Darcy Weir is somebody I've known for a number of years. He
is a prolific young documentary filmmaker from
Canada
who has covered many of the same subjects that I have and I've interviewed him
numerous times, for example:
https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/05/hpanwo-show-507-podcast-darcy-weir.html.
He's also a fellow member of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, see:
https://www.hollywooddisclosurealliance.org/darcy-weir.
During the course of his career he has been through a few phases of interest into
different elements of the esoteric world, but his latest period is one I did
not expect. He has made two documentaries about what he believes is fraud and
disinformation within the UFO community. This concerns him seeing as he is not
a skeptic and realizes that there is a reality to the phenomenon that lies
behind this deception. The second in this series,
Dark Alliance- The Next Generation, carries on from where the first
one left off, critically examining the claims of a number of people who have
told extraordinary stories about their involvement with ET races and the secret
space programme. These include some very well-known names on the conference
circuit and alternative media; some of whom I've met and even worked with.
Among them are people who declare themselves to be supersoldiers, ET-human
hybrids, secret agents, officers in an unacknowledged space force, contactees,
time travellers and even keepers of aliens who look like giant blue birds.
We've heard from this contingent that there are secret bases on Mars where
there are special beds that when you lie in them it can heal any sickness or
even return you to your youth. Darcy and his colleague Kari Lindsay interview
some of them, editing in some special effects and humour. It turns out that
many of these ideas are not original. The stories these people tell can be
found in science fiction. For example the "med-beds" are a feature of
the film
Elysium, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1AkgIF3dQM.
(Darcy does not mention this, but the blue avians can be found in the book
Rama II by Arthur C Clarke and Gentry
Lee.) Darcy also talks about a conference I considered going to last year, but
abandoned the plan, for better or worse; the Galactic Spiritual Informers
Connection Conference that took place in
Eastbourne,
East
Sussex. It was organized by Dani Henderson, somebody I met at the
recent Bases Project conference, see:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/12/secret-space-disclosure-bases-2025.html.
There was a skywatch on the seafront during the night and they saw a group of
objects fly overhead. A MUFON investigator examined the data and explained
these as a flock of geese. I know this was also supposedly what the 1951 "
Lubbock
lights" were; and they were not. The
Lubbock
lights were more like the
Phoenix
lights. Despite this the MUFON conclusion is quite likely to be true. You can
even see the birds' wings flapping. This resulted in a massive online troll
attack against MUFON and the individual involved. Sadly, this is something I'm
all too familiar with, see:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/02/confronting-droike.html.
Dani also retrospectively withdrew her permission to be in the documentary
after Darcy interviewed her.
I have always been annoyed by the people I call "backslappers",
those who focus obsessively on internally policing the
UFO-paranormal-conspiracy theoretical community, see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/01/andrew-has-questions.html.
A lot of them are a lot worse than the people they lambaste. There is virtually
a cottage industry of these types and their numbers are growing. That being
said however, there is a definitely a legitimate role for cleaning house. There
are some very dishonest and avaricious people in the UFO world who tell
falsehoods and make money from it. I personally do not believe that med-beds,
age regression or blue chickens are real. Time travel to the past is physically
impossible, see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/05/time-traveller-comes-back.html.
If people are claiming that they are real and drawing all the attention and
resources of the community as a result, then that is a problem; therefore Darcy
is doing nothing wrong by addressing that. I don't think he is a backslapper; he
does not have the right personality. I think he is motivated by genuine
concerns. There is a large overlap between the nonsense claims and the serious
research. Gary McKinnon is often cited as exposing the existence of "Solar
Warden", a secret space fleet established to protect the earth from
hostile aliens. This is not true.
Gary
did describe seeing evidence for something similar, but it was not literally
Solar Warden. This blending of fact and fantasy is a hindrance for the subject
because it causes confusion and scorn.
Dark
Alliance- The Next Generation, features an interview with Steven Cambian in
a way he has never shown himself before, outside his studio and without his sunglasses.
You can clearly see his squint caused by the haemorrhagic stroke he suffered a
few years ago, which he talks about openly. It somehow makes him seem gentler
and more likeable. I've been very critical of Cambian in the past and have
defended some of the people he attacks; however, others among his targets
clearly do deserve it. At the same time though, UFOlogy does involve serious
research into phenomena that are very strange indeed, but are genuine and
studied in a serious manner; indeed Darcy has addressed this in his other
films. As I said, I don't believe in the nonsense any more than Darcy does, but
some of the real discoveries come across to the ear as really no less bizarre. For example, Darcy
interviews Dr Michael Salla whom he is very critical of, and I also find some
of Salla's work way over the top. Despite this Michael Salla has made the world
aware of some other issues that I do think we should take seriously, such as
the strange educational practice of schoolchildren being taught about
crash-retrievals, see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/02/another-fake-school-roswell.html.
So I commend Dr Michael Salla for scoops like that. All he needs to do is stick
to the real stuff and stay away from the drivel. Despite the fact that UFO "wackadoos" to use Cambian's phrase, are inspired by science fiction; sometimes the opposite is true also.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was designed with the help of J Allen Hynek and there are many other examples. We do ourselves no favours by
assuming anything that sounds like the nonsense has to be nonsense. Is there
evidence for it? That's the vital question that sorts the wheat from the chaff.
Darcy had a very strange email conversation with one of the most high profile
people to talk about the ET presence and "galactic federation", General
Haim Eshed, see:
https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/12/israeli-space-commander-says-aliens-are.html.
This exchange led Darcy to suspect there is some kind of psychological
operation going on. He does not give much detail and I suspect he may be
planning a third instalment in his movie series in which he will, but I am
familiar with this concept. Some iterations of it are actually quite fashionable,
especially the one that says aliens are some kind of engineered neo-mythology
created as psychological warfare to launder more down-to-earth covert projects
like experimental spy planes etc. I find that rather implausible. Drawing
somebody's attention towards something with the ultimate objective of
deflecting it away is a very risky gambit that could easily and badly backfire.
In my view, what we are dealing with is actually some sort of very elaborate
double-bluff. But we'll see what Darcy's future adventures reveal.
Dark Alliance- The Next Generation is
currently only available on Apple TV, but it is for a reasonable price in my
country. It's not made very clear, so beware you don't accidentally sign up for
a regular subscription. You can buy or rent the film without that. See:
https://pickrelay.com/t/mda3-ht6b/dark-alliance-the-next-generation.
