Synchronicity of March 13, 1997: Were the Phoenix Lights Only Part of a Larger Event?

A list of "coincidences" related to March 13, 1997, as shared by Lynne D. Kitel, M.D. in her work, The Phoenix Lights (Hampton Roads, pg. 100).

• The U.S. Government went into DEF-CON 3 alert
• Then President Clinton disappeared for hours to an undisclosed location
• The battery on an crucial satellite used to detect incoming missiles went dead
• Scientific American (July 1997) carried a story about bursts of gamma rays in our atmosphere from an unknown source.

In my own research I have seen numerous times that events did not occur in an vacuum. Sightings in one location were often mirrored in distant locales. A big picture seemed to be in play.  At times, it seems that only from space can the true scope of a series of events be understood.

Disclosure is a term in the news and in discussions in this field. Would we recognize disclosure when we tend to focus on just one aspect of a larger event and never step back to see what else may be going on?

Some things to consider as the topic moves forward...

Can we see the larger meaning of what is happening and understand the meaning?

THE ROAD TO NOWHERE: Destroying Disclosure

 It has been said that the best way to destroy something is from within. This is the message of the story of the Trojan horse. It is also a familiar, yet well hidden tool, to subvert true investigation and progress in the area of UFOlogy. Let's look at some examples.

In the late 1950's there were approximately 500 or more UFO groups in the US alone. Some were based on the Contactee/Metaphysical views of the topic, some were based on a purely scientific examination of evidence and some a mix of both.

The first and last of those would eventually fade or break up remaining only in one or two lingering odd cults into the 2000's. The Contactee/Metaphysical view had merged with a growing drug culture by the 1970's causing many to drop away from the topic. Others, fell apart due to lack of funding, negative reports created in the wake of the Condon report, ridicule, and other similar reasons.

That leaves two of the major science based groups, NICAP and APRO, alone in the arena by late 1950's and through most of the 1960's.  Oddly, these two will collapse due to interior pressures that have led many to suppose they were infiltrated for the purposes of dismantling them. Some released government records appear to support that idea. That Trojan Horse approach. There were tensions of leadership, conflicting views on importance of data, needed goals, and necessary actions. The result was both would fold.

Fast forward to the 1990's and MUFON.  MUFON had emerged to occupy the void left in 1969 when Project Blue Book closed. In the decade of the 1990's there were concerns and rumors of infighting and other issues that included loss of records and reclassifications of previously accepted reports. The result many people - as witnessed by comments on bulletin boards, webpages, and in books - expressed a loss of trust in the organization to be objective and dedicated to the truth.  Currently, the organization has taken great strides to make sure reports are complete and through and investigated with a gratifying level of scientific yet open-minded professionalism from its volunteer field investigators.

Press that fast forward button again and it is today - now - with a new open attitude unlike anything since 1947.  Social media, online videos, podcasts, books, articles, and government hearings make the news and discussion highly accessible. 

The result?  There is clearly a cadre of debunkers who seem to have a detailed task to troll such sites making negative comments or off hand debunking without examining the evidence or exploring the topic.  There are people who post videos of objects that appear to be designed to merely confuse the issue through fake cgi generated images, obvious misinterpretations of sky objects any sixth grader SHOULD be able to identify, or who hold a blanket acceptance anything they see or view on a video.  The presence of these in any four pages or comment blocks appears to be abnormally high.   Plus, the presence of "gotcha" trolls, ugly commentors, debunkers and the like seem abnormally high. 

They are all unwilling to offer solid evidence or even to discuss their assaults. When pressed they often - turtle like - slink their heads back into their invisible online shells.

It is obvious from history that a successful tool to manipulate the topic of unknowns was the planting of individuals inside groups to cause disruption and bring about the destruction of the goals of the organization.  The field should be alert to the potential for that to be happening again, take measures to guard against in-fighting, to insure that open discussion is encouraged, and that all is done in an open and science-based manner to insure the best results. 

Project Blue Book set the template: dazzle with science, dismiss with ridicule, and infiltrate to weaken.  

It is time to be aware of the pattern and arrange the discussion in such a manner that we strive for the highest standards and hold one another there. 

Disclosure?: Whistleblower David Grusch Interview

 

DISCLOSURE DRAMA

 In the UAP community "disclosure" means the announcement that "yes, Virginia there is an Alien."

The expected norm for such actions has long been based on a false premise. An arriving alien entity would land on the White House lawn and announce themself to the world. This is, of course, based on the idea that the United States would be the world leader to contact.  Other scenarios, have conceived of the United Nations and others simply an orbiting presence sending messages of peace (or war). 

Other academic disciplines have suggested that there is no intent to formally meet and negotiate a relationship.  Human history has shown that when a highly advanced technological society intersects with a less highly advanced society the result is always bad - for the lesser of the two. 

These groups have suggested that scientists from another place in the universe might be observing human activity in the same way wildlife is studied on our own planet. Distance observation, non-interference, and tagging and/or sample taking as possible. 

Since 1953 the U.S. government, and possibly other countries, have been informed by a research reports by both Batelle and Brookings about what "contact" would mean. 

Such a contact with an advanced civilization or alien beings would wreck the orderly workings of society (laws, family life, and economy) , it would destroy religion by presenting a disconnect to the singularity of human existence and the limited interest of a divine being to Earth as these were accepted tenets of faith for many on the planet, and , as a result, would cause mass suicides, hopelessness, and the like. 

President Reagon of the U.S. , who had himself witnessed a UAP on at least two occasions, used the concept of the presence, exitance or threat of such alien intrusion into human history as bringing humanity together in a unified front. 

At this time in history, the world is highly connected via social media and the internet. Language translation programs abound making it possible to communicate at levels previously unimagined. There is no "universal translator" of Star Trek yet in easy reach but it is coming. 

IF Disclosure occurs, I theorize it would occur from the top down.

• Governments/Leaders
• Military/ Intelligence
• Scientists and Educators
• Social Sciences (Anthropologists, Sociologists, Cultural leaders, Religious leaders)

These would all begin to use media (news, social, movies, music, books, etc.) to transform human thinking to

 a) accept the idea of alien/other worldly existence, 

b) present high-ranking professionals who publish, research and present findings that also posit acceptance of such thinking and begin the discussion of acceptable responsive behaviors in social groups (religion, education, cultural awareness, science, etc.), 

c) a movement of governments, military, and their media tools to prepare thinking to accept treaties, contacts, inclusion of an alien presence, and 

d) then....introductions.

It should be noted that in the last 3-4 years there has been a steady increase in all of these points.

The stigma of the subject has been greatly reduced. Major academic groups and people have seriously addressed the subject and encouraged wide range research of a highly quantifiable style. Rhetoric has shifted from "there was no life on Mars" to the increasing probability that at one time all the components for Earth similar life were there. Telescopes locating deep space planets capable of hosting our own kind of life as well potentially diverse life forms. 

Concepts of time, space, and potential travels have greatly shifted from rigidly held "laws" that do not change to a truly scientific body of knowledge that adapts to new information and additional concepts. 

So....in several ways "DISCLOSURE" has begun. The question will be: how far will it be allowed to go? How can the inhabitants of planet Earth best address the inevitable encounters that are being heralded?

"Be prepared" - it is not just a slogan but a mindset. 

DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT THROUGH ART

The following are attempts to convey through art what a person saw and in one case what was described to them by another witness. Working with this quasi-art therapy approach it has been noted by this researcher that there is often an intense drive to achieve exact representation. Language can fail in seeking to describe colors seen, feelings experienced, and the theme may be developed in several formats and forms as they person attempts to achieve a match to what they saw or what they experienced.

 

Another Mystery Photo

As a collector of ufology related works, I have two copies of a classic work called  FLYING SAUCERS - SERIOUS BUSINESS by Frank Edwards  (Lyle Stuart, 1966) and a paperback version by Bantam of the same year. 

The hardback version published by Lyle Stuart includes a photo of an event labeled as : "One of two photographs of Portland, Indiana, UFO by Robert Kennedy. Object was in view an estimated four minutes. Shown here streaking from a fixed position. Kennedy, police officer Robert Glentser and other witnesses say object traveled in spurts, moved silently. Photo copyright Robert Kennedy.  It is labeled as plate 33 on page 224.  

This image did not make it into the paperback version I have.  

There is a dearth of information about the photo and no clear mention or discussion of it seem to appear anywhere. It has no date (but must be from prior to 1966, the publication date). Portland is located just north of Muncie, Indiana and northwest of Dayton, Ohio. 

Several possibilities present themselves: this is an image of one of the tests involving dispersal of chemicals or inert gases for measuring one thing or another (such as the Barium dispersal).

A test craft, missile, etc.?

If a UFO - - what is the story?