Thanks for the article Peter. The environmental crisis, that there's a sixth mass extinction underway together with a probable PETM-like event (when 55 MY ago temperatures rose over 6 degrees globally due to a mass natural induced injection of methane which then led to CO2 - it took hundreds of thousands of years for the climate to stabilize to a lower temperature) and nuclear weapons seem to be critical "attention-getters" for something super-advanced sharing Earth. And if correct as a real fact, the kids at the Ariel school in 1994 got warning messages re state of the planet. It would be important to know how global this particular message is to experiencers. Hasn't done much good though. The planet will survive of course, she's been here before and there's around a billion years before the Sun goes to a Red Giant. New intelligent species will surely arise.
Clearly they also don't like nukes re their monitoring of facilities but also didn't block the global testing regimes of the superpowers decades ago.
So how much they (multiple types and forms?) can actually influence us, who knows? Surely some group does, re all the secret studies since the late 40's onwards. And the mass of humanity now has a huge inertia to shift or bend to some "alien agenda". Desperate times require desperate measures?
It seems contactees report predictions of natural and artificial disasters pretty regularly. They are like Old Testament prophets (who never had anything nice to say!). It makes me wonder if there is a psychological component to the experience of contact that triggers these expectations. Why do we make blockbuster disaster/dystopia films all the time? We wallow in scenes of mass destruction of cities caused by aliens/monsters/natural disasters/nuclear war, etc. Does humanity have a death wish, and that is why "they" tend to leave us alone? Do they see that "death wish" as our way of, as Joseph Campbell would put it, "following our bliss"?
Is there a fatal flaw in our makeup as humans that blinds us to seeing "Them" as they really are? They are like house guests who refuse to come out of the guest room because they keep hearing the hosts bicker and fight among themselves, so they're waiting for everything to calm down before they can bring out the bundt cake ... but they've been waiting so long they start to eat the cake themselves. (Sorry ... rambling ... need ... caffeine ... )
Yes, now I remember John Mack writing of experiencers and their environmental concerns. His first book shocked me. Agree about the films - why do we do it! I can't really watch them at all. Keenly following your writing here and the UAP issue, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, Ryan Graves and other pilots, Congress issues, Avi Loeb, Lue and Chris etc. Cheers!
What if they are eating us? Many people go missing every year, never to be found again. What if they were simply eaten? Or their skin used for alien shoes? Or our plasma used in their shakes?
Thank you Peter for saying what needed to be said. When you see the things I have seen and realize they are masters of the laws of physics, etc., you know at least the future is already here. IMHO. How we get there is a matter of our humanity...
There's no mention of DMT in this article, and that seems like a big oversight in a discussion about the so-called 'Phenomenon'. There's also a lot of references to the 'Alien' which might be inaccurate altogether. Perhaps these things have been here long before man emerged, and WE are the aliens?
Hence, "Alien" is in quotes in my article as it is only a placeholder term and does not imply what everyone thinks it does. As for DMT, I was addressing only our government/military/intelligence reactions to the perceived threat (or lack of it).
Okay, thanks for the clarification. I've been a follower of your work for quite awhile and have great respect for you and the connections you've made between the occult, Nazis, secret societies and the phenomenon itself. The military angle aside, I do think that DMT is an important component to the interface between ourselves and whatever it is that's being observed.
No, I do know exactly who you are. Whitley Strieber interviewed you a few times. I am very familiar with Puthoff (he's from Austin), Chris Mellon, and Jim Semivan, and I've corresponded with him about Chris Bledsoe, in particular. I've been studying/experiencing various phenomena since the late 60's.
By 'dangerous' I mean DeLonge suggesting the aliens being evil. Since most of us don't have direct evidence about their nature (And the experiences vary, too), and since humanity displays the whole spectrum of good and evil, we shouldn't be judging any other beings. Recently, our vice president has said some things that are questionable and by extension they have affected the health and well-being of actual experiencers. One that I know fears for his safety.
I don't feel that disclosure should come from government because it can be used to manipulate the masses, and the government we have now is already manipulating the masses and eroding democracy. Scientists should be at the helm, including sociologists and communication experts. Formal announcements should come from a world body, not one nation, because the whole world is involved. The USA does not own the phenomenon, but we act like we do. I know that Mellon will be the keynote speaker at the SCU Conference in July, so I will be interested in what he has to say. I know that you are not a wannabe. In the end, we may not make disclosure, they will, and then it will be totally out of our control.
I haven't been interviewed by Whitley in years, but to answer your statement about Tom, Disclosure, and evil ... Evil is a moral judgement that I don't make when it comes to something as unknowable as the Phenomenon, NHI, etc. Dangerous, yes. Anything we don't understand is potentially dangerous and possibly a threat, and it is wise to assume that position without making moral judgments, just to be safe. We expect that from our governments whose first responsibility is defense of the people. Abductions, for instance, imply a threat to the population and it is up to government to address that (insofar as they are able!). As for your other points concerning Disclosure: we make that case in our Sekret Machines books, especially in the third volume, Sekret Machines: War. And I have made that very case often in my interviews and writings. If we consider Disclosure as coming not from government but from other sources, then Disclosure has already been ongoing for centuries. Disclosure in common parlance, though, is often a shorthand for government disclosure, and that is how we have been using it. As for you knowing exactly who I am ... well ... that would be nice, if true. I'm not sure that could be said of anyone, by anyone, though! :)
One more thing: I contacted TTSA in 2017 to join and make a donation. I asked some pretty basic questions (I was a banker for several years) and find out more. I was very interested. The response I got was very rude and dismissive. I don't know if it was because I was not 'known', female, or a combination of factors, but they lost me completely...it seemed to be a real boys club. I'm sure they did not see it that way.
No, evil is real, not moral, but not the way many think of it. It is the denial of the right to thrive. It has nothing to do with a supreme being or a 'Satan' either.
Attitudes about 'evil' and fear probably develop early in each one of us. For me, I was so enthralled by nature that those things developed early. I was raised in a fundamentalist faith, and by the time I was 10 I knew it was bunk, argued with Sunday school teachers, and it was difficult for family too. By the time I was a young adult they knew I had to do my own thing, and that my feelings that a loving God would not 'condemn' anyone actually made sense. I was a girl that actually liked bugs and critters that left others screaming and running the other way, including spiders... and I lived in South Texas where a lot of things could bite and sting, and you watched for rattlesnakes when getting out of your car at night. I had an online conversation with some experiencers recently, and one admitted that maybe my own feeling about other beings on this planet, and his feelings of fear for certain critters and animals could play a part in the type of experience a person had. Has anyone ever studied that and queried experiencers about their emotional feelings about other beings on our planet? It may be important. An odd thing about that: When I first saw a review for Strieber's 'Communion' back in 1987, I thought the being on the cover was beautiful. Others expressed that they thought the image was very frightening.
Abductions: I'm sure that they happen, but maybe not in an evil way. We anesthetize animals in the wild to study and measure them, and learn more about them, then let them go. I watched a nature show years ago where rescuers were doing this, while also taking the wild sheep attached to a long cord, dangling beneath a flying
helicopter, to a safer place for them. I could sense the fear of those animals. It didn't matter that it was for their safety and well-being. Since we don't really know what is happening or why, the jury is out on that one. If I've been abducted, I have no memory of it, although I was abducted walking to my car in college by a human male. I got away by being defiant and using my wits.
My implication was that I know who you are, professionally, whereas most of the public probably does not.
Tom DeLonge, as far as I’m concerned has been used as a shill by the powers that be, and I don’t mean aliens….Rock star expresses his interest in UFOs and gets aided by all kinds of ‘experts’ and government types, starts TTSA and writes about Sekret Machines. He’s not even an experiencer, but a wanna-be. The things he is saying could be dangerous.
I was there at the beginning, too, though. His intent was to approach government and industry types with a non-adversarial, non-combative stance, rooted in the understanding that the Phenomenon obviously cut across national security concerns (particularly during the Cold War) as well as cultural and other political/scientific fields. In other words, we started from that as a given and once that was understood by all sides they started to trust us and our approach. The experts included Hal Puthoff, and the government types included Chris Mellon, Jim Semivan, etc. From where else would Disclosure come, if not “government types”? I was not an experiencer, either, but I published about the Phenomenon since 2005 and defended its study due to the amount of documented cases of CE1 to CE3. You don’t need to be an experiencer to study, comment, or explore the subject. At the same time, I’m not a “wanna-be” either, if that refers to close encounters, abductions, etc. As far as things being said that are dangerous: no more than anyone else commenting, reporting, “influencing”, etc. No one has a monopoly on the truth where the Phenomenon is concerned.
That was hands down the best thing I’ve read on any of this in weeks. I’ve followed you since I was about 15 years old. I’m 46 now. Keep writing please.
Many, many thanks. Truly! It's a great thing to hear from someone who has been reading my work for 30 years! I appreciate every word and will try to live up to expectations!
These were some of the exact things I was thinking, and remembering, Alan. Interest in nuclear weapons, environment, via John Mack. Was the Ariel school in Zimbabwe? Also fear being the primary motivator of wo/man, lovecraft fear of the unknown greatest. Humans so full of fear, can,t seem to make decisions without it. We are going to have to come to accept whatever. We are not on top, better to lessen our monsters/ego in importance, maybe see things as they really are. Humans don’t respect wildlife much, maybe we wildlife to “aliens”, other life that is just tolerated. Taste thine own medicine. Try to be open to others, respect, vice versa. They know more about us than we know about ourselves. Charles fort: I believe we are property, but important property. Also what Mr. Levenda said regarding manipulating genetics, consciousness reminds me of Joseph Farrell’s Transhumanism. All statements just food for thought, out.
We have a lot of data. The painful gap is that there is no concerted effort to derive it into the analytical products that we can consider and then refine. It is profoundly obvious that the Phenomenon is Phenomena and that multiple agendas exist. We are so stupid we keep arguing about whether ‘it’ exists. That way the operators of the agendas get to cruise along their merry way. I just want to shake the idiot skeptics and let them know that they are actually the problem. If they would just allow themselves to learn we could actually force the change. Instead we bicker. When the channeled beings all say raise your consciousness and you have a chance do you know what they are saying? They are saying RAISE YOUR AWARENESS. Which is to say quit being willfully blind. Jeezus. It is so damn frustrating. Rant off.
If we are like ants to them, why don't they stop us from wrecking the planet? Either they don't care about environmental damage/it doesn't matter or they have no way of stopping us. Or somehow they benefit. I can see how they might turn our nukes off and on like playing with a light switch (hey look what the ants built). I also think psychedelics play a role in all of this.
What if it's the "Aliens" who are stoned? :) What if their biology is sensitive to our atmosphere in such a way that they are always tripping, and that's why they show up and do nothing of consequence? One species's psychedelic is just another species's oxygen level ... (I'm joking ... but ...)
Well Peter, it's hard to support some of what Tom has been saying on some things. He claimed that these orbs are "probes" in stealth mode and I knew that was complete BS as soon as I heard it.
You have Avi Loeb claiming a mothership is here, it's laughable. I thoroughly believe this is some sort of ET religion that the government, hollywood has had a hand in creating. I don't know what the reasoning for this is besides that it coincides with Reagan (big fan of Secrect Teachings of All Ages) and his STAR WARS speech and the need to put weapons in space. From a historical perspective the tracks are all there.
I mention this bc some people don't have the "ufo" perspective in their background. But a lot of certain things coincide with spiritual/cultural backgrounds. At least that's my own experience anyway.
There's some people as you may well be aware of that can "see" spirits. I don't really see these things as aliens...but if they're trying to get people to "believe" this is real through some of these hearings and such then I won't hold my breathe. It just doesn't add up. With this threat budget, like what is the military going to do? Shoot conciousness? Who is this serving? Maybe the same structures that Tom may have been influenced by and that you are all too aware of in your books.
(I'm a big fan of your Lovecraft Code Series, it's like the TTSA books on steroids. )
I get what you're saying. And I actually made the point about consciousness in the article, saying that military defense spending would probably not get us to a deeper understanding of the Phenomenon and could very well be counter-productive. At the same time, we know so little about the Phenomenon that everything we say is conjecture and speculation and it's past time that we corrected that and started a serious multi-disciplinary investigation. Jacques Vallee has suggested the Phenomenon represents a "control mechanism" and Hal Puthoff has used the term "ultra-terrestrials" and still others expect that "They" have been here all along. I believe we have the tools we need to understand this mystery, we just aren't using them. (Thanks for the shout out to Lovecraft Code! Hope you liked the "Contact in the Desert" scenes!)
Thanks for the article Peter. The environmental crisis, that there's a sixth mass extinction underway together with a probable PETM-like event (when 55 MY ago temperatures rose over 6 degrees globally due to a mass natural induced injection of methane which then led to CO2 - it took hundreds of thousands of years for the climate to stabilize to a lower temperature) and nuclear weapons seem to be critical "attention-getters" for something super-advanced sharing Earth. And if correct as a real fact, the kids at the Ariel school in 1994 got warning messages re state of the planet. It would be important to know how global this particular message is to experiencers. Hasn't done much good though. The planet will survive of course, she's been here before and there's around a billion years before the Sun goes to a Red Giant. New intelligent species will surely arise.
Clearly they also don't like nukes re their monitoring of facilities but also didn't block the global testing regimes of the superpowers decades ago.
So how much they (multiple types and forms?) can actually influence us, who knows? Surely some group does, re all the secret studies since the late 40's onwards. And the mass of humanity now has a huge inertia to shift or bend to some "alien agenda". Desperate times require desperate measures?
It seems contactees report predictions of natural and artificial disasters pretty regularly. They are like Old Testament prophets (who never had anything nice to say!). It makes me wonder if there is a psychological component to the experience of contact that triggers these expectations. Why do we make blockbuster disaster/dystopia films all the time? We wallow in scenes of mass destruction of cities caused by aliens/monsters/natural disasters/nuclear war, etc. Does humanity have a death wish, and that is why "they" tend to leave us alone? Do they see that "death wish" as our way of, as Joseph Campbell would put it, "following our bliss"?
Is there a fatal flaw in our makeup as humans that blinds us to seeing "Them" as they really are? They are like house guests who refuse to come out of the guest room because they keep hearing the hosts bicker and fight among themselves, so they're waiting for everything to calm down before they can bring out the bundt cake ... but they've been waiting so long they start to eat the cake themselves. (Sorry ... rambling ... need ... caffeine ... )
Yes, now I remember John Mack writing of experiencers and their environmental concerns. His first book shocked me. Agree about the films - why do we do it! I can't really watch them at all. Keenly following your writing here and the UAP issue, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, Ryan Graves and other pilots, Congress issues, Avi Loeb, Lue and Chris etc. Cheers!
What if they are eating us? Many people go missing every year, never to be found again. What if they were simply eaten? Or their skin used for alien shoes? Or our plasma used in their shakes?
Thank you Peter for saying what needed to be said. When you see the things I have seen and realize they are masters of the laws of physics, etc., you know at least the future is already here. IMHO. How we get there is a matter of our humanity...
There's no mention of DMT in this article, and that seems like a big oversight in a discussion about the so-called 'Phenomenon'. There's also a lot of references to the 'Alien' which might be inaccurate altogether. Perhaps these things have been here long before man emerged, and WE are the aliens?
Hence, "Alien" is in quotes in my article as it is only a placeholder term and does not imply what everyone thinks it does. As for DMT, I was addressing only our government/military/intelligence reactions to the perceived threat (or lack of it).
Okay, thanks for the clarification. I've been a follower of your work for quite awhile and have great respect for you and the connections you've made between the occult, Nazis, secret societies and the phenomenon itself. The military angle aside, I do think that DMT is an important component to the interface between ourselves and whatever it is that's being observed.
No, I do know exactly who you are. Whitley Strieber interviewed you a few times. I am very familiar with Puthoff (he's from Austin), Chris Mellon, and Jim Semivan, and I've corresponded with him about Chris Bledsoe, in particular. I've been studying/experiencing various phenomena since the late 60's.
By 'dangerous' I mean DeLonge suggesting the aliens being evil. Since most of us don't have direct evidence about their nature (And the experiences vary, too), and since humanity displays the whole spectrum of good and evil, we shouldn't be judging any other beings. Recently, our vice president has said some things that are questionable and by extension they have affected the health and well-being of actual experiencers. One that I know fears for his safety.
I don't feel that disclosure should come from government because it can be used to manipulate the masses, and the government we have now is already manipulating the masses and eroding democracy. Scientists should be at the helm, including sociologists and communication experts. Formal announcements should come from a world body, not one nation, because the whole world is involved. The USA does not own the phenomenon, but we act like we do. I know that Mellon will be the keynote speaker at the SCU Conference in July, so I will be interested in what he has to say. I know that you are not a wannabe. In the end, we may not make disclosure, they will, and then it will be totally out of our control.
I haven't been interviewed by Whitley in years, but to answer your statement about Tom, Disclosure, and evil ... Evil is a moral judgement that I don't make when it comes to something as unknowable as the Phenomenon, NHI, etc. Dangerous, yes. Anything we don't understand is potentially dangerous and possibly a threat, and it is wise to assume that position without making moral judgments, just to be safe. We expect that from our governments whose first responsibility is defense of the people. Abductions, for instance, imply a threat to the population and it is up to government to address that (insofar as they are able!). As for your other points concerning Disclosure: we make that case in our Sekret Machines books, especially in the third volume, Sekret Machines: War. And I have made that very case often in my interviews and writings. If we consider Disclosure as coming not from government but from other sources, then Disclosure has already been ongoing for centuries. Disclosure in common parlance, though, is often a shorthand for government disclosure, and that is how we have been using it. As for you knowing exactly who I am ... well ... that would be nice, if true. I'm not sure that could be said of anyone, by anyone, though! :)
One more thing: I contacted TTSA in 2017 to join and make a donation. I asked some pretty basic questions (I was a banker for several years) and find out more. I was very interested. The response I got was very rude and dismissive. I don't know if it was because I was not 'known', female, or a combination of factors, but they lost me completely...it seemed to be a real boys club. I'm sure they did not see it that way.
No, evil is real, not moral, but not the way many think of it. It is the denial of the right to thrive. It has nothing to do with a supreme being or a 'Satan' either.
Attitudes about 'evil' and fear probably develop early in each one of us. For me, I was so enthralled by nature that those things developed early. I was raised in a fundamentalist faith, and by the time I was 10 I knew it was bunk, argued with Sunday school teachers, and it was difficult for family too. By the time I was a young adult they knew I had to do my own thing, and that my feelings that a loving God would not 'condemn' anyone actually made sense. I was a girl that actually liked bugs and critters that left others screaming and running the other way, including spiders... and I lived in South Texas where a lot of things could bite and sting, and you watched for rattlesnakes when getting out of your car at night. I had an online conversation with some experiencers recently, and one admitted that maybe my own feeling about other beings on this planet, and his feelings of fear for certain critters and animals could play a part in the type of experience a person had. Has anyone ever studied that and queried experiencers about their emotional feelings about other beings on our planet? It may be important. An odd thing about that: When I first saw a review for Strieber's 'Communion' back in 1987, I thought the being on the cover was beautiful. Others expressed that they thought the image was very frightening.
Abductions: I'm sure that they happen, but maybe not in an evil way. We anesthetize animals in the wild to study and measure them, and learn more about them, then let them go. I watched a nature show years ago where rescuers were doing this, while also taking the wild sheep attached to a long cord, dangling beneath a flying
helicopter, to a safer place for them. I could sense the fear of those animals. It didn't matter that it was for their safety and well-being. Since we don't really know what is happening or why, the jury is out on that one. If I've been abducted, I have no memory of it, although I was abducted walking to my car in college by a human male. I got away by being defiant and using my wits.
My implication was that I know who you are, professionally, whereas most of the public probably does not.
Tom DeLonge, as far as I’m concerned has been used as a shill by the powers that be, and I don’t mean aliens….Rock star expresses his interest in UFOs and gets aided by all kinds of ‘experts’ and government types, starts TTSA and writes about Sekret Machines. He’s not even an experiencer, but a wanna-be. The things he is saying could be dangerous.
I was there at the beginning, too, though. His intent was to approach government and industry types with a non-adversarial, non-combative stance, rooted in the understanding that the Phenomenon obviously cut across national security concerns (particularly during the Cold War) as well as cultural and other political/scientific fields. In other words, we started from that as a given and once that was understood by all sides they started to trust us and our approach. The experts included Hal Puthoff, and the government types included Chris Mellon, Jim Semivan, etc. From where else would Disclosure come, if not “government types”? I was not an experiencer, either, but I published about the Phenomenon since 2005 and defended its study due to the amount of documented cases of CE1 to CE3. You don’t need to be an experiencer to study, comment, or explore the subject. At the same time, I’m not a “wanna-be” either, if that refers to close encounters, abductions, etc. As far as things being said that are dangerous: no more than anyone else commenting, reporting, “influencing”, etc. No one has a monopoly on the truth where the Phenomenon is concerned.
Tremendous
That was hands down the best thing I’ve read on any of this in weeks. I’ve followed you since I was about 15 years old. I’m 46 now. Keep writing please.
Many, many thanks. Truly! It's a great thing to hear from someone who has been reading my work for 30 years! I appreciate every word and will try to live up to expectations!
I don’t expect a reply to this but I thought I’d mention I’ve purchased the necronomicon like… 9 times. 🤣
So ... the spell worked!
Seems to have. That’s all I needed to hear :) I wondered forever. Your great! Have a good day. :)
These were some of the exact things I was thinking, and remembering, Alan. Interest in nuclear weapons, environment, via John Mack. Was the Ariel school in Zimbabwe? Also fear being the primary motivator of wo/man, lovecraft fear of the unknown greatest. Humans so full of fear, can,t seem to make decisions without it. We are going to have to come to accept whatever. We are not on top, better to lessen our monsters/ego in importance, maybe see things as they really are. Humans don’t respect wildlife much, maybe we wildlife to “aliens”, other life that is just tolerated. Taste thine own medicine. Try to be open to others, respect, vice versa. They know more about us than we know about ourselves. Charles fort: I believe we are property, but important property. Also what Mr. Levenda said regarding manipulating genetics, consciousness reminds me of Joseph Farrell’s Transhumanism. All statements just food for thought, out.
We have a lot of data. The painful gap is that there is no concerted effort to derive it into the analytical products that we can consider and then refine. It is profoundly obvious that the Phenomenon is Phenomena and that multiple agendas exist. We are so stupid we keep arguing about whether ‘it’ exists. That way the operators of the agendas get to cruise along their merry way. I just want to shake the idiot skeptics and let them know that they are actually the problem. If they would just allow themselves to learn we could actually force the change. Instead we bicker. When the channeled beings all say raise your consciousness and you have a chance do you know what they are saying? They are saying RAISE YOUR AWARENESS. Which is to say quit being willfully blind. Jeezus. It is so damn frustrating. Rant off.
If we are like ants to them, why don't they stop us from wrecking the planet? Either they don't care about environmental damage/it doesn't matter or they have no way of stopping us. Or somehow they benefit. I can see how they might turn our nukes off and on like playing with a light switch (hey look what the ants built). I also think psychedelics play a role in all of this.
What if it's the "Aliens" who are stoned? :) What if their biology is sensitive to our atmosphere in such a way that they are always tripping, and that's why they show up and do nothing of consequence? One species's psychedelic is just another species's oxygen level ... (I'm joking ... but ...)
Why not! 😂 I always wonder if they’re rich assholes on a joyride. Did you ever see Grand Tour, the Jeff Bridges movie from the 1990s?
Well Peter, it's hard to support some of what Tom has been saying on some things. He claimed that these orbs are "probes" in stealth mode and I knew that was complete BS as soon as I heard it.
You have Avi Loeb claiming a mothership is here, it's laughable. I thoroughly believe this is some sort of ET religion that the government, hollywood has had a hand in creating. I don't know what the reasoning for this is besides that it coincides with Reagan (big fan of Secrect Teachings of All Ages) and his STAR WARS speech and the need to put weapons in space. From a historical perspective the tracks are all there.
I mention this bc some people don't have the "ufo" perspective in their background. But a lot of certain things coincide with spiritual/cultural backgrounds. At least that's my own experience anyway.
There's some people as you may well be aware of that can "see" spirits. I don't really see these things as aliens...but if they're trying to get people to "believe" this is real through some of these hearings and such then I won't hold my breathe. It just doesn't add up. With this threat budget, like what is the military going to do? Shoot conciousness? Who is this serving? Maybe the same structures that Tom may have been influenced by and that you are all too aware of in your books.
(I'm a big fan of your Lovecraft Code Series, it's like the TTSA books on steroids. )
I get what you're saying. And I actually made the point about consciousness in the article, saying that military defense spending would probably not get us to a deeper understanding of the Phenomenon and could very well be counter-productive. At the same time, we know so little about the Phenomenon that everything we say is conjecture and speculation and it's past time that we corrected that and started a serious multi-disciplinary investigation. Jacques Vallee has suggested the Phenomenon represents a "control mechanism" and Hal Puthoff has used the term "ultra-terrestrials" and still others expect that "They" have been here all along. I believe we have the tools we need to understand this mystery, we just aren't using them. (Thanks for the shout out to Lovecraft Code! Hope you liked the "Contact in the Desert" scenes!)