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How much was the Devil stirring up the Anti-Communist paranoia using UFOs or, better, flying saucers ?
Nehemiah 9:13 “Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:”
12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
DISCLAIMER these post needs improvements that will come in the next days. But I was in a great turmoil because I wanted to publish it today in the 74th anniversay of the Monguzzi case (and Catholic day of the founder of the infamous Jesuit Order) as it were "July 31st the World Day of the spirits and the Devil using the UFO phenomena to hijack Christianity" (you know, the world day of the mother, of the father, of the bees, etc. 😅). I gave to myself this day also to publish something. Because I would have never published it, as the time needed to take care of my posts now is very little. So, better something, a bit inordinate and not improved, than nothing.
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13 July, 2026
More UFO stuff:
Pentagon releases new UFO records detailing decades of unexplained aerial encounters
"The newly released records span from 1948 to 2025 and include reports, videos and images tied to unresolved unidentified aerial phenomena.
The Pentagon has expanded its public UFO archive with dozens of newly released records, from declassified documents to videos, audio recordings and images tied to decades of unexplained aerial incidents."
See:
Above image - from the work of dipl. ing. A. Schneider. As soon as I can I'll discuss it in another post.
That photo has been cleaned and retouched. There's a vaporous emission from the object on the right side. If you want to see a total debunking of the debunkers, watch this video of the C.U.N., frim 01:01:00 it is clearly seen not only outline of a hatch on the hull, but on the upper right corner of it a clear puff of steam which evidently has been "washed away" in following manipulations of the photos.
Cardboard models don't puff any vaporous emission, this thing did it :
RIAPRIAMO IL CASO MONGUZZI (nuove scoperte) Roberto Pinotti Alfredo Benni Giorgio Di Salvo
https://www.youtube.com/live/PMC-cc18gq8?is=8wqE2DQ7LGD9qB-G
If you want to learn a bit more about the case Monguzzi, go to this article, whose Google translation (no much time to do it personally) I attach it in "references" at the bottom of the post :
".....When the photos came out, there was a huge uproar. Monguzzi was interrogated by CIA agents and our secret services; he told me that his photos had been blown up to wall height by the Air Force (he didn't tell me which country). He was truly terrified. I remember that at a certain point he told me to get out of the matter, that he was in trouble. I, having a family, preferred to obey. After all, Monguzzi paid dearly for it....."
UFO – The Extraordinary Monguzzi Case
https://www.italiador.com/ufo-lo-straordinario-caso-monguzzi/
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Above image - detailed image of the astronaut. Only perplexity : his right arm which seems a bit too much elongated at the articulation of the right shoulder meanwhile the left arm is more at the back, but this could be due to a slightly turned to the left upper part of the trunk (the astronaut was checking the hull, a "walk-around" as reported by Monguzzi) and therefore the huge backpack visible in the other image of the astronaut shows his right side as appearing from the back of the figure (backpack which is not a spot in the hull of the saucer as the picture of it without astronaut shows nothing on it).
For lack of time I'll analyze the astronaut picture in another post, probably in Spirito della sua bocca blog.
Antonio Sprecapane was the job colleague of Giampiero Monguzzi who asked him to help him to make a model scenery in order to show his ability as "journalist". This happened before the release of the images. As Sprecapane later told, Monguzzi was heavily questioned by various intelligence agencies who replicated the pictures in their natural size filling entire walls (of the rooms where he was harshly interrogated ?). Evidently he was brutally constrained to falsely confess he did a fake. But the little dummy allegedly used is absolutely NOT the same of the figure with a sort of spacesuit and very large backpack appearing in the original photos. You can find them in original printed old books and magazines from even the fifties - no AI, no photoshop. Only the usual "compression- decompression" software effects when pictures are digitalized and published on the websites (on this more on a future post).
Giampiero, as reported by Antonio Sprecapane, died in a "very strange car accident". Roberto Pinotti, the man talking at the bottom of the video and interested in UFOs since his childhood (he remembers well the 1952 radio news announcing the sighting of this case) says in the video that the rest of that family, wife and a son, they had sort of dissolved into thin air, because any effort to trace them was completely unfruitful.
This is the very human sad side of this story. A family probably annihilated because was a witness of something no one had to see or believe to be real. That the Soviets had already, taken from the Nazis, an astounding technology able to nullify any kind of Western technological superiority.
Of course I believe that the saucer, the astronaut & vapour, all together was a ghost, a mirage, an hologram, (you-chose) created by the special physical effects laboratory of the Devil.
The story could be this. In the Cold War the terror that the USSR could gain exotic technology unbeatable by the West, was real stuff, to be not ridiculed. Recently released declassified documents of 1949 (just three years before the Monguzzi case !! - see link and excerpts below), show the deep concern of the newly born USAF about those ghostly saucers as potential Soviet unconventional aircrafts. In the powers that be, Communist paranoia ascended to levels where only the dread of a potential invasion of real extraterrestrial hostile beings is met.
I believe those evil entities were not yet staging "small greys from Zeta Reticuli" like today. In those years the entities were staging a storyboard aimed to a completely different purpose from the one which later has become the only constant feature of the chaos of the UFO phenomenon, i.e. that they are not human.
That space suit could potentially have contained an human Soviet pilot flying a saucer built with secret Nazi technology. Now in Communist hands. From this came the alleged disgraces which afflicted Monguzzi and his family.
Thanks to this paranoia the Devil could creep inside Christianity, especially the US biblical one. If you noticed Billy Graham & John Birch society were obsessed by a Communist conspiracy to overthrow the government. They believed in the reality of UFO phenomena but had opposite interpretation : while Bill believed they were angels, the fanatical Birch-ites believed they were of human origin. But both groups helped the Devil in to take over "Christianity" especially the US one.
The anti-Communist paranoia pushed Christians to abandon more and more their spiritual separation from this world (nation, society, etc ) and, like the Zionists, to start to dream that the kingdom of God is something also of this world, something that was worth to fight also physically, supporting political parties, and becoming physical soldiers, in complete denial of Jesus statement that His kingdom is not yet of this world and His disciples have not to physically fight for it (John 18:36).
The goal of the Devil, as you know already from my posts, is that man may believe in a wrong version of the Devil, real or fictional doesn't matter. The Devil pushes people to believe this world is a paradise, a kingdom of God that a false Devil wants to destroy : LGBTQS, immigration, Communism, etc. The top cherry 🍒 on this cake can be the evil "aliens". Then the real Devil comes fighting the false Devil to restore the paradise on earth. Only to reveal himself at the end :
Sunday, July 26, 2026
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In the 70s the nature of the entities behind the UFOs changed. Casual contacts or sporadic, purposely aimed to spread "special knowledge from above" encounters were gradually replaced by highly shocking systematic abductions. It seems that the entities, once the conspiratorial anti-communist paranoia became a larger social cultural phenomena, adapted their staging to the new social collective cultural mindset. But then there was no more need of Communism to spread a conspiratorial mindset and indeed Communism was scrapped. The monster could walk on its legs until our present age where the "Christian" identity is no more shaped by the fight against the USSR but against the LGBTQs and immigration. The goal to transform the Christian in a reactionary revolutionary with the purpose to change the world has been achieved and now is the same Christianity to prepare the world order which will be ruled by the Devil incarnated in the Antichrist.
In these documents it is very clear that the flying saucer paranoia was aimed to direct the fear towards an human threat, the threat of Communism, and to consider the "extraterrestrial hypothesis" only a cover to hide highly advanced technology of propulsion allegedly developed by the Soviets with the help of German scientists. In any case that contributed at large extent in to build the anti-Communist paranoia, a black hole which completely absorbed the US Christianity making it only another gear of the kingdom of the Devil on earth. Indeed Christians and anti-Communist right wing politic became a twin in the US, a fundamental step in that theocracy that we see today in the Trump's reign.
Pentagon releases new UFO records detailing decades of unexplained aerial encounters
Story by Angelique Brenes • 2w • 4 min read
Among the newly released records is a 1949 analysis of unexplained flying objects that references a fatal military pursuit the previous year. According to the document, a National Guard pilot died on Jan. 7, 1948, while attempting to intercept an unidentified object at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
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Below you see scattered material interspersed with my considerations on the matter, in an inordinate fashion. I found that the development of the UFO deception followed well defined paths. After an early allusion to the flying saucers as product of an enemy human force (Communist world) the extraterrestrial origin hypothesis became the dominant one. At that point the Anti-Communist paranoia was fully embedded in the American churches. The UFO and contact phenomenology was transforming itself for another coming age of deception with different goals in mind. But what matters here is the understanding about the early Anti-Communist age of the UFO phenomena. The infamous sen. McCarthy who started an hysterical Anti-Communist campaign in the US is analyzed with the John Birch Society's view on the UFO phenomena. The John Birch Society was probably the utmost Anti-Communist organization in the US and the "mother of all conspiracy theories" that today are virulently colonizing in the web. It is interesting to note that the John Birch Society (JBS) and the Billy Graham "crusade circus" covered different and opposite area of belief about UFO phenomena. Meanwhile UFOs and their occupants were claimed to be in a way or another a product of the Communism (or of secret US governmental agencies working as A Troj Horse of the USSR), a group of theories instigated by the JBS' conspiratorial mindset, Billy Graham believed that the UFO phenomena is an angelic manifestation of course angels from heaven not from Hell. Two views on the phenomena, one considering it evil and by the Devil controlled, the other "angelic" and from God.
This bipolar opposition is warning us about the Hegelian Dialectic of the Devil which always divides his controlled human groups in two fronts to clash them in order to get the outcome as desired. To divide his fallen angels and unclean spirits in two fronts, the "evil" front and the "angels of God", is but a child's game for the fallen cherub who is also the father of lies (John 8:44)
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The "aliens" wanted to feed especially in the "Christian" US the anti-Communist paranoia.
Sightings in their turn were feeding the other, auxiliary of the first, (the "Christian" one), battalion of attack against the Bible, namely evolutionism, darwinism, new age philosophies, naturalism, etc.
A perfect Hegelian clash was put in motion with the end of the forties and beginning of fifties. Just remember Billy Graham's anti-Communist crusades :
William Franklin Graham Jr. (/ˈɡreɪəm/; November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister, and civil rights advocate,[1][2] whose broadcasts and world tours featuring live sermons became well known in the mid-to-late 20th century. Throughout his career, spanning over six decades, Graham rose to prominence as an evangelical Christian figure in the United States and abroad.
According to a biographer, Graham was considered "among the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century.[3] Beginning in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Graham became known for filling stadiums and other massive venues around the world where he preached live sermons; these were often broadcast via radio and television with some continuing to be seen into the 21st century.[4] During his six decades on television, Graham hosted his annual "crusades", evangelistic live-campaigns, from 1947 until his retirement in 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham
AI overview "Billy Graham ufo flying saucers" :
In his 1975 book Angels: God's Secret Agents, famed evangelist Billy Graham proposed that UFOs were not extraterrestrial spaceships, but rather supernatural or angelic manifestations. He suggested that these sightings bore striking resemblances to the angelic aircraft described in the Old Testament.
Graham maintained that humanity's fascination with flying saucers did not contradict scripture, but could be integrated into a Christian worldview as spiritual phenomena rather than alien visitations. He noted that his belief in angels was ultimately rooted in the Bible, but that reported UFO sightings aligned with the unseen spiritual realms.
This theological perspective—viewing UFOs as extra-dimensional or spiritual beings rather than interstellar travelers—continues to be shared by many evangelical leaders today.
For more details on his perspectives regarding spiritual realms and the supernatural, you can explore the official Billy Graham Evangelistic Association resources or read excerpts from the Billy Graham Angels Book.
Another excerpt :
An element of UFO sightings which is rarely explored is how the rise of this phenomenon affected religious perspectives in the United States. As much as the late 19th-century discovery of dinosaurs challenged the core beliefs of our Victorian ancestors, the potential existence of life outside of our little blue dot presented far greater threats to the beliefs of American Christians. While many brushed off the rash of UFO experiences in the US as hoaxes or misidentified objects, others sought to expand their belief system to encompass the possibility of life beyond Earth, including elements of emerging sciences (and pseudo-sciences) which supported their new worldview.
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Parsons was not the only preacher who subscribed to the theory that extraterrestrials were actually angels (or vice versa). In the 1970s, Billy Graham made an effort to enfold UFOs into his Christian worldview as well, claiming in his book about angels that the sighted UFOs bore “striking resemblances to angelic aircraft described thousands of years ago in the Old Testament.” The mechanisms through which the angels operated on Earth are strikingly similar among the beliefs of Peebles, Parsons, and Graham.
https://archives.library.illinois.edu/2023/03/02/hidden-truths-in-the-archives-ufos/
Article: UFOs are they Martians or miracles ?
Pittsburgh press Oct 25 1975
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-billy-graham-propos/17662588/
Below you see quoted a page about the history of the Bible. It is a not-KJV Onlyist
Transcription
Lessons
Editor’s note: This is the fourth part of a four-part series of lectures that were delivered at Lancaster Bible College in March, 2001, for the Staley Bible Lectureship. Dr. Wallace is available as a conference speaker on “The History of the English Bible.” If your church is interested, contact him for details.
Preface: Two Great Periods of Bible Translation
There have been two great periods of English Bible translation in history—the sixteenth century and the twentieth century. In many respects, they are mirror images of each other. Each began with a certain kind of translation that was then followed for many generations. The Tyndale was the template for almost all 16th century Bibles; the RV set the pattern for most modern translations.
In the sixteenth century, the predominant concern in Bible translation was beauty; in the twentieth century, it was truth. No single translation at any time has captured all that the original text has to offer. Not only this, but none of the Bible translations were produced in a vacuum. There were political and religious groups behind the scenes that were driving much of the production.
And this is why there is no simple answer to the question, “What’s the best translation available today?” No translation can capture the full force of the original. The best we can do is to own several different kinds of translations. You may need one for serious study, another for casual reading, and another for memorizing. But don’t shortchange yourself by thinking that one Bible is all you need. The only Bible that can make that claim is the Greek and Hebrew Bible. This hour, we will discuss the various kinds of translations and, hopefully, help you to understand the nature of some of the more popular Bibles available today.
A. The Era of Accuracy (or ‘formal equivalence’) (1881-1971)
1. The Revised Version (1881, 1885)
As we noted yesterday, when the RV appeared, it was meant to be a revision of the KJV. It was even touted as “the triumph of King Truth over King James.” But the scholars who produced it were far more interested in a literal translation than in a beautiful translation. In spite of all the scholarly clamor for this new translation, most people—including clergy—still preferred the King James.
2. The American Standard Version (1901)
The RV was primarily a British effort, but there were a few Americans who worked on the translation. By contractual agreement, the Americans promised not to publish their own translation until the RV had been on the market at least fourteen years. This would give the RV time to become established and overtake the KJ. As it turned out, 14 years or 140 years would still not be enough time for this stiff British translation to displace the AV.
The ASV was significantly better English than the RV. But it was still quite stilted. It is the most literal translation ever done in English that qualifies as passable English. Like the RV, this translation was a revision of the KJ—the sixth revision. The ASV was immediately recognized as vastly superior to the RV. It became a great study Bible, though it is now outdated by new discoveries.
3. The Revised Standard Version (1946, 1952)
Nearly fifty years passed before the next major translation was done. The impoverished style of the ASV prompted the International Council of Religious Education to recommend a revision. The work began in 1937 and the committee of 32 scholars consciously tried to make the RSV preserve the qualities of the KJV that had made it so great. The RSV is a product of American scholarship. It is very much in the spirit of the KJV, and should be regarded as the seventh revision of the KJV.
On the first day of publication—September 30, 1952—it sold one million copies. Among many churches in America, it quickly replaced the AV. It is still one of the most popular translations ever done. It is powerful in its simplicity and directness. The conservative NT scholar, F. F. Bruce, gives it high praise: "for the English-speaking world as a whole there is no modern version of the Bible which comes so near as the R.S.V. does to making the all-purpose provision which the A.V. made for so many years." But not everyone took a liking to the RSV. It is in fact the most hated English translation of all time.
The first half of the 20th century saw two new major translations—the ASV and the RSV. But the second half of the 20th has seen a multitude of new translations. Why the change? What was the catalyst that spawned all these new versions? It was primarily the RSV—and fundamentally it was a negative reaction to the RSV.
Once again, we cannot understand Bible translations unless we put them in their historical context. When the RSV was produced, there was a distinctive religious and political climate. On the religious front, we were embroiled in the fundamentalist-modernist controversy. This reached its apex in the 1925 Scopes Monkey trial when a high school biology teacher was put on trial in Tennessee for teaching Darwinian evolution in the classroom! And on the political front, immediately after World War II the Cold War with Communism commenced. This was the era of Senator McCarthy who smelled a communist under every rock. It should not surprise us that the strongest attacks on the RSV came from the religious and political conservatives.
Senator McCarthy condemned this new translation as communist propaganda. His sole basis was that the RSV used the word “comrade” in three verses. And since the communists referred to themselves as “comrades,” McCarthy surmised that the RSV was the result of a communist plot! Remarkably, he was successful in persuading some members of the military of his logic. The RSV was banned for use in the Air Force for several years.
https://www.biblicaltraining.org/learn/foundations/ch201-history-of-the-english-bible/ch201-04-why-so-many-versions
Pentagon Bans Air Force Manual That Terms Some Pastors Red; Gates Apologizes to Official of Church Group Named -- Sharp Orders Inquiry PENTAGON ORDERS BAN ON A MANUAL
https://www.nytimes.com/1960/02/18/archives/pentagon-bans-air-force-manual-that-terms-some-pastors-red-gates.html
His sole basis was that the RSV used the word ‘comrade’ in three verses. And since the communists referred to themselves as ‘comrades,’ McCarthy surmised that the RSV was the result of a communist plot! Remarkably, he was successful in persuading some members of the military of his logic. The RSV was banned for use in the Air Force for several years. But by far the deepest criticisms of the RSV came from religious fundamentalists. The RSV was sponsored by the National Council of Churches. This is a large group embodying several denominations, but very few fundamentalist churches were included. The doctrinal commitments of the NCC had some modernist leanings to them. So, when the RSV appeared, there was an instant suspicion on the part of some fundamentalists.”
https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/773309-the-history-of-the-english-bible-britain's-revised-version-and-the-american-standard
This small but interesting film, underwritten by the National Council of Churches, shows to some extent the politics, theology and history behind the translation and production of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. Begun in 1937 under the aegis of Luther Weigle, then Dean of the Yale Divinity School, it emerged in 1952 to a world replete with –isms: Stalinism, Maoism and, most importantly for America, McCarthyism. Into this suspicious culture the brilliantly red-covered RSV was seen as a clear intent to subvert the hearts and minds of biblical Americans with socialist ideologies and the taint of liberal ecumenism. What was intended as a translation that would find access across the broad spectrum of American and English readers, lasting 400 years like its predecessor, the King James Bible, has instead spawned a plethora of ideological translations and paraphrases.
https://emro.libraries.psu.edu/record/index.php?id=1283
AI overview "john birch society ufo flying saucers"
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The John Birch Society (JBS) is a right-wing, anti-communist organization founded in 1958. While the JBS itself never focused primarily on extraterrestrials, its foundational worldview of powerful, hidden elites pulling the strings of government created fertile ground for later conspiracy theorists to merge anti-government paranoia with UFO narratives.The Convergence of ConspiraciesThe New World Order: The JBS's theories about shadowy, unelected elites and a deep-state apparatus paved the way for a broader "UFO conspiracy culture." Over the decades, these groups began to merge government mistrust with the idea that authorities are hiding the truth about aliens and advanced technology.Military and Secret Tech: In UFO lore, flying saucers are often framed as a government-covered-up secret or the work of a militarized deep state. Because JBS philosophy fundamentally rests on the assumption that governments are corrupt and hiding massive secrets, Bircher-esque suspicions blend easily with the belief that UAPs are man-made secret weapons rather than extraterrestrial craft.Broader Right-Wing Extremism: Historians have compared the JBS's intense, anti-communist 1960s activism to an early ancestor of movements like QAnon. These modernized conspiratorial communities often intersect with fringe ideas about alien technology, "black helicopters," and the Illuminati.For a look into how early UFO researchers actually accused the government of covering up flying saucers:2:47Flying saucers and alien abductions: New book explores history of UFOsYouTube · Penn State UniversityJohn Birch Society founded | December 9, 1958 | HISTORYMay 27, 2025 — In Indianapolis, retired candy manufacturer Robert H.W. Welch, Jr., establishes the John Birch Society, a right-wing organization dedicated to fighting what it ...History.comThe John Birch Society: A Historical Analysis of Its Actions, Influence, ...Feb 28, 2025 — McDonald was one of the few openly Birch-affiliated politicians in Congress. ... Korean Air Flight 007 (which JBS claimed was a Soviet conspiracy). ... politici...ResearchGateThe New World Order: The Historical Origins of a Dangerous Modern ...May 30, 2022 — The most famous and popular of these organizations is the John Birch Society (JBS), which primarily focused on rooting out communism in the United States by mak...MiddleburyEven Conspiracy Theorists Are Alarmed by What They've SeenAug 4, 2023 — Mr. Lewis, a middle-aged man with a round face and a gray beard who goes by the nickname SMiles, sat at his desk, in front of a wall covered with posters of ali...The New York Times4. New World Order Conspiracies II: A World of Black HelicoptersSuch a chip could not merely track an individual's purchases but also manipulate his mind: “The implantable biochip provides incredible potential for the Illumi...De Gruyter BrillOUT OF THE SKY: HOW 'EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS' (1956) CHANNELED WAR TRAUMA INTO CINEMATIC FANTASY - GrumpireJun 23, 2021 — None of that happens in Earth vs. The Flying Saucers. The government's cover-up of the flying saucers, the entire point of Keyhoe's book and one of the biggest ...www.grumpire.com
AI overview "billy graham john birch society"
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Billy Graham was a staunch anti-communist, which aligned him with the broader conservative movement. However, he avoided formal membership in the fringe, far-right John Birch Society (JBS). Graham focused primarily on religious evangelism rather than conspiracy theories, although figures within his network maintained deep ties to the group.The connection between Graham and the John Birch Society involves several shared influences and key historical figures:The Namesake Connection: The JBS was founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, who named the organization after John Birch—a fundamentalist Christian missionary killed by Chinese communists in 1945. Birch's formative years were deeply influenced by the same fiery, fundamentalist preachers that inspired Billy Graham.The Graham Family Tie: Graham's father-in-law, L. Nelson Bell, was an influential figure in conservative evangelicalism, a founder of Christianity Today, and a vocal anti-communist. Some of Bell's views overlapped with the hardline, anti-communist conspiracies often pushed by Birchers, with many of his political circles frequently attributing opposing ideologies to "communist plots".Evangelical Politics: The JBS actively supported conservative politicians, such as Barry Goldwater. While Graham was heavily courted by politicians and advised presidents, he generally eschewed explicit partisan mobilization in favor of the more moderate evangelical consensus championed by figures like William F. Buckley Jr., who famously purged overt extremists and Birchers from mainstream conservatism.For more background on how the JBS influenced the religious right, check out historical overviews from the Hudson Institute or academic analyses via Church Life Journal.The Wild Road Trip That Launched the Populist Conservative ...Sep 14, 2018 — The Rev. Billy Graham imbued the evangelical gospel with a conservative hue. The John Birch Society, founded in 1959, inveighed against the ...Smithsonian MagazineGod's Spooks: Religion, Spying, and the Cold War | Church Life JournalJan 15, 2026 — He later became the inspiration for Robert Welch's extreme right-wing, anti-communist John Birch Society. Birch's work for the government revealed that religiou...Church Life JournalNewly released White House tape reveals one of Billy Graham's ...Aug 22, 2013 — Billy Graham by Jon Elliston. “Mr. President, I think this is your finest hour,” the caller said. “I wanted to reach through the TV screen and hug you.” So bega...Carolina Public PressHow Billy Graham Helped Merge Patriotism and Christianity - PBSFeb 21, 2018 — Randall Balmer, a scholar of American religious history, said in God in America. “That would make the Gospel more palatable to others.” In time, Eisenhower woul...PBSThis is a complete transcript of the oral history interview with Vincent ...Apr 7, 1986 — The Billy Graham Center Archives. All rights reserved. This transcript may be reused with the following publication credit: Used by permission of the. Billy Gra...Wheaton CollegeHow the Rise of the Religious Right and the Nomination of Barry ...A pamphlet printed by the organization in 1965 titled What's Wrong with Civil Rights details their opposition. They even go so far as to suggest that the moveme...SCU Scholar CommonsSociety's Child | Hudson InstituteMar 17, 2016 — John Birch was born in 1918 in India, to missionary parents. Disillusioned with the hardships and contradictions of their assignment, they returned to the Unite...www.hudson.orgTracing the roots of modern American conspiracy theoriesJan 21, 2024 — At the John Birch Society, they've been waging war for more than 60 years against what they're sure is a vast, diabolical conspiracy.AP NewsBilly Graham: a counselor of presidents who eschewed politicsFeb 22, 2018 — He disappointed theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who said Graham “neglected the social dimensions of the gospel” by avoiding pressing issues of the day. His 1982 vi...The Christian Science MonitorFrom Billy Graham To Sarah Palin - Ligonier MinistriesOct 10, 2011 — Even so, conservatism is not altogether porous. Conservatism's paterfamilias, William F. Buckley, Jr., after all, famously and unambiguously expelled both Ayn R...Ligonier MinistriesNixon, Graham talk on tape of American anti-SemitismJun 24, 2009 — Graham responds that anti-Semitism in America is "right under the surface" and that Jewish criticism of a major evangelism effort would bring it "right to the t...Jewish Telegraphic AgencyThe Other Brother Duo That Brought Us the Modern GOP - PoliticoSep 2, 2019 — The number of institutions within the new evangelical orb that would benefit from Pew's millions would be spectacularly large, including illustrious representat...PoliticoGod, Country, and Christian Conservatives: The National ...* 1 Introduction. * 2 Religion, Politics and the Defense of Free Enterprise. * 3 Political Mobilization, Americanism, and the Insiders. * 4 The John Birch Socie...University of WaterlooThe Big TentAug 15, 2005 — Graham was raised on a dairy farm near Charlotte amid flinty Presbyterians who held firmly to the tenets of the old faith, and as he ( Billy Graham ) made his (The New YorkerGod's Spooks: Religion, Spying, and the Cold War | Church Life JournalJan 15, 2026 — He later became the inspiration for Robert Welch's extreme right-wing, anti-communist John Birch Society. 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UFO – The Extraordinary Monguzzi Case
https://www.italiador.com/ufo-lo-straordinario-caso-monguzzi/
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On July 31, 1952, during a trip to the Bernina Mountains, Giampiero Monguzzi and his wife Pinuccia Radaelli experienced an unusual adventure. Giampiero, an engineer for the Edison company, recounted suddenly feeling a cold breeze that seemed to produce a noise similar to the rigg of an old sailing ship, then suddenly silence:
“I was very close to my wife, … I was shouting and realizing she couldn't hear me. And I also saw my wife open her mouth, but no voice came out. It was a 'compact silence,' a 'void' that made it impossible to stand up.” Immediately following this sensation, “absolute silence” ensued.
PICTURE
The Sighting
The couple spotted a shimmering plate at least 10 meters in diameter rising from the lower part of the glacier and settling on the snow in absolute silence.
Giampiero Monguzzi continues:
"I had my camera slung over my shoulder, but when I took the shot, I didn't hear the usual click. Maybe I hadn't taken a picture at all. I just stood there watching. The disc remained lifeless for a few more seconds. Then I saw a man wearing a metallic-shimmering diving suit coming toward me. Instinct told me to run, but fear kept my legs pinned to the ground. Maybe he hadn't seen me. In fact, the man (at least I think it was a man) was walking toward the outside of the disc's circumference. He walked all around it as if he were inspecting the device. He stopped every two or three steps, looking up at the top of the craft. He walked very awkwardly in that diving suit, whose edges were unclear and almost hairy. He was holding a cylindrical instrument similar to a flashlight. I don't know how long this lasted, perhaps five minutes after the disc touched down on the glacier, but I can't pinpoint a precise time."
After completing a cursory inspection of the saucer, the passenger returns aboard through an entrance that Monguzzi, given its position, cannot see. The mysterious object takes flight, with a section that begins to spin, streaking away into the sky. Monguzzi takes two more photos and continues:
"As the saucer gradually receded, I felt life returning around me. I called my wife, and her voice came out. The wind had started making that strange music again, like the rigging of a sailing ship."
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The first inspection
Piero Monguzzi and his wife, despite their understandable fear, decided to approach the landing zone but found no signs of the mysterious craft in the ice.
"We didn't leave footprints on the ice either, but the disc must have had an extraordinary weight; it was impossible for it not to have left any marks. If you asked me how it could fly, I'd think it must have been caused by a powerful magnetic force, counter to Earth's gravity. Only that silent force could absorb the sound waves and, by repelling the Earth, allow the craft to rise. In any case, when the disc left the upper Scerscen, it did so at a speed estimated between 200 and 300 kilometers per hour."
Monguzzi's technical explanations certainly don't help clarify what happened; indeed, perhaps these suppositions suggest that the engineer didn't understand how forces like gravity, always attractive, and magnetism, work.
A few weeks later, Piero Monguzzi recounted his adventure to the press, and the interest was immense. The public was immediately divided between skeptics and believers. The story of the sighting also piqued the curiosity of his cousins across the Alps, and in fact, a French agency offered to purchase the photos for five million, which was a lot of money at the time. The Americans were also interested; they too had gotten the message and knew that such reports, whether genuine or not, would appeal to the general public, who were then just learning about ufology and related topics. Even a film studio said it was ready to make a documentary about the sighting.
The popularity Monguzzi gained, however, likely gave him pause, and on October 22, 1952, as a guest at the Milanese editorial office of "Radio Sera," he told another story that perhaps disappointed many: the photos and the story of the sighting were fakes, created using a cardboard model and a puppet. The deception, which would later turn into a scam, was organized with the help of some cousins and a mountain guide from Scerscen.
Monguzzi arranged the plot to demonstrate that he, an aspiring journalist who had previously been rejected, had what it took to aspire to the profession. To prove his claims, he had his picture taken with the cardboard model and the alien astronaut figurine.
The case was closed, but not without controversy, as some ufologists claimed that the models shown did not match the actual photos.
But the story wasn't over yet. In fact, during an investigation into some traces found in Lombardy, a certain Antonio Spreacane made claims that Monguzzi knew him "because we both worked at Edison Gas." One day, Monguzzi called me and said he wanted help creating a sketch of the model. He told me he had to show that he had photographed a flying saucer over the mouth of Scerscen, at the edge of the icefall. He told me exactly that. He had to prove he was a good photographer, that was his motivation."
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Are the photos fake?
Spreacane adds: “Honestly, I saw the original negatives. In the first sequences, you could see Monguzzi and his wife on the mountain, halfway through were the photos of the disk, and then the mountain again. So, the photographs were taken on the Bernina Pass, not at home. If you look at the photos of the disk on the glacier, you'll realize it's impossible to recreate the same slope. The photos were clearly taken by someone who was much lower than the disk. Since, when we recreated the Bernina model, we did it on the ground, it was impossible to photograph from that low. Moreover, the mountains in the model were a mess, with the earth trying to simulate rock. After the denial came out, Monguzzi showed me the model of the disk; it was a cardboard cone held together with tape. As for the alien, he told me it was a puppet assembled with wool and wire. That seemed like a ridiculous explanation to me.
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Monguzzi a visionary?
“When the photos came out, there was a real uproar. Monguzzi was interrogated by CIA agents and our secret services; he told me that his photos had been blown up to wall height by the Air Force (he didn't tell me which country). He was truly terrified. I remember that at a certain point he told me to get out of the matter, that he was in trouble. I, having a family, preferred to obey. Besides, Monguzzi paid dearly for it. He was fired from Edison. The executives, who initially lined up to have their picture taken with him by the press, became unavailable after his denial. And they fired him. I remember that after an interview we had with RAI, we were interrogated. They asked me if I actually recognized the Bernina in the photos, now declared fake; I was also grilled by Edison executives, who wanted to know what role I had played in the affair.”
According to Sprecapane, Monguzzi had made the model before releasing the photos! Had the engineer devised a possible escape route? In a statement to the newspaper Il Popolo on October 23, 1952, he stated: "I published the photos only two months after the sighting because I was afraid. I'm young and have a son, and at 29, I didn't want to be kidnapped or killed. Because, although I'm personally convinced that it was an inhabitant of another planet, the disc could also have belonged to a great Power that would have done everything possible to eliminate the indiscreet discoverer of a formidable military secret."
What had Monguzzi photographed? An alien flying object, a super-secret device, and someone would have forced him to recant? By now, Monguzzi could no longer answer, and Spreacane told a former colleague at Edison that Monguzzi had died in a strange accident. (Source: Mistero bUfo).
All truths go through three stages.
first: they are ridiculed;
second: they are violently contested;
Third, they are accepted as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
