This was a top notch essay - not just as an introduction to UFOlogy but as an explanation of "how the sausage gets made" for every controversy that the government and media shunts into the outer limits of discourse.
Gonna toss this out. Been mulling it a long while, and it's purely speculative.
What if UFOs/UAPs are a phenomenon of the Earth itself?
Thunderheads will arc their lightning in the same general pattern as our brain's synapses will fire. Imagine if storm fronts are the physical manifestation of thought-processes of the Earth. What if the Earth is a vast living thing (nothing new there) and the UFO/UAP is the mind of the Earth trying to communicate with us. Just as the human 'subconscious' mind (I prefer 'non-verbal' mind; I do not believe the internal point-of-consciousness is above or over any part of ourselves) tries to communicate with the point-of-consciousness through dream imagery, moods, 'gut-feelings,' the Gaia/Terran Overmind/whatever might be attempting in some symbolic, abstract, and deeply indirect method of contacting us, some part of its constituent components.
Only in this case, the Terran Overmind mind is so immensely powerful, its thoughts can physically manifest themselves in 'real' objects or partially 'real' objects. Perhaps they exist as much in our minds as in our reality.
This 'explanation' may encompass other persistent phenomena...lake monsters and sasquatches and ghosties and wee little beasties. The idea is they all stem from the same source and the manifestation of the phenomenon may be how it best interacts with the person viewing it. Consider the Mothman: it almost communicates with people who have encountered it and it's form of communication seems (and this is a subjective observation on my part) related to the frame of mind the person viewing Mothman is in...if they are fearful, Mothman is menacing. If they are more adventurous and accepting, Mothman is strangely amused.
This notion here is the phenomenon are psycho-actively reactive to the mind encountering the attempted and imperfect communication from the Terran Overmind.
Even physical artifacts from these phenomenon are products of the TO, hence the tremendous difficulty in hacking the tech, so to speak.
These are just wild imaginings from a fringe-mind and take them as such.
I believe TPTB are preparing the public for some level of disclosure.
"(For example, the 2024 NDAA included draft legislation that would have given the U.S. government eminent domain over any non-human technology or craft in the possession of private citizens or corporations. That provision, among others, got axed in conference, however. Wonder why.)"
Probably because some contractor e.g. General Dynamics managed to get some leverage on the military.
Bob Lazar made a comment about this, that the tech was not in the government/military control because they were considered too "leaky".
It's in his Joe Rogan interview, this is the only UFO talk I've ever had any thoughts about, Lazar is either an excellent liar or he is telling the truth, and possibly there's a 3rd explanation I haven't thought of.
Third option is that Ed Teller (who basically got him the job) arranged the whole thing with the possibility of Lazar going public in mind. It's a bit far-fetched, but still an option, IMO.
Clif High predicted we’d get a US corporation making a power play (perhaps even trying their own breakaway civilization) using reverse-engineered tech.
The more this goes on the less outrageous that sounds…
That is happening whether it uses "Alien Tech" or not, it's happening through AI, and it's currently being tested for crowd control, mind control, battlefield control, political control.
My guess would be it's been used since Obama got into office, and possibly before that.
Social media is a data source for it, it can read and adjust for the prevailing opinions/attitudes, and possibly even "reply back" through bots and carefully constructed artificial personalities.
IMO the advent of brain organoids is a massive game changer, and could be the key to true AGI, and possibly a conscious machine.
Agree they want to use AI for that, but it's hilarious to me they really think AI is going to enable them to impose their technocratic hunger gamez LARP on the world. GIGO applies to AI in spades: It's the ultimate bullshitting machine.
Also agree NVDA is gonna be an epic short at some point (but not because organoids are going to replace them). IMO the brain organoid developers are going to have a reallly hard time keeping their enslaved neurons alive.
I disagree, I think AI will be far more useful as an enslavement tool than we think. As for the brain organoids I wondered about that too, how long do they live?
"FinalSpark’s system has been active 24 hours a day, year round, for the last four years and in that they’ve used more than 1,000 organoids to collect more than 18 terabytes of data, according to a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence."
Fear not AI, for it is only as good as it's training data (and if your targeted population stars using different language (e.g. instead of 'corona', we say 'cerveza', AI gets all confused and sheeit).
AFA organoids are concerned, I'm pressing X to doubt, but we'll see.
In about 1980, my father (a crack electronics engineer) and I (my degree is in physics/mathematics) attended a lecture given by Dr J Allen Hynek in Evanston IL at Northwestern University. My dad & I were both amateur astronomers, having built our own 6" reflecting telescope.
Dr Hynek was formerly the director of "Project Bluebook" and his topic was about astronomy and UFOs. Hynek's talk was neutral, neither advocating the existence of UFOs or debunking claims.
However, Dr Hynek had coffee with us afterward and admitted that Project Bluebook was set in motion, pushed by the government, in part as a camouflage for military research that was done in various areas - such as jet airplanes, high altitude balloons, etc. As I recall our conversation, we asked Hynek about a pilot report in, maybe, the late 1940s, where a pilot that reported he thought he might have seen a UFO with inhuman flight capabilities! Hynek suggested that that pilot report was a cover up for military activity that might have been seen by people.
Bottom line: Hynek suggested that ALL investigations he and his staff made could be explained by ordinary phenomena - such as swamp gas luminosity, or total reflection of air of differing temperatures (such as the blinding, total reflection one sometimes sees in layers of air of different temperatures or, similarly, coming from a sunbaked hot blacktop road observed from a high incident angle. He said he didn't think the hypothesis of extraterrestrial alien UFOs were ever needed to explain what was investigated.
Of course, from the 1950s to now, in the 20th century there were maybe 100s or 1000s of cameras ready to take snapshots of possible UFOs. However, in the last 20 years, there are 10s of billions of cameras ready, worldwide -- with still no definitive evidence.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing, Howie. In other books and talks, Hynek is far more open to other possibilities. A few years earlier, 1977, he wrote this: "Maybe there is a parallel reality around us which we don't understand and which occasionally interfaces with our present reality." "If UFOs are mental projections sent down here by some supertechnology, then of course we're faced with the problem of explaining the physical effects. These can't be swept under the rug. They exist. But I am postulating that the whole UFO phenomenon arises in a civilization that is much, much older than ours." The lecture can be read here:
Hahaha!! Interesting! As a couple of coincidences, first being that my dad and I were interested in the possibility of "paranormal capabilities," with UFO possibilities being part of that. To that end, secondly, we got to know Curt & Mary Fuller (and Betty Lou) who published Fate Magazine, where the subject matter that your X link came from!
I knew them well enough that I did some electronic consulting for Curt for his other magazine, "Trailer Travels," like when they tested different brands of trailer hitches for strength. Their offices were close to my dad's house.
We did talk with Curt and Mary on UFOs. They were not scientists; hence, they assumed that a person writing an article for Fate on subjects as UFOs had a chance of being real. Occasionally we talked about submitted UFO stories. They never got to verify any UFO stories as real.
Haha!! Yes, Fate was very successful in getting submissions of stories. Somewhere I have a picture of their small desk with a jillion letters and a duffel style mail sack - also full of letters! Curt said, "We get so so much, it's hard to decide which and what to include - way under 1%!"
I never met Hynek other than at his lecture, though I did talk on phone to him a few times with questions after the lecture.
Not sure what you mean by that "crack" on crack electronics engineer, Sean. My dad was employed by RCA during WW2, Zenith & Admiral, part of their TV remote control development (including his name on some of the patents). Demanding truth can be highly addictive - even for subjects like UFOs and paranormal claims!
As I mentioned, I saw Dr Hynek in about 1980. In 1977, Hynek may have still been mandated, publicly, to not state that all evidence showed that all observations could be explained by conventionally known phenomena without ET. I have no doubt in 1980 that Hynek had not seen evidence that demonstrated the existence of UFOs of alien origin!
The other resource you can look at is James Randi, who has a website, http://randi.org which has many, many references to UFOs. Randi had $1,000,000.00 as a reward for anyone who could show they had paranormal capabilities, on proof of the existence of extraterrestrial UFOs, and many other claims. I attended 3 of Randi's "Amazing Meetings" in Plantation FL. His library had many books on UFOs. Randi passed away in 2020. Corrected web address for Randi above
I'm actually in agreement with that statement - although, having spoken to Hynek, his mind was open to unconventional possibilities and his definition of "UFO" might have been broader - taking in unidentified anomalous phenomena that might include ESP, human consciousness and phenomena that might have the possibility of "less" conventional explanations. He was a critical thinker.
I have some other thoughts - which I'll bring up later!
That's my impression too. There's a sense in which the current DoD statements on the topic are accurate. When they say "there is no evidence of any extraterrerstrial phenomena," that is technically correct. The lie by omission is that they don't know what the hell many UAP actually are. The data may "fit" several different theories and it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to "prove" any given UAP was ET. I get the impression Hynek was convinced there was a genuinely mysterious phenomenon hidden in the data.
So interesting and valuable. My PhD dad developed an interest in UFOs way back in the early 70s. He knew something was up, but everyone, including me, thought he was a bit of a nutter. He never had a UFO experience but he really really wanted to. I remember some kind of device he built to detect ufo activity, which did seem a little wack, even at the time. Later I figured out Dad was not crazy in the least, just willing to go where others feared to tread. His errors were more likely from lack of information than lack of reason.
When the Grush thing broke, I thought it was interesting that there was both some mainstream piercing of the Overton window and keeping a lid on it going on at the same time. I suspect different factions have different ideas about this.
The alternative media scene disappointed almost completely, as you hinted at as well. To me it showed how lost in their own behinds many of the edgelords and alternative celebs are ( see my rant here: https://luctalks.substack.com/p/of-minds-not-blown)
One other thing, in a podcast with Eric Weinstein and Hal Puthoff, Eric asked why with all the cameras on phones there was no good video, Hal replied "there is, as good as you could want".
Just not available apparently.
You mention debunkers, what about rebunkers (sorry), people that feed plausible ideas to the general public.
Another problem is that there is no standard of evidence that will convince a debunker. 90% of the cell phone footage that circulates on social media could be legit (hypothetically), but no amount of such videos will convince anyone. The better the footage, the more likely someone will just say it could be CGI, because it *could* be. It's another example of the "training" technique that Blue Book and media have used since the 1950s. "Here's how something could be faked/mistaken, therefore it is faked/mistaken."
Harrison, I was surprised that this was the topic of this article. And that you know so much about it.
For me, technically, it is not my major interest. But it was impossible for me to stay away from, as it has a deep allure. Many of us have space travel in our distant pasts, and that is just a fact.
For me, who is convinced I understand the basic aspects of what is going on, the rigor with which the power structure on Earth has approached this subject (with the aim of keeping it a secret) is not at all surprising. My technical training (such as it is) has also clarified for me why people in general have such a problem with this subject, and would prefer to reject it.
But for those of us who are genuinely interested in surviving for a while longer, as humans with a decent amount of freedom, on this planet, this subject is key, though only a part of a very wider picture.
Learning the we are not alone is only the first step in a long concatenation of awarenesses that would probably follow.
If off-world beings are real, then we might be interested in what they have to tell us. And what they have to tell us is, in general, deeply disruptive of many of our cherished beliefs about our origins and our existence on Earth.
Furthermore, what they have to tell us would somewhat align with what various human researchers (I of course think first of Hubbard) have been trying to tell us for years. And it would validate their research techniques and possibly result in even more research and more information about this.
If they could master the art of space travel, then so could we. Except, we are not allowed to leave Earth. Earth is a prison for dissidents, non-conformists and criminals. If we learn how to fly off it, either in physical form or in spirit form, that would amount to, for our captors, a prison break.
However, the fact is that we really need these understandings for our own survival and future planning. It's not so much that we are prisoners (all beings in this universe are, to some extent), but that we don't understand ourselves well enough to solve even the simplest day-to-day problems, like how to stay healthy or achieve some degree of social justice. Our current understandings of psychology, economics, politics, medicine and even physics are so poor that we stumble continuously and look like fools to each other, much less to any off-world visitors. We continuously fight with each other over things that are frankly stupid. We are having an extremely tough time here, and for our captors, this is fine, please continue. Well, it's not fine with me nor with many others who read this blog or many others related to it.
I might shamelessly mention here my own blog. It provides notes on videos, mostly those posted by Courtney Brown (Farsight Institute - remote viewing). I make my notes on his public videos generally available, while those he puts behind his paywall, I put behind my paywall. The only advantage of subscribing is getting a 5 minute read that covers most of the major points instead of a 3 hour video (or a 20 minute video.)
Courtney's work has validated Hubbard's more esoteric research, along with that of many others. He has become a very good, if not essential, resource for anyone interested in UFOs, ETs, Bible stories, prehistory and many related subjects. He does not have a blog, probably due to lack of time. He does have to maintain his job as a Math professor. (I on the other hand am retired.)
What is not necessarily discussed in the article is something I keep in mind, and understand, that in part my evil,and betrayer come from within me. This is particularly true when this aspect is not in service to being.
I mention in part because it is so easy to fall into the dichtomies of good versus evil outside oneself
"The message is clear. Even UAP witnesses understand the game. They know that if they go public they will be called crazy, their mental health will be brought into question, they may lose their jobs, and their friends and family members may not believe them." Not to mention 'harassments' of one kind or another. A series of bizarre coincidences that lead to misfortune, cheques inexplicably going missed in the post, strange accidents (inc. deaths) etc.
The ETH is, for better or worse, the best-supported. Of course there is little to no academic work done in this area. The bulk of the work has been done by non-academics or academics with this as their hobby.
This was a top notch essay - not just as an introduction to UFOlogy but as an explanation of "how the sausage gets made" for every controversy that the government and media shunts into the outer limits of discourse.
<respectful bow gif>
Gonna toss this out. Been mulling it a long while, and it's purely speculative.
What if UFOs/UAPs are a phenomenon of the Earth itself?
Thunderheads will arc their lightning in the same general pattern as our brain's synapses will fire. Imagine if storm fronts are the physical manifestation of thought-processes of the Earth. What if the Earth is a vast living thing (nothing new there) and the UFO/UAP is the mind of the Earth trying to communicate with us. Just as the human 'subconscious' mind (I prefer 'non-verbal' mind; I do not believe the internal point-of-consciousness is above or over any part of ourselves) tries to communicate with the point-of-consciousness through dream imagery, moods, 'gut-feelings,' the Gaia/Terran Overmind/whatever might be attempting in some symbolic, abstract, and deeply indirect method of contacting us, some part of its constituent components.
Only in this case, the Terran Overmind mind is so immensely powerful, its thoughts can physically manifest themselves in 'real' objects or partially 'real' objects. Perhaps they exist as much in our minds as in our reality.
This 'explanation' may encompass other persistent phenomena...lake monsters and sasquatches and ghosties and wee little beasties. The idea is they all stem from the same source and the manifestation of the phenomenon may be how it best interacts with the person viewing it. Consider the Mothman: it almost communicates with people who have encountered it and it's form of communication seems (and this is a subjective observation on my part) related to the frame of mind the person viewing Mothman is in...if they are fearful, Mothman is menacing. If they are more adventurous and accepting, Mothman is strangely amused.
This notion here is the phenomenon are psycho-actively reactive to the mind encountering the attempted and imperfect communication from the Terran Overmind.
Even physical artifacts from these phenomenon are products of the TO, hence the tremendous difficulty in hacking the tech, so to speak.
These are just wild imaginings from a fringe-mind and take them as such.
I like it.
Wildly unsupportable with science but a goodly bit of imaginative interpretation. Glad you liked it.
I believe TPTB are preparing the public for some level of disclosure.
"(For example, the 2024 NDAA included draft legislation that would have given the U.S. government eminent domain over any non-human technology or craft in the possession of private citizens or corporations. That provision, among others, got axed in conference, however. Wonder why.)"
Probably because some contractor e.g. General Dynamics managed to get some leverage on the military.
Bingo. Lockheed's probably in there too.
Bob Lazar made a comment about this, that the tech was not in the government/military control because they were considered too "leaky".
It's in his Joe Rogan interview, this is the only UFO talk I've ever had any thoughts about, Lazar is either an excellent liar or he is telling the truth, and possibly there's a 3rd explanation I haven't thought of.
Still, an interesting interview.
Third option is that Ed Teller (who basically got him the job) arranged the whole thing with the possibility of Lazar going public in mind. It's a bit far-fetched, but still an option, IMO.
Clif High predicted we’d get a US corporation making a power play (perhaps even trying their own breakaway civilization) using reverse-engineered tech.
The more this goes on the less outrageous that sounds…
That is happening whether it uses "Alien Tech" or not, it's happening through AI, and it's currently being tested for crowd control, mind control, battlefield control, political control.
My guess would be it's been used since Obama got into office, and possibly before that.
Social media is a data source for it, it can read and adjust for the prevailing opinions/attitudes, and possibly even "reply back" through bots and carefully constructed artificial personalities.
IMO the advent of brain organoids is a massive game changer, and could be the key to true AGI, and possibly a conscious machine.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=brain+organoids+and+AI&ia=web
If so get ready to dump your Nvidia stock.
Agree they want to use AI for that, but it's hilarious to me they really think AI is going to enable them to impose their technocratic hunger gamez LARP on the world. GIGO applies to AI in spades: It's the ultimate bullshitting machine.
Also agree NVDA is gonna be an epic short at some point (but not because organoids are going to replace them). IMO the brain organoid developers are going to have a reallly hard time keeping their enslaved neurons alive.
I disagree, I think AI will be far more useful as an enslavement tool than we think. As for the brain organoids I wondered about that too, how long do they live?
"FinalSpark’s system has been active 24 hours a day, year round, for the last four years and in that they’ve used more than 1,000 organoids to collect more than 18 terabytes of data, according to a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence."
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/finalsparks-bioprocessor-is-a-computer-made-of-brain-organoids
Since this tech is new I think it's safe to say they will get better at keeping them alive and functional.
Fear not AI, for it is only as good as it's training data (and if your targeted population stars using different language (e.g. instead of 'corona', we say 'cerveza', AI gets all confused and sheeit).
AFA organoids are concerned, I'm pressing X to doubt, but we'll see.
In about 1980, my father (a crack electronics engineer) and I (my degree is in physics/mathematics) attended a lecture given by Dr J Allen Hynek in Evanston IL at Northwestern University. My dad & I were both amateur astronomers, having built our own 6" reflecting telescope.
Dr Hynek was formerly the director of "Project Bluebook" and his topic was about astronomy and UFOs. Hynek's talk was neutral, neither advocating the existence of UFOs or debunking claims.
However, Dr Hynek had coffee with us afterward and admitted that Project Bluebook was set in motion, pushed by the government, in part as a camouflage for military research that was done in various areas - such as jet airplanes, high altitude balloons, etc. As I recall our conversation, we asked Hynek about a pilot report in, maybe, the late 1940s, where a pilot that reported he thought he might have seen a UFO with inhuman flight capabilities! Hynek suggested that that pilot report was a cover up for military activity that might have been seen by people.
Bottom line: Hynek suggested that ALL investigations he and his staff made could be explained by ordinary phenomena - such as swamp gas luminosity, or total reflection of air of differing temperatures (such as the blinding, total reflection one sometimes sees in layers of air of different temperatures or, similarly, coming from a sunbaked hot blacktop road observed from a high incident angle. He said he didn't think the hypothesis of extraterrestrial alien UFOs were ever needed to explain what was investigated.
Of course, from the 1950s to now, in the 20th century there were maybe 100s or 1000s of cameras ready to take snapshots of possible UFOs. However, in the last 20 years, there are 10s of billions of cameras ready, worldwide -- with still no definitive evidence.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing, Howie. In other books and talks, Hynek is far more open to other possibilities. A few years earlier, 1977, he wrote this: "Maybe there is a parallel reality around us which we don't understand and which occasionally interfaces with our present reality." "If UFOs are mental projections sent down here by some supertechnology, then of course we're faced with the problem of explaining the physical effects. These can't be swept under the rug. They exist. But I am postulating that the whole UFO phenomenon arises in a civilization that is much, much older than ours." The lecture can be read here:
https://x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/1805680988846277016
Hahaha!! Interesting! As a couple of coincidences, first being that my dad and I were interested in the possibility of "paranormal capabilities," with UFO possibilities being part of that. To that end, secondly, we got to know Curt & Mary Fuller (and Betty Lou) who published Fate Magazine, where the subject matter that your X link came from!
I knew them well enough that I did some electronic consulting for Curt for his other magazine, "Trailer Travels," like when they tested different brands of trailer hitches for strength. Their offices were close to my dad's house.
We did talk with Curt and Mary on UFOs. They were not scientists; hence, they assumed that a person writing an article for Fate on subjects as UFOs had a chance of being real. Occasionally we talked about submitted UFO stories. They never got to verify any UFO stories as real.
AFAIK Hynek got more "mystical" in outlook as he got older. He and Vallee were "independent" Rosicrucians for a while.
Very cool bit of Fate history there!
Haha!! Yes, Fate was very successful in getting submissions of stories. Somewhere I have a picture of their small desk with a jillion letters and a duffel style mail sack - also full of letters! Curt said, "We get so so much, it's hard to decide which and what to include - way under 1%!"
I never met Hynek other than at his lecture, though I did talk on phone to him a few times with questions after the lecture.
Crack electronics engineer....cracktronics engineering? Highly addictive and the ruin of many a poor boy...
Not sure what you mean by that "crack" on crack electronics engineer, Sean. My dad was employed by RCA during WW2, Zenith & Admiral, part of their TV remote control development (including his name on some of the patents). Demanding truth can be highly addictive - even for subjects like UFOs and paranormal claims!
Relax. It was a joke, a play on words…crack, meaning elite, and crack, meaning crack cocaine. The absurdity of addictive engineering.
As I mentioned, I saw Dr Hynek in about 1980. In 1977, Hynek may have still been mandated, publicly, to not state that all evidence showed that all observations could be explained by conventionally known phenomena without ET. I have no doubt in 1980 that Hynek had not seen evidence that demonstrated the existence of UFOs of alien origin!
The other resource you can look at is James Randi, who has a website, http://randi.org which has many, many references to UFOs. Randi had $1,000,000.00 as a reward for anyone who could show they had paranormal capabilities, on proof of the existence of extraterrestrial UFOs, and many other claims. I attended 3 of Randi's "Amazing Meetings" in Plantation FL. His library had many books on UFOs. Randi passed away in 2020. Corrected web address for Randi above
1981 article: "We may have to accept the possibility that the UFO phenomenon is beyond conventional, straightforward explanation."
https://x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/1808173260418535804
I'm actually in agreement with that statement - although, having spoken to Hynek, his mind was open to unconventional possibilities and his definition of "UFO" might have been broader - taking in unidentified anomalous phenomena that might include ESP, human consciousness and phenomena that might have the possibility of "less" conventional explanations. He was a critical thinker.
I have some other thoughts - which I'll bring up later!
That's my impression too. There's a sense in which the current DoD statements on the topic are accurate. When they say "there is no evidence of any extraterrerstrial phenomena," that is technically correct. The lie by omission is that they don't know what the hell many UAP actually are. The data may "fit" several different theories and it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to "prove" any given UAP was ET. I get the impression Hynek was convinced there was a genuinely mysterious phenomenon hidden in the data.
The DoD reports to the NSA, whose handlers are not political, or American.
So true! Especially about not being American... Unlikely they salute the US flag!
So interesting and valuable. My PhD dad developed an interest in UFOs way back in the early 70s. He knew something was up, but everyone, including me, thought he was a bit of a nutter. He never had a UFO experience but he really really wanted to. I remember some kind of device he built to detect ufo activity, which did seem a little wack, even at the time. Later I figured out Dad was not crazy in the least, just willing to go where others feared to tread. His errors were more likely from lack of information than lack of reason.
Your dad sounds like a cool guy!
RIP Dad. Still cringe to remember I yelled at him for saying the official JFK story was nonsense. He was right.
Yes, your dad does sound like Kool! My dad had his bachelor's from Purdue -- but my dad and your dad likely would have gotten along quite well!!
When the Grush thing broke, I thought it was interesting that there was both some mainstream piercing of the Overton window and keeping a lid on it going on at the same time. I suspect different factions have different ideas about this.
The alternative media scene disappointed almost completely, as you hinted at as well. To me it showed how lost in their own behinds many of the edgelords and alternative celebs are ( see my rant here: https://luctalks.substack.com/p/of-minds-not-blown)
Outstanding work, Harrison!
One other thing, in a podcast with Eric Weinstein and Hal Puthoff, Eric asked why with all the cameras on phones there was no good video, Hal replied "there is, as good as you could want".
Just not available apparently.
You mention debunkers, what about rebunkers (sorry), people that feed plausible ideas to the general public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQOibpIDx-4
Another problem is that there is no standard of evidence that will convince a debunker. 90% of the cell phone footage that circulates on social media could be legit (hypothetically), but no amount of such videos will convince anyone. The better the footage, the more likely someone will just say it could be CGI, because it *could* be. It's another example of the "training" technique that Blue Book and media have used since the 1950s. "Here's how something could be faked/mistaken, therefore it is faked/mistaken."
Harrison, I was surprised that this was the topic of this article. And that you know so much about it.
For me, technically, it is not my major interest. But it was impossible for me to stay away from, as it has a deep allure. Many of us have space travel in our distant pasts, and that is just a fact.
For me, who is convinced I understand the basic aspects of what is going on, the rigor with which the power structure on Earth has approached this subject (with the aim of keeping it a secret) is not at all surprising. My technical training (such as it is) has also clarified for me why people in general have such a problem with this subject, and would prefer to reject it.
But for those of us who are genuinely interested in surviving for a while longer, as humans with a decent amount of freedom, on this planet, this subject is key, though only a part of a very wider picture.
Learning the we are not alone is only the first step in a long concatenation of awarenesses that would probably follow.
If off-world beings are real, then we might be interested in what they have to tell us. And what they have to tell us is, in general, deeply disruptive of many of our cherished beliefs about our origins and our existence on Earth.
Furthermore, what they have to tell us would somewhat align with what various human researchers (I of course think first of Hubbard) have been trying to tell us for years. And it would validate their research techniques and possibly result in even more research and more information about this.
If they could master the art of space travel, then so could we. Except, we are not allowed to leave Earth. Earth is a prison for dissidents, non-conformists and criminals. If we learn how to fly off it, either in physical form or in spirit form, that would amount to, for our captors, a prison break.
However, the fact is that we really need these understandings for our own survival and future planning. It's not so much that we are prisoners (all beings in this universe are, to some extent), but that we don't understand ourselves well enough to solve even the simplest day-to-day problems, like how to stay healthy or achieve some degree of social justice. Our current understandings of psychology, economics, politics, medicine and even physics are so poor that we stumble continuously and look like fools to each other, much less to any off-world visitors. We continuously fight with each other over things that are frankly stupid. We are having an extremely tough time here, and for our captors, this is fine, please continue. Well, it's not fine with me nor with many others who read this blog or many others related to it.
I might shamelessly mention here my own blog. It provides notes on videos, mostly those posted by Courtney Brown (Farsight Institute - remote viewing). I make my notes on his public videos generally available, while those he puts behind his paywall, I put behind my paywall. The only advantage of subscribing is getting a 5 minute read that covers most of the major points instead of a 3 hour video (or a 20 minute video.)
Courtney's work has validated Hubbard's more esoteric research, along with that of many others. He has become a very good, if not essential, resource for anyone interested in UFOs, ETs, Bible stories, prehistory and many related subjects. He does not have a blog, probably due to lack of time. He does have to maintain his job as a Math professor. (I on the other hand am retired.)
You are a beacon of clear thinking.
What is not necessarily discussed in the article is something I keep in mind, and understand, that in part my evil,and betrayer come from within me. This is particularly true when this aspect is not in service to being.
I mention in part because it is so easy to fall into the dichtomies of good versus evil outside oneself
"The message is clear. Even UAP witnesses understand the game. They know that if they go public they will be called crazy, their mental health will be brought into question, they may lose their jobs, and their friends and family members may not believe them." Not to mention 'harassments' of one kind or another. A series of bizarre coincidences that lead to misfortune, cheques inexplicably going missed in the post, strange accidents (inc. deaths) etc.
There's definitely a "sliding scale" in terms of intensity of response.
A sliding scale in terms of 'densities' too, perhaps.
Goodness gracious, the most brain dead extraterrestrial hypothesis crap imaginable. It’s like a Time Machine back to 1962.
I'm not an ETH proponent.
The ETH is, for better or worse, the best-supported. Of course there is little to no academic work done in this area. The bulk of the work has been done by non-academics or academics with this as their hobby.
Actually If I can walk back my comment, I'd say the article does mention this, and implicitly is all about this understanding and more