“God created war so that Americans would learn geography” — Mark Twain [Artwork/Michael Moffett] If you don’t remember the autumn of 1989 in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, too bad, it was high drama, stirring high hopes. I mean, I read all about it: A rip in the Iron Curtain sent legions of exhausted nonbelievers streaming west, Soviet repression was growing futile, and UFOs were making a joke of Russian air defenses (as they do everywhere, to be fair). The bogeys had probably been kicking around upstairs forever, but state media wasn’t big on pointing it out until glasnost offered cover.
Over the weekend I was thinking about Laurence Rockefeller's interest in UFO disclosure and it occurred to me that it could have been sincere, or it could have been a classic Sun Tzu tactic engineered by his brother David.
The Korean civilian jetliner that was shot down as it allegedly strayed over Kamchatka in 1983 was KAL Flight 007. Georgia Congressman Larry MacDonald was on that flight, and I was in the process of writing a letter to his Congressional office (at their request) about how we saved my youngest daughters life by using Laetrile to treat a level 5 cancerous tumor in 1977.
That letter was never sent because Congressman MacDonald was disappeared.
For doling out lessons in humility, I’ll take the Shecky Greene alien over the Leonidas alien all day long even if I never get the joke. Maybe those who might be reaching for the nukes will. And totally unrelated, that reminds me of a next level Shecky Greene joke about how Frank Sinatra saved his life: Sinatra was pissed off at Shecky for a remark he’d made and had some goons beat him up. Some ways into the beating, Sinatra said, “OK. He’s had enough.”
The degree of absurdity of some UFO cases *might* be an indication of the diversity of alien cultures and varying levels of technology, or even of 'evolved' AI cultures.
(It certainly appears to rule out a single source or agendum e.g. potential invaders from Mars .)
It may also provide a glimpse of our own future; one where we'd suffer significant culture shock if deposited there for any length of time.
Then you add apparent psi effects and we're potentially faced with numerous unknown factors, all of which may be the product of beings with equal or greater intelligence than ourselves and from civilisations that are far, far older. This isn't even like trying to figure out Havana Syndrome; ufology is a field of an entirely different scale and complexity, whatever direction you come at it from.
This is very interesting:
"The Russians have installed a GIANT telescope at the bottom of Lake Baikal. Why?!"
https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/333542-giant-telescope-baikal-neutrino
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Over the weekend I was thinking about Laurence Rockefeller's interest in UFO disclosure and it occurred to me that it could have been sincere, or it could have been a classic Sun Tzu tactic engineered by his brother David.
The Korean civilian jetliner that was shot down as it allegedly strayed over Kamchatka in 1983 was KAL Flight 007. Georgia Congressman Larry MacDonald was on that flight, and I was in the process of writing a letter to his Congressional office (at their request) about how we saved my youngest daughters life by using Laetrile to treat a level 5 cancerous tumor in 1977.
That letter was never sent because Congressman MacDonald was disappeared.
For doling out lessons in humility, I’ll take the Shecky Greene alien over the Leonidas alien all day long even if I never get the joke. Maybe those who might be reaching for the nukes will. And totally unrelated, that reminds me of a next level Shecky Greene joke about how Frank Sinatra saved his life: Sinatra was pissed off at Shecky for a remark he’d made and had some goons beat him up. Some ways into the beating, Sinatra said, “OK. He’s had enough.”
The degree of absurdity of some UFO cases *might* be an indication of the diversity of alien cultures and varying levels of technology, or even of 'evolved' AI cultures.
(It certainly appears to rule out a single source or agendum e.g. potential invaders from Mars .)
It may also provide a glimpse of our own future; one where we'd suffer significant culture shock if deposited there for any length of time.
Then you add apparent psi effects and we're potentially faced with numerous unknown factors, all of which may be the product of beings with equal or greater intelligence than ourselves and from civilisations that are far, far older. This isn't even like trying to figure out Havana Syndrome; ufology is a field of an entirely different scale and complexity, whatever direction you come at it from.