Author says the US really has 11 separate ‘nations’ with entirely different cultures – – December 1, 2019

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by Andy Kiersz and Matthew Speiser, BUSINESS INSIDER, December 1, 2019:

The nation is likely to become more polarized, even though America is becoming a more diverse place every day.  He says this is because people are “self-sorting.”

“People choose to move to places where they identify with the values,”  Woodard says.  “Red minorities go south and blue minorities go north to be in the majority. This is why blue states are getting bluer and red states are getting redder and the middle is getting smaller.”

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Author and journalist Colin Woodard identified 11 distinct cultures that have historically divided the US.

His book “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America” breaks down those cultures and the regions they each dominate.

From the utopian “Yankeedom” to the conservative “Greater Appalachia” and liberal “Left Coast,” looking at these cultures sheds an interesting light on America’s political and cultural divides.

In his fourth book, “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America,” award-winning author Colin Woodard identifies 11 distinct cultures that have historically divided the US.

“The country has been arguing about a lot of fundamental things lately including state roles and individual liberty,” Woodard, a Maine native who won the 2012 George Polk Award for investigative reporting, told BUSINESS INSIDER.

“[But] in order to have any productive conversation on these issues,” he added, “you need to know where you come from.  Once you know where you are coming from it will help move the conversation forward.”

Here’s how Woodard describes each nation:

YANKEEDOM

Encompassing the entire Northeast north of New York City and spreading through Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, YANKEEDOM values education, intellectual achievement, communal empowerment, and citizen participation in government as a shield against tyranny.  Yankees are comfortable with government regulation. Woodard notes that Yankees have a “Utopian streak.”  The area was settled by radical Calvinists.

NEW NETHERLAND

A highly commercial culture, NEW NETHERLAND is “materialistic, with a profound tolerance for ethnic and religious diversity and an unflinching commitment to the freedom of inquiry and conscience,” according to Woodard.  It is a natural ally with YANKEEDOM and encompasses New York City and northern New Jersey.  The area was settled by the Dutch.

THE MIDLANDS

Settled by English Quakers, THE MIDLANDS are a welcoming middle-class society that spawned the culture of the “American Heartland.”  Political opinion is moderate, and government regulation is frowned upon.  Woodard calls the ethnically diverse MIDLANDS “America’s great swing region.”  Within the MIDLANDS are parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska.

TIDEWATERR

TIDEWATER was built by the young English gentry in the area around the Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina.  Starting as a feudal society that embraced slavery, the region places a high value on respect for authority and tradition. Woodard notes that TIDEWATER is in decline, partly because “it has been eaten away by the expanding federal halos around D.C. and Norfolk.”

GREATER APPALACHIA

Colonized by settlers from the war-ravaged borderlands of Northern Ireland, northern England, and the Scottish lowlands, GREATER APPALACHIA is stereotyped as the land of hillbillies and rednecks.  Woodard says APPALACHIA values personal sovereignty and individual liberty and is “intensely suspicious of lowland aristocrats and Yankee social engineers alike.”  It sides with the DEEP SOUTH to counter the influence of federal government.  Within GREATER APPALACHIA are parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Indiana, Illinois, and Texas.

DEEP SOUTH

The DEEP SOUTH was established by English slave lords from Barbados and was styled as a West Indies-style slave society, Woodard notes.  It has a very rigid social structure and fights against government regulation that threatens individual liberty. Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina are all part of the DEEP SOUTH.

EL NORTE

Composed of the borderlands of the Spanish-American empire, EL NORTE is “a place apart” from the rest of America, according to Woodard.  Hispanic culture dominates in the area, and the region values independence, self-sufficiency, and hard work above all else.  Parts of Texas, Arizona (southern half of Arizona), New Mexico (about two thirds of New Mexico), Colorado (parts of southern portion of Colorado) and California (parts of Southern California) are in EL NORTE.

THE LEFT COAST

Colonized by New Englanders and Appalachian Midwesterners, the LEFT COAST is a hybrid of “Yankee utopianism and Appalachian self-expression and exploration,” Woodard says, adding that it is the staunchest ally of Yankeedom.  Coastal California, Oregon, and Washington are in the LEFT COAST.

THE FAR WEST

The conservative west.  Developed through large investment in industry, yet where inhabitants continue to “resent” the Eastern interests that initially controlled that investment.  The FAR WEST spans several states, including Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Nebraska, Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico (half of New Mexico), Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon, and California.

NEW FRANCE

A pocket of liberalism nestled in the DEEP SOUTH, its people are consensus driven, tolerant, and comfortable with government involvement in the economy.  Woodard says NEW FRANCE is among the most liberal places in North America.  NEW FRANCE is focused around New Orleans in Louisiana as well as the Canadian province of Quebec.

FIRST NATION

Made up of Native Americans, the FIRST NATION’s members enjoy tribal sovereignty in the US.  Woodard says the territory of the FIRST NATION is huge, but its population is under 300,000, most of whose people live in the northern reaches of Canada.

Woodard says that among these 11 nations, YANKEEDOM and the DEEP SOUTH exert the most influence and are constantly competing with each other for the hearts and minds of the other nations.

“We are trapped in brinkmanship because there is not a lot of wiggle room between Yankee and Southern Culture,” Woodard says.  “Those two nations would never see eye to eye on anything besides an external threat.”

Woodard also believes the nation is likely to become more polarized, even though America is becoming a more diverse place every day.  He says this is because people are “self-sorting.”

“People choose to move to places where they identify with the values,”  Woodard says.  “Red minorities go south and blue minorities go north to be in the majority. This is why blue states are getting bluer and red states are getting redder and the middle is getting smaller.”

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Air Force Research Laboratory creates tool to take down drones

by Brian Ripple, 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs, AIR FORCE MATERIAL COMMAND, September 24, 2019

https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1970485/enemy-drone-operators-may-soon-face-the-power-of-thor/

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With small unmanned aircraft systems – frequently called drones, becoming more common every day, the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, has developed a counter-swarm high power weapon that should cause those with nefarious intentions of using drones against United States forces at U.S. military installations at home or overseas to think twice about such actions.

AFRL exhibited the technology, called the Tactical High-power Operational Responder (THOR), at the 2019 Air Force Association Air, Space, and Cyber Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, located just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. and Virginia, September 16-18.

Although AFRL’s THOR is not a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder and lightning, it is a counter-swarm electromagnetic weapon that AFRL developed for airbase defense.  The system provides non-kinetic defeat of multiple targets.  It operates from ground power and uses energy to disable drones.

“THOR is essentially a high-powered electromagnetic source that we put together to specifically defeat drones,” said Stephen Langdon, chief of the High-Powered Microwave Technologies Branch of AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate.

A demonstration system has been built and tested on military test ranges near Kirtland AFB where it has successfully engaged multiple targets.  Further testing against a larger set of drone types in swarming configurations is being planned.

THOR stores completely in a 20-foot transport container, which can easily be transported in a C-130 aircraft. The system can be set up within three hours and has a user interface designed to require very little user training.  The technology, which cost roughly $15 million to develop, uses high power electromagnetics to counter electronic effect.  When a target is identified, the silent weapon discharges with nearly instantaneous impact.

Rather than being used just as harmless hobby systems, drones can also be employed as weapons intended to cause harm at long standoff ranges.  As they become more common and technically mature, it is important that there be a safe way to protect air bases against these threats.

With much of the necessary basic research previously completed at AFRL, THOR was rapidly developed and tested in 18 months.

Although there are other drone defensive systems available, including guns, nets and laser systems, THOR looks to extend the engagement range to effect and decrease the engagement time over these other deterrent devices.

Langdon said the THOR team hopes to transfer the technology to a System Program Office soon in order to get it into the hands of U.S. warfighters as soon as possible.

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Area 51 veteran and CIA electronic warfare pioneer weigh in on Navy UFO encounters

by Tim McMillan, THE WAR ZONE, November 25, 2019

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When it comes to recent accounts of Navy UFOs, with decades working on the world’s most advanced aerospace projects, T.D. Barnes has a theory:

“This takes me back to circa the 1960s when the CIA designed and was building the Mach 3 A-12 Blackbird to replace the U-2,” says Barnes.  At the time, the CIA was gravely concerned that the Soviet Union’s new P-14 “Tall King” radar system would be able to detect the A-12 flying over their airspace.  To combat these concerns, the CIA launched an audacious program to develop technology that could electronically generate and interject false targets into the Soviet radars, to trick them “seeing” and tracking non-existent “ghost aircraft.”  The project’s codename was PALLADIUM.

The WAR ZONE was first to establish a potential historical relationship between PALLADIUM and the Navy’s UFO sightings last Spring.  The history of the project is as such:

In 1960, when the Soviet Union moved a Tall King radar system to Cuba, the CIA began covertly using PALLADIUM to trick Russian air-defense radars into thinking unidentified aircraft were flying towards and even into Cuban airspace.  As one of the few members of the PALLADIUM team, Barnes served as the air-defense artillery (ADA) and electronic/electromagnetic countermeasures (ECM/ECCM) officer for the classified program.

“Using an electronics-laden C-97 [EC-97G], we could make Soviet radars believe they were tracking any number of aerial objects,” mused Barnes.  “At one point, a Russian MiG-15 pilot even claimed he could see the target and had a lock on it.”

Ultimately, PALLADIUM gave the United States forewarning that Russia’s radar capabilities were advanced enough they would soon be able to track and shoot down the Blackbird surveillance planes.  As a result, no official crewed surveillance flights were ever conducted over Russia with the jet.

When it comes to the more recent Navy UFO encounters, Barnes says, “I don’t have the answers to what the Navy aviators saw, but in my mind, I’m thinking, we are doing it again.”

Barnes’s comments are remarkable given The WAR ZONE’s recent exclusive on the Navy’s latest revolution in electronic warfare, the Netted Emulation of Multi-Element Signature against Integrated Sensors, or NEMESIS.

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Similar to the 1960s Project Palladium at its most basic level, but almost unimaginably superior in scale and capabilities, NEMESIS gives the Navy the ability to simultaneously fool a vast array of enemy sensors spread out over a large area, giving the illusion of ghost fleets of vessels on and below the surface of the ocean and formations of aircraft in the sky.  The shadowy system achieves this via networking a vast array of disparate electronic warfare platforms and decoys together, including various swarms of unmanned aircraft and vessels, to create high-fidelity and unified electronic warfare effects across a battlefield.

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When it comes to potential PALLADIUM-like connections with recent UFO events, there’s likely no one more capable of providing answers than the arguable father of electronic intelligence warfare, retired CIA executive officer, S. Eugene “Gene” Poteat.  Described as one of the “Wizards of Langley,”  Poteat is the man who founded and for 15-years ran PALLADIUM while working at the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology office.

Now in his late 80s, in a rare interview, Poteat said he wasn’t familiar with the recent Navy UFO encounters, yet admitted the events sounded “interesting.”  Ultimately, Poteat said he would need to see more of the Navy’s data in order to give his opinion.

Poteat was, however, able to offer some little-known details about PALLADIUM that potentially hold significance to recent UFO reports.  “To determine Russia’s ability to detect small targets, we used submarine-launched balloon-based metallic spheres,” said Poteat.  “The idea was for the early warning radar to track our electronic aircraft.  Then for our submarine to surface and release the calibrated spheres up and into the path of the oncoming false aircraft.”

Though descriptions of “balloon-based metallic spheres” sound somewhat similar to eyewitness accounts of UFOs, Poteat explained that the different size spheres were used to detect Russia’s radar cross-section detection capabilities and not to try and fool the Soviet Union into thinking they were seeing a flying saucer.

This fact was previously discovered by The War Zone’s Tyler Rogoway who also found a balloon-borne radar reflector patent that fits the description of exactly what some Super Hornet pilots saw off the East Coast in 2015, described as bizarre floating “orbs with cubes inside.”  Check out his full report here.

Similar to what Rogoway surmised, Poteat’s description of sub-launched radar balloons potentially supports a prosaic explanation for at least some of these strange encounters.

Undeniably, there are some conspicuous similarities between when the USS Nimitz (in 2004) and USS Roosevelt (in 2014-2015) carrier strike groups began to encounter strange unknown aerial objects.   Namely, these encounters occurred only after the groups had begun using a host of brand-new and highly sophisticated technologies, both of which The WAR ZONE was first to point out.

In both instances, 2004 and 2014-2015, the carrier groups underway were equipped with revolutionary new systems that would give them huge leaps in networked air defense capabilities.  In the first instance, the Navy’s groundbreaking Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) was preparing for its first deployment ever.  In the second, a far more capable evolution of CEC was about to head on deployment, along with the new and massively capable E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, which is networked into the CEC ecosystem.  The WAR ZONE’s in-depth coverage of this cutting-edge integrated air defense system and how it fits into the larger story about the Navy pilot encounters can be found here.

Also by 2015, many Super Hornets had gained new the significantly upgraded Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar systems.  This seems to have drastically helped with detecting the hard to track objects in question.  Again, you can find The War Zone’s extensive coverage on this aspect here.

T.D. Barnes believes the deployment of these new technologies to be key and thinks it’s likely the Navy’s “UFO encounters” involved simultaneously testing of ship’s air defense capabilities and the ability of new technologies to defeat them.  “Testing and evaluating advanced technology, both domestic and our adversaries was much of what we did while I was with Special Projects at Area 51,” said Barnes.

Some argue, had the Navy’s UFO encounters been related to classified testing, military personnel would have been briefed and made aware they were part of a training mission.  Still bound by security oaths, T.D. Barnes was limited in what he was willing to say, however, the Area 51 veteran didn’t out-right dispute the idea sailors would have been in on operational plans had these been training events.

“When we were testing the MiG-21 against our planes, we’d often use National Guard pilots, who were only told that they were on a classified mission against foreign-made technology on Nellis Gunnery Range.  They knew nothing about it being a CIA, DIA, Navy, and Air Force Foreign Technology Division project out of Area 51,” said Barnes.

Even with eyewitness accounts, and the Navy’s recent statements that these objects are truly “unidentified,” T.D. Barnes still feels fairly certain someone in Pentagon knows exactly what the Nimitz and Roosevelt Carrier Groups were dealing with.  In Barnes’ opinion, the edited and shortened ATFLIR videos and pilot’s demeanor suggests aviators were at least vaguely aware of what they were targeting.  “The videos ‘I’ve seen, the pilots were whooping it up.  I think they knew,” said Barnes, referring to the “Go Fast” and “Gimbal” videos.  With the pilots who have spoken about the incidents, all deny having any knowledge of what were the mysterious objects they encountered.

For the Navy to point at video evidence and say, that’s “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” represents a rare move by a branch of the American military.  For a lot of people, this declaration seems to slam the door on any debate of whether or not the objects in question are highly exotic and classified aerospace technology.  However, referring back to The WAR ZONE’s in-depth coverage on Special Access Programs (SAPs), if these aircraft were related to an unacknowledged SAP or waived-unacknowledged SAP, the existence of this technology would be denied to everyone outside of the program.  Moreover, if these were highly classified technologies emerging from a SAP being run by another branch of the Department of Defense, the Navy could indeed be unaware of what these objects really are.

Barnes told me he’s aware of many past UFO sightings in the Seattle and Southern California regions that were actually advanced aerospace tests by Boeing or Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks.  According to Barnes these “proof of concept” flights frequently occur prior to a company bringing the platform to Area 51 in hopes of selling it to the Air Force, Navy, or other branches of government.

“These were definitely UFOs because they were so secret that they didn’t exist,” said Barnes.

When asked, both T.D. Barnes and Gene Poteat declined to comment on whether they were aware of any oblong shape, hypersonic capable, aerospace platforms in existence.

When it comes to the subject of UFOs in general, T.D. Barnes offered me these parting words:

“On NASA High Range and Area 51, I spent thousands of hours tracking aircraft.  Though I tracked many that I could not identify, I never suspected them of being extraterrestrial.  On these same projects, I worked with many test and operational pilots.  I have never heard of one suspecting that they may have spotted a UFO.

I believe a true extraterrestrial sighting would excite the world to the point that there would be millions of people leaving the city lights to stare at the heavens hoping to see whatever it is.  That would be all the media would talk about.

That said, I would like to think that we’re not the only rock in the universe with life.”

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It never hurts to pray and meditate – – it can’t go wrong

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Religion is not my cup of tea.   But trying my best to become more spiritual is.

 

PUTTING OUR HANDS TOGETHER TO PRAY AND MEDITATE

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We rarely put our hands together except when we clap or pray.

Clapping our hands repeatedly to express our heartfelt acknowledgement of someone’s performance or achievement is a universal gesture.

Clapping twice slowly in a Shinto shrine in Japan is a reverent gesture.   They say it draws the attention of the higher power.  It also expresses appreciation and joy for the higher power.  And also by clapping, at the same time it wards off evil spirits.  That’s what they say.

But here I would like to talk about reverently putting our hands together prayerfully and meditatively.

There is something positively symbolical and wonderful about putting both of our hands together in unity.

It’s a universal human gesture of reverence.

Each culture has a unique expression or a word to describe this gesture.

In Japan, the word is called “Gassho”.

“Gassho” is a beautiful gesture of Eastern origin, with hands pressed together in front of the chest.

It can be used for prayer or as a sign of greeting, gratitude, reverence or even apology.

(for example, the greeting “Namaste” in India).

Everyone prays and meditates in different ways.

Most people choose to pray in complete privacy.   I like it that way.

It can be done in the privacy of your room or while in bed before you fall into sleep.

It can be done when you are alone on a mountaintop or a hilltop or in a quiet desert or in any beautiful, meditative spot of your choice.

I like to pray in privacy, putting my hands together in front of my chest.  This is simply to express the unity of my body given to me by a higher power.  It doesn’t have to be done this way.  But we must allow our body to become a temple of God.

There are several ways of putting our hands together.  Some people believe that Jesus prayed with his hands folded  (although the Bible never mentioned it).   I also like to pray this way, too.  The Bible also mentions kneeling to pray or standing to pray.

Here is how I formulate my prayer:  (the wording and the addressee can vary, depending on each person’s belief)

“I sincerely wish to receive your precious, positive and powerful healing energy into my body, mind and spirit.

I sincerely wish your precious, positive and powerful healing energy to abundantly flow and circulate within my body, from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet, from the left side of my body to the right side of my body and from the right side of my body to the left side and back to the right side.”

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EVERY EVENING BEFORE YOU GO TO SLEEP, REPEAT TO YOURSELF HOW FORTUNATE YOU ARE !!

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Jacques Vallee, truly the world’s top-most authority on the UFO phenomenon

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Without question, in my opinion, Dr. Jacques Vallee is the world’s greatest authority on the UFO phenomenon.

Here is the LATEST, VERY IMPORTANT INTERVIEW clip from the quintessential Dr. Jacques Vallee, the very best, in which he states:

“I’m not sure that we know what our reality is“:

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Stealthy spy drone replacing supersonic SR-71 has been secretly flying for 9 years !!

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A new report from AVIATION WEEK (October 24, 2019) reports that the US Air Force’s secretive stealth drone – commonly referred to as the RQ-180 – had its first test flight in 2010.

The Northrop Grumman-designed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been in the skies for nine years without apparently ever being photographed.

Developments at Beale Air Force Base and Edwards Air Force Base in California suggest that the UAV is currently engaged in operations, AVIATION WEEK reports.

It likely began flying at the Groom Lake testing facility at Area 51.

Little is known about the design of the aircraft, but it is thought to be modeled after Northrop Grumman’s X-47B drone, with a trailing edge like the B-21 Raider’s.

An in-depth report by Guy Norris in AVIATION WEEK presents new evidence that a secretive, stealthy reconnaissance drone is now in operation with the US Air Force – and has been flying since 2010.

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), thought to be called the RQ-180, is a large stealth craft used for reconnaissance missions, filling the role left open by the retirement of the SR-71 in 1999.

There are no publicly available images of the UAV and an Air Force spokesperson said they were not aware of the drone.

It is thought to be modeled after Northrop-Grumman’s X-47B, FOREIGN POLICY reported in 2013, and to have a relatively large wingspan and a trailing edge, similar to the B-21 Raider.

The RQ-180 likely began flying at the Groom Lake testing facility at Area 51, where the government’s secretive U-2 testing was carried out in the 1950s.  AVIATION WEEK points to Aug. 3, 2010, as the first flight date for the aircraft.

In 2014, testing appears to have been moved to Edwards Air Force Base in California, with a long-range test flight – possibly to the North Pole – reportedly taking place in early 2017.

Insider reached out to Edwards Air Force Base regarding the test flight, but did not receive a response by press time.

At Beale Air Force Base, also in California, the 427th Reconnaissance Squadron was recently re-commissioned and is now overseeing the operation of the drones, AVIATION WEEK reports.

A spokesperson from Beale AFB told Insider that they were not aware of the squadron.

However, a press release from April on Beale AFB’s web site celebrates the presence of the 427th Squadron at the ribbon cutting of Beale’s new Common Mission Control Center, which will help provide ISR data in “highly contested areas.”

According to AVIATION WEEK, there are now at least seven of these UAVs currently in operation, performing a penetrating intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) role. “R” is the designation for a reconnaissance aircraft and “Q” means it is remotely piloted.

The US Air Force declined to comment to AVIATION WEEK, BUSINESS INSIDER was told by the Air Force press officer on duty that the press desk was not aware of the program.

Here is AVIATION WEEK’s article of October 24, 2019:

USAF Unit Moves Reveal Clues to RQ-180 Ops Debut

It is interesting to mention that several military aviation photographers (including Steve Douglass of Texas) had taken photos of “something” in 2014 over several locations, such as over Kansas and Amarillo, Texas.

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A STEALTH SURPISE – – RQ-180 GOES OPERATIONAL!!:

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The government may not be smart enough to keep secrets – – but smart enough to muddy the waters

We give way too much credit to the government, the government that is quite inefficient, unable to keep secrets for too long and unable to cover up anything for too long.

I stand with Col. John Alexander who stated time and time again that there is no intentional cover-up of the UFO phenomenon by the US government, even though the phenomenon seems to exist.

Why?

Because the government itself  (including the military)  has always been perplexed by this phenomenon, being unable to come up with any conclusions, mainly for the reason that this phenomenon in essence seems to be “paranormal”  (or better yet, paraphysical)  in nature.

It is therefore quite understandable that the government is incapable and unwilling to deal with this phenomenon and rightfully refuses to explain things of this nature.

It will never prematurely make any official announcement that this phenomenon constitutes actual physical ET visitation.

The military, however, seems to have taken advantage of such assumptions  (made by some in the government and the military that UFOs are extraterrestrial)  and continues to develop various weapons systems as a cogent reason to emulate such technologies emanating from the reported phenomenon, taking advantage of its psychological implications.

The bottom line here is that even though the UFO phenomenon may exist  (and we are still uncertain about its true nature),  it has not proven itself to be absolute, tangible evidence that we have been visited by actual physical extraterrestrial biological entities in any actual physical spacecraft of any kind.  The term “UFOs” is misleading since we still do not know if they are really objects or if they are actually flying as we understand flying to be  (as through the use of a propulsion system),  as often mentioned by Dr.  Jacques Vallee.

So, yes, I also agree with the recent statements made by Edward Snowden.

Please read the following extract from CNN report on October 23, 2019:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/us/edward-snowden-joe-rogan-conspiracies-trnd/index.html

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As a former employee of the CIA and contractor for the National Security Agency, Snowden had access to some of the nation’s most closely held secrets.

And, like any curious mind with access to the CIA’s version of Google might do, he went in search of answers to some of society’s most pressing questions.

As it turns out, the US government is not aware of any intelligent, extraterrestrial life, he says.

“For the record, as far as I could tell, aliens have never contacted Earth, or at least they haven’t contacted US intelligence,” Snowden writes in his recent memoir, “Permanent Record.”

Also, the moon landing did indeed occur.

“In case you were wondering: Yes, man really did land on the moon.  Climate change is real.  Chemtrails are not a thing,” he adds.

The NSA whistleblower addressed the conspiracies again on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, released Wednesday, saying “there’s no evidence” of aliens and chemtrails and the like.

“I know, Joe, I know you want there to be aliens,” Snowden joked to Rogan, the podcast’s host.  “I know Neil deGrasse Tyson badly wants there to be aliens.  And there probably are, right?

“But the idea that we’re hiding them — if we are hiding them — I had ridiculous access to the networks of the NSA, the CIA, the military, all these groups.  I couldn’t find anything,” he continued.

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As I stated in the beginning the bottom line is that this phenomenon in essence seems to be “paranormal”  (or bettter yet, paraphysical)  in nature and for some folks almost bordering into the area of the supernatural and even involving religious beliefs).

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Pentagon says “our secret UFO program” wasn’t about UFOs – – but something doesn’t add up

Norio Hayakawa, an unorthodox UFO conspiratologist

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Norio Hayakawa, an unorthodox UFO conspiratologist

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Norio Hayakawa, born in 1944, is an American activist who lives in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.  He is currently the director of CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE CENTRAL, a citizens’ oversight committee.  He has appeared as a guest on Coast to Coast AM multiple times, and is most known for his UFOlogy investigations in and around New Mexico and the American Southwest.

Norio Hayakawa is from Yokohama, Japan, but calls New Mexico his home.  He attended Spanish classes at the University of Albuquerque, and graduated in 1970 and also did graduate studies at the University of New Mexico.

During March 1990, Norio Hayakawa led a Nippon TV crew to Dulce, New Mexico, where they interviewed the locals, including the Jicarilla Apache tribal officials, general townsfolk and ranchers, about paranormal activity in the area.

In the past, he has been associated with film maker and activist, Anthony J. Hilder.  Hayakawa and Hilder are responsible for starting the Area 51 People’s Rally in 1998.  The event was formed in protest against what was seen as the secrecy surrounding Area 51.  The second rally was held in 1999.  The rally kicked off on the 5th of June at the Little A’Le’Inn in Rachel, Nevada.  The event began with a press conference.  There were various topics discussed which included the New World and Global Government.

Speakers at the event included Hilder, Ted Gunderson  (former FBI agent-in-charge of Los Angeles)  and Spanish speaking talk show Victor Camacho who came with a truck load of Latino listeners.  The following day a gathering of about 200 people were congregating by the signs of Groom Lake Road.  Demands were being made by Hilder and some others directed at the Area 51 authorities.  Hayakawa opened the 2000 Rally.  The event was covered by KVBC and Channel 3 (NBC) with Hilder speaking to the gathering, with Joerg Arnu fielding the reporter’s questions.

 

A UFO conspiratologist is not quite the same as a Ufologist or a conspiracy theorist.

A UFO conspiratologist simply studies UFO beliefs and widespread conspiratorial thoughts that seem to be prevalent in today’s UFO culture.

The word conspiratology has not been used widely in the English language.

As far as I am concerned, one of the first persons to use this word years ago was Gary Schultz of Santa Monica, my former colleague.

Here is my definition of “conspiratology”:

Conspiratology is a comprehensive study on the origins, the role and effects of beliefs in conspiracy theories on society.

It is a general study on why beliefs in conspiracy theories or conspiratorial worldview are deeply ingrained in the psyche of a segment of human society.

(The Newsweek Magazine made a comment a few years ago that beliefs in conspiracy theories have become as American as apple pie.)

There are many conspiracy theorists but conspiratologists seem to be few in number.

It is important to bear in mind that a conspiratologist himself may or may not necessarily subscribe to any conspiracy theory.  However, if he does, he could give an impression to the public that he does not subscribe to any particular conspiracy theory.

PLEASE CLICK AND READ SOME OF MY ARTICLES HERE:

On Area 51:

Bob Lazar’s claims regarding Alien technology at Area 51

On Roswell:

Roswell, 1947 – – creation of a modern myth, how it all started

On Ufology in general:

Norio Hayakawa, unorthodox, “rational” Ufologist trying his best to be open-minded

And, on UFO cover-up:

I agree with Edward Snowden, There is no intentional UFO cover-up by the US government

 

Finally, when it comes to the topic of “Dulce”, these are the researchers I fully trust and hold in high esteem:  Edmund Gomez, Greg Valdez, Greg Bishop and Christian Lambright.

When it comes to the topic of military aviation and “Area 51”, these are the researchers I fully trust and hold in high esteem: Joerg Arnu, Peter Merlin and Ron Milione.

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Bob Lazar, a total fraud or a reluctant disinformant?

Bob Lazar did tell a nice story.   In fact, a great story.   But the fact is that it simply remains just a story.  It appears to be a cleverly made story at that.

It is more important to ask why he had to tell his dubious and largely unsubstantiated story which seems to be persistently peddled by debonair raconteur, George Knapp, who practically made a secondary career promoting Bob Lazar’s story.

Stanton Friedman said Bob Lazar was a fraud.   Let’s look at what Friedman said:

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Incredible claims have been made about Bob Lazar for years.  He supposedly is a physicist with an MS in Physics from MIT and an MS in Electronics from the California Institute of Technology.  He was a “Scientist” for Los Alamos National Laboratory, and obtained a job back-engineering UFOs at a very secret site S-4 near Area 51 in Nevada through noted Physicist, the late Dr. Edward Teller.

Supposedly he figured out how saucers work using Element 115 – – matter/anti-matter, etc.  He was able to steal a small quantity of 115 from the 500 pounds available, but this was stolen back.  There was indeed an announcement in early 2004 about the production of 4 atoms of element 115 by operating a huge European accelerator for many weeks.  It has a very short half life so there is no way to accumulate pounds of it.  He supposedly came forward with his story despite death threats because he thought the public has a right to know.  Videotapes are available with his claims.

It is all BUNK.

Not one shred of evidence has been put forth to support this story:

No diplomas, no résumés, no transcripts, no memberships in professional organizations, no papers, no pages from MIT or Caltech yearbooks.  He also mentioned, in a phone conversation with me, California State University at Northridge and Pierce Junior College – – also in the San Fernando Valley, California.  I checked all four schools.  Pierce said he had taken electronics courses in the late 1970s.  The other three schools never heard of him.

The page from the Los Alamos National Lab phone book with Lazar’s name on it clearly states that it includes employees of the DOE and outside contractor, Kirk Meyer. “K/M” follows Lazar’s name.  This proves he worked for K/M, not LANL.

I checked with LANL’s personnel department for Lazar’s name and that of an old colleague.  They found my guy, but not Lazar.

He was publicly asked when he got his MS from MIT.  He said “Let me see now, I think it was probably 1982.”  Nobody getting an MS from MIT would not know the year immediately.  He was asked to name some of his profs.  He said: “Let’s see now, Bill Duxler will remember me from the physics department at Caltech.”  I located Dr. Duxler.  He’s a Pierce Junior College physics prof, and never taught at Caltech.  Lazar was registered in one of his courses at the same time Lazar was supposedly at MIT!   Nobody who can go to MIT goes to Pierce JC, not to mention the rather long commute between LA and Cambridge, Mass.

I checked his High School in New York State.  He graduated in August, not with his class.  The only science course he took was chemistry.  He ranked 261 out of 369, which is in the bottom third.  There is no way he would have been admitted by MIT or Caltech.  An MS in Physics from MIT requires a thesis.  No such thesis exists at MIT, and he is not on a commencement list.  The notion that the government wiped his CIVILIAN records clean is absurd.  I checked with the Legal Counsel at MIT – – no way to wipe all his records clean.  The Physics department never heard of him and he is not a member of the American Physical Society.

When he declared bankruptcy in the mid 1980s for almost $300,000.00 he listed his occupation as a self-employed film processor.  With MS degrees from MIT and Caltech?  Caltech would not have accepted him for an MS program, if he already had one from MIT.

His propulsion scheme sounds good  (as do many science fiction stories),  but makes no real sense especially in view of how difficult it would be to add protons to #115.  Gravity wave amplification sounds great but what does it mean?

He could not have gotten a Compartmentalized Security clearance having operated a brothel.  His W-2 form from the Department of Naval Intelligence totals under $1000.00, at most a week’s pay for a scientist:

(CLICK TO ENLARGE ABOVE – – the original “paycheck” of Bob Lazar

You can’t get a security clearance in a week.

Scientists leave trails.  Lazar is NOT a scientist.  He couldn’t even answer scientific questions put to him.   An excellent review of Bob’s “Physics” can be seen at:

LAZAR CRTIQUE, by Dr. David L. Morgan

I should add that Bob is a bright and talented guy who operated a jet powered car, put on fireworks displays, and apparently helped physics professors working at the Los Alamos Meson accelerator facility.

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But the big question is:

Was he a total fraud or a reluctant disinformant?

Please also read my old article:

The strange behavior of Bob Lazar (alleged Area 51 scientist)

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Norio Hayakawa’s CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE NEWS SERVICE

E-mail = noriohayakawa@gmail.com

Facebook = http://www.facebook.com/fernandon.hayakawa

Also please watch Norio Hayakawa’s YouTube Channel

 

Plasma weapons, emerging military technology and UFOs

This type of military technology has been developing for more than 45 years or so.  So just imagine what we may have at the present moment.  Please read the following item from 1999:

by Justin Mullins, NEW SCIENTIST  – – December 25, 1999:

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I was at a party in downtown Oakland when I first heard about the Voice of God.  It was the usual mix – – a few intellectuals from Berkeley and Stanford, the gracious host and hostess and a gaggle of greedy journalists, of whom I was one.

The conversation was highbrow and stilted but the food was plentiful, so I stayed to chat.  It was an innocuous, forgettable evening, except for one thing, a short conversation with an expert in laser optics from Stanford University.

His extraordinary tale left me spinning.

It involved a clandestine military project with a goal so outrageous that, even now, it is difficult to comprehend.  The story was set in the late 1980s, at an undisclosed military research facility hidden in the New Mexico desert.  (most likely the Manzano/Sandia base at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque).

Here, researchers working with high-power laser weapons discovered that they could create a glowing ball of fire in the sky by crossing the beams of two powerful infrared lasers.  The beams were invisible to the naked eye, but where they intersected, their electric fields became so intense that they ripped apart molecules in the air, creating a plasma – – a luminous mix of high-energy ions and electrons.

By moving the laser beams around the sky, the researchers found they could shift the plasma ball back and forth at very high speed.  They even discovered that by switching the beams on and off quickly and redirecting them to different spots, they could maintain several plasma balls in the air at the same time.  At night, they demonstrated their skills, flying their glowing creations in formation high above the cold desert.

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Here is a timely comment by Smythers on Dreamland Resort:

“So this was a thing back in the day – lasers creating plasma balls that shifted and shimmered in the night skies, the science teams sweeping them across the heavens like red/burnt orange egg shaped chariots of the gods…

and this is now back in the main stream.

The above was from a piece 20 years ago now – so this all in all is around 40 to 45 YEARS old.

Why am I posting this?  Because these laser spheres make a great defensive capability against hypersonic airframes of all sorts.  Hitting a dense ball of plasma at 120,000 feet is going to ruin your day.

Almost like a tic tac that could be visible on radars and IR tracking apparatus over a Navy fleet.

Food for thought as the Pentagon scientists are now investing major money in this talking/visible field of energetic research. Publicly this time but wrapped up in the ‘less than lethal’ field – to make people hear and see things.”

PLEASE CLICK AND READ THE FOLLOWING TIMELY ARTICLE:

PENTAGON SCIENTISTS ARE MAKING TALKING PLASMA LASER BALLS FOR USE AS NON-LETHAL WEAPONS

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Norio Hayakawa’s CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE NEWS SERVICE

E-mail = noriohayakawa@gmail.com

Facebook = http://www.facebook.com/fernandon.hayakawa

Please also watch Norio Hayakawa’s YouTube Channel