Saturday, 27 May 2023

Mark Pilkington at Bases 2023

 
One of the speakers at the recent Bases Project Conference was Mark Pilkington, somebody I have discussed before, for example see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2012/12/mirage-men-by-mark-pilkington.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/02/mirage-men-film.html. His thesis is that the modern mainstream UFO phenomenon is some kind of engineered neo-mythology created as psychological warfare to launder more down-to-earth covert projects. This is not a very original idea and it is in fact somewhat fashionable at the moment. It is actually rather implausible when you consider how easily and badly it could backfire. Drawing somebody's attention towards something with the ultimate objective of deflecting it away is a very risky gambit. It's like a bank robber jumping up and down on top of his buried stash in a striped jersey and face mask every time a police car drives past, waving a placard stating: THERE IS NO STOLEN CASH HIDDEN HERE, JUST THE BONES OF A UNICORN! How long would it take for somebody to realize what was really going on? At 52:10, I ask Mark a polite but searching question that I am pleased with, see: https://www.brighteon.com/a8e05cb9-efe0-4c75-9b05-698372835d3c. This is another reason to doubt Mark's opinion, the antiquity of the experience. The South African lady who asks a question after me does a good job too; but as it happens, Mark has had a close encounter, with a silvery spherical object. Mark must have known that this audience would be likely to differ with him considerably and would not give him an easy Q and A. To his credit, he holds his ground and remains calm and rational. This was a good-natured event and everybody had fun.
See here for my HPANWO Radio audio reportage of Bases UFO Special:

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