Dive into the world of UFOs where belief intertwines with politics and religion. Explore how historical theories mirror today's UAP discourses, questioning who controls the narrative. Delve into global tensions, with a spotlight on Ukraine and its ecological implications. Discover the plight of marine life facing drastic declines due to human actions, and the call for urgent conservation. Uncover innovations in food production and space exploration, while examining the intricacies of deception that surround UFO phenomena and the rise of potential new belief systems.
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A New UFO Religion?
Micah Hanks questions if a new UFO religion is emerging, citing current whistleblower revelations.
These revelations involve psionics, mirroring ancient beliefs of sky gods and interventions.
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Vallée's Relevance
Jacques Vallée's book, Messengers of Deception, analyzes how groups manipulate UFO beliefs.
Hanks sees parallels between Vallée's work and current UFO narratives.
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Contactee Cults
The 1940s and 50s contactees claimed contact with human-like aliens delivering spiritual messages.
These narratives involved telepathic communication, psionic abilities, and warnings against nuclear weapons.
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For decades, belief in unidentified aerial phenomena has found its way into the ideas espoused by a number of religious and political groups, as well as other organizations with unusual backgrounds. In his landmark analysis of this aspect of modern UFO-related beliefs, computer scientist Jacques Vallee argued in his 1979 book Messengers of Deception that such beliefs could play a key role in understanding both the phenomenon itself, as well as how it may be used by such groups as a control mechanism. But could the same things still be occurring today as well?
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we compare recent events in the ongoing UAP whistleblower debate to Vallee's fundamental premise from decades ago; who are today's UFO messengers of deception, and for what purposes might any such group seek to control aspects of the popular UAP narrative?
Have you had a UFO/UAP sighting? Please consider reporting your sighting to the UAP Sightings Reporting System, a public resource for information about sightings of aerial phenomena.
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