Have We Been Taken For A Ride?

[Found Goat]

Does anyone else on this forum feel the way I do, that ufology has pretty much run its course and that the UFO field, from its beginning, has been mostly led along in circles?

To think there was a time when I actually believed in a lot of this UFO lore...of far-out tales of military personnel colluding with aliens from inside underground bases, not realizing it at the time the extent to which disinformation is involved.

We are now told it is no longer fashionable they be called UFOs. UAPs in the preferred term, nowadays. Ten-four, social engineers.

Never-mind the obvious hoaxes, faked videos, and charlatans. What I am here speaking of are factors of an entirely different sort, ones which seldom are detected or even considered by your average, gullible UFO buff.

Since the days of my having once been relatively open to at least entertaining virtually any story that would come down the pike originating from ufologists and close-encounter researchers, for a few years now I've been rather skeptical of much of what originates within the UFO community and UFO-minded alt-media...and with good reason.

Dig beneath the surface, even a little, of many a name within or closely associated to the UFO field and one will (very curiously) discover one or two billionaire globalists into financing UFO studies, accounts of crop circles allegedly made by laser-generating airborne technology, stories of disinfo agents having infiltrated UFO-research groups, of supposed ufological cognoscenti on lecture circuits rumored to have elite connections, to reports of hosts of UFO-themed podcasts being covert shills with ties to cointel, and so on.

Three names that everyone with even a remote interest in UFOs ought to familiarize themselves with are those of William 'Bill' Moore, Paul Bennewitz, and former AFOSI agent, Richard Doty (who's featured in the excellent and important documentary film, Mirage Men).

Greg Bishop's Project Beta is just one among a handful of must-reads for anyone interested in learning just what exactly has been going on behind the scenes and beneath the surface of ufology, and unafraid of potentially coming away from this knowledge alternately disillusioned and yet refreshingly deconditioned. Don't care to read? Well, there's William Moore's notorious 1989 speech, the one he gave at the MUFON conference that year, one that had tremendous shock value and had several members of the audience booing and heckling him, over some of the confessions and revelations he made, during this one-of-a-kind talk...archived and available online and highly recommended listening in its entirety.

Just as sci-fi entertainment has been used since at least about the 1950s to condition the minds of the general public as a means of acclimating people to the possibility of there existing intelligent beings from other worlds, so too could it be said of many of the authors and speakers in or at the periphery of ufology. The vast majority of these writers and lecturers are simply not to be trusted, in my opinion, either on account of their quite possibly being paid disinformants or, as was in the case of the late Paul Bennewitz, unwitting assets who foolishly swallow the disinfo fed to them by their 'insider' contacts, hook-line-and-sinker.

What they did to poor Paul Bennewitz, in driving him to paranoia and to experiencing a nervous breakdown, was more than just unethical, it was downright mean-spirited and inhumane.

Like Paul, I think we have all been taken, so to speak, to one degree or another...those of us who credulously and uncritically post to UFO threads and who sit at the edge of our seats whenever officials release another UAP video for the passing consumption of news outlets and semiconscious normies to snack on. And here we thought flying saucers were only toys for children to play with while at the park or beach.