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Hair of the Alien : DNA
and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abductions
theozfiles
Research, investigations & commentary from Bill Chalker, author of
"The OZ Files - the Australian UFO Story" (1996) and "Hair of the
Alien - DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions"
(2005).
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Hacking the real or the unreal - the
ultimate secret?
Cao Xueqin (c.1760) had other things in mind when he wrote:
"Truth becomes fiction when the
fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real when the unreal's real"
(Translation by David Hawkes, Penguin
Classics, 1973)
Cao was writing about entering "The
Land of Illusion"
in his epic Chinese literary classic "The Dream of the Red
Chamber". I used this arresting quote to open my new book
"HAIR of the ALIEN".
But in the context of "UFO secrets" Churchill's wartime maxim on
counterintelligence & deception is perhaps equally relevant:
"Truth is so precious that she should
always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
Such thoughts and a bit of nostalga
entered my thoughts learning of Jon Ronson's interview with
Gary McKinnon in the Guardian (July 9, 2005). Ronson (of the
gonzo romps "THEM - Adventures with Extremists" (2001) and
"The Men who stare at Goats" (2004) talked with McKinnon about
the latters addled hacking adventures, which it was suggested might
get him 70 years in a US jail. McKinnon said he was inspired by the
hopes of getting at the US government's UFO secrets. Seems apart
from some material related to "non-terrestrial officers"
viewed apparently while he was stoned at a computer, little solid
UFO material was accessed by McKinnon.
THis reminded me of a phone call I received a few years ago.
Somebody was telling me that they had hacked into some ultra secret
government UFO documents they were willing to share. A bit of
probing revealed a tale tissue thin - the so called ultra secret
documents were nothing more than Bill Cooper's wild and demented
offerings accessed by my underwhelming caller via an internet
enquiry anyone could have made.
Such tales of hacking treasures in the secret UFO vaults need to be
challenged. If they survive a critical gauntlet then maybe, only
maybe, they might be worth examining. Today the internet and other
outlets are full of dubious material and researchers need to expose
the fallacies where they can. Hopefully tales about the ultimate
secret might eventually yield something of merit.
Back in 1988 in the heyday of the MJ12 controversy I sat down with
Tony Jones (then of ABC TV "Four Corners", now of "Lateline")
and Greg Hunter (then senior editor of Australian Penthouse,
and more recently biographer of Ian Thorpe) at my place. Both were
interested in trying to nail down the saga of the great UFO secrets!
Tony never got Four Corners to do a UFO show, and Greg stunned by
the convoluted complexity of the story asked me instead to write the
article. That was back in the days where you could almost justify
the pretense of reading "Australian Penthouse" for the articles
rather than the pictures ....
I took up the challenge interviewing Bill Moore, Linda Moulton Howe
and Robert Emenegger along the way. The result was an article
"UFOs - the Ultimate Secret" - in the December 1988 issue that
attracted an editorial compliment - an "impressive investigation" -
and even clandestine responses of its own - you know, the stuff of
"cloak & dagger" rendezvous in various places to be told "secret"
tales.
I concluded my article then with the following:
"Ultimately, there is no absolute
proof of any of this. It is impossible to say with any certainty
just what is going on. We could be dealing with:
* real extra-terrestrial contact - a cosmic watergate - in which
Churchill's wartime maxim of counterintelligence may rule ...
* one of the biggest hoaxes in history;
* a Space Age technological expression of the urban legend syndrome
...
* some sort of extraordinary clandestine intelligence gambit - an
excercise in disinformation and deception.
It is possible we could be seeing a combination of these
possibilities. Or maybe the answer lies in some other direction. As
they say in the news flashes, we await further developments."
I've thought about revisiting the
saga, now even far more convoluted and complex, in a follow-up
piece, but "Australian Penthouse" is now not the magazine it once
was, where perhaps an in-depth article might find a place - perhaps
some other forum ...
Even now, more than 15 years down the track, with offerings like the
Woods Majestic documents investigation controversy, "Case MJ-12"
from Kevin Randle, "Project Beta - the story of Paul Bennewitz,
National Security, and the creation of a Modern UFO Myth" by
Greg Bishop, Robert Collins & Richard Doty's offering "Exempt
from Disclosure: The Disturbing case about the UFO Coverup", and
even Nick Redfern's "Body Snatchers in the Desert - the horrible
truth at the heart of the Roswell saga", the game is clearly
still afoot (apologies to Sherlock Holmes).
Bill Chalker
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About Me
Name:Bill
Chalker
Location:Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia
My new book "HAIR of the ALIEN - DNA
and other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction" is scheduled for
publication on July 19 2005 through Paraview Pocket Press (a
division of Simon & Schuster). It can be ordered via www.amazon.com
My primary focus in the book is to promote a forensic scientific
approach to examining the alien abduction controversy, concentrating
on the DNA approach where compelling biological evidence is
available.
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