Interestingly, this interview with Edgar Mitchell (6th man on the moon, Ph.D rocket scientist from MIT, non-flake) shows he shares these views: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9tKWElDHhY4
Apparently Greer is arguing that once the “War on Terror” has run its course as an impetus for government seizure of political rights, the next step is what would amount to an alien false flag operation, in which flying saucers being flown by humans would be used to instill fear and panic.
Yes, of course this is out there. But I have studied the UFO issue for a long time, and there are far too many credible people publicly offering very detailed accounts of events only explicable within a radically different paradigm for me to feel the evidence is weighted in any direction but belief in the reality of extraterrestrials, and extraterrestrial craft. In another interview, Mitchell speaks of personal conversations he had with Roswell inhabitants present when the craft crashed, and he said there is ZERO ambiguity that it was an alien craft, and that bodies were recovered.
As I comment from time to time, I feel the strength of a mind is the quantity of disparate and even contradictory ideas it can contain at one time. The world presents itself in a series of what might be termed “perceptual problems”. They ask us: what am I? How is this BEST understood? If your only tool is a hammer, they are all nails. If you only have one paradigm within which you CAN operate, you will do violence to all problems which are not actually BEST understood within that paradigm. As I showed, I hope, clearly with my Tubaform heuristic, you can explain everything with the same ideas, if they are sufficiently broad (“Marxism”–so called; Freudian psychoanalysis; Darwinian evolution).
But if you think of a problem as unscrewing a mechanism with screws of a very specific size, and with very specific insertions–say triangular of a very specific size–then the more tools you have available, the more likely you will be to be able to see what is in front of you.
That is why I only discard out of hand ideas which abuse either fact or logic. Here, my factual orientation is that many professional, sane people have come forward with stories of aliens and alien spacecraft. This means somebody somewhere knows about them. These people do not seem to include Congress, or most of our government. This means that some private group–a la “Men in Black”, but with more sinister motivations–COULD have control of the thing.
Countless permutations are possible, but for very few of them do I have sufficient data to discard them out of hand.