When federal agents kicked in his door one icy morning last November, Joerg Arnu was still asleep.
Another was holding a riot shield.
This is the FBI, one yelled.
Put your hands against the wall!
His house, located in the remote town of Rachel, Nevada, had been swarmed by police vans.
Not long afterwards, agents started asking him questions.
One of the first things they wanted to know was: Are there any booby traps on the property?
To Arnu, it seemed like a pretty weird thing to ask.
He was a retired software developer and self-admitted senior citizen.
Did that really sound like somebody who would boobytrap his own house?
When police crashed into his life that wintry day, he suspected it had something to do with that.
Just what exactly were agents looking for what?
And what did they think hed done?
She said that the raid similarly involved 15 to 20 armed agents in riot gear.
Dont ask me what I hollered, probably Who the eff are you?
They clearly show door frames that have been violently impacted.
The damages from the raids total approximately $5,000, he said.
Id really like to have my stuff back, Arnu said in an interview.
I lost all of the backups.
And, it goes without saying, he never got his stuff back.
Why did they feel the need to conduct their raids with such force?
And what exactly did Arnu do to incur their wrath?
So thats when this whole UFO story was born as a diversion from what is really going on.
I came to realize its really all about military aviation.
Other writers and researchers have come to similar conclusions.
This is where the possible motive for the governments raids comes in.
It carries with it a punishment of a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail.
They were legally obtained.
Theres absolutely nothing illegal about them, he said.
Most of these photos were not taken by me, I just published them [on the site].
A Fishing Expedition?
He also thinks it was the governments way of intimidating him into shutting down his blog.
Thats particularly disturbing given Arnus role as a person involved in media, he added.
If someone shoots you in the leg, do you get mad at the gun?
No, you get mad at the guy who pulled the trigger.
These guys are just a tool and somebody obviously weaponized them because they wanted to send Joerg a message.
Somebody doesnt like what hes doing.
The government has continued to be tight-lipped about the episode.
The FBI responded but refused to comment.
While Arnu waits for answers, hes trying to get on with his life.
I was treated like a drug dealer or some hardened criminal, Arnu said during one of our interviews.
Im a sixty-year-old guy.
