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Peter Farley is an Australian-born journalist, metaphysical researcher, and spiritual healer, He is the author of the controversial book series, Where Were You Before the Tree of Life? - The True History of the Darkness and of the Light. All six volumes of which are now available... With the last three volumes available soon. These books are the first to fully map out the history of alien interaction with the Earth, past, present, and into the near future. Extending the work of noted researchers such as Erich Von Daniken and Zecharia Sitchin, the book series goal is to show its readers the extensive repercussions this interaction has had on life on this planet, especially its formative role in the global conspiracy known as the New World Order.
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Little Green Men: The Cover-up Continues
by Peter Farley
Little Green Men: The Cover-up Continues |
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As any UFO researcher will tell you, the roadblocks set up in his or her way in
seeking to understand the subject are numerous. The roadblocks set up to confuse
and delude the interested public on the other hand, are often even more
insidious and certainly equally as effective.
The most obvious of these roadblocks for the researcher are the denials,
disinformation, and deflections provided by the various government and military
agencies seemingly since time immemorial. These often include agencies such as
the CIA, FBI, and other covert agencies, the various judicial departments, NASA,
as well as various elements of the scientific community heavily reliant on the
government for their monetary grants and subsequently their livelihood.
Next come the often blatantly hostile attacks put forth by various moral and
religious groups, that act as a roadblock to those intimidated by this kind of
pressure. One of these was recently launched on myself after my talk in Roswell
by a church group acting under the guise of an organization known as Alien
Resistance Headquarters. These kind of groups have as their purpose the blockage
of any kind of free flow of information and ideas to the public that disagree
with their own limited visions. Insecure in their own beliefs, they feel their
limited visions of the world will be threatened by the possible existence of
extraterrestrial intelligences who may not agree with their often dogmatic
ideals.
Last but not least comes the most deceptive, least noticeable, and certainly
least publicized type of roadblock set up to hinder the inquiring mind from
ultimately finding its own truth. This is the roadblock set up by the local
businessmen and women of a community under the guise of making an honest dollar.
Herein lies the realm of those most nefarious little roadblocks known in UFO
circles as “the little green men.”
Standing all of 5 to 6 inches tall, weighing no more than a few ounces at best,
made of malleable green plastic and cast in the image of that most ubiquitous of
all aliens—the Grays from Zeta Reticuli—this little alien intruder represents
possibly the greatest danger of all to the free and unrestricted discussion of
issues surrounding UFOs and extraterrestrial visitation. Representative of a
whole broad range of tourist treasures ranging from T-shirts and key chains to
refrigerator magnets and false alien IDs, these little green men represent to
many investigators, authors, and other persons interested in this field of
study, the complete trivialization of the whole alien question.
Complicit in this cover-up of serious questions concerning alien visitation such
as abduction, animal mutilation, and possible government interaction with alien
forces, are the public-at-large themselves. Ever eager to be led astray from
honest solutions to honest problems, steeped in a T-shirt-and-trivia television
mentality, the public bares the ultimate responsibility for its own lack of
knowledge on many of these issues. It also has to bare some of the
responsibility for the ability of certain groups from the government and the
corporate-own media to cover them up, seemingly at will.
One might expect that this would certainly not be the case in Roswell, New
Mexico, the world’s most recognizable name in terms of its association with the
UFO phenomena that has swept the world, particularly over the past five years.
To put this kind of assumption on Roswell may be a little unfair, however, since
no one in Roswell ever necessarily chose to be the center of this, in certain
segments of the population, often unwanted world attention. This small
southeastern New Mexico city of around 50,000 people has inherited the role as
much as by default as anything else after the alleged crash of a flying saucer
north of the city on or around July 4th, 1947.
It was not the crash itself that brought on so much of the attention, however.
Rather it was the article that appeared the following day in the local
newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, after a receiving a press release from the
local army air base saying in fact that they had recovered the wreckage of a
flying saucer from the crash site. This admission was almost immediately
retracted on orders from higher echelons of command. It remains, however, the
one slip in an otherwise consistent wall of denial by the government of the
existence of UFOs. It, therefore, remains to this day the one chink in the armor
to which the whole world clings in hope of finding out the truth about the whole
enigmatic phenomenon of UFOs, and ultimately whether or not we are alone in the
Universe.
Whether or not this incident really occurred or not is of little or no
consequence in the grander scheme of things. Almost any day of the year these
days there seem to be credible eyewitness accounts of UFOs and cases of cattle
mutilations and abductions that would lead any reasonable human being to believe
that we are being visited by extraterrestrial lifeforms. Crop circles appear
overnight in various parts of the world and in shapes and sizes that could not
be duplicated with anywhere near the complexity using any of the known
terrestrial technology.
So, as the Mecca for experiencers and those who want to believe alike from all
over the world, Roswell is also perhaps the first city in the world to witness
and have to deal with the trivialization of the issues surrounding UFOs to a
greater extent and on a larger scale than has ever been dealt with before—even
among those who purport to know better.
First opened in 1992 against initial resistance from a staunchly conservative
and deeply religious farming community, the International UFO Museum and
Research Center in Roswell now attracts as many as 200,000 people a year, and is
one of New Mexico’s newest major attractions.
While it houses an interesting and creative display of artifacts from the 1947
incident, the museum devotes almost equally as much space to displays of flying
saucer-like hubcaps, newspaper cartoons, Hollywood memorabilia, and even fake
pieces of UFO wreckage once pawned off on an eager public as being genuine.
Admission is free to the public, and the museum is described as an educational,
non-profit institution. It is supported entirely by donations and the income
garnered from a small but incredibly well-stocked gift store where both
educational materials and the requisite “little green men” type souvenirs are
sold. The gift store’s manager is reluctant to say exactly how much is brought
in by the store, but rumors have it that it is considerable. Obviously the fun
souvenirs of the “little green men” type outsell the educational
materials—though the ratio is not readily known.
It is not uncommon for one to see a tourist bus unloading passengers at the
museum and hordes of anxious sightseers lining up to sign in and then heading
straight for the gift shop, bypassing the museum displays altogether. All this
for the sake of getting little Johnny or the folks back home a mandatory
souvenir of the museum. In Tom Robbin’s cult-classic 1971 novel Another Roadside
Attraction, every little town in America was almost required to have some kind
of tourist attraction with which to make people stop, at least just long enough
to spend some much-needed money in their community. Along these lines, Roswell
has found itself a goldmine.
In Roswell’s case, however, the town has managed to tap into something much
deeper in the human consciousness than just a desire to relieve some overworked
kidneys and gaze at a two-headed boa-constrictor. They instead have tapped into
the whole thirst for knowledge by almost every individual on the planet to know
why they exist, and whether or not we are alone in the Universe. The question
is, does Roswell help to answer these questions for the people attracted to the
town’s hype, or does it indeed set up another roadblock along the way to the
disclosure of this very vital information?
Story continues on page 2.
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