RS X Blowback/Backfire

Eli has a tendency to chew with his mouth open. I think it is a Japanese thing, like slurping noodles. He tells me it taste better that way.

As most would probably agree, the UFO craze ended by 2000. You go into bookstores such as Borders or Barnes & Noble and you find a shelf or two at most devoted to speculation that includes UFOs. Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena doesn’t even have one UFO book. Why the change? I suspect the military found themselves up to their necks in blowback and backfire.

Blowback is a term used by intelligence agencies to describe a situation in which disinformation returns to its source (the disinformer) in a slightly altered form. The disinformer or his or her agency now believes the disinformation is information. Just such a scenario occurred in the late 1970s as described by Howard Blum in “Out There,” when a secret military working group investigated UFO claims. Blowback probably prompted the President of the US, Bill Clinton, to ask his buddy Hubbell, who he sent to the Justice Department, to find out the truth about UFOs. According to Webb Hubbell in “Friends in high places …,” when he was Assistant Attorney General he and Bill Clinton were not satisfied with the answers they were getting from NORAD about the UFO issue. If the CIA Motto, “The Truth Will Set You Free,” is correct then disinformation will bind your freedom.

Instead of simply covering black budget programs with UFO disinformation, it backfired. They generated an almost religious fanaticism (Heaven’s Gate kind of folks) for the subject. After Robert Lazar, who briefly worked at Area 51 in 1989 made claims that he saw alien back engineered flying saucers at the bases S4 facility, thousands of people flocked to this otherwise unknown and top secret base. They shouldn’t have told Lazar the technology was alien. I’m quite certain he saw flying saucers but the technology probably originated in Nazi Germany.

They remedied their problems at Area 51 cleverly, thanks to Glen Campbell and their seizing large tracks of land along the border to the base in 1995. The excitement of it all settled down and now Area 51 is not even newsworthy.

But I believe the disinformation program continued for a few more years. Insiders like Michael Wolf (purportedly NSC), Dan Sherman (AF-NSA) and Lt. Col. Phillip Corso (AF intelligence). I absolutely destroyed Wolf’s credibility by conducting a background investigation that found his real surname was Kruvant. The reason I am so sure his story was disinformation is because when I contacted Georgetown University to verify his education, it immediately got back to him and he made inquires about me to the Director of MUFON in Los Angeles. Kruvant has since died, his last act to write a very strange book, “Catchers of Heaven.”

A similar set of circumstances occurred with Phillip Corso. Having had a long career in military intelligence, in retirement and shortly before he died he wrote “The Day After Roswell” in which he claimed he distributed alien technology from the Roswell crash to the private sector for development. There wasn’t a piece of this supposed alien technology that didn’t have a long history of development. There wasn’t one sliver of original thought in the book. Like Kruvant, he is dead now. A last act of disinformation for god and country. And it makes it kind of hard to question these guys now since they are dead.

So much has changed in the last decade I believe it would be difficult to sustain a prolonged alien disinformation campaign. With the discovery of more than 200 extrasolar planets the possibility of discovering life away from earth is increasingly likely. The myth may become reality. An the lie that a single stage to orbit spacecraft is too difficult to develop was smashed by a low budget Spaceship 1 built by Bert Rutan. But there are disinformation hanger ons such as Linda Moulton Howe. I’d guess she now does it more for profit than anything else. Of course they (military disinformers) were probably doing if for money too, without oversight.

Moore/Green Best Guess

I thought Eli had lost it when he asked me to let him use my digital camera to capture spheres. Spheres are little blobs of light that show up on a picture. We walked around my apartment building and he snapped dozens of photographs. To my utter amazement, when we looked at the images several had strange blobs of light, usually near the ceiling, randomly spaced and not reproducible with subsequent photos from the same location.

“Perception is reality,” touted a USAF Colonel in 1997 when a N.Y. Times correspondent asked him why he had lied about the identity of a flying military asset that had been observed over the east coast. In every respect the Colonel was right. Had his initial claim not been refuted, how would anyone know his statement was disinformation? If you don’t have a bag of tricks to help you decompose disinformation, you might as well stay home.

One of the simplest, most elegant and reproducible ideas ever conceived by a human was published in 1977 by noble prize winning brain scientist, Sir John Eccles in “The Self and Its Brain.” Eccles defined reality as something that can affect the behavior of large scale objects. (larger than the quantum level) Based on that idea he proceeded to further clarify reality with a three world view.

World I consists of physical objects including air, gravity, and magnetic fields. These objects are real because they conform to his definition of reality in that they affect the behavior of large scale objects.

World II consists of states of mind, conscious and unconscious, considered real for the same reasons as World I objects.

World III consists of products of the human mind, not physical objects, not brain states, but stories, myths, pieces of music, mathematical theorems, scientific theories, etc. This reality is established by the intervention of consciousness. Without consciousness these would not exist and only a self conscious mind can appreciate the reality of World III. So, according to Eccles, it follows that human consciousness itself must be real and different from any physical object, even the brain.

This remarkable concept of reality easily explains why disinformation works so effectively. Disinformation relies on our tendency to confuse World I with World III realities. Both are real, but neither World implies a reality for the other. They are their own, separate realities.

A ufo that is picked up on radar or seen by a person is a World I reality. That the ufo is piloted by aliens, regardless of the ufos flight characteristics, is a World III reality. They are both real, the first a physical object, the second a story or myth. Disinformation (and advertising for that matter) works so well because we confuse World I with World III realities and its reciprocal.

I seems unlikely I would have been enticed to a remote recreational area in New Mexico for termination, despite the fact that I suggested it. More likely, consistent with Moore and Doty prior dark deeds, I probably would have been subjected to a World I reality, strange lights in the sky, etc., with the expectation it implied a World III reality. Turn me into a believer and I lose all credibility. Just another ufo nut.