The UAP Cover-Up, Uncovered (A Bit)

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Luis Elizondo testifying Wednesday before Congress about UAPs and coverup

There is nothing on The New York Times website about Wednesday’s blockbuster House subcommittee hearing on UAPs (the new name for UFOs). Nothing in the Washington Post. Unbelievable. This is huge, huge news! All I can figure is that they didn’t take the hearing seriously. USA Today has a good piece up, capturing the highlights of today’s testimony.

The big news is that the US Government has for decades been collecting data on UAPs and hiding it from Congress, and, of course, from the American people. This is from a confidential report on the “Immaculate Constellation” program that Subcommittee Chair Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) entered into the Congressional Record. It was leaked by a whistleblower (see all twelve pages by clicking here, on Michael Shellenberger’s tweet):

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I suppose the media thought it better not to report on this unless it can be validated by the whistleblower coming forward. Whatever.

Click here to watch the brief exchange between Luis Elizondo, who ran the secret government program investigation UAPs, and a Congresswoman:

Elizondo dodged the Congresswoman’s question about whether or not these are “interdimensional” beings. He said that he can’t draw a conclusion about what they are, but he says that they move at speeds incompatible with our definition of life.

From Living In Wonder:

What are they? I don’t know. Nobody seems to. Yet the most subversive thing I discovered about UFOs was that the most intelligent and highly placed people who investigated the phenomenon did not believe that they are aliens from other planets. Rather, most appear to think that they are discarnate higher intelligences from other dimensions of reality. Now, whatever they are or aren’t, two things are true. The first is that there is something going on, and the second is that whatever that something is, it is evidence of the fact that this world, for lighter or darker, is more than meets the eye.

So this is why my Vatican journalist friend urged me to look into UFOs as a religious phenomenon. There are a startling number of quite intelligent and influential people who believe that these intelligences are coming to us as “gods,” to solve our problems and lead us to an age of enlightenment and progress. “Aliens” are the kinds of godlike beings that a secular society—one in which science and technology hold supreme authority—can believe in when they have discarded the God of the Bible.

Recall that we began our journey into the mystic with the story of Nino, a lawyer who saw a UFO as a teenager and years later began to experience paranormal visitations from luminous beings he took for aliens but became convinced were demons.

It will not surprise you to learn that the twentieth-century Russian Orthodox priest-monk Seraphim Rose warned that the UFO phenomenon is demonic in origin and has many analogs in the recorded history of Christian mystical experience. He was a cleric, after all. It may shock you, though, to learn that the world’s leading authority on the UFO phenomenon, computer scientist and venture capitalist Jacques Vallée, also believes something close to this.

Furthermore, Vallée believes that the aliens, or whatever they are, are likely to be at the bottom of a new religion that will arrive in the future. This will be part of a religion built for the scientific age, which already has learned to worship science, technology, and the future.

Vallée, who was the model for the French scientist played by François Truffaut in the Steven Spielberg film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is not a Christian or a conventional religious believer of any kind. But a lifetime spent investigating UFO phenomena has led him to assert that these entities are real. After six decades of studying them, Vallée is unwilling to say precisely what they are—but he has concluded that they are unlikely to be creatures from other planets.

Rather, in Vallée’s estimation, they are probably higher intelligences coming to us from a dimension beyond space and time. And they come with malevolent intent. They are choosing to manifest as beings from space, he theorizes, as a strategy of control—to reprogram humanity for some other purpose. And they have been at it for a long time. In his seminal 1969 book Passport to Magonia, Vallée records the striking parallels between contemporary reports of close encounters with UFOs and so-called aliens and written accounts of encounters with mysterious beings typically associated with folklore:

If we take a wide sample of this historical material, we find that it is organized around one central theme: visitation by an aerial people from one or more remote, legendary countries. The names and attributes vary, but the idea clearly does not. Magonia, heaven, hell, Elfland—such places have in common one characteristic: we are unable to reach them alive, except—as we shall see—on very special occasions. Emissaries from these supernatural abodes come to earth, sometimes under human form and sometimes as monsters. They perform wonders. They serve man or fight him. They influence civilizations through mystical revelation. They seduce earth women, and the few heroes who dare seek their friendship find the girls from Elfland endowed with desires that betray a carnal, rather than purely aerial, nature.

It might be, he speculates, that flying saucers and space aliens are merely the masks that these entities, who have always been with us, don to seduce people living in the space age. But he’s still not sure. Whatever the case, this idea dovetails with historian Carlos Eire’s speculation that we have suppressed recorded knowledge of fantastical events because they do not fit our scientific paradigm. The late Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, who made waves by taking UFO-abduction stories seriously, once complained that “we have a kind of either/or mentality. It’s either literally physical, or it’s in the spiritual other realm, the unseen realm. What we seem to have no place for—or we have lost the place for—are phenomena that can begin in the unseen realm, and cross over and manifest and show up in our literal physical world.”

Jeffrey Kripal, who leads Rice University’s religious studies department, says both contemporary science and contemporary religion have marginalized and even denied paranormal information that they can’t explain with conventional theories. “Just how long can we go on like this until we admit that there is real data, and that we haven’t the slightest idea where to put it?” he writes.

Interestingly, Jacques Vallée apparently has found old religious insights helpful to understand these phenomena. When the religious studies professor Diana Pasulka paid a visit to Vallée in his San Francisco apartment, she was astonished to find shelves of old—sometimes very old—books about angels and demons. Vallée handed her a crusty volume originally published by Carmelite nuns, telling her it was imperative to read it to better understand the UFO phenomenon. The book is a compendium of scholarly essays about Satan.

Pasulka is not alone in her professional belief that UFO culture is emerging as a new religion, but she has become one of the most prominent chroniclers of the phenomenon. She served as a consultant on the 2023 Spielberg-produced docuseries Encounters. In the opening episode, we see a homeschooling Christian father from rural Texas teaching his children that UFOs are angels. Now that government whistleblowers have compelled Washington to admit that the UFO phenomenon is real—this, after decades of consciously suppressing and attempting to discredit testimonies—the culture that has arisen around aliens and aerial phenomena is going mainstream.

Again, I had never taken UFOs seriously and have never been a fan of science-fiction books and movies. I had read the steady release, since 2017, of media reports on official disclosures of UFO information with raised eyebrows, but only that. In 2023 the US Congress held hearings about UFOs featuring the testimony of government whistleblowers. Bizarre, and not something to laugh at, but like most of my friends, I chose not to engage. That was a mistake. Attention must be paid.

If you haven’t checked in on the UFO world since The X-Files went off the air, you might be startled by how deep and broad the phenomenon has become. As Pasulka discusses in her two books on the subject, 2019’s American Cosmic, and 2023’s Encounters (no relation to the Netflix show), the UFO matter involves some of the world’s top scientists, technology gurus, venture capitalists, and even intelligence services. Even though the US government has begun to release limited information from its files, there is far more evidence that UFOs are real than the general public knows. Like Vallée, the best-informed among this invisible college of investigators believe that these are not visitors from other planets but entities from other dimensions.

I am most interested in this phenomenon as a spiritual and religious one. I do believe that these are demonic entities. I do believe that they will manifest as beings who come as angels (so to speak) of light, promising to deliver humanity from its evils, in part by offering us technology, just as they might have done for the ancient Sumerians, the most technologically advanced civilization of their time (the Sumerians recorded that the gods gave them technology). I believe, with Vallée, that we have been prepared for it, culturally conditioned for it, by nearly a century of pop culture. (Think about it: how would you get people from a scientific and technological and post-Christian culture to believe in sky gods descending, if not to present them as advanced beings from other planets who gad about in advanced technological chariots?) And I know that the churches, and the Christian people, are not remotely ready for what is coming, and coming at us hard.

I’m not suggesting that you throw yourself into this world. There’s lots of crazy stuff in it, and for me, it’s too much. Very easy to get lost in the weeds. But I do suggest, and strongly so, that you inform yourself as much as you can about what’s going on in that world (Pasulka’s American Cosmic is a good place to start) so you can be up to speed about all this. Again, I think this is most importantly a religious phenomenon. I’m only really interested in focusing on that aspect of it. I believe they mean us no good, and will arrive to proclaim and advance a mass religious deception.