Nov 01 2007
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Ufology’s Changing Face
As I have mentioned occasionally in the past, I am personally convinced that whatever lays at the heart of the genuinely unexplained angle of the UFO puzzle, it displays elements of deception, trickery and manipulation - for whatever reason, I’m just not sure.
For example, back in the late 1800s there were the many and varied reports of mysterious “airships” flying over the US and, a few short years later, over the UK.
During the Second World War the “Foo Fighters” appeared - over war-torn Europe and the Far East. A year after the war ended, the “Ghost Rockets” appeared over Scandinavia.
Then, of course, in the summer of 1947, the “Flying Disks” and “Flying Saucers” loomed into view, courtesy of Kenneth Arnold (it’s ironic, however, that Arnold never actually reported seeing saucer-like craft. Interestingly enough “his” objects were very “Horten Brother”-like in nature…)
The 1950s gave way to the long-haired space brothers that showed themselves to Adamski and Van Tassel, and blisteringly hot alien babes like “Captain Aura Rhanes” who so excited Truman Bethurum - but not, apparently, Bethurum’s wife, who divorced him after his, ahem, close encounters with the Baywatch-style beauty that was Miss Rhanes…
The 1950s also ushered in the reports of aliens (little men, hairy dwarfs, the list goes on) taking “soil samples;” while the 1960s slowly gave birth to the abduction phenomenon that reached huge proportions in the 1970s and 1980s.
And also by the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, the old sci-fi like saucers had largely gone the way of the Dodo and had been replaced by ominous-looking, black-colored “Flying Triangles.”
In other words, whatever is among us, it is constantly changing, adapting to - or perhaps even molded by - our own beliefs regarding its presence, and having some sort of undefined relationship with, and connection to, the Human Race.
But, whatever the real nature of the phenomenon, it is clear to me at least, that many of the events that have been reported are without doubt staged for our benefit: it’s a game, a theater-play, a charade; and we keep falling for it and marvelling at the “extraterrestrial” presence among us.
Whether this is to try and convince us that “they” are extraterrestrial, when in reality they may be something else, or whether there are reasons so bizarre that they currently defy reasoning and/or understanding, I’m not sure.
And why am I bringing this up now? Well, I read this article earlier today, which discusses a 1967 case from Missouri. It’s a very intriguing one, with a great deal of data and imagery. But, it’s of a type that we just don’t seem to get anymore. The ever-changing face of the UFOnauts, in other words.
As interesting as the report most certainly is, it seems to me that it just reinforces the idea that instead of getting more answers to what is going on, we are actually being manipulated by a phenomenon that forever stays one step ahead of us and is constantly mutating, changing and manifesting according to an agenda that I’m not sure has our best interests at heart.
I wonder: in 20 years from now, will the little Gray Men of Zeta Reticuli and the Flying Triangles be long gone? Maybe. Perhaps, instead, people will be encountering “time-travelers” from our future who desperately want to assure us of who they are and why they are here.
My personal hope is that the Gray Men, their soil samples, their implants and their disks and triangles will be utterly gone and that in their place we will see the mighty return of Crowley’s LAM. After all, they say: what goes around, comes around.
It can surely only be a matter of time…
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November 1st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
While I generally agree with your idea that this phenomenon is constantly changing in order to be one step in fron of us, I would caution against making broad generalisations.
For example, while the reports of the gray stereotype is the predominant one on abduction cases, there are also cases where “nordics” are observed along with the grays. Such is the case of famous Travis Watson case.
And I also disagree with you on my expectations for the future. I would much rather have the return of the sexy Barbarella-type babes over that hideous big-headed Lam midget any day of the week and twice on sundays!!
November 1st, 2007 at 3:14 pm
RPJ:
LOL, you are of course right: Barbarella type aliens would be far more preferable than that little, unsmiling big-headed chap - if we get a choice in the matter!
True: there are cases that blur the line, but I still think overall that we are seeing a regularly mutating phenomenon.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Sometimes I think there is a kind of tsunami heading towards us and the ufos, aliens, red-eyed whatevers, etc. are the fish flopping around that have got our attention when what we need to do is look up at the approaching wave.
November 1st, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Nick,
Did you read my post from this morning? We seem to have thought about the same things at the same time.
I am not totally convinced that we are being manipulated as much as we may be manipulating ourselves. (No jokes about self-manipulation here, although it does sort of apply!)
In any case, the fault may lie with ourselves as much as the “aliens.” Perhaps what Crowley was doing (along with Burroughs) was meeting the phenomenon head-on with a mind to control it as much as possible for our own use.
November 1st, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Greg
What’s weird is that I DID read your post - but AFTER I’d posted mine…
Thoughts?
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:18 am
I for one would welcome the return of the Phantom Airships. They were rather Steampunk, weren’t they? I imagine them sailing over the panicking multitudes whooshing and flapping and belching clouds of oil and steam whilst Wagner plays in the background and Springheeled Jack bounds across the rooftops laughing his bony head off.
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Maybe the storytales keep changing because older storytales do not sell very well as newer storytales do. It is the same reason that “the big one that got away” gets bigger with each re-telling.
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:07 am
Nick,
My lecture on LAM finishes with the following cuation: “…but be careful what you wish for, and how you tend the garden of your consciousness.”
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Hey, Sage: Is it possible you have a connection to UFOs that you’ve been protecting?
Take a gander at:
http://www.nicap.org/cmc2.htm
I think I have a better appreciation now for the origin of your skepticism.
– TemplarScribe
http://www.MichaelDelving.com
http://www.EternalHorizons.com
November 4th, 2007 at 4:37 am
True, trickery should immediately raise a red flag. But it may be that “they” simply aren’t so advanced, as to have some of the same need for honesty as we have. They may be largely arrogant, or may like the occasional joke, even as they engage in high symbolism with higher goals in mind, wanting to actually do us some good–they may simply have a “personality”. What all this does for them, ranges from theories about “they just want to help”, to “they depend on us for their existence”. Or: they may be trying to help reinforce the values of honesty and science, and their pursuit, by compelling us to wish for honest answers about them–to reveal all, might put the end to the chase and its developmental advantages too soon.
As Greg Bishop quotes someone on his blog, if there are any “others”, they seem to want us to believe in them, but not too much. In other words, we have plenty going for us without “the others”–at our best, we are fairly intelligent, and have social skills that would be the envy of many species (yes, and social problems that no other species would envy)–we have friends, we figure most things out on our own, our own discoveries put us in awe of the universe and ourselves, etc.–and we wouldn’t benefit by being subsumed by subservience via over-admiration for a supposedly superior species (this is Anthropology 101). They may learn from us, just as we can learn from them. John Keel is one investigator whose work shows one method by which they maintain the balance: By showing us that they know things that will happen in the future, and then pulling the rug out from under us by one more prediction, the big one one that turns out to be false, they show us that they know things we don’t, but that they’re not going to show us everything; this also teaches us to be cautious and skeptical towards them, which is a deliberate tactic.
On the other hand, the intent may really be to make us feel inferior, to blunt our human experience, and part of their personality or technique, may be to pretend to not want that. Unless that’s just what they want us to believe. Though that kind of thinking can lead in circles; their techniques may be complex, but also simple, in that way that simple interactions between a few variables can lead to great complexity.
By changing the apparent technological level of what they present as craft, over time, appearing to use technology in the 1800s that was just beyond our grasp at the time, and then advancing to flying saucer technology later, that was even farther beyond our grasp at the time, but not considered impossible for us to achieve eventually, they lead us on, encouraging us to develop technically. But since part of their approach is to always throw in a bizarre counterpoint so we don’t feel too much admiration for them, they present bizarre characters emerging from some of these craft, doing absurd things. One message here may be, “We’d like to see you have craft like this, but you shouldn’t believe you’ll wind up traveling among the stars with us by your side, at least not the way you might like it–even when you’re out there, we may stay just beyond your reach, buzzing you even there.” If any of the sightings from astronauts are true, we may already be getting a taste of that.
Nick says “Whether this is to try and convince us that “they†are extraterrestrial, when in reality they may be something else, or whether there are reasons so bizarre that they currently defy reasoning and/or understanding, I’m not sure.” Yes, most of these displays, ever since we began to think about the possibility of beings on other planets, do seem to be aimed at making us think they’re from other planets. Most of these apparent alien-oriented origins are recent, but for millenia, there have been a few stories about creatures who claimed to be from the stars, though we don’t really know if these stories are just myths or something more. As to whether they have reasons that currently defy our understanding, I tend to think that we would understand, if given the facts, but it would require a big stretch, though we may be simultaneously fascinated and frightened. These may also be characters that largely want to be both admired and feared (sounds like the Judeo-Christian god).
They may not want to be our space brothers, even though some of them may have presented themselves as just this, either as Nordics or as other species–those appearances may have been just another case of trickery to make us skeptical of ever achieving such closeness with them. The counterpoint to this argument might be, that “Nordic space brother” may be what they’re actually like, and they might really be waiting for us to join them, but the circus that they present, until then, is designed to keep us guessing, and prevent us from getting lazy, and think that the path is an easy one, or that we’ll be ready for such a relationship for some time. But if “space brother”, as a Nordic, is a guise (obviously likely), it may still have fellowship at its core as its only truth–their appearance, if they have one, may be altogether different, but “Nordic” maybe something that they knew would attract many people. It’s also possible that, among all the species they’ve portrayed themselves as, that their actual species is represented (or several species), and by presenting many other weird, false species, they hope to acclimate us to their weirdness–maybe they’re less weird than some of the false species they’ve presented, but they deliberately overshoot the mark so that we might feel relief that they didn’t turn out to be as weird as the really weird ones. Or, they may not have any single shape at all, and instead be energy that can take any form, but they may feel that a formless creature may be less credible to us as a teacher, though the concept of God seems to have made quite an impact (for better or worse) on humans over the years, so on that score they may be simply wrong. Or, they might be concerned that if they were to present themselves in their true, formless state, too many people might mistake them for God, so in most appearances they may have chosen non-Godlike forms (I won’t argue the point over whether they were what the people of the Bible experienced as God, because who will ever know?). Or they may simply get a kick out of taking different forms.
The abduction phenomenon is either a government plan using drugs and psychotronic weapons to convince people that aliens are responsible, or of course it may be (or may also be) “the others” in an uncharacteristic phase of behavior that goes beyond buzzing us with weird and pretty craft, part of a more pro-active attempt to inject ideas into the human sphere, or to really scare us away from them, though I don’t think it could have been a counter-reaction by the others to any sort of widespread cleaving by humans to the alien idea, since as I remember growing up in the late 50’s and the 60s, there was a large amount of paranoia about aliens, at least if we take popular media as any gauge (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Invaders, etc.)–we didn’t need actual incidents to scare us even further, or did we? Maybe they had reason to anticipate (either by knowledge of the future, or by studying our culture) that humans might soon stop this pop paranoia, and start looking inappropriately to “them” for more answers, and abductions was something they might have come up with as a way of really making us push them away from us instead.
There is sometimes an odd karma-like relationship between humans and the “others”, in that if one expects to see a certain kind of behavior (aggressive, positive, etc.), one is sometimes granted that, but there have been plenty of cases, maybe the majority, of witnesses with no particular thoughts about “others”, who have either been terrorized or uplifted, or merely entertained, by the “others”, so that this type of karma isn’t the general rule.
“They” know we talk among ourselves about these things; they know we write books, make movies, TV shows, etc. about these events. But we don’t really know if they care about that, or factor that in, or whether they do what they do mostly for the “benefit” of the individuals they perform for. There are many stories about “aliens” supplying warnings to humans about ecological disaster, the dangers of war, etc. that they want carried back to the rest of humanity, but most events don’t involve such messages.
The end of the article on Lam that Nick links to, states: “Translated out of occult terminology into the language of conventional psychology, we can see that [meditating on Lam] describes a process of self-exploration leading to a greater realization of inner potential. Perhaps this is the best way to view it.” Seen that way, perhaps the “others”, by acting so strange, have as part of their message, “We want you to be aware of us, but we’re different from you, in ways that you may not like or function well with, and so we don’t want to you be entirely like us–we emphasize this by being, or pretending to be, deliberately strange, to encourage you to look towards and feel comfortable with your own reality, which isn’t half-bad either, even as you know we have our own reality.” On the other hand, it’s also possible that their strangeness is designed to be alluring, to screw us up, or to screw up those that can be screwed up, with those who come out the other end, being better for it–or not. The rational person can’t fall entirely back on the self-congratulatory idea that they won’t fall for some pseudo-religious nonsense, and so won’t be taken in, since even after they’ve taken that standpoint, they still find themselves fascinated, and even “taken in”, by “them”. Much of this involves personal choice, free will, etc.–whether to allow someone or something into your life without knowing enough about it to say whether that’s appropriate. For some people, this will be a long, distracting journey, taking them away from valid human pursuits, needs, and pleasures, and for others, it will be a quicker journey to learning how to keep “them” at a healthy distance, without ignoring them altogether.
November 4th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Whenever I encounter the seemingly non-sensical, I think about the phenomenon of reframing as related to psychological warfare. The basic idea is that, when presented with information or experience which IS or SEEMS like nonsense (functionally the same in this instance), the mind will immediately open itself to whatever explanation will acceptably end the disruption of the cognitive dissonance caused by the original information/experience. In the case of UFOs, we have the numerous cases like Officer Schirmer’s, or Villas-Boas, the Hills Abduction, the triangles subcutaneously “burned” into the skin of father and son in France (reported by Vallee) and so many more, ALL of which can create the dissonant feeling which we rush to quell with whatever explanation we can muster (or can be given to us by various sources for their OWN purposes). We have so many weaknesses, one of which is a decided inability to tolerate ambiguity. We want the answer (ANY answer we can make to fit and give comfort) and we want it NOW. How many gain comfort from the notion that unknown objects flying around MUST be secret defense projects (a silly notion considering that it would be the most obvious “cover” and only open a line of questions which all of us would find discomfitting: If these are “ours”, then why do we still need to buy expensive jet fighters, why risk astronauts in the dangers of rocket technology, why have these been seen BEFORE WWII, first photographed in 1870, what of reports like Alexander the great’s encounters, etc.?)To my mind, the great mystery of consciousness is further compounded by the interactions reported by close encounters, and whatever aspects and lines of inquiry can be created or enhanced by these reports as relating to the great mystery will make them all worth recording and contemplating, even given the frustrations associated. I sometimes wonder about the encounters which go unreported for whatever reasons and what light might be shed if we only had access to them. The totality of these mysteries is almost overwhelmingly fascinating.
November 5th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Personally, most of what passes as UFO sightings these days leaves me thoroughly unimpressed - especially compared to the truly weird occurrences reported during the early part of the modern UFO era. It makes me wonder whether our visitors were here 30-60 years ago but have since concluded their visit and moved on. It is somewhat arrogant of us to assume we’re so damn interesting that we require constant observation. Perhaps we are only under periodic surveillance.
S
http://www.department47.com
November 5th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
It is somewhat arrogant of us to assume we’re so damn interesting that we require constant observation. Perhaps we are only under periodic surveillance.
If you have an aquarium, you need to tend them daily, otherwise your precious pets end up belly-up…
November 5th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
There’s some great comments on this thread - many thanks. I think we should also consider Mac Tonnies’ Cryptoterrestrials theory - the idea that “they” may actually be from here, masquerading as highly advanced aliens, when instead they are a small pocket (maybe even the last remnants?) of something that has existed alongside us - largely in stealth - and desperately wants us to think of them as all-powerful and highly advanced, when that may not be the case.
Mac’s working on a book on all this, and it promises to be a good one.
November 6th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Nick said, “(I)nstead they are a small pocket (maybe even the last remnants?) of something that has existed alongside us - largely in stealth - and desperately wants us to think of them as all-powerful and highly advanced, when that may not be the case.”
Nick, that’s the best answer to this puzzle I’ve heard in many a year. It dovetails nicely with much of Zacharia Sitchin’s work on the Nephilim (literally, “the Fallen”) as well as the concept of the “overlord” rulers as detailed by Jim Marrs (”Rule by Secrecy”) and William Bramley (”The Gods of Eden”). I too think it makes for a fascinating plotline for a book, although in my case, it’s a set of five novels.
Does that also suggest that, since They’re able adjust Their appearance through the ages, that They have some kind of connection with our subconscious, as discussed on the thread “Insidious Creatures of the Imaginary Realm”? Is it possible that this connection, through DNA material as mentioned elsewhere, was deliberately implanted in us, thus the Genesis tale of mankind being crafted from “mud, and the blood of the Gods”? Is it possible that They do have some advanced technology in order to fly through the air and manipulate human will, though perhaps not FTL travel, the ability to dimensional shift or time travel (otherwise they’d have booked out long ago)? Or is it an amalgam of all of the above?
And if there is a remnant of some sort, manipulating mankind through contact and perhaps the slow release of technology to its select supporters, what does that have to say about our Judeo-Christian-Muslim religion, based on the figure of Yahweh, “the Old Man of the Mountain” who descended in fire and smoke on top of Mount Sinai, then gave powerful tools to Moses in order to wipe out the indigenous peoples of Palestine?
– TemplarScribe
http://www.MichaelDelving.com
http://www.EternalHorizons.com
November 7th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Templar:
I have to confess I know very little about any religions at all. However, I am convinced that the UFO intelligence (whatever it may be) is manipulative and deceptive with respect to how it interacts with us; and there has to be a reason for this.
Something is going on, something is among us, and it wants us to accept certain ideas as real (that they are aliens etc, and maybe here to help us).
It may even manipulate our subconscious thoughts to ensure that it appears in a way that is acceptable and appealing to us (hence the reason the phenomena is ever-changing - it changes because our views and beliefs change).
I’m just not sure what it is, but I am leaning further and further away from the ET angle.
Mac Tonnies’ forthcoming book promises to be a very good one.