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Richard Thieme will discuss “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry” at these libraries:

2012

Grafton – Nov 12, 2012 6:30 p.m. – 35

Waterford – Dec 5, 2012 6:30 p.m. – 50

2013

Butler – Jan 15 2013 6:30 p.m. – 6

Random Lake – Feb. 4, 2013 6:30 p.m.- 20

Racine– Thursday March 7, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. – 15

Wauwatosa – Tuesday March 19, 2013 7:00 p.m. – 12

Elm Grove – Wednesday March 27, 2013 6:00 p.m. – 80

Milwaukee Public Library (downtown) Saturday, April 27, 2013 1:00 p.m.

Mequon – Thursday May 2, 2013 5:30-7:00 p.m.

West Bend Library – Saturday May 18, 2013 10:00 a.m.

COMING NEXT:

North Shore Library – Saturday May 25 2013 1:00 p.m.

Kenosha Southwest Library – Tuesday June 4, 2013 6:30 p.m.

Delafield Library – Wednesday June 5, 2013 – 6:00 p.m.

Burlington – Saturday June 29, 2013 1:00 p.m.

Waukesha Library – Wednesday July 10, 2013 6:30 p.m.

Port Washington – Saturday August 17, 2013 10:00 a.m.

New Berlin – Thursday September 12, 2013 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Beloit Public Library – October 29, 2013 – 7:00–8:30 p.m.

Gillett Library – November 6, 2013

Mead Library Sheboygan – November 7, 2013

Pending:

Cedarburg Library (post construction)

Pewaukee Library

Sussex Library

Hartford Library

Hartland Library

Muskego Library

Crystal Lake IL Public Library

from Josh Corman, facilitator of the interview:

Dan Geer is CISO of CIA’s In-Q-Tel and a LOT of other things as well.

RT is an author and speaker.

The SOURCE Boston Keynotes are up on YouTube.

My goals were:

to honor them

get them unscripted

make them blush at times if possible (from love)

inspire the room to take a more active role

inspire the room topics focus on more consequential topics

…

get Richard to close w/ his Ferg’s Law excerpt

get Dan Geer to finish reciting “If” by Rudyard Kipling

…

IF you watch nothing else… watch these at the end.

…hauntingly special – and not only because we were all still reeling from the Marathon aftermath and confusion…

Herding cats has nothing on thinking one can steer these two titans

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTj4NtsPwNo

All will eventually be posted within the schedule:

http://www.sourceconference.com/boston/speakers_2013.html

Joshua

P.S. ’twas priceless to faux “out” Geer as the leader of Anonymous…

The Tearffl Dossier

It has been a long long time. The way you people think of time.

I don’t want to talk about where I was. I don’t want to talk about any of that, ever.

That happened to someone else, somewhere else. We were linked, in the same way that everyone is linked, by an exchange of data through porous boundaries, riding currents of energy. The way it moves through bubbles in the foam, interpenetration, say.

The psychiatrist doesn’t understand. She said it was me, that both were me, that all three were me, but that’s because she thinks identity is finite and bounded. Because she is, in her own human way.

I should know, if anyone does. How could she know? Sitting in her easy chair, safe inside her role which is so close to her skin she would scream if it were taken away, looking out at what she thinks she sees, at who she thinks I am and who I was, everywhere, everywhen, not even knowing in which brane she lives or how, inside which diaphanous skein, how she floats in a snow globe that is on the shelf beside a thousand more, a thousand thousand thousand more, snow globe upon snow globe, on a disappearing shelf as far as the eye can see.

We float. We have been designed to believe we are anchored.

But – believe me – we float.

She sits back and crosses her legs, her pantyhose make that sound, distracting me for a minute, as she knows it always will, and then she says, you were in a dissociated state. She was wrong. Of course. Therapists are like weathermen, aren’t they, or stock analysts? They can say anything and never lose their jobs, no matter how wrong they are.

Or how destructive. A sunny day turns lethal with cold lightning, the sky darkens behind and ice rains on the hiker. A stock a naïve investor intended to be a nest egg turns into a rout and lays a man waste. A casual diagnosis, putting me into a category, according to the latest taxonomy of human fools, might make a person doubt his own knowing.

Then he disbelieves his experience and believes a therapist’s words.

That’s a recipe for healing, isn’t it? Believing words instead of the felt impact of a life?

Labeling my experience(s) dissociation created a falsehood back through which I had to swim to get back to the beginning. I did not pass go and collected no money. The beginning, where reality begins, ought to be our point of departure. But she made me swim back to escape the tidal pull of the falsehoods she embedded in my psyche, simply to be back at the starting point. I beat my boat against the current, as it were, while she did what she could to draw me back ceaselessly into the past.

The future is past. She thought only the past was past. She didn’t understand.

That was a minor event, however. I state it here because it will help twenty-first century humans have a connection to what I am saying. That’s why I went to the therapist – to learn a frame appropriate to this time and this place so what I say sounds sane. Shared explanations, however false and arbitrary, give a group a sense of solid ground – while the ground in fact is curved and hurtling through space.

She did not understand that I did understand, more than normal humans can, what is a dissociated state and what is not. I know how the machinery works, from within. I understand humans much better than humans understand themselves. I did not participate in the engineering, the spawning of human consciousness, but know who did, and when, and some of why. The last one per cent of “why” is hidden from us as it is hidden from all sentient creatures. Why there is anything and not nothing, for example. We make things up, we string together words, as if that resolves what must always be a mystery.

That last little bit of “why.” The kernal of darkness into which we gaze, uncomprehending. Seeing the gleam in our own eyes as if it is the origin of light.

My guess is, it works better that way.

It’s what we do, at any rate. And a number of us spawn consciousness. We have our mission, as we understand it, to enable as many sentient intelligent arabesques as possible in this and similar skeins, during our sort of walkabout, until they are ready to contribute too. To the Wising Up of the Hive Mind.

I left off the blog, the one that guy encouraged me to write in the coffee shop, LaJava what it was, in order to go do something else. It took longer than I thought. But the task is complete. Earth stumbles on. Do not thank us. We do it for the universe, not for you, except insofar as you are part of the whole. We do it for the Pluriverse, the Multiverse, some of you would say.

You humans think you know so much! Do you know, until the last century, you thought that this ordinary galaxy was the entire Universe? You did not suspect the width and the breadth of the thing, did you? But let’s use your old word, Universe, to mean whatever, everything and nothing.  What you call “space.”

One day many days ahead you will think you have seen the luminous foam of consciousness expand until all space is contained or until all space contains all conscious foam, species like bubbles popping up and popping here and there, in and out of existence, a constant fluctuation of the matrix that defines it all. Then one day you will drop something, as it were, and will be on your knees, as it were, when a bubble in the foam goes pop! And you will glance over at it, and for the very first time, see an aperture through which there is … what? You curious little species, you! you will lean way down and screw up your face (as it were) and look through the tiny hole and … what you see will blow your mind.

Literally.

Now that, my little humans, that will create a dissociated state. Take my word for it.

But let me tell you something. The use of torture to achieve dominance or control is infantile and, frankly, a sick twisted thing to do. You do it for the fun of it, you know, not because it is an effective means of coercion.. It creates an illusion of control. That sickness must be healed before you can sit at the table and dine in civility with your elders. Until then, you will eat at the smaller table in the kitchen with the help.

Jack Teufel, as you thought of him, endured. He was never the same, afterward, of course. But like the Dude, he abides. He continues to be … himself, as it were. An identity in a context that props up who he thinks he is.

As you are.

So I am back on the so-available pages of another call-it-a-Blog, and I want to tell you where I am from and why we are here. We have been here a long, long time. We have been here almost as long as you have. Because we structured the ability for your species and some others to be formed in and by the space we created, in that niche, in the configurations we made in genetic code which enabled possibilities within however the always-present constraints of the code and the context in which we spawned your species, that is to say, the oxygen-rich atmosphere of earth at last, earth at last, letting mammals ping! and pop! Then antecedents could evolve, tooth and horn and hoof, exploding into the space when it warmed at last. Then came the others. Then the others. Then, you.

You are already on the short path to the back door, to the egress, through the portable toilets lined up like teleportation booths and around to the back, behind the flap of the tent. On the wall of the tent, lighted from within, the fakir does his fakery. So enjoy your dominance while you can. The best is yet to come, but not perhaps for you. The next iteration will experience the world differently and frame it differently. By then, by the time you have become that, it will feel as if it is you, too. That’s how identity goes or flows, what it feels like, inside. As if what is was always what. As if the point of reference, always, is yourself.

But that will be a ways off. Fret not, little flock. It is your planet’s displeasure to harbor you lice, but you won’t notice. You will think you are kings of creation. Barely up from the swamp, you will think you are the apple of His eye. (I say “His” advisedly, because). Instead of one more fruit-in-transit on a transitory tree.

But enough instruction. Let me tell you about myself.

University of Wisconsin –

Madison

Milwaukee

Stout

Eau Claire

Parkside

Waukesha

Washington County

University Research Park

Wisconsin Medical College

Marquette University

Alverno College

Cardinal Stritch University

Mount Mary College

National-Louis University

Wisconsin Lutheran College

Purdue University – CERIAS

Technology, Literacy and Culture Distinguished Speakers Series of the University of Texas

Nathan B. Stubblefield Distinguished Lecturer in Telecommunications Systems Management at Murray State University, Murray KY

University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta – “Design Matters” Lecture Series

Illinois Institute of Technology

Loyola University – Chicago

Milwaukee Area Technical College

Gateway Technical College – Racine

Chippewa Valley Technical College

Waukesha County Technical College

University of Chicago Club – Milwaukee

Phi Beta Kappa – Milwaukee Chapter

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA and later DARPA), 238

Aero Club of New England, 113

Aerospace Companies

Boeing, 153, 299, 340, 378

Douglas, 222

General Electric, 54-55, 495

North American Aviation, 9, 208

Northrop, 9, 213

Rockwell, 280

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 332, 441

Australian Air Force Intelligence (DAFI), 373, 376-77, 379-82, 384-88, 390, 392-98, 400-01, 404-05, 407, 412-15

Astronomical Observatories

Cincinnati, 56

Dearborn, 395

Lowell, 264

Lund, 25

Palomar, 86, 106, 210, 366

Sacramento Peak, 314

Saltsjöbaden, 25

Smithsonian Astrophysical, 218, 249

Stockholm, 14, 364

University of Pennsylvania, 299

Yerkes, 225

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 37, 76, 81, 92, 106-07, 148, 182, 184, 186, 477

Avro disk project, 232, 265

Battelle Memorial Institute, 132, 177, 189, 191, 220, 225, 239, 503

Beacon Hill, 110, 175-76

Blue Book Special Report #14, 220-24, 239-41, 251, 265

Bolender Memo, 336-37

Books discussed

    At The Threshold: UFOs, Science, and the New Age, 470

    Behind the Flying Saucers, 95, 103

    Clear Intent, 337-39

    Flight into the Ages, 410

Flying Saucers, 214

    Flying Saucers Are Real, 103, 199

    Flying Saucers from Outer Space, 211, 216, 219, 221, 374-76, 379, 508

    Passport to Magonia, 399

    Strategic Air Power, 151

Studies in Intelligence, 349

    The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance, 349

    The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, 131, 197, 209, 221, 301

    The UFO Encyclopedia, 77

    The UFO Evidence, 298, 319, 339

    The World of Flying Saucers, 215, 289, 300

    UFOs? Yes!, 316

Brookings Institution, 206

Cape Canaveral, 208, 281

Censorship. See Information censorship

Center for International Studies (CENIS), 185-87

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 48, 62, 90, 102, 139, 148, 159, 163, 172, 175, 226-28, 248, 264-66,

337, 342, 349, 365

CIRVIS, 123

Colorado Project, 316, 331-32

directors of, 166, 170-72, 174-75, 177, 180, 182-86, 188, 191, 196, 228, 243, 506

formation of, 26, 30, 146, 182-83

green fireballs, 81, 86

Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC), 182-90, 228, 266

investigations of citizens, 120

media, 53, 146, 216, 308

National Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC), 149, 279, 419

national security, 146, 159, 170, 172, 174, 177-82, 185-86, 190-91, 193, 228, 503-07

need for scientific research of UFOs, 184-88, 190-91, 198

Office of Scientific Investigations (OSI)

investigation of UFOs, 173-183, 216, 228, 266, 503-07

involvement with military affairs, 182-83, 185, 264

organizational structure, 171-72

Scientific Intelligence Committee (SIC), 183

scientific study, 184-87, 189-91, 198

special studies group, 172-74

psychological use of UFOs, 176, 178-81, 190-91, 239, 290, 504-07

relations with other organizations, 163, 172-75, 177-78, 182-88, 191, 208, 264, 349-50, 503-04

Robertson Panel, 159, 170, 176, 187-91, 196, 198-99, 216-17, 291-92, 468

SIGN 65

U-2 spy plane, 217, 264, 349-50

Central Intelligence Group (CIG), 22-23, 26, 30, 146

CIRVIS-MERINT reporting procedure, 123, 220, 247, 261, 285, 336-37

Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Air Traffic Control, 129, 149, 154, 156, 158, 161, 194, 215, 247, 259, 284

Coast Guard, 36, 256, 260-61

Colorado Project, 153, 215, 229, 231, 248-49, 260, 300, 306-07, 332, 336, 351

beginnings of their work, 316-18

conclusions prior to completion of work, 324-25, 331

creation of, 308-12

development of final report, 326-27, 329-31

firing of project members, 328-29

Low memo, 321-23

methodology of, 312-15, 318

role of Condon, 319-21

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), 321

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 374-75, 389, 394-96, 404, 411, 413

Communications Instructions for Reporting Emergency Sightings (CIRES), 122, 336

Congress

military budget, 146, 217, 238

NICAP and Keyhoe, 204-05, 208, 212, 219-23, 241-44, 254, 265, 271-73, 275, 277-79, 291, 293, 298, 301, 306

United States House of Representatives, 38, 98, 103, 239, 275-79, 283, 292-93, 296, 307, 315, 328-29, 331, 337-

38, 342, 349, 351-55

United States Senate, 219, 285, 291

UFO investigations, 119, 271, 291

Contactees, 204, 219, 238, 274, 301, 320, 366, 385, 463

Crawford Ranch, 347, 510-12

Department of Defense (DOD), 118, 123, 187, 238, 348, 351, 510-12

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 340-41, 457

Defense Science Board (DSB), 265

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 75-76, 123, 186, 239, 265, 338

Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), 75-76

    See also Pentagon

Department of State, 90, 182, 186

Electromagnetic. See UFO evidence, electromagnetic, interference, ionization

Extraterrestrial and Hypothesis (ET or ETH)

government discussions, 48, 58, 61-62, 65-66, 74-75, 77, 107-08, 135, 140-41, 147, 163-64, 173, 178,

190, 205-06, 209, 272-73, 290, 331, 355-56, 379, 381, 449-50, 493, 495, 504, 509

media, 103, 159, 350, 381

public views, 67, 133, 301, 351, 353, 355, 368, 463

scientific opinions, 56, 72, 74, 117, 151, 176, 242, 263, 297, 313, 317-19, 322-24, 329, 449-50, 458

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Air Traffic Control, 342, 345-48, 510-12

    See also Civil Aviation Authority

Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), 30, 35, 75, 86, 90, 164, 229, 247, 275, 339, 349, 354, 490

investigation of citizens, 103, 119-20, 196-97, 219, 239-40

UFO investigations, 36, 38-39, 57, 81, 95, 105-07, 148, 266

Forteans, 188-89

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 48, 62, 65, 133-35, 249, 336, 338-39, 343, 345-46, 348-49, 407, 470

General Accounting Office (GAO), 329, 337, 342, 351-55

General Mills, balloons, 85, 94, 99, 105, 114, 118, 128-29, 144, 151, 166, 232

Greater Miami Aviation Association, 220

Ground Observer Corps (GOC), 215, 219, 226, 265, 348

Hessdalen Project, 453, 455

Hoaxes, 42-43, 45, 73, 99-100, 103-05, 113-14, 120, 122, 127, 139, 145, 147, 172, 283, 291, 326, 365, 431, 440, 465

specific cases, 95, 259, 357, 367

Hysteria or panic

as a concern, 32, 35, 103, 153, 174, 176, 179-81, 190, 194, 205-06, 238-40, 247, 263, 342-43, 393, 468, 505-07

as an explanation for UFOs, 6, 66, 73-74, 99-100, 104-06, 122, 250, 296, 343, 362-63, 376

ICBM, 10, 206, 208, 217, 238

Information censorship, 468, 470-71

by CIA, 174, 181, 290, 342, 507

by Condon Report, 321, 327

by NASA, 348-49

by Pentagon, 204-05, 208-09

by United States Navy, 86-87

by United States Air Force, 7, 66-67, 99, 103, 119-20, 133-34, 198-99, 216-20, 272-73, 282-85, 306-07, 345-46,

348, 496, 500, 509

in Australia, 392, 404

in France, 452

Invisible College, 332, 394-96, 401, 470

JANAP 146 procedure, 30, 122-24, 130, 198-99, 204, 220, 242, 247, 261, 285, 336-38

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 325, 331

Journals and Magazines

    Argosy, 75

    Amazing Stories, 53

    Christian Science Monitor, 93

    Cosmopolitan, 113-14

    Journal of the Optical Society of America, 191

    FATE, 53

    Life, 120, 147, 156

    Look, 117-18, 147, 216, 328

    MIJI Quarterly, 341

    My Weekly Reader, 103

    National Enquirer, 338-39

    New Yorker, 184, 188

Newark Star-Ledger, 283-84

    Popular Science, 57

    Saturday Evening Post, 67, 72, 74

    SEE, 210-11

    The Airline Pilot, 231

    The American Weekly, 217

    True, 90, 93-95, 99, 164

    U.S. News and World Report, 97

Lincoln Laboratories, 175-76, 184-85, 187, 191, 198

Loedding disk and lenticular designs, 41, 54, 55

Los Alamos National Laboratories, 77, 86, 104, 108, 114, 175, 217, 252, 310

green fireballs, 78-79, 81, 105, 119, 146

Los Alamos Birdwatchers Association, 85-86, 105

UFO sightings, 61, 95, 100, 105-06, 116-17, 119, 144, 148, 189, 195, 210, 213

Lovelace Clinic, 281, 287

MIT Radiation Laboratory, 5, 189

Moon, 227

    See also UFO, explanations

Moonwatch (Operation), 218, 249-50, 348

Movies, Radio and Television

Arthur Godfrey, 194-95, 282

CBS, 195-96, 272-73, 308

Dave Garroway Show, 261-62

    Disney, 194-95, 321

Edward R. Murrow, 99

Green Rouse Studios, 222

Jam Handy Co., 194

National Press Club, 343

Night Beat, 244

The Armstrong Circle Theater, 272-73, 276

The Mike Wallace Interview, 272-73

The Thing, 103

Walter Winchell, 75

    War of the Worlds, 35, 190, 205

    UFO, 221-22, 240, 265-66

National Academy of Sciences, 306, 309, 328

National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), 83, 194, 217, 241, 308

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 83, 198, 264, 273, 279, 289, 293, 336, 440, 458

hiding information, 348-49

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 309

National Bureau of Standards, 65, 71, 310

National Guard, 51, 62, 66, 343

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 343

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), 172, 349

National security, 41, 44, 52, 116, 228, 241, 260, 284

actions to protect, 133, 146, 156, 204-07, 336, 468

Australia, 373, 378, 392, 402, 404, 408-09, 412

concerns of, 30, 42, 72, 112, 140, 151, 170, 177-81, 185-87, 190-91, 193, 208, 503-07, 510-12

France, 439, 453, 469

primary purpose, 140, 336, 468-69

psychological threat, 174, 179-81, 185, 190-91, 505-07

Robertson Panel, 159

Spain, 436-37

UFOs not a threat, 147, 159, 238, 291

National Security Act, 30, 75

National Security Agency (NSA), 340-41, 403-04

National Security Council (NSC), 67, 159, 170, 172, 180-83, 185-87, 506-07

National Security Council Intelligence Directive (NSCID), 182-87, 189, 198, 265

Naval Academy, 92, 165, 241, 243

Naval Intelligence, 20, 62, 90-91, 117, 151, 186, 279

Australia, 379-80

conflict with the Air Force, 164-65, 170, 261, 281-82

Naval Space Surveillance Center, 348

Naval Vessels

    HMAS Adroit, 406, 411

     Saldanha da Gama, 463

     The Sebago, 260-63

    USS Ticonderoga, 43, 489

    USS Tillamock, 90

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), 337-38, 348, 510-12

North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO), 164, 273, 451, 456-8

Nuclear or Atomic

laboratories, 77-79, 106, 396

nuclear powered craft, 9, 19, 37, 62, 74-76, 107, 116, 147, 187, 217, 403

Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA), 10, 75, 116, 477

Physicists, 55, 117, 187, 189, 385, 414

power plants, 148-49, 185, 187, 208, 213, 348

radioactivity, 18, 62, 66, 86, 105-07, 116, 125, 164, 178, 210, 250, 281-82, 342, 406, 445, 504

war, 297, 403-04

waste sites, 31, 33, 176, 178, 504

weapon and weapon sites, 10, 30-31, 33, 38, 92, 104, 124, 133, 146, 149, 164, 176, 189, 208, 248, 259-60, 338-

39, 352, 396, 410

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 31, 210

propulsion work, 10, 75

UFO sightings at, 104, 106-08, 114, 116-17, 144, 146, 175-6, 189, 213

Office of Strategic Service (OSS), 146

Operation Deepfreeze, 290

Pentagon, 5, 31, 35, 53-54, 102, 112, 132, 170, 290, 314, 375

AFCSI letter, 91-92

Air Force intelligence, 7, 36

Blue Book Report #14, 239-40

congress, 212, 222-23, 227, 243, 277, 281

ghost rockets, 30, 52

green fireballs, 77, 79-81, 92, 497

involvement of scientific community, 306-07

JANAP 146, 122-24, 261, 336-37

media, 67, 74-75, 90, 93, 97-100, 103-04, 113, 118-122, 130, 145-48, 155-64, 204, 208-09, 212, 216, 219-21, 243-

44, 254-56, 284-86, 291-92, 301, 500

NICAP, 247

relation with Air Materiel Command, 42-43, 48-51

Robertson Panel, 184-86

SIGN’s Estimate, 61-62, 65-66, 71-72, 74, 117, 509

space race, 238-39

UFO investigations, 35, 37-43, 58, 60, 116, 126-28, 148-50, 153, 342, 462, 464, 492-93

views on the UFO phenomenon, 64, 139-47, 151-53, 164, 242-43, 331

withdrawal from UFO investigations, 122-24

See also Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Photographic Evidence. See UFO evidence, photographic

Planets

Mars, 53, 74, 92, 99, 194, 205-06, 209-10, 264, 495

as reason for a sighting, 217-18, 224, 296, 384

Mercury, 495

Jupiter

as reason for a sighting, 213, 215, 298, 384

Saturn, 227, 262, 282, 464

as reason for a sighting, 384

Venus, 74, 81, 209, 225, 230, 283

as reason for a sighting, 52, 61, 213, 226, 229, 259, 263, 299, 361-63, 431, 436, 494-95, 525

Project Manhattan (The Manhattan Project), 104

Project Mogul, 57, 85, 352-53, 355-56

Project Saucer, 210

Project Twinkle, 81, 105, 115, 119, 135, 146, 172, 191

Psychology

as an explanation for UFO sightings, 42, 194, 238, 266, 321, 327, 367, 377, 431, 441-2, 471, 494

doctors of, 310-13, 320, 325, 367, 458

human, 44, 173, 193-96, 296, 294, 320

military, 31, 42

use of UFO reports in warfare, 44, 87, 107, 140, 151, 174, 176, 187, 290, 292-93

See also Hysteria or panic, as a concern; National security, psychological threat

Radiation and Geiger counter. See UFO evidence, radiation

Radar. See UFO evidence, radar

RAND

creation of, 9-10

study of UFOs, 58-59, 62, 72, 76, 164-65, 477, 492-93

Redstone rocket, 208, 217

Regulus program, 262

Robertson Panel

attitude of, 192-93, 216-17

classified portion of report, 277

creation of, 189-90

education of public and debunking via media, 193-94, 222, 243, 279, 298, 300, 308, 351, 468

effects of conclusions, 197-9, 208, 219-20, 286, 292

final report, 191, 193-96

meetings and discussions, 190-91, 209-10

See also Central Intelligence Agency, Robertson Panel

Roswell Report, 44-45, 337, 342, 350-57, 359-60

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 339, 377

Samford Press Conference, 159-63

Sandia National Laboratories, 77, 79, 81, 95, 104, 131, 144, 189, 195, 252, 281

Satellites

development of, 9-10, 165, 217-18, 249

green fireballs, 80

spying with, 146, 149, 403

tracking of, 250, 256, 285, 294, 296, 311, 456, 470

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), 297, 460

Secretary of Defense, 123, 186, 265, 276, 338

Forrestal, 67

Johnson, 97

Perry, 351

Smithsonian, 331-32

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), 218, 249, 285

Soviet Union or Russia. 104, 120, 126, 146, 151, 206, 208, 217, 228, 279, 352, 400

as the source of UFOs, 36, 42-45, 48, 50, 55, 66-67, 71-72, 75, 87, 107, 119, 140-43, 145-46, 151, 156, 264-65,

381, 401, 481, 490-91

elimination as the source of UFOs, 60-61, 74, 98, 105, 118, 172-74, 205-06, 210, 242, 246, 266, 274, 289, 291

ghost rockets, 16, 19-20, 22-23, 26-27, 362-63, 365

green fireballs, 77, 115-16, 119

interest in UFOs, 57

nuclear war threat, 9, 30, 293, 403

psychological use of UFOs, 174, 176, 178-80, 185, 187, 190, 194, 349, 504-06

satellites, 218, 238, 249-50, 256

UFO sightings, 57, 227-28, 458-60

Theodolite or tracking telescope, 32-33, 85, 92, 94, 96, 105, 115-16, 129, 247-49, 266, 298

Twining Memo, 43, 48

U-2 and OXCART, 215, 247, 264

cause of UFO reports, 349-50

UFO, evidence

electromagnetic, interference, ionization, 6, 91, 244, 250-55, 287, 295, 300, 340-41, 445-46, 458

photographic, 96, 105, 224, 278-79, 317, 329-30, 488-89

Australia, 377, 407

Belgium, 457-58

Brazil, 460-61, 463-65

Edwards AFB, 247-48, 266

France, 444

Great Falls, 222

Hart, 131

Heflin, 326

Luke AFB, 213-14

McMinnville, 326

Phoenix Lights, 343

Rhodes, 53-55

Ryman, 36-37

Spain, 432

Tremonton, 149, 191, 198

plant and soil, 420-21, 444-46

radar, 35-36, 43-44, 90-91, 104, 106-07, 115-16, 124, 131, 148, 153-62, 212-15, 225-26, 229-31, 246-49, 259-61,

266, 283-84, 287, 295-96, 326-27, 338-47, 375-76, 379-80, 382, 397-98, 400, 407, 414, 417-18, 430-31, 435,

452, 457-58, 487, 489, 510-12, 527

radiation, 86, 105-06, 116, 164, 281-82, 342

UFO, explanations

aircraft, 35, 83, 91, 117, 150, 214, 226, 229, 249, 260, 263, 266, 294, 299, 345, 349-50, 361, 363, 374, 431, 435-6,

528

ball lighting, 218, 254-56, 262, 264, 274, 314-15

balloons, 3, 7, 35, 43, 45, 51-52, 54, 56-57, 85, 90-92, 94, 100, 106-07, 116-19, 121, 127-29, 148, 198, 224, 226,

231, 248, 284, 294, 327, 350-56, 365, 375, 387, 392, 431, 462, 494

birds, 115, 131, 149, 161, 192, 198, 222, 230, 366

illusion, 38, 52, 108, 145, 158, 258, 274, 378, 384, 433, 457, 462

meteor, 12-14, 16, 25-26, 33, 35, 43, 56, 60, 78-81, 91, 121, 129, 133-35, 199-200, 224-26, 230, 246, 260, 262,

284, 286, 345, 366, 374-75, 497

mirage, 52, 117, 218, 258, 263, 296, 316, 327, 384

moon, 6, 246, 259, 386-87, 406, 433

planets. See Planets

plasma, 152, 316, 323

St. Elmo’s Fire, 255-56, 262

stars

Arcturus, 215

Betelgeuse, 215, 296

Capella, 215, 218, 296

Sirius, 362-63, 417

Spica, 218, 299

UFO, motions

erratic flight, 3, 34, 55, 154, 158, 218, 225-26, 246, 266, 287, 294, 397, 409-10, 461

extreme speed, 35, 37, 43, 54, 90-91, 104, 114-15, 124, 128-29, 131, 147-48, 154-55, 166, 212-13, 217,

224-26, 229, 231-32, 246, 266, 274-75, 283, 295, 344, 346-47, 378, 382, 387, 397, 403-04, 409-11,

439, 443, 447, 449, 458, 461-62, 480, 487-89

Fournet motion study, 152, 191, 209, 272, 509

hovering, 115-16, 129, 149, 155, 212-13, 217-18, 224-25, 229-31, 259, 282-83, 288, 294-95, 298-300,

338, 383, 403-04, 409-10, 421, 433-34, 443, 445, 447, 461, 480, 487

rotating, 128, 130, 148, 200, 212, 229, 287-88, 298-99, 388-90, 421

sudden change in direction, 54, 71, 83, 90-91, 104, 155, 158, 212, 224, 226, 229-31, 283, 294-95, 338,

344, 447

undulating or wobbling, 37, 40, 71, 83, 200, 212, 231, 296, 475

UFO, organizations

Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), 174, 176, 195-97, 204, 257-58, 291, 300, 315-16, 332

Archives for UFO Research (AFU), 368, 364, 367

Australian Flying Saucer Research Society, 402, 420

Australian UFO Research Association, 409, 413, 420

Borderland Sciences Research Associates, 174

Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), 332, 351, 442, 470

Civilian Saucer Intelligence (CSI-NY), 174, 230

Civilian Saucer Investigation (CSI-LA), 174, 176, 196-97

Commonwealth Aerial Phenomena Investigation Organisation (CAPIO), 412

Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), 332, 351

National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), 174, 265-66, 285, 289-90, 298, 301

battle with Air Force, 204-05, 208, 220, 223, 239, 241-44, 246-47, 271-73, 275-79, 283, 291-93, 306-07

case investigations, 294-96, 299-300

Colorado Project, 315, 319, 324-26, 329, 332

Skandinavisk UFO Information (SUFOI), 274, 367

Victoria Flying Saucer Research Society (VFSRS), 384, 389, 392

UFOs, orders to fire upon or intercept 105, 153, 159, 232, 503

UFOs, shapes

Cigar, 15-16, 71, 129, 274, 370, 374, 385-86, 440, 494-95

Cylinder, 280, 294

disk, 30-33, 38, 40, 43-45, 48, 52-58, 61-62, 71-72, 76-77, 82-83, 85, 94, 96, 114-15, 124, 129, 130, 134-35, 144,

148-50, 152, 154, 164-65, 177-81, 191, 212-13, 224, 226, 227, 229-30, 247, 274, 285, 294, 298-300, 339,

343, 350, 352, 354, 366-68, 374, 381-86, 388, 405-06, 430, 461, 463, 475-77, 480, 487, 494-95, 503-07

foo fighter, 3-7, 53, 494-95

flying wing, 54, 131, 491

missile, 55, 58, 61-62, 81, 84, 119, 122, 154, 162, 245, 252, 369, 428, 430

sphere, 3, 7, 62, 144, 213, 226, 287, 298-300, 404-05, 494

triangle, 57, 86, 213, 226, 343, 431, 434, 457

UFOs, witness types,

air traffic controllers, 115, 154-59, 161, 247-48, 259-60, 280, 283-84, 349, 382, 418

astronomers, 57, 153, 199, 225-27, 229-30, 470

Bartlett, 214-15

Hess, 100

Johnson, 294

Tombaugh, 81-82

gendarmes, 449, 457

military (non-pilots). See the Event Index which contains all military reports.

pilots (civilian), 32-33, 53, 82-83, 95-96, 100, 108, 114, 129, 149-50, 155, 163, 224, 229-31, 245, 282, 284-85,

287, 342, 344-45, 349, 365, 369, 377-78, 431-32, 434-36, 488-89

pilots (military), 3-7, 15-16, 34, 51, 58, 60, 62, 71, 77, 82-83, 90-91, 94, 98, 114-15, 124, 126-28, 130, 132, 144,

165, 212-15, 224-26, 229-30, 244-45, 248-49, 280, 340-41, 376, 380-81, 387, 409-10, 417-18, 450, 457-58,

461, 488

police, 3, 6, 74, 224, 226, 246, 253-54, 293, 295-96, 338-39, 344-47, 424, 456, 488

religious figures, 279, 383-388, 447-48

scientists, 74, 84-86, 94-95, 117, 144, 164, 224-25, 249, 325, 382-83, 464

See also UFOs, witness types, astronomers

United States Air Force

Air Intelligence Information Report, 65-66, 227, 254, 258, 383

AIR-100-203-79, 65, 76, 140

Director of Intelligence, 39, 48-49, 54, 60, 62, 66, 113, 159, 184, 210, 219, 286, 485-91, 509

Estimate by SIGN, 5, 39, 61-62, 65-66, 72, 76, 100, 117, 164, 272, 474-75, 509

Joint Surveillance System, 345, 348

manual 55-11, 336

O’Brien Committee, 306-07

pressure for witnesses not to talk, 60, 86, 224, 228, 284-86

regulation 200-2, 198-99, 240, 242, 286, 365

regulation 205-1, 119-20

Secretary of the Air Force, 276-77, 324, 339, 351-52

Brown, 307

Douglas, 244

Finletter, 112-13, 145

Quarles, 221, 223, 239

Symington, 100

Talbott, 224

United States Air Force Bases

Andrews AFB, 154-59, 161

Bates Field, 230-31

Bolling AFB, 91, 155

Brookley Field, 231

Brooks AFB, 92

Carswell AFB, 277, 345

Castle AFB, 230

Chitose AFB, 35-36, 212

Davis-Monthan AFB, 90

Edwards AFB, 148, 208, 214, 247-48, 266

Eglin AFB, 71

Ellsworth AFB, 215

Ent AFB, 211, 254-55, 258-59, 263

Fairfield-Suisun AFB, 37, 42

Forbes AFB, 288

George AFB, 147-48

Godman Field, 51

Hamilton Field, 488

Harmon Field, 38-39, 42, 488

Hickam Field, 71

Holloman AFB, 54, 105, 114-16, 213, 256-60

Keesler AFB, 277

Kirtland AFB, 58, 77-78, 133-35, 148, 259-60, 281, 287, 497

Lambert Field, 293

Larson AFB, 212

Lawson AFB, 128

Luke AFB, 213

Malmstrom AFB, 339

Mitchell AFB, 43, 156, 199-200, 227

Maxwell AFB, 7, 34, 42, 217, 489

McConnell AFB, 288

McGuire AFB, 153, 156

McPherson Field, 56

Moffett Field, 83

Moody AFB, 213

Muroc AFB, 31, 37, 74, 99

Offutt AFB, 84, 280

Oxnard AFB, 246-47

Peterson AFB, 510-12

Pope AFB, 91

Reese AFB, 244

Roswell Army Air Field, 44-45, 350-52, 354

Scott AFB, 344

Selfridge AFB, 95, 130

Stead AFB, 214

Wright-Patterson AFB

Colorado Project, 309, 312, 331

congressional hearings, 278-79, 293

foo fighters, 7-8

ghost rockets, 30

information HQ for UFOs, 48, 54, 56, 58, 105, 122-25, 159, 172-73, 178, 218, 238, 262, 286, 494-96, 504

investigations by, 60

media, 120-21, 204, 208-09, 219, 285

technology development, 31, 37, 39-43, 144, 160, 354, 479-84

UFO sightings, 58, 114, 144

Watson era, 101, 108, 140-41, 498-500

United States Air Force organizations

Air Defense Command (ADC), 132, 195, 246, 248, 258, 260

Air Defense Command’s 4602^nd, 197, 211, 219, 246, 266

ADC’s Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS), 211

handling of UFO reports, 54, 121-24, 126, 211-12, 220, 245, 260, 262, 280, 337

media, 43

national security protection, 159, 190, 197, 216, 266

Air Force Intelligence, 139, 209, 266-67, 292

concerns outlined, 141-43, 152

congressional relations, 276, 278

early UFO reactions, 36, 42, 62, 67, 100-01, 108, 118

estimate on flying saucers, 40

foo fighters, 7-8

information control, 119-20, 123-24, 150-51, 208-09, 228, 240

Robertson Panel, 188, 265

Air Force Office of Air Intelligence (AFOAI and AFOIN), 49-51, 240

Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI and OSI)

green fireballs, 77-79, 497

investigation of UFO reports, 91, 93, 106, 133-35, 277, 499

Air Materiel Command (AMC)

case investigations, 51-54, 71-72, 80-81, 499

thoughts on UFOs, 62-67, 139-40, 142-43, 476-91, 494-96, 501-02

foo fighters, 7-8

ghost rockets, 57, 63

information analysis, 32, 42-43, 91-93, 101-03, 105-08, 112-16, 121-23, 479-484, 492, 498-99

media, 67, 73-75, 113-14, 120-21

organizational structure, 48, 50-51, 61, 141

Air Force Research and Development Command (AFRDC), 336

Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC)

case investigations, 126-27, 148, 277, 282

CIA review of ATIC, 175-81, 503-07

congressional investigations, 223, 239, 243, 292-93, 296

information analysis and collection, 122-23, 126, 130, 144-46, 149, 164, 189, 246, 248-49, 337

Lubbock Lights, 130-32

media, 120-21, 147, 222, 239-40, 255

Menzel, 152

organizational structure, 123-26, 141, 197

Robertson Panel, 184, 187, 189-91, 194-96, 265, 509

thoughts on UFOs, 139-40, 142-43, 172-74, 197, 242, 508

Watson, 108, 124, 127-28, 265, 501-02

Cambridge Research Laboratory, 81, 105, 115-16, 119

Office of Scientific Research

Public Information Office (PIO), 74, 92-93, 98-99, 103, 120, 124, 140, 156-58, 204, 208-10, 219, 224, 242, 258,

262, 342

Research and Development Board, 52, 81, 118, 173, 185

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), 54-55, 65, 79, 175, 195, 214, 306-07, 477, 479

Special Study Group, 150-51, 173, 191

Strategic Air Command (SAC), 60, 185, 208, 248, 280, 339

United States Army

UFO incidents, 153, 155

UFO investigations, 93, 106-07

United States Army Bases

Ft. Hood, 144, 348, 510

Ft. McPherson, 56

Ft. Monmouth, 124, 126-27

United States Coast Guard, 36-37, 256, 260-63

United States Naval Bases

Cecil Naval Air Station, 251

Kodiak Naval Air Station, 90

Mugu Naval Air Missile Center, 213

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve base, 345-46

Patuxent Naval Base, 31

Pensacola Naval Air Station, 95, 261

United States Navy

Balloon projects, 52, 84, 117-19

conflicts with Air Force, 9-10, 48, 73, 85-87, 91, 165, 170, 217, 232, 281-82

early involvement with UFOs, 30, 48, 52, 61-62, 66

flying flapjack, 97-99

guided missile program, 83, 92-95, 281, 403, 428

independent UFO study, 139, 164-66

NICAP, 241-43, 281-82

UFO investigations, 86-87, 90-95, 165-66, 170, 261-62

outer space, 9-10, 165, 348

United States Navy organizations

Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), 62, 65, 117, 151, 164, 170, 261

Office of Naval Research (ONR), 55, 117-18, 164-66, 197, 217

Universities

Australian National University, 397, 403

Berkely, 5, 189

Cal Tech, 86, 127, 176, 217

Carnegie, 189, 307

Columbia, 225

Georgetown University, 151-52

Ohio State University, 5, 56

Harvard, 5, 55, 99, 104, 152, 249-50, 296, 308-09, 320, 331

Iowa State University, 146

Melbourne University, 379

MIT, 5, 57, 72, 104, 174-75, 178, 185, 189, 198, 218, 307-09, 332, 504

New York University, 352

Northwestern University, 308

Østfold University, 455

Princeton, 151, 186, 194

Temple University, 271

Texas Tech University, 131, 254

UCLA, 5, 79, 497

University of Arizona, 308, 310, 315, 323, 328

University of Chicago, 189, 294, 395

University of Colorado, 309, 325, 336

See also Colorado Project

University of Dayton, 308

University of Michigan, 194

University of New Mexico, 56, 497

University of Pennsylvania, 290

University of Washington, 443

University of Western Australia, 396

Vanderbilt University, 106

White House, 113, 154, 266, 324, 347, 457

White Sands Proving Ground, 31, 80-81, 105, 249, 510

Robertson Panel, 189, 195

UFO sightings, 33, 35, 37, 42, 85, 92-95, 100, 115, 144, 208, 224-25, 229, 259-60, 262-64

X-15, 217

X-2, 217

It’s Identity, Stupid

by Richard Thieme

Published n Cyber Defense Magazine at RSA March 2013

We know that identity is a critical issue for security practitioners, but have we really grasped that identity has become THE existential issue for life in the early 21^st century?

Academics write scholarly tomes on morphing personas and juggling online personalities; counter-cultural spokesfolk like Jacob Applebaum in his 29C3 keynote articulate a perceived need for learning how to erase tracks that linger in the snows of cyberspace; traffic analysis and those from whom and to whom the traffic moves requires more and more storage, faster and faster processing.

But it’s deeper than that.

The fact is, we live among a multiplicity of nested identities that are linked and simultaneously morphing, identities that we determine at the comment of both contemplation and action because the decisions we make about being and thinking and doing determine the clusters of thoughts and actions that in turn determine HOW WE ARE PERCEIVED by Others –  and the other may be Big Brother, or one of many little brothers gathering, parsing and selling our data, or casual friends who interpret who they think we are unselfconsciously as they engage with our symbolic presence – also on the fly – and assume and presume us to be who they think we are (see: phishing).

Identity – from that of “the individual,” a social construction, post-renaissance, post printing press – to the citizenship we reference as our primary source of being-in-the-world – is on the move. And because those levels are nested and linked, a change in one means a change in the others, the way pulling a side of a rhomboid on a computer monitor alters the area and the shape, yes, but above all, the relationships of the parts to each other and to the perceived whole. And it is relationships that determine the whole, even more than what is related. Relationships frame what we think we see, more than the things we thinn we see, and those who know this and achieve mastery and control over most behaviors in that regard, rule the identity space – which is now the space of offensive and defensive activities alike.

But it’s worse than that.

Implicit ethical and moral dimensions emerge from new social and cultural structures as a result of ongoing technological transformations, so any discussion of ethics – that is, the right or appropriate behavior in any given context – in relationship to the implementation of new technologies, must take into account these multiple dimensions. The philosophical and religious systems that permeate society are also undergoing transformation, which means that prior paradigms have become chaotic seas of uncorrelated data in transitional cognitive spaces. The frames in which emergent properties, new patterns of data, and new emergent selves – beyond “individuality” – all live and move and have their being, are not yet clear, nor do they have names we can use as if we all mean the same things by our words.  We still call these vehicles for self-expression “horseless carriages,” as it were, using terms that are fading from sight, and have not yet found a way to talk about “driving” and “automobiles.”

All this is most evident in the world of security and professional intelligence.

Post WorldWar II, R&D in the intelligence community and military spheres have shared responsibility for creating technological engines that have transformed human identity and therefore the Kuhnian paradigm in which we frame possibilities for action. Action means options, and options mean ethics. (As I said, I define ”ethics” as options that are most congruent with our core notions of identity, self, integrity, and “the right thing to do.”)

Definitions of everyday reality—privacy, security — continue to be transformed by technologies of surveillance, information, and communication. Those technologies are invisible frames because we live inside the picture, so if we define ethical issues in the context created by prior technologies then we derive familiar recognizable and comforting concepts as a result, but ones that no longer fit the real-life context created by new technologies. Our ethical decisions are inauthentic. We deceive others, yes,  but first we deceive ourselves. That is the heart of the problem.

Between times, we live in the fog of war. In a world which posits terrorists (i.e., enemies of social and economic order) as the Other, the mind of society is the battlefield. Images and ideas are the primary weapons, and the means by which they come into being and move through human networks is the subtext of all security. The paradigms we use determine the questions we are capable of thinking and asking. The formulation of relevant questions may be more important than the answers.

Let me highlight a few key concepts:

(1) Information security as one task, both offensive and defensive, of the intelligence community sanctions breaking foreign laws while prohibiting similar activities on American soil. We have no friends or allies “out there,” only targets (and maybe “in here,” too). But simple distinctions of “foreign” and “domestic” no longer hold. The convergence of enabling technologies of intrusion, interception, and panoptic reach, combined with a sense of urgency about the counterterror imperative and a clear mandate from our leaders to do everything possible to defeat an amorphous non-state entity defined by behaviors rather than boundaries, borders, or even a clear ideological allegiance, has created an ominous but invisible set of conditions that undermine the previous cornerstones of law, ethics, and even religious traditions.

(2) Identity is a function of boundaries. An “individual self” defined by a boundary around biological processes and the complex of energy and information radiated by those processes is undermined by the erosion of those boundaries by the use of connective technologies.

(3) Security, privacy, and intelligence gathering are corollaries of individual and national identities and how they relate to one another.

(4) Security is a function of boundaries. Boundaries define the “other” that threatens “us” and “us” is a felt experience of clan, tribal, and societal kinship still. Prior to the emergence of writing and the religions it facilitated, the “enemy” was the “Other.” Ancient societies defined enemies as non-members of  our tribe. After writing, the enemy became – e.g. in Christianity– that in ourselveswhich must be fought, resisted, or transcended. This shift in consciousness was a result of emergent technologies of writing.

When the enemy is “within” the body politic, defined as an element that threatens societal order and economic well-being, defined no longer as a nation-state that threatens our political existence as a nation state, then the distinction between criminals and terrorists or religious/political dissenters and supporters of terrorism blurs. Accordingly the tools considered appropriate to their identification and neutralization will blur.

We continue to speak of ethical norms in relationship to the cultural past as if it is still the context of our beliefs and actions. We speak of individuals as primary moral agents. We speak of nation states as primary determinants of our collective identities. We speak of the intelligence mission as if “we” who live inside one nation are intercepting or penetrating or subverting the technical processes and social dynamics of others who are also “inside” the boundary of a nation state that defines them.

Those distinctions no longer hold.

(6) Current technologies make speaking of interception obsolete. Boundaries between elements of the network, between the networks that make up the network, are arbitrary and porous. We live in a world without walls. Every attribute of a process or structure that broadcasts or transmits information about itself by any means can be detected, often at the source. Often enough, those who built the system in the first place engineer information to come to them. “Here” and “there” are distinctions without a difference.

(7) Identity at a fundamental level is therefore transformed. Digital identities can be appropriated, yes, but more than that, we invent them on the fly and determine at the moment of thought or action or execution to which matrix of equally transitory and transitional attributes we are related as a node in the network. Our identities exist as potentialities made actual by our intention at the moment of action. They are the equivalent of quantum states, fixed only when expressed.

 Identity in relationship to security is a matter of observationand not assertion. Only multi-level observation penetrates the skin sufficiently to reach the meta-level determined by actions which may support or contradict identity-assertions.

(9)  As boundaries go liquid, the task of defining appropriate behaviors in relationship to moral norms becomes difficult because the phrase “moral norms” is a metaphor for the context that is generally invisible to members of a society but not to sophisticated security professionals, an elite sanctioned to manipulate those underlying norms on behalf of ends considered important enough to justify a variety of means to achieve them.

Therefore:

 Security and intelligence professionals exercise an implicit, de facto thought leadership because they create structures that bind and inform society and civilization. They create frames of human behavior that determine how we think about ourselves as possibilities for action. Their real implicit charge is no longer “to defend and protect a nation” but tostabilize a world.

The dire possibility of societal disintegration elevates the moral responsibility of the security and intelligence communities to a higher level. Linked in cooperative activity, they are responsible for maintaining social and global order at a level of understanding far beyond that formulated in the past by any one nation. These communities in the aggregate constitute a global community of practitioners who share an ethos and modalities of operation not available to ordinary citizens; they have thereby created for themselves an intrinsic vocation or calling to maintain global order in a way that is consistent with the ethical norms and moral order articulated by the great cultural traditions even as those traditions are also transformed by diverse technologies—and even though they and we recognize that in practice that moral order and those ethical norms are often violated as a matter of practice.

Well, this is but the beginning of a conversation. No one said it would be easy, did they?

A Short List of Selected Resources on UFOs

UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry (Anomalist Books: 2012) by Dr. Michael Swords, a retired professor who taught at Western Michigan University for 30 years, and Robert Powell, with co-authors Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester-Olmos, Bill Chalker, Barry Greenwood, Richard Thieme, Jan Aldrich and Steve Purcell – from reviewers: “This is the best book about the UFO phenomena that was ever written” and “UFOs and Government is a triumph of sober, conscientious scholarship unlikely to be equaled for years go come”

The UFO Encyclopedia : The Phenomenon from the Beginning (2 Volume Set) by Jerome Clark. Omnigraphics. 1998. – The best by a serious thoughtful scholar. The two volume set is superior to anything in the field.

The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial by Jerome Clark. Visible Ink. New York. 1998. An abridged version of the encyclopedia.

The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry by J. Allen Hynek (1975, reissued Marlowe and Company 1998)  - A plea by an astronomer and respected scientist for the scientific method to be applied to UFO data, with clear criteria for doing so, above all, eliminating reports from consideration which can not be analyzed appropriately.

The controversy over unidentified flying objects in America: 1896-1973 by David Jacobs (Thesis – University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1973) – A historical review for a Ph. D. in history by a man who became a professor of History at Temple University and – much later – immersed himself in the study of abduction experience.  Until “UFOs and Government,” the best history of the subject available, although now dated.

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt (Ace Books: 1956) – (compare first and second editions) – a thoughtful reflection on his experience as an early head of the USAF Project Blue Book. Still one of the best resources.

The UFO Evidence – Volume 2 : A Thirty Year Report  by  Richard H. Hall on behalf of NICAP (The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) is a classic, with numerous incidents analyzed and a taxonomy of vehicles reported by witnesses. This edition (if you can find it and afford it) is best. Hall also wrote Uninvited Guests (Aurora Press. 1988), a popular account.

The UFO Enigma by Dr. Peter A. Sturrock. Warner Books. 1999. and A Tale of Two Sciences: Memoirs of a Dissident Scientist. Exoscience: Palo Alto CA. 2009. – Two mature, thoughtful works by a recognized physicist whose fine work with plasmas was in the open and whose research with UFO and other anomalous phenomena was not.   The latter book documents his frustration with trying to do science which was not acceptable to the academy. See my review at www.thiemeworks.com.

The Myth and Mystery of UFOs by Thomas E. Bullard (University Press of Kansas: 2010).  A fine scholarly work which emphasizes the social and cultural contexts of UFO experience and reports in relationship to history and myth. The emphasis is on how a percept travels through humans –bodies, communities, frames of thought, constructions of reality – and is transformed along the way into acceptable concepts. The author concludes that the phenomena is real, compelling, and demands serious investigation and study.

CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind by Richard F. Haines, Ph. D. (Sourcebooks Inc. 1999) – A compendium by a NASA psychologist of encounters that suggest intelligent interaction between anomalous vehicles and people. Haines has also documented encounters by airline pilots and produced a compendium of 3500 cases. (google NARCAP for details and other publications)

The Missing Times: News Media Complicity in the UFO Cover-up by Terry Hansen. Xlibris: 2000. – A journalist explores the failure of the mainstream media to cover the phenomena in a serious way.

Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis by Paul R. Hill. Hampton Roads Publishing Company. 1995. A veteran at NASA, he was allowed to collect reports inside the agency for years on the condition that he keep it quiet. His daughter posthumously published this attempt to understand the physics of  the characteristics shown by anomalous vehicles within the constraints of science that had not yet advanced to a level appropriate to account for the reported data.

Incident at Exeter. John G. Fuller. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1966. A popular account of a major incident. It all depends on the reports and data, of course.

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders. The New Press. New York. 1999. (published in the UK under the title “Who Paid the Piper? by Granta Publications. – Nothing on UFOs here but illuminates methods and covert action by the early CIA in the realm of the social sciences and art worlds. Good for contextual understanding of the CIA in the 1950s-1960s.

The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident: Three Texans are Injured During an Encounter with a UFO and Military Helicopters by John F. Schuessler. (Self-published 1998) A well-documented incident which calls into question the accountability of government units to or for physical injuries during an unusual experience which may have involved radioactivity.

Encounter at Buff Ledge: A UFO Case History by Walter N. Webb  (J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies: 1994). A fascinating account of an abduction experience recalled independently by the two who experienced it. The result of ten years of thorough, serious, responsible investigation, this incident ranks with the Hill case and the story of three women in Stanford, Kentucky in 1976 (http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/stanford.htm) for those interested in the abduction phenomena. Also see the Betty and Barney Hill case in 1961, the Pascagoula MS incident in 1973, and the Travis Walton incident in 1975.

Google or read at www.thiemeworks.com:

“How to Build a UFO … Story” by Richard Thieme. originally published in Internet Underground and anthologized in numerous collections.

“Are There UFOs on Mars?” by Richard Thieme, at www.thiemeworks.com, with a collection of interviews

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CURRENT REVIEWS FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

FEBRUARY 2013 VOL. 50 NO.06

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

History, Geography and Area Studies

The following review appeared in the February 2013 issue of CHOICE.

UFOs and government: a historical inquiry, by Michael Swords et al. Anomalist Books, 2012. 580 p. ISBN 9781933665580 pbk. $29.95

The bibliography of the UFO phenomenon is vast but often dreary. This straightforward study of the limited topic of government responses to sightings of UFOS–unidentified flying objects–is an exception. The idea that UFOs had extraterrestrial origins (a hypothesis not favored by governments) is only one of the many explanations the authors discuss. Although UFO sightings have supposedly occurred throughout history, the modern UFO phenomenon had its origins in the final days of WW II. Initially, Western officials feared that UFOs were NAZI or Soviet technology. Cold war fears caused the US and other governments to obsess about the national security implications of UFOs. Scientific investigation and transparency were only occasionally part of the response. Combined with inconsistent government policies, the response resulted in confusion and suspicion, which inspired conspiracy theories. Although these nine authors are part of the UFO community, they are not advocates of fringe theories. Their narrative is firmly based on the available sources. The writing can be dense and sometimes convoluted, reflecting the military sources that form the evidence. A useful resource for the study of a controversial topic. SUMMING UP: Recommended. All levels/libraries. — R. Fritze, Athens State University.

“UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry” is an exceptional and exciting book. Written by the UFO History Group – serious researchers and historians composed of Swords, Powell, Svahn, Olmos, Chalker, Greenwood, Thieme, Aldrich and Purcell – it brings analytical complexity of the UFO phenomena from World War II up to current days. Their work stands on the shoulder of facts, official documents, and sterling sources. The book is focused towards military and intelligence circles and describes in detail their long-term struggle on how to handle the unwanted problem of UFOs. If only the phenomena could simply go away and leave them in peace. But it persists, without mercy, over and over again. Historical treatment of the official UFO research within the United States is presented with great care along with the controversies that followed projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book. Years passed. Different officials within different policies tried to deal with the issue, one way or another.

It was especially interesting to compare official policies with the internal notes of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of project Blue Book and who wrote a classic book “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.” “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry” brought extended treatment to General Cabell’s 1951 meeting, which was mentioned only in passing in Ruppelt’s book. Notes from the meeting show that Cabell demanded a serious approach regarding UFOs. Ruppelt previously described in his original book that “every word of the two-hour meeting was recorded on a wire recorder. The recording was so hot that it was later destroyed.”

It was impressive to follow the chapter on the Colorado Project which caused the closure of the USAF investigation of the phenomena. Audiotaped lectures from the CUFOS archives of Robert Low to the JPL at Caltech from October 1967 shows how strong the subject was polarized between personal opinions and official inertia. This chapter is a great companion piece to previous works of Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry,” David. R. Saunders’ “UFOs? Yes!: Where the Condon committee went wrong,” and Wendy Connors’ audio set “Faded Discs.” Documents and facts from Sweden, Australia, Spain, France, Belgium, the former Soviet Union and Brazil, emphasized the international context of the whole problem.

In the Australian chapter, the Sea Fury radar-visual incident with UFO from August 31, 1954 was presented. The pilot was instructed by air-traffic control to turn his airplane in a circle for identification. That maneuver showed that his aircraft was discernable from two other close targets. A similar radar-visual case, that I am personally aware of, happened at the end of 1970s in the former Yugoslavia where a pilot was also instructed to turn his aircraft through a maneuver for identification purposes. At that moment, the UFO accelerated towards the aircraft almost causing a collision. The case involved AIRPROX which implicated aviation safety so it was interesting for me to compare similarities between both cases.

The book also explains the unique situation in France because their official UFO research program, from GEPAN, SEPRA to GEIPAN, is located within the French Space Agency CNES where a scientific approach is applied. Although the official UFO program in the United States was terminated after the review of Condon’s committee, other programs in other countries are still active. It can be argued that due to the lack of direct experience in the UFO field, countries that are still in the UFO business, will encounter the same obstacles and in the end, they will draw the same conclusions that Project Blue Book did. On the other hand, France is already 35 years into the UFO field, which is 13 years more than the length of the entire Blue Book mandate. Official projects and investigations of these complex aerial phenomena are ongoing, and that is the fact.

This book can serve as a perfect briefing document for every government employee, military analyst, non-commissioned officer, officer and researcher which could be, or already is, confronted with this issue. France has GEIPAN; Chile has CEFAA; Uruguay has CRIDOVNI; Argentine has CEFA, etc. If any employee of those projects, or any other serious scholar from any other field, will need a historical broad overview of the UFO phenomena, this book will provide a great service. If this issue will ever become academically recognized in the unpredictable future, “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry” should be an obligatory literature at those colleges. My opinion is that this is the best book about the UFO phenomena that was ever written.

Giuliano Marinkovic
Former Military Intelligence SIGINT operator, Croatian Army
Journalist and Writer