SUBJECT: THEY'RE NOT FROM ZETI RETICULI FILE: UFO3039
PART 2
Date: 25 Jul 93 13:51:23 CDT
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From:
[email protected] (James P. Galasyn)
Subject: They're not from Zeti Reticuli
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 19:39:46 GMT
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IV. Abductions
Press and public now regard abductees as tony curiosities, yet science, for
the most part, still banishes their tales to the domain of the damned, as
Charles Fort defined damnation. So too with claimed victims of mind control.
The Voice of Authority tells us that MKULTRA belongs to history; like Hasdrubal
and Hitler, it threatened once, but no more. Anyone insisting otherwise must
be silenced by glib rationalization and selective inattention.
Yet these two topics -- UFO abductions and mind control -- have more in
common than their mutual ostracization. The data overlap. If we could chart
these phenomena on a Venn diagram, we would see a surprisingly large inter-
section between the two circles of information. It is this overlap I seek to
address.
Note, however, that I can NOT address all the other interesting and
important issues raised by the UFO abduction experience. For exmaple, I have
written, admittedly rather vaguely, of nasal implants reported by abductees --
the sort of detail which might place an account in the 'high strangeness'
category, and of course, a detail central to my thesis. But what percentage
of the percipients speak of such implants? A truly scientific analysis would
provide a figure. Unfortunately, I haven't the resources to compile a
sufficiently large abductee sample from which one could draw statistics. Nor
can I make an over-arching qualitative analysis, measuring the value of 'high
strangeness' reports against other abductee claims. All I can do is note the
available literature, and leave the reader to wonder, as I do, whether the
compilers of that literature concentrated on exceptional cases or were biased
in favor of the less fantastic abductee accounts. I have supplemented readings
of the abduction literature with my own interviews with percipients -- which,
since abductees tend to know other abductees, can give a surprisingly wide view
of the phenomenon. This view has been broadened still further by my talks and
correspondence with other members of the UFO community.
Of course, we must recognize the difference between testimony and proof. No
one can state definitively that abduction reports have a basis in objective
reality (however misperceived). Ultimately, all we have are stories. Some of
these stories may be of questionable veracity; others may be contaminated by
investigator bias; many are insufficiently detailed. No one research paper can
resolve all abduction controversies, and many necessary battles must be fought
on other fields.
Still, the testimony won't go away -- and we certainly have enough to allow
for comparisons. I maintain that an unprejudiced overview of abduction reports
in the popular press and the less-familiar material on mind control will
demonstrate a striking correlation. Once other abduction researchers have been
educated in the ways of MKULTRA (and this paper is intended as an introductory
text) they may note a similar pattern. If so, we can then begin to write a
revisionist history of the phenomenon.
The abduction enigma contains within it sub-mysteries that slide into the
mind control scenario with surprising ease, even elegance -- mysteries which
fit the E.T. hypothesis as uncomfortably as a size 10 foot fits into a size 8
shoe. As we have seen, the MKULTRA thesis explains the reports of abductee
intracerebral implants (particularly reports involving nosebleeds), unusual
scars, 'telepathic' communication (i.e., externally induced intracerebral
voices) concurrent with or following the abduction encounter, allegations that
some abductees hear unusual sound effects (similar to those created by the
hemi-synch and cognate devices), haywire electronic devices in abductee homes,
personality shifts, 'training films,' manipulation of religious imagery, and
missing time. Needless to say, the thesis of clandestine government experi-
mentation readily accounts for abductee claims of human beings 'working' with
the aliens, and for the government harassment that plays so prominent a role in
certain abductee reports.
Let's look at some more correlations.
THE HILL CASE AND THE 'ADVANCED' ALIENS
Earlier, I asked, 'Do the aliens also watch black-and-white television?' in
reference to their alleged use of old-fashioned, Terra-style brain implantation
devices. Abduction accounts abound in other examples of alien 'retro-
technology.' The most striking example can be found in the Betty and Barney
Hill incident, the details of which are too well-known to recount here[156].
As we have already glimpsed during our discussion of the Rex Niles affair,
the Hills' 'interrupted journey' abounds in data which, taken together, permits
the construction of an alternative explanation.
At one point during the alleged UFO abduction, the 'examiners' inserted a
needle in Betty Hill's navel, telling her that this practice constituted a
test for pregnancy[157]. Some ufologists[158] rashly assume that Betty Hill's
'pregnancy test' is evidence of advanced extraterrestrial technology, since her
1961 account pre-dates the official announcement of amniocentesis, which does
indeed make use of a needle inserted into the navel. But we now have much less
invasive means of testing for pregnancy than amniocentesis. True, amniocentesis
is still sometimes used to gather information about the fetus, but the wielders
of a highly evolved technology would certainly use other methods of determining
the existence of pregnancy in the first place.
Betty Hill's testimony reminds us of certain other abduction accounts,
which contain descriptions of 'healings' surprisingly similar to the procedures
associated with still-experimental electromagnetic therapy techniques, such as
those described in Robert O. Becker's THE BODY ELECTRIC. For example, abductee
Deanna Dube described for me an abduction-related 'regeneration' of her long-
damaged heart; had she been familiar with Becker's work[159], she might have
been a bit less rapid to ascribe her healing to otherworldly influences.
Medical breakthroughs often undergo years of testing before their official
'discovery.' For some of these tests, finding volunteers present a major
obstacle. If we accept the proposition that the Hill incident originated in an
external and objective stimulus, we must then ask ourselves which scenario is
more likely: Did Betty Hill encounter human beings using a technique ten years
ahead of its time? Or did she encounter aliens (reputedly a 'billion years
ahead of us') using science from eons before THEIR time?
One must also ask why Betty Hill's aliens seemed to have no grasp of basic
human concepts (such as how we measure time) -- yet they knew enough about us
to speak English fluently and had even mastered our slang. Were these real
aliens, or humans engaging in theatricals (and occasionally muffing their
lines)? For that matter, why did Betty Hill originally recall her abductors as
humanoid, only later describing them as aliens?
The Hill case provided a particularly controversial piece of evidence --
the celebrated 'star map' recalled by Betty Hill under hypnosis. In later
years, an Ohio schoolteacher named Marjorie Fish made an ingenious and laudable
attempt to discover a match for this map by constructing an elaborate three-
dimensional model of nearby star systems; whether she succeeded remains a
matter for keen debate[160]. For now, I prefer to avoid taking sides in this
dispute and will confine myself to insisting that pro-ET ufologists answer
(WITHOUT resorting to glib ripostes) a point first raised by Jacques Vallee:
THE MAP MAKES NO SENSE AS A NAVIGATIONAL AID. Vallee notes that, even if we
grant the Fish interpretation, the stars are not drawn to scale -- and at any
rate, alien spaceships would surely be navigated the same way we guide our own
spacecraft: via computers and telemetry[161]. The validity of the Fish
interpretation is irrelevent; the point is that ANY such chart would have NO
value to an interstellar star-farer.
Fish's work raises other controversies: Allegedly, the map points to Zeta
Reticuli as the aliens' home system and pictures Zeta Reticuli as a single
star, a view consistent with scientific opinion of the 1960s. Yet in later
years scientists discovered that Zeta Reticuli is binary[162]. Moreover, how
did our abductee manage to remember so accurately a complex chart glimpsed in
passing? Even allowing for the possibility of increased accuracy of recol-
lection under hypnotic regression, the memory feat here seems remarkable.
Consider the circumstances of the abduction: Kafka on hallucinogens couldn't
have conceived of the nightmare vision confronting Betty Hill that night --
yet for some reason this particular arrangement of stars emerged as her most
intensely-detailed recollection of the experience.
This memory (if not confabulated during regression, a possibility we should
always weigh) is comprehensible only as an example of ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED
HYPERMNESIA. In other words, Betty Hill was DIRECTED to store that chart
within her subconscious. The celebrated star map ought to be recognized for
what it was: a prop, a seemingly-confirmatory circumstantial detail meant to
convince her -- and perhaps US -- of the reality of her abduction. [cf.
Strieber's citation of the woman with the memory of ancient Celtic 'fairy
speak.' -jpg]
The question of motive arises. Why -- if my thesis is correct -- were
these two fairly innocuous individuals chosen for this new variation on the old
MKULTRA tricks?
The selection might, of course, have been arbitrary. Or perhaps circum-
stances now irretrievably lost to history rendered the couple a convenient
target. Interestingly, Barney Hill had become acquainted (through church
functions) with the head of Air Force intelligence at Pease Air Force Base;
perhaps this relationship first brought the Hills to the attention of members
of the intelligence community. Arguably, the Hills could have been fingered
for a wide variety of reasons; as a general rule, the clandestine services
prefer to satisy a number of itches with one scratch.
In fact, the espionage establishment had one particularly compelling reason
to focus on the Hills. Barney Hill (a black man) and his wife held important
positions in several civil rights organizations, including the NAACP[163].
The abduction took place during the 1960s, when the NAACP and allied groups
fell victim to an increasingly paranoid series of attacks from the FBI and
other governmental agencies (under operations COINTELPRO, CHAOS, GARDEN PLOT,
etc.)[164]. At that time, infiltration of civil rights groups proved a
difficult chore; while most left-leaning groups provided easy targets for FBI
stooges, the average undercover operative would have had an exceptionally
difficult time posing as a black activist. (In 1961, the only black people on
the FBI's payroll were the servants in J. Edgar Hoover's home.)
In light of these facts, we should recall Victor Marchetti's anecdote about
the cat that the CIA had 'wired for sound.' Perhaps an ambitious covert
scientist proposed a similar experiment, in which a human being would play the
role that had once been assigned to the unfortunate feline? As Estabrooks
noted, the ultimate espionage agent would be the spy who doesn't KNOW he is a
spy. Barney Hill, a well-regarded figure with a near-genius-level IQ, was a
safe bet to obtain a leadership role in any group he joined; he would have been
remarkably well-positioned, had any outsiders wished to use his ears to over-
hear prominent black organizers in confidential discussion.
Of course, many intelligence professionals would counter this suggestion
by reminding us that eavesdroppers on the civil rights movement had plenty of
less-flamboyant methods: Bugging, 'black bag' jobs, paying for information,
etc. The point is valid. But if the technology to create a 'human bug' was
developed circa 1961 -- and there is documentation suggesting that such is
indeed the case[165] -- the intelligence agencies would surely have wanted to
test the possibilities in the field. And considering the expense of such a
test, why not conduct the experiment in such a way as to reap the maximum
benefits? Why NOT choose a Barney Hill?
ARMS AND THE ABDUCTEE
Budd Hopkins told the follwing story during his lecture at the Los Angeles
'Whole Life Expo.'[166] He considers the case 'very good...lots of corrobo-
rating witnesses for parts of it.' Though not, presumably, for THIS part:
Hopkins' informant, after the by-now familiar UFO abduction, was given a
gun by the aliens. Not a Buck Rogers laser weapon -- this was something
Dirty Harry might have packed.
The abductee was also given someone to shoot. Not a little grey alien --
another human being, tied to a chair. The 'visitors' told their armed abductee
that this captive had done 'evil on earth, and he's a bad person. You have to
kill him.' If the abductee didn't do as asked, he would never leave the ship.
The captive proclaimed his innocence, and pleaded for his life. The
abductee, caught in the middle of all this, became quite upset. (Worth noting:
he seems to have at least CONSIDERED the aliens' request to shoot someone he
had never met.) Ultimately, the abductee turned the gun on the aliens and
said, 'Nobody's going to get shot here.'
According to Hopkins, 'The aliens said 'Fine. Very good.' They took the
gun from him; the man [presumably, the captive] got up, walked away, dis-
appeared, and they went on to the next thing.' Obviously, this little drama
had been staged -- a test of some sort.
I submit that this surreal incident is incomprehensible as either an
example of alien incursion or of 'Klass-ical' confabulation. The scenario
described here EXACTLY parallels numerous experiments in the hypnotic induction
of anti-social action as revealed both in the standard hypnosis literature and
in declassified ARTICHOKE/MKULTRA documents. For example, compare Hopkins'
account to the following, in which Ludwig Mayer, a prominent German hypnosis
researcher, describes a classic experiment in the hypnotic induction of
criminal action:
I gave a revolver to an elderly and readily suggestible
man whom I had just hypnotized. The revolver had just been
loaded by Mr. H. with a percussion cap. I explained to
[the subject], while pointing to Mr. H., that Mr. H. was a
very wicked man whom he should shoot to kill. With great
determination he took the revolver and fired a shot directly
at Mr. H. Mr. H. fell down pretending to be wounded. I
then explained to my subject that the fellow was not yet
quite dead, and that he should give him another bullet,
which he did without further ado[167].
Of course, if a conservative hypnosis specialist were asked to comment on
the above account, he would quickly point out that hypnotic suggestions which
work in an experimental situation would not easily succeed outside the lab-
oratory; on some level, the subject will probably sense whether or not he's
playing the game for real[168]. Similarly, a conservative abduction researcher
would, in reviewing Hopkins' material, emphasize the problems inherent in using
testimony derived during regression, where the threat of confabulation lurks.
I'll concede both arguments -- for the moment -- only to insist that they are
beside the point. The matter of primary importance, the sticking point which
neither Klass nor Hopkins can comfortably confront, is the convergence of
detail between Mayer's hypnosis experiment and the testing event related by
Hopkins' abductee. WHY ARE THESE TWO STORIES SO SIMILAR? Did the good Dr.
Mayer take pupils from Sirius?[169].
Hopkins says he knows of other instances in which abductees found themselves
in similar crucibles. So do I.
One person I spoke to can remember (SANS hypnosis) being handed a gun inside
a ziplock baggy and receiving instructions that she will have to use this
weapon 'on a job.' Early in my interviews with her (and with no prompting from
me) she recited an apparent cue drilled into her consciousness by the 'enti-
ties' (as she calls them): 'When you see the light, do it tonight,' followed by
the command, 'Execute.' (One can only speculate as to how such commands would
be used in the field; we will discuss later the use of photovoltaic hypnotic
induction.) Though her personal feelings toward firearms are decidedly
negative, she vivdly describes periods in her 'everyday' life when she feels an
uncharacteristic, yet overpowering urge to be near a gun -- a quasi-sexual
desire to pick one up and touch the metal[170].
She is not alone. Another has been so affected by gun fever that he became
a security guard, just to be near the things[171]. The abductees I have spoken
to connect this sudden surge of Ramboism to the UFO experience. But I suggest
that the UFO experience may be merely a cover story for another type of
training entirely.
One of the primary goals of BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA was to
determine whether mind control could be used to faciliate 'executive action'--
i.e., assassination[172].
It isn't difficult to imagine the media's reaction if a public figure were
murdered by someone acting at the behest of the 'space brothers.' Who would
dare to speak of conspiracy under such circumstances? The hidden controllers
could choose a myth structure that conform's to the abductee's personality,
then pose as higher beings, who would whisper violence into the ear of the
percipient. Using this ruse, the trick that scientists such as Ludwig Mayer
could perform in the lab might now be accomplished in the field. As
Estabrooks' associate Jack Tracktir (professor of hypnotherapy at Baylor
University) explained to John Marks, anti-social acts can be induced with
'no conscience involved' once the proper pretext has been created[173].
'THEY WILL THINK IT'S FLYING SAUCERS'
Jenny Randles contributes an anecdote from Great Britain which dovetails
nicely with this hypothesis.
In 1965, 'Margary' (a pseudonym) lived in Birmingham with her husband, who
one night told her to prepare for a 'shock and a test.' As Randles describes
what she calls a 'rogue case':
They got into his car and drove off, although her memory
of the trip became hazy and confused and she does not know
where they went. Then she was in a room that was dimly lit
and there were people standing around a long table or flat
bed. She was out on it and seemed 'drugged' and unable to
resist. The most memorable of the men was tall and thin with
a long nose and white beard. He had thick eyebrows and
supposedly said to Margary, 'Remember the eyebrows, honey.'
A strange medical examination, using odd equipment, was
performed on her.
Both the husband and the scientists, using (apparently) hypnotic techniques,
flooded her mind with images that, she was told, would be understood only in
the future. According to Randles, 'At one point one of the 'examiners' in the
room said to Margary in a tone that made it seem as if he were amused, 'THEY
WILL THINK IT'S FLYING SAUCERS.' The husband also revealed that he had a
second identity. After the abduction, this husband (am I going too far to
assume his employment with MI6 or some cognate agency?) left, never to be seen
again[174]. Margary did not recall the abduction until 1978.
This affair can only baffle a researcher who insists on fitting all
abduction accounts into the ET hypothesis; once we free ourselves from that
set of assumptions, explanations come easily. I interpret this incident as a
case in which the controllers applied the flying saucer cover story sloppily,
or to an insufficiently receptive subject. If my thesis is correct, the UFO
'hypnotic hoax' technique would still have been fairly new in 1965, particular-
ly outside the United States; perhaps the manipulators hadn't yet got the hang
of it. The odd comment about the scientist's eyebrows may refer to an item of
disguise donned for the occasion. The unscrupulous hypnotist, unsure about his
ability to induce an impenetrable amnesia -- and mindful of the price paid by
his forerunners in mesmeric criminality[175] -- would understandably want to
hedge his bets; by indulging in the British penchant for theatrics, he could
further protect his anonymity.
A similar incident was brought to my attention by researcher Robert Durant.
The relevant excerpt of his letter follows:
Now I want to turn to a case that I have been investigating
for several months. The subject is an abductee. Standard
abduction scenario. Twice regressed under hypnosis, the first
time by a well-known abduction researcher, the second time by
a psychologist with parapsychology connections.
In the course of many hours of listening to the subject, I
discovered that she has had close personal contact over a long
period of time with several individuals who have federal
intelligence connections. She was hypnotized many years ago
as part of a TV program devoted to hypnosis. Her abductions
began shortly after she attended several long sessions at a
laboratory where, ostensibly, she was being tested for ESP
abilities. Two other people who were 'tested' at this same
laboratory have also had abductions. All three were told by
the lab to join a local UFO group. During her abductions, the
principal alien spoke to the subject in the English language
in a normal manner, not via telepathy. She recognized the
voice, which was at one time that of her very close friend of
yesteryear who was then and is now employed by the CIA. The
other voice was that of an individual who works in Washington,
has what I will call very strong federal connections as well
as a finger in every ufological pie, and who just happened to
bump into her at the aforementioned laboratory. He also
anticipated, in the course of telephone conversations, her
abductions. When the subject confronted him about this and
the voice, he claimed to be psychic. (!)[176]
The 'ESP' connection is suggestive; the MKULTRA documents betray an
astonishing interest on the part of the intelligence agencies in matters
parapsychological.
Some researchers would object that examples such as this are rare; most
abductions contain no such overt indications of intelligence involvement.
But have investigators looked for them? As mentioned in the introduction,
a false dichotomy limits much ufological thought; as long as the abduction
argument swings between the ET hypothesis and purely psychological theories,
researchers will not recognize the relevance of certain key items of back-
ground data.
GLIMPSES OF THE CONTROLLERS
In an interview with me, a northern-California abducteee -- call him 'Peter'
-- reported an experience which was conducted NOT by a small grey alien, but by
a human being. The percipient called this man a 'doctor.' He gave a descrip-
tion of this individual, and even provided a drawing.
Some time after I gathered this information, a southern-California abductee
told me her story -- which included a description of this very same 'doctor.'
The physical details were so strikingly similar as to erase coincidence. This
woman is a leading member of a Los Angeles-based UFO group; three other women
in this group report abduction encounters with the same individual[177].
Perhaps those three women were fantasists, attaching themselves to another's
narrative. But my northern informant never met these people. Why did he
describe the same 'doctor'?
One of the abductees I have dealt with insisted, under hypnosis, that her
abduction experience brought her to a certain house in the Los Angeles area.
She was able to provide directions to the house, even though she had no
conscious memory of ever being there. I later learned that this house is
indeed occupied by a scientist who formerly (and perhaps currently) conducted
clandestine research on mind control technology.
This same abductee described a clandestine brain operation of some sort she
underwent in childhood. The neurosurgeon was a human being, not an alien.
She even recalled the name. (Note: This is not the same individual referred to
above.) When I heard the name, it meant nothing to me -- but later I learned
that there really was a scientist of that name who specialzed in electrode
implant research.
Licia Davidson is a thoughtful and articulate abductee, whose fascinating
story closely parallels many found in the abductee literature -- except for one
unusual detail. In an interview with me, described an unsettling recollection
of a human being, dressed normally, holding a black BoX with a protruding
antenna. This odd snippet of memory did NOT coincide with the general thrust
of her abduction narrative. Could this remembrance represent an all-too-brief
segment of accurately-perceived reality interrupting her hypnotically-induced
'screen memory'? Peter clearly recalls seeing a similar BoX during his
abduction.
Interestingly, Licia resides in the Los Angeles suburb of Tujunga Canyon, a
prominent spot on the abduction map; Many of the abductees I have spoken to
first had unusual experiences while living in this area. Near Tujunga Canyon,
in Mt. Pacifico, is a hidden former Nike missile base; more than one abductee
has described odd, seemingly inexplicable military activity around this
location[178]. The reader will recall the connection of Nike missile bases to
the disturbing story of Dr. L. Jolyon ('BoB') West, a veteran of MKULTRA.
CULTS
Some abductees I have spoken to have been directed to join certain
religious/philosophical sects. These cults often bear close examination.
The leaders of these groups tend to be 'ex'-CIA operatives, or Special
Forces veterans. They are often linked through personal relations, even
though they espouse widely varying traditions. I have heard unsettling
reports that the leaders of some of these groups have used hypnosis, drugs,
or 'mind machines' on their charges. Members of these cults have reported
periods of missing time during ceremonies or 'study periods.'
I strongly urge abduction researchers to examine closely any small 'occult'
groups an abductee might join. For example, one familiar leader of the UFO
fringe -- a man well-known for his espousal of the doctrine of 'love and light'
-- is Virgil Armstrong, a close personal friend of General John Singlaub, the
notorious Iran-Contra player, who recently headed the neo-fascist World Anti-
Communist League. Armstrong, who also happens to be an ex-Green Beret and
former CIA operative, figured into my inquiry in an interesting fashion: An
abductee of my acquaintance was told -- by her 'entities,' naturally -- to seek
out this UFO spokesman and join his 'sky-watch' activities, which, my source
alleges, included a mass channelling session intended to send debilitating
'negative' vibrations to Constantine Chernenko, then the leader of the Soviet
Union. Of course, intracerebral voices may have a purely psychological origin,
so Armstrong can hardly be held to task for the abductee's original 'direct-
ive.'[179] Still, his past associations with military intelligence inevitably
bring disturbing possibilities to mind.
Even more ominous than possible ties between UFO cults and the intelligence
community are the cults' links with the shadowy I AM group, founded by Guy
Ballard in the 1930s[180]. According to researcher David Stupple, 'If you look
at the contactee groups today, you'll see that most of the stable, larger ones
are actually neo-I AM groups, with some sort of tie to Ballard's organization.'
[181] This cult, therefore, bears investigation.
Guy Ballard's 'Mighty I AM Religious Activity,' grew, in large part, out of
William Dudley Pelly's Silver Shirts, an American NAZI organization[182].
Although Ballard himself never openly proclaimed NAZI affiliation, his movement
was tinged with an extremely right-wing political philosophy, and in secret
meetings he 'decreed' the death of President Franklin Roosevelt[183]. The I AM
philosophy derived from Theosophy, and in this author's estimation bears a
more-than-cursory resemblance to the Theosophically-based teachings that
informed the proto-NAZI German occult lodges[184].
After the war, Pelley (who had been imprisoned for sedition during the
hostilities) headed an occult-oriented organization call Soulcraft, based in
Noblesville, Indiana. Another Soulcraft employee was the controversial
contactee George Hunt Williamson (real name: Michel d'Obrenovic), who co-
authored UFOs CONFIDENTIAL with John McCoy, a proponent of the theory that a
Jewish banking conspiracy was preventing disclosure of the solution to the UFO
mystery[185]. Later, Williamson founded the I AM-oriented Brotherhood of the
Seven Rays in Peru[186]. Another famed contactee, George Van Tassel, was
associated with Pelley and with the notoriously anti-Semitic Reverend Wesley
Swift (founder of the group which metamorphosed into the Aryan nations).[187]
The most visible offspring of I AM is Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Church
Universal and Triumphant, a group best-known for its massive arms caches in
underground bunkers. CUT was recently exposed in COVERT ACTION INFORMATION
BULLETIN as a conduit of CIA funds[188], and according to researcher John
Judge, has ties to organizations allied to the World Anti-Communist League[189]
Prophet is becoming involved in abduction research and has sponsored present-
ations by Budd Hopkins and other prominent investigators. In his book THE
ARMSTRONG REPORT: ETs AND UFOs: THEY NEED US, WE DON'T NEED THEM[sic][190],
Virgil Armstrong directs troubled abductees toward Prophet's group. (Perhaps
not insignificantly, he also suggests that abductees plagued by implants
alleviate their problem by turning to 'the I AM force' within.[191])
Another UFO channeller, Frederick Von Mierers, has promulgated both a cult
with a strong I AM orientation[192] and an apparent con-game involving over-
appraised gemstones. Mierers is an anti-Semite who contends that the Holocaust
never happened and that the Jews control the world's wealth.
UFORUM is a flying saucer organization popular with Los Angeles-area
abductees; its founder is Penny Harper, a member of a radical Scientology
breakaway group which connects the teachings of L. Ron ('Bob') Hubbard with
pronouncements against 'The Illuminati' (a mythical secret society) and other
BETES NOIR familiar from right-wing conspiracy literature. Harper directs
members of her group to read THE SPOTLIGHT, an extremist tabloid (published by
Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby) which denies the reality of the Holocaust and
posits a 'Zionist' scheme to control the world[193].
More than one unwary abductee has fallen in with groups such as those listed
above. It isn't difficult to imagine how some of these questionable groups
might mold an abductee's recollection of his experience -- and perhaps help
direct his future actions.
Some modern abductees, with otherwise-strong claims, claim encounters with
blond, 'Nordic' aliens reminiscent of the early contactee era. Surely, the
'Nordic' appearance of these aliens sprang from the dubious spiritual tradition
of Van Tassell, Ballard, Pelley, McCoy, etc. Why, then, are some modern
abductees seeing these very same other-worldly UEBERMENSCHEN?
One abductee of my acquaintance claims to have had beneficial experiences
with these 'blond' aliens -- who, he believes, came originally from the
Pleiades. Interestingly, in the late 1960s, the psychopathically anti-Semitic
Rev. Wesley Swift predicted this odd twist in the abduction tale. In a
broadcast 'sermon,' he spoke at length about UFOs, claiming that there were
'good' aliens and 'bad' aliens. The good ones, he insisted, were tall, blond
Aryans -- WHO HAILED FROM THE PLEIADES. He made this pronouncement long before
the current trends in abduction lore.
Could some of the abductions be conducted by an extreme right-wing element
within the national security establishment? Disagreeable as the possibility
seems, we should note that the 'lunatic right' is represented in all other
walks of life; certainly hard-rightists have taken positions within the
military-intelligence complex as well.
GROUNDS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
John Keel's ground-breaking OPERATION TROJAN HORSE, written in an era when
abductees still came under the category of 'contactees,' includes the following
intriguing data, gleaned from Keel'a extensive field work:
Contactees often find themselves suddenly miles from home
without knowing how they got there. They either have induced
amnesia, wiping out all memory of the trip, or they were taken
over by some means and made the trip in a blacked-out state.
Should they encounter a friend on the way, the friend would
probably note that their eyes seemed glassy and their behavior
seemed peculiar. But if the friend spoke to them, he might
receive a curt reply.
In the language of the contactees this process is called
being used...I have known silent contactees to disappear from
their homes for long periods, and when they returned, they
had little or no recollection of where they had been. One
girl sent me a postcard from the Bahama Islands -- which
surprised me because I knew she was very poor. When she
returned, she told me that she had only one memory of the
trip. She said she remembered getting off a jet at an air-
port -- she souldn't recall getting on the jet or making the
trip -- and there 'Indians' met her and took her baggage...
The next thing she knew she was back home again[194].
Puzzling indeed -- unless one has read THE CONTROL OF CANDY JONES, which
speaks of Candy's 'blacked out' periods, during which she travelled to Taiwan
as a CIA courier, adopting her second personality. The mind control explana-
tion perfectly solves all the mysteries in the above excerpt -- save, perhaps,
the odd remark about 'Indians.'
Hickson and Mendez' UFO CONTACT AT PASCAGOULA contains the interesting
information that Charles Hickson awakes at night feeling that he is on the
verge of re-awakening some terribly important memory connected with his
encounter -- yet ostensibly he can account for every moment of his adventure.
Hickson also received a letter from an apparent abductee who claims that
the grey aliens are actually automatons of some sort -- perhaps an unconscious
recognition of the unreality of the hypnotically-induced 'cover story.'[195]
In this light, the film version of COMMUNION -- whose screenplay was written
by Whitley Strieber -- takes on a new interest: The abduction sequences contain
inexplicable images indicating that the 'greys' are really props, or masks.
COMMUNION and TRANSFORMATION contain passages detailing what seems to be a
hazily-recalled Candy-Jones-style espionage adventure, in which Strieber was
shanghaied by a 'coach' and a 'nurse' (both human beings) who apparently
drugged him[196]. Recall the example of Keel's informants. Moreover,
TRANSFORMATION contains lengthy descriptions of alien beings working in
apparent collusion with human beings.
Abductee Christa Tilton also recalls both human beings and aliens playing
a part in her experience. Ever since her abduction, she claims, she has been
'shadowed' by a mysterious federal agent she calls John Wallis[197]. Christa's
husband, Tom Adams, has confirmed Wallis' existence[198].
In his REPORT ON COMMUNION, Ed Conroy -- who seems to have become a
participant in, and not merely an observer of, the phenomenon -- describes
harassment by helicopters, which as we have already noted, seems to be quite
a common occurrence in abductee situations[199]. Researchers blithely assume
that these incidents represent governmental attempts to spy on UFO percipients.
But this assertion is ridiculous. Helicopters are extremely expensive to
operate, and the engines of espionage have perfected numerous alternative
methods to gather information. After all, we now have a fairly extensive
bibliography of FBI, CIA, and military efforts to spy on numerous movements
favoring domestic social change. Why have no veterans of CHAOS or COINTELPRO
(either victim or victimizer) spoken of helicopters? Obviously the choppers
serve some other purpose beyond mere surveillance. One possibility might be
the propagation of electromagnetic waves which might affect the perceptions/
behaviors of an implanted individual. (Indeed, I have heard rumors of heli-
copters being used in electronic 'crowd control' operations in Vietnam and
elsewhere; alas, the information is far from hard.)
Contactee Eldon Kerfoot has written of his suspicions that human mani-
pulators, not aliens, may be the ultimate puppeteers engineering his
experiences. He describes a sudden compulsion to kill a fellow veteran of
the Korean conflict -- a man Kerfoot had no logical reason to distrust or
dislike, yet whom he 'sensed' to have been a traitor to his country. For-
tunately, the assassination never materialized[200]. But the situation exactly
parallels incidents described in released ARTICHOKE documents concerning the
remote hypnotic induction of anti-social behavior.
One last speculation:
Renato Vesco's INTERCEPT BUT DON'T SHOOT[201] outlines a fascinating
scenario for the 'secret weapon' hypothesis of UFOs. Vesco points out that
if these devices are one day to be used in a superpower conflict [or in
suppression of civilian revolution, against, say, S&L taxation -jpg], the
attacking power would be well-served by the myth of the UFO as an extra-
terrestrial craft, for the besieged nation would not know the true nature of
its opponent. Perhaps, then, one purpose of the UFO abductions is to engender
and maintain the legend of the little grey aliens. For the hidden manipula-
tors, the abductions could be, in and of themselves, a propaganda coup.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I do not insist dogmatically on the scenario that I have outlined. I do not
wish to dissuade abduction researchers from exploring other avenues -- indeed,
I strongly encourage such work to continue. Nor can I easily account for some
aspects of the abduction narratives -- for example, any suggestions I could
offer concerning the reports of genetic experimentation would be extremely
speculative.
But I DO insist on a fair hearing of this hypothesis. Criticism is
encouraged; that which does not destroy my thesis will make it stronger. I ask
only that my critics refrain from intellectual laziness; mere differences in
world-view do not constitute a valid attack. God is found in the details.
I recognize the dangers inherent in making this thesis public. New and
distressing abductee confabulations may result. I would prefer that the
audience for this paper be restricted to abduction RESEARCHERS, not victims,
who might be unduly influenced. However, in a society that prides itself on
ostensibly free press, such restrictions are unthinkable. Therefore, I can
only beg any abduction victims who might read this paper to attempt a super-
human objectivity. The thesis I have outlined is promising, and (should
trepanation ever provide us with an example of an actual abductee implant)
susceptible of proof. But mine is not the only hypothesis. The abductee's
unrewarding task is to report what he or she has experienced as truthfully as
possible, untainted by outside speculation.
Whether or not future investigation proves UFO abductions to be a product
of mind control experimentation, I feel that this paper has, at least,
provided evidence of a serious danger facing those who hold fast to the ideals
of individual freedom. We cannot long ignore this menace.
A spectre haunts the democratic nations -- the spectre of TECHNOFASCISM.
All the powers of the espionage empire and the scientific establishment have
entered into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: Psychiatrist and spy,
Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- and a worse thing to commandeer.
--
. The conscious and intelligent manipula-
Jim Galasyn . .. tion of organized habits and opinions
. . . of the masses is an important element in
. . . . democratic society. Those who manipulate
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