Independence Day 

As Brenda Denzler noted, in The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs, “the contactee movement was, in effect, a conduit through which established spiritualist and Theosophical ideas and practices moved into the UFO community.”[1] Lynn E. Catoe, the senior bibliographer who read thousands of UFO articles to compile UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography, for the U.S. Government Printing Office, issued for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, commented:

A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing, and invisible entities, as well as phenomena like poltergeist manifestations and possession… Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demoniac possession and psychic phenomena which has long been known to theologians and parapsychologists.[2]

The same personalities behind the New Age Movement and the CIA’s Operation Stargate are also the same personalities behind the orchestration of the UFO phenomenon, which appears to be a deliberate attempt to bring about Alice Bailey’s “Externalization of the Hierarchy” in fulfillment of the coming of the Age of Aquarius. Val Germann wrote in Big Money and UFOs in 1997, “There is no doubt that the original Laurance Rockefeller, now 85 years old, is the power behind much UFO research in the United States. This man, one of two surviving grandsons of the first John D. Rockefeller, has been a true major league player in the affairs of the United States since the 1930s! If he is interested in UFOs then they are indeed very, very important.”[3] Famed UFO researcher, Jacques Vallée, who inspired Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was one of the first to research the covert manipulation of the UFO mythos by official agencies, and concluded: “someone is going to an awful lot of trouble to convince the world that we are threatened by beings from outer space.”[4]

Belief in “extra-terrestrials” is merely a modern adaptation—inspired by the literary genre of science-fiction—of what for centuries has permeated the various cultures of the world as demons, ghouls, ghosts, goblins and genies. Occultists have re-packaged their age-old practices of séances and mediumship as contact with beings from other worlds: visitors from Sirius, former denizens of Atlantis, or “Ancient Aliens,” an adaptation of the Fallen Angels of the Book of Genesis.

The ruse is succeeding. According to a recent National Geographic Channel study, thirty-six percent of Americans, about 80 million people, are certain UFOs exist and one in 10 believe they’ve spotted one. Nearly half of those surveyed said they were unsure, while only seventeen percent said they did not believe in UFOs.[5] Nearly four-fifths of respondents of the poll said they believe the government has concealed information about UFOs from the public. This of course is a belief that has been popularly reinforced through movies such as Spielberg’s Close Encounters and E.T., and more recently the X Files TV series.

In 1938, CBS Radio staged a dramatization of H.G. Wells’ science fiction novel War of the Worlds, narrated by Orson Welles, by interrupting the current broadcast and presenting it as a real alien invasion. Newspapers reported that panic ensued, with people across the Northeastern United States and Canada fleeing their homes. Some people called CBS, newspapers or the police in confusion over the realism of the news bulletins. Others claimed they could smell poison gas or see flashes of lightning in the distance. Studies calculated that of the six million who heard the broadcast, 1.7 million believed it to be true, and 1.2 million were “genuinely frightened.”[6] Appointed to study the results of the broadcast was the Radio Research Project, headed by Paul Lazarsfeld of the Cybernetics Group, and which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, and connected to members of the Frankfurt School, like Theodor Adorno.

Carol Rosin, the former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun—NASA rocket scientist, former Nazi of Operation Paperclip, member of Permindex and founder of IONS—claims that he told her on repeated occasions that the government was going to go through three stages of scare-tactics. First would be the Russians as “Commies,” followed by terrorism, and finally the “last card” would be “aliens,” being the ostensible reason for Reagan’s SDI.[7] Rosin also worked on the Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space with IONS founder Edgar Mitchell.

Ronald Reagan’s favourite science fiction scripts inspired him, during a peace summit in Geneva in the 1980s, to ask the Soviet leader Gorbachev for his support in the event of an invasion from extraterrestrial life. And, at the United Nations in September 1987, Reagan called for the world to unite in dealing with an alien threat, made a similar observation, much like the plot of the movie Independence Day:

In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? [8]

Reagan is believed to have become an avid science fiction fan while working in Hollywood as a B movie actor. Reagan even arranged a private screening of Stephen Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind at the Whitehouse in 1982 for top judges, astronauts and other VIPs. He confessed his favorite story was like The Day the Earth Stood Still, where “the invasion from outer space that prompts earthlings to put aside nationalistic quarrels and band together to fight the alien invader.”[9]

Apparently, before he became Governor of California, Ronald and his wife Nancy had a UFO sighting on the night that they were invited to a party that actor William Holden was having in Hollywood. A number of key personalities were invited. Two of them, comedian Steve Allen, and actress Lucille Ball both recounted the story of Reagan’s UFO encounter. Reagan was late and the party was held up until he and Nancy arrived nearly an hour later. According to both Allen’s and Ball’s version of events Reagan was very excited when he described that he and Nancy had seen a UFO while coming down the coast highway to Los Angeles and stopped to watch the event. Some unconfirmed stories of the event stated that the object actually landed. Lucy in her account of the event stated, “After he elected President, I kept thinking about that event, and wondered if he still would have won if he told everyone that he saw a flying saucer.”[10]

In an interview from an article titled “The Wizard of the Baca Grande,” in West magazine of Alberta, Canada, in 1990, Maurice Strong shared a disturbing apocalyptic scenario he would include in a novel he says he would like to write. A small group of world leaders at the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland concluded that because the world’s rich countries would refuse to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment, they would form a secret society and to bring about a world collapse. Strong further explained, “They’ve engineered, using their access to stock exchanges, and computers, and gold supplies, a panic. Then they prevent the markets from closing. They jam the gears. They have mercenaries who hold the rest of the world leaders at Davos as hostage. The markets can’t close. The rich countries...?” and Strong makes a slight motion with his fingers as if he were flicking a cigarette butt out of the window.[11]

Strong’s apocalyptic scenario is strikingly similar to Sydney Sheldon’s 1991 bestseller, The Doomsday Conspiracy, for which Council of Nine channeler James Hurtak served as “technical consultant.” In the novel, the protagonist Robert Bellamy is hired by the NSA to investigate a UFO cover-up, perpetrated by a cabal of top-ranking officials of many different governments, who are concerned that the arrival of extraterrestrial visitors may cause worldwide panic or economic chaos. However, the real reason is that the aliens, who have the ability to shapeshift and communicate telepathically, from their mothership hovering above the earth, are observing humanity in disappointment. They want the world to stop harming the environment, using fossil fuels, contributing to global warming and causing wars. Concerned about the potential impact on their industries, the cabal is conspiring to keep the secret from humanity and working to develop SDI, or Reagan’s “Star Wars” program, to combat the alien intruders.

The 1984 movie Ghostbusters demonstrated the occult nature of contact with supernatural. The script was written by Dan Aykroyd, who admitted that he comes from a family who has been interested in the occult and UFOlogy. Aykroyd's great-grandfather was a mystic who corresponded with Theosophical Society member Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the subject of spiritualism, and conducted séances as a member of the world's largest Spiritualist community, Lily Dale, New York, a small town near Lake Erie.[12] Lily Dale is a place of pilgrimage for many interested in spiritualism, the paranormal, and the New Age. A large population of mediums and Spiritualist healers reside in Lily Dale year-round, such as TV mediums Lisa Williams and Michelle Whitedove. In recent years, guest lecturers have included Dee Wallace, members of Ghost Hunters, Tibetan monks, James Van Praagh, Dr. Wayne Dyer, and Deepak Chopra. Lily Dale is the backdrop for a series of young adult paranormal novels by New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub, who grew up a few miles from Lily Dale.

Aykroyd wrote the introduction to a book by his own father, Peter Aykroyd, titled A History of Ghosts, which chronicled the family’s historical involvement in the Spiritualist Movement. Peter, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Andrija Puharich, who initiated the CIA’s Operation Stargate project, claimed to have been working for the Canadian government to investigate the effects of low frequency radiation exploited by the Soviets, and had recently advised Trudeau and President Jimmy Carter.[13] Dan said of his father’s book, “If you ever wanted to know anything about seances, mediums, everybody from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Oliver Lodge to (Sir William) Crookes, Swedenborg, this is the encyclopedia.”[14] The book discusses terms like “glossolalia,” or what is known as “speaking in tongues” as practiced in Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity as well as in other religions. The term “clairhambiance” is the ability of a medium to experience a taste associated with a spirit. The book also introduces the term “ectoplasm,” which entered the mainstream popularity after being featured prominently as “slime” in Ghostbusters.

In the early 1980s, Aykroyd began work on a script for the film that eventually became Ghostbusters, inspired by his fascination with parapsychology. Of others involved in the making of the movie, Aykroyd explained, “Harold Ramis was a complete non-believer, skeptic and agnostic full-on. Billy [Murray] of course is Irish and he knows ghosts exist and sometimes the dead do linger in the land of the living. Ivan Reitman [producer and director], he’s Jewish so he knows… there’s a lot of paranormal in the Kabbalah.”[15] As an example, ancient Merkabah mystics imagined themselves ascending (or descending) through the seven heavens, where each required the correct password to the angelic gatekeeper.[16]

In the movie, the character of Dana Barrett portrayed by Sigourney Weaver is possessed by Zuul claiming to be “the Gatekeeper.” Zuul is a demigod worshiped as a servant to “Gozer the Gozerian,” a shape-shifting god of destruction. Louis Tully, played by Rick Moranis, is possessed by “Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster of Gozer.” It is eventually discovered that architect of Barrett’s building, which is the true source of the supernatural assault, was a genius and cult leader of Gozer-worshippers, who designed it to channel ghosts for the purpose of ending the world. On the apartment building roof, in a clear allusion to sex magick, or a Hieros Gamos (“sacred marriage”), through a ritual sex act on an altar, Zuul and Vinz open the gate between dimensions and transform into supernatural creatures just as the Ghostbusters arrive. Gozer then emerges from a pyramid, whose top is illuminated by a bright light, equivalent of the all-seeing eye.

Aykroyd says he definitely believes that mediums can communicate with the dead. “There are some people who can go into a trance and give themselves up and be controlled and speak as this being, as this spirit entity.”[17] He also explains that some victims of demonic assault “have been through a war-like trauma in some cases.” This is a condition, he says, which can result in a state of “psychic compromised immunity,” making them particularly vulnerable for spirit possession—an occurrence otherwise associated with DID and Satanic ritual abuse.[18]

Messengers of Deception

However, the government “cover-up” myth also appears to be one that is deliberately fabricated. In Messengers of Deception, Jacques Vallée shares insights he learned from a man he refers to anonymously as “Major Murphy,” although his actual rank is much higher than that of Major. Murphy advised him that all major UFO research organizations were infiltrated by intelligence agents who regard them as useful idiots, and supply selected types of disinformation: “in intelligence circles, people like that are historical necessities. When you’ve worked long enough for Uncle Sam, you know he is involved in a lot of strange things. The data these groups get are biased at the source, but they play a useful role.”[19]

The media typically promote the ideas of the popular mythmakers of extraterrestrial contact, at the expense of more qualified opinions. Rather, it appears the “evidence” of extra-terrestrial contact is cherry-picked by those who insist on promoting the mythology. According to Vallée:

The belief in UFO contact, and the expectation of visitation by beings from space, is promoted by certain groups of people who are responsible for advertising UFO contacts, for circulating faked photographs (often in connection with genuine sightings), for interfering with witnesses and researchers, and for generating systematic “disinformation” about the phenomenon. We may find that they belong, or have access, to military, media, and government circles. In these games it is not clear exactly which side is infiltrating the other.[20]

Vallée, who holds a master’s degree in astrophysics and a PhD in computer science from Northwestern University, was an early scientific proponent of the theory that UFOs are extraterrestrial spaceships. In mainstream science, Vallée is notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA and for his work at SRI with Ira Einhorn on the network information center for the ARPANET. Vallée had also been a participant in Sarfatti’s Physics/Consciousness Research Group (PCRG).

Ira Einhorn, the “Unicorn Killer,” claimed that was working with Jacques Vallée and Brendan O’Regan on a UFO database. Einhorn also mentioned that he was working with Congressman Charlie Rose (1939 – 2012) of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. Rose confirmed in a telephone conversation with Jack Sarfatti that Einhorn was involved in National Security operations.[21] Long an advocate of the Pentagon’s “parapsychological” pursuits, according to Rose, “Some people think this is the work of the Devil,” he observed, “other people think it’s the work of the Holy Spirit.”[22] Through EST training sessions at Esalen with Erhard, Sarfatti met Francis Coppola’s wife and started spending a lot of time at the Coppola’s home, at which time he introduced them to Einhorn and Vallée. Vallée became technical consultant to Close Encounters of the Third Kind when as a result he was also later introduced to Steven Spielberg.[23] Vallée served as a model of the French scientist François Truffaut in the film.[24]

In addition to Vallée, Regnery Publishing, owned by the family responsible for the America First Committee (AFC) and the American Security Council (ASC) also published the works of another famous mainstream scientist who pioneered the study of UFOs, Dr. Josef Allen Hynek. Hynek was an American astronomer, professor, and ufologist, who acted as scientific advisor to UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force under three consecutive projects: Project Sign (1947–1949), Project Grudge (1949–1952), and Project Blue Book (1952–1969). While initially a sceptic, after examining hundreds of UFO reports over the decades (including some made by credible witnesses, including astronomers, pilots, police officers, and military personnel), Hynek concluded that some reports represented genuine empirical evidence. In later years, Hynek developed the “Close Encounter” classification system.

Vallée’s first book, Anatomy of a Phenomenon (Regnery, 1965), argued that “through UFO activity… the contours of an amazingly complex intelligent life beyond the earth can already be discerned.”[25] In Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma (Regnery, 1966) he and Janine Vallée urged the scientific community to consider the UFO evidence in this light. But by 1969, when he published Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (Regnery), Vallée’s assessment of the UFO phenomenon had undergone a significant change. Vallée backed away from the extraterrestrial hypotheses and advanced the radical view that UFOs are paranormal phenomenon. As an alternative to the extraterrestrial visitation hypothesis (ETH), Vallée alleged that these entities were “intra-terrestrials,” with commonalities between UFOs, cults, religious movements, demons, angels, ghosts, cryptid sightings, and psychic phenomena.

In 1973, Regnery published Sybil, a book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason) for dissociative identity disorder (DID) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur. After extended therapy involving amobarbital and hypnosis interviews, Sybil manifests sixteen personalities. Recalling the claims about trauma-based mind-control, Wilbur writes that Sybil’s multiple personality disorder was a result of the severe physical and sexual abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her mother, Hattie. The book was made into two television movies of the same name, once in 1976, starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, and again in 2007.

Center for Security Policy

United States Army Colonel Philip J. Corso, with help from William J. Birnes, published The Day After Roswell in 1997, with a forward from Strom Thurmond. Corso was a former military intelligence officer under General Charles Willoughby, ASC member, Shickshinny Knight and Black Eagle Fund conspirator implicated in the JFK assassination.[26] After joining the Army in 1942, Corso served in Army Intelligence in Europe, becoming chief of the US Counter Intelligence Corps in Rome. In 1945, he arranged for the safe passage of 10,000 Jewish World War II refugees out of Rome to the British Mandate of Palestine. He was the personal emissary to Giovanni Battista Montini at the Vatican, later Pope Paul VI, during the active period of the Nazi “Rat Lines.” Corso himself claims that he participated in Operation Paperclip.

Corso was on the staff of President Eisenhower’s National Security Council for four years, from 1953 to 1957. Dick Russell also reports that in 1954 Corso was involved in planning the overthrow of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. During the Korean War (1950 – 1953), Corso performed intelligence duties under General Douglas MacArthur as Chief of the Special Projects branch of the Intelligence Division, Far East Command. In 1956, Corso worked with West German paramilitary units connected to the spy network of Reinhard Gehlen.[27]

The Day After Roswell claims that an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 and was recovered by the United States government who then sought to cover up the evidence. In 1961, he became Chief of the Pentagon’s Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and Development, working under Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau. In this position, Corso claims to have supposedly been assigned to oversee the reverse engineering material recovered from crashed alien spacecraft, resulting in several technological breakthroughs, including accelerated particle beam devices, fiber optics, lasers, computer chips and Kevlar. The book concludes with reproduction of information about Project Horizon, a 1950s US Army plan for bases on the moon.

Corso further claims that the real purpose of Reagan’s Strategic Defense initiative (SDI) was not to deflect a missile attack by the Russians, but to counter the threat posed by extra-terrestrials. As pointed out in “Saucers, Secrets and Shickshinny Knights” by Martin Davis, “This, of course, led to the end of the Cold War, when Reagan agreed to let the Soviets use Star Wars technology to defend the USSR against the same galactic menace.”[28]

Corso was a member of the Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group (ATPWG), whose director was Col. John B. Alexander. SRI remote-viewer Hal Puthoff and Corso have both claimed that the ATPWG “operated at the highest levels of government.”[29] It was Alexander’s article which inspired retired Major General Paul E. Vallely to write the 1980 MindWar article with Michael Aquino of the Temple of Set.

Vallely has been close with former CIA director James Woolsey. Vallely and Woolsey shared membership on the neoconservative Council for Security Policy (CSP), founded in 1988 by Frank Gaffney, a member of the CNP, who worked for Richard Perle during the Reagan administration. The CSP, which uses the ASC’s motto “Peace Through Strength,” is funded by the Olin, Scaife, Carthage, Bradley, and a few other right-wing foundations.[30] Major weapons contractors such as Boeing, General Atomics, General Dynamics, Litton, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Thiokol, and TRW have also provided financial support.[31] The CSP’s activities are focused on exposing and researching perceived jihadist threats to the United States. CSP Advisory Council includes Heritage Foundation founder Edwin Feulner, and neoconservatives Midge Decter, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Dick Cheney, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, James Schlesinger, Paul Wolfowitz and Daniel Pipes.[32] Also on the CSP Advisory Council is Knight of Malta Joseph E. Schmitz, a former executive of Blackwater, the infamous American private military firm founded by CNP member Erik Prince.

Vallely and Woolsey have also been associated with the Intelligence Summit. The Summit was founded in 2006 by John Loftus, former U.S. government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He began working for the US Department of Justice in 1977 and in 1979 joined their Office of Special Investigations, which was charged with prosecuting and deporting Nazi war criminals in the US. Loftus is an author of numerous books on the CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret, Unholy trinity: how the Vatican's Nazi networks betrayed western intelligence to the Soviets, and The Secret War Against the Jews, both of which have extensive material on the Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.

The Intelligence Summit is a powerful, secret organization of top intelligence officers from around the world. Several former CIA directors, former Mossad chiefs, former MI6 heads, former US Air Force Generals and other top intelligence officials are part of its leadership. The Chairman of the Intelligence Summit, is a top secret person, whose identity is never revealed and his name withheld for security reasons. The list of speakers and board members includes Michael Ledeen and Richard Perle.[33] The Advisory Council included James Woolsey, another former CIA director, John Deutsch, and Robert Spencer the director, Jihad Watch. In 2006, the Summit was exposed for ties to the Russian mafia through the Summit’s long-time financier Russian Zionist oligarch Michael Cherney. Cherney has been repeatedly linked with Solntsevskaya.[34] In 2003, Cherney founded the Jerusalem Summit, attended by Richard Perle and Frank Gaffney, Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to Jack Sarfati, Woolsey was working with in 2001-2012 with remote-viewer Stephan Schwartz, who has links with the Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS).[35] Woolsey appears to be close to UFO cultist Joe Firmage, Catherine Austin Fitts, and John Petersen. They all belong with the Arlington Institute, non-profit think tank specializing in predictive modeling of future events, that is, futures studies.[36] Petersen was a naval flight officer in the United States Navy, and has worked at the National War College, the Institute for National Security Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. Fitts blew the whistle on the missing trillions at the Pentagon and collaborated with Michael Ruppert in exposing CIA drug trafficking.

Firmage also associated with John B. Alexander.[37] In 1999, Joe Firmage, quit USWeb, the US$2 billion company he co-founded, to promote what he says could be “the most important news event in 2000 years,” humanity’s potential rendezvous with extraterrestrials.[38] Firmage produced a 600-page manifesto entitled The Truth, posted on the Internet, which contained documents from a source he called the “Deep Throat of Cyberspace,” which he claimed may shed new light on UFOs and the Roswell incident, including what purport to be memos on the subject from President Truman and scientists Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer.[39]

The Aviary

John B. Alexander and C.B. Scott Jones are members of what is called “the Aviary,” a group of intelligence and Department of Defense officers and scientists involved MILABS operations—black operations by rogue military-intelligence units who are said to stalk, harass, terrorize, kidnap, drug, gang-rape and mind-rape innocent civilians, using hypnotic mind-control programming to implant a false post-hypnotic “memory” that the episode was an “alien abduction.”[40] Each member of the Aviary bears a bird’s name. Alexander, the leader, is “Penguin” while Jones is “Falcon” and Hal Puthoff is “Owl”. Others include Ron Pandolphi (“Pelican”), who is a PhD in physics and works at the Rocket and Missile section of the Office of the Deputy Director of Science and Technology, CIA.

Alexander wrote UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities, in which he reviews major events in UFO history, finding both facts and flaws: “The gulf between the public’s opinion of UFOs and what most scientists believe regarding them is cavernous.” During the 1980s, Alexander organized an interagency group to explore the evidence, with participants from the military, CIA, and aerospace industry examining classic cases, including Roswell; the Gulf Breeze, Fla., photos; and unexplained incidents occurring within the U.S. strategic defense systems (such as sightings by NORAD installations), plus claims of reverse engineering on captured crafts; the Phoenix Lights, which Arizona’s governor at the time admitted witnessing; and the documented radiation poisoning suffered by Betty Cash and Vicky Landrum after their reported 1980 encounter near Houston. Determining that UFOs, while real, are “beyond current comprehension,” he sees the extraterrestrial hypothesis as too narrow. UFOs remain an enigma, he concludes, since “every time we think we have an answer, new observations make the problem more complex.”

Alexander married alien abduction researcher Victoria Lacas, who worked in association with C.B. Scott Jones. She, Stubblebine and his wife Rima Laibow, who claims to be an abductee herself, toured Europe and the Soviet Union, where they have established a prodigious UFO/Psi network.[41] Jones held the position of what was termed the consultant in international relations for a while beginning in 1989 with MUTUAL UFO NETWORK (MUFON), one of the oldest and largest civilian UFO-investigative organizations in the United States.

Alexander is a member of the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), a privately financed research organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and operated from 1995 to 2004. It was founded in 1995 by real-estate developer Robert Bigelow, who set it up to research and advance serious study of various fringe science, and paranormal topics, most notably ufology. The group includes Alexander, his wife Victoria Alexander, Edgar Mitchell, Gordon Novel, Hal Puthoff, Bruce Maccabee, and airplane designer Burt Rutan. Some of the ufologists he has funded include Budd Hopkins, Bob Lazar, and Linda Moulton Howe, who is well known for her investigations of cattle mutilations, and her conclusion that they are of extraterrestrial origin. She is also noted for her speculations that the US government is involved with aliens.

Bigelow owns Skinwalker Ranch in northeastern Utah which is a focal point of scientific research into the paranormal. Called the “Strangest Place On Earth” due to its long history of strange and bizarre happenings.[42] The activity, as reported by hundreds of witnesses over several decades, includes UFOs, unusual balls of light, animal mutilations and disappearances, poltergeist events, sightings of Bigfoot-like creatures, living dinosaurs, and other unidentified animals, physical effects on plants, soil, animals and humans, strange ice circles, magnetic anomalies, and a vast array of other of anomalous phenomena. The area is also noted to have a Vortex or Portal where doorways to other realms or dimensions are seen as glowing tubes, and random holes or rips in the sky.

In 1974, the plant physiologist Frank Salisbury collected hundreds of UFO reports from residents in the Uintah basin region of Utah, which includes Skinwalker Ranch and a Ute reservation. According to Jeremy Corbell’s documentary, Hunt for the Skinwalker, Ute tribal members have recognized the paranormal phenomena occurring in the area for centuries. They characterize these events as the work of malevolent tricksters, similar to the ghostly “skinwalkers” of Navajo folklore.[43]

NIDS installed video cameras and other sensitive monitoring equipment, built new fencing and constructed observation posts manned with trained observers, in hopes of collecting evidence for scientific study. But to this day NIDS states publicly that none of the phenomenon occurring there has been recorded, even though the NIDS scientists have seen the reported phenomena. One NIDS scientist says, “It isn’t as simple as saying that ET’s or flying saucers are doing it. It’s some kind of consciousness, but it’s always something new and different, something non-repeatable. It’s reactive to people and equipment, and we set up the ranch to be a proving ground for the scientific method, but science doesn’t seem amenable to the solution of these kinds of problems.”[44]

Bigelow as a close friend Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who was the Senate majority leader from 2007 to 2015, and who has long had an interest in space phenomena. It was largely at the request of Harry Reid, that Defense Department gave $22 million to fund the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, founded in 2007.[45] It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, from the Pentagon. On January 16, 2019, the Defense Intelligence Agency released a list of 38 research titles pursued by the program in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. One such research topic, “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy,” was led by Eric W. Davis of EarthTech International Inc, which was founded by Hal Puthoff. Another project called “Invisibility Cloaking” was headed by German scientist Ulf Leonhardt, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Leonhardt’s research pertains to theoretical quantum optics, and in 2006 his work on theoretically creating “an invisible ‘hole’ in space, inside which objects can be hidden” was cited by Nature. Yet another title, “Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions,” was attributed to theoretical physicist Richard Obousy, director of the nonprofit Icarus Interstellar.[46] Project Icarus was launched in 2009 as a five-year theoretical design study for a fusion based starship.

The Aviary expanded to include almost anyone who supports or debunks UFO research that is in any way connected to the government, such as US Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) counterintelligence officer Richard C. Doty. One of their agents include a UFO researcher known as William Moore, who was introduced to John Alexander in 1987 by Scott Jones. Moore, a former Minnesota schoolteacher was the co-author of The Philadelphia Experiment and The Roswell Incident. In fact, Moore is credited with sparking popular interest in the now well-known Roswell incident.[47]

Moore confessed in front of an audience at a conference held by MUFON on July 1, 1989, in Las Vegas, how he was promised inside information by the senior members of the AVIARY in return for his obedience and service to them.[48] He admitted to have participated in the propagation and dissemination of disinformation fed to him by various members of the AVIARY. Three years later, in 1992, during an interview Moore informed the UFO community that he was still acting as a controlled informant.[49]

Moore also confessed how he was instructed to target one particular individual, an electronics expert, Dr. Paul Bennewitz, who had accumulated some UFO film footage and electronic signals which were taking place in 1980 over the Menzano Weapons Storage areas, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. As revealed by Greg Bishop in Project Beta, Doty gave Bennewitz the “Project Aquarius” Teletype, being the earliest mention of a hoax that came to be known as the notorious Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) documents. MJ-12 was the supposed code name of a secret committee of scientists and government officials formed in 1947 by an executive order of US President Harry S. Truman. The purpose of the committee was purportedly to investigate the recovery of a UFO north of Roswell in 1947. Later it was discovered the Aquarius document was phony and had been prepared by Doty.[50] As Greg Bishop writes:

Here, near the bottom of this wordy message in late 1980, was the very first time anyone had seen a reference to the idea of a suspected government group called ‘MJ Twelve’ that controlled UFO information. Of course, no one suspected at the time the colossal role that this idea would play in 1980s and ‘90s UFOlogy, and it eventually spread beyond its confines to become a cultural mainstay.[51]

What came to be known as the “MJ-12 papers” first appeared on a roll of film in late 1984 in the mailbox of television documentary producer Jaime Shandera, who had been collaborating with Moore since 1982. Moore had also been contacted by Doty in 1980, who described himself as representing a shadowy group of 10 military intelligence insiders who claimed to be opposed to the UFO “cover-up.” In January 1981, Doty provided Moore with a copy of the phony Aquarius document with mention of MJ Twelve. Sydney Sheldon’s 1991 bestseller, The Doomsday Conspiracy, which fed fears of a government UFO cover-up, and for which James Hurtak served as “technical consultant,” relied on the MJ-12 papers as supportive evidence.

The MJ-12 documents were popularized by Paul Bennewitz who, as covered in the documentary Mirage Men, was a tragic case of a “useful idiot” of American intelligence. Bennewitz was also involved in spreading the belief of reptilian aliens that had begun to gain popularity in the 1990s. Bennewitz apparently became convinced he had located a secret alien facility that he called Dulce Base, after intercepting what he thought were electronic communications originating from alien spacecraft located outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The notorious Dulce Base, alleged joint human and alien underground facility under Archuleta Mesa on the Colorado-New Mexico border near the town of Dulce, New Mexico, is also not far from Maurice Strong’s Baca ranch. The Colorado-New Mexico border region had emerged as one of the major sites for the cattle-mutilation stories then current in the West. As noted by Michael Barkun, author of A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, the area around Baca had already attracted the attention of people interested in the paranormal.

According to Bennewitz’s account, a treaty was brokered between the aliens and the US government, according to which the base was to be operated jointly by the aliens and the CIA. However, treaty violations on the part of the aliens led to open conflict. The aliens are of such power, however, that they cannot be removed. By 1982, Bennewitz had begun to spread his ideas about the Dulce base to others in the ufology community. Bennewitz wrote Project Beta in 1988, which was mostly concerned with how the base might be successfully attacked. In 1988, William F. Hamilton III and Jason Bishop III both visited Dulce and wrote extensively about the base. Hamilton described the aliens as “small humanoid beings [that] may belong to the class we know as Reptilia rather than Mammalia.” Bishop called them “descendent [sic] from a Reptilian Humanoid Specie.”[52] Thomas Edwin Costello, who claimed he had been a security guard at Dulce, called the aliens at Dulce “reptilian humanoids.”

Moore would later claim in 1989 that he began collaborating with AFOSI in spying on fellow researchers such as Bennewitz, and dispensing disinformation ostensibly to gain the trust of the military officers, but in reality to learn whatever truth he could glean about UFOs, and how the military manipulated UFO researchers. Moore claims that he tried to push Bennewitz, who had been in a mental health facility on three occasions after suffering severe delusional paranoia, into a mental breakdown by feeding him false information about aliens. Later it would turn out that some of the UFO documents given to Moore were forged by Doty and compatriots, or were retyped and altered from the originals.[53] As a result of Moore’s involvement, coupled with some surreptitious entries and psychological techniques, Bennewitz ended up in a psychiatric hospital.[54]

Ufologist Linda Moulton Howe was invited to Kirtland AFB by Doty in 1983. Howe is best known for her allegations that cattle are of extraterrestrial origin, and that the US government is involved with aliens. Howe had been working on a documentary on UFOs, and during her visit Doty showed her what he claimed were briefing documents prepared for the president of the United States and which discussed crashed saucers and recovered bodies of ETs, and promised movie footage would be provided. But when footage never appeared, Howe’s documentary was cancelled, which she now suspects was the intended purpose.[55]

In November 1987, Howe had a meeting with Captain Collins, which was also attended by John Lear, a former employee of the CIA front called Air America, the son of the famous inventor Bill Lear (the car radio, the Lear jet), and a candidate for the State Legislature in Nevada. Lear has also been a primary source for stories claiming that there are vast underground bases in the Southwest populated by aliens carrying out gruesome biological experiments on human beings, all with the approval of the US Government. At the meeting, Collins presented Howe and Lear with documents concerning MJ-12 and an alien held captive by the government. According to Howe’s affidavit, Collins spoke of having worked “behind the scenes” for many years with William Moore.[56]

Howe has supported the veracity of the famous fake video of an alien autopsy from the famous Roswell, which has reignited controversy since a “leaked memo” was allegedly sent to Bigelow from one of his physicists Eric Davis. The film was released in 1992 by British entrepreneur Ray Santilli, who claimed he obtained it from a retired US military cameraman while seeking archive footage of Elvis Presley in the US. Eventually, fellow film maker Spyros Melaris revealed in 2018 that they had actually faked the footage using animal organs and pig brains. The memo is believed to have been leaked from the archives of Edgar Mitchell.

According to the memo, after scientist Kit Green left the CIA, he was called into the Pentagon by a person in uniform who asked him to professionally evaluate the autopsy photos and reports. Green apparently confirmed the cadaver was real, and revealed that alien forensic tissue and organs were being stored at Walter Reed-Armed Forces Institute for Pathology Medical Museum in Washington DC. However British UFO investigator Philip Mantle, who has probed the footage for fourteen years, has branded it the “world’s largest hoax.” Mantle points out that Santilli film was not made or conceived until 1995, and therefore Green could not have seen what he claimed to have seen in the memo.[57]

Coast to Coast AM

Disclosure Project

C.B. Scott Jones of the Human Potential Foundation often escorted Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, Knight of the Golden Fleece, the reigning prince of Liechtenstein and the richest monarch in Europe. His second cousin was Prince Vincenz of Liechtenstein, nephew of Otto von Habsburg, who together with Otto’s son and successor, Karl von Habsburg were significantly involved in 2008 in the reorganization of the Ancient Order of St. George, a dynastic order of chivalry of the House of Habsburg. Hans-Adam II is also a member of the 1001 Club, founded in 1971 by Anton Rupert, Prince Philip, and ex-SS officer Bilderberg founder Prince Bernhard, to cover the administrative and fundraising aspects of the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), established in 1948 by Bernhard and Julian Huxley. The list sordid characters associated with the 1001 Club have included Mobutu Sese Seko, Nelson Bunker Hunt, Permindex-founder Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, Bin Lande’s half-brother Salem Bin Laden, and BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, and Juan Carlos of Spain.[58]

Hans-Adam II has a longstanding interest in the paranormal and was a close friend of Senator Pell. Together, they visited parapsychological laboratories and UFO conferences. The personality magazine Special Report described the Prince as “Heir to the last remnant of the Holy Roman Empire.”[59] Prince Hans-Adam owns LGT banking group and has a family fortune of $7.6 billion and a personal fortune of about $4.0 billion, making him one of the world’s richest heads of state, and Europe’s wealthiest monarch.[60]

Ufologist Steven Greer claims to have been in contact with Prince Hans-Adam, who revealed to him a supposed extraterrestrial disclosure plan being negotiated in 1989 at the United Nations. Greer is an American retired medical doctor who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project, which seeks the disclosure of supposedly suppressed UFO information.

Greer’s Disclosure Project also received the support of Laurance Rockefeller. According to newly leaked emails disclosed by WikiLeaks, John D. Podesta, who served as a top adviser to Obama and President Bill Clinton, wanted to arrange a meeting between Hillary Clinton and Mitchell regarding extraterrestrial disclosure. When Hillary started talking openly about UFOs and government disclosure during her 2016 campaign, some activists traced the remarks back to the 1995 meeting with Laurance. In 1995, when she was photographed visiting Rockefeller in Jackson Hole, she had tucked under her arm a copy of Are We Alone?: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life, by Paul Davies. Before that meeting, John H. Gibbons, the former director of the White House Office’s of Science and Technology Policy, had warned her about Rockefeller, who had spent years pressuring the government to release files relating to a 1947 crash near Roswell, that had become the source of theories about a cover-up of an alien spaceship. He will “want to talk to you about his interest in extrasensory perception, paranormal phenomena and UFOs,” Mr. Gibbons wrote.[61]

Hillary Clinton has vowed that barring any threats to national security, she would open up government files on the subject of extraterrestrials, a shift from President Obama.[62] “The time to pull back the curtain on the topic is long overdue,” Podesta wrote in his foreword for the 2010 book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record, by investigative journalist Leslie Kean. According to newly leaked emails disclosed by WikiLeaks, Podesta wanted to arrange a meeting between Clinton and IONS founder Edgar Mitchell regarding extraterrestrial disclosure. “Remember,” Mitchell wrote to Podesta, “Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero-point energy to Earth. They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.” Mitchell asked for “a conversation with you and President Obama regarding the next steps in extraterrestrial disclosure for the benefit of our country and our planet.”[63]

Laurance Rockefeller became interested in UFOs in later life. In 1993, along with his niece, Anne Bartley, the stepdaughter of Winthrop Rockefeller and the then-president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, he established the UFO Disclosure Initiative to the Clinton White House. They asked for all UFO information held by the government, including from the CIA and the US Air Force, to be declassified and released to the public. The first and most important test case where declassification had to apply, according to Rockefeller, was the Roswell UFO incident. In September 1994, the Air Force categorically denied the incident was UFO-related. Rockefeller briefed Clinton on the results of his initiative in 1995. Clinton did produce an Executive Order in late 1994 to declassify numerous documents in the National Archives, but this did not specifically refer to UFO-related files.

According to Greer, Prince Hans-Adam was participating in the high-level negotiations involving Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, along with other world leaders who were meeting with Perez de Cuellar. However, before they could conclude their plan, de Cuellar was abducted by aliens, who threatened that if they persisted in their disclosure plan, they would abduct every world leader involved, including the President of the United States.

However, Greer went on to explain that the event was actually a staged abduction. It involved highly classified corporate programs using bioengineered “Programmed Life Forms” (PLFs) designed to look like real extraterrestrials. He explained that the PLFs, which he called “aliens” as opposed to genuine extraterrestrials, were used in many thousands of false flag abduction events to fool the world into believing we were facing an extraterrestrial threat. The PLFs would implant abductees with tracking chips so they could easily be abducted in the future by the corporations involved. According to Greer, extraterrestrials are not involved in abductions or other actions hostile to human beings. Instead, he claims, hostile acts are indicative of a false flag events staged by rogue classified programs run by transnational corporations in cooperation with elements of military-intelligence community of the world’s leading nations.

To support his claims, Greer supplied documents confirming his communications with Prince Hans-Adam, whom he apparently met in New York in July 1994. The letters show that Hans-Adam had agreed with Greer’s analysis of the role of transnational corporations in managing the UFO phenomenon, but contrary to Greer, thought that he had little chance of success in his disclosure efforts. Greer further supplied a document from the Strategic Studies Institute located inside the US Army War College, which detailed an elaborate psychological warfare plan to deceive the world about extraterrestrial life by staging false flag alien abductions.

Another source of Greer’s claims is the abductee researcher Bob Hoskins, a very close associate of Prince Hans Adam von Liechtenstein. Hopkins was also closely associated with Laibow who also claimed to be an abductee. According to Greer, there is a worldwide control group of about 200 to 300 members who are suppressing knowledge of extraterrestrial technologies. Greer also mentions reports of satanic initiations among this group. Their aim is to establish a one-world government and to reduce the world’s population to a fraction of its current size. Supposedly, there is a plan in place to stage an alien threat on the earth with so-called “alien reproduction vehicles” (ARVs) manned by PLFs.

Christic Institute

Serving as General Counsel to the Disclosure Project was famed civil rights lawyer Daniel Sheehan. Many of the details about Shackley’s secret team were revealed in a $24 million civil suit filed in 1986, the Christic Institute, founded by Daniel Sheehan. After obtaining his law degree from Harvard in 1970, Sheehan was recruited by the Wall Street law firm of Wall Street, the law firm of Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Reindel & Ohl. Sheehan’s most well-known case was the Pentagon Papers’ landmark First Amendment case of New York Times, Co. v. U.S. where he served as Co-Counsel, before the United States Supreme Court. He was also a member of F. Lee Bailey’s law firm, which represented Watergate burglar James McCord at the time he wrote his famous letter to Judge John Sirica, which revealed the existence of the infamous “Plumbers Unit.”

Sheehan also served as pro bono Associate Counsel for the New York Black Panther Party when they were accused of a bombing conspiracy. In 1973, Sheehan served as the Chief Trail Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and to become Amicus Curiae Counsel for the American Indian Movement (AIM) during The Wounded Knee Occupation Cases. During his tenure with the ACLU, Sheehan litigated several important First Amendment cases, including: In successfully defending Last Tango in Paris against obscenity and overturning a decision by the school district in Drake, North Dakota that banned and burned the Kurt Vonnegut novel Slaughterhouse Five.

In 1975, Sheehan was recruited General Counsel to the United States Jesuit Order’s National Office of Social Ministry in Washington, D.C., where he partnered with Father William Davis, who introduced him to and connected him with leaders of the country’s religious and progressive movements. There, Dan served as Legal Counsel for Fathers Daniel and Phillip Berrigan, Dick Gregory, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Dr. Ralph David Abernathy among many others.

In 1977, Dan was contacted by leaders of the National Organization for Women (NOW), seeking to bring attention to the death of Karen Silkwood. In 1980, Sheehan, his wife Sara Nelson, and their partner, William J. Davis, founded the Christic Institute, based on the ecumenical teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and on the lessons they learned from their experience in the Silkwood case. The Christic Institute’s 1986 lawsuit named thirty Iran-Contra figures as defendants, including John F. Hull, Ted Shackley, Thomas G. Clines, Richard V. Secord, John K. Singlaub, Robert W. Owen, Rafael Quintero, Albert Hakim, Adolfo Calero, Pablo Escobar, Jorge Ochoa and eighteen others as major figures in a racketeering network involved in assassinations, as well as arms and drug trafficking. In 1988, Judge James L. King ruled that Sheehan’s allegations were “based on unsubstantiated rumor and speculation from unidentified sources with no firsthand knowledge.”[64] In February, 1989, Judge King ruled that Sheenan had brought a frivolous lawsuit and ordered his Christic Institute to pay the defendants $955,000. This was one of the highest sanction orders in history and represented four times the total assets of the Christic Institute.

An anonymous article for The Journal of Defense and Diplomacy, which was assumed to have been was written by Ted Shackley, suggested that Christic Institute was under the control of the Soviet Union, and claimed: “This attack is part of a long-range plan to weaken the entire U.S. intelligence community.” [70] In her book, Legal Terrorism: The Truth About the Christic Institute, Susan Huck repeated the attack and claimed that the Sheenan lawsuit had advanced “Soviet interests” and that the Christic Institute had been devoted to “weakening the United States and supporting our enemies.” This was as a result of Shackley’s “record of thwarting Moscow and Havana for three decades.” [71] In 1995, the Christic Institute moved to Los Angeles and Mikhail Gorbachev appointed Sheehan as director of the Strategic Initiative to Identify the New Global Paradigm. One of Sheehan’s tasks was “to try to identify the new principles of a new paradigm that would replace anti-Communism and anti-capitalism as the primary new organizing principle for major global institutions after the Cold War.” [72]

In 2001, Greer and Sheehan serving as General Counsel to the Disclosure Project, coordinated the sworn testimony before members of the United States Congress of former U.S. Military Officers, Federal Aviation Administration officials, and NASA employees, attesting to direct personal knowledge of Government information concerning the UFO phenomenon and the potential existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Sheehan also served as General Counsel to the Institute for Cooperation in Space, a US citizens group dedicated to banning space-based weapons and the development of any weapons intended for offensive use against potential extraterrestrial civilizations. He has also presented, on multiple occasions, a talk on the Philosophical and Theological Implications of the Human Discovery of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence at the International UFO Congress.

Alien Abductions

Laurance Rockefeller funded the research of Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. John E. Mack, author of Passport to the Cosmos. Mack was a professor at Harvard Medical School, a Pulitzer Prize-winning winner for the biography of T. E. Lawrence, and a leading authority on the spiritual or transformational effects of alien abduction experiences. As pointed out by Alex Constantine, less well-known is Mack’s “deep background in psychoanalyzing fear and trauma in children, leadership in political organizations with CIA ties, an obsession with Werner Erhard’s mind control techniques, and a $200,000 donation from Rockefeller, channeled through C.B. Scott Jones’s Human Potential Foundation to fund his therapeutic work with ‘alien’ abductees.”[69]

Mack remains probably the most esteemed academic to have studied the subject. The BBC quoted Mack as saying, “I would never say, yes, there are aliens taking people. [But] I would say there is a compelling powerful phenomenon here that I can’t account for in any other way, that’s mysterious. Yet I can’t know what it is but it seems to me that it invites a deeper, further inquiry.”[70] Mack suggested that abduction accounts might best be understood as part of the worldwide history of visionary experiences. One example being the vision quest common to some Native American cultures. Only fairly recently in Western culture, notes Mack, have such visionary events been interpreted as aberrations or as mental illness.

Mack’s theory set him apart from many of his contemporaries, such as Budd Hopkins, a member of Bigelow’s NIDS, who advocated the physical reality of aliens. It is Hopkins who is often credited with popularizing the idea of alien abductions as genetic experimentation, through the publication of his book Intruders.[71] Training programs, begun in 1992 with the leadership and support of Bigelow, were organized in various American cities by Budd Hopkins, John Carpenter and David Jacobs, to familiarize many mental health professionals with their claims about alien abduction.[72] Hopkins organized the 1992 Abduction Study Conference along with professors David Jacobs and John Mack held at MIT. The conference was intended to show the world that the case for UFO abductions was real. It was at this conference that the Linda Cortile case, supposedly involving Perez de Cuellar, was first announced to the press and the scientific world.

The Cortile case, later published as Hopkins’ book Witnessed: the True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions, focused on a woman who was allegedly drawn out of her twelfth story window in Lower Manhattan and lifted up into a brightly lit UFO at 3:00 AM, November 30, 1989, something Hopkins called “the most important” UFO-abduction case of the century.[73] Hopkins based much of his evidence on letters sent to him by two key witnesses: aliases “Richard” and “Dan”. The two men were, initially, thought to be police officers, but inquiries at the local police department revealed no such officers. Richard and Dan later said they were not police officers, but security/intelligence agents. Hopkins admitted to having never met the men in person. Attempts made by parapsychologist George Hansen, MUFON’s state director for New Jersey, Joseph J. Stefula, and former Air Force Security Police, Richard Butler, were unsuccessful in locating the two witnesses. This lead them to conclude that no hard evidence was available to confirm the men existed. Another key witness, addressed in the story by Hopkins as the “Third Man,” was later identified as former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Javier Perez du f, who denied having anything to do with the alleged incident.[74]

Critics also asked the obvious question: how could such an event go almost entirely unnoticed in the middle of a busy city, especially since the incident supposedly took place on the highly trafficked area such as the Brooklyn Bridge.[75] Hopkins proffered the excuse that the aliens either used their “power” to make themselves selectively invisible or selectively “switched off” the consciousness of witnesses.[76]

The truth is, these incidents were only recalled through hypnosis. However, Hopkins gave little validity to expert opinion such as that of psychologist Robert A. Baker, of the University of Kentucky, whose studies revealed that hypnosis can “transform a dream, a hallucination or fantasy into a seemingly-real event.”[77] This is known as the fabrication of spurious memories and is particularly common under hypnosis.[78] The idea of repressed memories has, largely, been dismissed by the scientific community. Psychological research demonstrates that, rather than forgetting what has happened in a traumatic event, most people find they are unable to stop thinking about it. [79] What concerns critics is that the details of UFO abduction stories, such as the ones Hopkins describes in his work, usually occur only after consultation with some sort of UFO investigator who already has an inclination to believe in alien abduction scenarios. According to Baker, “These people are literally talked into believing they’ve been abducted.”[80]

That is precisely what was eventually revealed by one of David Jacobs’ subjects Emma Woods, who between December 2004 and February 2007 was subjected to ninety-one hypnosis sessions by phone. Woods recorded these conversations, which she found to be “increasingly bizarre and psychologically abusive.” According to Hopkins’ ex-wife Carol Rainey, listening to these recordings confirmed many of her suspicions and concerns. She remarked:

It will also become clear that what Hopkins and Jacobs claim as “the powerful evidence” for alien abductions and hybrids among us is based primarily on the powerful, hypnotic repetition of their own proclamations - and the public’s gullibility in believing whatever unfounded theories these star paranormal investigators punt down the field.[81]

Jacobs diagnosed Woods with MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) and prescribed medication, despite the fact that having a PhD in history didn’t qualify him to do so. Throughout their sessions, Jacobs manipulated Woods to confess to various sordid and violent sexual encounters with a human/alien hybrid. In one session he requested, following such a supposed encounter, that she send him her panties, unwashed, so they could be tested for alien sperm. He repeatedly commanded her to do so “without even thinking about it,” to serve as an attempted post-hypnotic amnesia block to prevent me from remembering it. Commenting that it would contribute to “no fuss, no muss.” Additionally, he suggested to her that she wear a chastity belt with nails across the vaginal opening, and offered to purchase one for her, in his own words, from “a sex shop that specialized in bondage/dominance, a place that I frequented quite often.”[82]

Coast to Coast AM

Starting in 1997, Col. John B. Alexander became a key figure on Coast to Coast AM, the radio program hosted by Art Bell, which became widely popular for its discussion of the conspiracies, paranormal and UFOs. According to The Washington Post in its February 23, 1997, edition, Bell was at the time America’s highest-rated late-night radio talk show host, broadcast on 328 stations. According to The Oregonian in its June 22 edition of the same year, Coast to Coast AM with Bell was on 460 stations. At its initial peak in popularity, Coast to Coast AM was syndicated on more than 500 radio stations and claimed 15 million listeners nightly.

Since 1998, Coast to Coast AM has been controlled by Clear Channel Communications, founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs. Mays was a major financier of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation, presided by Brent Scowcroft. McCombs, in March 2011, together with Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a former deputy director of the CIA and head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and the NSA, as well as John Ashcroft, took over Erik Prince’s Blackwater. McCombs succeeded Prince as chairman.[83]

The show featured the pantheon of denizens of Project Stargate, including Ed Dames, Richard C. Hoagland, Terence McKenna, Graham Hancock, Zecharia Sitchin, Dannion Brinkley, David John Oates, and Robert Bigelow. Philip Corso appeared with Alexander in 1997. Other guests associated with the CNP and John Birch Society include G. Edward Griffin, Charles R. Smith, CNP member Jerome Corsi, Jeffrey NyQuist, Joel Skousen, Malachi Martin, Father Nicholas Gruner and William Jasper. Gruner denounced the “New World Order” and its New Age “one-world religion.” Gruner has appeared in at least one John Birch Society film. Rama Coomaraswamy was invited in 2006. John Loftus was invited in 2005 and 2012. Catherine Austin Fitts has appeared dozens of times on the show. Frequent guests included Robert and Ryan Wood, whose research on MJ-12 documents was financed by Joe Firmage.[84] Well-known JFK researcher Mark Lane, who became involved in the Liberty Lobby. In 1978, Lane was evacuated from the Jonestown cult premises, along with CIA agent Richard Dwyer, just before the mass suicide began.[85] Dan Aykroyd was also a guest.

Beginning in late 1996, Bell was criticized for reporting rumors that Comet Hale-Bopp was being trailed by a UFO. It was speculated that members of the Heaven’s Gate group committed mass suicide based on rumors Bell aired. Heaven’s Gate was among a number of millenarian cults characterized as “UFO Religions,” which also included the Solar Temple. The founders, who were influenced by a combination of Theosophy and science fiction, believed themselves to be the “two witnesses” of the Book of Revelations. Members reportedly believed themselves to be aliens, awaiting a spaceship that would arrive with Comet Hale-Bopp. But others dismissed the idea, noting that the Heaven’s Gate website stated: “Whether Hale-Bopp has a ‘companion’ or not is irrelevant from our perspective.”[86] Susan Wright reported, however, that Bell was also “one of the first to publicize expert opinions refuting the ‘alien’ companion” said to have been shadowing Hale-Bopp.[87]

Remote viewer Courtney Brown was interviewed on his show and claimed that three “remote viewers” associated with his institute determined it to be a metallic object full of aliens.[88] Tragically, on March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of, Heaven’s Gate, an American UFO religious group based in San Diego, California, had committed mass suicide in order to reach the purported alien space craft following the comet. Courtney Brown, PhD founded the Farsight Institute in 1995. He was trained in remote-viewing by Ed Dames, who in turn was trained by Ingo Swann. Dames claimed to have been the operations and training officer for INSCOM’s remote-viewing program starting around late 1983. He also took courses at the Monroe Institute and was the founder of Psi-Tech. His book details his psychic conversations with aliens, and repeats allegations similar to those made by Dames, Ingo Swann, Joe McMoneagle, and others.

Face on Mars

Dr. Richard Hoagland bills himself a former NASA consultant and CBS News advisor. In 1971, it was Hoagland who came up with the idea he passed on the Carl Sagan, of equipping the Pioneer 100, the first space probe to leave the solar system, with a plaque bearing symbolic information about human civilization, and a diagram indicating the Earth as the third planet from the Sun. He was also instrumental in the campaign to name the first space shuttle “Enterprise,” inspired by his friend Gene Roddenbery, creator of Star Trek.

In 1983, Hoagland was working for SRI on a project concerning the rings of Saturn, and while studying photos from the Viking archive, found what he believed to be a pyramid complex near the “face” on Mars, in the Cydonia region. The “face” on Mars refers to an unusual photograph taken by Viking 1 probe in 1976 when in Mars’ orbit. Hoagland’s writings claim “the Face on Mars” is part of a city built on Cydonia Planitia consisting of very large pyramids and mounds arranged in a geometric pattern, which must be trying to “tell us something.” According to Hoagland:

For it is now clear… that, if appropriately researched and applied to many current global problems, the potential “radical technologies” that might be developed from the “Message of Cydonia” could significantly assist the world in a dramatic transition to a real “new world order”… if not a literal New World.[89]

The myth of alien-constructed structures on Mars was first proposed by James Hurtak. The American and European Director of Operations for Hoagland’s Mars Mission were, respectively, David Myers and David Percy, important promoters of the myth of alien-constructed structures on Mars first proposed by Hurtak. According to Uri Geller, the Face on Mars had been discovered by remote viewing in the early 1970s.[90] In fact, Hoagland’s interpretation of the “monuments” of Mars comes directly from The Nine.

Myers is another channeler of The Nine, also in contact with “Tom.” Myers is co-author with Percy of Two-Thirds, a history of the galaxy and the human race according to Myers’ other-worldly contacts. Percy touts himself as an award-winning film and television producer, member of the Royal Photographic Society, and is best known as a champion of the “Face on Mars” and the moon-landing hoax theory. He was involved in the making of two Moon Hoax movies, Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers and What Happened On the Moon?

Hoagland described his theories in The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever, and co-authored the book Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, a New York Times Best Seller. Hoagland claims that advanced civilizations exist or once existed on the Moon, Mars and on some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and that NASA and the United States government have conspired to keep these facts secret as explained in the “the Brookings Report.” Among Hoagland’s other claims are that the US government has covered up the presence of extraterrestrials, that the Space Agency murdered the Apollo 1 astronauts, that NASA missions to Mars are a “well documented interest of the Bush family,”[91] and that there is a clandestine space program which uses antigravity technology reverse-engineered from lunar artifacts and communicated by secret societies. He goes on to say that NASA is suppressing knowledge of an ancient civilization on the Moon, and that the advanced technology of this civilization is lying around on the Moon’s surface.[92]

Hoagland’s connection to the Bush administration was Dr. George A. Keyworth, former science advisor to Ronald Reagan, who had apparently been advising him on various background matters pertaining to NASA’s supposed cover-up of artificial structures on Mars. Keyworth later became one of the most vocal proponents of Reagan’s SDI or “Star Wars” initiative. Prior to being appointed presidential science advisor in May 1981, Keyworth was P-Division (Physics) Leader at Los Alamos National. According to his own biography, Keyworth led the laboratory’s programs in experimental physics, condensed matter research, astrophysics and space science and laser fusion. He also oversaw the diagnostic program of underground nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site as well as programs for satellite-based verification of compliance with nuclear test treaties. Keyworth has served on the board of directors of various companies including Hewlett Packard and participating in a Washington DC think tank the Progress and Freedom Foundation. In 1983, then at SRI, Hoagland made overtures to Keyworth in order to secure funding for further research from the President’s Fund, a discretionary source under the direct control of the President.[93]

On behalf of Keyworth, Hoagland is an agent of influence for the Center for Security Policy (CSP), which serves as the de facto nerve center of the missile defense lobby.[94] According to John C. Haich, the CSP used Hoagland and his “Enterprise Mission” to bolster public interest in Mars exploration in order to apply pressure to President Bush to support a significant increase in funding for the space program under the auspices of Project Prometheus. The goal of Project Prometheus is the development of enabling technologies for the military control of space under the cover of peaceful space exploration. The program had the backing of Vice President Dick Cheney and NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe.[95]

Inner Traditions

When Hoagland decided to set up a project to study the features further, he approached the Institute for the Study of Consciousness, founded by Arthur M. Young, who introduced him to Lambert Dolphin Jr., who had headed the SRI expedition to Giza in the 1970s. Dolphin is an evangelical Christian fundamentalist, who at the same time he was leading the Giza expedition was also helping Jewish fundamentalists search the original foundations for the purpose of rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem. Hoagland and Dolphin formed the Independent Mars Mission, with funding from SRI.

All related to the communications from The Nine, and the research of the SRI and Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) at Giza in Egypt, these authors are characterized by Picknett and Prince, in Stargate Conspiracy, as part of a conspiracy for the “manipulation of beliefs about the origins and history of human civilization, in particular of beliefs about the existence of an advanced civilization in the ancient past and its influence on the earliest known historical civilizations, primarily that of Egypt.”[96] Expressed through a number of popular pseudo-scientific non-fiction works of a field known as “Alternative Egyptology,” the best-known names in this conspiracy are Robert Temple, John Anthony West, Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock, whose works have been instrumental in arousing interest in the “mysteries” of ancient Egypt.

One of the most influential books written about the mysteries of Egypt is Robert K. G. Temple’s 1976 book, The Sirius Mystery, published by Inner Traditions, which publishes books related to New Age spiritualism and esotericism, mysticism, neoshamanism, astrology, the perennial philosophy, visionary art, Earth mysteries, sacred sexuality and alternative medicine. Inner Traditions was founded in 1975 by Ehud C. Sperling, due to his interest in Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz, the synarchist founder of Les Veilleurs, to which belonged Rudolf Hess. Schwaller de Lubicz was also a member of the group students of the alchemist Fulcanelli, known as the Brotherhood of Heliopolis, along with Jean-Julien Champagne, Jules Boucher and Eugène Canseliet, a member of the Polaires Brotherhood. Boucher was initiated Traditionalist Martinist Order (OMT) in 1942 by Robert Ambelain, the International Grand Master of Memphis-Mizraim, who also inspired the authors of the Holy Blood Holy Grail. Schwaller de Lubicz was also a friend of Jean Cocteau, a purported Grand Master of the Priory of Sion.

It was while working at Weiser Books occult bookshop in New York that Ehud became very interested in the works of Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz. At Weiser’s, Sperling met André VandenBroeck, at that time the only living student of de Lubicz a friendship and collaboration that resulted in the publication of de Lubicz’s opus, The Temple of Man, in 1998. VandenBroeck asked Ehud to leave Weiser’s and join the publishing venture of his friend Maurice Girodias, the founder of the synarchist Olympia Press. Within a year, Ehud had published Pyramid Power, his first international bestseller. However, he decided to leave Olympia Press and start his own publishing company, Inner Traditions.

Almost as soon as the offices were open, Sperling was approached by Bantam Books, Warner Books, Simon and Schuster, and other major New York publishing houses to do his publishing program with them. Inner Traditions became the leading publisher in the study of entheogens and neoshamanism, with titles like Plants of the Gods by Richard Evans Schultes. Inner Traditions has also published The Rebirth of Nature by Rupert Sheldrake and Science and the Akashic Field by Ervin Laszlo, a member of Willis Harman’s “Changing Images of Man” project at SRI and founder of the Club of Budapest. On Christmas day 1998, Universal Studios released the movie Patch Adams starring Robin Williams, and based on the Inner Traditions nonfiction title Gesundheit by Patch Adams, M.D. After taking over the editorial role at Bear & Company, Inner Traditions began publishing the original works of Zecharia Sitchin. Under Inner Traditions, Bear & Company’s founder, astrologer Barbara Hand Clow, published The Mayan Code, one of their top titles. Dan Brown came across Bear & Company’s author Margaret Starbird and her Woman with the Alabaster Jar and Goddess in the Gospels, which he included a discussion by the characters in The Da Vinci Code, after which the books became bestsellers. Inner Traditions has also published several of Evola’s books, including the volumes of Introduction of Magic, which include magical rituals collected by Evola and the Ur Group. In 2018, Inner Traditions was joined by Earthdancer Books, an imprint of Findhorn Press, a branch of the Findhorn Foundation spiritual community, that included New Age guru David Spangler.[97]

Temple’s The Sirius Mystery attracted the attention of the CIA, MI5 and the Freemasons. Temple was approached by Charles E. Webber, 33rd degree Scottish Rite and an old friend of his family and Mason, who had been high-ranking generations for generations, and asked him to join the Masons, in order to be able to discuss the book without divulging the order’s secrets. Webber told Temple:

We are very interested in your book The Sirius Mystery. We realize you have written this book without any knowledge of the traditions of Masonry, and you may not be aware of this, but you have made some discoveries which relate to the most central traditions at a high level, including some things that none of us ever knew.[98]

The Sirius Mystery presents the hypothesis that the Dogon people of Mali in west Africa preserve a tradition of contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings from the Sirius star-system. Temple’s attention was first drawn to the mythology of the Dogon by Arthur M. Young, who with Puharich and others had been one of those present at the first contact with the Nine in 1952. Young introduced Temple to the subject of the Dogon through a French book called Le Renard pale, which he in turn received from Harry Everett Smith. Known as a surrealist filmmaker, Smith was a member of the OTO and claimed that Aleister Crowley was “probably” his biological father, and frequented Weiser Books.[99] Harry Everett Smith—who was consecrated a bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC), the ecclesiastical arm of the OTO, in 1986—has associated with William Breeze (Hymenaeus Beta), who succeeded Grady McMurtry as head of the OTO, as well as with Kenneth Anger, James Wasserman and other employees of Weiser Books. Smith was a mentor to Anger, who referred to him frequently as “the greatest living magician.”[100] Known for experimenting heavily in hallucinogenic drugs, Smith became a hero of the Beat generation of the 50s and the Hippies of the 60s, and in the last years of his life was financed by the Grateful Dead. He produced the Folkways anthology, which became an important influence for such artists as Bob Dylan and received a Grammy in 1991 for his contribution to the music industry. In 1985, when Inner Traditions celebrated its 10th anniversary at Green’s restaurant in San Francisco, the event was hosted by Smith.

Ancient Aliens

One of the many recurring themes in several of Graham Hancock’s works has been an exposition on the “Orion Correlation Theory” (or OCT). It was the subject of a bestseller, The Orion Mystery by Robert Bauval, as well as a BBC documentary, The Great Pyramid: Gateway to the Stars in 1994. The OCT proposes that the layout and formation of the pyramids of Giza correspond to the stars in the constellation of Orion. This is taken as evidence by the authors of advanced knowledge of the stars, which could indicate the extra-terrestrial origins of its builders.

A leading proponent of the hypothesis was Zecheriah Sitchin. According to his interpretation of Mesopotamian iconography and symbology, outlined in his 1976 book The 12th Planet and its sequels, Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he equates with the Nephilim of Genesis, and which he asserts were a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru. The Sumerian myth of the Annunaki is recognized by scholars as being connected to the story of the Anakim, or Sons of God of the Bible. According to Sitchin, 50 Anunnaki came to Earth approximately 400,000 years ago with the intent of mining raw materials, especially gold, for transport back to Nibiru. To assist them in their efforts, they genetically engineered slaves to work the mines, creating homo sapiens, the “Adapa” (Archetypal Man) or Adam of occult theology. Sitchin further claimed the Anunnaki were active in human affairs until their culture was destroyed by global catastrophes caused by the abrupt end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago. Seeing that humans survived and all they had built was destroyed, the Anunnaki left Earth after giving humans the opportunity and means to govern themselves.

Popularized by the works of Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin, these theories fall into a category of pseudohistory known as Mayanism, derived originally from Freemasonry and Theosophy. Notions about extraterrestrial influence on the Maya can be traced to the book Chariots of the Gods? by von Däniken, whose “ancient astronaut” theories were in turn influenced by the work of Peter Kolosimo (1922 – 1984) and especially Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, the authors of The Morning of the Magicians. Von Däniken’s editor was Wilhelm Roggersdorf,  pseudonym for Utz Utermann (1912 – 1991), who had been a Nazi bestselling author. Utermann had been chief editor of the Reich Youth Leadership was responsible for the youth magazines of the Hitler Youth and published several books in the Nazi party’s Eher-Verlag, previously owned by Thule Society founder Rudolf von Sebottendorf, and publisher of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.[101] Utermann was also the editor of the Völkischer Beobachter, originally the Münchener Beobachter, acquired by the Thule Society 1918.

Von Däniken claims that ancient iconography and structures throughout the world, like the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and the heads of Easter Island, are evidence of advanced technology from extraterrestrials. To support his theory, he makes mention of the chariot of Ezekiel and the “wheel inside a wheel” as referring to a spacecraft. To acquire an understanding of von Däniken’s sources, we can consider that in his 1970 follow-up to Chariots of the Gods he writes of Blavatsky’s Book of Dzyan, which he describes, much as H. P. Lovecraft did, as “older than the earth,” and claimed that chosen people who simply touch the book will receive visions of what it describes, through “rhythmically transmitted impulses.”[102]

The book that launched Hancock’s career as a bestseller was The Sign and the Seal (1992), where, following clues found in the Bible, the Grail epic of Eschenbach and the Knights Templar, he traces the location of the Ark of the Covenant from its supposed source in ancient Egypt, to Jerusalem, and from there to its final resting place in Ethiopia. In Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), without stating so explicitly, Hancock attempts to prove the historical accounts of Theosophy, by attempting to prove that a universal cataclysm took place, presumably the sinking of Atlantis, and that numerous cultures of the ancient world report the occurrence of “white gods” who taught them the arts of civilization, the proof of which are the various enigmatic monuments around the world.

One of Hancock’s central pieces of evidence is that Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562 – 1624) asserted that the Aztec serpent-god Quetzalcoatl was “a fair and ruddy complexioned man with a long beard.” Misleadingly, what Hancock fails to reveal is that Torquemada and other Franciscan historians like him, including Gerónimo de Mendieta (1525 – 1604) and Motolinia (1482 – 1565), were inspired by the millennial ideas of Joachim of Fiore to imagine the Mesoamericans as descendants of Jews, of Quetzalcoatl as their expected messiah, and to have been evangelized by the apostle Saint Thomas, who according to legend had “gone to preach beyond the Ganges.”[103]

The works of Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Charles Hapgood, and Edgar Cayce, as well as the ancient astronaut theorists Sitchin and von Däniken are also referenced in many episodes of the History Channel documentary called “Ancient Aliens.” Von Däniken was convicted of several financial crimes including fraud shortly after publication of his first book, but later became a co-founder of the Archaeology, Astronautics and SETI Research Association (AAS RA), which produces the Legendary Times magazine, published by Giorgio Tsoukalos, the Consulting Producer for the “Ancient Aliens” series. In an episode titled “The Satan Conspiracy,” the show claimed that the Ancient Aliens are the Fallen Angels, who corrupted the human genome and embarked on a diabolical plot to control the world, but insist that their leader Satan is a benefactor, a Promethean figure sharing his wisdom with humanity.

A show on Gaia TV called Ancient Civilizations, featuring Hancock, Robert Bauval, Linda Moulton Howe and other Ancient Aliens talking heads, follows a similar premise. In an episode titled “Searching for the Garden of Eden,” French author Anton Parks, who claims to have discovered the “true” translation of most ancient texts, offers a theory close to Sitchin’s, that the “good” Sumerian god, Enki, was a Reptilian alien who was recalled in the Bible as the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. In other words, Satan is a “friend” of man. Parks goes on to surmise that the Jews made a “deliberate choice” to worship the evil Sumerian god Enlil over the friendly serpent Enki. As Hancock explained in the same episode, “That entity that we have been taught to call god and to worship is no such thing.” After noting on Twitter that his words had caused “some offence,” Hancock defended himself by saying, “I do absolutely stand by my own words.”[104]

Hancock has since updated his Ancient Aliens hypothesis by marrying it with the entheogen thesis, by suggesting that “supernatural” entities such as aliens and fairies are actually transdimensional beings encountered by human beings under altered states of consciousness, most likely achieved by ingesting psilocybin mushrooms or ayahuasca. It was through such “contact,” he proposes, that early human civilizations learned advanced skills from their encounters with these beings. In 1998 Graham Hancock wrote The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet, supporting the views of Richard Hoagland on Cydonia and the idea that there once existed an advanced human civilization on Mars.

Magic 12

Schwaller de Lubicz argued that Egyptian civilization is much older than conventional Egyptologists have suggested, a claim that garnered interest through the work of John Anthony West, Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval. Schwaller de Lubicz lived in Egypt for twelve years, studying the temples of Thebes in detail. Schwaller and his team, including the French Egypologist Alexandre Varille, developed the symbolist approach to Egypology, the aim of which was to produce a series of Kabbalistic motifs from Egyptian temples, all of which are still controversial among contemporary historians. Schwaller argued that Egyptian temples were used for mystical initiations, and that the Egyptians were aware of astronomical phenomena like precession of the equinoxes.

In 1979, in his book Serpent in the Sky, John Anthony West is a proponent of the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis, expanded on the ideas of Schwaller de Lubicz, suggesting the Great Sphinx of Giza had been eroded by Nile floods after being created 15,000-10,000 BC by Atlanteans. In 1990, Dr. Zahi Hawass granted a license to John Anthony West and Robert Schoch, known as the Schoch Project, backed by the University of Boston, where Schoch was a professor also influenced by Schwaller de Lubicz. In 1993 West’s work with Schoch was presented by Charlton Heston in a NBC special called The Mystery of the Sphinx that won West an News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for Best Documentary. Investors in the project included Dr. Joseph M. Schor, one of two leading members of ARE, whose aim was to fulfill the prediction made by Edgar Cayce in 1933 that a secret chamber would be discovered under the Sphinx that contained the so-called “Hall of Records,” a repository of Atlantean knowledge.

ARE had also arranged a scholarship for Dr. Zahi Hawass at the University of Pennsylvania, where he gained his PhD in Egyptology, before going on to become Egypt’s Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. The project’s main discovery was water erosion on the Sphinx, but it also undertook seismographic tests to detect the possible existence of chambers beneath the Sphinx. According to Bauval and Hancock, a total of nine chambers in all were discovered, which they called the Genesis chamber. Also enthusiastic about these discoveries was Dr. Hawass, who suggested they may represent the symbolic “tomb of Osiris.”[105]

Also in 1993, Rudolf Gatenbrink famously sent a robot fitted with a camera to explore shafts in the pyramid of Giza. Bauval seized upon the opportunity to interpret Gatenbrink’s data to suggest that the southern shaft of what is called the Queen’s Chamber would have been aligned to the star Sirius in around 2450 BC, which therefore must have been the date of its construction. However, Bauval’s claim had nothing to do with the research of Gatenbrink, who rejected Bauval’s theory, but was rather developed from ideas first proposed by James Hurtak and derived from Masonic literature dating back at least to the late nineteenth century.[106]

These authors started forming expectations about a Giza discovery around year 2000, which was supposed to herald the Age of Aquarius. The source of these predictions were not only the visions of Edgar Cayce, but the traditions of AMORC. Spencer Lewis claimed to have inside knowledge about Giza derived from the “Rosicrucian Archives” which formed a major part of AMORC’s beliefs. These ideas formed the bedrock of Bauval’s Project Equinox 2000, announced in 1998, and based around a group of twelve authors in addition to himself, whom he referred to as the Magic 12. It originally included Graham Hancock, John Anthony West, Andrew Collins, Robert Temple, Michal Baigent, one of the authors of the Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and Christopher Knights and Robert Lomas, authors of the Hiram Key, which contains a radical hypothesis regarding the origins of Freemasonry, seeking to demonstrate a heritage through the Knights Templar to the Jerusalem Church and Pharaoic Egypt.

The Magic 12 were to hold a series of conferences held on the equinoxes and solstices throughout the year 1999, at locations regarded as the major Hermetic sites of the world, such as Giza, Alexandria, Stonehenge and San Jose, the headquarters of AMORC. According to Bauval, the purpose was to perform a global ritual symbolizing the return of the Hermetic tradition to Egypt. The year’s rituals were to culminate on New Years Eve, when the 12 authors would deliver their “message to the planet” in front of the Sphinx, and which would mark the “return of the gods” to Egypt.

Hawass, who is also linked to AMORC, had announced that a ceremony of blatant Masonic symbolism was also to take place, where a gold capstone was going to be placed on the top of the Great Pyramid, but the event was finally cancelled due to overwhelming protests. Hawass has received widespread publicity internationally, and was the subject of a reality television series in the US, Chasing Mummies. But his links to business ventures and the Mubarak regime caused controversy. In connection with the awarding of a gift shop contract at the Egyptian Museum and alleged smuggling of antiquities, he was sentenced to a prison term, which was later lifted.

[1] Brenda Denzler. The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), pp. 164–167.

[2] Operation Trojan Horse, p. 40

[3] Val Germann. “Big Money and UFOs - Part 6.” UFOSearch (Columbia, Missouri, 1997).

[4] Jacques Vallée. Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception (Souvenir Press, 1992), p. 247.

[5] Alon Harish. “UFOs Exist, Say 36 Percent in National Geographic Survey,” ABC News (June 27, 2012).

[6] Richard J. Hand. Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931–1952, (Jefferson, North Carolina: Macfarland & Company, 2006), p. 7.

[7] Disclosure Project. Retrieved from http://youtu.be/CaTgOSHbBEI

[8] Address to the 42d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York (September 21, 1987)

[9] Claire Carter. “All the president’s (little green) men: How Ronald Reagan asked Soviet rival Mikhail Gorbachev for help fighting alien invasion.” Daily Mail (April 19, 2015).

[10] Jim Brochu. Lucy in the Afternoon: An intimate Memoir of Lucille Ball (William Morrows and Company New York 1990), p. 125.

[11] From Donald McAlvany, “Toward a New World Order: Who is Maurice Strong?” http://home.sprynet.com/~eastwood01/mstrong2.htm

[12] Dan Aykroyd. “Psychic News.” Psychic News Issue #4001 (April 18, 2009).

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[14] The Canadian Press. “Dan Aykroyd on his inspiration for 'Ghostbusters’.” CTV News (October 16, 2009).

[15] Ibid.

[16] David S. Ariel. Kabbalah: The Mystic Quest in Judaism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), p. 26.

[17] The Canadian Press. “Dan Aykroyd on his inspiration for ‘Ghostbusters’.” CTV News (October 16, 2009).

[18] Ibid.

[19] Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults (Brisbaine: Daily Grail Publishing, 2008) p. 74.

[20] Ibid., p. 55.

[21] Jack Sarfatti. cited in Jacques Vallee. Forbidden Science Vol. II (San Francisco: Documatica Research, 2009), p. 513 n. 8.

[22] Constantine. Virtual Government, p. 120.

[23] Sarfatti. “In the Thick of It.”

[24] Jacques Vallée. Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact (1st ed.) (Contemporary Books, 1988), p. 269.

[25] Jacques Vallée. Anatomy of a Phenomenon: Unidentified Objects in Space--A Scientific Appraisal (New York: Regnery Publishing, 1965), p. 244.

[26] Bevilaqua. JFK - The Final Solution, Kindle locations 159-164.

[27] Dick Russell. The Man Who Knew Too Much (NY: Carroll & Graf, 1992), p. 529.

[28] Martin Davis. “Saucers, Secrets and Shickshinny Knights.” Lumpen.

[29] Joan D’Arc. Phenomenal World: Remote Viewing, Astral Travel, Apparitions, Extraterrestrials, Lucid Dreams and Other Forms of Intelligent Contact in the Magical Kingdom of Mind-at-Large (Book Tree, 2000) p. 156.

[30] “Center for Security Policy.” MediaTransparency.org (accessed February 24, 2018).

[31] Michelle Ciarrocca & William D. Hartung. “Axis of Influence: Behind the Bush Administration’s Missile Defense Revival.” World Policy Institute (July 2002).

[32] 2001 Annual Report of the CSP.

[33] Ron Jacobs. “Kenneth Timmerman’s Iranian ‘Democracy’ and the ‘Intelligence’ Summit.” MR Online (February 1, 2006).

[34] Ibid.

[35] Joël v.d. Reijden. “Cult of National Security Trolls: Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM Analyzed” Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (August 31, 2014).

[36] Ibid.

[37] Joël v.d. Reijden. “Cult of National Security Trolls: Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM Analyzed” Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (August 31, 2014).

[38] “The Ex-CEO Files.” Wired (January 11, 1999). Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/1999/01/the-ex-ceo-files/

[39] “The Ex-CEO Files.” Wired (January 11, 1999). Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/1999/01/the-ex-ceo-files/

[40] Richard J. Boylan, Ph.D. “Birds of a Feather No Longer: Policy Split Divides “Aviary” UFO-Secrecy Group.” Retrieved from http://www.drboylan.com/aviary2.html

[41] Robert J. Durant. “Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up?” (1992).

[42] George Knapp. “Path of the Skinwalker.” Sign of the Times (November 21, 2002).

[43] Daniel Oberhaus. “‘Hunt for the Skinwalker’ Is the First Video Released From UFO-Obsessed Billionaire’s Haunted Ranch.” Vice (Sep 17 2018). Retrieved from https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59abbx/hunt-for-the-skinwalker-is-the-first-video-released-from-inside-ufo-wolf-haunted-ranch-robert-bigelow

[44] “The Sherman Ranch.” Retrieved from http://www.aliendave.com/UUFOH_TheRanch.html

[45] Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal & Leslie Kean. “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program.” New York Times (December 16, 2017).

[46] Sarah Emerson. “The Government’s Secret UFO Program Funded Research on Wormholes and Extra Dimensions.” Motherboard (January 17 2019).

[47] Robert J. Durant. “Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up.” Paranet Information Service (Denver, Colorado: September 5, 1993)

[48] Armen Victorian. “Non-Lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin.” Lobster (June, 1993)

[49] Durant. “Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up.”

[50] Greg Bishop. Project Beta, 2005, Paraview/ Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster).

[51] Ibid., p 128.

[52] Barkun. A Culture of Conspiracy, p. 119.

[53] Jerome Clark. Unexplained!—347 strange sightings, incredible occurrences, and puzzling physical phenomena (Visible Ink Press, 1993), pp. 400, 402-403.

[54] Durant. “Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up.”

[55] Ibid.

[56] Ibid.

[57] Emma Parry. “ALIEN RIDDLE CIA scientist thought fake Roswell alien autopsy video was real, bizarre leaked memo claims.” The Sun (July 2, 2019). Retrieved from https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9382232/leaked-memo-suggests-fake-roswell-alien-autopsy-video-real-cia-scientist-pentagon-briefing/

[58] Joel van der Reijden. “The 1001 Club: Bankers and Raw Materials Executives Striving for a Sustainable Future.” Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (ISGP). Retrieved from https://isgp-studies.com/1001-club-of-the-wwf

[59] November 1990-January 1991.

[60] “Liechtenstein redraws Europe map” BBC News Online, (28 December 2006).

[61] Amy Chozick. “Hillary Clinton Gives U.F.O. Buffs Hope She Will Open the X-Files.” New York Times (May 10, 2016).

[62] Ibid.

[63] Pedestal Emails. “email for John Podesta c/o Eryn re Space Treaty (attached)” Wikileaks.

[64] Cited in John Simkin. “Daniel Sheehan.” Spartacus Educational (September 1999).

[65] Ibid.

[66] Susan Huck. Legal terrorism: the truth about the Christic Institute (New World, 1989), p. 151.

[67] Joël v.d. Reijden. “Cult of National Security Trolls: Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM Analyzed” Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (August 31, 2014).

[68] Retrieved from www.noetic.org/directory/person/jim-garrison

[69] Constantine. Virtual Government, p. 122.

[70] “Alien thinking.” BBC News (June 8, 2005).

[71] Jim Schnabel. “They’re coming to take us away.” The Independent (3 Edition) (2 January 1994).

[72] John Mack. Abduction, (Ballantine Books, 1994), p. 13

[73] Phillip J Klass. “Skeptics UFO Newsletter.” SUN (18) (November 1992).

[74] Jeffrey B. King. “A Bridge Too Far.” Skeptical Inquirer 21 (2) (March 1997).

[75] Ibid.

[76] Budd Hopkins. “Invisibility and the UFO Abduction Phenomenon”. Proceedings of the MUFON 1993 International Symposium. pp. 183–201.

[77] “Are UFO probers hurting victims?” Daily Herald Suburban Chicago (Arlington Heights, IL: Paddock Publications). 11 November 1988. p. 6, Section 5.

[78] Leonard S. Newman & Roy F. Baumeister. “Toward an explanation of the UFO abduction phenomenon: hypnotic elaboration, extraterrestrial sadomasochism, and spurious memories.” Psychological Inquiry (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc: 1996) 7 (2): 99–126.

[79] Joseph Laycock. “Carnal knowledge: the epistemology of sexual trauma in witches’ sabbaths, satanic ritual abuse, and alien abduction narratives.” Preternatural: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural (Penn State University Press, 2012) 1 (1): 100–129.

[80] “Are UFO probers hurting victims?” Daily Herald Suburban Chicago (Arlington Heights, IL: Paddock Publications). 11 November 1988. p. 6, Section 5.

[81] Carol Rainey. “High Strangeness: The Co-Creation Of The Abduction Phenomenon.” Paratopia Magazine, Vol 1 Issue 1.

[82] Emma Woods. Emma Woods Files. Retrieved from http://emmawoodsfiles.com/

[83] Joël v.d. Reijden. “Cult of National Security Trolls.”

[84] Ibid.

[85] Ibid.

[86] Thomas C. Genoni Jr. “Art Bell, Heaven’s Gate, and Journalistic Integrity”. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

[87] Susan Leslie Wright. UFO Headquarters: Investigations On Current Extraterrestrial Activity In Area 51 (New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1999). p. 187.

[88] Thomas G. Genoni Jr. “Special Report: Art Bell, Heaven’s Gate, and Journalistic Integrity”. Skeptical Inquirer Volume 21.4, (July / August 1997)

[89] Richard Hoagland. The Monuments on Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever (Berkeley, 1996), p. 373.

[90] Picknett & Prince. Stargate Conspiracy, p. 153

[91] “CSICOP Turns its Eye on Hoagland—And Gets it Blackened in The Attempt”; enterprisemission.com Retrieved from http://www.enterprisemission.com/skeptik.htm

[92] “Is There Liquid Water on Europa?” (Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 6, September 1979)

[93] John C. Haich. “Do the Owls want to shut down Richard C. Hoagland?”

[94] Michelle Ciarrocca & William D. Hartung. “Axis of Influence: Behind the Bush Administration's Missile Defense Revival.” World Policy Institute (July 2002).

[95] Haich. “Do the Owls want to shut down Richard C. Hoagland?”

[96] “The Rise of the Rough Beast” Adapted from a lecture by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince at the Saunière Society Symposium, Conway Hall, London. Retrieved from http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2006/09sep/styves.html

[97] “About Us.” Inner Traditions, Bear & Company. Retrieved from https://www.innertraditions.com/about-us/

[98] Email from Kim Farmer of AFFS (September 24, 1998); cited in Picknett & Prince, Stargate Conspiracy, p. 35.

[99] Mike Everleth. “The Underground Film World Of Aleister Crowley.” Bad Lit (February 1, 2009).

[100] Daniel Pinchbeck & Ken Jordan. Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age (Penguin, 2008) p. 161.

[101] Vgl. auch Peter Rocholl. Wilhelm Roggersdorf: Das seltsame Leben des Erich von Däniken (Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf/Wien 1970).

[102] p. 137; cited in Jason Colavito, “Von Daniken, Theosophy, and the Fraudulent Book of Dzyan,” JasonColavito.com (01-08-2012).

[103] David Livingstone. Ordo ab Chao. Volume One, Chapter 18: The Age of Discovery.

[104] Jason Covalito. “Friends of David Wilcock Say He Resigned from Gaia TV over Bad Pay, Poor Working Conditions, and Lucifer.” (October 7, 2013). Retrieved from https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/friends-of-david-wilcock-say-he-resigned-from-gaia-tv-over-bad-pay-poor-working-conditions-and-lucifer

[105] Picknett & Prince. Stargate Conspiracy, p. 91.

[106] Robert Bauval, posting on Egyptnews, August 13, 1998.

Volume Five

1. Team B

2. Secret Team

3. The Reagan Doctrine

4. Reaganomics

5. Second New Right

6. Project Monarch

7. Down Under

8. Sex, Lies and Wiretaps

9. Noosphere

10. Project Stargate

11. New Age

12. Psychic Warriors

13. Disclosure

14. Christofascism

15. The Clash of Civilizations

16. Black Order

17. Sacred Geopolitics

18. Third Secret of Fatima

19. Order of Eurasia