What was E.T.'s Name? Behold a Pale Horse; pp. 201-204

Cooper is going full aliens on us. I've made this observation a few times now but I do feel that it's needed again: this isn't smart of Cooper. Conspiracism in the 90s has two large camps--one is the anti-government/anti-UN usually racist (but necessarily) militia movement. The other is the UFO groups. Currently, these groups are largely blended together. The deeper that one gets into "Q," for example, the more likely that aliens are going to show up in their worldview. This isn't a real problem...unless you are trying to convince people that the thing you believe is real. 

I'm sure that most of you out there believe that extra-terrestrial life exists, you probably also believe that extra-terrestrial intelligence exists as well. Some of you may even believe that those UFO/UAP sightings are legitimate- however, a far cry from believing that there is an international conspiracy run by the Illuminati which is controlled by aliens. This is off-putting to us "normies" (well, not me, because of my academic work) who would immediately walk away from the conversation. Sure, the banking industry is absolutely corrupt and wants us to be debt slaves. That is a claim that will appeal to a lot of people; but when Cooper and company say, "that debt slaves are the plan by the UFO people;" they get a stark rejection of their position. It's not just that it's unbelievable, it's that now the other person feels less intelligent for believing in the first thing. 

We should pay attention to what Cooper has done in this book so far as well. He's begun with some found documents, he's made some commentaries on executive orders from thirty years ago (remember that this book was published in the 90s) and inserted some legal analysis. Cooper doesn't have the patience or intelligence to understand the last two things--not because he's dumb, but because reading those documents requires specialized knowledge. Throughout all of this, he's dropped some subtle priming regarding aliens and UFOs; and then moved away from it. We're nearly halfway through this book, and we've hit the point where "sunk cost" is going to keep us reading. David Icke buries his "lizard aliens" in the middle of his 800-page tomes for the same reason. Cooper feels comfortable enough to start letting us in on the rest of the story. 

The first thing Cooper does is reclassify the word "ET" as "EBE." This is infuriating because it's so unnecessary. EBE stands for "Extraterrestrial Biological Entity." He does this because he's got to put his own stamp on it. He's taken the "E" from "ET" and then made it longer; but if his work caught on in the UFO circuit, we'd be calling any alien life an EBE--which is the point of this new abbreviation. 

The EBE was the survivor of the Roswell Crash. Cooper gives us an interesting detail, "EBE had a tendency to lie, and for over a year would give only the desired answer to questions asked."

I unironically love this. The only captured alien is an asshole. Brilliant.

Unfortunately, despite EBE's being shuffled to Project Yellow Book and then Project Grudge, EBE became ill. EBE had a chlorophyll-based biology and excreted the same waste material that plants do...so Oxygen? That's what plants exhale, and they don't excrete anything. Some plants will produce a sap, but Cooper doesn't get into it. He shouldn't be getting too specific, because in the last section, he said that the aliens were insectlike beings. This means if we are taking his claims seriously, that they were insect-like beings with photosynthetic properties. I'll say this: it's different. 

Unfortunately, EBE died of his illness. Who knows, maybe if EBE wasn't such a liar we could have helped it. The government tried to help and in 1952 Truman created the NSA. The NSA began project SIGMA. SIGMA was "a call for help early in 1952 into the vast regions of space. The call went unanswered..."

Sigma continued after EBE's death as it represented an effort to collect and decrypt alien communications while also maintaining communication with Luna Base. Cooper never describes Luna Base, but I'm sure it is a base on the Moon. I only bring the doubt up because you can really never know with these books. 

This whole yarn about aliens is spun into the creation of the Bilderberg Group. The briefest of explanations is that the Bilderberg Group is an annual meeting where the Illuminati gather to begin the New World Order. In reality, it's a meeting of world leaders from government and business to discuss various subjects. WikiLeaks has some of their meeting notes. It's all very boring stuff unless you are into the minutiae of international politics. What's important for us is that this group was founded after 1953, when Eisenhower took office. 

In Cooper's telling, the Bilderberg Group was created to communicate the growing phenomenon of alien craft landing or crashing on Earth. He claims that their first meeting was in 1955, which is also one of the Wikileaks files and there is nothing in there about UFOs. Cooper also claims that the UN is a joke because Bilderberg secretly runs everything, if this is the case: why are we afraid of the UN? Surely it's not because extremist right-wingers since the 50s were demonizing anything that could be considered international cooperation? The John Birch Society's works were definitely on Cooper's list, and they published a book called Eisenhower a secret Communist; Cooper has him secretly working with the USSR on the alien question. 

Cooper makes the mistake of overcomplicating his alien conspiracy theories. He's got a race of plant-based insects, but then he brings in two more groups. One race is a humanoid group that lands in the desert (he never says which kind), but whose contact resembles the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." This movie inserted "The Greys" into pop culture so it's a distinct alien species. This group offered to help us with our spiritual development. Then there is another group that landed at an Air Force base in Florida, this group warns the US of another group of aliens orbiting the equator. 

That's three different alien races and at least one with hostile intent. Only Kerry Cassidy's "Project Camelot" has a more varied and intricate alien conspiracy theory, and Cooper is merely getting started. Imagine if Cooper had written this as the first chapter. I doubt it would have been as popular with the militia movement. As it stands, those individuals had to do a little mental gymnastics to justify these claims with the typical anti-government, sovereign citizen claims that they agreed with. The sci-fi angle makes it weird, and it's going to get stranger as Cooper gets more specific.