Thread by @davetroy

1/I do network analysis, the formal study of relationship topology, which is how intelligence agencies track terrorist cells.

It led me to the group of people pushing the current UFO narratives — over two years ago. I was studying the gold standard, and the John Birch Society.

2/I sat down with Danny Sheehan for six hours at his office in California in May of 2021. I’ve met with him twice since then. And he told many similar stories to the ones relayed here.

Including many related to both gold and UFOs.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

3/Historically, there has been overlap between anticommunist, goldbug, theosophy, and intelligence networks. That’s a fact.

The attraction is towards hierarchy — “ascended masters” (now, aliens) who have mastery over humans. Findings here.
washingtonspectator.org/paranoia-on-pa…

4/To get ahead of the news, and know who is going to be making it before they do, do deep network analysis and truly understand motives.

This UFO stuff is being presented free of evidence. I am open to science and if any evidence is presented, we can evaluate it.

5/Meantime, nothing about this is new, and it appears to be the latest round in a long line of “I want to believe” influence campaigns, coming from the same network of people as ever.

As for Sheehan, he has been involved in this network, going back to the Pentagon Papers.

6/He has a wealth of information, some true and some speculative, and believes he is acting in good faith. He has had first hand contact with multiple chapters of history and as such is a primary source.

But he is also, like anyone, subject to influence and his network milieu.

7/And this network of folks, which includes Grusch, Elizondo, Bigelow, Kean, and Blumenthal, is a perpetual motion machine for creating leverage against government.

At this moment, where there is a concerted effort to overthrow democracies, I would encourage you to view…

8/the use of alien and occult mythologies and narratives as part of such an effort. And governments should see such efforts in that light and respond accordingly.

And the public should be very wary of any such claims without evidence.

9/Also: a “disclosure” faction is useful because it can be combined with other minor aggrieved factions as a cudgel against government in a facsist takeover.

Also: these networks are messy, organic, and may not be fully conscious of their function and longitudinal influences.

And I'm not speculating here. This is from a site aiming to align the public against both the Democratic and Republican parties. The strategy of using a 'disclosure' faction is described explicitly. But this strategy goes back decades.

On the topic of hierarchy, if you see the UFO movement as an evolution of theosophy and New Age movements, and there are many reasons to do so, the "Hierarchy" concept is expressed through Ascended Masters and non-human intelligence.
lucistrust.org/resources/medi…

Also: Excess government secrecy is bad and should be opposed. Not because they are hiding important epistemologically seismic information, but because it causes people to think they are hiding such secrets, which is just as damaging. More here.

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1667533374255185921?s=20