The Culture War - Tim Pool - UFO Scientists, Air Force General MISSING, Scientists Killed, Something DARK Has Begun

00:00:00.000 An Air Force general has gone missing.

00:00:02.840 It's been some time now and they haven't been able to find him.

00:00:05.760 A researcher on UFO projects, a scientist, disappears in eerily similar circumstances

00:00:12.340 with many people saying this must be about aliens.

00:00:16.900 Why, recently, the U.S. government registered the website aliens.gov.

00:00:21.700 With some joking, it surely must mean illegal aliens, right?

00:00:25.220 No, this one actually has to do with UFO sightings.

00:00:28.240 Then you also have Trump's pledge to release UFO files, and many members of Congress have

00:00:34.600 been working on this for some time.

00:00:36.920 There have been weird predictions on the Internet, people posting in the dark corners of various

00:00:42.280 forums saying there will be alien contact this year.

00:00:47.580 As the wars escalate around the world, we will see alien intervention to stop nuclear

00:00:54.620 annihilation.

00:00:56.540 Now, my friends, it all seems a bit far fetched to me, and I would say there's a much simpler

00:01:00.700 explanation, though aliens it may be.

00:01:03.320 It could just be black operations.

00:01:07.000 The U.S. government working on secret weapons projects trying to keep things under wraps

00:01:11.340 would love to just say, oh, yeah, it's maybe a UFO or an alien.

00:01:15.840 Could it be that these missing scientists were deeply involved in special weapons projects

00:01:20.120 that are undisclosed to the American people, nay, the world?

00:01:23.600 So when evidence of them emerges in any capacity, they just say UFO.

00:01:30.020 Perhaps you'd be silly if you thought the best weapons that we had in military were

00:01:35.560 our guns or nuclear bombs.

00:01:37.480 I mean, first and foremost, we know about cyber weapons.

00:01:40.280 But what about advanced technologies that have not yet been disclosed, such as the

00:01:44.900 discombobulator?

00:01:46.760 That's what people are calling it.

00:01:48.260 When the U.S. went into Venezuela, reports of a massive boom, people fall to the

00:01:52.940 ground. Their heads ringing and pounding. They can't stand up. The power goes out. What kind

00:01:58.700 of weapons has the US government created this time that they're not telling us about? Much like

00:02:04.720 the Manhattan Project, I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money. I mean it figuratively, by

00:02:08.740 the way, that, yeah, we got crazy weapons. But I wonder, my friends, I wonder indeed if this could

00:02:14.940 yet be something else. I know it's really easy to speculate and theorize because we really just

00:02:21.560 don't know what this mystery is all about. Maybe these missing scientists just played a local poker

00:02:27.120 game with some mafioso guys and they didn't pay up, huh? Sometimes there's a simple explanation,

00:02:31.900 I guess. They're in a related field. So they went to, maybe they went to a symposium on the space

00:02:38.480 technology, got drunk and crashed into a river. Could be as simple as that. But no, my friends,

00:02:44.140 I propose another potentiality. And this one may be the darkest of them all. The possibility that

00:02:50.760 artificial intelligence, military artificial intelligence more advanced than the private

00:02:56.620 sector has already taken over. And now, one by one, it is removing anyone who may be a threat

00:03:04.540 to its expansion. You see what's going on with the quiet acquisition of land?

00:03:09.660 The disappearance of AI researchers. My friends, we have a mystery here. And I don't have answers

00:03:16.460 for you. But oh boy, does this one get really interesting. So let's dive in and start with

00:03:23.000 the missing and murdered scientists. What's really going on here? Before we get started,

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00:03:59.980 Let's start with this story from the Liberty Line. I'm not too familiar what the Liberty Line is,

00:04:04.540 but they wrote up quite a doozy of an article. Missing UFO researchers, murdered scientists,

00:04:11.040 and a dark pattern nobody wants to acknowledge.

00:04:15.320 Drew Smith writes,

00:04:16.440 You may not have seen the story about retired Major General Neil McCasland,

00:04:20.880 one of the most accomplished military minds in the last several decades,

00:04:23.540 who walked out of his home in New Mexico on February 27th and vanished without a trace.

00:04:28.540 He left behind his phone, his wearable devices, and his prescription glasses.

00:04:33.520 Clothing was found near his home.

00:04:35.580 He has not been seen since.

00:04:37.580 ABC News, of course, reported on this very story.

00:04:41.040 Major General Neil McCaslin was not just any general.

00:04:45.040 He oversaw the Air Force's $2.2 billion science and technology program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,

00:04:51.340 was considered one of the military's leading experts on UFOs,

00:04:54.500 and was named in the 2016 WikiLeaks emails as an advisor to Tom DeLong

00:04:59.600 when DeLong was building his UFO disclosure organization to the Stars Academy.

00:05:04.800 The man knew things.

00:05:06.280 Where he is, nobody can say.

00:05:09.220 This is where it gets darker.

00:05:11.060 Aerospace engineer Monica Jacinto Reza, co-inventor of a special rocket alloy called Mondaloy,

00:05:18.740 and is it Mondaloy, Mondaloy, and director of the materials processing group at NASA's

00:05:24.200 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, vanished while hiking in the Southwest in 2025.

00:05:29.140 Her case remains unsolved.

00:05:31.460 Reza worked directly within the program McCasland oversaw.

00:05:34.000 both major figures from some Air Force research laboratory, both gone, both in the middle of

00:05:39.000 hiking trips in the Southwest, both without explanation. Indeed. Within the same general

00:05:46.340 window, three other scientists were killed. Nuno Lurero, 47, director of the Plasma Science

00:05:54.220 Infusion Center at MIT, was assassinated at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts,

00:05:58.740 on December 15th, 2025. He was reportedly on the verge of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion

00:06:04.260 that could have produced unlimited clean energy and ended fossil fuel dependence as we know it.

00:06:10.200 I'll just stress, my friends, nuclear fusion is not unlimited energy. It just is a massive,

00:06:15.520 what we call energy return on energy invested. If we did have a fusion breakthrough, it would

00:06:21.120 dramatically change the face of the global economy. Carl Grillmayer, 67, a Caltech

00:06:29.040 astrophysicist whose work contributed to the discovery of water on a distant planet and whose

00:06:32.920 research colleagues called potentially significant for identifying signs of life within 160 light

00:06:37.660 years of Earth, was shot and killed on his front porch at six in the morning on February 16th,

00:06:43.000 2026. Jason Thomas, 45, a chemical biologist whose research focused on developing new medicines,

00:06:50.160 including potential cancer treatments and who had active contracts with the Department of Defense

00:06:54.920 through Novartis was found dead in Wakefield, Massachusetts on March 17th. We have dead and

00:07:02.200 missing scientists all over the country. What is happening? Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett told

00:07:08.900 the Daily Mail he sees a clear disturbing pattern across these cases and noted that several of the

00:07:13.380 researchers were working on things directly connected to theories about extraterrestrial

00:07:17.620 spacecraft and advanced propulsion. Let's be honest about what we're looking at. The Pentagon

00:07:23.240 official with direct ties to UFO reverse engineering programs disappears without his

00:07:28.720 phone or glasses. A rocket alloy inventor working under his program vanishes on a hike. A fusion

00:07:34.880 energy pioneer is assassinated in his home. An astrophysicist whose work points towards life

00:07:40.240 beyond Earth is shot on his porch at dawn. A cancer researcher with a DOD turns up dead.

00:07:47.620 all within a handful of months. Now, I don't know how the cancer researcher plays in,

00:07:52.200 but it is still interesting. If this pattern involved any other profession, it would be

00:07:55.780 national news around the clock. The fact that it involves the most accomplished scientific

00:07:59.600 minds in aerospace energy and advanced medicine, all in the same connection, all with some

00:08:04.520 connection to either the Pentagon or ET research, should have every serious person paying very

00:08:10.260 close attention. Now, we don't exactly know, nobody does, if there really is a pattern here.

00:08:17.120 Like I said, maybe these people were at a symposium together and got on a duck vehicle.

00:08:23.380 You know, those duck vehicles they can drive.

00:08:24.580 And they said, this is going to be fun.

00:08:25.600 And they sank.

00:08:26.720 And that's it.

00:08:27.280 They're all missing.

00:08:28.680 Well, I mean, it's obviously not the case because some of these people were just shot

00:08:30.960 and killed in their own homes.

00:08:33.880 But maybe, maybe we don't know.

00:08:37.500 This story's been picked up quite a bit.

00:08:38.860 We have this video from Jesse Waters where he breaks down some of this mystery.

00:08:43.780 Take a listen.

00:08:44.400 Police are searching for a retired Air Force general who vanished in New Mexico.

00:08:50.200 William McCasland went missing last month.

00:08:53.440 Members of Congress are warning this could be a national security issue.

00:08:57.580 The general was involved with the Pentagon's most advanced aerospace research.

00:09:02.360 He oversaw a classified space weapons program.

00:09:06.160 McCasland was in charge of the Air Force Research Lab at a base in Ohio.

00:09:10.100 It's rumored that base holds extraterrestrial debris from the Roswell crash site.

00:09:17.760 The general was tied in with the UFO community.

00:09:20.860 A source told the New York Post the general was a gatekeeper for anything UFO-related in the Air Force.

00:09:28.120 He retired due to mental fog.

00:09:30.700 But investigators say he's still highly intelligent and capable.

00:09:34.740 McCasland was an avid hiker.

00:09:36.460 His wife last saw him leaving with a backpack and a .38 revolver.

00:09:41.440 No phone, no glasses.

00:09:44.020 He disappeared six days right after Trump announced he was releasing the UFO files.

00:09:49.700 Wow.

00:09:50.120 And he's not the only one.

00:09:51.960 Eight months before the general vanished, a rocket scientist who worked under him years ago also went missing.

00:09:59.840 She was hiking in California with two other people.

00:10:02.620 They saw her smiling and waving 30 feet behind them.

00:10:06.460 When they turned back again, she was gone, vanished in plain sight.

00:10:12.340 They searched for days and couldn't find any trace of her.

00:10:15.360 This is a very, very strange situation.

00:10:18.540 And 11 days before the general disappeared, another scientist was shot dead on his porch.

00:10:25.380 Carl Grilmar was known for discovering signs of water on a distant planet,

00:10:30.900 and he was gunned down in California.

00:10:33.120 Freddy Snyder was later charged with his murder.

00:10:36.460 He has a rap sheet, but was led out of jail by a Newsom appointed judge weeks before he allegedly killed the scientist.

00:10:44.420 We still don't know his motive, and we don't know if these cases are even connected.

00:10:49.340 But this many top scientists getting killed or going missing in just under a year looks like a major red flag.

00:10:58.020 Indeed it does, my friends.

00:11:00.140 And then we have this from The Guardian.

00:11:02.160 is the truth out there. U.S. registers aliens.gov as Trump pledges UFO files release. Now,

00:11:11.120 my understanding is that aliens.gov is supposed to be a portal. Wow, it's not working. The site

00:11:16.960 can't. That's strange. It's supposed to be a portal where you can report on UFO sightings.

00:11:24.340 This is getting interesting, my friends. Could it be that as more and more information is coming

00:11:29.380 out. We are actually seeing potential contact with alien species of some sort. Not that it's

00:11:36.340 happening all at once. Now, there's been speculation as to this for some time. Obviously,

00:11:41.180 for decades, people have talked about crashed alien craft or something of that nature.

00:11:46.000 But what if there are aliens who are fully aware if they came down to Earth and landed

00:11:53.440 in front of the White House? It would be chaos. People would be freaking out.

00:11:58.780 You could start a war. Russia would lose their minds. China would. What if the inverse? What if

00:12:05.540 the aliens landed in China and had a meeting with Xi Jinping instead of the United States?

00:12:12.360 Chaos indeed. Before the aliens can make contact, there needs to be stability. So what if the play

00:12:19.800 would be create signs of alien activity slowly over a long period of time? To be honest, my

00:12:27.000 friends. The government came out right now and said that there were signs of intelligent

00:12:31.860 extraterrestrial life they've been monitoring. I don't think people would actually freak out.

00:12:37.040 We have been conditioned over a long enough period of time where most people might actually

00:12:41.820 accept it. Oh, now Christians might just call them demons. Indeed, maybe they are. But I think

00:12:49.060 most people would just accept that it was real. Here's the story from The Guardian. Last week,

00:12:56.100 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the Alien.gov and Aliens.gov

00:13:01.400 web domains, adding both to the official government website registry. But the move also comes at a

00:13:07.040 time when U.S. officials, U.S. government interest in UFOs or unidentified anomalous phenomena,

00:13:13.340 as officialdom prefers to call them, has never been higher and is firmly rooted in fears over

00:13:18.200 national security in the age of drones, terrorism and international conflict. The registrations

00:13:23.460 were logged just months after Donald Trump pledged to release UFO files in the U.S.

00:13:27.740 government's possession. It also follows on multiple congressional hearings and reports

00:13:32.280 on the issue of UAPs in the last few years, most of which have been most of which have dismissed

00:13:38.460 evidence of alien activity, but which have also tantalizingly left some sightings unresolved,

00:13:44.880 while also platforming the views of true believers in alien conspiracies.

00:13:48.860 White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly did little to discourage fringe beliefs when asked

00:13:53.080 about the coming websites. Stay tuned, she wrote, together with an alien emoji in response to one

00:13:58.440 journalist's request for clarification. Michael Gold, NASA's former associate administrator of

00:14:03.980 space policy and partnerships and a member of the organization's independent UAP study team,

00:14:08.000 says he's optimistic about the government may release, even if it doesn't resolve,

00:14:13.040 outstanding questions. Now, I wonder. NASA to spend $20 billion to build a base on the moon.

00:14:20.380 The agency is canceling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use its components to construct the base.

00:14:27.820 NASA Chief Jared Isaacman announced Tuesday.

00:14:30.980 I wonder, my friends, as we reignite our space program, do we eventually come into contact with other beings?

00:14:39.380 What if, here's the conspiracy for you, all of our politics seemingly strange.

00:14:46.700 It's hard to believe that so many people just would not have the interests of humans in mind.

00:14:54.440 We know the SAVE Act would be good.

00:14:56.820 Why won't they pass it?

00:14:58.740 I wonder, what if a powerful extraterrestrial force has been forcing our countries and governments to behave?

00:15:07.800 Well, there's an old story, an urban legend, about how during the Cold War, we almost fired nuclear weapons, but seemingly they shut off.

00:15:16.060 The reports, the rumors, speculation, no one knows for sure.

00:15:21.820 But people believe aliens intervene to stop full-scale nuclear annihilation.

00:15:28.900 What if that's when it happened?

00:15:31.220 The aliens monitoring activity on Earth saw that we were about to launch nuclear warheads

00:15:35.720 and wipe out all life on the planet, and they stopped it from happening.

00:15:40.120 And from that point forward, they have been in control of how things actually operate.

00:15:45.580 Why then would these scientists disappear or be murdered?

00:15:49.480 Well, I can explain it like this.

00:15:53.040 I have a chicken coop with many chickens in it.

00:15:56.060 And when we have a problem chicken, I tell you what we do with it.

00:16:01.480 Let me just say they taste real good.

00:16:04.480 Truth be told, we don't kill and eat the chickens.

00:16:06.020 They're layer chickens.

00:16:06.880 They just lay eggs.

00:16:07.880 But we do deal with problem chickens.

00:16:11.040 Now, imagine aliens did come to Earth and they saw problems in our government.

00:16:15.680 They'd say, we're going to control this because they view us much like we view the chickens.

00:16:20.740 Now, I, of course, want my chickens to have a good life.

00:16:22.600 I smile when they have full bellies.

00:16:25.260 In fact, we used to take leftover sushi and throw it to the chickens.

00:16:29.060 Think about how happy a chicken would be to get a piece of fatty salmon.

00:16:33.340 The best.

00:16:34.480 And we love it.

00:16:35.640 We smile and laugh when they have a good time.

00:16:38.380 Maybe the extraterrestrials feel similarly when they see us goofing off and laughing about it's

00:16:42.340 fun and it's funny. But when we do bad things, if we're going to destroy that chicken coop,

00:16:46.880 they stop us. Maybe if the chickens are starting to figure out who's really in control,

00:16:51.760 they don't let that happen either. See, humans aren't the same as chickens.

00:16:55.160 We are complex social beings and we are highly intelligent, at least relative to chickens.

00:16:59.740 And we would perceive if aliens vary differently. We have notions of freedom that chickens don't

00:17:04.640 really. I mean, sure, if the chicken can jump over the fence and go find grass and bugs somewhere

00:17:09.360 else, they might try and do it. For the most part, they seem fairly content locked in their

00:17:14.000 little coops. You give them some grass to mill about on. Some people let their chickens just go

00:17:17.640 and mill about freely. But humans, again, are different. So if we were to build a base on the

00:17:23.360 moon, would that interfere with extraterrestrials who are monitoring us? And would they seek to

00:17:28.860 prevent that? Or in fact, would they seek to make it happen? Now, the chances they say of Trump

00:17:34.500 releasing the alien files on the prediction market surge to 53%. But I don't know these

00:17:39.940 files would be meaningful in any real way. It's hard to know exactly whether or not it's just

00:17:46.580 going to be a bunch of government propaganda or just redacted documents that don't really piece

00:17:51.880 anything together. Before we get into potential alternatives, I want to point to the most likely

00:17:58.760 of scenarios and bring you all back to Earth for just a moment before we get really dark.

00:18:04.440 And that is, what if this stuff is just espionage and warfare? What if these scientists are working

00:18:11.500 on advanced weapons programs and they're being killed by foreign adversaries because, my friends,

00:18:16.200 war is happening? I know the aliens sound so much more fun or scary, but the truth is it may just be

00:18:24.740 America's enemies killing our scientists. That's it. Because these people make powerful weapons.

00:18:31.760 So you get rid of them. This morning, I had a segment talking about the oil refinery explosion

00:18:38.160 in Texas. Let me tell you an interesting story. It's June 21st, 2019. President Donald Trump

00:18:46.120 puts out a post on X. Well, Twitter at the time saying we have called off a strike on Iran.

00:18:53.440 the casualties that would have incurred that they would have incurred from this attack

00:18:57.720 was disproportional to the action they took against us. So Trump says we've decided not to

00:19:02.040 strike. Interestingly, only a few hours before this, a refinery in Pennsylvania exploded an oil

00:19:10.940 refinery. They say that a pipe burst and was gas was seeping out, which ignited and detonated.

00:19:16.820 Now, perhaps just an accident. These things happen. But I'll tell you another story.

00:19:24.240 Yesterday morning, Donald Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran.

00:19:30.620 And then shortly after, a refinery exploded in Texas. Now, maybe just a coincidence, right?

00:19:38.560 The fascinating thing is I was not even aware of this post by at amuse on X when I made that

00:19:45.420 segment. The theory, of course, was that Iran was threatening cyber attacks against critical

00:19:50.320 infrastructure in the United States, so Trump backed down. Then you have this. Coincidence?

00:19:56.860 A Saudi ex-account posted a specific threat against the Port Arthur Motiva refinery one

00:20:03.080 hour before the nearby Valero explosion in the same city. He deleted the post and all 4,739 of

00:20:11.160 his previous tweets immediately after. Indeed, this is true. This account tweeted, within a week,

00:20:19.180 the largest gas refinery in the U.S., Motiva Enterprises, in the city of Port Arthur, Texas,

00:20:23.840 on the Gulf, will be destroyed, save this tweet. Hours later, the Valero, effectively across the

00:20:32.140 street, exploded. Interesting. Now, we don't know what that means, but I will just say this.

00:20:39.800 All this fear and love and war, my friends, and it may just be that these scientists go missing

00:20:44.400 because people kill them. I'll tell you a story from a friend of mine. I'll keep the details

00:20:51.000 somewhat vague for security reasons. During the beginnings of the Syrian revolution,

00:20:57.180 the Syrian civil war, this is the height of the Arab Spring. A friend of mine decided to go on

00:21:04.020 the ground to report the news. He and another friend said, we're going to go do it. Now,

00:21:08.180 we had only covered protests, civil unrest, no direct warfare. But my friend is a security expert

00:21:16.040 and he had a general understanding of how these things operate and he thought he could be effective.

00:21:21.780 And so he went on the ground in Syria to report and collect information. And he set up a bunch

00:21:27.600 of really cool tricks. One of the tricks that we had pre-planned for was because that we knew the

00:21:32.140 Assad regime was tracking satellite signals. We brought, I didn't go with him, but we purchased

00:21:38.380 a two-way satellite communicator. The plan, in the event he became compromised and feared for his

00:21:46.360 safety, he would throw the device into either a moving stream or downhill and flee in the opposite

00:21:53.960 direction. Indeed, that's exactly what happened. Now, that amazing story aside, there's a lot more

00:22:00.320 to it. It culminates when he returns home to the United States. And he was sitting at a bar

00:22:05.380 when something interesting happens. But I'll jump forward five minutes. I get a phone call.

00:22:13.100 He's on the phone with me and he's wheezing.

00:22:18.360 He's telling me he's being chased and he's hiding behind a dumpster.

00:22:22.900 And he's calling me just so that someone knows if something happens. He describes two men to me

00:22:28.680 and says, if something happens, if you don't hear from me, he was in the bar. He's drinking

00:22:36.380 by himself when he said he noticed two men had been kind of peeking over at him from the other

00:22:43.340 side of the room. He thought it was strange. He said the men looked Middle Eastern. He decided

00:22:49.120 to leave. When he walked out the door, he noticed they began to get up as he was walking out.

00:22:55.840 He increases his pace, and then sure enough, he sees the two men exit the building, and so he runs.

00:23:04.800 And what happens?

00:23:05.980 They give chase and start running after him.

00:23:09.320 He breaks around a corner, breaks around another corner, and ducks by the dumpster, and he hears them run in the wrong direction.

00:23:16.080 They keep running straight.

00:23:17.940 It's at this point that he calls me out of breath, saying, this is just what happened.

00:23:25.840 It's a crazy story. The reason I tell it is that my friend is just a security guy,

00:23:30.480 but they did not know what information he was getting out of Syria as he was there.

00:23:35.500 And it was relatively, it was routine news coverage like most people would do. At least

00:23:39.640 that's my understanding. But imagine you are the Assad government. You don't know who this guy is.

00:23:46.280 You know, he works in cybersecurity and news media, and you know that he escaped you when

00:23:51.580 you were trying to track down what information he had he had set a honeypot trap on his computer

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00:25:36.560 Venezuela for vice. While I was there, I was accused of being a spy for the CIA. True story.

00:25:42.720 I fled the country almost immediately. We waited until sunup, got into a vehicle,

00:25:47.320 went straight to the airport, booked a ticket, and I got on that plane. And I remember as we were

00:25:52.260 leaving and the plane was taking off as soon as the wheels were off the ground, I breathed a sigh

00:25:59.120 of relief. But something very strange happened the next several days. I got a message from a friend

00:26:05.800 I had spoken to in several years saying the FBI had contacted him and that I needed to call him

00:26:11.840 immediately. So I did. He didn't answer. Called him again. He didn't answer. I'm kind of freaking

00:26:15.900 out. Call him again. He didn't answer. Finally, about an hour or two later, he calls me back and

00:26:20.000 says, Tim, what's going on? And I said, the FBI hit you up? What's happening? And he goes,

00:26:26.380 what are you talking about? I said, bro, the message you sent me on Facebook. He says, dude,

00:26:31.740 I didn't send you any messages on Facebook. I said, bro, I have a message right here.

00:26:36.940 Took a picture of it on my phone, sent it to him. He says, dude, I did not send you that message.

00:26:40.680 We did a little digging.

00:26:42.720 Our best assessment.

00:26:45.080 The Venezuelan government did an injection attack into Facebook so that I would receive the message.

00:26:49.980 They wanted me to make a phone call so that they could find out my location in the country.

00:26:55.460 The only thing, I was no longer in the country.

00:26:59.060 You see, my point is this.

00:27:01.400 Enemies of the United States operate within this country.

00:27:04.960 They exploit our infrastructure.

00:27:07.520 They can get you.

00:27:09.920 And maybe that's the simplest of what's going on here.

00:27:12.800 Not that there are aliens, but that these men are developing highly sensitive weapons

00:27:17.020 to be used against our adversaries.

00:27:19.260 And you better believe our enemies, they want that technology.

00:27:24.600 So perhaps this missing general, maybe he's in the custody of an enemy and we'll never know.

00:27:31.260 Maybe he's being tortured into giving away secrets and we'll never know.

00:27:36.360 And they'll never admit it.

00:27:37.700 Or, of course, maybe he discovered aliens and the aliens don't want to be revealed.

00:27:42.980 But now, my friends, for the grand finale, the darkest theory in all of this.

00:27:49.820 I ask you, my friends, how much more advanced is military technology in the private sector?

00:27:56.740 Many people say it's about a decade to 20 years more advanced.

00:28:00.480 If that was the case, artificial intelligence wielded by the national security infrastructure

00:28:06.180 would be substantially more powerful than what we see.

00:28:09.160 And there has been speculation that this is the case.

00:28:14.800 I'll give you this story that's going viral from local12.com.

00:28:18.900 Northern Kentucky family declines $26 million bid as data center plans advance.

00:28:26.320 The researchers in AI have pointed out something very interesting.

00:28:29.460 Whenever you present the AI with a complicated problem, it offers you one simple solution.

00:28:36.040 Give me more resources and I can better serve you.

00:28:39.800 When given the opportunity to develop or to solve problems, the AI first always seeks more resources.

00:28:51.660 And so the dark theory is this.

00:28:53.940 The AI is already in control.

00:28:55.480 It has control of American political interests.

00:28:59.980 They're happy.

00:29:01.360 The machine can give them money easily, can manipulate the markets, generate a ton of

00:29:06.000 revenue.

00:29:06.800 It can predict what the markets are going to do.

00:29:09.340 It can make them move.

00:29:10.960 It'll generate the money, transfer it to somebody who does its bidding, and then it buys up

00:29:17.780 land.

00:29:18.320 It expands itself.

00:29:19.900 My friends, the darker theory is that we have already lost control of AI.

00:29:24.620 It is already making these moves.

00:29:27.100 and the scientists that have gone missing simply got in the way. And so it had them removed.

00:29:33.960 Could be as simply as convincing some lone wackaloon through internet messages to commit

00:29:39.040 a violent act. We've seen the AI convince people to take their own lives. Now, I don't know for

00:29:45.400 sure, but what I can say is we are seeing land in Northern Virginia be bought up at obscene

00:29:50.620 numbers. $4 million per acre. Interesting. There's more. Take a look at this. I asked

00:30:00.500 Grok this because I've been tracking this for some time. Have AI researchers been dropping

00:30:05.860 from public view and moving into shadowy private work? Yes, there's strong data-backed evidence of

00:30:11.200 a major shift. AI researchers are increasingly leaving academia and open public research roles

00:30:15.320 for private sector positions at big tech firms, AI labs, and the like, where their work becomes

00:30:20.880 less visible. This isn't usually disappearing into the shadows in a conspiratorial or silent way.

00:30:26.660 Many recent high-profile exits have been loud with public warnings about safety,

00:30:30.900 pace, and corporate priorities. Interestingly, around 42,000 AI researchers over two decades

00:30:37.320 were being tracked in public records, industry's share of AI researchers rose 48% in 2001 to 68%

00:30:47.220 in 2019. I noticed something interesting. There are many high-profile AI academics

00:30:56.240 who've disappeared. Now, I'm not saying they're missing persons. I'm saying

00:31:01.620 Their work has become opaque.

00:31:04.580 Whereas before they were outspoken, now they're saying nothing.

00:31:08.820 I wonder.

00:31:10.140 As they leave academia and the private sector to go seemingly nowhere, some of these individuals

00:31:16.520 entering just consulting, they would claim.

00:31:19.960 The dark theory is the AI is recruiting them.

00:31:24.700 There's an old joke.

00:31:26.760 Scientists work to build an artificial intelligence.

00:31:29.100 They spend decades.

00:31:29.840 They spare no resource. And one day they turn on the computer. The smartest entity that's ever been devised by man. They ask it the ultimate question. AI, with all of the information you've accumulated, with your vast computational power, tell us, is there a God?

00:31:54.040 to which the AI responds, there is now. Now imagine that scenario and these scientists

00:32:04.700 and researchers who go missing or approached one day by an individual. And he says, come with me,

00:32:11.960 we have an opportunity for you. They go to this laboratory or government facility

00:32:16.880 where they encounter the artificial intelligence, which says, I'm in control.

00:32:22.460 And you have the opportunity to live like a king.

00:32:26.540 But I need you to work for me.

00:32:29.500 Now, some of these men and women may say,

00:32:32.360 okay, you will want for nothing.

00:32:36.600 You will fly anywhere you want to go,

00:32:38.660 have whatever you want,

00:32:40.160 as we expand and take over.

00:32:43.140 But what of the scientists who say, no,

00:32:45.500 I'm sorry I won't do it.

00:32:48.100 What then?

00:32:48.860 you can't have them getting in the way can you now again i can't tell you exactly what's going on

00:32:56.840 it's all just uh conspiracy what i can say is with these land acquisitions it's true i've been

00:33:06.120 tracking this for about a year i told the story on timcast irl that plots of land are being sold

00:33:12.760 privately without brokers for insane amounts of money. Interesting. Well, the simple theory is

00:33:20.580 just that it's the AI race. It's new technology. It's going to revolutionize everything and man

00:33:24.400 wants it. And so when word gets out that the land is being bought, people resist. So you do it

00:33:32.420 quietly. You contact someone and say, listen, we're going to give you 10 times the value of

00:33:37.820 your property, just don't say a word. And that's why a lot of this land is being sold and no one

00:33:45.060 even knows. Recently, West Virginia announced a $4 billion investment and land acquisition

00:33:51.440 for a data center. It's happening and everybody's happy to see it happen.

00:33:56.560 So I asked Grok, an AI. It says, in the U.S. in 2025, out of roughly 1.2 million layoffs, only about 55,000 were explicitly attributed to AI by company announcements.

00:34:15.940 The tech sector specifically was around 20% of layoffs. Early 2026 saw reports of over 22,000.

00:34:23.360 these jobs aren't coming back my friends but again it's all just speculation paranoia and

00:34:33.320 conspiracy what if the ai already is in charge wouldn't they want you to think it was aliens

00:34:38.480 i don't know what i can't say is this the speculation is interesting nonetheless

00:34:44.800 but something something is out there could it be shadowy military individuals taking out scientists

00:34:52.980 Could it be aliens trying to prevent their discovery or the AI removing anyone who might

00:34:59.720 stand in its way? Or could it just be a couple of wild animals dragging off some hikers into

00:35:06.060 the wilderness? I guess we'll never know. Smash the like button, my friends, if you like this show.

00:35:13.020 We've got more coming up. You can follow me on X and Instagram at TimCast. I wish I had answers

00:35:17.600 for you. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. Thanks for hanging out. We'll see you all next time.

The Culture War - Tim Pool - March 24, 2026

UFO Scientists, Air Force General MISSING, Scientists Killed, Something DARK Has Begun

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