Could our political mess be the mere epiphenomenon of the UFO story?

Multiple Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts have discussed their UFO experiences while in space flight, though usually briefly and not in public. Gordon Cooper was most frank, and Edgar Mitchell impressively took up the cause, while Buzz Aldrin’s cryptic and not-so-cryptic pronouncements are often most interesting (such as his discussion of the L-shaped craft that tracked Apollo 11 for days was famous for a day, but quickly given an official public massaging). Many NASA alums have become UFO researchers. The lore on all this is vast, but NASA treats the issue as one to be kept strictly mum.

Wally Schirra is said to be the first astronaut to use “Santa Claus” as codeword for a UFO close to a capsule. You can run through NASA transcripts for discussion of that jolly ol’ elf. Medical channel communications were, multiple sources claim, how some of the Apollo astronauts on the Moon discussed the tricky matter of being observed by UFOs. Yes, this was said by several NASA employees as having occurred on all Apollo missions.

We should consider the possibility that one reason not to have gone back to the Moon is to avoid close encounters in full public view. There was a famous oops with Apollo 14 and Walter Cronkite. Too hard to manage.

Now, I am as far from NASA as we are from that mysterious sphere in our night skies, the Moon (which really is bizarre), and I know little for sure. But I do know that quite a few astronauts have been believers in UFOs, and some appear to have been scared to their core — see Neil Armstrong’s strange behavior post-11. And then there are the cosmonauts! I have mentioned before that one female cosmonaut has even written a book on the subject of UFOs … but this Polish publication has not seen print in the English language.

I watch and read debunkers on this and similar subjects, and am usually unimpressed. They seem to always be spewing bunk. Cooking up a few counter-explanations for a few claims is not a way to falsify the vast lore on the subject. But they do have something on their side: the practice of secrecy by the U.S. Government. However, we know quite a bit about that secrecy, now. And it does not really supply any epistemic weight to the debunkers’ cause. The fact that several segments of the U.S. Military have admitted that UFOs have been studied for a long time, that their telemetry data and testimony by military people are not faked, and do not point to incidents of known technologies within U.S. inventories, well, that puts the debunkers at huge disadvantage.

Like political and religious debates, the public debate over UFOs is not very rational. Because public officials and academic scientists are not allowed to discuss the issue in a straightforward manner — disallowed by cited NDAs as well as the obvious cultural taboo — the popular discussions are often dominated by religious cultism, hucksters, and bizarre political psy-ops like Q.

Trump seemed uninterested in the subject, while Hillary pushed for full UFO disclosure. This has led me to speculate that the reason Trump was allowed to win in 2016 was to punt the issue down the field for four years. Now, perhaps, the Deep State has its act together enough, and has figured out a way to lie about UFOs that will please its Democratic voting base. But that is mere speculation. Nevertheless, I expect a shift on this subject with Biden-Harris in office.

My guess is that this is one of two issues that worry our overlords most, the other being the unsustainable financial system. They may even be oddly connected — perhaps by the pandemic, which could very well have been another diversionary tactic. We may see.

Much depends upon what UFOs are. They do not constitute a uniform phenomenon. From my recent reading, and reading between the lines, the issue is not just a simple matter of “extra-terrestrials.” I suspect UFOs are far, far weirder than that, probably an admixture. But of what? Perhaps extra-solar space travelers, interdimensionals, crypto-terrestrials, recent secret space program reverse engineering projects going back to the 1950s and beyond, and even maybe time travel and Simulation interfaces. I would not wholly rule out angels and demons.

If the UFO subject is a hoax, and I am wrong on its existential reality, then — considering all the NASA involvement — it is a Deep State psy-op at base, and that could be the worst of all possibilities.

Talk about conspiracy!

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