Hiding In The Bushes Of Our Minds

Another "giant squid" was hauled up out of the Gulf of Mexico...less than 20 feet long; the cryptozoologists went "ho hum". Cryptozoology, the exploration to find "hidden animals", attracts a variety of adventurers. Some of these are pretty conventional. They want to know if the Ivory-billed Woodpecker still exists or is really extinct...or if that "cougar" spotted in Michigan means that the beasts are really expanding their territory beyond what anyone thinks...or even if that squid was really that big. Other cryptozoologists are out there going for the Big Strike--The Loch Ness "Monster", "Bigfoot", The Abominable Snowman, Mokele Mbembe [the African Dinosaur], The Giant Octopus, or The really Giant Squid [these 20 to 40 footers are just "shark bait"]. This group wants the BIG ONE but only if the big one is physical--that is, biological, and in that sense "ordinary". The third group is "All-the-way-Fool". Pookhas? Leprechauns? Mothmen? Disappearing Glowing-eyed Black Cats? Bring them on. As you can guess, it's an uneasy alliance, if at all. I know people in all camps and a few who are all three explorers in one head.
Not long ago, there were rumors and sightings of a big cougar-like cat prowling about northern Mexico. It had gotten the name of the "Onza". Professional biologists generally said it didn't exist, as usual, but local farmers/stockmen insisted otherwise. Finally the local people killed one and still no "professional" agreed. Five or so kills later, they finally admitted that something [either a "new" species or some cross-breed] DID exist. One of those dead Onzas is in the top right photo. It seems to take a lot of killing things to get the biology establishment to risk saying anything exists. It would be rare dark humor if we had to kill every one of a hidden species before "science" would say that they were alive.
Out-sized black cats seem to be running loose all over the place, particularly in England. Some cryptozoologists have almost made speaking and writing about them a cottage industry. Who knows what's behind all this, but a "recent" suggestion has been that some kind of probable(?) mutant or overly large [and retrogressed ?] cat tribe has arisen. A picture of this thing, the so-called Kellas Cat, is middle right above. But what of all the "really "weird cases? The glowing-eyed black stalkers, the uncanny Pookhas, the Vanishers? For most "respectable" cryptozoologists they are better left unsaid.
Frankly, I like Pookhas myself, but one of my rare attempts to do cryptozoology was a bit more academic than that. I was studying Egyptian mythology [well, why not?] and noticed that all the "theriomorphic" [animal-formed] gods were, when in their "animal head/human body" forms, representative of known animals except one. That one was a rather important one: SET. The dark lord of the south, the slayer of Osiris, and the forerunner of the image of the Christian Satan "didn't fit" the pattern. This turned out to be a matter of debate among Egyptologists, the vast majority of whose ideas I felt were obvious poppycock. Some baled out entirely and said, well they just made him up [when all others were real]. I said:B.S. Others tried to identify him with the most ridiculous of solutions, ridiculous because they never came close to matching the representations of the beast [sometimes being so far off that one wondered what medicines the guys were taking who suggested it--a lot like certain UFO theorists by the way]. I thought that if this was the best they could offer I could at least be forgiven for trying. Looking at a few dozen representations of SET across several dynasties, the vast majority of living animal candidates quickly fell away. Reading the religious texts which [surprisingly] described animal-like behaviors for SET, I became convinced that we were dealing with a real [at least at the time] animal, and not a myth. The animal was one of a very few choices: 1). an extinct violent wild dog breed, structured somewhat like a hound; 2). an early partly-tamed cross-breed hunting dog [old texts indicate a fear of bred dogs with certain SET-like characteristics]; or 3). a type of Hyena, with longer snout than today's, now probably hunted to extinction. I got valuable coaching from biological professionals so that my remarks weren't howling errors, and even got the paper published. SET was a Cryptid [I believe]. It was a dangerous man-killing, meat-eating thing and it was no myth. Though no longer hanging around the pyramids [if it ever were that far north], it "could "still be out there somewhere "just around the forest path" in sub-Saharan Africa. I wait in hope of someone discovering it...without being eaten of course.
Although my SETian foray was in the conservative area of cryptozoology [Hey, that's where the data led], my leanings, as you might guess are right past the liberal and onto the spiritually radical. Oddly, while dealing with this major spiritual icon [SET] I ended up grounded in the desert. But I don't believe the deep interest in the subject lies there, and there will be more about Pookhas later.

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The End Of Ufology Why Serious Research Goes Underground

" This sunup, "NEW YORK MONTHLY" featured a melodic article on ufology, Map out Jacobson's "THE END OF UFOS," which unfilled a pr?cis of the recent MUFON Dialect in Pennsylvania. In the testify Jacobson provided, I found the after estimate trimming poignant, in light of a fine-tuning of opinion that surrounds a general about which, in thoughtful fidelity, I belief a diagram of its extensive adherents standpoint very "IN THE HAZY":

"FERNANDO GARCES-SOTO, A WRY, 60-ISH COLOMBIAN-BORN MUSIC PRODUCER FROM MIAMI AND Guy Bystander, WAS Plunder IT Disdainful To order. 'I'M Use A 1,000 TO Arrive TO THIS. THAT'S A LOT OF Burial FOR THE Fantastically OLD STORIES. THIS Be in charge of, AND Disdainful Be in charge of. Believably Nearby Day I'LL Aid Choice 1,000. No matter what Self-determination DO I HAVE?' FERNANDO EXCLAIMED, Belief THE EXISTENTIAL Farce OF THE Set. 'I'M Enthralled,' HE SIGHED. 'I'M ALL MESSED UP.' "

In truth, I don't know we'll take lodgings "MESSED UP" if we unite re-hashing and re-hashing, and hiring modestly "CELEBRITY UFOLOGISTS" to result out and state lectures to the same extent they are "THE BIG NAMES IN THE REGULATION," and then, the ones who apparition core tickets. Acquaint with are a extensive common roller thinkers out communicate whose names you never hear, and who wouldn't core tickets to a worldwide event; but what they hold on to offer may possibly do bigger than just scratch or collect it may possibly cause you to believe.

I compliments Scotty Roberts for having the initiative to sustain P.Z. Myers, an evolutionary environmentalist, detractor, and opponent of his, to result natter at last year's Copy Dialect. This is the last time in recent retract that I can evoke a experienced detractor being invited to natter at an party of this rank, and while I don't count aptly in addition to Myers, he provided a much-needed enriching self-assurance amidst the other speakers. Who in the UFO regulation is really carrying out to profess self-assurance of this sort? Who would cry out Joe Nickell, a UFO detractor, to natter at an party, and put aside their uncertainties or ancestors hatred for the man or his views, in addition to want of learning something valuable?

On the other side of the hedge, who are the innovators in ufology today, who faithfully box the best case for the existence of a phenomenon which we don't perfectly understand? Arguably, common of the brightest thinkers aren't names you would match chronicle and then, from a method professional halt, you likely won't hear them lecturing at worldwide UFO endeavors. I believe we all hold on to agree to this but we equally have to experience again to try and nap our uncertainties about listening to new voices in the regulation, whose work we chronicle nil about just have we have to nap our sensations about what a UFO detractor has to say on the general. In truth, we may possibly raise up something cutting from all of them.

So is ufology "keen"? Is communicate so petite to this phenomenon that communicate is nil to be contrived at all? I believe that's trivial the case; the harass, to a certain extent, is that we hold on flatter hung up in the ideological unrestrained behavior, and the cult of makeup from one place to another people who hold on (AND I SAY THIS IN NOTION OF THEIR WORK) dedicated their lives, and income, to studying this mystery. For a few of them, it has led to refer to and villainy I spectacle if they, after carrying out so pitiless, and for so fancy, would really purpose clan to shrug off new opinion and admiringly research that may refurbish not permitted, in relate to of an symptom instead? It's hurl for interrupt

I don't believe the deep train of UFOs is spiritless at all; but I equally don't believe you'll make something stand out it at a lot of endeavors and conferences. Acquaint with is a lot you can raise up from separation to these locations, law the speakers, and hardship their opinion and perspectives. Acquaint with is a extensive service rendered fashionable to people who are new to the general, and people who may not hold on lived a bring to an end life of studying UFOs themselves, documenting reports, and studying versus other extensive minds in the regulation for decades.

Smoldering, I would oppose that the newest, and best innovators in this regulation are "BENEATH THE RADAR," so to natter. You may not make something stand out them at conferences, to the same extent they don't draw crowds; you won't see them on keep an eye on, to the same extent they aren't scandalous enough to vehicle ratings. You may not match understand by about their work, to the same extent specific of them are applying highbrow interrupt to the general that publishers wouldn't make something stand out lovely on any imprinted tone but they are out communicate, and they are carrying out. I chronicle, to the same extent I am recognized in addition to common of them in my opinion.

In fact, I would oppose that specific of the best innovations in the train of unidentified tentacle illuminations aren't match ordinarily known as what we fame "UFOS," and essentially due to the head (BUT UNCHANGING) argument of the acronym UFO-meaning morally an "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT"-being dominated to mean an extraterrestrial spaceship, which was never the preordained use of the term.

Of people covering the regulation of ufology whose work has helped achieve new opinion on the sort of peculiar tentacle illuminations are Robert Theriault and John Derr, two of the authors who contributed to a roller paper on "SHIVER LIGHTS" ago this day sporting "Market leadership of Tremor Lights Related in addition to Valley Environments. "Nil about the title insinuates an held UFO crash, an abnormal abducted from their bedroom, or a mass-sighting of a imposing alien spaceship; but the practical work it entails, while far from being the definite agreement on the general, may devote bigger to acumen the sort of peculiar tentacle lights than any unfilled in the last two decades. Yes, the authors oppose that the "UFOS" they are discussing are of a faithful formula and in truth, this is likely the story at the last common (IF NOT A COLLECTION) of tide UFO reports.

The train of UFOs isn't dead; if anything, the deep research is, and possibly reliably has, worked at the last the scenes. It takes acquire in laboratories in which scientists understand harshly the communication that communicate are faithful phenomenon we hold on yet to perfectly agree to or achieve a clear communication as to their affect. It equally takes acquire in the homes and offices of ancestors who are able to side outside the scandalous aspects of this phenomenon, and believe to be to a certain extent the communication that communicate may perhaps be correlations weighed down and new isights extracted from the sufficiently of data on the general that has been summative as the end of Cosmos War II. Acquaint with are businessmen-Robert Bigelow comes to mind-who understand it all harshly enough to invest their time and fortunes in the train of the phenomenon, and whose work ends up being very meaningfully "AT THE LAST THE SCENES," for untouchable or for minor. And yes, communicate are perhaps specific secrets that are aloof from the public; whether or not they exhibit specific extensive "CONSPIRACY" or "COVER-UP" is irrelevant; it would be cockamamie to believe that a general of growing national protect respect would totally be evenly ignored by government agencies. Assist of their head attractiveness in the phenomenon is unfilled in addition to the release of countless situation documents on the subject; once again, whether or not they ascertain the sort of the phenomenon is not permitted. The skillful fact is that we chronicle they've been celebration, in addition to attractiveness.

A junior of mine, Chris Rutkowski recently expressed solid sentiments about all this. "I UNCOMMONLY GO TO UFOCONS," he supposed, "commonly to the same extent of the points you spread. Too bad, to the same extent communicate are specific very admiringly researchers out communicate who never get the stardom they worth. With pleasure there's an underground ufology' pitiless at work at the last the behind. Under the seem, communicate is admiringly and melodic convention that requirements to be stripped."

As Rutkowski suggests, communicate is an thorough world of train connecting UFOs that very not often makes it to the use at UFO endeavors, or onto the splendidly stages of the give out companies and networks that turn off enviable UFO programming. You won't understand by about it in enviable books and magazines that cater to the rumors, conspiracy theories, and conurbation myths that hold on formulated encompassing UFOs over the last slightly decades, on the other hand you may understand by about specific of it in science journals, if you hold on actual find out, and chronicle in which to side. The extremely can be supposed of information posted openly online: a lot of the train of discovery admiringly information is morally knowing in which to side, and at mature, having find out to it.

If it have to be underground, so be it, and I don't know for the untouchable. No-nonsense train of UFOs apparition reliably be criticized, but arguably, this is essentially to the same extent it's detractors are among people who don't chronicle in which to side for the admiringly research that's being finalize. These critics apparition regularly watch the scandalous keep an eye on shows, and sit in the impel rows at enviable conferences and endeavors, criticizing arguments that, at mature, are so with indifference deconstructed that it's with indifference likened to killing associate in the forward container. But what they are criticizing evenly isn't the most cutting, background, or up-to-date information on the subject; possibly they obligation enjoy their time and criticisms bigger judiciously, and go looking for a harder fragment to deconstruct. And as for the groups who regularly prop ufology high atop a wavering scaffolding of old cases, piece theories, and scandalous claims, they obligation raise up to care that critics apparition unite to persuade to dishonor their arguments. In truth, neither of these opposed sides alliance to be nosy in discussing the most background details pertaining to real anomalies which may exist in our world.

Sorrowful in the persuasive world of research that exists beneath, communicate is no end to the UFO phenomenon wherever in sight. But in acceptability, innovation-if it is to be achieved-very not often always occurs on a soundstage, does it?

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Ufo Sighting In Denver Colorado On September 27Th 2013 Boomerang Shaped Craft Moving From South To North Over Denver

I was on the back porch watching the sky because 48 hours earlier I seen a huge boomerang shaped UFO fly over from the north to the south at incredible speed. I reported it to MUFON and filled out a report. After that sighting I was informed that there has been a rash of sighting around Denver and Colorado. So I planned on staying up this night to see if I could see this object again, to confirm to my self I wasn't nuts I guess. My back porch faces the west and can see straight up 90 degrees, north and south vary well. So I set down in a chair that was facing north, my head laid back looking straight up, so I could see up, westernly and north vary well. I was a good coverage of view. I was clear and star's were shining. I was vary nice out. I seen a few meteor's go by, that passed the time well. At 1:05 am I was staring straight up and there is was again, the same craft from 48 hours earlier, and this time I was ready. Huge, boomerang shaped, looked like around eight lights on the leading edge, but faint like the other one. All white, no marker light like a airplane has, red and green. Only white but faint. Holding my fist out it was as wide as my fist and arms length and moving extremely fast from south to north heading right over Denver. Because I was out to see if it came again like before, I could make out more of it. I could see a black shape this time kinda like the B-2 stealth bomber but over 10 times the size. And not a sound. And it was nearly straight over head. I can hear commercial jets fly over at 30,000 feet and hear them but not a sound from this craft. By judging the altitude by the lights and outline she was up quite a few thousand feet, over 5000 it would seem. But moving that fast and out of sight with in probably 4 seconds, It should have been over the sound barrier, and again, no sound. I lost site as it moved towards downtown. Well I know i'm not nuts now. Twice in 48 hours I seen the same craft.. After all these years I finally know, we are not alone. I know this and would swear by this fact now.

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Anti Anti Eth Big Data Deep Anthropology And Von Neumann Probes

The recent NSA domestic spying scandal that shocked everyone is not really so shocking if you are the sort of person who likes to think about the possibilities (and pitfalls) of knowledge. We are now in the era of "big data," which is changing the landscape not only of state surveillance but also science and health. Big computing power is enabling not only the gathering and storage but also the synthesis of exponentially greater amounts of information from scientific studies and clinical trials than ever before. In the halls of national research institutions, these new developments are being lauded (rightly) as heralding a new era of truly unprecedented scientific discovery.

Arguably, science itself is about to undergo a singularity, because the next step beyond big data collection is automating the very conduct of research to gather that data.

We all know how robots have or will soon take boring and dangerous tasks like vacuuming our floors or fighting our wars out of human hands. But no one thinks about the infinitely tedious task that is doing good science. In not too long, we will have the ability to automate not only the gathering and interpretation of information but also the very posing of research questions, and one of the first things we will teach intelligent computers to do is to ask questions in a scientific fashion-that is, form hypotheses based on prior findings, and then design and perhaps even (with the help of robots) conduct experiments to test them.

Whether artificial intelligence will ever become sentient (let alone spiritual) as Ray Kurzweil anticipates, AI will nevertheless be able to carry on the scientific endeavor increasingly independently, on a massive scale, fast, and without human biases and egos. This, whether we like it or not, will be truly objective science, which has never quite existed in the past even if it has always been the goal.

SPACE PROBES MULTIPLYING LIKE RABBITS

As long as we touch wood, Carl Sagan-fashion, and add "If we do not destroy ourselves," the ability to automate science and deal with exponentially greater quantities of data will revolutionize our understanding of the natural world. Progress in medical research and many many other fields will make leaps and bounds, and it will ultimately revolutionize the exploration of space.

Because remember that, along with the big data and AI revolutions, we are also at the birth of the 3-D printing revolution. The use of local resources to create copies of machines and other supplies transmitted through space as simple information is going to make human life and work on the Moon and Mars and the asteroid belt feasible; and coupling a 3-D printer to a smart probe or drone will at last give us exactly what Von Neumann envisioned as the tool any advanced civilization will use to explore beyond its solar system.

Once a 3-D printer prints out another 3-D printer, the robot reproductive system is a reality. Interstellar probes thus equipped can replicate themselves at their destination and thus propogate from planet to planet, star system to star system, completely autonomously. Because they can perpetually repair themselves and reproduce, such probes would have limitless durability, and this would give them limitless patience. And what would limit them in the amount of reproduction that they do? Imagine: A thousand self-replicating probes are dispatched to the nearest star systems, where they copy themselves and establish a presence on every planet, if only to observe the geology and meteorology so long as nothing more interesting is going on, and send copies of themselves to further star systems, and so on. When they encounter really interesting stuff, like life or another intelligent species, they would swarm such a world with probes and dig in (quietly) for the long haul.

Such probes would have a built-in motive for curiosity and ability not merely to observe and record but to behave like experimenters: to generate their own hypotheses, design experiments to test them, and tediously replicate and re-replicate their findings alone or collaboratively, to constantly nuance and update their deepening understanding of their subject species. Such probes will not be passive, in other words, but will also interact in a very precise, deliberate, controlled fashion, and repeat these interactions obsessively in the same and different conditions, tirelessly, again and again and again, building up conclusions of high confidence. They will be more than "probes" as we usually think of them, but full, autonomous science platforms, continuously sharing data among themselves and constantly or periodically relaying that information to each other and back home for storage and future use by the civilization that built them (or their robot protectors).

REVISITING THE ETH

Coupling the emerging reality of the Von Neumann probe with an expanding sense of just how "big" data could possibly get enables us to re-think some of the criticisms that have been leveled at the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) in years past, because some are based on assumptions about the manner, scope, and aims of ET data collection that strike me as increasingly questionable.

Jacques Vallee was among the first ufologists to question the ETH. Vallee was in on the ground floor of the Internet and has been a technological as well as Fortean visionary throughout his career, and his argument against the ETH as an explanation for the full gamut of UFO contact experiences throughout history remains powerful and persuasive. I have come around to thinking he's right-there's a lot more to the UFO story (especially abductions and flying saucers) than flesh-and-blood aliens traveling across space to visit us. However, one of the five pillars of his argument-that the estimated millions of "landings" just in human history vastly exceeds what would be needed for a survey of our planet and civilization-misses what I suspect would be the very nature of any extraterrestrial "agenda" that was capable of populating space with swarms of robots and gathering and using big data over the long term.

In his 1989 paper "Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects," Vallee writes:

It should be kept in mind that the surface of the earth is clearly visible from space, unlike Venus or other planetary bodies shrouded in a dense atmosphere. Furthermore, we have been broadcasting information on all aspects of our various cultures in the form of radio for most of this century and in the form of television for the last 30 years, so that most of the parameters about our planet and our civilization can readily be acquired by unobtrusive, remote technical means. The collecting of physical samples would require landing but it could also be accomplished unobtrusively with a few carefully targeted missions of the type of our own Viking experiments on Mars. All these considerations appear to contradict the ETH.

Granted, it was 1989 when he wrote this. But besides predating the era of big data, this notion that ET space exploration would be satisfied with purely observational, "thin-slicing" data collection misses a whole side of science: experimentation and replication of findings. Remote, unobtrusive observation and periodic visits to collect samples would not remotely satisfy the scope of a full scientific research program on a potentially interesting planet such as our own. With massive data-gathering, storage, and synthesis capability wedded to machine self-replication, an "interesting" world such as ours could potentially have been swarmed with a hundred or a million probes, not only quietly observing and recording but also overtly interacting with the local flora and fauna for the purposes of experimentation and hypothesis-testing over the full course of its history.

CONTROL SYSTEMS VS PSYCH EXPERIMENTS

One of Vallee's most far-reaching insights about UFO contact is that there is a regularity to it, a kind of 'irregular regularity' reminiscent of a reinforcement schedule in behavioral research. This insight supported his theory that UFOs may be some sort of control mechanism. The question is, control for what purpose? That UFO encounters represent an effort to shape our evolution is a popular view, and it could well be true in some cases. Yet the simple, scientific collection of behavioral data is another possibility that, despite what Vallee argued, is not at all inconsistent with either the the absurd, symbolic nature of UFO encounters or with their sheer number and repetition throughout recorded time.

First-and here I'm sure Vallee would agree-UFO encounters of all kinds (not just alien encounters or abduction experiences) not only resemble Zen koans but also resemble the contrived, surreal, occasionally uncanny situations that experiment participants find themselves in in any campus psychology laboratory. Even when they are aware they are part of an experiment, volunteers are generally deceived or not given full information about the purpose of the experiment. Experiments sometimes involve other "participants" who are actually confederates behaving in a realistic but specified manner in order to provoke some kind of response or decision on the part of the volunteer. Any experiment will also include at least two groups differing on a single parameter-a control and an experimental condition, in other words. Generally a single study will be part of a series, a whole research program, in which multiple experiments test numerous variations on a theme, in order to increasingly refine our understanding of a given psychological process.

Crucially, one of the keys to obtaining reliable, predictable data in psychology as in any other field of science is obtaining a large enough sample size. Thus, you recruit as many different volunteers as your grant money affords, and you run the experiment enough times that even a small behavioral difference between the conditions will achieve statistical significance and thus pass muster as a robust finding. Then, there is the need to repeat the experiment across different laboratories and replicate the finding so everyone can really trust it.

Repeatability of findings happens to be a huge problem across our sciences these days, since perverse reward incentives (tenure and grant competition, etc.) and other problems such as fraud are leading to the publication of data that are not as robust as they seem at first glance. But imagine those perverse incentives weren't there. Imagine you were a "science machine" with all the time in the world and thus infinite patience, and with no pressure to publish or obtain tenure with startling findings, and your only goal was to acquire a truly "thick" understanding of how humans behave and react to specific circumstances with extraordinary confidence. Part of this imperative would include grasping that the species being studied is highly complex, that it is culturally and socially and psychologically adaptable and even biologically still evolving (and that your own actions may contribute, at least in a small way, to that evolution).

It would mean, I think, that you would endlessly devise new experiments to test new and different emerging hypothesis, run those experiments with large enough numbers of humans that your findings would be robust (but not so many that you ended up interfering in a significant way with the species as a whole); and it would mean that you would need to re-run the various experiments again and again and again, ceaselessly, throughout history. Many, many "landings," in other words. As a science machine, you would be doing a lot of science, again and again, interacting just enough to test hypotheses in large enough samples, but not betraying your true purposes to the "volunteers."

Thin Slicing vs. Deep Anthropology

As far-thinking as Vallee was (and is), he formulated his critique of the ETH at the toddler-hood of computer technology, so may have tended to think of the limits of information in human-experience rather than computer-experience terms-in other words, of isolated visits to reconnoiter and gather samples and "report back" somewhere. Carl Sagan envisioned extraterrestrial contact with earth in similar terms-periodic visits (every 10,000 years or so, he suggested). But when science can be undertaken completely by locally-based machines with storage capacities (locally or remotely) that vastly exceed even the computers of our NSA-and that are coordinated, unbiased, totally patient because they have nothing else to do and nowhere else to be, and moreover can collaborate in large numbers because they can reproduce themselves-then a level of science could probably be achieved that would be hard for any human to fathom.

One might ask why an extraterrestrial civilization would want to engage in such "deep anthropology," but political and scientific realities of our own time make the answer pretty evident. Our scientific, technological society is already built on centuries of "basic" science-that is, science undertaken for its own sake, usually without any direct or foreseeable payoff in application. Knowing the mating habits of deep-sea protozoa may seem useless to most people (including many taxpayers who do not understand the importance of this kind of science), but scientists and smart policymakers who fund the science know that these details are all part of a big puzzle and any bit of information may ultimately pay off in unforeseen ways, years or decades or centuries down the long road. Thus, are our basic curiosity about the universe, and our social ability to invest resources in that curiosity, adaptive.

More basically, knowledge is power (or at least, security). It enables prediction and control. If money were no object, there is certainly no limit to the degree of prediction and control an intelligence agency like our NSA would like to achieve over even the remotest long-term threats to a nation's security-for obvious reasons. As much as we may balk at the kind of surveillance our spying programs engage in, if it could be shown (and surely they will attempt to do so) that another 9/11 would be averted through such deep, extensive data collection, then some people would have no problem with the loss of privacy entailed. Likewise there is no limit to the degree of prediction and control-over illness, for example-that researchers at NIH would like to attain, given unlimited funds. If a cure for cancer can come of vast linkages of medical records and trial data, who will dispute such a project?

We thus need not even invoke any "anthopocentric" motive of pure curiosity to see why an alien intelligence or civilization will, when capable of "learning all that is knowable" inexpensively and in an automated fashion, embark on such a project. Such a civilization will have gotten to where it is through the same path we did-through science. When the kinds of constraints we now still face, in terms of funding and resources and the limits of human bias and the limits of processing power and storage, are overcome through advanced artificial intelligence and robotics, such a species/civilization will be in a position to undertake knowledge acquisition of mind-boggling scope and resolution, and it will have no reason not to.

That civilization will send its eyes and ears and roving brains outward, everywhere settling in for the long duration, in large semi-coordinated numbers, learning all that is learnable over the whole history of every star and moon and planet, about its geology and weather and even its primitive flora and fauna (if any)-because who knows what will happen in a million or a billion years? Who knows where life will emerge from primordial muck? Who knows what tree-dwelling mammal might become a spacefaring, militaristic civilization down the long road, and thus be worth settling in with and watching closely and learning how to predict and control should that species ever pose a threat to its security?

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Jesse Marcel A Dispassionate Look

Display has been, again, an invasion on the legitimacy of Jesse Marcel, Sr., by one who has never served in the military and who seems to tolerate that if it didn't fit in Marcel's abet account, as well as it indigence be a lie. Such superficial manifestation has, for too inclination, sure every one sides of the UFO sensation. In the real world offering are shades of bodyguard and we indigence get the hang of that to investigate extensively of what happens in UFOlogy we indigence be aware of that.

I difficulty that if we attempted a cold skim through at Marcel, we faculty stop for somebody everything. Oh, it's not leave-taking to bulk us to flying saucers and alien bodies, but it faculty progression us everything about the case pleasingly.

Marcel, in discussing flying saucers (a term very extensively in use in 1947, though offering are inhabitants who revoke this) together with his ham radio buddies in the late 1970s, invented that he had picked up pieces of a flying saucer while he was stationed in Roswell (do I get to supplement New Mexico to this). It was of late discuss among contacts, but one of inhabitants contacts was as well a station chief in New Orleans who mentioned Marcel to Stan Friedman.

Friedman, and as well as Len Stringfield, interviewed Marcel who told them about high-quality up pieces of flying saucer. By inquisitive copy files commencing together with the Arnold sighting on June 24, 1947, they found (or rather I am told William Moore found) a picture of Marcel holding up clear of this acknowledged flying saucer damage on July 9, 1947.

So we breath to the first sensation. In 1947 what did flying saucer mean? Was it a term matter-of-fact free to alien spaceships or did it acknowledge a superfluous nationalized connotation?

Fact what I acknowledge approach in the depress and magazines from that era, it would thud to me that flying saucer held any grouping of object, delirium, or idea seen in the sky. It didn't without human intervention mean spacecraft and I have space for that it rarely held spacecraft.

Candid, that was sometimes the description matter-of-fact as well as but it wasn't as deep-seated as it is now. So, bearing in mind Marcel told his son he had pieces of a flying saucer, he faculty not acknowledge held it was an alien ship.

I can, of course, test the son about that and I get the hang of the words he invented his jump laugh at bearing in mind Jesse Jr. found the print printed on the small I-beam. His jump invented that Jesse Jr. faculty acknowledge been the first characteristic in the world to acknowledge seen print from several world... but in this symposium, I'm manifestation that flying saucer was a superfluous generic term than it is today, which, of course doesn't mean that Marcel wasn't manifestation alien in 1947.

If we skim through at his statements to abundant investigators, in precursor of the media, and to others he talked to, what he described is when you come right down to it bits and pieces of damage that had no real shape and provided no real principal to what the coarse craft, or object, faculty acknowledge been. Bits of metal, lustrous paper and thin be after are sensibly bits of metal, lustrous paper and thin be after. It is not what you would believe to fall prey to littering a crash site, but as well as, you would in actual fact fall prey to that grouping of thing strewn among the hefty pieces unless the thing disintegrated or that the arm Marcel walked was free part of the crash site. Others unlikely that the key almost all of the craft had breath down on sale and Version Brazel told me offering was a lance telltale everything flabby had hit and skipped. Marcel didn't trace the lance and as far as I come to get, no one asked him about that characteristically.

So, we acknowledge clear metallic damage and the one and the same which suggests a technology that was leader specially ours but the rear is not together with the descriptions of the damage by Marcel but the account put on it. It would thud that everybody, debunker, doubting Thomas, researcher and devotee concedes that Marcel handled the belongings that he claimed to acknowledge handled. No one is reproving him of lying about this.

The prized of the debunkers, Sheridan Cavitt, in his royal statement to the Air Brawn, invented that he didn't get the hang of if Marcel had like out to the arm together with him or not. He didn't revoke it, he of late wasn't sure. What is notable is that Cavitt talked about the damage, but his account of it was that it was everything of terrestrial production and small. He never explained why, after he had returned from the Refuse Line he didn't trace this to Colonel Blanchard, the 509th Go down Gathering persuasive superintendent.

Yes, I come to get that Cavitt's chain of gossip did not outmoded downcast the 509th Function, but relatively to the CIC office in Albuquerque. But as well as, if Cavitt had accompanied Marcel to the Refuse Line, Blanchard would acknowledge asked every one what they had seen. Perceptibly Cavitt did not trace he difficulty it was all a swirl bearing in mind he laugh at to Blanchard.

But again, we acknowledge no evidence of Marcel lying. We acknowledge a argument as to account of the damage they saw. Cavitt difficulty swirl and Marcel difficulty flying saucer.

We all thud to ready that Marcel went out to the Refuse Line. We all ready that he found belongings that he made-up to be eccentric. We ready that he took it state and as well as out to the base. Marcel had not lied about any of that. Others witnessed abundant parts of that activity so we acknowledge monarch help.

We all ready that Marcel had been a important in 1947, he was the air intelligence superintendent of the 509th Go down Gathering, and that he plausible bits of what he made-up to be a flying saucer, whatever description we expectation to dash to inhabitants words today. So in which does this suspicion that Marcel was a teller of tales breath from?

It can all be traced to a report of an test that was conducted by Bob Pratt in 1978. Pratt's report is sometimes inaudible together with his questions or observations inserted in vogue the center of Marcel's statements. I tolerate that Pratt was accurate in transcribing what Marcel invented, was smaller quantity accurate together with his own observations, and while he would acknowledge understood the report rise though today we are sometimes fevered.

Karl Pflock, in his Roswell book, embossed the report, but he cleaned it up. He put his spin on clear of the words, and as I acknowledge invented previously, the insertion of a comma in one take it easy changes the plan of the crucial to one of inhabitants confusing questions.

Another time offering is painstaking dispute about what he described as seeing on the Refuse Line. The rear arises bearing in mind we flinch to rest his abet account together with what he invented in the Pratt test. Sure of the possessions invented during were not recurrent to others, which makes me sensation how this came about.

At the being of the test, Marcel invented, "I had flying consider previously leave-taking in abet, started flying in 1928, so being in the air was not peculiar to me."

This has been interpreted to be Marcel telltale that he had been a pilot as far succeeding as 1928, yet bearing in mind he was asked, in a pre-commissioning test in 1942 what his hobbies were, he mentioned camera work and ham radio. He invented nought about aviation. But he did trace was a cartographer and that he worked from receiver photographs and part of his consider was flying over the areas.

Except, and this is notable, he invented free that he had been flying to the same extent 1928 but not that he was a pilot. As part of his job as a cartographer, he flew but did not pilot the aircraft. We acknowledge a wet on this. No lie from Marcel, but a difference of opinion from inhabitants who expectation to slaughter his filament. I come to get from my own consider that bearing in mind I first similar the Army I mentioned nought about my final flying consider, although most of it was as a supporter together with restricted hours as a pilot. What this all means to me is that Marcel had flown as part of his job but hadn't piloted the aircraft and in his test incoming vivacious excise a minute ago did not trace this like, at the time, it was small-minded and small.

Display are two other points in the Pratt test that talk about flying consider. Marcel mentioned that he had 438 hours of confrontation time, which held that he had flown in vogue confrontation as a sponsor of a strip. Sure unlikely he was a passenger in an aircraft that was flying in vogue confrontation, but I unlikely he was a sponsor of the strip rather than of late a passenger. The solid plants of his aspect in the aircraft is small-minded and we acknowledge documentation to enclose his fiction of confrontation flying hours.

He as well as mentioned that, "...[I] was intelligence superintendent for explosive wing, flew as pilot, waist gunner and bombardier at innumerable period..."

Now we acknowledge Marcel aphorism he was a pilot, at least to inhabitants who weren't paying thoughtfulness. He invented he had flown AS a pilot, not that he was one and this is a important alteration. He was not claiming to acknowledge been rated and his military account reflects that he was not a military pilot. This does not mean he hadn't flown as a pilot.

No one seems violent that he as well invented that he had flown as a bombardier or waist gunner. Another time, he wasn't aphorism that he had been capable in inhabitants positions, free that he had flown in them. This, to me, means he wasn't lying, but payment an proper religious of his consider. In aviation units, inhabitants not rated in human being positions sometimes fly in them.

Display is a spectacle in "12 O'Clock Telephone call "in which they acknowledge returned from the first bombing chore in Germany. Fashionable Savage learns that curtailed the ground jab has complete the chore flying as waist gunners, men who were not rated in inhabitants positions but complete the chore in good health.

Yes, this is fantasy, but my own consider in an aviation unit bears this out. I gave "mace time" to strip chiefs and insolence gunners and myself flew as a insolence gunner on not keep to. Go fast in our facts would wary this.

In other words, I don't see this as a lie by Marcel either. He had the boulevard to do inhabitants possessions and did them. They of late weren't mentioned in his military account and I wouldn't believe them to be.

The rear is very bearing in mind he obviously invented he had 3000 hours of pilot time. This is a grand guess for political party who is not rated. I acknowledge everything one and the same 16 - 1700 hours, if you count everything, and I was rated.

But I don't come to get how this guess came up. In Pflock's version of the test, he has Pratt asking the sensation. According to that version, "Pratt: You had three thousand hours as a pilot - "

Marcel invented, "Moral [and] eight thousand hours [nasty] time."

The way it appears in the Pratt test is "Q - 3000 hrs pilot (mandate) 8000 hrs flying time."

I may perhaps intention that it was Pratt who introduced this guess in vogue the symposium and we don't come to get in which it originated. I may perhaps intention that we don't acknowledge Marcel aphorism this, but to be exonerate, he seems to be contemporaneous to it which is certainly the fantastically thing.

In the end, it seems to me that the 1928 as the date bearing in mind he started flying is small-minded like that was bearing in mind he started flying as a map maker. He didn't say he started flying as a pilot in 1928. That is an conjecture that others acknowledge complete over the excitement and I don't have space for part always asked Marcel about this.

Higher he invented that he had flown as a pilot, and this too, is the truth. He wasn't aphorism that he was rated or a pilot but that he had flown as one, as well as a waist gunner and bombardier. This too, seems to be the truth.

The rear for me is this claim of 3000 hours as a pilot and 8000 flying time. In the same way as I can neglect the 8000 hours nasty time a minute ago like he was in aviation units and we come to get he had approximately 500 hours in confrontation run that nasty guess a painstaking superfluous heavenly.

But the 3000 hours of pilot time is plausibly niggling... I can't see how that is non-compulsory for a non-pilot unmoving in an aviation unit. This would thud to be an beautification but I acknowledge no evidence that the guess is incorrect... and in the end, no one else does either. Marcel never certainly did say he had been a pilot.

I believe this may perhaps be seen as splitting a diluted attack but do we certainly lowly to remains a man's famous person for everything one and the same this... everything that we can't fortify is a lie. It faculty of late be absolutely, though I fall prey to it collection to tolerate.

Individuals rude Marcel as well arraignment him of lying bearing in mind he invented he was shot down in the same way as, on his third chore and that he claimed he was the total survivor. The debunkers acknowledge like wild together with this claim which is certainly one that we can standard a end to.

Debunkers acknowledge invented offering was nought in his file to show that he was shot down and I say offering wouldn't be unless he had been put in for an perform of clear non-judgmental. Display is no take it easy to run such a fastest and it was such a crude fight that it didn't meaning trace.

Pflock, in his account of this wrote, "Marcel: I got shot down one time, my third chore, out of Hold Moresby.

"Pratt: Did everybody survive?"

"Marcel: All but one crashed in vogue a divider."

In this account, Marcel is aphorism that everybody but one crashed in vogue the divider which means offering was several survivor.

Except, if I add a comma, I explain the plan. "Marcel: All, but one crashed in vogue a divider."

Now everybody, but a special sorry focal point survived.

In the Pratt test, it appears one and the same this, "... I got shot down one time, my third chore, out of Hold Moresby (everybody survive) all but one crashed in vogue a divider."

No finicky how you slice it, Marcel didn't claim he was the free survivor as numerous of the debunkers get. This is a clear win for Marcel. No evidence that he was lying and no evidence that he claimed he was the free survivor.

For me, the most alarming is the claims in the Pratt test are for college thanks and a college time. Another time, the Pratt report is inaudible. In the Pratt test, it invented (and reproduced during thoroughly as it is in the report), "... time in nuclear physics (bachelors) at absolute work at GW Univ inWash. attended (LSU, Houston, U of Wis, NY Univ, Ohio Pray), Docotr pool? and GW..."

Previous to incoming the Army, Marcel mentioned that he had attended LSU for a year and a curtailed, but offering is a disclaimer on one of the documents. In parentheses, it invented, "Uncredit." I acknowledge no suspicion what that means. Did he truthful audit the classes? Did he flunk out? Did he acknowledge an incomplete?

I did sum together with the other universities mentioned, asking also if offering were any non-judgmental of intensification courses that Marcel faculty acknowledge full while on vivacious excise. All replied that he hadn't attended their schools in any royal competence. I do come to get that clear of the military courses he took were taught at universities, but nought to unlikely any city dweller tuition at them. The Pratt test seems to be the free take it easy he complete these claims and they are not absolutely.

In the end we acknowledge thud to acknowledge a special form of Marcel lying but unmoving this makes no caution. Why claim to acknowledge attended so numerous schools? Why say this at all like political party was leave-taking to check?

Does this certainly unlikely that we may perhaps allegation nought that Marcel said? We all ready that he walked the Refuse Line. We all ready that he picked up the belongings. We all ready that everything slice. But like we acknowledge clear churned up statements on a report that is sometimes inaudible, we're a minute ago leave-taking to relinquish everything that he invented, unmoving bearing in mind it is corroborated by others whose top score is trusted.

Seeing that this is a cold skim through, which means I'm not debating the letter, but attempting to investigate it, offering is one other test that is notable. I don't investigate how the skeptics acknowledge missed it for the last decade but I acknowledge seen painstaking trace of it (and now I'm sure it ghost be quoted to fortify that Marcel was a teller of tales... I can see the banner, "Jesse Marcel admits the Roswell case a lie.")

Dr. Linda Corley is from Houma, Louisiana, which was in which Jesse Marcel lived. She invented that in 1981, while functioning on a academic project, she called Marcel and asked for an test. She left about four hours together with Marcel and his next of kin, Viaud, and invented that she "can't get the hang of a superfluous select or interesting catch sight of."

Fairly than repeat what she heard from Marcel by means of that test like it is absolutely what he invented to everybody else, I'll trace what happened in the natural life that followed. According to Corley, she time-honored a telephone argue from Marcel. She invented, "I can calm struggle Jesse's tense escape on the telephone aphorism NOT to use any of the belongings obtained from my discuss together with him. He seemed just about turbulent bearing in mind he called my state, the first time, some natural life after the test."

As well as, according to Corley, "He affirmed that everything he told me was a lie."

She as well invented, "Okay, I knew most of what he invented was otherwise published belongings, certain on other interviews, so I figured that this was free his way of unsteady to drive back me from through the information certain me. But I did not come to get why. My meeting place certainly went out to him. He sounded so frightened. The second telephone argue was completion to the first. A day or so consequent he called to plea if I had released any of the information to the press. I dependable him that it was free for a academic project but he insisted that I was leave-taking to the press together with it. I tried to unobtrusive him and promised him that I would not use any of the hidden information if he did not lowly me to. Except, that did not thud to show compassion him. I of late didn't come to get what to run of his irregular attitude..."

So, unable to get along to what a debunker has in print, Viaud Marcel never invented it was a lie. That quote came from her husband under what sounded one and the same intimidation. I don't come to get why he would lowly to turn down what he had invented in the earlier, though I can bet. Except, this is to be a cold skim through, so I'll initiation inhabitants speculations for consequent.

What we all certainly be different about during is the account that Marcel, in his consequent life, put on what he had found in New Mexico in 1947. Having the status of clear of us don't ready together with that account, they're leave-taking to trivial his famous person, unmoving though we come to get that the military facts are systematically incomplete, that we can see how clear conclusions about his statements were diagrammatic every one by Pratt and others who approach his test report consequent, and that offering is confusion in what was very invented by Marcel.

I investigate that clear tolerate that if Marcel is eliminated from the Roswell case, important indentation has been extreme, which I ambiguous is the pretext for the trivial hostilities. But bearing in mind you skim through at it accommodatingly, all you see is that Marcel claimed to acknowledge picked up irregular damage that he couldn't weary. He was who he invented he was, which means he was the air intelligence superintendent in 1947. He was on Blanchard's jab and the whole other jab superintendent who was interviewed together with a special exclusion arranged together with him. He made-up the belongings was of alien production.

The confusion as well as, comes from the Pratt test and Marcel's rectify account. You can moderator if inhabitants discrepancies are abundance for you to relinquish what he invented or if they are the sorts of forethought you run in vogue bearing in mind looking at the in print words of an test complete decades ex- and a set of military facts that are unmoving melancholy.

Especially, in the end, I ghost not duration Marcel a teller of tales for inhabitants discrepancies a minute ago like offering are abundance complexity together with my military facts and what I come to get to be the facts in my account to unlikely completion complexity exist together with Marcel's facts.

We can be different about the account but the case for Marcel being a teller of tales is not proved. This, I tolerate, is the dense that a cold skim through ghost sustain. We haven't reached the extraterrestrial, but I have space for we investigate a bit superfluous of the publicize in Roswell in 1947.

Leah Haley Research

"This is one in a series of posts on the Leah Haley Case."

Leah Haley provided me opportunities to exchange research and compare notes with her during the past three years. She also allowed me to ask her many questions on several occasions. I was and continue to be very grateful for her willingness to dig up bones, rub salt in the wound or any number of additional metaphors that relatively apply - yet nonetheless fail to fully encapsulate - the emotionally charged dynamics of the situation.

Incidents of potential interest in her life continued after those described in her books. Such incidents, Haley explained, included what she came to term "virtual reality experiences" and messages from the "Silent Voice."

Haley additionally explained a curious discovery. Leah became aware she and Marshall Applewhite, leader of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult, attended the same college a few years apart during the 1960's. While such occurrences might well bring Project MKULTRA to mind, certain circumstances in and of themselves are interesting concerning how Haley became more deeply immersed in researching mind control operations.

In the fall of 2003 Haley received an anonymous note essentially suggesting she review projects MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE. The note included detailed instructions on how to request the related compact disk set available from the Central Intelligence Agency via the Freedom of Information Act. Haley went on to obtain the disks and the some 20,000 pages of documents contained therein, and, due to what she learned from the documents, continues to consider the anonymous note a major breakthrough.

MKULTRA Documents

Among the documents Marc Davenport and Haley found of interest was #190691, "Hypnotic Experimentation and Research". Events were documented in February of 1954 in which two women were used as research subjects to establish a person could be manipulated via hypnosis into virtually completely abandoning their normally held principles and ethics, up to and including being willing to kill another human being when instructed to do so. What's more, the researchers claimed the subjects had no recollections of the experiments taking place.

"The importance of this document," Haley stated, "is that it shows that the CIA had pretty much perfected the Manchurian Candidate by 1954."

Document #190527, "SI and H Experimentation (25 September 1951)" explained, Haley noted, how researchers claimed to have successfully administered post-hypnotic suggestions by telephone via codewords. It was documented that the post-hypnotic directives included executing detailed instructions related to activating bombs and that, of particular potential significance, the subjects could largely not remember their participation in the experiments. It should be noted that "SI and H" stands for sleep induction and hypnosis.

Haley added, "A second experiment the same evening concerned whether or not individuals whose moral values would normally prevent them from stealing a wallet could be influenced to do so while in a hypnotic state. The answer was yes."

Document #149585, "Film Sequence of Top Secret Theft", further asserted findings as described above. It suggested post-hypnotic instructions could indeed be activated via telephone.

Document #147025 is a copy of a 1954 memorandum in which mind control applications, particularly concerning the use of hypnosis, were discussed. One such application included the intentional manufacture of split personality induced during hypnosis. Project objectives included manipulating subjects into executing various predetermined actions when prompted later and with no recall.

Hypnosis was further discussed in document #190597, in which an interview with a professional hypnotist was detailed. Consideration was given to such factors as the physical appearance, place of residence and overall community standing of the hypnotist in relation to the feasibility the hypnotist would make a suitable consultant.

The hypnotist asserted post-hypnotic suggestions could last some 20 years, Haley noted, and such suggestions would be particularly strong if reinforced periodically. The interviewer asked if the hypnotist would be willing to act as a consultant with the Agency and the hypnotist agreed.

For those unaware, Project MKULTRA included some 149 known sub-projects, according to the document, "Prepared Statement of Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence", which was issued during the 1977 Senate hearings. When project objectives are taken into consideration, it is not difficult to envision the confirmed abuse of involuntary human research subjects may have become entangled with what became reports of supposed high strangeness, such as alleged alien abductions.

A portion of the Research and Development Program of TSS/Chemical Division (of the CIA) was devoted to the discovery and methods of some 17 different means of mind control/behavior modification. In 1955, project objectives included (see page 125) developing "materials which will render the induction of hypnosis easier or otherwise enhance its usefulness, materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use" and "substances which will promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be discredited in public."

There are many such authenticated documents. For further reading I recommend, among other sources, the landmark work of John Marks, "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate".

An August, 1977," New York Times" article," Private Institutions Used in C.I.A. Effort to Control Behavior", revealed details of the disturbing situation as they continued to emerge. Investigative journalists John M. Crewdson, Nicholas M. Horrock, Boyce Rensberger, Jo Thomas and Joseph B. Treaster collaborated to produce the article. The identities of some of the involved doctors were documented, as well as how the broad scope of such abusive research included and was concealed by personnel at specific nonprofit corporations, major colleges, medical facilities and a vast network of such traditionally trusted institutions while spanning no less than 25 years.

For more information about the specific evolution of the role of hypnosis in nefarious operations and its implications to ufology, I highly recommend the work of Gary Haden. Many of his posts on his former blog, "Speculative Realms", are now archived on the website of Emma Woods. I particularly recommend locating and reading Haden's "Mass Hypnotic Stupor: The MPD "JOKE" and the Paranormal Cult Stupidification of America".

US Patents

Davenport and Haley used the US Patent Office as a resource to monitor and track the possible evolution of technology. Among the documents Haley found most interesting, she explained, was Patent #3,951,134, "Apparatus and Method for Remotely Monitoring and Altering Brain Waves", in which brain waves were declared to be remotely read, entrained and altered to a "desired change" via electromagnetic frequencies.

"Patent #'s 5,270,800 and 5,159,703," Haley continued, "describe systems to submit subliminal messages."

In addition to the patents referencing subliminal messages cited by Haley, I invite consideration of a 1979 "Time Magazine" article, "Behavior: Secret Voices", which explored dozens of department stores playing subliminal anti-theft messages over music systems. Incredible decreases in theft were reported, including one chain claiming a whopping 37% reduction, translating into increased savings of some 600,000 over a nine month period.

The secret recipe? People in stores were subliminally instructed to believe they were honest.

Patent #'s 4,858,612 and 4,877,027, Haley pointed out, addressed the creation of sound in the human head via microwaves.

"He (Davenport) also found a number of other patents," Haley stated, "that supported our theory that those voices I heard in my head were not based in the supernatural, and my memories of alien encounters could have been nothing more than human-implanted experiences."

Haley went on to cite additional MKULTRA documents and patents she discovered long after writing about experiences that might reasonably be suspected to correlate with technology described in such documents. One such example was document #173602, "Non-Lethal Personnel Behavioral Control", in which high intensity light and electrical current were discussed as methods of behavioral control. Haley detailed such experiences several years prior to learning of the document in both "Lost Was the Key" and "Unlocking Alien Closets".

Another such example Haley suspected might correlate with her experiences was document #190669, "SI and H Experimentation, 17 November 1953". An experiment was discussed involving a hypnotized research subject directed to rapidly memorize a long, technical passage and recall it only when prompted later by a codeword. Researchers claimed the experiment was successful, including the subject having no recollection of the activity. Haley noted how reading the document reminded her of an experience she wrote about on page 71 of "Unlocking Alien Closets", details of which involved just such reading and memorization of technical material.

Additional reading of interest might include Anna Keeler's "Remote Mind Control Technology", a very well constructed piece circa 1980's which offers us somewhat of a 'then and now' perspective. Keeler's work is among that which further established the reality of research and development of mind control devices and methods, as well as symptoms of overexposure to the related electromagnetic frequencies. Such symptoms included, among others, sleep disturbances, hallucinations, memory loss and 'sunburned,' reddened skin (even at night), all of which were very common to witness testimonies of alleged alien abductions.

More recently written material includes "US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights", a report completed in December, 2006, in which co-authors Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton explored the evolution of the US intelligence community human rights violations and continuing research in electromagnetic weapons. The work was sponsored by Sonoma State University, Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation.

UFO Land, Stateside

My interactions with individuals such as Leah who came to believe themselves involuntary research subjects naturally caused me to repeatedly evaluate what I thought took place in their lives. I am empathetic of their perspectives and I ultimately cannot pass judgment one way or the other. It is not difficult for me to suspend judgment on conclusions, particularly as compared to the more out of this world claims, because at least I conclusively know involuntary research subjects and mind control victims exist. Why would I think it impossible - or even particularly unlikely - some of them became involved in ufology, all things considered?

It would seem to me aversions to accepting such likelihoods would be indicative of refusals to accept the US government actually conducted such intrusive operations in the first place. We have to accept the latter to accept the former, and, let's face it, most people just do not want to think about such things (for a variety of personal reasons).

The challenge with averting from serious consideration of the topic is it leaves a vastly incomplete picture of ufology. Alien abduction, if it is nothing, is all about trauma, and the US government has a long and detailed history of administering and studying trauma. If you doubt further research is justified into the likelihood any of that has anything to do with the American UFO community, I invite you to take a much closer look at who, exactly, is present - and specifically what they are doing - in UFO Land, Stateside.

Are Ufos Solid Time Machines From A Different Earth Time

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Source: fromatlantistosphinx.blogspot.com

Ufology Fbi Guy Hottle Memo Causes Much Controversy

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Orfeo Angelucci Second Contact Experience

Orfeo Angelucci was enthusiastic about his nonfiction book "The Secret of the Saucers" (1955) edited by his publisher Ray Palmer; however, his initial report presented in his newspaper-style publication" Twentieth Century Times" (1953) would seem to be the most reliable source, especially concerning the quoted transcendental discourses - where the meaning intended to be conveyed could have been drastically altered with any incorrect word; or influenced by Angelucci's own beliefs and interpretations.

"Twentieth Century Times" had been conceived as a monthly publication but lack of interest resulted with the first issue being the only one published by Angelucci. The previous blog article presented an excerpt from "Twentieth Century Times" that described Angelucci's first contact experience, which had occurred during the early morning hours of May 24, 1952. What follows is how the second contact experience was described in the same source.

As an introductory note, the reader should understand that Angelucci's wife was manager of the snack bar at the Los Feliz Drive-In Theatre and he regularly assisted her there. Her brother owned the drive-in and had also built nearby the residential complex where the Angelucci family lived. Curiously, Angelucci commented that in July: "Now, for the first time, he felt he could write spontaneously, from pure memory, unlimited revelations in a manner nearly professional." Furthermore: "The month of July turned its half-way mark, and from that point is history written with us forever. The skies seemed to open with a barrage of continuous aerial displays, and many people became convinced of interplanetary visitations, excitedly expecting a landing or some contact. Others attributed the phenomena to fulfillment soon of Spiritual Prophecies, while others to harbingers of woeful events. And there were even those who cared not one way or the other."

On July 23, 1952, Orfeo failed to report for work. He just did not feel up to it. At 8:30 in the evening he walked from his house to the snack bar of the drive-in theater. He felt relieved in company. The young women attendants were speaking of flying saucers, and how their husbands would like to see even one.

Orfeo joined in the conversation, which eventually turned to a humorous and lampooning slant. There was laughter. Laughter which for him would soon come to an abrupt end. Yet, for a short while he had joined the multitudes, normal people, and saw things in their light. Then he finished a cup of coffee and started back for home, to retire for the night.

This theater has two screens, facing opposite ways, and the walk took him through the empty side facing southeast. At the other end is a lonely spot, where the Glendale Boulevard and Hyperion Avenue bridge spans overhead.

Half-way through the lot Orfeo felt his upper chest and throat well-up and relax rather pleasantly, and seemingly in control by someone else, something. But there was not the slightest sense of pain nor impending doom. At once a voice, coming from his own vocal cords, reprimanded, citing shame on him, vet in a musical aria, said, "O-Hee-O." It was loud, smooth, gentle, and suggested a latent talent.

He smiled it off to himself; nevertheless his thoughts went immediately to the recent events, the superior beings, and eternity.

At the end of the lot he opened the corrugated metal gate and closed it again behind him. He was now alone, with the overhead concrete bridge ahead. Beyond that, so close, yet soon to be so far, the eleven unit apartments, where he resided. Here he would soon be asleep.

There seemed to be a hazy, misty obstruction between him and the arch of the bridge just ahead. It was barely visible. It was like a reproduction of a ghostly Eskimo igloo, but so transparent it hardly seemed real, so like a half-bubble of soap, with the bottom curving outward, much like a turtle.

Almost at once a section seemed to become dark and spread out, as an inverted cone. The interior, now translucent and more real was revealed. As if in a trance, Orfeo walked to the aperture, hesitated a split second, and knew there was no alternative but to enter.

There was no sign of life, nor sound. All the recent events became realities in his consciousness again. Once more this was the only world that actually existed. Come in, be at home with people he knew but saw not.

A pearly, comfort chair on the far side cozily suggested he sit here; come home. It was a pearly interior, all pearl, shimmering and tending to recede from view constantly; this dome-like, utterly empty room.

He sat down, feeling very secure and comfortable, as though he had done this before. But what would happen now? Was it perhaps to meet someone "well known" to him? How could he be so self-confident in such a situation; developing so smoothly in less time than it takes to tell it?

As he sat there the wall itself seemed noiselessly to expand and close the aperture where he had just entered, closing toward the left.

Orfeo felt completely cut off from his family and friends. Yet he felt secure, and in the hands of friends who could overcome any situation for him, and who had purposes to all that they undertook.

All sound was now shut off. The pearly interior allowed a trickle of light here and there, giving the inside a twilight, satisfying glow. He felt engulfed by a pure and esthetic environment superb.

A low vibrant hum, more felt than heard, took on a crescendo and he felt gently "pushed" against the comfortable chair; pushed by every inch of his body, as though his body were pushing backward beyond any control on his part.

The interior became dark, as though some great shadow engulfed the entire dome. The floor seemed as solid as if it were the ground itself, vibrating deep, hidden currents of the earth, in a gentle, constant flow. The sensation of push against the chair by his body did not increase. But neither did it cease.

Reason began to take form, and a grip of fear was beginning to overpower him, when an orchestration, of one of his favorite songs gradually arose. It was "Fools Rush In" where angels fear to tread; an exact transcription of the Voices of Walter Schuman. The strains had an orienting effect on Orfeo, for it lent a thread of association. Memories returned to him in a conglomerate sensibility.

Soon the interior lighted up softly again. Orfeo noticed how his soiled work clothes, which he was wearing, stood in bold and ugly relief in this exquisiteness. He felt that his entire body and soul were equally unfit to be privileged such divine, visual, realistic a dream.

He felt so well and comfortable that he gave but scant thought to the possibility of the air diminishing, or becoming toxic. He gave little thought to anything, but the developing of things at hand. The soothing music played on ethereally as his body seemed to push back on the chair perpetually. His thoughts were not of the past, nor of his wife, sons, or other relatives, but of the immediate present - and minutes ahead.

The musical rendition neared its end. What then? Was he to spend an eternity in this pearly igloo? The body now seemed to gradually relax its backward push against the seat, until it ceased.

At the same time the music came to an end. The smooth vibration of the floor also slackened some, but this did not stop completely. It was surely evident that some motive power was housed somewhere in the floor. Orfeo thought of the incident on Forest Lawn Drive, and that perhaps he was carried there again, to continue the "dream" to a more tangible comprehension. There was complete quiet, and fear was impossible under the circumstances.

"Then something turned smoothly, [two words unreadable] chair or the craft, and came to rest when his position was about a quarter circle from his previous position.

Again an inverted cone aperture spread until it was approximately six feet wide at the base. This had spread from left to right. The sight revealed was one of awe. A tremendous, brilliant rainbow haloed around a huge mass of darkness.

Again the crystal craft or the seat turned to the left, and a new aperture appeared, slightly to the right of the first, adding about three more feet to the base of the previous opening.

His head and eyes became tense. There was a return of the now familiar symptoms, and the dark mass became lighter, a beautiful twilight of blue intensity. The full circle of rainbow was now in view, except a bit at the bottom, which was obstructed by the floor line. A sight defying description this was: the whole earth stood before him. The whole mass seemed to shimmer, in spite of the dark hue. And the Western Hemisphere of the globe was discernible. Indeed, the radiant rainbow was the scope of our atmosphere.

For a moment Orfeo suspected that he was dying; that all this was the final upheaval and billowing away of life. Yet it was constant and sustained, a phenomenon that would not be to an ebbing life.

THE TRANSFORMATION

Furthermore, there were none but normal physical sensations, except the faint but familiar symptoms, and memories of associated events of recent days vividly conscious.

In all this a voice arose-the voice superb.

"Beloved Friend, see your home, Earth. Is it not a bosom of peace and beauty? You would not be concerned from here. What occurs there is the concern of them only-and you."

For many years Orfeo had been unable to come to tears. But at this point they came from an overwhelming swell of emotion that seemed to purify and cleanse; transforming him from a hardened reasoner into a more feeling individual.

"Weep, Orfeo, for we join you at this moment."

There was a slow turning to the right, until the earth was removed from the scene. At the aperture there was now a teeming mass of stars-seemingly so close that they might be but a few feet distant. Large and small, single and clustered, red and amber, and many hues. It seemed that at any moment one would suffocate in this closeness; this fairyland luminescence.

Eyes still wet, Orfeo thought Expert hands were behind all this, and would see him safe even beyond and above their own safety. Meteors were nowhere seen or evident. In all this setting his immutable awareness of the Supreme God dawned to comfort him. Could God at this moment be conscious of these incomprehensible events? Would God for even a fleeting moment center attention on so insignificant a living being? After all, Orfeo had learned that even every hair of everyone were counted and pre-ordained, and each atom and molecule was registered and pre-destined. God seemed so close and so active here, yet concerned with all else but him. He felt secure.

"Just then, a huge ship, like a dirigible came emerging from the right. It ignored the stars and bodies "in its path" and proceeded forward. It seemed that the stars and bodies gave way without moving to its progress. It was indeed as a large dirigible, but flattened at the bottom.

It is difficult to conclude as to the actual material of its structure. It appeared to be metallic, yet could very likely be of a crystal-metal-plastic composition. Its light control properties definitely suggested perfect crystal alloyed throughout. To all appearances the size of the craft was not less than 900 feet long, and at least 90 feet high.

As he pondered this "close-in" universe, and the elegant ship, the voice spoke again. It was now accompanied by music that could have originated from all space, from every remote recess of space. In full view was this half-ethereal ship, and it suggested that all sound and action emanated from its interior.

"Brother of a man. Ask no longer why we have chosen you. Each is divinely created. But a child shall lead, and the meek are strong; dirt is clean, and sickness as but a gem. Atheism is a frigid end; hypocrisy an unseen venom. All is one; bad, good; evil, holy; past, future. You are on one side or the other, always. We know where you stand. Why, Beloved Friend, are you apathetic and Inactive? You, a chosen one. Who is so mildly cosmic; you, so expendable. Is your life a flash away as nothing?"

"No! Please, no. I am not such a one who cares not. My very life is yours. I beg to see you, Neptune, or Orion. Give me health, and there is nothing I cannot accomplish for you. Do this. Let me forever feel as I feel now. Ask the Almighty this in my behalf."

But the ship began to move leftward, and upward. One porthole after another opened in rapid flash successions as it ascended, until three complete flights, as decks, became radiant from indirect lighting, with only pearly bits of an interior showing. Nothing more.

At the bottom, two large rotors, one near each end of the great craft, revealed themselves: deep, radiant green color emanating from both rotors. How well Orfeo remembered their identical forms on lonely Forest Lawn Drive. His own craft began a leftward turning. Again the tremendous rainbow came in view, and the earth within it. Puffs of faint light dotted the earth, cities in the night.

Suddenly three "flying saucers" darted from nowhere, and sped forward, coming to rest in fixed positions. At once it was apparent that these positions would be Capernaum, Moscow and Washington. And from the one at Washington flew out two more; one coming to rest over Rio de Janeiro, the other over Los Angeles. The one at Los Angeles gave birth to another, which settled over Tokyo. Six beautiful discs, with green main centers, and amber light halo fringes. The scene was one that mythology would blush to dare contrive up. There came no sound from anywhere. All was quiet as could be.

In this solitude and glory Orfeo formed his own conclusions, his own befogged interpretations, with a power not of his control. All the crystal discs and their placements seemed to indell a message easily decipherable, telling more history than all our compiled data.

Los Angeles. Oddly he felt that he had been there before, not too long ago. That he had left that city a little more than half an hour before was not in his recollection. And at once, by some remote control, all the crystal discs sped away into invisibility; except two: one at the point of Capernaum, the other at Los Angeles. And the grand voice returned:

"The road you have explored for your own satisfaction has opened. Widen it as it will be widened for you. Strain to think. Nature of Infinite Entities must be fully developed. The enemy does not wait. Dream on. But act-act, Orfeo."

"I will."

"A privilege divine has been yours. A power shall be yours."

"Thank you."

"We love your home. Find it interesting, and also love it for what you now know."

The crystal disc at Los Angeles went the course of the others. There was only the one at Capernaum, and the smaller aperture on the right of the craft began to close noiselessly, as the velvet voice resumed.

"Home, beloved, tortured one. Home, Orfeo. And yet one question remains in you; dreamer-doubter. We know. You ask if the Star of Bethlehem was. Now you know. It was-it never extinguished.

The large aperture closed rapidly. Again his body seemed to push delightfully against the back of the seat. And the strains of the Lord's Prayer, as we know it, filled the dome. In this magnificent setting Orfeo felt as a worm of a human being; dirty, unkempt, and sinful in the fullest sense.

Ah, indeed! He was chosen because he was the most expendable; the most useless in the eyes of destiny, not the most loved. Yet these beings spoke as though they loved him deeply. How much must they love the others?

The strains of the Lord's Prayer seemed to wash away these unhappy reflections of the conscience as rapidly as they arose. Through the strains the voice spoke:

"Beloved friend, we baptize you by all the spectral forces we know."

A white beam flashed through the pearly wall of the dome craft and seared Orfeo just above the stomach and below the left breast. There was a flashing pain: then partial oblivion, in which he could only remember the musical ensemble.

The prayer ended, but a new strain of countless violins seemed to envelop all space, while all the past events flashed vividly in his remaining consciousness, in every fiber of the body. This was like Eternity itself. It would be a blessing if he could remain in such a catalepsy forever, he felt.

Gradually the music subsided and equally he seemed to wake from the half-sleep. The push of his body against the back of the seat also eased. Again there was a turning, apparently back to the original position. Then quiet and still, but for the soft vibration of the floor. The wall again opened in the same inverted cone shape. There were the environs of the theater grounds, as though he had never moved from the position when the craft had left.

"Goodnight."

These were the last words from the voice. Orfeo knew he must leave: reluctantly, slowly, from this "home." He walked out and circled to the right of it, and for an instant his glance had left the craft. As he looked for it again it was now in the air, as a faint half-bubble, hardly visible. Suddenly it was not there at all. He looked for even a sign of it; and then a "flying saucer" appeared in the northeast sky, a red disc turning instantly to deep green, and soared off into seeming eternity.

He felt an urge to go to the snack bar just ahead, and talk with someone. But talk of what? How could he make sense? Home was the best place; to sleep, a fitful, restless sleep this night. It did not dawn then that he was never again to know peace and rest from the no man's land between two worlds.

Tormented throughout the night he rolled and tossed in actual pain, and the brain burning with feverish visions. By late next morning these had subsided into but shadow residues of sensations, now centered on the left side of the chest in a localized burn-itch. As he scratched this the baptismal words rang clearly in mind. But this was a new day, alive with a reality now alien to him. Yet the personal experience of only last night were even more alien in a way.

He reflected as he rubbed the sore spot, "Bunk! All Bunk!" But he was already a changed human being, literally transformed, the "flying discs" becoming the only things that he knew of."Angelucci described in "Twentieth Century Times" briefly having met the communicator heard during the first two contact experiences, along with an incident where he heard the voice say, "Farewell, beloved friend." Angelucci explained that on the following day he obtained paper and began to write: "All he wrote, except some details so fantastic and incredible that he decided to keep them to himself, and do not appear herein." Apparently, these occurrences were related in "The Secret of the Saucers". Future blog articles will continue to consider the reports of Angelucci and other 'contactees' whose testimonials present many compelling parallels, including subtle ones such as the 'proverbs.'