"The age of impossible" with visionary thinker Jacques Vallée

"The age of impossible, anticipating discontinuous futures: Jacques Vallee at TEDxGeneva." Published on and by TEDx Talks Youtube channel, 10th of October, 2013. Duration: 15:14 minutes.

The acceleration of technology in an increasingly connected society producing "impossible futures" that range from rapid collapse of major banks to the emergence of complex new forms of political power. The Internet has become both a tool and a victim of this global mutation.

If you wait until the 8:29 minutes mark, then you will understand why this mainstream talk by Jacques Vallée in a mainstream context is doing on a blog about the UFO phenomena.

However, the main topic of Jacques Vallée´s TEDxGeneva talk is not the UFO phenomena, but about  possible futures of the internet, both negative and positive futures.

As I have mentioned before, Jacques Vallée is probably the most profound and important thinker in the field of ufo-research, and has been so since his collaboration and friendship with J. Allen Hynek.

Ufo-aficionados are of course familiar with the fact that Steven Spielberg used Vallée and Hynek as consultants to "Close encounters of the third kind", and that the character in the movie, Claude Lacombe, is loosely based on Jacques Vallée.

Anyone seriously interested in the UFO phenomena, and who particularly wants get aware of the complexity of the UFO phenomena, should read at least one or two books about the UFO phenomena by Jacques Vallée. Personally I have read three of Vallée´s books and therefore can highly recommend them:

The Invisible College. What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered  About UFO Influence on the Human Race. Originally published by E.F. Dutton & Co. in 1975. 2014 edition published by Anomalist Books.

The Edge Of Reality. A progress report on Unidentified Flying Objects, J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee (1975).

Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception, first edition 1991 and second edition 2008 published by Anomalist Books. "Revelations" is the third and last volume in Vallée´s "Alien contact" series.

Enjoy and take care!

RIchard Dolan about the abduction aspect of the UFO phenomena

"What’s up with Abductions? Richard Dolan: UFOs The Big Picture (live)." Streamed live on Richard Dolan's YouTube-channel on the 8th of September, 2018. Duration: 17:34 minutes.

I will not make a lot of comments on what Richard Dolan is thinking and saying about the abduction-aspect of the UFO phenomena, simply because I feel somewhat tired and lazy, hahaha. But mainly because I should stop being a "ufo-nerd," and instead spend time with my beautiful loved ones.

In general, I agree with what Dolan is saying about the abduction-aspect, and in particular with what he is saying towards the end of the live stream, beginning at the 13:00 minute mark and to the end. 

For example, around the 13:45 minutes mark, Dolan is saying that the abduction-cases may be the most significant part of the UFO phenomena. I also believe that the experiencer-aspect (abductions, contact) is one of the strongest drivers of maintaining the secrecy of the UFO phenomena. According to Dolan, the idea of alien abductions being revealed will likely be the most explosive issue in the UFO topic. Indeed, it will. 

And since the people in charge of the disclosure-process has told "A" (the physical aspect of the UFO phenomena), they eventually have to tell "B", and so on. 

Last, I fully agree with Dolan when he around the 16:20 minutes mark says we need to have a public and serious conversation about the abduction-aspect. If not for anything else, then for the abductees who in many cases have been traumatised by their experiences, and feel that they have no one to talk to in our society about what happened to them. They need help and support.

Is that not reason enough for disclosing the abduction-aspect of the UFO phenomena? 

Take care!

Why UFOs/UAP are both a risk and an opportunity, according to Luis Elizondo

"Why Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Are A National Security Risk And Also An Opportunity For Progress," says the headline of Luis Elizondo's article for Medium, published on the 4th of September, 2018.

Based on the title ("And Also") of Elizondo's article, it seems one keyword in the ongoing careful and selective disclosure process is balance. The challenge is to balance the public's right to know about UFOs with the government's need to protect sensitive information from other countries.

From a military and a national security perspective, I can buy that argument. But in my mind, there is a contradiction in Elizondo's reasoning in his article, because he is also saying that "the U.S. knows less than it should, and perhaps much less than our adversaries," referring to the factors that the U.S. Government (USG) looks at when determining whether an unknown entity is friend or foe: capabilities, intentions, vulnerabilities, and exploitability.

Is the USG concealing its lack of understanding of UFOs from other nations because they don't want to appear vulnerable and incompetent, rather than concealing advanced technology from the public?

The balance for the USG - or the national security state apparatus - is between the risk of too much transparency and too little secrecy, or vice versa. What can the consequences be from a national security perspective of telling too much or too little to the public and media?

Some thoughts on the blog's content so far

Introduction 

A while ago, I posted a text in Swedish where I share some thoughts on how my views on the UFO phenomena, in some instances, have changed during the work with this blog.

In the following text, I am going to summarise the main thoughts and reflections I bring up in the Swedish text posted on August 23, 2018.

I would like to begin by emphasising that because of the complexity of the UFO phenomena/subject, I'm in the following text simplifying the UFO phenomena/subject with its many aspects. Even if my work with this blog has expanded my knowledge about the UFO phenomena and, in some instances, changed my views on some aspects of the phenomena, I don't consider myself having a better understanding of the big questions like "What is the UFO phenomena?", "Who or what is behind it?", "Why?", "Cover-up or not?", "Disclosure?", and so on and so forth.

In fact, I am struggling with more questions about the UFO phenomena today, compared with when I started this blog in February this year (2018). At the same time, those questions have made me even more fascinated with the UFO phenomena than before.

I also want to underline that, at the moment, I don't have a favourite hypothesis about the UFO phenomena, or a favourite UFO researcher. Of course, I think the work of some researchers are more credible and relevant than others, but it does not mean that I agree with every word they say or write about the UFO phenomena and its related aspect.

What I can say with certainty and integrity is that no human being has a full understanding of what the UFO phenomenon is about. No group of people sits on the ultimate truth of the UFO phenomenon. Another thing I can say with the same certainty and integrity is that the UFO phenomenon has no black or white answers or explanations. That has become very clear to me during my work with this blog.

Remember, I am simplifying and speculating about the specific questions and aspects of the UFO phenomena I am covering in the text below. There are other relevant questions about the UFO phenomena to discuss, but a comprehensive discussion is impossible even in a 600-page book. Less so in a blog post by an armchair commentator on the UFO phenomena.

Ok, here we go.

Luis Elizondo Presents the History of AATIP, 29/7, 2018

"Luis Elizondo Presents the History of AATIP." Published on To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science's YouTube channel on the 30th of August, 2018. Duration: 31:08 minutes.

TTS Academy Special Programs Director, Luis Elizondo, gives an official presentation on the history of the Department of Defense's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that he ran up until 2017. You'll learn what AATIP is, what it isn't, as well as receive a status update on the current state of affairs for the future of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena research.

To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science is a world leader in UAP intelligence and best-in-class laboratory for advanced physics research. Learn more at www.ToTheStarsAcademy.com.

You can also watch Elizondo´s presentation on the history of AATIP with transcription on "To The Stars Academy's" website here.

Personally, I think some of the most interesting pieces of information come towards the end of Luis Elizondo's presentation. For example, 27:30 minutes into the presentation (video), he says:

Time will be necessary to allow leadership proper awareness and assessment. You cannot digest a seven course meal in 10 minutes folks. It takes time. Some of you had decades involved in this. What you know to be a fact, people are just now hearing it for the very first time. As crazy as that may seem, it's true. For some folks the article that came out in The New York Times is the very first time they've ever actually even considered this topic. Let alone our leadership, let alone our lawmakers.

I think those sentences are key in understanding what the New York Times AATIP-article, published on the 16th of December, 2017 + the associated UFO-videos, was all about. It initiated a selective disclosure of the truth about the UFO phenomena.

I write about this in my text in Swedish, posted on 23th of August, 2018, "Tankar om bloggens innehåll såhär långt/Some thoughts on the blog's content so far."

And as I also write in the Swedish text, there are understandable - but not necessarily ethical - reasons for the secrecy surrounding the UFO phenomena. The secrecy, or "FOIA exempt" that Elizondo is mentioning in his presentation, is not only for protecting the information from foreign states. I believe two of the strongest reasons for driving and keeping the secrecy of the UFO phenomena are: 

1) Governments and militaries around the world do not have a clue how to control or defend against UFOs. 

2) The UFO phenomena is far more complex than anyone has grasped until, perhaps, fairly recently.

How do you tell the public about the phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch? How do you tell the public about people being abducted by someone or something against their will?

I am not saying that UFOs or the UFO phenomena makes up a threat against humanity or the earth. Neither am I saying that UFOs are our saviours nor that the UFO phenomena is all benevolent.

Very few things in this world are black or white. The UFO phenomena defies simple answers or explanations; I can state with certainty.

How do you prepare and educate the public about such a complex subject as the UFO phenomena? Where do you begin? What do you begin with?

You begin with stuff you know best and are the most familiar with. You begin with the stuff that is the easiest for most people to digest and handle. In our case, you start with the physical, nuts n´bolts, aspect of the UFO phenomena.

In today's world, at this point in history, the least traumatic information for the public to learn and accept, in my opinion, is that "others" also visit us.

The preparation and education - careful and selective disclosure - of the public on the UFO phenomena started on the 16/12, 2017. But here is more to come. We wanted the truth. Once know the truth; how are we going to handle the truth of the UFO phenomena?

You can also read what I wrote about Hal Puthoff´s first public presentation on his thoughts about the NYT AATIP-articles and the associated UFO-videos, in a text posted on the 18th of July, 2018, here, and compare my thoughts with what Elizondo is saying in the last third (starting around 24 minutes into the video above) of his presentation on the history of AATIP.

Take care!