Well, Constance, it’s hard to prove exactly what Mirage Men are up to but there’s no doubt they expertly manipulate people’s perception --and their beliefs-- yet they themselves remain more or less invisible. I will list below my reasons for thinking that John Lundberg & Co. were indeed the master manipulators behind the Roswell Slides hoax and you can judge for yourself. It would of course help if you knew about the part that he and Rob Irving and Rod Dickinson played in Ray Santilli’s Alien Autopsy scam of 1995. Although John has never denied that himself directly, he often gets associates of his like Philip Mantle (who is lurking somewhere here) to deny that he had any part in it. Best ignore what Philip says.
Meanwhile --as regards the Roswell Slides-- there has been a complete change of gear since Maussan’s May 5th UFO Special Event and observers are now dividing into two camps: the Alien Believers and the Mummy Believers. One can’t help thinking that there has been further manipulation by the unseen hoaxmasters and this time it has been done using the alleged deblurring of that unlikely placard which, it seems, can carry whatever message you like. This nicely diverts attention from exposing the authors of the original hoax or ever discovering the truth. As I said in my posting yesterday I don’t believe the “corpse” is either an alien OR a mummy.
Reasons to believe the "Roswell Slides" affair was an elaborate hoax produced by John Lundberg & Co.
1. "Hilda Ray" is almost certainly an insider joke name referring to RAY Santilli's Alien HILDA. We are told some of the slides were marked with the name "Hilda Ray" and it is quite apparent that a fictional story was woven around a real Hilda Ray of Midland, TX, who allegedly was a friend of Mamie Eisenhower back in 1947. Jaime Maussan and Adam Dew's story of how the (real) Hilda Ray allegedly came to be shown the alleged alien body(s) from the alleged flying saucer crash at Roswell in White Sands, NM, is entirely ridiculous. What an amazing million -to-one chance of this Hilda Ray's supposed connection to the alleged Roswell Alien corpse if there was no connection with Ray Santilli's alien! (Alien HILDA was, of course, the special effects dummy made 20 years ago by John Lundberg and Rod Dickinson.)
2. Jaime Maussan was hugely impressed by Santilli's "Alien Autopsy" film and showed it and praised it on many occasions at UFO conferences and on Mexican TV channels assuring his followers that it was genuine proof of ET visitation and that a UFO with aliens on board had indeed crashed at Roswell. He was also impressed that Santilli had disclosed this to the world and the media on May 5th (1995) which, being
Cinco de Mayo, is a day of national celebration in Mexico though I doubt if Santilli was aware of that. From that time on Jaime Maussan wanted his own genuine Roswell alien and probably dreamed of presenting such “final proof of the alien presence” to the world on
Cinco de Mayo in Mexico's huge National Auditorium in Mexico City. He was completely undeterred by the conclusion reached by me and a hundred other ufologists years ago that the Alien Autopsy was a complete hoax and nothing would stop him holding his sensational UFO Special Event there on May 5, 2015. Where to find "genuine" photographic evidence of a real alien? Obviously he knew that he should turn to John Lundberg & Co. to obtain unassailable "evidence" of a
genuine Roswell Alien.
3. One day I had a strong feeling that if John Lundberg was involved with this hoax he would be watching forum threads about the Roswell Slides such as that on The Paracast. So at the end of posting a long reply to you on April 17th I inserted --on the spur of the moment-- the words: "Are you reading this, John? (If so, please say ‘Hi’)" John Lundberg pops up replying within just a few minutes. I had had no contact with John for over 15 years and when he first used the name Hilda Ray for the Roswell Slides he probably assumed I was dead by now or had lost interest in UFOs. That there was still someone around like me who remembered that Santilli's alien was nicknamed HILDA in 1995 may have come as quite a surprise for him.
4. This was the first appearance (as far as I can ascertain) of John Lundberg on this Roswell Slides thread on The Paracast and his chosen avatar read "THIS IS A PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE". He gave himself the name "Ostension" on the forum and we exchanged postings openly for a bit discussing his 2013 documentary film "Mirage Men" which I told him was well made and utterly compelling. No reluctance to discuss that.
5. "PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT" is exactly what John has described with reference to his business (circlemakers.org) which includes (although he doesn’t call it this) circlefaking, ufofaking, and alienfaking. He joked that I once called him a "poodlefaker" (which I did) so I knew immediately it was him. The usual target for his circlefaking, ufofaking and alienfaking productions is --unsurprisingly-- crop circle believers, UFO believers and (Roswell) Alien believers. I call all of these activities deception although again that's not a term he likes to use.
6. "Ostension" has only one meaning. Check it out at
www.the freedictionary.com/ostension and you will see that is exactly what John must have been attempting to achieve for Jaime Maussan by the display of a "genuine" Roswell Alien (photos only, I fear) at the Mexico City Special Event. This was surely intended to be presentation of an extraterrestrial entity made real for followers and believers of the world's #1 UFO prophet, Jaime Maussan. There is no other plausible interpretation of why John chose to call himself "Ostension" on the forum.
7. When I attempted to discuss the Roswell Slides and exactly what John was up to in that connection he went quiet and evidently was not prepared to talk about it openly. That has been his policy for years as regards his circlemaking and his "Perception Management" business. Neither confirm nor deny --and best of all say nothing. Nothing further has been heard from "Ostension" on this thread. After what most observers in the US perceived as an "epic fail" for Jaime Maussan's UFO Special Event in Mexico City on May 5th there was a sudden change of gear regarding the Roswell Slides as I said above. Could this have resulted from the potential exposure of who the actual hoaxmaster was
on this very forum?
8. Archskeptic Robert Sheaffer of badufos.blogspot.com ran my piece titled "The Roswell Slides Depict Alien MATILDA" on his blogsite on May 1st, 2015. He then wrote to ask John Lundberg what he had to say about it. Robert says: ' [Lundberg] might have replied something like: "I had nothing to do with either the Santilli Alien, or the Roswell Slides." Instead, he chose to reply in poetic and evasive terms, which I read as acknowledging that he was involved in those matters, but was unwilling to say so publicly. But one never knows what is to be taken seriously when dealing with Mirage Men'.
9. John declined an invitation to appear on
The Paracast and be interviewed about Mirage Men by Gene and Chris. The reason that he declined was almost certainly because he would have been also questioned about the Roswell Slides and the part which he played in the affair.
[ And don’t forget, Constance, that John is still reading every word of this even if he doesn’t say anything. No one will ever know the full truth since Mirage Men NEVER, NEVER, NEVER confess, come clean, or even
pretend to agree to tell you the whole truth ……………. George ]
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