexplained objects haven’t gone away and a few might even be getting bigger. A few days before Christmas, two witnesses in the New Jersey township of Manalapan videotaped a silent, fast-moving, black triangle-shaped object the size of a bus. Others in the Garden State said they saw between 20 to 30 hovering drones on New Year’s Day,

At the same time, the former chief of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO, established in 2022 to look into such things) published an op-ed in Scientific American downplaying concerns about the current situation. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick opined that the sightings might in fact be “flying commercial drones, complete with lights, to test reactions of both the public and the government.”

But the New Year’s Day explosion of a rented Tesla Cybertruck outside Las Vegas’ Trump International Hotel has added a new wrinkle to the drone mystery. The driver was a 37-year-old Green Beret who apparently committed suicide with a gunshot to the head after setting up a car bomb. His name was Matthew Livelsberger and, according to Newsweek, he was on leave from a base in Germany where he “helped to integrate drones into the Army and ensured they were operated and maintained to a sufficient standard.”

That could be innocuous enough, but the morning before his death Livelsberger had dispatched what he called a “manifesto.” He emailed it to Sam Shoemate, a retired soldier and intelligence analyst who has thousands of followers across social media platforms as a well-known advocate for military veterans. Livelsberger claimed that federal agents were tracking him and wanted Shoemate to connect with media outlets to share his allegations. And Livelsberger mentioned having VBIED (vehicle-borne explosives).

Shoemate, who says the message came to him out-of-the-blue, was understandably spooked by what transpired the next day in Las Vegas. He then turned the email over to the FBI and, shortly before the FBI verified its legitimacy, Shoemate made the contents public. This took place on a podcast hosted by a former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor who Shoemate knew, the Shawn Ryan Show, which has almost 3.6 million YouTube subscribers. Here is a link for any of you wanting to see what they talked about.

Mainstream media coverage has largely shied away from what Livelsberger revealed, perhaps because an investigation is ongoing and what he wrote is impossible to verify. But Livelsberger’s allegations raise some very big questions, some of which may be pertinent to the unexplained droves of drones recently observed by hundreds of witnesses across the country - activity explained away by the Pentagon, but whose true purpose many believe is being covered up.

Keep in mind that Livelsberger, in providing his military credentials in the email, stated that he possessed active UAP access. That’s short for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, the current euphemism for what used to be called UFOs. He wrote in his email: “What we have been seeing with ‘drones’ is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft by most recently China in the east coast….Only we and China have this capability.”

So, just what are gravitic propulsion systems? For more than a hundred years, this has been theorized to be a technology that defies known limits of aerodynamics by manipulating gravity, which would be able to move spacecraft that then wouldn’t need to rely on rockets or jet engines. Looking for information online, I found an article headlined “The Future of Space Travel: Understanding the Gravitic Propulsion System” which had just been appeared on January 4 in an online British publication called Culture Mosaic. The article noted: “Scientists believe that by creating artificial gravitational fields, a spacecraft could ‘fall’ toward its destination, even if it’s millions of miles away. This concept builds on Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which describes how massive objects curve spacetime. If we could control those curves, we could essentially control movement.”

I also came across several books that have been written on the gravitics subject, including Thomas Valone’s scholarly 2005 Electrogravitics II: Validating Reports On a New Propulsion Methodology and physicist Paul A. LaViolette’s 2008 Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, UFOs, and Classified Aerospace Technology, both available on Amazon. And I learned that in the 1950s, a pioneer in this research named T. Townsend Brown briefly became director of a National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena that analyzed reports about what were then called “flying saucers.”

However, Livelsberger wasn’t alluding to anything like that, but to a drone threat he saw coming from China. His email continued: “China has been launching them [the ‘drones’] from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up.” He considered “the speed and stealth of this unmanned AC [aircraft]…the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the WH [White House] if they wanted. It’s checkmate…USG [United States Government] needs to give the history of this, how we are employing it and weaponizing it, how China is employing them and what the way forward is.”

Livelsberger seemed to be saying that both the U.S. and China had weaponized aircraft using these “gravitic propulsion systems.” He went on to instruct Sam Shoemate: “You need to elevate this to the media so we avoid a world war.”

Was Livelsberger being hyperbolic? It may be coincidental, but two days after his demise, the New York Times ran a story on January 3 reporting that the Biden administration is “considering a new rule that could restrict or ban Chinese drones in the United States out of national security concerns.” After a public comment period, a final decision on the proposal would fall to the incoming Trump administration. The Times described a warning issued by the current Department of Commerce that “drones could be used to damage physical infrastructure in a collision, deliver an explosive payload or gather information about critical infrastructure, including building layouts.” According to the article, “companies based in China account for at least 75 percent of the U.S. drone market’ - a rather mind-blowing statistic.

Early in 2023, our military had tracked an unmanned high-altitude surveillance balloon flying across North American airspace that was determined to have originated from China. After a week of observation, the Air Force shot it down over U.S. territorial waters off the South Carolina coast. Now, in the midst of this sudden deluge of drones, on December 29, 2024, the New York Times published another article headlined “Secretary of Air Force Wants to Leave Legacy of Weaponry in Space.” It recounted how the U.S. “is preparing to take that concept to a new level by deploying space-based weapons that can disable or disrupt the growing fleet of Chinese or Russian military satellites….These new missile-carrying robot drones will rely on A.I.-enhanced software that not only allows them to fly on their own but to independently make vital mission decisions.”

These are strange times indeed, and portents are literally in the air. Is all of this somehow connected? It may be that Livelsberger’s drastic action is entirely peripheral. At a press conference on Friday, the head of the FBI’s Las Vegas office described him as a “heavily decorated combat veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues.” The Army came out with a statement that Sergeant Livelsberger had access to its mental health programs but “did not display any concerning behaviors at the time.”

Livelsberger was certainly troubled about what he witnessed while serving in 2019 in Afghanistan, where he received the Bronze star for valor. His manifesto mentions “war crimes that were covered up during air strikes” for which he conducted targeting and that he alleged “killed hundreds of civilians in a single day.” And he left a curious message on his phone that authorities have released: “This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wakeup call,” he wrote in advance of his suicide mission, if I may call it that. Was the location of Livelsberger’s “stunt,” as he referred to it, intended to send a message to Trump and his friend, Tesla creator Elon Musk?

Another conundrum is the tattoo on Livelsberger’s arm that was used to identify him, after his body was burned beyond recognition by the explosion. It’s now been shown on media newscasts and I’m putting a photograph of the tattoo at the end of this newsletter. An acquaintance with connections to the intelligence community says it signifies a soldier who has “psychic abilities.” I confess that my imagination may be stretching a point, but to me it resembles a UAP. (Or maybe one of its AI occupants?). I’d be interested to know what any of my readers think.

So, back to the UAP subject for a moment. At the end of October, England’s Daily Mail published a story about a sensitive new government program. The tabloid can be overly sensational, but it’s also one of the only papers with ongoing coverage about such things. It quoted from an interview given by Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick (mentioned at the beginning of this post) on a podcast, in which the former head of AARO admitted that protocols for his UAP recovery program involved “everything from balloons to drones to alleged alien tech” (my italics added). More coming in a future newsletter on Dr. Kirkpatrick and his “limited hangout” of information, a tactic that by the way that originated in the espionage trade.

The Daily Mail article appeared just as the “drone swarms” began being sighted above key U.S. military sites in Great Britain. It went on to say: “This week, the Pentagon’s North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) admitted that America’s military installations have been plagued, since 2022, by at least 600 so-called ‘drone’ incursions, many still unexplained.” As we know, there’s been a vast expansion of drone-like appearances since the early fall, sometimes followed by glowing orbs that some have speculated are extraterrestrial observers.

Now we have Dr. Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project coming forward on a podcast talking about a group of Special Forces “defectors” that he’s been advising for some months. Although there’s no connection between these men and Livelsberger, they are also members of the Green Berets. And according to Dr. Greer, in the very near future they plan to begin releasing documented proof about the military’s downing of extraterrestrial craft and the longstanding ability of Pentagon contractors to build weaponized manmade craft that operate on the same anti-gravity principle.

Stay tuned.