One reason for this unhappy situation is simply how science operates.
All scientific and academic inquiry is predicated upon being able to
work from open and fully accessible sources. As Oppenheimer understood,
scientific research must be available for examination by outsiders. The
word for this is falsifiability. It’s an important concept in science.
If you lack the chance to “falsify” a proposition – that is, to prove it
wrong – then it’s not valid. It may in fact be true, but
philosophically speaking, it’s not valid.
The enormous volume of classified material means that most of the
activities of the U.S. government (and we can assume most other
governments and major entities) are impossible to verify one way or
another. Because nearly all scientists and academicians are confined to
public sources for their research, we end up with a version of reality
that excludes the world of secrecy.
Certainly, the track record of scientists and university scholars in
the last century bears out the claim that they are ill-suited to
exposing runaway secrecy. For they have done so little of it.
To be sure, journalists have fared better. But, really, not much
better. These days, most journalists fit the same mold as their
colleagues in the laboratories and ivory towers. They work for large
organizations with a definite hierarchy, they are given narrowly defined
guidelines within which to work, and they usually follow someone else’s
agenda.
Those few who try to expose the world of secrecy face the problem of
using sources that are not always open, not always falsifiable. That is,
by using leaks, by corroborating multiple sources that may hint of
something -- but do not always confirm. To say nothing of the
professional pressures and even censure they often face for doing their
work.
And that, my friends, is one reason why secrecy has always been, and will always continue to be, a prerogative of the powerful.
The Trail of Secrecy
The world of secrecy has run away from us, beyond the ability of free
citizens to examine and critique. When we trace the evolution of this
secrecy, we find it hard to pinpoint just when things turned south. This
has been going on for a long time. Modern secrecy is a
not-so-surprising outgrowth of our bureaucratic world, a development in
all likelihood discussed a century ago by the great Max Weber (although I
admit that my once-honed skills as a Weberian are a bit dulled
nowadays, I suspect the Great One had a few things to say on this).
Still, there are certain moments that accelerated the process. When
in doubt, always look to the wars. In the 20th century, the two world
wars were obviously important in creating the massive state secrecy
machines that envelop our world today. Enormous intelligence communities
were created during those engagements, and once created, such things
have a nasty habit of sticking around.
But students of secrecy frequently overlook one of the most important
creators of our black-budget world. That is the UFO phenomenon.
Spend any amount of time on this issue, and the UFO-connection
becomes self-evident. Imagine yourself as the American President
following the Second World War. Your nation has just emerged victorious
from the most titanic struggle in human history. Although you now lead
the greatest military and economic power on the planet, the war has
exhausted a world that desperately needs to repair itself and get on
with the process of living.
In this context, you learn that there are “others” who are here.
Others with capabilities vastly beyond anything your scientists can
fathom. This is because, starting in the 1940s and continuing to our
present day, U.S. and other military agencies have been tracking and
attempting to intercept aerial objects of extraordinary capabilities and
unknown origin. Moreover, in all likelihood, you learn something else:
not only are “they” are here, but your military has recovered some of
their technology.
[Those wanting more information can review my two volumes of history, which document this story. For a short review of some key UFO documents, see here].
Forget Orson Wells and the panic of 1938 – panic might well be
happening among the intelligentsia that manage the country and the
world.
What would you do?
Well, one thing you would
not do is tell the world. You
would need information first. Who are these beings? Do we have anything
to worry about? What can we learn from their technology and science? How
do we keep this from our enemies (e.g. the Soviet Union)? How bad might
public panic be? All the logical questions.
You would organize your best people and have them create the groups
and protocols to study and control this information. You might have them
conduct a preliminary study to decide what the best course of action
should be.
You also could not tell Congress, no matter how unconstitutional that
might be. Plain and simple, Congress would not keep the secret. For the
time being at any rate Congress must not know, so you would reason.
Still, if you want scientists to study the technology, if you want
the loyal cooperation of key insiders to maintain the secret, if you
want a permanent infrastructure to deal with the ongoing challenge posed
by these other beings -- if you want all of these things and countless
others associated with managing this problem -- then you would need
money, ultimately a great deal of it. This would not be cheap, not at
all. And the appropriations would have to remain secret.
Thus, the UFO phenomenon, which fell into the lap of the U.S.
national security establishment right after the Second World War, was
one of the key instigators of what we now call the black budget.
The black budget, however, turned out to be only the beginning of the secrecy problem.
What makes a civilization?
At heart and by training, I am a historian. Every so often, a
particular question arises in my mind. While admittedly of limited
practical value, and certainly not something that most professional
historians write about, I find it intriguing to ponder.
What constitutes a distinct civilization?
Definitely one of the broader and more difficult questions. Still, I
think that we basically have a feel for the matter. We know that
colonial America was part of a different civilization from, say, that of
6th century Byzantium during the reign of Justinian. Or that we today,
despite living in a world that owes much to the legacy of the western
Europeans of the last few centuries, nevertheless live in a world that
Voltaire could scarcely have dreamed of.
To answer the question, we need to consider several factors. Of
obvious importance would be the level of science and types of technology
it uses, how its members organize among themselves, the coherency and
independence of its infrastructure. Then there is the life of the mind:
how do the people tend to view themselves and their place in the cosmos?
It seems to me that these questions give us a good start toward
shedding light on the matter.
One of humanity’s great themes of the past five centuries is our
ever-greater connectedness -- the slow but steady merging of
civilizations. Globalization did not start with the Rockefellers,
Rothschildes, Bilderberg Group, or Illuminati. It has been, first and
foremost, an inexorable, unrelenting process of technology and
economics; the politics are secondary. Since at least the voyages of
Columbus and Magellan, it has been binding all of humanity together.
Now, in an age of borderless electronic transactions, cellphones,
Google, Skype, Facebook, and Youtube, this process – although not quite
complete – has shifted into the highest gear.
I would never presume,
a la Toynbee, to list every distinct
civilization that has appeared on Earth in the course of human history.
For my purposes, I only ask this question:
Given that our world appears to be moving toward (an admittedly
incomplete) merging of civilizations, is it possible that something
might yet buck that trend? Moreover, that such a thing might happen
secretly?
Before dismissing such speculation out of hand, consider that even
within the past century, our world has seen examples of large
infrastructures that were, if not wholly secret, at least fairly
isolated from each other and highly secretive. Consider the example of
the Cold War. While the U.S. and Soviet Union were not truly distinct
civilizations, many people at the time did see it that way. The two
societies had a high degree of autonomy from each other. The economic
infrastructures were separate to a remarkable degree. Within the life of
the mind, they inhabited separate worlds with incompatible ideologies.
Secrecy from each other was the basic fact of life. Not only did U.S.
and Soviet scientists hide their research from each other, but they
sometimes followed entirely different paths, occasionally reaching
absurd levels (as when Soviet biologists were forced to regurgitate the
fraudulent science of
Trofim Lysenko).
But forget the Cold War with its secret and divergent
infrastructures. Today, the U.S. maintains a massive secrecy
infrastructure, with untold billions (or trillions?) having been
siphoned off into it, year after year. In other words, we know that the
classified world has an astonishing amount of money and deep secrecy.
There is no question of this. What we want to ask is: how advanced is
their technology? What key breakthroughs might they have learned?
By way of illustration, I will relate something told to me by a
scientist formerly with the National Security Agency. During a private
conversation, he told me that at least some computers within the NSA
were running at a clock speed of 650 MHz during the mid-1960s. Today, of
course, that’s well below the speed of an entry-level PC desktop
computer. Keep in mind, however, that this speed was not matched by the
consumer market until around the year 2000, a difference of 35 years.
Indeed, there were no consumer-market computers in 1965!
Also recall that in 1965, the NSA was only just barely being discussed
by the public. Its very existence had been classified at its creation in
1952, and its name was mentioned for the first time, vaguely and in
passing, in a 1957 government manual. Only in 1964 was it subject to (a
very partial) discussion in a
published book. In
other words, the NSA had the most advanced computing capabilities in
the world, and almost nobody in the world even knew it existed.
Now ask yourself, given (a) great secrecy, (b) great amounts of
money, (c) several decades, (d) enough genius-level scientists working
for you, and (e) extraterrestrial or alien technology to study, is it
possible for key breakthroughs to be made without the rest of the world
ever learning of them? Breakthroughs so substantial that they create new
areas of scientific study, new technologies, new capabilities, new
interactions with these “others,” and as a result a radically new
understanding of humanity itself and the cosmos within which we live?
Would such changes result in a clandestine world so different that it
might qualify as a separate civilization? One that has broken away from
our own?
I think the answer to that is yes.
How the classified world broke away
Let’s now return to UFOs, and build the most likely scenario based on what we know.
One thing is for certain: some agency or group has been operating
aerial vehicles that are well beyond the capabilities of any known
aircraft. Military jets of the U.S. and other nations have chased them.
They do not resemble known types of vehicles. They have sometimes
invaded sensitive airspace.
Whether these UFOs are “ours” or “theirs,” it means that an advanced
and secret infrastructure must exist in order to account for them, and
advanced concepts in physics are being applied by
someone.
In addition, there is a strong likelihood that several UFOs have been
recovered by military units. This is based on several specific accounts
(most famously Roswell but many others), as well as on unconfirmed (but
plentiful) statements by military personnel who have quietly relayed
their knowledge to researchers. These include descriptions of
extraterrestrial bodies being examined, flying saucers being studied and
replicated, and a wide range of space-based activity that points to a
secret space program.
If, as I believe, some claims of recovered UFOs are true, it would
mean there has been a program to study and replicate them. How could it
be otherwise? No agency with a crashed or otherwise downed UFO would
simply sit on its hands for sixty years, looking at it.
No, it would do everything possible to understand it, no matter how
far beyond current science it might be. The group that controlled it
would keep it secret at all cost, beneath many layers of deception and
deniability. That much is clear. But what would happen next?
At some point, we must assume, breakthroughs of understanding would
occur, even if the alien artifacts could not be duplicated. Buried
within the protection of a largely privatized national security
structure, who can really trace definitively the stories behind some of
the key patents of the Cold War? I think a number of developments
relating to solid-state electronics, fiber optics, and other useful
technologies could well have been inspired by studying exotic
freebees.
Such breakthroughs mean attractive ground floor investments, handsome
profits, and less-than-zero motivation for revealing the “goose that
lays golden eggs.” But let us take the scenario even further. What if
even greater breakthroughs of understanding were achieved? A better
source of energy, a functioning electro-gravitic propulsion system, or a
biotechnology that eliminates certain diseases?
I have no doubt that breakthroughs of that sort would be blocked from
reaching the outside world. A new source of energy, especially if it
were “free” or nearly so, would demolish the petroleum industry, while
certain biotech developments would threaten Big Pharma. These are two of
the largest industries in the world.
Major breakthroughs would also threaten to destabilize society and
challenge the structure of power. Cheap and portable energy, as implied
by flying saucers, would revolutionize our world so completely that no
one can truly fathom what the world would look like once it became
available. The same can be said for technologies that might enable
people to live for 150 years or longer.
But just because certain discoveries and inventions would be kept
secret, study on them would not cease. We have seen that by the
mid-1960s, the highly secretive NSA had amazingly advanced computing
technology for its time; is it possible that breakthroughs in field
propulsion were made by the 1960s if not earlier? Such have been the
claims of several leaks and rumors over the years. If so, then we would
conceivably have had a small flying saucer fleet at some point
thereafter.
With a secret fleet of vehicles utilizing field propulsion and able
to explore beyond Earth’s orbit, it is easy to see how the cadre of
people involved in such a program would develop new vistas of experience
and imagination.
Such a group would continue to be funded secretly and covertly by a
combination of public and private funds. In effect, it would constitute
an invisible empire, with technology superior to the rest of the world,
able to explore areas of our world unavailable to the rest of us. It
would probably have a significant built infrastructure, possibly
underground and “off the grid” in important ways. It might even have
interactions or encounters with non-human intelligences behind the UFO
phenomenon. Most certainly it would be concerned somehow with managing
the problem of “others” here on Planet Earth. All of the above would
indicate that the group members would have deeper scientific and
cosmological insights.
Yes, this might qualify them as a separate, “breakaway,” civilization.
Such a group would have great independence from the established
system of power and control, although I would doubt its members would
live in a completely separate environment all the time, like some
Alternative 3
scenario. Most likely they would need to work in “our” world, if for no
other reason than that Earth is where the action is. They would
probably move back and forth between the realities of their deeply
classified world and the official reality that the rest of us inhabit.
Undoubtedly not an easy life.
What are they doing? What is the end game?
Americans of my generation and earlier were taught that they lived in
a free country. We elected our leaders, and if they didn’t please us,
we could vote them out and elect someone else. Government was
responsible to the people. Secrets and crimes occurred, of course, but
as long as the system worked, the wrongdoers could be exposed and
brought to justice.
Most people now recognize this belief for the idealized fantasy that
it is. One of the key components of a free society is freedom of
information, and to a large extent that system within the U.S. has
broken down. In my own research and meanderings down the road of
secrecy, I have come across a few names that inhabit this deeply
clandestine world. One of them, in my opinion at least, ought to be
famous by virtue of his career, which was at the highest levels of
NORAD. By rights, several other names I have encountered should also be
famous. Who knows, perhaps one day they will be. But today, none of them
yield a single hit on any web search. As far as anyone would know, they
simply don’t exist.
Of course, that’s an old story for those who work in the cloak and
dagger world of intelligence, but I think it is especially true for
members of the breakaway civilization. Learning about them and their
world, therefore, is likely never going to happen until the truth about
UFO reality is itself exposed –
which it will be one day –
and relevant information is forced out by public action. Meanwhile, I
speculate about the lives lived by members of this world.
Ask yourself, if it were learned that multiple groups of “others”
were here who possessed extraordinary capabilities, had a deep
understanding of our world, and were driven by as-yet unknown or
unconfirmed agendas, how would the classified world respond?
What follows derives from a combination of logic and confidential
conversations I have had in the course of my journeys into this field,
as well as discussions with a few other researchers who are also
uncovering the same general scenario. Quietly, we are doing what we can
to help each other and learn more about all this.
I believe that members of the breakaway civilization are recruited
from the militaries of several nations. It appears that the U.S. Navy is
a key provider of personnel. But wherever they come from, they work
under deep cover, below many layers of deniability. Those of them who
have families give no hint to their spouses and children what they
really do, which is to monitor and somehow deal with the presence of
these other beings. Obviously, these people are lifers. Even after they
retire, they are never truly out.
Their interests include not simply advanced propulsion and weaponry,
although these are important. My best guess is that other areas include
several that are off-limits to respectable science: psi enhancement,
memory management, and space-time management. It seems to me that at
least some people who are said to be “military abductees” have been
taken and used in this manner – but clearly not by the standard military
branches. No, this is an operation courtesy of our “breakaway” group,
which works with military cover. Such actions are necessary from their
point of view, as they know that these “others” operate in a way that
can affect space-time reality. They might therefore decide that they
need their own cadre to “see” and affect things across space and time.
The breakaway civilization is probably not unified. Certainly,
rivalries and competition abound within the U.S. and global intelligence
scene. It is probably no different here, and there is no reason to
suppose that the original incarnation of “MJ-12” is the only game in
town. Within the sprawling U.S. intelligence structure are many
opportunities for rogue, or at least divergent, groups. I believe this
applies to the breakaway civilization, and the logic is certainly there.
The prize, after all, is substantial: knowledge of the most advanced
technologies and scientific concepts imaginable. The same diversity,
incidentally, seems to apply to the “others.” These beings may not all
cooperate with each other, but whether or not there are active
hostilities among them I have no idea.
My supposition is based on a combination of the known facts and the
additional scraps that have reached me. If I am right, then a web of
attitudes and alliances exists behind the scenes. In such a situation,
having an accurate scorecard would be quite valuable. Still, I must
emphasize I cannot prove this scenario at the present time. I consider
it a working theory.
I should think that members of the breakaway civilization might
despair of ever educating the rest of humanity on what is going on.
Their own reality is probably so far beyond our own, they may rightfully
ask, how can they bring us up to speed without causing a worldwide
psychological meltdown?
But as I have felt for some time, neither they nor the “others” are
the only game in town. The great variable in the secrecy equation is
ourselves. That is, the mainstream human civilization that is currently
undergoing the most radical transformation in its history. In a mere
century we have gone from a society of horses pulling carts to one of
advanced computing and space travel. As I have stated in a number of
lectures, most experts in the field of artificial intelligence believe
we are a mere generation away from the day when your computer will be
talking to you, claiming to be a conscious entity. You may well accept
that claim. Then there is the future of nanotech, biotech, and quantum
computing. Just as Voltaire would not recognize our world today, we can
scarcely imagine the world that will exist a mere half-century from
now.
Unless it falls off the rails, this train has an inevitable
destination: one in which we prove openly and for certain that the UFO
phenomenon is real and that there are other intelligences involved in
it.
Nothing worth achieving is ever easy. Yet, one day, humanity will pry
open its prison door. That will be a joyous day, but also bittersweet
-- for we will realize that the struggle for truth has not ended. New
truths will need to be fought for and won. It is the price we must
inevitably pay for having lived so long beneath the heavy burden of such
pervasive falsehoods.
Only then will we begin the long process of reintegrating
all
of humanity into the light of day. And only then -- finally then -- can
we fully rise to the challenges posed, for better or for worse, by
these other beings.
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