An Unsettling Dive into the Literature

Doing a bit of digging again. The earliest reference to the idea of "UFO disclosure" I can find is early 1977. In classic form, it is imminent: "Before the year is out, the Government -- perhaps the President -- is expected to make what are described as 'unsettling disclosures' about UFO's" (US News and World Report, Spring 1977). In classic form, it never did manifest. The idea of a UFO conspiracy dates back to at least 1949, of course, with Keyhoe's article in True magazine, "The Flying Saucers are Real" (in December of that year). This cites a cover-up by the Air Force. The actual word disclosure, however, does not seem to be used till much later. There is for example another reference in 1977, in an article from New Realities magazine: "White House UFO Disclosure Soon?", but the word really takes off in 1993 and after, with the foundation of Greer's "Disclosure Project". Now it is just a truism of the discourse. It is interesting though that the earliest instance I can find is an unattributed quotation. Was this idea, which is in origin an ultimately futile idea, seeded deliberately? Like "conspiracy theory" was in the case of the murder of JFK (see "Conspiracy Theory in America" by Professor Lance deHaven-Smith, University of Texas Press, February 2014)? I have looked elsewhere at how the analogue to secular disclosure is, I think it is obvious, the religious concept of revelation or apocalypse (as in the unveiling of what is hidden). Here is a new idea. In the invocation of religious terms, which are specifically not political terms, was there a deliberate and nefarious depoliticising ... strategy ... by the US Government? Apocalypse is in God's hands. Does the US Government equate its control of UFO secrets with god-like power? Waiting for disclosure, the sad game of a manipulated populace. Nothing religious about it.

Digging into an Idea

One of the stranger and more intriguing UFO documents out there, I think this is one of the earliest references to alien invasion as part of a global conspiracy:

The S1 Memo.

 

Preceded by biological warfare and population control, the date given is 2030. Curiously Strieber's site has just started promoting the idea that some kind of visitor contact/intervention will occur around 2034; he has also started sharing ideas of population collapse. There is an ufologist known to be a CIA asset, but no-one has ever determined who.

 

The attribution of this alien invasion idea to Werner von Braun in the 70s actually comes later through the testimony of Carol Rosin, maybe as early as 2001, but in the public domain nearer 2013 as far as I can tell. This document however is dated 1999. So I think the idea begins here. 

 

Well, this all came up in a conversation recently, so I thought the paper trail was worth posting, seeing as it presented itself to me today so serendipitously.

 

OK, digging deeper we find a reference in 1952 to the potential use of UFOs as a psychological weapon by the US, and fears that the US should configure responses to the Soviets figuring out the same (the memo is from Scientific Intelligence to the CIA, October 1952) - however no mention is made of a false flag alien invasion *specifically*:

 

The 1952 Chadwell Memo.

 

Project Bluebeam as an idea dates earlier too, to 1994, but the conspiracy there is the false projection in the sky of an antichrist figure. No alien invasion originally:

 

On conspiracist Serge Monast.

 

The idea of nefarious intent by the US Govt re ET enters the literature with Bill Cooper in 1991 and the X-Files in 93. ET abduction literature has its own history (1966 - Fuller, 1987 - Strieber, 1994 - John E Mack) - but the bad faith nexus of govt/ET does not really enter this until Strieber in 2011).

 

So overall the idea of a false flag alien invasion would seem to be a syncretism in conspiracy theory. Finding full expression in Greer 2013, it would seem to evolve the 1952 idea of horizontal false flags *between* the Soviets and the USA into a global vertical action by elites against the people (as per Cooper 1991 and Monast 1994); with Rosin's testimony on Von Braun in 2001-2013 crystallising Greer's opinion in 2013 (as per a general negative trend Cooper to Strieber 1991 -2011). The 1999 memo to Cooper is therefore an interesting outlier to the seeming development of the meme via that route.

 

Context (that I do not give here) shows that the outlier may or may not be disinformation from an exposed bad faith actor called Richard Doty. Ugh.

 

Summary: it turns out to be all quite interesting. The theory of a future false flag alien invasion seems to be a syncretism of various other conspiracy theories (i.e. a merging and evolution of earlier theories) but there is an outlier reference in 1999 that seems to come out of the blue - complicating that is the 1999 source may or may not be a person called Richard Doty, who has been fully exposed in recent years as a disinfo agent from Air Force Intelligence. So I would say the syncretism argues against its truth, and the 1999 letter argues 50/50 for its truth. This is the best I can do to approach this in a scholarly way. So there it is. Verdict: a 1 in 4 chance that the alien false flag invasion thing is a thing.     

The End of All Problems

It is worth looking at this video of the phenomenon of quantum locking. 

This works with electromagnetics - something we currently understand - but I suggest that a UFO's motor must use a similar phenomenon of locking. The lock would be to do with equilibrium in the quantum gravity field - something that we do *not* currently understand. Note that the motion is frictionless. Acceleration and lift is achieved without much input of energy, so a very light vehicle, with only a small source of propulsion, could achieve acceleration with ease. For those who doubt UFO propulsion, this points the way I feel. Like the UFO It looks imposssible, but this is here, now. Unfortunately quantum gravity is proving to be a very hard problem. We are a long way off figuring our own UFO technology - and one wonders what the meaning of this difficulty is.

I shall now delve for the sake of writing. The difficulty I mention. What is it?

 

Mechanically it is the difficulty of squaring what is continuous with what is atomistic. Quantum theory is essentially atomistic, but relativity speaks on the other hand of a space time continuum. So there is that difficulty - how a continuum can be quantised or treated atomistically.

 

Strangely this is similar to a dilemma in Hellenistic aesthetics. Between the continuous song and the poetry of sources and reference. Poetry continues and is one, for what follows would not be poetry if it were different, and yet poetry knows breaks and innovations, it exhibits differences. How can poetry be both continuous and radically quantised?

 

In turn this makes me think of the Hebrew world to come, how it differs from rationalist eschatologies of history, and raises the question, like McKenna's transcendental object at the end of time, of a step-change at the end of a continuum. How can a continuous history - like time - end purposefully, not randomly, with something categorically different? How can that be time's purpose?

 

It multiplies fractally: we see that the mechanical, the aesthetic, and the ethical are a continuum. Yet we can separate them and see them distinctly.

 

Insofar as the solution to the mechanical problem = the UFO, is the solution to the other problems also the UFO?

 

I posit a UFO that is the telos of all problems, aesthetic, ethical and mechanical. A mis-en-abyme solution to everything. To invent it completes a continuum and marks a step change. It is the vehicle of the world to come, the last poem.

 

Disclosure: The Natural Apocalypse

The whole key to how we live may lie in the UFO question, but nobody cares, nobody notices. As to why nobody cares, that is an intriguing question in the realm of the Meta-.

 

If healthcare was run by Al Capone and a criminal gang, people would show concern. If welfare was run by a criminal gang, people would show concern. In a way they are, and people do. Let us say the Earth *has* been met by alien intelligence (there is in Greer's words an embarrassment of riches when it comes to evidence of that). All official information regarding this issue, however, is controlled by a criminal gang, if the Wilson leak is true for example, or by compartmentalized confusion, if only the official situation is the case. 

 

So: We are in reality a Type 2 civilization, but "Al Capone" (or Mr Magoo) keeps us living in a civilization that is Type 1. Unlike health and welfare, no-one bats an eyelid. There is only one published essay in a peer-reviewed journal as to why this situation might subsist. 

 

The whole thing sits as a silent scandal. 

 

Not only is there general scepticism and disinterest in UFOs, it seems to be impossible to persuade anyone who is not already persuaded that there should be. That is to say, *there is a general rhetorical failure in UFOlogy that seems to be essential*. That is interesting. Being the type of person to be persuaded or not seems to be a natural selector (based on innate predisposition), rather than one subject to the artifice of rhetoric and reason. The absence of rhetoric argues for nature being the issue. It may even be that disclosure will depend on the slow process of evolution by natural selection rather than any political means. If disclosure is a natural process, we might have to wait billions of years.

On the other hand, if - as Leo Strauss says - political philosophy is first philosophy (that ontology is understood through politics), then when we say that the UFO deception constitutes the political frame as a crime and a lie, then an error is made to determine the political realm *essentially*, as if *by nature*. It all begins to look like the problem of original sin. We begin to see how the political frame of disclosure can be squared with the theological claim of apocalypse and another world being possible. In Hebrew this other world is called Olam Ha-Ba, or the future world. It is the world of redemption; in Christian eschatology, it is the Kingdom. 

 

If the state of affairs in the UFO question seems, in constructing politics as a variant of sin and false consciousness, to be written by the same hand as theology, then disclosure would seem to be a natural variant of revelation and the ultimate negation of sin in apocalypse. If disclosure depends on natural selection, it would also apparently depend on *election*. That is quite interesting too.

There is of course no real need for secrecy, and the phenomenon should be the domain of civilian rather than paranoid military and private agencies. There is no need for secrecy and militarization because the phenomenon is common to all nations, transcends all known science, and in that sense is a universal problem common to all. The drive to exploit these technologies is the mistake, and any defence technology fetish, for example, is a part of the problem. It is only insofar as this universal commons seems to be impossible for us that the type of equation drawn above applies. The Enlightenment - at this horizon - sheds no light.

 

The UFO question is really a complex *political and spiritual* problem, not a scientific one, which is strange, if the problem is just "natural".