The much heralded ABC special on UFOs has come and gone.
Predictably, it was more of the same, a large number of lies
sprinkled with a few truths. At least it wasn?t as
relentlessly negative as such programs have generally been
in the past. But people like Peter Jennings and his
producers are cursed with the belief that they can
understand?or already do understand?what they are looking
at. The reality is that the UFO phenomenon is the most
complex event in history, and a cursory examination of its
surface by a few overworked and ill-informed television
producers is not going to succeed in any way whatsoever to
come to any truth about it.
They are filled with belief in their own competence,
however. The result is that their efforts become an exercise
in hubris. They end up making judgements based on inadequate
information because they believe that what they have
gathered is sufficient. But it is not sufficient, it only
fulfills their expectations and serves their assumptions.
That's always where they stop, and it?s never enough.
Jennings was somewhat open to the notion that some UFOs
might be actual unknowns, and he actually told the truth,
for once, about Project Bluebook: it was indeed a publicity
stunt.
But the characterization of the Roswell Incident as a hoax
and the people attempting to investigate it as cultists was
a grotesque lie, and, I think, an intentional one. It is
classic disinformation?tell a little truth so that your lie
will be swallowed along with it. Of course, how could
anything more be expected from a man like Jennings? He?s a
prostitute to the establishment, nothing more or less, and
it is in the interest of the establishment to conceal the
reality of Roswell.
Something went wrong there. It went very wrong. And it is
somebody's fault, and, to this day, that somebody is
terrified that the public will discover that we had a truly
magnificent chance at Roswell, and our side blew it.
In 1988, my uncle told me that he had personally been aware
of and involved with the management of the debris that had
been brought from Roswell to Wright Field in 1947. My uncle
Edward Strieber was an honorable man, indeed, a very
honorable man. He spent his career in the Air Force, mostly
working in areas that were extremely classified. He was in a
position to know what he was talking about, and, as I say,
he was an honorable man.
Not only that, he introduced me to his commanding officer
and old friend, General Arthur Exon, who could not have been
more frank. He stated, and this is a direct quote: ?Everyone
from the White House on down knew that what we had found was
not of this world within 24 hours of our finding it.?
And he, also, was an honorable man who spent a sterling
career in service to his country.
So who am I to believe, two honorable soldiers, or a man
like Peter Jennings, in love with his own silly assumptions
and willing to lie for profit?
Give me the soldiers, please. What they told me about
Roswell was true. Therefore, the honest and honorable people
involved in the Roswell case are the researchers like
Stanton Friedman. The ones who ?debunk? it are professional
liars or ignorant fools, pure and simple.
This gets me to the way the abductees were treated. I just
cannot imagine why Budd Hopkins keeps exposing himself to
people like Jennings. What this man has given up for the
abductees is, essentially, everything. Jennings sneered that
he is an artist, not a scientist. What he should have said
was the truth: that this artist, out of the decency in his
heart, gave up his career and, essentially, his life for
people who were hurting, because science in its arrogance
and stupidity would not help them.
The reality of Budd Hopkins is this: he is old, he is ill,
he is broke. That is his reward for a lifetime of extremely
courageous service to humanity. If he is a cultist, then
where are the Rolls Royces, where are the doting followers?
And for that matter, if I am simply sitting back and making
a fortune off my books, then where is that fortune?
I am not as poor as Budd, it?s true, but I give back at
every level of my life. I have supported this website for
years, and this website does good, it does a world of good.
If nothing else, it serves as an antidote to the lies and
propaganda spread by the arrogant garbage that have taken
the high ground in this so-called free society of ours.
There is a horror behind all of this: it is that, because of
the way that people like Jennings characterize the abduction
phenomenon as the product of fringe cultism and delusional
thinking, the visitors remain free to do with us what they will.
And that, bottom line, I suspect, was the purpose of this
program. True, they paid lip service to UFO reality. But
when it came to the important stuff, they spread
disinformation of a kind that is devastatingly harmful to
mankind.
We need to face some facts: the abduction phenomenon is
real, it is invasive, and there is nothing whatsoever that
anybody can do about it. That, incidentally, is the great
secret: the reason the government lies and uses things like
laughter and skilled disinformation like the Jennings
special to dismiss the phenomenon is that the reality behind
it is terrifying and they are helpless.
I often ask the disclosure proponents if they actually
expect the president to go on TV and say that UFOs are real,
and that we can do nothing to control their access to our
airspace. From there, it is just a short step to the
abduction evidence, which involves an abundance of physical
traces like implants which defy medical explanation, and a
wealth of anecdotal reportage that is at once exceedingly
strange, exceedingly provocative, and, frankly, suggests the
presence of a great and hidden danger in our world that we
cannot control.
The Jennings special took it all to another level of
propaganda. They admitted a certain amount of truth in order
that their poison pill of lies would be swallowed with it.
For a journalist, there can be no more despicable act.
I believe in the soul. I believe in an afterlife. I also
believe that it is incumbent upon us all to live to the
highest ethical standards in this life, or face in the next
the consequences of not having done so.
All I have to say more is this: I am certainly glad that I
don?t have Peter Jennings? soul. When I die, I will go to
God with these realities imprinted on my being: I never
lied; I always strove to lift myself and all whom I
encountered to the best moral state we could achieve; I took
the road less traveled, knowing that it would be hard. I did
so because I was given the chance to, and I saw a chance to
help my fellow man, and so I took the chance.
So, here is my response to Mr. Jennings and the dirty little
men who lurk in his shadow, whispering their lies to him:
First, Roswell really happened, and it is the key to
everything, because the Air Force made a world-historical
mistake there that has led to our being in the state we are
in now: isolated on this earth, swimming in ignorance, and
denied what is the birthright of every intelligent species,
which is access to the great cosmos. Second, the most
important aspect of the whole UFO phenomenon is abduction.
As ugly as it is, it is also our only point of contact with
the outside. And there is a message being sent from them to
us. It has nothing to do with radio telescopes and the
adolescent tomfoolery of SETI, and everything to do with the
hearts, minds and bodies?and the souls?of the abductees.
You want a communication from the ?aliens,? SETI? You want a
dose of the truth, Mr. Jennings? Just ask us. We are that
communication, and we are that truth.
