This blog has been quiet for a few months, as I’ve been preparing a new book for publication and dealing with some stuff. I did write a piece or two that I decided not to post at the time for various reasons, which may appear in the book- we’ll see.
So I haven’t posted here, but I did recently contribute to Billy Cox’s blog in the comments section and I had an interesting exchange with Mr. Cox as I called him (can’t call somebody I don’t personally know Billy, it seems too familiar. I probably would’ve had the same problem with Jimmy Carter if he wasn’t Mr. President).
I won’t re-post the exchange here, you can go there and read it if you want, but I will paraphrase. I don’t think I’ve written anything about The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch on this blog, but I’ve been following the show and had some ideas about what might be going on there. Mr. Bill got me motivated to weigh-in with a recent blog post about that all-time blowhard Neil deGrasse Tyson in which he referenced Skinwalker ranch.
Before I get to the Skinwalker stuff- I have some things to say about Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
I loved Mr. Bill’s riffing on NDT. I could add one of my own. In fact, I will. In his post, Billy (okay, I’ll call him Billy now since we’ve exchanged messages a couple times on his blog) quoted one of Tyson’s zinger-type lines: If alien abductions are real, why can’t abductees just steal an ashtray when nobody’s looking?
For someone who fancies himself so brilliant – just watch him talking about his Big Brain in a cameo in Albert Brooks: Defending My Life – that’s a really stupid thing to say. You have to wonder what audience that comment was intended to influence. It surely wasn’t anyone with a brain, which brings me to my NDT story.
There was a short-lived sitcom about alien abduction called People of Earth that aired on TBS around ten years ago. I never watched it. A sitcom about alien abduction? I don’t think anyone who’s actually had the experience finds the situation funny. I guess the target audience was everyone else who got a kick out of mocking it, but the most offensive thing I saw was promos for the show featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, for obvious reasons.
To me, the most hilariously stupid/offensive promo was the one in which Tyson is having coffee by himself in a diner and thinking to himself as he does in a series of promos called, What’s Neil deGrasse Tyson thinking? Through voice over we get to hear his thoughts, which were the following:
I wonder why they always have aliens in flying saucers? If the saucer’s rotating, why isn’t the centrifugal force pinning the aliens against the outer edge of the saucer? That’s what would happen if you’re spinning. Plus they’re looking out one window. And that scene isn’t spinning by. What’s up with that?
I guess that’s supposed to be humorous, but it’s really just a “steaming pile” of nonsense, supposedly coming from someone who thinks he uses a lot more than just three percent of his brain (see: Defending Your Life). If Tyson was interested in real UFOs instead of imaginary flying saucers, he could’ve read something like his colleague, Paul LaViolette’s, The Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion, among other things, but as Billy noted, Tyson has an “intuitive disdain for human curiosity,” so I’m sure he wouldn’t have been interested. It’d be a little much for his three percent.
Billy Cox mocks him as a “celebrity astronomer,” which is exactly what he is, and pretty much, all he is. He follows in a decades-long lineage of high-profile astronomer UFO debunkers, beginning with Donald Menzel in the 50s and 60s to Carl Sagan in the 70s, 80s, and 90s to NDT in the 00s up until the present.
All three “celebrity astronomers” are suspected to be part of the UFO cover-up. Menzel was the highest profile astronomer UFO debunker of his day, who lived a double-life as an intelligence agent that was unknown until his name appeared in the Majestic documents. It was Menzel who recruited Sagan for Harvard. As for Sagan, Philip Corso Jr. said his father (Col. Phillip J. Corso, The Day After Roswell) told him he saw Sagan’s name on a CIA payroll in connection with UFO debunking, which Sagan was famous for- despite his previous musings about the likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligence. (Sagan, Shklovskii, Intelligent Life in the Universe).
It seems the “celebrity astronomers” followed in each other’s footsteps when it came to their “it can’t be; therefore it isn’t” attitude towards UFOs. NDT, who was a protégé, recruited by Sagan, just as Sagan was recruited by Menzel, even re-made Sagan’s signature series Cosmos.
These three bon vivant astronomers helped delay the truth about UFOs for over 70 years.
December 16, 2017 must’ve been a dark day for NDT and the People of Earth people when The New York Times admitted that UFOs were real in its story about the Pentagon’s secret UFO research program.
For the People of Earth people, it likely cost them their show. People of Earth was not a ratings success. Despite its ratings drop from year one to year two, on September 13, 2017, TBS renewed POE for a third season. Then suddenly, after scripts for the entire third season had been written, the show was abruptly cancelled on June 9, 2018.
What happened in between the renewal and the cancellation? The Times story that UFOs were real, dropped. That’s what happened. Maybe the suits at the network thought it might not be such a good idea to keep mocking UFOs and alien abductees, you know, since UFOs are real, which means abductions might also be real? Which way is the wind blowing? You know- that kind of thing… Maybe it really wasn’t something to laugh at? Something like that-
Hey POE people, maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to hire a celebrity astronomer blowhard – who very well may be part of the cover-up given his well-documented history – to mock the UFO phenomenon in your promo campaign? That’s one red flag I would’ve raised had I been involved in that production.
Unlike POE, NDT did not get cancelled in the face of such embarrassing failure. In fact, his Big Brain hasn’t been impacted at all (as far as anyone can tell) by the three declassified UFO videos authenticated by the Pentagon in the wake of public revelations about its secret UFO investigation.
Whether it’s the fatal ego that can’t admit failure (a symptom of a dying paradigm facing a pole shift), or it’s the steely-eyed resolve of the matchstick man to never give up the con no matter what your lying eyes see (Trump), NDT just keeps guffawing about UFOs.
Case in point, per Billy’s post- on his recent podcast with guest Jon Kosloski, currently in charge of the Pentagon’s UFO research office, NDT busted a gut when told about a police officer that freaked out after witnessing a giant black triangle UFO emitting red and green “flares” as if the officer was a hillbilly drunk on moonshine.
Yet, the Singularity looms, drawing us ever closer to the undeniable truth.
You have to wonder if NDT will end up like Baghdad Bob, the Iraqi TV talking head who denied the onslaught of the US-led-coalition invasion right up until he was blown off the air…
… and I never did get to the Skinwalker angle- I guess that’ll be in part II.
COMING SOON: Skinwalker ranch as ground zero for AI/contact interface…