Disclosure (Again)

'It's Key West. People see UFOs under the water. How do you compete with an act like that?'

A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke

Some of you may have seen the clips from American naval jets on the news showing encounters with unidentified flying objects or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) as officials prefer to call them. You may even have seen the Amazon documentary Age of Disclosure on the subject. This all centres around congressional hearings in the States where military personnel testify to the validity of these and other, undisclosed, encounters. Many people are outraged that something of such huge significance is, by and large, ignored by the mainstream media. For this isn't a few oddballs and conspiracy theorists coming forward, but level-headed servicemen and women plus scientists who have been working on the phenomenon for quite some time.

I would point out that this is not the first time this has happened. The Disclosure Project was launched in the early 1990s by Steven Greer, and in 2001 had a press conference in Washington where over twenty government employees spoke under oath about their encounters. Much of what they described, such as UFOs switching nuclear missiles off and on at will, is reiterated in the recent hearings. When I read about this at the time, and I was following it throughout the nineties, I wondered why it wasn't big news. Except not really, because I knew then as I know now, it's all about controlling the narrative., usually done through ridicule, dismissal or threat. Seasoned researchers like Jacque Vallee or John Keel have reported frequently on this.

So the jaded cynic who has been researching this kind of thing for years, may be forgiven for bemoaning the limitations of the testimonies on offer, arguing that there's nothing new, but it's worth giving credit where credit's due. The witnesses have shown enormous courage and integrity in coming forward. They are, by doing so, challenging the first of what Vallee calls The Triple Coverup: 'Official Denial'. For myself, I was fascinated by the nuts-and-bolts revelations in the film, not only the technical details of what pilots and scientists were encountering, but the finer points of how revelations of these encounters, and research into them, were being blocked by religious fundamentalists behind the scenes. Note that other countries may not necessarily have these subjective restrictions. France, for example, had an official organisation called GEIPAN founded in 1977, that would make public its findings.

Vallee's Second Coverup is 'Convenient Explanations'. He describes in Dimensions how official bodies dismiss encounters by offering 'common sense' reasons for them. At times this can be quite hilarious. I remember two Australian pilots having an encounter with bright lights high up in the sky having their wonderment dismissed, for what they had seen was being explained as the reflections of cabbage fields in moonlight. There was a pause as the pilots took this in then they burst out laughing. 'That's the first time I've seen cabbage fields 40,000 feet in the sky,' quipped one of them. I would add to this category how people generally prefer the easy explanation, one that doesn't challenge all their beliefs, what they have based their lives on, and that goes for scientists who resolutely remain closed to all the strangeness.

The Third Coverup is 'The UFO Denies Itself', which is one of the trickiest aspects of the phenomenon which I won't go into here, though I have done to some extent in Secrets: An Oxford Tale and Alien Humanity. Indeed, in the latter book I quote in the first chapter from one of the beings Vallee reports on in Dimensions, where he says, 'You will not speak wisely about this night.'

Regarding the role scientists play in the Second Coverup, despite the many scientific witnesses in the disclosures, others have chosen to opt strongly for 'convenient explanations' e.g. in the Skeptic. Those who take on this role are often regarded as party poopers, but it is their job to shed a cold light on such situations, to bring some grounding before everyone flies off into the sky with wild theories. This is the principle of Occam's Razor which, simply put, means that the simplest explanation is probably the correct one. However, sometimes they really stretch themselves to achieve that, as parodied by the portrayal of Scully in The X-Files whose 'rational' explanations became more and more irrational.

I have some sympathy for the sceptic's plight, particularly when I apply my own take of X-Dimensional Theory to what we are seeing in these naval videos. The behaviour of the objects ties in neatly with what I would expect five-dimensional craft to be doing e.g. the insane accelerations, imperviousness to missile attacks, indifference to whatever element in which they're moving. There are cases of UFO behaviour for decades that persuaded me a long time ago that we are often dealing with five-dimensional craft. The trouble is, our science relies on a linear run of events, theory and proof, cause and effect; but with the timelessness of five dimensions, there is no more cause and effect, incidents can be baffling, and proof problematic.

The one piece of footage shown that gives me pause here is where a missile strikes one of the craft, which breaks into a few pieces. Not only do those pieces retain the same velocity, but they reform into one object. People refer to this as 'Terminator' technology referring to the molten metal androids in the movie franchise which can alter shape and survive being broken up exactly as shown here, but it reminds me more of a six-dimensional perspective where shape and form become malleable. In Age of Disclosure, they do eventually discuss UAPs other than the ones shown in the naval footage, including the black triangles that have been seen all over the world, often in large numbers. These ones I have already had marked down as six-dimensional for - and this is not mentioned in the documentary - they constantly change shape, as well as exhibit several other outlandish modes of behaviour. (If you are interested in knowing more, it is worth reading Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation by David Marler.)

So I don't have an explanation for how that craft survived the missile attack, nor do I have any reason to assume it even is an alien vessel. With that, I am in line with the sceptics.

Yet when in a purely speculative mood I wonder if there isn't a civilisation under the sea that meets up with one from the skies where they discuss humans - these strange beasts clambering on the land and always attacking each other - on occasion and go, 'Huh. Do you think they'll ever become civilised?'