GeneticJenHaven't done an update on the #UFO situation in a while so here's an intro for people new to it all and a catch-up to where we're at now. Long thread. On the surface: US government officials are whistleblowing recovery of alien crafts. A bit deeper: Bigfoot, psychics, dinosaur-beaver hybrids etc
Ok a little reminder that there's a random ranch in the US were nothing interesting happened in the 60 years that some people lived there. Then a couple took it over for 2 years, got into serious financial problems, and said it was a hotspot for UFOs. How fortunate for them
This is what we today call Skinwalker Ranch. The couple sold it to gullible millionaire Robert Bigelow, who was obsessed with the paranormal but no physical evidence was found. He eventually sold it to another gullible millionaire obsessed with the paranormal and again no evidence
But back when Bigelow owned the ranch, an enthusiast called Colm Kelleher visited and wrote a book (Hunt for the Skinwalker) where a million things happened to him. Ghosts. Aliens. UFOs. Bigfoot. Dinosaur-beaver hybrids. Werewolves. Monsters. Some people have all the luck! No evidence of any of that but what a book!
Most people who read the book naturally found it hilarious. It's like an X-Files episode except every case Mulder and Scully ever worked on happens in one episode. You can't move for monsters and wormholes
As you can imagine, there were people who took it seriously and believed it all. Unfortunately one of those people was James Lacatski, who worked in the US Defence Intelligence Agency. Fascinated, Lacatski reached out to Bigelow and asked to visit
Despite Bigelow conducting research and finding no evidence whatsoever, Lacatski turns up and immediately sees a ghostly apparition in a kitchen. How lucky! And for it to happen to a respectable intelligence official rather than a random couple trying to sell their ranch! This seems more legit
Bigelow and Lacatski use this encounter as a way to convince friend, paranormal enthusiast, and US Senator, Harry Reid to part with some cash. Hearing the tales from a legit intelligence officer and trusted friend, Harry used his influence to start a program to study Skinwalker Ranch
Senator Reid asked Lacatski, the guy who was convinced by the dino-beaver hybrid stories, to write up the proposal for the program to study the UFOs etc out there. Now... it's difficult to convince the US government to spend money on poltergeists, but all of this can tie back to UFOs if you're creative
The couple who sold the ranch claimed it was a UFO hotspot. UFOs are taken more seriously than ghosts and Bigfoot. So it became the belief of the enthusiasts than everything experienced there was the work of the UFOs or their creators
Portal in the sky? Monsters hunting people? Poltergeists that follow you home? All manifestations of the UFOs. You see, the people involved have a fascination with psychic powers and a belief that humans are actually psychic. Telepathy and UFOs go hand in hand for this group and many UFO folk
The intelligent, other-worldly presence at Skinwalker Ranch uses psychic powers to make people see things like werewolves. They can change how they appear to us, which is very convenient because it means any strange tale can be the intelligence at work. How lucky
But ultimately, it's the UFOs that are real. Everything else is caused by them. So we can call this a UFO program. Or can we? That still sounds like it won't be taken seriously. How about the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program? That's more like it
So Lacatski writes up the program like it's investigating future aerospace technologies, obscuring the fact that this is referring to the UFOs that make people see dinobeavers. It was legit enough that it was accepted and Senator Reid was able to get $22 million funding for it
The program was put out for external companies to bid on but only one company was considered and ultimately won: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. Wait... Bigelow? Did Bigelow just get his friend to give him $22 million to study ghosts? Yes
As before, no physical evidence of any kind was uncovered but again we got a fantastic book. Lacatski himself, leading the Pentagon program, wrote a book called "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon" telling all about the $22 million hunt for Bigfoot and werewolves at the ranch and claiming it was real
Lacatski: we're spending millions on poltergeists
The Pentagon: you're fucking what?
Shit hits the fan and the program is obviously closed down
But the people passionate about the "work" keep it going in their spare time. This is an important point. It's now unofficial
Many of the big players you hear from in recent stories were intelligence officials who "worked on a Pentagon UFO program" (which sounds very legit). They genuinely did work for the Pentagon but were involved in the spare-time UFO stuff after it was closed down. Luis Elizondo etc
You can probably sense the beginnings of a clique here. We've been talking about friends, people getting each other money, people with shared beliefs. There's a passionate group of believers who think something otherworldly is here and not necessarily as simple as biological ET
You can explain UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot, Nessie, and seemingly anything you want if there's an inter dimensional intelligence that communicates with us telepathically and can cause us to experience anything it wants us to. The passionate group seemingly believes this
Why am I telling you about all this? Well it turns out all the recent stuff comes from this Skinwalker Ranch group. There's Luis Elizondo who claimed to lead an official Pentagon UFO research program (he only did once it was a spare-time thing)
There's the famous UFO videos (of balloons) and associated stories printed as the front page story in the New York Times by afterlife and UFO writer Leslie Hope. She got the stories from Luis Elizondo. All the recent interest has exploded from those articles, directly connected to Skinwalker Ranch