The article last week concerning the certain existence of extra-human (extra terrestrial or extra dimensional) intelligence on our planet got me to buy the book, "UFO's and the National Security State," by Richard Dolan, perhaps one of the best writers on the subject. To those who are not interested in UFOs for whatever reason, I promise to not stick here permanently, but to those who are, there are more than a few things to discuss. One is the nature of the extra-human intelligence; the other is the problem of paranoia, or the Black Helicopter syndrome.
Paranoia about government secrecy did not lead me into an interest in UFO's - rather, accounts of people close to me,as well as a penchant for the unexplained,did. I have recently talked about my father and how his squadron saw UFO's after a bombing raid towards the end of WWII. But there were many other accounts that I heard, a few very close and personal. Dolan's book brought one memory to mind, after I read about the year 1975 in America, when a slew of UFO sightings were associated with a rash of bizarre animal mutilations. It so happened in that year, (give or take a year, to be honest) that the dairy farmer behind my parent's property complained about a rash of cow mutilations, with all the classic incisions and oddness: the tongues were cut out, the genitals and anus removed, among other things, and, most oddly, the blood was drained to near completion. These things were reported in the paper, with a conclusion drawn that it must have been done by coyotes, new to Connecticut then. But the farmer disagreed - the cows were not torn and their was no other sign of animal presence. And what about the lack of blood?
The exact same thing was going on throughout the country, from Maine to the South West, with the same vexing problem, although some were examined in greater detail. Often, the heart was missing, even though the casing to the heart and the chest cavity itself had not been pierced. The mutilations were done with such precision that only a lazer could perform them, but no signs of carbonizing (from high heat) could be found. There was the inexplicable blood drain as well, and lack of predator spore. It was also noticed by many that such areas were often inundated by unmarked, black helicopters. No agency claimed ownership, although they were seen by thousands of people, including a large number of police and national park field agents.
In my neck of the woods, I do not recall black helicopters, but we had many UFO incidences. The most remarkable happened near my girlfriend's house. They lived in the country, and one night her younger sister, age about 14, was awakened by bright colored lights. Looking out the window, she saw a classic flying saucer of mother ship proportions, over 100 yards in diameter, circling above an area to the west about half a mile away - which would be about where my parent's and farmer's property were. She woke her parents and the three watched the object for about 45 minutes until they became tired and went back to sleep. The girl was excited to tell me about it, but the father, when asked, got serious and a bit hostile, and said, "I didn't see nuthin'" Proof positive.
During the same year-long period, my girlfriend had a friend who was working at a hospital in a town just to the north. Driving home one night, lights came over her car and the car died. The lights went before her and hovered, shining a beam into her car. She was terrified. After several minutes, the lights went away and her car started without a problem.
There were other oddities that happened at this time as well, but these should be enough to show that something was going on. What it was, though, was simply not clear, nor are the explanations given now, for the UFO phenomena is weirder than most science fiction. If these "ETs" were only aliens with greater tech knowledge than us - like a Star Trek team from another planet - I believe people could handle the truth. But the incidences are so weird - including abductions, floating through walls, mutilations, appearances and disappearances, crop circles and so on that many researchers serious about the topic favor the idea that ETs are really EDs - extra-dimensional. That is, that they are far too alien for most of us to grasp in most ways. This sort of alien-ness is terrifying, like waking nightmares. So much so that the author, in the first chapter, admits (as I have done after long thought about it) that discloser by agencies that know of their existence would cause a massive change in human behavior, some of it very negative. The "black" agencies do have a very good reason to hide the truth based on conformity and control of world governments and commerce. However, the author gives this analogy: no new parents are ready for their first child, but they adapt - in time, they learn to be parents. He feels that we would be at first overwhelmed, then would adapt. I agree; but it is that time in between that our watchdogs fear.
Unfortunately, that has given rise to the "black helicopter" syndrome, as secrecy and weirdness often does - that is, to a proliferation of conspiracy theories that tend to cloud the REAL conspiracies. But who can choose among them? Which are real and which are not? On and off over the next week, I will provide the reader with what I glean from Richard Dolan. I only hope that he does not fall into the tin-hat confetti, although, admittedly, the UFO phenomena is so strange that to cull reality from fear and fantasy is often a very difficult thing. FK
Paranoia about government secrecy did not lead me into an interest in UFO's - rather, accounts of people close to me,as well as a penchant for the unexplained,did. I have recently talked about my father and how his squadron saw UFO's after a bombing raid towards the end of WWII. But there were many other accounts that I heard, a few very close and personal. Dolan's book brought one memory to mind, after I read about the year 1975 in America, when a slew of UFO sightings were associated with a rash of bizarre animal mutilations. It so happened in that year, (give or take a year, to be honest) that the dairy farmer behind my parent's property complained about a rash of cow mutilations, with all the classic incisions and oddness: the tongues were cut out, the genitals and anus removed, among other things, and, most oddly, the blood was drained to near completion. These things were reported in the paper, with a conclusion drawn that it must have been done by coyotes, new to Connecticut then. But the farmer disagreed - the cows were not torn and their was no other sign of animal presence. And what about the lack of blood?
The exact same thing was going on throughout the country, from Maine to the South West, with the same vexing problem, although some were examined in greater detail. Often, the heart was missing, even though the casing to the heart and the chest cavity itself had not been pierced. The mutilations were done with such precision that only a lazer could perform them, but no signs of carbonizing (from high heat) could be found. There was the inexplicable blood drain as well, and lack of predator spore. It was also noticed by many that such areas were often inundated by unmarked, black helicopters. No agency claimed ownership, although they were seen by thousands of people, including a large number of police and national park field agents.
In my neck of the woods, I do not recall black helicopters, but we had many UFO incidences. The most remarkable happened near my girlfriend's house. They lived in the country, and one night her younger sister, age about 14, was awakened by bright colored lights. Looking out the window, she saw a classic flying saucer of mother ship proportions, over 100 yards in diameter, circling above an area to the west about half a mile away - which would be about where my parent's and farmer's property were. She woke her parents and the three watched the object for about 45 minutes until they became tired and went back to sleep. The girl was excited to tell me about it, but the father, when asked, got serious and a bit hostile, and said, "I didn't see nuthin'" Proof positive.
During the same year-long period, my girlfriend had a friend who was working at a hospital in a town just to the north. Driving home one night, lights came over her car and the car died. The lights went before her and hovered, shining a beam into her car. She was terrified. After several minutes, the lights went away and her car started without a problem.
There were other oddities that happened at this time as well, but these should be enough to show that something was going on. What it was, though, was simply not clear, nor are the explanations given now, for the UFO phenomena is weirder than most science fiction. If these "ETs" were only aliens with greater tech knowledge than us - like a Star Trek team from another planet - I believe people could handle the truth. But the incidences are so weird - including abductions, floating through walls, mutilations, appearances and disappearances, crop circles and so on that many researchers serious about the topic favor the idea that ETs are really EDs - extra-dimensional. That is, that they are far too alien for most of us to grasp in most ways. This sort of alien-ness is terrifying, like waking nightmares. So much so that the author, in the first chapter, admits (as I have done after long thought about it) that discloser by agencies that know of their existence would cause a massive change in human behavior, some of it very negative. The "black" agencies do have a very good reason to hide the truth based on conformity and control of world governments and commerce. However, the author gives this analogy: no new parents are ready for their first child, but they adapt - in time, they learn to be parents. He feels that we would be at first overwhelmed, then would adapt. I agree; but it is that time in between that our watchdogs fear.
Unfortunately, that has given rise to the "black helicopter" syndrome, as secrecy and weirdness often does - that is, to a proliferation of conspiracy theories that tend to cloud the REAL conspiracies. But who can choose among them? Which are real and which are not? On and off over the next week, I will provide the reader with what I glean from Richard Dolan. I only hope that he does not fall into the tin-hat confetti, although, admittedly, the UFO phenomena is so strange that to cull reality from fear and fantasy is often a very difficult thing. FK
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