The Omnipotent Highness Crlll: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 204-216

We are deep into the UFO stuff, and Cooper has named one. Well, the nickname that was given to it by researchers, and now we are going to get the king of the aliens, Lord Krlll/Crlll. 20 February 1954, Lord Krlll, the omnipotent Highness, landed and met with President Eisenhower who shortly afterward suffered a heart attack. 

Cooper tells us that, "In the American tradition of disdain for royal titles he was secretly called Original Hostage Crlll, or Krlll."

I don't know why this is mentioned. When King Charles III comes over, or the Pope; we don't mention that there's a secret nickname for them because Americans do not like royal titles. It's not even true, we just don't as a Constitutional matter award them to our own citizens. Former presidents have had no problems addressing people by their royal titles. The secret nickname doesn't even make sense. He (?) isn't even a hostage. 

Cooper presses on detailing a letter from Gerald Light, whom he does not introduce or explain, that simply recounts the story of four dignitaries meeting Crlll and then being mystified by the encounter. I'm reminded of what Dustin Hoffman's character said in the movie "Sphere" regarding an alien encounter, that the only response anyone could seriously expect was terror. Cooper's portrayal is all over the place, but then the treaties start. It's all very sci-fi cliche going forward for the next two pages. Nations exchanged people with the aliens who then promised to furnish them with technology. The aliens would be allowed to abduct humans to monitor them, but they had to return them with no harm and no memory. 

I've never understood why Kang and Kodos need to abduct humans for study. Can't they just scoop some out of a morgue? If they need live bodies I'm sure they could get volunteers, or "volunteers" from any of the militaries that are treating with King Krlll. Abduction never makes sense if you think about it for more than a second.

What makes even less sense is Cooper's explanation for why Area 51 is at Groom Lake. The popular story is that it's remote. There is nothing there. The only people near the area are there because of Area 51. Cooper, however, has a different story. To him, the reason for the location is because "More UFO sightings and incidents occur in the Mojave desert of California than any other place in the world." 

We've always had the cart before the horse. We built the base near the desert because the aliens were already there. It was not that the aliens came because we built a large base there. This is bonkers. Let's play this out assuming the counter-factual that Cooper is telling the truth. Aliens from Eridani II (closes planet system) have found a way to travel between stars and find our little blue planet. Then, they decided to visit a desert at such frequency that, in order to monitor them, we were forced to build our base there. This does not make sense. Sure, the aliens might visit a desert for a bit, but they aren't going to keep coming back to them. I'm not going to get into some kind of weird, why can't they appreciate our cities kind of thing; but we call them deserts because there is little there. 

The only thing that populates this area is secret government programs. Cooper lists a few: SNOWBIRD, REDLIGHT, GRUDGE, DUMB, it's the headquarters of MAJESTIC, and everyone needs Q clearance to know about them. One question that comes up among the more clever skeptics is how everyone pays for this. Putting the bill in defense appropriations is just lazy...but it would be more accurate since there are certain defense line items that become classified. For example, the money that the US spent funding the Mujahideen fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. The committees in question could vote on the money but they could not read what it was for. Here, it could be no different. Cooper though needs to weave a tapestry following the money to the Army, then the Navy, then a subset of the Navy, and then one specific person whom Cooper does not name. All of this to build the secret bases, but the military knows about the bases so why is the money hidden in this manner? I think Cooper lost the thread when he tried to sound like he knew accounting stuff. 

He's making the conspiracy theory more complicated than it needs to be. I get why. He's trying to make everything seem plausible to his readership who is no doubt wondering why no one has followed the money. This causes him to add layers to his story so that his readers do not have to doubt that none of the regular soldiers or sailors are also in on the lie. All Cooper has to do, is ignore the money problem the same way they did in the movie "Independence Day" when the president asks how the secret Area 51 base was funded and Judd Hirsch's character answers, "Do you really think they pay $500 for a hammer?" 

That's it. Very simple. His readership, used to claims of wasteful spending by the government, could nod along as they read knowing that the $2000 toilet seat is really about space wrenches or something. Cooper gets going with secret projects and then he begins name-dropping Rockefeller and Dulles; before turning back to the secret societies of the Tri-Lateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, and a return to the JASON group. We should remember the JASON group as the ones that were going to crash a satellite into Saturn to turn it into a new start on 1/1/2000. 

That is enough summary because Cooper is playing a game here. He's appealing to bewilderment in order to make his case. The chapter starts jumping back and forth through time. He gets as far as Reagan's presidency before he must spend a bunch of paragraphs going back to Eisenhower. In between though, he's named every possible conspiracy group and person that would check off a box in a conspiracy theorist's head. For the uninitiated, though, it looks impressive. You've got famous names, important names, groups, projects, etc. Everything looks official. Cooper even claims that some of the proof is in Walter Isaacson's 1986 book "The Wise Men." Isaacson is a legitimate author, an acclaimed author, so this stuff must be true. You're not going to read the Isaacson book so just take Cooper's word for it. This is the type of argument conspiracy theorists employ so that you miss the forest of bullshit because there is one real tree in front of you. Isaacson is legit, Brzenzski was an actual founder of the Trilateral Commission and this dazzles us into admitting the possibility of the rest of it. The details of Cooper's theory are less important than the impression he's developing here, that impression is that there exist vast government projects that we are unaware of which could be about aliens. That's all Cooper needs from his readers. 

However, I don't think his readers ever got this far in the book. It's too much to believe, even for an NWO conspiracy theorist who thinks barcodes on the back of street signs are for the invading UN army to know where to go. Later in his life, Cooper will call the UFO stuff government misinformation, but I can't see how he would know the difference.