" ... we have no idea, because we aren’t even seeking answers." Christopher Mellon

 

"Is it possible that America has been technologically leap-frogged by Russia or China? Or, as many people wondered after the videos were first published by the New York Times in December, might they be evidence of some alien civilization? 

Unfortunately, we have no idea, because we aren’t even seeking answers.

I served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and as staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and I know from numerous discussions with Pentagon officials over the past two years that military departments and agencies treat such incidents as isolated events rather than as part of a pattern requiring serious attention and investigation. A colleague of mine at To the Stars Academy, Luis Elizondo, used to run a Pentagon intelligence program that examined evidence of “anomalous” aircraft, but he resigned last fall to protest government inattention to the growing body of empirical data. 

Meanwhile, reports from different services and agencies remain largely ignored and unevaluated inside their respective bureaucratic stovepipes. There is no Pentagon process for synthesizing all the observations the military is making."  Mellon

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"Christopher K. 'Chris' Mellon (born October 2, 1957), was the former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and later for Security and Information Operations. He is also a writer and businessman. He is a member of the Mellon Family, and the son of Karl N. Mellon, the great-grandson of Gulf Oil co-founder William Larimer Mellon.

Christopher Mellon is a descendant of Thomas Mellon, founder of Mellon Bank. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Colby College in 1980. He earned his master's degree from Yale University in International Relations, with a concentration in finance and management in 1984."  wiki

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This Mellon is clearly not a lightweight.  His concern with government inability to deal with phenomena that the SJs of the world have not had their noses rubbed in is noteworthy  pl 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-military-keeps-encountering-ufos-why-doesnt-the-pentagon-care/2018/03/09/242c125c-22ee-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term=.a5c47b8105e5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Mellon

Comments

[turcopolier]

james

In MBTI terms SJs are the kind of people who make the trains run on time. You are not one. pl

[Jeannie Catherine]

Very intriguing, indeed. "Mysterious object seen streaking over the Atlantic Ocean by US Navy jet."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=wxVRg7LLaQA

[ToivoS]

Now I am really puzzled. From my first reading of this post it seemed to say that various US military intelligence groups had been collecting information that suggested if it had all been properly analyzed in some coordinated way then the US should have already known about all of those different missile systems Putin revealed last week. Is the Mellon heir talking about UFOs? Not UFOs made by Russia and China, but those from some alien civilization?

[Eric Newhill]

I was never involved in UFO research, but I do know quite a bit about related phenomena (related if you're in the camp of someone like Jacques Valle) such as psi, remote viewing, out of body experiences, NDEs, mediumship and telekinesis.

IMO, all this stuff has proven to be real beyond a shadow of doubt. If you'd seen what I have, you'd probably come to the same conclusion; practical and reliable in terms of serious real world application? Not so much in most cases, but real all the same.

Several problems present in the research alone, generally. One is that these topics attract a lot of charlatans,or honest, but delusional people and then over-eager believers that do not properly evaluate evidence and experiment results. It is very challenging, given resource restraints, to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Second, given how ubiquitous the issues involved in problem #1 are, there is a stigma attached to anyone who takes the study seriously. No one wants that stigma. It's a career killer.

Third, this stuff is scary to a lot of people. It threatens to undermine the model of reality that has been developed and that has served our material needs so well since the enlightenment. What does one do with the information? How would one shape policy? How would one maintain control of society in light of a vastly expanded knowledge of the universe? There are also meaningful impacts at a personal level that involve paradigm shifting ramifications. Most people do not like to have their worlds rocked that heavily. It's human nature. So much easier to dismiss it all as silliness.

Now, regarding UFOs - the challenges to study are increased beyond the other phenomena b/c you can't test it in a lab environment. You can't summon UFOs to appear for a study, let alone a controlled study. There are a host of variables in any chance encounter that preclude a scientific approach that can reach a definitive conclusion. Until one of these things is captured (assuming there is anything to capture) and studied in an open peer review atmosphere, we will have to rely on conjecture. Also, just because you capture one, doesn't mean that you understand *all* related phenomena. To properly study, you would need to capture a sufficient sample. That said, if you did obtain even one of extraterrestrial origin, then the door would be opened permanently for the new paradigm.

[JW]

That isn't the only problem. At least with UFO's you can see them, hence then be able to pronounce them as unidentified, ie., as part of the set of known unknowns (you know whats coming next..).
If Mellon is saying that the known unknowns are a gap in the plan, then the unknown unknowns are going to be an additional gap which he could have but did not discuss.

[Charles]

In government, 22mill is not even large enough to be rounding error.
In your own retirement account it is significant, unless you are Bill Gates in which case it is rounding error.

[different clue]

I used to read about these kinds of things. Since the US government and perhaps other governments refuse to give proper open-minded consideration into what this all could be, it has been left to private people and organizations to piece together what they can. Their books and papers have all been dismissed by the Official Keepers of the Conventional Wisdom. Even though some of the authors have been thoroughly respectable people.

Ivan T. Sanderson, for example, was a naturalist and a collector who lead several collecting expeditions here and there for the British Museum. He also led field studies of disease vectors in the Caribbean and Central America areas. He also gathered field intelligence of possible German activity and sent reports about it back to Britain. He writes that he included reports of 2-3 foot diameter metallic or glowing spheres coming from or going into the water until he was ordered to stop reporting about the spheres.

Years later he wrote a book about underwater-based intelligences which he strongly felt very probably existed. He appeared to think they were not necessarily "extra-terrestrials" but better viewed as "parallel-terrestrials" or perhaps "parallel aquaticals". Here is a book he wrote about that.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22408.Invisible_Residents

He wrote another book more focused on the strictly aerial and "near space" aspect of this called "Unvited Visitors". All I can find is this poor-quality Amazon referrence to a copy they have.
https://www.amazon.com/Uninvited-Visitors-Biologist-Looks-UFOs/dp/B000HFPUQ2/ref=la_B001HMM8GO_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520795554&sr=1-2

[Fellow Traveler]

Would look domestically first. Bezos sells $1B/yr in stock to pay for his space program and its' progress would seem sedate compared to SpaceX. If a covert nuclear propulsion or anti-proton production program was possible, I'd at least have a cover story.

Bill Gates has heavily invested in a couple of nuke projects (Terrapower), one involving small reactors.

How much money would it take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb

[turcopolier]

james

INTP as is my wife. pl

[J]

Colonel.

Dan Meyer OIG Executive Director of Intelligence Committee was escorted out of the building at the end of last year, and formally fired at the end of February this year in a power struggle going on within the OIG.

Dan Meyer, director of civilian reprisal investigations with the Office of the Inspector General's job was that of protecting whistleblowers in perilous territory — the Pentagon’s intelligence and counterintelligence communities, and the murky world of TS “black” programs.

Meyer and his team focused on helping federal employees in the intelligence and counterintelligence fields, especially those whose security clearances were alleged to have been revoked or changed due to their whistle-blowing. He also has handled cases of whistleblowers having their security clearance and access threatened for revealing procurement fraud. 

Last week Senators Grassley and Wyden fired off a March 6 letter asking DNI Dan Coats to preserve all related data regarding the Meyer dismissal.

Here's bio info on Meyer:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._Meyer

[Richardstevenhack]

I hung out with Ivan Sanderson for a week after I got out of the Army back in the '70's. He was in western New Jersey IIRC on rural land where he used to have a small zoo, but abandoned that after it had been flooded out and burned out a couple times.

He formed the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained (SITU), of which I was a member, in 1967. The archives of that group are apparently under the control of this fellow: https://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2011/03/society-for-investigation-of.html

Sanderson's mostly known for his very deeply researched study on Bigfoot and other crypto-zoological entities.

Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life: The Story Of Sub-Humans On Five Continents From The Early Ice Age Until Today
https://www.amazon.com/Abominable-Snowmen-Legend-Sub-Humans-Continents/dp/1931882584

It's worth reading because it shows that it's not just the Yeti in Tibet and Bigfoot in Oregon, it's literally everywhere and in every time.

Where the problem comes in is that John Keel also discovered that these subhuman species were frequently encountered in areas where there are a lot of UFO sightings. This complicates the issue by suggesting that Bigfoot and his cousins are as much fragments of some alternate reality as UFOs appear to be.

[Jeannie Catherine]

INFP here.

[Richardstevenhack]

The problem with the military investigating UFOs is that they have zero imagination. They tend to view the phenomenon as a series of discrete incidents and apply an either/or assumption that they are either real physical phenomena or don't exist at all. As John Keel demonstrated in his research, this gets you no where at all and hasn't since the military started investigations in the late 1940's.

One exception might be the Office of Naval Intelligence, which has been involved in UFO research in UFO research in the past under some interesting circumstances. Look up Morris K. Jessup and the Allende letters:

The Allende Letters And the VARO Edition of the Case For the UFO
https://www.amazon.com/Allende-Letters-VARO-Case-UFO/dp/1892062410

Here's a recap of that story:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980424203956/www.brotherblue.org/brethren/allende.htm

I had an interesting experience when I was stationed at Fort Rucker, Alabama, back in the late '60's. I had noticed the mysterious individual Carlos Allende had an address in one of the books. On a lark, I wrote that address and asked some pointed questions. The letter came back marked undeliverable at that address. So I forgot about it.

Some time later I get a letter allegedly from this Carlos Allende. I forwarded that to John Keel, who I was corresponding with at the time. The question was how whoever was posing as Allende know I had written him when the letter had been returned by the Post Office. Of course, it's possible that Allende actually did reside there and the Post Office had delivered it and he had opened and read it before returning it to the Post Office as "undeliverable" as part of his "schtick".

But it's an example of the sort of thing that occurs in UFO research that the military isn't actually comfortable in dealing with.

I also note that the CIA convened a scientific panel back in the 1950's chaired by Howard P. Robertson, a physicist, a CIA consultant, and the director of the Defense Department Weapons Evaluation Group. See the Wikipedia entry here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Panel

That basically went nowhere, as well.

Then there was the famous Condon Repot back in the '70's which was basically a debunking effort led by a physicist named Edward Condon. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condon_Committee

That went no where as well, although two members - David R. Saunders and R. Roger Harkins - issued a "dissenting report" entitled "UFO's? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong", World Publishing, 1968, which is available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Where-Condon-committee-wrong/dp/B00005X1J1

So official government investigations of the phenomena are and have been mired in problems due to damaging career concerns and lack of imagination in forming a comprehensive examination of the issue from first principles.

John Keel's approach was journalistic - investigate everything from scratch - and proved much more productive - although the results were even more baffling than whether UFOs were "alien spacecraft."

What's needed is an investigation that mixes scientific, law enforcement, and intelligence gathering methods with a deep knowledge of human psychology, brain science, and sociology. Population centers that have a high rate of UFO phenomena should be picked to investigate in toto like Keel used to do - literally go door-to-door asking people for their experiences, then compare them for similarities and with other locales.

Specific locations reported to be repetitively and frequently visited by UFOs should have persistent investigations, i.e., "watches" set up to detect and record the phenomena when it appears over time. UFO researchers know any number of areas in the US where UFOs can be seen virtually any time over a period of a week if one is willing to stay up all night looking. Why no one has spent that time recording events is beyond me, other than the inconvenience and some expense. Keel did it and he was by no means rich.

[The Twisted Genius]

Eric Newhill,

Glad to see you bringing up remote viewing and such. You made some very good points about psychic phenomena, UFOs and human nature. When I first delved into remote viewing, I approached it with some apprehension. SWMBO shared the same apprehensions. Even though I studied the phenomenon for quite some time before I tried it myself, it was a jump into the unknown. BTW, I proved to myself that it works. Perhaps these UFOs are some wild blend of technological and psychic magic. At least, it would be magic to us.

When I was still in grammar school, I read William Seabrook's "Jungle Ways." It was his account of his travels through French West Africa in 1930. He wrote of how he tried to make sense of the cannibals, shamans and seemingly topsy turvy social mores he came across. He came to the realization that the universe is full of things that can't be explained or understood. Wild things. Mysterious things. Even scary things. That concept excited me. I pity the SJ types who do not dare contemplate that something might exist outside their neatly preconceived world views. Their timidity is to so limiting. They prefer to mark their charts with warnings of "Here be dragons" rather than venture forth and look for those dragons.

I've taken the Meyers-Briggs test several times. I test out as borderline INFP-INFJ.

[turcopolier]

TTG
How about explaining Myers-Briggs to Fatima Macademia? Please. i haven't the patience. Not surprised you are an NF. the J part is probably just adaptation to the Army. I am an extreme INTP but very adapted to deal with SJs and A type personalities. pl

[turcopolier]

richardstevenhack

TTG and I have "zero imagination?" pl

[turcopolier]

Jeannie Catherine and james

NTs like me admire NFs. We can't be what you are and feel badly about it. pl

[Fred]

How many of our satelites are pointed up rather than down? Couldn't we open source evalution of much of what is being collected? Who else is putting things in space for data collection and just what are they looking for? BTW I tested as an INTJ. I've probably mellowed as I've aged though.

[Mike C]

I was trying to place what these reported objects behave like, and realized the nearest analog is the 3rd-person "God's eye" POV from a 3D video game or simulation. They seem to have little interaction with physics such as drag or gravity, accelerate instantaneously, hover, fly formation, etc. Imagine the camera in a simulation had a form, that's pretty much how it would act.

I'm not drawing any conclusions, just throwing it out there.

[Adrestia]

INTP here too, with a touch or learned NF because of OAI. Observe, Analyze, Imitate. It helps trying to 'feel' as the persons imitated do.

[turcopolier]

Adrestia

My NT wife asks why? Are we not the true Chosen? pl

[catherine]

Interesting to see what some personalities are here. I would have thought some of you were extroverts like me. I'am a ENTJ or was when I took the test years ago.. wonder if personalities change over time.

As for UFO, I saw one, so call me a kook. At least it looked unlike any aircraft in the 50's when I was a teenager. It appeared over the sound behind our beach house late afternoon, early evening when we all out on the boat dock. Hovering about a 100 feet above the water, silver sort of oblong disk...was there and then in a split second it wasn't...just gone. Every one out in the yard saw it, adults and us children. My cousins and I still mention it to each other now and then. The adults speculated it might be some
experimental aircraft but no one followed up on determining what exactly it was. I don't think they really thought it was a new experimental aircraft, I think they just preferred to ignore it and not ask questions at the closest AF base so as not to be thought nutty.

[fanto]

All,
maybe a bit off topic, but not that far -
what ever came of the telepathy experiments US has conducted with a person in the first nuclear submarine, Nautilus? I vaguely remember a physics professor talking about it in 1960s.
I also refer to the story of Swedenborg and his vision of Stockholm fire from a distance of hundreds of miles.

[J]

So which bloodline do we humans subscribe to?

Anunnaki, or Pleadian?

[Richardstevenhack]

You seem to have some based on this blog. And since I read TTG's post on remote viewing, I must assume he does as well - as long as it doesn't involve Russian hacking. :-)

I tend to regard remote viewing as mostly crap by con artists (how many "remote viewers" did the CIA REALLY have working for them? Apparently hundreds based on everyone claiming to have been one.).

However, I have my own theories about how so-called "psychic powers" might work. I call it "the biological Internet". I merely assume that living beings are connected in some way by a known or unknown physical energy (call it "The Force" if you're into Star Wars) which enable communication between those entities. It implies that the cells of the body store information in some manner which can then be transmitted and received over this energy in much the same manner as the physical Internet works - with other living beings serving as "routers" and "switches" routing "packets" of information which can then be assembled, partly or completely, by the receiving body and tapped into by the brain and then entered into consciousness.

This would "explain" a whole host of alleged abilities from telepathy to clairvoyance (which is the same as "remote viewing" which is just another buzzword) to even reincarnation memories, precognition and "astral travel". It could even explain curses and so-called "magic powers." It would at least give a sound theory that could be investigated by experiment.

Whether the "energy" involved is somewhere on the EM spectrum or quantum in nature could at least be theorized and experiments designed to detect it. That would put things on a more sound footing than just trying to make people guess cards in an unemotional lab environment which is clearly not conducive to results.

Most of these phenomena seem to depend on emotional involvement; guessing cards isn't going to stimulate it. One of the more interesting Russian experiments I read about involved a mother rabbit on a Russian submarine at sea with her litter back on shore. Every time the researchers agitated the litter, the mother reacted with agitation. There was no known form of communication that could explain the behavior, which implies an unknown form.

Presumably the communication occurs on an unconscious level and only emerges into (modern) consciousness under conditions of emotional stress. Earlier humans might have had more connection to it due the environmental conditions of human evolution.

Anyone who has looked into "occult training" at all knows that "magic powers" entail invoking extreme emotional tension and concentration, usually by rituals of some sort. Once some sort of theory of the mechanism involved is derived, this implies such abilities could be trained. Once trained, the trained subjects could be used to explore the limits of the mechanism.

I doubt this will ever happen because almost no one has either the imagination or the guts to suggest such research due to career damage that usually ensues. Frankly most people, especially scientists, are scared to death of the knowledge expansion and consequences that could occur if such things were proven to be feasible. Better to let them lie as "old wives tales" and hoaxes.