The assumption that disclosure would break society is a kind of cosmic narcissism…”

Read more in this post!

open.substack.com/pub/drkr1/p/...

across all of it, we are the only minds that ever emerged? That's the extraordinary claim. That's what requires evidence. The burden of proof doesn't lie with those who suspect we have company—it lies with those who insist we don't.

can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting." Erich Maria Remarque - All quiet on the Western Front

Feel free to let me know what you think. It's fun to think about these kinds of explanations!
open.substack.com/pub/drkr1/p/...

In this piece, I analyze why the standard explanations (Russians, Chinese, hobbyists) fail the physics test—and why we might need to re-evaluate Jacques Vallée's "Control System" hypothesis.
open.substack.com/pub/drkr1/p/...

it transmitted a message about human potential that we're still trying to understand. The Varginha incident is one of the most compelling close encounter of the modern era. Learn more about this encounter in this new article.
open.substack.com/pub/drkr1/p/...

Daniel Sheehan in „the peoples advocate“

I was flabbergasted. But, then, I was a working-class kid from the north woods of New York.I looked around at what I presumed to be the predominantly prep school-educated Harvard undergraduates in the class, and not one of them seemed to be in any way disturbed by this admonition.”

the national security of our nation and to promote the economic interests of our nation and our nation’s businesses, then that person should not enroll in this class.“

„If there is anyone present here among you who believes that a nation-state, such as our United States, is not authorized to lie, cheat, steal, and kill to gain access to the strategic raw materials that belong to other nations that our leaders have determined to be necessary to advance

kissinger came out, took the lectern, and then proceeded, in that gravelly voice for which he later became famous to the world, to serve notice on us that

"But Parminder had buried her unshed tears deep inside her, where they seemed to undergo a chemical transformation, only to return later as lava streams of rage.” - freely translated from J.K. Rowling, “The Casual Vacancy”

The air smells of cotton and dust. Empty storefronts line the streets. And overhead, something impossible is losing altitude.

This is the story of the spaceman of Aurora—and the town that was saved by a legend, one century too late:

open.substack.com/pub/drkr1/p/...

Was it America's first UFO crash? A desperate hoax by a town gasping for survival?

Step into 1897 with me.

a windmill, exploded, and left behind the body of a pilot "not of this world."

The townspeople buried him in their cemetery with Christian rites.

It was April 17, 1897. The Wright Brothers hadn't yet flown. Radio was barely invented. And in Aurora, Texas—a town killed by spotted fever and bypassed by the railroad—witnesses claimed a cigar-shaped airship collided with