I do not have time to write the post I want to write here. But for me, as an anthropologist, one of the most fascinating topics for me that is an excellent example of the Spooky Paradigm is the relationship between these topics and government officials.
The title of the post refers to
a story in The Guardian this morning, concerning declassified documents about Britain's Ministry of Defence and the UFO question.
Now, in America, we're used to seeing documents like this, typically from the 1940s and 1950s (most famously the
Estimate of the Situation after Project Sign [note, this is a pdf]). But the MoD documents are from the 1990s, and the proposal for research they detail resulted in the ironically named Condign (not Condon) Report. Some excerpts from the
Guardian article
Comment: Are we really to believe that "remote viewing project" was abandoned on grounds of little results or value?
What if the reason behind this project wasn't looking for a phantom named "Osama bin Laden" or non-existent "weapons of mass destruction" but to conduct tests of soldier's suitability for mind programming under the veil of "paranormal research"?
The Greenbaum Research
Chemical Hallucinations, Mind Control, and Dr. Jose Delgado
Manchurian Candidate