Full Spectrum Dominance?

Today, the cofounder of the research group to which I belong (The MRG) is here to talk about the UFO phenomenon's historical expansion attempts, and which of these are still very much active today and which have been abandoned by the Other for inscrutible reasons. Without further ado, I present to you - HL! 

The Kenneth Arnold sighting of June 24th, 1947

It all started on June 24th, 1947. The Phenomenon had its 20th Century genesis, buzzing the skies of our humble planet with baffling aerial objects. In about three years time on from this, the Phenomenon stepped up its game and started landing these strange craft in isolated fields and disgorging equally incomprehensible entities. Some people would even talk to these creatures, and a lucky (or unlucky) few would get a firsthand look at the innards of their UFOs and maybe even their supposed home-worlds. 

Meanwhile, the Phenomenon had moved towards breaching the other great unknown on our planet - the deep blue sea! Here, it would clearly connect this new group of anomalies - known as Unidentified Submersible Objects - with the first class of conundrums. It would show UFOs emerging from the abyss and flying up into the skies, and would compose vast apparitions of motherships dropping probes into the world's oceans. Just as it did in 1947, it was soon employing a new type of apparition. These were phantom submarines that could move through water like a hot knife through butter, moving faster and with more agility than anything known to the US or Soviet Union at the time - or indeed today. The next step was to show that the entities behind the Phenomenon had started to colonise our planet and exploit it just like we had. A lucky (??) few were taken by these strange submarines and given tours around vast underwater bases, usually comprised of great tunnels criss-crossing the seabed. 

Now that both air and sea were dominated by these impossible, otherworldly creatures, there was one domain left to be conquered - the very ground we walk upon. The vehicle of choice this time would be strange automobiles, zipping along secluded country roads without wheels or with impossibly sleek designs. It wasn't rare to see these vehicles sucked up by UFOs or flying off into the great beyond on their own accord, usually driven by strange humanoid entities.  It would also associate these weird 'Cosmic Cars' with colossal underground bases, and strange complexes hidden away in the middle of nowhere. This was one of the first great failures of the Phenomenon, however, because these high strangeness events never really caught on, so to speak. They remained something very much on the down-low, in the liminal space between public knowledge and total obscurity.

And so the master plan of the Cosmic Trickster to infiltrate all terrain remained just that - a distant plan. Perhaps human culture somehow selected UFOs and USOs as feasible enough, but everything else as far too outlandish to exist. Some of the concepts associated with the Cosmic Cars have seeped into Fortean subculture regardless, however, such as the Deep Underground Military Bases (DUMBs) of MILAB encounters and the 'Tic Tac' UFO bases supposedly situated somewhere near Catalina Island in California. However, the dream of the Cosmic Trickster to successfully take over all that we might hold dear has fortunately remained naught but a human's nightmare...

Well wasn't that intriguing? I have slightly different theories about the nature of the UFO phenomenon, and so I don't agree with all that has been said here - but I think that there are valid points to be gleaned from this material. The elements as perceived within esoteric culture have always had their elementals - beings of Earth, Fire, Water and Air. Perhaps that's what we're looking at here with this 'Full Spectrum Domination'? Anyway - I hope you enjoyed this, and I hope you'll look forward to further explorations of HL's Fortean worldview.