The State of the Onion – Where Are We in The UFO/ET Issue in 2009? Peeling Back the Layers
Victor Viggiani, B.A. M.Ed.
October 19, 2009
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde
"Participation in North American democracy is largely based on the belief that citizens should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
Quote from an unknown Convocation Address
Since 1947 or perhaps much earlier the UFO/ET issue burst onto the scene. The matter has been investigated, scrutinized, ridiculed, stigmatized, written about and toss about like a piece of red-hot coal for over 60 years.
Generally, humanity, world governments, the military and their intelligence communities have managed to ignore, cover-up and avoid the issue publicly – like a third boxer in the ring that neither the opponents nor referee can see. These intelligence communities have deftly managed the issue internally, using their own clear understanding - the UFO/ET issue is real and a matter of fact and record. They have also managed several critical blows to the head that the UFO research community may not survive. But the piper and the men behind the curtain may not be able to stop us from peeling away the layers to the core of the onion and the truth. Hope tells us we must expect no less.
Richard M. Dolan puts it best in his seminal work UFOs and the National Security State – Chronology of a Cover-up 1941 to 1973 , "… the analysis [of the UFO issue] leaves us with the distinct impression of the ET hypothesis as the elephant in the dining room that no one would acknowledge."
Where do we find ourselves today with this matter both within the UFO/ET research community and in the broader arena of public perception? As it stands today, in the year 2009 the state of affairs in the UFO/ET issue will one day be looked back upon as a, simplistic, naďve and perhaps nascent, struggling search for what was in front of our eyes all the while.
History will show we were too blind or collectively too stubborn to see all along. Complicit with our handlers in the so-called democratic existence we pretend to be part of, some among us will not give way to allow the truth to be heard or seen.
So, it is up to us to define where we are and where we must go with this matter. We discover what might lay below the surface by peeling away the layers to see where we are, who we are and where we are headed. Oddly enough it is a hopeful but not pretty picture.
The First Layers
Constant sightings that confound. Reports of abductions that perplex and are demonized. Government documents that are either real or fake. New UFO craft that have never been seen before that represent new emerging radical technology. Multiple sightings ignored by the general public, an indolent and complicit media and intelligence agencies craftily engaging in a crafty conspiracy of silence louder than a Shuttle re-entry no hears. Institutions, industry and a scientific community thrashing about to find illusive alternate energy sources, yet that remain blissfully ignorant of (or too proud to examine) the new realities of exotic energy used by the off-worlds. A government, a populace and media in denial about or totally ambivalent towards the distinctly real possibility that we live in a universe teeming with life… and get this! Some of those life forms have decided it´s time for a visit. Shall I go on even though no one is paying attention?
Sure. As the onion layers fall away, we can see the tears of regret wheal-up in the eyes of those of us who know. Keep the layers close by; not to be blown away in the wind, for they are our tickets back home, to the truth amidst the chaos.
We also have a UFO research community in chaos. Attempts by some to create consensus and achieve a realistic evolution of research methodologies are thwarted at every turn by reactionaries, unwilling to risk speaking of the obvious. Internal dissent, vitriol disguised as debate, e-mail crossing the vastness of cyberspace at light speed denigrates the work of this ufologist or that exopolitician or this researcher or that government witness – a community in disarray, reflecting the general anarchy in which the planet finds itself in 2009.
Who would ever want to interact with a race like ours anyway? One bent on global extinction behaviours that would have us remonstrate any religious belief, burn fossil fuels until it chokes every butterfly and rain forest on the planet and then, in denial, look the other way as if there´s really nothing wrong. A race that sabotages authentic attempts to resolve conflict in favour of spending more money on war does not sound as though it may be salvageable.
We also have a so-called monolith to deal with - an "elected government" whose sole objective appears to be to prevaricate, obfuscate and turn a once cherished value called democracy into the biggest sham since the lead nickel or the dumping of grain into the ocean to keep the price of bread out of reach of third world children. Does any of this make sense?
A pathetic lot we are as we sit to watch the parade pass – hoping for that one really nice float at the end of the procession that will ease our conscience because we´ve sat on our hands for so long, covering our eyes and ears in the hope – "there must be something good coming soon." Good things come to those who wait, or, he who hesitates is lost? A layer of indolence or a layer of action? We become inert. An enigmatic lot we are indeed.
But as the layers fall away small splinters of hope emerge.
ET is here and they seem, for whatever strange reason, willing to and wanting to help.
These are the layers… the state of the onion.
The Secrecy Layer
Let´s start with a simple lie, misdirection or truth depending on your perspective or one´s reactionary tendency to disbelieve the written word. As we all know it´s hard to tell the difference these days.
In a 1952 CIA document entitled "Flying Saucers" it states, "Pursuant to your request for overall evaluation of the "flying saucers" and associated reports, the following is pertinent. Notwithstanding the foregoing… facts, so long as a series of reports remains "unexplainable" (interplanetary aspects and alien origin not being thoroughly excluded from consideration) caution requires that intelligence continue coverage of the subject. It is recommended that CIA surveillance of the subject matter, in coordination with proper authorities… be continued. It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public, in view of their probable alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as confirmatory of the soundness of ´unpublished facts´ in the hands of the U.S. government." [EDWARD TAUS]
Choose to accept it or not, but as part of the American CIA web site in 2008 it must be considered. Many documents like this exist. Thousands more exist that we´ll never know about.
Are we to believe that since 1952 we have been so well manipulated that anything said about the UFO issue would be so soaked in doubt and tainted by disinformation that we disregard it outright because nothing, no-thing, can be trusted as a representation of reality when it comes to reaching some understanding that we may be being visited by off-world civilizations? Or, in an even more lenient way, ignoring what may become part of a subtle and complex puzzle leading to a clearer picture of what the truth may hold.
Any UFO researcher or media journalist who cannot see that this CIA memo clearly indicates there is very good reason to believe that a recommendation was put in place by the American Central Intelligence Agency to obfuscate the UFO issue decades ago, and who fails to investigate it in public, is either stupid (in the true sense of the word - stooped with eyes cast down) or is part of the same obfuscation process which originated the memo in the first place. This type of information must be viewed as at least part of the truth-puzzle; a layer to be examined not cast away in the winds of distrust. These kinds of conversations were and still are rampant but few pay heed.
It is not surprising then that many of us feel we have been so cleverly lied to for so long that as a community we do not know what to believe any more. This has been the success of the body politic - to keep us thoroughly confused about the UFO/ET issue and yet keep it cleverly hidden in the light of day under a canvas of secrecy. Like a tarpaulin covering a car, it yields to the open mind a silhouette that tells us it´s a vehicle. We see it before our eyes yet we are unable to discern details of its year, make, colour and model or whether it can be driven forwards or backwards; a very frustrating situation to our purportedly sophisticated intellectual human acuity. Especially when we are being told it´s an elephant.
Even the least curious among us should refuse to accept the known lie and the perceived one. This is a new definition of secrecy in the modern era of UFO/ET research – the lies we see and the ones we cannot. No wonder the truth is so hard to procure.
This form of government secrecy and the players beyond the curtain´s shadow of control have succeeded in plying doubt. Truth has become the casualty.
Again, one of our most prodigious researchers Richard M. Dolan assists our understanding. His assessment of government secrecy is profound. In an article he wrote, "America's classified world is removed almost entirely from public control. In the early 1990s, Herbert Foerstel, Head of Branch Libraries at University of Maryland and board member of the National Security Archive, reported that the Pentagon alone had about 10,000 classification compartments, often called Special Access Programs (SAP) and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). More recently, author James Bamford (Body of Secrets) likened the classified system to ´an endless spiral, [with] secret classification systems within secret classification systems.´ We number our classified documents by the trillion, and the number continues to grow."
The Media Layer
The simple fact of the matter is that despite mountains of data and strange but reliable information, media refuses to pursue what could very well be truer than any of us are able or willing to believe.
Many in the UFO/ET research community have always been of the conviction that this so-called UFO/ET issue is so much more strange than we can ever imagine that when it all falls in to place as disclosure unfolds, the unfurling of the ET matter will defy and may not remotely resemble any of our wildest imaginings of what is really under the tarpaulin. This is the centre of the onion.
But our finest collective instrument at getting at what the nuggets of truth might be, a free press – is letting us down big time. Media has become inert like a deer frozen in the headlights of an on-coming car – knowing it should not stay to witness what might come next but is captivated and petrified by the sheer magnitude of what is coming.
The failure of media to question government secrecy in 2009 at all levels contradicts the role of media as a public guardian. Besides lies by government – the media´s flaccid presence is the greatest crime against a humanity the press was once inaugurated to serve.
Media has become indolent. Media has become a tool of a political slight of hand; a public deception, a manufacturer of madness witnessed on the nightly news and then again on Oscar night for the truly media-insane. If media were to ever wake up from its self-induced coma or choose to shed the drug administered to it by government intel-agencies, the fourth estate would awaken thoroughly embarrassed, unshaven as it peers into the morning mirror. Not recognizing itself, it will run and hide in the nearest forest of lies of its own making. Hearing the whispers of secrecy it neglects to confront, those in the media may need to find a comfortable rock under which to hide when ET comes knocking. Explanations of weather balloons will collapse like a cheap inflatable latex doll.
The media represents a truly enigmatic layer in the State of the Onion. It could be our finest tool. Yet media exists for the sake of a different piper. The one who pays the piper calls the tune; and the tune is; "do not touch government secrecy – trah-la-la-la-la." Examination of government secrecy by the media should not and must not be done only when it is expedient, competitively essential, politically correct or obvious. It must be done because it is necessary.
Journalists, at least at one time where there, there to ask the hard questions about sequestered information beyond the public domain. This doesn´t seem to happen anymore. Is this the position of media today? Does it see current layers of government secrecy as acceptable? It must, because secrecy is alive and well, thriving behind newspaper articles about tin-foil hats, hungry little aliens and the pseudo-nirvana of Hollywood, game shows and a never ending series of wars staged by the pipers.
Where does the truth reside today? Some maintain it sits in the bottom drawer of the pipers; a powerful elite. The only way that drawer will be wrenched open is by a combination of ET intrusiveness, public awareness and a media that wakes from its slumber. The truth, being as pervasive as we know it is, also resides in the collective consciousness of those who diligently toil to over-throw secrecy and a pale government-entity that has somehow usurped democracy while media was occupied by the glitz of the trivial.
Simply continuing to tell stories on a never-ending carousel of repetitive sports, entertainment, food and the sometimes intelligent but ruminative columns by obviously tired featured columnists is clearly not igniting the average mind to discover the truth. If anything it enslaves it.
Even the once constant coverage of George W. Bush and his former UK counter-part who blatantly lied to their countries and the world about a needless war no longer energizes people´s sense of indignation. Sadly, 911 has faded from public consciousness and been replaced by the fear of a faceless thing called "terrorism", an unsubstantiated ET threat and a vestige of a failing US economy on the verge of collapse. Quite frankly, the public has been numbed by the news rather than informed and energized by it. Strangely we have not only learned through the media to fear the future and mistrust our political leadership, but we have also learned how to enable them to keep on lying about trust and leadership. The truth becomes a casualty. We´ve had a number done on us – without even knowing it.
When will a leader emerge in journalism or in political life who is not fearful of high risk in order to tell the truth by breaking the cycle of silence and infectiously mundane issues to engage and link the ET issue to the enormous energy problems we face, the catastrophic environmental decay and a dysfunctional and immoral political agenda that keeps the poor, poor and the rich very, very rich?
Maybe that´s the way things ought to be in a world run by a corporate elite status quo. The world-wide onslaught of daily news has become a pernicious veil of mendacious pseudo-reality. This veil screens an indolent but needy citizenry from ´behind-the-scenes geo-politics´ that refuses to acknowledge not only its own mendacity but the blatant evidence of ethical off-world civilizations. The current path says; remain complicit. But a new path takes us to a new morality.
A Stranger Layer
Fact and another onion layer: To act as if this issue and the evidence do not exist is no longer an option. Fact, and yet another layer: Neither are the existence of ETs and the UFO phenomenon a minor misunderstanding by several hundreds of thousands of people. Too much historical evidence and current literature exists to deny we are in fact experiencing a shift in our collective reality. Being visited by peaceful and ethical off-world civilizations who have mastered interstellar travel at or beyond light speed and advanced technologies may assist humanity, if we dare to be attentive to the subtleness of their communication. Answer the call or ignore it as a marketing ploy from far away.
The telephone is ringing…Hello?
To pretend otherwise or to draw our weapons is to manufacture another mythology within a democracy already fraught with fear and deception about our comfortable state of existence amidst sordid poverty, climate change due to our over-reliance on fossil fuels, the vanishing perma-frost, health care systems that respond to politics rather than the sick, a cycle of permanent war with a faceless enemy, a seemingly non-ending succession of cultural and religious violence and terrorism - a planet in disarray.
Amidst these ´extinction behaviours´ a corporate elite thrives on fossil fuel profits in the trillions of dollars, a war economy and environmental ignorance – while 3,000 children per day die of malaria in Africa. (The W.H.O. and the United Nations Children´s Fund UNICEF April 2003 report data.) It is now within our grasp to resolve these issues.
These particular layers of the onion are not only disgraceful but they reek of despair.
In the face of this despair can we afford to ignore news of these ethical off-world civilizations as did the flat-Earth factions in history or as do the reactionaries within the UFO research community? In doing so we remain inert to these current global problems, like the deer frozen in the headlights of the oncoming car. The virtually insoluble travesties this ideology of despair engenders for us as a global community disables our capacity to recognize the possible demise of our way of life.
We react with frustration to the dead batteries in our TV remotes but remain ambivalent to the genocide of aids and the immorality of institutionalized ignorance. Planetary consensus about anything is a hope and dream kept from us by some very powerful people. But can they tell us what to hope for and what to dream?
One turns the page of a book in anticipation not despair.
The Layer of Hope
Can we engage the necessary discourse that speaks of hope about the plight of our planet and the relationships we may develop with those who may have found a better way? Refusing to speak of these possibilities is a refusal to accept and nurture ourselves as sentient. It denies us all a future that may hold an optimism never experienced in human history before. This DNA like denial gene relegates us to the nightmare of extinction.
Hope is a painful and arduous endeavour. But it is a gateway to maturity. Although we have not shown ourselves to be an overly prudent species thus far, our spiritual maturity is not in doubt and is surely resilient enough to handle this manner of discourse. The problems we face today could become remnants of the past if we choose to engage a different kind of discourse regarding the hidden possibilities of contact with highly advanced ethical off-world civilizations.
If the notion of ethical off-world civilizations is in fact incorrect or vastly different from what we hope it may be – then, we want to learn this through open investigations and a public examination of all the facts – and not be deceived or coerced into collectively disbelieving it as a result of the feigned ignorance, silence, complicity or deceit among an inert media or a governmental military industrial complex bent on abject secrecy. This form of public acquiescence and lemming-like behaviour is far too common and is the antithesis of the hope and social justice that is humanity´s primordial birthright.
What does government gain by withholding this information and repressing any open rational discourse among us? Must we wait for our government to lead us by the nose to an interpretation that may be theirs and theirs alone? If we wait we are doomed.
The recent hopeful disclosures by the French, Brazilians and the British of their UFO files will one day be looked upon as the first wave of official government conversation on the UFO/ET matter. Did these countries respond to the 1978 United Nations Decision 33/426 which encouraged all member nations to examine the phenomenon more openly? The often ridiculed UN may have – in its ponderous wisdom – ignited a political eagerness to move to the next layer of international disclosure.
If this path were to be followed by other G8 countries, we may not have to wait for these people from the stars to manifest themselves. We may actually be able to begin, by ourselves, the mature and open discussion about what the possibilities of contact with them may really mean to us. Citizens in a democratic society have the right to discuss these issues in a public forum, free from ridicule and above all openly challenge their political servant-leaders for answers and action.
The layers indeed get more provocative as we approach the centre of the onion.
It would be highly remiss of us if we wait too long – too long after the government agencies at hand destroy these documents and it all becomes a matter of "He said – she said…" This is an imminent possibility. The evidence is all there now. The action and catalyst of open discourse must be initiated - now - before it is too late.
Media can be the key in peeling away the layers of the onion to break through the doors of a secret that has been guarded for 60 years and save the truth from destruction only if we actively appoint it to do so.
We should not hope that ET will resolve our problems. However, knowing that there is a community of civilizations that have perhaps achieved the capacity to travel among the stars and who practice a form of interspecies ethics we know little about is at least consoling and at most, motivation for us to achieve the greatness the human spirit surely possesses.
When the day eventually comes, after all the layers have disappeared and the truth stares us in the eye, we can look back at this perspective as an early layer of understanding on the way to the core of the onion.
Victor Viggiani is an author, radio journalist and researcher in the field UFOs and Extraterrestrial civilizations. He currently serves as Director of Media Relations for Exopolitics Canada.
Copyright © Victor Viggiani March 2009
"Participation in North American democracy is largely based on the belief that citizens should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
Quote from an unknown Convocation Address
Since 1947 or perhaps much earlier the UFO/ET issue burst onto the scene. The matter has been investigated, scrutinized, ridiculed, stigmatized, written about and toss about like a piece of red-hot coal for over 60 years.
Generally, humanity, world governments, the military and their intelligence communities have managed to ignore, cover-up and avoid the issue publicly – like a third boxer in the ring that neither the opponents nor referee can see. These intelligence communities have deftly managed the issue internally, using their own clear understanding - the UFO/ET issue is real and a matter of fact and record. They have also managed several critical blows to the head that the UFO research community may not survive. But the piper and the men behind the curtain may not be able to stop us from peeling away the layers to the core of the onion and the truth. Hope tells us we must expect no less.
Richard M. Dolan puts it best in his seminal work UFOs and the National Security State – Chronology of a Cover-up 1941 to 1973 , "… the analysis [of the UFO issue] leaves us with the distinct impression of the ET hypothesis as the elephant in the dining room that no one would acknowledge."
Where do we find ourselves today with this matter both within the UFO/ET research community and in the broader arena of public perception? As it stands today, in the year 2009 the state of affairs in the UFO/ET issue will one day be looked back upon as a, simplistic, naďve and perhaps nascent, struggling search for what was in front of our eyes all the while.
History will show we were too blind or collectively too stubborn to see all along. Complicit with our handlers in the so-called democratic existence we pretend to be part of, some among us will not give way to allow the truth to be heard or seen.
So, it is up to us to define where we are and where we must go with this matter. We discover what might lay below the surface by peeling away the layers to see where we are, who we are and where we are headed. Oddly enough it is a hopeful but not pretty picture.
The First Layers
Constant sightings that confound. Reports of abductions that perplex and are demonized. Government documents that are either real or fake. New UFO craft that have never been seen before that represent new emerging radical technology. Multiple sightings ignored by the general public, an indolent and complicit media and intelligence agencies craftily engaging in a crafty conspiracy of silence louder than a Shuttle re-entry no hears. Institutions, industry and a scientific community thrashing about to find illusive alternate energy sources, yet that remain blissfully ignorant of (or too proud to examine) the new realities of exotic energy used by the off-worlds. A government, a populace and media in denial about or totally ambivalent towards the distinctly real possibility that we live in a universe teeming with life… and get this! Some of those life forms have decided it´s time for a visit. Shall I go on even though no one is paying attention?
Sure. As the onion layers fall away, we can see the tears of regret wheal-up in the eyes of those of us who know. Keep the layers close by; not to be blown away in the wind, for they are our tickets back home, to the truth amidst the chaos.
We also have a UFO research community in chaos. Attempts by some to create consensus and achieve a realistic evolution of research methodologies are thwarted at every turn by reactionaries, unwilling to risk speaking of the obvious. Internal dissent, vitriol disguised as debate, e-mail crossing the vastness of cyberspace at light speed denigrates the work of this ufologist or that exopolitician or this researcher or that government witness – a community in disarray, reflecting the general anarchy in which the planet finds itself in 2009.
Who would ever want to interact with a race like ours anyway? One bent on global extinction behaviours that would have us remonstrate any religious belief, burn fossil fuels until it chokes every butterfly and rain forest on the planet and then, in denial, look the other way as if there´s really nothing wrong. A race that sabotages authentic attempts to resolve conflict in favour of spending more money on war does not sound as though it may be salvageable.
We also have a so-called monolith to deal with - an "elected government" whose sole objective appears to be to prevaricate, obfuscate and turn a once cherished value called democracy into the biggest sham since the lead nickel or the dumping of grain into the ocean to keep the price of bread out of reach of third world children. Does any of this make sense?
A pathetic lot we are as we sit to watch the parade pass – hoping for that one really nice float at the end of the procession that will ease our conscience because we´ve sat on our hands for so long, covering our eyes and ears in the hope – "there must be something good coming soon." Good things come to those who wait, or, he who hesitates is lost? A layer of indolence or a layer of action? We become inert. An enigmatic lot we are indeed.
But as the layers fall away small splinters of hope emerge.
ET is here and they seem, for whatever strange reason, willing to and wanting to help.
These are the layers… the state of the onion.
The Secrecy Layer
Let´s start with a simple lie, misdirection or truth depending on your perspective or one´s reactionary tendency to disbelieve the written word. As we all know it´s hard to tell the difference these days.
In a 1952 CIA document entitled "Flying Saucers" it states, "Pursuant to your request for overall evaluation of the "flying saucers" and associated reports, the following is pertinent. Notwithstanding the foregoing… facts, so long as a series of reports remains "unexplainable" (interplanetary aspects and alien origin not being thoroughly excluded from consideration) caution requires that intelligence continue coverage of the subject. It is recommended that CIA surveillance of the subject matter, in coordination with proper authorities… be continued. It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public, in view of their probable alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as confirmatory of the soundness of ´unpublished facts´ in the hands of the U.S. government." [EDWARD TAUS]
Choose to accept it or not, but as part of the American CIA web site in 2008 it must be considered. Many documents like this exist. Thousands more exist that we´ll never know about.
Are we to believe that since 1952 we have been so well manipulated that anything said about the UFO issue would be so soaked in doubt and tainted by disinformation that we disregard it outright because nothing, no-thing, can be trusted as a representation of reality when it comes to reaching some understanding that we may be being visited by off-world civilizations? Or, in an even more lenient way, ignoring what may become part of a subtle and complex puzzle leading to a clearer picture of what the truth may hold.
Any UFO researcher or media journalist who cannot see that this CIA memo clearly indicates there is very good reason to believe that a recommendation was put in place by the American Central Intelligence Agency to obfuscate the UFO issue decades ago, and who fails to investigate it in public, is either stupid (in the true sense of the word - stooped with eyes cast down) or is part of the same obfuscation process which originated the memo in the first place. This type of information must be viewed as at least part of the truth-puzzle; a layer to be examined not cast away in the winds of distrust. These kinds of conversations were and still are rampant but few pay heed.
It is not surprising then that many of us feel we have been so cleverly lied to for so long that as a community we do not know what to believe any more. This has been the success of the body politic - to keep us thoroughly confused about the UFO/ET issue and yet keep it cleverly hidden in the light of day under a canvas of secrecy. Like a tarpaulin covering a car, it yields to the open mind a silhouette that tells us it´s a vehicle. We see it before our eyes yet we are unable to discern details of its year, make, colour and model or whether it can be driven forwards or backwards; a very frustrating situation to our purportedly sophisticated intellectual human acuity. Especially when we are being told it´s an elephant.
Even the least curious among us should refuse to accept the known lie and the perceived one. This is a new definition of secrecy in the modern era of UFO/ET research – the lies we see and the ones we cannot. No wonder the truth is so hard to procure.
This form of government secrecy and the players beyond the curtain´s shadow of control have succeeded in plying doubt. Truth has become the casualty.
Again, one of our most prodigious researchers Richard M. Dolan assists our understanding. His assessment of government secrecy is profound. In an article he wrote, "America's classified world is removed almost entirely from public control. In the early 1990s, Herbert Foerstel, Head of Branch Libraries at University of Maryland and board member of the National Security Archive, reported that the Pentagon alone had about 10,000 classification compartments, often called Special Access Programs (SAP) and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). More recently, author James Bamford (Body of Secrets) likened the classified system to ´an endless spiral, [with] secret classification systems within secret classification systems.´ We number our classified documents by the trillion, and the number continues to grow."
The Media Layer
The simple fact of the matter is that despite mountains of data and strange but reliable information, media refuses to pursue what could very well be truer than any of us are able or willing to believe.
Many in the UFO/ET research community have always been of the conviction that this so-called UFO/ET issue is so much more strange than we can ever imagine that when it all falls in to place as disclosure unfolds, the unfurling of the ET matter will defy and may not remotely resemble any of our wildest imaginings of what is really under the tarpaulin. This is the centre of the onion.
But our finest collective instrument at getting at what the nuggets of truth might be, a free press – is letting us down big time. Media has become inert like a deer frozen in the headlights of an on-coming car – knowing it should not stay to witness what might come next but is captivated and petrified by the sheer magnitude of what is coming.
The failure of media to question government secrecy in 2009 at all levels contradicts the role of media as a public guardian. Besides lies by government – the media´s flaccid presence is the greatest crime against a humanity the press was once inaugurated to serve.
Media has become indolent. Media has become a tool of a political slight of hand; a public deception, a manufacturer of madness witnessed on the nightly news and then again on Oscar night for the truly media-insane. If media were to ever wake up from its self-induced coma or choose to shed the drug administered to it by government intel-agencies, the fourth estate would awaken thoroughly embarrassed, unshaven as it peers into the morning mirror. Not recognizing itself, it will run and hide in the nearest forest of lies of its own making. Hearing the whispers of secrecy it neglects to confront, those in the media may need to find a comfortable rock under which to hide when ET comes knocking. Explanations of weather balloons will collapse like a cheap inflatable latex doll.
The media represents a truly enigmatic layer in the State of the Onion. It could be our finest tool. Yet media exists for the sake of a different piper. The one who pays the piper calls the tune; and the tune is; "do not touch government secrecy – trah-la-la-la-la." Examination of government secrecy by the media should not and must not be done only when it is expedient, competitively essential, politically correct or obvious. It must be done because it is necessary.
Journalists, at least at one time where there, there to ask the hard questions about sequestered information beyond the public domain. This doesn´t seem to happen anymore. Is this the position of media today? Does it see current layers of government secrecy as acceptable? It must, because secrecy is alive and well, thriving behind newspaper articles about tin-foil hats, hungry little aliens and the pseudo-nirvana of Hollywood, game shows and a never ending series of wars staged by the pipers.
Where does the truth reside today? Some maintain it sits in the bottom drawer of the pipers; a powerful elite. The only way that drawer will be wrenched open is by a combination of ET intrusiveness, public awareness and a media that wakes from its slumber. The truth, being as pervasive as we know it is, also resides in the collective consciousness of those who diligently toil to over-throw secrecy and a pale government-entity that has somehow usurped democracy while media was occupied by the glitz of the trivial.
Simply continuing to tell stories on a never-ending carousel of repetitive sports, entertainment, food and the sometimes intelligent but ruminative columns by obviously tired featured columnists is clearly not igniting the average mind to discover the truth. If anything it enslaves it.
Even the once constant coverage of George W. Bush and his former UK counter-part who blatantly lied to their countries and the world about a needless war no longer energizes people´s sense of indignation. Sadly, 911 has faded from public consciousness and been replaced by the fear of a faceless thing called "terrorism", an unsubstantiated ET threat and a vestige of a failing US economy on the verge of collapse. Quite frankly, the public has been numbed by the news rather than informed and energized by it. Strangely we have not only learned through the media to fear the future and mistrust our political leadership, but we have also learned how to enable them to keep on lying about trust and leadership. The truth becomes a casualty. We´ve had a number done on us – without even knowing it.
When will a leader emerge in journalism or in political life who is not fearful of high risk in order to tell the truth by breaking the cycle of silence and infectiously mundane issues to engage and link the ET issue to the enormous energy problems we face, the catastrophic environmental decay and a dysfunctional and immoral political agenda that keeps the poor, poor and the rich very, very rich?
Maybe that´s the way things ought to be in a world run by a corporate elite status quo. The world-wide onslaught of daily news has become a pernicious veil of mendacious pseudo-reality. This veil screens an indolent but needy citizenry from ´behind-the-scenes geo-politics´ that refuses to acknowledge not only its own mendacity but the blatant evidence of ethical off-world civilizations. The current path says; remain complicit. But a new path takes us to a new morality.
A Stranger Layer
Fact and another onion layer: To act as if this issue and the evidence do not exist is no longer an option. Fact, and yet another layer: Neither are the existence of ETs and the UFO phenomenon a minor misunderstanding by several hundreds of thousands of people. Too much historical evidence and current literature exists to deny we are in fact experiencing a shift in our collective reality. Being visited by peaceful and ethical off-world civilizations who have mastered interstellar travel at or beyond light speed and advanced technologies may assist humanity, if we dare to be attentive to the subtleness of their communication. Answer the call or ignore it as a marketing ploy from far away.
The telephone is ringing…Hello?
To pretend otherwise or to draw our weapons is to manufacture another mythology within a democracy already fraught with fear and deception about our comfortable state of existence amidst sordid poverty, climate change due to our over-reliance on fossil fuels, the vanishing perma-frost, health care systems that respond to politics rather than the sick, a cycle of permanent war with a faceless enemy, a seemingly non-ending succession of cultural and religious violence and terrorism - a planet in disarray.
Amidst these ´extinction behaviours´ a corporate elite thrives on fossil fuel profits in the trillions of dollars, a war economy and environmental ignorance – while 3,000 children per day die of malaria in Africa. (The W.H.O. and the United Nations Children´s Fund UNICEF April 2003 report data.) It is now within our grasp to resolve these issues.
These particular layers of the onion are not only disgraceful but they reek of despair.
In the face of this despair can we afford to ignore news of these ethical off-world civilizations as did the flat-Earth factions in history or as do the reactionaries within the UFO research community? In doing so we remain inert to these current global problems, like the deer frozen in the headlights of the oncoming car. The virtually insoluble travesties this ideology of despair engenders for us as a global community disables our capacity to recognize the possible demise of our way of life.
We react with frustration to the dead batteries in our TV remotes but remain ambivalent to the genocide of aids and the immorality of institutionalized ignorance. Planetary consensus about anything is a hope and dream kept from us by some very powerful people. But can they tell us what to hope for and what to dream?
One turns the page of a book in anticipation not despair.
The Layer of Hope
Can we engage the necessary discourse that speaks of hope about the plight of our planet and the relationships we may develop with those who may have found a better way? Refusing to speak of these possibilities is a refusal to accept and nurture ourselves as sentient. It denies us all a future that may hold an optimism never experienced in human history before. This DNA like denial gene relegates us to the nightmare of extinction.
Hope is a painful and arduous endeavour. But it is a gateway to maturity. Although we have not shown ourselves to be an overly prudent species thus far, our spiritual maturity is not in doubt and is surely resilient enough to handle this manner of discourse. The problems we face today could become remnants of the past if we choose to engage a different kind of discourse regarding the hidden possibilities of contact with highly advanced ethical off-world civilizations.
If the notion of ethical off-world civilizations is in fact incorrect or vastly different from what we hope it may be – then, we want to learn this through open investigations and a public examination of all the facts – and not be deceived or coerced into collectively disbelieving it as a result of the feigned ignorance, silence, complicity or deceit among an inert media or a governmental military industrial complex bent on abject secrecy. This form of public acquiescence and lemming-like behaviour is far too common and is the antithesis of the hope and social justice that is humanity´s primordial birthright.
What does government gain by withholding this information and repressing any open rational discourse among us? Must we wait for our government to lead us by the nose to an interpretation that may be theirs and theirs alone? If we wait we are doomed.
The recent hopeful disclosures by the French, Brazilians and the British of their UFO files will one day be looked upon as the first wave of official government conversation on the UFO/ET matter. Did these countries respond to the 1978 United Nations Decision 33/426 which encouraged all member nations to examine the phenomenon more openly? The often ridiculed UN may have – in its ponderous wisdom – ignited a political eagerness to move to the next layer of international disclosure.
If this path were to be followed by other G8 countries, we may not have to wait for these people from the stars to manifest themselves. We may actually be able to begin, by ourselves, the mature and open discussion about what the possibilities of contact with them may really mean to us. Citizens in a democratic society have the right to discuss these issues in a public forum, free from ridicule and above all openly challenge their political servant-leaders for answers and action.
The layers indeed get more provocative as we approach the centre of the onion.
It would be highly remiss of us if we wait too long – too long after the government agencies at hand destroy these documents and it all becomes a matter of "He said – she said…" This is an imminent possibility. The evidence is all there now. The action and catalyst of open discourse must be initiated - now - before it is too late.
Media can be the key in peeling away the layers of the onion to break through the doors of a secret that has been guarded for 60 years and save the truth from destruction only if we actively appoint it to do so.
We should not hope that ET will resolve our problems. However, knowing that there is a community of civilizations that have perhaps achieved the capacity to travel among the stars and who practice a form of interspecies ethics we know little about is at least consoling and at most, motivation for us to achieve the greatness the human spirit surely possesses.
When the day eventually comes, after all the layers have disappeared and the truth stares us in the eye, we can look back at this perspective as an early layer of understanding on the way to the core of the onion.
Victor Viggiani is an author, radio journalist and researcher in the field UFOs and Extraterrestrial civilizations. He currently serves as Director of Media Relations for Exopolitics Canada.
Copyright © Victor Viggiani March 2009
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