Ludwig Schulz Wrote:I have been reading this thread with interest, especially the post about the meaning of the “grey alien” face.
I want to point the attention to the following article that appeared in the “sceptic magazine”.

http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v11n4_alien_faces.html

The main argument is, that a lot of animals have inborn visual recognition templates, which help them recognizing certain shapes which are of extreme importance to them.
In the case of human beings, there seems to be some kind of facial recognition template. Being able to recognizing a face is a highly specialized human ability of great importance, especially being able to recognize the mother/parents. The visual capabilities of the newborn are quiet limited, so faces are seen distorted, the authors of this article try to figure out how a face might be perceived by a newborn and come to the conclusion that it looks pretty much like your typical “grey alien” face (or “Master Lam”). Since the newborn is reacting to it, even though having no own past experience with faces, they argue that the inborn visual recognition template of the newborn must resemble the "grey alien" face.
The grey alien face could well be the inherited “archetypal face” pre-programmed into every human brain.
If valid, these findings certainly offer interesting possibilities to interpret the abduction experience, or could give an explanation why a face like this would be useful in some kind of “psyop”. The typical abduction experience has lot more distinct features which could be interpreted as relived birth experiences.

Quote:In this light, the film version of COMMUNION - whose screenplay was written by Whitley Strieber - takes on a new interest: The abduction sequences contain inexplicable images indicating that the "greys" are really props, or masks.

Dixie Dea Wrote:David

I had read Martin Cannon's pages and then later on, I ran across this page. Do you have any explanation about why he would seemingly no longer believe his theories and turn away from everything. He mentions that he was tired of being accused of being a spook, but I wonder if there is more to it then that.

http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1997/mar/d21-001.shtml

Dixie

Quote:The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.

THE HYPOTHESIS

Substantial evidence exists linking members of this country's intelligence community (including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Office of Naval Intelligence) with the esoteric technology of MIND CONTROL. For decades, "spy- chiatrists" working behind the scenes -- on college campuses, in CIA-sponsored institutes, and (most heinously) in prisons -- have experimented with the erasure of memory, hypnotic resistance to torture, truth serums, post-hypnotic suggestion, rapid induction of hypnosis, electronic stimulation of the brain, non-ionizing radiation, microwave induction of intracerebral "voices," and a host of even more disturbing technologies. Some of the projects exploring these areas were ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, PANDORA, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH and the infamous MKULTRA.

I have read nearly every available book on these projects, as well as the relevant congressional testimony[5]. I have also spent much time in university libraries researching relevant articles, contacting other researchers (who have graciously allowed me access to their files), and conducting interviews. Moreover, I traveled to Washington, DC to review the files John Marks compiled when he wrote THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE"[6]. These files include some 20,000 pages of CIA and Defense Department documents, interviews, scientific articles, letters, etc. The views presented here are the result of extensive and ongoing research.

As a result of this research, I have come to the following conclusions:

1. Although misleading (and occasionally perjured) testimony before Congress indicated that the CIA's "brainwashing" efforts met with little success[7], striking advances were, in fact, made in this field. As CIA veteran Miles Copeland once admitted to a reporter, "The congressional subcommittee which went into this sort of thing got only the barest glimpse." [8]

2. Clandestine research into thought manipulation has NOT stopped, despite CIA protestations that it no longer sponsors such studies. Victor Marchetti, 14-year veteran of the CIA and author of the renown expose, THE CIA AND THE CULT OF INTELLIGENCE, confirmed in a 1977 interview that the mind control research continues, and that CIA claims to the contrary are a "cover story."[9]

3. The Central Intelligence Agency was not the only government agency involved in this research[10]. Indeed, many branches of our government took part in these studies - - including NASA, the Atomic Energy Commission, as well as all branches of the Defense Department.

To these conclusions I would append the following -- NOT as firmly-established historical fact, but as a working hypothesis and grounds for investigation:

4. The "UFO abduction" phenomenon MIGHT be a continuation of clandestine mind control operations.

I recognize the difficulties this thesis might present to those readers emotionally wedded to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, or to those whose political WELTANSHAUUNG disallows any such suspicions. Still, the open-minded student of abductions should consider the possibilities. Certainly, we are not being narrow-minded if we ask researchers to exhaust ALL terrestrial explanations before looking heavenward.

Granted, this particular explanation may, at first, seem as bizarre as the phenomenon itself. But I invite the skeptical reader to examine the work of George Estabrooks, a seminal theorist on the use of hypnosis in warfare, and a veteran of Project MKULTRA. Estabrooks once amused himself during a party by covertly hypnotizing two friends, who were led to believe that the Prime Minister of England had just arrived; Estabrooks' victims spent an hour conversing with, and even serving drinks to, the esteemed visitor[11]. For ufologists, this incident raises an inescapable question: If the Mesmeric arts can successfully evoke a non-existent Prime Minister, why can't a representative from the Pleiades be similarly induced?

But there is much more to the present day technology of mind control than mere hypnosis -- and many good reasons to suspect that UFO abduction accounts are an artifact of continuing brainwashing/behavior modification experiments. Moreover, I intend to demonstrate that, by using UFO mythology as a cover story, the experimenters may have solved the major problem with the work conducted in the 1950s -- "the disposal problem," i.e., the question of "What do we do with the victims?"

If, in these pages, I seem to stray from the subject of the saucers, I plead for patience. Before I attempt to link UFO abductions with mind control experiments, I must first show that this technology EXISTS. Much of the forthcoming is an introduction to the topic of mind control -- what it is, and how it works.

Quote:From The Sunday Times
March 22, 2009

Is that a flying saucer? No, it’s a stealth bomber

Jack Grimston

INTELLIGENCE officers scoured hundreds of UFO sighting reports in the 1980s and 1990s looking for top-secret American stealth-plane projects, newly released files have shown.

At the end of the cold war, the Ministry of Defence was worried that America was developing mysterious planes but not telling its closest ally. Staff at department DI55 of the Defence Intelligence Staff logged and investigated hundreds of sightings by pilots, air-traffic controllers and private individuals who believed they had seen an alien presence.

“The MoD did not believe Britain was being visited by aliens but these files show they were obsessed with the fear that our closest ally was developing spy planes and keeping them secret from us,” said David Clarke, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, and UFO specialist at the National Archives (which today releases hundreds of official UFO files on its website).

In one incident logged in 1989, an oil-rig worker trained in aircraft observation saw a “perfect black triangle” escorted by two American fighters. An official noted: “Attention is now focusing on this, despite a recent US Air Force ‘denial briefing’. This is bound to prompt parliamentary interest.” In 1990, the crews of six RAF Tornado jets flying over Germany reported seeing a UFO. Staff at RAF West Drayton, where many sightings were initially collated, noted that the pilots had reported the “aerial phenomenon” overtaking them, and said: “Possibly idented [identified] as a stealth aircraft.”

In another 1990 incident, the MoD believed two men had had a chance sighting of a spy-plane called Aurora, thought to be in development by the Americans. They reported a diamond-shaped UFO above the A9 at Calvine near Pitlochry, Perthshire.

The intelligence task sheet notes: “Sensitivity of material suggests very special handling . . . minimum handling by listed personnel.” The files, the latest in a series of UFO reports being released by the MoD, also settle a long-standing UFO conspiracy theory – the death of American fighter pilot Captain William Schaffner during an exercise over the North Sea in 1970. To the distress of his family, it has been claimed by some that officials covered up a sinister incident possibly involving a UFO.

The files include the RAF’s official inquiry into the crash, which concluded Schaffner’s Lightning fighter had brushed the sea during a delicate, low-speed manoeuvre.

When he tried to eject, the cockpit canopy remained stuck because of poor maintenance, and Schaffner is believed to have drowned.

The vast majority of the files record calls from the public reporting various cigar-shaped objects, mysterious lights and saucer-shaped craft.

In 1989, RAF Wattisham in Suffolk was phoned by a “distressed female” who described being engaged in conversation by an alien with a Scandinavian accent while walking her dog. The alien then departed in his spaceship.

The same year, the RAF was told of a large flying object seen approaching “from Filton airport” by a “pleasant lady” from her sofa in Bristol. It had an object on top “like a teapot lid”.

In 1992, a secret memo reported nocturnal sightings in the eastern suburbs of London of “a bright cigar-shaped object, moving very slowly and making little or no sound”.

An intelligence analyst recorded that the craft was “almost certainly a brightly illuminated airship advertising the new Ford Mondeo”.

See UFO files at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos