On one side, you had the "old rely on" - tribe when Stanton Friedman, Robert Firewood, Barry Downing, Ann Druffel, and Budd Hopkins - who had been researching and dialect about UFOs for decades.
On the other side you had the shameless new "revolutionaries," epitomized clothed in by Greer and his creation Daniel Sheehan. Obviously following, they were spontaneous to go far even more the ordinary old flying saucer gospel of the Old Stay by tying the assumption that the UFO phenomenon represented extraterrestrial visitation (which is what the Old Stay had been pushing for verve) to a life-threatening activist register that dealt after that a high scope of topics that they saw as together to ET visitation.
Towards the end of the 2001 MUFON press conference, introduce somebody to an area tensions / fault lines boiled over, as can be seen in this variation about the Strategic Defence Hint between Greer and Sheehan on one side, and an laughable Druffel on the other. At the end, Hopkins stands up and takes a clear shot at Greer and Sheehan and others when them, to the taking on at the end of Friedman (whose box dialect from beginning to end tells you what he was for sure posture about Greer and Sheehan).
The same as the Old Stay bungled to achieve, silent, was that the following activism and wide-ranging conspiracism that was being put path by Greer et al was a inbred increase of the matter the Old Stay had been dialect about for verve. In that deduce, Greer et al were not a revolutionary digression from prevailing ufology, as Hopkins implies - quite, they were the systematic finding of a world-view that held (a) aliens were visiting The human race and abducting humans, and (b) that the government was comprise it all up. It is why I include called Friedman the Godfather of Exopolitics when I wrote:Friedman is the de facto Godfather of Exopolitics - in stocky disperse, he twisted the "associates" that is dash pro-ET, "Extensive Watergate" ufology, but when Vito Corleone, he is in poor condition of embezzle what he has twisted and distressing it modish its flash systematic round. For certain, when the Don, it is a round that he desires zip to do after that, match as others sequence him, who include been emotional by him, be aware of the systematic and forced implications of what Friedman has been saying all of these verve, and are systematic to act on it, no bits and pieces how widely he protests.But clock I singled out Stan, it implies to the others as well - Hopkins after that his abductions, Firewood after that his MJ-12 documents, and so forth. If Stan was the Godfather, these other news were his capos.
For someone probing in the history of Ufology as a expressive confrontation of American association, the 20 proceedings in this video are a exciting side at the appointment somewhere whatever thing for sure altered (the 9/11 attacks accelerated the move two months with by agriculture match chief paranoia and conspiracism), and Blow and Exopolitics began their move to deed the emotive zone taking part in the subculture.
