UFO Alignment

Thinking about how difficult it was for the world of the church and politics to handle Galileo's insights, I think we have to be realistic about similar difficulties confronting us when it comes to UFO truth. Who knows how challenging to the current organisation of life the revelations might be? How vexatious and disputed?

The cliched example is free energy. If fossil fuel and energy poverty could be switched off overnight, how destabilising would that be to vested interests yes, but also to geopolitics, the balance of power, and ordinary life too? The revelations might be more unsettling even than that. What if materialism itself is false, or our understanding of the afterlife? Science would falter and many political ideologies that depend on a materialist view. Maybe the church would see an opportunity for temporary ascendance; but if Christ was an alien what then? Would there be a final adjudication between Judaism and Islam?

We need, I feel, to get away from a good and evil view of truth vs the conspiracy and think more in terms of strategy. What is the insider's strategy (which might in part be benign) and what is ours on the outside (which might in part be malign)? Can those two strategies ever meet? And how? Let us think in terms of a UFO alignment rather than of disclosure simply. An alignment where the different interests can come together.

Let us as seekers of truth also think more about how the world could prepare for startling ideas. Ideas that might dismantle such oppositions as right and left, even of hierarchy and up and down, are not to be handled lightly and need thought. Let us show willing to make the task of disclosure easier, by becoming aligned philosophers, poets, and artists! 

Blind Men

This article is interesting and important. According to it, ongoing UFO secrecy and current American Defense policy are now in major contradiction. Because we are reaching now into space militarily.

Quote "If substantiated, the claims raise stark questions about whether America’s ability to maintain awareness in orbit - the foundation of its space superiority - has been compromised by a secretive mechanism of its own making". End quote.

In particular Golden Dome may turn out to be no more than puffery. Blind from the beginning. The question is really "who rules?". Our public defense systems or the UFO and its hidden guardians in power?

Democracy and the UFO

I made this meme for my Facebook and I thought I would discuss it here too.

The fact UFO activists are intimidated, co-opted, fed disinformation, and generally controlled and suppressed and not left alone, well - it is as if they were political activists, and that suggests something.

The UFO situation must be radical in some way (for good or bad we don't know). If it were just change neutral, a damp squib, there would not be all the effort that we discern. Everything is a clue in that sense, and that is what makes the UFO an interesting puzzle. The key to ufology might be that another world is possible - here, on Earth - and that other world is frightening to power in some way.

I guess the ultimate deception could be that there is nothing to the UFO at all, and it is just made to look like there is, but I personally think that is an over-reading, a stretch too far. I mean, even such a move as that might be political - to distract the social demographic attracted to UFOs from pursuing other political interests. In that respect, it is notable that a demographic study of witnesses and contactees showed an even spread in terms of ethnicity, gender, political affiliation, and religious identity. So there is just not much there there to provide a particular angle for power. This argues against the manipulation being to distract a particular demographic.

Unless it is precisely that. The Star-Trekky vibe of the UFO demographic implies a world without division or strife. Maybe that very potential is feared if it were to organise. Just a reading, just speculation, but pulling the plug on UFO studies in 1969 - one year after 1968 - seems significant. It stalled an incipient global movement that was a) not just American and b) focused on a unifying mystery rather than a conflict-based model of divide and rule. There was also of course the hippyish open-mindedness associated with UFOs to worry about too.

Things may not look related but insofar as we are being divided and ruled, so long as globalism = Americanism, and so long as conflict remains our model for history and progress, there is a UFO connection to everything, and it is political. They would not suppress this subject so much if it were not so important!

All one can do is speculate. But I stick to two sayings always: if there is a conspiracy, it is man-made and therefore readable. Everything is a clue. We must keep puzzling away, and demanding a more open debate, for whatever change is feared by those who manipulate the field should be entirely in the public domain, and there for all to discuss and weigh, equally, and in a spirit of mutual encounter. That is, if we want UFOs to be an object of democracy not tyranny.

Exploiting a Conundrum

The idea that there is a UFO conspiracy is long and continuous. Donald Keyhoe's article "The Flying Saucers are Real" appears in the December 1949 issue of True magazine and cites an ongoing cover-up by the US Air Force. This is a theme treated again, and more fully, in Keyhoe's later book "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy" (1956). Given that the term flying saucer becomes common only after 1947, it seems that conspiracy and this subject are pretty much co-terminal beliefs.

Insofar as a conspiracy is a political act, this would seem to set up as its corollary a strictly political problem requiring political answers, so it intrigues me that the word most associated with this challenge is 'disclosure', a word that I would argue recalls the religious realm of revelation and apocalypse (as in all cases the idea is the same: an unveiling of what is hidden). Given the knotty aporia in human understanding known as the political-theological problem, the use of a religious-spectrum term in a political context is I think at best unfortunate, and at worst suspicious.

A bit of history: the specific word 'disclosure' does not seem to be used until much later than the original description of a conspiracy. The earliest appearance of this term that I can find in fact is from early 1977. In classic form, the disclosure is imminent, quote: "Before the year is out, the Government -- perhaps the President -- is expected to make what are described as 'unsettling disclosures' about UFO's" (from US News and World Report, Spring 1977). There is another reference in 1977 too, in an article from New Realities magazine, titled "White House UFO Disclosure Soon?"; again we may note the presumed imminence associated with the word.

It is interesting that the earliest instance I can find is an unattributed quotation. Like the idea of "the first casualty of war is truth", disclosure seems always already to exist in quotation marks, and never to exist in an actual document. It is in origin an ultimately futile idea - always promising but never actually appearing (very much like the apocalypse and a last revelation in religion!). Similarities occur to me between this term and the phrase 'conspiracy theory'. There is evidence the latter was deliberately popularised by the CIA to derail political questioning of the JFK assassination (see "Conspiracy Theory in America" by Professor Lance deHaven-Smith, University of Texas Press, February 2014).

So here is a new idea. In the invocation of a religious-spectrum term, which is specifically not a political term, was there a similarly deliberate and nefarious depoliticising strategy by the US Government around UFOs? The reduction of those who would campaign to expose conspiratorial crimes to mere theorists, the imbrication of simple claims to truth and justice, holding the power-players to account, with useless religious terminology - both would render away the political dimension to any movement for UFO truth.

A Patch Better Perhaps

The above patch, from the private collection of Trevor Paglen, is perhaps a better candidate regarding a possible UFO connection. It has not been published (it is not in Paglen's book on this topic, for example) but it did float about for a while on the artist's old web-page, with a call there for any information regarding it to be forwarded to the artist (this is how it came to my attention). It can be found online today with a bit of "enlightened" google searching still.

Why is it a better candidate? Here one needs to reference something that is a bit of a rebus in UFO circles - namely the nexus of ideas around the alleged sightings of a black triangle UFO. Some people are of the opinion that this object is a reverse engineered human artefact, possibly code-named the TR3A (alternatively, through the years, the TR3B), and also known as the "Black Manta". The patch clearly shows a black manta ray, with wording emphasising its triangular shape! The full meaning of the design is as ever obscure - but the synchronicity between UFO lore and the existence of this patch is, to say the least, and in my opinion, very compelling indeed. It is, I think, a smoking gun.

Confusing the issue, perhaps, is the existence of an acknowledged, but unrealised, concept plane the X-44 MANTA (Lockheed Martin, 2000). It seems unlikely to me that an unrealised concept would earn a related mission patch, and Wikipedia in any case gives the code-name for this project as being "Project Have Manta" and not "Black Manta", but some would say Occam's razor applies (blah, blah - does it always?) and the patch should simply be associated with the X-44. Without more information from those in the know this comes down to a matter of ideology and taste. I do see more than a red herring here - proof rather that the alleged Black Manta is real, triangular, and the likely source of all those sightings!

I do have other, more esoteric, observations on the meaning of this patch, and I may follow up on that here later, but for now - I think - a puff of smoke, a smoking gun, and dead red herrings will do.