Before UFOs in China, US played UFO Spy Games

Gary S. Bekkum
Past and present US intelligence persons have been playing UFO spy games.

(STARpod.org) -- As new reports of UFO sightings emerge from China -- and mainstream media sources, like ABC News, slowly react to the reports -- another, much more important UFO story goes largely unreported.

This is the so-called CORE STORY: tales of extraterrestrial contact with the US government.

Rumors of an extraterrestrial CORE STORY have been spread by former US intelligence officers.

The heart of the CORE STORY appears to be rooted America's paranormal activities. For decades, rumors of American involvement in 'high strangeness' were reported in the mainstream media. Among the rumor mongers were the late Jack Anderson of the Washington Post, and PBS.

The tales of American paranormal intelligence operations are no longer confined to whispered leaks of secret government programs. In 1994, at the behest of Congress, the CIA took over the Department of Defense program known as STAR GATE, and revealed the existence of a twenty-year effort on ABC News Nightline.

Based upon the best evidence available -- which includes declassified STAR GATE files, and "on background" information supplied by persons who once were involved in America's paranormal investigation -- the UFO CORE STORY was closely aligned with odd phenomena documented by the intelligence community paranormal effort.

The true secrets of the core story may never be known, but the best evidence allegedly showed up at the Laurence Livermore National Laboratory, and may have been related to an alleged radiation that appeared to penetrate one of the walls at the facility.

The core question was how to interpret the data: was this evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial technology, thousands or even millions of years ahead of humanity -- or was this the work of ultra-terrestrial demons: beings of unimaginable power able to bend space, time, and mind at will?

Private discussions suggest modern technology is rapidly advancing to the point where many of the once mysterious phenomena no longer appear to be so mysterious after all. One well placed individual even suggested deep black or private intelligence operations may have the ability to perform exotic mind-control tricks and treats capable of simulating many, if not all, of the phenomena reported in close encounters of the fourth kind: alien abductions.

One intriguing tale comes from Dr. Eric Davis, a physicist who had worked on a special project for Bob Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace, then later authored an extensive teleportation physics paper under contract with the U.S. Air Force.

The Bigelow project was focused on paranormal activity at a ranch in Utah. One reported encounter involved a researcher at the site who was frozen in his tracks by an unearthly presence.

Davis described the strange paranormal phenomena manifesting in "the form of a dark shadow or cloud-type effect which had an unusual turbulence effect when it shrunk to a point an disappeared."

Having heard similar accounts of these shape-shifting clouds, I asked Davis about the alleged telepathic voices-in-your-mind that accompanied the phenomena. Davis explained "there were multiple voices that spoke in unison" even as other sensory inputs were squashed, leaving the poor researcher frozen in his tracks, unable to move until the shadow had vanished.

Probing further, I asked Davis about the nature of the "telepathic" experience. He described the voices as being "monotone males with a very terse, threatening tone," which does sound similar to some reports of anomalous EVP voice phenomena picked up by audio recording instruments.

I asked Davis if this phenomena had manifested any audible or other tangible effects outside of the mind of the hapless researcher held at the mercy of the paranormal effect. According to Davis, this incident, and presumably similar ones, including the alleged alien abductions of the fourth kind, are mental manifestations of an unknown source phenomena.

In a recent article by the New York Times, Bigelow is quoted about the dangers of extraterrestrial contact.

"I´ve been a researcher and student of UFO´s for many, many years," Mr. Bigelow said. "Anybody that does research, if people bother to do quality research, come away absolutely convinced. You don´t have to have personal encounters...People have been killed. People have been hurt. It´s more than observational kind of data."

Ingo Swann, a psychic expert who advised the US government on how to train military psychics to use telepathic powers to spy on the Russians during the cold war, claims to have been exposed to a hostile UFO attack in the mid 1970s. At the time, Swann was being covertly studied by the CIA to determine the nature of his mental powers, according to declassified government documents.

In late February, 1975, Ingo Swann's UFO affair was initiated by a phone call from a well placed acquaintance, who alerted Swann to a forthcoming contact with a real-life man in the black: a man Swann has assigned the pseudonym "Mr. Axelrod."

Weeks later the call to action came at three in the morning, requesting Swann's presence in Washington, D.C.

In a scene worthy of a Hollywood movie, Swann was subjected to a full body search while enroute to the clandestine meeting. To prevent Swann from knowing the location of Axelrod's secret underground lair, a black hood was placed over his head.

Needless to say, by this point Swann's mind was spinning, wondering what on Earth he had gotten himself into.

The strange twists and turns of Swann's recruitment into black ops psychic spying would eventually culminate in a close physical encounter with what appeared to be an alien machine.

One day, Swann was surprised to see Mr. Axelrod standing in the dining hall at SRI, the home of the government's secret psychic research. After a brief meet-up with Axelrod in the men's room, Swann was directed to Axelrod's Jeep, waiting outside in the parking lot.

Axelrod drove Swann to a Lear Jet waiting at the San Jose airport, and informed him that they might have an opportunity to see a UFO, "rather close up."

After several hours of flight the plane made a covert landing without any lights onto a dark runway. This was followed by a two-hour drive into cold, dark mountains. Swann noticed that the van moved even after the van's motor appeared to go silent.

Once they reached their destination, Axelrod, Swann and Axelrod's two operatives hiked their way to the intended location.

Axelrod instructed Ingo, "Just observe, we'll debrief later ... Do not move unless I tell you to. They detect heat, noise, motion like mad."

Swann, Axelrod and the two operatives watched, and waited. Above a small lake, a gray fog began to rise. Swann was startled as the fog was suddenly awash in luminous colors. Purple, red and yellow lightning bolts silently shot out in all directions.

Then, suddenly an object appeared, fading into view over the lake waters. Swann described the object as triangular, almost diamond shaped.

"As I remember it, the thing did not 'transport' itself. It grew in place right where it appeared."

With the appearance of the object a wind passed overhead, causing pine cones and branches to fall to the ground. Swann writes that "ruby-red laser beams" began shooting out from the object, which still appeared to be growing in size, even though it remain stationary over the same location above the lake. Swann estimated the fully visible object at ninety feet wide.

Laser beams hit the trees, and in the commotion of blasting pine and low-frequency pulsations, Swann was dragged out of harm's way by Axelrod's operatives. A beam cracked the branches at the location they had only moments before abandoned in urgent haste. Looking back for a final glimpse, Swann noticed that the water of the lake was being sucked up into the weird object.

Swann writes "I was virtually petrified with a kind of terror for which there are few words to describe."

In the late 1990s, I contacted Shan, a quantum scientist in Beijing, who had written a paper describing an experiment to test human conscious perception against ordinary mechanical quantum events.

I knew that Shan's idea, if realized, pointed the way to a new communication channel beyond conventional technology: Shan described a kind of mental 'telepathy' he believes exists at the interface of the quantum world and our perception of reality. And it was, at least in principle, testable and verifiable.

More importantly, success would have broken the stranglehold conventional quantum mechanics has on human mind science: can the human mind perceive two worlds at the same time, where scientific measurement only observes one? And stranger still, if it can be shown that the human mind trumps quantum mechanics, will we have an explanation for the strange reports of extraterrestrial telepathy?

Ten years later, discussions were held in Beijing between Shan, and Chinese and American researchers interested in bringing his idea to reality.

Although we have not heard whether or not further progress has been made towards the realization of Shan's experimental goal in China, we are able to report that our US source tells us the idea remains in limbo, at least for the time being.

Lately, we've been encountering more and more outrageous claims and misplaced interpretations of the secret world of UFO and extraterrestrial inspired science fiction technology.

In April, during a television interview, the governor of the Russian republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, claimed to have been taken from his bedroom by extraterrestrial aliens.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is also the former president of the World Chess Federation, told the audience he had left his apartment with the aliens and went for a ride in their spaceship. During his alien encounter, he claims his assistants arrived at his apartment and were confounded by his absence.

In the United States, a former State Representative from New Hampshire has allegedly come forward with a video statement posted on www.youtube.com.

A man in the video, claiming to be Henry McElroy, Jr., has come forward to report that in the course of his official duties for the government, he saw an official brief prepared for the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

McElroy states, "To the best of my memory this brief was pervaded with a sense of hope, and it informed President Eisenhower of the continued presence of extraterrestrial beings here in the United States of America. The brief seemed to indicate that a meeting between the President and some of these visitors could be arranged as appropriate if desired."

Different sources provide differing versions and interpretations of the CORE STORY, but generally begin with an alleged contact in 1947, during the Truman administration.

In 1983, a source who had recently left the USAF, told me off the record that "some very strange things" had been going on behind the scenes.

It was implied by this source that the Air Force had been involved with visitors from another world: "If you knew the truth about what is going on with the UFOs, you wouldn't be able to sleep at night."

I filed that small tidbit of information in the back of my mind, and didn't think much about it until 1988, and the broadcast of a TV special called UFO Cover-up Live.

During the program, which was broadcast on national television, two sources, identified as former intelligence officials, made the outrageous claim that the United States government had been involved with the aliens since the Truman administration, and had hosted three visiting extraterrestrial ambassadors.

Twenty-three years after my USAF source first revealed strange goings-on in the Air Force, another much better placed source provided three dates of alleged government contact with extraterrestrials: 1947, 1983, and 1992.

Over the years, several American astronauts have come forward concerning their belief in an extraterrestrial presence.

In his autobiography, the late Gordon Cooper, a former fighter pilot and member of the original seven Mercury astronauts, wrote about receiving telepathic transmissions from extraterrestrial sources. According to Cooper's account, the information involved technical details concerning the design of the space shuttle, and was passed on to NASA engineers.

Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has been outspoken about his belief that the government has been hiding the existence of alien visitors.

Mitchell stunned listeners to Britain's Kerrang Radio when he revealed, "I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it has been covered up by governments for quite a long time."

Other unnamed sources, requesting anonymity to protect their professional involvement with the government, have made similar claims "on background" concerning what they had been told about the alien presence from senior government officials.

Paraphrasing one source's off the record statement, "It happened. Believe it."

Recent attempts to improve government transparency have only added to the 'high strangeness' surrounding the UFO alien encounter tales.

Among the Defense Intelligence Agency STAR GATE files, which chronicle the US government's paranormal phenomena units from the 1960s until the CIA takeover in 1995, are documents concerning psychic perception of extraterrestrials on Earth and in our solar system. It has been rumored that some of the psychic spy operations were blocked by "an unknown extraterrestrial source," according to an account obtained by investigative author Gus Russo, from a source familiar with recent psychic operations managed by the National Security Agency. An independent source living in the United Kingdom confirmed some of the same details provided by Russo's NSA source, adding that DIA was also involved.

According to unconfirmed accounts, previously reported by former New York Times journalist Howard Blum, psychic spies were used by the DIA to track the movement of Soviet submarines -- and, on occasion, a psychic spy would 'observe' a flying saucer shadowing the nuclear armed submersibles.

In 1998, the DIA's key psychic, Ingo Swann, who held TOP SECRET clearance for his role in developing the military psychic spy unit, published an account of his personal involvement with a secret black operation and extraterrestrial visitors who looked remarkably human, but possessed penetrating 'telepathic' powers.

Several persons allegedly associated with futurist John L. Petersen's think tank, The Arlington Institute (TAI), have reported they heard about the government's CORE STORY.

According to an account provided by Catherine Austin Fitts, several persons, including former Director of the CIA, James R. Woolsey (who had been listed among the TAI Board of Directors) were involved in discussions concerning the alleged extraterrestrial presence in the late 1990s.

Former USWeb CEO Joe Firmage, who was also originally identified as a member of the TAI board, spent tens of thousands of dollars promoting his belief in the alien presence, by placing full page advertisements in USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.

In January 2005, Susan Eisenhower was among those credited with producing "Moving forward with nuclear power: Issues and Key Factors," the final report of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, described as an "influential" report that "provided many recommendations that were later adopted as national policy."

Susan Eisenhower's influence on US energy policy is clearly felt and the Russians clearly find her views of strategic interest. Her partner and former husband, a Russian scientist named Roald Sagdeev, worked on Russian Mars space missions in the 1970s.

When her daughter Laura came forward claiming an alleged recruitment into a secret black ops space mission, many members of the public seemed to be attracted to Laura's story of a secret Mars space base.

Fortunately, I had access to an archive from STARstream Research which included information about an associate of Laura's -- a man she initially hid behind a pseudonym as "Agent X" -- who had contacted me about his interests in US government paranormal activities. "Agent X" also provided plans to develop the next generation of interstellar space rockets using nuclear powered rocket engines, with the goal of creating a Mars colony.

As for a spy game, nothing was certain, but many involved in this Mars mission affair were clearly game players with deep interests in clandestine intrigue, including the use of Internet sticky virtual flypaper to attract persons of interest, encrypted email communications, and deep worries their computer systems had been penetrated by foreign hackers.

Adding to the intrigue was the fact that Laura was apparently responsible for introducing her "Agent X" to her mother, the US energy policy consultant.

And so it goes. Although the spy games continue to play out around the UFO topic, the reality behind the CORE STORY remains elusive.

Perhaps someday the Chinese will be the first to declare, "We are not alone."

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