(UFO) Airship 1896 / 1897 The Advent of Techno-Sorcery

By Richie Cooley

What are we to make of the strange sightings of airships from the late 1800s? What do they have to do with modern ufology? This booklet examines the phenomenon while seeking to debunk modern claims of reverse engineering from Philip Corso. It is written from a fundamental Christian perspective.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richie Cooley
• Release date: Apr 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005880781

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(UFO) Airship 1896 / 1897

The Advent of Techno-Sorcery

by Richie Cooley

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Richie Cooley (2022)

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Table of Contents

I. Soylent Green…

II. A Brief History of Sightings

III. Techno-Sorcery

Citations

Works by Me

Before getting started, let’s review a few notes…

*Old Testament Scripture is taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

*New Testament Scripture is taken from the English Majority Text Version. Translated by Paul Esposito. Copyright © 2011.

*British spelling is often used, except for the quoted material, which normally employs U.S. spelling.

*Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

*As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

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I. Soylent Green…

If you happen to be a fan of this classic science fiction film you probably know why it is being mentioned. The movie was set in 2022; ergo this is the special year when the projected dystopia was supposed to have become reality. Of course, as with the many other futuristic science fiction films and novels made famous last century, the end of the world keeps failing to materialize as predicted.

The film Soylent Green starred Charlton Heston as a detective trying to uncover the truths behind mysterious deaths and ultimately—what is soylent green, the foodstuffs of the masses? At the end of the film Heston raises his hand in anguish; he knows the truth but will be unable to spread the message: "Soylent green is people!" This was supposed to be an amazing twist ending; however, as with most twist endings, the creators are so eager to lead up to the pow-moment that it is fairly obvious a tediously long time in advance.

The phrase soylent green is people entered the pop culture lexicon; it was—and maybe slightly still is—a jocular blurb that appeared here and there, like Potemkin’s falling baby carriage. Memes before memes.

Heston of course was responsible for another proto-meme: the anguished astronaut on U.S. soil, lamenting the Statue of Liberty’s demise within the Planet of the Apes. In fact, the ending to the dusty science fiction films Soylent Green and Planet of the Apes are pretty much interchangeable, the melodramatic pathos and the yawn-laden-twist-ending both being identical.

Twist endings have the tendency to be that way, but we generally like them despite all the swings and misses. For sometimes they do catch us by surprise, taking our breath away just as a young audience in front of a skilled magician at a birthday party.

This penchant for the twist ending certainly is most prevalent in the genre of science fiction/supernatural thrillers. From celebrated writings such as Arthur C. Clarke’s tale of the heavens disappearing at the computerized naming of God (The Nine Billion Names of God; a Tibetan story lauded by the Dali Lama himself) to R.L. Stine’s giant catalogue of family scare-stories (which inspired a T.V. series and a Jack Black role) it’s almost as if we have come to expect that mysterious tales will have whiplash, surprise endings.

But there is a problem with all this. I don’t think the desire for the twist ending is stopping with fiction anymore. It seems as if this same desire is beginning to manifest itself within the world of science more generally.

Netflix recently released a new, slick series on the subject of UFOs. It featured the biggest names in ufology they could drum up. Of course Richard Dolan appeared, as did Kathleen Marden and Travis Walton—and the near