The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs

Matthew Ehret (2025)

Film Review

This well-researched documentary explores the role of prominent US intelligence figures in fabricating a complex UFO mythology for a gullible Western public. Their primary political aim seems to be building public support for a one world government to fight dangerous space aliens.

This UFO psyops has clearly intensified over the last two decades, with “whistleblowers” electrifying congressional hearings by calling for full disclosure of thee secret treaties.

Filmmaker Matthew Ehret traces this heavy promotion (on multiple cable networks, including the History Channel) of hostile extraterrestrials to to the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and the need to spook the US public with a new enemy.

In 1992 Lawrence Rockefeller (who financed H.G. Wells War of the World’s broadcast in 1938) founded the Disclosure Initiative, with the Hillary Clinton, John Podesto the Clinton Foundation immediately assuming a major role in the Initiative.

Two year later, a number of military intelligence and psychological warfare specialists founded the National Institute for Discovery Science at Skinwalker Ranch, which went on to become a center associated with weird paranormal activities, such as vampires, ghosts and space alien sightings, as well as cattle mutilations. The founding of these two institutions was the culmination of a campaign beginning in 1978 to rebrand the apparent crash of a mysterious circular aircraft in Roswell New Mexico.*

The National Enquirer (a tabloid newspaper available at every supermarket checkout until the rise of the Internet) participated heavily in this campaign. Created by the CIA’s Office of Policy Coordination in 1951, the National Enquirer ran frequent articles on Roswell and ufology, intermingled with genuine news articles, from its inception. In 1978 they began giving $5,000-10,000 rewards to readers who came up with the most convincing reports and photos of UFO sightings. Between 1956-1980 the CIA also ran the National Committee on Aerial Phenomena.

In 1984 the (clearly forged) Majestic 12 (MJ-12) documents were supposedly “declassified” and circulated widely among UFO enthusiast. These documents provided copies of treaties Truman supposedly sight with space aliens giving them permission to kidnap, sexually molest and anally probe Americans in return for the right to reverse engineer their crashed UFOs. Although these documents were clearly proved to be forgeries (they were typed on a typewriter produced after 1965), they’re still available on several government websites.

Ehret also profiles individual US intelligence officers involved the so-called “Aviary” and their specific role in America’s UFO psyops. Among them are

• Falcon – Sargent Richard Doty, special agent to the Office of Air Force Special Investigations assigned to handle lay ufologists.
• Seagull – Bruce Maccabe, US Naval Surface Lab, channeled military appropriations towards UFO disclosure project.
• Owl – Dr Hal Putoff, also managed the CIA’ Project Stargate remote viewing program.
• Penguin – Colonel John Alexander, closely involved with the CIA’s remote viewing and psychic warfare program, a well as working closely with satanist Michael Aquino in the CIA’s Phoenix Program in Vietnam, and bringing parapsychology and psychedelics into US military training in the 1980s.
• Chickadee – Commander CB “Scott” Jones, formerly with the Office of Naval Intelligence and president of the American Society for Psychical Research, known for its psychological warfare against US citizens since 1885.
• Parrot – Jacques Vallée, Rosicrucian who worked with UN agency he helped create to negotiate with aliens.
• Buzzard – Gordon Novel, “freelance” ufologist who founded two CIA front companies in the 1960s and infiltrated New Orleans DA Jim Garrison’s investigation into the campaign to assassinate JFK.

*Roswell is three miles from Walker Airbase. Ehret believes the crash debris most likely resulted from one of the disk-shaped aircraft the US Air Force acquired from the Nazis when they surrendered after World War II.