There's an enormous amount of evidence to show that either aliens have already visited us, possibly beginning thousands of years ago, influencing our early civilization and beginning to share more advanced technology shortly after World War II; or that there's a massive effort, which may be even more far fetched, to convince many people of this even though it's not true.
Those who rely on the traditional media might not have a clue about this, since they do such an incredibly bad job covering this subject, as well as just about any other subject. Those that check Ancient aliens just long enough to see how absurd it is without checking other sources may be even more uninformed. They may be tempted to spot a few incredibly obvious blunders and the absurd presentation, then dismiss the entire subject. However, if there is nothing to it, why is the History Channel be going to so much trouble to create these shows, knowing that many people are believers. Furthermore, those of us who have looked close enough have found that even though Ancient Aliens isn't presenting their research in a credible manner, they do make lots of good points; the most difficult to dismiss out of hand may be how massive ancient megaliths were moves long distances even though experiments show that megaliths much if any bigger than ten tons should be impossible to move with ancient technology.
Additional major unsolved mysteries include crop circles, cattle mutilations, alleged alien abductions, mystics, and much more, of course including a massive number of UFO sightings going back at least seventy years, if not much longer. One of the biggest UFO sightings in history was in Fatima Portugal October 13th 1917, when fifty thousand people saw something in the sky, within our atmosphere, which they referred to as "The Miracle of the Sun," and most interpreted it as a religious experience.
There are also thousands of credible witnesses, including people in positions of power, like police officers, veterans, college professors, politicians, including Jimmy Carter, and many more, if you look through incredibly long lists, including one from Wikipedia of reports on UFO sightings, which are virtually absent from the mainstream media. One of the most credible witnesses is Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. Halt who was initially a skeptic but claimed he saw a craft far beyond known technology at Rendlesham Forest in 1980 and there are thousands more credible witnesses providing small pieces of evidence to this unsolved mystery, which can't easily be explained away.
The vast majority of these witnesses only provide limited testimony to a small aspect of this unsolved mystery; however, a close look at efforts to discredit them often creates as many problems as the UFO claims. Nevertheless, most of them don't provide strong evidence for alleged sharing or technology, or reverse engineering; however, Philip Corso, author of "The Day After Roswell," may be the most credible exception that I know of and there are many more making similar claims, although most, if not all of them have credibility problems. Philip Corso alone shows that either alien technology has been shared with corporations, which would have a major impact on rapid development of science for the past seventy years, or there's a massive effort to make it seem like it has. Philip Corso had ties to the military and support from numerous institutions that enabled him to turn his book into a best seller.
Richard Dolan is probably one of the most credible researchers into UFOs and he reports on many more sources that claim that aliens have shared technology, as well as many other aspects of UFOs in "UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991" 2009. The most well known source that claims he shared technology was Bob Lazar, who Dolan covers, has many credibility, but Dolan has indicated that some aspects of his claims may have been partially confirmed, even if other claims are almost certainly false. Perhaps the strongest evidence that Bob Lazar was right about something was the development of element 115, which no one knew about in the eighties, when he first made his claim, that was first synthesized in 2003, but it wasn't officially acknowledged until 2015, so Richard Dolan wouldn't have known about it for his book. Bob Lazar claims that the aliens were able to synthesize a stable version of this; however, they still haven't been able to synthesize a stable molecule, so at best, this has only been partially confirmed.
There are also dozens of more credible sources, or sources in high positions of power, that have made similar claims, including Lord Hill-Norton, a five-star naval officer rank, the highest rank of the British Royal Navy, Paul Hellyer, former Minister of National Defense for Canada, William Lear, inventor of the Lear Jet and eight track cassette, his son John Lear, a CIA agent and pilot, Joe Firmage and Robert Bigelow both of whom are worth close to, if not much more than a billion dollars, and have contributed to high technology including space travel. There are also at least two high tech billionaires, Sky Dayton and Bob Duggan, who are members of Scientology, which is by many accounts a UFO cult.
Unfortunately the mainstream media hasn't been remotely scientific when it comes to researching UFOs, instead treating it with ridicule most of the time they mention it at all. If you want to see any of the claims from these sources, and many more, you have to check with alternative media outlets or UFO research books, which are often mixed in with an enormous amount of disinformation. In many cases high ranking people like Paul Hellyer, John Lear or Joe Firmage make many claims that seem to have serious credibility problem; however, when someone with so much power shows they believe things that are so absurd, either there might be some truth to it, or you should wonder how such irrational people became billionaires or obtained high government jobs.
Robert Bigelow doesn't strike me as nearly as irrational as some other people making far-fetched claims about UFOs, and he's one of the few people that get network attention as the following article, with excerpts from "Sixty Minutes" shows:
Bigelow Aerospace founder says commercial world will lead in space 05/28/2017
NASA and Las Vegas entrepreneur have partnered on a technology that could change how humans live and work in space
.........
But on this canyon road just outside Las Vegas, Robert Bigelow's story takes a turn that some may find, to put it lightly, improbable. He told us this is where his grandparents had a close encounter with a UFO.
Robert Bigelow: It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car. And it took off at a right angle and shot off into the distance.
The story sparked his obsession, and explains the alien looking out from the side of Bigelow Aerospace. And it made for the kind of conversation you don't ordinarily have with an accomplished CEO.
Lara Logan: Do you believe in aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.
Lara Logan: Do you also believe that UFOs have come to Earth?
Robert Bigelow: There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions -- I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.
Lara Logan: Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I don't give a damn. I don't care.
Lara Logan: You don't worry that some people will say, "Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he's crazy"?
Robert Bigelow: I don't care.
Lara Logan: Why not?
Robert Bigelow: It's not gonna make a difference. It's not gonna change reality of what I know.
Lara Logan: Do you imagine that in our space travels we will encounter other forms of intelligent life?
Robert Bigelow: You don't have to go anywhere.
Lara Logan: You can find it here? Where exactly?
Robert Bigelow: It's just like right under people's noses. Oh my gosh. Wow.
The FAA confirmed to us that for years, it referred reports of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena to a company Bigelow owns. He told us he's had his own close encounters, but declined to go into detail.
Robert Bigelow's quirky and he knows it, but when you have as much money as he does, no one -- not even NASA -- seems to care. Complete article
NASA and Las Vegas entrepreneur have partnered on a technology that could change how humans live and work in space
.........
But on this canyon road just outside Las Vegas, Robert Bigelow's story takes a turn that some may find, to put it lightly, improbable. He told us this is where his grandparents had a close encounter with a UFO.
Robert Bigelow: It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car. And it took off at a right angle and shot off into the distance.
The story sparked his obsession, and explains the alien looking out from the side of Bigelow Aerospace. And it made for the kind of conversation you don't ordinarily have with an accomplished CEO.
Lara Logan: Do you believe in aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.
Lara Logan: Do you also believe that UFOs have come to Earth?
Robert Bigelow: There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions -- I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.
Lara Logan: Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?
Robert Bigelow: I don't give a damn. I don't care.
Lara Logan: You don't worry that some people will say, "Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he's crazy"?
Robert Bigelow: I don't care.
Lara Logan: Why not?
Robert Bigelow: It's not gonna make a difference. It's not gonna change reality of what I know.
Lara Logan: Do you imagine that in our space travels we will encounter other forms of intelligent life?
Robert Bigelow: You don't have to go anywhere.
Lara Logan: You can find it here? Where exactly?
Robert Bigelow: It's just like right under people's noses. Oh my gosh. Wow.
The FAA confirmed to us that for years, it referred reports of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena to a company Bigelow owns. He told us he's had his own close encounters, but declined to go into detail.
Robert Bigelow's quirky and he knows it, but when you have as much money as he does, no one -- not even NASA -- seems to care. Complete article
Robert Bigelow comes off as very credible, assuming your open minded enough to consider UFOs; however, he doesn't go into any further detail or provide any evidence. All you really have here is a wealthy person, that made his fortune in the hotel industry, before he became involved in high-tech supporting NASA and investing in research of UFOs. He claims to have had his own UFO encounters, in addition to the one his grandparents had but gives no details; the FAA officially admits they referred research to his company, but, once again they provide no details. For many this seems like just a tease, enabling skeptics to easily dismiss it or believers to easily cite it as strong evidence. Frankly, the best evidence is elsewhere, in sources not covered by mass media, and often mixed up with claims that have serious credibility problems so it's difficult if not impossible to sort out.
William Lear, inventor of the Lear jet, the eight track tape player and numerous other things, also claimed to have seen a UFO and hinted at the possibility that the military was researching anti-gravity as early as the mid-fifties, although it's unclear if he suggested it might be a result of alien technology; however his son, William Lear, who worked for the CIA and flew for them during the Vietnam War and on other occasions, made it clear that he believes that he believed that aliens were sharing technology no later than 1987, when the following letter, which discusses his theories about aliens who allegedly made contact in secret decades earlier, was first posted on the internet:
John Lear Letter 12/13/1987
John Lear
1414 Hollywood Blvd
Las Vegas, Nevada 89110
December 13, 1987
Dear Steven:
It was nice talking to you last night. I have enclosed the Dulce papers for your information. Also enclosed is a transcript of the McCampbell conversation with Paul Bennewitz and project Beta. Also the Gary Stollman statement. What follows is my current hypothesis formed after my 2 week trip through Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona talking to various individuals, some Air Force, some Sandia and some others.
MJ-12 representing the U.S. Government made a deal with the EBE's (extra- terrestrial biological entities) or "Greys" around the period of 1969- 1970-1971. The "deal" was in exchange for technology that they would provide to us we would ignore the abductions that were going on. The EBE's assured us that these abductions were merely ongoing monitoring of developing civilizations: (in fact these abductions have been for at least 3 purposes: (1) insertion of a tiny probe about 3 millimeters in size into the brain for monitoring and programming purposes; (2) post hypnotic suggestion concerning an important event that will occur in the next 2 to 5 years and giving the subject someplace to go and something to perform at that time; under our best hypnotic techniques we were unable to find out when or where or what this event is, and (3) genetic crossbreeding between the EBE's and humans. In many of the abductee hypnotic regressions of women with unusual terminated pregnancies they have been shown these "cross- breeds", usually frail tiny beings with comparatively large heads, thin skin, very thin arms and legs. Since we weren't aware of these facts we went along with the agreement but insisted on a list of the abductees to be submitted periodically to the National Security Council and MJ-12.
The EBE's have a genetic disorder in that their digestive system is atrophied and not functional. Some speculate that they were involved in some type of nuclear war or possibly on the back side of a genetic curve. In order to sustain themselves they use an enzyme or hormonal secretion obtained from the tongues and throats of cows or humans. (Note: cows and humans are genetically similar. In event of a national disaster cow blood can be used by humans). This secretion is mixed with H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) and another substance and is either spread on the skin, or the hands are dipped in the solution. The body then absorbs the mixture and excretes the waste back through the skin. ......
During the period of 1979 through 1983 it became increasingly obvious to MJ-12 that things were not going as planned. It became known that many more people (in the thousands) were being abducted than were listed on the official abduction list being supplied to the National Security Council and MJ-12 and that the abductions included much more that the "simple monitoring of an advancing civilization". In addition, it became obvious that some, not all, but some of the nation's missing children had been used for secretions and other parts required by the aliens.
In 1979, there was an altercation of sorts at the Archuletta laboratory. Delta Force was called in to try and free a number of people trapped in the facility who had become aware of what was really going on. 66 of the soldiers were killed in the effort and our people were not freed. .....
Meeting at the "Country Club", a remote lodge with private golf course and lavish sleeping and working quarters built by and exclusively for the members of MJ-12, it was a factional fight of what to do now. Part of MJ-12 wanted to confess the whole scheme and shambles it had become to the public, beg their forgiveness, and ask for their support. The other half of MJ-12 argued there was no way they could do that, that the situation was untenable and there was no use in exciting the public with the "horrible truth" and the best plan was to continue the development of a weapon that could be used against the EBE's under the guise of "SDI", the Strategic Defense Initiative, which had nothing whatever to do with a defense from Russian nuclear missiles. As these words are being written, Dr. Teller "father of the H-bomb", is in the test tunnels of the Nevada Test Site driving his workers and associates in the words of one, "like a man possessed". And well he should for Dr. Teller was a member of MJ-12, along with Dr. Kissinger, Bobby Inman and possibly Admiral Poindexter, to name a few of the current MJ-12.
Before the "Grand Deception" was discovered and according to the meticulous plan of metered release of information to the public, several documentaries and videotapes were made. William Moore, a Burbank, California-based UFO researcher came into possession of a videotape through his contacts with MJ-12 who had taken a great interest in Mr. Moore's book, "The Roswell Incident", published in 1980. .... They decided to use Moore as one of several conduits to help in the gradual release of the existance of aliens to the public. The video Mr. Moore had was an inter- view by 2 well known newsmen of a military officer associated with MJ-12. In the interview the military officer answers questions relating to the history of MJ-12 and the coverup, the recovery of a number of flying saucers, the existance of a live alien (one of three living aliens, designated or named EBE1, EBE2, and EBE3) being held in a facility designated as YY-II at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The only other facility of this type is at Edwards Air Force Base in Mojave, California. The officer named names as previously mentioned plus a few others: Harold Brown, Richard Helms, Gen. Vernon Walters, and Von Karmon. The officer also relates the fact that the EBE's claim to have created Christ. The EBE's have some sort of recording device that has recorded all of the Earth's history and can display it in the form of a hologram. ..... The crucifixion of Christ on the Mount of Olives has allegedly been put on film to show to the public. The EBE's claim to have created Christ in view of the "Grand Deception" could be an effort to disrupt traditional values for undetermined reasons. .....
Certain of Moore's statements leads one to believe that Moore himself is a government agent working for MJ-12, not being strung along, but stringing along ever hopeful ufologists that the truth is just around the corner. .....
That's all I have for you now except to tell you that Moore has shown the videotape to 5 well known persons to judge reactions. One of those persons was Paul Harvey, well known news commentator and personal friend. Paul says he has seen the evidence but rejects the content. I talked with him briefly over the telephone the other day to tell him that the video was essentially true but there was some very important information that he should be aware of known as the Grand Deception. I told him that one thing, the story that the EBE's invented Christ, was probably not true. He said he didn't believe that part anyway. Complete letter
John Lear
1414 Hollywood Blvd
Las Vegas, Nevada 89110
December 13, 1987
Dear Steven:
It was nice talking to you last night. I have enclosed the Dulce papers for your information. Also enclosed is a transcript of the McCampbell conversation with Paul Bennewitz and project Beta. Also the Gary Stollman statement. What follows is my current hypothesis formed after my 2 week trip through Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona talking to various individuals, some Air Force, some Sandia and some others.
MJ-12 representing the U.S. Government made a deal with the EBE's (extra- terrestrial biological entities) or "Greys" around the period of 1969- 1970-1971. The "deal" was in exchange for technology that they would provide to us we would ignore the abductions that were going on. The EBE's assured us that these abductions were merely ongoing monitoring of developing civilizations: (in fact these abductions have been for at least 3 purposes: (1) insertion of a tiny probe about 3 millimeters in size into the brain for monitoring and programming purposes; (2) post hypnotic suggestion concerning an important event that will occur in the next 2 to 5 years and giving the subject someplace to go and something to perform at that time; under our best hypnotic techniques we were unable to find out when or where or what this event is, and (3) genetic crossbreeding between the EBE's and humans. In many of the abductee hypnotic regressions of women with unusual terminated pregnancies they have been shown these "cross- breeds", usually frail tiny beings with comparatively large heads, thin skin, very thin arms and legs. Since we weren't aware of these facts we went along with the agreement but insisted on a list of the abductees to be submitted periodically to the National Security Council and MJ-12.
The EBE's have a genetic disorder in that their digestive system is atrophied and not functional. Some speculate that they were involved in some type of nuclear war or possibly on the back side of a genetic curve. In order to sustain themselves they use an enzyme or hormonal secretion obtained from the tongues and throats of cows or humans. (Note: cows and humans are genetically similar. In event of a national disaster cow blood can be used by humans). This secretion is mixed with H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) and another substance and is either spread on the skin, or the hands are dipped in the solution. The body then absorbs the mixture and excretes the waste back through the skin. ......
During the period of 1979 through 1983 it became increasingly obvious to MJ-12 that things were not going as planned. It became known that many more people (in the thousands) were being abducted than were listed on the official abduction list being supplied to the National Security Council and MJ-12 and that the abductions included much more that the "simple monitoring of an advancing civilization". In addition, it became obvious that some, not all, but some of the nation's missing children had been used for secretions and other parts required by the aliens.
In 1979, there was an altercation of sorts at the Archuletta laboratory. Delta Force was called in to try and free a number of people trapped in the facility who had become aware of what was really going on. 66 of the soldiers were killed in the effort and our people were not freed. .....
Meeting at the "Country Club", a remote lodge with private golf course and lavish sleeping and working quarters built by and exclusively for the members of MJ-12, it was a factional fight of what to do now. Part of MJ-12 wanted to confess the whole scheme and shambles it had become to the public, beg their forgiveness, and ask for their support. The other half of MJ-12 argued there was no way they could do that, that the situation was untenable and there was no use in exciting the public with the "horrible truth" and the best plan was to continue the development of a weapon that could be used against the EBE's under the guise of "SDI", the Strategic Defense Initiative, which had nothing whatever to do with a defense from Russian nuclear missiles. As these words are being written, Dr. Teller "father of the H-bomb", is in the test tunnels of the Nevada Test Site driving his workers and associates in the words of one, "like a man possessed". And well he should for Dr. Teller was a member of MJ-12, along with Dr. Kissinger, Bobby Inman and possibly Admiral Poindexter, to name a few of the current MJ-12.
Before the "Grand Deception" was discovered and according to the meticulous plan of metered release of information to the public, several documentaries and videotapes were made. William Moore, a Burbank, California-based UFO researcher came into possession of a videotape through his contacts with MJ-12 who had taken a great interest in Mr. Moore's book, "The Roswell Incident", published in 1980. .... They decided to use Moore as one of several conduits to help in the gradual release of the existance of aliens to the public. The video Mr. Moore had was an inter- view by 2 well known newsmen of a military officer associated with MJ-12. In the interview the military officer answers questions relating to the history of MJ-12 and the coverup, the recovery of a number of flying saucers, the existance of a live alien (one of three living aliens, designated or named EBE1, EBE2, and EBE3) being held in a facility designated as YY-II at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The only other facility of this type is at Edwards Air Force Base in Mojave, California. The officer named names as previously mentioned plus a few others: Harold Brown, Richard Helms, Gen. Vernon Walters, and Von Karmon. The officer also relates the fact that the EBE's claim to have created Christ. The EBE's have some sort of recording device that has recorded all of the Earth's history and can display it in the form of a hologram. ..... The crucifixion of Christ on the Mount of Olives has allegedly been put on film to show to the public. The EBE's claim to have created Christ in view of the "Grand Deception" could be an effort to disrupt traditional values for undetermined reasons. .....
Certain of Moore's statements leads one to believe that Moore himself is a government agent working for MJ-12, not being strung along, but stringing along ever hopeful ufologists that the truth is just around the corner. .....
That's all I have for you now except to tell you that Moore has shown the videotape to 5 well known persons to judge reactions. One of those persons was Paul Harvey, well known news commentator and personal friend. Paul says he has seen the evidence but rejects the content. I talked with him briefly over the telephone the other day to tell him that the video was essentially true but there was some very important information that he should be aware of known as the Grand Deception. I told him that one thing, the story that the EBE's invented Christ, was probably not true. He said he didn't believe that part anyway. Complete letter
Richard Dolan mentioned this in his book, indicating that due to the bizarre nature of his claims many people were highly skeptical and he couldn't assure people that his claims are accurate. There's good reason to be skeptical of some, if not all of his claims; however, we can, once again, narrow it down to two possibilities, either he believes this and there might be something to it, although he presents it as theory, so it doesn't have to be completely accurate; or he went to a lot of trouble to make these claim up and continued to do so decades after this letter was first posted. He did a three part interview with George Knapp within the past couple years, clearly indicating that he's more convinced in his beliefs (listed below).
At the time his letter was first posted on the internet Bill Moore was one of the most notably UFO researchers from several organizations, and few people suspected him of working with the CIA or other intelligence organizations as John Lear claimed; however, as Richard Dolan points out in his book, two years later he admitted to spreading disinformation for intelligence organizations, proving John Lear to be right. I had heard a lot about William Moore in numerous UFO shows or books, but until I recently read Dolan's book I was unaware of this, even though he admitted to it three decades ago. Most UFO shows credit Stanton Friedman with releasing these documents, and he does mention Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera, but I've never heard him disclose the fact that Moore had admitted to spreading disinformation. Nevertheless, I did have some of my own doubts about Stanton Friedman years ago which I pointed out in Is Stanton Friedman working for the CIA to refute reverse engineering claims? and this might add to the evidence to support my "Recruit a Group Of Crackpots" theory, which is described in that article. This theory basically speculates about the possibility that the CIA or other espionage organizations releases reliable information through unreliable sources, often mixing it up with false information to make it hard to sort out the truth.
His claim that the aliens might have created Christ, which both him and Paul Harvey doubted, doesn't have any more confirmation than the rest of his claims; however, there may be stronger evidecne that UFOs might have influenced religion as a result of the alleged "Miracle of the Sun" in Fatima Portugal as I pointed out in UFO Hypothesis Far More Credible Than Catholic Claim of A "Miracle Of The Sun," so I wouldn't completely rule it out, although most rational skeptics would want additional evidence.
But of course, John Lear also had ties to the CIA long before he made his disclosures; how can we be certain that he isn't spreading disinformation as well? We can't of course; furthermore, if there is an effort to either release more accurate information mixed up with false information or just make the entire mythology up there are numerous more documents that are very long which would require a lot of effort either way. One of those was the Serpo documents released in 2005, which many people claim were faked; although, Mike Bara author of Hidden Agenda: NASA and the Secret Space Program 2016. is skeptical of these claims since it would take a lot of effort to manufacture them and he couldn't imagine why anyone would fake, leading him to believe they're probably legitimate. He asked "If it is fake, the effort to create the air of authenticity is off the scale. Why would anyone even bother, especially if they're giving the information for free?"
However, even though Mike Bara did have a legitimate concern, that there must have been a significant motive for making it up, there are serious problems with it; on the third disclosure from this web page, Posting Three by Anonymous (7 November, 2005), they described the planet the aliens allegedly came from orbiting the Zeta Reticuli system saying that it was 91 million miles from one sun in the system and 96 million miles from the other, which is obviously false; not only would one of the suns be 350 billion miles away in this system, but if it were another system, they couldn't possibly have consistent distances like this since they would be orbiting one of the suns, unless the two stars were very close to each other and the planet was orbiting both, which would have made them about the same distance, but it would have still fluctuated. This series of documents also includes Serpo Release 27a transcript for Reagan's briefing on Roswell, which was the first one I read, and I had doubts about that as well especially when they made a big deal about wasting time and security clearances after Reagan asked how long it took the aliens to get to earth; then after wasting a lot of time they answered his question anyway, which makes no sense.
These Serpo documents repeat many of the same claims, or variations of them, as John Lear, possibly to control the mythology of UFOs whether they're mixing up pieces of the truth or making it all up. And these two are not the only ones making similar claims, there are many more including Roswell Alien Interview Revisited ➱ Full Version Including Intro. & Postscript 05/24/2014 which is a long letter by an elderly nurse who claimed to have been the companion for an alien captured at Roswell decades earlier when she was much younger and that she had kept it secret until she was close to dying shortly before she planned to end her life, which was becoming to painful due to her illnesses.
I don't know how many more low profile claims that have been released similar to these three, but there are probably more, including another one which I came across after Michael Shermer attempted to debunk Joe Firmage's beliefs, that involved being visited by an alien and given what looks like a "revelation" of some sort, although he didn't seem to be skeptical of at least one aspect of his story as described in the following excerpt:
Michael Shermer "Why People Believe Weird Things" 1997 p.307-9
In like manner did the multi-millionaire Silicon Valley business genius Joe Firmage respond when I interviewed him on the radio.86 The 28-year old founder of the $3 billion Internet company USWeb (who had already sold his first Internet company for $24 million when he was only 19), he requested that he be introduced as the founder and chairman of the International Space Sciences Organization (ISSO) and was interested only in discussing his love of science and his new work as a “scientist” for ISSO (to my knowledge he has no formal training as a scientist). What about all those press reports that erupted immediately following his announcement that he was quitting USWeb to pursue his belief that UFOs have landed and that the United States government had captured some of the alien technology and “back-engineered” it and fed it to the American science and technology industries? They exaggerated and distorted what he really believes, Firmage explained. He never actually said that he believed the U.S. government stole alien technologies. Nor did he really want to elaborate upon a 1997 experience he had (he seemed genuinely uncomfortable when I brought it up) with an alien intelligence. The media, he explained, exaggerated that one as well. This I found odd, even disingenuous, since it was his own public relations company that generated all the media attention, including the stories of stolen alien technology and his life-changing alien encounter.
In the fall of 1997 Firmage says that he was awakened in the early morning to see “a remarkable being, clothed in brilliant white light hovering over my bed.” The being asked Firmage: “Why have you called me here?” Firmage says he replied: “I want to travel in space.” The alien questioned his desire and inquired why such a wish should be granted. “Because I’m willing to die for it,” Firmage answered. At this point, says Firmage, out of the alien being “emerged an electric blue sphere, just smaller than a basketball … It left his body, floated down and entered me. Instantly I was overcome by the most unimaginable ecstasy I have ever experienced, a pleasure vastly beyond orgasm … Something had been given to me.” The result was Firmage’s ISSO and his 1999 Internet electronic book immodestly entitled The Truth, a rambling 244-page manuscript filled with warnings to humanity that could have been taken out of a 1950’s B science fiction film. The book is heavily sprinkled with the jargon of physics and aeronautics, including Firmage’s goal to convince the “scientific establishment” of the reality of UFOs and such advanced technologies as Zero Point Energy from the vacuum of space, “propellantless propulsion” and “gravitational propulsion” for “greater-than-light” travel, “vacuum fluctuations” to alter “gravitational and inertial masses,” and the like.87
Again, my point is not to belittle, but to understand. Why would a smart man like Joe Firmage give up such a remarkably lucrative and successful career as a Silicon Valley wizard to chase the chimera of aliens? Well, he was raised as a Mormon but in his teen years he “began to have questions about the more dogmatic aspects of the religion.” Mormons believe in direct human-angel contact based on the claim that the Church’s founder, Joseph Smith, was contacted by the angel Moroni and guided to the sacred golden tablets from which the Book of Mormon was written. In The Truth, Firmage explains that the revelation “was received by a man named Joseph Smith, whose descriptions of encounters with brilliant, white-clothed beings are almost indistinguishable from many modern-day accounts of first-hand encounters with ‘visitors’.”88 So, Joseph Smith had a close encounter of the third kind. And apparently he was by no means the first. Eighteen hundred years earlier St. John the Divine received his “revelation” from which the last book in the Bible was written, and shortly before that a carpenter from the tiny hamlet of Nazareth experienced his own visions and epiphanies from on high. Although he does not say it directly, the inference is clear: Jesus the Christ, St. John the Divine, Joseph Smith, and Joseph Firmage each made contact with one of these higher beings, and as a consequence changed the world. Firmage found his calling, and the meaning of his close encounters:
Indeed he does. He is a smart man with a weird belief and a lot of money to legitimize it. But neither the smarts nor the money alter one iota the fact that there exists not one piece of tangible evidence of alien visitation. And where evidence is lacking, the mind fills in the gaps, and smart minds are better at gap filling. Complete article
In like manner did the multi-millionaire Silicon Valley business genius Joe Firmage respond when I interviewed him on the radio.86 The 28-year old founder of the $3 billion Internet company USWeb (who had already sold his first Internet company for $24 million when he was only 19), he requested that he be introduced as the founder and chairman of the International Space Sciences Organization (ISSO) and was interested only in discussing his love of science and his new work as a “scientist” for ISSO (to my knowledge he has no formal training as a scientist). What about all those press reports that erupted immediately following his announcement that he was quitting USWeb to pursue his belief that UFOs have landed and that the United States government had captured some of the alien technology and “back-engineered” it and fed it to the American science and technology industries? They exaggerated and distorted what he really believes, Firmage explained. He never actually said that he believed the U.S. government stole alien technologies. Nor did he really want to elaborate upon a 1997 experience he had (he seemed genuinely uncomfortable when I brought it up) with an alien intelligence. The media, he explained, exaggerated that one as well. This I found odd, even disingenuous, since it was his own public relations company that generated all the media attention, including the stories of stolen alien technology and his life-changing alien encounter.
In the fall of 1997 Firmage says that he was awakened in the early morning to see “a remarkable being, clothed in brilliant white light hovering over my bed.” The being asked Firmage: “Why have you called me here?” Firmage says he replied: “I want to travel in space.” The alien questioned his desire and inquired why such a wish should be granted. “Because I’m willing to die for it,” Firmage answered. At this point, says Firmage, out of the alien being “emerged an electric blue sphere, just smaller than a basketball … It left his body, floated down and entered me. Instantly I was overcome by the most unimaginable ecstasy I have ever experienced, a pleasure vastly beyond orgasm … Something had been given to me.” The result was Firmage’s ISSO and his 1999 Internet electronic book immodestly entitled The Truth, a rambling 244-page manuscript filled with warnings to humanity that could have been taken out of a 1950’s B science fiction film. The book is heavily sprinkled with the jargon of physics and aeronautics, including Firmage’s goal to convince the “scientific establishment” of the reality of UFOs and such advanced technologies as Zero Point Energy from the vacuum of space, “propellantless propulsion” and “gravitational propulsion” for “greater-than-light” travel, “vacuum fluctuations” to alter “gravitational and inertial masses,” and the like.87
Again, my point is not to belittle, but to understand. Why would a smart man like Joe Firmage give up such a remarkably lucrative and successful career as a Silicon Valley wizard to chase the chimera of aliens? Well, he was raised as a Mormon but in his teen years he “began to have questions about the more dogmatic aspects of the religion.” Mormons believe in direct human-angel contact based on the claim that the Church’s founder, Joseph Smith, was contacted by the angel Moroni and guided to the sacred golden tablets from which the Book of Mormon was written. In The Truth, Firmage explains that the revelation “was received by a man named Joseph Smith, whose descriptions of encounters with brilliant, white-clothed beings are almost indistinguishable from many modern-day accounts of first-hand encounters with ‘visitors’.”88 So, Joseph Smith had a close encounter of the third kind. And apparently he was by no means the first. Eighteen hundred years earlier St. John the Divine received his “revelation” from which the last book in the Bible was written, and shortly before that a carpenter from the tiny hamlet of Nazareth experienced his own visions and epiphanies from on high. Although he does not say it directly, the inference is clear: Jesus the Christ, St. John the Divine, Joseph Smith, and Joseph Firmage each made contact with one of these higher beings, and as a consequence changed the world. Firmage found his calling, and the meaning of his close encounters:
One of the purposes of this Internet book is to share with each of you fundamentally new ideas — ideas that one day could transform the world. In this work, I wish to propose a way to completely restructure over time our economic institutions to operate in a manner compatible with a living Earth, while preserving the proven entrepreneurial creativity that has built a remarkable modern civilization… Is this a radical proposal? Absolutely. Is it insane? Yes. Is it a utopian fantasy? Totally. Radical and insane proposals are necessary to save a short-sighted and dangerously hubris nation from self-destruction… My business partner and I built USWeb Corporation, the largest Internet services company on the planet, so I know what I am talking about creating here. 89
Indeed he does. He is a smart man with a weird belief and a lot of money to legitimize it. But neither the smarts nor the money alter one iota the fact that there exists not one piece of tangible evidence of alien visitation. And where evidence is lacking, the mind fills in the gaps, and smart minds are better at gap filling. Complete article
I'm also skeptical of Joe Firmage's claims, even though I often don't agree with Michael Shermer, especially since, after searching the internet for more information I found no more supporting evidence, and perhaps more that raised doubts about his claims.In some cases after taking a close look at alleged mystics like Andrew Jackson Davis, Padre Pio, Helena Blavatsky, and others, I often found that some of them did have unexplained mysteries surrounding them that skeptics couldn't explain; but in Joe Firmage's case there doesn't seem to be anything that can't be rationally explained by normal means; although there is one major issue that I'm skeptical about.
How did Joe Firmage manage to create a company and sell it for $24 million when he was only 19? This claim has been reported elsewhere, but there's little or no explanation, based on internet searches on him, as to what he or his companies did or how they earned all this money and convinced investors they were worth so much. It's hard to imagine how a nineteen year old could sell a company for that much money especially when few people even know what it did. Few if any of the most noted geniuses were able to develop a business that fast and sell it for that much, including Einstein, Edison, Tesla, Hawking and many others. Although young overnight multimillionaires became more common in the computer age, but even Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg weren't able to start a business that early. Furthermore, Michael Shermer mentions that he doesn't know of any scientific training that would enable him to develop advanced computer programs of some sort, yet he accepts without question that he was worth the sale of a $24 million company and that his other company, at the age of 28 was worth $3 billion, although other estimates are lower.
According to Billionaires who've made their fortunes 'overnight' 04/13/2018 there were at least seventeen billionaires that made their fortune in a surprisingly quick time, although none of them did so as young as Joe Firmage made his $24 million, and to the best of my knowledge none of them became millionaires that early either; they did include an extra "one to watch," Sandile Shezi who became a millionaire at age twenty-three. Another article points out 6 Overnight Millionaires 01/30/2020 but none of them made their millions by the age of nineteen either. If Joe Firmage sold his first company at age nineteen for $24 million that would be a more impressive feat than any of these people and I would think it would merit more attention, Yet neither Michael Shermer or anyone else seems that interested. I went into overnight billionaires more in Do Aliens own Stock in Monsanto, DuPont, or Microsoft? and Who's Controlling Oligarchies Dividing The Market? Aliens? where I pointed out that most if not all of these overnight billionaires became rich at about the same time that high tech companies that may have been developed with the help of reverse engineering that Philip Corso reported about, assuming he was telling the truth.
Most if not all of these people making these claims almost certainly could have presented their case better, including Paul Hellyer, who claims that aliens would share more technology if we were less violent, that there's a real Illuminati and that aliens have the technology to reverse climate change, but for some reason the so-called Illuminati prefers to help the oil companies; although, to the best of my knowledge he doesn't say why they would prefer to help oil companies instead of reversing climate change.
We certainly should be less violent and reevaluate our stock of nuclear weapons which we should have known decades ago could never be used. It certainly seems reasonable for aliens to be concerned with this; however, if they were, as Hellyer claims, then it should be clear that the way to address this would be communicate with all people, not just government insiders. If aliens have shared technology with the elites, then there would no doubt be some kind of a control group, which John Lear refers to as MJ-12, others call it the deep state and Hellyer refers to it as the Illuminati, although if there is a real thing it wouldn't be any of the exaggerated versions of the Illuminati that skeptics have used to ridicule and stereotype this claim. Whether aliens have shared technology with the elites or not, there's no doubt that the vast majority of power is in the hands of a small fraction of the public, including billionaires, who control large corporations, the media and political parties.
Even without alien technology there's no doubt that we have the technology to partly reverse climate change, although it's not clear whether we can do it nearly fast enough, and there should be no doubt that we should have started using our best research to do this decades ago, yet for one reason or another we're not. Helping the oil companies seems like a rational explanation, but even oil executives must know that they'll destroy them selves as well as the rest of us if they go beyond the point of no return, so unless they have a plan to address it, they're suicidal or they're ideological fanatics, you would think they would be acting differently, and that there would be a better motive than greed.
With or without alien technology it's virtually guaranteed that our ruling elite has an undisclosed motive for not acting on climate change. One thing that is certain is that our government has been studying weather modification for at least seventy years; the evidence for this came from mandatory weather modification from the sixties and additional research reports that haven't gotten adequate media attention since then. In several previous articles, including my most recent one, Forgotten History Exposing The Illusion Of Democracy & Government Reports on Weather Control, I discussed the possibility that this could be part of a weather control research project. This may be more likely with coordination with aliens, assuming they have made contact and shared technology, since without their knowledge it would be insane to play chicken with the survival of our species. However, even with their help it would still be insane, since these aliens, assuming they've been around for thousands of years have been deceiving us and misleading us since they first intervened in our development and may be responsible for many cults indoctrinating and controlling the human race.
If aliens are sharing technology, then it's almost certain that this includes medical technology, and if part of the reason that they're keeping it secret is that they're conducting research that might not always be in the best interest of the majority, that research almost certainly includes medical research as I went into in several other articles including Spectacular Heart Transplant for Sophia But at What Cost. If this is the case, then many people are being used for research without adequate consent, and they may not be the beneficiaries of the research. This is true even without the help of alien technology.
There should be no doubt that if we started repairing our environment now, encouraged preventive medicine on a massive scale, and allowed Single Payer Health care so there wouldn't be so many middlemen making it far more efficient, then we could save far more lives than our current system. However, there wouldn't be as large a supply of research subjects available, especially if they required full disclosure and consent, only using people for research with permission. This is true, with or without alien technology. Furthermore, if they are using us for research then we can't get the full benefit without disclosure, and at the current time the sacrifices are far bigger than the benefits, especially since we're risking the destruction of our ecosystem.
If there's another explanation for these unsolved mysteries besides alien intervention or a massive conspiracy to make it seem like there's intervention when there isn't, what could it be? I can't imagine any other possibility. If it has to be one of these two possibilities, which one is more likely?
Both these possibilities have some serious flaws; however, there's an enormous amount of credible evidence mixed in with the false claims that may indicate that alien intervention and sharing of technology is more likely. Furthermore, even though this theory would still have to correct many misconceptions and fill in much more details, it begins to explain many major unsolved mystery which the other theory ignores.
So-called scientific-skeptics seem to think that when it comes to things they consider fringe ignoring evidence that doesn't support your beliefs, and resorting to ridicule is an acceptable part of the scientific process, despite the fact that they would never accept this tactic from religious people or believers in spiritualism, the paranormal, or UFOs among other things. I'm not completely ruling out the possibility that there's a massive effort to fake all this, but in order to make this theory more viable a lot of unexplained mysteries have to be explained, including how massive megaliths were moved by people who shouldn't have had the ability to move them, thousands of UFO sightings, Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, mystics, incredibly rapid development of technology and much more.
Another fringe belief, which sounds insane, that may have to be explained is alleged religious prophecy about the coming of the anti-Christ, followed by the coming of Christ, which I went into over four years ago in Yes Virginia There Is A Trump And Clinton Conspiracy; at the time I focused on conspiracies with stronger evidence, like the fact that a small fraction of the public controls powerful institutions before moving on to more far-fetched ones about how the 2016 campaign seemed to have many characteristics from the book of Apocalypse. I considered this part of the conspiracy absurd, and indicated that it should fall apart. But instead the political system just kept getting even more insane, even though they should know better and could avoid this insanity.
If there are some similarities then the Bible seems to predict that the anti-Christ, which many people think appears to be Trump will be removed when it says, "But the beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had worked miracles on the beast's behalf and by them had deceived those who had accepted branding with the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped his statue. These two were hurled alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur." Apocalypse 19:20
I'm not ruling out the possibility that this could be a massive insane charade; but there's no doubt we have to stop letting our leaders make decisions for us, even if they do avoid total self-destruction, since it would only be for their benefit not ours and they've clearly indicated they're not interested in the best interests of the majority.
The following are some additional sources or related articles:
Aliens Have Visited Earth, Space Entrepreneur Robert Bigelow Believes 06/01/2017
Aliens are here, and they’re not our friends, John Lear says — Part 1 11/11/2019
John Lear says MJ-12 controls UFO secrets in government — Part 2 11/07/2019 Ridicule buries UFO reports, just as intended, John Lear says
UFO actions were hostile, John Lear says — Part 3 11/07/2019 Cattle mutilations and beyond: John Lear and 'the grand deception'
John Lear, Pilot of the CIA “We control Alien Technology and there are Colonies on the Moon and Mars” (Video) 02/07/2020
Joe Firmage "The Truth" 1999 read online
Wikipedia: USWeb In 1999, during the merger of USWeb and CKS,[6] one of the founders and CEO of USWeb, Joseph P. Firmage, was asked to step down as CEO after he claimed to have been visited by extraterrestrials in his bedroom. Firmage publicly claimed that extraterrestrials had revealed advanced technologies to him and knowledge of alien civilizations.[7][8][9]
CEO Quits Job Over UFO Views / Advances in technology a gift of aliens, Silicon Valley pioneer believes 01/09/1999
That Extraterrestial Joe Firmage Brand of Truth: Naïve or Groundbreaking? You Decide
Source Watch: Joseph Firmage
The Truth, probably 12/09/1998 To encourage mankind to abandon the profit motive, he is developing EarthCity, an online shopping scheme that will fund charities. And to open our minds to his message, he has published The Truth at http://www.the-word-is-truth.org/truth.cfm – a book on the web telling the history of UFO visits to Earth.
Joe Firmage "The Truth" 1999 On Wayback Machine, missing large portions of it.
Silicon Valley CEO turns UFO evangelist 03/17/1999
TRUTH IS OUT THERE TV producer sues ‘CIA scientist’ in bid to expose ‘government UFO cover up’ and blows whistle on mysterious anti-gravity research project 04/05/2019 Kiviat, who lives in Los Angeles, first joined InterNASA in January 2018 - after their chief executive Joe Firmage told him that they had secured funding and CIA backing for his research into an anti-gravity machine. ...... He says he performed multiple tasks for InterNASA and was told he was working for both Firmage and CIA operative Pandolfi
Joe Firmage To Join Reorganized USWeb Central Worldwide as Chairman 10/07/2011
Paul Hellyer, Canada's ex-defense minister: Aliens would give us more tech if we'd stop wars 01/05/2014
Illuminati is real, claims Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Defense Minister 02/13/2018
Popular Mechanics: Pentagon Has ‘Off-World Vehicles Not Made on This Earth’ 07/25/2020
Ex Defense Official Appears On CNN Stating “UFOs Are Clearly Under Intelligent Control” 08/12/2020
Trump may end up at Rikers Island by the end of 2023 if he loses re-election: legal experts 09/14/2020
The new American religion of UFOs 06/04/2019
UK UFO Files Show High Level Officials Were Concerned 08/28/2011
Twining-Schulgen memo 09/23/1947
Originally published in France in 1999, the Cometa Report
Here's The List Of Studies The Military's Secretive UFO Program Funded, Some Were Junk 01/18/2019
Thousands witness UFO Over New Jersey Sept 14, 2020, 4 Videos, UFO Sighting News. 09/15/2020
UFO Brings New Jersey Highway To A Standstill As Everyone Stops To Film It 09/15/2020
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