The Aviary- a Film Review

 

A new documentary film has emerged on YouTube called The Aviary- Disturbing Truth of UFO's. It is produced by a content creator called Digital Vortex. On a technical level, it is slick, artistic, professional and very well-edited, but what about its content? It opens with the line: "This is the true story of a counterintelligence operation to propagate a modern myth." That initial premise is true, but not in the way the producer thinks. It begins with the sordid tale of Paul Bennewitz, a businessman living in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. He was very interested in UFO's and had a radio scanner. One day he received some strange signals emanating from the US Air Force base near his home and was worried that they might be from aliens. He was a patriotic man and a World War II veteran so he decided to report his findings to the Air Force from a position of complete trust. The AFOSI agent assigned to his case was Richard Doty; I tell the rest of the story in detail here: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2012/12/mirage-men-by-mark-pilkington.html, and it is summarized in the film. Bill Moore's full 1989 confession speech is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwO6AY8YRR0&t=2967s. This launched the concept so beloved of the backslappers and skeptics alike: that the UFO phenomenon itself is nothing more than some kind of engineered neo-mythology intended to launder more down-to-earth secrets, like spy-planes. This is not a very original theory, in fact these days it is rather fashionable. Nevertheless, what happens next does require explanation because Doty and his accomplices in the Aviary spy-ring went on to gaslight Paul Bennewitz into a mental breakdown from which he never recovered. They hacked his computer, transmitted fake alien signals at his house, showed him planted follies at Dulce that looked like the product of alien intelligence and whispered "inside information" about ET's to him in private. According to the narrative, this methodology did not start and end with the Bennewitz affair. It can be traced back earlier and it continues to this day. By now I'd guessed where the plot was leading. UFO Cover-up Live is an extraordinary TV programme. It was broadcast in October 1988 and was a primetime live telethon with units across the United States and several other countries which discussed in detail most of the ideas in conspiratorial UFOlogy that are still popular today. The secret insiders who appear with their appearance and voices distorted are all the Aviary handlers and agents. However, the distortion is not good enough. "Falcon" is very transparently Richard Doty. Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/C260nfamL0bN/. Their activity was not confined to TV appearances. They popped up at UFO conferences, organized skywatches and posted radical claims on Usenet sites, the 1980's precursor to the World Wide Web. When Bob Lazar came on the scene a whole new cycle of the same UFO stories restarted and this led inexorably to the world of post-2017 "New UFOlogy". Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjEetIQVAMM.
 
The narrator claims that the entire explosion of interest caused by the December '17 New York Times article is based on the misleading promotion of the US Navy videos that apparently show nothing but the normal operation of drones, seagulls and conventional aircraft. This matter has been debated a lot in the last few years and I think it is simply untrue that there is nothing anomalous in those videos, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/03/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-47.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/01/uap-report-2022-livestream.html. The Aviary does not present any new argument to this controversy. As inevitably as night follows day and day follows night, up comes the red meat without whom no backslapper's dinner plate is complete... Lue Elizondo. However the film just repeats all the points I have addressed before, like I do very effectively here: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/12/richplanet-tv-on-aatip.html (However, nobody can beat Cristina Gomez when it comes to slapping the backslappers, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/07/this-is-lue.html!). The only new information in The Aviary about Elizondo is when he trolled Twitter under false identities. This is supposedly evidence that he is a shill. No, it is more likely to be evidence that he is inexperienced with social media and not a flawless angel. Digital Vortex congratulates Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein for not allowing themselves to be recruited by the neo-Aviary network, like I did with Linda Moulton Howe; but how can he be so sure they have resisted the temptation? Sam last mentioned the UFO issue back in March and he had by no means dismissed the mysterious individuals who had contacted him. He seems less positive than he was since he watched Mick West but is still wavering. Hopefully he will spot the holes in West's analysis. As for Weinstein, I'm not so sure. He gave a very ambiguous interview to Kurt Jaimungal and Mick here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwcjpmVOmqc. See here for more information: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/02/ufo-disclosure-2023-its-all-gone-quiet.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/02/sam-harris-on-ufos.html. Could it be that the people the two scientists are in touch with are people genuinely behind the drive to give us Disclosure? The documentary states on two occasions that there is no evidence for ET visitation. I don't know where to start in explaining why that is incorrect. Regular readers can quickly find their own favourite QV. On the first of those occasions the narrator adds: "It's not easy to admit to yourself, never mind others, that you have been duped. And if you spend a lifetime falling down a rabbit hole leading nowhere, even if you realize it, the odds are you wouldn't leave it; because your life has become so intimately entwined in it that it doesn't pay to confront reality. Instead it's easier to viciously attack those who point out the irrationality... If you have spent any time in the UFO community you will know this to be especially true because you see it all the time." Those condescending words are the absolute catnip of the backslapper. How many of them realize though that it can apply just as much to themselves and the skeptics as it does to UFO believers? It is a surprisingly similar mindset to MBA. See here for details: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html. Despite this, The Aviary does come up with a few groundbreaking concepts that I hadn't really considered before. It was actually a friend of mine that commented on the hearings a couple of weeks ago: "I think they're trying to scare the Russians." She then went on to claim that much of the SDI "Star Wars" system to shoot down ballistic missiles in the '80's was pure science fiction. Both sides postured at each other like this in various ways during the Cold War. As I've said many times, it's impossible to rule that out; any more than it's impossible to rule out several other objectives for the UFO Disclosure possibility being disinformation, such as "the Last Card" fake alien invasion scenario, see: http://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/07/third-rail-radio-programme-149.html. However, there is not only reason to believe that the current UFO news stories are a push for willing Disclosure, but that if they are then we cannot afford to miss that opportunity. The producers nominate who they think is "behind the curtain", likely to be running the scam, should it exist, at the highest level; and they put forward a name I have never heard before: Cecil b Scott Jones. I can find very little independent information on this individual; the first hit that appears is the CIA document mentioned in the film. It may well be a placeholder name for more than one person or maybe a particular role. So what is the reason for this whole very expensive and intricate psychological warfare operation? What is the point in making millions of people believe aliens are visiting us? Partly, the narrator claims, it's the standard trendy notion that UFO's are distracting people from other real worldly secrets. I don't need to repeat why I think that is false; in fact a regular reader has already requested that I do not repeat my bankrobber metaphor again. If you have not heard of this then it can be found in many other HPANWO publications, such as this one: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/06/bob-lazar-on-richplanet-virtual-tour.html. However, The Aviary film suggests it might have been encouraged as a reaction to the C**** lockdown, but they present no evidence for why this should be the case if the more conventional theory is wrong. I am actually disappointed that so many otherwise credible researchers take this possibility at face value. Can they not see that this is likely to be some kind of elaborate double-bluff? If you were running the truth embargo, wouldn't you come up with some contingency plan with a deeper level of deception just in case there were people intelligent enough in your target population to detect your initial attack? It's a shame these people have been fooled like this. Most are in the United States, but some are in other countries like my own. As I detail in the background links, I consider Richard D Hall to be especially naive in this respect. (We'll talk about it in the carpark, Richard.) I'm also curious why a clip from the "Alien Interview" was shown twice in the programme without any explanation at all. I assume the producers are implying that the Interview is faked, but they don't say so outright. Why not? As regular readers will know, I totally disagree, for example see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/04/area-51-alien-interview-with-jon-stewart.html. I would say that The Aviary- Disturbing Truth of UFO's is definitely worth watching; but, like all documentaries, it should not be accepted as the ultimate truth, regardless of how persuasive it seems or how well it presents itself technically. Keep one eye on the intellectual exit at all times.
See here for more background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-streetcar-named-starr-gate.html.