When the Trump administration announced it was going to direct the Defense Department and their agencies to release documents about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs or UFOs), cynics were quick to say it was a move to deflect from the Epstein files.
The fact is, the two files have nothing to do with one another.
No president has dared go down this road of UAP disclosure, but Trump appears ready to do so despite his assertion that he has no opinion whether aliens exist or not. “I never talk about it. A lot of people do,” he stated. Whether Trump is being completely honest here is questionable. There’s still a stigma attached to announcing a belief in extraterrestrial life.
Philadelphia-based writer Maralyn Lois Polak, who wrote a popular interview column for the Philadelphia Inquirer for a number of years, told me that local news anchor/reporter Joan Dinerstein who worked at Channel 10 in 1976 at the same time that Jessica Savitch was an anchor at KYW Channel 3, lost a lot of credibility when she announced publicly that she believed in UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Polak, who wrote two noteworthy books of interviews with famous people in the news, also interviewed Whitley Strieber, when his book “Communion” was published in 1987 (it soon became a bestseller).
In “Communion,” Strieber documents his experiences with nonhuman intelligent beings in his isolated cabin in upstate New York. Polak told me she felt that Strieber was the real deal. Indeed, after his series of encounters with these beings, he was examined by a neurologist and a prominent psychiatrist and passed a number of lie-detector tests. He still writes on the subject and hosts a popular podcast devoted to the topic.
Despite the commercial success of “Communion,” (the New York Times refused to review the book), Strieber was blacklisted by publishers for years.
It’s impossible to answer why publishers and newspaper editors would feel threatened by the free flow of information on this topic. A similar thing happened to John E. Mack, head of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. Mack was well respected at Harvard when his book, “A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence,” (1976) won a Pulitzer Prize, but once he began writing about human contact with aliens (resulting in a 1994 book, “Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens”), Harvard began persecuting him. The level of persecution was not marginal but on the level of an actual Inquisition, at times reaching shameful proportions.
Mack was killed in 2004 while in London to lecture at the T.E. Lawrence Society. He was crossing the street when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver. He was 75 years old. Mack called people who had been abducted by aliens “experiencers.”
“When I heard about this phenomenon in 1990,” he told one interviewer, “I was very doubtful. I thought it must be some kind of mental illness.” Later he came to the conclusion that abduction claims were “an authentic mystery” that deserved research.
Notable abduction claims include the famous 1961 story of Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple active in the Civil Rights movement who claimed they were abducted by extraterrestrials while driving along US Route 3 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The Hills described their abductors as gray aliens with long bodies and large heads. In video interviews of Betty Hill after Barney’s death, she reveals how she joked with the aliens and even threatened one as they were being forced inside a space ship.
To her dying day, Betty – in her thick New England accent – maintained that what happened to her was true. One of her most fantastic claims was that while inside the ship — where she and her husband were examined separately in different rooms — a being gave her a booklet that looked as though it could have been published in New York. The being was responding to Betty’s request that she be given something to take back with her as proof that she had been abducted. Unfortunately, when the examinations were over, a being with higher authority took the booklet away from her.
I’ve never seen a UAP although I’ve met many people who have.
Last year I met a man in his twenties from western Pennsylvania who told me that when he was 19 and driving with his girlfriend through the mountains they saw a vehicle in the sky with strange lights that came down low and followed them in their car. When they stopped the car to get a better look the ship disappeared. One week later, they had another encounter: the same ship or one similar in appearance began following them on the same road. I asked him if he thought he had experienced missing time during the encounter – a common occurrence when humans claim they were abducted – and he said, “Probably.”
Anecdotal stories like this, of course, don’t prove anything. Strieber, for instance, claims that one day “the visitors” will make themselves known on a grand scale, meaning massive ships in the sky for all to see which would put an end to the question, “Do aliens exist?”
Generally, though, it seems the aliens seem very picky about whom they choose to visit. It is said they take people in the middle of the night, appear at their bedside and then levitate them out through windows and ceilings and into their vehicles for examinations that aren’t about clearing out ear wax but the production of hybrid babies, or totally invasive rape-like operations that include the manipulation of the genitals. Strieber claims that many hybrid human aliens now walk among us.
Disclosure podcasts and videos devoted to the subject now flood the Internet, so the information is out there.
One current theme that Strieber keeps harping on: the fact that the “visitors” have no vocal chords and cannot speak but communicate telepathically, while the hybrid children or beings on earth are all almost very autistic (and compulsive smokers) and have great difficulty when it comes to socialization. This aligns with what Temple University Associate Professor of 20th Century American History, David M. Jacobs insists in his 1998 book, “The Threat,” where he predicts a change for humanity when “human-like hybrids would mix with humans in everyday life.”
This concept is nothing new. Writer Ruth Montgomery (1912-2001) was already writing about this in her 1986 book, “Aliens Among Us,” about extraterrestrial aliens who are already among us. An advertisement for the book reads:
“In these pages, you will learn: The secrets of real men and women (including a U.S. president) who have encountered aliens; the secrets of the psychic power centers both on the earth — and beyond it; the secrets about UFO phenomena our government has covered up for decades; and more.”
Emery Smith, a former Air Force surgical specialist who says he worked in a secret underground government facility devoted to medical research, states that he assisted on autopsies on deceased aliens (from the wreckage of crashed UAPs) and worked with alien surgeons — all of whom were telepathic and could pick up his thoughts — who volunteered their services to help humanity. In order to work with these beings, Smith said he had to clear his mind of all “emotionally distraught” thoughts because the beings always picked up the vibe and it affected their behavior towards him.
Smith claims there are some 300 species of aliens, some of whom look very human. “There are hundreds of thousands of ET’s who walk among us and have jobs all over the world, some in government, some in major organizations. They are not here to take over.”
Hopefully Trump’s full UAP disclosure will not meet any disinformation roadblocks, and the truth will be known. Nothing should be covered up. Not the Epstein files, and certainly not anything related to who else might share the universe with us.
