Hysteria drives UFO gatekeepers debunking exopolitics pioneers

Michael Salla, Ph.D.

Honolulu Exopolitics Examiner

August 1, 2:46 PM

A new breed of UFOlogist has emerged as critics of the burgeoning exopolitics movement. It’s no surprise that in the lead up and success of the world’s first Exopolitics Summit in Barcelona, Spain, that UFOlogists would increasingly perceive exopolitics as an existential threat. The existential threat, according to UFOlogists acting as gatekeepers for “legitimate UFO research,” is that exopoliticians mix reliable with unreliable UFO sources in their analyses. Indeed, this mixing of reliable and unreliable sources leads to a special form of hysteria among gatekeepers of legitimate UFO research. Existential hysteria leads to UFOlogical gatekeepers claiming in all seriousness that exopolitics has become the main obstacle to genuine UFO disclosure. The reality is that after six decades of earnest activity, UFOlogy has failed to take humanity to the promised land of genuine government disclosure of UFOs, and a new set of pioneers have stepped in to light the way. These exopolitical pioneers believe that a nuanced consideration of ALL evidentiary sources and related political processes will expose the truth behind the extraterrestrial hypothesis – that some UFOs are interplanetary in origin.



UFOlogy is broadly defined as a field dominated by those believing in the scientific study of the UFO phenomenon. Using methods and techniques borrowed from disciplines such as physics, meteorology, astronomy and biology, UFOlogists believe that they can amass sufficient evidence to convince hard core skeptics that UFOs are real, and have genuine national security implications. In such an endeavor, any evidence deemed to be unreliable, tainted, not consistent with facts, is jettisoned in order not to corrupt the raw pool of reliable data needed to convince UFO skeptics. The end result of this rigid filtering process is a pool of data that UFOs are indeed real and have important national security implications. For example, UFOs outperform modern aircraft, have crashed and been retrieved in mysterious circumstances, and are often sighted near nuclear installations.

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Richard Thieme: Hacking UFOlogy: Thirty Years in the Wilderness of Mirrors

The following is Forwarded from the DEFCON 15 : Speeches from the hackers conventions

"You're over the line," an intelligence professional told Richard Thieme recently. "You know enough to know what's not true but you can't know enough to know what is. You're well into the wilderness of mirrors."

Hacking one complex system is always in some ways like hacking another. You must see nested levels of the context that others assume and which is therefore invisible, you must see through the story that the system tells about itself, and you must have a means of filtering out disinformation and misinformation while suspending belief in the patterns your own mind suggests along the way. You must never believe what you think until the evidence is compelling. And you must have a way of staying sane when the consensus reality that has knitted you into its tissue is challenged at its core.

Ever since a USAF fighter pilot with the "right stuff" told Richard Thieme (who was then his Episcopal clergyman) in 1978 that "we chase the things and can't catch them" -- Thieme has explored this domain with beginner's eyes and an open mind. He has interviewed astronauts and NASA psychologists, physicists and social scientists, and scholars in "the invisible college" who conduct serious research and rigorous historical analysis. He has compared notes with intelligence professionals who believe that the least unlikely hypothesis for some of the data is, as one said, "a cultural intrusion" over many decades.

In this presentation, Thieme shows how "hacking the system" of data, disinformation, and "true believers" in an environment which has been saturated with ridicule since 1952, when critical elements of the government made a decision to debunk reports and those making them, is like hacking any complex system in our world of huge black budgets, appropriate paranoia, psy ops, and obsessive secrecy.

This presentation will make you think. It will make you re-examine your presuppositions about what is real. It will at the least bring you face to face with the possibility that you have been "owned" by the managers of perception who appointed themselves guardians of the Bigger Picture - an awareness that animates all real hackers." Richard Thieme continues to write and speak to the deeper issues of technology and its impact on the human condition. He has published several dozen short stories in the past few years, including "Zero Day: Roswell,"More Than a Dream,"Incident at Wolf Cove," and "Species: Lost in Apple-picking Time," which touch on some of the issues raised by this talk. (Those stories and more are at www.thiemeworks.com)

The following is a FORWARD by awMegalon (Webe Team Member)

This lecture from Richard Thieme is meant to connect the process of hacking with the way how Ufology is conducted.

With hacking is meant; the ability to research and understand with powerful motivation and dedication.

During the first UFO sightings news reports have clouded the original image of Ufology and making it a ridiculed subject. It is taboo to talk about it in academic environments and many scientists don't want to be associated with colleges that might be involved with Ufology in fear of being ridiculed as well.

In an attempt to clear the name of Ufology, Richard disposes the media, and its relationship with the CIA, on its involvements in bringing misleading information to the people for so many years since the early sixties.

What is most shocking, is that Ufology and UFO sightings have become such a taboo, that most of the discussion occur in private and when it is being spoken of in public, the witnesses would be repressed with intimidation.

A transcript of this video will follow shortly

Campaign for Ufology to be recognized as a legitimate subject for study

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The main reason for the creation of this chat room was following a reply to an email sent to the admin of Chatroll.com. It has been suggested by them that we establish a Ufology chat room so that we can demonstrate the support for the addition of a Ufology category to their main list. We have been assured that if enough people/communities join and request this they will spin it out into its own category

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For far to long this subject has been ridiculed and ignored what do you think?