Alleged Aliens, UFO's, and the High Strangeness Conundrum, Pt. 1

A Report a Lifetime in the Making

The hovering, perfectly triangular object in this photo closely resembles a similar object I encountered on a trip driving through a desolate area of South-West Texas, near Marfa, in January of 1994. This was the evening I moved past being a casual, media observer of these subjects and began to take a keen, personal interest in the subject of Ufology.

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I, like all of you, grew up awash in whatever the current and past media incarnations had to offer on this subject. As a kid coming of age in the 1970’s this largely consisted of television and film from the previous two decades of the 1950’s and 60’s. To say I found it all “fascinating”, like Mr. Spock, would be an understatement. I was always a kid who wanted to explore everything new and interesting, and I became a voracious consumer of all media science fiction.

Because of that history and knowledge and being such a buff of mid twentieth century sci-fi material, I intend to have a little fun along the way to, I hope, making it very clear the actual nature of what humanity is now facing. In my mind the history of the media that has been used to propagandize and shape people’s conceptions, paradigms and opinions regarding this subject is inseparable from the subject itself. I’m not sure anyone else has ever approached this subject in this way, at least not that I am aware. So, get ready for a unique experience!

Many people with only a passing or no interest in Ufology may believe that the current era of UFO or UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) just suddenly began during WWII with the sightings of what became known as the ‘foo fighters” over Los Angeles and both the Pacific and European theatres.

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This LA Times photo from 1942 shows all search lights in the city trained on a group of objects flying and hovering over Los Angeles on the night of February 26th 1942. Artillery was fired during what became known as the Battle of Los Angeles, but nothing was shot down. This became a pattern reported throughout WWII in all areas where actual fighting was going on.

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The real truth is that a surge of almost impossibly strange and actually quite surreal sightings began to occur in the late 19th century over America. These sightings culminated in 1897 in the great Airship Flap of 1897. Sightings of what appeared to be actual, somewhat modified, flying sea ships as well as crafts of other bizarre design began to by reported by hundreds of witnesses all over the Central US, including my home State of Texas.

The “ships” often sported propeller or fan like appendages and sometimes even sails! Descriptions from all over the country actually sounded more like what we might call Steam Punk fantasies instead of anything that could possibly be real, much less fly.

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The Dallas Morning News began to be inundated in April 1897 by very credible eyewitness reports of flying air ships from all over the North Texas area. They were running multiple stories every day to keep up with it all. Above is one rendering among dozens of a flying ship sighted by multiple witnesses in the vicinity of Paris, Texas.

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If the ships themselves didn’t stretch perceived reality to the breaking point there was also the VERY telling fact, viewed through today’s lens, that these craft were seen to behave in the same manner as traditional UFO reports claim now. The ships were reported to have both the ability to silently hover and to suddenly shoot off at great speeds. I think readers can guess where I might be heading with this, but we are not there yet.

There are also a handful of accounts where witnesses had actual “encounters of the third kind” with the occupants of these craft. Many of these stories are beyond bizarre as well but always had the “sailors” of these craft having a human appearance. One farmer came upon one of these craft hovering low beside a pond on his property and found the occupants enjoying some al fresco bathing in the nude!

There are also enough early 19th century accounts of UAP’s and contact to fill 240 pages of the 2019 book, The Real Cowboy’s and Aliens 1800-1864, Early American UFO’s. What we are seeing now has always been here.

I want readers to hold all this in the back of their minds as I finish going through everything else I have to say here. By the end what you’ve read here will begin to make more sense and actually be proof regarding my final conclusions in parts 2 and 3 in this series.

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A scene from the naively kitschy, 1939 Buck Rogers film starring Buster Crabbe. America was still in an age of innocence in the 30’s and Hollywood largely reflected that while always inching the yardstick just a little further. The late 1930’s marked the beginning of the bankability of outer space themed science fiction in the US. This was the beginning of America’s carefully crafted love affair with everything “space travel”, “outer space”, and especially “alien”.

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In 1947 Americans were treated to a One, Two Punch of alien and flying saucer narratives that launched us firmly on the trajectory we have been on for the last 77 years. First the sightings of nine saucers flying in formation over Mount Rainier in late June and then the alleged Roswell NM saucer crash in early July. It has become my belief that the Roswell incident was a very carefully crafted Psy-Op that was designed to turn the burner on very low under the proverbial frog.

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Within hours this story was on the wires and airwaves all over America. The seed was planted………

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The idea was to brand the possibility of this “crashed saucer” into the American collective consciousness and psyche and have it simmer over time. This was done very craftily by first publicly announcing the crash on July 8th and then immediately retracting that announcement. By this act the seeds had been planted by the government in 1947 of something both they and the media, which they controlled, would nurture into maturity over decades.

THEY had Hollywood, especially, at their disposal for this task. And did they ever deliver, starting in 1950. What I am suggesting so far in this piece is something more complex than an either/or situation. I am suggesting there is ample evidence of both very targeted hoaxing by the Government and some kind of real presence they are likely in cooperation with.

As I proceed through this piece it will begin to become clear what I believe the true nature of this presence actually is.

In 1950 Hollywood began to release the first alien and space themed, science fiction films of the post war era. With a small handful of low budget releases, they tested the waters and found them to be extremely profitable. By 1952 the floodgates had been opened on what was one of the biggest media propaganda ops of the period.

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In the early fifties low budget schlock fests with the catchiest themes and titles they could think of were generally the rule. Other notables from this “golden” era had titles like Cat Women of the Moon and The Man from Planet X. Getting to see one of these almost forgotten films now is a rare treat and certainly a guilt free pleasure for me!

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Starting in this period American society’s ideas regarding the possibility of life from other worlds visiting Earth, and the actual plethora of imaginable scenarios that where possible, began to be heavily influenced by not only Hellyweird but also wave after wave of US and worldwide UFO sightings along with many other incredibly bizarre close encounter stories being reported in the media.

Two of the most surreal and notable cases among countless others were the Hopkinsville, KY “goblin” siege of 1955 and the case of the “Flat Woods Monster” in nearby Tennessee in 1951. Both these events were witnessed by large groups of people and very well documented. The Sheriff in charge of the Hopkinsville case was on record saying he had never seen men, women and children more traumatized by anything in his life.

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An artist’s rendering based on eye-witness accounts of the Hopkinsville siege of 1955. Witnesses reported firing multiple shots at point blank range at these 3’, silvery, goblin-like creatures who had emerged from a small craft in a nearby field, but they were unfazed by the shot gun blasts, even reportedly doing actual back flips in response. The shot balls appeared to just ricochet off the creatures.

Those not familiar with the voluminous amount of close encounter and crypted accounts I have read may not be familiar with this pattern of invulnerability to all kinds of weaponry, including bullets and knives, that appears over and over in 70+ years of literature.

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There were some notable exceptions to the generally inferior, low budget quality of early 50’s sci-fi films. The original, The Thing from Outer Space and the film version of Orson Well’s, War of the Worlds are two examples. The hands down winner of this period however was 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still. I am thoroughly convinced this film was scripted specifically as very early One World Government, UN propaganda and it is known the US military cooperated in its production.

This was the first time in history that a film of this nature had been given a sizable budget, and a solid script to go with it that took the subject of off world contact very seriously. The Day the Earth Stood Still views like a masterpiece of 50’s sci-fi film making to this day.
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In The Day the Earth Stood Still we are given one of the earliest Hollywood glimpses of the one world, globalist agendas that we are presently on a collision course with. In the film a saucer flies into DC air space and brazenly lands on the Capitol grounds. The human appearing Klaatu and his giant robot companion Gort have arrived to deliver an ultimatum to all of humanity.

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“GORT, KLAATU BARADA NIKTO!” Patricia Neil’s character looks on as silent robot, Gort performs the technological miracle of bringing Klaatu temporarily back from the dead in order to complete his mission of uniting and disarming humanity.

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An astronomical $1,000,000 was spent on this film, an unheard-of sum for any film of this kind back then. They actually tapped Frank Lloyd Wright to design the spaceship itself. One of the directors, one Jewish Nicholas Meyer, said in an interview once that “the aim of the film was to promote a strong United Nations”. VERY tellingly, in typical duplicitous Pentagon form, the military officially refused to help with the film but then ended up providing personnel, tanks and everything else needed for the exterior DC scenes.

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Following his temporary resurrection from the dead, and just prior to his departure, Klaatu delivers his final ultimatum to a hastily convened convention of diplomats and world leaders on the DC Capitol Mall. Disarm, destroy all weapons of war and unite as one people or face the eventual total annihilation of humanity by a united confederation of alien races. The assembled crowd are told that an army of indestructible robots like Gort, who have been given police power over all races, would soon arrive to carry out this threat if progress did not occur soon.

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Later, in 55’ and 56’ a trio of higher budget space and alien themed films hit theatres. Hellyweird now saw these kinds of films as big money makers so budgetary constraints were removed for the very splashy technicolor films This Island Earth and Forbidden Planet. Rounding out this trio was the dark, paranoia inducing, and actually very frightening Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Lower budget films by directors like Roger Corman also continued to be churned out at a frantic pace. His Attack of the Crab Monsters and Not of this Earth are classics as well as so many others. The industry had to keep finding new kinds of alien, apocalyptic threats and were forced to become very creative in the process. This innovation continued all through the 1960’s and beyond and moved into television as well. Lucky us!

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Forbidden Planet became the template for Gene Rodenberry’s Star Trek and was simply a phenomenal film in every way measurable. A very young Leslie Neilson and the lovely Anne Francis share a moment of calm in a very adventure packed but also quite cerebral film. Why this wasn’t franchised like Star Wars is beyond me.

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The alien menace conceived for this film was the most daring and thought provoking of any film, well ever really. The monster on planet Altair IV had been newly created and facilitated by the same technology that had destroyed the planet’s previous inhabitants, the Krell.

This technology had been designed and installed in massive underground facilities in hopes of rendering the entire Krell race telekinetic and God-like. It was now tapped into one man’s mind and was bringing his subconscious “monsters” to life. SIMPLY BRILLIANT! This amounts to about the earliest cinematic cautionary tale regarding the subject of Transhumanism.

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An astounding 7% of the over $2,000,000 budget for Forbidden Planet was spent creating a mid-century icon! Dr. Morbius and an armed Robby the Robot stand their ground in this still shot.

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I had the great privilege of viewing a fully restored, fresh print of this film in the original Cinemascope back in the 80’s at a film festival in Austin. See this film if you ever get the chance!

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The Apocalypse arrives quietly as a thief in the night in the iconic, original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. These kinds of “doppelganger” films became a sub genera of sci-fi in the late fifties. Snatchers was, however, the original, terrifying high-water mark and has since been remade four or five times.

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As the two-pronged media barrage of both film and the countless news reports of high strangeness began to slowly shift public attitudes and opinions regarding the subject of extraterrestrial life and visitation a third trend began to emerge in the culture in response to this.

In the early fifties actual UFO and alien cults began to appear in America. It appears that these original organizations were nearly all built on the foundation of Mdm. Blavatsky’s Theosophy and under the sanction and influence of, you guessed it, the Lucis Trust and by extension its partner the UN. It is largely agreed on by scholars that a Lucis Trust offshoot group called I AM Activity, started in the early 30’s by Guy Ballard and wife Edna Wheeler, could be called the original ‘contact cult’ influencers.

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I AM Activity founders Guy Ballard and Edna Wheeler pose in all white before an imagined likeness of the all-important New Age, “ascended master” Saint Germaine.

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In the early 50’s New Age influenced, alien contact groups began to spring up all over America and beyond. L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology was the first of these in 1952 although they managed to keep the ‘alien’ part a secret from outsiders for decades. Soon to follow were The Seekers or Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, George King’s Aetherius Society and other individuals and smaller groups who began to achieve notoriety by claiming they were in contact with off world intelligences by either ‘channeling’ or even directly.

All of this was in addition to many other New Age groups and cults that were quickly appearing in the 50’s that weren’t actually making any claims of contact with beings on spaceships or other worlds. One of the most notorious of these was Mark and Elizabeth Claire Prophet’s Summit Light House. SLH is what eventually became the infamous 80’s, nuclear doomsday cult, The Church Universal and Triumphant.

I got very close to absolutely proving, earlier this year, that the Prophet’s entire organization was an Op being run out of US Intelligence from its inception. Likely the rest of all this was no different.

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Mark Prophet or ‘Maestro Ascendido Lanello’ leads a service at the SLH’s new 1970’s digs which were relocated to military intelligence hot spot Colorado Springs from Washington DC where the church had begun in the 50’s.

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As the decades rolled by groups like Heaven’s Gate, the Raelists, Dallas’s own Church of the Subgenius founded by one ‘Ivan Stang’ and others joined the list.

One stand-out individual, early ‘contactee’, among many with very similar stories, was a California man named George Van Tassel. I quote now from Nick Redfern’s 2010 book Final Events on Van Tassel’s alleged first contact experience:

“Let us start with Van Tassel, who asserted that his life was radically altered when, late one night in 1951, alien entities seemingly deemed him worthy of an interstellar visit. By Van Tassels own admission, he was lying on the desert floor outside of Landers, CA that night (“meditating” as he described it), when his astral form was transferred to a huge flying saucer that was orbiting Earth. There he met with a select body of extraterrestrials who referred to themselves as the Council of Seven Lights and who warned Van Tassel of mankind’s wicked and destructive ways.”

The Nick Redfern title, Final Events is a book about the early history of the Military’s alleged initial impressions and responses to the UFO and contact wave of the late 40’s and early 50’s. Redfern was told by several sources that there was a faction of officials that were convinced at that time that these phenomena were not extraterrestrial but were in fact extradimensional and demonic.

This group, which began informally, was finally given the code name Collin’s Elite by the Pentagon and tasked with investigating this hypothesis. Other groups were investigating different ideas. Redfern indicates that this led down the road to factions in the military beginning to adopt channeling and other occult practices to contact the “aliens” themselves.

Members of the Collin’s Elite (the name allegedly started as an inside joke) team became convinced that infamous Crowley, OTO Satanist and Jet Propulsion Lab founder Jack Parsons had opened a doorway of some kind during his notorious rituals like the 1946 “Babylon Working”, sex magick sessions with his girlfriend and attended by none other than future Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

In this book we are given a very clear picture of just how we have gotten where we are now. Even if all of it isn’t true. Much of the information in this book, including the tales about Parsons and Hubbard, has been known for decades. Scientology has been running damage control on all that for more than two decades actually, claiming with no evidence that Hubbard had actually been tasked with spying on Parsons by the military.

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I take the book Final Events with a chunk of rock salt like 99% of everything I read. Research requires both discernment and intuition. These senses tell me that even if this book was written to be disinfo it is likely more than 80% accurate. The nature of most disinfo being what it is, there are without a doubt some truths in this book.

It is likely that very dark factions had been highly entrenched at the Defense Department for generations at this point. All you have to do is look at the five-sided geometry of the Pentagon itself to know this is true, if nothing else. The Collin’s group was probably on the outside of that but still VERY useful to the agendas because of the direction of their investigations.

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In Part 2 of what may end up being 3 parts we head into the 1960’s. The new field of Ufology was on a collision course with the 1966 events in Point Pleasant WV, known collectively today as the Moth Man flap. The collective Moth Man events, which were almost like having every bizarre and unexplainable event of the 50’s packed into one town over a six-month period, would break the real truth behind these manifestations wide open for one researcher. This was free-lance journalist and investigator John Keel who coined the term ULTRATERRESTRIAL in the wake of his and many others harrowing and mystifying experiences at Point Pleasant.

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TILL NEXT TIME THE CONTROL VOICE SAYS…………

PLEASE STAND BY……………….

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