In the last post I was looking into the strange if not tenuous connection between MUFON's Board of Directors and the Maxwell family, by way of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, which houses some of the debris from near Roswell. A definitive Maxwell connection remains unresolved for now, however, I wanted to look into exactly what MUFON and the more recent "To The Stars Academy" (TTSA) were up to prior to Harzan's arrest.
Despite jerking off UFO enthusiasts for decades in some cruel and unsavory edging ritual, with numerous would-be presidents promising to 'release the documents to the public' that the Pentagon has on UFOs, the whole event was rather anticlimactic. The videos that TTSA director, Luis Elizondo, heroically promised have arrived and no one really cares. With all that has been happening over the last few months, here on the ground, it's understandable no one gives a shit about what's going on in the sky.
Mainstream journalists and normies alike were shocked to find out that those who they thought would be gobbling all this up--those tinfoil hat conspiracy nuts--were nonplussed if not redoubled in their skeptical paranoia. As this article points out, (https://theconversation.com/the-us-military-has-officially-published-three-ufo-videos-why-doesnt-anybody-seem-to-care-137498) the videos were neither new nor particularly exciting for the UFO community. They merely confirmed what the UFO community already knew with evidence they already had. This is rather the initiation of the mainstream public into this fringe topic, done in such a way so as to be passively absorbed while we're distracted by other things.
"You believe in UFOs?"
"Eh, no not really.."
"Oh dude, you should check out these videos, like the government is finally coming out with it and admitting that UFOs are real, its crazy! I was skeptical before too but this seems super legit!"...
Interestingly, when these videos were released by the New York Times in 2017 (referenced above), the reaction was similarly lackluster. As this article notes,
The UFO/paranoid community, hip to the "hey, look over here real quick!" sleight of hand tricks the media tries to play with distraction, shock and outrage, instead of embracing the video leaks as authentic confirmation, saw the whole stunt as a coordinated distraction and cover-up of the more pressing issues of PizzaGate, the Podesta/Clinton e-mails, etc., that the media was not only dismissive of but was thoroughly discrediting-by-association with Trump and Qanon operators coming in to poison the well.
For example, mainstream journalists saw this as pro-Trump trolling of sorts--Why can't they just let those of us that "want to believe" have our moment?!
We have a similar situation now. With COVID-19 and George Floyd conspiracy theory narratives dominating the mental bandwidth and attention economy, the UFO confirmation merely comes off as a distraction and cover-up. As I alluded to before, one wonders if this was deliberate and what reasons someone might have to initiate the mainstream public into what has otherwise been a fringe belief system.
The UFO community was also already becoming increasingly skeptical of TTSA's stated purpose and credentials:
The article from the Intercept that 'credibly calls into question' Elizondo's credentials and obscure history: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/
"So, yeah. He's a little weird and secretive but I mean, he's former government intelligence, of course he would be mysterious. What matters is that he got the Pentagon to admit to it and release the videos!"
We can find one such enthusiastic perspective here, https://gen.medium.com/the-vindication-of-a-ufo-hunter-c79fd1508a76
The article, published on May 12th 2020, goes on to include an interview with Elizondo that I've reproduced in full:
We have here not only the proclamation that this is no longer a matter of speculation but also the more interesting and ominous mention of the inclusive, 'unidentified aerial phenomena' (UAPs), as well as a plan for the launch of an AI via mobile app, called SCOUT that will work in tandem with their database VAULT. Now we all have a chance to be like Paul Bennewitz--or Tom DeLonge--reporting weird shit we see in the sky or find on the ground to MUFON/government so that they can own your story and keep the debris at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology... We're all intelligence gatherers now, as Elizondo put it,
"I mean, who wants to be the last guy at the party saying, 'This stuff isn't real, nothing to see here folks.' At the end of the day, it's a step in the right direction that the United States Army and other sections of the U.S. government are finally acknowledging the existence of UAPs, right?"
Probably not. Let's take a look at how hopeful things were before the shit hit the fan.
Back in May 2019, MUFON and the History Channel were collaborating on a new series called, "Unidentified". I was able to find this video of Ron James and Jan Harzan discussing the collaboration here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=294478761434652
As the Intercept article pointed out, TTSA is listed as a "Motion Picture & Video Tape Production" company on its Security and Exchange Commission filing. The author goes on to surmise that this would make sense if we take the "Unidentified" series to be the culmination of TTSA's research and disclosure efforts, with DeLonge acting as Executive Producer and appearing in the series numerous times.
I'm reminded of those armed "Black Panther" activists back in June who turned out to be crisis actors.
More recently, John Greenewald of BLACK VAULT (not to be confused with TTSA's VAULT), one of those people in the UFO community who was initially excited about TTSA but grew increasingly skeptical when unable to verify Elizondo's claims, has finally received an answer to his FOIA request.
Hmm... Trade secrets, huh? As Tom Waits famously asked, "What's he building in there?"
I get the impression this is all a process of outsourcing work to 'contractors'--unpaid narcs and tattletales--in truth, true believers that guilelessly assist in extending the tentacles of surveillance and control as it insidiously creeps into deeper regions of experience. We see it in art/design, we see it in the military, in education--this movement to outsource labor to contractors, third parties, interns, alternative charter schools, etc. In reality, entities that can be held less accountable, as they are designed for the market to satisfy the 'needs' of a specific customer and demographic, and subsequently are not necessarily in sync with the needs of the whole. However, being privately owned and independent of government oversight--in the traditional sense at least, as they clearly collaborate but often in ways that give each party some form of plausible deniability--they are less likely to come under scrutiny in the same way a government-backed entity might, nor can they be held accountable in the same way.
It's difficult to predict what will come of MUFON and TTSA's relationship as they move forward now that Harzan is out of the picture. So what about Dave MacDonald, what's he all about?
Huh, okay... Ah, yes of course, Ohio.
(source: https://www.inc.com/bartie-scott-flamingo-air-mile-high-club.html)
uhh..
"Flamingo Air doesn't do much marketing for Flights of Fancy--relying mostly on word-of-mouth."
You don't say...
[next installments I'll be looking at the relationships between confession and intel gathering--asking broadly, what's the point of all this and how does it relate to trauma, confession, therapy, mind control, aliens, angels, the collective unconscious, new world order and the like.]
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