For the past couple of weeks the Internet UFO community has been
abuzz with rumours of a secret meeting held at the UN building in New
York City in mid-February. The meeting, alleged to have been attended
by representatives from most UN member nations, as well as ‘three US
senators’, was called to discuss the increased rate of UFO sightings
and how best to deal with their impact on the staus quo. Also
at stake was how best inform the public of the ongoing presence of our
‘neighbours’, as the ‘leaked’ statement referred to non-human
extraterrestrial visitors.
The story was distributed via members of the Exopolitics and Disclosure
movements. Both these groups seek to force Earth governments into open
admission of their alleged contacts with advanced ET civilisations, the
hope being that they possess both the technology and the inclination to
save humankind from inevitable and imminent environmental and
geopolitical disaster.
Here’s the outline of the story so far and a somewhat confusing graphical representation of what little information is out there.
For the past couple of weeks the Internet UFO community has been
abuzz with rumours of a secret meeting held at the UN building in New
York City in mid-February. The meeting, alleged to have been attended
by representatives from most UN member nations, as well as ‘three US
senators’, was called to discuss the increased rate of UFO sightings
and how best to deal with their impact on the staus quo. Also
at stake was how best inform the public of the ongoing presence of our
‘neighbours’, as the ‘leaked’ statement referred to non-human
extraterrestrial visitors.
The story was distributed via members of the Exopolitics and Disclosure
movements. Both these groups seek to force Earth governments into open
admission of their alleged contacts with advanced ET civilisations, the
hope being that they possess both the technology and the inclination to
save humankind from inevitable and imminent environmental and
geopolitical disaster.
Here’s the outline of the story so far and a somewhat confusing graphical representation of what little information is out there.
What follows is my initial take on the material, and further along,
an excellent dissection from veteran UFOlogist and thinker Jacques
Vallee:
Beyond the fact that the sources for this
leak were flimsy at best (and quite possibly non existent), and that
the story was being promoted by groups with clear spiritual/political
agendas, my own suspicions were aroused by the preconditions for
‘disclosure’. Effectively these are global economic, environmental and
political stability by 2009. Given the current state of world affairs
(or the perpetual state of world affairs) none of these conditions are
the least bit likely to be met before 2900, let alone 2009.
From the original information release:
2009 was raised as the year when an important change in official attitudes concerning the UFO phenomenon could be made…
This indicated an important policy shift were the study of UFO’s
would be officially encouraged. However, certain global conditions
would have to be met for the official opening. Most important appeared
to be social stability in G-8 countries and the maintenance of liberal
democratic systems in developing nations…
The meetings were very concerned about social upheaval from
continued UFO sightings and the testimonies of individuals claiming to
have first hand knowledge about UFO’s, extraterrestrial life, and
future global events. It was reported that adverse public reactions to
UFO sightings could have a dramatic economic impact that could lead to
recessions in some countries.
For the intended subjects of this information, the UFO/conspiracy
enthusiast, this suggests not only that geopolitical power and the
potential for peace on Earth lie in the hands of what is generally
perceived as a foreign body – the UN, already viewed with some
suspicion by many Americans, especially those in the UFO/conspiracy
field – but that eventual communion with the ETs, being the only force
capable, within the secular mythic imagination of the 20th and 21st
centuries, of enforcing peace on Earth (see The Day the Earth Stood Still, CE3K etc), will also be dictated by the UN.
So, by preventing ordinary citizen believers from meeting and
greeting ET, the UN, or more likely another shadowy body that controls
the UN, are effectively perpetuating global instability and appear not
to have our best interests at heart. Whether or not this was the
intention of the story, this may actually prove quite helpful for the
American government and their military, as it turns the heat
surrounding UFO disclosure away from them and onto the UN.
None of this is stated explicitly in the material being distributed
at the moment, but it is there in the discussions on Internet forums
such as Open Minds.
One poster was already bringing that old bugbear the Trilateral
Commission into play, raising the undying spectre of the sinister
global power elite, a distorted and greatly simplified reflection of
international politics that is as at least as old as John Robisons’ Proofs of a Conspiracy (1797) and the better known Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903). This episode looks like it is shaping up as a reprise of the conspiracy theories promoted by William Cooper, John Lear et al in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, whose fusion with the UFO mythology brought us both the X Files and
David Icke. It’s probably more accurate to say that these ideas never
left us, they’ve just been fermenting in a vat stored in an underground
alien base and are ready to be released once more, more potent than
ever before…
Of course, it’s entirely possible that there was a UFO-related
meeting in the UN building. It may have been small and privately
organised or it may have been something larger and more official. But
at this point in time all we have to work on are rumours.
Veteran ufologist and advanced thinker Jacques Vallee provides this excellent (and far more succinct) breakdown of the rumours:
I would not get too excited yet about this information: In our follow-up in France we could not verify that Gilles Lorant (the alleged original source for the leak
MP) worked at the places he claims (CNRS has no record of him) and we
cannot get any clear answers to the basic questions about this meeting.
At this point it sounds very suspect: another series of claims with
no support behind it, which can only contribute to make it more
difficult to get scientists to become seriously involved in this field.
It seems to me this story is falling apart but the structure is very interesting — along the lines of a psywar rumor process:
1. You make up a really intriguing story that seems very legitimate
by including respected names: UN, French Ambassador, DSK etc. and
precise dates.
2. You leave it full of holes so that people will come up with questions, thus revealing who is interested and why.
3. You imply great secrecy, thus dangling new bits of mystery.
4. You slowly retract the story (since a lot of it was made up in
the first place out of pure imagination) but you point to a
legitimate-looking person (Lorant) who was there.
5. The legitimate-looking person (whose credentials don’t check out)
“reveals” more details but does not confirm the earlier story, thus
gaining additional credibility and “dangling” new information.
6. Legitimate journalists reinforce the apparent story by trying to follow this new trail.
7. You throw in new intriguing names like Ted Kennedy and John
McCain through new anonymous sources “who could be in danger if they
revealed their names…” thus seducing more recognizable researchers into
revealing their interest…
8. You use the Internet to circulate the whole mess to an increasing circle of people, hoping to create a mass effect.
9. At that point, any official denial of the story (or part of it)
sounds like a cover-up or skeptical reaction, enabling you to claim
that you are the victim of disinformation, etc. etc.
All very clever… It is much easier to program human beings than to program computers!
Jacques’ essential trilogy examining the UFO phenomenon has recently been republished by Anomalist Books and come with the highest recommendation.
I plan to explore this story and others further in my own forthcoming book, Mirage Men, due Autumn 2009 from Constable. Also watch out for the documentary film of the same name, made with John Lundberg.
Disclaimer: given the often emotional climate surrounding discussion
of UFOs, I feel it necessary to state the obvious and point out that my
scepticism of the above rumours is not to be seen as a rejection of the
wide range of personal experiences encompassed by the UFO and its
attendant phenomena.
