This begins with the time I recognized CNN as an outlet not unlike the overnight radio call-in program, whereby the sleepless consumer class is invited to fabulate live on air from a dubiously sourced starting point established by host and guest, which in this case was focussed on what I'm calling The Origin Story.
It goes that a press release was launched in July of 1947 from the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field, U.S.A.™ in which was stated a flying disc had been recovered from a ranch in New Mexico and eventually brought by Group Intelligence Officer, Major Jesse Marcel, to the base. The story continues that later the same day the information in the press release was retracted, as it turned out the debris in question had been from a weather balloon.
What's been added to the story since that time is of UFO lore, much of which was recounted that night on CNN, and despite the official fill-in-the blanks brand of information that's occasionally come from the successors to the chair of the source story, it does not act to dispel the conspiracy theories; it rather triggers the wanna believers, on this evening in the form of eager cable news consumers regaling fellow wanna believers with that which nobody can tell them is not true because the coverup is so blatantly obvious.
Not to thumb my own bike bell at you, but if a lightbulb didn't go on at the conclusion of the previous sentence... never mind. It shouldn't have taken that long for me. I'll continue. I mean, we all know there's more, right?
The rush to spin to "aliens" makes those early model flying saucers and all their top speed wobbliness look like the creeky creeping rotation of the Earth, relatively speaking. Time was, I bought into it, returning to the newsstand for those UFO magazines, which were published bi-nothingly. Same single issues of the same two magazines for the longest. Starving for new information.
And that night when the blatant obviousness was raised as the proof in the pudding, it occurred to me how I'd been eating it up. And as suddenly, the chocolate went vanilla.
As is the case with time, new theories crop up, inevitably with contributions from people in the know, i.e. whoever claims to have lived a life with a "need to know", i.e. worked on a covert project or a secret base or on a parallel planet.
Like some quantum proverb, it spins in a pair of directions. The contributors could be assets, or assets nonetheless. The witting, the unwitting, the half-witting. That is, even when sentences passed down are not at the behest of the original sorcerers, and as nonesuch contradict the intended framing of the narrative, it doesn't matter. Even if it revealed something someone had not wanted.
Any narrative made to be muddy is served over the long term by adding more mud, which makes truth not so much harder to identify as it is demotivating if you'd wanted to bother.
A populace consisting of citizen-folk who want to believe (who think they know the "real truth", which shifts, regardless of the nature of the added bits of information, to accord with their preferred version of the narrative) and the same who don't know what to believe is a perfect mix.
The story goes, for those who cannot be told otherwise, that Major Marcel took a piece of that wreckage home to his son Jesse Jr., who was then able to witness how this smooth metallic looking substance could be wadded into a tiny ball in the hand and would immediately return to its previous state when released.
The story, according to those from whom the entire tale began, is that what that rancher had gathered up and taken to the sheriff, and what Major Marcel went to retrieve when the sheriff called, was bits of rubber and tinfoil. Funny that. They would later identify the stuff as a weather balloon. But not until after the group commander'd initiated that press release, which, whether one likes it or not, is the origin of The Origin Story.
It's claimed today by (for want of an appropriate term) official sources who don't claim otherwise, that the Roswell Incident should be scene as part of a flying disc craze that had begun weeks earlier. I assume the intended logic is that the press release was a result of the same. Like, maybe sticks and rubber and tinfoil were not improbable ingredients for a navigational device of an interplanetary aviator, the assumed flightpath of a flying disc fancied as of 1947. That is, even those responsible for the maintenance of the most advanced flying machines identifiable at the time would not find it improbable you could get to the moon and back with the stuff from a kite.
Their story goes that Major Marcel and his commander were convinced enough to feed the story to the press, sans ingredients, until leaving Marcel holding the balloon. The same story from those who will never not know better is that "the government" snagged a UFO and, in some versions, its otherworldly occupants and only realized after the press release they'd want to keep that secret. I recall a claim from somewhere or another that you can read the expression on the Major's face in the balloon photo op as being attributable to something so specifically identifiable as the Major's being outraged that a coverup was in the works.
It should be noted that one update occurred when Major Marcel did an interview with a self-styled ufologist. It was around this time in the seventies when US intelligence sources revealed Project Mogul, which involved high altitude balloons to detect the sound of the Soviets testing nukes. This could explain away why they'd want to obscure the balloon story, so the official narrative, which ostensibly cannot preclude the notion that in a rush to cover up the existence of Project Mogul, the flying disc thing was the best they could come up with until the weather balloon story was agreed upon.
The story, according to those from whom the entire tale began, is that what that rancher had gathered up and taken to the sheriff, and what Major Marcel went to retrieve when the sheriff called, was bits of rubber and tinfoil. Funny that. They would later identify the stuff as a weather balloon. But not until after the group commander'd initiated that press release, which, whether one likes it or not, is the origin of The Origin Story.
It's claimed today by (for want of an appropriate term) official sources who don't claim otherwise, that the Roswell Incident should be scene as part of a flying disc craze that had begun weeks earlier. I assume the intended logic is that the press release was a result of the same. Like, maybe sticks and rubber and tinfoil were not improbable ingredients for a navigational device of an interplanetary aviator, the assumed flightpath of a flying disc fancied as of 1947. That is, even those responsible for the maintenance of the most advanced flying machines identifiable at the time would not find it improbable you could get to the moon and back with the stuff from a kite.
Their story goes that Major Marcel and his commander were convinced enough to feed the story to the press, sans ingredients, until leaving Marcel holding the balloon. The same story from those who will never not know better is that "the government" snagged a UFO and, in some versions, its otherworldly occupants and only realized after the press release they'd want to keep that secret. I recall a claim from somewhere or another that you can read the expression on the Major's face in the balloon photo op as being attributable to something so specifically identifiable as the Major's being outraged that a coverup was in the works.
It should be noted that one update occurred when Major Marcel did an interview with a self-styled ufologist. It was around this time in the seventies when US intelligence sources revealed Project Mogul, which involved high altitude balloons to detect the sound of the Soviets testing nukes. This could explain away why they'd want to obscure the balloon story, so the official narrative, which ostensibly cannot preclude the notion that in a rush to cover up the existence of Project Mogul, the flying disc thing was the best they could come up with until the weather balloon story was agreed upon.
It would seem, as well, that the flying disc craze could justify the premature press release, as if the public had been demanding an answer to a question then only known to a podunk rancher and sheriff and a military intelligence officer and his big boss.
My CNN epiphany had been that the Americans decided to make "the Commies" believe they had captured an extraterrestrial ship by saying so, and then pretending to cover it up. Like all the other conspiracy theorists, I revise that belief when more details emerge, but nevertheless maintain the overarching theme of my version of the narrative, which is that what all those people who want to believe believe is more or less the same as what the antagonists in their stories want.
I'd like to say I'm different, but the more all the new information on the topic and its framing continues to comport well with the view of the other respective narratives, the more they'll likely do the same with mine.
At least as far back as the heyday of those UFO rags and their letters to the editor, it's been theorized that "the government" has been using its influence in the cultural sector to gradually acclimate the public to the existence of aliens among us. Hence the universal image of the Alien Grey. Depending on the perspective, The X-Files creators are either in on it, being fed by it and/or the likely result of it. One might be apt to claim there's a remarkable amount of mud leaked via the MIB franchise.
There's a remarkable half-season of American Horror Story dedicated to the mythology that emerged from Roswell that becomes an absurdist unified field of US conspiracy legend, which is evidence at least of its breadth of influence and the widespread knowledge of certain details of the myth, although those who always know better could tell you where they got it all wrong. What I can tell you is the myth is malleable, its characters and details irrelevant. It is however interesting that the acclimation theory and the spy practice of using more absurd bits to discredit others dovetail nicely in such productions as American Horror Story and Men In Black. If you believe such things, you got to pick and choose.
It's not the first time The Origin Story made for television entertainment. There's a show from the nineties whose first episode I recall recounted a similar event to that of American Horror Story: It goes that Eisenhower was ushered to a place near the cite of a captured craft and eventually made to go along with the alien-human hybrid program. In the show from the nineties this terrifying realisation comes into the consciousness of the human envoy by way of the alien's telepathic communication. "He just demanded our unconditional surrender!" exclaims the terrified Army man.
The pre televised myth says that Truman or Ike, or whoever, was led to a tent, or wherever, where the aliens communicated the abduction and breeding program, or whatever. This eventually led to the formation of a top secret commission, or whatever, called the Majestic 12, whose purpose eludes me but whose name implies no more than a dozen people with a need to know.
Versions of the myth feature terraforming the Earth to make it inhabitable to the reptilians, or whoever. See the movie Arrival (the one with Charlie Sheen) for a synopsis of how the oil industry can help with this plan.
The myth can extend to entail the hybrid program's being an attempt to achieve the real life afforded to humans for the reptilians, i.e. life that includes the free will of the human soul, or whatever.
This may have come via those who have claimed to've been abducted and those who believe them and thus co-written the mass abduction part of the story. I don't know if this was retrofitted to create the coerced covenant crossroads in Roswell (read: deal with the devil) that those who know is true know is true, and they may point out nobody's leaking those documents.
When dealing in the myth of extraterrestrial life forms, you'd have to get biblical eventually and I'm sure the soulless alien nugget's been depicted in one or other of our aping human entertainments. Casting for the part of the lizard who wants a soul include the serpent, Cain, Enki, the guy who played the Tin Man, or Michael Shannon.
Back in the real world, each new leak might appear to follow the strategy of acclimating humans to our alien overlords, but like so much in mediated space, I find little by way of real world converts to the world of believers. Not that I'm conducting polls. I mean, sure, if you got your head deep in the ass of the modern day, catered-to-you news cycle, everybody's talking about your thing. I just don't sense the newly branded UAP phenomenon taking on greater importance out there.
What I do sense is that within the lair of the lore, I have merely out-theorized the theorizers because I can't get around the fact that the story, supposedly covered up for over seventy-five years, came from the source of the alleged coverup and has continued until today to be shaped by the same.
As far as motives go, I think they're fluid. So please don't @ me with the fake alien invasion theory. However marginal it may seem in comparison, it's fallen not far from the tree.
