Congress holds hearing on UFOs

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Posting here so as not to bork-up the UFO stuff thread.

The old confidence guys like Shermer have while being provably wrong will never, cease to amaze me.


I think he's partly gotta point, but it's NOT "purely a socio-cultural phenomenon" imo.

A totally non-biased map. I'm sure you've seen it floating around. LOL.



The data used to generate this map is pulled from NUFORC, a U.S. based UFO reporting center. What this map shows is the majority of people outside of the US don’t report their UFO sightings to a U.S. based reporting center.

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (RSE) is an American New Age spiritual sect near the rural town of Yelm, Washington, U.S. The school was established in 1988 by J. Z. Knight, who claims to channel a 35,000-year-old being called Ramtha the Enlightened One. The school's teachings are based on channeling sessions.

Ramtha's School of Enlightenment is considered to be a cult by various people, including her former husband Jeff Knight,] former personal bodyguard Glen Cunningham, former students of the school (such as David McCarthy[5] or Joe Szimhart), and skeptic Michael Shermer.

Wiki references Michael Shermer's own book, "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" on pg 295 as a former member. I checked that page and he does talk about that new age group, but no mention that he ever was a member. I'm not about to scan the whole book so who knows. Maybe he once tried to infiltrate the group to learn more about them. Some writers/researchers have been known to do that aside from intel spooks.

However, he apparently uses/references the magic spell word:

What novel writers are actively doing when they write, what novel readers are passively doing when they read, is entertaining a shared sense of pareidolia and apophenia. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called this cognitive phenomenon “the willing suspension of disbelief.” Putting it more plainly, Michael Shermer, founder of the Skeptics Society and author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (W. H. Freeman, 1997), dubs it patternicity, his pet name for a concept that unifies pareidolia and apophenia. He believes our brains are “belief engines: evolved pattern-recognition machines that connect the dots and create meaning out of the patterns that we think we see in nature,” and all our art is—to a lesser degree—the expression of this nature.

Why We Write: The Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief

One of my views on the UAP hearing... A new Age religious movement was exploited as a disinformation & psychological warfare tool during the Cold War, and became a much larger religious movement, and to me is being exploited as a disinformation & psychological warfare tool today. Plus a whole lotta money being funneled and cheered on by the defense & media industry and other organizations are also monitoring while benefiting. All of them are human, not all of them are friendly.


In 1952, one month after Orfeo Angelucci started working at Lockheed, he was contacted by a "handsome humanoid saucer pilot" who warned him of the perils of communism. A couple years later another handsome humanoid alien seemingly drugged him in a diner.

I was recently a guest on The Paracast radio show, whose host, Gene Steinberg, said that 1950s UFO contactee Howard Menger had personally told him that his own ‘contact’ experiences had been part of a deception operation conducted by the US Army. (I’d originally planned to include this statement in Mirage Men, until another UFO researcher who knew Menger, Timothy Green Beckley, told me that he had later retracted it.)

Meanwhile, on the same programme, author and researcher Nick Redfern pointed me to an intriguing episode from contactee Orfeo Angelucci’s second book, Son of the Sun (1959)…

Angelucci – ‘Orpheus of the Angels’ who features in Carl Jung’s classic book Flying Saucers – was an employee at Lockheed aviation beginning in April 1952, working on parts for the F-94C and F-94B Starfire jet aircraft. A month after starting at Lockheed, Angelucci claims to have met Neptune, a handsome humanoid flying saucer pilot who, over the next few months, told him the secrets of life, the universe and everything. Neptune also warned him of the perils of Communism:

Communism, Earth’s present fundamental enemy, masks beneath its banner the spearhead of the united forces of evil (from Angelucci’s Secrets of the Saucers [1955]).

These views were very much at odds with the opinions of the more famous George Adamski, who also met a blonde saucer man in 1952. Adamski harboured unashamed Communist leanings and spoke out regularly against American imperialism, leading to an investigation by the FBI. Following 1950s UFO-sceptic Leon Davidson, in Mirage Men I ask whether Adamski’s later contacts may have been of the Intelligence kind: his besuited, black limo-driving humanoid aliens fed George strange drinks then showed him films projected onto screens inside their ‘spaceships’ while asking about life on Earth and lecturing him about intergalactic morality. But I was unaware that in Son of the Sun Angelucci explicitly describes what sounds today like being drugged by his alien friends.

In late 1954 Angelucci visited Tiny’s Diner in Twentynine Palms, home to a US Marine training base, in California’s Mojave Desert. Here he met Adam, a humanoid alien he had not encountered before: ‘So strikingly handsome… that if beheld but once for only a few seconds in a crowd, an indelible impression of his countenance would be imbedded in the memory.’

While it would be naive to treat the writings of a man who claims to have had multiple contacts with space beings as entirely unenhanced autobiography, I can’t help but wonder whether the alien visitation beliefs of Angelucci and others were being exploited, or even generated, by people working in one or other clandestine branches of the military or intelligence organisations. Perhaps the US Army’s Special Operations Division, which began experimenting with hallucinogens and chemical warfare in the 1940s, or the CIA, whose infamous MK-ULTRA programme, beginning in 1953 (with antecedents like Chatter, Bluebird and Artichoke operating from 1947) explored the use of drugs, hypnosis and radiation as tools for mind control.

So how’s this for a temporary working hypothesis? Adamski and others were claiming alien contacts and espousing anti-American beliefs. Meanwhile Orfeo Angelucci and fellow contactee George Van Tassell, both employed at one of the US’s most advanced aircraft development plants, also claimed contacts with space beings. Angelucci, as it happens, had previously sparked a police hunt after launching balloons containing the aspergillus clavatus mould, a fact sure to have drawn the FBI’s attentions.  Were Angelucci and Van Tassell given some kind of hallucinogen, deployed as a ‘truth drug’ to quiz them about possible Communist or Soviet sympathies and, perhaps to pump them full of extraterrestrial anti-Commie rhetoric for good measure?

Orfeo Angelucci’s acid test? by Mark Pilkington, author of "Mirage Men".

In the mid-1950s, a man named Howard Menger and his wife Connie transformed the sleepy town of High Bridge, New Jersey into a mini-Roswell with their thrilling and enchanting stories of alien contact. Close encounters were different back then. Generally, the alien experience was positive and pleasant. Years would pass before reports of alien greys terrorizing citizens with anal probes and nasal implants would become the ufological norm.

Menger, supported by a legion of other so-called "contactees" scattered throughout the country, claimed to be in regular contact with the resplendent "Venusians."

Howard Menger (Feb 17, 1922 – Feb 25, 2009) was an American contactee who claimed to have met extraterrestrials throughout the course of his life, meetings which were the subject of books he wrote, such as From Outer Space To You and The High Bridge Incident. Menger, who rose to prominence as a charismatic contactee detailing his chats with friendly Adamski-style Venusian "space brothers" in the late 1950s, was accepted by some UFO believers.

"The High Bridge Incident: The Story Behind The Story" (1991) By Howard and Connie Menger.

Excerpt from the Ebook Chapter 8:

"I wrote a book, "From Outer Space To You", copyrighted 1959, based on actual experience, which I accidentally stumbled upon in an isolated field to the rear of my property in High Bridge, New Jersey. (I took photographs.) These photographs I sent to a department in the Pentagon. It wasn't long afterwards that I was contacted and asked if I would cooperate in an experiment based on what I had inadvertently seen and project into this experience an expanded futuristic view of "things to come" with their help and information. (I suppose they must have figured the only way to obtain my silence and cooperation was to put me on the "team"...) In other words, the "High Bridge Incident"; which was used as a gauge to indicate people's reaction to alien contact."

he High Bridge Incident: The Story Behind The Story (PDF book)

UFO experiencer Donald Shrum worked for Aerojet Engineering Corporation, which was co-founded by Jack Parsons.

Frank Malina, friend of Jack Parsons was Aerojet’s Treasurer. His son Roger is married to Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister, Christine. Crazy connections in the Occult science world

"Aliens" love the MIC...

15 years before Donald Shrum’s story, another Aerojet employee, Daniel Fry, (lesser known contactee) claimed to have multiple encounters with an alien who took him aboard his ship & told him about Atlantis & Lemuria. He failed a polygraph test and it was determined (don't know about proven, didn't look that far) by various UFO researchers that his UFO 16mm film footage was faked.



However, this did not stop him from starting a new age cult called Understanding Inc., a non-profit, tax exempt corporation influenced by the writings of Alice Bailey. In 1954, Fry published his first book called The "White Sands Incident" and a year later started an organization called Understanding which published a monthly newsletter by the same name.

Someone is still making money off his pamphlets.



WoW!!


For what it's worth Astronaut Gordon Cooper (who chased his own UFOs in 52') trusted Fry's stories.

Everyone is free to believe whatever they want, but the more I research around the Interwebs & various books the more skeptical I become, especially the past 5 years of countless propaganda hit pieces. IMO, what we're seeing now is all the cold war stuff from the 50s through the 80s repackaged and spun out by the media & Gov in prepping for some bigger UFO/alien narrative.

I have my suspicion as to why, but that is another story. We here are not their target. It's the younger generations who simply do not know the long convoluted history and able to read in between the lines/lies. Anything these days that gets an endless carpet bombing of attention in the media is very likely propaganda narratives. And even when a story is real (has some verified facts) the media spins it off into wunderland, misdirecting people.

Congress has become Kabuki theater and the strings being pulled by the MIC & their cohorts...those with billion dollar tax-exempt foundations. It's all become so toxic that the fallout is really taking it's toll on people and it's really damn sad. On the flip-side I'm mildly enjoying the entertainment. All things must pass and this circus show will too, eventually, with a trail of (dead) bodies.

I do believe there is something more to this UFO phenomena that for past 70 years have been spun into wild deception circles managed by a secret team of insiders.


Lastly...



https://www.smerconish.com/daily-poll/

Enough rambling for now.