UFO Disclosure Imminent (Not)
An article by Steve Hammons over at the American Chronicle site muses that recent developments on the UFO front (the British files release, Vatican permission to believe in aliens, and an upcoming special on MSNBC) may be a prelude to official acknowledgment of UFOs and aliens.
Every time I see something like this, I can’t help but think of the many times that “disclosure” was just around the corner…and didn’t happen. Fool me twice–shame on me.
Donald Keyhoe expected it in the 1960s. UFO fans waited for it after the release of Close Encounters. The Aviary members worked for it in the 1980s. In 2003, I was on a radio show here in L.A. where the producer assured me that “the truth” would be out within months, and the Disclosure Movement works and hopes for the same thing.
The center of this “truth” may not be what everyone expects. Steven Greer and others have been vetting veterans for years with their UFO stories, and as far as I remember, all that they have are memories of coverups involving sightings or at most, crashed UFOs and aliens on ice. Not a breath about where these aliens come from, what they’re doing here, or how to deal with this supposed fact.
Perhaps this is a coverup of a coverup, namely, that the authorities may have no idea what they are dealing with, and spend most of their efforts hiding a climate of ignorance. The UFO enigma is likely more intricate and beyond our understanding at this point in history than we care to admit.
Admission that there are real unidentifieds out there is one thing, but admission that you have no idea what to do about it is suicide, as far as holding power and authority are concerned. A quick look at the official stance on UFOs over the last fifty years is consistent with this view–as much or more so than the idea that world governments are sitting on the “ultimate secret.”
Until those with more data available to them than UFO researchers are able to make sense of the information, there will likely be no “disclosure,” and those with a predisposition as to what the hidden data entails will spin their wheels for years to come, if not forever, waiting for the imprimatur of officialdom. If that day ever arrives, no one will care what UFO buffs have to say anyway.
Of course, the government may indeed know everything. I sort of hope that they don’t.
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May 17 2008 
May 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Yeah a reading of “apocalypses” by Eugene Wigner would be in order. The earth has been about to end ever since Christ was born — or was it Zarathustra, according to Norm Cohn’s book.
Anyway I’m glad I have no t.v. but I look forward to any good gossip. I thought that Rendelsham thing was weird — nope, no radar problems there! Well if it IS a secret military craft, obviously there’s no problems.
But then just maybe it was….!
May 17th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
If the US gov’t decides to disclose that Extra or Archeo-terrestrials(Older than known human civilizations) exist, it could be because they want to create a single world gov’t to control all of humanity via a single hierarchy rather it’s current polyarchy. The Powers-that-be have an agenda which basically ensures their keeping their position of dominance no matter who’s put forward as the greatest or most advanced power on Earth. I’d be very wary of them revealing the existence of alien aircraft.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I suppose that’s part of the allure the contactist movements still have. Fom a sociological perspective, they represent the first form of occidental insurrection against the established strucures of power, & the legitimacy of the nation-state to be the ultimate representatives of the people. If you can by-pass the authority of the government and talk to the space brothers directly, what do you need the government for?
Maybe the government had more fear of what THAT represents, than if those contactists really had the abiliy to chat with ET or not. The contactist movement was secular heresy.
May 18th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
That’s hilarious.
May 18th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
RPJ:
You wrote:
“I suppose that’s part of the allure the contactist movements still have. Fom a sociological perspective, they represent the first form of occidental insurrection against the established strucures of power, & the legitimacy of the nation-state to be the ultimate representatives of the people. If you can by-pass the authority of the government and talk to the space brothers directly, what do you need the government for?”
With respect, this displays a complete lack of understanding of history. The Contactees were doing no more in this regard than the New Light evangelists of the 18th century, such as Henry Alline, who made an appeal to people during a time of war to step outside the boundaries drawn by man, and embrace the Kingdon of Heaven through a direct experiential relationship with God.
The Contactees weren’t writing a new book - they were cribbing from classics that had been in circulation for hundreds, even thousands, of years.
Paul
May 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Is it a prelude to official acknowledgement or simply a bowing to the inevitable? The concept of the existence of aliens and UFO, whether extraterrestrial in origin or otherwise, has become culturally entrenched in modern western society (and has never been rejected by those still living as tribals).
After 60 years of Sci Fi movies, 40 years of Star Trek, 30 years of Star Wars, and 20 years of mass information dissemination via the Paranet-Internet, I would be very surprised if the general public had serious issues in accepting that these things are much more than pop-culture entities.
This isn’t like 70 years ago at the time of the “War of the Worlds” radio show. In fact, I am certain that today, if someone was to hear a news report over the radio that an alien spacecraft had landed in the US, the likely response would be “oh, really? why didn’t I see anything about that online?”
May 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Thanks for the input Paul. You may be right about Alline, although you might agree that the contactees managed to do something he didn’t: they made use of the current popular culture to make their ideas more appealing for the masses… or maybe they themselves were a bizarre product of the popular culture? Either way, all these people follow the typical archetype of the prophet, displayed for thousands of years; it’s only that with the contactees it was the turn of our current government system to feel threatened.
And their discourse tried to find a different approach than the traditional judeo-christian philosphy, with a new input of eastern viewpoints, things that made the secular governments insecure, instead of only the traditional religious establishments. Was Alline ever investigated by a government office?
May 18th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
RPJ,
Alline, whose ministry lasted roughly from 1776 to 1784 here in the Maritimes, was not only kept tabs on by the British colonial government, which was concerned about his Yankee roots and his revolutionary message, but he was also known by the mainstream Congregational Church establishment as the “Ravager of Churches”. His impact on Canadian history (and that of new England as well) was profound, and not just religious but social and political as well - far more so than the impact of the Contactees on American history.
As I wrote recently, it’s important t o keep things in proper perspective.
Alline was no standard Christian evangelical, by the way, but rather owed much of his theology to the tradition of Christian mysticism. All in all, a fascinating man, who makes the likes of Van Tassel and Adamski seem even smaller than they really were… although no less amusing, and even interesting, when placed in their proper historical context.
Paul
May 18th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Hey Paul: Take me to your leader.
May 18th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Paul, could you please point me out to a web page where I can learn more about this Alline fellow? I’m having a bit of trouble finding things about him on he net, and the Wikipedia entry on him is rather brief, to say the least.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
RPJ:
Alline’s Journal is on-line - it is one of the great primary resources of Canadian history:
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView?id=ded9522a2a1977ff&display=27898+0003
A good on-line summary of Alline’s life and times can be found at:
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35853&query=alline
Finally, I have written about Alline at my blog - check here:
http://redstarfilms.blogspot.com/search?q=alline
Scroll down (although the stuff before is related). Also, the video clip is from a pilot episode we did nine years ago for a series called Visionaries, for Vision TV here in Canada, about great Canadians of faith.
Paul
May 19th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
RPJ:
From my blog:
http://redstarfilms.blogspot.com/search?q=alline
A good on-line bio:
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35853&query=alline
Alline’s journal, one of Canada’s great primary historical documents, is on-line starting at:
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView?id=12300fa5711fccef&display=27898+0003
Paul
May 20th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Oops… sorry for the double post!
May 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Thx Paul