UFOs are crazy!

I've now finished Mirage Men by Mark Pilkington, and I think I largely agree with the author: 99.9% of everything you hear about UFOs and invading aliens is misinformation, disinformation, confusion or plain fiction. Pinkington's idea that intelligence services around the world have found the whole UFO underground a way too convenient cover for anything they want to hide and dumping ground for anyone or anything they want to discredit, is way to plausible to discard.

The whole denial freight train got started during the cold war and continues to this day for several reasons, aside from what I said above, including embarrassment, bureaucratic inertia, and the problem that, if they did come clean, there would be the incidents that they either still can't explain, or don't want to, because the subjects are still secret. And there is another theory, the "inoculation," where all the TV shows and movies from X-Files through Superstition and Vampire Dairies, with all their evil and fear, are subtly encouraged so people get so used to the evil-alien-conspiracy idea that, when the truth actually comes out, it will seem plain-jane boring by comparison. Maybe. There are a lot of people that are genuinely terrified of aliens and UFOs, so perhaps that's a good idea?

Don't get me wrong, I think there is a truth buried under all the wacko, fear-mongering, alien-invasion, evil-genetic-reptile-hybrids-going-to-take-over-the-world stories, and it's substantially less interesting, and at the same time more profound, than what grabs all the attention at UFO conventions. It's my opinion that UFOs, spirits and psychic phenomenon are part and parcel of the same thing, and it will all come out when we're ready for it to come out. Each UFO camp doesn't want to give up their pet theories, so they ignore the subtle evidence and just focus on the big, juicy, exciting stuff. Who, really, wants to admit that they are just plain wrong and vast underground bases and evil invading reptiles really don't exist? I mean, what would you do with your Saturday afternoons?

I have no trouble accepting what I have seen and experienced and the readings that resonate with it. Once, I was afraid of the unknown, but now things like ghosts are interesting, but not particularly exciting. Pretty much everything that comes of the the UFO community is just plain silly, all designed to make you afraid. Because, I suppose, that's what sells. No one want's to see a lecture about sweetness and light, so that won't change anytime soon. There are some truly wonderful and exciting things going on, you just won't find anything about them at a UFO convention or website.