Uri Geller: the government's REAL insider on UFOs
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Last week I posted a new inFact video that’s just a quick, fun, 3-minute overview of the history of the Usual Suspects driving today’s UFO mythology: Robert Bigelow, Hal Puthoff, Leslie Kean, Chris Mellon, Luis Elizondo… the whole crew whose names you’re already sick of. Well, some of you were surprised to see discredited spoon bender Uri Geller included in that mix in my video.
You mean, you didn’t know that he’s one of the US government’s REAL insiders? You didn’t know he’s the one they spill all their REAL alien secrets to? This guy with dual British-Israeli citizenship, but not US, is the US government’s most trusted confidante?
Well, here’s the proof, in his own tweet:
It looks pretty convincing! No doubt Geller was invited to the freezer room where NASA keeps all the alien bodies, and was allowed to take this snapshop for his personal scrapbook. He probably had to promise not to show it to anybody.
But then, this happened. Twitter has a feature called Community Notes that allow other users to add context to a tweet: Like, when it’s bullshit, they can provide the proof. It didn’t take long for the following Community Note to appear on Geller’s comical post:
And sure enough, when you go to that page, it shows you an old personal website of Mike Fields, the special makeup effects artist who created those models, with a whole bunch of his work. This one — as the Community Note points out — was a bunch of alien bodies he made for an episode of The X-Files. His homepage was first archived back in 2002.
Geller’s only actual connection with anything in today’s UFO news is that he was briefly included in the Stargate Project’s attempt to determine if psychic powers might be useful for espionage, a project terminated after $10 million was spent to learn the answer is no, because such powers don’t exist. Geller attempted to fool the scientists in the 1970s by claiming that his spoon bending gag, done by magicians all over the world, was actually real when he did it. Dr. Ray Hyman, a consultant with expertise in magic who was brought in to spot such fakers, easily exposed him, and Geller was thrown out of the program. BUT… other scientists there, namely Hal Puthoff, fully believed in Geller — being a physicist with no knowledge of the techniques for performing stage magic. And Puthoff later became one of the Skinwalker Ranch ghost hunters looking for transdimensional UFOs.
And that, dear friends, is the limit of Geller’s connection to the today’s UFO mania.
But browse his Twitter timeline. He is really desperately trying to rewrite himself back into this story. Encourage him, by all means… with any luck, perhaps the aliens will abduct him back to their planet.
Sigh.
Oh and by the way, my UFO movie is out today. Check it out. I do my best to lay out all the true facts that you actually might like to know about alien visitation, free of any bullshit, because this is Brian’s Bullshit-Free Zone.
Classic!