

“proof” is what is now his central figure in the entire plot, a “Col.” Carl Goldbranson, and an FBI memo of July 21, 1947, released decades ago. On August 25, longtime UFO researcher Brad Sparks wrote: By means of telepathy and secret rays, the deros are responsible for most of the earth’s catastrophes-wars, fires, airplane crashes, shipwrecks, and nervous breakdowns.” In chapter 5 of his classic 1952 book Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science, Martin Gardner explains: “Drawing on his ‘racial memories,’ Shaver described in great detail the activities of a midget race of degenerates called ‘deros’ who live in huge caverns beneath the surface of the earth.
MIRAGE MEN SERIES
Goldbranson was asking the FBI investigate Richard Shaver to see what he knows about the origin of the flying saucers? Shaver, the guy who claimed that underground robots are fighting in caves?”Ĭarrion seems not to have noticed that Goldbranson was in essence asking the FBI to investigate the “Shaver Mystery,” a well-known series of crackpot stories about all kinds of impossible things that were supposedly true. On August 23, I posted the following comment on Carrion’s blog: “Goldbranson ‘desired the Bureau conduct some investigation of Shaver to determine whether or not he has any information pertaining to the origin of the flying saucers.’ So, am I correct in understanding that Col. Goldbranson was a WW2 member of Joint Security Control and one of its principal deception planners.” strategic deception planners and early UFO events by relating how Colonel Carl Goldbranson petitioned FBI assistance in investigating UFO events. He cited an FBI memo of July 21, 1947, stating that Colonel Carl Goldbranson “desired the Bureau conduct some investigation of Shaver to determine whether or not he has any information pertaining to the origin of the flying saucers.” This, says Carrion, “unequivocally documents the connection between U.S.

4).Īfter promoting the Mirage Men hypothesis on his blog for several years, on August 20, 2016, Carrion claimed to have found a “smoking gun” that demonstrates “Human Deception at Play during the UFO Wave of 1947” (). It was no surprise when Carrion and MUFON went their separate ways, with him proclaiming that the UFO phenomenon “is based in deception-of the human kind.” He cited several very interesting examples of such deception, although none of them involved official agencies (see my book Bad UFOs, p. event, he was far too independent a thinker to fit in well at MUFON. Not even willing to defend Holy Roswell as an E.T. Carrion was very different from the typical MUFON leader.

MIRAGE MEN MOVIE
The movie purports to demonstrate “How the US government created a myth that took over the world” (Interestingly, Lundberg is a leading “crop circle maker” in the United Kingdom (One investigator who has been widely promoting the idea of Mirage Men is James Carrion, who served as the International Director of MUFON from 2006 to 2009. In 2013, the book was made into a movie of the same title written by Pilkington and directed by John Lundberg, Roland Denning, and Kypros Kyprianou. The title comes from a 2010 book by the British author Mark Pilkington, Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs. In UFOlogy today, the term Mirage Men is understood to signify supposed shadowy government agents who, for inscrutable reasons, are allegedly tricking the public-not by “debunking” UFOs but creating belief in UFOs and the like.
