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A few nights ago I was talking with a friend about the notorious Majestic 12 documents – and the matter of how they entered into the public domain. Whether you buy into the Majestic 12 issue or not (I don’t), the story behind the papers is a fascinating one. Exactly two weeks before Christmas Day 1984, a package appeared on the doorstep of the home of a man named Jaime Shandera. He was a friend and colleague of Bill Moore (co-author with Charles Berlitz of the 1980 book, The Roswell Incident), and someone who was heavily into UFOs, too. The envelope contained camera-film of a document that told the story of a secret group established by the U.S. government, following the Roswell crash of July 1947. It went by various permutations, the most popular in the UFO research arena being Majestic 12. The document showed the government had dead aliens hidden away. Extraterrestrial wreckage had been recovered by the U.S. military. Autopsies on the disturbingly-looking humanoids from far away – with their black eyes, large heads, and skinny bodies – were quickly undertaken. No-one knew what should be done. No-one knew how to keep the public and the press away from the incredible finding. Everything was top secret, as the documentation made very clear. If the documents were the real thing, of course.

Moore and Shandera – and, soon, Stan Friedman, too – quickly got together to scrutinize the material. Such was the perceived deep concern for what they had got a hold of, the trio decided the wisest approach was to say nothing – not a single thing – to anyone. The three continued to quietly research the documents – genuine or faked. Things altered quickly in 1987. That’s when something occurred that was totally out of the hands of the team. It was the last thing they needed. As the investigations into Majestic 12 continued on, rumors began to circulate that an English UFO writer, Timothy Good, had gotten copies of the same papers that Moore, Shandera and Friedman had kept so quiet since 1984. As for how Good got his versions, that’s still a mystery to this day. I should note there are vague claims, though, that Good’s supply came from someone with links to the CIA.

The handover of the papers to Good was said to have occurred in March 1987. Of more concern for the three men in a quandary, however, was not so much who gave Good the documents, but that he was about to have a new book published, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up. Sidgwick & Jackson was the company; a highly respected publishing company with an ability to make Good’s book a big hit. The goal was achieved. The book became a bestseller in the U.K. And guess what? Sidgwick & Jackson just about managed to get the Majestic 12 documents in the pages of Above Top Secret before Good’s book went to print. Two months after Good’s CIA insider provided him the documents, the London Observer newspaper mentioned it. The date of the article was May 31, 1987. Written by Martin Bailey it had the lengthy title of “Close encounters of an alien kind – and now if you’ve read enough about the election, here’s news from another world.”

In no time, Moore, Shandera and Friedman chose to release their copies into the public domain, which is hardly surprising, given that word of the Majestic 12 papers was now starting to trickle and circulate outside of the confines of the trio. This was completely understandable: the three had done all of the groundwork, and the very last thing they wanted now was to be written out of the story – or, at the absolute least, left marginalized and sitting frustratingly on the sidelines. And who should have died in May 1987, just when the Majestic 12 documents were about to surface? The CIA’s James Jesus Angleton, a powerful character said to have been plugged-in to the government’s UFO secrets. Lung-cancer was the cause. Angleton was sixty-nine. Strangely, also in May 1987 a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon – an employee of the CIA who wrote sci-fi under the alias of James Tiptree – took her life. Her husband’s life, too. Sheldon is believed to have created a faked UFO document – to freak out the Russians – in the 1960s called the “Serpo” documents. It tells a story that mirrors certain portions of the 1977 movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Specifically, the final stages of the movie in which Richard Dreyfuss’ character of Roy Neary is taken away by aliens.

The story directly above shows that questionable UFO documents have been circulating around since the 1980s. Should we view them as hoaxes or of no particular value or importance? Or, are greater agendas at work? That’s a question I’ll answer in another article.

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The Kongka Pass or also called Kongka La, is about as remote as it gets. Located within the Himalayan mountain range, the low mountain pass, which meanders through the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, and intrudes into the Chang Chenmo Valley of China. It is a place surrounded by looming snowcapped peaks, deep gullies and valleys, and constantly battered by frigid weather, a place not meant for us. It is a forbidding, uninhabited no man’s land only sparsely roamed by herders, Hindu pilgrims, adventure seekers, and overseen by sporadic military outposts along the craggy border, since the pass has long been disputed and fought over by India and China. It’s sweeping vistas of barren expanses of rocky, jagged land give this place an ambiance and appearance not unlike some alien world, which is perhaps appropriate because the Kongka Pass has come to be known as a hotspot for UFOs and weird alien activity.

For years those who have travelled through the pass have come back with strange stories. Common among these are unidentified lights in the sky, which sometimes do aerial acrobatics, swoop and rise, or even seem to disappear right into the side of the ridge. There are also numerous reports of disorientation, malfunctioning electrical equipment, and lost time, with people reporting suddenly waking up many miles away from where they last remember being. Sightings of UFOs have been reported by people on both sides of the border, with many of these witnesses being military personnel or even leaders, yet considering the harrowing terrain and isolated remoteness there has been little done to actually investigate, and this has led to rumors that the pass holds within it a vast underground warren of tunnels that operates as a UFO base for aliens on Earth. It might just seem like spooky tales orbiting an undeniably beautiful and inhospitable place, but there have been several incidents from the Kongka Pass that stand out.

The Kongka Pass

In 2003, over a dozen Indian troops along the border spotted over several nights floating lights in the sky of the Chinese sky that were anomalous enough that they were reported to their command, but there was no further word about what it could have been from their superiors nor from the Chinese military. Even weirder was an incident that allegedly occurred in 2004 in the Lahaul-Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, where a group of geologists led by a Dr. Anil Kulkarni, of the ISRO’s Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad, were on an expedition to the Samudra Tapu Valley, one of the most desolate and remote places in the entire region. During the expedition, the team reportedly observed a bizarre robotic humanoid measuring 4 feet tall walking along the rocky landscape about 50 meters away. The scientists observed the strange robot for nearly 40 minutes and even took pictures, before it purportedly suddenly rose into the air to shoot into the sky as soon as they tried to draw closer. The whole thing was witnessed by 14 people, including 6 scientists, who concluded there was no reasonable natural explanation. Nevertheless, their report went unanswered and was quietly swept under the carpet. Interestingly, others have reported seeing small, robotic entities in the pass as well, including one sighting in which the entity seemed to disappear into a hole in the ground, which itself then disappeared as if it had never been there.

There was another high-profile and very bizarre series of events that unfolded in the region in 2012. Between August 1 and October 15 of that year, units of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force reported over 100 sightings of luminous objects in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, a remote, 86,000 sq. km heavily militarized zone between Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Chinese-occupied Aksai Chin. The objects were described as luminous yellow orbs, which seemed to lift off from the horizon on the Chinese side and then proceed to move back and forth through the sky before shooting off. Army officials who witnessed the phenomena were certain they were not unmanned aerial vehicles, drones or low earth-orbiting satellites. In September of that year, a mobile ground-based radar unit and a spectrum analyzer was installed at a nearby mountaintop, but even when the objects were seen visually they failed to show up on either radar or in the spectrum analysis. An aircraft was even dispatched to approach one of the objects, but it shot straight upwards and could not be followed. A team of astronomers from the Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle also witnessed the objects over a period of three days, and came to the conclusion that they were not planets, meteors, or satellites. The mysterious objects were observed by hundreds of military personnel, officials, and scientists, but have never been conclusively identified.

On top of all of this, Google Earth has uncovered a lot of weird things in the Kongka Pass, such as mysterious openings in the earth that seem to have been bored out with machinery, as well as unregistered military facilities, complexes of buildings, and mysterious structures. It has been claimed that sometimes these images are blurred out on Google Earth not long after being discovered. It is unclear what this has to do with any of the purported UFO activity in the region, but it certainly adds another layer of strangeness to an already strange place. What is going on in this bizarre place? Are these phenomena the result of aliens or something else? One thing that can be said is that if this really is the location of some alien base of operations, with its complete remoteness and disconnect from civilization they could not have picked a better place to go mostly unnoticed.

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