Dozens of Gov Offices Regularly Visit UFO Website

By Jack Brewer ufotrail.blogspot.com/ 11-9-15

      Following publication of the recent blog post, "Homeland Security Reads 'The UFO Trail'", I received an email from Frank Warren of the popular website, 'The UFO Chronicles'. My post addressed information recorded via a blog traffic statistics program which indicated some recent site activity originated from an Internet service provider (ISP) registered to the Department of Homeland Security. Similar visits from additional government offices have previously been logged.

Frank brought to my attention traffic of potential interest regularly recorded at his website which include ISPs at the locations below. The list, a comparatively small sample not to be interpreted as an all inclusive accounting, is published with his permission. Please note it is offered without speculation of purpose or intent of site visits.

Thanks to Frank Warren for the heads up.

ISPs logged at 'The UFO Chronicles' in recent weeks include a Department of Defense (DoD) office located in Lawton, Oklahoma, and Navy Network Information Center (NNIC) offices in Hawaii, California and Florida. Other ISPs recorded over time at the website:

• US Department of Defense Network Las Cruces New Mexico United States

• DoD Network Information Center Indianapolis Indiana United States

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration Sherman Oaks California United States

• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (fermilab) North Aurora Illinois United States

• US Department Of Defense Network Colorado Springs Colorado United States

• DoD Network Information Center Huntsville Alabama United States

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration Bowie Maryland United States

• Federal Aviation Administration Oklahoma City Oklahoma United States

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration Cleveland Ohio United States

• FBI Criminal Justice Information Systems Clarksburg West Virginia United States

• Department of Homeland Security Springfield Virginia United States

• US Dept of Justice Potomac Maryland United States

• DoD Network Information Center Arnold Missouri United States

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore California United States

• US Department of Defense Network Fort Huachuca Arizona United States

• Navy Network Information Center (NNIC) Virginia Beach Virginia United States

• US Department of Defense Network Natick Massachusetts United States

• Bigelow Management North Las Vegas Nevada United States

• DoD Network Information Center Washington District of Columbia United States

• US Department of Defense Network Fort Polk Louisiana United States

• U.S. Department of State Washington District of Columbia United States

• Government of the District of Columbia Washington District of Columbia United States

• Navy Network Information Center (NNIC) Pass Christian Mississippi United States

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque New Mexico United States

• Headquarters, USAISC Colorado Springs Colorado United States

• Australian Department of Defence Port Melbourne Victoria Australia

• Headquarters, USAISC Tacoma Washington United States

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration Beltsville Maryland United States

• Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton New York United States

• U.S. Department Of Energy Las Vegas Nevada United States

• US Senate Washington, District of Columbia, United States

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mountain View, California, United States

• US Department of Defense Network Belcamp, Maryland, United States

• FBI Criminal Justice Information Systems Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States

• Department of Homeland Security Washington, District of Columbia, United States

• U.S. House Of Representatives Washington, District of Columbia, United States

• U.S. Department Of State Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Homeland Security Reads 'The UFO Trail'

By Jack Brewer ufotrail.blogspot.com/ 11-3-15

     A computer with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) IP address recently visited 'The UFO Trail' blog. The user viewed the post, 'Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange Case of Jeffrey Alan Lash', and exited by following links to related stories on other UFO websites.

The bizarre Lash case drew attention around ufology earlier this year when the corpse of Lash, incredibly described by his reported fiancee and an associate as an ET-human hybrid who worked with the CIA, was discovered by police in a vehicle in Pacific Palisades, Cal. The resulting law enforcement investigation turned up some 1200 guns and nearly a quarter of a million dollars in cash located in a condo associated with the recently deceased man and his fiancee. Police promptly reported that foul play was not suspected in the death, but further details of the odd circumstances have not yet been released by authorities.

The case arguably received much more intensive investigation in UFO circles than from the mainstream media. The latter tended to offer rather vanilla coverage, often limiting their investigations to quoting one another, while various UFO websites and online discussion forums explored the players and circumstances at length. Comments on this blog, for instance, reflected research conducted which included the possibility multiple identities were used by some of the individuals involved in the story, and a Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney owned a condo in the same neighborhood as the one used to store weapons and cash, among other items of potential interest.

Traffic stats of 'The UFO Trail' blog, reflecting a visit early the morning of Nov. 1 from a computer accessing the Internet via DHS. The user apparently followed a link from Twitter to the Lash post, and exited through two links contained in the post, one to a related story at Whitley Strieber's 'Unknown Country', and the other to a second related story at Linda Moulton Howe's 'Earthfiles'.

It is not entirely unusual for 'The UFO Trail' to receive traffic from IP addresses of government offices. In at least some of those circumstances, if not the vast majority, it would be reasonable to suspect the visitors were simply surfing the web for their own personal interests, possibly entertaining themselves during breaks, as compared to conducting work in official capacities.

In other circumstances, it might not be an unreasonable stretch to suspect an intelligence analyst might check a few posts around the UFO community for items of interest to include in a file they may have been assigned to create. In the case of Lash, for instance, one could particularly save them self a substantial amount of work by reading what some UFO websites have compiled, rather than starting from scratch.

Such circumstances offer us opportunities to consider how intelligence agencies have every reason, and arguably responsibility, to delve into such chains of events as represented in the Lash saga. Regardless of what reasons may have existed for the rise of stories about aliens and secret agents, the case clearly contains suspicious dynamics involving inordinate amounts of cash and weapons that, at best, indicate exploitation and manipulation to some extents. It is not unreasonable at all for such circumstances to be investigated by any number of law enforcement agencies, certainly including DHS.

To the best of my knowledge, the case has not yet been publicly confirmed to have become a matter of interest for DHS or CIA, seeming to remain relatively local in scope. Perhaps FOIA requests on such matters, including DHS computer activities the morning of Nov. 1, would eventually prove useful, but it is extremely unlikely they would bear relevant responses as of yet.

The DHS visit offers us an opportunity to consider how the paths tend to dissect of intelligence agencies and UFO-related stories. Whatever the many reasons prove to be from one instance to the next, the fact remains that the UFO and intelligence communities remain closely related.

We are often at a disadvantage to understand exactly why we might find intelligence agencies involved in bizarre stories, and why they might be identified as visiting UFO-related websites. It is important to refrain from jumping to premature conclusions, as UFO researchers have an unflattering history of interpreting the presence of intelligence personnel as confirmation of preferred theories. The fact of the matter is that we often simply do not know what such circumstances indicate.

Look for this writer's soon to be published book, 'The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community', for more information on the intermingling of intelligence agencies and ufology. Connect with Jack Brewer through 'The UFO Trail' blog, @TheUFOTrail on Twitter or send an email.

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Researcher, Writer, Jack Brewer Stops By BoA:Audio | INTERVIEW

By BoA:Audio
4-17-15

     BoA:Audio welcomes Jack Brewer, creator of the excellent blog The UFO Trail, for a discussion on the current state of UFO and abduction research as well as some of the troubling stories that 'mainstream' ufology ignores. Amongst the areas covered during the conversation are the 'Roswell slides' saga, the sad state of MUFON as the de facto national UFO research organization, and the infamous Carpenter Affair. Additionally, we look at how consumer culture and infotainment have changed UFO research in a negative way, how solving the mystery of UFOs has taken a backseat to promoting UFO lore, and how abduction research has been rendered a veritable wasteland over the last few years. Plus lots and lots more 'big picture' observations concerning ufology, disclosure, the UFO mystery, abductions, and the humans who exist amidst this sea of strangeness.

Altogether it is a thought-provoking edition of BoA:Audio that challenges listeners to think differently about the UFO phenomenon and expect some accountability from those who have declared themselves researchers of the enigma as Jack Brewer takes us down The UFO Trail. . . .

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