The (UFO) Aviary (Pt. 2)
The Aviary began as a loosely-knit group of contacts developed by Bill Moore and Jamie Shandera. Some appeared to know each other from past intelligence projects. Others, such as Drs. Green and Puthoff appeared to be in the UFO and strange phenomena loop, and had been for years, although most likely in an informal capacity based simply on their sincere longtime interest in these areas.
Some or all of these players convened in a series of clandestine meetings throughout the 1980s. Moore and Shandera attended a few of them, but only when asked. Moore recalled one conclave that was held on an island in the middle of a lake in the northern midwest. The participants sat at a picnic table under an awning and discussed UFO secrecy and covert intelligence, safely out of earshot from anyone who might want to listen in. This meeting was referred to in Robert Collins’ book Exempt From Disclosure. At another, John Alexander and Puthoff were dismayed by a television set in their hotel room that apparently tuned on and off by itself. No one was able to figure out how or why this was happening. Perhaps it was some kind of weird joke.
The purpose of this informal group seemed to be twofold: The members who were not “in the loop” on UFO information were trying to use their connections to find out what the government really knew about the subject, and most if not all of them were involved to varying degrees in the world of intelligence, specifically how the UFO subject was being used to misdirect and root out the presence of Soviet, Chinese and other agents who operated in the US under the guise of researchers and the curious.
Not all of the members were involved with the UFO research community. Because of the nature of their jobs, Ernie Kellerstrauss, Robert Collins and Richard Doty had to know what was going on in the UFO community since it was directly related to national security. The famously misleading information that came from their offices, and which researchers constantly refer to as the raison d’etre for the Aviary group, were only a tiny part of a greater series of operations.
The mysterious “Falcon” sat at the top of the organization like a silent puppetmaster. Not everyone knew his true identity, and some only found out his real name by an informed process of elimination. He never spoke on anything besides the subject at hand, offering nothing and absorbing everything. Forged in the Cold War, his professional resume was perfect for the operation which both drove Paul Bennewitz over the edge, and provided the world of 1980s ufology with a largely synthetic shot in the arm. His sole interest in the UFO subject was how it could be used to ferret out spies who were looking into classified projects. The Cold War was going strong during the Reagan years, and defense organizations were given a blank check to develop new weapons systems. These programs needed the protection of the intelligence services. At least that’s what the power structure believed.
While most now believe that the Aviary was a group of intel insiders bent on disinforming researchers and the public, its primary purpose seems to have been to gather intelligence and perform counterintelligence duties. Since all members of the group had an interest in UFOs, the phenomenon was used as a tool for this end. Informally, the members tried to glean UFO information from active government insiders who were higher up the chain of command. As far as I have been able to determine, they found no smoking gun, but most of them came out of the experience with a confirmed belief that UFOs and their origin was a definite concern to the US Government, but the Aviary members were not able to get to the whole truth.
It is probable that no one really knows the real story, but many of those in positions of power have at least part of the picture, and that the little they do know concerns them enough to keep it from public view. If you can’t explain the strange facts, there is no point in admitting your ignorance. However, you can use what you do know as an intelligence tool. So the game continues until at least some segment of humanity can grasp the significance, purpose, and origin of something that appears to involve an intelligence that we cannot fully comprehend yet.
The members of the defunct “Aviary” continue to search for answers as well. A few of them are active in organizations like the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Society for Scientific Exploration, where professionals and former intel employees are dealing with many of the same questions that they were asking almost thirty years ago.
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Mar 11 2008 
March 11th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
A couple of good posts, Greg, that seem to sum up the legendary Aviary nicely… and point out that it was less significant than some people thought it was, and more concerned with things other than the actual reality behind the UFo phenomenon, or disinforming the public about what the government knew about it. When viewed in the context of the times - the heightened Cold War tensions in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan and the election of Ronald Reagan - it makes perfect sense, even if that will likely displease pro-ETH and conspiracy-oriented ufologists who benefited from that synthetic shot in the arm of which you speak.
Best regards,
Paul
March 11th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Just to let you know, I have set up an RSS feed on my site to provide links to your articles. I’m still working on getting this to work the way I want it to. It’s working well with your site because of the way your posts are set up with the single teaser line. However, if you don’t want me to provide any content at all and just link backs, please let me know.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Wasn’t Puthoff one of the SRI scientists scammed by Uri Geller?
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yep:
http://skepdic.com/geller.html
“Geller was tested at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. … Puthoff and Targ deemed Geller such a gifted psychic that they invented a term to describe his powers: the “Geller effect.” “
March 11th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Wow! Fascinating posts, Greg.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
fascinating post, I want more like it!!!
March 12th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Hi Greg,
You say
“As far as I have been able to determine, they found no smoking gun, but most of them came out of the experience with a confirmed belief that UFOs and their origin was a definite concern to the US Government, but the Aviary members were not able to get to the whole truth.
It is probable that no one really knows the real story, but many of those in positions of power have at least part of the picture, and that the little they do know concerns them enough to keep it from public view.”
It seems no matter who says what on this or which way you look at it, we often come back to this “they know something we don’t” scenario.
I appreciate you are probably speculating in the words I have chosen to highlight but are you able to take these remarks any further?
March 12th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Here at the MN-based Center for Reichian Crypto-Anthropology we adhere to Nandor Fodor’s motto: Numen Est Omen (Name is Fate) as our M.O. In which case the sensory integration system of complex social behavior has been proven to rely on “sound-pictures” from superliminal quantum photons. This was first proven with dolphins and has been recently applied to the mystery of bird migration — aka the UFO Aviary.
How does the Aviary “absorb all” while “offering nothing”? In science this would be equivalent to the “negative” matter considered the secret of rotating WORM HOLES, enabling time travel.
In crypto-anthropology though it’s known that just as birds can see magnetic fields, so too can humans time-travel through the nonwestern acoustic oscillation of the pineal gland, the true unidentified flying object of western science.
It would appear that UFO jibberish has nothing to do with Jacque Vallee’s model of a communication learning system between apparitions and scientists. In fact, just as repetition of bird sound does not mean stuttering (contrary to current neuroscience Zebra Finch research), the forced frequency psi-plasma pulse generators of UFOs do communicate directly with something beyond time.
Kurt Godel was the ultimate Aviary member — he looked just like a bird and he practiced self-equiry to the degree of such paranoia that he starved himself to death, just like a Jain saint. Godel stated that Einstein proved time does not exist but Godel also stated that time travel is possible because the person would not DESIRE to change the future - and this is the secret to activating the Reichian vagus-nerve Aviary UFO (pineal gland) worm hole.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Paul,
As far as the UFO researchers are concerned, it was important. The mistake is when people think that the activties of the Aviary were concerned with keeping secrets about flying saucers.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
palzeta,
Short quotes (like a couple of sentences) are fine. Thanks for asking and linking.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
disowned,
I not sure they were scammed completely. Some of the tests repeated by other scientists and institutions confirmed results. Geller is probably gifted in some way, but his tendency to cheat when things aren’t going right doesn’t tend to win many serious fans.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Misteranderson and RPJ,
Thanks. More posts like it would include what subjects, in your opinion? I was just downloading info that had been in my brain for many years!
March 12th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Stuart,
I think (and I have said this before) that some people in positions of power have more information on the UFO subject, but no real idea of the origin or purpose of whatever is behind it. They and us are in the same belief system, but perhaps some of them have better proof. Whether that involves aliens on ice or simply more pictures, films, or abduction reports is debatable.
Why would these people (the Aviary members among others) keep asking the same questions after they left government service?
March 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Disownedsky:
I wouldn’t use Skepdic.com as a source for anything, it’s a useless piece of biased trash. The Targ-Puthoff/Geller relationship was certainly more complicated than that. Targ said quite plainly during testing that Geller was a magician, and that given the chance, he thought Geller would likely cheat. However, they also witnessed a number of rather strange things.
Kind regards,
Greg
March 13th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Well, you know… more about these mind games the secret services had pulled off using UFOs as a mean to pass disinfo to the soviets or the chinese.
I also would like to know the opinions of these Aviary members on the UFO topic. Did they feel UFOs were a benign or malignant force in human affairs?
And also if some european governments, like the french for instance, have used the same disinfo tactics.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:52 am
RPJ,
I believe that they had no real opinion on the good or evil inherent in UFOs and whatever is behind them. From what I heard, it seems like they treated the subject more as a scientific problem than a philosophical or moral one.
I don’t know if other governments do the same, although it seems like it would be a good idea if you are in the intelligence racket.