Over the weekend I attended two separate events, both ultimately linked to the subject of extraterrestrials and UAP (for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, previously Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and UFOs before that—apparently DoD spends more time changing acronyms than engaging in anything useful and nondestructive these days) and both surprisingly validating and confirming that aliens are indeed among us here on Earth.
Let me repeat that. We are not alone.
It was also evident that mysterious orbs flitting about—especially in proximity to military activity—do exist and are extraterrestrial in nature and ability, many appearing red. Not bad for an author who literally created a species of aliens known as Red Orbiters in her Other Worldly novels. Not to mention said author having observed her first UFO in Nevada in the form of a swooshing red orb in 2012.
Gobsmacking information? Yes. Astounding? Definitely. Mindboggling? Disturbingly so. The very reason I’m posting this on Tuesday when I typically publish on Sunday. And it’s also why I’ll fully address only one of these momentous events herein, because I need more time to process, and to ponder.
On Saturday morning I attended the monthly meeting of our local MUFON chapter, Alamogordo’s Coffee Cups and Flying Saucers, where the guest speaker was someone you wouldn’t automatically connect with UAPs or ETs, but connect he did, calmly and clearly. I suspect I will, sooner or later, write more about Lyn Buchanan and the secret US Army project employing Controlled Remote Viewing, or CRV. That acronym has not changed, yet the project itself allegedly no longer exists. Except of course it does. Though the project name changed multiple times.
I won’t delve deeply into details, other than to say CRV involves using the subconscious mind to obtain information that can be highly valuable in the field of espionage. And the man I heard speak was portrayed by George Clooney in the 2009 movie Men Who Stare at Goats —loosely and satirically based on this very serious subject. Though Lyn Buchanan said that he did not kill a goat. His kinetic ability to mess with electronics, however, is quite another story. As is the potential for CRV to allow the subconscious mind to see into the past, and to predict the very scary future. Hence my needing time to process and ponder.
Somewhat less disturbing, but perhaps not quite as surprising, is the film premiere I attended on Saturday evening at Alamogordo’s Flickinger Center for the Performing Arts. The Cosmic Trigger: Trinity 1945 culminates an award-winning atomic history trilogy by Alamogordo native film director Larry L. Sheffield, whose grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project. I have not yet seen Sheffield’s first two films, available on Amazon Prime, Alamogordo, Center of the World (2020), and Oppenheimer After Trinity (2023).
The Cosmic Trigger: Trinity 1945 (2026 by First Light Productions) is a documentary investigating UAP including orbs of various hues, green fireballs, and actual flying—and hovering—saucers that were seen and filmed in the skies over Southern New Mexico in the years following the notorious 1945 Trinity Test. Because that’s when the US military became the first to detonate an atomic bomb in an area once comprised of family ranches and pastoral farmland.
An environmental atrocity that has since been dubiously dubbed the “Dawn of the Atomic Age.” One can’t at all imagine why that might attract extraterrestrial interest. Can’t you just see their headlines? Hapless Humans Launch A Doomed Process of Destroying Their Own Planet.
Maddening for me, as depicted in Cosmic Trigger, the slew of all white yet presumably highly intelligent males involved never once seemed to grasp or give the slightest passing thought or calculation to the reality that an alien presence could mean anything other than a sinister threat. It still boggles the mind that scientists and military personnel were so naïve and/or downright stupid to presume that an extraterrestrial species with the ability to visit us, observe us, and zoom above us in crafts that clearly surpass our pissant technology in 1945 would need to spy on us for our military secrets.
Is it any wonder that Red Orbiters in my novels leave lasered messages in the dirt for humans that say DON’T BE STUPID? We could sure use some alien help with that these days, just as the men of the “Atomic Age” badly needed enlightened intervention in 1945.
Cosmic Trigger: Trinity 1945 uses declassified documents, archival footage, firsthand testimonies, and historic research to explore—and reveal—what was patently obvious to US government officials witnessing the unexplained appearance of UAPs near military installations including White Sands Missile Range, Holloman AFB, Los Alamos, and the former Walker Air Base in Roswell for the next few years. Their conclusion? These could not be human-devised crafts.
But what was the human reaction when rocket launches in 1946 began going terrible wrong and doing inexplicable things like reversing course and crashing into the southern New Mexico desert? These supposedly intelligent men escalated their violent idiocy, deciding to now turn their unchecked aggression on technology they saw as extraterrestrial. The hubris was astounding. And for me, learning this decades later via a documentary that of course DoD attempted to prevent is infuriating.
As for that air base in Roswell, after watching this film, I began to suspect that most Americans have no idea of the connection between the flying saucer crash at a ranch just outside of Roswell in July 1947 with the Trinity Test in July 1945, not to mention subsequent years of sighting and incidents involving UAPs.
Cosmic Trigger paints a clear picture of the cause and effect that draws a straight, damning line between the dropping of an atomic bomb in 1945 to the crashing of an alien spacecraft just two years later in the same region. Because the Roswell Army Field, not renamed Walker Air Force Base until 1948, was where military personnel were stationed who recovered and examined the extraterrestrial wreckage that was no weather balloon.
Otherwise, why would the recovery have involved shipping the wreckage first to Fort Worth, TX, and then to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio? Why the elaborate coverup? Or are were they simply doing as they continue to do, hiding their own foibles? So, here’s my question: Did our military cause the flying saucer to crash near Roswell? The film did not imply this, rather it’s something that’s come to mind in the days since seeing it. And it’s a notion that will likely find it’s way into my next book, Alien Origins.
Interestingly, Walker AFB in Roswell is no longer operated by the US military. It’s now the civilian Roswell International Air Center, or ROW—got to love that acronym in terms of my OW novel series. It houses the Walker Aviation Museum featuring the former Air Force installation’s military legacy and UFO history. So I now have two museums to visit when I finally make it to Roswell.
Post note: The accompanying photo of an orb is mine, taken in North Las Vegas in close proximity to Nellis AFB in Nevada in March, 2024. I was snapping pics with my phone on a morning of training exercises and/or Thunderbird rehearsals with F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft directly above my over-55 community when I noticed something that was not the sun, nor the moon. Hovering as if also observing, just as I was. Why, I do not know. But this photo enlargement of the orb is astoundingly similar to actual footage of orbs from 1945 in Cosmic Trigger: Trinity 1945. Just saying.