Been looking through the old Bill Moore admission, for a particular reason. Some of us like
@Todd Feinman have been fortunate enough to have a close range encounter who actually
know rather than simply
Believe. In my case my two encounters turned out differently, as I've said one is a famous nothing burger, and the fact that it refuses to die and continues to grow legs is sort of the point behind this post. Just like politics, whether the news cycle was monthly or virtually minute by minute as it is now, all you have to do is say
anything and part of it'll stick. There will be believers no matter how ludicrous - go chat with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Facts are irrelevant, it's about showmanship and even if shown to be false some will cling tenaciously to whatever theory fits their views.
So, relevant to Disclosure in its most current evolution, I've said - and believe to be true - that the present interest is due to the fact that technology has arrived at a point where governments and militaries can't afford to ignore weird things flying around because there are many new terrestrial ones that cause trouble. If it happens to catch a UFO in the process, and you know there are many 'inside' that are as interested as we are in that, the primary motivation is perfectly terrestrial. It finally got to a point where they would be demonstrably remiss in the duties they have been charged with to ignore unknown objects like this.
There is such a profusion of nonsense out there, so much old stuff regurgitated for a new audience it's become a form of entertainment.
I keep going back to Bill Moore, and by extension Paul Bennewitz, for a good reason. It's a fact that AFOSI deliberately circulated misinformation. I've heard interviews with Richard Doty that repeat exactly what Moore said about seeing films of aliens, bodies, crash retrieval etc. Also true they - and probably others - kept tabs on UFO investigation groups for a reason. Cold War espionage was what was at the heart of it all, the reason why they ****ed up poor Paul Bennewitz.
Moore wrote
Roswell and
Philadelphia Experiment with Charles Berlitz who has been quoted as saying 'don't worry too much about truth just sell books' - that from an old
Paracast episode. In the video Moore claimed no knowledge of the
Philadelphia Experiment - odd since his name's on the cover. Probably proves the point. So this dubious pair, one a 'disinformation agent' at a certain point, write a couple of books with good stories that capture the imagination of many. We're still talking about them but tend to forget who brought them to the forefront and for what purpose. Oh, and he probably did exactly what they wanted him to do after they gave him the info, like Doty. If they really wanted to get rid of him because he's such a threat they would have; he is a mouthpiece whether he knows it or not.
It must've taken some doing to create those MJ12 docs. Same for the 600+ page UFO/ET dossier that Moore analyzed. He admitted he doesn't know why they gave it to him. You'd think he'd be at an awfully low level to be brought in on such a secret - same as Richard Doty. You know, the
Project Serpo 'I wanna be a UFO movie consultant' Doty. I think 'the government' created a lot of this stuff deliberately to misdirect, to disinform, for very terrestrial reasons at the time. I also know that like everything else, the real story took a back seat the one they want us to hear. Nobody's asking what Bennewitz
saw - they just discredited him. Came to close too something real and important. You can't help but wonder if Hynek and Vallee were 'in on it' to some degree. Vallee's still 'in on it' apparently.
Suppose Charles Berlitz never wrote those books. These general topics were already in the public forum which is why Spielberg's CE3K is such a great movie- he had a personal interest. But it all got very refined and the narrative fleshed with distinct details. Another question Moore fielded was about the appearance of aliens. The original descriptions from - I think the Holliman landing story- were of little creatures with big noses. Curiously, the same as what Betty Hill had to say and what she continued to say all along as far as I know. Moore said the ones in the file look like what we call 'greys' now. Odd little twist there, eh?
Use of the UFO phenomenon for very terrestrial purposes, espionage, maskirovka, what have you, was a recipe that worked, Side effect is that it infected out pop culture perception a little too well. Take out Moore and Berlitz,
Communion, even CE3K and wouldn't it be interesting to see how we would perceive it now? They threw that **** against the walls years ago and far too much of it stuck. In fact, it's grown. I think sometimes ufology has done itself it's greatest disservice. There is a general lack of critical thinking and a preponderance of Belief. Ironic that in 2022 'the government' has had to change it's course on this and encourage reporting, again for very practical purposes.
I'm not debunking or dismissing. I simply prefer some truth to it, some reality I can grab hold of and not feel like I need a rubber glove to do so.