Boy, talk about having one thing just
stick ..........
Here's the dilemma. We know that utterly unreal things can become totally real. I'm not talking Tulpas I'm talking about Slender Man and those two teenage girls that stabbed another young girl to death. Isolated incident - I think - but significant. As a goof people report scary clowns and suddenly they are seen everywhere and also significantly, you have people putting on deliberate hoaxes to hype it all up. Tillenghast - we're
still talking about that m**********r a century + later, just like we will be with Bob Lazar
A common theme in time travel stories is to travel back in the past and kill or prevent the death of some significant person. Too much wobble in the Continuum to allow that, but you think maybe if we could just go back and kneecap a couple of people ? it might make our lives less complicated right now.
When to comes to UFOs and the paranormal in general if you could simply identify the nuts and fakers and the classified military activity from all the reports and begone with them you'd probably let most of the water out of the tub. Hence the source of skepticism and worse, dismissive debunking. I've always been willing to consider the 'real' once you get past all that and still think that whatever's leftover is the good stuff, the reason I remain interested after all these years. My own limited experiences have led me to where I am: skeptical but open.
Reading
Skinwalkers at the Pentagon tells me that the
Unified Theory of Weird is gaining traction and all this is related to human consciousness. I tend to agree, cautiously. It would explain a lot, like how the phenomenon tends to tailor itself to the viewer. Good stuff in there and more interesting than arguing over decades old pictures. AWWSAP attempted to pull it all in, put it in one pile and let Jacques Vallee do his thing by organizing various databases. Excellent and I'll be very interested to see where all that goes.
But a cautionary note here related to the UAP Task Force and the alphabet soup DoD entity created in response to all that. I usually have my nose in a Kindle and physical book at the same time. Habit. Right now it's
UFOs Before Roswell: European Foo-Fighters 1940-1945 by Graeme Rendall and
The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Hunt for the Nazi Scientists by Tom Bower. Coincidental that they have any relation but it was like finding two flavors that mix well.
Paperclip begins by describing the complacency and insular nature of the British military's service branches in regard to scientific developments immediately prior to WW2. Nazi Germany took a very, very different approach and occasionally when the slightest sliver of comprehension made it's way through Britain's establishment the reaction was to basically go nuts and - literally - start worrying about 'death rays' and 'secret weapons against which there is no defense.' Ass clenching run around like a nut PANIC. Really. Their underdeveloped intelligence network misinterpreted a speech Hitler made in Danzig September 19 1939. Well guess what? Ooops, they got it wrong but it took a while to figure that all out.
When we hear about tic-tacs and military involvement there is the cautionary tale I can't stop repeating. In the scenario I just described the literal panic that ensued by the suggestion of a next-gen weapon is worth noting. A valuable lesson, really. Use someone's own fears against them. Took a while for them to figure out they got the translation wrong. But, like Tillenghast the remnant of Nazi secret weapons is
still stuck to our shoes. Global politics being what it is right now wouldn't leaking information in some way to your adversaries that suggests possession of some exotic next-gen technology be quite useful ? Even wrapped up in public statements and tv shows, books etc it might still serve to get the message out there and cast doubt. Make them wonder. I smell something like this coming out of the kitchen; when I say
maskirovka this is what I am talking about. The thing is, the
Unified Theory of Weird (my term) appeals to me quite a bit and I think there is real value in it, it's just that typically it gets mixed up with other things for other purposes.