QUAERITUR:
“A major myth of the UFO belief-system is that ‘the government knows everything, at least an awful lot, about UFOs, but it is hiding all this data from us because it wants to convince us that UFOs–who are probably extraterrestrials–don’t really exist.’ One way mind control works, though, is through the implanting of assumptions like this in the public psyche.” Charles Upton, Vectors of the Counter-Initiation (Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 2012), page 160. Is any part of this hare-brained anti-conspiracy true?
What is posed is that The Government would like people to believe that it is covering up a UFO conspiracy. In other words, it’s a conspiracy to fabricate a fake conspiracy. This sounds utterly absurd, and Upton’s careless slip into “mind control” thinking doesn’t help. However, this has actually happened.
Wikipedia sez:
The earliest appearance of the term “MJ Twelve” was a message of unclear origin dated November 17, 1980. This so-called “Project Aquarius” Teletype message had been given to Albuquerque physicist and businessman Paul Bennewitz in November, 1980, by U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations counterintelligence officer Richard C. Doty. Bennewitz had photographed and recorded electronic data of what he believed to be UFO activity over and nearby Kirtland AFB, a sensitive nuclear facility. Bennewitz reported his findings to officials at Kirtland, including Doty. In 1989, the UFOlogist Bill Moore claimed that the documents were actually a hoax created by Doty as part of an attempt to drive Bennewitz insane.[4] One sentence in the lengthy Teletype message read, “The official US Government policy and results of Project Aquarius is [sic] still classified TOP SECRET with no dissemination outside channels and with access restricted to ‘MJ TWELVE.’”[5]
In 1983, Doty also contacted UFO researcher and journalist Linda Moulton Howe, revealing alleged high-level UFO documents, including those describing crashed alien flying saucers and recovery of aliens. Doty again mentioned MJ-12, explaining that “MJ” stood for “Majority” (not “Majestic”).
Take a good look at the weird story of the “Majestic 12″ if you wish. A large number of Majestic 12 documents have been forged in recent times by persons unknown. It appears, from the best information we have, that the earliest documents were in fact forged by the United States government.
But I reject the theory of “mind control”, unless if this is a question of humans being motivated by deeper forces, as they always are. The later documents, some of which appeared on the Internet, are probably not the work of the government (since they probably do not consciously understand how the occult war works to such a degree) but must have been painstakingly forged by other people who for some reason want really badly to believe in a government conspiracy. These forgeries are creating a deeper universe where UFOs are aliens, and aliens are being covered up, a pseudo-tradition, just as Upton says. In other words, parahistory is at work.