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December 29 - December 29, 2023
the Orthodox Christian perspective is missing, and so conclusions are reached based on materialistic, occult or heretical thinking.
the evidence is strong for arguing that there are two phenomena taking place in parallel, and that those behind each are using the other as a mask for their activities.
hope too to convince you that the modern story of aliens visiting us from other planets is worse than a myth: it is a deception.
28th December 1933 the 4th Swedish Flying Corps started an investigation to find out what was happening in their airspace.
The bulk of sightings occurred from 1943 to 1944 and were so common that crews nicknamed the objects Foo Fighters.
In 1946 there were thousands of reported sightings of what were called “ghost rockets” in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
all kinds of fanciful theories have developed, ranging from underground alien bases, to theories about lay-lines and the various energy fields that surround the earth. As we shall see, this is one of the key dangers in the subject of UFOs. Unanswered questions leave people filling the gaps with whatever their imagination can create, and as people’s involvement grows, their fantasies can become more dangerous.
In June 2010, Halt signed a notarised affidavit claiming the event he had witnessed was extra-terrestrial and that both the U.K. and U.S. governments were deceiving their citizens over UFOs.
Up to a dozen objects were coming down from about eighty thousand feet to twenty thousand feet, where they would remain for a few hours before climbing vertically at speeds no known vehicle could achieve.
This is one of the central difficulties with the whole subject: since there are so few hard facts that do not need some kind of interpretation, all conclusions will be highly subjective and dependant on opinion or intent.
the UFOs were themselves the visitors.(5)
If they really come over in a big way that may settle the capitalist-communist war. If the human race wishes to survive they may have to band together.(6)
“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world."
The idea of using the UFO phenomenon as a means to removing national identities and boundaries is clearly a notion that has been around for a long time and is something we will consider in more depth later.
It has been reported that the United States and the U.S.S.R. signed a pact in 1971 to swop UFO information, but the pact stated that they were to keep the rest of the world in the dark.
This education could be accompanied by mass media such as television, motion pictures and popular articles… It was felt strongly that psychologists familiar with mass psychology should advise on the nature and extent of the programme.
After Bluebook presented its findings to the Robertson Panel, the decision was made to deliberately undermine public belief in UFOs through ridicule, celebrity comments and
even by enlisting the Walt Disney Company to work with psychologists.
This is a significant event because it not only reveals the government’s interest, but demonstrates how seriously they took the content of Smith’s memo. For Many years Canadian officials refused to acknowledge that the group existed and insisted there was no government investigation being carried out. This was revealed to be a lie when the researcher Arthur Bray obtained reports of twenty-five sightings that had been investigated by Project Magnet. The Canadian Air Force issued a number of directives through the 1950s to pilots on how they were to make reports of UFOs.
world demonstrates that governments have, for a long time, been addressing the issue of UFOs. As we shall see, the release of misinformation has been a consistent feature of official response, a fact that must be kept in mind as we consider the recent release of material by the U.S. military.
When the brain is trapped in an unsolvable riddle, it becomes more vulnerable to suggestion: this is why many advertisements include strange and meaningless imagery that the rational processes of the brain try to solve.
But creating this confusion also enables the secret services to control the narrative more effectively.
What should become clear in the material I am presenting is that there is something happening that governments do not understand, but which they are willing to use in parallel with their own activities to reinforce the deception they are carrying out. The occult reality of what is often taking place only adds to the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the subject.
“unobservable light”.
let us identify how different interpretations are guiding enquirers towards the occult.
not simply a set of scientists working to discover the secrets that sit within nature just waiting to be found, but a group with the specific aim of proving its philosophical and theological beliefs.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) has been a major figure in promoting the idea that there must be life beyond Earth. He was the astrophysicist who decided what would be on the discs sent out into space on the Voyager space craft in 1977, described as an introduction of ourselves to which ever alien species happened to find it.(1)
Keay Davidson accused him of being “non-rigorous, and self-aggrandizing”(3) while Nobel Prize winning chemist Harold Urey (1893 – 1981) rejected Sagan’s undisciplined and casual approach to science.(4)
further issue with Sagan’s thinking was his belief that the “Great Silence” of the Fermi Paradox could be explained by the limited lifespan of developed species: he concluded that once a species becomes technologically advanced it will inevitably make itself extinct.
It is this atheism that insists that life must exist elsewhere on other planets because it cannot permit the possibility that the Earth and life here is in anyway unique.
on the second page of the first chapter he states “The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”(5)
“Why should we, tucked away in some forgotten corner of the cosmos, be so fortunate?”(7) Who it is that might be doing the forgetting he doesn’t explain. Sagan’s atheism morphs into pantheism just a couple of pages later when he states “The Earth is our home, our parent.”(8)
only to discover that the Cambrian Explosion occurred over an even shorter period than Darwin had imagined (or feared).
As we shall see, Sagan’s assumptions were based on the limited scientific knowledge of his day which has since grown to a point where his beliefs have found to be false.
Sagan is not so much making errors as using popular myths and scientific misconceptions to prove his points. His philosophy is not just atheistic, it is anti-faith and anti-God. Talking about the Pythagoreans he reveals too much of his bias when he says “like all orthodox religions, they practiced a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.”(19)
An odd comment from a man who considers the earth nothing more than a forgettable little speck while Christians maintain that the whole Earth is an icon of God.
he concluded that it must mean our existence is insignificant. But understanding the physical distance between stars, it did at least bring him to the conclusion that physical travel between planets is not possible.
Our ancestors worshiped the Sun, and they were far from foolish…if we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the Sun and stars?(25)
His most disturbing expression of this comes when he concludes that in order for a technological civilisation to advance, it must reduce the number of its members.
No civilisation can possibly survive to an interstellar spacefaring phase unless it limits numbers. Any society with a marked population explosion will be forced to devote all its energies and technological skills to feeding and caring for the population on its home planet. This is a very powerful conclusion and is in no way based on the idiosyncrasies of a particular civilisation… any civilisation that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonisation must have exercised zero population growth or
he did not consider the programme should start with him: he had five children from his three marriages.
National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light.(28) Sagan does not identify which aspects of religious and ethnic identity he considers fanatical or chauvinistic, and it is clear that he considers clinging to any of these out-dated ideologies to be a barrier to the kind of progress he envisions. The rapid shift to globalism that has stripped nations of cultural,
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theory. It has two demonic ideas, the first that man is the product of impersonal biological processes, but also that in the future he will be so much more advanced in every way, including morally.
a life of promiscuity and an absence of self-restraint that he imagines will rid us of our innate violent tendencies.
Cultures with a predisposition for violence are composed of individuals who have been deprived – during at least one of two critical stages in life, infancy and adolescence – of the pleasures of the body…where infants are physically punished, there tends to be slavery, frequent killing, torturing and mutilation of enemies, a devotion to the inferiority of women, and a belief in one or more supernatural beings who intervene in our daily life.(34)
religions must incorporate the existence of ETs into their teaching. As we shall see, the Vatican is certainly trying to do this, but this is not what SETI enthusiasts really mean. The astronomer Steven Dick argues that to do so religions must adopt entirely new “cosmotheological principles” which turn out to be equating God with the universe itself.
This was the question first raised by William Paley in his book Natural Theology, a text that Charles Darwin attempted to refute by arguing that natural selection and random variations could mimic the work of a creator or designer. Writers such as Dennis Danielson have also argued that Sagan and others have simply taken empirical evidence without making sufficient links or providing logical steps, and have not only implied a conclusion but claimed the observations are proof of metaphysical realities. Sagan was really continuing the false assumptions of Harlow Shapley who coined the phrase The
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While the Sun is in the mid-range, in reality only nine percent of all stars in the Milky way are as massive;
In addition, the Sun is an extremely stable star, which means its output of energy only varies by 0.1 percent every eleven years (the period of a sunspot cycle).
Carl Sagan was mistaken when he claimed that with scientific advancement the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life would increase. The reverse is true, as our understanding grows, so does the realisation of how many factors it takes to make Earth habitable.
