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Project Blue Beam - RationalWiki
Project Blue Beam is a
conspiracy theory that claims that
NASA is attempting to implement a
New Age religion with the
Antichrist at its head and start a
New World Order, via a technologically-simulated
Second Coming.
The allegations were contained in an audio presentation in 1994 by Quebecois journalist turned conspiracy theorist
Serge Monast and later published in his book
Project Blue Beam (NASA). Proponents of the theory allege that Monast and another, unnamed, journalist, who both died of heart attacks in 1996, were in fact assassinated. In addition, the Canadian government allegedly kidnapped Monast's daughter in an effort to dissuade him from investigating Project Blue Beam.
[1]
The project was apparently supposed to be implemented in 1983,
[1] but was delayed. It was then set for implementation in 1995 and then 1996.
[2] Monast thought Project Blue Beam would be brought to fruition by the year 2000,
[3] really, definitely, for sure.
Propagation of a theory
The theory is widely popular (for a conspiracy theory) on the Web, with many web pages on the subject and countless YouTube videos explaining it. The actual source material is very thin indeed.
Monast lectured on the theory in the mid-1990s (a transcript of one such lecture is widely available), before writing and publishing his book, which has not been reissued by his current publisher and is all but unobtainable. The currently available pages and videos all appear to trace back to four documents:
- A transcript of the 1994 lecture by Monast.[3]
- A GeoCities page[4] written by David Openheimer and which appears to draw on the original book.
- A page on educate-yourself.org, compiled in 2005, which appears to include a translation of the book from the French.[1]
- Monast's page in French Wikipedia.[5] The French Wikipedia article is largely sourced from two books on conspiracy theories and extremism by Pierre-André Taguieff, a mainstream academic expert on racist and extremist groups.
In May 1975, Gene Roddenberry accepted an offer from Paramount to develop Star Trek into a feature film, and moved back into his old office on the Paramount lot. His proposed story told of a flying saucer, hovering above Earth, that was programmed to send down people who looked like prophets, including Jesus Christ. All the steps of the conspiracy theory were in the unmade mid-'70s
Star Trek film script by Roddenberry, which were recycled for the ST:TNG episode
Devil's Due, broadcast in 1991.
[17]
There is no evidence of deliberate fraud on Monast's part; given his head was quite thoroughly full of squirrels and confetti by this time, it's entirely plausible that he thought this was the revelation of secret information in a guise safe for propagation. Or something.
However, the actual source was so obvious that even other conspiracy theorists noticed.
[18] They confidently state it was obvious that Monast had been
fed deceptive information by the CIA. Of course!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPAYbbGLYlE"]PROJECT BLUE BEAM of NASA - YouTube[/ame]