Knowing the Future: CIA, 9/11, UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Presence Part Two

I first heard of Internet entrepreneur Joe Firmage in an email I received in late 1998, from San Francisco based alternative physicist Dr. Jack Sarfatti.

"Joe, Talk to the people in the above CC list above who actually KNOW me AND/OR understand my work."

This message, sent to several persons including Dr. Harold (Hal) Puthoff, a physicist best known for his role in the CIA investigation of paranormal research for spying on the Soviets, was shortly followed by another.

"Please give your candid assessment to JF on my sanity, competence and the significance of post-quantum physics. Thanks."

Post-quantum physics was Sarfatti's vision of 21st Century knowledge unrestrained by 20th Century physics dogma.

Naively I replied to Sarfatti, "Who is JF?" to which he responded, "A man with a lot of money."

Almost two years earlier, US Web CEO Joe Firmage had been quoted in Hearst publication The San Francisco Chronicle.

"We plan to build the world's largest professional service company for the Internet."

SF Chronicle added, "After one year in existence, USWeb has a nationwide network of nearly 50 offices specializing in Web site design."

Months before Sarfatti mentioned "JF," the Chronicle reported that "design firm USWeb Corp. yesterday agreed to buy advertising agency CKS Group Inc. in a stock swap worth about $300 million."

USWeb had become a multi-billion dollar operation.

Change was in the air for Firmage. USWeb had made "JF" "a man with a lot of money."

Some of that money was about to be spent in the pursuit of reverse engineering "extraterrestrial technology."

Hal Puthoff emailed the press release:

SANTA CLARA, CA: December 14, 1998. The following statement was released today by Joseph Firmage, chairman of the International Space Sciences Organization, and primary author of The Truth (www.TheWordIsTruth.org) .

"Now that the new MAJESTIC 12 documents are in broad circulation, it is appropriate for me to make a few comments regarding their authenticity and their role in support of the hypothesis contained in The Truth..."

MAJESTIC 12 was a collection of ever growing and highly controversial UFO documents. The FBI had declared the so-called MJ-12 documents to be "BOGUS" based upon a source from the Air Force OSI.

In "The Word Is Truth" Firmage argued for a revised view of human history in the context of a cosmos teaming with alien intelligence.

The media responded with a hail storm of written bullets. Weeks after issuing the press release about "The Truth" Firmage left USWeb.

A front page feature story in the SF Chronicle reported:

"Joe Firmage -- the Fox Mulder of Silicon Valley -- resigned yesterday from the firm he founded so he could promote his belief that many of today's high-tech advancements, including semiconductors, fiber optics and lasers, came from aliens."

The SF Chronicle noted a similarity between Firmage's resignation from USWeb and a television program:

"Firmage's situation is eerily similar to a recent plot in the TV show "Ally McBeal," in which a respected stockbroker is fired from his job after claiming to have seen a unicorn."

The strangeness that had launched Firmage on this new course of his life had actually been mirrored on television, seven years prior to a personal "visitation."

"A remarkable being, clothed in brilliant white light, appeared hovering over my bed in

my room," according to Firmage.

After a brief discussion about space travel, the "visitor" emitted a ball of light, "about the size of a basketball," which then entered Firmage, leaving him with a sensation almost beyond words.

Seven years before Firmage's 1997 experience, fictional FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper experienced a similar visitation on the quirky TV show "Twin Peaks," when he was visited by a supernatural giant.

The giant tells Cooper, "Sorry to wake you." Cooper responds, "I'm not dreaming."

A few words later the giant sends a ball of light about the size of a basketball into Cooper.

The fictional Cooper goes on to investigate the fictional murder of Laura Palmer, using clues provided by the fictional giant.

The ball of light that entered Joe Firmage had another effect altogether.

Firmage threw money on the flames of media buzz, even purchasing full page promotional advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, to emphasize the seriousness of his new venture.

I still have my copy of the Feb. 19, 1999 full page UFO-promotion from USA Today.

"This guy IS serious," I thought.

By October of 1999, Matt Beer, technology writer for The Examiner reported "According to three sources who asked to remain anonymous, Firmage intends to announce that a technology officer from a large Fortune 100 company has agreed to head up International Space Sciences, an organization dedicated to studying advances in physics and their relationship to UFO phenomena. These sources say the organization is slated to receive some $100 million in funds from Silicon Valley executives who agree with Firmage's beliefs."

Three days later Beer reported that "Special Agent Keith Tate, an investigator with the Long Beach branch of NASA's Office of Inspector General, has been calling Silicon Valley sources, including The Examiner, seeking information about a planned Tuesday meeting between research scientists and Silicon Valley high-tech executives. At that meeting, first reported by The Examiner, attendees, including scientists from the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, will discuss propulsion technologies."

Knowing the future had taken former USWeb CEO Joe Firmage on a quest to reverse engineer technologies that could only be possessed by the aliens.

And NASA wanted to know what it was all about.

NASA was not alone. Other government agencies, including CIA, were interested as well.

To be continued in part three.

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