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By their works shall ye know them...
Ramifications of the 2011 F.E. Warren AFB UFO Hoax
By James Carlson
At what point along the journey to create or influence convincing public concern does a
community of those with common beliefs and similar goals as a result of those beliefs
have to reach before individual members of that community begin to consider whether a
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more dishonest or deceptive approach might be necessary to satisfy those goals? And
what if the extent or the measure of this supposed necessity, as such individuals might
imagine it, is a reflection of their personal belief that the failure to accomplish these
goals may well endanger or at least setback for some indefinite period the potential
growth and development in a very real cosmic sense of their own species? As it
turns out, it's about 50 years... give or take a decade or so. Being a question of
morality, it would, of course, depend on the individuals. Being a question of morality,
however, it's not an indifferent question, and it should, for that reason, be explored a bit.
In June 2011, Robert Hastings, American chronicler of fables and folktales and currently
the loudest and most self-promoting voice in UFO proponent communities world-wide,
paid Reuters Newswire a nice sum to distribute a press release that he had authored,
thereby borrowing the impression of the same high credibility that the network has
labored at for decades in regard to its own work without actually having any more
credibility than Hastings himself can muster on any given day which isn't very much.
The story Hastings wrote is entitled
"Robert Hastings: Unidentified Aerial
Object Sighted During October 2010
Nuclear Missile Incident", a title typical of
his vehement yet somewhat insipid self-
promotion. It supposedly establishes UFO
interference with the now well-known
incident of equipment failure that occurred
on October 23, 2010, at F.E. Warren Air
Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
During this incident, launch technicians
temporarily lost the ability to communicate with 50 of its Minuteman III missiles. The five
Missile Alert Facilities responsible for those ICBMs would have been unable to fire them
during the period of the disruption, although airborne commanders would still have been
able to fire the weapons at will.
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The credibility that Robert Hastings paid for, while nonexistent in and of itself, has
nonetheless been assumed by those in the UFO proponent communities on the basis of
Reuters reputation alone. After all, as Reuters' advertising department is fond of
noting, with some truth, we should add, "Thomas Reuters is the world's leading source
of intelligent information for business and professionals." It should be stressed,
however, that the content of this article came from Hastings alone, and had nothing at
all to do with Reuters Newswire reporting. They merely released the story upon
payment. One only has to examine the numerous reprints of this article of Hastings'
throughout the internet to measure the worth of the borrowed (or paid for) credibility that
has been associated with these claims as a result of his apparent marketing savvy.
At http://warlords2010.blogspot.com/2011/09/check-out-this-incredible-reuters-ufo.html ,
for instance, the first thing we note is that "It is a bit unusual to get a UFO story from the
likes of Reuters but here is one such case." The author calls it "this incredible Reuters
#UFO story". Reuters? Well, they insisted that the article be printed only with the rider
"Reuters is not responsible for the content in this press release." They were merely
selling the distribution of Hastings' article, not the content.
Huffington Posthas published, to their credit, a much more detailed airing of the story at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/07/ufos-at-nuclear-missile-site-eyewitnesses-
afraid-to-talk_n_881802.html , but they also failed to examine the method itself that
Robert Hastings has and continues to rely upon, a practice that allows him the freedom
to invent whatever details he wants and call it "fact". It's a freedom that has been
allowed to take flight upon such airy and ill-imagined wings by other authors as well.
At http://earthstar.tripod.com/TSB_dir/2011/Radio0811.html , for example, Ray Larsen
has also used this freedom to invent liberally, claiming that "a huge cigar-shaped craft
was spotted by multiple witnesses, both civilian and military, hovering over the missile
field and jamming communications with the missiles for 59 minutes. The Air Forces
public face didnt seem too upset about it, but some witnesses have reported receiving
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threats of severe penalties from their commanders for talking to reporters or
researchers." Its immediately notable that none of the above claims can be supported
by anything at all aside from Hastings' article, which pointedly fails to mention "multiple
witnesses, both civilian and military" and merely implies (at best) that a UFO was
"hovering over the missile field and jamming communications with the missiles". The
rest of Larsens account in regard to Hastings "research" is equally devoid of anything
that can actually be supported by more than the paranoia Hastings (and many others)
are profiting from. "I think the ETs, whoever they are, were close to ready for some
form of contact, but now, I think they may be confused and have postponed their plans.
If they wanted to be a threat to this
planet, I think they would have no
problems in doing so, as their level of
technology seems to still be beyond
the understanding of our black budget
scientists and engineers."
Apparently the ETs aren't the only
ones who are confused
It's not the first time that Robert
Hastings has performed this little con
on the internet. He did the same thing
in the days leading up to his much
(and very properly) ridiculed press
conference of September 27, 2010.
At http://flyingflashlight.com/tag/robert-hastings/ , for instance, we learned that "A major
news organization says flying saucers are toying with American nuclear weapons, but
you better read the byline and article". This author looked a little closer, and hats off to
him: "I am suspecting an automatic feed from PR Newswire to Reuters.com has
created this most alarming of headlines to be prominently displayed on the
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organizations home page (its the No. 2 most-popular article): U.S. Nuclear Weapons
Have Been Compromised byUnidentified Aerial Objects.
"If you stopped right there and didnt read any further, you would fail to discover that this
piece of information being presented as an 'article' is actually a paid-for advertisement
(oh, I mean 'press release') for an upcoming news media conference of ex-military
members who plan to discuss their experiences with unidentified flying objects."
At http://www.facebook.com/lesliekean/posts/143133802389746 , author Leslie Kean
(who should know better and who will be discussed in more detail later for that very
reason) notifies us that "Reuters has posted the press release about the upcoming
press conference on U.S. nuclear weapons being compromised by unidentified aerial
objects, organized byRobert Hastings andRobert Salas, on Sept. 27th in Washington.
The media needs to be alerted about this." Yes, I'm certain the media felt the same way
immediately following that little rape of the truth. The Washington Post reporter who
attended that pathetic little example of Scrappy-doo show-boating was quite clear that
the only thing of value he could find were the cookies that were made available to the
press. Those who watched the DVD that Salas and Hastings were trying to sell
immediately afterwards didnt even get that. Its a shame they couldnt at least have
included a coupon for 25 cents off a package of Toll House chocolate chip cookies, but
these entrepreneurs simply arent the type to plan so far in advance. Proof of this can
be verified from any summary of losses incurred from their DVD sales of the event when
potential customers discovered almost immediately that they could watch the
conference on CNN for free, an unfortunate development when profiteers fail to weigh
the future out-of-pocket costs to their budding business portfolio when the event theyve
planned in such detail so far in advance is freely open to all press and media
representatives who might also wish to attend. Not that it matters much; theyll likely
recoup their losses when the movie version is finally released, unless they do
something completely boneheaded like bar any use of Muppets technology. Thats
not a joke either those Muppets can turn almost any silly idea into a blockbuster
summer release, if you give them a little lead time.
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At http://roblorinov.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/robert-hastings-unidentified-aerial-object-
sighted-during-october-2010-nuclear-missile-incident-reuters/ , we read "Amazing that
Reuters is reporting this as the major mainstream media do not usually report UFO
activity. What is reported in this story is NOT the first time a US missile system has
been rendered nonfunctional while a UFO is in the area." Of course, this particular
claim hasn't been examined by the writer of the piece he's assuming that Hastings is
telling the truth both here and in his book UFOs and Nukes, which purports to catalogue
such events. As a result, the writer's assumption that the incident "is NOT the first time
a US missile system has been rendered nonfunctional while a UFO is in the area" is
based on nothing, certainly not Reuter's credibility, which in this case has been bought
and paid for by Robert Hastings as a way to establish credibility that he's failed to
establish with his writings alone. It's just more unconscious disinformation by people
who are otherwise unable to back up their claims with anything more than "Hastings
says it's true." The writer of the article isn't necessarily lying; he simply believes the
claims of a charlatan and a fraud who is creating this belief for reasons of his own,
reasons having nothing at all to do with an accurate accounting of the "incidents" he and
others are associating with UFOs incidents that simply cannot be substantiated by any
jury outside of the imagination theyve liberally applied to the subject at hand.
It isn't the first time that Robert Hastings has attempted to make such claims. In relation
to a case of numerous missile failures that occurred in March 1967 at Malmstrom AFB,
he attempted the same type of deception. Fortunately for anybody insisting upon a
measure of valid evidence, a true accounting of testimony, or a determined and faithfully
assessed credibility in regard to that testimony, the witnesses he has used to establish
these claims have insisted very clearly that he was lying and denounced entirely any
interference, reporting, or investigation resulting from any UFO incident Robert Hastings
or Robert Salas have proposed. Both are merely being deceptive, a fact that was easily
proven once the "witnesses" were reinterviewed by individuals with a more ethical
concern for the truth than any possessed by these two UFOlogical frauds.
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It should be pointed out, however, that Robert Hastings learned something very
important from the subsequent and embarrassing expos of his methods. He learned
that his "witnesses" can be tracked down and reinterviewed, at which point the truth can
be made known. And when the weak link in your claims happens to be inherent to your
use of non-witness witnesses capped by an inability to properly interpret what testimony
has been presented, the best recourse for those wishing to continue with the
presentation of such false claims is to prevent others from gaining access to your
witnesses, thereby removing any embarrassing revelations that might come about
subsequent to the lie. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that this is exactlywhat
Robert Hastings has now done. He purchased the apparently marketable commodity of
credibility held by Reuters as a result of their own fine and professional conduct,
because he knew that credibility would be necessary in order to freely assert another
hoax regarding UFOs and nuclear missile failures. He then followed up this sad little
attempt at reputation repair by essentially taking the weak link represented by the
witnesses and their testimonycompletely out of the equation. Thats right, folks: Robert
Hastings went anonymous
By adapting the witness to the lie, Hastings was able to rediscover for himself the Great
Lesson of fashionable con-artists worldwide, from P.T. Barnum through a long line of
hidden personalities trying to sell crack outside of Narcotics Anonymous meetings:
surprise! anonymity can protect not only his witnesses from being questioned about
those little details that Robert Hastings invented out of nothing tossing em in just as
the story starts to gel around the publics perception with a slick panache guaranteed by
addled, nameless used-car salesmen everywhere to make the story sound a little better
than anything youve got in your pocket right now but can also prevent the sad-eyed
teamster leaning against the telephone pole downstairs from picking up the common
knowledge of Hastings own fraudulent activities and exposing them to the Greek
hooker on the stairway who doesnt even give a damn about UFOs, and just wants a
little iced tea and lemonade in a clean glass by the time The Simpsons come on. Its
another one of those ageless I can create an indefinable wall between me and those
skeptical critics by inventing a witness, but keeping everything about him a secrettype
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of lessons. This type of deception, however, requires a little extra on the other side of
the equation, making the weight of established credibility of the sort Reuters has turned
into a marketable commodity a great and necessary benefit when its associated by no
fault of their own with attempts to use imaginary witnesses to establish a point of view
thats so essentially separate and unassociated with the authors this, of course, being
Robert Hastings.
Hastings article not only makes this anonymity very clear, but emphasizes as well the
use that only he is willing to put it to:
Regarding the recent situation at F.E. Warren AFB, Hastings emphasizes, "My sources
have not said that the UFO sighted during the October 23, 2010 missile-communicationsdisruption actually caused it. And it must be noted that the Air Force's Global Strike
Command has officially attributed the problem to an improperly-replaced circuit card in a
weapons-system processor."
He adds, "Nevertheless, the intermittent presence of a huge, cigar-shaped aerial craft
during the hours-long - not minutes-long - crisis was definitely noted and remarked
upon by various technical teams working in the base's missile field."
And thats how you take a lie and turn it into something all brand new and sparkly, like a
box full of stars tossed up into the heavens. It's a shame these witnesses have refused
to come forward, if they even exist at all. In firm recognition of the dire importance
Robert Hastings has placed on this issue of anonymity, without once focusing on the
fact that he has again struck the hammer against the steel, sparks flying like tiny little
abrasions in the wind, and has repeated old sins by making a number of spurious,
pointless and fact-free claims without presenting anything at all in the way of validated
evidence to back it up, that last supposition absolutely must be properly addressed.The creation of such alleged witnesses, after all, encompasses an implied deception
that many people who are very willing to come forward are quite certain that
Hastings is more than capable of. It also fits in very well with any collation of his past
failures to build a case in the absence of the tools and materials necessary to do so
honestly. The facts of his past deceptions alone would establish quite handily his moral
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capabilities for such a strategy. The ease with which his claims can be shattered, in
many cases by simply analyzing his work for elements that cannot be reconciled with
any of the internal conflicts typical of the military environment he limits himself to, and
yet refuses to learn anything about, tends to support his capability for invention far more
than his ability to uncover hidden facts that the rest of the world has failed for
whatever reasons to notice. Where anonymity describes the source, as it does here,
Robert Hastings can say absolutely anything he likes. The sad truth is, he's done it
before; invention is, after all, his fort.
The suspicions raised by the assumed anonymity of his only witnesses must to be
examined if we're to consider any of these recent claims credible at all, particularly
when any attempts to confirm such claims this search for confirmation beginning
shortly after he broke this big story instantly produce literally dozens of insistent,
disgusted affirmations that there was no UFO in fact or rumor, nor was a UFO reported
or investigated. Most members of the military are justifiably proud of their
accomplishments and their service, so when someone like Robert Hastings who never
served in the military assumes the arrogance necessary to redefine those
accomplishments and that service, doing so by trivializing their contributions to national
defense, they generally respond with understandable anger and rancor, something that
Hastings has never acknowledged, preferring by far to use unsustained anecdotes to
establish a case that simply cant be made honestly. Anonymity must, therefore, be
examined in accordance with its purpose this purpose being the creation of a myth.
The first step in this process, of course, is to question why anonymity has been relied
upon in the first place. After all, this isn't the 1960s, and anonymity isn't necessary in
most cases not when there's a gamut of whistleblower protection laws intended to
protect such individuals. The point is, in most cases particularly in the military where
official acts are only rarely independent of command justification anonymity is
unnecessary. It does, however, establish the proposition that the individual is either
afraid of retaliation, or afraid of having his name associated with claims that are untrue.
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In this particular case, Hastings is using anonymous sources to affirm the following
points:
1. The U.S. Air Force lied when it insisted that the communications breakdown at
F.E. Warren AFB lasted only 59 minutes. According to Hastings' anonymous
sources, "the communications issue, while intermittent, actually persisted over
several hours."
2. These same anonymous sources reported that there were sightings by
"numerous teams" of an enormous, cigar-shaped craft that maneuvered high
above the missile field on the day of the disruption. "The huge UFO appeared
similar to a World War I German Zeppelin but had no passenger gondola or
advertising on its hull, as would a commercial blimp."
3. These same anonymous sources also allegedly reported "that their squadron
commander has warned witnesses not to talk to journalists or researchers about
'the things they may or may not have seen' in the sky and has threatened severe
penalties for anyone violating security. Consequently, these persons must
remain anonymous at this time."
Any review of current whistleblower protection laws and military regulations, however,
not only insists that the third statement regarding the need for anonymity is completely
untrue, but that any honest indications that the first two statements were true are
protected by federal law should they be revealed by those with actual knowledge of the
events. Moreover, if those events can substantiate an ordered and progressive attempt
by the Air Force to establish in the public mind a system of national defense that does
not, in fact, exist, the justification for exposure of that fact increases significantly. With
this in mind, it's very difficult to conceive of any valid reason for anonymity if this incident
really happened as Robert Hastings has described it. Any revelation by parties involved
would be protected by federal law, making any retaliation of the type he suggests
these "threatened severe penalties for anyone violating security" an illegal act,
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particularly if the UFO that his alleged sources have described had anything at allto do
with the missile failures, as Hastings obviously wants the world to conclude. In fact, any
examination of this incident leaves one with the unmistakable impression that actual
anonymity would only be useful if the claims being established were untrue.
The facts are very clear. Robert Hastings has once again shown the world that he lacks
the necessary substantive knowledge of security protocol to convincingly make claims
of UFO interference during actual military incidents. His foolishness is persistent, but
that doesn't make it believable.
Retaliation against actual witnesses in
a case of this magnitude would be
illegal as long as the subject
reasonably believes the information
being disclosed shows that the USAF
has knowingly violated any laws, rules,
or regulations, including trying to cover
up an event that may have placed
civilian personnel or residents in a
possibly life endangering environment.
Retaliation would also be illegal if the
subject reasonably believes the
information being disclosed shows an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific
danger to public health or safety. The anonymity Robert Hastings relies upon simply
isn't necessary. All it does is allow Hastings to make claims on the basis of eyewitness
reports that very likely don't even exist. And by definition, that's a scam.
It's illegal for a federal employee, including members of the military, to make false
statements in an investigation related to a security breach, so any revelation that such
statements were made and established as a point of fact, particularly when that breach
involves nuclear weapons armed for defensive actions within our nation's sovereign
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territory, establishes as well the legal protection of those making such claims. For
instance, the Whistleblower Protection Act only one among many avenues ensuring
legally protected status is very explicit regarding the extent of that protection. This
one statute alone is significantly wide-ranging in regard to what disclosures qualify for
protection, and that protection is common knowledge amongst personnel holding
supervisory positions within all branches of the Department of Defense. Hastings'
assertion "that their squadron commander has warned witnesses not to talk to
journalists or researchers about 'the things they may or may not have seen' in the sky
and has threatened severe penalties for anyone violating security" is a complete and
utter lie that has no bearing on these discussions at all. In fact, any attempts to cover-
up an incident involving the purposeful shutdown by enemy aircraft of nuclear missiles
armed within the sovereign borders of the United States by threatening the witnesses of
such an event is itself very arguably an illegal act. Anybody wanting proof of this only
needs to look at the example provided by Robert Salas, who disclosed alleged
classified materials (according to Salas himself) detailing exactly the same type of
security violations Robert Hastings is now using to protect the identity of his sources.
It is complete and utter nonsense. Where was the retaliation in the case of Salas?
What severe penalties was Salas subjected to? Once again, Hastings own actions and
conclusions reveal nothing more than his own dishonesty, his own lies, and the pathetic
build-up of this hoax that he has engineered. Its just another one of his UFO scams.
The plain fact is that any command reprisals against those individuals who would assert
these claims are strictly forbidden, if the claims are true, negating any fears adopted by
those who report such incidents. The MilitaryReprisal Investigations (MRI) directorate
has the statutory responsibility to investigate allegations of whistleblower reprisal filed
by military members, DoD non-appropriated fund employees, and DoD contractor
employees. They take their job very seriously, making anonymity essentially obsolete.
Anonymity, however, certainly isn't the only factor involved in this little myth-making
exercise that points to this whole muddy little folktale being a hoax not by a long shot.
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In addition to the above points, we also need to note that "an enormous, cigar-shaped
craft that maneuvered high above the missile field on the day of the disruption"would
have been noted as well by civilian administrative employees at F.E. Warren AFB and
by a large number of individuals who aren't even associated with the USAF. A craft like
this doesn't disappear to the entire world with the minor exception of a couple of
freewheeling military technicians; it is an obvious hoax a subterfuge that Robert
Hastings must be aware of and very likely had a hand in creating. After all, the extent of
the lie itself is very easily measured. USAF missile bases enforce fly-over zones and
systematic security alert protocols that would make an incident like this common
knowledge to nearly everybody on base within a matter of hours. Does Robert Hastings
expect the world to believe him on the basis of this ridiculous and anonymous
testimony? Is he truly that egregiously ignorant? Or is he merely and once again
simply lying? Given his history of protracted dishonesty and baseless interpretations of
procedures and protocols that he very obviously has no substantive knowledge of, any
other conclusion must be very low in a ranked list of probable extrapolations. In other
words, Hell, yes, he's lying it's become an unconscious habit and a quickly reached
resolution to every unanswered question his cases represent. Its what he does
The fact that Robert Hastings has made these public claims on the basis ofnothing is
bad enough, but the fact that this ridiculous story has been reprinted so often that it's
now a staple argument on the UFO-Nukes portfolio that not one interested blogger has
reprinted with anything even approaching the doubt and exasperated disgust that
should be the primary reaction is far worse, because it shows how absolutely bereft of
sense this group of chroniclers, or collectors of UFO incidents has become. It is this
very color of jaded behavior that will ultimately sink any hope they may have of being
taken seriously by the rest of the world. Are we expected to accept on faith alone that
Robert Hastings an inveterate liar purchased the assumed credibility of Reuters
Newswire to exult in the testimony of a couple of anonymous sources, and its all true?
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Really!!?? Somebody please let the rest of the world know when its safe to plug-in the
hardware, because assertions at this level of unbelievable nonsense and media-driven
stupidity has to be the effect of a virus or software glitch.
If Hastings has got actual anonymous witnesses, which I strongly doubt, he should be
pressured to reveal them or they should be pressured to reveal themselves. There's
absolutely no reason an incident like this should be kept hidden and secret by
UFOlogists of his pathetic reputation it's pretty damn hypocritical for one thing in light
of his insistence that the USAF disclose all of their secrets. But making these huge
claims on the basis ofabsolutely nothing, which is essentially what's being done here, is
just another example of the worst kind of pandering imaginable. Basically, Robert
Hastings has been taught by the world of American UFOlogy that he can make up
whatever kind of story he likes, publish it as an eyewitness report, reach conclusions on
the strength of that unchallenged mediocrity, and sell a couple dozen copies of his book
all on groundwork proposed and theorized by a couple of non-existent jokers that blew
up in the back of his brain one night after a little bout of indigestion. Once again,
Hastings' abilities and conducted analyses of these alleged UFO-Nuclear events have
shown us his true colors: he's a miserable fraud who isn't doing educated and
trustworthyUFOlogists any favors whatsoever. He's simply providing more obstacles
for valid researchers to overcome if they intend to establish their claims within this
sphere of influence and endeavor; he's the regressive-researcher, the anti-UFOlogist,
and nothing more a pitiable joke.
Let me be very clear here: ifRobert Hastings is going to continue making such claims,
he should be required to back them up with something substantial, or be treated like a
really bad comedian booed, coughed at, and forced offstage by someone with a very
big hook.
So, what exactly did happen? According to very real sources in the USAF who have
come forward and are notanonymous, the incident at F.E. Warren AFB was the result
of maintenance that was conducted in one of the Launch Control Centers (LCC),
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involving the swap out of a circuit card in the Weapon System Processor (WSP). The
WSP is basically the "brain" of the command and control system. All information sent to
and from the LCC and the separate Launch Facilities (LF) begins and ends at the WSP.
Each WSP within each squadron LCC interfaces with one another, which allows one
LCC to have access to another LCC's status and, if need be, control over that LCC's
missiles. This enables any LCC within the same squadron the ability to launch missiles
normally monitored by another crew. One squadron has control over fifty missiles
grouped within five flights of ten missiles each Alpha Flight through Echo Flight.
Should any single LCC become disabled for whatever reason, the commander of any
other flight within that squadron would still have the capability to launch all the missiles
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assigned to and controlled by the disabled LCC, allowing for full weapons response
even when the squadron is not at full flight capability. The loss of all fifty missiles at F.E
Warren's 319 Missile Squadron was the result of one of the five WSPs losing
synchronicity during or very shortly after the maintenance that had been conducted.
This caused an interface issue with the other four LCCs that had no actual effect on the
squadron's fifty missiles. In other words, the missiles did not drop off of alert;
communications between the LCCs and the missiles alone had malfunctioned, an
incident that took away the squadron's ability to launch those missiles from the LCCs for
59 minutes. Airborne launch platforms, however, still retained access if the need to
launch had arisen during that period of time. The communications malfunction affected
only the LCCs, not the missiles themselves.
According to USAF sources, the probable cause of the malfunction was an improperly
inserted circuit card in the WSP that occurred during the scheduled maintenance. The
communications outage lasted no more than 60 minutes, and affected only the WSP
interfacing between the LCC and its LFs.
The missiles never went off alert, and there was no loss of missiles extending to the
command only to the squadron. No other systems, including radio communication,
video feedback, and security systems affiliated with all fifty launch facilities, were
affected. It's also very likely that this was not the first time such an incident has
occurred it's simply the first time the press got wind of it.
It's a fact of life that Robert Hastings' missteps, badly maligned references, and rock-
bottom investigative skills have done much to force him into taking such steps as the
adoption of anonymous sources when the environment itself makes such sources
doubtful and easily recognizable as mere signatures of deceit. Any sane analyst,
however, can instantly see that there's something more going on here than little Bobby
trying to tell another lie, even if the target of his chicanery is a community of belief so
basely treated in the past that they are now unable to differentiate between the truth and
such aggressive malignancy. The fact that there is a core of associated authors and
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investigators who are willing to overlook, and in many cases to applaudsuch blatant
irresponsibility indicates that there is indeed something very odd going on here and it
isn't the "something very odd going on" that is normally the result of an aggressor trying
to sell the world something that isn't worth spit. If that was all it was, the environment
wouldn't be so thick with the silence of those individuals who know better, or who
understand the supreme worthlessness of the evidence being presented. You wouldn't
see this type of misinformed applause resulting from the presentation of absolutely
nothing. You wouldn't see intelligent people like Leslie Kean or John B. Alexander
subverting their own common sense and marketability to announce with little fanfare
and fewer facts that UFO interference with nuclear weapons systems worldwide is
apparently one of the most important stories of the century. If they aren't merely selling
books, then what is it that motivates them to make such ridiculous claims so publically?
I've never been an admirer of Robert Hastings' intellect, but even he is not the
completely witless chimera that he has publically melded his reputation to. So what
exactly is his motivation?
He's actually taken great pains to reveal this aspect of his little mission, and it isn't
entirely a reflection of the shameless self-promotion that he normally excels at:
Hastings concludes, "The UFO sightings near F.E. Warren's missile sites in recent
months - by Air Force personnel and civilians - represent the latest chapter in the UFO-
Nukes Connection saga. Its well-documented history, as revealed in declassified U.S.
government files and military eyewitness testimony, extends back to December 1948.
Countless official denials about the reality of the situation have been issued over the
years but, sooner or later, this amazing story will break wide open. What we need now is
a courageous government whistleblower to come forward with the facts, and some daring
journalists willing to treat the story seriously and write about it."
That's all this little cabal of newsmakers has ever wanted: "sooner or later, this amazing
story will break wide open." That's the claim; that's the story; that's the lie. It is this
assertion that brings us full-circle to the worldview that motivates individuals such as
Robert Hastings to resort to such obviously dishonest means to create or influence the
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convincing public concern alluded to in the first paragraph of this article. Their goal is
simple: they demand full disclosure. I'm certain they believe it's necessary and they
believe it will reveal extraterrestrial involvement at every level of human society. They
are certainly not stupid they realize completely that the disclosure they insist upon will
never occur without massive public demand and support, and this makes their mission
essentially a political one. It is a mission that has evolved for nearly fifty years,
originating like some legendary and socially incapacitating national curse from a single
burst of anger and depression and dismay that darkened the group soul of true
believers when the USAF and, by association, the Department of Defense and the
government of the United States of America, insisted very publically that not only were
UFOs not a threat to the national security of this country, they weren't even worth
investigating for reasons of military defense. As far as the USAF is concerned, UFOs
are a waste of time, effort, and most particularly money.
As a result of this, NICAP, MUFON, and everybody associated with those few
individuals who insist "I know what I saw", and "I don't care if you don't believe me, and
you're just wasting space trying to discuss it as a psychological phenomenon instead of
a physical fact of human existence", quite literally lost their freaking minds...
What resulted was a heartfelt implosion of will and belief and faith having more in
common with religious aggression than with anything else imaginable ever since. And
in the same way that religions will eventually engender the strategic collusion of wills
impatient enough to manufacture fraudulent "proof" of those claims best defining the
highest character of their belief, those individuals who insist upon receiving the U.S.
government's validation of their belief by way of worthless and impossible demands for
full disclosure have reached the same point. They are willing to rely on dishonesty and
lies to forcibly compel those who could not otherwise be persuaded or convinced.
Their intent is plain to anybody who examines the claims they've publically made, and
the tools they've used to do so. If full disclosure will not be given when it has been so
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politely requested, it will be taken when their demands are enforced by massive public
concern.
And if public concern cannot be established by honestmeans, it will be established by
dishonestmeans. They've been trying to create this body of mass concern since 1947,
and they have failed... miserably. They have created merely a cultural mystery, an odd
little feature of the horizon used by more creative minds as building blocks for novels,
movies, and other forms of mass media entertainment. Public concern used to make
demands on government and military defense organizations requires much more it
requires an organized and well-steeled effort to persuade an uncaring public to join the
fray and rain aggressive impulse and fear of angry and unfailing numbers upon those
targeted government and military defense organizations. And like many such
imperatives in the past history of this nation, it's just not going to happen... not unless
the public made up of those mass numbers of politically sensitive and demanding
people with the power of democracy behind them is afraid. They want Americans to
believe that not only was the USAF lying to them when it insisted from 1966 to 1969 that
UFOs have never been a national security threat and are not worth the effort to
examine, they want Americans to believe that the threat is great and still exists today,
nearly fifty years later. They believe that if they can accomplish that, they can demand
and receive full disclosure. That's the goal. That's the method to see it through. It
would be kind of funny if it wasnt so sickeningly despotic and dishonest.
Robert Hastings wants the world to believe that UFOs are interfering with nuclear
weapons in the United States and around the world, because it's the most paranoid
example of the dreaded existential UFO juju involving the United States Department of
Defense that his otherwise helpless mind can come up with. And he doesn't mind lying
to the world like a crche thief dreaming up new and bitter biographies as long as his
claims are accepted. The end justifies the means.
And he's not alone, either Thats the saddest part of this whole wallflower convention.
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I am currently exploring the numerous works of a select few UFO authors and
investigators widely connected to the events they've attempted to manufacture and
chronicle; they call themselves UFOlogists, so I shall too. I believe the evidence is
plentiful enough to establish their membership in an informal coalition, a loose cabal of
similar minded individuals who have shown themselves more than willing to lie, to
dissemble, to disable context in order to neglect content, to knowingly reach
unsubstantiated conclusions on the basis of faulty information, to remain silent in regard
to the known lies and errors in fact committed by other members of the coalition, and to
express public support for the unsubstantiated conclusions of these same individuals in
order to establish a united front against criticism and to forge a false aura of infallibility
surrounding their enterprises and the value of their claims. These individuals are united
by their singular motivation for the deceit they have practiced: they want to convince
the world at large thatUSAF and DoD officials were knowingly lying when they insisted
for years thatUFOs as defined by J. Allen Hynek do not exist and are therefore not a
threat to the security of the United States of America. Its that simple.
Their habits are notable to anyone paying attention to what they do and having the will
to examine the same witnesses and evidence that they have made the subject of their
claims. Primarily, they convince those willing to be convinced by showing a united front,
giving the false appearance of infallibility by assuming a point of view with vested
opinions held by numerous "scholars" and "scientists" and "journalists" and "military
witnesses" and "historians" from all over the world, supposedly "independent" minds
reaching a natural accord on the basis of well-studied facts and consistent claims.
In actuality, this showboating is simply a pathetic lie that results from their collaborative
failure to examine with any honesty the assertions and claims made by those who hold
opinions of public regard for their own work and claims. In other words, they refuse to
criticize or otherwise examine the impact of bad research, false justifications, poorly
established conclusions and blatant lies whenever such poorly integrated tales and
inundations of wasted hours at a word processor support the general tone and structure
of their own works and/or beliefs. By resorting to such tepid strategies, they replace the
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common standards of peer review with worthless head nodding like nodding dogs on a
particularly bumpy road [thanks to Zep Tepifor the markedly visual phrase].
Many examples of this behavior and other details of these somewhat erratic attempts to
manufacture history will be discussed over the next few weeks in a series of articles
divulging the machinations of the like-minded members of this cabal as the clearest
method to reveal and condemn their methods. They are legion, and that fact
necessitates a more structured approach to the claims they've made. It insists that
relationships be explored and resonant claims appealing more to a unified vision than to
actual events be dissected in order to discover the few facts theyve either tried to hide
because they reveal the dishonest core of their claims, or carelessly addressed without
knowing the ultimate cost such claims would eventually weigh against their integrity and
the worth of their claims.
One example of this behavior, however, will be presented now, because I want to define
this aspect of their preferred methodology due to the reliance on its use being so
common within the group that it can be measured and calculated upon their own
aggressive allegations. Basically, the act is universal and simple: when one member
reacts to criticism of his own personal claims by changing specific details of his story,
other members of this united coalition act as if there were no changes made
whatsoever. They simply agree with whatever the current story on the record is. The
practice is, as I've said, common, and for that reason is easily established, and its
purpose easily revealed.
For example, when Robert Jamison claimed that UFOs were reported over Malmstrom
AFB in correlation with his claims in regard to Oscar Flight missile failures alleged by
Robert Salas, members of the cabal were notable and united in their insistence that
reports of UFOs over Malmstrom AFB supported Jamison's claims, and thereby Salas.
This was accepted as evidence of mutual claims asserted, and was discussed as
acceptable evidence of an actual event by other members of the group, such as Richard
M. Dolan, author of "A.D. After Disclosure: The People's Guide to Life After Contact".
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Dolan, in fact, found the measure of worth so valuable, that he later insisted the
evidence for Salas Oscar Flight claims surpassed even those Salas has addressed for
an Echo Flight incident, even though there has never been presented any documented
evidence or reasonable assessment of any such event having everoccurred at Oscar
Flight. The circular perambulations these people rely on to make such a weak point
could carve tornadoes into the sun.
Unfortunately for those claims, Oscar Flight is at least a hundred miles away from the
UFOs reported at Malmstrom AFB, which couldnt possibly be used to reflect any
related claims whatsoever. When this became public knowledge as a result of critical
assessments, Robert Jamison changed his story (not for the first time nor the last) and
announced that UFOs were reported over Lewistown in correlation with his claims in
regard to the same Oscar Flight missile failures. He dutifully drafted a new affidavit for
Robert Hastings to use and the event was thereby set in stone, another worthless claim
for the insensible few who werent paying attention to first principles. Following this,
members of the cabal acted as if there was no change at all in his story, and simply
insisted that the UFO reports over Lewistown had confirmed Jamisons claims.
Sadly, this immediately became the group lie currently expressed as another modest
truth by the entire group psyche. How do we know it's a lie? Because there are no
UFO reports over Lewistown, and there never were. Jamison, or more probably Robert
Hastings, simply changed the location of those reports that were made. Members of the
cabal, however, continue to assert these false claims, and simply ignore critical review
of the stories that have been told. They would have done themselves a great favor if
they had simply not said anything at all. Changing the location with nothing to establish
such a change was reckless and foolish (which is why Im personally convinced that
Robert Hastings demanded it of Jamison, his witness). And yet, even when such
egregious instability within the storys structure is so immediately apparent, they remain
united throughout; every time one of them mentions the numerous confirmations made,
all of them nod their heads in agreement, as if there was actually a form of peer review
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taking place. But there is no peer review there's just ten people telling the same lie,
and failing completely to note the change that has occurred.
This is a very common occurrence within the group itself, and those with the patience to
pick apart the claims they've made and the lies they've told can discover it for
themselves. Unfortunately, those willing to give the claims a little credit have no need to
confirm any of them, for the same reason that many Americans have no need to confirm
prophecy expressed in the Bible or historical features alluded to in the four gospels of
the New Testament: their faith in the honesty of their new prophets is all they need.
Fortunately, their numbers are small, which is why those with the same goals as Robert
Hastings and other members of this tawdry little group of malcontents are working so
hard to convince the rest of America that they should be afraid... very afraid. They
should be so afraid, in fact, that only one response from their government and their
Department of Defense will suffice to calm their shattered nerves: full disclosure, which
is already assumed to be an active, consistent expression of fact used to refute or
dismiss critical assessments without confronting or explaining the arguments used to
establish that criticism in the first place. Note, for instance, Robert Hastings' dismissive
and arrogant rejection of opposing arguments that hes willing to offer up to the public
while neglecting completely to refute, explain or otherwise discuss the veracity of such
opposing claims (see http://www.ufodigest.com/article/ufos-nukes-researcher-robert-
hastings-refutes-debunker): "So, rest assured, the facts will all come out, sooner or
later, and James Carlson will become nothing more than a historical footnote once UFO
Disclosure has occurred, and a not-very flattering one at that."
I don't think I need to worry about that a whole lot, but that's not the point certainly not
for Robert Hastings. After all, his dismissal of criticism works best when he refuses to
discuss it or otherwise attempt to establish opposing arguments as false. Like all
pedagogues who limit themselves to the law of the lesson, he doesn't concern himself
with evidence or proof, which means he can't refute it when it's placed before him. This
not only gives him the freedom to dismiss the issue entirely until full disclosure occurs
which means he has no intention of saying anything at all constructive or evidential it
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allows him to use an event that has not yet occurred, and will very likely neveroccur as
the final argument supporting his ridiculous claims. Its just another indication of his
delusional hubris that allows him to establish an argument based primarily on nothing
no facts, no footnotes, and no inquiry, just another example of Hastings overused
reliance on a mantra that is instantly recognized by those who have examined his past
history and his responses to past criticism: he attempts to establish an argument using
events that havent occurred, recordings he hasnt produced, affidavits he hasnt
requested, questions he hasnt answered and refuses to discuss, and a long line of
promises to produce definitive proof that he has failed to uphold. He has lied about
witnesses, he has lied about evidence, and he has lied about those presenting opposing
views in a worthless attempt to attack credibility while ignoring every evidential aspect of
the views that have been presented.
Contrary to the headline of the little piece discussed above, Robert Hastings refutes
nothing; he merely insists without discussion or association that his is the only honest
voice on the planet while everybody else is lying. This is also why he refuses to discuss
in any detail the claims of witnesses who insist that he is merely a weak liar without
evidence to present, one who relies instead on his own persistence. He refuses to
discuss or debate, but he loves to lecture. That is the primary character of his
aggression; truth becomes a lie that must be suppressed, even as the argument he's
attempting to validate continues to evolve into shattered sentences that eventually hold
no meaning.
In regard to the methods used in the example of Robert Jamison above, it is particularly
easy to effect evolving storylines on the internet, possibly the most effective architecture
yet developed for the propagation of incipient deceit. The offenders simply edit the
original works, something men like Robert Salas and Robert Hastings are significantly
well-practiced at. This strategy to their shame has also been adopted at times by
authors like Richard M. Dolan and website moguls like Frank Warren. As strategies go,
it isn't completely ineffectual. Unless someone manages to make a copy of such works
when they first appear, nobody would ever know that major changes have been made
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to the storyline. The adoption of changes that are afterwards discussed as if having a
lifespan measuring back to the original argument creates a false aspect in the narrative
suggesting the absence of change. Change instills doubt, so they ignore it. Although
some individuals might mention an "evolving tale of events", the cycle of change
becomes much harder to examine or to even document when commonly expressed
attitudes or truth and falsity imply its absence.
Similar problems arise when affidavits are used in an environment otherwise bereft of
legal record-keeping or forensic standardization. An affidavit is nothing more than an
account given by a witness under no legal coercion to tell the truth. It's a notarized
statement of no more worth than a letter written by a person who has signed his name
at the bottom. Robert Hastings is famous for his use of such worthless indicators of his
witnesses' honesty, an investment in credibility that costs him little, yet depends
entirely upon the ignorance of his primary audience in regard to what are essentially
pointless public relations maneuvers. The concrete measure of his credibility, in fact,
depends almost entirely on the poor education of the audience representing the target
of his UFO hoaxes and false claims, a point easily established by the fact that they are
the only ones actually willing to pay for the privilege of being lied to. The affidavits
acknowledged as proof of honesty by his audience, however, are of little worth, given
that these same witnesses continue recording various affidavits when asked by
Hastings to do so new affidavits that change those "points of fact" carelessly
discussed in prior versions, yet now proven to be false. It is this practice that defined
the need for brand new affidavits submitted by his witnesses just prior to the 27
September, 2010 news conference organized by Hastings and Robert Salas to highlight
their claims of UFO interest in nuclear facilities. And those affidavits were not the same
as the affidavits produced beforehand; they had, in fact, been corrected. It has become
very clear that in Robert Hastings case, credibility is a commodity that can be bought
and sold, but is only rarely earned.
It presents an interesting dichotomy to the culture of these UFO-Nukes assertions that
every witness Robert Hastings has ever discussed in relation to Robert Salas'
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Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight UFO claims has refused outright since 1995 to provide an
affidavit of any sort that establishes a UFO presence. As a result, all of the evidence
used by these two charlatans consists of recorded "testimony" from telephone
conversations that all such witnesses have subsequently denounced, charging that they
have been liberally edited, are incomplete, contain phrases and conclusions that have
been taken out context, and neglect entirely their common and insistent confirmation
that UFOs were notreported, were notinvestigated, and had no role to play at allin the
course of that incident. It is, in fact, the character of his deceit in relation to that single
case that led to his adoption of different strategies in regard to new cases, such as the
use of anonymous sources defining his reporting of UFO interference at F.E. Warren
AFB in October 2010. The common factor in both, of course, is deception.
Unfortunately, while critics can and do claim that the most recent affidavits detailing
the events of a particular story are completely different from the witness earlier versions
of that story, or different from earlier affidavits established in regard to that story, if the
only affidavits publically available on numerous related websites are the same, i.e., the
most recent, who is going to pay attention? This aspect of the assertions that have
been made can sometimes make revelations of change difficult to establish unless the
person desiring to document such evolving storylines reads and regularly monitors and
copies the numerous and insistent doctrines on a nearly daily basis. I can assure you
from personal experience that conducting research in this tiresome and repetitive way
produces within the heart a very defeatist attitude, one that inhibits greatly any will to
challenge affirmations discussed as a continuous and straightforward chronicle of fact
instead of the constantly evolving folktale that it actually represents. It's impossible (or
at least exceedingly difficult) for a single person to thoroughly and properly investigate
the issue when it's been applied so liberally as a group strategy. Having attempted to
do so in regard to claims made by Robert Salas, I can say with complete candor that a
community of investigators is absolutely essential for any thorough examination of such
practices when their use is so consistently employed. Unfortunately, it is merely one
more factor supporting the disregard that most people have for organized UFOlogy as
respectful, scientific field of endeavor that those who believe so strongly in the relative
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truth behind UFO phenomena seem to have no intention or even desire to police the
field of UFO claims for themselves, the primary result of which is the proliferation of
false claims, aggressive hoaxing, fraudulent profiteering, unverified or outcome-
dependent research, manufactured histories, and recycled myth-building on a scale
unmatched by any other field of human knowledge all of which contributes to an
environment directly responsible for the criminal misconduct and scientific deceit of men
like Robert Hastings and the paranoia and fear they often represent. In a community
that freely concedes with well-addressed sincerity that at least 95-percent of all UFO
reports are misidentifications of commonly encountered objects, materials, or natural
occurrences, it is absolutely stunningthat nearly all UFO reports are accepted as factual
until proven otherwise and in many cases appropriate proof itself is denied or
discarded in favor of the myth. I personally have no doubts whatsoever that this
complex characteristic of UFO studies is often the primary motivation for those adopting
such strategies as evolving storylines or anonymous sources of information.
In answer to an as yet unasked query, yes, this is a dishonest way to establish claims.
The members of this coalition, however, are typically of dishonest character, and they
simply don't care; they can't afford to, not after theyve already tossed every cent they
have on the table. Were they to start raking the chips in now, it would only serve to
make more noticeable those many counterfeit coins mingled with those very few
possessing some actual value. The plain fact is that this strategy represents a
systematic and purposeful rejection of honest debate and common integrity adopted by
men and women who believe they have nothing more to lose in regard to establishing
their national policy goals. They believe sincerely in my opinion that their
dishonesty promotes the truth. They have already justified their lies as an acceptable
means to an end that end being the full disclosure of UFO-related documents held by
the USAF and DoD, a demand promoted hand-in-hand with their contention that the
security classification of such materials is irrelevant. It is a cynical business that they
are in, one that I believe they have justified to themselves as a last resort to effect
national policy goals after fifty years of UFO belief and honest systems of investigation
and analysis amounted to nothing. This is what happens when one's honest
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commitment produces little of substance beyond failure. Social analysis of the
phenomena very clearly suggests that the resolution to establish beliefs that cannot be
supported by definitive evidence, credible witnesses, or documented efforts has already
been breached by many believers who are justifiably tired of that same failure. In their
minds, full disclosure cannot be achieved without substantial public opinion brought to
bear upon the government, a conviction tempered with the complete certainty that
substantial public opinion cannot be properly effected without belief. Even the most
jaded analysis is forced to recognize this aspect of the controversy.
The solution these individuals have
settled on is the steely, determined
resolution to create that belief by
any means possible, and the fact
that the tools they have selected
will establish a purely artificial level
of belief is simply not relevant. The
only thing they care about is the
end of the story full disclosure.
This process represents the already
acknowledged observance that
what they have demanded of the
government cannot be executed in a democratic nation without massive public demand,
and such an insistent necessity cannot occur without massive public belief to compel it
forward. Fortunately for any honest appraisal, some of these conspirators are not
terribly bright. These few individuals tend to make a lot of mistakes and these mistakes
can be noted by those who find their methods just as distasteful as their claims.
The fascinating point that needs to be recognized here is not the fact that Robert
Hastings and his like-minded fellow conspirators have concluded that their goals cannot
be reliably established as an unrealized yet historical presence, an all-encompassing
worldview, without the use of dishonest and false and abrasive, socially regressive tools
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developed for that singular purpose. It is the fact that they are very clearly and
insistently using as their starting point the assumption of full disclosure as already
accomplished history a history that the USAF, the Department of Defense, and the
government of the United States very effectively dismissed and buried in 1969. Taking
into consideration the fact that the character of their mission is essentially one of
westernized religious impulse, it becomes very clear that their goals necessitate the
redefinition of Washington, DC as the NewRome, with the Pentagon representing the
Colosseum, the Amphitheatrum Flavium, an inaugural symbol of Christian martyrdom,
and the celebrated birthplace of Christianity's own eventually triumphant worldview. Not
even this aspect of the foundations of belief that are being forged upon the emotive
consciousness of a social psyche being manipulated by the strategic planting of lies is a
very original concept, however. Washington, DC as the New Rome is a powerful theme
stressed within the same complex dynamics of social engineering in the numerous
works of science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The ascension of religious symbology
and its subsequent influence on human belief is a common tool with historical relevance
for those desiring to harness the commitment and energy of aggressive faith in order to
make real their own desires. More importantly, if the effects of religious impulse have
taught the world anything, it is that idealists are most dangerous to those around them
when they make the decision to forsake morality in order to ensure that their vision of
history is the only one addressed to future generations. In direct contrast to Hastings
and his professional cohorts, most men of ethics simply find it abhorrent to withhold
sufficient information to reach valid conclusions, and then tell you what you should
believe and demand of others on the basis of that purposely instituted ignorance. At its
most primal level, it is this compulsion to control the opinions and motivations of others
that drives men like Robert Hastings to assert such malignant hostility in pursuit of their
own goals.
The true nature of their compulsion is obvious: Hastings and his paranoid interests are
trying to ignite a common, fearful demand for full disclosure; they have consciously
elected to fill the minds of as many individuals as possible with fear and paranoia in
regard to the unknown. They are doing this for political reasons, having convinced
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themselves that full disclosure is an absolute necessity. It is not. It is merely an
arbitrary goal born of religious impulse with the same type of emotive conviction behind
it. Although their faith that the results of this disclosure will make clear and establish for
all time the existence of extraterrestrial interference on this planet we inhabit may be a
conviction they refuse to discard, it is nonetheless misplaced. It has failed to justify the
single and restless burst of anger that followed the United States Air Force's very
general dismissal of UFO claims in 1969, just as it has failed to justify their self-serving
belief that full disclosure will eventually negate all of their exhibited impotence and their
inability to make concrete the willful, blanketed collusion of that belief and their faith.
They cannot establish the fruits of their claims by their own efforts and have convinced
themselves that this failure is the fault of others; they are not to blame for their
weaknesses, because the USAF and the Department of Defense have effectively
hidden the truth from them, establishing thereby an occultic authority. It isnt even
relevantthat their failures are the result of their own acts and their inability to establish
anything more substantial than rumor and innuendo and consistent failure to realize any
genuine goals. When examined from an objective point of view, they have nothing in
the absence of conviction, and it is for that reason alone that they rely on subjective
viewpoints based entirely on conviction, and nothing else.
The only other socially relevant human experience that can be described in this way is
our very human reliance on religious impulse. The aggressive instincts commonly
raised by these issues are due to the mistaken yet resolute conviction that this is a
discussion best suited for scientific assessment. It is not. There is no scientific
assessment capable of resolving this issue for the same reason that there is no
scientific assessment capable of resolving the issues raised in regard to beliefs
establishing life after death or how best to approach the concept of immortality in a finite
universe. These UFO true believers have created from nothingan issue that relies
almost entirely on antiauthoritarian developments and expressions raised throughout
the 1960s and early 1970s and washed in the explosive anger, selfishness, and fiscal
irresponsibility of the 1980s and 1990s. It is a social movement that they have failed
completely to validate or otherwise objectify for the rest of the world, and they are now
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reacting in the only way possible that will still enable them to believe in some measure
of personal, scientific accomplishment.
They demand of the world validation of their assessments, their faith, their belief, and
the importance of their struggle. Their intent is to achieve this goal by forcing the
government of the United States to cow before mass insistence and public pressure,
thereby admitting that Hynek, Ruppelt, Fowler, McDonald, Tombaugh, Keyhoe, Valle,
Gene-freaking Roddenberry and, by association, Robert Salas and Robert Hastings,
were all fully justified in their painstaking concern and oft expressed desire for the
release of classified, documented proof of their commitment, whether that proof exists
or not. They have retired to a position that leaves only one option: convince the world
or accept the grievous judgment inherent to all wasted efforts. To avoid the latter
infliction, the willingness to invent what cannot be reasonably established by more
honest means has become for them the only way to validate their faith. The scope of
their inflexibility as measured in their "group-think" response to recent pronouncements
by the White House that "The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists
outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any
member of the human race," fundamentally represents a wholesale rejection of any
explanation whatsoever excepting the one they have promoted for decades, an
explanation that essentially allows them to announce in full confidence, See? I told you
so (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45176460/ns/technology_and_science-space
for further details regarding the White Houses pronouncements).
More significantly, at least in regard to the paranoid assertions of Robert Hastings,
Robert Salas and that whole little coterie of conspirators they associate with, the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy insisted as well that "there is no
credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the publics eye."
It is their sullen and dismissive reaction to this particular assertion that shows best their
conscious attempts to lay waste the numerous contributions at every level of American
society that members of the military have selflessly exhibited, in the hopes, one
supposes, of deflating with their anabolic corruption the open contempt the great
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majority of these veterans have for such self-centered interests as those Hastings and
his ilk currently espouse.
Unfortunately, given that various polls conducted within the past few years seem to
indicate that upwards of 50 percent of the United States population nonetheless believe
that the government is covering up information regarding UFOs, the conclusion that
there has been some notable success regarding what is essentially a public relations
program in search of political clout, influence, and public confidence is a little difficult to
dismiss. The fact that there is no threat is simply not relevant to their cause. It is,
however, relevant to the nation. After all, if there is no threat, only belief in the threat,
which is essentially the end result of this group's reliance on conspiratorial and
dishonest connivance, the result will always be the same: to some degree, their
machinations will engender doubt in elected leaders, doubt in their ability to govern,
doubtin the nation's military leadership and abilities to conduct itself honorably, doubtin
the assigned caretakers of our nuclear arsenal and facilities, doubtin the nation's ability
to defend itself from both open insurrection and open contempt for the sovereignty of
our nation, doubt in the desire
the government has for open
and national conversations with
the citizens it represents
involving all of the above in
recognition of the due contract a
government naturally and
necessarily binds itself to with
the nation's citizenry in
accordance with beliefs held
and honored since its original
conception, and doubt in the very process of democracy by highlighting its inability to
resolve such "important" issues. These self-serving ideologues will and have
encouraged the growth of unjustified fear and paranoia and all of the happy little
singularities that follow such impulses around like a brothel follows an army on the
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move. Nothing about the ultimate effect of their aggression is good; it produces
dissatisfaction, an overwhelming sense of failure, and an ultimate reliance on self-
justified anarchy and crime, all resulting from dishonest attempts to secure national
policy goals, victimizing associated security issues while justifying the necessity to make
a target of military administration and protocol, and very obviously and obscenely using
the internet as a tool for emotional terrorism. Frankly, it's sickening to see the process
in action.
While it's difficult to deny the ultimate chaos and social divisions establishing the
destructive character of the strategies these men and women have adopted, they are
nonetheless notalone; there are enough of them actively at work, communicating with
each other, publishing at the same venues, and actively conspiring to provide support
both moral and overt, to establish, at the very least, the primary differences between
them. Their specific contributions to this destructive cause, for instance, tend to
separate them into two detached classes united by similar goals and the desire to
create change within the structures of group dynamics and social conditioning:
witnesses and chroniclers, or collectors, one group to provide the flame and one group
to fan it.
For the most part, the proposed "witnesses" and "chroniclers, or collectors" who are
affiliated with this loosely organized cabal share some common characteristics:
1. They change their stories significantly over time; the incidents they've
elected to describe tend to evolve through the years.
Those individuals who honestly attempt to describe actual events that they have
witnessed will only rarely change the basic facts and the character behind their claims;
the members of this coalition of claimants, however, do so consistently. This is true
even for those individuals who have submitted affidavits attesting to the "honest"
character of their affirmations. They merely submit newaffidavits when the changes
they've made demand it. For the most part, these changes are necessitated by the
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valid criticism of the events they've described. When it becomes impossible to continue
telling the same ridiculous little folktale as a result of critical assessments that prove
robust elements theyve depicted as integral to their claims could not possibly have
occurred as they were described, they merely change the description.
Consider the questioning of a suspect for burglary: the offender insists loudly and
repeatedly that he did not burglarize the residence in question, because he was at
home watching "C.S.I." at the same time the crime allegedly took place. He couldn't
possibly have committed the offense in question. Every attempt to accuse the suspect
of burglary is met with the same refrain: "I was at home watching 'C.S.I.' I remember it
very well, because it was the first episode in which Laurence Fishburne appeared
great show, great episode!"
After hours of these withering yet senseless claims that fail utterly to provide the alibi or
some form of confirmation that the suspect desperately needs, the questioning officer
presents to the suspect a copy ofT.V. Guide for the week in question: "'C.S.I.' wasn't
even aired on the date of the burglary; you're clearly lying, and you're doing so with the
same absence of shame any child would have. Do you have an alibi for the night in
question or not?"
"Did I say 'C.S.I.'? I meant to say an old rerun of 'Green Acres' on Nickelodeon. I
remember it well, because it was the episode in which Arnold the Piggy ran away from
home great show, great episode! Sorry about that, I get the two shows mixed up all
the time..."
"They're not even remotely similar! How is it possible to get them mixed up?"
"Did I say the two shows? I meant the characters, the actors I got them mixed up."
"Laurence Fishburne and Arnold the Piggy? You got them mixed up?"
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"Yeah..." And still, the suspect presents nothing that smells like proof. He just tells
more stories, changing them repeatedly until people stop asking silly questions, like "are
you sure you're telling the truth and not just making this up as you go along?"
2. In order to convince those skeptical of their claims that they are indeed
telling the truth, they pepper their claims with dramatic effects intended to
evince the deeply personal aspect of their claims, as if their tales represent
a psychological and evaluative, yet remarkably inconsistent, revelation.
For instance, they might insist that upon first confronting this new revelation that they
were skeptical, but were nonetheless forced to accept the truth of what they were
witnessing due to the transformative and unique qualities inherent to the incident. The
reality of the event has nothing to do with the "witness"; it is as separate from him as it
is from any possible interpretation that he (or anyone critical of his claims) might
otherwise adopt. His impressions are irrelevant, just as the impressions of anyone
critical of his claims are irrelevant. An actual witness to any event, however, does not
separate his impressions of the incident from the incident itself, and that deeply
personal aspect of their claimsdoes not change every time the witness is forced to
reconsider those claims. For instance, a witness does not insist that a revelatory event
he failed to discuss for thirty years, because he just never gave it much thought until
one day, he did, must now be discussed ad infinitum as an important element of
national policy because the effects of that incident, not only on him, but on those around
him as well, was so striking and difficult for him to get past thirty years ago when it
originally occurred. The inconsistent focus of his impressions, as much as the
inconsistent content of his claims, indicates the falsity hes trying to hide every single
time he smiles at the audience and raises the issue one more time: If you want to truly
understand the deceit that our government engages in, the damage it causes to its own
citizenry, and the explosive revelations that it refuses to openly affirm, you have to buy
my book.
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3. Only very rarely are the most explosive revelations of testimony based on
personal observation.
For the most part, these individuals discuss only second-hand testimony and poorly-
defined rumors to establish their claims, none of which can be definitively associated
with the primary element of this testimony: UFO interference with nuclear weapons and
facilities. In many cases, they arent even familiar enough with the arguments theyve
chosen to discuss to simply present in a public way the incidents selected in a neutral,
non-judgmental and fact-based manner. Its apparently the absolute and primary
character of this charade to never make oneself the legal originator of the most
ridiculous elements involved, especially if someone with less intelligence and self-
respect is willing to do so. Its almost as if they were concerned that there might be
legal constrictions involved, although even the most cursory examination of their claims
almost instantly reveals that legal complaints would be a waste of time to even file. Not
that it matters, of course. The targets of their false claims have very clearly disclosed
an inclination to believe, so I hardly think legal measures will ever be examined, let
alone pursued. In any case, its just as profitable for them to say, Well, it was this other
guy who told me, and he was being completely honest, and I trust him implicitly, but for
the life of me, I just cant remember his name. Maybe someday, with a little luck and
some spare testosterone, that guy will grow some cojones like mine, and come
forward
4. When documented evidence is presented, its either poorly understood by
those attempting to use it as a resource, or its incomplete.
This aspect of their conspiracy to deceive is particularly problematic. If the evidence
presented is poorly understood, as is often the case when military documentation is
involved, the conclusions reached are far more likely to be unsupportable. Not
everybody understands classified materials protocol or military procedures, however, so
this is an understandable error that doesnt necessarily reflect poorly on the education,
the applicable knowledge, or the morality of those attempting to interpret the evidence
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for the public. On the other hand, there are many "witnesses" and "chroniclers, or
collectors" who present interpretations that are so egregiously wrong that the only
conclusion to be reached insists that these individuals were merely creating a reason
from nothing, allowing them to dismiss with prejudice skeptical issues or accounts,
whether they could be properly justified or not, or are forcing their interpretation to
encompass the possibility of UFO interference where it plainly does not belong, both of
which are most definitelymoral issues.
This same dichotomy applies if the documented accounts are incomplete. If this is due
to the failure to reveal in full the remainder of such accounts as a result of poor research
or the incomplete declassification of the documents being used, no blame can be
attached. On the other hand, if documented evidence has been recovered, and those
presenting such evidence purposely neglected to exa