25 years after the Phoenix Lights, there’s a window we are reluctant to open

Twenty-five years ago today, a hundred thousand people in Phoenix, AZ witnessed an unidentified flying object that hovered over their city at twilight and lingered into the night.

Governor Fife Symington ridiculed what he and so many others had seen with their own eyes, and apologized for the stance that he took only long after he had retired from government.

The taboo against serious people taking UFOs seriously has broken open a bit, but the full reality is likely to shake our sense of reality in a way that none of us finds comfortable. The world we live in is so different from the world we think we live in that few of us will be able to figure out how to live in the broader reality.

Steven Greer is not the only one who believes that advanced energy technologies and anti-gravity systems have been reverse-engineered from downed UFOs decades ago. Greer also believes that there is a kind of Galactic Federation watching over the bumbling, tragic missteps of primitively intelligent life on Earth, making sure we don’t annihilate our planet, but otherwise reluctant to interfere in our species’s discovery process.

Opening this door might lead to learning about secret government programs that have been a powerful, hidden force behind world events for 75 years. It might lead to revelations about human pre-history, “Who built the Pyramids?” the origin of life and possible admixture of extraterrestrial DNA in the human genome. It might connect to the $21 trillion missing from the Pentagon budget—is this money being used to fund an underground breakaway civilization in which a subgroup of humanity lives with technologies far beyond our imagination?

Are there disembodied spirits living in parallel worlds that nevertheless influence our own, as shamans from diverse world cultures have always told us? Are there powers of the human mind, individual and collective, that extend far beyond that of which we imagine we are capable?

Disclosure of any sliver of this would be hugely disruptive, and my guess is that the truth is even wilder than what I have speculated here. That’s not to say that disclosure of reality would be a bad thing. I believe in discovery and new learning—in fact, this is the passion that keeps me alive.