'The Age Of Disclosure' Delivers
And: Groypers & Grandpa; Mamdani's Jew Problem; Drugs Made Him Catholic; More
So, I watched the new UAP documentary The Age Of Disclosure, which you can rent on Amazon streaming. It’s not cheap — $19 to rent — but I highly recommend doing so. There is very little in the film that people like me, who have been immersed in this stuff, that is new — but it’s a great way to get the most basic information in a single place. You will note that all the people interviewed are senior government officials (e.g., Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Senators and Congressmen), top scientists, and others. In other words, not fringe weirdos or normies interviewed on History Channel documentaries.
In my view, you cannot watch this film and deny that the UAP thing is real, and therefore extremely important. There are many questions about what it is, where it comes from, and the meaning of it all. But at this point, it takes far more of a leap of faith to believe it’s not real than the opposite.
I took extensive notes on the film … and left them by accident in my apartment in Budapest (I’m in England for most of this week). But I can sum up the basic claims here:
The US government has known since at least the 1940s that UAPs and NHI (non-human intelligences) are real. The government has plenty of recovered aircraft, and even “biological” materials — remains of NHI. People in the film testify to having seen these things personally, or read extremely classified government reports on them.
The military has observed these UAPs operating in physics-defying ways, able to move through space, the air, and water without being affected by the environment. The most interesting part is the claim by engineer Hal Puthoff (and, I seem to recall, others) that these things can do this because they have figured out how to bend space-time, and move in a kind of bubble inside which the normal laws of physics do not work. This, says Puthoff, is likely why so many of these UAPs look blurry in photographs (see above); they are inside the bubble.
Russia and China are, like us, engaged in an arms race to capture these craft and reverse-engineer their technology. The US military has special ops teams that sweep in and recover material when a crash has been observed.
The US government has for many decades run a disinformation campaign to deny and mislead people, as a way to allow it (the government) to continue its research behind the scenes.
There is so very much more to this story than you see in the film, but again, this is a fantastic introduction to this world. It really does feel that this film sets the stage for President Trump to make a major disclosure. One of the people interviewed in the film says he was summoned to meet with Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary in the first Trump administration, to brief him on what is known. The reason? According to the interviewee, Mnuchin told him that he was trying to figure out what the effects on the markets would be if the President disclosed this information.
The film’s focus is on science and national security. The only time religion and spirituality come up is briefly, early in the film, when several interviewees say there is a group of “fundamentalists” within the Deep State who try to discourage investigation into the UAP/NHI story, because they believe it’s all demonic, and we shouldn’t be messing with it. The movie gives you the sense that these crazy Christians are trying to inhibit progress.
They’re talking about the Collins Elite, about whom I wrote last year. I read a book about them last December, and wrote about it. From that newsletter:
After reading yesterday’s post here, a friend texted to suggest that the Collins Elite might be opposed to US Government engagement with these demonic entities not so much because they are afraid of the demons (though they are), but because they are more afraid of what we humans will do with the information we learn from them. This insight seems to be vindicated by what Redfern reports. Here Redfern quotes someone with experience of the Collins Elite:
“They came to believe that the NHEs were not extraterrestrial at all; they believed they were some sort of demonic entities. And that regardless of how benevolent or beneficial any of the contact they had with these entities seemed to be, it always ended up being tainted, for lack of a better term, with something that ultimately turned out to be bad. There was ultimately nothing positive from the interaction with the NHE entities. They felt it really fell more under the category of some vast spiritual deception instead of UFOs and aliens. In the course of the whole discussion, it was clear that they really viewed this as having a demonic origin that was there to simply try and confuse the issue in terms of who they were, what they wanted, and what the source of the ultimate truth is. If you extrapolate from their take that these are demons in the biblical sense of the word, then what they would be doing here is trying to create a spiritual deception to fool as many people as possible.”
More:
They were concerned that they had undertaken this initially with the best of intentions, but then as things developed they saw a very negative side to it that wasn’t apparent earlier. So, that’s what leads me to think they had a relatively lengthy involvement.” The story became even more complex when the reasoning behind, and the goals of, the project were revealed to Boeche:
“Most of it was related to psychotronic weaponry and remote viewing, and even deaths by what were supposed to be psychic methods.” Certainly, the NHEs, it was deduced by those attached to the DoD project, possessed extraordinary, and lethal, mental powers. And, as a result, deeper plans were initiated, using nothing less than ancient rites and black rituals, to actually try and contact the NHEs with two specific—some might say utterly crackpot—goals in mind: (1) controlling them and (2) exploiting their extraordinary mental powers in the form of devastating weaponry.”
“Boeche” is Ray Boeche, an Episcopal priest and theologian who had established himself as an investigator in the religious implications of UFOs. Two members of the Collins Elite — Defense Department physicists — approached him and shared with him their concerns:
The conversations [with Boeche] always followed broadly similar ground: namely, that the Human Race was being deceived into believing that it was receiving visitations from aliens, when in reality demonic forces were secretly squaring up for Armageddon and the final countdown. And, the DoD’s overwhelmingly reckless dabbling into occult-driven areas to try and make a bizarre-but-futile pact of some sort with these same forces was inevitably, and only, destined to make things much, much worse for each and every one of us.
One more:
With respect to his own views, as well as those of the two DoD physicists, Boeche added: “As a pastor and someone who’s trained as a theologian, I can’t come to any other conclusion than there is some sort of spiritual deception going on here. In so many of these kinds of alien contacts, the entities involved make a denial of Christianity; anytime the spiritual issues are addressed, there is always some sort of denial of the validity of Christianity and the validity of the Bible. And I find it interesting that these percipients are told that Jesus was a great guy, but you just misunderstood him. They say: he wasn’t really God’s son. You just don’t quite get it. But you never hear them say that about Buddha, or Krishna, or Mohammed. It always seems to come down to some sort of denial of Christianity. The percipients, whether you consider them contactees or abductees are engaged by the NHEs in spiritual discussions—but it’s always one-sided. “I would have a lot less suspicion of the potential of the demonic nature of these things if they were to say: ‘You guys are all screwed up; all of your spiritual leaders had some good ideas, but none of them really got it. It’s a big mess.’ But it seems to be so specifically pointed at the Judeo-Christian tradition. It certainly seems to me like it’s the two genuine forces squaring up against each other.”
See, this is what I believe is probably the case. Someone who doesn’t turn up in the film is Jacques Vallée, who is the grey eminence of UAP studies. Vallée is in his eighties now, and is not a Christian, but has come to believe that whatever this phenomenon is, it is ultimately spiritual/non-material, and that these entities do not mean humanity well. Vallée has written a number of books; one of the most important is Passport To Magonia (1969); here is a link to read the entire text for free online. The book’s basic claim is that UAPs are not extraterrestrial visitors, but are probably interdimensional entities that have always been present among humans, but have manifested themselves in different ways, depending on the age and the culture.
For example, in a scientific-technological culture, these entities appear as creatures from space, because they can be understood within that paradigm. Vallée posits that these are the same entities that have in ages and cultures past have presented themselves as fairies, elves, and other paranormal or supernatural beings. He points out that many of the phenomena associated with so-called alien encounters and alien abductions, like time distortion, have also been reported in folklore across many cultures.
This seems entirely plausible to me. I know, call me crazy, but I think this is probably true. You new readers won’t know this, but I thought the whole UAP/UFO thing was … well, if not exactly nonsense, at least nothing I cared about. This was the case until around 2023, when a journalist friend in Rome, a Catholic, told me that he knows I think all this is fairly silly, but that I should give it a second look, because there’s a lot coming out about it — and there’s very much a religious and spiritual angle to it. I found out that this is actually true.
There’s more weirdness below the payline, but also other items about chilling new stuff from Zohran Mamdani forecasting the kind of life Jews will have in his New York, a clip from an essay in which a philosophy professor said using psychedelics made him Catholic, and a look at the ugliest church in the world, but one that has won a top architecture prize. It’s Baron Harkonnen’s Private Chapel if you ask me. Take a look below.
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