PART III
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Direct Messages
Summary: Messages to the public may appear to come directly from aliens without an intermediary. This includes radio signals from space, hijacked television transmissions, crop circles, and anonymously disseminated texts written from their point of view.* Strength of Source: Any alien or military group with suďŹƒciently advanced technology can create crop circles, take over television signals, broadcast radio signals from space, and use anonymous human proxies to distribute carefully written messages to the world. Their abilities greatly exceed what the casual hoaxer can pull o, which they use to their advantage to make the messages seem beyond hoaxability and thus authentic. Weakness of Audience: If the audience believes the message really comes from aliens, they will be intrigued and take the message as a sincere declaration of alien intentions. The message may take an authoritative tone, take the form of responses to messages we ourselves have sent into space, appeal to ethical memes like concerns over global warming, overpopulation, or government corruption, tantalize the intellect with feigned crypticism, or prime the audience for future deceptions by giving key future dates and prophecies. The audience must be convinced aliens are sending urgent messages to the world so that the content of the message influences their opinion about the nature of these aliens and what must be done. Disinformation sent by way of direct messages aim to distort public awareness of alien motivations and influence the audience into supporting certain actions and values that are beneficial to an agenda.
* For example, the pirate television transmission by Vrillon in 1977, the message Do You Wish That We Show Up? disseminated on the internet in 2003, and the Crabwood (August 2002) and Chilbolton (August 2001) crop formations.