Hindsight: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 442-445

Writing about Cooper's book has the advantage of being nearly 30 years after the fact. We know that most of the things he's claimed have not happened. There was no nuclear reaction on Jupiter to turn it into a second star. The JASON project either never existed or it failed in its attempt. Cooper has closed the book on what was allegedly proof of aliens at Area 51 in Appendix B, and now we've moved on to Appendix C titled "Alien Implants." 

90s Alien conspiracies centered around the idea that aliens were going to put things in our bodies. Why? Not sure. In some cases it was for mind control, in other cases it was to track us, and then there was some kind of hybridization role (I think...it's hard to remember). No matter why, the alien implant idea was invasion of bodily autonomy claimed by the people most likely to vote against people wanting to preserve bodily autonomy. Aliens were kidnapping us and then inserting something inside us, that's the fear. It's a conspiracy theory designed to make the normal UFO conspiracy all that more dreadful and problematic. 

Appendix C begins with a single page of a document, it has no title. I've learned through the 440 pages of this book when a document has no title, searching for it, only leads back to this book. The first sentence starts, "In one method,..." and then describes a helmet that goes over the head while a strobe light shines in their face. We assume this is a method of alien implantation, but it just sounds like way to disorient someone. 

Two paragraphs later we are reading about the subject being hypnotized or asleep while a "high frequency microwave emission is used as a carrier wave on which to transmit encoded data into the nerve complex." Cooper (perhaps?) has written in the margin "Assume 40 to 60 Ghz," but why? Why should we assume 40 to 50 Ghz? It's just a thing he's (again maybe Cooper, I am assuming) adding to this. Cooper had some electrical experience so there might be a reason for this, but we can't know for sure. 

Then there's a redacted sentence, which ends with, "there are innumerable references to support that statement." You redacted the statement! There's no way we can even know if what you are saying has the support or not. 

The problem for this part of the book is that, Cooper wants us to believe in these implants, but this first document isn't talking about physical implants. The author is describing psychological implants of a fictional nature. Again, as this series mantra--Cooper hasn't read this document. Perhaps, if I'm being generous, we could say that maybe it's aliens doing the implantation but that wouldn't fit with the larger narrative that the UFO conspiracy theorists adopted in the 90s. If Cooper was trying to be cutting edge it might make sense, but this document skews into an odd place. 

In an underlined portion of the document it claims, "Some of these implants are responsible for humans not realizing their true nature and also for the system of self-imposed limitation", the sentence goes on from there but Cooper hasn't bothered to underline it the last few words which are "that is rampant on Earth." 

I mention this because it's a quaint idea that was shared by the UFO conspiracy theorists that you will not find in the modern conspiracy extremists. Yes, they all hate the government and think we're being controlled; but these people are fighting a global enemy. It's not about immigrants invading the borders, it's about alien overlords destroying the humans. 

Our second article is from the newspaper "Pacific Sun" dated May 4, 1990. It's titled "An ID tag that won't get lost." This is an article about those chips you can get put in your pet so that if they run off and end up at the pound you can be reunited with them. Cooper has crossed off some words like "dog" and written over it "man" and crossed off "pet" with "neighbor." Our hindsight raises its head here, we don't have this now. You can't chip an adult without their consent, you can't do it to kids. The idea that it would transfer from pets to humans never happened.

The final document in this appendix is another article titled, "BIG BROTHER's COMING! Revealed: Secret plan to tag every man, woman and child."

The lack of an Oxford comma really annoys me there. 

This is an article by Joe Rick, from the British Tabloid "The Sun" dated August 1st 1989. The article lays out our standard conspiracy theory--they put the chip in a vaccine for Swine flu, regular flu, or AIDS and then you have it. There's a few steps missing for the theory to work as far as slavery goes, but it's nothing that we haven't heard in 2021 about the Covid vaccines. The article contains a lot of quotes from a Davis Milerand who is described as being a critic of the Bush Administration. In fact of the ten paragraphs in the article half of them are quotations from Milerand. I cannot find anything on this person, so I'll assume that he's some UK conspiracy theorist that faded into obscurity. Without credentials and with a whole lot of weasel words like "could," "may," and beginning sentences with "imagine;" I'm fairly certain that we can just ignore this just as we did Batboy.

To close this week's post we can just say that Cooper was wrong. He's been wrong for thirty years on this, and everyone else that follows him with this same conspiracy theory is also wrong. There are no mind control chips. The closest thing that we have are claims by known liar and creep Elon Musk that he invented one. This is just weak stuff that would have been better served being in a different book.