Jacques Vallee details interactions with Joe Firmage in latest book release
Joe Firmage’s recent self-announcement as the President of the National Space Council sparked confusion and subsequent ire from the UFO community. While quickly debunked by even passive observers, further questions around Firmage’s true nature, his relationship to the inescapable Ron Pandolfi & Friends, and ultimate purpose in misleading the UFO field remain unanswered.
Notable researchers have remained mum on the subject, with Grant Cameron insisting despite all countering evidence that Firmage is credible and that “this is all real”….
Hobbyist investigators have relied on the dedicated efforts of /u/Kiwibonga , who runs www.reddit.com/r/UFO which has quickly become the leading subreddit documenting AATIP/TTSA disclosure news and discussion. Most recently Kiwibonga received a reply from an associate of Firmage’s, named in the “announcement”, distancing himself from Firmage and his interests. https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo/comments/bo7dm8/further_digging_on_joe_firmages_claims_response/
Notes from Jacques Vallee in his recent release, “Forbidden Science 4: The Spring Hill chronicles” document the involvement of Vallee and other prominent UFO researchers associated with Bigalow and TTSA investigating Skinwalker Ranch and other UFO topics. His encounters with Joe Firmage and associates between 1990 and 1999 illustrate an important piece of history and context for understanding Firmage’s involvement with the UFO field, energy and propulsion research today. Rather than being a fringe character, Vallee chronicles Firmage’s regular presence and the spheres of influence of some of Ufology’s biggest players, — constantly veiled in a cloud of overpromises, massive investment schemes and messianic visions of destiny of Humanity.
From Forbidden Science 4: The Spring Hill Chronicles
“Hummingbird. Tuesday 6 October 1998 .
A supposedly secret document about a new research project called Kairos arrived from Joe Firmage, former CEO of USWeb.” (pg. 426)
“Hummingbird. Sunday 1 November 1998
This morning I called Hal Puthoff to catch up with projects we’d explored together, like Joe Firmage’s Kairos project. Firmage is the 28-year-old CEO of USWeb, an Internet company that experienced rapid success on NASDAQ, although it never earned any money. With John Petersen and Mike Lindemann, he organised yet another series of “Day After” UFO scenarios. I declined to participate.
Interestingly, most of the scenarios ended with the destruction of human society either because it couldn’t physically resist, or because it disintegrated spiritually. All that is feeble science fiction and reinventing of wheels. Firmage’s Project Kairos is redundant with every dubious theory from von Daniken to Vorilhon.” (pg. 429)
“Hummingbird. Thursday 17 December 1998.
A year ago, Joe Firmage awoke shortly after 6 am to see a being clothed in brilliant white light. It hovered over his bed as an electric blue sphere emerged, floated down, and entered him. Shortly afterward he founded the International Space Sciences Organisation with $3 million of his own money to manage the new Kairos project.
Firmage was born in Utah and raised in the Mormon religion, which he long neglected but now rediscovers, with the praises of Jesus mixed up in his prose among the heady revelations of Majestic 12.”(pg. 433)
“Las Vegas. Saturday 9 January 1999.
Bob Bigalow is still fascinated with “Day After” scenarios. Standing before the full Board (Kit the only missing member) he went over the history of our efforts, from the initial intent to appeal to the military to the more recent idea of having our own contingency plan if it turned out, as he put it, that “we were cohabiting on the Earth with non-human entities that controlled out destiny.”
With that introduction he gave the floor to Michael Lindemann, out guest as an evening lecturer. Michael whom I hadn’t seen in years, is a 49-year old former antiwar activist, turned futurist, and speaker on new Age subjects. he is convinced that the Star Wars arsenal was not developed against Russia but against an extraterrestrial enemy. Hal put him contact with Petersen, which led them to the idea of running “First Contact” scenarios under the sponsorship of Firmage. For silly reasons we’re not supposed to know that Joe is involved.
We ended up discussing Kairos. Al Harrison pointed out that “After spending $2 million Firmage has failed to have any impact. The idea of going to the public is fundamentally flawed.”
This took some wind out of Bob Bigelow’s sails. Yet he remains convinced we are confronted with a “scenario-selecting agent,” which implies that “our state of acceptance will determine when and how confirmation occurs.” John Alexander, who knows the world disagrees: he aptly observes that all our scenario discussions start from a First World context, yet “there are some cultures that accept contact already, as something that has happened.”
Edgar Mitchell pitched in: “At the time when we went to the Moon, the consensus was that we were alone in the universe. Look how much things have changed!”(pg. 439)
“Spring Hill. Saturday 1 May 1999.
Now Joe Firmage speaks of creating a research think tank with long working sessions, to “get to the bottom of the problem.” But Firmage is a convert, and this problem has no bottom.”(pg. 453)
“Hummingbird. Tuesday 25 May 1999.
Fred Beckman raves about Joe Firmage’s proposed institute. I am too tired to become involved again. What I need is time away from Silicon Valley.” (pg. 455)
“Hummingbird. Monday 2 August 1999.
During Kit’s visit we spoke of Bob Lazar (where is the report about his wife?) and Joe Firmage, whom he has so far declined to meet, as I did. He wonders if all the crash rumors and reverse- engineering stories had to do with protecting a technology source by disinforming the Russians during the Cold War. (Would the Russians fall for that?)”(pg. 464)
“Hummingbird. Tuesday 12 October 1999.
Janine and I had lunch at L’Olivier with John Alexander and Victoria today. We spoke of NIDS and of Firmage, who meets with investors this afternoon, unrealistically hoping to raise $250M.” (pg. 474)
Closing
Predictably, Vallee and his most sober associates remain highly dubious of Firmage throughout his interactions. Despite this, an additional human presence sits in in the shadow of Firmage — financial enablers who bought into his messianic pitches and friends in the intelligence community who were happy to push him in a helpful direction.
Forbidden Science 4: The Spring hill Chronicles — The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1999
Available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Science-Four-Jacques-Vallee/dp/035927496X
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