Don't look up. There's a lot of talk going on right now, centered around shocking videos of unexplained spaceships and even stranger stories from whistleblowers. It feels like something is about to happen. It's not entirely clear if it's an acknowledgment that life from outside our solar system is visiting us, our understanding of three-dimensional time and space, or if it's just a psychological operation to distract us.
For the past 75 years, ever since UFOs entered the national zeitgeist, much of the discussion has taken place on the fringes. It was a fun group to be a part of. I was intoxicated by the allure of searching for hidden knowledge, scouring r/UFOs for the best documentaries and weird theories, watching old “X-Files” episodes, reading about little green men and abductions. I wanted to believe! It was all very low-stakes, one of those time-wasting conspiracy-theory-tangled internet rabbit holes.
When religion declines, the idea that no one is in control makes us uneasy, so we look for authority—aliens, a New World Order, Freemasonry, anything to help us make sense of a world that is out of balance.
But the leaks and stories of the past seven years have taken on a decidedly more serious tone as serious people have come forward — no longer “ancient alien” level “researchers” who viewed everything through the lens of some grand conspiracy theory of extraterrestrial contact — and because of this, the whole UFO world has taken on a more terrifying tone as it becomes more real.
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McLuhan’s well-known phrase, “the medium is the message,” has a parallel when discussing UFOs. Many of our concepts of extraterrestrial life are heavily influenced by the movies of the last century. From Méliès’ 1902 “A Trip to the Moon” to the 1950s B-movies, the endearing “ET,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and “Independence Day,” we imagine Hollywood visuals of these lifeforms. This is the perfect mimetic vector to discuss uniting humanity against a common enemy, as Reagan once did. The purpose of television, movies, and now the Internet, is to flatten the world’s differences into one all-consuming, consumer-driven entity. The Borg — to borrow a sci-fi metaphor — is a monoculture, a global village, or whatever phrase you prefer.
Are we just seeing lights in the sky and deciphering them through the movies we've seen? Why do these phenomena bear such similarities to the emergence of UFOs in our culture and humanity's space endeavors? And how can governments keep such earth-shaking events secret?
Military officials go on record
If we dig into the history of UFOs, we find that many different people, including government officials, astronauts, and pilots, have spoken out about their UFO experiences. Former UFO researcher Paul Hellyer said, Canadian Minister of National DefenseHe publicly stated that he had made contact with extraterrestrial civilizations in 2013, and even went so far as to say that there was a treaty between these societies and governments on Earth.
In 2020, Haim Eshed, former director of the Israel Defense Ministry's Space Agency (effectively Israel's NASA), told the paper: Yediot Ahronoth“There is an agreement between the US government and the aliens. They made a deal with us to conduct experiments here.”
“The unidentified flying objects have asked us not to announce that they are here. Humanity is not ready for it yet,” he said. This is a rather extraordinary claim, but it's worth noting that Eshed was the father of Israel's space program, which still has a huge following. Level of respect In Israel's defense authorities.
This proves nothing, but calm, respected officials who knew about these encounters and Edgar Mitchell goes on recordThat's much harder to deny than a stranger who says they saw something strange in the sky.
“Tick Tock” flying saucer for the TikTok era
The current moment of exposé mania can be traced back to 2017, when Lt. Commander David Fravor and other Navy pilots came forward to The New York Times. Through their encounter, they Yes, this was different to previous UFO stories in that video and radar data recorded from an aircraft showed strange tic-tac shaped craft that seemed to defy the laws of physics. They appeared out of the ocean, rose 80,000 feet in an instant, then descended, stopped in an instant, hovered, and disappeared.
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In 2017, The New York Times Executed This is a story about a strange man with an even stranger story named Luis Elizondo. He was the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a secret organization that investigates UFOs for the Department of Defense. He began releasing declassified military videos that showed strange encounters with technology beyond human capabilities. He The Washington Post He then went on to explain in detail the origins of these phenomena.
In short, until very recently, there were only three possibilities for what this could be. The first possibility is that it's some kind of secret U.S. technology that we've somehow kept secret even from ourselves for a long time. The second possibility is that it's some foreign, hostile technology that's somehow technologically ahead of the U.S., despite having a fairly powerful and comprehensive intelligence agency. And of course the third possibility is something entirely different.
It's a whole different paradigm. …Is it from here or is it from there? We don't know for sure. In fact, there are a lot of other options. …It could be from the universe, it could be from within the universe, it could be from the space in between. As you start to learn what quantum physics is and start to understand our place on this small planet, you start to realize that there are a lot of other options. We judge the universe by our five basic senses, which are how we perceive it: touch, taste, hearing, smell. And if we can't use those senses to see or measure something, we can't really interact with it.
Ghost Stories
Last year, intelligence officer David Grusch Made It's a shocking claim. He claims that defense companies are in possession of numerous spaceships and non-human remains, and suggests that they may even exist in other dimensions. Confirmation that Grusch comes from a highly classified, secret world with access to this information lends credence to his claims.
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Grush followed the whistleblower procedure and declared that Congress only needed to investigate specific areas of the complex secret program to uncover the truth. Senator Marco Rubio On record On June 26, it was reported that whistleblowers, including high-ranking government officials, had testified about recovered UFOs.
“There are people who have come forward over the last few years to share information with our committee. … I want to make sure these people are protected. Many of these people came to us before we even had laws to protect whistleblowers,” Rubio told NewsNation.
Blue Beam Project
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It's worth mentioning one of the strangest and most incredible UFO conspiracy theories: Project Blue Beam. Serge Monast is a French-Canadian journalist who published a book in 1994 called Project Blue Beam (NASA), which is a compilation of various conspiracy theories about how NASA, with the help of the United Nations, was planning to send UFOs into the sky to stage a fake alien invasion.
It's going to get a little weird, but all the electronic devices in our homes will start broadcasting this message to the whole world at the same time. Monast claimed that this event would usher in a New World Order led by a New Age religion led by the Antichrist. He died less than two years after publication, and readers claimed he had been silenced.
People like Monast are typical of the UFO researchers of old: highly intelligent, obsessive, eccentric people who were focused on tying all the pieces together to construct a grand unified conspiracy theory.
His hypothesis resonates in this sense: why is the government now openly talking about disclosure when only a few years ago it was laughing at the idea?
Two equally troubling answers come to mind: are we on the verge of realizing we are not alone in the universe, or is this a giant psy-op designed to distract us or control the narrative in some way? This could be a powerful fear-inducing mechanism to challenge the dogmas of Western religions. What better way to engender global cooperation and control than through a threat from outside?
Our long-standing obsession with conspiracy theories can be seen as a symptom of the human psyche's attempt to make sense of an increasingly complex world. As religion declines, the idea that no one is in control becomes unsettling, so we turn to authorities — aliens, a New World Order, Freemasonry — to make sense of a world hanging in the balance.
But these explanations are no longer enough to ignore the collective anxiety we feel about the world. After years of blaming the global pandemic and various modern ills, our collective trust in institutions has been eroded, and we are instead surviving on the remains of a society built by far more capable people.
Why would anyone trust governments, corporations, or religious institutions when they have witnessed decades of incompetence and experienced firsthand how the postmodern mind is destroying the foothold of civilization? We seem to be heading towards a tipping point. Whether it's aliens, a divorce of nations, or global governance, it may not matter now that social malaise is at its peak. I want to believe, but what should I believe?
