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SUBJECT: THE AVIARY, THE AQUARIUM, AND ESCHATOLOGY FILE: UFO2904
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by Vince Johnson
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Courtesy of C.E.R.N., the Close Encounters Research Network. This
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article published in the CE CHRONICLES, the journal of C.E.R.N. in
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the Nov-Dec 1993 *premier* edition.
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Subscriptions: Annual subscriptions to CE Chronicles are currently
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available to non-members for $18 (domestic) and $25 (foreign). For
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more information, membership applications or to report a paranormal
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event, call (713) 558-1630 or write: CERN, 10878 Westheimer, Suite
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293, Houston, Texas 77042 -- BBS at (713) 558-5342.
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Eschatology:
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1: The branch of theology concerned with the final events in the
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history of the world or of mankind.
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2: A belief concerning death, the end of the world, or the ultimate
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destiny of mankind; specifically any of the various Christian
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doctrines concerning the Second Coming, the resurrection of the dead,
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or the Last Judgement.
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As more than a casual observer of contemporary ufology, I've recently
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become aware of a what could be a significant new twist in popular
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perception about UFOs. For many, UFOs are not the manifestation of
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extraterrestrial intelligence, but instead, are a metaphysical
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phenomena -- a manifestation of spiritual entities. Many
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abductees/contactees are now characterizing their "unusual personal
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experiences" in a religious or metaphysical context.
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As an unabashed secular humanist, I am skeptical of these claims. But
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there are several aspects of the metaphysical interpretation of the
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UFO phenomenon that should be considered before rejecting it out of
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hand.
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Admittedly, a lot of what follows is based on rumor, hearsay and
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circumstantial evidence. Much is derived from numerous phone calls
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from Dan Smith, whose religious beliefs regarding the UFO phenomenon
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have induced a messianic zeal to "spread the Word."
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These calls have provided a flurry of information on what I have
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previously termed "fringe" beliefs, as well as providing the names and
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backgrounds of the birds who comprise the Aviary. According to Dan,
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who undoubtedly is privy to a wealth of accurate, though not widely
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known UFO information, this data is being released through him due to
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the grave concern by high government officials about impending
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metaphysical catastrophe - the eschaton, or the end of the world.
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Mr. Smith first came to my attention after the "Aquarium Conspiracy"
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article (see inset) was disseminated to computer bulletin board
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systems in the Spring of '93. In this article, Smith and Rosemary
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Ellen Guiley, directors of the Center for North American Crop Circle
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Studies, warned of an "eschatological emergency, "the reaction of
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various organizations--both inside and outside the government, and
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their attempt to establish a network of spiritually advanced
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individuals, the "Aquarium," to assist the Aviary in dealing with this
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crisis.
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-- inset --
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The "Aquarium Conspiracy" by Dan Smith and Rosemary Ellen Guiley
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"In the beginning there was eschatology--the branch of theology
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dealing with the end times. Dan, having spent many years first
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studying physics and then metaphysics, came to the conclusion that the
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scientists have been looking at the world upside down. Mind, not
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matter, is the foundation for all realities. Moreover, the materialist
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paradigm was in danger of imminent collapse, being subverted on the
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inside by its own contradictions, and on the outside by the growing
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body of evidence for the paranormal. Creating and maintaining a
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reality is no easy game. It requires a lot of magic, and a lot of
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conscious critters like ourselves who are pretty good at collective
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self-deception. Fortunately-- or perhaps unfortunately--our particular
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reality game has about reached its natural conclusion, and we are
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waking up to the fact that mind and matter are not separate. We are
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undergoing an exciting but stressful revolution in our collective
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consciousness. This revolution, or global spiritual emergency, will
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bring upheavals and overloads in our global consciousness that will
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impact the material Earth for better or worse, and may quickly get out
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of control. We also will be opening up to other realities that will be
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impacting us as well. Our present very tidy sense of reality and its
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boundaries is due to become much more fluid and permeable. Every
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spiritual tradition takes very seriously its prophesies about the end
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of the world, but for the first time we are seeing these prophesies
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turning into believable predictions of earth and reality changes. That
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is how Dan fell from physics into eschatology. After experiencing
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numerous slammed doors among his former scientific colleagues, he
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decided that the most logical place to find fellow eschatologists
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would be in various intelligence agencies and among investigators of
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the paranormal. Dan next addressed how to communicate about the
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eschaton. Even a small hint that the government is worried about the
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end of the world might start a chain reaction of panic, which could
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possibly serve as a trigger for the eschaton. On the other hand,
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people inside the government might be wanting to set up a kind of
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civil defense network vis a vis the eschaton, and so they would be
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looking for people on the outside who could much more freely network
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among the general public. An important link in the communication chain
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is what has become known as the Aviary. This is the final link next to
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the public network, and so it must be heavily disguised by its own
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surrealistic smoke screen. The Aviary functions best by amplifying
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people's own misconceptions about the paranormal. It does this by
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helping to overinflate individual pieces of the puzzle so that
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particular investigators get pushed further into their own blind
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alleys. People are encouraged to be so distracted by the trees that
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they fail to see the forest. This cacophony by people looking for
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truth in all the strangest places provides an excellent cover for the
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deadly serious business of clearing the decks and battening down the
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hatches for the eschaton event. It is like a Manhattan Project going
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on behind the scenes of alien grays and praying mantises having sex
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with humans. However, this eschaton conspiracy is being orchestrated
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by higher powers, and we don't mean the Committee of 300. Very few of
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the people even near the center of the orchestration have a clear
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picture of what is coming down, but they do know that something is
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coming and that they will have front row seats. The Manhattan Project
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relative to the eschaton is a global civilian network of people who
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will serve as a lightning rod for the cosmic energies coming in during
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the consciousness revolution. They will be looking to channel these
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energies into expanded realities. Thus, they will provide a degree of
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protection for those people who can find their places alongside the
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network. Outside of the network there will be greater levels of trauma
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and confusion. The pieces of the network are already in place, the
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remaining task is to properly activate and link the pieces into a
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critical mass of awareness. This last step is now underway. This is
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how an Aviary helps to spawn an Aquarium, and how birds learn to swim.
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The Aquarium is our business, and we are working to reach people who
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are ready to be activated in the consciousness revolution."
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I was intrigued after reading the "Aquarium Memo" because it implied
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that the authors had cultivated sources within the intelligence
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community. The only question was whether this information was accurate
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or bogus. I drafted a response and uploaded it to Don Allen, moderator
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for the FIDO UFO conference, requesting that he forward it to Dan
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Smith. Several days later, I received the first of many calls from
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him.
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Since Smith had alluded to his close contacts with the Aviary, most of
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my questions centered around this mysterious group of alleged UFO
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insiders comprised of scientists, military personnel, and inteligence
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analysts. Dan's primary contact with this group is "Pelican" who
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reportedly mans the "Wierd Desk" (UFOs,etc) at CIA. While Pelican's
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main job with the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology is to
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monitor foreign technological developments, Pelican also tracks
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millennial/eschatological communities, "entering a twilight zone where
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psychic techniques are being generated by humans and other entities,"
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says Smith.
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According to Smith, UFOs are primarily a psychological/metaphysical
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phenomenon which are both preparing us and pressuring us to develop
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our own psi abilities. Not that UFOs are a single type of entity,
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Smith asserts that there are "powers and principalities" at work --
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presumably supernatural entities like angels and demons.
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Furthermore, he said that a radical program of parapsychological
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research and development is currently underway near Los Alamos, New
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Mexico. This group's development of psychokinesis, and psychotronics
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(a term used to denote psychic warfare techniques) represents a danger
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of eschatological proportions. "These techniques have been available,
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but controlled, throughout history. Now, other entities are forcing
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the issue," said Smith.
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During the course of our first conversation, Smith was unable to
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provide much proof of his claims. He reported that his governmental
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sources "hinted at" an eschatological emergency. To prove the evil
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intent of the entities involved, he referred to reports of human
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mutilations in the Amazon which have been officially attribbuted to
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drug dealers, but according to his sources, were committed by these
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evil entities. When I asked why the CIA was interested in eschatology,
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he replied that the ramifications of the eschaton event represented a
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serious threat to national security, and thus, fell into the parview
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of the intelligence agencies.
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Smith also revealed that the eschatological issues he raised related
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directly to the Biblical prophecies of the book of Revelations.
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I thanked Mr. Smith for the call, and invited him to keep me abreast
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of future developments. With the addition of demons, angels, "black
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magic," psychotronic technology, and assorted spooks working at cross
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purposes, my already strained credulity was pushed a bit further.
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The Aviary
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Dan proceeded to call me regularly. Each call provided tantalizing
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snippets of information -- some simply incredible at first hearing,
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but with confirmation on some of the data coming in from disparate
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sources all across the country. Naturally, my curiosity centered
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around the identities and activities of the Aviary. I suspect that
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many believe the Bird People to be cogs in a giant conspiracy to
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manage the public's perception of UFOs. Not necessarily so, according
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to Smith. Far from being a well-funded, omnipotent secret society of
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the guardians of UFO data, the Aviary is nothing more than an ad hoc
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group of highly-placed "UFO buffs."
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Initially, the factor that seemed most important was that Pelican was
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being so forthcoming -- presumably with the knowledge and consent of
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his superiors at CIA. This in itself forced me to conclude that there
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are two possible motives for all this apparent glasnost:
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1. There is indeed an eschatological emergency as described by Dan
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Smith, i.e. fulfillment of biblical prophesy with attendent
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catastrophes; and/or
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2. There is a new twist to the ol' UFO debunking game, capitalizing on
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new-age mysticism and millennial "apocophilia."
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Frankly, I lean towards the second explanation. After all, Smith
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himself described the Aviary as "amplifying people's own
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misconceptions about the paranormal. It does this by helping to
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overinflate individual pieces of the puzzle so that particular
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investigators get pushed further into their own blind alleys." I've
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personally been occupied by this ongoing saga for many months -- a
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"blind alley?" I wish I knew, but in either case, Pelican's
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involvement in this affair raises the ante significantly.
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Has something changed? Could we really be facing biblical "End Times?"
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As I mentioned previously, I would have laughed-off such suggestions a
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few months ago. However, Smith's references to "out of control"
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psychotronic research proved to be more substantive than I first
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realized.
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The Aviary is believed to be comprised of:
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Bruce Maccabee (Seagull) - Well-known Naval photograhic expert who
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verified the authenticity of the Gulf Breeze photos, a MUFON
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consultant and member of the Board of Directors of the Fund for UFO
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Research.
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Hal Puthoff, PhD. (Owl) - Physicist with the Institute for Advanced
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Research in Austin, Texas who specializes in Zero-Point Energy, a
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quantum phenomenon that could provide "free energy." Puthoff was once
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involved in remote-viewing experiments at the Stanford Research
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Institute.
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Dale Graff (Raven) - Performed contract oversight for the DIA at
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Wright Patterson AFB. Most recently, Graff was the chief of the DIA's
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Defense Technology/Special department. Rumored to be an abductee, and
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involved in "black magic" and psychotronic programs at Los Alamos, but
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fired recently by DIA. Smith says that Graff is the head of the
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"military" UFO working group at Los Alamos.
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Jack Vorona (bird name unknown) - Vorona is apparently the most covert
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of all the Birds. He is believed to have been a liason between Capitol
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Hill and Los Alamos. Was once involved in Project Sleeping Beauty, an
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attempt to disable enemy troops using electromagnetic radiation.
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Vorona has recently "vanished," and his present whereabouts are
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unknown.
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Richard Doty (Falcon) - Former AFOSI agent. Directly involved in the
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Bennewitz affair, and the attempt to funnel UFO information (or
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disinformation) concerning UFO briefing documents for the President to
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Linda Moulton Howe. Allegedly responsible for leaking bogus UFO
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reports while in AFOSI at Kirtland AFB. Currently employed by the New
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Mexico state police stationed in Dulce, New Mexico.
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Christopher "Kit" Green MD, PhD. (Bluejay) - Pelican's predecessor at
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the "Wierd Desk" at CIA. According to Smith, Green at one time had
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autopsy reports and photos of a UFO that crashed in a foreign country.
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Dr. Green is currently the chief of the Biomedical Sciences Dept. for
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General Motors. The CIA awarded him the National Intelligence Medal
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for his work on a classified project during the period 1979 to 1983.
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Robert Collins (Condor) - Former Captain, USAF. Involved in the
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Bennewitz affair, and probably participated in the scheme (with
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Richard Doty) to release UFO information/ disinformation to Linda
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Moulton Howe at Kirtland AFB.
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Ernie Kellerstraus (Hawk) - While working at Wright Patterson AFB in
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the '70s, he along with Bob Collins and Dale Graff are said to have
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supplied information to William Moore. Kellerstraus is rumored to have
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lived with an alien for a while (?), and is probably the source for
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the story concerning the aliens' preference for "strawberry ice
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cream".
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Scott Jones (Chickadee) - Well-connected, well-funded (by Laurence
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Rockefeller) head of the Human Potential Foundation. Former aid to
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Sen. Claiborne Pell, who has had a long-standing interest in UFOs and
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the paranormal. Jones is a MUFON Consultant with numerous highly
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placed government sources who consistently finds "no interest by
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government in UFOs."
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Bill Moore - (bird name unknown) This former Minnesota school teacher
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may have initiated a new regime in regards to ufology by the
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publication of "The Roswell Incident." This in itself may have been
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the single event that began the stripping away of decades of
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well-guarded UFO secrecy. His involvement in the Aviary seems to be
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either one of active coordination of the other Birds, or simply as a
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dupe, such as in the Bennewitz affair.
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John Alexander (Penquin) - Former colonel in Army Intelligence
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(INSCOM). Rumored to be involved in the Army's UFO research. Member of
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the board of directors of Psi Tech. Currently, head of "non-lethal"
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weapons program (see "Secret Conference" article) at Los Alamos. Said
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to be briefing Vice President Gore on the UFO phenomenon and psi
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projects.
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"Pelican," PhD - Pelican is a physicist with the CIA's Directorate of
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Science and Technology, who mans the "Wierd Desk" (UFOs, etc) at CIA.
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Apparently, it is Pelican who provided the bulk of the information
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that Smith tirelessly passed on. Smith says that Pelican has received
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some heat from his superiors for becoming so visible due to the AIR #1
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report on Bruce Maccabee's relationship to the CIA.
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Psi-Tech
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Psi-Tech is a private company that claims to provide its clients
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remote viewing services. Remote viewing is the act of psychically
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perceiving places or events at a distance. These techniques were
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learned during his stint with the US Army's Intelligence and Security
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Command (INSCOM), according to Major Ed Dames (ret.) , president of
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Psi-Tech, who describes his operation thusly (taken from a Psi-Tech
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brochure):
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PSI TECH, Inc. was founded in 1989 to perform specialized proprietary
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studies for science and industry on a contract basis.
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PSI TECH consists of a select, technically qualified group of
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professional analysts who provide a unique data collection capability
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not available anywhere else in the world. We are a team of highly
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trained Remote Viewing specialists.
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Remote Viewing has been validated by governmental and private
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scientific groups over the last two decades. Briefly stated, a remote
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viewer is able to locate and accurately describe things and events
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distant in time and space.
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PSI TECH has developed applied remote viewing into a powerful
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investigative tool. Our disciplined team of experts combines more
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than forty man-years of applied remote viewing experience.
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The rigorous target acquisition, data collection, and analytic
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protocols that we employ guarantee products and solutions of high
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value to PSI TECH customers.
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PSI TECH can rapidly provide you with reliable information that simply
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may not be available via any other means!
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PSI-TECH currently employs nine highly experienced remote viewers. The
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company also utilizes Ingo Swann as a subcontractor. Mr. Swann is
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internationally recognized as this country's premier natural psychic.
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He discovered and developed the proprietary methods now used by our
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company to train and conduct technical remote viewing.
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PSI-TECH has appointed two outside directors from science and
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industry. Additionally. we have at our disposal an adjunct Technical
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Analysis Team consisting of a multidisciplinary group of distinguished
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scientists, engineers, and medical doctors from national labs, major
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corporations and universities. These individuals provide analytical
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support to PSI-TECH technical intelligence collection projects as
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required.
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PSI-TECH training and operations performance standards are exacting.
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we require military precision on the part of our remote viewers. Each
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viewer works independently and does not collaborate or compare data
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with other viewers. The training program employed to install those
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unique skills which enable the production of calibrated, consistent
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and accurate results is rigorous.
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While at work a viewer's mind-body state could he generally
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characterized as one of high attention. To an unwitting observer a
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PSI-TECH viewer could easily be mistaken for someone engaged in an
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attempt to solve a difficult math or science problem. Conscious focus
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shifts between the tasks of directing the trained unconscious in a
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systematic exploration of the assigned target, breaking out (decoding)
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the target-associated gestalt patterns of information, then rendering
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the data as detailed words and sketches, (or models if necessary).
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Meticulous attention to technical remote viewing structure is required
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not only to correctly acquire the target and maintain lock-on but
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additionally to disallow subconscious analysis and/or imagination from
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interfering with the unconsciously acquired signal.
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----
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Dames, a retired major in US Army Intelligence, is apparently "being
|
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all that he can be," bringing the skills he learned while in the Army
|
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to the marketplace. He claims that Psi-Tech has performed these
|
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|
projects to date: Enigma Penetration: The Tunguska Event; Enigma
|
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Penetration: Soviet Phobos II Space Craft Imaged Anomaly; Projected
|
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|
Technologies: Advanced Deep Space Propulsion Systems; Clandestine
|
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Iraqi Biological Weapons Facilities (Gratis in support of the United
|
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Nations CBW Inspection Team); A Relook of the KAL Flight 007 Shoot-
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down; Atmospheric Ozone Depletion - Projected Consequences and
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Remedial Technologies; and the Saint-Exupery Crash Site.
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I'm sure we'd all like to find out what Psi Tech's RVing has
|
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discovered on these events, however, Dames regrets to inform us that
|
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this is "proprietary" information gleaned under contract. This would
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be interesting enough on its own, but Dames claims that fully 60% of
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his company's time is spent RVing (remote viewing) UFOs!
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Here are a few of Mr. Dames statements regarding UFOs (from a phone
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conversation with Dan Smith):
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----
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RV's of many UFO events are blocked by external agency, (cosmic
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censorship?).
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UFO type viewing encounters two types of entities: aliens and angels.
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Aliens are more physical with quasi-physical type craft. They are in
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trouble and need our resources, which they take, and if humans are
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involved they recieve mental impressions to confuse what is really
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going on. The angels are policing these alien activities. The angels
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technology is more concerned with the mental and transcendental or
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metaphysical domains.
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Ed uses the terms ground zero or ground truth to refer to a spot in SW
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US where much of their work is done. The angels led them to this spot,
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indicating that it would be a good place for contacting aliens, about
|
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10 years ago. Various forms of contact then occurred.
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Dames discussed eschatological implications at some length. His group
|
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|
gets indications of unavoidable bad stuff in the next couple of
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|
decades. Deleterious climate changes, storms adversely effecting
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|
agriculture. He also foresees a quasi-public contact with UFOs near
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the ground zero site, within one and a half years (August, 1993). It
|
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|
would be an ongoing contact, of a prophetic sort with both Angels and
|
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Aliens involved. His review committee will work out possible
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|
coverage. He is not so concerned about a global spiritual emergency,
|
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|
as about the physical (meteorological?) emergencies.
|
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|
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|
----
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|
So there you have it... UFOs plus psychic adepts equals End of the
|
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|
World.
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Of course, one could dismiss Dames as a bunko artist selling his
|
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|
$6,000-$8,000 a week services to an affluent but gullible clientele.
|
||
|
But before dismissing Dames' claims, readers should be aware of a few
|
||
|
other pertinent facts. On the Psi-Tech board of directors are two
|
||
|
fairly high-level players; General Albert Stubblebine (US Army
|
||
|
Intelligence, ret.), and Colonel John Alexander (ret.) both formerly
|
||
|
of the US Army's Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).
|
||
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|
||
|
Stubblebine, former commander of INSCOM, gave a presentation at the
|
||
|
International Symposium on UFO Research (sponsored by the
|
||
|
International Association for New Science, Denver CO, May 22-25, 1992)
|
||
|
on the subject of "Remote Viewing as a Research Tool." In this
|
||
|
presentation, Stubblebine described remote viewing:
|
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|
||
|
"It is independent of time, OK? So I can go past, I can go present, I
|
||
|
can go future. It is independent of locations, so I can go anywhere on
|
||
|
this earth. I can go into any closet, I can go into any mind, I can
|
||
|
access that information at any location that I choose."
|
||
|
|
||
|
On the subject of RVing UFOs, Stubblebine said:
|
||
|
|
||
|
"As far as UFOs are concerned, they can be accessed, they can be
|
||
|
tracked, we have looked at the propulsion system for them, that's not
|
||
|
a hard job, you can track them back to where they come from, whether
|
||
|
they come from a place here on this planet or whether they come from a
|
||
|
place on another planet, they are trackable and you can take a look
|
||
|
inside as well as outside, so again, it is a tool that is available to
|
||
|
be used for the UFO research and I guess, I guess that's the reason
|
||
|
that I am standing on this platform in spite of my misgivings and
|
||
|
feeling a little bit nervous like a tree in a Lassie movie."
|
||
|
|
||
|
Stubblebine also claimed that his remote viewing of the planet Mars
|
||
|
had revealed structures and machines operating both on and below the
|
||
|
Martian surface.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Many suspect that John Alexander is the "colonel" referred to in
|
||
|
Howard Blum's recent book, "Out There". In this book, Blum described a
|
||
|
group of remote viewers in the Pentagon who frequently encountered
|
||
|
UFOs in their psychic "sorties" to locate Soviet submarines. Alexander
|
||
|
seems to have an extremely eclectic background -- he received a PhD.
|
||
|
in Thanatology (the study of death and near-death experiences) from
|
||
|
Georgetown University under the tutelage of the celebrated Dr.
|
||
|
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Apparently, Alexander is a "mind-control"
|
||
|
junkie, having studied everything from Silva Mind Control, to a stint
|
||
|
in a Buddhist monastery.
|
||
|
|
||
|
When the National Research Council issued its findings that there was
|
||
|
no evidence of paranormal phenomena, Alexander wrote a critique of the
|
||
|
report that was both passionate and eloquent. In this rebuttal, he
|
||
|
compared the report's apparent a priori conclusions to the Condon
|
||
|
Commission's report on UFOs. Interestingly, Alexander is widely
|
||
|
believed to have been instrumental in the Army's UFO Intelligence
|
||
|
activities, and is rumored to have assisted in the investigation of
|
||
|
the Cash/Landrum UFO-injury case.
|
||
|
|
||
|
In addition to his Psi-Tech work, Alexander currently heads a research
|
||
|
project at Los Alamos, New Mexico, focused on "non-lethal" military
|
||
|
technology. "Non- lethal" in the conventional parlance refers to
|
||
|
methods of eroding an enemy's war-making capabilities without the
|
||
|
excessive death and destruction that could possibly harden an enemy's
|
||
|
resolve to fight, or cause a moral revulsion in our own population
|
||
|
that could weaken political resolve to continue a war until U.S.
|
||
|
military objectives could be achieved. Wiping-out enemy radars and
|
||
|
communication electronics through powerful electromagnetic pulses
|
||
|
(EMP) is one type of non-lethal weapon, spraying roads and railroad
|
||
|
tracks with a super-slippery lubricant, thereby paralyzing
|
||
|
transportation, is another.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Alexander has been mentioned almost synonomously with non-lethal
|
||
|
weapons technology in many mainstream news reports, including a
|
||
|
lengthy piece in the Wall Street Journal. He is also rumored to be a
|
||
|
candidate for an Undersecretary of Defense appointment in the Clinton
|
||
|
administration.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Surprisingly, Army Intelligence RV operations has become married,
|
||
|
literally, with some prominent figures in UFO abductions research.
|
||
|
Albert Stubblebine is now married to Dr. Rima Laibow, whose scholarly
|
||
|
paper on the abduction phenomenon was the first (as far as I know) to
|
||
|
address the issue in the mental-health community. John Alexander is
|
||
|
now married to the former Victoria Lacas, Dr. Laibow's close
|
||
|
associate.
|
||
|
|
||
|
This list of strange bedfellows gets even stranger when you add the
|
||
|
name of CSETI founder and head honcho, Steven Greer, M.D., into the
|
||
|
mix. As it turns out, Greer, whose modus operandi incorporates shining
|
||
|
blinking lights and laser beams at UFOs in the hopes of establishing
|
||
|
communications with the ufonauts, was trained in remote viewing by Ed
|
||
|
Dames. In fact, it was Dr. Greer who introduced Stubblebine at the
|
||
|
Denver symposium.
|
||
|
|
||
|
So, what we have so far is that several former high-ranking military
|
||
|
personnel (Stubblebine, Alexander,and Dames) who were involved in
|
||
|
"psychic" research while in Army Intelligence, and who are now
|
||
|
actively involved in the UFO research community. Further, Dames has
|
||
|
staked his company's professional reputation on the prediction that an
|
||
|
overt contact with aliens will occur in the Four Corners area by
|
||
|
August of 1993. Naturally, August came and went without incident.
|
||
|
|
||
|
One of ufology's more cogent analysts, who is convinced of the reality
|
||
|
of remote viewing based on his own personal search, told me that
|
||
|
Dames' activities had resulted in the successful discrediting of both
|
||
|
UFOs and remote viewing. Was this the plan all along or is Dames just
|
||
|
a charlatan?
|
||
|
|
||
|
"Black" Projects
|
||
|
----------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
Dan Smith explained that the reason that so much information was being
|
||
|
disseminated was due to the eschatological implications of the
|
||
|
psychotronic research underway at covert government research
|
||
|
facilities.
|
||
|
|
||
|
It would seem unlikely that this type of technology is currently
|
||
|
feasible. After all, if the government had access to psychotronic
|
||
|
weapons, why didn't they induce Saddam Hussein to stroll naked through
|
||
|
the streets of Baghdad, asking his subjects to admire his new clothes;
|
||
|
or simply cause a major blood vessel in his brain to burst?
|
||
|
|
||
|
But Smith sincerely believes that such technologies are being
|
||
|
developed, specifically under the guise of "non-lethal" weapons
|
||
|
research, such as that headed by John Alexander. Smith says,
|
||
|
point-blank, that this technology is nothing less than "black magic."
|
||
|
|
||
|
Supposedly, this business is taken so seriously at upper echelons that
|
||
|
the Secret Service retrieved all of the bloody bandages discarded
|
||
|
after Ronald Reagan was wounded in an assassination attempt, lest the
|
||
|
president's blood be used in a "black magic" ritual that could
|
||
|
influence his behavior. I suppose this story is somewhat more credible
|
||
|
after the revelations concerning the Reagan's "court astrologer."
|
||
|
|
||
|
According to Dan Smith, use of these psychotronic techniques entail a
|
||
|
perilous threat to democracy -- potentially, a type of instantaneous
|
||
|
mass mind control to program a pesky proletariat -- and worse.
|
||
|
|
||
|
These claims should be taken into context of published papers on the
|
||
|
ability to induce auditory sensations through microwave bombardment at
|
||
|
certain frequencies. In Alexander's book, "The Warrior's Edge" (with
|
||
|
Morris and Grollier), he states matter of factly that remote viewing
|
||
|
and psychokinesis are not only real, but have predictable, practical
|
||
|
applications. Indeed, the focus of the book is how to utilize mind
|
||
|
control techniques to achieve an advantage over one's adversaries.
|
||
|
|
||
|
There's absolutely no telling what Cold War ethics combined with
|
||
|
unlimited budgets and zero accountability could have wrought in terms
|
||
|
of Frankensteinian scenarios. To ellucidate this point, I present this
|
||
|
extract from a paper by Ray Boeche, a Lincoln, Nebraska, theologian
|
||
|
and Fortean researcher.
|
||
|
|
||
|
----
|
||
|
|
||
|
"To all interested researchers:
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
The following is an edited version of material given to me in late
|
||
|
1991 - early 1992, by two scientists who claim to be working in
|
||
|
weapons research and development for the Department of Defense.
|
||
|
|
||
|
I am not in a position to comment on the truthfulness or accuracy of
|
||
|
the information. The two men who have spoken to me do, in fact, exist,
|
||
|
and for all intents and purposes seem to be who and what they claim.
|
||
|
The very nature of the claims makes verification difficult, if not
|
||
|
impossible.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Divulging this information was the result of a moral dilemma, when
|
||
|
these two individuals, both Christians, became alarmed at the course
|
||
|
their research efforts into psychotronic weapons was taking under the
|
||
|
direction of their (unnamed) superiors. They described an obsessive
|
||
|
effort to contact and attempt to control what they referred to as
|
||
|
"non-human intelligences" (NHI), and to harness these NHI for military
|
||
|
and intelligence uses.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The efforts had progressed well past attempts at practical
|
||
|
applications of David Bohm's theories, and had grown to encompass the
|
||
|
use of, according to their statements, "satanic rituals / ritual magic
|
||
|
along the lines of that espoused by Aleister Crowley, including human
|
||
|
sacrifices."
|
||
|
|
||
|
These gentlemen stated their concerns that, even when they were
|
||
|
apparently able to harness or channel these forces or abilities for
|
||
|
"good" uses, the force would "turn," and ultimately all of those
|
||
|
subjects involved suffered varying degrees of negative effects from
|
||
|
contact with these forces. They are convinced that what is being
|
||
|
tapped into in all instances is evil, and that this research should
|
||
|
cease.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Contact has continued on a limited basis, with no new information of
|
||
|
significance forthcoming."
|
||
|
|
||
|
After speculation as to the physics of the paranormal, Boeche sums up
|
||
|
the startling details he received:
|
||
|
|
||
|
Information given, but not allowed to note during meeting: Discussion
|
||
|
of individuals killed during psychotronic weapons experiments.
|
||
|
|
||
|
1. Male, white, 25-30 yrs., allegedly death by remotely induced
|
||
|
cardiac arrest.
|
||
|
|
||
|
2. Female, white, 20-25 yr., allegedly death by remotely transmitting
|
||
|
and creating head trauma equivalent to crushing of right anterior
|
||
|
portion of the skull.
|
||
|
|
||
|
3. Male, white, 30-40 yrs., allegedly death by remotely controlled
|
||
|
suffocation.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Setting was in a laboratory environment. Alleged victims were wired
|
||
|
for EEG & EKG, seated in reclining chair, somewhat similar to
|
||
|
dentist's chair.
|
||
|
|
||
|
In efforts to establish contact with non-human intelligences, every
|
||
|
avenue is being explored. Satanic rituals involving human sacrifice
|
||
|
have been performed. Much study is/has been given to writings of
|
||
|
Crowley.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Bentwaters experiment was the projection of an actual, physical three-
|
||
|
dimensional object, which could and did interact with its environment,
|
||
|
but was create and controlled by individuals involved in this
|
||
|
research.
|
||
|
|
||
|
No project names were given because the sources were too concerned
|
||
|
that a leak would be traced back to them."
|
||
|
|
||
|
----
|
||
|
|
||
|
Mr. Boeche used the term "scripted" (i.e. slow enough to allow for
|
||
|
copious note-taking, except when he was asked to cease writing during
|
||
|
the descriptions of the psychotronically induced deaths) to describe
|
||
|
the presentation delivered by the two putative DoD scientists. In my
|
||
|
communications with Mr. Boeche, he was at a loss to explain why the
|
||
|
two DoD scientists were still working on projects they found to be
|
||
|
morally repugnant, and if they really wanted to blow the whistle on
|
||
|
this activity, why did they reveal it to an obscure ufologist and not
|
||
|
the New York Times or "Nightline." I have to agree with Boeche's
|
||
|
assessment that the story is probably disinformation for some unknown
|
||
|
purpose.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The only question here is -- what could the motivation be?
|
||
|
|
||
|
The story related by Ray Boeche is supported by Dan Smith's thesis,
|
||
|
i.e. humans are messing with forces that are getting out of control,
|
||
|
perhaps with disastrous consequences. According to Smith, these
|
||
|
"sorcerer's apprentices" are going at it hot and heavy at government
|
||
|
psychotronics labs in or near Los Alamos, New Mexico.
|
||
|
|
||
|
It has been rumored that there have already been several high-level
|
||
|
meetings between those who are concerned about secret psi/UFO programs
|
||
|
and representatives of the Clinton administration. According to one
|
||
|
rumor, Pelican met with Jack Gibbons, the White House Science Advisor.
|
||
|
Gibbons is reported to have responded that "the President shouldn't
|
||
|
touch this topic with a 10-foot pole." Instead, meetings concerning
|
||
|
these "black" psi/UFO projects have been channeled through the
|
||
|
Vice-President's office under the cover story of "alternate energy
|
||
|
sources." There have also been meetings with Senate Intelligence
|
||
|
Committee Chief of Staff, Dick DiAmato, who is said to be interested
|
||
|
in the ongoing strangeness at Area 51.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Variations on this rumor have John Alexander as the contact with the
|
||
|
Clinton administration. This makes a certain amount of sense, in that
|
||
|
Alexander knows Al Gore from his days as a Senator, when he taught
|
||
|
several Congressmen, including Gore, some basic Neuro-Linguistic
|
||
|
Programming techniques.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Interestingly, the subject of "Presidential Haircuts" may be connected
|
||
|
to this affair. It has been independently reported to me that Mr.
|
||
|
Clinton had another delay on the tarmac in Los Alamos, after his tour
|
||
|
of high-tech research facilities in the area. This was just days
|
||
|
before the LAX / Christophe incident. The inference from this is that
|
||
|
either the President's hair must grow very fast, or else highly secure
|
||
|
meetings are occuring on airport runways (presumably Air Force 1 is
|
||
|
bug-free).
|
||
|
|
||
|
A Conversation with Pelican
|
||
|
---------------------------
|
||
|
|
||
|
In order to give Pelican an opportunity to confirm or deny the
|
||
|
eschatological scenario presented by Dan Smith, I gave him a call.
|
||
|
Readers who expect dramatic revelations will be disappointed, although
|
||
|
Pelican did provide some interesting tidbits.
|
||
|
|
||
|
First, he sounded much younger than I expected. Second, he had a very
|
||
|
sharp sense of humor (I had to laugh out loud several times during the
|
||
|
course of our conversation). I limited my questions to the subjects of
|
||
|
eschatology and the Aviary. His answers seemed forthright -- he didn't
|
||
|
seem stressed to avoid any particular topic, and I found him to be
|
||
|
quite convincing.
|
||
|
|
||
|
My first question dealt with with Dan's statements concerning
|
||
|
dangerous "black" programs that were out of control. Curiously,
|
||
|
Pelican responded that "Dan isn't cleared for that kind of
|
||
|
information" -- not exactly a repudiation of Dan's story.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Pelican did admit that he talks to Dan frequently -- about physics.
|
||
|
When I told him that Dan had been claiming to be a "conduit" for
|
||
|
semi-official information from him, Pelican rather ambiguously stated,
|
||
|
"He may very well be doing that... I talk to him once in a while and
|
||
|
we share information. I really don't tell him anything that's
|
||
|
classified or work-related... he certainly isn't functioning in the
|
||
|
role of a conduit for me."
|
||
|
|
||
|
I quoted Dan Smith's statement to the effect that "the best place to
|
||
|
find fellow eschatologists was in the intelligence agencies," to which
|
||
|
Pelican responded "he didn't find any here" at CIA.
|
||
|
|
||
|
I inquired about the status of psychotronic weapons research. Pelican
|
||
|
was dismissive of the entire subject, calling it "modern-day
|
||
|
shamanism." He also stated that psychotronics is only taken seriously
|
||
|
in countries like Russia and China that do not have the rigorous
|
||
|
peer-reviewed scientific establishment such as in the U.S.
|
||
|
|
||
|
I raised the subject of Psi Tech, and Ed Dames' risking his company's
|
||
|
reputation on his prediction of an overt alien contact in the Chaco
|
||
|
Canyon area by the end of August '93. "What reputation? It's a joke...
|
||
|
the only paying customer Psi Tech has ever had was Dan Smith himself,
|
||
|
who gave Psi Tech $3,000 to remote view a crop circle being made,"
|
||
|
Pelican responded. I asked about the high-level personnel on Psi
|
||
|
Tech's board of directors like Stubblebine and Alexander. Pelican was
|
||
|
dismissive of Stubblebine, recounting that Stubblebine's nick-name was
|
||
|
"General Spoonbender," due to his belief in psychic phenomena. Pelican
|
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holds Alexander in considerably higher regard, however, stating, "he's
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a friend of mine."
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Next, I asked about the Aviary. According to Pelican, the Aviary is
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nothing more than the product of the somewhat-deranged mind of
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"Falcon," retired Air Force Captain Robert Collins, who worked in
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Foreign Technology Assessment in regards to missile technology -- not
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AFOSI as is widely believed. Pelican said that Collins was discharged
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from the Air Force after breaching the security perimeter at the
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Manzano nuclear weapons storage facility at Kirtland AFB.
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When taken into custody by base security, Collins told them he was
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there "to meet the President." He was discharged shortly thereafter
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(Dan says that this incident was orchestrated by Bill Moore, with the
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hapless Collins left twisting in the wind).
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Soon after his discharge, Collins began mailing letters "...with my
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real name and address on the outside, and my codename on the inside,"
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said Pelican, who considered these mailings such a hoot that he posted
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them on his office wall for the entertainment of his CIA colleagues.
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All in all, an interesting conversation, but I was (as the reader
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undoubtedly is now) more confused than ever.
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Of course, nobody is shocked any more by government denials that turn
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out to be less than truthful, but as I said before, Pelican was very
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convincing. He reiterated Dan Smith's proviso that I keep his name
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confidential -- not to keep him from being deluged by UFO kooks, but
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rather, so he wouldn't receive unwanted attention from foreign agents
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-- a condition that I'll honor, even though Pelican's real name is
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already well known to researchers following this story.
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Alien Eschatology
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Against this flurry of phone calls, rumors, denials, and
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confirmations, HUFON's own abduction research has uncovered an
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eschatological angle. It seems even the abductors are getting on the
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eschatology band-wagon with abductees reportedly meeting (or at least
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perceiving) God, Jesus, dead relatives, and the like, often with dire
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warnings concerning "the end of the world."
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Senior HUFON abductions investigator Dale Musser does not take these
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accounts at face value, nor does he reject them outright. Musser had
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this to say about "spiritual" aspects of the abduction phenomenon:
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"This theory is one held by a number of abductees. Most of these
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abductees have been told by the abductors that the aliens have the
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right (implication of a divine nature) to do the things they are
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doing to the abductees. That they are here to save the earth (exact
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means of doing this vary from subject to subject) and to help us.
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Usually the abductee is told they were "chosen" and are made to
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feel important because of this selection. Often they are told that
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at a later date they will 'know what to do,' or they will
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"understand when the time is right." The true nature of the beings
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themselves is never explained, but left to the individual to
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determine. Many believe them to possibly be angels, or other
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entities, in service to a deity. There does not seem to be any
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clearly defined message, nor are the messages consistent from one
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abductee to another.
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"There are several problems with this theory from an investigative
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standpoint. First there is even less proof for their statements
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than for the abduction itself. The vagueness of the messages
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certainly does not relate to trying to convince us of their
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concern about the issues. Second, the means and methods of
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relaying the messages have the lowest probability of achieving
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results. Third, the messages given are usually interpreted after
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an event has occurred rather then before, therefore, one never
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knows for sure if that's what was truly intended. Most events
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predicted, or messages conveyed which are to be understood later,
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almost never happen, and those that do are subject to question.
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Fourth, the religious significance of the abductors is usually
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relevant to the belief system of the abductee. It is not universal
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to all abductees.
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"It would appear the abductors 'access' the belief system of the
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abductee and play back a scenario that will be acceptable to the
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abductees and make them more cooperative. If the individual is
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Judeo-Christian, the aliens and their purposes will appear to fit
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within that system. If the subject is a Buddhist, the scenario will
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be within that belief system. However this is not always true. In
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one case, an abductee (who was Christian) was presented with a
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totally pagan and mythical belief scenario. A mistake, or a test?
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Who knows?
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"What we do know is that there does not appear to be any
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consistency to information in these events other than making the
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individual believe the abductors are here on some sort of divine
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mission. It is interesting to note that atheists seldom have
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encounters where they are presented with religious scenarios. Often
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they are presented with the idea the aliens are here to help us
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prevent the same fate which supposedly befell their own world. It
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is hard to believe there is any truth to these spiritual
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connections and beliefs when so many differing ones are presented,
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some in conflict with the other. The conclusion one could draw
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from the data presented is "whatever works, they will use."
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---
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So, the abducting entities can't seem to keep their stories straight.
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One would expect at least consistency from advanced alien beings,
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heavenly angels or demons from hell -- whatever they may be.
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Novelist Whitley Strieber, whose abduction experiences are described
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|
vividly in his non-fiction books, "Communion" and "Transformation"
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|
recounted that when he asked the entities what they were up to, they
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responded "We recycle souls." He too was shown "lessons" concerning a
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catastrophe affecting the earth.
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Strieber, who has become "alienated" from organized ufology due to his
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|
refusal to categorize the entities he encountered as extraterrestrial
|
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aliens, can only characterize the phenomenon as "not a dream, not a
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|
hallucination, and not real - something else."
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|
Which brings me back to the subject at hand: what is going on?
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|
In a word, confusion. There seems to be no correlation between the
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|
perceived abduction events and Dan Smith's eschatological emergency
|
||
|
caused by the practice of "black magic." Smith does seem to be hedging
|
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|
his bets at times. He has told me that the eschaton event could be a
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||
|
"benign eschaton," consisting of a universal and positive shift in
|
||
|
human behavior due to Revealed Truth. I could go for that...
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|
Just as occurred in the waning days of the year 999, when
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||
|
millennialism swept through Europe causing a virtual societal
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||
|
breakdown, today there is a growing millennialist movement where many
|
||
|
of the faithful foresee a period of catastrophic "Earth changes," and
|
||
|
Armageddon, the fulfillment of biblical prophesy.
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|
Fundamentalist Christians eagerly await this disaster because it will
|
||
|
usher in a thousand-year kingdom of Jesus on Earth.
|
||
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||
|
New-Age channelers are also getting into the act with messages from
|
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|
angels/ avatars/aliens warning of imminent "Earth changes" along with
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||
|
warnings against gun control, Zionism, the "New World Order," and
|
||
|
other right-wing paranoid delusions.
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||
|
When considering these claims, one would be remiss in not pointing out
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||
|
the upsurge in reports of Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) sightings, and
|
||
|
other paranormal events of religious significance to the experiencers.
|
||
|
As with the many New Age channeled messages, many of the reported
|
||
|
Marion locutions warn of "Earth changes" and the "End Times." Starting
|
||
|
in 1981, the most spectacular and long-lasting BVM visitation (with
|
||
|
scads of witnesses to the "miracles") occurred in Medjugorje, on the
|
||
|
Adriatic coast of Bosnia Herzegovinia, now one of the most horrific
|
||
|
hell-holes on the planet. So much for the positive spiritual effects
|
||
|
one might expect from from such beatific locutions. Maybe things just
|
||
|
aren't what they seem.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Anyone familiar with UFO-abduction accounts is forced to conclude that
|
||
|
weird things are happening or at least being perceived as happening by
|
||
|
large numbers of otherwise sane, functional peopIe. Some of these
|
||
|
abductions reports are so bizarre, and with so many similarities to
|
||
|
BVM encounters, that many thoughtful researchers have abandoned the
|
||
|
extraterrestrial hypothesis in favor of the metaphysical or
|
||
|
interdimensional hypothesis.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Dr. Jacques Vallee has even incorporated the high strangeness of these
|
||
|
events into his comprehensive catalogue of close encounters under the
|
||
|
rubric of "reality transformation."
|
||
|
|
||
|
As author/futurist Arthur C. Clark is quoted as saying, any
|
||
|
sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic.
|
||
|
David Mayo took this concept a step further when he stated that if
|
||
|
advanced technology appears to be magic, then technology an order of
|
||
|
magnitude beyond that could have the appearance of nonsense to our
|
||
|
primitive simian brains.
|
||
|
|
||
|
But if there really is such a thing as "black magic," and government
|
||
|
scientists are experimenting with it, I suspect that they could be
|
||
|
blindly running the same risks in dealing with such unknown forces as
|
||
|
the 19th-century scientists who thought nothing of casually handling
|
||
|
radium and other radioactive materials.
|
||
|
|
||
|
With the clock inexorably ticking off the seconds until midnight,
|
||
|
December 31, 1999 (a date that seems to have some special significance
|
||
|
to the millennialists) eschatological fervor will undoubtedly
|
||
|
increase. Meanwhile, whoever or whatever is behind the UFO phenomenon
|
||
|
is apparently doing everything possible to keep the true nature of
|
||
|
this mystery from being understood.
|
||
|
|
||
|
But rather than being an indicator of biblical "End Times" or "Earth
|
||
|
changes," the barrage of UFO reports, BVM sightings, abduction
|
||
|
accounts, channeled messages, religious hysteria, and inside poop from
|
||
|
the CIA are probably nothing more than further attempts to distort the
|
||
|
signal with more noise.
|
||
|
|
||
|
----
|
||
|
|
||
|
Many thanks to Robert Durant, Dale Musser, Ray Boeche, George Hansen,
|
||
|
Ron Madeley and of course, Dan Smith for their assistance on this
|
||
|
story.
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