We Didn't Start the Liar

There is such an overwhelmingly high number of incredible claims in ufology it can be challenging to apply some context. Given that is the case, it can be frustrating when people sometimes so adamantly demand more claims be accepted without providing adequate supporting evidence. They'll give us the evidence later, or let us in on the big news when they're able, they tell us.

Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter served as director
of the Central Intelligence Group and CIA
from May 1, 1947 to Oct. 7, 1950,
and was on the board of governors of the
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
from 1957 to 1962

During recent correspondence, a well-read UFO friend wrote that sometimes they think modern day UFO stories began as some kind of disinformation campaign which snowballed. Perhaps some of it involved something genuinely intangible, but maybe the topic was manipulated for various reasons. Everything then seemed to go crazy in the 1950's, they added, and then here we are.

I think a solid argument can be made to that effect. People have been seeing all kinds of things they can't explain throughout history, and their personal conditioning determines what they think they saw. It's part of the human experience. We're often predisposed to premature conclusions.

Just a few well orchestrated UFO hoaxes and state-sponsored disinformation campaigns could effectively provide enough material to allow future opportunists, sincere yet incorrect researchers, and confused individuals to continue to unwittingly propagate the stories. We see things, don't know what we saw, and fill in the blanks based on information - accurate or otherwise - we've been previously provided.

The manipulation of the UFO topic since the mid 20^th century has nothing to do with what genuinely unusual phenomena may or may not exist and have been reported throughout history. It's potentially a completely different topic, other than the occasional possible overlapping of reports which may involve genuinely unusual phenomena and their misinterpretations due to widely accepted yet unsupported assumptions.

Alien appendages, according to Robbert van den Broeke

A significant point is verifying claims prior to accepting them as fact. Prematurely accepting invalid claims puts us at risk of unintentionally perpetuating hoaxes and incorrect beliefs, which spread exponentially as we each pass them along. This stands to detrimentally affect how others interpret their experiences, and who they each influence in turn, and so on.

To bring this full circle and back to where we started, there is such a high number of sensational yet highly speculative UFO-related circumstances it is completely unreasonable to criticize those who request supporting evidence. I put together the following list, to the tune of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire, of just a small fraction of researchers who promote such circumstances, along with a small sample of references to dubious instances. Maybe if someone asks why I keep going on about facts and conclusive evidence, I'll give them a link to this post and say, “Well, here are just a few reasons, for starters."


We Didn't Start the Liar

Maury Island, Groom Lake, Crop Circles, Heaven's Gate,

Tom Carey, Aviary, Meier's bin lid.

“Anonymous” was CIA, ET hybrid DNA,

Disclosure, film exposure, van den Broeke's squid.

Stephen Bassett, Steven Greer, Ata Boy ain't from here,

Howard Menger, autopsy, secret moon base.

Adamski, Adam Dew, beWITNESS pay per view,

Imbrogno, Bigelow, the Linda case.

We didn't start the liar

It was always scheming since the world's been dreaming

We didn't start the liar

But we did incite it with the foo fighters

Larry Warren's Rendlescam, Hopkins, Jacobs, Barbara Lamb,

Fastwalkers, Skinwalker, Morton jumped bail.

Carpenter, Bob Lazar, super soldier brawl on Mars,

MJ-12, Hangar 1, Steinberg email.

Gulf Breeze, Bill Knell, Pennsylvania's Roswell,

Don Schmidt, Yvonne Smith, and the STAR Team.

Chilean UFOs, Romanek videos,

Penguin, Falcon and strawberry ice cream!

We didn't start the liar

It was always scheming since the world's been dreaming

We didn't start the liar

But we did enable with some roundtables

Mock Congress presentations, cattle and human mutilations,

Leslie Kean, Wild Bill, talk radio.

Under Dulce they were fighting, Martin's automatic writing,

Roger Leir, John Lear, channeling, and Serpo.

John Ventre, Face on Mars, Alexander, To The Stars,

Implants, Jones rants, Sirius crowd fund.

Bill Moore story telling, Dolan found the slides compelling,

MUFON, MUFON, MUFON and MUFON!

We didn't start the liar

It was always scheming since the world's been dreaming

We didn't start the liar

But when we are gone it will still go on and on and on...