Yes, I’m prepared to believe in the existence of UFOs. Or rather ‘UAP’ as the phenomena is known in modern ufology parlance. This stands for ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’. We can get into the nomenclature, and the history of the vernacular, but that’s not what I want to discuss today. Perhaps another time.

UFOs, and I include, rightly or wrongly, the idea of associated non-human intelligence (NHI), has, along with writing, been a huge part of my life for the last ten years. I’d always had a vague interest, but this became fascination on steroids following the now fabled New York Times article of December 2017, Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program. For those of you who haven’t read the piece, it’s well worth a read. In many ways, it’s where modern UAP lore started, so beginning a creeping tide of news and information that has seeped into the public’s consciousness in subsequent years. I include myself. To put it another way, I fell down the rabbit hole.

If you haven’t followed the gathering momentum of the UAP narrative since 2017, it would take more than a few posts and supporting materials to get you to appreciate the basics. I’ll therefore pass the opportunity on this occasion. I suggest you go away and study some of the bountiful information now available online. I can point you in the direction.

The present UFO topic, sitting as it does in the shadow of notorious, dare I say ‘historic’ past events, such as Roswell, Rendlesham, Kecksburg, the Hudson Valley and Belgian flaps, for example, is so complicated, vast and wide, you cannot see the edges. The nuances to it are infinite, the topics limitless, the opinions endless and the politics ruthless and unforgiving for any unwary congressman or senator. But above all, as I came to discover, the preponderance of supporting evidence is immeasurable. We can debate the legitimacy of the data, the material, the sightings and so on, but it doesn’t stack up that millions of people are cranks, confused, or have poor eyesight. It only takes one report to be accurate, and true, and everything changes. If it hasn’t already.

I’ll leave it there for now. Why did I bring this subject up? Because the phenomena has been the key inspiration for at least two aborted novels and my first completed book (to be published), thus why I have this blog and website. The Otero County Disclosure doesn’t only explore UFOs, there’s much else besides. And this is the point. In researching and writing the novel, I found the subject far stranger and deeper than I would ever have imagined. I want to try and help others look at the subject through a wider aperture, to bring the subject to a more mainstream audience, perhaps those with no current appreciation of the topic. Because, as one of the characters in the book notes, ‘everything is connected’.

I’ll be writing regularly on the subject, so please keep an eye out.

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