Kaggle has made 44,000 documents provided by the White House available on their website for text data scientists to download. The challenge is well defined and specific questions are asked to be solved. You can access the challenge and files here.
This is a chance to further prove the power of textual data analysis. Significant work on categorizing the docuements has already been completed. By rapidly querying and analyzing the content of the documents, insights previously unknown or correlative data that bolsters knowledge of the virus will be gained.
Happy mining. Stay safe and best wishes. We will defeat this virus and become stronger as a people, nation and planet.
When events warrant an interpretation counter to or supporting of the facts, depending on what needs to be accomplished to shape public belief or opinion, certain techniques may be used to achieve the objective of creating a narrative which is considered factual by the majority.
In the interpretation of the phenomena of UAP/UFO this is frequently used in attempts to debunk, reinforce and alter perception of sightings with the goal of creating mass acceptance of events as fact. A good example is the Roswell, New Mexico incident – a case where even today competing narratives have sprung up to debunk the crashed saucer idea which most Americans associate the name of the city with – so ingrained into the popular culture/mass consciousness this idea has become.
These techniques to create and shape narrative are of course applicable to other concerns of society. Politics, business, military, history and societal conventions all require direction through shaping of perception and opinion. Effecting an emotional response is often required to compel the population to alter behaviors in the desired manner, whether it be switching from one brand of toothpaste to another or agreeing that a certain war is necessary.
Any narrative, can be burrowed into the consciousness of the public using some basic tenants.
The desired message is a unified narrative
The unified narrative is repeated incessantly
The incessant repeat of the unified narrative is broadcast over all communication mediums – thus the mediums, print, television, social media, radio, internet, function as a force multiplier; even if an individual isn’t paying attention, eventually he or she will receive the message either directly or by social osmosis – word of mouth, likely from more than one friend or family member
Thus the unified narrative is repeated to achieve a saturation effect in the public mind, the goal is to make the narrative accepted as factual and ever present as an idea or event that must be given consideration by individuals, i.e. it must become something that is frequently foremost given thought to by people
The narrative most compel a certain desired behavior from the public, this can be a vote, a purchase decision, recognition of new societal norms, mores or recollection of a historic event
Dissenting or opposing viewpoints or information counter to the unified narrative must be either discredited or censored – the elimination of a competing idea or narrative is paramount in order to achieve a dominant acceptance in the public psyche
In Wall Street investment circles there is a concept known as the “conviction rating.” The conviction rating is applied to investment ideas as an indicator of the degree of certainty that the investment will produce a profitable outcome. The scale may be on 1 to 10 basis with 10 being the highest absolute certainty that a profit is going to be realized. For example, an investment in Amazon stock today could have a conviction rating of 8 based on the consensus of the analysts in the investment firm. Some other examples:
The DOW will open much lower this coming Monday due to the Covid-19 virus spreading. Conviction rating: 10
Netflix share price will rise as more people “nest” at home in response to the Covid-19 situation. Conviction rating: 7
The Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again at their next scheduled meeting. Conviction rating: 9
Railroad stocks will plunge because high speed rail will be implemented by Tesla in the next 5 years. Conviction rating: 2
You get the idea…
Now, let’s use the same concept and apply it to the field of Ufology – that realm of endless rabbit holes, mythologies, folklore, religious-like zealousness, strict fact, wild claims, misinformation, disinformation, credible witnesses, hoaxsters, government intelligence operatives, psyops, physical evidence, hearsay, well-documented certitudes and, well, you get the idea…
There are certain people, events and places in the history of the phenomena that have risen to heights of popularity and interest amongst researchers and the general public, Roswell being the most obvious example. There are certain cases that comprise a sort of historical tapestry of the UFO story in modern times, opinions and interpretations of what occurred, their meaning and relevance vary of course, but there is a general consensus on a timeline of events and how they may be interrelated. One example of an excellent timeline may be found in Richard Dolan’s 2 books on UFOs and the National Security State.
As all researchers know it is often hard to separate the reality-wheat from the chaff in this field. A ranking system approximated as best we can discern from logic and facts surrounding each case is a useful tool in sharpening the focus of the distorted ufology picture. Here we will change conviction ranking to a score. Let’s use a score range of 1 through 10 for the sake of this exercise. With 10 being the highest confidence of absolute fact, in other words, rare! I give it a range of 10 due to the often incremental blend of factual truth and perception distortion to outright charlatanism and quackery associated with the phenomena. 1 to 5 would seem too limiting. Beyond 10, too expansive a margin which would invite analysis paralysis. Let’s call it the Metron Paranormal Believability Score.
Item, Theory or Concept
Score
Area 51 exists
10
Area 51 as a test base for exotic technologies
9
Area 51 as test base for reverse engineering of non-terrestrial tech, housing of systems of non-human design
7
Bob Lazar story
8
McCandlish Saucer
7
MJ-12 Documents
5
MJ-12 Existence
8
Cydonia, Face on Mars
TBD
Pascagoula, MS abduction
8
Cash – Landrum Incident
8
Roswell, NM cover-up
7
AATIP
10
Nimitz Battlegroup “tic tac” encounter
10
“Fast mover”
9
Skinwalker Ranch
8
Galliman’s DMT/Orthogonal Dimension theory
6
UFO phenomena – sightings and observations are symbolic
6
UFO phenomena – contactee experience are symbolic
8
The US military intelligence complex is responsible for some of the abduction experiences
5
Billy Meier
1
Remote Viewing as a viable process
9
Operation Paperclip
10
The (ETH) extraterrestrial hypothesis that UFO and their occupants can only be from advanced spacefaring civilizations
6
The Breakaway Civilization theory
7
Cash-Landrum incident
9
Because of the frequently changing nature of the phenomena the scores may be updated as events warrant. New information and facts come to light, sometimes years after an initial event has occurred, as researchers continue to diligently plow deeper into every angle of a case. The best cases exhibit fact-checking of the fact-checking.
Most of the cases in this list are still “in play.” That is, they are actively being researched, discussed and reported through various media channels, by various people. One good example of this is the Bob Lazar/Area 51 story. Another is the Nimitz “tic tac” episode – which just got a major boost from the recent Popular Mechanics expose. Some cases are irretrievably dead, such as the Billy Meier case which, while entertaining enough, has irrefutably been proven to be a long running hoax.
Therefore it is logical to update the score periodically as new information comes to the fore. This chart is only a small sample of the possible cases that can be scored, it can be augmented by textual commentaries supporting the reasons for the current score (those currently exist in my head). Addition of cases/scores increases the population sample size of the phenomena from historical perspective. Thus, it should be possible to ascertain an overall verity of the phenomena. Obviously this is not an entirely objective tool, much of it is open to the subjective influence of a person’s internal biases, fallacious assumptions and beliefs. But it’s a start.
What is The Quantum Other? It is a definition in progress. Just as a living document changes to suit events and determinations defined in political, business and legal arenas, the definition of a Quantum Other for a time, must be available to change as researchers learn more about the nature of the phenomena it represents. At this time let us consider the attributes of the definition:
It is an intelligence that functions as a waveform (waveform intelligence), itsef a term loaded with connotations for another post
It is polyvariant in the totality of its nature, it affects both physical reality and human consciousness
It employs cause and effect to achieve its objectives
It can cause physical events in order to steer desired outcomes
It can manifest a representation of itself using incorporeal and corporeal states of matter, this manifestation may have some input effect of its design from the consciousness of its percipients, i.e. the observer/experiencer may have some directed effect on the manifestation event
Its communication mode is heavily symbolic but not necessarily obvious demonstrative of its conceptual intent to its percipients
Its intention toward humanity and especially its percipients is still largely unknown but it does appear to employ a trickster persona at times and obfuscation of its nature and intent are achieved through a rabbit-hole effect of linking concepts, symbols, events, people and observational likeness through synchronicities and coincidences of extreme mathematical unlikelihood
I listened to The Farm: a podcast with Frank Zero, Darren West and some other people who are connected to the “Hellier team” last night which lasted almost three intellectually delectable hours. And it was a total trip down several rabbit holes, a fact I think they would happily acknowledge. What I find interesting is that you now have these teams of people who are getting active in researching all these different facets of not just the ufo phenomena, but pretty much all subsets of it, which encompasses much of the paranormal catalog. Each researcher will take a topic of the larger whole, go away and research it and then reconvene with the group to report their findings. It is in these sessions that many synchronicities are identified.
Much of the research seems to point to a larger phenomena that is a highly advanced intelligence, incredibly polyvariant in its construction, that can manipulate some certain physical and contextual aspects of human experience aka synchromysticism and I think this is part of what compels these researchers to continue to pursue every pathway and dead-end it leads them into. Take it from me, synchronicity is like a dopamine hit.
It is not a new concept – Vallee wrote of it in his journals and books. He used the term “intersign” to describe events of extraordinary coincidence which occurred in the context of his research into the phenomena. Extreme synchronicity/synchcromysticism occurrences are something every researcher, myself included, has encountered. What is it, really?
We can only engage in educated speculations, of course. But it may be that whenever an individual begins to focus their intent and curiosity on events, objects, people, entities, places that belong to what I think I will refer to here as The Quantum Other, a sort of wave distortion effect which is intelligently directed begins to manifest into our consciousness and physical realm of experience. In this sense, the true source of the intelligence behaves in a manner not dissimilar to our intelligence community in that it promotes and stages ideas and concepts, mythologies/folklore as misdirection and misinformation to guide researchers down the pathways of circular logic, falsehoods, fact distortion and outright fabrications of truth. Behaving in “trickster-mode” is a highly effective way to obfuscate one’s true goals and objectives.
There are many fits and starts and over-exuberant assumptions made in much of the new research. Much of it clouded by our own external and internal forces of confirmation biases and ingrained beliefs, but we appear to be increasing our proficiency in discerning the operative nomenclature of the phenomena. Having made great strides in this area, we are still very far away from understanding its origin, nature, and intention.
In a data science approach to the study of the phenomena there are many challenges to overcome. View the dataverse from a 30,000 foot macro perspective and you see a serious fragmentation and pooling of data regarding the phenomena. Drill down to any of these sources and you will find varying degrees of structured versus unstructured nature of the datasets. This represents a rather large ETL process which must be designed to efficiently locate, extract, scrub/normalize, categorize (to the extent it is possible to determine logical corpus with a subject that is conceptually polyvariant) and load into a centralized repository. An additional challenge exists where data pools exist away from public access. This would likely be contained in commercial and governmental/military-intel repositories, some of which are probably classified or proprietary. These non-transparent datasets may also offer the most heat signal in terms of determining fundamental natures of the phenomena – which is why one can assume they are not available to the public.
Today’s expose in Popular Mechanics in my opinion is the next shoe to drop in the US Navy encounters/AATIP/TTSA/Elizondo/Bigelow saga.
There is a dearth of weighty new facts to digest here. For now here are some quick hit thoughts that stand out.
The tone of mainstream media reporting has shifted further to legitimacy of the phenomena. Virtually no other agency or authority in the world can definitively state the existence of the phenomena with as much weight as the United States government and military can.
The mindset, this is clear in reading the material since 2017; is that the government no longer investigates UAP to see if they are real as they did with Grudge, Blue Book etc.. They investigate them to see HOW THEY WORK. That is ostensible disclosure because it takes the existence of UAP as a foregone factual conclusion.
It now seems very likely that the Navy had the various Bigelow groups contribute to the development of the advanced detection systems that can detect the “tic tac” phenomena.
The Bigelow studies of human cellular and neurological exposure to anomalous phenomena such as those conducted at Skinwalker Ranch is quite possibly a baseline reference to consult should military personnel encounter and exhibit effects from said phenomena. In other words, because it is clear they do not brief pilots such as Cdr. David Fravor on these types of advanced UAP craft, they knowingly send out Navy personnel into unknown exposure situations. I would not go so far as to say, “lab rats” in the real world arena – there are inherent risks to the job, but the brass clearly knew there were possible unknown side effects associated with exposure to these highly anomalous phenomena and that it was very likely their pilots and operational personnel would encounter it.
The BAASS 10 Month Report is an epic-in-scope classified document for someone to have leaked to Popular Mechanics. I predict it will be uploaded to the Internet for public consumption soon.
We have now entered the wormhole. The shockwave from this report will reverberate much in the same manner that the NYT story did in December, 2017 which began the chain of events coming to light that have led us here. The PopMech reporting now further connects the dots around the apparatus built between the militrary and Bigelow to study the phenomena. It puts Bigelow and his NIDS/BAASS activities squarely into the public eye in relation to this story. Additionally, Skinwalker Ranch, which until now has been a freaky paranormal rabbit-hole the mainstream media would not seriously touch with a 10 foot pole. For those who have been paying attention, and there are many, much of these revelations won’t be entirely new. But remember, this article was written for a mass public audience, linked to from Drudge and now likely to stoke even further mainstream Mr. and Mrs. America interest in the phenomena as it relates to this ever expanding story. If anything, Joe Rogan is going to get a number of multimillion viewer podcasts out of it for the forseeable future!
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