There is an aspect of the UFO phenomenon that I feel isn’t talked about as frequently or explored as deeply as it should be. The lack of interest is odd to me, as it’s something we encounter every day in nature and has been a prominent focus of our national defense industry’s recent research and development efforts.
This aspect I’m referring to is the concept of swarm intelligence.
Or, in a more cultural context, the hive mind.
The first person who spoke about this that really got my attention was Tom DeLonge back in an interview he gave to Jimmy Church in August 2016.
While talking about Atlantis, Tom conveys a question he wants to ask one of his military advisors with historical knowledge of the UFO issue. He wonders if, during ancient times, human consciousness was elevated to the point that the phenomenon could be repelled by it. He speaks of UFOs as parasites, as he’s done on several occasions. Jimmy responds with a comment about technology taking over so much of what we experience in our lives and how that has potentially affected our consciousness.
Tom then postulates that the intelligence behind the phenomenon has a “hive mind.”
The UFO phenomenon has a hive mind. These creatures, they potentially don’t have souls. They are like clones, and they worship their own technology to some degree. They feed off fear and negativity.
The one thing that they cannot stand…[is] the frequency of elevated human consciousness. So what’s the best way to keep us from elevating our consciousness? You crash a craft and the transistor pops up, then you get video games and iPhones and all these things. You walk around like…a cyborg, a soulless little hive mind, all getting direction from devices.
What Tom is suggesting here is a very interesting concept. He appears to be saying UFO crashes, at least in the modern technological era, were initiated intentionally by the creators of the technology in hopes that the militaries of the world would attempt to retrieve and reverse engineer them.
A “gift,” if you will.
The idea of UFO crashes being a technological gift to our species has recently been echoed by others who most likely have more knowledge than most people regarding these crash retrievals.
Australian journalist Ross Coulthart, who has recently been diving into this issue and certainly has knowledgeable sources in defense and intelligence communities around the world, spoke of a source who was told by former Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell about something along those lines.
I’m not persuaded that they’re all crashes. Edgar Mitchell — and this is something I’m telling you for the first time — Edgar Mitchell told my source, the Spaceman, who was one of his closest friends, that he understood that a fully functioning craft was found literally with the lights on and the door open. The US military recovered it off the Mexican military under gunpoint and took it back to the United States off Mexican soil.
Christopher Mellon, a former top staffer for the Senate Intelligence Committee and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, has also spoken in the past few months on the idea of UFO retrieval operations finding fully intact vehicles at the site.
One of the things that we don’t know is — and first of all it might not be a crash, right? There are different versions of these stories, and different flavors. One of them is that something was just left like a gift. Something just landed.
Jacques Vallée, a computer scientist, venture capitalist, and long-time respected UFO researcher, has also brought up the same notion quite recently. He was recounting the events of the Trinity case that he has written an entire book about in the past year.
Why would this very sophisticated device come in over our forbidden airspace where the first atomic bomb had just been exploded the month before? And come out of nowhere, and crash there?
Is that an accident? Or is it a gift? Obviously that thing still had power. It made sure it was noticed, with the fire and breaking the tower. It destroyed communication over White Sands — over parts of White Sands — that had to attract the attention of somebody.
With multiple credible people giving credence to this scenario, let’s turn to the intent behind an advanced species presenting humanity with such an extraordinary gift.
Recall Tom talking about how the intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon “worshipped their technology to some degree.” He also states that once we had recovered these craft, intact or otherwise, “the transistor pops up, then you get video games and iPhones and all these things. You walk around like…a cyborg, a soulless little hive mind, all getting direction from devices.”
Bringing all of this together, one must ask a seemingly obvious yet potentially disturbing question, as speculative as it might be.
Is Tom saying these beings are attempting to turn us into a human version of themselves, worshipping technology and becoming one single-minded organism?
In the second book of his Sekret Machines trilogy, it sounds like that is exactly what Tom is trying to communicate. Though the series I reference here is indeed fiction, the main ideas are based on real-world scenarios and the hive mind is a prominent plot point. In the introduction to the first novel, Tom explains what the intentions were behind merging fiction and reality for the story he wanted to tell.
This first novel sets up many things: important events that had their genesis as far back as World War II and continue today. The events, locations, and moments of wonder are all true. We weaved them together in a way that echoes what really happened to those who stumbled across something spectacular, wondrous, and a bit frightful. The glue is fiction. The building blocks are not.
In the second book, references to a strange and mysterious “swarm” crop up throughout the pages and suggest that something ominous is happening in the background of the story. It is honestly quite challenging to make sense of its purpose or influence over the plot, but will surely be elaborated upon in the third and final installment.
However, a few passages may be relevant here. Throughout the story, there are interactions with this “swarm” by a few of the main characters. It seems to symbolically present itself as bees and wasps in many forms, including bus stop advertisements and ancient Minoan jewelry. From these clearly physical representations, the swarm has an apparent psychological, even telepathic effect on the observer.
The thing itself was small and exquisitely made, a pendant a few inches across molded in gold and worked with filigree: a pair of bees, their segmented abdomens touching, their legs gripping the intricate circle in the center, their heads together, large insect eyes ringed with tiny spheres. Their wings spread out behind them like heraldic emblems and from each a rod wrapped in fine wire suspended a circle, matched by a third, which hung from the point where the tips of their abdomens—right where their stingers would be—made contact. Above their heads was a tiny spherical cage containing a ball of gold.
It was approximately 3,600 years old.
And it sang to her.
In fact, it hummed in her ears as if the bees were alive and buzzing, and Jennifer stood in awe before it, lost in its age and the strangeness of its familiarity. She put both hands on the heavy glass of the case, and as she did so she felt a pulse of something like energy pass through her. It tipped her head back and she gasped, sucking in air as she felt the power of the thing.
There are many other references to this “swarm” and its telepathic effects in the proceeding chapters. But it’s towards the end of the book that we learn the most important aspects of its intentions.
They were bonded. The stone had not just given them unusual insights and abilities. It had connected them, because that was how it—or whatever had been using it, manipulating it—understood communication.
The swarm. They did not talk to individuals. They did not recognize the single, the solitary consciousness. They sought connection and unity because that was what they were. That was how they were seeking to shape humanity.
But in the process they had given a gift to Nicholas, to Alan, Timika, Barry, and Jennifer. They had, inadvertently, bound them to each other, let them into their different minds, conscious and subconscious. Somehow, through the stone or the craft Alan flew, or something more basic and essential . . .
Blood, DNA manipulated at the most fundamental level . . .
Morat had been made part of that collective too. Not the swarm, though it had tried, but a human hive that had its own principles.
If you are confused by this excerpt, you are not alone. I myself have read this countless times and still come away trying to figure out the meaning, assuming one exists.
I do believe there is something there, though it may be beyond our comprehension until the third book is released. What is clear, however, is that Tom DeLonge wants us to know that there is a telepathic connection and it may be through a mechanism that utilizes some sort of hive mind.
To me, the most interesting part of this excerpt is the idea of the two separate “collectives.” This implies humans may have the same capability of telepathy that differs from that of the swarm, as it describes our collective as having “its own principles.”
It’s evident this excerpt fictionally portrays what Tom explained to Jimmy in his interview. If this swarm is “seeking to shape humanity” in its image, a technological addiction forced upon our species — by gifting us the dream of impossible physics — would be an effective and plausibly deniable way to do it.
This brings to mind the work of former Army Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bearden, a nuclear engineer and self-described theoretical conceptualist of scalar electromagnetics. His scientific ideas are deeply complex, but his more philosophical writings can be understood fairly easily in the context of our current discussion.
It is also worth noting that Bearden’s work is mentioned in the notes taken by Oke Shannon, an individual present at the inaugural meeting of the Advanced Theoretical Physics working group. This group was made up of numerous military and scientific minds who banded together in the 1980s, in an effort to locate and extract information from hidden UFO programs buried deep inside the US military-industrial complex. A fantastic breakdown of this group and the surrounding events can be found in a document by the name of Loose Threads.
The most relevant contribution Bearden has made to the idea of this hive-minded human superorganism comes from his 1977 paper titled The One Human Problem, Its Solution, and Its Relation to UFO Phenomena.
The final evolution of the living process is godness itself, pure being. Unlimited godness can both be and not be, such is the nature of unlimitedness. With the seventh stage transcendence of all stages and all limitations, thus ends the life model of Earth and Man.
Thus for the unlinked, fifth-stage technological species, there are only two alternatives. First, and more likely, its intraspecies conflict will simply reach critical mass and the species will convulsively destroy itself and its biosphere. Humanity may be within 25 years or less of this asymptote now . Second, and less likely, the species may link into a sixth-stage superbeing and eliminate its internal competition, friction, arid suicidal bent. Linkage appears extremely unlikely unless outside assistance and intervention are received.
But there may after all be evidence of such intervention. The phenomena loosely classed as “unidentified flying objects” (UFO’s) appear to directly fit the strange characteristics to be expected of a linked sixth-stage superbeing engaged in giving prenatal assistance to the embryonic human species and preparing it for linkage “birth” of the species into a new superbeing.
One may interpret these words as the ravings of a certain megalomaniacal billionaire, which would not be too far off base in my opinion. However, it is the last paragraph I think we should focus on that plainly lays out the concepts put forward by Tom DeLonge decades later in his books and interviews.
Bearden suggests the UFO phenomenon demonstrates what he calls a “sixth-stage superbeing” necessary for humanity to emulate, lest we exterminate ourselves and the planet through our egoic conflict and unevolved consciousness.
It sounds alarmist, not to mention batshit crazy. But would our current trajectory as a species look any different if Bearden was dead on with his analysis?
Considering the exponential increase in UFO sightings reported in the past few years by service members and civilians alike, I’m not so sure it would.
For me, the worrisome part of Bearden’s ideas is the technological aspect of his solution. Neuralink and similar technologies would appear to fulfill this purpose, at least in theory.
In other words, this sounds like exactly the type of scenario this so-called “swarm” would want to have materialized.
Another subject explored at length by Bearden is the concept of psychotronic weapons, perhaps more commonly known to the public as mind control devices. These weapons use electromagnetic or acoustic waves, pulsed at certain frequencies and durations to achieve the desired effect upon the brain.
Numerous declassified government documents can be found on these studies by searching the CIA reading room for “psychotronics.” Psychotronic weapons were also included in briefing slides created for a presentation given to defense officials by AATIP, the now-defunct Pentagon UFO program ran by former DoD official and current Space Force advisor Luis Elizondo.
In Bearden’s paper, An Approach to Understanding Psychotronics, he explores the possibilities of quantum physics applications to psychotronics and describes a scenario where that might be related to the UFO phenomenon.
The UFO phenomena may be explained as tulpas, which are tuned in from the hyperspatial mindworlds of the human species. Archetypal forms are most easily evoked, but are imprinted or changed according to personal, social, and cultural conditioning.
Several major UFO ‘flaps” are shown to precisely fit these criteria. Since in Everett’s MWI all possibilities are concretely real and exist then any kind of thought reality at all may be orthorotated in and emerge in the ordinary laboratory spatial frame, and emerge as concretely real objects, entities, vehicles, devices, etc. However, since a mind is normally quite unstable, then tulpas which are materialized are unstable and usually go away in a short period of time.
The paper goes on to describe mathematical equations and potential solutions that I couldn’t possibly begin to explain to myself let alone the reader, but the suggestion that psychotronics may play a part in UFO sightings along with paranormal phenomena is interesting in terms of the “swarm” discussed earlier.
Using psychotronic technology to telepathically interact, alter perceptions, and guide culture sounds like it would be of the utmost interest to our technology-worshipping, hive-minded visitors. Considering the reference to psychotronic weapons in the AATIP presentation slide, along with its sub-header “What was considered phenomena is now quantum physics,” it would appear both of Bearden’s papers mentioned here may have some relevance to the idea of the swarm and its telepathic technological mindset.
After reading through all of these works, I was reminded of another paper I stumbled upon published earlier this year titled Observed electric charge of insect swarms and their contribution to atmospheric electricity.
The results of the study suggest swarms of insects, specifically honeybees, can contribute meteorologically significant electrical charges to the atmosphere.
The atmosphere hosts multiple sources of electric charge that influence critical processes such as the aggregation of droplets and the removal of dust and aerosols. This is evident in the variability of the atmospheric electric field. Whereas these electric fields are known to respond to physical and geological processes, the effect of biotic sources of charge has not hitherto been considered.
Here, we combine theoretical and empirical evidence to demonstrate that honeybee swarms directly contribute to atmospheric electricity, in proportion to the swarm density. We provide a quantitative assessment of this finding, by comparing the electrical contribution of various swarming insect species with common abiotic sources of charge. This reveals that the charge contribution of some insect swarms will be comparable with that of meteorologically induced variations. The observed transport of charge by insects therefore demonstrates an unexplored role of biogenic space charge for physical and ecological processes in the atmosphere.
Of course, my imagination ran wild with the implications of this when taken in the context of our current discussion. If a swarm of ordinary honeybees is capable of “biogenic space charge for physical and ecological processes in the atmosphere,” what would a more advanced species be capable of? And what would it mean that these insects are also intimately tuned into the Earth’s electromagnetic field?
Honey bees appear to sense magnetic fields using a magnetic structure in their abdomens, according to a team of physicists and biologists in Canada. The researchers came to this conclusion by carrying out a series of physics and behavioural experiments on the insects, which showed that this sensory ability can be disrupted using a strong permanent magnet.
Now, hypothetically, imagine an insect species exists that has been around for millennia.
Could they have evolved to exploit their potential as a swarm to affect the atmosphere in ways we don’t yet understand? And, for their own benefit, emulate certain devices that utilize electromagnetics like psychotronic weapons?
Would they see themselves as superior and attempt to remake the world around them in their image?
And, perhaps most importantly, would a hive-minded “superorganism” have a soul or conscience in the same sense humans do?
Tom DeLonge has addressed this last question recently as well on the podcast Steve-O’s Wild Ride in June 2022.
Maybe they don’t have souls. Maybe they’re AI. Maybe they’re a different life form, like an insect…
So then you can see how life kind of grows in a certain direction. Then you kind of wonder, if something grew for millions, billions of years that never had a consciousness to begin with — like a fly or something — and then now it can kind of pop over laterally into our fucking timeline, it’s going to come onto you like flies on dog shit…
How scary would that be if you’re just in your bed and you have these big, bug-eyed insects that are like, “What are you?”
Yikes.
Militaries around the world utilize biomimicry to harness nature’s natural power in asserting their own.
The United States Navy is currently developing drone swarms where “hundreds or thousands of drones are controlled as a single unit.” Even NASA is developing the “Astro-bee,” a “free-flying space robot” that promises to “play a critical role in supporting innovative and sustainable exploration of the Moon, Mars and beyond.”
Why wouldn’t the species serving as the biological inspiration for such a powerfully strategic weapon evolve to use it to their advantage?
Why wouldn’t they exploit any and all varieties of this evolutionary benefit, including manipulating the atmosphere and, perhaps, other species via invisible methods like altering brainwaves?
What would this all mean if the swarm had no sense of right or wrong, no conscience or concept of empathy?
The concept of UFOs as a type of wildlife has been explored by many, the most recent example being Jordan Peele’s blockbuster hit movie Nope. Tom DeLonge himself has alluded to this many times, recently saying in an interview that the number one reason the government should declassify information about this subject is because, “it’s nature.”
Once again, this is a very speculative article that ties together comments and writings of individuals who most likely have more knowledge than the average person about our reality and the part UFOs may play in it. This is my attempt to pull common threads from their words and present them cohesively, as they skirt the line on their security clearances and potentially revealing sources.
These are very uncomfortable questions, and hopefully not what military insiders like Elizondo are alluding to when they talk about humanity becoming “somber” after learning what they themselves know about the phenomenon.
There will be a continuation of this conversation in the second installment of this piece, reviewing specific incidents that may demonstrate examples of what we’ve discussed here. Notable events such as Varginha, Ariel school, and many others have some very interesting similarities involving these types of concepts.
Until then…
Bzzzt. 🐝
