explored the roots of America’s surreal relationship with The Great Taboo before debunking and feigned indifference became formal policy. That a historical narrative should be the most substantial development to emerge from the UFO/media horizon in 2012 shows us, yet again, as if we needed another example, just how shallow the bottom really is.This was the year worldwide news outlets from ABC to The Daily Mail went bonkers over Google Earth lens-flare “UFOs.” We saw Anderson Cooper, CNN’s prime-time golden boy, hosting a woefully inept “Do You Believe in Space Aliens?” forum in a daytime format so flimsy and trivial that producers decided to pull the plug before the entire brand suffered irreparable damage. We saw the National Geographic Channel manufacture the abysmal “Chasing UFOs” action-figure series that lured heretofore respected documentary filmmaker James Fox into a kamikaze dive. “My credibility and reputation has, deservedly, taken a serious hit,” he said.
2012 was the year The New York Times commended the resumption of the radio-signal search for aliens at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory with yet another thumbnail history of the five-decade old SETI program. But not so much as a sentence devoted to the Swords/Powell review of the U.S. military’s UFO fiasco after World War II. The Times also noted how Wikileaker Julian Assange had taken refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, but not a word about how its president, Rafael Correa, began tweaking Uncle Sam as far back as 2008, when he ordered the declassification of UFO data perhaps as a response to alleged CIA meddling in its military infrastructure. In fact, no mention of the cosmic idiosyncrasies sweeping South America, where six nations now sponsor government-funded UFO research groups, and where two of them — Uruguay and Chile — entered a formal data-sharing agreement this year.
No doubt, there was plenty to write about. Retired CIA PR agent Chase Brandon got hammered for announcing he’d located the Agency’s secret Roswell files back in the mid-1990s. Critics momentarily pounced and accused Brandon of trying to drum up publicity for a new novel. But there was no real demand for a full accounting by the MSM; after all, if Brandon had indeed violated a security oath, it was only over UFOs. And there was no discussion about what Brandon’s alleged revelation might’ve meant for the Clinton administration, which actively pursued cold-case leads on Roswell. The sole Clinton-era operative to respond to De Void’s requests for reaction to Brandon’s professed discovery of the mother lode was former associate attorney general Webb Hubbell, who acted all hinkie and weird and mysterious, like an incoherent Deep Throat.
Yeah, there was decent material, all right. But what we got instead were Fox News, the LA Times, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, USA Today, and the Christian Science Monitor, to name a few, spreading the results of a National Geographic poll claiming that 71 percent of Americans believe UFOs “are more likely to exist than are superheroes, vampires and zombies,” (progress …) but that the Incredible Hulk — garnering 21 percent support in a plurality — was America’s fantasy savior of choice in the event of a hostile alien invasion.
So here’s to the end of another fine calendar for UFO coverage. Maybe 2013 will be the year De Void gets fed up enough to quit. . . .
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Bassett's Citizen's Hearing has the grubby cabal of vested interests decidedly worried. I think 2013 will not be the year of disclosure per se, but the scales will fall from the eyes of the people such that official denials will no longer cut any ice.
ReplyDeleteJust a smokescreen for the sheeple from the General, to hide all that is already known by the US Govt/military. The US astronauts are sworn to secrecy, even though there is ample evidence of IFOs approaching various spavce missions,let alone shutting down the nuke missile silos. Ther is a even a photo of space suited 9' et arriving in the US Shuttle bay. The US Govt. is well versed in the Billy Meier contacts, stealing and alterring his 35mm films, interviewing the investigators, and no doubt at all, co-ordinating with the Swiss AF who were trying to intercept the IFOs with the Mirage jet fighters. The Swiss also had radar vans running around near the et contact sites. A retired Swiss military radar oprator told me that during the late 70s while she was doing her military service in the radar section, they had numerous targets flying at enormous speeds. Their supervisors told the operators to ignore them, as they were merely 'teats'.
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