Apr 05 2008
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UFO Spies in “Alien Worlds”
 The latest issue (number 2) of Stuart Miller’s new magazine, Alien Worlds, goes on sale next week and includes an article from me that provides an update on my research into how and why government, military and intelligence agencies spy on the UFO research community - which was the subject of my 2006 book, On the Trail of the Saucer Spies.
In the article you’ll learn a great deal about UFO-espionage on the part of British, Russian, American and Australian authorities - and, in some cases, for distinctly unusual reasons.
Indeed, as I am careful to point out in the article (and which echoes the words in my book):
“Time and time again, I found that the reasons why British, American and Australian Intelligence agencies (to name but three nations involved) were secretly spying on the UFO community actually had nothing whatsoever to do with UFOs, aliens, dead extraterrestrials held in cryogenic storage, or tales of Area 51 and Hangar 18.
“Rather the motivation was prompted by the fact that those same intelligence communities were acutely worried some UFO researchers were also tied with political extremists, the criminal underworld, and hostile, overseas intelligence agencies - such as those of the former Soviet Union and North Korea.
“They also feared that our UFO research was acting as a form of ingenious camouflage to mask the fact that we were, in reality, trying to uncover defence and intelligence secrets of a distinctly down-to-earth nature for those same aforementioned hostile overseas intelligence agencies.”
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April 5th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
While it seems likely this is indeed one element of the truth, might we not also suspect that it’s being promulgated as a new generation disinfo campaign by government agencies, like the “UFOs were all smoke screens for the U-2 and the F-117″ (neither of whose flight characteristics resembled those reported over and over in UFO reports) explanation they were peddling to the History Channel and its ilk a couple years ago?
I also strongly suspect a lot of official interest in UFO investigators springs from fears by security agencies that the civilian snoops will stumble across actual black projects - deeper black than, say, those grotesquely overhyped money sinks, the “Stealth” aircraft. Not that that should be a real controversial take, since it’s a major theme of your co-conspirator Greg Bishop’s excellent PROJECT BETA.
April 5th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
This is a fascinating way of looking at this phenomena. UFO enthusiasts have interactions with or brush up against intelligence agency stuff. The enthusiasts interprets this as more proof of a conspiracy, or of a govt attempt at coverup, or they are flattered by the attention & want to work with the agent in finding out the truty. At the same time, these enthusiasts are then chasing alien aircraft & are diverted from paying attention to real world skunk works type projects. I thought there was a law against the CIA or DIA conducting domestic operations?
April 5th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Contrary to popular opinion, the CIA has always had a large domestic operations division.
April 6th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I know this is going to sound conspiratorial but domestic security and intelligence agencies have long viewed any group of non-conventional thinkers as potential threats to civil order. The FBI spied on such mundane movements as the Civil Rights and Environmentalists, why wouldn’t they spy on the UFO research community? It would only take one of the more massive UFO’s to actually land and an alien/crypto-terrestrial in front the cameras and the jig is up for the status quo, powers that be types and their hold over power because they won’t be the biggest power on the planet anymore. You bet that gov’t’s aren’t real keen on that happening as most folks might tell them to take a hike.
April 6th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Or, the stories of underground bases, etc. were (and probably still are) used as markers to identify information flow.
Now that former KGB head Putin is in power, I have heard that the Russian intelligence machine is gearing up and agents are back in the US. I don’t know if this is true, but it would make sense in light of SERPO, etc. in addition to various counterterrorism activities that have definitely been in operation for the last few years. Putin has also recently protested new U.S./ NATO missile installations in eastern Europe, so the game may be on again, and UFO researchers should be on their guard.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
In light of the recent/latest arrest of China’s 2 agents caught smuggling high tech imaging cameras at LAX, I can see the how the US intelligence services are a bit antsy but they only catch the dumb ones. I think that most foreign intel services are smarter than ours and tend to avoid the UFO research crowd.