by Nick Redfern
As Snowden revealed, and unbeknownst to just about everyone (the National Security Agency aside, of course), the NSA was spying not just on foreign nations but on U.S. citizens too – as in just about each and every one of them. Potentially, anyway. Landlines, cell-phones, email, Facebook, Twitter, and Skype: they had all been penetrated by the NSA, very often with the witting, subservient, and totally unforgivable, help of some of those same companies. The data collection process was so mind-bogglingly huge – maybe even wildly out of control - that it would likely have had even George Orwell himself shaking his head in disbelief; except for just one thing: Orwell’s 1984 was fiction. This was all too real.
The responses to Snowden’s revelations were interesting and thought-provoking. For some people, Snowden is the definitive American hero; someone who succeeded in demonstrating to the American people, and to the world at large, that the NSA was an agency run riot in its goal to place the entire United States under unending surveillance. For others, however, he is a man who has massively jeopardized U.S. national security, and placed our troops and agents in deep danger. There were even calls not for just his lifelong incarceration, but for his execution too, as the ultimate traitor. For many people, however, Snowden falls somewhere between both camps. And then there’s the matter of UFOs. Or, at least, the lore surrounding it.
The story of Edward Snowden would never have soared to the levels that it did had it not been for the research of investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. Having secured Snowden’s trust, Greenwald was able to secure an astonishing amount of highly classified material on the NSA’s surveillance programs. One of Snowden’s lesser-known revelations revolved around a PowerPoint presentation produced by the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters, which is the nation’s equivalent of its, ahem, big brother, the United States’ NSA. The presentation was titled “How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive and Destroy Reputations.” Interestingly, the PowerPoint production – which, in part, provides ways and means to shatter the characters of people under surveillance - contained three photographs of alleged UFOs.
Mark Pilkington, a writer on, and an investigator of, the UFO subject has a particular interest in how government agencies have used the UFO controversy to their advantages. His 2010 book, Mirage Men, is subtitled: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs. That will give you a very good idea as to where Pilkington is coming from in relation to UFOs. Journalist David Clarke asked Pilkington what he thought of all this. Pilkington said to Clarke: “We don’t know why there are UFOs in this [PowerPoint] presentation. But the fact that the saucer photos appear within the context of influencing and manipulating online communities is highly suggestive.”
As for Glenn Greenwald, he said of all this: “…these GCHQ documents are the first to prove that a major western government is using some of the most controversial techniques to disseminate deception online and harm the reputations of targets. Under the tactics they use, the state is deliberately spreading lies on the Internet about whichever individuals it targets, including the use of what GCHQ itself calls ‘false flag operations’ and emails to people’s families and friends. Who would possibly trust a government to exercise these powers at all, let alone do so in secret, with virtually no oversight, and outside of any cognizable legal framework? Then there is the use of psychology and other social sciences to not only understand, but shape and control, how online activism and discourse unfolds.”
And that’s not the only example of UFO duplicity in the 21st century. It’s time to return to the seemingly ever-present matter of Majestic 12. What you may have thought was over and done, was not quite so over and done, after all.
As I said in a June 16, 2017 article for the Mysterious Universe website titled “The Majestic 12 Documents Are Back…,” just like an over-the-hill, bloated rock band that doesn’t know when it’s time to retire and go away forever, the notorious saga of Majestic 12 hit the road and briefly toured again in 2017. Yes, those pesky documents were back once more. Or, rather, an entirely new and controversial set of papers were among us. Thoughts on the documentation was mixed: some researchers suggested the whole thing was someone’s idea of a hoax. Others concluded that they were the real thing. Me? I went down the path marked “Disinformation.” It’s accurate to say that I still do. The new Majestic 12 files, which ran to 47-pages, were provided to Heather Wade. At the time, she was the host of the popular Midnight in the Desert show. I was on Heather’s show several times and I like her. When she says that she got the documents from what was described as “a trusted source,” I believe her. But, as time has shown, we never learned who Heather’s source really was. And we were never told how that same source got the documents to her, or from where they came. There is no doubt, however, that these papers are not the real thing. Here’s why:
First, there’s the matter of the controversial, alleged UFO crash at Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948 – a case which we addressed early in the pages of this book, and in relation to conman Silas Newton, the Psychological Strategy Board, and CIA employee, Karl Pflock. The latest Majestic 12 documents contain a substantial amount of data on the alleged recovery at Hart Canyon, Aztec, of the UFO and its alien crew. But, here’s the problem: the original Majestic 12 documents given to Jaime Shandera in 1984 and that surfaced in Timothy Good’s book, Above Top Secret specifically state that, after the Roswell affair of 1947, “a second object, probably of similar origin,” came down in the “El Indio-Guerrero area area of the Texas-Mexico border” in December 1950. It’s very important to note the December 1950 date and that word, “second.” And here’s why it’s so important:
The alleged 1952 Majestic 12 briefing for President-Elect Eisenhower states that Roswell was the first crash (in 1947), and that the Texas-Mexico event (in 1950) was the second one. Yet, in the new files we are told that Majestic 12 had recovered another UFO – the one reportedly found at Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948. We are now led to believe that Aztec was sandwiched between Roswell and El Indio-Guerrero. But, there’s no mention of the Aztec incident in the documents published by Timothy Good, Bill Moore, Jaime Shandera and Stanton Friedman. Are/were the members of Majestic 12 such numbskulls that they couldn’t even agree on how many UFOs came down, when they came down, and how many they had stored away? This was (so the unlikely tale goes) a briefing for the President-Elect! Telling Eisenhower about Roswell and El Indio-Guerrero, but avoiding mentioning Aztec, makes no sense at all. And if anyone tries to come up with a convoluted reason or justification as to why the Majestic 12 members would tell Eisenhower about Roswell but not about Aztec, don’t even bother. You will just be digging a huge, steaming cesspit for yourself.
Still on the issue of Aztec, within the new material received by Heather Wade there is a bizarre transcript of what is alleged to be a series of chummy chats (I’m not exaggerating…) between “various interrogators” and an alien entity who, we learn, apparently survived the Aztec crash. At one point, the interviewer asks the “Extra-Terrestrial Biological Entity” the following question: “…so you have been visiting us for some time. I have no choice to accept that, even though I’d love some proof. But you still didn’t tell me who sent you the message from Earth that brought you back?” [It’s a long and tedious story…]
The alien replies to the interviewer: “Funny you should connect those two subjects.” My response: WTF? Can you really imagine sitting opposite a creature from another world and which provides answers in what are so blatantly obviously human terms? On another occasion, the alien says, also in the kinds of words that we would use, “Listen now, because this could go on forever.” And, at one point, the E.T. even refers to his great-grandfather. In those words! Are we really expected to believe this complete and utter crap? Well, someone might dearly have hoped such a thing would happen. Let’s now take a look at some more of the problems with the papers provided to Heather Wade.
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t one point in the documents, we’re told that, regarding the Roswell affair, “…The authorities at the Roswell Field Army Air Forces Base were alerted by Mr. Brazel at 09:18 on 07 July, 1947 and two officers of the base were guided to the crash site by the ranch manager.” Wrong. William Brazel, the ranch foreman who found the Roswell debris on the Foster Ranch back in 1947, did not contact the military at Roswell, at all. He contacted the local sheriff’s office in Lincoln County and it was they who contacted the people at the Roswell base. Considering that this document was supposedly written by highly informed insiders, with access to the most detailed aspects of the Roswell event, you would think they would surely have gotten even the basic facts correct. But, seemingly not.
Roswell authority Kevin Randle revealed something important in relation to the security markings that can be found in the document: “The use of ‘Ultra Top Secret’ also raises questions. Ultra was the British code name for their operation to intercept and read high-level, highly-classified Nazi message traffic. This code name seems inappropriate for use by the U.S. government or military.” “Inappropriate” is putting matters mildly; it’s garbage.
Randle also noted: “We are treated to a reference to the base at Flat Rock, Nevada, which, of course, was the scene of much of the action in The Andromeda Strain.” For those who may not know, The Andromeda Strain was a 1969 work of fiction from the late Michael Crichton. The movie version followed in 1971. There is no such real location as Flat Rock, Nevada. It was, and still is, the creation of Michael Chrichton and nothing else. Interestingly, The Andromeda Strain tells the story of an alien virus that wreaks havoc in an isolated area of the United States; a virus that has the potential to wipe out significant portions of the human race. This leads me to suspect that this latest document, and the 1990s-era Timothy Cooper material concerning a deadly alien virus, might very well have been written by the same person.
Now, we come to the theory that – just perhaps – the Russians were behind all of this. It’s important to note that just because Heather Wade publicized the papers in 2017, it doesn’t mean they were intended for use in a psy-op in that same year. After all, the document purports to be more than thirty years old. That being so, its pages may well have been originally planned for an operation back in the 1980s. Or, in the nineties. Are there any good reasons why the Russians may have been behind all of this? Let’s see.
The highly talkative survivor from the Aztec crash of 1948 tells us a great deal about matters relative to aliens, to extraterrestrial technology, and to all kinds of matters of a UFO nature. But, the interviewee from the stars does something else, too: it proves to be quite critical of American politics and history. At one point, the military interviewer tells the alien sitting before him that “we [the human race] have changed,” as a society, and that “Western civilization is now the leader in this world; for freedom and humanity.”
The extraterrestrial, is far from being impressed by those words. It hits back hard and directly to the point: “…tell that to the millions of Hebrews your western civilization has destroyed in the past decade, or the millions of Negro families whose sons died to stop the madman Hitler, but who do not have plumbing in their homes.”
It is a deeply unfortunate fact that blacks who fought in the Second World War were, in some cases, treated like second-class citizens. Writing at the Smithsonian website, Matthew Delmont says: “There is a historical relationship between Nazism and white supremacy in the United States. Yet the recent resurgence of explicit racism, including the attack in Charlottesville, has been greeted by many with surprise. But collective amnesia has consequences. When Americans celebrate the country’s victory in WWII, but forget that the U.S. armed forces were segregated, that the Red Cross segregated blood donors or that many black WWII veterans returned to the country only to be denied jobs or housing, it becomes all the more difficult to talk honestly about racism today.”
Military Times says: “…90 percent of black troops were forced to serve in labor and supply units, rather than the more prestigious combat units. Except for a few short weeks during the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944 when commanders were desperate for manpower, all U.S. soldiers served in strictly segregated units.”
The alien also castigates the United States’ approach to Native Americans. It offers these words: “Not surprising, your history shows that the conqueror seldom preserves any history of their victims. I speak of the natives in this land mass; those called Indians; mostly on your eastern and southern borders and in the ribbon of land that connects yours to the southern continent. Navahos? Aztecs? Incas? The Olmec’s and Toltec’s cultures? These were all greater than your own civilization at a time when you were burning witches and killing their cats, which brought a plague that killed millions of your ancestors. Of course, you drove them mad and destroyed them with venereal diseases and smallpox; those you didn’t slaughter for their gold.”
Clearly, whoever put together this particular Majestic 12 document wished to make a point; a point that was focused on eras and situations destined, quite rightly and understandably, to provoke a high degree of shame when it comes to the United States. Moving on, the alien tells the interviewer that “…in a remote part of the nation you call Yugoslavia, we visited and helped the people there to build a very advanced culture over seven thousand years ago.” Just muse upon that: of all the locations on the planet that the aliens could possibly have chosen to land and help humankind, they selected what became a significant communist land: Yugoslavia. The alien also goes on to say that back in 1895 creatures of its kind made contact with none other than a brilliant maverick scientist, Nikola Tesla.
It’s a fact that Tesla – born in Croatia in 1856 and way ahead of his time - did indeed believe he was in contact with extraterrestrials. The Richmond Times, on January 13, 1901, stated: “There are thousands of people living in the world today who do not believe that the planet of Mars is inhabited. There are many others who do, and some of the leaders in science and foremost men in thought and invention are members of this last-named class. Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the wireless telegraphy, is one of these. Astronomers tell us that the planet Mars is several millions of years older than the earth and H. G. Wells, novelist, in one of his fantastic creations, has peopled this planet with a race of strange creatures. One thing, however, stands to reason, and that is this: If Mars is inhabited those inhabitants are far in advance of us as regards sciences, both theoretical and applied. This is what Tesla thinks, and why he is of the opinion has just recently been made known. He is convinced that the Martians are trying to communicate with us.”
Similar accounts of Tesla’s beliefs in alien contact proliferated in the media of the 20th century. They still do: on the History Channel’s show, Ancient Aliens, if few places else. The alien in the Majestic 12 document advises the U.S. military that the United States had utterly failed to embrace the incredible technology which Tesla had perfected and that just might have enriched the world for each and every one of us. But, the creature was careful to add, the Soviets had, for a number of years, been running a “strong program of research” that was going ahead “inside the Soviet Union.” In other words, the Russians were forging ahead, while we were fucking up.
Now, it’s time to bring the Christian God into the equation.
In The ABC of Communism, N.I. Bukharin and E. Preobrazhensky, wrote: “‘Religion is the opium of the people,’ said Karl Marx. It is the task of the Communist Party to make this truth comprehensible to the widest possible circles of the laboring masses. It is the task of the party to impress firmly upon the minds of the workers, even upon the most backward, that religion has been in the past and still is today one of the most powerful means at the disposal of the oppressors for the maintenance of inequality, exploitation, and slavish obedience on the part of the toilers. Many weak-kneed communists reason as follows: ‘Religion does not prevent my being a communist. I believe both in God and in
communism. My faith in God does not hinder me from fighting for the cause of the proletarian revolution.’ This train of thought is radically false. Religion and communism are incompatible, both theoretically and practically.”
In light of this, it’s worth noting that the alleged alien from the Aztec crash cautioned on relying on God in the years ahead of us. The creature explains that our civilization, which was first exposed to the alien race thousands of years ago, “did forget us.” That “your people seem to have undergone a period of history in which you were so afraid of old truths, that you erased them in favor of religious fantasy. Some of your people remembered us orally in their legends.”
As the interview winds down to its end, the alien says that one day we will come to know its very own people in a fashion that will benefit one and all. Providing, that is, it doesn’t come via “religious leaders.”
The words of an alien or the carefully created statements of a Russian operative? I’ll go with the latter.
Well into the 21st century, the meddling has clearly not gone away.
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“A Brief Chronicle of Retrovirology.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK19403/. 1997.