Posted on 06/22/2015 8:55:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Despite the outrageous and unlikely tale that the documents told, Serpo very quickly became a sensation within certain ufological quarters and provoked massive debate – in magazines and journals, on radio shows, and at online forums. There is, however, one issue that has, for the most part, been overlooked and forgotten. In early 2006, a source that used the named “Chapman,” and who maintained they had a background with the British Ministry of Defense, claimed to know all about the Serpo files and what they really represented.
Chapman explained: “…these are NOT real events that are being described here, although the document they come from IS REAL. I saw this information in 1969 or ’70 in Whitehall.... authored ... Alice Bradley Sheldon.
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She was born Alice Hastings Bradley, in 1915, and had an interesting career. When the terrible December 1941 events at Pearl Harbor occurred, Bradley was keen to do what she could to help defeat crazy Hitler and his goose-stepping cronies. She took a position with military Intelligence and ultimately reached the rank of major.
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In 1967, Alice Bradley Sheldon’s life took a radical, new change in direction. She decided to turn her hand to a favorite topic of hers: science-fiction. In 1973, a collection of her short stories was published. Its title: Ten Thousand Light Years from Home. Two years later, Warm World and Otherwise hit the bookstores. Very few people knew that Sheldon was the author, however, as her sci-fi output was published under the alias of James Tiptree, Jr.
Two more titles surfaced: 1981’s Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions and 1985’s Brightness Falls from the Air.
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Was Alice Bradley Sheldon the original brains behind Serpo? Or was “Chapman” simply some Walter Mitty-type, stirring up the already-churning waters even more?
(Excerpt) Read more at mysteriousuniverse.org ...
Sci-fi writers connections with military intelligence is pretty interesting.
The great Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger) is sort of like that as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith
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This is probably very interesting—if we knew what Serpo referred to we could dig further.
At this point, however, if it isn’t endorsed by Georgio Tsoucalas I have to be a skeptic. :-)
The article gives a good description of what Serpo refers to. It’s wacky UFO stuff.
http://www.serpo.org/ aka The Zeta Reticuli Exchange Program
One of their major talking points was that “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was less of a sci-fi movie than it was a documentary and Spielberg had selected leaked info carefully leaked to him to facilitate the idea for the movie.
Sort of an interstellar PR campaign
After the human volunteers went aboard and the craft took off, I would have loved to see a "Captain's Log" scrolling over the screen, to the effect of: "Stardate 9090 - Landed on an obscure plant and tricked some of the inhabitants into going with us. We now have enough protein on board to last the entire trip."
More info at post #5
FYI Ping.
Well, ideas have to come from somewhere!
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