Obscurantist

A chicken farmer who lived alone in the vicinity of Eagle River, Wisconsin.

He was about sixty years old when a flying saucer landed in his front yard.

On April 18, 1961 at about 11AM, he heard a noise outside his house like “knobby tires on wet pavement.” Outside was a silvery object the shape of two inverted bowls, about twelve feet high and thirty feet in diameter. A hatch opened about five feet from the ground, thirty inches wide and six feet high. Inside the craft were three men “who looked Italian” dressed all in black, wearing turtle necks and knit caps, one of them in a black two-piece suit.

An occupant motioned with a jug made of the same material as the craft. Simonton took it inside, filled it with water, and brought it back. Simonton noticed one of the men was frying food on a flameless grill. Motioning his interest, Simonton was given three cakes by the man cooking, who was in all black but with a red stripe down his trouser leg.

This interaction lasted about five minutes. The hatch was closed and the craft rose twenty feet in the air before shooting off due south.

Simonton ate one of the cakes and thought it tasted like cardboard. The Air Force requested an analysis of one of the remaining cakes. The lab report by the Food and Drug Labratory of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare concluded that the cake was comprised of:

hydrogenated fat, starch, buckwheat hulls, soya bean hulls, wheat bran.

Bacteria and radiation readings were normal for this material.

Chemical, infra-red and other destructive type tests were run on this material…

an ordinary pancake of terrestrial origin.

However Jacques Vallee noted the interesting absence of salt in the cakes. He points out that in Irish folklore, the Gentry or fairyfolk never eat anything with salt.

Two weeks after the pancake incident, Joe Simonton told a United Press International reporter that if it happened again, “I don’t think I’d tell anyone about it.”
(Magonia, 23-26, 30)

aka: Graverobbers From Outer Space, Revenge of the Dead

Repeatedly voted by critics as the worst movie ever made and usually digested with choruses of derisive laughter, the magnum opus of director Ed Wood contains far too much truth for most people to comfortably face. Plan 9 was initially famous as Bella Lugosi’s last film (though he was only in it for a few seconds) and it became super-duper famous due to the big-budget Hollywood homage, Ed Wood.

However Plan 9 From Outer Space goes almost entirely unrecognized for its staggering insights into the tangled epistemology surrounding UFO and Alien phenomena and the correlate insights into an increasingly technological and alienated society. Among the historical facts referenced in the film were the Invasion of Washington and the Battle of Los Angeles — two of the most spectacular UFO events of the modern era which get a surprisingly small amount of attention, especially in contrast to events cloaked in deliberate disinformation like the Roswell Incident.

Plan 9 actually has an entire sub-plot of the military deliberately covering up something it can’t understand precisely because it can’t fully understand it — something which is now be a well-documented fact from the 40’s and 50’s discussion of UFOs.

In Plan 9, there are also references to the connections between the cultures of UFO researchers and the culture of ceremonial magicians. For example the name of the compound which Earth could destroy itself with was called “Solomonite” — the element of Solomon. King Solomon has long been considered the historical ur-magician, and the Keys of Solomon are the name of a renowned set of magical grimmores. The alien who announces the existence of Solomonite is named Eros, god of love — an explicit reference to the sex magick of the OTO and Aleister Crowley.

Joanna Lee as Tanna and Dudley Manlove as Eros

But Plan 9 is not merely a vital historical and cultural document — it is also a work of advanced sociocultural analysis. Among its brilliant theoretical leaps are the suggestion that aliens are using the dead as a performative tool in order to force human society to recognize their presence. It is precisely the bizarre and illogical nature of this zombie puppet show which relates it to actual”UFO phenomena occurring at the time of the movie’s making. For example: the alien corpses and weather balloons at Roswell, Harold Dahls Dog killed by saucer slag in the Maury Island Incident, the interstellar pancake of Joe Simonton, the screaming alien sex-dwarf of
Antonio Villas-Boas…

UFOs and the beings associated with them did not behave in a rational scientific manner. The common assumption is that the weird”UFO encounters were only weird because the accounts were coming from a bunch of hallucinating kooks and liars. But another explanation is that a communicative act by a non-human intelligence might look like silly gibberish to a human being, mere noise, unrecognized as signal to our ordinary interpretive filters. The very medium of communication itself could seem utterly bizarre, even silly.

That Plan 9 uses the most B of movie tropes to convey its message adds a layer of self-performative complexity which puts much high artistic output to shame. Looking back, we realize that the questions posed by the worst movie ever made”have resounded with sinister power across the socio-political landscape of the last half century.

In the closing words of the psychic Criswell:

My friend, you have seen this incident based on sworn testimony. Can you prove that it didn’t happen? Perhaps on your way home, you will pass someone in the dark, and you will never know it, for they will be from outer space. Many scientists believe that another world is watching us this moment. We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the telephone, the electric light, vitamins, radio, and even television! And now some of us laugh at outer space. God help us… in the future

aka: Krll, Crill, O.H. Krill (nom de plume)

Krill! (artists’ rendering)

According to Bill Moore, this is the name of an alien still living on earth who occasionally publishes in open scientific literature (although no such articles have yet been located).

Not to be confused with the tiny shrimp-like creatures which form the basis of many ocean food chains.

Also not to be confused with the early 80s sci-fi/alien/sword/sorcery movie Krull

Links

• http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1715.htm

Took place at Giant Rock in the 50’s and 60’s.

At it’s peak, there were upwards of 40,000 attendees

Links

• http://www.elfis.net/rnr/rnrx/giantrock.htm
• http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1904.htm

Founded in Sweden in 1973.
“The collection represents more than 600 meters on our shelves.”

AFU maintains a number of other services:

• A photo copier – sponsored by UFO-Sweden
• Collection of Access databases (also available on CD)
• Yahoo Mailing-list of recent Swedish UFO clippings (.pdf format)
• AFU Newsletter, four issues/year
• Lending library (for Swedish citizens only!)
• AFU Antikvaria – Antiquarian sales of surplus materials from the archive (in Scandinavia only)

Links

• http://www.afu.info/

aka: Alan-1, Alyn

Long John Nebel said that Alan was a favorite name of unearthly visitors (Way Out World, 34).

For example, Daniel Fry, met a flying saucer pilot named A-Lan near White Sands in 1950.

Also:
In the Tron, the programmer who wrote the Tron program is named Alan (Tron refers to his user as Alan-1)

In the film Zardoz, the narrator responsible for the plot which brings Zed into the dome of the immortals is named Alan Frain.

Rael was once a French Journalist named Claude Vorilhon, who was contacted by “Elohim” and became the leader of the Raelian sect. The Raelians claim to be in extraterrestrial contact, and are preparing for the return of the aliens to Earth by building an embassy.

From the Raelian website:

On the 13th of December 1973, French journalist Rael was contacted by a visitor from another planet, and asked to establish an Embassy to welcome these people back to Earth. The extra-terrestrial was about four feet in height, had long dark hair, almond shaped eyes, olive skin and exuded harmony and humour. He told Rael that:

“we were the ones who made all life on earth”

“you mistook us for gods”

“we were at the origin of your main religions”

“Now that you are mature enough to understand this,
we would like to enter official contact through an embassy”

Links

• http://www.rael.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelian

The CIA’s first official interest in UFO’s, a change of attitute provoked in part by the Robertson Report.

Members of the Panel were:

• Dr. H.P. Robertson, head of the Panel
• Dr. Samuel A Goudsmit
• Dr. Lloyd V Berkner
• Dr. Luis Alvarez
• Dr. Thorton L Page

Associate members:

• Dr. J Allen Hynek
• Frederick C Durant III, secretary of the Panel and author of its report.

(Peebles, 99)

Issued by the in 1953, this report set the policy for
Project Blue Book for the next sixteen years. The report concluded that there was no logical explanation for some UFO. But the report also said that flying saucers did not constitute a threat to national security, so somebody else should worry about the unknowns. The Robertson panelists suggested that if UFOs did constitute a new phenomena the burden of proof is on the sighter and not the explainer (Peebles, 104).

The report also openly suggested the use of mass psychology experts, training films, and Walt Disney cartoons in an effort to publicly debunk UFO phenomena (Peebles, 106).

The report was classified Secret, and was partially declassified in 1958. Dr. James McDonald read a full copy of it on June 6, 1966, but the CIA quickly re-classified it. (It is by now — presumably — fully declassified.)

aka: Frisco

A small coastal suburb of San Jose.

Locals (“Friscoans”) refer to it as “The City” in ironic reference to their smug provincial isolation.

The Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite was said to be more beautiful than Yosemite Valley itself. In order to supply water to Frisco, the Hetch Hetchy Valley was dammed up in 1923 and turned into a reservoir (the dam was raised in 1938). San Francisco pays an annual rent of $30,000 to use the flooded valley as a water storage tank — a price that hasn’t ever been raised.

Frisco’s water tank

John Muir fought hard against the demolition of Hetch Hetchy, but in 1913, Congress in approved the building of the dam and reservoir. Broken-hearted, Muir died a few months later. Residents of Frisco made a park called Muir Woods where they gather to celebrate his death with jugs of Hetch Hetchy tap water.

On March 20, 1953, George Van Tassel that space people were arriving in San Francisco and that:

you will be hearing of an increase of phenomena resulting in many hallucinations, so-called, by your people.

In the 50s and 60s, San Francisco was a major location of MKULTRA mind-control experiments.

In the 60s and 70s it was the location of a largely drug-based counter-culture. Before he famously relocated to Jonestown, Jim Jones was based in San Francisco where he was very popular among liberal political elites (Willie Brown was a particularly outspoken fan of Jones).

From the 60s onward, it was a major global center information technology. The Silicon Valley hypercaptialist IT orgy of the mid to late 90s is referred to as “the Bubble”

San Francisco landlord making the “Venture Capital” gesture

Also:
Location of the TransAmerica Pyramid, thought by some to be a Receiver.

Location of the Internet Archive.

In the Star Trek mythology, location of the headquarters of the United Federation of Planets.

Links

• http://www.sierraclub.org/ca/hetchhetchy/timeline.asp
• http://www.sanjoseca.gov/

Sauvegarde Conservation des Etudes et Archives Ufologiques

French for Preservation and Conservation of Ufological Studies and Archives

George Adamski claimed this was the name of a Martian who contacted him. (Nebel, 46)

One of many references to or Majestic 12

According to Bill Cooper, MAJI stands for Majestic Agency for Joint Intelligence.

Also: a reference to the “wise men” in the Bible.

Klaatu

The silver-suited space traveler In the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still who brings the police robot Gort to Earth to enforce peace… or else.

Klaatu is killed and Gort nearly destroyes the Earth. The command which halts Gort’s destruction of humanity is:

Gort, Klaatu barrata nicto!

One of the Master Control Messengers

who delivered the delivered the "Keys of Enoch" to Jim Hurtak.

(Messengers, 133)

Radio and TV show host. The Art Bell of the 50’s.

Author of Way Out World (1961)

George Adamski (left) with Long John Nebel

Links

• http://mimufon.org/1960%20articles/ContacteesIHaveKnown.htm

aka: Fred Lee Crisman, Jon Gold

(b.July 22, 1919 – d.December 10, 1975)

From Wikipedia: Fred-Crisman

Fred Crisman was an writer, educator, minor political provacateur, broadcaster and self-described “disruption agent” from Tacoma, Washington. He is a bizarre and enigmatic figure, whose name pops up in unusual circumstances, paranormal events, and conspiracies in the middle decades of the 20th century.

Shaver Mystery

In the mid-1940s, his name appears in the pages of pulp magazines, reporting on his own Deros,”or detrimental robots.”He claimed to have encountered the beings while fighting as a commando in Burma during World War II, and wrote that he sustained injuries from a futuristic laser weapon.

Maury Island Incident

His name next pops up as a key player in the strange Maury Island Incident, an early UFO encounter. Crisman claimed to have seen the objects in question, and to have collected debris. Many UFO researchers have dismissed the incident as an outright hoax, likely perpetrated by Crisman, but others still believe the incident to be a genuine paranormal event.

Murder of a City, Tacoma

He next turns up in Tacoma in the late 1960s, railing against the city’s city manager form of government. He hosted a conspiracy-themed radio talk show under the pseudonym “Jon Gold,” and wrote a self-published book, The Murder of a City, Tacoma. He was also appointed by the mayor to serve on the Tacoma Public Library board.

John F. Kennedy Assassination

During this time period, he was subpoenaed by Jim Garrison to testify in the case against Clay Shaw in the John F. Kennedy assassination. When Shaw was arrested, apparently Crisman was the first person he called. Various conspiracy theories place Crisman on the grassy knoll, possibly as a radio operator, or as one of the three tramps taken in to custody near Dealey Plaza. His testimony has not been made public, but in Murder of a City, Tacoma, Crisman claimed no knowledge of a conspiracy, and he was not called as a witness in the actual trial. Documents related that indicate a Crisman link to the assassination may have been fabricated by Crisman himself, as they are written in an idiosyncratic style reminiscent of Crisman’s own.

Inslaw and The Octopus

Crisman died in 1975, but his name continues to resonate in the shady world of conspiracy theories. bugs)during the years he was writing Murder.

Links

• http://www.majesticdocuments.com/personnel/crisman.html

A dome shaped building built by George Van Tassel at Giant Rock. The structure is 38-foot high, 55-foot diameter, made entirely out of wood, and is said to be “accoustically perfect.”

Its design was based on the design of Moses’ Tabernacle, the writings of Nikola Tesla and telepathic directions fromfrom extraterrestrial intelligences, in particular an individual named Solganda from Saturn. The Integratron was supposed to prolong life, produce anti-gravity, and allow time travel.

Time travel or no, the hippies still dig it.

Sources

The Last Prom,”issue 3

Curran, In Advance of the Landing, 79-81 – Cited in Peebles, 125

aka: Sara

Woman who Jack Parsons was living with in Pasadena.

L Ron Hubbard wooed her away and together they absconded to Florida with Parsons’ money.

Bigamy was involved….

Links

http://www.spaink.net/cos/LRH-bio/sara-bg.htm

http://www.ronthenut.org/adultry.htm

http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/apobs/bs2-6.htm

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/69/story-6900-1.html

Harvard astronomer.

The alleged astronomy expert of and Majestic 12.

aka: Jay Katz

Author of Casebook on Alternative 3: UFO’s, Secret Societies and World Control (1994), Casebook on the Men In Black (1997). And as Jay Katz, author of: Saucers of the Illuminati (1993).

Lieutenant-Colonel John Bevan, a stockbroker who became head of the London Controlling Section.

Part of a disinformation group set up during World War II, code-named the “Martians”.

The LCS was set up in Churchill’s personal headquarters and was skilled in “Special Means” weaponry. The chief of the LCS was Colonel John Bevan, who had the title “Controller of Deception.” Other members included Wing Commander Dennis Wheatley of the RAF, an expert on crime, black magic, and Satanism, and several rich industrialists.

Alan Turing was part of the group, and constructed several working Turing Engines, including a code-breaking machine called Ultra.

Much of these disinformation activities remained classified decades after the war, and some information science experts did not even know that Turing had actually constructed and used the devices he had described in his theoretical papers. (cited in Messengers, 196-198)

The activities of the Martians and the LCS are described in the book A Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Brown (1976)

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Links

• http://www.telegraphy.co.uk/arts…

From Scientology

A system invented by L Ron Hubbard, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in May of 1950.

From the Encyclopaedia Britannica:

every experience is recorded in the mind as a mental image. Painful experiences, called clear, or free, the mind of them.

Cav Cavitt

Recovered part of thhe Jesse Marcel.