U.S. Control Over the UFO Issue is Ending
As American leadership has declined, the country no longer absolutely manages the truth about the Presence we’re encountering. Confirmation is now inevitable.
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Mark Hammons
Feb 8
Sometimes long kept secrets are exposed of their own accord because of other things that happen. These secondary events shine light where none was originally anticipated. Something formerly in the shadows is accidentally or inadvertently revealed. This result is currently in progress with the American secrecy about UFOs, now recoined as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). Cages are ready to be rattled.
What’s the Big Secret?
Even the term UAP is a form of secrecy by sleight of hand.
These phenomena have been discovered in the oceans, traveling in water with the same rapid ease as they do in the air. There are reports of them coming out of the Earth, as well, or vanishing into mountain sides and beneath the seabed. They seem be able to go everywhere and anywhere they want as they wish. These weird and inexplicable objects appear to humans all the time. We can usually only watch as our own understanding of what is possible gets left behind.
Acknowledging that we know something is there but not what it is, we can more
inclusively refer to these phenomena as the Presence.
The Presence is worldwide. For many years, reports were gathered for further investigation by governments across the globe that could afford the luxury. Some, like Britain and France, have made (allegedly all) their files accessible at national archives or posted the data on the Internet for everyone to see. After the fall of the Soviet Union, ufology received a cornucopia of formerly secret documents as well as military officer testimonies concerning Russian efforts to track, examine, and understand the Presence. Having gone the route of complete denial, the refusal by the United States to admit the existence of the Presence is more than a bit shown up by this backscatter of illumination.
Inquiring Spies Want to Know
No doubt throughout the unfolding modern history of the Presence, intelligence agents have been delving into what might be known by the adversaries of their countries.
There is no information any other nation possesses that the U.S. intelligence agencies don’t deem their responsibility to find out. Others take a similar view about us. Are the Americans keeping secrets about UAPs? Canadian diplomats came to that conclusion as early as the 1950s. The Russians were such capable boogeymen to the United States that psychic spying, aka remote viewing, was made into a well-funded CIA research program called the Stargate Project that lasted for 25 years. Very likely the psychonauts had their inner eyes looking out for something other than one another, too. Everyone seeks an edge every way they can. Deception and misdirection are key tools.
Deceptive practices by the U.S. government concerning the Presence have been revealed again and again, with a new non-explanatory “explanation” delivered every time the last one is caught out. These counter intelligence exercises are very inventive and presume the gullibility of their audience. Debunkers chip in, too, whether for free or on government retainer. Case closed, until the next time someone pops their balloon (dummy). U.S. authorities are very intent on hiding something that is of paramount importance to them. They grasp tightly at some secret worth lying about to everybody. And they have done for a human lifetime.
For the past eight decades, the Presence has been kept as one of the most secret of secrets by American authorities. Robert I. Sarbacher, a physicist who consulted with the U.S. Department of Defense, confirmed before his death in 1986 the accuracy of a Canadian governmental project memorandum stating that the American classification for UFOs was “two points higher than the H-bomb.” This above top-secret rating is for something that doesn’t exist according to the Pentagon. Paul Hellyer, a former Minister of Defense in Canada prominent now for his open discussion of alien visitors to Earth, also notes the dominating control of the United States worldwide over information about the Presence. The honey trap of foreign aid can come with hidden conditions, like silent cooperation on matters that are not to be discussed at all with anyone.
While there exist innumerable publicly available accounts of unknown craft showing up, interacting with humans, and departing, the recovery of reportedly downed UAPs is shielded behind a pitch-black veil of solid denial. The most obvious reason to say nothing is the potential advantage to be gained over other nations from studying technologically advanced materials and functional parts of objects that move at incredible speeds. What is the energy source, how does the propulsion work, how is it controlled? Then that knowledge can be weaponized. Secrecy is national defense, with silence about both what you do and do not know. Spies understand clever ways to work that.
None of this official quietus has stopped the Presence from continuing to appear. Sometimes the number of anomalous objects visible in video from NASA shuttle flights or the International Space Station makes laughable the attendant commentary from Mission Control. A UAP hovering in midday over Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, the third busiest air hub in the U.S., made a large round hole in the cloud cover upon sudden vertical departure in 2006. Examples with reliable eyewitness reports and good technical documentation accumulate regularly. The Presence has the status of open secret in more than a few people’s minds.
Disavowal seems to have worn out its credibility. We are due by law a Congressional report in the early summer of 2021 on what the Pentagon and the spy community knows about the Presence. In the past, we might have expected another rubber stamp refusal to reveal anything true. Circumstances have changed.
But Wait, There’s More
Denial works for those who can afford to maintain the lie.
Aside from high-ranking members of the U.S. government feeling left out in the cold about something that affects their ability to uphold their oath of office (at least those that still care about that sort of thing), the necessity for disclosure has become overt because of unprecedented and interrelated changes in the world. Ironically, the American government has been a prominent booster of the industrial expansion policy called globalization. This transformation of research and manufacturing capability across the planet has altered the balance of power between nations. At the same time, the inequities of the capitalist economic system driving this change have produced a fairly large number of incredibly wealthy individuals and corporations.
Think of this situation like using a pair of chopsticks, with one being the modern technological and scientific advancement of developing nations and the other being the rise of vast privately controlled resources previously available only to governments. The viability of continued American denial about the Presence is caught in the middle of this pincer movement.
Most countries were at a massive technological and economic disadvantage to the United States in the 1950s through the 1980s, but that is no longer the case. Deference that once existed to American interests is much diminished generally throughout the world. The influence of the U.S. government has waned as that of other powers, particularly the Chinese, has waxed. India, a nuclear power, is now developing hypersonic missiles along with Russia and China doing the same. The technical capacity of some nations has leapfrogged to near parity with the United States and in some instances appears to exceed it. What if they have their own confidences about the Presence?
For all that people may first think of a flying saucer crash reported near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, there are others said to have occurred over the decades since. Apparently not all were in the United States and some happened in places like Russia, South America and maybe even Africa. Of course, the Russians were likely to keep anything like that to themselves. Before globalization, though, the bottomless American checkbook spoke loudest to small and impoverished countries (or at least their tinpot dictators) about anything unknown that might have fallen to earth in their territory.
With no scientific faculty to inquire on their own, what was Venezuela or Nigeria, say, going to do going to do with something the Americans said was debris from one of their classified space programs? Best to open that Swiss bank account and not ask any questions as the C130 hauled everything away. Now things are very different. Research tools and analysis equipment of a precision unthinkable only twenty years ago are available in many more countries than just America and Europe. Further, the persuasive effect of American pocket money diminishes when others can promise more lasting benefits. The Chinese are especially good at this kind of negotiation (caveat emptor). America has lost the monopoly of scientific capacity that made disavowal workable. Other countries are busy with their new options, such as exploring the Moon and Mars.
If You Won’t, I Can
Just as importantly, space exploration and undersea development are being privatized.
There now exist immensely rich individuals who have the means to send into orbit privately crewed spacecraft. For example, Elon Musk is pushing ahead with SpaceX and Jeff Bezos is coming along with Blue Origin. Movie director James Cameron (Avatar, Alien, The Abyss, The Titanic) took his custom-built one-man submarine down 6.8 miles to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the oceans. These enterprises involve many hands. As this technology market matures, ever more people will be able to go directly to places where the Presence may be encountered or see high quality records made of such events. Some of these very motivated, independently minded human beings are likely not willing to keep their mouths shut about what they may learn.
Suppose a rich and powerful person not under a governmental non-disclosure agreement makes an up close and personal high-resolution video of the Presence with their cell phone while on a recreational suborbital jaunt with Virgin Galactic. How long before a billionaire on a super yacht takes a Triton Submarines six-person acrylic-hulled seacraft out for a spin at 1,000 meters depth and encounters the passing Presence? The possibilities are growing everyday.
The house of cards that is denial about the Presence is poised to fall down.
The Exit Sign
The secret just isn’t secret enough anymore.
Twin threats are closing in. Another nation might recover, exploit, and deploy Presence technology first (hypersonic missles, really? India?). That was probably always considered a danger, but much less likely before with the former American scientific advantage. Sure, we can always hope that there is a hidden U.S. space fleet crewed by the non-terrestrial officers seen listed in a Pentagon spreadsheet by Gary McKinnon. That’ll show these upstart nations who are late to the party. Back off, the United States is still in charge. Or maybe a couple of the Invisible College fellows (male or female) will spend some of their millions in an especially productive way that conclusively outs the Presence. But then, they would have to tell us who they are, which is a secret except amongst themselves.
Any of these outcomes poses a challenge to the control sought by American disavowal. The only remaining option for a leadership position in the growing awareness of the Presence is to get out in front and dominate the disclosure conversation. To do that, they will have to shed some secrecy. Perhaps this was the plan all along. Very smart people who have spent decades denying the existence of the Presence likely gamed out many scenarios that would require public acknowledgement on at least some level, or probably several levels depending on who is asking.
The disclosure clock has been ticking for a long while. Time for the first chime.
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