I just had a thought like "What if some UFO aduction experiences people claim to have are actually people being kidnapped by the CIA" thinking-about-it

The kind of stories I'm thinking about often go like: "I was driving on an empty road in the middle of nowhere. I saw a bright light," and then either "I remember nothing but had lost time" or "I remember being experimented on by aliens and then put back in my car."

My tinfoil hat side is thinking like, these stories started happening around the time the US admitted to experimenting with abuse, torture and psychoactive drugs in Project MK-Ultra. Alien abduction stories were the most prevalent during this time. (CW: Just a heads up. If you want to read the rest of this post or anything else about MK-Ultra, be warned that it's pretty horrible, and involves some of the most disgusting torture I have ever read about. Death to America.)

Of the surviving documents released to the public about MK-Ultra, the CIA admits to: "kidnapping people it deemed "expendable" to undertake various types of torture and human experimentation on them. The prisoners were interrogated while being administered psychoactive drugs, electroshocked and subjected to extremes of temperature, sensory isolation and the like to develop a better understanding of how to destroy and to control human minds."

Part of me wonders how many of these alien abduction stories are just people being kidnapped, drugged with powerful hallucinogens, experimented on and then released with the suggestion conditioned into their mind that it was aliens.

The most famous alien abduction story is that of Barney and Betty Hill, an interracial couple that were both civil rights leaders, definitely people that the CIA would want to fuck with, especially during rising tensions with the Soviet Union, the US government was suspicious of minorities and anyone interested in their rights.

  • GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Did anybody ever read the later, weirder Dune books where they reveal that the bene tleilaxu's axolotl tanks are just what remains of their female members? That's what's in that bunker on Epstein island. They honeypot young white girls and then drug them and strap them to tables where they use IVF techniques and fertility drugs to force them to continually produce rich losers like Noam Chomsky and Bill Gates' quintuplets. Then they move the children to incubators as soon as they're viable and raise them in secret bunkers so that after the apocalypse these 'superior' specimens can emerge to rule what's left of humanity.

    This is the secret they killed Epstein to protect.

    • duderium [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The Honored Matres are returning from The Scattering! Miles Teg always did the last thing anyone expected in his Ixian no-ship. Always with the unexpected.

      (This is most of what I remember from Chapterhouse: Dune, aside from Miles Teg wasting a bunch of randos with a laser gun.)

      Also Leto in God Emperor of Dune falling in love with Hwi Noree, who is Asian and has almond-shaped eyes. But he can’t love her because it would take like a thousand years to change back into a dude. (Smdh, Herbert so speciesist for not favoring sandworm-human romantic relationships.) And then (spoiler) the fish women push him off a cliff and blast him with lasers (I think) and he turns back into sand trout.