Of course his familiarity with the topic will rob him of excuses for mis-statements and the ability to deny knowledge of things that he has already commented on.
I can sit here and rant about these people wasting time and money looking for ET. I usually get an invite to a town hall with our local Republican congressman around once a year and I've thought about bringing up the UFO shenanigans, but I'd likely be barking at the moon. There is usually an agenda of topics and UFOs aren't one of them. He's a farmer, not interested in UFOs AFAIK, so he tends to stick to local issues like water, insurance, fires and farming.
For right now, people like Luna are in the government's driver seat for UFOs, it is what it is.
If we believe that so far, there has yet to be any credible evidence for alien UFOs and that many of the UFO claims from people like Grusch concerning the retrieval of crashed UFOs are unlikely, then maybe the prudent thing to do is sit back with a bowl of popcorn and watch the spectacle.
This may be like a fox being let into what he thought was a crowded henhouse only to discover there are no hens then forced to explain why. Recall that Grusch has repeatedly told the story of the Italians recovering a crashed UFO in ~1933 and the US, with the help of the Pope, expatriated it as WW2 ended. I did a deep dive on this claim. It's based in part on almost certainly hoaxed documents, and even if they are real could just be some confusion about a crash of some sort, combined with the ramblings of a serial fantasizer. It has little to no basis in reality, yet Grusch often repeats it, not only as fact, but as one of many operations that predated Roswell, sometimes even hinting at UFO recoveries dating to the turn of the century. Secret UFO recoveries that are still classified from the Roosevelt administration, as in Teddy!
They have the power, the will and the right people to reveal the truth about UFOs and the government cover up. Let's see what they actually produce.
Grusch, Elizondo, Mellon and the rest have likely heard a lot of these UFO recovery tales from Puthoff, who's been obsessed with it for decades. He was part of Stargate, he worked in Bigelow's NIDS, he was instrumental in Bigelow buying Skinwalker ranch, he provided all the DIRDs for the AAWSAP program, he was involved in the failed attempt to create KONA BLUE, he was instrumental in Flugel buying Skinwalker Ranch from Bigelow and Mellon considered him a "whistleblower" when he testified to at AARO. I'm not saying he's a puppet master behind all of this, but more like the shaman, high-priest and keeper of the wisdom for this UFO cabal.
And if Puthoff's likely testimony before ARRO is any indication, these guys will just be chasing their own tails. From Kirkpatrick's comments and other things written, it seems that Puthoff, among others, helped to create KONA BLUE, then helped add UFO language to KONA BLUE resulting in it never getting off the ground and then had the balls to claim to ARRO he knew about a secret government UFO program. Because he tried to set it up!
My own predictions are that nothing will really come of this. The UFO folks will blame a government within the government that keeps the secrets at place like Lockheed and Boeing. The standard UFO story will just chugg along on hearsay, speculation and entertainment with no real evidence, until the political winds shift, and the UFOlogist will be back on the outside looking in. We've been here before with AAWSAP, when the same group got $22mil to do what they wanted and had nothing to show for it besides some werewolf stories.
If we get really lucky, they'll make complete fools of themselves. As I said before, be careful what you wish for if you're a UFOlogist.
