In his 1991 book, ‘Revelations. Alien Contact and Human Deception’, Jacques Vallee discusses the claims of Bob Lazar extensively. After meeting and interviewing Lazar himself, Vallee concludes that although Lazar may be sincere in his beliefs, those beliefs may well have been intentionally cultivated for reasons that are far from altruistic. In the conclusion to the book, Vallee writes: “Are persons like Bill English and Bill Cooper, John Lear and his major informer Robert Lazar, deliberately lying to us? Not necessarily. I lean toward the view that these men are sincerely convinced that what they say is the absolute truth. The urgency with which they want to communicate it skips over such niceties as facts, controls, and hypotheses. They sincerely believe they know the truth, the simple, horrible truth. And that sense of urgency is incredibly contagious at all levels of our society, from the old, lonely woman who picks up a tabloid at a supermarket in a small town in the Midwest, to the businessman who takes time out from studying a financial report by watching an interview of an abductee on television. As we reach the Millennium, the belief in the imminent arrival of extraterrestrials in our midst is a fantasy that is as powerful as any drug, as revolutionary as any delusion that marked the last millennium, as poisonous as any of the great irrational upheavals of history. The expectation of a Superior Race that swept away the intelligence of the citizens of Nazi Germany was inspired by a similar myth. So was the fear of witches that moved the upright and moral Christians of England, Germany, or Massachusetts to the indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocents. Yet the UFO phenomenon is undeniably real. It is annoying, consistent and tantalizing, seductive and secret; always just a fraction of an inch beyond our reach. And it draws much of its irrational power from the very experts who deny it. The rationalists, the smart astronomers who keep explaining away the universe on televised talk shows, the pundits of the human mind who think they are so clever that they can always analyze all the sightings in terms of sociological, mythological, anthropological, or psychological theory without bothering to interview a single witness. But if John Lear and others are telling the truth as they see it, what could have motivated the massive deception of which they, like ourselves, are the victims? My tentative answer is contained in the following scenario. Suppose that for the last thirty years or so a massive effort has been going on within U S. government agencies such as the CIA, the NRO, and the Air Force, to study the UFO phenomenon. Not in an attempt to really solve it, since such a solution is still beyond the reach of our science, but in an effort to use it, to manipulate it as a cover for something else.” Among the possiblities of what that “something else" might be is a stark warning from Vallee that utterly relevant to the very moment of history in which we currently find ourselves: “Another aspect many researchers of this field—with a few courageous and notable exceptions—have studiously ignored, is the link between the more eager proponents of imminent extraterrestrial contact and the American extreme right. When I first called attention to this uncanny linkage in Messengers of Deception, the evidence I brought to light was hotly rejected by the UFO believers. In the last fifteen years not only has Messengers been vindicated, but many more disquieting parallels have been revealed, involving cases as varied as Billy Meier’s Pleiades hoax and the Dulce papers. It could well be that the same kind of fanaticism that leads people to join neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, or survivalist movements in the American southwest also induces them to believe in the imminent arrival of aliens from the sky. It could be that those groups who are convinced that government secrecy is abused in order to hide political truths from the public also believe that the reality of UFOs has been kept from us: this is a belief that has some root in reality. But it could also be that some intelligence agency, or some rogue group within such an agency, has been bending the latent paranoia of some extremist political movements to its own ends, just as many cults from Jim Jones’s Peoples’ Temple to UMMO may have served as useful, convenient test beds for covert psychological experiments. Even those intrepid researchers who spend their time suing the U S. Air Force under the Freedom of Information Act, and clamoring for immediate congressional hearings on UFOs, have not dared investigate these murky and dangerous, yet highly relevant connections. When reviewing the social organization and the political systems of our alleged visitors, as it can be derived from the voluminous texts that describe such otherworldly civilizations as UMMO or ERRA, it is difficult not to be struck by the paramilitary structures they involve.Misery and hunger have long been eliminated on such worlds, claim the true believers. But their society resembles more closely Adolf Hitler’s ideal Reich than a modern democracy. In Billy Meier’s Pleiades, minor moral transgressions are punished by permanent exile. (By the way, who is putting up the money for the dissemination of Meier’s glossy photographs?) It is always a matter of great wonder to me that the gentle adepts of the New Age are always the first to enroll under the banner of such movements whose vision of the future is basically a fascistic one. Never mind the fact that nobody has actually attempted to silence these people, at a time when the merest suggestion of compromise of much less important, more mundane secrets—a missile fuse or a computer chip—brings the full force of the FBI and the federal courts. The Bureau, by the way, did investigate the alleged breaches of security involved in the Majestic 12 documents, but it soon turned away in disgust, and it professed no interest in pursuing the case. The extraterrestrial believers have investigated none of these questions. They were too busy rushing ahead in pursuit of the aliens. They were ready to set aside all critical thinking for a chance to try the new toys, to take a peek at next year’s model, to experience the novelty ofa secret high. It’s an old trick and it works every time.” So, beware of casually swallowing all of the unverified and unverifiable claims of those promising to know the ‘hidden secrets’ of all things UAP related, including Bob Lazar and his cheer squad. Wittingly or unwittingly, these people may be helping to direct us toward a future that is anything but desireable. Instead, it could well be a technocratically-controlled future where there will be neither ‘free energy’ nor ‘free speech’. Instead, we'll all be chasing an ever-moving carrot being tantalizingly dangled from a stick in front of our faces – and all to lure us toward a cliff most people seem utterly unaware of. submitted by /u/bocley [link] [comments]