Note: The following opinion is that of Don Ecker. He has spent decades investigating UFO sightings and events, has host hundreds of radio programs and has had his opinion and expertise sought by many who want to find the path to the truth. This article is published just as I received it, You can decide if you believe disclosure is close or that we are farther away than ever. Those who have listened to my radio show/podcast know where I stand on this. I suppose I should say, here is a different perspective.
Disclosure--A Dangle Just Out of Reach.
by Don Ecker
Disclosure! The “Great Holy Grail” of the UFO
movement. The UFO faithful have been expecting something profound since at
least December, 2017. With the announcement of
the Nimitz battle group encounters with the “Tic-Tacs,” and then former Senator
Harry Reid’s disclosure of a secret Pentagon operation to investigate “aerial
anomalies,” for which he secured millions of dollars to finance, the
anticipation has been intense. For some, it has
been intense for well over 30 years.
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| Don and Vicki Ecker |
The beginning of what is thought to be the modern UFO
age hit the front pages of newspapers all across the United States--and then
the world--around the July 4, 1947. The incident was the purported crash of a
UFO outside of Roswell, New Mexico. At that time, Roswell was the military base
of the Army Air Corps 509th Bomber Command, the only military
organization in the world with nuclear capability. The 509th sent
out a press release that the “Army” had recovered a “flying disc,” which in
itself created a firestorm. A day later, the military command emptied the
“Roswell Saucer,” claiming that what was actually found was a “weather
balloon.” The lying has not ended since that day.
1947 was an incredible year for many reasons. Just
weeks after the July 4 crash, a number of earth-shattering events
happened. The United States Army Air
Corps became the United States Air Force. The Central Intelligence Agency was
created and, perhaps most ominous of all, the National Security Act was placed
into law. In effect, the American Republic was replaced, in worst case
scenario, with a police state. Today, in the second decade of the 21st
Century, that police state has become very apparent.
Let’s take a moment to examine the National Security
Act and what it means.
At the height of the Second World War, U.S. officials
greatly feared that the Nazi German state was attempting to develop and build a
bomb using a nuclear core that would release an unknown amount of energy. In
other words, the very energy that fires our star, the sun, would be released by
exploding such a nuclear weapon. At that time, the Nazis harbored a bitter
hatred for Jews and others they viewed as sub-human; arresting, imprisoning and
murdering every Jew and other sub-human they could lay their hands on. As a
result, the Jewish intelligentsia sought every means to escape Germany before
it was too late. People like Albert Einstein escaped to the United States, and
it was well he did; Einstein was the final cap
on the bottle that convinced President Roosevelt to begin the Manhattan
Project, which ended up winning the war for us and saving millions of humans,
both allied soldiers and Japanese civilians.
Even at the height of the most destructive war in all
of human history and the most secret military project ever, we did not have or
create a decisive federal hedge against exposure such as the National Security
Act. What changed? Under the auspices of the National Security Act almost
anything the controllers feel protects national security can be legally
authorized and carried out. If it is determined
an imminent threat to U.S. national security is at stake, even premeditated
murder is legal. One might think this is draconian in the extreme, but the longstanding UFO
problem clearly qualifies as potentially that
sensitive. If Roswell was the site of a crash of one, and others may intrude on
U.S. air space, how far will the
military/intelligence/industrial forces go?
What are these unidentified phenomena? Where do UFOs (now designated
UAPS—unidentified aerial phenomena) come from, and
most importantly just what is it that they want?
From our earliest written history, witnesses have been
reporting sightings and even contact with the occupants of these mysterious
machines. Yes, machines. Our military pilots of today report that these craft
travel at almost impossible speeds, demonstrate impossible maneuvers and
technology that almost appear magical within our understanding of avionics and
physics. During the Nimitz encounters, radar operators reported that the
objects dropped from an excess of 80 thousand feet to almost water level in
only a second or so, a truly breathtaking maneuver. They out-flew our Naval
F-18 Super Hornets with extreme ease, demonstrating that if hostilities broke
out, we are totally outclassed by this purported UFO technology.
So, what is going on? The most potent human military
technology (it is believed) currently available are human nuclear weapons. But
even that is questionable, even if nuclear weapons are capable of being a
deterrent. The UFO enigma has proved to be able to penetrate nuclear bases with
impunity and manipulate the weapons to the point that they are unusable. This
shocking revelation was disclosed in the excellent book by researchers and
authors Barry Greenwood and Larry Fawcett. (CLEAR INTENT: The Government
Coverup, First published January, 1984)
As it turns out, the United States is not the only
nation to suffer UFO incursions into nuclear weapons sites. After the collapse
of the Soviet Union, television journalist and UFO researcher George Knapp
traveled to the former Soviet Union where he interviewed former and current
Russian military personnel. Knapp reported the story of a UFO incursion over a
former Soviet nuclear battery, where the unknown object activated a nuclear
missile control panel and began a countdown. With only seconds to go, the UFO
then apparently stopped the countdown and flew off. This was apparently a pure
demonstration that if they chose to, they had complete control of the most powerful and delicate systems available
to humanity at that time. Was this a warning
to humanity at large? “Beware humans, we are in charge.”
The CORE STORY/CORE SECRET
For all the hopeful ufologists waiting and hoping for
UFO disclosure, what if I told you the real somewhat open secret of the UFO
conundrum is actually the fact that UFOs are surrounded by a CORE STORY which
is protected by a Special Access Program binder? An SAP designation means that
unless you have a “need to know”-- you never will. A perfect example of this follows:
(The following information comes from Gary S. Bekkum’s
excellent primer on Spy Games: “SPIES, LIES, AND POLY GRAPH TAPE, Knowing the
Future: The UFO Spy Games” Gary S. Bekkum. c. 2010, Gary S. Bekkum p. 16)
A “core secret” is so sensitive,
its very existence is a secret. In the U.S. Intelligence Community, the tale of an extraterrestrial presence is
known as the CORE STORY.
Another
bit of alleged information to be aware of:
“The strong rumor is there is a `disturbing’
aspect to this CORE STORY, something so dire it leaves battle-hardened military types shaking
in their boots.”
If
any of this is even remotely true, the Disclosure ship sailed away long-long
ago.
Dr. Edgar
Mitchell, the sixth American astronaut to walk on the moon, became embroiled in
the UFO controversy in what today is a rather infamous incident. The following is taken from a paper I wrote
on what today is known as the “Davis-Wilson” document.
Mitchell [Dr. Edgar Mitchell, 6th astronaut to walk on the
Moon] spoke of his contact with a ranking Admiral at the Joint Chiefs who
agreed to investigate the CORE STORY of alien contact and report back. Some
reporters were miffed when Mitchell refused to disclose the name of the
Admiral, but Mitchell did provide to me confirmation that another report was
‘essentially correct.’
Mitchell requested my help in clarifying why his testimony appeared to be
contradicted by the Admiral, who had been identified by the Herald Tribune
as Rear Admiral Thomas R. Wilson.
Quoting an article taken from the prestigious Jane’s Defence Weekly,
Mitchell implied that the Admiral had discovered that the CORE STORY was
protected by a “Special Access Program.” As explained by Jane’s, such a “black
program” must remain unacknowledged when it is “considered so sensitive that
the fact of its existence is a CORE SECRET, defined as `any item, progress,
strategy or element of information, the compromise of which would result in
unrecoverable failure.’ ”
As I write this paper, once again the subject of UFOs has exploded across the
USA and especially social media. Two items have rejuvenated interest in the
UFO/Paranormal/PSI arenas of late: The History Channel series “Unidentified”
and the release of notes from an alleged meeting between Dr. Eric Davis (formerly
of the National Institute for Discovery Science, NIDS, founded and operated by
Robert Bigelow) and Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, former head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency.
Taking an overhead view of this material, many names are apparently involved,
and it is very complex situation. Prominent is Dr. Edgar Mitchell, astronaut
and the sixth man to walk on the Moon, along with journalist Billy Cox,
futurist and occasional “rogue” journalist Gary Bekkum, Wilson and Davis. Other
prominent individuals include UFO researcher Grant Cameron and Attorney Michael
Hall, who had released the Davis/Wilson “notes” that Davis allegedly made
during a covert meeting he had with Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, which occurred in
the parking lot of the Las Vegas headquarters of EG&G on Oct. 16, 2002.
Also mentioned are retired Naval Officer Oke Shannon and retired Naval Officer
Will Miller. The notes indicate that in April of 1997, Steven Greer, Miller and
Edgar Mitchell gave a talk in the Pentagon Conference room to a number of
military officers, including Admiral Mike Crawford and General Pat Hughes.
The shortened version had
Mitchell meeting Admiral Thomas Wilson who at that time headed up the DIA
(Defense Intelligence Agency). According to Mitchell, Wilson told him he would
attempt to follow up with his contacts within the Pentagon, and allegedly his
inquiries led to an aviation corporation in California. Wilson is reported to
have called them, but they refused to discuss anything over a telephone line.
(It was implied that this unnamed corporation had “recovered technology” they
were studying.) Wilson, according to notes found in Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s papers
after he died, then flew out to California to the corporation. After arriving,
he was taken to a “secure vault” where he tried to get information. According
to the notes recovered from Mitchell’s papers, while in Las Vegas Wilson told
Eric Davis that they would not give him any information since he did not have a
“need to know.” Wilson left California
enraged. Upon returning to the Pentagon, Wilson was prepared to raise some holy
hell until cooler heads pulled him aside, reminding him he did not have long
until he retired. Did he really wish to risk his retirement, pension and
perhaps even receiving another star prior to leaving? Wilson then decided to
quiet down.
So, if the
subject of UFOs does contain a “Core Secret,” then the subject is protected by
an SAP (Special Access Program.) If a Special Access Program is in play, even
acknowledging one is aware of it is a major breach of security. Despite its
great national security implications, this appears to fall outside of the U.S. President’s
“need to know.” This was demonstrated publicly by former President William
“Bill” Clinton when Clinton reportedly tried to get Asst. Attorney General
Webster Hubble to find out two things for him: Who really assassinated
President Kennedy, and . . . what is the
truth about UFOs? Hubble was completely shut out and Clinton got an answer to neither.
As time
moved along I struggled with what this “Core Secret” might entail. Over the
course of 30 years I had interfaced with and interviewed possibly hundreds of
people. During all that time, I heard many theories mixed with rumors of what
might be the “real reason” for the draconian secrecy. Some of these conspiracy
and rumor mill stories included amazing things like dead and mutilated human
beings having been found on crashed saucers, or the presence of an ET
conspiracy to replace highly placed humans with hybrid clones. And more!
Then …
Ingo Swann entered the scene.
In the
very early 1990s, while acting as research director for UFO Magazine, I began my first foray into broadcasting with my
program “UFOs Tonite!,” which was carried on Cable Radio Network. Around early
1992, I did two shows with different guests, both shows dealing with lunar or moon
phenomena, also known as Lunar Transient Phenomena. I became aware of many questions and events
that suggested there was some type of activity taking place on our moon prior to the Apollo 11 touchdown. Both
guests mentioned a book that had been first published in 1976, titled “Somebody
Else is on the Moon” by author and science writer George Leonard.
Leonard
used many photographs directly obtained from NASA that showed startling images
on the surface of the moon. These photos show what appear to be excavations of
crater rims, indicating that huge vehicles had rolled up and out of lunar
craters, leaving vivid tracks in the lunar soil, and what appear to be structures, possibly constructed
buildings. Prior to the manned lunar landing, NASA contracted out to academia a
study to be conducted on lunar observations as reported by astronomers
beginning as far back as 1540 A.D.
Hundreds of lunar anomalies were reported and documented in the NASA
Technical Report, TR-R-277.
Leonard’s
book disappeared almost as soon as it was published. As important as this book
would prove to be, it later became a bit more important as it seemed to provide
validation for a top- secret remote viewing session run by deep black
intelligence officers and remote viewing legend Ingo Swann, which I’ll discuss
in greater detail.
When NASA
finally landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, what did they expect to find? Only
they know for sure, but I discovered that the astronauts were armed when they
landed on the moon. At first I found it hard to believe that the astronauts had
weapons on board the lunar lander. I ended up calling their public affairs
office and they finally admitted it. At that time, they tried to explain it by
suggesting that if the astronauts crashed into a jungle somewhere, they had to
have a means to protect themselves. I mentioned that our space program had no
landings on the earth surface--everything landed in the oceans! They had no
coherent response.
During the
early Apollo period, many publications ran news articles on what was planned
after successfully landing on the moon. We were told of future lunar colonies,
manufacturing facilities, even military installations being planned. After
Apollo 11 landed and the astronauts returned, there were five more missions
that landed and returned, with only one failure--Apollo 13. By intensive NASA
brain sweat we (the United States) were able to return them safely. Finally,
with the final Apollo 17 mission (December, 1972), the Apollo program was
canceled, even though other missions were planned. The rockets were built and
the astronauts were trained, yet NASA pulled the plug. The reasoning NASA gave
was as convoluted as any statement coming from government. They claimed that
the American public now saw lunar missions as so routine they’d simply lost
interest—so without public support, the agency canceled it.
During
this fiery political year, the Viet Nam war was still raging and anti-war
sentiment rife in the American public. Richard Nixon was running again as president
against challenger George McGovern. Nixon steamrolled McGovern but more was to
come on the political front: the Watergate scandal. As Watergate began to
percolate in the news media, the rumor mill also began to pick up steam. Stories began to float that the Apollo 11 crew
witnessed activity on the moon that they were forbidden to disclose. It was
rumored that when Apollo 11 returned to Earth, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and
Michael Collins were sequestered and kept incommunicado for several weeks. NASA
claimed that the astronauts were kept in isolation because of the fear that
they may have brought back alien organisms that we on Earth had no natural
resistance or immunity to. When the astronauts were finally allowed to address
the American public in their first news conference, they seemed deeply troubled
and depressed. Later, Armstrong became a recluse, Aldrin developed an alcohol
addiction and Collins basically slid into anonymity. (Aldrin subsequently
became clean and sober.)
In 2014 on
the 45th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, I was hired as a research
producer on a SyFy Channel television show titled “Aliens on the Moon: The
Truth Revealed.” After well over 20 years of lunar research, I was able to take
much of my material to this show. At the insistence of the network, some material
was included which I vociferously disagreed with. Unfounded segments claimed
that top secret missions were sent to the moon following Apollo 11, including
Apollo 18 to Apollo 20. This included the “Alien Mona Lisa,” what I consider pure
disinformation. One real coup on this
show was the inclusion of former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second human being
to step onto the moon during the first landing of Apollo 11. Aldrin’s interview
followed mine where I presented a number of lunar photos potentially showing various
anomalies. When the camera turned to Aldrin, I was absolutely shocked at his
reaction. As the lunar photos were placed in front of him, he violently twisted
his head to the side and refused to look at the pictures or discuss anything
about them. He was willing to discuss future missions to Mars, more
specifically the Martian moon Phobos. There is an odd protrusion on the Martian
moon that some call an obelisk, the only seeming anomaly Aldrin would address.
Now going
a little farther back in time. With the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik
satellite in 1957, the U.S. and the western alliance went into panic mode.
There was a genuine fear of a “missile gap,” that the Soviets could launch
nuclear weapons able to hit almost any target in under 30 minutes. In those early
days of the latter 1950s, our missiles experienced a huge failure rate, often
exploding on launch. In the 1960s, with reports coming out of Europe of the
Soviet Union researching psychic and paranormal phenomena, the west once again
feared a gap, this one involving a race to understand and exploit paranormal phenomena.
The CIA suddenly sat up and took notice.
In 1972,
with CIA funding, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ began collaborating at
Stanford Research Institute to explore the “remote viewing” phenomenon. (At
that time, Puthoff was closely associated with the Church of Scientology which
later proved to be a huge embarrassment.) Remote viewing is the rarefied skill
of “projecting one’s mind” to “view” distant objects, events or people in real
time. Later it became apparent that some sessions could also include viewings seemingly
from past or even future events, sometimes called “spooky action at a distance.”
In 1972, Ingo
Swann was recruited to Stanford Research Institute, or SRI. At the time, Swann
had been a fast-rising star in New York’s American Society for Psychical
Research, also known as ASPR. Upon arrival, Swann was asked to use his psychic
talent attempt to manipulate a magnetic field within a magnetic shield. His
efforts were successful, seemingly with little effort. He also met another man who
was regarded as a “super-star,” Pat Price, whose remote viewing attempts were described as “scary accurate.”
(I found one troubling commonality-- that all
these people were either members of or closely associated with the controversial
Church of Scientology, though I’m not sure what it could mean.)
As time
went on, Swann began working with Puthoff and Targ on what Swann felt was a
continuous string of mundane targets. As Swann explained in his book “PENETRATION–The
Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy,” sampling repetitive targets can
lead to boredom, ultimately “flatlining” the PSI talent. With this in mind,
Swann suggested targets well beyond the boundaries of targets in the next
office. NASA had launched two probes, Pioneer 10 and 11, to explore the outer
planets. His idea was resisted by Puthoff and Targ, so Swann took the only step
he had left in him: He threatened to quit. Puthoff and Targ relented, but with
some conditions. The first expected data to arrive from the NASA probes were to
be in September, 1973. To beat NASA there first, Swann knew that they had to
start quickly, so his attempt at viewing such a far target began in April,
1973.
Stringent
protocols were employed, although this was not an official test. It was
conducted on his personal time on a Saturday, a non-working day. With the
conclusion of this experiment, the raw data was recorded and circulated far and
wide and included two scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The
raw data consisted of 13 factors, all verified. It was still early in the
program, so Swann’s accuracy was astounding to everyone involved in the remote
viewing project.
Of the number
of troubling unsettling aspects of his job, one must be highlighted and
detailed. Swann’s remote viewing “job” came at the behest of a deep black
“intelligence” agency he originally feared could assassinate him.
In 1998,
Swann’s just-published book “PENETRATION” arrived in our offices at UFO
Magazine.” The book describes his role designing the protocols for what was
known as Project Stargate, a remote viewing program that was discovered to have
been in operation for 20 plus years using military remote viewers. Stargate had
been under the auspices of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central
Intelligence Agency, and had been continuously included in federal budget the
entire time. Obviously, the CIA and DIA
were getting value from the program. Yet once the program became public, the CIA
released a statement that Project Stargate had been canceled, which I find
impossible to believe. It makes much more sense that the program had been
transferred to another agency, like the National Security Agency (NSA), and
this public disclosure was simply an attempt to obfuscate the facts and reality
of what the intelligence agencies were really doing.
Today we
know that what became the Stargate program was taken very seriously by
government, and the people and groups involved prove this beyond doubt. They
include—and may not be limited to--CIA, the U.S. Navy and Army, U.S. Missile
Command, the U.S. Air Force, the National Security Agency, the Defense
Intelligence Agency, and many other government clients that included the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. So serious was the program and its success that “superstars”
Swann and Pat Price were tasked to remotely view what turned out to be a “super-black”
NSA facility in West Virginia. Price even managed to view files, case names and
some of the people working there.
This weird,
ongoing spy opera reached new heights in 1975, when Swann was notified by an
acquaintance that he would shortly receive a phone call from an unidentified
source. He was to follow the caller’s instructions “to the letter.” A few weeks
later at 3 a.m., Swann did receive this telephone call instructing him to
travel to Washington DC. He was sent to the National History Museum where he was
contacted by two operatives, then blindfolded and taken to a car that drove him
to a helicopter where he was flown to an unknown destination and deposited in
an underground facility.
Once
there, Swann’s blindfold was removed and he was escorted to a room where he was
met by a man who called himself “Axelrod.” Axelrod wanted Swann to conduct a
remote viewing session on an unnamed target, for which he was offered the enormous
sum of $1,000 per day.
I was to
learn more when around 2002 Swann came to the west coast to visit family. He
had a friend call me to see if I and my wife were available to have dinner. We
met him and a friend in a small Italian restaurant for a very memorable
evening. I had originally met Ingo in New Jersey while giving a lecture on my
Lunar Transient Phenomenon research, and as I was to find out, his lunar
interest was of the utmost importance to him. By this time I had read and
re-read his book, and my questions were many. (Swann had questions for me also.)
Whoever
they were, these operatives knew Swann to a “T”. They even had a supply of
Swann’s favorite cigars on hand. Swann accepted Axelrod’s proposal, and after a
night’s rest and “a good meal,” he began his task. After breakfast they retired
to the room Swann was to use for the session, where he learned the target was
the moon. This concerned him, as he always made it clear he needed feedback on
what he viewed. Axelrod assured him he would get feedback and they proceeded on
the “mission.” All while sitting in a room and following his original
remote-viewing protocols, Swann described his mind’s “flight” to the Moon, then
“landing” on the lunar surface facing Earth. He described “standing” near a
high cliff formation, maybe a very tall, natural cliff on the moon. Axelrod then
gave him his first set of coordinates. Trying twice, suddenly Swann was “there,”
standing in lunar darkness.
Getting
acclimated to the dark scene, he looked around and was surprised by seeing odd
puffs in the lunar soil. He described these funny markings as almost looking at
wind-driven sand on the beach, except there’s no wind on the moon. He realized
they looked like machine-driven tread marks. He became confused, thinking at
first somehow he transported back to Earth. Then he observed what appeared to
be a bank of lights similar to what one would see at a sports stadium. Now very
worried, he first thought maybe the Soviet Union had built a lunar base. But as
he saw more, a realization hit him that moved him to tears. He was observing buildings,
towers, tall structures of some type and what appeared to be living habitats.
Swann wrote that he finally “lost it” when he next observed a crater that
appeared to be covered by a transparent green dome. Looking down, Swann
observed humanoids working on the lunar soil. Suddenly one of the figures
stopped, turned around and looked up, then another and another until they all
stopped working and began pointing and looking up. Shocked, Swann, told Axelrod
what he was “seeing” and then Axelrod quietly but firmly told Swann to stop and
return immediately. Still reeling from the shock of seeing what appeared to be
living beings on the moon, Swann realized not only were the beings there, but they were also very highly psychic
since the beings knew he was seeing them when Swann wasn’t really, physically
there. He later told me they weren’t friendly and seemed angry. He spent the next
four to five months terrified these “aliens” might track him down and “fry his
brain.”
The moon
continued to engage federal interest and money. After 22 years since the last moon
mission, Apollo 17 in January, 1994, the Department of Defense’s Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and NASA launched the Clementine Mission,
its twofold task to do a flyby of an asteroid and to completely re-photograph
and map the moon. Clementine was outfitted with the most powerful cameras
available (think of our first line spy satellites), able to capture images in
various spectrums, and hypothetically able to read a license plate from orbit,
providing any license plates were on the moon’s surface! During this mission,
2.5 million photographs were taken, all at the behest of the BMDO. I contacted
and spoke with the assistant director of Clementine, who informed me that all Clementine’s
photographs were beamed to a separate department inside the mission quarters,
and unless you held the proper security clearance, the photographs were
classified. I was told by my source that even the director wasn’t cleared to
see these lunar photographs. With the exception of literally a handful of them--nondescript
photos such as unnamed craters and landscapes--the photos are blurry, seemingly
void of resolution in the extreme. Images arriving from satellites such as the
KH-11 or similar spy satellites with such blurry, indistinct resolution is
unheard of. Usually, the clarity of such clear images can be truly scary.
So, to sum
up: With the advent of Clementine, it had been over two decades since the
Apollo Program had shut down. In the aftermath of the 1968 NASA TR-R-277
anomaly report, the many rumors of what the Apollo astronauts might have
observed, verification that the lunar astronauts carried weapons to the moon,
Buzz Aldrin’s shocking refusal to look at lunar photographs, and after the DOD
and NASA go back to the moon to completely re-photograph and map the lunar
surface—again—what can we conclude, if
anything?
While
considering this I recalled my time in Viet Nam. Many times during that
conflict, American reconnaissance aircraft would spot what was thought to be a
new enemy site or installation, photograph it and perhaps attack it. Or the
decision would be to simply wait for a while then go back and photograph it
again. These photos would then be taken to the intelligence section for study
and analysis. The intel officials would look for any noticeable changes--new
buildings, vehicles, equipment, instillations for troops, and so on. I have no
doubt that in the case of the Clementine photos, this is exactly what the BMDO
was looking for, and I am further convinced one of their objectives was to
scrutinize the images for anything—or
anyone--they consider a possible ET threat.
Such a
stark realization has not escaped professional attention. Dr. Avi Loeb, the
Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University,
is an Israeli-American
theoretical
physicist who
works on astrophysics and cosmology. Since 2007 he has been Director of the Institute
for Theory and Computation at the university’s Center for Astrophysics.
In 2018, he suggested that extraterrestrial spacecraft may currently be in the
solar system, using the example of the interstellar object Oumuamua. He and his radical speculation came under
very heavy criticism.
This did
not deter Dr. Loeb’s open-minded exploration. He founded The Galileo Project in
an effort to perform a systematic search for evidence of ET artifacts within
our solar system. Then in June of 2023, well after the U.S. Department of
Defense’s 2014 detection of a fireball streaking to earth, he announced that he
and his group had retrieved material off the ocean floor near New Guinea. It is
believed that this object came into the solar system from interstellar space
because of the excessive rate of speed this object demonstrated--in excess of
45 km. per second. Dr. Loeb theorized that this could be the part of an ET
interstellar starship. The debris retrieved from the ocean was telling. Upon close
examination, the stuff showed elements of Cl (Chlorine), Si (Silicon), Be
(Beryllium), Li (Lithium), U (Uranium), and finally Fe (Iron), all in a pure
state.
Physicist Dr.
John Brandenburg, with his background in nuclear weapons research, advanced
propulsion systems and his reputation as a Mars authority, found Loeb’s
chemical analysis very intriguing. He performed his own analysis in graphic
form and sent it to me. He explained this to me, but in relatively complex
scientific terms, “Therefore,” he said, “Solar/ Cl (Chlorine) indicates [a]
shared pattern of relative elemental abundances. Be, (Beryllium) Li (Lithium)
and U (Uranium) can be seen as being very rare elements. Fe (Iron) is fairly
common in the universe, as are Al (Aluminum) and Ti (Titanium). Plotting the ratio of abundances of elements
relative to Si in a sample from outer space and then, in turn, its ratio to the
ratio of relative abundance found in Cl is a measure of the `strangeness’ of a
sample versus the natural cosmic background composition as represented by the sun.
We will represent this `strangeness’ measure by EQ/Cl , where EQ means relative
abundance of element Q to Si in a sample, and Cl represents the relative
abundance of element Q to Si in the Cl. If this `strangeness’ ratio of ratios
is much different than 1, indicating a substantial deviation from the Solar/Cl
pattern of relative abundances, it could
indicate a sample is actually a technologically
produced material rather than a product of nature.” (Italics added)
Brandenburg
further theorizes, “These elements could mean that the fireball could have come
from an artificial craft, perhaps damaged, and the elements are what could be
indicative of something like a landing gear.” However, the most terrifying
possibility Brandenburg proposed was that this “object” had within it the
components of a nuclear weapon. This above all would deeply trouble the national
security state.
The
original purpose of this paper was to explore whether we might be on the verge
of mass public disclosure of the reality of the UFO phenomenon, or at least in
the near future. I must answer this speculative desire with a resounding NO.
Front and center, and with years of exposure to the topic, we must be aware
that at the very least this UFO/UAP phenomenon
is very likely buried as a CORE secret, shielded and protected by a
Special Access Program. The individuals in charge know something that terrifies
them if it were to become public
knowledge. Since public awareness of the Nimitz battle group encounters in 2004
and the late Sen. Harry Reid’s disclosure of getting finances for the ATTIP
program, one branch of the uniformed military services has avidly kept mum: the
United States Air Force. The Air Force, presumably the people in charge of UFO
investigations since 1947, have discussed or released nothing about the phenomenon, other than some diversionary
rationales or explanations. So far the CORE Secret appears secure.
I’ve
thought about this a great deal and played many theories in my mind as to what
the exact UFO secret might be. As I listened to purported “insider” David
Grusch testify before Congress, one thing struck a nerve. He claims that he was
told that the government has recovered at least a dozen off-world vehicles, and
now has them in storage. If so, and if any of these vehicles are from another
star system, the technology must be beyond belief—well beyond our own
state-of-the-art technology. Does it make sense that these craft could travel
light years to finally arrive at Earth, to then just break down? That makes no
sense. But having survived two deployments to S.E. Asia during the violent Viet
Nam war, I find this could make sense: Such “broken down” off-world vehicles
might be combat wreckage.
Over the
decades I have been made aware of many witnessed accounts of UFOs in conflict
with one another. In 1991 and 1992, I broke two stories of what seemed to be
hostile action having been observed then reported by reliable witnesses. The
Soviet Union’s Phobos 2 probe was reportedly rammed and destroyed by a huge,
unknown object observed in Mars orbit. Also consider the STS-48 space shuttle mission,
where an unknown UFO was filmed taking drastic action to avoid what could only
have been a weapons firing of some type. ET war in close space to Earth? Yes,
that would be an excellent reason to shield the populace from the present
threat posed by UFO reality.
To sum up,
I cannot forget Ingo Swann’s rumination to me in one of our last conversations,
and which he highlighted in his book “PENETRATION” (page 83). “Perhaps there
was a space opera going on in which two different sets of ETs were fighting
some kind of war here on Earth – while both at the same time were somehow
ensuring that humans never realize that they, themselves, are psychic.” Remember,
Swann was convinced the ETs he encountered on the moon during remote viewing found
humans with psychic ability a threat.
Full disclosure
in our lifetime? It will never be allowed to happen.
Links:
Davis-Wilson
Memo
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20074164-wilson-davis-document
SRI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International
Dr. Hal
Puthoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Puthoff
Dr.
Russell Targ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Targ
Ingo Swann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann
Pat
Price's Death
https://rense.com/general9/stranged.htm
Clementine
Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)
Dr. Avi
Loeb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb
The
Galileo Project
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home
Serving
as its Director of Research and Media Liaison for 20 years, Don Ecker became
the voice of what is considered the most journalistic American publication on
the UFO subject, UFO Magazine (now out
of print). Beginning in 1991, Ecker began broadcasting his first hit show, “UFOs
Tonite!” on the Cable Radio Network. Later his shows moved to the Liberty Works
Network, Satellite Radio, then CyberstationUSA and finally KGRAdb. Ecker is a
U.S. Army veteran of the Viet Nam War Upon returning home he became a Police
Officer and later a Criminal Investigator.
