Finally got a chance to download & listen to this episode and it certainly was a potboiler, or at least a strongly simmering Warren that was allowed to speak his mind. This was a great show that had a strong edge from start to finish, that is if you extract the christmas tunes from the show.
This is what caught my ear: Warren's blunt condemnation of the 'shameful rodents living off the blood of witnesses,' and who would know better? The selling of abductee private sessions is a reprehensible practice and so is allowing others to sneek and peak. For Warren the anger is more tham palpable. He's been accused of addiction and has had his private experiences exposed to his sworn enemy. That's a pretty vulnerable space, and so feelings are felt there. This whole UFO witness thing is a real life rearranger.
I think Warren's statement is critical though. It is a very accurate analysis of a very big chunk of ufology and also helps to describe how a lot of it is manufactured by the writer/researcher. Conflict ensues, in fact the war is on as Larry outlined Halt has dropped a nuclear bomb on the Warren State. There's some anger and some paranoia and a lot of blood and guts language across the whole episode. In the Bentwaters Incident we understand ufology to be literally a war zone, one whose battle for truth never ends. While I mean no disrespect for those brave few who are willing to put their life on the line for the safety of others, I found it quite fascinating how the theme of war is so much a part of this case, right down to Warren's gun first issued 12 years earlier in another infamous war zone.
Of course UFO's and the military are interwoven historically as we understand the Foo Fighters appearing in the WWII air theatre. And how they must have been so heart poundingly theatrical for those mid-century war pilots, as are the events at the heart of this very immense dual army chapter in the history of ufology. This case is truly a landmine of a case. Betty and Barney Hill - also a strong army connection. Just what exactly is their role in the UFO conundrum? Are they bit players, just observers like us or are they instigators, perhaps the magicians?
Does the violence of the military attract these agents of change? They show up in times of turmoil, as trickster to evoke some kind of shift in human experience, or maybe just to jog up the way we do things - the social control barometer of Vallée. And then are ufo's just agents of fortune who are here to play off of our own folly, to steer us as we move off course. Is that some kind of global conscience at work? Could they be disappointed with us or just having fun.
I don't find it very conceivable that the base was able to respond with their own theatrics to confuse reality. That would require not just the skill to vector in phenomenon - which is a real stretch of creulity for me - but to also have on hand their own smoke and mirrors trickster show to meddle with the whole lot of them. That kind of overly complicated approach is in need of a more simplified answer. The plane that was here to remove the show, or the mechanism for it, points to one of two options as always: a UFO landed, or it was made to look like a UFO landed.
I wonder, do cases with prolonged visitations point more to human manufacture i.e. black triangular UFO's or is it an alien life form that periodically likes to rub up against us, to try to what - make contact, to send us binary codes? Have any contactee stories ever really panned out? But the real truth is the one we do know: UFO's make us fight amongst ourselves; that's the only thing certain about UFO reality. And in this way it does more than possibly steer us, it is distracting us - what's that all about?
Addendum: the most sane thing said this entire episode was our host's sage advice: if you think you've been abducted then go see your family doctor and whatever you do, stay away from UFO hypnotists. Imagine how many people might have avoided their own wars if they heeded this warning, or at least perhaps might have been able to find some peace within themselves. I sure hope Larry Warren will find his one day.