They Lied to Us about UFOs

Being faced with the truth that Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) exist is going to make some people extremely pissed off.

The UAP report is still to come, but current events continue to prepare the world for a new message. Millions of people who would never read The New York Times or watch Fox News have been invited to take a seat in the theater of UAP truth. A compelling 60 Minutes reveal that there is a superior technological presence monitoring the activities of the human race has further raised the curtain of ongoing disclosure.

Our military forces, in which UAP take so evident an interest, are obviously powerless to match, much less control these unidentified phenomena. The recognition that they can outperform anything humans know how to achieve in the same environment is becoming a matter of public record. The UAP/UFO taboo is breaking down right before our eyes. The radical transformation of a story we’ve been told all our lives is underway.

Everyone should get ready to feel some unaccustomed humility. Top dog no more — and that will shake some people to their core with unhappiness. The biggest threat from UAP, though, could very likely be what we do to ourselves in having to face that we are not so special as we want to believe.

Root Stock

Human psychology is a story about controlling stories.

For the past 70 years, public awareness toward UAP has been couched in terms of ridicule, shaming, and shunning. This enduring attitude was a deliberate creation by elite authorities who wanted no one looking at their response to something over which they might prove to have little to no control. We may never know the extent of the efforts they undertook to produce their successful misdirection.

The longstanding mockery of UAP in public discussion was the direct outcome of a primordial refusal by the U.S. military to engage in a conversation about unknown phenomena whose functional capacities were beyond their reach. Maintaining the status quo is part of the job description for those in charge. Any threats they can’t handle are a cause for silence. A story denied is still a story told.

Stories exist to resolve conflicts in the difference between how people feel life should go and the way things actually work out. This is fundamentally about domination. If something happens that doesn’t fit an established view, then there is an anomaly that must be dealt with by the storyteller. The presence of such incongruity has to be hidden or explained away in some manner that reinforces the power structure embedded in the governing story, or authority is lost. Fear of chaos, a loss of control, is at the root of this dilemma and often made worse by being shrouded in arrogance, vanity, and egotism.

UAP are now poised to become a major trigger of change in the human narrative. Whether anyone wants unidentified phenomena to be present or not no longer matters in the telling of the tale. A story people were given long ago to accept as unquestioned reality is being shown as false. No one likes being deceitfully manipulated. With the new explanation that UAP are an existing factor in human experience, there are going to be unwanted consequences in some corners of the world. Anger, an emotional response to things being different than preferred, will inevitably be one of them (“You will pay for lying to me!”).

Ordering the Boxed Lunch

Some people won’t care all that much to begin with.

Curating the response of an audience to a shift in story-line is key to retaining control of their attention. Anyone looking can see the old label Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) is being supplanted by a new one of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). This change of terminology is critical to revision of the existing denial without losing credibility. New lamps for old is a time-honored trick for getting people to give up thinking about what they already have in hand. Rather than face negative results from changing a longstanding proscription, it can be made to look like something previously unaddressed is being revealed. Feel free to look now, please.

The broad swath of human beings known as the general public swallowed whole the carefully cultivated conditioning that UFOs are the domain of cranks and crazies. Through the simplistic psychological ploy of changing the label to UAP, these people are allowed a fresh and nonthreatening start in their minds. They can continue not talking about UFOs, and turn to a blank page for the story about UAP. With no old news cycle stuff to consider, such people are less likely to be concerned they were hoodwinked and generate a bad reaction. This helps them be able to ignore the whole UFO conversation to date, and not be confounded by a continuing state of ignorance. Presto. The story maker retains credibility.

For some, there will be a peculiarly reassuring sense of inclusion that comes with the term UAP. As Hilary Clinton once informed the host of a talk show with a glibly knowing smile, that’s what government agencies have long internally called these unidentified phenomena. By using the new phrase, people can get an extra feeling of being specially allowed inside the VIP lounge of disclosure. There is an implied barter of less criticism for more trust in walking past the velvet rope. UFOs are not admitted (pun intended). Cool. Curated.

A large number of individuals will feel no need to pay any more attention to UAP than they did UFOs. Their earthly concerns are more pressing. The reveal will be of no practical interest or use to their daily needs. UAP are not going to help with their job, do any housekeeping, nor pick the kids up from school (well, maybe the Ariel School in Zimbabwe). For regular salt-of-the-earth people who find what happiness they can in getting on with their lives, that’s good enough.

While ordinary folks don’t realize it, their worldly routine may be at risk anyway. Even if they don’t have any interest in UAP, there is a possibility that the steady progress of their days could be impacted negatively by the actions of people who take disclosure as a serious threat. The behaviors of the discontent can disrupt things for everybody. At that point, the disinterested may get upset enough to cause some trouble. They might want trusted authorities to make UAP go away because of the way other people are acting. Too late. Genie. Bottle. Out.

Snake Eyes

Contention between belief systems is a confrontational experience that has led human beings to be adversarial to one another since time immemorial.

Conscious or unconscious, beliefs are the bedrock of human action. Beliefs are stories that have been internalized as independently existing truths, whether by your own choice or under the influence of others. What you believe to be true is your innermost form of self-empowerment (or disempowerment). People can believe, for example, that what they think is an immutable reflection of reality. Mere facts to the contrary are not allowed to get in the way. Any loss can be turned into a (imaginary) win by self-righteousness with some form of aggression. Sound familiar?

The act of belief does not require freestanding evidence. The belief itself is taken as proof. At that point, belief becomes a matter of faith, good or bad.

Faith is not a function of rationality. In faith, critical thinking is subordinated to the conviction that something is correct beyond question. All actions, even interior mental conversation, must comply with a limitation of scope by a dogma of foregone conclusion. The arrival of UAP acknowledgement tests that boundary in severe ways.

The existing beliefs of a considerable number of people will be deeply conflicted by the conceded presence of UAP. Their most fundamental faith in life may struggle with even the acceptance by others of official descriptions of unidentified phenomena (“Devils! Blasphemy!”). The reaction to this dissonance will not be superficial or pass lightly. Faith is to be defended from others with whom it isn’t shared. Throughout human history, even to the present day, such conundrum has led to shocking violence and brutality.

One of the most profoundly upsetting sources of displeasure in life is finding out that innermost cherished beliefs are in error (“You cheated on me?!”). Some groups will experience a keen sense of betrayal of their world with any discussion of UAP. They can react by feeling existentially threatened and therefore threaten in return. This is probably most immediately true for those with traditional religious orientations, but the well rattled could also include scientists guarding their reputations and status (“We’ve already told you this is nonsense!”).

Even some among the financial and warrior classes who hold strong personal convictions about the non-existence of unidentified phenomena may be severely disturbed by what is now being acknowledged. These people are going to be hostile to change because they feel the basis for their attainments in life is threatened by something they cannot control (defend themselves from or exploit in familiar ways).

Access Denied

The revelation and widespread cultural acceptance of the existence of UAP is highly likely to make some people very unhappy.

At least a few disgruntled individuals will be holding positions of great political, societal, or military power. In speaking about official obstruction encountered as head of the Pentagon’s UFO/UAP Program (AATIP), Lue Elizondo has commented several times on the agitated refusal of at least one senior commanding officer to support the work because of fundamentalist religious beliefs. This time-darkened varnish of medieval European theology impedes the ability of some people to recognize and respond to unknown conditions. Instead, they project anxiously an old story to which they are dearly committed. Depending on the buttons they can push, their reactions could place the rest of us at risk.

Scientists have spent decades emphatically degrading the very notion of looking at these phenomena, threatening the expulsion from their ranks of those who do take a research interest. They are used to being considered top-of-the-food-chain experts about everything, nurturing a white lab coat equals white horse mentality. They can respond out of fear that showing scientists blew it with something as important as UAP will lead people to question other stories through which they exercise authority over how to look at life. Be wary of spurned academics encountered in a dark alley.

Some ufologists who have constructed elaborate and popular explanations may be shown with crushing embarrassment to have presented only fantasy. While the guesswork of some was motivated by good intentions, other representations were crafted only to disinform and make a buck. The prospect of UAP being legitimized for fresh inquiry can be an uncomfortable contemplation. Attention that they are long accustomed to enjoying will shift out from under them. Derision will come their way. Booing and hissing never leads to a feel good response.

Taking comfort in familiar things is form of contentment for most people. For Americans, particularly, the pursuit of happiness is a built-in part of finding satisfaction in life. Basically, the quest for gratification means getting what you want the way you want it. You believe life should happen a given way. When it comes out to be not so, you feel at odds with the world. You are unhappy.

Unhappiness is a bad thing that says you were thwarted in the fulfillment of your desire. This discomfort is often internalized as diminishment, loss, and failure. Deeply unhappy people are usually angry people, their feelings frequently affected as depression (self-harm) or externalized into overt hostility (harm of others). The keyword is harm.

Some people are very likely to try to inhibit, suppress, and outright reverse (denial ver. 2.0) the process of UAP disclosure. They will act out of an acutely personal sense of being violated by the revelation human beings aren’t the pinnacle of the universe. They can imagine themselves to be harmed (though they actually are not) and want to strike back as a form of punishment or vengeance, even if their actions are cloaked in rational hyperbole. They might seek to do injury to the rest of us, innocent bystanders no matter.

As long as UFOs didn’t exist according to the official story, these phenomena were not in conflict with those possessing such rigid belief systems. Now UAP are about to contend directly with the way things were meant to go down in the eyes of many people. No matter what UAP might actually be, they will be taken as the enemy (demonizing can assume any form, but is usually the retread of an old story). One way or another, or several, the response from some quarters of the human race might be in the form of irrational behavior that sets fire to the world.

Shootout at the Not OK Corral

The observation that humans are frequently their own worst enemies is a commonplace understanding.

Knowing fault to be a possibility doesn’t stop very many people from doing what they intend to do. No matter how long deferred, desire is always at its most intense in the moment of action that gains fulfillment — and rationality very often gets kicked entirely to the curb (“I know I shouldn’t do this, but...”) Perhaps majority rule will work in the balance, and the larger portion of humanity will react to UAP with friendly curiosity. There will be those people, though, where an open mind is not an option. They are going to express themselves. The question is, how?

Some folks will not be able to handle the change in the UAP story no matter what anyone says to them. A few of those offended by the existence of these phenomena might sadly commit suicide. Others may act out in terrible ways as a protest by directing the violence of their discontent toward others. In an America brimming with guns and unstable people who need little provocation to commit mass killings, a broken political system, and a churn of profound inequalities, anything can happen with something as world changing as recognition of the presence of UAP. The dice are rolling.

With powers beyond us shown conclusively to be here, some people may take that as a prompt to act on all their other grievances, as well (“If I can’t have that, then you can’t have this anymore, either.”). Projection of one discontent into an upheaval of action on another is a human trait. Tippy canoes will be back in the news, if only to distract from UAP. It’s good to believe our better angels will win out, but we must also consider the inner demons that live inside the psychology of the human race. Those are, literally, the controlling work of erroneous stories we have allowed to fester in ourselves for a very long time.

We must be aware of the danger as well as the discovery in UAP disclosure. Try to think happy thoughts as we all whistle past the graveyard of a deceased paradigm.