Nick Redfern's Air Force contact (2011)
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Nick Redfern's Air Force contact (2011)
| Author | Nick Redfern |
|---|---|
| Book | Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife (Anomalist Books, 2010; Kindle edition 31 March 2011) |
| Claim | An Air Force Office of Special Investigations contact at Offutt AFB offered Redfern a meeting with the "Collins Elite" |
| Main informant | "Richard Duke" (pseudonymous; said to be a former CIA man) |
| Status | Hearsay; the author says the contents are not demonstrably factual |
| Date | 31 March 2011 |
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Nick Redfern |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 173 |
| Year | 2011 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2011 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 4 |
Nick Redfern's Air Force contact refers to an episode in the British author Nick Redfern's book Final Events. The book introduced the "Collins Elite", an alleged group of U.S. government insiders who believed UFOs were demonic rather than extraterrestrial.[2] According to an anonymous UAP timeline in Michael Shellenberger's 2024 House testimony, Redfern called a representative of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. That representative told him he could meet the Collins Elite.[3] The timeline dates this to 31 March 2011, which is the publication date of the book's Kindle edition. The book itself first appeared in 2010.[1][2]
The book
- Final Events was published by Anomalist Books in 2010. The Kindle edition is dated 31 March 2011 and runs to 267 pages.[1][2] Its framing story begins in 1991, when the Anglican priest and UFO researcher Ray Boeche was contacted by two Christian physicists from the Defense Department. They told him about a government programme to contact "nonhuman entities" that they had come to believe were demonic.[2]
- According to the book, Redfern made inquiries with the Air Force. He was then contacted by a man in his eighties calling himself "Richard Duke", who claimed to be a former CIA employee and "the last surviving member of the original Collins Elite". Redfern devotes most of the book to Duke's story. He does not vouch for its truth, quoting Walter Scott: "I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me."[2]
- In the timeline's summary, Duke also gave Redfern "the Collins Report", said to be a 1980s briefing document setting out the group's theories.[3]
Duke's story
- In Duke's account, the group grew out of official investigations of the rocket engineer and occultist Jack Parsons, a founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aerojet and a follower of Aleister Crowley. AFOSI questioned Parsons after the 1947 flying-disc wave, and he suggested that occult rituals he performed that summer had "opened the door" for the discs.[2]
- In 1950 Parsons was reported to the FBI for removing classified documents from Hughes Aircraft, and his clearance was revoked in January 1952. He died in an explosion at his home on 17 June 1952, the day before he planned to leave for Israel.[2] "The thing that connected everyone", Duke said, "was we were all on the investigation of Parsons taking the papers from Hughes."[2]
- After the Washington, D.C., UFO wave weeks later, about 15 people from the Parsons case were said to have been invited to the Pentagon and asked to study whether flying discs "had devil beginnings". The work was kept from Congress.[2] The timeline adds that Duke said CIA Directorate of Plans officials asked early members in 1952 to investigate a demonic origin, and that members came to include AFOSI, NSA and CIA personnel.[3]
- According to the book, the name came from a participant who was from Collins, New York.[2] The timeline repeats this and adds that it is unknown whether the group ever met in Collins.[3] The earlier version of this article said this contradicted "other versions linking the name to Robert Collins". No source read for this article makes that link.
- Later chapters, as summarised in published accounts, cover several further claims:
- the group decided that contactees such as George Adamski and George Hunt Williamson were occult rather than extraterrestrial;
- CIA and Naval Intelligence officers tried to contact entities called "Affa" and "Ponnar";
- CIA scientists under "Operation Often" tried to harness "demonic powers" and studied a near-death experience that seemed to show saucers harvesting human souls;
- in the 1980s President Reagan was briefed on the demonic theory, favoured it, and expanded the group's work, which concluded that alien abductions were a demonic deception.
Reception
- Final Events has been described as pseudohistory, and Redfern states plainly that its contents are not demonstrably factual.[2]
- The Christian scholar Michael S. Heiser criticised its "cartoonish demonology" and said the group, "if it is real", could be "a bunch of witless dupes". The historian of conspiracy theories Aaron John Gulyas devoted a 2014 chapter, "Space Demons", to the book.[2]
- The term "Collins Elite" nevertheless passed into UFO folklore. By 2021 the disclosure advocate Luis Elizondo was claiming that a faction of insiders called the Collins Elite opposed UFO research because they thought UFOs were demonic. The critic Jason Colavito noted that the idea first appeared in Final Events.[2]
The author
- Redfern, born in 1964, is a British-born writer on UFOs, cryptozoology and conspiracy theories who lives in Dallas, Texas. He has written for the Daily Express, Fortean Times, Fate and UFO Magazine.[1][4]
- He has campaigned for disclosure and helped bring to light thousands of pages of British government UFO files. His 2005 book Body Snatchers in the Desert argued that Roswell may have involved secret aircraft tests on Japanese prisoners of war.[4] Many of his books rely on anonymous sources.[2]
Assessment
- Neither the Offutt contact nor any meeting with the group is documented outside Redfern's book.[2][3] The main informant is pseudonymous, and Redfern himself presents the story as unverified.[2]
- The 2011 date attached to the episode reflects an e-book publication date, not a dated event.[1]
People and topics
- Nick Redfern — British author of books on government UFO secrecy including Final Events.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Collins Elite — Collins Elite
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Alexander's no-secret-program conclusion (15 February 2011) — Alexander says there was no secret UAP project at the Pentagon or the energy labs.
- Chuck Wade's seven New Mexico crashes (26 March 2011) — A researcher presents claims from military sources about UAP crash recoveries.
See every 2011 event on the UAP Timeline →
Further reading
- Project Blue Book — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Project Blue Book records — National Archives · archives.gov · archived copy
- Project Blue Book files — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- UFO files — FBI Vault · vault.fbi.gov · archived copy
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- UFO documents — NSA · nsa.gov · archived copy
References
- amazon.com · amazon.com · archived copy
- Final Events — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Michael Shellenberger, written testimony to the House Oversight Committee (13 November 2024), pp. 173–174 · oversight.house.gov
- Nick Redfern — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Facts in this article are drawn in part from the Wikipedia articles “Final Events”, “Nick Redfern”, “Final Events”, “Nick Redfern”, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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