Two Sets of Truths

By Bill Knell

During my childhood I met many of my father’s friends. Because he had been an Air Force Officer during a good portion of his life, most of them were connected to the U.S. Military or Government in one way or another. Many were veterans of World War Two, the Korean War or the Cold War era in general. Listening to them talk about old times was like receiving a priceless lesson on the way things work inside military and government circles. As a result, I grew up with a dual set of values. Tell the truth and never lie, or, lie to preserve the truth.

One of the reasons I became so interested in UFOs and the Paranormal as a child was because I was forced to accept and live with two sets of truths. First, there was the DREAM that passed as the truth. There were no Aliens or Spaceships visiting from other worlds, nothing strange ever really happened that couldn’t be explained and the Government would never lie to us about it if there was. Second, there was the REALITY which was the truth that most people then and now will never be able to accept.

It was difficult to hear military pilots talk about their UFO sightings, and then go to school where we were told that flying saucer stories were the result of untrained observers seeing very ordinary things in the sky that they didn’t immediately recognize. That was the Government answer for most UFO sightings in those days and it did make some sense when it came to most civilians. But the explanation quickly fell apart when you tried applying it to military pilots. From my experience, most of them are natural born skeptics.

Put a bunch of military pilots together, have one tell a UFO story and see what happens? They will all try and tear that thing apart until some logical explanation surfaces. If it doesn’t, you can bet your bottom dollar that whatever was seen probably wasn’t made on earth. And that’s the problem. The same government that trusts their military pilots to fly machines worth millions of dollars, suddenly says that the pilot is in error, delusional or worse if they report a UFO sighting.

Based on what I have learned over the forty-something years I’ve been on this earth, I would have to say that no living being has none the entire truth about most anything since the beginning of the last century. It was around that time that early operatives who saw a need to create an intelligence-gathering network within the U.S. Government decided to fashion it after what the British and a few other nations were doing. The idea was to withhold information from the general public that other nations might be able to use against us. This methodology sounds plausible, but was only as good as any government’s ability to keep their state secrets out of the hands of those intent on getting them.

The advent of the Communist system in Russia created a new type of spy who was more subtle and devious then any western intelligence service was ready to deal with. These operatives were people living in western democracies who became enchanted by the idea of a socialist utopia where everyone would live equally. Most had no idea of what was really happening in Russia and gladly sold out their own nations for the Communist Party. Once in place, agents like Kim Philby infiltrated Britain’s MI-5. Because MI-5 worked closely with U.S. agencies during World War II, Stalin knew about the development of the Atomic Bomb well before the first one was ever tested. When the CIA was created in 1947, it was modeled after MI-5 and British Agents, including Philby, had virtually full access to many of America’s greatest secrets. Or did they?

The biggest loser of the MI-5 intelligence debacle was England. In the 1980’s book, Spy Catcher, former MI-5 operative Peter Wright described his frustration at trying to locate and expose spies within the agency because he didn’t know who to trust. There was a complete breakdown because of all the moles who had infiltrated the British Intelligence network. By comparison, the CIA grew stronger and more powerful with each passing year.

Every time a Spy is found in our government, it’s portrayed as a major disaster. U.S. Navy Warrant Officer John Walker spied for the Russians from 1968 until his arrest in 1985. Between Walker, a friend and his son, this ring of spies turned over a million documents and the keys to decipher them to the Soviet Union. Despite predicting that it would take the Navy at least fifty years to recover from the damage caused by Walker and that NATO had been fatally compromised, the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. The short answer to why is that we fed them crap and caused them to militarily spend themselves out of existence. Having secrets is fine. Not sharing them is better, Having two or more sets of secrets so that no one knows which one is real is the best and the way we live. It’s how the U.S. has become the world’s leading superpower.

My father once told me that it wasn’t a stretch of the imagination to believe that the U.S. Government was always about 50 to 100 years ahead of what consumers and industry had available in terms of technology. This makes some level of sense when I consider the fact that a relative of mine, by marriage, was working on fiber-optic computers at a famous government laboratory somewhere in the USA during the late 1970’s. In reality, we have simply been duped and spoon fed technology developed by entrepreneurs for consumer, industry and low level government use. O.K. Bill, where’s the proof? Well, if the proof were that easy to render, you wouldn’t be reading this article thinking it to be just another WHAT IF conspiratorial piece.

Apart from being able to break us all out of the Truman Show world of false information in which we live (which I cannot do), I will point to some facts that might surprise you. Did you know that every Vice President since Lyndon Johnson has been the head of a secretive space program that’s separately funded and operates completely apart from NASA. This fact slipped out when vice president Dan Quayle accidentally mentioned that he was the head of something called the U.S. Space Project while giving a speech in Iowa during 1991. He talked about a new, billion dollar program that would bring jobs and money to government contractors.

Each year there are about twenty to thirty secret space launches from North America. The evidence is easily seen in unexplained contrails and odd activity reported by Astronomers. Many occur from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California, where a second Space Shuttle launch facility was built at a cost of 550 million dollars, but is said to have never been used. Most of these secret launches are referred to as satellite deployments or missile tests. But in 1993, CNN reported that the U.S. Space Agency (not NASA) launched an old Saturn 5 moon rocket to an undetermined destination. During the same report, CNN announced that seven more launches would occur over the next ten years. Absolutely no explanation for this was ever offered and CNN never followed up on it. It was like the whole thing never took place. But in 1991, President Bush told a group of aerospace workers that we would spend three billion dollars to go back to the Moon whether he was president or not.

Now I get to really angry the Skeptics. A few years ago there was a guy who started some lawsuits over the fact that he believed we never actually went to the Moon. Finding alleged flaws in moon photos, technological data and radio traffic, he believed that the 1969 moon landing was a fake, staged event. He probably had the right idea, but the wrong theory. It wasn’t that we never went to the Moon, it was that once there, we probably never left. Want more? Sure, why not!

Because I spent a good portion of my early life on Long Island, I grew up with a lot of people who ended up working in the technical community there. Much of that work is government based. I moved back to the New York City area in the late 1970‘s. Having reconnected with friends and their own connections to the technical community on Long Island, many were very interested in what I knew about UFOs. I was shocked to discover that almost every person I met with an important technical job had experienced some sort of major UFO encounter. I spoke at more then a few lunchtime or after dinner events for technical people. Each time I asked for a show of hands regarding how many present had seen a UFO, it was almost unanimous.

What I really found disturbing was speaking for a class of gifted children on Long Island in the late 1980’s. The teacher was a friend and had asked if I would come and present a short program about UFOs to the group. They had chosen UFOs as a subject of special study for that school semester. As I traveled the country for various speaking dates shortly after my presentation at the school, I was shocked to find that most gifted children programs around the U.S. had also chosen UFOs as a special study subject during that academic year!

Prior to my arrival, the kids had drawn their conception of Aliens. The drawings were, in a word, disturbing. Each and every one looked the same. It was the small gray beings with large heads, large eyes and no hair. Once I finished speaking, the kids asked questions. In almost every case the theme was “my brother” or “my sister” or “my friend” had an experience. All the experiences were similar, and I just knew they were talking about themselves. Having seen the movie, “Children of the Damned,” was I now among them? You be the judge.

Having multiple truths as reality isn’t enough. And it’s not enough to keep the truth from people. You have to be ready in case they discover it.

During the early 1990’s I got a lot of people angry at me by answering a simple question. Before the Internet, I published a paper newsletter each month. A subscriber wrote to me and asked what I thought of radio personality Rush Limbaugh. He had recently said that people who believed in Aliens were nut cakes or something to that effect. I said that I didn’t know and hadn’t met him, but had once passed him in the hallway at ABC Talk Radio in New York City where I was a pretty regular in-studio guest on other radio talk shows in those days. He seemed friendly enough, but that had nothing to do with what he said on the radio. I pointed out that Rush, like most other radio personalities, was an Entertainer. He’s admitted this himself. That’s not to say that he doesn’t believe in what he says, I believe he does and find no fault with that.

The problem is what he says. And not just him. What I said then is what I say now. It’s not about being conservative, liberal or independent. It’s about CONTROL. While constituents spend their time bad-mouthing each other in chat rooms and on discussion boards at the behest of conservative or liberal pundits, elected officials from all backgrounds lunch together and have a good laugh at your expense. While I respect and admire efforts by groups like the Disclosure Project, I’m certain that the 2001 National Press Club briefing they presented gave a lot of people in the government and military when of the best laughs they have had in years. To put it bluntly, you cannot beat a system by playing the game they want you to play.

One reason that I have spent so much time speaking to people in live seminars is that it’s the best way to get my point across. I learned a long time ago that the media is not an outlet that is concerned about upsetting the status quo. They play the same game we are all forced to play, or get shut down. Like chess, the idea is to learn from playing. The more you play, the better you get as long as you understand the strategy of your opponent.

I doubt that many people understood what I meant by saying that Rush and so many others on both sides of any political argument were merely pawns of a larger control structure that had no real political boundaries. The evidence of that was all the hate mail I received. But as time went on, I also received a lot of retractions. People began to think about what I said and although it took years in some cases, wrote me letters saying that they now understood what I meant. During the now famous 1994 congressional campaigns, republicans screamed about how democrats were continually trying to create a socialist society by pushing legislation that limits our freedoms. But after winning in a landslide, the first legislation that they passed was a law which allowed local police and federal agents the power to enter certain homes or apartments without a search warrant.

Despite all the talk about change and protecting the people, the only thing being protected is the control that those in power now have over us. The question is WHY? Is it control for the sake of it, or something darker? Have the Controllers, themselves, lost control? And if so, to who or what? These are questions I ‘m sure that none of us are ready to hear the answer to. So, let’s just continue to play our parts. The Believer and the Skeptic. The Conservative and the Liberal. No matter what part you play, it seems THEY win. I’m just afraid about who THEY are?

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