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The UN and the UFOs

There’s been plenty of chatter lately on UFO-related websites and forums, regarding an alleged United Nations meeting at which diplomats were told that the next few years would see ‘alien disclosure’. A number of things about the story set off my warning alarms, so I haven’t really posted about it here on TDG because I didn’t want to add any legitimacy to the story. Instead I thought I would post a more detailed blog entry of my thoughts.

However, Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor appears to have already done what I intended, so I’ll just link to his article instead as it gives a good, solid summation for anyone interested in the topic.

Furthermore, Mark also has some input from ufologist Jacques Vallee, author of the seminal Messengers of Deception which looked at alien contact-related psy-ops and UFO cults. According to Vallee:

I would not get too excited yet about this information: In our follow-up in France we could not verify that Gilles Lorant (the alleged original source for the leak MP) worked at the places he claims (CNRS has no record of him) and we cannot get any clear answers to the basic questions about this meeting.

At this point it sounds very suspect: another series of claims with no support behind it, which can only contribute to make it more difficult to get scientists to become seriously involved in this field.

It seems to me this story is falling apart but the structure is very interesting — along the lines of a psywar rumor process…

…All very clever… It is much easier to program human beings than to program computers!

This whole story appears to me as yet another case of wishful thinking overcoming critical thinking in certain areas of the ufological community. Hopefully, when people realise the truth of the matter, they will react by learning from it. Some influential people in the field, such as Whitley Strieber, have already been honest enough to clarify the matter.

By the way, for those interested in Vallee’s Messengers of Deception, I may have some good news in the coming weeks.

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