1995: William Cooper Exhibit

(Excerpted from a slightly different version of a chapter in Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief) “If the evidence doesn’t seem to fit a particular conspiracy theory, just create a bigger conspiracy theory.” — Robert D. Hicks, In Pursuit of Satan “I am still searching for the truth. I firmly believe that this book is closer to the truth than anything ever previously written.” —William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse Conspiracy theories are like black holes; they explain everything, sucking in facts the way black holes suck in the matter. And, like black holes, each conspiracy theory is a portal to another universe that paradoxically resides within our own. Everything you’ve ever known or experienced, no matter how “meaningless,” once […] Read More

William Cooper Exhibit 2

The whole time I was in Vietnam and especially on the DMZ I had noticed that there was a lot of UFO activity. We had individual 24-hour crypto code sheets that we used to encode messages, but because of the danger that one of them could be captured at any time, we used special code words for sensitive information. UFOs, I was told, were definitely sensitive information. I learned exactly how sensitive when all the people of an entire village disappeared after UFOs were seen hovering above their huts. I learned that both sides had fired upon the UFOs, and they had blasted back with a mysterious blue light. Rumors floated around that UFOs had kidnapped and mutilated two army soldiers, then dropped them […] Read More

William Cooper Exhibit 3

Many more aliens were on the way, however. Cooper reports that in 1953, 10 more flying saucers crashed and 26 dead aliens and 4 live ones were recovered. The newly elected President Eisenhower was in a fix because of all this, and turned to Nelson Rockefeller; together they developed a plan to “wrestle and beat the alien problem.” In the meantime, astronomers had found that large objects, first thought to be asteroids, were fast approaching earth. The objects were, in fact, more alien spaceships. The government subsequently used radio communications and “computer binary language” to arrange a landing, which resulted in diplomatic relations between the U.S. and this second race of aliens, who left a “hostage” as a “pledge that they would return and […] Read More

William Cooper Exhibit 4

A similar incident involves yet another document Cooper claims to have seen during the ’70s. UFO researcher Bob Lazar says that in 1988 he wrote a paper at Los Alamos concerning “Project Excalibur,” an “earth-penetrating, nuclear-tipped missile designed to destroy underground facilities.” He gave a copy to Lear, who then gave a copy to Cooper: …I heard Cooper reading it verbatim, word for word, at the (1989) MUFON convention. He claimed to have seen it in the mid-’70s. I then heard him on the Billy Goodman show. I called him; he recognized the voice. He said he knew who I was. I then asked him, “Bill, that Excalibur missile thing, did you get that at John Lear’s or did you read that in the […] Read More