Posted on 04/25/2020 5:38:09 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
"If you're seeing this," warns Steven Greer within the first two minutes of his sort-of-documentary, "it's because I'm either dead, or have been entrapped, or have disappeared."
Or, perhaps, because I want to hook your attention.
In Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, we quickly learn that Greer is neither dead nor disappeared. But he does appear to be trapped in Batman's garage from the Dark Knight movie series. And it is from that stale bunker-like locale that he preaches to us, with interlude narrations from Jeremy Piven, for the next two hours.
A medical doctor turned UFO researcher, Greer claims that a great global conspiracy is concealing evidence of extraterrestrial visitation to Earth. Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind is designed to deconstruct that conspiracy, and it enjoins viewers to join Greer in meditation-like conferencing with aliens aboard orbiting UFOs.
His case doesn't convince.
Don't misunderstand me, the UFO topic is both serious and seriously under-examined by the media and scientific community. The U.S. military does not know the origin of numerous UFOs that have been tracked by expert military observers by sight, on camera, on radar, on sonar, and on an array of other sensor platforms. And while many UFOs are weather phenomenon or human machines misidentified as extraordinary, some are not. And those craft can perform in ways that no known Earth machine can. In its top-secret briefings, the Pentagon has very high confidence that these things are not from Area 51, China, Russia, or Elon Musk. To be clear, I would stake my journalistic credibility on saying that some UFOs are intelligently controlled machines not of this Earth.
But if the issue is this important, scrutiny of it deserves equal care.
Too often than not, Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind detaches from that imperative.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Funny that in all this talk, there are no new "blockbusters." Even the USS Nimitz events just seemed to go nowhere.
I have been following UFO related discussions for decades.
It is a messy rabbit hole—filled with con artists, .gov disinformation agents, liars, lazy researchers, kooks, etc.
For anyone new to the genre I would recommend the works of Jacques Vallee as the place to start. He exposes the fraudsters and disinfo folks and how they work:
https://www.amazon.com/Messengers-Deception-UFO-Contacts-Cults/dp/097572004X
Then, once you are fully inoculated against the liars and crazies, you can begin to look at the topic seriously.
The world is stranger than we can imagine.
There are some solid sources out there (Vallee being a great one), but what a rabbit hole.
Thx for that link.
I could film the alien invasion every morning in my local 7-11 parking lot. There is a little concern when one them gets into the anal probing thing, but otherwise, no one seems to care.
As was said upthread by cgbg, the difficulty is separating the wheat from the chaff.
“Even the USS Nimitz events just seemed to go nowhere”
They seem to go nowhere because, truth to be told, the next move is on “them”...not humans.
So we get a bit of flashy tech whizzing about our skies...the government doesn’t want to talk about it simply because we have no tech to counter it...oh a directed particle weapon or laser might injure such craft if we can get a shot at one but if an advanced civilization wanted to put a boot up our collective rear ends, then what could we do about it?
So we proceed as we have been proceeding, knowing we are probably lab bacteria in some advanced civilization’s petri dish to be studied, hoping that they don’t go “deus ex machina” on us and just wipe us out. I think that is the ultimate policy being taken by many “in the know” or at least those who mistakenly think “they are in the know or are in the loop or are in the ‘inner’ circle”.
I think all the answers will be summed up when “King of Kings” stands astride the Mount of Olives as it splits northward and southward and the deep springs of living water spout forth eastward and westward....
Watched it again a little while ago. Sucks
Can you tell us a little more of your impression of the film. Might keep some Freepers from wasting $4.99 to watch it.
He's a good writer tho......
Are you saying it didn't suck the first time?.....LOL!
Do you have a link or name? Private mail me if appropriate.
I can’t afford this book right now, but what is the author’s (and /or your) opinion of Whitley Streiber?
Sorry but I can’t think of the guy’s name......
He certainly came across as believing his experiences were real.
Saw it previosly a loooong time ago. Didn’t realize how bad and cheesy it was. A little better than Poltergeist...which was really cheezy and bad and absolutely ridiculous (stupid rope tricks)...Close Encounters hasn’t stood the test of time like Jaws or the first two original Star Wars films (not Spielberg, just similar era).
Are you talking about the same movie the article is referring to (Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact Has Begun by Michael Mazzola)?
Or the 1977 movie Close Encounters Of The Third Kind by Steven Spielberg?
Probably true, unless the Navy and/or DOD are still withholding significant details (which they surely are).
The few details they (Navy/Dod) did release (footage and testimony) was probably intended to appease those pilots, radarmen, etc. involved in the Nimitz sightings and others like them. It did in fact bring the discussion to a sputtering close.
Pilots who see unexplained phenomena can now admit it without sounding crazy...and still it goes nowhere.
Whitley Streiber falls into the “kooks and nuts” category imho.....
Nowadays it is even harder to separate the wheat from the chaff than it used to be because the military has tons of high tech stuff that is secret—so a lot of what may be observed is military stuff.
Vallee’s position is that a lot of the 1950 UFOs were the real deal, but .gov got into the disinfo (and high tech) business after that, and the waters got very muddy.
He also argues that the “alien contact” stuff is mostly hoax, scammers, and disinformation (including intelligence agency “mind control” and “mass opinion modification” experiments). The real stuff is the modern mind re-interpreting what used to be called angels, fairies, leprechauns, etc. to fit the modern mind.
It is highly unlikely (as in unbelievable imho) that aliens would conduct genetic experimentation of humans—if they are truly advanced they should be able to manipulate DNA without resorting to “interventions” in human society—and they would be able to move about undetected by our senses and instruments.
Modern “science” is as dogmatic and close-minded as Medieval religion imho—neither will give us the tools needed to figure out what a truly advanced civilization would be doing.
Terence McKenna said it best imho—nowhere is it written that we hairless apes have a right to find out the truth about our world.
It is a human conceit that we are masters of the universe—we are not—again imho.
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