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OK. I know what I want to say to the folks at the The Culture of Contact press conference, but I know it won't make sense given the context of the event. I want to say that it's not about the UFOs, it's about the coverup. But the coverup is about the UFOs, isn't it? Yes, but it's almost not the point. The point is that it could have been a coverup about anything: Flight 800, Marilyn Monroe's death, 9/11, the assassination, the attempt to rig the 2006 election, anything. It happened to be about Roswell, and it worked. It's working to this very day. It works because people love to believe lies when the lies support their own value systems. It's not about truth -- It's about feeling good. Find a lie that makes people feel good, that supports their value systems, and people will believe it despite all the evidence to the contrary. This is what I want to say to the folks at the press conference. But I won't. Why? Because people on the other side of a conspiracy want to hear about the conspiracy. In other words, if you believe that Roswell really happened -- and it did -- you want to believe; therefore, you'll believe anything that supports that theory. So Walter Haut's affidavit, all one and a half pages of it, supports your value system that the government conspired against you while at the same time -- in a universe absent of value systems -- it attests to the reality of what Walter Haut says he saw. Therefore, I can't go off on a tangent about how that coverup worked so successfully that it was a masterpiece that folks in power or who want to be in power still use. Rather, it was a coverup that's now blown. Except it's not because of the Seventh Shack theory, which is a subject for another day. The point of what I'm supposed to say at this press conference is the affidavit, the book Witness to Roswell, UFO Magazine, the book The Roswell Legacy, the magazine, the Culture of Contact, and the magazine. I have to stay on message even though the real message is that the coverup still works and we see it everywhere around us. The coverup worked then because it solved the Army's problem so efficiently. First, not one but two flying saucers crashed. Two crash sites. Why did they crash? Probably not the point, but we could debate it until late into the night. They crashed because the 509th base radar interrupted their ability to navigate. They crashed because the lightning that night interrupted their navigation systems. They crashed because interplanetary flight controllers were asleep at the switch. They crashed because they shot each other down in a dogfight. The latter scenario would probably be most troubling to the Pentagon. They crashed and came down at two crash sites. And at the crash site 75 miles north of town civilians were all over the place. Relatively few folks knew about the other site, so General Ramey told the officers at the staff meeting at Walker Field, the Pentagon says, to admit to the first. Say, yeah, we got a flying saucer. But don't admit to the second. Ramey got everyone's buy-in. Now all he had to do -- without telling anyone at the meeting, by the way -- was overturn the story he just gotten them to buy into. And who was the mechanism for that? None other than Jesse Marcel. You get him to Fort Worth; get away from the group. Shove him in front of a weather balloon. Tell him to smile for the camera. And he becomes the poster boy for the biggest mixup in this man's Army. Imagine that: a base intelligence officer at one of the most Top Secret strategic bases in the Army Air Force, the intelligence officer at the base from which the atomic bomb was dropped, and he can't even tell what a weather balloon looks like. It all came down to one guy. Turn that one guy into the Homer Simpson of 1947, and you have your coverup. And it worked. It worked so well that even thirty years later when Jesse Marcel, burning up with frustration like a nuclear reactor about to melt down, finally went public with Stan Friedman, no one believed him still. Think about the magnitude of this coverup. The person who was actually at the coverup spots, Walker Field and Carswell Air Force base, says, "Look, folks, I was the eyewitness. I can tell you. I pulled the stuff out of the desert, and it was no weather balloon, I brought it over to show my wife and kid, and my kid says it was no weather balloon, and then I brought it to the base and they all said it was no weather balloon. Then I brought it to Fort Worth, and they switched it out with a weather balloon. And that's what everyone believes." Nobody believed Marcel even though he was the person telling the story. Until the day he died, people still said that he couldn't tell a weather balloon from a flying saucer. And then when the story threatened to boil over after Representative Stephen Schiff put some new light on it, the Army moved to the next shack and said it was a Mogul Balloon. A coverup works because you don't cover anything up. You just call it by another name and get people to believe what you're telling them they're seeing. Why were there those little explosions at the base of the World Trade Towers BEFORE they started to collapse straight down like those Las Vegas casino demolitions on TV? Oh, that was the pancaking from the steel girders collapsing from the jet fuel pouring down the inside of the building before the collapse. But what were the explosions the fire fighters heard in the lobby BEFORE the building started to collapse? Oh, that was just the steel supports giving way -- sounded like an explosion -- before the building started to collapse. Look, here's Ed the Engineer, he'll tell you all about it. Ed, give us that report. Ed gives the report and everyone's happy. No conspiracy. Totally a natural result of the plane crashes. So no one has to worry that anything is out of place here. The engineering explains it all. It's simple. Make sure your explanation reinforces what people want to believe. Next, tell people what they're going to see. Then tell people what they are seeing. Finally, tell people what they've just seen. Now everyone's happy. That's why it's still a weather balloon. Or maybe it's a Mogul balloon. Or it's the crash dummies. It doesn't matter, as long as it's not a UFO. But that's not what I'm going to tell the press conference. Bill Birnes |
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