Weekend Politics

 

They say the political world stops for the weekend, but obviously not this one. I'm sorry I didn't write about these updates sooner, but I've been away at the Bases conference. The unflushable turd is finally round the U-bend; yes, Keir Starmer has resigned as prime minister. He will remain in office until Labour chooses a new leader, probably when Parliament returns from their summer break. This is a complex process, far more so than with the Conservatives, and it has happened far less often. There has not been a contested Labour leadership change since 2015; and only once before during a government, when Jim Callaghan succeeded Harold Wilson. Two-Tier Starlin's announcement followed the Makerfield by-election that was won by Andy Burnham, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/06/hpanwo-show-635-makerfield-election.html. This is a disappointing result, in my view; although Sargon of Akkad is pleased Restore Britain came third right on the polling prediction. I had hoped for better, but maybe my expectations were too high. Labour did not only win they actually doubled their majority. It could be this is just residual Northern tribalism, after all the Makerfield area has been a Labour stronghold since the party was founded in 1900; but it could also be because the official rightwing opposition in the shape of Reform UK has not won the public's trust. Good; it does not deserve it. At the same time fewer people than was necessary dared to leap over the chasm and back Restore. At the same time a few Restorers still voted tactically for Reform, despite the amazing opportunity Restore presented in Makerfield. The fears about vote splitting were unfounded; it would have made no difference to the outcome. Reform was polled to lose by a narrow margin, but in the end they only got 15,000; this is a huge failure for Farage's party. Hopefully this will be a lesson learned for those closet Loweists. A tactical vote for Reform is jumping into a lifeboat that is also sinking. There are more seaworthy alternatives currently paddling away from the Parliamentary Titanic. I suspect this "Reform-or-bust" delusion kept a lot of the electorate away from the polls and hampered the success or Restore. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehu6C3jK9bw.

Another lesson the people did not seem to understand was that their constituency has been exploited by the Westminster elite, the gaggle of suited bureaucrats, mostly Southerners, who are the nation's demolition crew. The man they elected, Josh Simons, has been removed, with his permission, and therefore their decision has been spat on; and for what? For a greater national and international political agenda. Andy Burnham is being considered to be on some sort of hero's journey, a Paul Atreides who is destined to save the Labour Party. It is extraordinary to think that a man who was not even an MP until last Friday could be prime minister within two months. What's more this outcome is being discussed in the media as a certainty, as if it were all planned from the start, before Josh Simons'.... sorry! Lord Simons'... resignation. It's as if the leadership contest is a mere formality, a foregone conclusion. This displays a major problem with the British political system that most other countries don't suffer. We, the people, cannot elect our head of government. They are merely selected by the majority party in the House of Commons. Other nations, such as the USA, have a separate election to appoint their head of executive power, in this case it is President Trump. I agree with Jacob Rees-Mogg, election to public office is a sacred duty and is not something to be bought, sold, bartered or traded for the fools' gold of more widespread power struggles. If I were Josh Simons I would never have quit. The party could then expel me; fine, I would sit on as an independent MP. Another good point Jacob makes is that this situation really does require a general election, even though it is not constitutionally necessary. This transformation is too radical and there is too much public disapproval. What will happen if... when Burnham gets into number 10? Nothing will improve, that's for sure. Probably most people won't even notice the difference. The one bit of good news from the Makerfield by-election is that the Tories came in just above Count Binface... By the way, Happy Brexit Day, ten years on!
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

What UFOlogists Say about Disclosure Day

 

In my recent review of the new film Disclosure Day, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/06/disclosure-day-film-review.html, I did an analysis of the mainstream critics' pronouncements of Spielberg's summer blockbuster. I deliberately avoided all reviews and interviews until after I had seen the film so I could make up my own mind. When I read the various movie columnists I saw that opinion was very divided. Then reviews started coming in from the UFO community. This took a few days longer because, unlike official journalists, we do not get invited to press previews. I was surprised, and a bit dismayed, to find that generally the UFO-osphere regards the film much less favourably than the mainstream media; and that is quite rare. I think a lot of it was disappointment. Our hopes were so high for Disclosure Day and we were hyping it up to be some kind of miracle. I myself tried to keep that instinct in check, and in my opinion it lived up to my expectations. That wasn't the only reason though; I suspect the way many UFOlogists have become more downhearted lately also contributed. (I'll avoid links to the following because there would be too many.) I was not surprised to find that the backslappers tended to be the ones who were most anti. They took their usual cynical "It's all a grift!" line. The skeptics were, of course, even more opposed. PZ Myers called it "mush-brained mystical bullshit through and through." His video is called I saw Disclosure Day so you don't have to. The thumbnail is the well-known image of Scanlon sitting in the dive chair with his gum-shield and grimace and the words: "This is what I looked like when I was watching Disclosure Day." One thing I did not expect was the hostility from the ultra-woo contingent; the believers in blue chickens, time travel and Antarctic temples etc. They all hated it. I recall one lady, whom I will not name, being furious at the idea of empathy towards the greys because she regards all greys as evil. "If I see a grey I'll kick its arse!" she hissed. Not all aliens are good guys by any means, but to make such a sweeping judgement of all greys is totally false and ignorant. Another woman, somebody I know and usually like, also took a very boorish line. She said she'd read a load of reviews and decided it was a total psyop so she decided to avoid it. Why can't she make up her own mind?

Condemnation is not universal though; Ross Coulthart, Dave Hodrien Andrew McGrillen and Richard Dolan enjoyed it. I think those with a more widespread interest, hopeful feelings about Disclosure and a more positive attitude are suited for getting the most out of this film. There are exceptions though. Surprisingly Bryce Zabel was not impressed; he felt it was not credible and too much like an action movie. Darcy Weir had mixed feelings about it. Steven Greenstreet astounded me. I assumed he would hate the film, but he actually had a lot of positive words to add along with his predictable scorn. I actually even agreed with some of his points. He said that the bad guys were too incompetent, and that's true. See how easy it was for Daniel to steal one of their cars and how they fell for the trick when he and Jane dumped it over the cliff. Boyd couldn't shoot straight during the train scene even though the range was almost point-blank. Why are Wardex such a threat to the truth coming out when they are that amateurish? I found it interesting to read what my fellow conspiratorial questers thought of Disclosure Day. Would it surprise you? I think it did me... I have yet to find any review from anybody as pro-DD as my own.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2008/06/critics.html.

Kid Starmer

 

Our fearful non-leader has just released his most ridiculous speech to date. When you get over the hilarity of it, it's also one of his most sinister. Dressed in a tracksuit like a teenager himself, Keir Starmer announces that he intends to wield his new powers under the Online Safety Act. Saying "hand on heart", pronouncing the last word with a glottal stop to show how down-to-earth he is, that he all he wants is for children "to be safe and happy". He then explains how using social media "harms" them. Interesting that the previous attempt to bring in this legislation was called the "online harms bill". So he's going to ban all under-sixteens from using social media. He knows how difficult this is and how much resistance he will get from Silicon Valley... meaning Elon Musk, but he says he will "take them on!" Like Elon couldn't beat down Starmer with the back of his knee. YouTube does not publish dislikes on its thumb display anymore and videos like this will tell you why. The upload has 26,000 views and only 414 likes... Did everybody else just not thumb it at all? Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS07X1HvPEc. Amazingly, for a change, Britain is not the first country to try out this new Big Brother law. Canada and Australia have... trust the colonies to try and up us in any game! In both nations it is failing badly. It does not protect children at all, in fact it increases risk because the platforms in those states drop their house child protection protocols because they don't think they need them anymore. As I explain in the background links below, the government have no intention of doing anything to make children safe online. If they did then they would be working with a pair of Ukrainian parents whose sons have been sucked into prostitution; as one Facebook user pithily put it: "How can you be a child protector and a nonce at the same time?" Zoomers are the most tech-savvy of all generations and can easily find ways to bypass the filters anyway.

The system will involve all social media users proving their identity, in other words "encouraging" people to adopt digital ID via the backdoor. Once the infrastructure is in place it can be ratcheted into any role the controllers want. These user databases will not be secure, by the way. The existing ones in Australia were hacked and a number of young women were doxed on 4Chan. These sentiments about child safety are meaningless except as an excuse to introduce full internet control; I've predicted this so many times. The result of this mean that, assuming Starmer gets away with his dastardly plan, you will no longer be able to post anonymously. Until now if you held private political opinions that you knew your employer could justify sacking you for, you could still express them by setting up an account without your real name. You can no longer do that. That is the whole point. The government are scared of people doing that, as I've said before. Maybe this is hopeful sign because it is most definitely an act of desperation. They are truly going for double-or-quits. The good news is that there are many ways to resist this tyranny using VPN's and supporting the lawsuits etc. It won't just be Elon either. Even the less principled social media giants will be tempted to challenge the government simply because of revenue loss. The current regime is not all-powerful; in fact they remind me of the East German administration a week before the fall of the Berlin Wall. They are acting tough and in control, but they are not. Fear not, readers; freedom is an irresistible force and the government are not the immovable object they want us to think they are.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/04/digital-id-mp-reply.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/04/osa-woes.html.

Vancouver UFO Group Videos 2

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/05/ben-emlyn-jones-at-vancouver-ufo-2.html.
The video recording of my second presentation for the Vancouver UFO and Preparing for Contact group is now available:
Part 1: https://www.brighteon.com/40a79f92-da3f-4396-a1cc-839d44626b0e
Part 2: https://www.brighteon.com/ab67b404-8430-4c1b-94f1-89f7124aa200.
It is also available on Bitchute, except for those in countries where the platform is banned. Many thanks to Brian for organizing the event and thanks to everybody who watched, especially those who asked some really good questions and made some well thought out comments.
See here for the recording of my previous presentation: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/05/vancouver-ufo-group-videos.html.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/free-energy-portal.html.

Disclosure Day Discussion Panel

I have been featured on a panel about the upcoming film Disclosure Day. I was joined by six other people some of whom I know; Brian Ruhe, Lorien Fenton and Preston Dennett.
See here for the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XENzC8ijLk.
Many thanks to Crystal for inviting me and to the others for taking part.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

Hush by MD Selig

 

Most writers fear one thing above all others: plagiarism; and they desire one thing above all others: inspiration. Strangely enough the difference between the two is very small and sometimes difficult to discern. (If I were in a cynical mood I would say it is sales figures!) For the first time I have come across another author who I am pretty sure has read the Roswell trilogy and it has given him ideas. Hush is a long, complex and intricate story by MD Selig, somebody I'd not previously heard of, involving a virtual laundry list of theories currently circulating in conspiratorial UFOlogy. They include the Nimitz footage, humanoid aliens living among us, catastrophic Disclosure, secret organizations, deep underground military bases, MH370, reptilians and adrenochrome harvesting, what the characters call "screamshit". The story follows Vyla Kells, a physicist who works at CERN who ends up joining MJ12 and investigating UFO's. It turns out she has family connections that make her a perfect applicant for the job. She also has some psionic abilities, including remote viewing. Her style of remote viewing is unusual though; she can not only see people and things in other places and times, she can place herself inside them and temporarily "become" them in the sense that she finds herself entering their own consciousness; seeing what they see, feeling what they feel and even thinking their thoughts. In this way she has insights into the Roswell incident and other conspiracies that nobody else could ever achieve. Oddly enough this concept also occurs in the new movie Disclosure Day, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/06/disclosure-day-film-review.html. It was also the basis of Delores Cannon's mediumship. Like many people inside the programme, Vyla finds herself on the receiving end of surveillance and harassment. On her adventures she meets some very unusual individuals with names like "Plato" and "Swizzle". She discovers that people who appear to be humans from earth might in fact be nothing of the sort. They have intentions on humanity that are extremely disturbing and frightening; not least because, like everything else in this book, they might well be based on something that is true. This nightmarish theme may not be suitable for all readers. The author seems as embedded and institutionalised into the UFO, paranormal and conspiratorial world as I am. He has clearly studied the work of Ashton Forbes when it comes to the narrative about MH370. Some of the names mentioned in the story are real people, such as Michael Herrera, a member of the US Marine Corps who reports an encounter with an ET/secret space programme craft in Indonesia. Phil Schneider is also mentioned, a man who claimed to have fought against ET's in the DUMB at Dulce. One of the book's characters is called Eileen Fanton, a name that sounds very much like Lorien Fenton, who is a renowned figure in the UFOlogy and SSP research community, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-emlyn-jones-on-fenton-perspective.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html. Selig must have heard of her and may have incorporated her name into his choice of handle for the character, if only even subconsciously. On the technical side, the book takes some getting used to. The dialogue paragraphing diverges from the conventional form with quotes being on a different line to the person speaking. After you learn to deal with that though, the story is absorbing and enthralling. Was MD Selig inspired by me? Quite possibly; he seems to know about almost everybody else in the UFO conspirasphere; he has to have come across HPANWO at some point and maybe also my own fiction. If so then do I object? No. In fact I'm glad to have given him this gift; and I don't care if Hush sells ten times as many copies as Roswell Rising. Actually I'm pleased for him. It is unhealthy to envy the success of others. Other conspiratologists have reviewed Hush by MD Selig, such as Laura Eisenhower and Barbara Lamb. I'm happy to add my name to that list.
See here for the Roswell trilogy.
Rising: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html.
Revealed: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2017/10/roswell-revealed-is-here.html.
Redeemed: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2018/12/roswell-redeemed-is-here.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on Fockham Hall Radio 21

 

See here for the programme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhLnNExH2aQ.
And: https://rumble.com/v7b0186-live.html?e9s.
I have been featured again on Fockham Hall Radio. Topics discussed include: Missing scientists, the truth about the London Underground, humanoid pigs and much much more. The livestream was simulcasted on YouTube and Rumble.
See here for my previous interview on FHR: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/03/ben-emlyn-jones-on-fockham-hall-radio-20.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones live at the Mablethorpe Group 3

 

I will be speaking at the Mablethorpe Group on Monday the 7th of September. My lecture will be entitled: Zombies, Viruses and what the government really know! Zombies are well-known figures of mythology and horror fiction, and their profile is steadily increasing in recent books and films. However more and more they have been appearing in the media and in official government publications portrayed as real or semi-real. What’s going on? The venue is: The Dunes Complex (which room they use will depend on how many people confirm attending), Central Promenade, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire LN12 1RG. The event starts at 7.30 PM. There is no entrance fee, but the organizers request a voluntary donation.
See here for a recording of my previous lecture at the group: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/05/mablethorpe-presentation-videos-2.html.

Cyclical Phenomena

 

A few months ago I wrote an article about curling and the mysterious element in the sport that nobody can explain, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/02/curling-mystery.html. I have since come across something very similar in a video by one of the most distinctive science YouTubers, Simon Whistler, the most charismatic baldy since... well, me. It's all about bicycles. This is a mode of transport that is surprisingly recent. The first one was invented in Scotland in 1839. For such a relatively simple machine I'm surprised nobody thought of it a long time before. For comparison, the first working steam locomotive was invented less than forty years previously; and the first car was put on the market barely forty years later. You'd think those two were far greater engineering challenges. The "safety bike", one with frame mounted pedals and a chain drive connected to a crank on the rear wheel, was first built in the 1880's. It was so called because if you fell off it wasn't from such a great height as you would from a penny-farthing. The safety's design worked so well it remains fundamentally unchanged to the present day. I was therefore very surprised when I found out that there are phenomena associated with bicycles that cannot be explained. The simplicity of the mechanism should mean that the physics of its function would be comprehensive to a pre-Newtonian; but no.

A bike only has two wheels and stays upright by the rider making constant tiny movements to its direction that counters its inevitable imbalance. The rider can also do this by shifting their weight slightly. It takes a while for a new rider to achieve this, but after a bit of experience this movement becomes automatic and subconscious. This should mean that a bicycle moving without a rider should immediately topple over, but it doesn't always. Under some conditions a riderless bike will keep going for as long as it has forward motion. If you push it down a hill this could be for miles. Why? Well, one theory from the late nineteenth century is that the rotating wheels remain in a rigid state because they are spinning, rather like a gyroscopes. This was disputed in the 1970's. Another theory is that the front wheel acts like a caster on a shopping trolley, slightly trailing the centre of its steering axis; but this was eventually also discredited at about the same time. So what is the real cause of this strange self-balancing effect; and why does it not work on a bike with a rider? This movie clip demonstrates the difference, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMV0PCUzkag. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJkJvS2ou1E. As with the curling conundrum, this is another example of how the very simplest of physical systems sometimes reveal themselves to be only a thin veil of the mundane covering the unfathomable. I like the quote at the end of the source video by the science writer Michael Brooks. Who needs black holes and dark matter when we have bike enigmas that evade explanation even more? Would an equivalent of CERN be necessary for us to find out how a bicycle really works? It makes me wonder about perpetual motion, and also the strange properties of Eric Laithwaite's spinning wheel; see the background link. There is definitely something fundamental about the universe we have yet to find out; and the initial clue has come from a machine that millions of people use every day for transport.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/free-energy-portal.html.

More Summer Horror

 

Who needs the Met Office when you have newspapers? The Daily Mirror has published an article that claims we're about to experience a "blast", meaning a period of warm summer weather. The temperatures are illustrated differently on modern weather maps. The cheerful circular dots with numbers in have been replaced by coloured thermal contours that deepen with redness to indicate more heat. It looks as if Great Britain is bleeding and festering under the deadly sun. The forecast states that this new heatwave will manifest by late next week? How can they know that? British weather cannot be predicted that far into the future. Even the Met Office themselves have admitted that after about eight days, judging the conditions becomes mostly guesswork... unless it's being engineered of course. Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heatwave-weather-forecast-met-office-37234011. Of course if the heatwave does appear the Mirror can say its prediction was accurate. Weather forecasts used to be fun and humourous, a uniquely British kind of media phenomenon. Now they are loaded with frightening imagery and portents of doom. The unspoken moral of the story is that we need tyrannical world government now to relieve us of this mortal danger.

See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/11/climate-change-portal.html.

And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/02/chemtrails-portal.html.

GB News EVP No Reply

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/11/gb-news-evp.html.
It has just occurred to me that GB News has not replied to my inquiry about the electronic voice phenomenon they picked up. It's now seven months later so it looks like they're not going to. That is a pity because it would be interesting to know when the EVP actually occurred. Whether it is just on the YouTube upload or on the original broadcast tape is very important. Either way, it wasn't heard at the time and nobody seems to have noticed it except the YouTube viewers. The click-through graph on the player shows a massive spike at the moment of the EVP. It's better than most examples as well. The majority of EVP's are muffled and glitchy; this one is very clear and distinct. The words: "Our train never stops" are whispered in plain English by a feminine voice. EVP is one of the most common paranormal phenomenon and, despite noisy protests to the contrary, remains totally unexplained. Its message is fairly abstract, as they tend to be, although both the voice and the news story have a railway theme. I wonder if we will ever know the answer. If I find out any further information I'll write another update.

Where Do We Really Come From?

 

A friend of mine has just published a new book. JJ Aldren is a regular delegate at the Bases Project conferences; and, as a result, is willing to look at ideas most other people do not. In fact she states that the book is written for "the kind of thinker who asks big questions." Where Do We Really Come From tells the story of the earth, including natural human history, from a perspective few scientists take seriously; but, as the author puts it, "the way you (the open-minded readers) think may be closer to the original design of humans than most people realize." In prehistoric times beings from another planet landed here. They are recorded by mythology all over the world, but we know them best by the Sumerian legend translated by Zecharia Sitchin, the Anunnaki. Their mission was to mine gold, a mineral which is essential to the survival of their homeworld. They used human slave labour to help them. It's strange that to this day gold is seen as a special element, particularly by elite bloodlines. This is despite it being useless for any practical purpose in construction or engineering; it's too heavy and soft, a bit like lead. Traces of this ancient mining operation can be found all over the globe, especially in southern Africa. Michael Tellinger has worked hard to unearth them. Amazingly, the local Zulu culture also records this myth, even though they developed thousands of miles away from the Sumerian lands and the two peoples never met each other. The only major difference is they give the aliens a different name, Chitauri, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLpOKCt1liQ. According this notion, modern Homo sapiens did not exist on the earth until we were bred and genetically engineered for mining and other drudgery our ET masters demanded. There's distinct evidence for our evolution not fitting in to normal biological theories; the way we walk upright, our unique flat feet, our skin being more like a pig's than an ape's, our external nose etc. The author postulates that some people have brains more akin to our natural form than the artificial one, people with "disorders" like autism.
 
You might wonder what the Anunnaki did after they extracted all the gold they needed from the earth. Well, they didn't all just go home to their own planet, some of them stayed here and became our rulers. They are sexually compatible with humans and we can produce offspring together. This could mean we have a common ancestry much further back in time. The Anunnaki are from much closer to the earth than most other aliens. Their planet is said to be the solar system, although it has a very eccentric and distant orbit and so cannot be observed through telescopes most of the time. These hybrid children are called Nephilim in the bible. Another important source is the Book of Enoch, a fascinating ancient text which also records human and ET contact in the ancient world. It was preserved by the Ethiopian Jewish priesthood (they also may have the Ark of the Covenant, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2016/08/programme-202-podcast-ark-of-covenant.html). It was not permitted in most canonized bibles, outside the Ethiopian church, following the Council of Nicea. It is not in any versions of the Torah; but it can be found in some bibles as a footnote, the "Apocrypha". The author considers this editing out suspicious, an early example of censorship. The biblical Nephilim are said to be the royal bloodlines, even as recently as King Charles III. Unlike the House of Windsor, the Ethiopian monarchy claims openly and proudly to be descended from ET's. It's interesting that the bible itself, an anthology of stories written by hundreds of people, many of whom lived in different parts of the world two millennia apart, is a bastardized fake, a plagiarism of much older stories. The book then addresses the future; where do we go from here on planet earth? Where Do We Really Come From by JJ Aldren is a short book, more a pamphlet; you can read it within an hour; but it is very knowledge dense. It is well worth its cover price, I'd say. I think it would serve a good introduction to esoteric worldviews of our past and the author suggests further reading. It would make the ideal gift for the "woo curious" friend or family member in your life, if you're lucky enough to have one. It can be purchased at all good bookshops and, of course, Amazon, see: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Do-We-Really-Come/dp/B0GZCD2JRV.

Ben Emlyn-Jones at the West Usk Lighthouse Conf 2026

 

I will be speaking at the UFO, Paranormal and Spiritual Conference 2026. The event is at the unique venue of the West Usk Lighthouse, St Brides Wentlooge, Newport, Wales NP10 8SF. It takes place on Saturday, July the 4th and starts at 9 AM. Along with the speakers there will be a skywatch in the evening. It costs £35. Details: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ufo-paranormal-and-supernormal-conference-2026-tickets-1980880184957.

See here for a reportage of last year's conference: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-emlyn-jones-at-west-usk-lighthouse.html.

RDH Bankruptcy Order

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-lawsuit-mini-portal.html.
A notice has been printed in The Gazzette- Official Public Record stating that a bankruptcy order was issued against Richard D Hall on the 16th of this month. I will not link to it because it includes personal information about Richard, despite it being cleared by data protection. What I also will not link to is the most insipid and crass Tweet by Martin Hibbert, the chief claimant, about this verdict. He is still portraying his lawsuit as some great moral crusade. He is the heroic knight who has slain the conspiracy theoretical dragon. As I've said many times before, nothing could be further from the truth. What makes the Hibbert's reaction even more galling is that in the comments underneath some people have tried to appeal to his compassion and sense of fair play. One of them Tweeted: "The guy's got a ten year old son and this judgement has just made him homeless." The claimant responded with a clown emoji. That's the level this matter has descended to. I can only hope enough people joined me in backing the "Home for Lewis" campaign. I can't think of any words to describe how despicable this attack against the Merthyr Tydfil One has been. Maybe I should try in Welsh: Beth am ddarn o gachu. What happens now? No doubt we'll be treated to another episode of "Some Dare Call It Conspiracy" in which Neil Sanders will spend another three hours reading pages from Snopes in which he tries to crowbar this attack into a portrait of something rational and righteous. To look on the bright side, if there is a bright side, and there certainly isn't one for Richard; this incident has shown us all what the UFO/paranormal/conspiratorial community is capable of. Richard called for our help and we responded with unquestioning care, loyalty, solidarity and dedication. I'm proud to be a part of that.

London Sainsbury's Butlerian Jihad

 

In my quest to save the galaxy from the dictatorship of the machines I found myself fighting a battle I had not expected to in a strange and distant land far from home. I was at Sainsbury's in Victoria Station, London. I was on my way home from an event and had not eaten during the day so I stopped off there to buy a few sandwiches to munch on the coach home to Oxford. I selected my wares and did my usual, walking straight past the auto-tills to the manned checkout. In this branch of Sainsbury's that consists of just the tobacco and lottery kiosk. There was nobody behind the cash register and so I waited. There seemed to be only one man at work on the shop floor for some reason, which was strange seeing as it was quite a busy time of the day. He saw me, but instead of entering to kiosk to serve me he gestured towards to auto-till aisle. He was an elderly Asian man who didn't speak very good English, but he clearly was asking me to pay for my goods there. I shook my head and said: "No, I want to be served by a human being not a machine." He protested and kept pointing at the auto-tills. In the end I think he understood, but told me it wasn't possible for me to pay at the kiosk. However I continued to protest. He ended up running my sandwiches through the auto-till for me. I warned him: "These things are going to put you out of a job, mate." He scowled and muttered something at me. Seeing at Sainsbury's had left him alone in the store to run it single-handed it looks like they're halfway there already. I thanked him and left with my purchases. I've since been back to that shop and this time they had more staff there and I was able to pay at the kiosk. Humans 1- machines 0.

See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/01/lidl-butlerian-jihad.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones at Vancouver UFO 2

 

I will be speaking again at an online event hosted by the Canadian group Vancouver UFO & Preparing for Contact. My talk is entitled "Energy Politics & UFO's, Ben Emlyn-Jones Returns". To take part you will need to join Meetup and make sure you can use Zoom. Follow the instructions on the event's page. It will take place on Saturday the 6th of June at 6 PM BST. It will be a public video afterwards. There is no charge, see: https://www.meetup.com/preparing-for-et-contact/events/314901802/. (Illustration by Brian Ruhe). See here for a recording of the previous event: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/05/vancouver-ufo-group-videos.html.

See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

Changing Times in the Media

 

I have recently done a joint presentation for the Changing Times group in West Sussex with Neil Ward, see here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/03/ben-emlyn-jones-at-changing-times.html. I was very surprised to find out that the event was publicized in the local mainstream media. I presume that Andy Thomas, the organizer, put out a press release; and two local rags picked it up. Source: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/26116590.burgess-hill-lecture-explores-mysteries-time-space/ and: https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/your-world/unexplained-messages-through-time-and-space-popular-paranormal-investigators-speak-in-burgess-hill-8513382. How generous of them! When I organized Dreaming Saucers and Roswell 70, I also informed the Oxford Mail; and they didn't even have the common courtesy to tell me to get stuffed, let alone actually give us a mention. These articles in The Argus and Sussex Express not only exist, which is in itself extraordinary, they are actually quite good. They are short and omit details and complex discussion, but they are reasonably factual and lack the usual sarcastic flippancy of the redtops. Perhaps it was just a slow news day and we were lucky, or maybe we are genuinely making progress.
See here for a recording of the event: (coming soon).
And: (coming soon).

Ben Emlyn-Jones on the Paranormal Peep Show 34

 

I have been on the Paranormal Peep Show again. This programme is a brief discussion about the recent UAP files release. Andy Chaplin joined Neil Ward and me.

See here for the audio version: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/paranormal-peep-show-the-trump-ufo-files--72040517.
And here for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zoPmBcoiOE.
See here for my previous appearance on the Paranormal Peep Show: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/04/ben-emlyn-jones-on-paranormal-peep-show.html.

Bases Conference 2026 Promo

 

I have done a promotional video with Miles Johnston for the upcoming Bases 2026 International Disclosure Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY3ia4MMG3A.
In this light-hearted interview, we talk about the upcoming event and give a preview of all the speakers. See here for details and tickets: https://www.basestv.org/tidc2026.
See here for Miles on HPANWO Radio: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2025/11/hpanwo-show-611-miles-johnston.html.

Vancouver UFO Group Videos

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/04/ben-emlyn-jones-at-vancouver-ufo.html.
The video recording of my presentation for the Vancouver UFO and Preparing for Contact group is now available:
Part 1: https://www.brighteon.com/625d0fbb-fe87-4bf6-8f3e-e38ddf73cddc.
Part 2: https://www.brighteon.com/b8a0bd85-0de8-4152-bbe6-8a7354e20384.
It is also available on Bitchute, except for those in countries where the platform is banned. Many thanks to Brian for organizing the event and thanks to everybody who watched, especially those who asked some really good questions and made some well thought out comments.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

"I've Always Believed in Aliens... Haven't I?"

 

Prof. Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the world's top "pop scientists". He's a science communicator in the media and has even been described as the natural successor to Carl Sagan. This could be why he was selected to present the new Cosmos TV series, a follow up to Sagan's famous epic 1980 documentary. I have always respected Tyson's professional attitude which is rare among media boffins. I recently had the chance to compare him to Prof Brian Cox who is far less mature and considerate, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/03/cern-disproves-ghosts.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2017/02/cern-disproves-ghosts.html. Nevertheless, Neil deGrasse Tyson, in terms of his opinions, remained a true-blue skeptic. He has commented several times on UAP since 2017 and his position has been totally mainstream skeppist, similar to Mick West and Michael Shermer. For this reason I was very surprised to hear the news about his new book. It's called Take Me to Your Leader- Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter. Source: https://neildegrassetyson.com/books/2026-05-take-me-to-your-leader/. He has produced a short promotional video and blurb. Now, I have to make it perfectly clear I have not read the book, so I am speculating; but the blurb narrative seems very different to the author's previous pronouncements about UFO's. I can't help wondering if he's trying to pull off the same trick Prof. Simon Holland did. I don't think it's pleasant for anybody to admit we were wrong, especially if our delusion caused a lot of distress to others; and its end causes us a lot of humiliation. Readers of Roswell Rising- a Novel of Disclosure will know that in the fictional scenario I invented for the story, the skeptics all commit mass suicide when Disclosure happens, see: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html. I actually think that would not happen in real life and I included it in the plot as a rather dark comedic jibe. The way the skeps will really cope will vary on the individual and community. The most arrogant ones with the most fragile egos will simply disappear from public life. Cox is one of those. His stomach capacity for humble pie is way too small. Other skeptics will do the noble thing, admit they were wrong and apologize to all the people they poked fun at and ridiculed, like Sam Harris, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/02/sam-harris-on-ufos.html. A few will do something very strange and rather risky; they will attempt to rewrite their own history. They will pretend they have always been believers and count on the short memories and laziness of their audience not to fact-check that. One who has tried this is Simon Holland, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/02/skeptic-copium.html. For him it seems to have worked. I always assumed Tyson was one of the big boys, but is he? Is he instead making plans for the same solution as Simon Holland? Obviously only reading the actual book will answer that. I suppose it's a good sign that the skeppers are being put into a position where they need any kind of solution; because whichever one they choose, it demonstrates that they were wrong and they know it.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.

Chasing Aliens

 

I have been to a second event at Conway Hall, London in the space of a month; see here for the first: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/04/strange-central.html. This new event was on a Friday evening. Despite being billed as just ninety minutes it was far more expensive than Strange Central which was an all-day one. It was called "Chasing Aliens" and was set up to launch a new book of the same name by Daniel Lavelle. The proceedings consisted of a dialogue between him and somebody I'm very familiar with, Jon Ronson. I used to watch Ronson's documentaries in the late '90's when I was first getting into the Conspirasphere. For several years I was a very active member of his forum and I made a few friends there whom I'm still in touch with. This is all despite disliking Ronson's early works. Them and Secret Rulers of the World was distorted and misleading, especially the one about David Icke. I was far more enthusiastic about his later book The Men Who Stare at Goats and its accompanying documentary Crazy Rulers of the World. However, I was deeply frustrated that at the very moment Jon broke into something truly revealing and extraordinary, he failed to grasp the significance of his own discovery and pulled back. The project was reduced to the level of a joke and even ended up being adapted into a comedy movie with George Clooney. Now Daniel Lavelle has written a book about his own attempt at gonzo journalism, probably inspired by Ronson. A few years ago he was going through a difficult time in his life, suffering from a mental breakdown and eventually he spent some time homeless and sleeping rough. He found solace and healing in a strange place, but one not entirely unique. He is a 2017er with no previous interest in UFO's, but he developed one after reading the famous New York Times article in December 2017. His life story reminded me of Steven Cambian who also went through a period of terrible mental health and addiction. He also managed to cling on to the dregs of his sanity by watching X-Con videos, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/06/david-grusch-reply-to-steven-cambian.html. Lavelle's path down the rabbit hole of UFOlogy did not last long. He was pulled back from complete belief by a disappointingly unoriginal process. He discovered that the "gimbal" footage merely showed jet engines and that the "go fast" was a seagull. He also came across and accepted the theory that alien abduction is just a form of sleep paralysis. All these propositions are extremely formulaic. They came off the skeptic production line many years ago from people like Mick West. I am convinced that they are also completely false.

The evidence of the Nimitz footage, including detailed interviews with the witnesses, discredits the mundane explanation. The idea that alien abduction is sleep paralysis was comprehensively debunked by many experts, including the research psychologist Andrew Hodrien, brother of David, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/03/hpanwo-show-541-podcast-dave-hodrien.html. As somebody affected by SP myself, I can vouch for that, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/03/sleep-paralysis-and-shadow-people.html. Daniel is also convinced that the missing scientists mystery is just coincidence and a misunderstanding of statistics. Again, this is another off-the-shelf skepper cope, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/05/ufo-disclosure-2026-may-surprise.html. I had no doubt by the end of the dialogue that the audience question-and-answer session would be the most interesting part of the evening. I'm pleased to say that one of the attendees took Lavelle and Ronson to task for embracing the Nimitz cop-out. I gave him a long and hearty clap, which felt strange because nobody else did. Everybody turned to look at me, but I'm glad I did it. The other questioners were a bit more Ronsonian, but they did bring up a few interesting points. Why are UFO's primarily an American phenomenon? The answer is that they are not. It appears that way because the US publicized and popularized UFO's long before any other country did. The politics of the Cold War emphasized this apparent American exceptionalism. Jon Ronson unhappily raised the issue of why UFO culture seems to consist of "mostly white men". I cringed! I have addressed this idiocy myself before, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/08/women-in-ufology.html. There was a long discussion over whether belief in aliens was harmful. They raised the Heaven's Gate cult, the Q-Shaman and mental healthcare for people reporting alien contact. Miles Johnston was also there and has published his own brief coverage, see: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1354555423243623. I got to ask the panel a question myself and I simply asked Jon if he'd heard that Marcus Allen had died. Jon said he knew the name, but hadn't heard. He said he was sorry to hear it. Marcus took part in Ronson's documentary For The Love Of... in 1997, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/02/hpanwo-show-618-marcus-allen-in-memoriam.html. Miles was also in another episode. After the event I went to the pub with Miles and Colin Woolford.

Ironically this was the same day that the big UAP file release happened, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/05/uap-files-release-livestream.html. I wish I had stayed at home instead to report on it. The "Chasing Aliens" event was unfortunately very boring and hackneyed. It was so repetitive that I could almost have written the script myself. I don't object to it being very skeptical in theme; what bothers me is that its skepticism was not more original. It just echoed the mistakes so many others have made. I'm glad Mr Lavelle has recovered from his malaise though. Even if he found a cure in falsehood, I'm happy for him. Colin, Miles and I had far more fun going through the fresh US Department of War data drops over a pint or three. I left early, long before the others, because I had to get all the way back to Oxford and I had work the following day. It was a good job I did because for some reason the coach left the motorway somewhere just beyond High Wycombe and went on a random jaunt through the darkest countryside before rejoining the A40 just before Oxford. I had no idea where it went or why; the driver never announced it. I didn't get home until almost one AM.

See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2017/01/is-david-icke-dangerous.html.

Area 51 Earthquakes

 

Something very strange and worrying has been going on in the western United States. Geologists have detected a series of earthquakes emanating from the Nevada National Security Site. They took place during the last two days of last month. The epicentres of these earthquakes are quite close to Area 51, but because of the secrecy surrounding the location, no official announcement has been made from the facility. The quakes are unusual in that they appeared in a place thought to be seismically stable and they are strangely shallow; just a couple of miles down. Most natural earthquakes are much deeper, twelve miles of so. The tremours measured from 2.5 to 4.4 on the Richter scale, not powerful enough to cause damage, but enough to be physically felt by sensitive people in some places close by. Avi Loeb calculated that an average tactical device has a big enough yield to create those shockwaves. Source: https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/unusual-earthquake-swarm-strikes-near-area-51-sparking-fears-of-secret-testing/ar-AA226LV3. The cause of the earthquakes is unknown, but there has been some understandable speculation considering the Nevada test site nearby was used for over nine hundred detonations of test nuclear bombs from 1949 until the test ban in 1992. The public health impact is still being calculated to this day. When I visited the Atomic Museum, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/11/meadows.html, I saw photos taken in Las Vegas in the 1950's showing mushroom clouds in the distance. How many people got ill? How many died? The 1996 nuclear test ban expired last year so technically the US could begin them again in accordance with its international legal obligations; but nothing has been announced, there has been no debate in Congress and the local population has not been consulted. Are secret detonations being carried out like the original one at the Trinity site in 1945? Alternatively do the earthquakes have another cause, some other technology is being tested at the secret base? Some commentators have suggested there's a connection to the missing scientists, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/05/ufo-disclosure-2026-may-surprise.html. I see no reason to suppose that. I don't know what it is, but obviously something strange is going on and I'm willing to bet that whatever it is, it's bad news for the people, especially if you are a local resident.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/area-51-portal.html.

Why I Voted Reform

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/05/meeting-reform-candidate.html.
The results of last Thursday's election are in. The votes in all 136 councils, mayorals and the Welsh and Scottish legislatures have been counted and it has been, as predicted, a massive grand slam for Reform UK. Their victory dwarfs even last years coup, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/why-i-did-not-vote-reform.html. Reform gained 1,453 seats, mostly at the gross expense of Labour and the Tories. Labour barely cleared a thousand, reducing them virtually to a second tier party. The Green Party and independents did well. Many leftwing and Muslim voters have abandoned Labour for the Greens. "Great Yarmouth First" which is a local front for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, has scooped up all the area's seats, I'm pleased to say. West of the border, Reform have wiped out Labour in the Senedd. They couldn't quite beat Plaid Cymru to the leadership, but they are a close opposition, making it hard for Plaid to win future votes. Eluned Morgan has had the negative honour of being the first head of government in British history to be ousted in an election. She only got about 6000 votes while Plaid beat her with 31,000. As soon as a successor is chosen she will step down as First Minister of Wales and leader of the Welsh Labour Party. Unlike Boris Johnson, there were no contingency plans to parachute her into another seat via a by-election; I don't think you can do that in the Welsh government. The immovable mountain that it the Scottish National Party has held onto power, but it has lost a few seats. The Conservatives lost nine seats (I didn't know there was such a thing as a Scottish Tory anymore!) and only Reform and the Greens have gained. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cr45k7vqw1pt.

I voted for Reform UK. Yes, I know I promised I never would, and I am still not sure if I did the right thing. The problem is when I got to the polling station I was dismayed to find there was no IOA candidate at all. I was shocked; I had not researched beforehand because I assumed there would be one just like last year. The Alliance only have five people on the polls this time round and none of them were in my ward. I was left with the choice of the uniparty or nothing... or Reform. I was tempted to abstain, but then I remembered my conversation with the Reform candidate last Wednesday, see the link above. I know she is just a sample of one, but could it really be that she is not unusual? Are the ranks of Reform really packed with closet Loweists? If so then a genuinely dissident party lies in the form of great potential in Reform, just under the surface; and that Farage and his cronies are a very vocal and brash, but ultimately very thin and weak cage door trying to hold it back. If I am right then I predict we may see the long knives come out at some point and a revolution from below will oust Nigel with all his dithering and deception. Maybe the new Reform could form a coalition with Restore. What will I do next election? I'm not sure, but this is one of the most remarkable elections I've ever seen in this country. Our latest democratic exercise has really made me reconsider a lot of things.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

Meeting a Reform Candidate

 

Today I met a candidate for tomorrow's local government election, none of the people depicted in the illustration. In fact I don't think I should name this candidate or reveal her seat because we were speaking privately and informally, and she said a few things to me I doubt she would raise at the hustings. She wasn't canvassing at the time, but was just sitting on a park bench trying to work out how to find her way around. She seems to be quite bad at map reading; in fact I had seen her a few days ago in the area doing the same so I guided her to her destination. She had a huge suitcase of flyers for her campaign and I helped her carry it because she is a small woman. She is running for Reform UK. Because of this, she engaged me in a discussion about politics. I told her that eighteen months ago I would probably have voted for her, but I wouldn't now because I don't trust Nigel Farage. I was honest and said I preferred Restore Britain. I dislike the way Nigel has treated Rupert Lowe, Ben Habib and many of his other former supporters. I consider them far more honest men than Nigel. I expected her to become scornful at that point, but she did not. She said "I completely agree with you" and then went on to explain that despite her agreement she thinks Reform UK are still the best hope for the country. This is not an uncommon position. Many people I know are voting Reform despite knowing full well that Farage's latest incarnation is something deceptive; possibly set up deliberately by the Deep State to be a controlled counterproposition. It's the usual dilemma of tactical voting: do we vote for the right thing and lose or the wrong thing and win? Reform may be false opposition, but it is the only opposition we have. It's our only chance of beating the uniparty. It currently has enormous momentum behind it; and no doubt tomorrow it will be the principle winner of the election. All the opinion polls are clear on this. Labour and the Tories are going to be eviscerated, justly so, and Reform is the weapon that will achieve it. Last year I also did not vote Reform for the same reasons, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/why-i-did-not-vote-reform.html. What happened to me today paints a very different picture that I didn't know existed because this lady is not just some average voter; she is an actual activist and official of the party who has been selected to contest a council seat. I wonder how many other people in Reform feel the same way as her; not just the voters, but the members, maybe even people quite senior and close to the centre. Is it possible that the only true blue Reformers could be Nigel himself and his inner circle, Richard Tice, Zia Yusuf etc. (I won't include their current influx of opportunistic ex-Tories.) Maybe this is what Landeur meant when he said "Reform's support is a hundred miles wide, but only an inch thick", see: https://www.youtube.com/@BritishLandeur. I'm tired of voting for deformed and watered down forgeries of what I really want. A Reform vote is just a vote for another proto-establishment centrist bureaucracy in waiting. Should Farage become prime minister he will backtrack, U-turn and shift his position very quickly on everything; in fact he has already started. There will be a "Nigel wave" and he will not save the House of Lords or repeal the Online Safety Act; in fact he will deliver none of the goodies we all hoped he would. I myself will probably back the IOA again. They won last time in my own ward, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/05/i-backed-winner.html.

The Tragedy & The Triumph Tour 2

 

There will be a second 2026 Oxford walking tour hosted by Mark Devlin and myself. It will be themed on Mark's allegorical novel trilogy. He has just published the third and concluding book, The Tragedy & The Triumph. We will be visiting many of the locations featured in the story. We will be giving alternative information about this fascinating city which is the world's primary Illuminati education centre. It will take place on Saturday 30th of May starting at 6.30 PM. To join the tour, come to the Oxo Bar, 48 George Street. Please book in advance if possible. Tickets coming soon. The whole event is outdoors so we will have to postpone if the weather is too bad. 

Cancelled, apologies.
See here for my accompanying HPANWO Radio interview with Mark: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/03/hpanwo-show-623-mark-devlin.html.
See here for a HPANWO TV film of the previous tour: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/04/mark-devlin-oxford-tour-3.html.

Missing 411- National Parks, Washington State

David Paulides is becoming more and more prolific as a filmmaker. It was only a couple of months ago that I reviewed his Bigfoot research movie American Sasquatch, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/02/american-sasquatch.html. Now he has released a new Missing 411 documentary, the fourth. Paulides understands that people who mysteriously vanish are a global phenomenon, but he has centred his research on the US national parks. There are sixty-three of these in the United States and they cover a combined area of 82,000 square miles. These parks are beautiful places, containing grand scenery and unspoilt wilderness. They are perfect for the traditional American pastime of outdoor sports and recreations. Millions of people visit them every year to go hunting, fishing, swimming, skiing, mountaineering, rambling, camping and sightseeing. In this new project Paulides teams up with somebody I have collaborated with myself, David Mason, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/05/programme-464-podcast-dave-altman-and.html. Mr Mason is an engineer who has invented many of the new tools used by modern skywatchers. He has helped find part of an aeroplane that crashed on Mount Rainer in 1946 killing thirty-two members of the US Marine Corps. He wonders if maybe it suffered a midair collision. If so, with what? Considering that six months later Kenneth Arnold had his famous sighting there that launched the modern UFO era, it makes me wonder too. The UFO presence has never left the mountain and still exists today, eighty years later. As Paulides explained in the previous Missing 411 film, there is a connection between UFO's and some of the disappearances. Like with the research of Nik Hayes, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-invisibles.html, Mason and Paulides discover that some UFO's cannot be seen in normal light and only manifest outside the band of the electromagnetic spectrum that our eyes can see.
 
As in his previous productions, Paulides emphasises the human cost of this phenomenon. We, who love paranormal mysteries, talk about quirky and fun high strangeness stories all the time; but this particular element of it is frightening and heartbreaking. A young man called Jacob Gray vanished in the Olympic National Park and his father has left his bicycle trailer where his son abandoned it as a memorial. When Laura Macke vanished in the same region searchers found a few items of her clothing and equipment, and nothing else. This is a common recurring factor. We see it with last year's disappearance of Monica Reza, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/05/ufo-disclosure-2026-may-surprise.html. You could argue that there are mundane explanations for some of these disappearances. It is possible that Laura and Jacob fell into rivers. Another man, Bryan Lee Johnston, might have drowned in the sea while walking across to a tidal island; but Paulides takes that into consideration and weighs it up against other "profile points", strange anomalies that normal missing persons cases don't have. Not listed as one of the profile points, but still noteworthy, is the unusual reaction from the authorities. Vincent Dije, a student who vanished in 2020 on Mount Rainier, was declared officially dead prematurely. Despite the assistance of remote viewers, he has never been seen since. In his previous works, Paulides has noted how agencies get involved in the search-and-rescue missions that don't normally meddle in such matters, like the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We saw this also with the Fillipidis case; which, I'm glad to say, ended happily, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/02/missing-skier.html.
 
The National Parks Service is inexplicably evasive when it comes to commenting on missing people. Absurdly, they once offered to help in exchange for an extortionately high price. Whatever is behind these disappearances is not new and predates research into it considerably. Paulides has a very well documented case from 1999, the journalist and writer Joseph Wood. Missing 411- National Parks, Washington State hearkens back to the first two films in the series in that there is no explicit theory about the cause of these disappearances. In some of the cases Paulides hints that supernatural forces might be at work, but this time different mysteries are nominated too. One of the phenomenon's victims, Gilbert Gilman, is something of a man of mystery. He was involved in the intelligence services, but it's unclear what his exact role was. He vanished in the Olympic in 2006. It's possible this was deliberate on his part because of his involvement. If he had disappeared more recently he may well have been added to "the list", see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/03/ufo-disclosure-2026-bring-neil-home.html. Obviously there are many reasons why people die or vanish in the wilderness. They fall and break bones so they can't move and succumb to exposure. They drown in water or are eaten by predators. These tragedies are far more numerous than the unexplained Missing 411 cases; and it is these Paulides focuses on. One man even vanished from a climbing rope while scaling a glacier. There are some reconstruction scenes in the documentary, one of which shows a man literally fading away into nothing. Either way, as they say on Crimewatch, don't have nightmares. For every person on the Missing 411 list there are a million who have a wonderful time in the countryside; rambling, fishing, hunting, bird watching; enjoying the great outdoors. The phenomenon is extremely rare and I wouldn't want to scare people away. Sometimes strange phenomena actually help people who are lost. One of them was Christopher Wearstler. He was led to safety by an esoteric helper. This film is a worthy addition to the Missing 411 canon and carries on neatly from the previous ones. It's a touching narrative, probably inspired by the fact that David Paulides has suffered his own ultimate tragedy, the loss of a child. The film was funded with the help of donors who are all named in the credits. Missing 411- National Parks, Washington State is available on streaming platforms for rental or purchase. I recommend purchasing it because the rental fee, at least in my country, is not much lower.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/01/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-58.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/03/portal-caught-on-film.html.