Posted on 12/30/2021 9:58:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The meetings began in 1995, in a conference room in an office tower near the Las Vegas airport. The group started small: there were a handful of scientists and engineers; there was a CIA spy. There was a former Army colonel and two Apollo astronauts.
And there was the person who’d hand-picked the group and invited them to Las Vegas: Robert Bigelow, a Nevada real-estate magnate. He wanted to talk about aliens.
Bigelow, just turning 50 at the time, had made enough money as a commercial developer, opening budget hotels across the Southwest, that he could finally indulge a fascination with UFOs that dated back years, to a close encounter his grandparents had experienced and told him about when he was three years old. He dubbed the group, somewhat grandly, the National Institute for Discovery Science.
NIDS, as it took shape in those Las Vegas meetings, was mainly interested in two topics: UFOs and consciousness after death. Its members were experts who had gotten used to having their interests disrespected by their peers. The group’s co-founder was John Alexander, a retired Army officer who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and had published books and articles on various aspects of ufology and the paranormal. Another was Hal Puthoff, an engineer and self-described parapsychologist who, while at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s and 1980s, had carried out top secret experiments for the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency on “remote viewing,” or using the human mind to sense objects or events far away. “One of the professors at Stanford thought that was all nonsense,” he said. “He wouldn’t let his kids play with my kids because of what I was doing.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I love the smell of disinformation in the morning...
;-)
This is being rerun on various outlets because of Reid’s death, but it is still a pretty comprehensive account of how this all came into public view.
You may be correct, of course. But then, you also may be incorrect.;-)
Yes.
UFO stuff is crap.
The recent stuff is a Harry Reid psy-op.
Read Gray Barker’s poem in James Moseley’s book.
Dirty Harry is not exactly known for his integrity.
;-)
See?
It’s all true!!!
to prove that I’m going to use a gravity time vortex to go back and post another reply before this one
Very true.
I wrote Reid’s only real biography, the rest are fluff pieces. I was set to be an expert witness on Reid corruption for the Salt Lake DA who had him on four bribes:
Pokerstars
Check City
Utah Transit
Bigelow UFO ranch.
Huber at the FBI along with Mike Lee and his brother Stephen squashed the indictments.
I worked wth nutjob George Knapp in the 1990s, the guy behind the area 51 mumbo jumbo. They were pushing Indian Spirits at the Bigelow ranch as part of the UFO baloney.
Here’s my book:
https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Money-Influence-Reids-Nevada/dp/1511487828/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1
I always thought Harry Reid sounded like a stage name for a porno actor.
Alien visitation highly unlikely -
1. Requires belief that the conditions making for sentient life on Earth are easily repeatable. The number of variables that had to line up to get life started and then evolved to sentience are off the charts. We defy all odds and may, in fact, be the ONLY life anywhere in an infinite Universe. I wonder how such a concept would affect our social rivalries, let alone our concepts of purpose.
2. The assumption that solar systems condense gravitationaly out of stellar dust may not be correct. There are competing theories that are suppressed, such as the Electric Universe Theory that hypothesizes that suns are created in Z and Theta pinch phenomena within the so-called “filaments” that stretch through space and which are actually plasma Birkland Currents. Google it. The many anomalies in the orbital characteristics of our solar system planets are not easy to dismiss by the rigorous mind.
3. Distances too great for life forms to make the trip. An alien civilization with a thousand year earlier start with technology than us, will most likely not be flying about the galaxy in a ‘52 Buick hubcap. They will click their heels together 3 times and incant “There is no place like Earth”.
4. Cartoonish notions that make anthropomorphization assumptions based upon our current levels of technology. Meanwhile we haven’t a clue as to what human technology will look like 100 years from now, nor what will come out the other end of the artificial intelligence “Singularity”.
5. The silly projections of our fears onto the presumed nature of alien beings render the discourse childish and disingenuous. Basing any sort of policy on such fantasist speculation is pretty much a diagnosable insanity. What was the pay out from the multi million dollar and much balyhooed SETI dish array? After 45 years...Zero.
6. The low level of intelligence informing the cottage industry of UFO photos, alien abduction tales and their subsequent comic Freudian “rectal probes”, the infamous “Alien Autopsy” movie that is patently ridiculous, the carnival of “Roswell” accounts, the goofball speculations on the nature of the Area 51 research air base, etc., is not encouraging to a reality based extrapolation of the nature of life elsewhere.
I place the potential of a close encounter of the 3rd kind on the same logical plane as that employed by Black Plague penitents in long parades through a Hieronymus Bosch landscape, mortifying their flesh with whips - superstition.
A far more interesting article about Reid would be a well researched, documented story about how and why he lost his eyr. The UFO stuff is not the only nonsense the democrats have made “mainstream”.
What I want to know most is how exercise equipment could attack a man an hurt him so much.
Wormholes
UFOs have always been mainstream. It’s the second most searched term on the internet behind “sex”.
In honor of your backwards liberty login name
tihsllub
Flying saucers are just secret weapons based on well known 1920s experiments in boundary layer control. The best book to read on the technology is “Intercept UFO” by Renato Vesco.
https://www.amazon.com/Intercept-UFO-Renato-Vesco/dp/B001Q3ZOCY
So there has been this fantastically superior technology for nearly 100 years and no military in the world has developed and used it?
I didn’t know Harry Reid sang with Blink 182.
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