The past six months have been the most astonishing period of
change in the whole history of the UFO phenomenon. Not
since the early fifties have there been so many and such
extensive sightings, and never with such a level of official
support for the reality of the phenomenon.
To just touch on a few highlights, there have been extensive
sightings in many parts of the world, with large numbers of
reports out of the UK and, especially, Iran. The United
States has had the extraordinary O'Hare Airport sighting,
among others.
But it is not just the sightings that are changing things,
it is the disintegration of the UFO coverup.
Governor Fife Symington of Arizona, who orchestrated one of
the most harmful debunking press conferences in the history
of the phenomenon when he turned the Phoenix Lights into an
international laughingstock, now says that he actually SAW
the greatest mystery of that night: the huge black triangle
that passed over the region.
Prior to that, former Canadian Defense Minister
Paul
Hellyer said frankly that "UFOs are as real as the planes that
fly over your head."
In February, the British Ministry of Defense issued almost
500 pages of previously secret UFO documents that both
showed that the ministry found many sightings credible and
unexplained, and included a remarkable comment by an
unnamed author: "The national security implications are
considerable. We have many reports of strange objects in the
skies and we have never investigated them. I also believe
that it is important to appreciate that what is scientific
'fact'
today may not be true tomorrow?If reports are taken at face
value then devices exist that do not use conventional reaction
propulsion systems, they have a very wide range of speeds
and are stealthy. I suggest that we could use this
technology, if it exists?If the sightings are of devices not
of the Earth then their purpose needs to be established as a
matter of priority?possibilities are: 1. Military
reconnaissance. 2. Scientific. 3. Tourism."
I will get back to those three points in a moment. To
continue with the disclosures, the
French
government has now opened its entire UFO file, revealing
thousands of meticulously investigated cases, a stunning 25%
of which remain unexplained.
There is no evidence that the obsessively secretive US will
ever release any real information, at least not as it is now
constituted. It has, after all, led the world in fifty years
of denial about the most important event in human history,
which is the fact that an unknown intelligence has been
involved with us for at least sixty years, and possibly
longer, maybe even a lot longer.
We do not know what this intelligence is. Of course, it
could be aliens from another planet or planets, but it could
also be something very different. This is a big, immeasurably
old and complex universe, consisting largely of what we
call 'dark matter' which we have never even detected. In this
universe, it may be possible to travel across time. It may be
possible to move among very physical realities that coexist in
the same space.
In short, what we are seeing could be almost anything. It
could be something completely inconceivable to us now. Or it
could be that we are the target of attention from another
world right here in this universe, and it's all fairly
straightforward--if anything about it could be considered
straightforward.
The reason I say that is that our governments are not the
only parties to this affair who are operating secretively.
The visitors themselves are secretive, also, but in a very
careful and considered way. Indeed, the way in which they
are secretive, if you think about it carefully, probably
emerges from a carefully evolved policy of contact.
If I am correct about how this policy works, the recent bout
of disclosure, and especially things like the intensity of
interest that is greeting the opening of the French files
(their official site has been overwhelmed with hits) will
result in some very extraordinary sightings. We shall see.
Whether that happens or not, we shall see. But I think it's
time to stop dancing around and face the fact that there is
an elephant in this particular living room. If we address
its presence, we are going to be able to unlock many, if not
all, of the secrets our stealthy visitors are keeping from us.
The sad thing about all the debunking of the past sixty
years is that there has been a tremendous waste of
knowledge. If the general public had known that UFOs were
real, and our scientists had been able to address that
reality, gathering evidence in an organized way, we would
have benefited immeasurably from the treasury of new
knowledge their observations would have inevitably brought
us.
Led by the United States government and the American press,
the world's educated classes have universally rejected the
idea that UFOs are real, and have methodically ignored this
knowledge. What a waste, and all for such a stupid reason.
The US instituted its policy of secrecy in 1947 because the
Air Force told President Truman that it could do nothing to
control the incursion. According to what General Arthur Exon
told me personally about the Roswell UFO, "everybody from
Truman on down knew it was not of this world within 24 hours
of our finding it." But that knowledge was hidden from the
public, which was a foolish policy then and is not only
foolish now, but also venial and a great waste of the human
mind and all of the exquisite scientific institutions we
have evolved to acquire and interpret information.
When I was working on UFO materials at the Southwest
Research Institute with Dr. William Mallow, the director
told him that their CIA client took a "dim view" of me and
of UFO research in general. He was forced to do all of his
work for me in handwritten notes. He could not report on
Southwest Research stationary.
He was one of the world's greatest materials scientists, and
he knew that much of what I was bringing him was totally
inexplicable. And when I think of a big and, frankly, stupid
bully of an institution like some idiotic government agency
suppressing not only his work, but all the work that could
otherwise have been done, my blood just boils. God knows
what we might have accomplished if we had done proper
research into the UFO phenomenon. Perhaps Paull Hellyer is
right when he says that we could probably have solved such
things as our global warming problems by using the
technology we would have devised.
And it boils even more when I think of the elephant in the
living room: the close encounter witnesses.
If we accept that there are unknown intelligences here
controlling flying craft, then the next question begs to be
asked: what are they doing?
To best answer it, let's ask what we would be doing if we
found another planet with an intelligent life form on it
that was bright but more primitive than us.
First, our interest in that planet would be focused on that
life form. Second, if we were either exploitative or
concerned about preserving the culture in its natural state,
or both, we would be very secretive. In fact, our
anthropologists would demand secrecy so that we could study
this culture as it was before it knew about us. Our
biologists would certainly want DNA samples, and we would
have to get them secretly, especially if the species was
aggressively territorial. In that case, we might undertake a
process of slow revelation, something like taming a wild
animal by slow approach and gradual acclimatization.
In other words, we would act toward less advanced
intelligent creatures on another planet exactly as the
visitors are acting toward us.
Over time, you would interact more intimately with certain
members of the species. You might even create versions of
the creatures yourselves, if you could raise them, and
infiltrate them into the culture in order to carry out your
policies among them.
I am a person with an implant. It's in my left ear right
now, where it has been since the day it was put in. As I
write this, I reach up and feel it. I remember perfectly
well when it was put in, and who did it. Two people, a man
and a woman. They did it on a night in May. Before they did
it, a disturbance outside woke me up, whereupon I heard a
voice outside say "condition red." The two people then came
rushing into the bedroom from the hall and did their work. I
was rendered helpless, but I felt them working.
The next day, the ear was sore, and later I tried to get a
doctor to remove the thing. When his scalpel touched it, it
moved on its own to another part of my ear. Not
understanding what was happening, he withdrew. The next
day, the object returned to where it has remained ever since.
I am not alone. There are plenty of people around who have
implants. But why? What do they do? And who are those
people--at least in my case--who put them in? (I might add
that most people remember getting theirs in a much more
alien context.)
And what of the memories of the close encounter witnesses?
What do they mean? The notion that all of these memories are
recovered through hypnosis is a lie. After I published
Communion, we got half a
million letters from people who had encountered the visitors.
We still have a few thousand of these, to this day. Of these
people, almost none had ever been hypnotized. None. And
yet, when you read the Communion Letters, you see the
incredible and engaging detail of their memories.
They are the elephant in the living room. It is out of their
minds and their bodies that we will gain knowledge of the
secret of why the visitors are here.
Close encounter witnesses are routinely lampooned. Indeed,
sociologists within the US government long ago hit on the
fact that laughter is the best way to keep the whole UFO
phenomenon secret. And it works. After the
O'Hare sighting, United Airlines cautioned its
personnel not to talk about it for fear that the airline would
be embarrassed.
The US government aside, the human species is signaling,
through the medium of all these disclosures, that we are
ready to face more of the truth.
In order to take the next step, all we need to do is
recognize the elephant in the living room: it is not the
fact that UFOs are real. That's just the mouse. It's the
fact that millions of human beings have been in them and
come face to face with their mysterious occupants, for
better or for worse. That's the elephant.
Related Entries:
25-Aug-2000: The Reason for the Secrecy
16-Nov-1998: The Alleged December 7, 1998 Landing
06-Nov-1998: On the Art Bell Show with Dr. Roger Leir and "General A"
: Other Florida Sightings
