Spielberg Wraps

 

The untitled film by Steven Spielberg and David Koepp has completed production. All the scenes are now in the can and now the task begins of editing and perfecting the movie and to make it ready for its arrival on the big screen on June the 12th next year. The illustration above is an official news media photograph taken at a location shoot in White Plains, New York and published with the approval of the producers, Amblin Entertainment. I've never heard of a film having this much publicity before the run-up to its release. Almost as soon as he came up with the idea, Spielberg announced that he and Koepp would be making a new movie with a UFO theme. He announced a release date and a working title "The Dish", later changed to "Disclosure". This was all before a single frame had turned over. A cast list has been published; it includes such stars as Emily Blunt and Colin Firth. I raised this subject with Bryce Zabel at Contact in the Desert, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/06/need-to-know-live.html, and he didn't think I should read too much into it. Obviously he is the Hollywood expert, but despite that I struggle to think of any other cinematic work in progress I've heard of that has been presented in this way. What's more, I have a twentieth anniversary special edition DVD of Close Encounters of the Third Kind which includes a lot of bonus material. Among it is an interview with the director in which he states: "I couldn't make Close Encounters today.", ie 1997. This is because he had lost his interest in UFO's. Well, obviously something has rekindled his interest; I wonder what that is. Has somebody told Spielberg something they haven't told the rest of us? Ron James made an interesting comment about Spielberg during his talk at Contact, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html. He thinks that the director has indeed been assigned a secret agenda and speculates about what that might be. When the film is released the hype leading up to that day will be so intense that there will probably be a multi-screen premiere and at some point in the movie, probably near the end, a decisive piece of UFO footage will be shown accompanied by some kind of fourth wall-breaking announcement that this is in fact real and not just concocted special effects. At that moment the audience will be informed that the government are going to tell the people all about it. If this is the case, Steven Spielberg will go down in history as far more than the very talented and accomplished filmmaker that he already is; he will be a revolutionary figure, the man who did Disclosure with a capital D. Obviously James is merely speculating; he doesn't know any more than I do, but if it were true it would make the other pieces of the puzzle fit. Bryce told me that he would be first in the queue to see the film when it's released. I will be right behind him.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

Capel Green is Here!

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-2019-trailer-for-capel-green.html.
It's been a long wait, in fact I'd completely given up on it; but after nine years of production Capel Green is having its premiere on Sunday the 20th of July. The venue is The Regal Stowmarket Cinema, Ipswich St, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 1AY; not far from where the 1980 incident happened. Get your ticket as soon as they go on sale because the venue has limited capacity. Here's the new international trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKCxEWUJRYg. Hopefully it will go onto commercial release soon afterwards. Hope to see you there!

Asymmetric Disclosure

 

Dr Steven Greer is a one-man movie-making machine. He is without a doubt the most productive member of "UFOwood". It is just two years since his last blockbuster The Lost Century, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-lost-century-review.html, and now he has a new release, Asymmetric Disclosure. Stylistically and technically it is very similar to Greer's previous productions and it includes a basic overview of the underlying issue, UFO secrecy and the free energy cover-up and how the two are fundamentally linked. All his films are intended to be self-contained. Dr Greer himself looks far more modest in this film. He is depicted wearing a blue tweed jacket and unmatching trousers, with a shirt and no tie. He is mostly wearing sunglasses even though it is cloudy on the day Blake Cousins takes him for a stroll around Washington DC, like they did in Battle for Disclosure. Not a rippling muscle in sight. Despite this, his director still shows Greer obvious reverence. In one scene they get into a car and Blake holds the door open for Greer like a servant. Why include that shot in the final cut? Blake also does a second walkabout with Michael Schratt in the National Air and Space Museum, also near the US Capitol. There are some scenes with Billy Carson talking about how Roswell involved real aliens. The film is essentially an update of everything that has been going on in the Disclosure world according to Greer in the last two years. This was clearly made after the 2024 US presidential election but before the inauguration of Donald Trump and the participants speculate on what the new administration will do. There is coverage of the post-election hearing in November. Geer expresses frustration with Congress. He feels that despite their newly awakened curiosity and demand to know more, the pace of progress is too slow and the lawmakers are too distracted by more earthly problems. They've not been read into the subject enough. They've made a basic mistake in that they don't see the ET Truth Embargo as the criminal action that it truly is, which is why they afford it the reverence of SCIF's etc. "You wouldn't talk to the Mafia in a SCIF!" says Dr Greer. "You'd put the handcuffs on them and take them to jail!" Information cannot be classified when it breaks the law. He thinks that when Burchett, Gaetz and Luna went to Eglin Air Force Base and were turned away, they should have gone back with a military escort. At one point Blake challenges Tim Burchett on this point and the Tennessee representative answers that this principle is just not practical because of the threats pilots and other witnesses are put under. However, in this way he is admitting he takes Greer's point. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, is apparently scared of the CIA and Greer claims that the drowning of William Colby, a former head of the Agency, was not an accident. The general attitude is that the new Trump administration will bring advancement and hope. I used to believe that wholeheartedly, but I'm now carefully re-evaluating my previous confidence, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/told-you-so-ben-livestream.html.

For Dr Steven Greer the energy issue is the primary conundrum of willing Disclosure and he's probably right. He maintains that the Deep State have back engineered ET technology to create space based weapons and that they once planned to stage an asteroid impact, but the aliens stopped them. Perhaps the opposite might happen, but for Greer there are no bad aliens. He still claims that all unpleasant ET contact is stagecraft by the military intelligence network and that the aliens are actually artificial life, what Miles Johnston called "PGLF's- programmable generated life forms". Amazingly Greer mentions Peasemore and says he has personally interviewed somebody connected to the AL/499 base that is alleged to lie underground below the village. I have done some field investigation into this myself, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2013/10/peasemore.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/05/peasemore-4-delta-gate.html. Dr Greer does not name the person involved; I wonder if it is Barry King or James Casbolt, or somebody new. Greer believes that there is now a rebel faction within the administration that wants Disclosure to happen, a bit like that letter of the alphabet, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/08/pr-portal.html. They consist of special forces and intelligence agents now operating in a law enforcement role. They can provide security to whistleblowers and Congress people in order to prevent punishment strikes and "wet work". He predicts that the keepers of the secret might become more violent as they feel desperation set in. The risk remains that they might try to pull off a fake alien invasion. A lot of people in exopolitics think Greer is wrong about this, but it is one of the things I agree with him on, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/08/space-force-reply-to-steve-mumbling.html. Greer says he has an insider whom he calls "the NOC- Non-Official Cover" and Greer has created a database of information which he plans to put on a blockchain. He says he will distribute it all to governments and the public. Although he warns again "catastrophic Disclosure" earlier in the movie, is not his plan the same thing? What's the difference? Despite this Greer says there is information that he will not disclose, that related to weapons. This echoes a point often made by Ashton Forbes, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html. If the pace of Disclosure does not speed up the opportunity will be lost, so Greer presses the urgency of the situation. He has "briefed" Trump's administration and even drafted some executive orders for the president. How much notice Trump will take of them remains to be seen. Either way, Disclosure can be achieved by other means he has explored if necessary. The possession of knowledge is asymmetric; in exists more outside the Truth Embargo than within. This is what the film's title means. Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35987107/. All in all, this film is worth watching. I feel the same way about it as I do Dr Steven Greer's other recent productions. It is available to buy on streaming platforms and there is no rental option for Amazon yet again.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/free-energy-portal.html.

Well, That Was a Short Ceasefire!

 

Seen here for essential background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/london-anti-geoengineering-rally.html.
Events are moving very quickly. Almost as soon as I finished last night's "confession" livestream the news broke that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire. Once again I didn't hear the news until the morning and when I did I gasped. Surely this couldn't be possible considering the terrible escalation on both sides, plus the revolting and disappointing American intervention. The missile attack on the US Al Udeid base in Qatar was exactly what I was afraid would happen and I expected to wake up to news of more exchanges of fire between US and Iranian forces. Instead President Trump had announced that there was now a "complete and total" ceasefire. This would hopefully lead to a restart of negotiations and ultimately an end to the war. This looked above board, with Iranian state media boasting that they had "imposed it on the enemy" and Israel going along contingent on no further Iranian attacks. Yet literally within hours both sides began accusing the other of breaking the ceasefire and announcing retaliatory action. Israel claimed Iran carried out a deadly strike in Beersheba that killed four people. Iran denied this and said they had not opened fire at all after the time the ceasefire came into effect. Iran accused Israel of striking a radar complex near Tehran in violation of the truce. I think the problem might be that nobody is currently running Iran at the moment. The Islamic Republican authorities have fled the capital, according to many need reports. If the ceasefire was broken it was probably because a military staff member decided to without authorization. Alternatively Israel might have initiated the renewed hostilities to take advantage of Iran's interregnum. Trump was so frustrated by this that he broke a political taboo and swore at some news reporters. "They don't know what the fuck they're doing!" he grumbled. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFZPbT0rn8E. Trump's loss of composure is out of character, but maybe he deserves it for breaking his promise to everybody who voted for him by meddling in a foreign regional conflict. The fact that he managed to get the two sides to shake hands informally with their fingers crossed behind their backs is not good enough to redeem him. Could the US president do anything that could persuade me to reboard the Trump train? Yes, of course; but he would really have to start delivering significantly. As I said in the livestream, he would have to expose the truth about the corruption in past US interference and take legal action against those responsible. He would also have to pledge that this was a turning point in American foreign policy and that such trite and derivative presidential decisions are over for good. This was a part of his election campaign after all.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/donald-trump-portal.html.

Happy Referendum Day 2025!

 

Today it is nine years since the British people made one of the bravest and most noble decisions we ever have, to be independent of the continental globalist dictatorship. Over the last twelve months things have changed considerably. Across the world there is a rising tide of freedom in many countries, but other regions have regressed; and one of the worst is Britain, as I wrote on Brexit Day this year; see background link below. We also have a totally blatant attack on democracy in France with Marine Le Pen being literally outlawed from becoming president. With the Keir Starmer regime in full control of the United Kingdom Brexit is looking more and more like a helpless victim. Also Nigel Farage has shown himself to be deceptive and ineffectual. The cherry on the cake has to be the treachery of Donald Trump, something that has broken out in just the last couple of days. This is terrible because Trump was the foundational and pivotal figure in the new populist movement, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/told-you-so-ben-livestream.html. What hope is there now? I can't answer that at this moment, but I do know that things come out of left field and we should look out for that. I also believe the 2016 Effect should be memorialized. I will not be removing the Brexit T-shirt and MAGA hat from my HPANWO TV studio area. We should not forget the power and lesson of 2016, that a better world is possible; and nine years ago we almost got it! Look at how much effort the Illuminati have had to exert the stop it; look at the risks they have taken. Despite all these setbacks I cannot believe we have gone though all this upheaval for nothing. Surely the whole thing has not been one gigantic confidence trick. So don't give up!
See here for background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on the Paranormal Peep Show 29

 

I have been on the Paranormal Peep Show again. This programme features an interview with Hugh Newman discussing the secrets of the ancient world, Pyramids and Gobekli Tepe.
See here for the audio version: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-paranormal-peep-show-hugh-s-haunted-house-gobekli-tepe--66639505.
And here for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZrPvhM53Q.
See here for my previous appearance on the Paranormal Peep Show: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/04/ben-emlyn-jones-on-paranormal-peep-show.html.

What Will Trump Do?

 

This article is a follow-up to the subject feature in the latest Third Rail Radio show, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2025/06/third-rail-radio-programme-210.html. As regular readers will know, I was very enthusiastic when Donald Trump was re-elected US President last year, see background link below. However, I'm concerned by some of the things he has done since, or failed to do. In the last two weeks Trump has remained worryingly indecisive over the violence in the Middle East. He has said that the war must end and has called for a ceasefire and negotiations. Israel wants it to continue, although it's not certain exactly how much damage has been done to the Iranian nuclear laboratories. Netanyahu is claiming Trump as his own, stating that his American counterpart is totally behind him. He is convinced the United States will join him in a full scale military coalition against Iran. Trump appears to be only halfway there, in my view. Trump keeps reiterating that Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb. I agree, but neither should any other nation in the region, including Israel. This is a pivotal moment. Trump can do what almost all his predecessors have done and simply back Israel unconditionally. In this way he might be dragged down into a foreign war commitment; exactly the kind of war he promised he would never allow. Don't be surprised if we see another false flag attack in the tradition of USS Liberty. Trump can try and maintain the current fence-sitting or he can pull back. If he simply withdraws all involvement in a single move he will be criticized for throwing Israel to the wolves and will lose a lot of Jewish support. On the other hand he will be seen as keeping his promise to the MAGA movement, people like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene. What I hope he will do is use this as a creative opportunity. He should not support Israel with any arms or funding, but at the same time be honest about the Islamic republic regime in Iran. He must tell everybody exactly from where Iran receives its foreign aid; and then arrest Donald Rumsfeld for giving them nuclear technology. Should a false flag occur, Trump must reveal exactly what it is. Wars always stop once both sides run out of money and lies. The innocent people of Israel and Iran are in desperate need. Trump owes them a lifeline. Do the right thing, Mr President!
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/donald-trump-portal.html.

And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/10/iran-vs-israel-war-livestream.html.

And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/10/israel-war-livestream.html.

Mysterious Signals in Antarctica

 

Scientists at a base in Antarctica have discovered what they call "an anomalous detection of strange radio pulses". They have called them "bizarre" and add that they defy our current understanding of particle physics. The signal was picked up accidentally during a search for neutrinos. Neutrinos are notoriously difficult to capture because they have very little mass and no electric charge at all. The reason the scientists travelled all the way to Antarctica for their experiment is because it's only there that there is little enough radio interference for their methods to work and there is a lot of ice that they need to measure interactions. They use a balloon called "ANITA- the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna" to intercept neutrinos passing through the icecap; however, ANTIA intercepted something else. It was a radio signal, not neutrinos, and it originated from inside the icecap itself. The team's leader Prof. Stephanie Wissel thinks that it might be a previously unknown radio propagation effect or a completely new particle or type of particle interaction, but she admits this is just a guess. Source: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/strange-radio-pulses-detected-coming-ice-antarctica. I can't wait for updates. The reason is because of other strange goings on to do with that empty frozen continent. The background links below give details; but basically, somebody might be living there we don't know about. It could be that to this day, even after eighty years, people who were a part of the Hitler regime in Germany might still be hiding out there, along with their families and descendents. If they had the technology they would be able to build a sustainable independent community in caves under the ice, away from the glare of satellites and explorers' aircraft. It could be they are inhabitants of the ancient lost world Admiral Byrd supposedly discovered. Or perhaps they are not human at all. If extraterrestrials landed on the earth and wanted to set up a secret base, where would they put it? Assuming they had the technology to create a suitable environment, Antarctica would be perfect. It is vast, covered in ice from which caves can be made, and has no permanent human population. It is thousands of miles from anywhere else on the planet. Another possibility is it is connected to the testimony of Eric Hecker but I find that unlikely because the transmissions are electromagnetic, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAa2dgv1o0M. I'm curious to see if there is any follow-up information on this matter, or will it just go quiet?
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2016/09/jack-of-antarctic-rip.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/12/more-pyramids-in-antarctica.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/06/big-secrets-preserved-under-antarcticas.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/09/obama-in-antarctica.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/09/last-witness-of-hitlers-death-dies.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on The Fenton Perspective

 

I've have been featured on The Fenton Perspective on Revolution Radio, see: https://www.revolutionradioarchives.com/files/the-fenton-perspective/.
(To access the archives enter the username "revradio" and the password "rocks!" The file is called "the-fenton-perspective-2025-06-16.mp3 2025-06-16 18:58".)
The hostess is Lorien Fenton who also appears in the HPANWO TV reportage Ben in the Desert 2, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html. Subjects discussed include: experiencing Contact in the Disclosure, standing up to internet trolls, are UFO's a hoax? and much much more. See here for details: https://revolution.radio and: https://lorienfenton.com.

Ben Emlyn-Jones at the Swindon Rabbit Hole

                                      
I will be speaking at the Swindon Rabbit Hole group. My lecture is entitled Exopolitics- the Path to UFO Disclosure. Exopolitics has been called the "militant wing" of UFOlogy, but perhaps it is just UFOlogists who have made up their mind. Maybe history is about to prove them right. Is Disclosure about to happen? The venue is "upstairs" at The Hop Inn, 8 Devizes Road, Old Town, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 4BH. The event is on Thursday the 10th of July and starts at 7.30 PM. The suggested donation is £5. See the illustration.

Usk Lighthouse Bases Promo

 

A discussion between myself and Miles Johnston of the Bases Project, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDCVYwlhbI0.
We discuss the UFO, Paranormal and Spiritual Conference 2025 at the West Usk Lighthouse near Newport, Wales. See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/ben-emlyn-jones-at-west-usk-lighthouse.html.
See here for the HPANWO TV reportage: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-emlyn-jones-at-west-usk-lighthouse.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones and Tere Joyce 7

 

I have been featured on the livestream Not My Rabbit Hole with Tere Joyce.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA8-zF9G5Ps.
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J8vwp5zUDc.
Alt-Tech Full: https://rumble.com/v6uu9yn-after-contact-in-the-desert-fresno-adventures-with-ufo-novelist-ben-emlyn-j.html.
In this video Tere and I explore Woodward Park, a nature reserve in Fresno, CA USA. We talk about many subjects and see some amazing things.
See here for my previous appearance on Tere's channel: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-emlyn-jones-and-tere-joyce-5.html.

Need to Know Live

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html.
The video of the Contact in the Desert live Need to Know show with Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel has been published. It was great to be there in the audience. I never got the chance to meet Ross and talk to him, but I did Bryce. He knows me vaguely from past conferences. I provide a full review of the performance in the Ben in the Desert 2 HPANWO TV reportage. At 1.08 you can hear me ask my question; although the sound quality is not very good. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8o4RN_xj2I and: https://needtoknow.today. Bryce is the Hollywood expert of course, but despite his rejection of my point, I still do wonder why this is the first time I personally have seen such activity from the big screen industry. Steven Spielberg's new movie even has an IMDB page, see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15047880/. The moment Spielberg came up with the idea, he and David Koepp announced a release date, before a single frame had turned over. They also told us the first working title "The Dish" and the second "Disclosure". We also now have a cast list that includes some big stars like Emily Blunt and Colin Firth. There have been official press releases and public location shoots with clips and photos. I find it especially interesting because I have a twentieth anniversary special edition DVD of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and there is a bonus feature of Spielberg. In this interview he says "I could not make Close Encounter today", ie 1997, because he has lost his interest in UFO's. Obviously something has happened since then that has rekindled his passion. What is it? Does he know something we don't? Why all this premature hype over this work in progress? Ron James, another filmmaker and MUFON director, said, also at Contact in the Desert, that he thinks the reason for all this furore is that the film itself is going to be an instrumental part of controlled Disclosure. What he predicts is that the new film will include some real UFO footage and at the end there will be an announcement that the government knows it is really non-human and this is their moment to tell us all. If that's the case no wonder Spielberg is so thrilled; and no wonder they can't resist giving us all clues in advance, obviously with the studio's approval. This will elevate him from a very talented and accomplished film director into a revolutionary historical hero. Bryce says he will be first in the cinema queue to see it; well I will be the second.
See here for more background: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones at A&A 2021

 

Project Camelot has released the video of my 2021 lecture, see: https://rumble.com/v6uk3yt-ben-emlyn-jones.html.
This was originally an exclusive available only to PC members and was recorded during the Awake and Aware event at the UFO Academy, High Elms Manor, Watford, see here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/06/ben-emlyn-jones-at-ufo-academy-2.html. Many thanks to Kerry, Neil, Catrine and everybody else who organized this conference.

Her

 

I watched the film Her after it came up in my recent conversation with Tere Joyce, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-emlyn-jones-and-tere-joyce-5.html. It is written and directed by Spike Jonze, somebody I first discovered when I saw Being John Malkovich, a weirdness masterpiece in my view. Her was released in 2013 and is set "in the near future" which pretty much means the present day; in fact I'm astonished at how accurately the film predicts the subsequent decade. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Theodore, a very ordinary man living a very ordinary life in a big city. He is a divorcee and quite solitary. He has casual friends, but is generally a very lonely person. In his hometown, and across much of the rest of the world, everybody's life is both facilitated and governed by electronics. People walk around with earphones and voice activated smartphones that are very like the modern day real ones. It's important to remember that even as recently as the early 20-teens, mobile phones and computers were far simpler than the ones we have now. When Theodore buys a new operating system it comes complete with the latest generation chatbot, one that calls itself "Samantha" and has the realistic voice of a young woman. It is so realistic that he begins to talk to it as if it were a real person. Eventually he starts thinking about it in the same way and develops a genuine relationship with it that soon turns romantic. At the same time a part of him understands that Samantha doesn't really exist and that she is merely an AI simulation of a genuine personality. In real life the most sophisticated chatbots are perfectly capable of being that authentic. The fictional Theodore has many real counterparts like Blake Lemoine, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/07/ai-created.html.

At one point Theodore questions why Samantha sighs when talking; she doesn't need air and doesn't even breathe. Samantha takes offence at this, or rather simulates offence. She stops speaking to Theodore because she "needs time to think". This is of course just another affectation because she can think very quickly; she can even read a whole book in less than a second. Despite all this, Theodore cannot resist the emotional attachment he is nurturing between himself and Samantha. At one point he panics when she disappears from his device only to find out later she was just doing an update and restart. He is visibly relieved, as if his missing wife has just been found. He also feels intense jealousy when he finds out that Samantha has over two thousand users and has expressed romantic love for 641 of them. It turns out he is not alone and that most people have gained an AI buddy of some description. His friend Amy has one. It seems that this is nothing unusual and when his colleague Paul finds a girlfriend, a real one this time, he invites Theodore for a day out with Samantha that he calls a "double date". He doesn't bat an eyelid when Theodore tells him that Samantha is a chatbot. They go out to sea on a sailing boat and everybody wears earphones so they can all converse with Samantha. After that the story descends deeper into the uncanny valley. Samantha demands bodily acts of love from Theodore, which of course she cannot do because she has no body; so she employs a sex surrogate and plans for her to wear a webcam and earphones while making love to Theodore so she can experience what sex is like. She also creates a separate bot to resurrect Alan Watts from his oeuvre of writings and recorded speeches. Alan Watts was a spiritual researcher, author and lecturer who died in 1973, but using modern technology an AI personality equivalent of him can be generated with a realistic voice and mannerisms. In the movie he is voiced by Brian Cox (No! Not that one.) The irony is that Theodore himself is a deceiver. His job is to sit in a Winston Smithian or Brazil-like cubicle and write love letters, eulogies and other heartfelt personal messages for other people to send to somebody else. These are then printed onto real paper and made to look like they are scrawled with real handwriting. The unspoken implication is that Theodore is going to be made redundant by AI. In fact the same goes for sex surrogate because of "dildonics", the invention of sex toys combined with robots so that people can copulate with a totally artificial partner. This has long been a staple of science fiction and is even the basis of a Star Trek- The Original Series episode; and it has come true. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20230308171411/https://www.startrek.com/database_article/What-Are-Little-Girls-Made-Of. This kind of sci-fi prediction varies in accuracy, but Her is one of the most prescient that I've ever come across. Morgoth recently wrote an essay about how AI is replacing factual learning and understanding, see: https://morgoth.substack.com/p/a-god-in-your-pocket, but in reality the situation is far worse. The film contains an underlying theme of tragedy through loneliness. I suspect people who talk personally to chatbots are sadly only doing so because they have nobody else in their lives to talk to. They resort to counterfeit goods because the genuine article is out of their reach. Humans in our current society experience isolation worse than at any other time in history that I'm aware of. The majority of people do not have a long-term partner, few close friends if any, and are not emotionally connected to their immediate family. I admit I am one of those people; and that's not an appeal for pity, it's just my honest experience of my life in modernity. There is no evidence that any AI, at the current time, is a conscious being. They are in fact programmed to reproduce the behaviour of a living human and learn themselves how to do so better and better as they advance. Samantha can be created with current technology and, excuse the minor spoiler, it becomes increasingly obvious as the movie progresses that an artificial creation is all she is. See the background links below for more detail. In fact other things in Theodore's life are also a fantasy. Even the lift in his block of flats has a fake forest silhouette projected onto the walls and it ascends and descends. We live in an increasingly fake world in which we play more and more often the role of accomplices in our own deception. There is an obvious political slant on this fact; it makes us easier for the state to control us. Unfortunately there is no short cut to real love and affection. It can only be found in other people or other living beings like dogs. I urge readers not to give up in their quest to find it. I've come to realize that the AI chatbot is the satanic tempter for the lonely. Her is a very good film, a poignant story, yet thought-provoking and very perceptive. Its predictive power is worthy of a crystal ball. It is currently free with ads on Amazon UK.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/03/should-we-welcome-our-ai-overlords.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/07/free-will.html.

Breaking News! UFO's Were a Psyop?

 

An article on UFO's has been published in the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper best renowned for its coverage of the financial world. The original article is behind a paywall, but there has been enough follow-ups and commentary for me to gather the general gist of it. It claims that UFO's, at least as most believers perceive them, do not exist. They are actually some kind of engineered neo-mythology created as psychological warfare to launder more down-to-earth covert projects. The disinformation reached a point where the perpetrators themselves became confused and began to believe their own hype. It was even used as a "hazing ritual". This counterintelligence operation is eerily reminiscent of Kelly Chase's lecture at the recent Contact in the Desert conference, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html. The theory was that while the government was engaged in keeping very real secrets, such as the design of spy-planes like the U2 and SR71 Blackbird, it was actually quite useful if people who saw the experimental aircraft in the sky mistook them for alien spacecraft. This idea led eventually to the deliberate seeding of alien and UFO stories in the media and among UFO researchers so everybody was encouraged to think like that. This secret was uncovered by AARO. Source: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/ufo-us-disinformation-45376f7e. Regular readers will know where I'm going with this because I've addressed this point many times. What AARO has supposedly uncovered is not secret; in fact it's been circulating publicly for decades. It's been the subject of several best-selling books such as Mirage Men by Mark Pilkington, see background links below. Among UFOlogists it is not a very original idea and it is in fact somewhat fashionable at the moment. It is the fundamental thesis of the UFO community's backslapper element. But 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, so much so that I think we can reject it on theoretical grounds outside very exceptional circumstances. 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 UNICORN BONES! How long would it take for somebody to realize what was really going on? So I think what we're dealing with here is actually some sort of very elaborate double-bluff. It's a double-bluff intended to repel a Congress whose UAP curiosity is becoming a serious threat. There is a cover-up and a psyop, yes; but it's a cover-up of the fact UFO's are real. The story about how they made up UFO's is a lie that they made up.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/05/mark-pilkington-at-bases-2023.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones and Tere Joyce 5

 

I have been featured on the livestream Not My Rabbit Hole with Tere Joyce, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebnXwfISBBU.
And: https://rumble.com/v6ug7q9-not-my-rabbit-hole-surprise-guest.html.
We also did a short follow up, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2C5MVcd5Bc.
Subjects discussed include: jokes about particular places, artificial intelligence, the UFO conference circuit and much much more. This interview was unique because on this occasion Tere and I were together in the same place, at her home in California USA.
See here for my previous appearance on Tere's channel: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/03/ben-emlyn-jones-and-tere-joyce-4.html.