A new Mirage Man?

Today’s post was originally going to be about David Paulides and the Missing 411 phenomenon. I get asked about it a lot so it’s really just been a matter of time before I shared my thoughts on it. Instead, I’ve come to a realization about something, someone actually, that’s been on my mind a lot.

If you weren’t aware, the UAP Disclosure Fund held a briefing for congress (and the public) in a televised series of panels that took place on May 1st

You’re probably familiar with most of the people in the group. Members include the likes of Garry Nolan, Christopher Mellon, and Lue Elizondo (Lue can be seen standing at the pedestal in the above photo).

I’d like to say I’m fairly appreciative of what the group (or at least some of its members) are seemingly doing for the community that follows this kind of stuff. I mean, you could really say that they’ve done a lot to help push it into the mainstream and get it considered in a different light than it historically has been. Supposedly, those days of humiliation (for those willing to come forward about their encounters) at the hands of the US government are over.

Lue Elizondo, though, sticks in my mind. There’s just something about him that I don’t trust, that I don’t really like. He reminds me of Richard Doty in the worst ways possible.

If you don’t know the guy, you should. If you’ve never seen Mirage Men, you need to watch it soon.

In short, Richard Doty presents himself as a disinformation agent of sorts. A man named Paul Bennewitz had been listening to radio chatter around Area 51 (this is in the time before the government’s admission that it was, indeed, a real facility of theirs). He’d also taken to filming and photographing strange aerial phenomena that he’d witnessed over and around the base. Bennewitz was brought inside the facility after having reached out to them about how easily he’d been able to observe their operations and, while there, Rick Doty was basically assigned to drive him crazy.

Admittedly, when I say that, I’m being a little dramatic. Doty befriended him, told him he was right that those were UFOs that he was seeing, and that there were even crashed ones on base. Doty took him around, showed him what amounted to early drones being tested and crashed, and filled his head with all sorts of fantasies. You can trace a lot of big UFO and alien conspiracies to Doty and the people around him. Project Serpo, the Dulce base conspiracies, underground wars with reptilian aliens in secret tunnels (which, sadly, these conspiracies still float around and they do so very prevalently in certain communities) — these all come from Doty and agents like him. Not surprisingly, this drove Bennewitz mad. He had a mental breakdown, he lost the rights to manage his business, his life fell apart, and he eventually committed suicide. It should act as a giant flashing warning sign to those involved in this field. Doty, however, still claims that there’s some truth to the stories he told. He claims that around ten percent of the stuff you see out there is real, the rest being stuff spread by people like him to muddy the waters.

It’s because of Doty that I have a lot of issues trusting whenever someone who used to work for the government claims that they’ve got the good stuff (all of us should be wary about these people). Luis Elizondo, it would seem, is just the newest incarnation of this particular type of guy. I was hopeful for a while. He seemed decent. He acted like the government had kind of cut ties with him because they didn’t appreciate him spreading stuff around. He seemed like somebody willing to go to bat for us, so that we might have access to information that we have the right to know. I’ve gone back and forth on whether or not I should trust him. I mean, he openly claims to have been a disinformation agent. He tells these outlandish tales (in his book Imminent) about how he was trained in the same program that Uri Geller was a part of to raise up a group of psychic soldiers (1). I mean, I believe in some weird stuff, but even that’s a bit much for me, I think.

While speaking at the briefing mentioned above, Elizondo shared a bit of proof that he’d promised to show for some time now. An image, he claimed, of a flying saucer the size of an oil rig taken from the window of a commercial jet. The image is pretty interesting at first glance.

Check it out:

It looks pretty much exactly like what he says it is, doesn’t it? You can even see where the disc appears to block the view of the road running through the area.

Imagine for me that you’re in a plane. You’re flying over an area of farmland out west, right? You keep seeing these big circles in the fields outside your window. They look like this:

To be more exact, they’re two that look just like these that you’re seeing.

Where it’s circled, that’s where the road appears to be covered by the craft. It’s not actually floating above the road, the road just ends there.

If you don’t believe me, here it is blurry and black and white like the picture Elizondo showed us.

Take that picture from just the right angle and it’s gonna look like a UFO with a shadow under it.

Crazy isn’t it?

So no, it doesn’t seem like Elizondo is very trustworthy. Perhaps he isn’t at all. Maybe he’s like Doty. Maybe about ten percent of what he tells us is true. It seems like, to a degree, we’re being played. I’m not at all doubting that somebody out there is actually trying to leak information to us, but it’s moments like these that cast doubt on the entire group of people associated with disclosure efforts. I’m reminded of the blog post I wrote the other day, the one about those supposed alien mummies found in Peru. If you didn’t read it, one of the things that bugs me is that the group who’s parading them around and trying to get them examined has, amongst a handful of obviously real mummies (2), a selection of very obvious fakes. For whatever reason, the group treats them all like they’re real. Like Doty said, maybe some of them are real but the inclusion of those fakes is necessary to muddy the waters, cast doubt on the whole thing, and to “maintain societal peace” or whatever they wanna call it.

For whatever reason, Elizondo is out there right now claiming, as a supposed expert among experts, that a photo of irrigation circles is proof of extraterrestrial visitation. When called on it, he’ll probably claim it was a test (to make sure we’re “paying attention”) or that it’s not the real photo and just an approximation.

Elizondo has called himself a disinformation agent and we should believe him when he does so. Introducing this photo as proof, and this not being the first time he's done this… well… first time's a mistake, second time's gotta mean something more. In doing so, he's cast doubt on this entire movement that he has become a de facto head of. Whether he’s purposefully doing it or someone higher up is feeding him this stuff, it doesn’t really matter. Meet Rick Doty 2.0.

We’ll never get disclosure. Not like how we think we will, at least. We'll have to dredge every bit of it up ourselves.

Stay weird,

Scott

Edit: In the time between writing this post and it's scheduled publication, a user on Reddit discovered the exact irrigation circle that appears in Elizondo’s photo.

(1) His claim is that he projected his consciousness (along with other members of the program) and was practicing this on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He claims that his target related stories of frightening angels that would come to him in the night. Elizondo claims this was him. This sounds like something the wiccan I knew in high school would tell me (“Did you feel that wind last night? That was my coven. We did that.”)

(2) I don’t think the mummies are actually aliens. I think they’re real mummies, just not aliens. Read that post for more info.