Post by meldrew on May 12, 2011 1:16:57 GMT 1
THE ULTIMATE SECRET - fact or fiction:
THE AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION
by Bill Chalker
The UFO "coverup" argument sustains an extraordinary controversy. At its heart is the quest for proof of the Ultimate Secret.
The Ultimate Secret purports to be this: UFOs are real. They are extra-terrestrial in origin. The extra-terrestrials (or ETs) are already visiting us. Some of their craft have crashed and been retrieved into military custody. In some cases open contact has taken place, in a covert setting - a form of "alien liaison". Alien technology, retrieved either through "crashes" or direct "exchanges", has been examined, subjected to attempts at reverse engineering, and is being used in secret advanced technologies, such as extraordinary advances in aircraft design. Governments, particularly the United States, know this and have kept it from us. There has been a concerted campaign by some of the parties involved in the cover-up to bring things out into the open. Some participating individuals have started to come forward. This process is gathering momentum. Extraordinary disclosures are at hand. The implications are mind boggling.
Your rational reaction to all this will inevitably be complete scepticism or outright rejection. If it is not, you are presumably a UFO enthusiast, many of whom enshrine this sort of material like an article of faith in the litany of uncritical belief that pervades much of the popular interest in UFOs. The famous Roswell "UFO crash" and the notorious MJ-12 saga are the cornerstones of the "ultimate secret" in the United States.
Ultimately, there is no absolute proof of any of it. It is impossible to say with any certainty just what is going on. We could be dealing with: real extra-terrestrial contact - a cosmic Watergate - in which Churchill's wartime maxim of counterintelligence may rule, namely: "Truth is so important it must be guarded by a bodyguard of lies", delusions and lies on a large scale, motivated by either hoaxer or aberrant mentalities - in its grandest expressions, one of the biggest hoaxes in history, a Space Age technological expression of the urban legend syndrome - cosmic folktales - which moved my friend Jerome Clark to label such stories as "soldiers' tales, or the horrendous secrets I learned in the service", some sort of extraordinary clandestine intelligence gambit - an exercise in disinformation and deception - a paranoia and conspiracy buff's garden of delights.
It is possible we could be seeing a combination of any or none of these possibilities.
Such tales are not limited to the US. Here too in Australia we have had our share of these seemingly apocryphal stories. The number of them is striking. Most of them are unknown to even the most seasoned UFO enthusiast and are told here for the first time. In trying to unravel the convoluted trail these tales have left, I almost feel like the fictional FBI special agent Fox Mulder of the hit TV series "The X Files", as a maze of mirrors lead off in bizarre directions, supported by even more bizarre and unbelievable stories.
THE AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION
by Bill Chalker
The UFO "coverup" argument sustains an extraordinary controversy. At its heart is the quest for proof of the Ultimate Secret.
The Ultimate Secret purports to be this: UFOs are real. They are extra-terrestrial in origin. The extra-terrestrials (or ETs) are already visiting us. Some of their craft have crashed and been retrieved into military custody. In some cases open contact has taken place, in a covert setting - a form of "alien liaison". Alien technology, retrieved either through "crashes" or direct "exchanges", has been examined, subjected to attempts at reverse engineering, and is being used in secret advanced technologies, such as extraordinary advances in aircraft design. Governments, particularly the United States, know this and have kept it from us. There has been a concerted campaign by some of the parties involved in the cover-up to bring things out into the open. Some participating individuals have started to come forward. This process is gathering momentum. Extraordinary disclosures are at hand. The implications are mind boggling.
Your rational reaction to all this will inevitably be complete scepticism or outright rejection. If it is not, you are presumably a UFO enthusiast, many of whom enshrine this sort of material like an article of faith in the litany of uncritical belief that pervades much of the popular interest in UFOs. The famous Roswell "UFO crash" and the notorious MJ-12 saga are the cornerstones of the "ultimate secret" in the United States.
Ultimately, there is no absolute proof of any of it. It is impossible to say with any certainty just what is going on. We could be dealing with: real extra-terrestrial contact - a cosmic Watergate - in which Churchill's wartime maxim of counterintelligence may rule, namely: "Truth is so important it must be guarded by a bodyguard of lies", delusions and lies on a large scale, motivated by either hoaxer or aberrant mentalities - in its grandest expressions, one of the biggest hoaxes in history, a Space Age technological expression of the urban legend syndrome - cosmic folktales - which moved my friend Jerome Clark to label such stories as "soldiers' tales, or the horrendous secrets I learned in the service", some sort of extraordinary clandestine intelligence gambit - an exercise in disinformation and deception - a paranoia and conspiracy buff's garden of delights.
It is possible we could be seeing a combination of any or none of these possibilities.
Such tales are not limited to the US. Here too in Australia we have had our share of these seemingly apocryphal stories. The number of them is striking. Most of them are unknown to even the most seasoned UFO enthusiast and are told here for the first time. In trying to unravel the convoluted trail these tales have left, I almost feel like the fictional FBI special agent Fox Mulder of the hit TV series "The X Files", as a maze of mirrors lead off in bizarre directions, supported by even more bizarre and unbelievable stories.