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.

RS VI Complex Disinformation

I will wait to say more about Eli until after we meet.

Up to this point I have kept the subject of disinformation simple. In its real life form it is far more complex and sophisticated. It is not unlike what is referred to in art as figure ground ambiguity. Our eyes are designed by nature to see certain relationships that enhance our ability to make judgements about reality. For example, closer objects tend to be more detailed, textured and exhibit greater color saturation. Reverse the figure to ground relationship and close objects appear far and far objects appear close.

The following couple of paragraphs are from a partially completed story I wrote about the use of disinformation. The details are based on real life proposals to the military for weather manipulation. In the story the US military gets wind of the fact that an invasion of Taiwan by the Chinese is imminent and they need to develop a plan to stall the invasion so they will have time to assume a tactical response position. A General asks his researcher about his plan and the researcher responds:

“Virtual weather patterns could be created using nanotechnology, microscopic particles that communicate with each other and larger central systems. We want to create a simulated weather condition so the Chinese believe poor weather conditions between China and Taiwan make it undesirable to launch an invasion at this time.

We can launch an ADV (Aerospace Delivery Vehicle) in eight hours. It will carry CHEM SC (Chemical Smart Cloud) nanotechnology. We’ve done the COMP MOD (computer modeling). We will add CBD Sensors (Carbon Black Dust Sensors) to prevent them from surveilling our nanoparticle communications.”

“Let’s do it,” replies General Mayle enthusiastically. “You think it will work?”

“The idea is to alter their perception of reality. They won’t have any reason to consider falsifiability validations of their computer models since they have long since been proven accurate for a two to five day modeling of weather. No counter factuals will arise in their data. They will simply respond by standing down until either weather data simulations prove their perceived data as incorrect, or they become suspicious after direct observation negated their predictions. Either way we will buy some time.”

There are patterns to constructing disinformation sequences. They start with an argument generally followed by a proposal and then the action necessary to bring it to fruition. In the situation demonstrated above the argument is that the Chinese will postpone their invasion of Taiwan if they feel weather conditions are bad. The proposal is to simulate bad weather conditions. The action involves the actual launching of an ADV carrying a CHEM SC with added CBD Sensors.

Most people have heard of Occam’s Razor. Occam’s Razor simply states that the most likely explanation for an event is the simplest one barring other physical evidence. In the situation I described above, Occam’s Razor dictates the weather conditions are bad in the strait between China and Taiwan. But the Chinese would be wrong if they believed it.

For explanations of events that are not constructed disinformation, Occam’s Razor is useful. Constructed disinformation counts on the use of Occam’s Razor to deceive.

RS V Disinformation

I have not been able to contact Eli more than a couple of times since New Years. I pray he be well.

Disinformation, not to be confused with “misinformation,” is defined as a dissemination of deliberately false information.

The more I researched black budget programs the more I realized disinformation played a fundamental role. And amid the clamour, by remaining silent or disinterested in certain information, the black budget guys promoted certain ideas, like aliens.

Real alien visitors, past or present, represents a serious threat to national security. What chance would a fledgling civilization, barely a few thousand years old, have against a civilization capable of interstellar travel, perhaps a civilization 100, 000 years old. None. Our trust in government, our willingness to pay taxes and follow laws is based first and foremost on our government’s ability to protect us. I can state uncategorically, as powerful as our military might seem, without intervention by a visiting alien race our civilization would change unalterably or collapse out right. This supposition is supported by think tanks such as the Brookings Institute that point out the fate of less advanced civilizations coming into contact with more advanced civilizations, only by small degrees compared to what would happen with a truly advanced civilization. In every case the less advanced civilization loses.

Movies such as Independence Day or Men in Black poke fun at aliens as advanced and mean, yet ridiculously funny and easily defeated. Who will ever forget Will Smith’s comment, “Welcome to earth,” as he slugs an alien in the head. Very funny. Very naive. Commensurate with the release of Independence Day, Highway 395 that runs north from Las Vegas past Area 51 was renamed E.T. Highway.

A little more sophisticated, and one of the first contemporary disinformation ploys occurred in 1947, at Roswell. Oh yeah, sure we shot down an alien spacecraft or it malfunctioned after traveling light years through interstellar space. Not likely. More likely it was a Navy aircraft being tested, not something from Project Mogul that didn’t even start until years later. This was followed by denials of the very information they released. They set the stage and played both sides, one against the other. And they are still doing it today. Vulnerable aliens, we (the military) can handle it. Oh yes, what you see in the sky that is unrecognizable must be alien, not black budget programs.

Thank you Bill Moore and Stanton Friedman for playing one side, and Phillip Klass and Carl Sagan (although probably unwittingly) for playing the other. All poppycock except for the fact that both sides might be right and wrong to some degree. Perfect disinformation blends truth and lies.

The more important disinformation in 1947 was a book written by the famous rocket engineer, Willy Ley, who immigrated to the US from Germany in 1933. Paperclip was still a deep secret. Ley was working with Von Braun at White Sands, NM further developing the very sophisticated German V2 that terrorized Britain during the war when he wrote, “Pseudoscience in Naziland.” In it he discredited the Nazis for searching for Vril in their spare time. I don’t call the V2, jet engines, and Heisenberg’s attempt to sustain a nuclear reaction for use as power as pseudoscience. Nor would I consider hovercraft, flying wings (Horten brothers) or the Bell Experiment pseudoscience. You just don’t take over 80 scientists and technicians into an empty field and shoot them dead for negative results on an experiment, especially considering the war was virtually over.