Linda Moulton Howe and I have been deeply involved in the
mystery of the "Drones," the
first
pictures of which appeared on the Coast to Coast AM website
in May. Subsequently, Linda interviewed "Sylvia" on
Dreamland and got pictures from "Mr Smith" in Birmingham,
Alabama. She also spoke extensively to him, as she did to
"Chad," and is convinced of their honesty.
Throughout the process, I have obtained analysis of the
pictures offered, with little success because of the
generally low resolution and the proliferation of effects
programs more sophisticated than Photoshop that can make
virtually undetectable inclusions in still images.
So far, no video of the object has emerged, however, there
are now new still pictures on the
UFO Casebook
website. These images are startlingly convincing, and the
only thing that prevents me from declaring that they are
real is that special effects are just so sophisticated.
However, for the purposes of this journal, I am going to go
beyond the question of whether or not they are real and ask
another question: if they are real, what might that mean?
Understand, please, this does NOT mean that I'm endorsing
these images. I believe Sylvia, Chad and Mr. Smith, but I
cannot endorse the images because I cannot, personally and
beyond doubt, prove that they are authentic.
Prior to seeing the images posted on UFO Casebook, I might
have thought that the objects were manmade. But the one that
was supposedly photographed in the Big Basin area of
Northern California must be enormous. It is not the same as
the one shot by Chad or the one shot by Mr. Smith. This is a
gigantic device, probably weighing tons, judging from its
appearance.
It hangs in the air, exhibiting no aerodynamic qualities, no
engines, no means of lift at all. Structurally, it is
entirely purpose-built. There is no allowance made at all
for its need to stay airborne and to move. This means that
its means of propulsion are either not known publicly, or
not known to us at all.
The photographs were made from a significant distance and
there was haze in the air, and the object's appearance is
absolutely consistent with it actually being in the sky,
right down to the deterioration of detail that is involved
in the tips of the strange "crown" that appears on the top
of this and other some of the other objects photographed.
So, if it's a fake, its a very good one, and the wide array
of witnesses and variety of photographs would mean an
elaborate hoax, which Chad, Sylvia and Mr. Smith--all
apparently unconnected and all sounding entirely sincere
over hours of conversation--all in collusion and all lying.
But what if they aren't lying? Then what's going on?
Certainly, nothing like this has ever been seen before.
So, one has to ask, if this is not of human manufacture,
then does it represent a new presence in our world? And, if
so, what might it be doing?
The chances of it being a secret military device were always
remote. Now, if the new pictures are real, they are remote
to the vanishing point--but still, of course, not
impossible. However, I know people who are hard at work on
exotic propulsion systems of various kinds, and I have never
heard a whisper about anything like this.
In fact, it is so exotic, so strange, its design so
'movie-like,' that, if it is an alien object, then I think
it has been intentionally designed to make us think it's a
special effect, right down to the writing seen on the object
in the Chad photos, with its resemblance to Klingon and some
other science fiction movie letterings.
So there is an attempt going on to hide it in plain sight,
and this leads me to think that it might indeed mark the
arrival of somebody new. I have seen grays appear and
disappear before my eyes on numerous occasions. In one
multiple witness event that I was part of, one of them
appeared beside the bed of a filmmaker who was at my cabin,
transformed before his eyes from a little man with a huge
head to a creature with the head of a falcon, and then
disappeared in a wink.
Some time later, as my son and I returned from the cabin
after spending the night in the woods because the house was
so crowded with people, we saw a small hooded figure--gray
and translucent--come gliding across the porch and down the
deck about two hundred feet ahead of us, then dart off into
the woods.
Meanwhile, the filmmaker and his wife experienced such a
burst of heat in their bed that they jumped out of it,
thinking that it was on fire. When my son and I arrived in
the house, they were standing there in consternation, trying
to understand what had happened.
There were two things involved, I believe: suggestion and
technology. The transformation of the creature was probably
accomplished with masterful suggestion of a kind we can
hardly imagine, but which is related to hypnosis. The
disappearance, however, must have been carried out via the
use of a device that affected local gravity in such a way
that it bent light around it while the creature remained
concealed inside.
There was a cost, though: the device also enclosed the heat
that it was generating, and when the being finally reduced
power, he released a lot of that heat, which is why the
filmmaker felt it, and why we could see the creature, but as
if it was translucent.
Now, these drones exhibit no such cloaking. In fact, they
are, collectively and by far the clearest UFO pictures ever
made. Could it be that they belong to somebody who possesses
advanced means of propulsion, but not invisibility
technology, or that they are simply too large for that
technology to work?
Whatever the answer, they represent a fundamental and
material change in the whole UFO phenomenon.
On March 30, I published a journal called
Are They
Coming and If So What Do We Do in which I said, "It is
possible that the visitors are about to show up. I am not
saying that this will happen, but only that this is a time
when it could happen, and there are some indications that it
may be about to happen."
I then discussed the reasons why this might be about to take
place, and suggested that, if it was happening, there would
be more developments soon.
It is possible that the drones are the "more developments"
and that our response to them is being carefully observed.
In a way, that's why I'm writing this. It is an attempt to
respond rationally and on all levels available to
me--accepting them as a possible human hoax, as possible
human secret craft, as something constructed by known alien
forms or possibly new alien forms, and as something
attempting to hide in plain sight by subtly suggesting
itself as a special effect.
This about covers the waterfront regarding what the objects
might be. As to what they might be doing, that's another
matter entirely.
The pictures offered by Chad and Mr. Smith are small
objects, probably no more than thirty to fifty feet across.
The Maine photos are obvious fakes, made with Photoshop. I
could have made them myself. The video of the prototype is a
CGI fake, a nice one and a reminder of how easy this is to
do. As I said, I am as yet unsure about the Big Basin photos.
What is interesting about all this is the blizzard of fakes
and real images involved, almost as if somebody is trying
hard to obscure the truth, or rather, to hide it in a maze
of confusion and thus defuse its impact.
This would suggest to me a sort of social control at work,
or even an organized operation.
Some years ago, I wrote a short story called "The Open
Doors," which is available to Unknowncountry.com
subscribers that
explores the last days of a scientist called John Von
Neumann, called by the press of his time "the smartest man
alive." He died of liver cancer, in great terror.
I was told by General Arthur Exon that Dr. Von Neumann had
been an important part of the scientific steering committee
that worked on the alien question, and that he had come up
with a warning based on his understanding of quantum
physics, which was one of the underlying reasons that the US
has so adamantly refused to admit that the aliens are real.
I called my story "The Open Doors," because, by reading Dr.
Von Neumann's work on the quantum perception problem, I
figured out the nature of his warning. I was also aware of
this warning from another direction. When Lyndon Johnson was
president and Hubert Humphrey was vice president, a briefing
was offered to the president on the UFO subject. He was not
interested, but Humphrey was given a document, probably
similar to the
Brookings
Report that postulates that the discovery of aliens would
be a terrific shock to mankind. However, Humphrey would also
have been told that they were already here, and that, in the
absence of some sort of acceptance 'tripwire' being
triggered on our part, they might be literally unable to
fully interact with us.
I believe that Dr. Von Neumann thought that this tripwire
would be official recognition, and that, if it happened, it
would open a door onto an unknown world that we could never
again close. This is why Humphrey, on reading what he had
been given, commented that its release would have
"unpredictable consequences" and the Johnson Administration
took no further interest in the UFO phenomenon.
In its simplest form, the quantum perception problem asks
the question, does the observer's presence mediate reality?
In other words, if nobody is there to see it, is there
anything there to be seen? And, if so, does our general
disbelief in aliens, carefully cultivated by our government,
literally act as a wall that they cannot scale without
expending enormous resources in energy?
Probably, nobody knows the answer to that question, which
cannot be resolved unless we accept the alien presence--but
if we do that and we don't like what we see, then what?
The reason for the secrecy--one of them, anyway--revolves
around the unanswerability of that question. Even if Von
Neumann's suggestion was only wild speculation, because we
can never close the door once it is open, we dare not test
his hypothesis by officially admitting that aliens are real
and that they are here.
This is why I know that all disclosure projects are doomed
from the start. The government can't answer the question of
whether or not official disclosure will be the tripwire that
brings aliens pouring into our lives without doing it, and
they are not going to do it without knowing what might happen.
However, if Von Neumann was right and our refusal to
acknowledge the aliens--if that's what they are--as real IS
what is keeping them back, then the whole UFO and abduction
phenomena are explained as a sort of military operation
designed to bypass official denial by creating so many
firsthand witnesses that they themselves eventually become
the tripwire, and the door opens despite government denial.
And this could be the explanation for the drones. The utter
clarity with which we are seeing them means that whoever has
been banging against the wall of human perception has made a
breakthrough. These photos are clear because so many of us
now accept the aliens as real that they can engage in much
more substantial penetrations of our reality than ever
before, and no matter official denial.
If this is true, then this journal, along with all the other
material that has been posted, will be regarded as
acknowledgment of a communication, and there will be a
further response of some kind. It will be clearer and more
definite than what we have seen so far, possibly even
something that cannot be denied. We shall see.
If the drones are an elaborate hoax, they could have
appeared as part of an attempt to undo the damage that has
been caused by the UFO wave that began with the United
Airline Terminal UFO over O'Hare Airport last year. This
'damage' would be increasing public conviction that UFOs are
real, and the purpose of the drones would be to lure
investigators into believing the hoax, then reveal it and
make them out as fools in the media.
The drones have received little general media attention.
Effectively none. But, if they are a hoax, its
revelation will get
widespread coverage. If there is a partial hoax involved,
such as the famous 'Doug and Dave' crop circle hoax, then
the hoax part of it will be lovingly featured throughout the
media, and the reality thus obscured.
If it's not a
hoax but a communication, we might well hear more soon, and
it will not be video or more pictures of the drones. That's
been done. No, if it is a real communication, a new note
will be sounded.
I would suggest you stay tuned.
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