The Navy does seem to crop up a lot throughout the weirdness of the 20th century.

For example Jack Parsons seems to have been surrounded by the Navy towards his death. L. Ron Hubbard (Naval Intelligence) was his scribe during the workings to invoke the “scarlet woman” - when he returned from the desert (where he’d been with Hubbard) she was waiting, well Marjorie Cameron (Navy) was. After this Hubbard ran off with Parson’s woman and Cameron messed Parsons around until the day of his death. Robert Heinlein (Navy before and after meeting Parsons) seems to have been a fixer-upper in certain pre-WWII circles on the West Coast, with his Manana Literary Society bringing together sci-fi writers (including Hubbard), nuclear/rocket scientists and occultists (Parsons one of both). It doesn’t appear Hubbard and Parsons met there (although oddly they appear together in a fictionalised account before they are supposed to have met) but Heinlein’s family have sought to erase parts of this period so things are unclear. It does appear that there are occult influences on his work (Stranger in a Strange Land possibly being based on Parsons and thelema and other works drawing on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn). Hubbard turned up at Parson’s house just after WWII around the time that the Heinleins were regular visitors. So with in Parsons’ orbit there were a number of (ex?) Navy personnel with occult interests, two of them sci-fi authors who wrote books (”fact” and fiction) that draw on OTO principles aimed at changing the way people think.

Scientology links back (via Peter Moon) into the Montauk Project (which some have described as a Naval intelligence operation) and the Philadelphia Experiment. Although the latter clearly has a lot of Naval links one odd thing is that in 1943 Heinlein was redrafted into the Navy and ended up at the Philadelphia Naval Yards (along with L. Sprague de Camp and Isaac Asimov). As there may be obvious reasons that Scientology reads like bad sci-fi, could there be a good reason why the Philadelphia Experiment sounds like better quality sci-fi?

Now this might be a wild case of join the dots (possibly from a couple of different puzzles) but one thing that is clear is that the Navy are trying very hard to get (dis)infomration out. Look, for example, at the amount of effort they put into the spreading of the Philadelphia Experiment myth. The ironic thing there is that they did rather a bad job initially and it really only went overground with the help of Berlitz (famous for popularising various mysteries, partly by running fast and loose with the “facts”) and William Moore (famous for being a spreader of disinformation with connections to The Aviary, which itself may have included Jacques Vallee and shares personnel with the NIDS).

I think whatever they are up to the last thing this has anything to do with is UFOs (or disappearing boats - except when connected with Hubbard). Obviously it could be due to disinfo and spy tracking but The Aviary (which included Naval personnel) was an odd mix of people with interests including UFOs, intelligence matters and non-lethal weapons and I suspect it is possible there might be interests in:

*Memetic engineering - releasing/manipulating ideas and most recently with an expressed interest in using the Internet for this. This might be seen to be relatively harmless but the field is woven through with fiction or fiction pitched as religion/fact which has fundamentally altered the way people think (see for example the influence of Stranger in a Strange Land).

*Non-lethal weapons - most obvious hologram projection. The apparent appearance of Jesus off the coast of Cuba is suspected to have been a hologram cast from a navy sub. Note this is also an example of using non-lethal weapons in conjunction with memetic engineering in an attempt to over throw Castro. At the moment Iran (including a lot of the top level of power), and part so the Sunni communities across the Middle East, is in the grip of the belief the Mahdi is returning, which would signal the end of the world. One can only wonder what would happen if a number of techniques were used (ironically the holograms are called “prophet” holograms).

The “Truth” though, remains elusive - that is probably the point

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To end Vallee also wrote sci-fi, including FastWalker (A NORAD term for UFOs) described thusly:

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FastWalker introduces a technology that is utilized by the intelligence community to duplicate the effects of real UFOs to assist in their ongoing program of deception and manipulation of society.
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The secret of cutting edge science: quantum chaos, is that no one will know except the computers! I don’t think any agency is in control but it’s admirable Greg that you didn’t try to leverage your zanny source.

I always like open direct communication but some people aren’t aware that the truth is always stranger than fiction. haha.

PS: BTW, just for kicks I googled that little phrase FIDELIS TANQUAM POST MORTEM. One of the first links was THIS page which scared me SHITLESS:

http://www.sammyfranco.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=765

In there there’s a post by a guy that signs his post with the nick “tsunami surfer” and with the phrase AD FINEM TERRAM. FIDELIS TANQUAM POST MORTEM.

So the phrase must be really used by a navy corp…

I’ve considered that interserivce rivalry is a good reason for Navy people to come out of the woodwork, but the fact that we hear almost nothing from them is cause for at least some attention from UFO researchers.

Perhaps seeing what the Air Force and CIA had done in the 1980s, the Navy had some sort of UFO disinfo test going on in the 1990s, and I was just one of the guinea pigs.

I’m not convinced of that either. See this post (and the two subsequent ones) about the subject. Everything you mention is covered in it.

You raise a valid, if perplexing point-
why would any Goverment agency seek to
sow dis-information through what is
(Arguebly ) a relative obscure venue?
I should add I don’t accept the ‘cover
for Black projects’ explanation-most
Military organizations are fairly good
at keeping projects secret, without the
need of surreal cover stories.

Stories like this can be used by govt agencies to cover black projects, test propaganda techniques, even to test for leaks.