UFOs: An Encounter

My entire family of origin had a vivid UFO experience back in the mid to late 1960s. The event was exciting, even amazing, and also at moments terrifying. Ever since then I’ve had a personal interest in the matter of so-called “Unidentified Flying Objects.” One day when I was in grade school and home from class on a warm late afternoon about dinner time, I think it was early Autumn, although it could have been Spring, I was sitting around the dinner table with my younger sister and brother as my mom bustled about in the kitchen. We lived on the Bass family farm that we called Riverview Dairy. It's in the Sandy River basin in Prince Edward County in south-central Virginia. The closest town was Farmville, about halfway between Richmond and Lynchburg. It’s strange that the actual events that transpired were so dramatic that I remember them in vivid detail, so vivid I feel I'm back there, but I can’t recall whether it was Spring or Fall.

We had a table full of food, however, and began to eat. My Dad was working up at “the barn,” what we called the center of our dairy farm, and wasn’t expected home until later. As we ate, we heard an unexpected ruckus. My dad burst through the back door into the house.

“Come quick!” he shouted. “There’s a flying saucer out back!”

My father served in the U.S. Navy for five years, most of it on the U.S.S. Midway, an aircraft carrier. While in the Navy Dad went all over the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, from the Arctic Ice Cap to the deserts of North Africa to the port cities of Europe. He served during the Korean War and thus the Cold War. He recalls a tense standoff with the Soviet Navy in the Turkish Dardanelles and remembered being on alert as combat threatened to break out between the two fleets any moment. Being a sailor aboard an aircraft carrier and having flown in a number of different planes, Dad knew his aircraft. For many years I treasured an old 1950s U.S. Navy field guide to the identification of airplanes he gave me as a boy after he once showed me what he’d learned. He knew this mysterious object outside our home was an artificial craft of some sort, not anything natural such as clouds or birds, and yet unlike any device he had ever seen. Even he called this “a flying saucer,” the most common term for an unidentified flying object.

Excited we all charged outside into the backyard and faced toward the Southeast. We wanted to see this “flying saucer.” Behind our yard was a fence. On the other side of that was a large cow pasture. The far side of the pasture was bordered by a forested ravine. On the other side of the big gully was a large cornfield. Barns and sheds were up the hill on our left. Directly above the strip of woods that divided pasture from corn hovered a large, perfectly round sphere. “Hovered” is a misnomer as the object was perfectly still in the air just above the tops of the tallest trees. At times it seemed to spin slowly then stop and maybe turn a little bit more only to become motionless again. The surface of this object appeared metallic and golden in color, but it did not glow. No lights were visible. There were no projecting antennas, windows, ports, doors, lines, symbols, rockets, landing legs, hanging baskets, wires, balloons or any other item to be seen. According to my hearing family, there was no sound, not even strange humming or whirring noises, nothing but silence. From what I can remember, this large sphere seemed to be at least twice as tall top to bottom as the tall trees over which it “hovered.”

We looked over and through the fence and gaped in awe as we beheld before us what we thought only existed in science fiction. I felt a strange mix of fear, excitement, and wonder. Before that moment my only exposure to “flying saucers” were the TV show “Lost in Space” and old 1950s sci-fi flicks. We did not know what it was, but we knew what it wasn’t: a balloon, an airplane, a jet, the Planet Venus, the North Star, a flock of geese, angels or demons, a rocket, drug-induced hallucinations, glowing swamp gas, lenticular clouds, ball lightning, airplanes viewed on edge, helicopters, fireflies, or an impersonation of Elvis. It wasn’t even saucer shaped.

I remember feeling curious and excited, but my parents were both agitated. I wanted to run closer to the object. My Mom wavered between her desire to run closer, too, as she was possessed by an almost-dangerous killed-the-cat kind of curiosity, and her deep fear of something so unknown. At some point my Dad said he and our Mom needed “to get the kids back in the house.” After a quick back and forth between my parents, we dashed toward the family car parked nearby.

We jumped in the car, but the engine refused to start. The car radio was full of static. We ran into the house to call the sheriff, but the telephone was dead. Our radio inside was just as staticky as the one in the car. We ran back outside just in time to see the strange object zooming away at incredible speed in a straight line toward the Southwest. It glowed red as it raced the sky. Suddenly, without appearing to stop, it made a gravity-defying sharp right angle turn upwards and shot straight up into the sky and out of sight. Without a sound. Not even a sonic boom. We ran back inside and the radio was working. Reports of people seeing UFOs were announced. There were indeed military bases in the general vicinity. The phone worked, too, and Dad spoke with the sheriff, who confirmed his department had received numerous calls of similar sightings. The sheriff said it was probably some top secret aircraft from the U.S. Military. Our car also started back up and ran as if nothing had ever been wrong with it. Years later as I studied the phenomena it turned out that electromagnetic disturbances such as car engines, radios, TVs, and telephones failing to function near UFOs are a common occurrence as are reports of extreme, gravity-defying and even shape-shifting maneuvers done with apparent ease. I also discovered that several UFO flaps, or waves of frequent sightings, occurred during the mid and late 1960s when I was a child.

“Flying saucers” were the buzz of school and the neighborhood for a few days. No answers ever came, however, and the media soon dismissed the reports. Government officials ridiculed the very idea that lights in the sky could be alien spaceships or Earth-based secret weapons. Virginia was dotted with a concentration of military bases from all branches of the Armed Forces, the closest one to us we knew of was an army base at Camp Pickett about an hour’s drive away. We couldn’t help but wonder.

I really do not know what that UFO was. I do not know what UFOs are. I do not “believe” in UFOs or ET’s, and the evidence is compelling that unknown objects exist that maneuver under intelligent control that seem to violate our current understanding of physics. The hypothesis that these represent alien intelligences from other worlds and/or dimensions is the most likely hypothesis. So they exist. It is not the same as believing in God.

I do know my family and I experienced a real event that remains unexplained and which cannot be dismissed by arrogant, know-it-all skeptics as a bunch of drunken country bumpkins watching flocks of ducks flap through marsh gas. My parents had college educations and my Dad served in the U.S. Navy on the U.S.S. Midway, an aircraft carrier, so he knew aircraft. He showed me his Navy manuals instructing sailors how to spot and identify different types of aircraft from countries around the world. Over the years our family had animated conversations about this event. I remember my mother obsessed with the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill UFO abduction case. She poured over the October 1966 issue of LOOK magazine with me regarding the Hills’ experiences. Some of my first books on “flying saucers” that I read were hers.

While my siblings and I continue to remember this event vividly, however, over time our parents became very reluctant and embarrassed to even talk about that incident. Eventually Mom and Dad, once excited to discuss the mystery, came to deny ever seeing a UFO. Daddy declared “You kids don’t know what the hell y’all are talkin’ about.” That baffled us kids. A government run by deception learns that ridicule is more powerful than suppression, that lies repeated often enough become viewed as truth. The government position was and is absolutely ridiculous and dangerously embarrassing,

yet it has been distorted to represent the truth

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There was one strange event that I know of that may explain the sudden shift in my parents’ stance. My father was part of a group of dairy farmers from the Maryland Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association that were taken on a tour of the new FBI Headquarters. The Milk Producers Association was located at Reston, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. where the FBI HQ were. The date of this tour was sometime in the late 1970s, certainly by 1981. It was bizarre for a group of dairy farmers to go on a tour of the FBI HQ. But the Cold War was on, many bizarre things happened, and I even had an uncle whose career was spent developing super sweet potatoes to survive a nuclear war so as to feed any survivors. As my family treated my uncle as a Cold War hero, it never occurred to consider how ludicrous it was to imagine survivors staggering across a post-nuclear holocaust landscape, suffering from radiation, burns, and perhaps even human predation by starving cannibals, rooting around for super sweet potatoes. The food is, however, packed with nutrition and designed to withstand harsh conditions.

At the FBI HQ an FBI agent/tour guide stopped by a massive computer data base machine. He asked for a volunteer among the group of farmers. Dad raised his arm. The gentleman up front punched in my father’s name, and Dad’s FBI file popped up. My dad was shocked. He didn’t even know he had an FBI file for aside from some speeding tickets he had not broken any laws or committed any crimes. He did serve in the U.S. Navy for 5 years when Harry Truman was President until Dwight Eisenhower replaced Truman. There was an outbreak of nervous laughter as the FBI man smiled back. Dad came back smiling sheepishly and with a mix of outrage, surprise, and uncharacteristic meekness declared “the FBI knows more about me than I know about my own self.” When pressed for details, he said it was long, surprisingly long, but “nothing really wrong was on it.” The FBI “had everything” in his file. It was after this event Dad began to insist the UFO incident never occurred.

As I write this at age 51 I am surprised I can remember so much. And yet it was only recently in reading some of the most compelling research on UFOs, including works by Richard Dolan and Leslie Kean, that I came across the statement remarking on people’s memories of events so unusual they are unable to forget them, much less make them up. UFO encounters are so out of the ordinary and are such extreme experiences for so many people. Long after many years have passed, even decades, people’s memories of these UFO events remain as vivid as if they occurred yesterday.

This is a controversial topic, so controversial I am afraid to mention it. Let’s face it: UFOs are taboo. Dangerously taboo. I feel afraid because this subject matter usually invites public ridicule and career destruction, and I will put it out on the table anyway as the topic has to be confronted. The issue concerns unidentified objects flying in our atmosphere, in space around our planet, and even moving underwater. In addition this topic concerns possible government coverups, deep compartmentalization and inter-government conflict, and our relationships with not just unknown intelligences but also our own Power Elite. Controversial as this enigma is, it must be dealt with responsibly. It presents a massive yet unknown global security matter that would be best addressed openly by an as of yet nonexistent Democratic World Government. So far Earth’s nation-states and their organizations have failed in their responsibilities to address this potentially dangerous situation as they hide behind an iron curtain of public ignorance and denial.

Why is the official policy of most national governments around the world, but especially the United States toward all UFO phenomena, even after experienced by numerous credible witnesses and for which there is much evidence although not necessarily proof, rank with suppression, dismissal, and ridicule? Outrageous public debunking and official destruction of careers has replaced healthy skepticism and turned a significant phenomenon into a taboo topic. Now not even the mainstream media wants to have anything to do with UFOs except to trot out the old, shopworn idiocy about UFOs being balloons, automobile hubcaps tossed through the air, and Planet Venus without even bothering to investigate events, interview witnesses, and scrutinize the evidence. As these events also challenge our current understandings of physics, many scientists refuse to even consider these real although unknown and surprisingly common events rather than studying them. Scientists who refuse to even consider events and actions that do not fit into preconceived formulas or contemplate that today’s “laws of physics” reflect current human interpretations of data that could be overturned in another thousand years reflect an arrogance usually associated with fundamentalist religion. Those who dare to, with surprising and sometimes unsettling results, are often marginalized.

The surprisingly large number of scientists including astronomers and engineers along with many military and civilian pilots, military officers, government workers, military and civilian intelligence agents, police officers and sheriffs, doctors, researchers, astronauts, journalists, soldiers and sailors, air traffic controllers, farmers who know nature, veterinarians, governors and presidents, skeptics who experienced UFOs and then changed their minds, and just regular people who have either had direct experience with or amassed evidence are astounding in caliber and in number. Yet all are ignored or ridiculed as hoaxers, frauds, mentally unstable psychos, drugged-up drunks, liars, fools, egotistical publicity seekers, or worse ignorant and uneducated buffoons that can’t tell the North Star or the Planet Venus from a balloon or street lights reflecting upon the white bellies of a flock of flying geese. Really? Maybe all these “crazy people” have more knowledge, wisdom, and experience than the Power Elite wants to disclose. Yet these “crazy people” are not just ridiculed. They are pursued relentlessly and their careers destroyed. A number of whistleblowers have died under mysterious circumstances which in turn allows conspiracy theorists to pour gasoline on fires and others to keep their mouths shut.

Evidence mounts that more than four dimensions exist and that our Universe is filled with many more stars than once thought. Thus there are likely far more planets than once thought, with more Earth-like planets than ever imagined, with life developing right here on Earth in the most extreme conditions, and with planets billions of years older than Earth from which life could have evolved far longer than here. Galaxies collide and consume one another, exchanging elements while mixing and matching suns, comets, and planets. Who dares believe we humans are alone at the top of the universal evolution of life? Unfortunately, many people continue to do so. To take that stand and deny what may be commonplace is arrogant and foolhardy. We may be unique as all life is unique, but imagine more evolved intelligences with a million or even billion year head start regarding us as we regard apes, ants, and honey bees. Except now we Earthlings have many tens of thousands of nuclear weapons plus arsenals of weaponized biological agents, poison gas, and are building battle lasers, computerized combat robots, and other deadly armaments.

After all, our species, Homo sapiens, has only been in existence an estimated 200,000 years and our hominid lines diverged from the closest great apes, the chimpanzees, a mere few million years ago. Our own species has experienced accelerated evolution in just the last 10,000 years alone. The dates for the beginnings of earliest human civilizations continue to be pushed back, from 5,000 years ago to 8,000 then 10,000 years ago. Now the oldest confirmed seems to be the ruins at Gobekli Tepe on what is today the Turkish side of the Syrian border at about 11,500 to 12,000 years ago, with other ancient anomalies whose mysteries remain unsolved. Place this in the big picture where our Universe is now thought to be almost 14 billion years old.

We’ve evolved and migrated across Earth and continue to develop sophisticated systems and tools. As of yet, unfortunately, we still fall short of building a united planetary democracy with full human rights for all and with sustainable economic systems that include responsible environmental stewardship and clean energy. Instead we seem bent on a perpetual thrust for war, conquest, financial domination, social control, and Empire.

Consider, too, that among at least two of the world’s largest religions the possibility of life elsewhere is acknowledged. In Islam salutations to God often begin with “Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds.” The Qur’an also states Allah “created the heavens and Earth and has dispersed his creatures throughout them.” I’ve had a small number of Muslims tell me they had no problem with the idea of intelligent life elsewhere as Allah created the Universe and everything in the Universe. Allah is Lord of everything, not just of people on one planet. (The Holy Qur’an, Surats Al-Fatihah 1:2 and Ash-Shuraa 42:29.)

In 2008 and 2009 high Roman Catholic officials within The Vatican began to acknowledge the strong possibility of intelligent aliens elsewhere in the Universe. Implying it would not be incompatible with Christianity, Father Jose Gabriel Funes, Director of the Vatican Observatory, the top Vatican astronomer to Pope Benedict VXI, in recent interviews declared advanced extraterrestrial lifeforms would “not contradict Christian faith.” They could even be our “space brothers.” Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno claimed he would be willing to baptise aliens “if they asked,” and reminded us that “God is bigger than just humanity.” (“Vatican says aliens could exist,” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7399661.stm; “Vatican prepares for extraterrestrial disclosure,” http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-honolulu/vatican-prepares-for-extraterrestrial-disclosure; “Alien Life Out There,” http://www.catholic.net/index.php?option=dedestaca&id=410; “Pope Benedict XVI’s Astronomer: the Catholic Church welcomes aliens,” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/8009299/Pope-Benedict-XVIs-astronomer-the-Catholic-Church-welcomes-aliens.html.

Unidentified objects from somewhere other than here and under intelligent control present a global challenge to our planetary security. We don’t know what they are or where they originate except we know what they do and what actions they perform even if we don’t understand how. UFOs penetrate our airspace and our oceans at will, they penetrate military bases and scientific installations, including nuclear, at will. They engage in dogfights with military jets, shut down electronics, shut down nuclear missiles in their silos, change shape radically, and accelerate and decelerate and even appear and disappear from view and from radar with astonishing speed. They shadow civilian airliners and enter numerous restricted areas in many countries. UFOs range in size from small ball-like objects to massive ones over a mile long or in diameter. They appear to be under intelligent control and direction and have demonstrated capabilities far in advance of anything known to humans. These unknown things seem to overcome what we think of as “impossible” limitations of electromagnetics, gravity, inertia, time, space, and transforming shapes. They are associated with the mutilation of livestock, mutilations so precise they are beyond the skills of current surgery and are not wild animal attacks. UFOs are also associated with the abduction of humans as well as engaged in behavior so bizarre and surreal our minds often refuse to consider it.

We don’t know what the agenda or agendas of whatever commands these UFOs is, was, or will be. We don’t know if it is a singular phenomena or whether there are many different even opposing intelligences behind these events, or if such intelligences originate from different planets, dimensions, time frames, spiritual realms, or from right here on Earth. The sheer number of UFO events is of itself unnerving as even if one can imagine interstellar or interdimensional travel made easy with technologies beyond our limited physics, still how can so many objects appear around one planet for possibly millennia? Denial is easy. The sheer immensity of the enigma makes denial easy. Too easy for something so powerful and so difficult to understand. Can an ape truly comprehend an airplane, or even humans from a few centuries ago? It is also too easy to speculate, for while there is much evidence little exists in the way of absolute proof. Perhaps it is time we face the Truth here.

Recently released documents from the British Ministry of Defense reviewed by the BBC include records where wartime U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was so alarmed by a meticulously detailed incident between a UFO and RAF bombers returning from a raid during the Second World War. The UFO was somewhat flying saucer-shaped and was illuminated by red, green, and white lights rotating counterclockwise. Churchill supposedly involved both U.S. General Eisenhower and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in the cover-up. The Prime Minister wanted the incident kept secret for 50 years to “prevent mass panic” and feared it’s release would “shatter people’s religious views.” You can view this at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10853905 under the 5 August 2010 article titled “Churchill ordered UFO cover-up, National Archives show.” It had only been a few years earlier in October 1938 Orson Welles’s radio broadcast of a fictional invasion by Martians in The War of the Worlds caused widespread panic across the East Coast of the United States. The resulting fear and chaos is allegedly one of the reasons governments cover up information related to real unidentified flying objects.

How come both Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan, both ex-Governors who publicly claimed UFO experiences and who also both swore once they got to the White House they would strip away all the secrecy and make public any conspiracy, shut up on the issue upon becoming President and remained silent through the end? Was there any synchronicity between the UFO mystery and the massive military buildup by the United States toward the end of the Cold War? This relentless military buildup, including that of atomic weapons, is generally associated with the Republican administration of Ronald Reagan. It began under President Jimmy Carter and his Democratic administration in the mid-1970s and cost upwards of almost two trillion dollars. It is noteworthy as well that Carter felt compelled to sustain this massive effort even though he was an outspoken foe of atomic weapons. This gargantuan buildup started before the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or the 1981 labor revolts in Poland triggered a fear of Soviet armed intervention in Eastern Europe.

Under President Reagan the U.S. Military launched the Strategic Defense Initiative, or “Star Wars,” publicly to defend the West from Soviet nuclear missile attacks. The Central Intelligence Agency, however, knew the Soviets were already in serious decline, in significant economic breakdown, and although still militarily dangerous were not the demonic threat portrayed in public. President Reagan defended “Star Wars” with great fervor even though the Strategic Defense Initiative violated the antiballistic missile treaty with the Soviet Union. There were also much cheaper and effective ways to shoot down Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles such as the relatively simple kinetic-energy shotgun-pellet delivery system proposed by the High Frontier project. Instead the push was for expensive orbiting space-based laser platforms, a plan that generated intense criticism from many scientists who believed the Federal government’s declared purpose of the platforms to destroy Soviet ICBMs was serious and seriously flawed.

Is it possible this two trillion dollar military buildup by both Democratic and Republican administrations, presided over by presidents who both claimed to have experienced UFOs, two presidents armed with CIA knowledge that the Soviet Union was in steep decline and no longer was a credible threat, is it possible this buildup was aimed at some feared extraterrestrial alien invasion? I do not know, and yet I wonder. Perhaps the clincher is President Reagan’s serious offer to share Star Wars technology with the Soviet Union, an offer that generated incredulous dismay by many subordinates down the line. Recall this amazing offer by a staunch anti-Communist came at the height of the Cold War with the Soviets shooting down the South Korean civilian airliner KAL 007 with Democratic U.S. Representative Larry McDonald on board, ugly U.S.-Soviet proxy wars blazing across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and President Reagan publicly calling the Soviet Union and its communist satellite states an “evil empire.” To share advanced space weapons technology with such a determined foe?

One wonders if there were and possibly remains any covert significance to President Reagan’s remarks in September 1987 to the 42^nd UN General Assembly that it would take an “alien” invasion “from outer space” to unify the “mutually antagonistic” nations of the world. Such an invasion, as far as I know, never occurred or hasn’t happened yet, at least not any conventional-looking invasion. Today after the fall of Communism the specters of terrorism and rogue states are used as an excuse to continue large scale military buildups. Terrorist groups and failed states today are dangerous and deadly but certainly not the equivalent of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or Soviet Russia. Yet this massive military buildup continues with American military bases scattered around the world. Why? What is the real reason?

Is there any truth to controversial allegations that U.S. President John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, wanted to reveal to the American public what facts have been covered up concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial aliens? It is established that President Kennedy, even though himself a warrior, was strongly opposed by the military-industrial-intelligence complex for his plans to pull American forces out of the Vietnam War, his refusal to invade Cuba or attack the Soviets and Chinese, his battles against giant American steel companies including Morgan-owned U.S. Steel and their price fixing duplicity, and for his desire to engage more pragmatically with the Soviet Union. Kennedy was murdered, anything related to UFOs hushed or debunked, and the Vietnam and related anti-Communist wars escalated at great profit for the benefit of the military-industrial-intelligence complex and the wealthy families that controlled the corporations of the complex. We the public just do not know what really happened and many who speak out are often lampooned as “conspiracy theorists” and “looney tunes crackpots” by mainstream media and academia. Conspiracy theorists themselves don’t help as they often fill in gaps with incredulous speculation while mainstream academics won’t even enter the gap.

Oxford-trained historian Richard Dolan did enter that realm. His interest in UFOs grew out of his research into the Cold War with his analyses of American nuclear strategy and Soviet history. It became apparent that while governments including the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union publicly ridiculed and debunked UFOs behind the scenes there existed enormous covert efforts to study unidentified air and space objects that were clearly swarming, for example, military and especially nuclear installations around the planet. Numerous individuals high up in government including scientists, the military, and in intelligence were pressured and pressured severely into silence. Those who spoke up were ridiculed, debunked, dismissed, and some died under mysterious circumstances. At the same time the American and Soviet governments presented a front to the public that dismissed and even denied UFOs. Wishing to be loyal and under the control of the Corporatocracy, the mainstream mass media followed suit as did other national governments. There was serious concern within the inner circles of both the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. that UFOs could trigger accidental nuclear war between the Soviets and Americans. These events have been well documented by a number of researchers with impeccable credentials.

Dr. Richard Dolan himself presents his case and the evidence for a number of cover-ups as well as events mentioned earlier in this paragraph in his massive trilogy UFOs and the National Security State. The first volume came out in 2000 to critical acclaim, was reissued in 2002, the second in 2009 with the third yet to be completed. Pioneering investigative journalist, human rights activist, and Freedom of Information Act activist Leslie Kean led with her own critically acclaimed book in 2010, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record. The global ramifications of this phenomena are addressed by both authors as well. In late November of 2010 a number of retired military officers and scientists who have studied UFOs held a full, public press conference on UFO activity over American military installations including incidents of UFOs disabling nuclear-armed ICBMs. This press conference got very little coverage or media respect and was soon forgotten by the mainstream media. One would think such an event worthy of international coverage and perhaps even consternation.

As I described earlier, our parents’ initial excitement in talking about “the flying saucers” followed years later by denial that anything ever occurred baffled us kids. It’s wise to remember and remember well that government run by deception learns that ridicule is more powerful than suppression, that lies repeated often enough become viewed as truth. The government position was and is absolutely ridiculous, embarrassing, and dangerous.

Government cover-ups are not limited to the realm of UFOs and so-called “conspiracy theory” matters either. The rise and mutation of the National Security State as the Second World War transitioned into the Cold War, among the most dangerous and challenging times in human history, is marked with numerous cases of unethical, even criminal behavior. These events involved deception, lies, hoaxes, and byzantine power plays regarding coups, assassinations, Nazi German and Imperial Japanese scientists, grotesque medical and psychological experiments, spraying American cities with chemicals and biological agents to see what would happen, experiments with mind-altering drugs and with psychic phenomena, the use of unsuspecting human subjects in many experiments, allied governments plotting against one another, and internecine conflict between American “compartments” of the military-industrial-intelligence complex to the point of keeping elements of Congress and the Presidency out of the loop with “black projects” in what are called Unacknowledged Special Access Programs (USAPs).

USAPs are barely acknowledged to even exist and what they address remains completely unknown to anyone outside that micro-compartment. “The need to know” access is so restricted that many if not most at the public top of political and military power don’t even know what goes on inside these USAPs. The American National Security Agency (NSA) is another example of prolonged success at maintaining secrecy. It originated in 1949 as the Armed Forces Security Agency, became the NSA by 1952, and its existence was publicly revealed in a 1975 Senate investigation. Much about the NSA itself remains secret, however, and inaccessible to most government officials including other military and intelligence ones. This degree of secrecy run amok is hostile to democracy, hostile to government in general, and can not be allowed to coexist within any democracy, yet it does. It certainly must be disclosed and as such would not be tolerated with all of Earth’s countries united in a democratic world republic.

What is the truth behind this widespread deception among the institutions of political power and the levers that control them? How, if at all, is this mysterious phenomena or at least the manipulation of information regarding it related to financial, social, economic, and media control of the masses? Is the truth behind UFO phenomena cause for alarm or not? Perhaps no one, including those involved in maintaining this deception, understands what UFOs really are. Maybe they do. As there is a lack of consensus on what they are by those who have directly experienced and studied them, they could represent a variety of different even unrelated phenomena with distinct explanations. Concerns have been expressed that the hyped fear of an alien invasion would be used by those in power to justify imposing a global dictatorship upon humanity with a planetary military force ostensibly established to protect Earth from above but to control humanity upon the Earth. For if we achieve a peaceful, planetary democracy and stop fighting among ourselves there would otherwise be no need for enormous standing military forces and the taxes to maintain them. Small, agile military forces to help police areas of violence are likely to be necessary until Earth is so unified and at peace as to be finally disbanded.

There is also the possibility that if alien extraterrestrial or extradimensional species exist, either biological, machine, or both, then their science, technology, and even sociopolitical and economic structures could possibly be harnessed for the benefit of human civilization. Elements of the military-industrial-intelligence complex and perhaps some among controlling financial elite, however, are alleged to have an interest in suppressing such information in the name of national security, financial power, and social harmony. Such information may well demolish their current means to wealth and power such as maintaining the current addictions to oil, gas, and coal. Global climate change, however, and other damage to the environment which in turns damages the economy may get the elite to shift their perspective. The UFO phenomenon, whatever it truly is, is a human and planetary security issue of global dimension that is of great concern to many within the military-industrial-intelligence complex even as it is scorned and otherwise ridiculed and ignored in public.

In addition, there are many pushing for and have been for decades calling for what UFO information activists call “Disclosure.” That’s usually viewed to come about by either an official public authority by a person or persons of international clout, such as the President of the United States or perhaps the Secretary-General of the United Nations, or gradually in many steps over time. Many think Disclosure will be forced rather than voluntary and with many unknown consequences. The sooner we humans can organize ourselves across Planet Earth into a united democratic federation the better to address this phenomena and its numerous challenges, especially as we don’t really know what will happen next.

I felt like I was in The Wizard of Oz and had exposed the Wizard as a fraud, an evil and devious fraud, but no one noticed because they were all too busy working increasingly more hours a day to earn more worthless money to buy more and more consumer “goods” at great cost to our environment. The very fact I threatened the established “wizard” view of reality make it easy for the pro-wizard faction to dismiss me as a “crackpot” to maintain their grip on the levers of power. It was just a lot easier to agree with the Wizard and not the whistleblowers and others who sound the alarms, often at great personal cost. The general population became normalized to living life a certain materialistic way, even being brainwashed by psychologically based advertising and marketing campaigns to desire that certain way. I am by no means the first to point out the emperor wears no clothes. The biggest elephant in the room when we gather to address the problems affecting our world including what steps to take toward building a democratic world government is the UFO issue. Unless they go away they, whatever they are, are here and must be reckoned with. People, however, have to desire a democratic world parliament and clean energy and desire them strongly enough to act, not ignore Unknown Big Elephants.

William Dudley Bass

February 2, 2011

(C) by William Dudley Bass