by Martin Cannon.
[This is a transcript of a taped talk given by Martin Cannon via telephone to the UFO contact center international group meeting in 1988]
All I can say is that I have been, for over a year now, pursuing a specific theory of UFO abductions which has royally ticked off everybody that I’ve come in contact with believer and skeptic alike.
This is a theory that I think, designed to make me hate it. I’m primarily interested in the government’s involvement in the UFO phenomena.
Specifically, it seems to me, and I might as well lay out all my cards on the table at once, it seems to be the abduction phenomenon might just be a ploy, that the aliens are a paper-mache mask, as I sometimes put it, for something else that’s really going on.
All theories of UFO abductions that I’ve ever come across (excepting the entirely skeptical ones put out by people like Philip Klass), they all include some aspect of the concept of mind control. Now it seems to me that if people’s minds are being controlled, and I think that this technology is in existence, then we have to ask the question: can we trust the participant’s reports of what they are seeing, in terms of perhaps even the UFO’s that they are seeing, but certainly the nature of the abduction experience itself?
Do we even have to assume that the little gray aliens exist simply because people tell us that they do, even if they believe that they exist?
BLACK DOG
Drawing from a very old example out of hypnotism, and Aileen being herself a hypnotherapist, can perhaps tell you more about this it was a very common practice, going back many, many decades, to see if somebody was under some hypnotism, they would introduce them they would take the subject, hypnotize them, and say that there was a small, black dog in the room, and he’s coming up, and would you pet him.
And the subject will often actually see the dog just as thoroughly, just as concretely, as they would see any normal dog that you might get out of the animal shelter.
Now if the human brain can be tricked to that extent, then is it not possible that the ET’s that people are seeing are of an exactly like substance to that dog?
I think it is. I have done a great deal of research into the subject of the government’s involvement in mind control operations. They like people to believe that that was all something that they were doing back in the 50’s and the 60’s, and it was all to catch up with the Russians who had this huge lead in the field, but they stopped doing it around 1963 and they never really found anything it’s all a lie!
I mean, basically, I’ve just come to the conclusion where I can say that right now. These programs went very, very far. We got there first. We were far ahead of the Russians. I even can give you a memo where Allen Dulles admitted that to the Warren Commission, of all places.
OCCULT GROUPS
It went back to World War II, possibly to the 30’s, in fact I’ve just recently came across some information that occult groups have been doing experimentations with what they call electronic mind control, going all the way back to the 19th century. In fact there isn’t a single technology of mind control that doesn’t go back to that time.
And so, one of the problems, well, I should say that in researching this I have not only looked up, read every book available on this subject, some of which are EXTREMELY hard to find. I mean, I’m sorry to sound too paranoid but I’m really beginning to get the idea that somebody has been going around to the libraries and hussling them off the shelves, because I keep on finding, you know, there are certain books that I keep on looking for, and I find that they are not checked out, and they are not only the library shelves either! And I’m wondering what’s happened to them.
But I think I’ve now amassed quite a library on the subject, and I’ve also gone to Washington, D.C. and I saw some 20,000 documents, these are de-classified CIA / Defense Department documents, as well as many interviews with scientists working on these programs back in the 50’s and 60’s, and these were all compiled by John Marks, for his book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
I would suggest that all of you people read that book, but you must understand that that book is incredibly conservative, and that the whole subject goes far, far beyond that. I don’t know why John Marks wrote it the way he did. Certainly, there was much more information in his files than he allowed to come out in his book.
Another good book which I’m sorry to say is very, very difficult to get a hold of, and probably the best book on the subject, is called Operation Mind Control, and that’s by Walter Bowart. But even then, after you’ve gone to that literature, you know, you have to search through a great deal of periodicals and scientific papers and so forth, and also conduct a great many interviews.
I’ve interviewed people who claim to have been under mind control, specifically in Vietnam. And what they describe is very, very similar to what the abductee’s are describing in many respects. Not only that, I’ve spoken to abductees. And this is a subject on which I feel a certain amount of hesitancy in describing and talking about.
One abductee, I called her Veronica in an article I wrote in UFO Magazine (it’s a long and extremely complicated and fascinating case), under hypnosis, and I did not hypnotize her, in fact she is the one who wanted the hypnosis and it was administered by a professional hypnotist. In the 4th hypnotic session she described one of her abductions, which as she dug deeper turned out not to have taken place at all in any kind of Unidentified Flying Object, but in fact took place in a house outside the Los Angeles area.
And of course, we kept zeroing in on the house and its location, and so on and so forth.