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U2U from Ghost Raven to Springer:
from: GhostRaven
sent: 6-26-2007 at 10:28 PM
Springer,
This was a completely fabricated story. I am not just some jerk who wanted to waste everyone's time, however. I actually was -- as I hinted in my first few posts -- studying how internet hoaxes get started. In fact, I thought that I had left more than enough hints in those posts for everyone who has been around for a long time to figure out what I was doing. In other words, I did not intend to be a malicious liar. Heck, I even picked a storyline that would be patently absurd.
At every stage in this tale I intended to write up an ending 'summary' that would state what I learned/noticed during the hoaxing. My idea was to be a 'friendly' hoaxer who could point out holes in the system... while trying to entertain everyone.
I decided to deliberately dive the thread into the ground, however, when people started talking about hunting me down, having the police arrest me, or going off into the woods. If I really was a horrible jerk I could have easily kept the community spinning for weeks. In fact, I had material written up that would have won a lot of people over. When I decided to end it, however, I decided to do it in a way that would allow everyone to watch what happens to a thread even after it has been debunked. Again, even in the end, I was experimenting.
Was this a bad thing? Not if you think practice makes perfect.
At any rate, I'd be willing to post a reply on the thread that will show how I constructed the hoax, how I altered it, and what I was looking for tomorrow (if you'd like). As much as some people may hate me... keep in mind that, unlike certain other big hoaxes, I did kamikaze it and I am willing to explain it.
Anyways, have a nice night and feel free to copy this message to the thread.
Originally posted by Cygnific
Why would they tell you the truth (ET is nice) but let you go out and say they are very nasty ET's. Why would you need the truth anyway?
[edit on 22/6/2007 by Cygnific]
Originally posted by GhostRaven
Stumason,
I will try to answer your questions:
The first phase will be simple. The goal will be to make something strange happen that, at first, will not seem overwhelmingly scary (remember, they do not want the public to panic. They want the public to be scared enough to 'fight' but not so scared that they cannot function). I was told that this phase would involve a ramp-up of 'missing person' cases and aggressive UFOs/lights in the sky. This will last for about two weeks (late July into early August) and it will be deliberately stirred so as to create a 'what's going on?' situation. The timing was chosen to coincide with the most common vacation/recerational dates (as people are more likely to 'chatter' about scary things while in large groups with friends/family).
The second phase will involve strange electromagnetic disturbances. This will NOT be blackouts. I was led to believe that things like jamming/interference of transmissions would occur. Expect everything from screwed up TV programs to bizarre, untraceable messages.
The third phase will involve a mass disapearance. After that, the 'real' war will begin due to a series of provoked air battles between UFOs and fighter jets.
Why does the military see them as a threat? It's really simple: They instinctively see them as a threat and, by definition, consider anything that can violate us territory at will as a threat.
The demonstration I saw involved videotape of both an actual UFO as filmed from a fighter jet and forensic photographs of multiple Visitor cadavers that had been recovered over the years. It was capped of by an inspection of a bell-shaped UFO that had crashed in the 1960s. This inspection occured at a civilian research facility.
I cannot say who I work for but I can say that I am not military and that I work for a branch of the federal government that is concerned with domestic affairs and public attitudes.
Originally posted by c3hamby
Have you contacted Dr Stephen Greer or Alfred Webre or Dr Carol Rosin or Stephen Bassett, or others that are trying to get out the truth that you have already mentioned that in fact ETs are in fact peaceful and any war would be initiated by the US?
Originally posted by schuyler
In any case--August. We won't have long to wait. This will be resolved faster (and probably prior to) the drone clones!
Originally posted by GhostRaven
Why does the military see them as a threat? It's really simple: They instinctively see them as a threat and, by definition, consider anything that can violate us territory at will as a threat.
The demonstration I saw involved videotape of both an actual UFO as filmed from a fighter jet and forensic photographs of multiple Visitor cadavers that had been recovered over the years. It was capped of by an inspection of a bell-shaped UFO that had crashed in the 1960s. This inspection occured at a civilian research facility.
I cannot say who I work for but I can say that I am not military and that I work for a branch of the federal government that is concerned with domestic affairs and public attitudes.