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This article contains THUNDERBOLTS* SPOILERS. Back in 2009, a still-nascent Marvel Studios launched the Marvel Writers Program in which the studio selected a small group of promising new screenwriters to literally sit in the company’s offices for a year and develop different projects based on the vast Marvel canon. Some of the scribes who toiled […]

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In 1988, a recently-retired U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) agent claimed on live television that the government was working with aliens at a secret base in the Nevada desert called Area 51 and that the “extraterrestrials have complete control of this base.” In the program, the producers blacked out the OSI agent’s face, and he went by the codename “Falcon.”

The agent’s actual name is Richard Doty. It’s listed on the IMDb page for the show. Doty has admitted that during his career as an OSI agent, beginning in 1980, he had been sharing disinformation about aliens and UFOs with the UFO community. Within weeks of the airing of the live UFO program, a man in Nevada named Bob Lazar approached reporters in Las Vegas claiming he had worked on alien spacecraft at Area 51. Despite lacking evidence, Lazar’s claims made headlines, and Area 51, then one of United States’ most secret military bases, quickly became its most famous.

Stories like this leave me wondering how much of the UFO mythos is disinformation created by the U.S. government and why. It sounds like another UFO conspiracy theory, but Congress is interested in this question also. They require that the Pentagon’s current UAP investigation program, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), produce a report that includes “the key historical record of the involvement of the intelligence community with unidentified anomalous phenomena, including… any efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public opinion, hide, or otherwise provide incorrect unclassified or classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena or related activities.”

Is there any reason to believe the U.S. government has deceived the public about UFOs? Mr. Doty’s story is not well known, but the CIA has admitted to deceiving the public about UFOs in a study published by the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence titled “A Die-hard Issue: CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–1990.”

According to the study, much like today, credible UFO sightings in the late 1940s and early 1950s brought media attention to the topic. This pressured the U.S. Air Force into creating UFO investigation programs and the CIA to discreetly monitor the situation. The CIA didn’t want attention to the fact that it was monitoring UFO reports and interfacing with the U.S. Air Force on the matter, so both organizations chose to lie about it. The report states, “This concealment of CIA interest contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and cover-up.”

The problem worsened in the late ’50s when testing of U-2 spy planes began. The aircraft flew much higher than any others at the time, and the prototypes were highly reflective, causing a spike in reports to the USAF UFO research program at the time, Project Blue Book. The CIA later estimated half of the UFO reports during this time were due to U-2 aircraft. The report claims, “This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project.”

The report also covers the CIA’s involvement with a University of Colorado review of UFO information in the late ’60s, which led to the USAF closing Project Blue Book and exiting public UFO research completely. Both agencies decided to keep the CIA’s involvement in the report hidden.

Even Roswell was a cover-up, albeit not of the extraterrestrial kind. Unfortunately, the first volume of the AARO report whitewashes this event. According to the AARO report, in the 1990s, “USAF’s research did not locate or develop any information that indicated the ‘Roswell Incident’ was a UFO event, nor was there any ‘cover-up’ by the USG.”

It goes on to explain how the USAF found that the debris collected in the desert in 1947 was part of a classified project to listen for Russian nuclear testing called Project Mogul. It does not include the fact that the USAF’s research also found that the person in charge of researching the material, General Roger Ramey, had taken it upon himself to hide that the debris was part of a classified project. Instead, he told the press they had found an ordinary weather balloon and switched out the actual debris before taking press photos.

According to the 1995 USAF Roswell report, “the Air Force did not find documented evidence that Gen. Ramey was directed to espouse a weather balloon in his press conference, he may have done so because he was either aware of Project MOGUL and was trying to deflect interest from it, or he really perceived the material to be a weather balloon based on the identification from his weather officer, Irving Newton.”

Ramey’s Chief of Staff, Colonel Thomas DuBose, who can be seen in one of the photos, claimed in an affidavit, “the material shown in the photographs taken in Gen. Ramey’s office was a weather balloon. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press.”

DuBose does not claim to have seen or known anything about the material that the USAF found. Still, Ramey’s switching out of the material and DuBose’s statement help fuel Roswell’s conspiracy theories to this day.

This brings us back to Doty, who is the first source of the claim that the USAF took alien bodies to Area 51. He did so in a document claiming a cabal of influential people inside and outside of the government controls UFOs and alien secrets. If this sounds like the X-Files, it’s because the show was allegedly based on Doty’s stories.

In late 1980, Doty worked at Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Only months after beginning his position as an OSI agent, a local technical equipment vendor and paranormal enthusiast, Paul Bennewitz, claimed to be getting images and signals from UFOs over the base. According to documents I and others have received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Doty and another agent looked at what Bennewitz had found but didn’t see anything worth researching.

Doty claims that someone in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached him soon after meeting with Bennewitz. Doty refers to the DIA agent with the codename “Falcon”—the same name he later used on the TV show mentioned earlier. According to Doty, Falcon wanted Doty to feed disinformation to Bennewitz and make Bennewitz believe what he saw was aliens. Falcon said Bennewitz was capturing signals and videos of top-secret activity at the base, and the disinformation was intended to throw off Bennewitz and any Russian spies that might be monitoring him.

There is no evidence that Falcon exists or that Doty was ordered to conduct his disinformation program against Bennewitz, but it was effective and drove Bennewitz into a dangerous mental state. Even worse, the disinformation Doty spread and its amplification by the X-Files has created mythos that may even fool government insiders.

The FBI investigated some of Doty’s documents and asked the U.S. Air Force what they knew. The documents were returned with the word “BOGUS” written on them in thick black marker. But the question isn’t whether they are bogus. The question is why they came from an active OSI agent—a question still unanswered.

In an op-ed for Scientific American earlier this year, former AARO Chief Sean Kirkpatrick wrote: “…our efforts were ultimately overwhelmed by sensational but unsupported claims that ignored contradictory evidence yet captured the attention of policy makers and the public, driving legislative battles and dominating the public narrative.”

I agree with Kirkpatrick regarding the negative effect “sensational but unsupported claims” are having on moving UAP research forward. However, the government has to be open and cooperative as well and needs to investigate and take responsibility for its role in UAP disinformation.

The post Why The Pentagon Needs to Address UFO Disinformation appeared first on Den of Geek.

Almost four years to the day that Line of Duty ended its sixth series on a final(ish) note, comes speculation about the BBC crime thriller’s rumoured return. That means cast members are once again ‘breaking their silence’ to ‘exclusively reveal’ little of substance to outlets including The Sun, (who previously scooped a three-part special that […]

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In 1988, a recently-retired U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) agent claimed on live television that the government was working with aliens at a secret base in the Nevada desert called Area 51 and that the “extraterrestrials have complete control of this base.” In the program, the producers blacked out the OSI agent’s face, and he went by the codename “Falcon.”

The agent’s actual name is Richard Doty. It’s listed on the IMDb page for the show. Doty has admitted that during his career as an OSI agent, beginning in 1980, he had been sharing disinformation about aliens and UFOs with the UFO community. Within weeks of the airing of the live UFO program, a man in Nevada named Bob Lazar approached reporters in Las Vegas claiming he had worked on alien spacecraft at Area 51. Despite lacking evidence, Lazar’s claims made headlines, and Area 51, then one of United States’ most secret military bases, quickly became its most famous.

Stories like this leave me wondering how much of the UFO mythos is disinformation created by the U.S. government and why. It sounds like another UFO conspiracy theory, but Congress is interested in this question also. They require that the Pentagon’s current UAP investigation program, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), produce a report that includes “the key historical record of the involvement of the intelligence community with unidentified anomalous phenomena, including… any efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public opinion, hide, or otherwise provide incorrect unclassified or classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena or related activities.”

Is there any reason to believe the U.S. government has deceived the public about UFOs? Mr. Doty’s story is not well known, but the CIA has admitted to deceiving the public about UFOs in a study published by the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence titled “A Die-hard Issue: CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–1990.”

According to the study, much like today, credible UFO sightings in the late 1940s and early 1950s brought media attention to the topic. This pressured the U.S. Air Force into creating UFO investigation programs and the CIA to discreetly monitor the situation. The CIA didn’t want attention to the fact that it was monitoring UFO reports and interfacing with the U.S. Air Force on the matter, so both organizations chose to lie about it. The report states, “This concealment of CIA interest contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and cover-up.”

The problem worsened in the late ’50s when testing of U-2 spy planes began. The aircraft flew much higher than any others at the time, and the prototypes were highly reflective, causing a spike in reports to the USAF UFO research program at the time, Project Blue Book. The CIA later estimated half of the UFO reports during this time were due to U-2 aircraft. The report claims, “This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project.”

The report also covers the CIA’s involvement with a University of Colorado review of UFO information in the late ’60s, which led to the USAF closing Project Blue Book and exiting public UFO research completely. Both agencies decided to keep the CIA’s involvement in the report hidden.

Even Roswell was a cover-up, albeit not of the extraterrestrial kind. Unfortunately, the first volume of the AARO report whitewashes this event. According to the AARO report, in the 1990s, “USAF’s research did not locate or develop any information that indicated the ‘Roswell Incident’ was a UFO event, nor was there any ‘cover-up’ by the USG.”

It goes on to explain how the USAF found that the debris collected in the desert in 1947 was part of a classified project to listen for Russian nuclear testing called Project Mogul. It does not include the fact that the USAF’s research also found that the person in charge of researching the material, General Roger Ramey, had taken it upon himself to hide that the debris was part of a classified project. Instead, he told the press they had found an ordinary weather balloon and switched out the actual debris before taking press photos.

According to the 1995 USAF Roswell report, “the Air Force did not find documented evidence that Gen. Ramey was directed to espouse a weather balloon in his press conference, he may have done so because he was either aware of Project MOGUL and was trying to deflect interest from it, or he really perceived the material to be a weather balloon based on the identification from his weather officer, Irving Newton.”

Ramey’s Chief of Staff, Colonel Thomas DuBose, who can be seen in one of the photos, claimed in an affidavit, “the material shown in the photographs taken in Gen. Ramey’s office was a weather balloon. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press.”

DuBose does not claim to have seen or known anything about the material that the USAF found. Still, Ramey’s switching out of the material and DuBose’s statement help fuel Roswell’s conspiracy theories to this day.

This brings us back to Doty, who is the first source of the claim that the USAF took alien bodies to Area 51. He did so in a document claiming a cabal of influential people inside and outside of the government controls UFOs and alien secrets. If this sounds like the X-Files, it’s because the show was allegedly based on Doty’s stories.

In late 1980, Doty worked at Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Only months after beginning his position as an OSI agent, a local technical equipment vendor and paranormal enthusiast, Paul Bennewitz, claimed to be getting images and signals from UFOs over the base. According to documents I and others have received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Doty and another agent looked at what Bennewitz had found but didn’t see anything worth researching.

Doty claims that someone in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached him soon after meeting with Bennewitz. Doty refers to the DIA agent with the codename “Falcon”—the same name he later used on the TV show mentioned earlier. According to Doty, Falcon wanted Doty to feed disinformation to Bennewitz and make Bennewitz believe what he saw was aliens. Falcon said Bennewitz was capturing signals and videos of top-secret activity at the base, and the disinformation was intended to throw off Bennewitz and any Russian spies that might be monitoring him.

There is no evidence that Falcon exists or that Doty was ordered to conduct his disinformation program against Bennewitz, but it was effective and drove Bennewitz into a dangerous mental state. Even worse, the disinformation Doty spread and its amplification by the X-Files has created mythos that may even fool government insiders.

The FBI investigated some of Doty’s documents and asked the U.S. Air Force what they knew. The documents were returned with the word “BOGUS” written on them in thick black marker. But the question isn’t whether they are bogus. The question is why they came from an active OSI agent—a question still unanswered.

In an op-ed for Scientific American earlier this year, former AARO Chief Sean Kirkpatrick wrote: “…our efforts were ultimately overwhelmed by sensational but unsupported claims that ignored contradictory evidence yet captured the attention of policy makers and the public, driving legislative battles and dominating the public narrative.”

I agree with Kirkpatrick regarding the negative effect “sensational but unsupported claims” are having on moving UAP research forward. However, the government has to be open and cooperative as well and needs to investigate and take responsibility for its role in UAP disinformation.

The post Why The Pentagon Needs to Address UFO Disinformation appeared first on Den of Geek.

Squid Game season 2 had everything fans of the first season wanted to see again and then some. Seong Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) return to the titular games as Player 456 featured a fresh batch of deadly schoolyard contests, the evolution of old enemies like “Front Man” Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), and a new crop of […]

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In 1988, a recently-retired U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) agent claimed on live television that the government was working with aliens at a secret base in the Nevada desert called Area 51 and that the “extraterrestrials have complete control of this base.” In the program, the producers blacked out the OSI agent’s face, and he went by the codename “Falcon.”

The agent’s actual name is Richard Doty. It’s listed on the IMDb page for the show. Doty has admitted that during his career as an OSI agent, beginning in 1980, he had been sharing disinformation about aliens and UFOs with the UFO community. Within weeks of the airing of the live UFO program, a man in Nevada named Bob Lazar approached reporters in Las Vegas claiming he had worked on alien spacecraft at Area 51. Despite lacking evidence, Lazar’s claims made headlines, and Area 51, then one of United States’ most secret military bases, quickly became its most famous.

Stories like this leave me wondering how much of the UFO mythos is disinformation created by the U.S. government and why. It sounds like another UFO conspiracy theory, but Congress is interested in this question also. They require that the Pentagon’s current UAP investigation program, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), produce a report that includes “the key historical record of the involvement of the intelligence community with unidentified anomalous phenomena, including… any efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public opinion, hide, or otherwise provide incorrect unclassified or classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena or related activities.”

Is there any reason to believe the U.S. government has deceived the public about UFOs? Mr. Doty’s story is not well known, but the CIA has admitted to deceiving the public about UFOs in a study published by the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence titled “A Die-hard Issue: CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–1990.”

According to the study, much like today, credible UFO sightings in the late 1940s and early 1950s brought media attention to the topic. This pressured the U.S. Air Force into creating UFO investigation programs and the CIA to discreetly monitor the situation. The CIA didn’t want attention to the fact that it was monitoring UFO reports and interfacing with the U.S. Air Force on the matter, so both organizations chose to lie about it. The report states, “This concealment of CIA interest contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and cover-up.”

The problem worsened in the late ’50s when testing of U-2 spy planes began. The aircraft flew much higher than any others at the time, and the prototypes were highly reflective, causing a spike in reports to the USAF UFO research program at the time, Project Blue Book. The CIA later estimated half of the UFO reports during this time were due to U-2 aircraft. The report claims, “This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project.”

The report also covers the CIA’s involvement with a University of Colorado review of UFO information in the late ’60s, which led to the USAF closing Project Blue Book and exiting public UFO research completely. Both agencies decided to keep the CIA’s involvement in the report hidden.

Even Roswell was a cover-up, albeit not of the extraterrestrial kind. Unfortunately, the first volume of the AARO report whitewashes this event. According to the AARO report, in the 1990s, “USAF’s research did not locate or develop any information that indicated the ‘Roswell Incident’ was a UFO event, nor was there any ‘cover-up’ by the USG.”

It goes on to explain how the USAF found that the debris collected in the desert in 1947 was part of a classified project to listen for Russian nuclear testing called Project Mogul. It does not include the fact that the USAF’s research also found that the person in charge of researching the material, General Roger Ramey, had taken it upon himself to hide that the debris was part of a classified project. Instead, he told the press they had found an ordinary weather balloon and switched out the actual debris before taking press photos.

According to the 1995 USAF Roswell report, “the Air Force did not find documented evidence that Gen. Ramey was directed to espouse a weather balloon in his press conference, he may have done so because he was either aware of Project MOGUL and was trying to deflect interest from it, or he really perceived the material to be a weather balloon based on the identification from his weather officer, Irving Newton.”

Ramey’s Chief of Staff, Colonel Thomas DuBose, who can be seen in one of the photos, claimed in an affidavit, “the material shown in the photographs taken in Gen. Ramey’s office was a weather balloon. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press.”

DuBose does not claim to have seen or known anything about the material that the USAF found. Still, Ramey’s switching out of the material and DuBose’s statement help fuel Roswell’s conspiracy theories to this day.

This brings us back to Doty, who is the first source of the claim that the USAF took alien bodies to Area 51. He did so in a document claiming a cabal of influential people inside and outside of the government controls UFOs and alien secrets. If this sounds like the X-Files, it’s because the show was allegedly based on Doty’s stories.

In late 1980, Doty worked at Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Only months after beginning his position as an OSI agent, a local technical equipment vendor and paranormal enthusiast, Paul Bennewitz, claimed to be getting images and signals from UFOs over the base. According to documents I and others have received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Doty and another agent looked at what Bennewitz had found but didn’t see anything worth researching.

Doty claims that someone in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached him soon after meeting with Bennewitz. Doty refers to the DIA agent with the codename “Falcon”—the same name he later used on the TV show mentioned earlier. According to Doty, Falcon wanted Doty to feed disinformation to Bennewitz and make Bennewitz believe what he saw was aliens. Falcon said Bennewitz was capturing signals and videos of top-secret activity at the base, and the disinformation was intended to throw off Bennewitz and any Russian spies that might be monitoring him.

There is no evidence that Falcon exists or that Doty was ordered to conduct his disinformation program against Bennewitz, but it was effective and drove Bennewitz into a dangerous mental state. Even worse, the disinformation Doty spread and its amplification by the X-Files has created mythos that may even fool government insiders.

The FBI investigated some of Doty’s documents and asked the U.S. Air Force what they knew. The documents were returned with the word “BOGUS” written on them in thick black marker. But the question isn’t whether they are bogus. The question is why they came from an active OSI agent—a question still unanswered.

In an op-ed for Scientific American earlier this year, former AARO Chief Sean Kirkpatrick wrote: “…our efforts were ultimately overwhelmed by sensational but unsupported claims that ignored contradictory evidence yet captured the attention of policy makers and the public, driving legislative battles and dominating the public narrative.”

I agree with Kirkpatrick regarding the negative effect “sensational but unsupported claims” are having on moving UAP research forward. However, the government has to be open and cooperative as well and needs to investigate and take responsibility for its role in UAP disinformation.

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Rockstar Games shocked the gaming world by releasing the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 during just about the most random Tuesday you could imagine. If you haven’t seen the new preview yet, check it out below.  The good news is that the new GTA 6 trailer is far more substantial than the game’s […]

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In 1988, a recently-retired U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) agent claimed on live television that the government was working with aliens at a secret base in the Nevada desert called Area 51 and that the “extraterrestrials have complete control of this base.” In the program, the producers blacked out the OSI agent’s face, and he went by the codename “Falcon.”

The agent’s actual name is Richard Doty. It’s listed on the IMDb page for the show. Doty has admitted that during his career as an OSI agent, beginning in 1980, he had been sharing disinformation about aliens and UFOs with the UFO community. Within weeks of the airing of the live UFO program, a man in Nevada named Bob Lazar approached reporters in Las Vegas claiming he had worked on alien spacecraft at Area 51. Despite lacking evidence, Lazar’s claims made headlines, and Area 51, then one of United States’ most secret military bases, quickly became its most famous.

Stories like this leave me wondering how much of the UFO mythos is disinformation created by the U.S. government and why. It sounds like another UFO conspiracy theory, but Congress is interested in this question also. They require that the Pentagon’s current UAP investigation program, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), produce a report that includes “the key historical record of the involvement of the intelligence community with unidentified anomalous phenomena, including… any efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public opinion, hide, or otherwise provide incorrect unclassified or classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena or related activities.”

Is there any reason to believe the U.S. government has deceived the public about UFOs? Mr. Doty’s story is not well known, but the CIA has admitted to deceiving the public about UFOs in a study published by the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence titled “A Die-hard Issue: CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–1990.”

According to the study, much like today, credible UFO sightings in the late 1940s and early 1950s brought media attention to the topic. This pressured the U.S. Air Force into creating UFO investigation programs and the CIA to discreetly monitor the situation. The CIA didn’t want attention to the fact that it was monitoring UFO reports and interfacing with the U.S. Air Force on the matter, so both organizations chose to lie about it. The report states, “This concealment of CIA interest contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and cover-up.”

The problem worsened in the late ’50s when testing of U-2 spy planes began. The aircraft flew much higher than any others at the time, and the prototypes were highly reflective, causing a spike in reports to the USAF UFO research program at the time, Project Blue Book. The CIA later estimated half of the UFO reports during this time were due to U-2 aircraft. The report claims, “This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project.”

The report also covers the CIA’s involvement with a University of Colorado review of UFO information in the late ’60s, which led to the USAF closing Project Blue Book and exiting public UFO research completely. Both agencies decided to keep the CIA’s involvement in the report hidden.

Even Roswell was a cover-up, albeit not of the extraterrestrial kind. Unfortunately, the first volume of the AARO report whitewashes this event. According to the AARO report, in the 1990s, “USAF’s research did not locate or develop any information that indicated the ‘Roswell Incident’ was a UFO event, nor was there any ‘cover-up’ by the USG.”

It goes on to explain how the USAF found that the debris collected in the desert in 1947 was part of a classified project to listen for Russian nuclear testing called Project Mogul. It does not include the fact that the USAF’s research also found that the person in charge of researching the material, General Roger Ramey, had taken it upon himself to hide that the debris was part of a classified project. Instead, he told the press they had found an ordinary weather balloon and switched out the actual debris before taking press photos.

According to the 1995 USAF Roswell report, “the Air Force did not find documented evidence that Gen. Ramey was directed to espouse a weather balloon in his press conference, he may have done so because he was either aware of Project MOGUL and was trying to deflect interest from it, or he really perceived the material to be a weather balloon based on the identification from his weather officer, Irving Newton.”

Ramey’s Chief of Staff, Colonel Thomas DuBose, who can be seen in one of the photos, claimed in an affidavit, “the material shown in the photographs taken in Gen. Ramey’s office was a weather balloon. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press.”

DuBose does not claim to have seen or known anything about the material that the USAF found. Still, Ramey’s switching out of the material and DuBose’s statement help fuel Roswell’s conspiracy theories to this day.

This brings us back to Doty, who is the first source of the claim that the USAF took alien bodies to Area 51. He did so in a document claiming a cabal of influential people inside and outside of the government controls UFOs and alien secrets. If this sounds like the X-Files, it’s because the show was allegedly based on Doty’s stories.

In late 1980, Doty worked at Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Only months after beginning his position as an OSI agent, a local technical equipment vendor and paranormal enthusiast, Paul Bennewitz, claimed to be getting images and signals from UFOs over the base. According to documents I and others have received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Doty and another agent looked at what Bennewitz had found but didn’t see anything worth researching.

Doty claims that someone in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached him soon after meeting with Bennewitz. Doty refers to the DIA agent with the codename “Falcon”—the same name he later used on the TV show mentioned earlier. According to Doty, Falcon wanted Doty to feed disinformation to Bennewitz and make Bennewitz believe what he saw was aliens. Falcon said Bennewitz was capturing signals and videos of top-secret activity at the base, and the disinformation was intended to throw off Bennewitz and any Russian spies that might be monitoring him.

There is no evidence that Falcon exists or that Doty was ordered to conduct his disinformation program against Bennewitz, but it was effective and drove Bennewitz into a dangerous mental state. Even worse, the disinformation Doty spread and its amplification by the X-Files has created mythos that may even fool government insiders.

The FBI investigated some of Doty’s documents and asked the U.S. Air Force what they knew. The documents were returned with the word “BOGUS” written on them in thick black marker. But the question isn’t whether they are bogus. The question is why they came from an active OSI agent—a question still unanswered.

In an op-ed for Scientific American earlier this year, former AARO Chief Sean Kirkpatrick wrote: “…our efforts were ultimately overwhelmed by sensational but unsupported claims that ignored contradictory evidence yet captured the attention of policy makers and the public, driving legislative battles and dominating the public narrative.”

I agree with Kirkpatrick regarding the negative effect “sensational but unsupported claims” are having on moving UAP research forward. However, the government has to be open and cooperative as well and needs to investigate and take responsibility for its role in UAP disinformation.

The post Why The Pentagon Needs to Address UFO Disinformation appeared first on Den of Geek.

In 1988, a recently-retired U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) agent claimed on live television that the government was working with aliens at a secret base in the Nevada desert called Area 51 and that the “extraterrestrials have complete control of this base.” In the program, the producers blacked out the OSI agent’s […]

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In 1988, a recently-retired U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) agent claimed on live television that the government was working with aliens at a secret base in the Nevada desert called Area 51 and that the “extraterrestrials have complete control of this base.” In the program, the producers blacked out the OSI agent’s face, and he went by the codename “Falcon.”

The agent’s actual name is Richard Doty. It’s listed on the IMDb page for the show. Doty has admitted that during his career as an OSI agent, beginning in 1980, he had been sharing disinformation about aliens and UFOs with the UFO community. Within weeks of the airing of the live UFO program, a man in Nevada named Bob Lazar approached reporters in Las Vegas claiming he had worked on alien spacecraft at Area 51. Despite lacking evidence, Lazar’s claims made headlines, and Area 51, then one of United States’ most secret military bases, quickly became its most famous.

Stories like this leave me wondering how much of the UFO mythos is disinformation created by the U.S. government and why. It sounds like another UFO conspiracy theory, but Congress is interested in this question also. They require that the Pentagon’s current UAP investigation program, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), produce a report that includes “the key historical record of the involvement of the intelligence community with unidentified anomalous phenomena, including… any efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public opinion, hide, or otherwise provide incorrect unclassified or classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena or related activities.”

Is there any reason to believe the U.S. government has deceived the public about UFOs? Mr. Doty’s story is not well known, but the CIA has admitted to deceiving the public about UFOs in a study published by the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence titled “A Die-hard Issue: CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–1990.”

According to the study, much like today, credible UFO sightings in the late 1940s and early 1950s brought media attention to the topic. This pressured the U.S. Air Force into creating UFO investigation programs and the CIA to discreetly monitor the situation. The CIA didn’t want attention to the fact that it was monitoring UFO reports and interfacing with the U.S. Air Force on the matter, so both organizations chose to lie about it. The report states, “This concealment of CIA interest contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and cover-up.”

The problem worsened in the late ’50s when testing of U-2 spy planes began. The aircraft flew much higher than any others at the time, and the prototypes were highly reflective, causing a spike in reports to the USAF UFO research program at the time, Project Blue Book. The CIA later estimated half of the UFO reports during this time were due to U-2 aircraft. The report claims, “This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project.”

The report also covers the CIA’s involvement with a University of Colorado review of UFO information in the late ’60s, which led to the USAF closing Project Blue Book and exiting public UFO research completely. Both agencies decided to keep the CIA’s involvement in the report hidden.

Even Roswell was a cover-up, albeit not of the extraterrestrial kind. Unfortunately, the first volume of the AARO report whitewashes this event. According to the AARO report, in the 1990s, “USAF’s research did not locate or develop any information that indicated the ‘Roswell Incident’ was a UFO event, nor was there any ‘cover-up’ by the USG.”

It goes on to explain how the USAF found that the debris collected in the desert in 1947 was part of a classified project to listen for Russian nuclear testing called Project Mogul. It does not include the fact that the USAF’s research also found that the person in charge of researching the material, General Roger Ramey, had taken it upon himself to hide that the debris was part of a classified project. Instead, he told the press they had found an ordinary weather balloon and switched out the actual debris before taking press photos.

According to the 1995 USAF Roswell report, “the Air Force did not find documented evidence that Gen. Ramey was directed to espouse a weather balloon in his press conference, he may have done so because he was either aware of Project MOGUL and was trying to deflect interest from it, or he really perceived the material to be a weather balloon based on the identification from his weather officer, Irving Newton.”

Ramey’s Chief of Staff, Colonel Thomas DuBose, who can be seen in one of the photos, claimed in an affidavit, “the material shown in the photographs taken in Gen. Ramey’s office was a weather balloon. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press.”

DuBose does not claim to have seen or known anything about the material that the USAF found. Still, Ramey’s switching out of the material and DuBose’s statement help fuel Roswell’s conspiracy theories to this day.

This brings us back to Doty, who is the first source of the claim that the USAF took alien bodies to Area 51. He did so in a document claiming a cabal of influential people inside and outside of the government controls UFOs and alien secrets. If this sounds like the X-Files, it’s because the show was allegedly based on Doty’s stories.

In late 1980, Doty worked at Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Only months after beginning his position as an OSI agent, a local technical equipment vendor and paranormal enthusiast, Paul Bennewitz, claimed to be getting images and signals from UFOs over the base. According to documents I and others have received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Doty and another agent looked at what Bennewitz had found but didn’t see anything worth researching.

Doty claims that someone in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached him soon after meeting with Bennewitz. Doty refers to the DIA agent with the codename “Falcon”—the same name he later used on the TV show mentioned earlier. According to Doty, Falcon wanted Doty to feed disinformation to Bennewitz and make Bennewitz believe what he saw was aliens. Falcon said Bennewitz was capturing signals and videos of top-secret activity at the base, and the disinformation was intended to throw off Bennewitz and any Russian spies that might be monitoring him.

There is no evidence that Falcon exists or that Doty was ordered to conduct his disinformation program against Bennewitz, but it was effective and drove Bennewitz into a dangerous mental state. Even worse, the disinformation Doty spread and its amplification by the X-Files has created mythos that may even fool government insiders.

The FBI investigated some of Doty’s documents and asked the U.S. Air Force what they knew. The documents were returned with the word “BOGUS” written on them in thick black marker. But the question isn’t whether they are bogus. The question is why they came from an active OSI agent—a question still unanswered.

In an op-ed for Scientific American earlier this year, former AARO Chief Sean Kirkpatrick wrote: “…our efforts were ultimately overwhelmed by sensational but unsupported claims that ignored contradictory evidence yet captured the attention of policy makers and the public, driving legislative battles and dominating the public narrative.”

I agree with Kirkpatrick regarding the negative effect “sensational but unsupported claims” are having on moving UAP research forward. However, the government has to be open and cooperative as well and needs to investigate and take responsibility for its role in UAP disinformation.

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On Sunday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the American movie industry as dying on his Truth Social account and announced that he is beginning the process of implementing what he described as a 100 percent tariff on “any and All movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.” In addition to erroneous capitalizations, the president described this as a matter of national security, suggesting that the tax breaks other governments have used to incentivize Hollywood film production outside the U.S. amounted to “a concerted effort by other Nations” to control messaging and create propaganda.

As with so many other polices shaped by late night social media blasts from the commander-in-chief, the specifics and details (and the possible devils within) remain alarmingly vague, beginning of course with whether films themselves can be taxed or if they legally qualify as services or remedies, as asserted by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday morning. Furthermore, just exactly who would qualify for this tariff—and how it would be applied—is at present a complete mystery.

Is this a tariff, or tax, on foreign films produced overseas and released at independent cinemas in the U.S.? Or is it meant just for American productions that film overseas, even if they are edited and finished in post-production stateside? Would this apply to Hollywood movies currently already filming at least partially on location overseas? Movies like Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday, and Warner Brothers’ Supergirl? Also does this only apply to theatrical releases or to streaming films as well? Because that will be quite the hiccup for the international catalogs of, say, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video after their companies’ CEOs bent the knee and through donation or documentary deals for Melania Trump, gave the president and his organizations tens of millions of dollars in the last six months.

… Also does Trump really want his buddy and Hollywood liaison Mel Gibson to shoot his next Biblical epic, The Resurrection of the Christ, in Georgia or Louisiana right now, even as the film is expected to shortly go before cameras in Rome?

As with so much else about the current American president’s fluctuating whims and declarations, it all seems loose and improvisational, an off-the-cuff solution for what is a genuine problem in the U.S.—in this case the decline of American film production (keep in mind that for over a decade, Marvel shot almost everything in Atlanta until July’s upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps)—that seems designed to cultivate maximum uncertainty and chaos. It is then up to his administration and staff to make sense of it and attempt a plausible rationalization for the day’s destabilizing executive decree.

All of which is to say that it’s a shame Trump seems so suspicious of films shot in foreign lands, because there are many that would appeal to his sensibility and aesthetic after 100 days into his second term. And if I could be so kind as to recommend just one foreign-ish film he ought to give a try, let it be… Fred Zinnemann’s big screen adaptation of A Man for All Seasons from 1966.

Released when Trump was 20 years old, A Man for All Seasons is technically an American film. It was produced and directed by naturalized American citizen Zinnemann and distributed by American studio Columbia Pictures. However, it was based on a 1960 play of the same name by Robert Bolt, an English playwright, and furthermore dealt specifically with the crisis of conscience experienced by 16th century English statesman and social philosopher Sir Thomas More, who much to his later grief was the elevated friend of King Henry VIII, as well as Henry’s Lord High Chancellor when Henry decided he’d rather be married to Anne Boleyn instead of his wife of the past 22 years, Catherine of Aragon.

… So Zinnemann and his studio made the decision to primarily shoot A Man for All Seasons in merry old England instead of a Hollywood backlot in Burbank or Culver City.

But none of that is why I think Trump would get a kick out of the film. Nay, the reason he could appreciate A Man for All Seasons is the kingliness of it all and the film’s depiction of an absolute monarchy bending institutions to its will despite lamentations over ethics or morality from sad sacks like main character Thomas More (played in the film by Paul Schofield, who won an Oscar for the job). Who Trump would adore is Robert Shaw as King Henry VIII.

Decked head to toe in gold regalia—an affectation Trump also shares with plenty of real historical autocrats—this middle-aged Henry is played by Shaw midway between early breakout work in genre fare like From Russia with Love and his most famous role a decade later as Quint in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Yet Henry plays to Shaw’s strengths in speech craft as well as physicality (Shaw was also a playwright). His Henry is a robust and physically domineering presence that through sheer big-kid-bullying energy would dominate the scene even if he wasn’t wearing a proverbial crown.

In his first scene in the movie, Shaw’s English king is depicted as “surprising” Sir Thomas and the chancellor’s family by arriving in a scripted improvisation by royal barge on the river Thames. In that head-to-toe gold, Henry cuts a formidable frame as he gleefully leaps from the landing boat… and discovers his shiny golden shoes have been submerged in unexpected mud.

Every single courtier on his boat enters an awkward deadly silence. Who will be blamed for this embarrassment? Fortunately for the hangers-on, Shaw’s Henry predicts Joe Pesci’s more famous attempts at menacing self-effacement in Goodfellas and just laughs off the mishap. Immediately all of his Yes Men nod their heads and laugh along, each in turn happily diving their feet into the same muddy bank and ruining their shoes just as their king so clearly intended!

This sequence is obviously a metaphor for the real Henry VIII’s entire reign but can be applied to almost any leader with autocratic tendencies. He literally makes a very public and perhaps humiliating misstep, and pretends it was all according to plan. His sycophants and supplicants then pretend right along—even debasing and harming themselves in order to allow their king’s alleged infallibility to continue.

One can see echoes of this in every modern televised Cabinet meeting where a U.S. attorney general might assert her president saved the lives of 75 percent of Americans at the border in the last hundred days and everyone nods along. Or perhaps more crucially for the world, how economic policy is currently bending in the U.S. government to argue that a tariff-led trade war will benefit the American economy in billions, despite the last time the U.S. tried something similar nearly a hundred years ago, it only deepened what is remembered as the Great Depression.

Yet that scene isn’t why Trump would love Henry. It is what comes after as the king approaches his dear, dear friend Sir Thomas More and attempts to cajole, flatter, and finally threaten him into signing off on the king’s attempt to divorce Catherine of Aragon. When asked why he demands More’s approval on the matter, Henry answers, “There are those like Norfolk that follow me because I wear the crown. There are those like Master Cromwell who follow me because they’re jackals with sharp teeth and I’m their tiger. There’s a mass that follows me because it follows anything that moves. And then there’s you.”

He craves More’s credibility and authority. He wants to turn a man with principles into another “Yes,” because it would by extension mean the king has principles, yes? Admittedly, Trump is past this point in his political career, but it certainly echoes a first term where men like U.S. Marine Corps General John Kelly were raised up to the rank of White House Chief of Staff… only to eventually be divorced from the once and future president with maximum acrimony after failing to bend far enough. (Nowadays Trump refers to Kelly as a “dumb lowlife.”)

Here’s the kicker though: Henry VIII also outlived the doubts and estrangements of men like More. In fact, A Man for All Seasons isn’t just about More’s crisis of conscience, but also how in our earthly, dirty world, morality and doing what is right will not save you. More is ultimately beheaded by Henry for speaking out against his marriage to Anne Boleyn. And if you know your history, Anne also eventually finds her way to the chopping block after displeasing Henry—she is even murdered due to an appalling miscarriage of justice with egregiously trumped up charges of supposed infidelity and incest against her notoriously unfaithful husband.

It’s all hinted at, too, in one of Henry’s big scenes in A Man for All Seasons where Shaw’s smiling camraderie turns vitriolic with the incalcitrant More.

“I don’t take it kindly and I’ll have no opposition,” Henry begins to seethe. “I see how it will be: the bishops will oppose me. The full-fed ‘Princes of the Church,’ hypocrites! All hypocrites! Mind you they don’t take you in, Thomas…. I have no queen! Catherine’s not my wife! No priest can make her so! They who say she is my wife are not only liars but traitors! Yes, TRAITORS! That I will not brook now. Treachery, treachery, treachery!”

And here’s the kicker… Henry didn’t brook what he assumed was treachery in his own life. More died for not recognizing Anne Boleyn as queen. Anne Boleyn died because she failed to produce Henry a son. Another wife was later executed for actually having an extramarital affair (they married when Henry was 49 and Katherine Howard was 16), and Thomas Cromwell, the courtier who most rivaled and plotted against More, also faced a brutal execution in the Tower of London after essentially arranging a bad date for ol’ Henry when he was on wife number four.

None of it mattered in his lifetime. Henry outlived all of his critics and perceived enemies, and died at the age of 55 of natural causes. He lived a life free of consequences—although is perhaps better remembered today because his eventual successor (the daughter he did not want from Boleyn) cleaned up his chaotic reign and ushered in a golden age. So maybe there’s solace in that too.

In other words, A Man for All Seasons is a “foreign land” movie for all Americans when you think about it. 

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On Sunday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the American movie industry as dying on his Truth Social account and announced that he is beginning the process of implementing what he described as a 100 percent tariff on “any and All movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.” In addition to erroneous capitalizations, the president described this as a matter of national security, suggesting that the tax breaks other governments have used to incentivize Hollywood film production outside the U.S. amounted to “a concerted effort by other Nations” to control messaging and create propaganda.

As with so many other polices shaped by late night social media blasts from the commander-in-chief, the specifics and details (and the possible devils within) remain alarmingly vague, beginning of course with whether films themselves can be taxed or if they legally qualify as services or remedies, as asserted by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday morning. Furthermore, just exactly who would qualify for this tariff—and how it would be applied—is at present a complete mystery.

Is this a tariff, or tax, on foreign films produced overseas and released at independent cinemas in the U.S.? Or is it meant just for American productions that film overseas, even if they are edited and finished in post-production stateside? Would this apply to Hollywood movies currently already filming at least partially on location overseas? Movies like Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday, and Warner Brothers’ Supergirl? Also does this only apply to theatrical releases or to streaming films as well? Because that will be quite the hiccup for the international catalogs of, say, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video after their companies’ CEOs bent the knee and through donation or documentary deals for Melania Trump, gave the president and his organizations tens of millions of dollars in the last six months.

… Also does Trump really want his buddy and Hollywood liaison Mel Gibson to shoot his next Biblical epic, The Resurrection of the Christ, in Georgia or Louisiana right now, even as the film is expected to shortly go before cameras in Rome?

As with so much else about the current American president’s fluctuating whims and declarations, it all seems loose and improvisational, an off-the-cuff solution for what is a genuine problem in the U.S.—in this case the decline of American film production (keep in mind that for over a decade, Marvel shot almost everything in Atlanta until July’s upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps)—that seems designed to cultivate maximum uncertainty and chaos. It is then up to his administration and staff to make sense of it and attempt a plausible rationalization for the day’s destabilizing executive decree.

All of which is to say that it’s a shame Trump seems so suspicious of films shot in foreign lands, because there are many that would appeal to his sensibility and aesthetic after 100 days into his second term. And if I could be so kind as to recommend just one foreign-ish film he ought to give a try, let it be… Fred Zinnemann’s big screen adaptation of A Man for All Seasons from 1966.

Released when Trump was 20 years old, A Man for All Seasons is technically an American film. It was produced and directed by naturalized American citizen Zinnemann and distributed by American studio Columbia Pictures. However, it was based on a 1960 play of the same name by Robert Bolt, an English playwright, and furthermore dealt specifically with the crisis of conscience experienced by 16th century English statesman and social philosopher Sir Thomas More, who much to his later grief was the elevated friend of King Henry VIII, as well as Henry’s Lord High Chancellor when Henry decided he’d rather be married to Anne Boleyn instead of his wife of the past 22 years, Catherine of Aragon.

… So Zinnemann and his studio made the decision to primarily shoot A Man for All Seasons in merry old England instead of a Hollywood backlot in Burbank or Culver City.

But none of that is why I think Trump would get a kick out of the film. Nay, the reason he could appreciate A Man for All Seasons is the kingliness of it all and the film’s depiction of an absolute monarchy bending institutions to its will despite lamentations over ethics or morality from sad sacks like main character Thomas More (played in the film by Paul Schofield, who won an Oscar for the job). Who Trump would adore is Robert Shaw as King Henry VIII.

Decked head to toe in gold regalia—an affectation Trump also shares with plenty of real historical autocrats—this middle-aged Henry is played by Shaw midway between early breakout work in genre fare like From Russia with Love and his most famous role a decade later as Quint in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Yet Henry plays to Shaw’s strengths in speech craft as well as physicality (Shaw was also a playwright). His Henry is a robust and physically domineering presence that through sheer big-kid-bullying energy would dominate the scene even if he wasn’t wearing a proverbial crown.

In his first scene in the movie, Shaw’s English king is depicted as “surprising” Sir Thomas and the chancellor’s family by arriving in a scripted improvisation by royal barge on the river Thames. In that head-to-toe gold, Henry cuts a formidable frame as he gleefully leaps from the landing boat… and discovers his shiny golden shoes have been submerged in unexpected mud.

Every single courtier on his boat enters an awkward deadly silence. Who will be blamed for this embarrassment? Fortunately for the hangers-on, Shaw’s Henry predicts Joe Pesci’s more famous attempts at menacing self-effacement in Goodfellas and just laughs off the mishap. Immediately all of his Yes Men nod their heads and laugh along, each in turn happily diving their feet into the same muddy bank and ruining their shoes just as their king so clearly intended!

This sequence is obviously a metaphor for the real Henry VIII’s entire reign but can be applied to almost any leader with autocratic tendencies. He literally makes a very public and perhaps humiliating misstep, and pretends it was all according to plan. His sycophants and supplicants then pretend right along—even debasing and harming themselves in order to allow their king’s alleged infallibility to continue.

One can see echoes of this in every modern televised Cabinet meeting where a U.S. attorney general might assert her president saved the lives of 75 percent of Americans at the border in the last hundred days and everyone nods along. Or perhaps more crucially for the world, how economic policy is currently bending in the U.S. government to argue that a tariff-led trade war will benefit the American economy in billions, despite the last time the U.S. tried something similar nearly a hundred years ago, it only deepened what is remembered as the Great Depression.

Yet that scene isn’t why Trump would love Henry. It is what comes after as the king approaches his dear, dear friend Sir Thomas More and attempts to cajole, flatter, and finally threaten him into signing off on the king’s attempt to divorce Catherine of Aragon. When asked why he demands More’s approval on the matter, Henry answers, “There are those like Norfolk that follow me because I wear the crown. There are those like Master Cromwell who follow me because they’re jackals with sharp teeth and I’m their tiger. There’s a mass that follows me because it follows anything that moves. And then there’s you.”

He craves More’s credibility and authority. He wants to turn a man with principles into another “Yes,” because it would by extension mean the king has principles, yes? Admittedly, Trump is past this point in his political career, but it certainly echoes a first term where men like U.S. Marine Corps General John Kelly were raised up to the rank of White House Chief of Staff… only to eventually be divorced from the once and future president with maximum acrimony after failing to bend far enough. (Nowadays Trump refers to Kelly as a “dumb lowlife.”)

Here’s the kicker though: Henry VIII also outlived the doubts and estrangements of men like More. In fact, A Man for All Seasons isn’t just about More’s crisis of conscience, but also how in our earthly, dirty world, morality and doing what is right will not save you. More is ultimately beheaded by Henry for speaking out against his marriage to Anne Boleyn. And if you know your history, Anne also eventually finds her way to the chopping block after displeasing Henry—she is even murdered due to an appalling miscarriage of justice with egregiously trumped up charges of supposed infidelity and incest against her notoriously unfaithful husband.

It’s all hinted at, too, in one of Henry’s big scenes in A Man for All Seasons where Shaw’s smiling camraderie turns vitriolic with the incalcitrant More.

“I don’t take it kindly and I’ll have no opposition,” Henry begins to seethe. “I see how it will be: the bishops will oppose me. The full-fed ‘Princes of the Church,’ hypocrites! All hypocrites! Mind you they don’t take you in, Thomas…. I have no queen! Catherine’s not my wife! No priest can make her so! They who say she is my wife are not only liars but traitors! Yes, TRAITORS! That I will not brook now. Treachery, treachery, treachery!”

And here’s the kicker… Henry didn’t brook what he assumed was treachery in his own life. More died for not recognizing Anne Boleyn as queen. Anne Boleyn died because she failed to produce Henry a son. Another wife was later executed for actually having an extramarital affair (they married when Henry was 49 and Katherine Howard was 16), and Thomas Cromwell, the courtier who most rivaled and plotted against More, also faced a brutal execution in the Tower of London after essentially arranging a bad date for ol’ Henry when he was on wife number four.

None of it mattered in his lifetime. Henry outlived all of his critics and perceived enemies, and died at the age of 55 of natural causes. He lived a life free of consequences—although is perhaps better remembered today because his eventual successor (the daughter he did not want from Boleyn) cleaned up his chaotic reign and ushered in a golden age. So maybe there’s solace in that too.

In other words, A Man for All Seasons is a “foreign land” movie for all Americans when you think about it. 

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On Sunday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the American movie industry as dying on his Truth Social account and announced that he is beginning the process of implementing what he described as a 100 percent tariff on “any and All movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.” In addition to […]

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On Sunday evening, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the American movie industry as dying on his Truth Social account and announced that he is beginning the process of implementing what he described as a 100 percent tariff on “any and All movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.” In addition to erroneous capitalizations, the president described this as a matter of national security, suggesting that the tax breaks other governments have used to incentivize Hollywood film production outside the U.S. amounted to “a concerted effort by other Nations” to control messaging and create propaganda.

As with so many other polices shaped by late night social media blasts from the commander-in-chief, the specifics and details (and the possible devils within) remain alarmingly vague, beginning of course with whether films themselves can be taxed or if they legally qualify as services or remedies, as asserted by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday morning. Furthermore, just exactly who would qualify for this tariff—and how it would be applied—is at present a complete mystery.

Is this a tariff, or tax, on foreign films produced overseas and released at independent cinemas in the U.S.? Or is it meant just for American productions that film overseas, even if they are edited and finished in post-production stateside? Would this apply to Hollywood movies currently already filming at least partially on location overseas? Movies like Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday, and Warner Brothers’ Supergirl? Also does this only apply to theatrical releases or to streaming films as well? Because that will be quite the hiccup for the international catalogs of, say, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video after their companies’ CEOs bent the knee and through donation or documentary deals for Melania Trump, gave the president and his organizations tens of millions of dollars in the last six months.

… Also does Trump really want his buddy and Hollywood liaison Mel Gibson to shoot his next Biblical epic, The Resurrection of the Christ, in Georgia or Louisiana right now, even as the film is expected to shortly go before cameras in Rome?

As with so much else about the current American president’s fluctuating whims and declarations, it all seems loose and improvisational, an off-the-cuff solution for what is a genuine problem in the U.S.—in this case the decline of American film production (keep in mind that for over a decade, Marvel shot almost everything in Atlanta until July’s upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps)—that seems designed to cultivate maximum uncertainty and chaos. It is then up to his administration and staff to make sense of it and attempt a plausible rationalization for the day’s destabilizing executive decree.

All of which is to say that it’s a shame Trump seems so suspicious of films shot in foreign lands, because there are many that would appeal to his sensibility and aesthetic after 100 days into his second term. And if I could be so kind as to recommend just one foreign-ish film he ought to give a try, let it be… Fred Zinnemann’s big screen adaptation of A Man for All Seasons from 1966.

Released when Trump was 20 years old, A Man for All Seasons is technically an American film. It was produced and directed by naturalized American citizen Zinnemann and distributed by American studio Columbia Pictures. However, it was based on a 1960 play of the same name by Robert Bolt, an English playwright, and furthermore dealt specifically with the crisis of conscience experienced by 16th century English statesman and social philosopher Sir Thomas More, who much to his later grief was the elevated friend of King Henry VIII, as well as Henry’s Lord High Chancellor when Henry decided he’d rather be married to Anne Boleyn instead of his wife of the past 22 years, Catherine of Aragon.

… So Zinnemann and his studio made the decision to primarily shoot A Man for All Seasons in merry old England instead of a Hollywood backlot in Burbank or Culver City.

But none of that is why I think Trump would get a kick out of the film. Nay, the reason he could appreciate A Man for All Seasons is the kingliness of it all and the film’s depiction of an absolute monarchy bending institutions to its will despite lamentations over ethics or morality from sad sacks like main character Thomas More (played in the film by Paul Schofield, who won an Oscar for the job). Who Trump would adore is Robert Shaw as King Henry VIII.

Decked head to toe in gold regalia—an affectation Trump also shares with plenty of real historical autocrats—this middle-aged Henry is played by Shaw midway between early breakout work in genre fare like From Russia with Love and his most famous role a decade later as Quint in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Yet Henry plays to Shaw’s strengths in speech craft as well as physicality (Shaw was also a playwright). His Henry is a robust and physically domineering presence that through sheer big-kid-bullying energy would dominate the scene even if he wasn’t wearing a proverbial crown.

In his first scene in the movie, Shaw’s English king is depicted as “surprising” Sir Thomas and the chancellor’s family by arriving in a scripted improvisation by royal barge on the river Thames. In that head-to-toe gold, Henry cuts a formidable frame as he gleefully leaps from the landing boat… and discovers his shiny golden shoes have been submerged in unexpected mud.

Every single courtier on his boat enters an awkward deadly silence. Who will be blamed for this embarrassment? Fortunately for the hangers-on, Shaw’s Henry predicts Joe Pesci’s more famous attempts at menacing self-effacement in Goodfellas and just laughs off the mishap. Immediately all of his Yes Men nod their heads and laugh along, each in turn happily diving their feet into the same muddy bank and ruining their shoes just as their king so clearly intended!

This sequence is obviously a metaphor for the real Henry VIII’s entire reign but can be applied to almost any leader with autocratic tendencies. He literally makes a very public and perhaps humiliating misstep, and pretends it was all according to plan. His sycophants and supplicants then pretend right along—even debasing and harming themselves in order to allow their king’s alleged infallibility to continue.

One can see echoes of this in every modern televised Cabinet meeting where a U.S. attorney general might assert her president saved the lives of 75 percent of Americans at the border in the last hundred days and everyone nods along. Or perhaps more crucially for the world, how economic policy is currently bending in the U.S. government to argue that a tariff-led trade war will benefit the American economy in billions, despite the last time the U.S. tried something similar nearly a hundred years ago, it only deepened what is remembered as the Great Depression.

Yet that scene isn’t why Trump would love Henry. It is what comes after as the king approaches his dear, dear friend Sir Thomas More and attempts to cajole, flatter, and finally threaten him into signing off on the king’s attempt to divorce Catherine of Aragon. When asked why he demands More’s approval on the matter, Henry answers, “There are those like Norfolk that follow me because I wear the crown. There are those like Master Cromwell who follow me because they’re jackals with sharp teeth and I’m their tiger. There’s a mass that follows me because it follows anything that moves. And then there’s you.”

He craves More’s credibility and authority. He wants to turn a man with principles into another “Yes,” because it would by extension mean the king has principles, yes? Admittedly, Trump is past this point in his political career, but it certainly echoes a first term where men like U.S. Marine Corps General John Kelly were raised up to the rank of White House Chief of Staff… only to eventually be divorced from the once and future president with maximum acrimony after failing to bend far enough. (Nowadays Trump refers to Kelly as a “dumb lowlife.”)

Here’s the kicker though: Henry VIII also outlived the doubts and estrangements of men like More. In fact, A Man for All Seasons isn’t just about More’s crisis of conscience, but also how in our earthly, dirty world, morality and doing what is right will not save you. More is ultimately beheaded by Henry for speaking out against his marriage to Anne Boleyn. And if you know your history, Anne also eventually finds her way to the chopping block after displeasing Henry—she is even murdered due to an appalling miscarriage of justice with egregiously trumped up charges of supposed infidelity and incest against her notoriously unfaithful husband.

It’s all hinted at, too, in one of Henry’s big scenes in A Man for All Seasons where Shaw’s smiling camraderie turns vitriolic with the incalcitrant More.

“I don’t take it kindly and I’ll have no opposition,” Henry begins to seethe. “I see how it will be: the bishops will oppose me. The full-fed ‘Princes of the Church,’ hypocrites! All hypocrites! Mind you they don’t take you in, Thomas…. I have no queen! Catherine’s not my wife! No priest can make her so! They who say she is my wife are not only liars but traitors! Yes, TRAITORS! That I will not brook now. Treachery, treachery, treachery!”

And here’s the kicker… Henry didn’t brook what he assumed was treachery in his own life. More died for not recognizing Anne Boleyn as queen. Anne Boleyn died because she failed to produce Henry a son. Another wife was later executed for actually having an extramarital affair (they married when Henry was 49 and Katherine Howard was 16), and Thomas Cromwell, the courtier who most rivaled and plotted against More, also faced a brutal execution in the Tower of London after essentially arranging a bad date for ol’ Henry when he was on wife number four.

None of it mattered in his lifetime. Henry outlived all of his critics and perceived enemies, and died at the age of 55 of natural causes. He lived a life free of consequences—although is perhaps better remembered today because his eventual successor (the daughter he did not want from Boleyn) cleaned up his chaotic reign and ushered in a golden age. So maybe there’s solace in that too.

In other words, A Man for All Seasons is a “foreign land” movie for all Americans when you think about it. 

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Marvel’s Phase Five really ended with a bang in this weekend’s Thunderbolts*. Granted, the phase really ends for real with the much-delayed Ironheart, but in terms of movies, Phase Five has finished up. Ever since Avengers: Endgame brought a climax to the original version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there have been so many projects […]

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May the 4th be with you. Star Wars Day 2025 is upon us, and the galaxy far, far away is climbing back on top of the world of pop culture. With Andor Season 2 currently enthralling fans on streaming and the rerelease of Episode III setting box office records, Star Wars might be back in the public’s good graces once again. To celebrate the franchise that means so much to fans across the globe, some of the best pieces of Star Wars merchandise available to purchase right now below!

And you’re looking for retro Star Wars collectibles and vintage sci-fi finds, make sure you join our live charity auction on May 8th at 2:00 p.m. only on eBay Live. You can set a reminder to join here!

Heroes & Villains Bounty Hunter Drop Collection

The fandom apparel brand Heroes & Villains consistently cooks up some of the most fashionable products for some of our favorite IPs. In celebration of Star Wars Day, the brand is dropping limited edition bounty hunter inspired tees from May 1st through May 5th. Each tee is only available for one day only, so move at light speed to snag one. They’re also offering 20 percent off their full Star Wars collection.

LEGO Star Wars 75409: Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship

LEGO releases a new Ultimate Collector Series model annually to celebrate May 4th. In recent years, these sets have been almost entirely based on the original trilogy of Star Wars, with highlights including the 75382: TIE Interceptor, 75355: X-Wing Starfighter, and 75341: Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder. However, that trend was bucked in 2025, with the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy finally receiving some much-needed attention with a new May 4th set of its own. 

Enter 75409: Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship. This 2,970-piece design expertly captures the angles and curves of the beloved vessel from Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. With fabulous attention to detail and functions, including the iconic seismic charge in the back, this build will surely delight any massive fan of the infamous bounty hunter Jango Fett. Speaking of which, a new Minifigure of the character is included, which will likely command a high price from third-party sellers in the near future.  

The Black Series Revenge of the Sith Anniversary Figures

Believe it or not, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Fans were primed to commemorate the massive milestone by showing up to cinemas in droves for the rerelease, but if you want to add some nostalgic goodness to your shelf, look no further than these Black Series action figures. Packaged in boxes made to mimic the designs from 2005, various characters from Revenge of the Sith, including Count Dooku and Kit Fisto, have been created. While the packaging might resemble the figures from two decades past, the new designs feature significantly more detail and expert molding, yielding premium renditions of these beloved characters. 

Star Wars™ “The High Ground”

If a collectible warming your shelf doesn’t tickle your fancy, consider getting a high-quality shirt to cement your love for Star Wars. RSVLTS has a multitude of Star Wars options to choose from, but we’re going to spotlight a Revenge of the Sith getup in honor of the anniversary. This shirt, nicknamed “The High Grounds,” features a recurring pattern of the iconic moment from the climax of the film. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Battle of the Heroes are captured all throughout this Hawaiian-style shirt that’s available in all shapes and sizes, making it the perfect Star Wars top with summer right around the corner.

Star Wars Jewelry from Rocklove

Are you looking to accessorize one of your latest fits with some Star Wars bling? It’s too heavy to wear the 6,000-piece LEGO AT-AT around your neck, but what about a fabulous alternative from RockLove? The popular jewelry brand has partnered with Star Wars to create beloved iconography from the galaxy far, far away in wearable form, including an AT-AT necklace, a TIE Fighter necklace, and an Imperial signet ring. 

Hayden Christensen Autographed Lightsaber 

Sometimes, you just need to treat yourself. If you’re in the market to splurge this Star Wars day, perhaps consider getting an autographed lightsaber by none other than Anakin Skywalker himself, Hayden Christensen. Not only is the lightsaber hilt a compelling item by itself, but the autograph from the star of the Prequel Trilogy puts it over the top. We’d recommend a glass display case to accompany this one to keep the lightsaber as secure (and clean) as it can be. 

Andor Season 2 Funko Pops! 

Andor’s second season is currently airing on Disney+ with rave reviews from fans and critics alike. As with any Star Wars property, commercialization ensues, and a plethora of Andor products have hit the market. Funko has created some new Pop! Vinyl figures from Season 2, including Cassian in his test pilot uniform, Dedra Meero, Director Krennic, and more. Any of these affordable options will fit in perfectly with other Star Wars displays, and the collection as a whole will make for a great scene by themselves. 

2001 Topps Star Wars Jeremy Bulloch Boba Fett Autograph Card BGS 9.5

Trading cards are a collectible staple, even in the galaxy of Star Wars. And just like sports cards, the most desirable items have something that puts them over the top, such as an autograph from an iconic player. With that kept in mind, how about adding a near-perfect graded card from 2001 featuring Boba Fett and a signature from the original actor, the late Jeremy Bulloch. Receiving a 9.5 grade, something notoriously difficult to achieve for a card over 20 years old, this is genuinely a one-of-a-kind addition to your collection. 

Star Wars Citizen Watch Rebel Starfighter Box Set

Like the aforementioned jewelry from RockLove, we’re going to spotlight another Star Wars accessory piece for this year—a very classy one at that. Introducing the Citizen Rebel Starfighter watch. Upon first glance, this might not even appear to be a Star Wars product, but further inspection reveals the glorious (and very nerdy) details, including magnificent stylized artwork featuring the Death Star, an X-wing, and the Rebel Alliance logo. The watch box set also includes a collectible pin, which is a nice add-on. This is one of the more premium entries on our list, but this watch will become a talking point for anyone who wears it. 

HOT TOYS Star Wars Palpatine (Darth Sidious)™ Sixth Scale Figure 

Hot Toys threw their hat into the ring with a new 1/6th scale figure of Emperor Palpatine freshly after Mace Windu’s attempt on his life left him scarred and deformed. The brand, which is known for its photo-realistic depictions of actors, absolutely nailed another figure with this one. Two different heads are included, showcasing the before and after transformation of the character. Additionally, lightning effects and a golden-hilted lightsaber round off this immaculate figure that’ll cost a pretty penny but will instantly become the centerpiece of any display. 

HOT TOYS Cassian Andor Sixth Scale Figure

Why not include multiple Hot Toys figures on this list? While you’re enjoying Andor’s last hoorah on Disney+, getting a fantastic action figure of the character is the perfect opportunity to cement him in your collection. Just take a gander at that face mold; it features an uncanny resemblance to actor Diego Luna. Additionally, the jacket is crafted with accurate materials, and all the accesories you’d want are included. It doesn’t get much better than this for major fans of Andor. 

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Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who episode “Lucky Day”. As the Doctor and Belinda work to find their way back to 2025, we catch up with previous companion Ruby Sunday and her new boyfriend, the very nice, normal and unproblematic Conrad. Meanwhile, having previously triumphed against Daleks, Autons, Cybermen and rogue Time Lords, UNIT faces […]

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May the 4th be with you. Star Wars Day 2025 is upon us, and the galaxy far, far away is climbing back on top of the world of pop culture. With Andor Season 2 currently enthralling fans on streaming and the rerelease of Episode III setting box office records, Star Wars might be back in the public’s good graces once again. To celebrate the franchise that means so much to fans across the globe, some of the best pieces of Star Wars merchandise available to purchase right now below!

And you’re looking for retro Star Wars collectibles and vintage sci-fi finds, make sure you join our live charity auction on May 8th at 2:00 p.m. only on eBay Live. You can set a reminder to join here!

Heroes & Villains Bounty Hunter Drop Collection

The fandom apparel brand Heroes & Villains consistently cooks up some of the most fashionable products for some of our favorite IPs. In celebration of Star Wars Day, the brand is dropping limited edition bounty hunter inspired tees from May 1st through May 5th. Each tee is only available for one day only, so move at light speed to snag one. They’re also offering 20 percent off their full Star Wars collection.

LEGO Star Wars 75409: Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship

LEGO releases a new Ultimate Collector Series model annually to celebrate May 4th. In recent years, these sets have been almost entirely based on the original trilogy of Star Wars, with highlights including the 75382: TIE Interceptor, 75355: X-Wing Starfighter, and 75341: Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder. However, that trend was bucked in 2025, with the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy finally receiving some much-needed attention with a new May 4th set of its own. 

Enter 75409: Jango Fett’s Firespray-Class Starship. This 2,970-piece design expertly captures the angles and curves of the beloved vessel from Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. With fabulous attention to detail and functions, including the iconic seismic charge in the back, this build will surely delight any massive fan of the infamous bounty hunter Jango Fett. Speaking of which, a new Minifigure of the character is included, which will likely command a high price from third-party sellers in the near future.  

The Black Series Revenge of the Sith Anniversary Figures

Believe it or not, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Fans were primed to commemorate the massive milestone by showing up to cinemas in droves for the rerelease, but if you want to add some nostalgic goodness to your shelf, look no further than these Black Series action figures. Packaged in boxes made to mimic the designs from 2005, various characters from Revenge of the Sith, including Count Dooku and Kit Fisto, have been created. While the packaging might resemble the figures from two decades past, the new designs feature significantly more detail and expert molding, yielding premium renditions of these beloved characters. 

Star Wars™ “The High Ground”

If a collectible warming your shelf doesn’t tickle your fancy, consider getting a high-quality shirt to cement your love for Star Wars. RSVLTS has a multitude of Star Wars options to choose from, but we’re going to spotlight a Revenge of the Sith getup in honor of the anniversary. This shirt, nicknamed “The High Grounds,” features a recurring pattern of the iconic moment from the climax of the film. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Battle of the Heroes are captured all throughout this Hawaiian-style shirt that’s available in all shapes and sizes, making it the perfect Star Wars top with summer right around the corner.

Star Wars Jewelry from Rocklove

Are you looking to accessorize one of your latest fits with some Star Wars bling? It’s too heavy to wear the 6,000-piece LEGO AT-AT around your neck, but what about a fabulous alternative from RockLove? The popular jewelry brand has partnered with Star Wars to create beloved iconography from the galaxy far, far away in wearable form, including an AT-AT necklace, a TIE Fighter necklace, and an Imperial signet ring. 

Hayden Christensen Autographed Lightsaber 

Sometimes, you just need to treat yourself. If you’re in the market to splurge this Star Wars day, perhaps consider getting an autographed lightsaber by none other than Anakin Skywalker himself, Hayden Christensen. Not only is the lightsaber hilt a compelling item by itself, but the autograph from the star of the Prequel Trilogy puts it over the top. We’d recommend a glass display case to accompany this one to keep the lightsaber as secure (and clean) as it can be. 

Andor Season 2 Funko Pops! 

Andor’s second season is currently airing on Disney+ with rave reviews from fans and critics alike. As with any Star Wars property, commercialization ensues, and a plethora of Andor products have hit the market. Funko has created some new Pop! Vinyl figures from Season 2, including Cassian in his test pilot uniform, Dedra Meero, Director Krennic, and more. Any of these affordable options will fit in perfectly with other Star Wars displays, and the collection as a whole will make for a great scene by themselves. 

2001 Topps Star Wars Jeremy Bulloch Boba Fett Autograph Card BGS 9.5

Trading cards are a collectible staple, even in the galaxy of Star Wars. And just like sports cards, the most desirable items have something that puts them over the top, such as an autograph from an iconic player. With that kept in mind, how about adding a near-perfect graded card from 2001 featuring Boba Fett and a signature from the original actor, the late Jeremy Bulloch. Receiving a 9.5 grade, something notoriously difficult to achieve for a card over 20 years old, this is genuinely a one-of-a-kind addition to your collection. 

Star Wars Citizen Watch Rebel Starfighter Box Set

Like the aforementioned jewelry from RockLove, we’re going to spotlight another Star Wars accessory piece for this year—a very classy one at that. Introducing the Citizen Rebel Starfighter watch. Upon first glance, this might not even appear to be a Star Wars product, but further inspection reveals the glorious (and very nerdy) details, including magnificent stylized artwork featuring the Death Star, an X-wing, and the Rebel Alliance logo. The watch box set also includes a collectible pin, which is a nice add-on. This is one of the more premium entries on our list, but this watch will become a talking point for anyone who wears it. 

HOT TOYS Star Wars Palpatine (Darth Sidious)™ Sixth Scale Figure 

Hot Toys threw their hat into the ring with a new 1/6th scale figure of Emperor Palpatine freshly after Mace Windu’s attempt on his life left him scarred and deformed. The brand, which is known for its photo-realistic depictions of actors, absolutely nailed another figure with this one. Two different heads are included, showcasing the before and after transformation of the character. Additionally, lightning effects and a golden-hilted lightsaber round off this immaculate figure that’ll cost a pretty penny but will instantly become the centerpiece of any display. 

HOT TOYS Cassian Andor Sixth Scale Figure

Why not include multiple Hot Toys figures on this list? While you’re enjoying Andor’s last hoorah on Disney+, getting a fantastic action figure of the character is the perfect opportunity to cement him in your collection. Just take a gander at that face mold; it features an uncanny resemblance to actor Diego Luna. Additionally, the jacket is crafted with accurate materials, and all the accesories you’d want are included. It doesn’t get much better than this for major fans of Andor. 

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