Trump’s new “Illegal Alien Hotline” May Finally Force Disclosure of Alien Contact
This could finally be it. For decades, UFO enthusiasts have waited and hoped for “The Big One”; the one announcement or discovery or Close Encounter that would finally prove beyond a doubt that UFOs are spacecraft from other worlds, and would convince their friends and relatives that they weren’t just barking at the moon. Their wait for vindication could be over at last, as many now believe that the “VOICE” hotline supposedly set up by the Trump administration for citizens to report suspected illegal activity by undocumented foreigners is in fact a conduit for people to report sightings of entities from other worlds, who may in fact be walking among us even as you read this.
As reported in The Atlantic this week, “…some callers are using a new hotline launched on Wednesday for victims of crimes committed by aliens to report that they’ve been victimized by extraterrestrials.”
And why not? Perhaps “1–855–48-VOICE” doesn’t stand for “Victims of Immigration Crimes Engagement” as the Government wants us to believe. Maybe it stands for “Very Odd Interplanetary Creatures and Entities,” as some now claim. Indeed, it only takes a moment at a phone keypad to find that the first six digits of the new number, “1–855–48”, actually translate to “One-ULL-GT” or, as this writer interprets it, “One Null Git,” which seems to read either as a sly insult to anyone using the phone line, or a sarcastic term for the aliens who don’t realize we’re onto them.
This would all be funny if there wasn’t a kernel of sad truth to the whole thing.
For years, the concept of “Disclosure” has been near and dear to the hearts of many UFO fans. According to proponents of the theory, our government has been in contact with — may actually be in cahoots with — aliens from other planets, and there will come a day when the secret gets out, either by accident or by intention. This Disclosure (and, yes, they do spell it with a capital “D”) will be so shocking and disorienting to the human race, the theory goes, that society utterly collapses. Much like what we’re witnessing in Washington, D.C. now.
There is, in fact, some evidence to support this line of reasoning. Every eight years or so, when the coast is clear, John Podesta, a high-ranking aide to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, comes forward to make an announcement to the press that he really wishes he had put more pressure on his powerful bosses to reveal the truth about UFOs and aliens to the American public when he had the chance (Most recently, Podesta was known to have met with rock musician Tom DeLonge, former front man for the band Blink 182 and current UFO impresario, to discuss the government’s secret alien involvement, a sure indication of how serious this affair really is). Trouble is, Podesta always waits until he and his bosses are out of power to make his tiny tug at the cloak of secrecy surrounding the government’s UFO secrets, and by then his revelations are virtually meaningless.
So, who is calling 1–855–48-VOICE, and what kinds of messages are they leaving? If you go by the stern public reprisal delivered by an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson this week, a lot of people are calling in to report extraterrestrial attacks: “Their actions seek to obstruct and do harm to crime victims,” the spokesperson said of these alleged pranksters. “That’s objectively despicable regardless of one’s views on immigration policy.”
Not surprisingly, Twitter seems to be the focal point for much of this objective despicableness:
“Report space aliens to the government, please call their hotline: 1–855–48-VOICE,” urges one Tweet.
“I plan on calling every day to report how badly these green aliens from outer space are treating me. How about you?” asks another.
“Look, I’m just saying that the mission of VOICE is to report if you’ve been wronged by aliens, regardless of planet of origin,” tweets “Alt. Sean Spicer.”
I may be going out on a limb, here, but when it comes down to calling a winner in this struggle, my money is on the UFO people who are calling the ICE alien hotline and the smart-alecks urging others to call in to report experiences with little green men. The government is powerless in the face of such sheer force of will. Think about it: the callers jamming the VOICE hotline either believe wholeheartedly that this is the moment of Disclosure, or they believe wholeheartedly that President Trump and his xenophobic minions are worthy of ridicule. These are both primal, elemental human urges, driven by centuries of distrust of malleable rules and unjustified authority; how is ICE going to fight back against either of these forces?
There is just one problem that I see here. Is this really the right moment to be making such a fuss about alien contact and potentially attracting the attention of some superior alien civilization? Imagine them coming to earth now, in 2017, and making the proverbial landing on the White House lawn. Think about what they would find, and who they would meet. Imagine what would follow after they said, “Take me to your leader.”
Sure, they’d most likely be wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and shipped home before they could say “Klaatu Barada Nikto,” and Trump would announce plans for a big, beautiful wall in space that the aliens will pay for, but what if someone really did take a representative of a superior alien race to our leader? What would the aliens tell the folks back home about what they found and who they met on Earth? I shudder to think.
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Mark O’Connell is the author of “The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs,” published by Dey Street Books.