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ufos and psyops by charles lear

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often a ufo can be explained as being a

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hoax or misidentification of natural

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phenomena or a human-made object during

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the early history of american ufo

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research these were foremost among the

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possible prosaic explanations that

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investigators explored then as the cold

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war developed and the american public's

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trust in its governing bodies began to

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erode in the wake of the kennedy

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assassination vietnam and the revelation

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of a secret cia experimental mind

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control program known as mk

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some researchers began to explore

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another idea researchers such as jacques

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valle and nick redfern have offered the

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suggestion that some ufo reports could

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be due to a military or intelligence

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agency conducting psychological warfare

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experiments sometimes on its own

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citizens the idea that ufos could be

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used for the purpose of psychological

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warfare or psyops goes all the way back

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to the days of flying saucers after the

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december 27 1949 announcement that

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project grudge the second incarnation of

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the air force's ufo investigation after

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project sign would be ended the

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investigation continued in a limited

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capacity until its revival and eventual

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renaming is project blue book in 1952 a

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final report was released among the

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conclusions is this planned release of

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aerial objects coupled with the release

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of psychological propaganda could cause

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mass hysteria there's the recommendation

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that the agencies interested in

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psychological warfare be informed of the

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results of this study a paper dated

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april 14 1950 was prepared for the u.s

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air force by the rand corporation titled

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the exploitation of superstitions for

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the purposes of psychological warfare

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written by gene hungerford it explores

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superstitious beliefs during world war

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ii in germany and other countries

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post-war superstitions in the soviet

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union in eastern europe and how

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superstitious beliefs of adversaries

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might be advantageously manipulated on

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page 16 of the document there is a

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description of a device created by the

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british army to scare peasants in the

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italian mountains described as a

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gigantic scarecrow about 12 feet high

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and able to stagger forward under its

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own power and emit frightful flashes and

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bangs it was deployed in several italian

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sicilian villages the description of the

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scarecrow might remind some readers of

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the flatwoods monster which was

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reportedly seen in flatwoods west

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virginia by six boys and the mother of

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two of them in 1952 as this was only two

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years after the rand paper was delivered

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to the air force which did take an

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interest in the case one might wonder to

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what extent the air force might have

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been involved and indeed nick redfern

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has

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on thursday september 23 2010 redfern

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posted it's this the flatwoods monster

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in his posting redfern references the

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account of the scarecrow in the rand

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paper and speculates that the us air

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force following the british army's lead

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conducted a test with their own

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scarecrow in west virginia redford makes

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note of the similarity between the

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remote villages in italy and rural

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flatwoods there is a 1954 cia document

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in the form of a telegram from pb

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success headquarters in florida to cia

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substations in guatemala suggesting the

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use of a ufo story is an operational

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tool pb success was the code name for an

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operation that resulted in a coup that

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ousted guatemalan president juan jacobo

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arbenz guzman as a means to draw

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attention away from a white paper

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released by the guatemalan government

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alleging an international conspiracy

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with plans to overthrow the existing

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government there is this suggestion

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if possible fabricate big human interest

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story like flying saucers birth sex

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toplets in remote area to take play away

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an example of the cia using ufos as a

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cover story was revealed in a study

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written by gerald k haynes titled cia's

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role in the study of ufos 1947 to 90 and

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published in studies in intelligence

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volume 1 number 1 1997. in 1955 the cia

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began flying the u2 high-altitude

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reconnaissance plane and later the sr-71

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in the section of the study where haynes

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discusses this he states according to

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later estimates from cia officials who

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worked on the u2 project and the cart

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sr-71 or blackbird project over half of

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all ufo reports from the late 1950s

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through the 1960s were accounted for by

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man reconnaissance flights namely the

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u-2 over the united states

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another west virginia location has been

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suggested as an area where a psyop might

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have been conducted from november 15

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1966 to december 15 1967 many people

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reported seeing a winged red-eyed

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humanoid that became known as the

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mothman ufos and men in black throughout

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the area of point pleasant west virginia

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many of the mothman sightings were

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reported to have been in the area of an

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abandoned munitions production facility

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this link with the military and the men

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in black reports led william grabowski

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to speculate in a four-part article

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mothman redux published on the ufo

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digest website on august 13 2012 that a

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psyop might have been behind the reports

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to support this he quotes john keel

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author of the mothman prophecies from

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the september 2007 issue of fate

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magazine i returned to point pleasant

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several times in 1967 learning more

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about the phenomenon with each trip

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several contactees people who thought

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they had met the flying saucer occupants

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had emerged and i was hypnotizing them

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and studying them carefully i found

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these people had two levels of memory

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the first level the surface level

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recalled under hypnosis a fascinating

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adventure usually being taken aboard a

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wonderful flying saucer but the hidden

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level which was difficult to get at and

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usually took several hypnotic sessions

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before it could be reached rejected the

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false memory confabulation and painted a

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different picture most of these

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contactees had been transported to a van

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or house where they were subjected to

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brainwashing techniques and injected

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with an unknown substance

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government involvement in alien

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abductions has been fertile ground for

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speculation jacques villa in his 2019

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book forbidden science vol 4 stated i

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have secured a document confirming that

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the cia simulated ufo abductions in

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latin america brazil and argentina as

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psychological warfare experiments

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jack brewer whose 2016 book the greys

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have been framed inspired this blog

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describes on his site the ufo trail

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emailing villa asking him if he could

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provide a copy of the document

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explaining i hope you can empathize with

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the potential weight of the statement

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and why researchers would be quite

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interested in establishing facts

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surrounding its circumstances belay

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didn't produce the document and brewer

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sent a follow-up email according to

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brewer belay replied most of the

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documents i have referred to or used in

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the compilation of my diaries have been

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donated to a university with a 10-year

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embargo on access specifically to avoid

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the kind of spurious quarrels that erupt