More than Something

“Something in the air: the increased attention to UFOs,” CBS Sunday Morning discussion, was uploaded maybe an hour ago to youtube. In regards to the upcoming disclosure report, my biggest take away was David Poques, news correspondent, speculating on SETI researcher Seth Shostak’s position on UFOs , “But no matter what that report winds up saying, Seth Shostak doubts it will change anyone’s mind.”

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That is Likely True

You know how hard it is to change people’s mind? For example, I doubt anyone will persuade me aliens don’t exist. I will also admit, I am open enough to listening that the folks spinning the conspiracy that these things in the sky are legions of demons in the final end game of an upcoming apocalypse requires a great deal of energy on my part to ignore. My biggest argument against this phenomena being an adversary is that, if they wanted us gone, we’d been extinct a long time ago. Maybe they don’t want us extinct. That, too, could have some nefarious memes. Twilight Zone’s ‘How to Best Serve Man,’ strikes me as ironically scary.

Have you ever tried to persuade a flat earther into believing the world is round? Some of these folks are rather articulate and knowledgeable enough to almost be scholarly. I have not been persuaded, but I have listened to an argument and thought, ‘interesting, fuck, wait no!’ Seriously, I know myself well enough that I don’t ever want have an open credit card with a cute female used car’s salesman, because I will be down the road in a car I don’t need before I realize… ‘What just happened.’

Maybe we need Seth’s refusal to budge

I don’t really think Seth would refuse to recant given sufficient evidence, but his opposition to UFOs being here now may be necessary. I am puzzled that too many academic ‘experts’ are willing to shut down all conversations, even when professionals like Navy Officers and Pentagon Officials say, “Yeah, this is a real phenomena and we’re baffled.”

I am puzzled when more than one fringe academic points to UFO’s in paintings from 400 years ago, but mainstream academic who see the same image insists it doesn’t mean what we think it means.

I am puzzled when author’s like Gideon Lewis-Kraus commenting on the ‘Pyramid’ UFOs states, paraphrasing, ‘We have good evidence this was lens flares…’ only not to show any concerns that an entire Navy ship reported seeing ‘three objects’ hovering over their vessel. One person seeing a lens flare, maybe. But a crew of sailors spaced out over the length of the ship, and at different heights, all saw the same lens flare? He doesn’t seem too concern that the Pentagon echoed the same concern as the crew, pushing this image a ‘real artifact,’ not a lens flare.

If our defense officials and government leaders were crazy, would that be an interesting news article?

Maybe Galileo need the opposition of the Church to push science forwards. Maybe had he not had opposition people would have just said, “Oh, that’s interesting,” and went about their business and nothing would have changed.

Maybe this is how paradigms change. To see truth, we actually need a turning point, a slow build up to an ‘entrainment’ event, with an increase of resistance as we approach the turnover, where suddenly there are enough people saying the same thing and seeing the same thing that it suddenly manifests in everyone seeing the same thing.

Hopefully not like that Doctor Who episodes where the trigger is pulled and a daily visitation of ghosts become Cybermen.

60 Minutes

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This clip, released a day ago, is impressive. For one, it’s one of the rare videos where no one is cracking a joke. “Cue the X-File theme.” That statement is so over used it’s about as funny as the joke from Mary Poppins, “I know a man with a wooden leg name Smith.” “Oh, what’s the name of his other leg?” Even my seven year old son hates me saying that joke.

Not everyone uses humor as a segue into the deep end of UFOs. And it is the deep end of the pool. That’s significantly dangerous. If this is real, it changes everything. It changes our relationship with ourselves as individuals. It changes our relationship with each other, with the earth, with plants and animals, with the entire cosmos. Maybe even with God.

George Knapp has been following and reporting on UFO’s for a good moment. May 14th, 2021, George gives a report of the USS Omaha recording a UFO that does not show up on radar, but clearly appears on thermal imaging cameras. Apparently, this object was observing multiple US ships over a period of days. The Omaha observed the object until it ‘splashed’ down into the ocean and disappeared. Paraphrasing George, “sometimes people see them and they’re not on radar, sometimes no one sees them but we see them with tech.”

These things are unknown. Maybe it’s not aliens, but when we rule out it’s not a lens flare, and it seems to be under intelligent control, and it does not seem to be human in origin, what’s left us? It’s Gods, or angels, or demons, or aliens. Out of those four, I would bet on aliens. It could be humans. But if Russia or China owns this, we have more things to be concerned about than which party occupies the White House. Seriously, acknowledging ‘UFOs are here’ changes everything. We have been stupidly fighting each other for what? Monopoly money and who get’s to own Boardwalk? UFOs are real. You can have my silver shoe. I am out.

George addresses the pyramids in this video, and nowhere in my limited ability to do math do I come up with ‘lens flares.’

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I suck at math

I get it. I am not an astrophysicist. I don’t have a PhD. I am not flying military jets or protecting our borders.

I work in mental health. I do know crazy. My new coffee cup will have written on it, “I am not crazy for believing in UFOs. I am just crazy.’ I am good at my job because it takes one to know one.

But I am not idiot. Most people are pretty sophisticated, much more sophisticated than the media has given us credit for over the years. That jerk move by the former governor of Arizona who brought out a human in an alien suit in response to the public wanting to know more about the Phoenix Lights, that was just over the top. Governor Fife Symington later apologized. He saw the lights, too. Yes, pun intended. He regrets that joke, but he also thought it would de-escalate a situation he thought was blowing up. That joke probably set us back 20 years, because here we are once again, having this SAME conversation. WHAT IS IN OUR SKIES?!

Something in the air

This conversation will not go away, because there is something here. I don’t know what it is. I want to know what it is. I want academia to want to know what it is. The days of dismissing and ridiculing and scoffing are over. There’s something here. It’s not lens flares. It sometimes pings in on radar. It sometimes gets in your face. If we limited the reports down to even a few, best known cases- almost everyone who has had an encounter is undeniably convinced this thing in the air is not us.

Can a person be wrong? Sure. Can groups of people be wrong? Sure. Can the entire human race be wrong? Yeah. But when you keep coming up against the same wall, maybe we should at least agree- there is something here.