Smearing the Brave - The WSJ’s War on UFO Truth - Guests : Robert Hastings and Marik von Rennenkampff

Summary

In this explosive episode of WEAPONIZED, Jeremy and George take on a controversial article from The Wall Street Journal criticizing the UFO phenomenon and the researchers investigating it. They expose the article as part of a disinformation campaign orchestrated by a scientist biased against the subject. With insights from renowned researchers, the episode warns listeners about the dangers of misinformation related to UFOs and nuclear technology.

Key takeaways

• 1The Wall Street Journal is accused of propagating false claims about UFOs, influenced by a discontented scientist.
• 2Robert Hastings, author of 'UFOs and Nukes', has over 150 government witnesses testifying to UFO interference with nuclear arsenals.
• 3Marik von Rennenkampff critiques the WSJ's reporting and its connection to previous failed programs like Project Blue Book.
• 4The episode links UFO phenomena closely with nuclear technology and intrusions into restricted airspace.
• 5AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) is noted as another organization lacking credibility in the discussion of UFO incidents.

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Transcript excerpt

Perhaps the heart of the mystery, the most important, most glaring, and most disturbing aspect of the whole UFO topic is them taking interest in our nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. And it's happened over and over again all around the world. Anywhere there's a nuclear power plant and a nuclear lab, nuclear missile base, nuclear bombers, there's UFOs around it. They would never have, the government never would have risked deactivating 10 nuclear missiles at the height of the Cold War when we were, you know, threatening Russia and Russia was threatening us. Like, it was baffling for me to see that continued on in one of the major newspapers in the United States, when you do a little bit of digging, to see that trend continuing. Just these absurd so-called explanations for credible UAP incidents. And I zeroed in specifically on at the bottom portion of that journal piece was an apparent, quote-unquote, explanation for one of many, many, many incidents involving UFOs interacting with, appearing around, in proximity to nuclear weapons. This is Weaponized. I'm George Knapp here in Las Vegas. My colleague, Jeremy Corbell, somewhere on the West Coast. How you doing, Jeremy? I'm pumped, man. I'm fired up. So you'll recall last week, we sort of extended an olive branch to the journalist for the Wall Street Journal, who had released this piece, taking some pretty good shots at the UFO topic and people in the UFO world and the whole question of crash saucers. I think now, then, piece number two from the Wall Street Journal has come out. What we're seeing is actual reverse engineering. It's reverse engineering of history in some of the things that have happened. ...

Excerpt from Weaponized, Jun 24, 2025. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.