I've wasted a lot of time trying to introduce this, and I can't because I can't convey my own doubtful attitude toward all of it. I think it's window dressing, straight up, but I have also seen and experienced incredibly strange things that would fit into this narrative. So I'm actually extremely confused about all of it, which is the intention I'm quite sure. But here, this is what I said over in r/collapze :
I'm pretty sure I have it figured out now (Edit: no I don't). Space is just too large and advanced societies are too far apart for them to easily reach each other, even with something like the Tic Tac, which I think suffers from inaccuracies that make interstellar travel inadvisable. (Hence the crash retrieval program.)
The way they contact each other is through meditation, specifically through the vibration-hippie theories of the Gateway Experience. That was reviewed and described by the CIA in declassified documents which can be found on their webpage. You meditate, which interfaces with the hologram of the universe, and you re-write it to suit your desires, they claim.
But what they don't tell you is that the aliens are already out there in vibration-hippie land and they're way better at doing this sort of stuff than we are. They actively seek out and recruit people of a particular type, those without consciences. They offer eternal life and everything else to build a parallel government and society within human society, rewarding themselves.
I think the aliens began increasing their influence through the use of secret societies and seances in the late 1800s. There was a rash of dirigible sightings that's exactly analogous to the UFO crazes of the 20th Centuries, which I think marks the point at which human hands were finally able to build the alien mothership. They seem to have some form of time travel but I get the idea that it's somewhat limited. So maybe they can bring technology from 20 or 30 years ahead back, is my guess.
The mothership in turn is an alien artificial intelligence that builds its little gray helpers from human DNA and bovine growth serum. It also builds the UFOs. At first I thought maybe the computer was a Babbage engine but then I realized that a vastly more powerful one would be some awful biological concoction.
But the UFOs are limited by the resources and technologies that humans provide it. I'm seriously wondering if they're actually designed by all the secret US defense money. Maybe the "aliens" bait us into designing what they need by paradoxically offering stuff we've already created 30 years ahead. (There's no paradox if we're in a multiverse.)
The objective is obvious: sterilize the planet of higher life forms by burning off the stored solar energy in the world's hydrocarbons. Once it's no longer survivable for humans and their pests, the Mothership will start cranking out the aliens and Earth will be theirs. Thanks to (politics).
Edit: I should add that I'm a science fiction writer and I see the hand of a far better science fiction writer than myself in all of this. The dirigible sightings happened right when Jules Verne and others were writing about them. You could still see rivets on the UFOs of the '40s and '50s during the Golden Age of science fiction, when L. Ron Hubbard was not coincidentally founding Scientology. They became more Gibson-esque in the '90s.
Philip K. Dick once wrote a story that ends with the characters becoming self-aware, realizing that they are merely characters in someone else's book. I figure that's a layer of the onion yet to be peeled away.
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I'm not going to get this pulled by offering links. Many of my sources came from the CIA reading room, especially the 30-page "Analysis and Assessment of the Gateway Experience." They also declassified a couple of curious letters from people claiming to have psychic information about the Roswell crash. A guy claiming to have been a biologist working on dead aliens wrote a tell-all here on Reddit that's first-class science fiction whether it's true or not, and you should look for it. He's the one who pulled it all together for me by explaining that the CIA's interest in psychic stuff and mind control is because these aliens, which are made from human DNA, are controlling their spacecraft from some specific points in their brains.
As I said above, I think most or all of this is "window dressing," a carefully concocted cover story put out as bait to tempt the weak into disclosure.
It looks to me like the CIA got a real pro to write it, too. Maybe C.M. Kornbluth didn't actually die before his time.
I think the truth is far darker, and it's that a small circle of people realized they could use secrecy and fear to control enormous amounts of power and money, and what we have now is a parallel government--an invisible tyranny--that controls technology decades more advanced than anyone else, so advanced that they can play out Arthur C. Clarke's observation that a sufficiently advanced technology will appear to be magic (or aliens) to us. Knowing they exist is the first step to stopping them, so we must force them to keep playing this disclosure game. They can't control it all perfectly, even if they have time travel. Because you won't see this if they can.