A Power Structure Analysis rather than Conspiracy Notions is Required to Understand the UFO Coverup. Serious
In this blog I am reposting an article I published on social media four years ago. It describes my work during the 1990s with the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). I share my concerns about how conspiracy-oriented analyses are inadequate for understanding the social forces driving the worldwide UFO coverup.
I was a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative from 1992 to 1998. In dozens of field investigations our LA based team facilitated many encounters with UFO intelligences that appeared at our research sites, and then in the neighborhoods where we resided. As a member of the CSETI Board of Directors, I was empowered to conduct media events and fund raising for what I believed was an organization driven by high ideals. In the Western US, as well as in Canada and the UK, as part of my volunteer efforts for Dr. Greer’s group, I did workshops promoting what I now call HICE, Human Initiated Contact Events aka CE-5s. I resigned from the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in 1998 for personal and political reasons and have not spoken to its director since.
It was disappointing to witness how much Dr. Greer fell prey to a conspiratorial approach to the flying saucer challenge. In the past, his repeated use of the term “the Cabal” which may have antisemitic origins, was a warning that his analysis was off. Although Dr. Greer, who in my judgment was a talented physician and excellent meditation instructor, his political knowledge and experience were rudimentary in the 1990s. In contrast, when I joined CSETI in 1992, I had been a volunteer political activist for three decades in the peace, labor, and civil rights movements of the 20th century.
The long-term potential for possibly creating a social movement around human initiated contact efforts was apparent to me from the moment I joined CSETI. This would require, however, a far more sweeping power structure analysis of the UFO coverup than Dr. Greer could provide given his limited political knowledge and experience. It was apparent to me that the flying saucer phenomenon threatens all terrestrial ruling classes. This includes the economic, political, and military elites, as well as certain fundamentalist religious elites and their followers. Instead of an in-depth power-structure analysis, his critique has been what I consider to be a superficial one. He characterizes the UFO coverup as being the product of a small, highly clandestine “Cabal” of evil people.
In my view the generations long de-facto policy of ridicule and denial is not an aberration, driven by a small group of conspirators, but rather a project of the entire ruling class that will do what is necessary to defend the social system over which it has effective control. If there is a “conspiracy”, it is one that is hiding in plain view because of the following:
1.Flying saucers threaten the US military because they interfere with nuclear weapons systems and fly circles around the most advanced aircraft.
2.UFOs are not running on fossil fuels. If the secrets of their propulsion systems could be safely introduced into terrestrial industry, the empire of oil would wither away. This would reduce the effects of global warming, as well as the profits generated by the largest industry in the world.
3. All big politicians base their political power on nationalism. If the masses of our planet realized that advanced cultures of a possible extraterrestrial nature were present here, globalization in positive ways might accelerate. The ideal of “one planet, one people” would leave the most nationalistic politicians with a diminished political base.
4. Any positive spiritual component of contact with UAP intelligences undermines the teachings of the most conservative fundamentalist faiths, some of which view the alleged “ETs” as demons.
Without this most basic outline of a power structure analysis, the CSETI Director as well as other prominent personalities in the UFO subculture, have become misguided proponents of conspiratorial explanations. It is the kind of thinking conceivably has fertilizes the ground on which groups like QAnon flourished with disastrous results.
I am deeply concerned about the ways in which those under the spell of QAnon conspiracy theories penetrated the CE-5 community. During 2020, I received frequent requests to be a Facebook friend from many followers of Q. It was very disturbing to witness how much influence this bizarre conspiracy theory had in the pro contact community. Some people were so influenced by what I view as nonsense, that our friendships ended. I found it disturbing that people who believed President Trump was some kind of UFO “Messiah” were attempting fieldwork along the lines of the CE-5 Initiative. For more details please see Mark Koprowski’s article reposted at:
Decades ago, I was proud of volunteering to work under the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind banner. Now I promote the acronym HICE, Human Initiated Contact Event, to describe outreach efforts directed at the non-human intelligences associated with flying saucers. I do this in part because I believe our contact efforts don’t really fall into the category of a “scientific” investigation. Thus using the Close Encounters schema created by Drs. Hynek and Vallee, two professional scientists, doesn’t make sense. Another reason for a “brand change” is to use a designation that actually spells out what contact teams are doing. Finally, for those who are troubled by some aspects of the CSETI Director’s leadership in promoting human initiated contact, the term “HICE” might be preferable over “CE-5” so closely associated with Dr. Greer.
The term “Cabal” that the CSETI Director was so fond of using in the past may have antisemitic overtones. Although the origins of the word “cabal” is controversial, some of my Jewish friends believe it is derived from the Jewish mystical term “Kabala.” The term “cabal” is used to support a simplistic theory that our rulers are conspiring in secret. In my judgment, they are not! The ruling elites exercise their power in plain view by owning the means of production, controlling the media because they own it, and legally bribing politicians thru campaign contributions. Elite political control starts at the top. The President of the United States, whether Democrat or Republican, must get the OK of the rich and powerful to even run for office. This is achieved by potential candidates attending elite meetings and receiving the approval of very wealthy people like those convening the Bilderberg conferences.
All this is public knowledge and can be found merely by carefully reading reputable newspapers and political science and history journals. This kind of power structure analysis never appears on commercial TV, not in movies or in the popular print media. Thus, the strings of power appear to be invisible. They clearly are not in my view.
Conspiracy theories promote the simplistic notion that merely by removing some evil conspirators from power, all will be well. This in my judgment is an adolescent fantasy. To change the terrible situations that most people suffer from in modern society will require radical reforms of the entire social, political and most importantly economic system. Only by protecting the environment, reducing the extreme disparities of wealth and power, and establishing a durable world peace can we truly have a better world.
Irrational conspiracy theories, whether they be those promoted by followers of Q, or by prominent people in the UFO subculture, all serve to confuse the public. Thus, in a certain sense they strengthen the status quo. By not conducting a more sensible analysis, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories reduce our ability to achieve necessary reforms via peaceful lawful political campaigns.
Additional Power Structure Analysis
Intelligence Community Whistleblower Victor Marchetti outlined the Establishment’s approach to UFOs in 1979. His analysis will help UFO truth activists explain the reasons for 80 years of US Executive Branch lying.
He stated, “Political and legal systems, religions, economic and social institutions could all soon become meaningless in the mind of the public. The national oligarchical establishments, even civilization as we know it, could collapse into anarchy. Such extreme conclusions are not necessarily valid, but they probably accurately reflect the fears of the "ruling class" of the major nations, whose leaders (particularly those in the intelligence business) have always advocated excessive governmental secrecy as being necessary to preserve "national security."
Marchetti’s analysis supports the position I have promoted for over two decades. UFOs threaten all terrestrial elites, but not necessarily the Earth’s people. They. in my opinion deserve peace, security, environmental protection, and open contact with the non-human intelligences responsible for UAP.
Some ask, “Why the push for limited disclosure now?” I suggest that our civilization is facing a crisis of colossal proportions causing the ascendency of elite factions pushing for openness. Activists can accelerate this process.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2023/07/23/many-ask-why-the-sudden-push-for-disclosure-now/
You can’t control a person who wants “no thing.” I suspect that Flying Saucer Intelligences are feared by our planet’s elites because they can’t be controlled by the usual methods applied to the general population. If we start to identify, not with things and thought forms, but rather with universal consciousness, then ultimately, we cannot be controlled either.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2021/10/19/why-do-the-control-groups-oppose-an-et-presence/
Confirmation rather than the big “D” Disclosure is likely the next step in the authorities’ gradual acclimatization program. The possibilities of linking flying saucers to solutions for major terrestrial problems is discussed.
If flying saucer intelligences threaten all terrestrial elites, but not necessarily the Earth’s people, then it is understandable that governmental response to UFOs is a counterintelligence one.
The blog linked directly below is a detailed analysis of the reasons for 75 years of denial of the reality of UFOs. Flying Saucers threaten our planet's elites, but not the Earth's people.