Sep 17 2007
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David Lynch, Twin Peaks, and UFOs (and the Government)
In light of the imminent release of the new DVD box set of David Lynch’s seminal TV series, Twin Peaks, this story was uncovered by my friend Miles Lewis at his Anomaly TV site:
During the course of events I must not divulge, I recently came into contact with a man whose government entity I cannot divulge either. Now, however, this same man is a mutual acquaintance of the famous motion picture director David Lynch. In fact, I can probably goes as far as saying that they are friends to a certain extent. I cannot verify his entire story, but, at the same time, I have no reason to doubt him. But he said that the character on the early 90’s television series, Twin Peaks, the main character, Agent Dale Cooper, was in fact based on him, that David Lynch more or less used him as a source, an inspiration for the basis of the FBI agent. In fact, from here on out, I will just refer to this man as “Agent Cooper” [audio glitch] to simplify things. Apparently, “Agent Cooper” and David Lynch were boyhood friends. However, sometime during the late 60’s/early 70’s they lost contact with one another and did not meet again until a chance encounter in the mid 80’s. From what I understand, this chance encounter was partly the inspiration for the development of the Twin Peaks series. Now, the show’s primary purpose was still an artistic endeavor on Lynch’s part to create an entertaining television series. However, from what I understand, this - under this “Agent Cooper’s” urging, Lynch infused certain codes and secret messages pertaining to different things he had learned from “Agent Cooper” - and they are scattered all throughout series. At one point in the series, Project Blue Book is referenced. And I am sure, as most of you know, that Project Blue Book is popularly believed to be the military’s investigation into the thousands of UFO reports during the 50’s and 60’s. However, this was only the government’s cover story. The true purpose of Project Blue Book was to test the general public’s perception and reaction to UFO reports and sightings, and to use the data gleaned from this study as a means to maximize the effectiveness of using such UFO stories to manipulate the population.
I haven’t yet asked Miles where he received this information, or who this person actually is, or if he even actually exists. Who knows what someone would want to do with people like us who are interested in these issues, but it’s an interesting story with themes that have been tackled more than once on this blog. I would urge readers not to take these “revelations” literally, but use them for thought-food.
On re-watching Twin Peaks a couple of months ago, I was struck with a sense of high-strangeness when the Air Force officer character began speaking about his involvement with Blue Book, and the later revelation that Agent Cooper’s nemesis was actually driven insane and possessed by a dark force from the woods after going there to investigate a UFO sightings flap. It seemed unnervingly sneaky of Lynch and his co-writer Mark Frost to introduce this theme that seemed so peripheral to the main story, but this is exactly how intelligence types (and spiritual avatars, and good artists, actually) impart important ideas to their audience. Things which appear to be incidental to the subject at hand are in actuality keys to greater understanding (or madness, if you are so inclined.) True learning is never spoon-fed.
Actually, this methodical madness can be one of the hallmarks of many UFO encounters as well. The subject always presents us with disjointed questions, never any answers. Part of the answers, if there are any, may lie in how we phrase the questions we ask ourselves.
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September 17th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Interesting tale. However, as an avid Lynch/Twin Peaks fan I’ve never read anything where Lynch mentions this supposed “real-life” inspiration for Agent Cooper.
Mark Frost has a long history of writing about the bizarre and esoteric in his fiction so I’m not surprised at Project Blue Book popping up as a thread during the second season, when Lynch had more or less left the show to its own devices while he started work on Wild at Heart.
And don’t forget the show’s use of “Owl” imagery, either!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
They aren’t what they seem!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Mr. Ecks,
If oyu follow the link, the anonymous source talks about the owls as a reference to “moloch,” the evil entity represented by the owl figure supposedly enshrined in the woods of N. California at the Bohemian Grove.
Curiouser and curiouser.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Hi Greg,
Yeah, weird stuff indeed! Haven’t heard back from X yet.
I doubt it’s authenticity but the very premise of cryptic coded twilight language is exemplified by this scene from FIRE WALK WITH ME featuring David Lynch as FBI Boss Gordon Cole.
Blue Rose Cases from “Fire Walk With Me”
As I expalined to a friend in an email this morning:
I posted that video to further explicate the origins of my show’s name: In the Twin Peaks series and the Fire Walk With Me prequel, FBI boss Gordon Cole (played by David Lynch) communicates to his underling agents via cryptic theatrical
codes like the dancing woman in the video. It’s not in that clip but later in the movie we get Agent Cooper saying to Diane that this is “one of Gordon’s ‘blue rose’ cases.”
As for the BoHo Grove / Moloch / Owl connections … as a good friend of mine has observed, scroogle moloch and owl and the only references you will find refer back to citations of Alex Jones’ infiltration of that establishment. In other words, unless someone can document the conjunction of those two data bits prior to Alex’s documentary, it would appear that AJ himself is the inventor of that identifier being applied to the owl statue at the grove - previously all moloch refs are to bull figures or to the monstrous machinery visage in the film METROPOLIS.
- SMiles
“Blue rose cases are the designation or codeword for unusual or unexplained FBI cases under Gordon Cole’s leadership. Gordon Cole always sends his top Special Agents to inspect and attempt to solve such cases. Another television show prefers to call such cases X-Files.”
- GlastonberryGrove dot net
September 18th, 2007 at 1:17 am
Interesting post. I was a religious follower of Twin Peaks back when it was on the TV. The X-Files was obviously inspired by it. Many of the shows stars were recycled from other Lynch movies and ABC shows. Many of the series’s stars have been regulars on Star Trek, X-Files and Star Gate scifi series. Moloch, Morlock sounds to close close to be a coincidence to me. As I recall the series was doing just fine ratings wise but was cancelled any ways. Methinks, it was hitting to close to home about much of the high strangeness that has plagued Hollyweird for years.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:54 am
FYI - If I’d read the user’s homepage on youtube more closely I would have seen this text admitting a hoax:
“ATTENTION: All videos made before “FINAL MESSAGE” were part of an experiment I conducted over an 8-month period. I am not, nor ever have been, an employee of the government. All claims made about myself and my experiences in these videos and the below text are entirely fictitious.”
September 18th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
SMiles mentioned the Twin Peaks thing in the last interview we did.
I have a good friend in Snoqualmie Falls, where Twin Peaks was filmed, and have visited there a lot. Cool, dark and gloomy. In that same interview, I mentioned to SMiles that Fred Crisman thought the old Invaders TV show as about him — so Trooper Cooper wasn’t the first possible agent to be used in this way.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Miles,
Another strange coincidence (?) is the fact that the Rev. Bob Short calls his group the “Blue Rose Ministry.” A few years back, he gave me a little blue rose made out of ribbon. It’s pinned to a bulletin board next to my desk.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:11 pm
anomaly,
Is this the same person that’s posted on Miles’ site? If it is a hoax, perhaps it’s a way to point out some issues for thought, or if you want to be really paranoid, it’s a real agent pretending to lie, but actually revealing deeper truths!
November 26th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Isn’t Moloch the ancient god that Babylonians would throw their children into the mouth of, where within raged an eternal fire that consumed them? During these ceremonies, drummers would beat steadily to drown out the screams and cries of the children.
I see a beautiful anology here with our modern society: our children are sacrificed to the gods of material pursuit and social engineering, and their screams and cries are drowned out by the rage and cynicism of the worst quality of opiates the entertainment industry has ever produced.
Or perhaps there still is a Moloch cult, explaining many of the missing children cases around the world…
It’s a hell of a lot more interesting than obsessing on W, that’s for sure. Or how many minutes Lindsey Lohan spends in jail.
Just my two cents…