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'''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]].
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'''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 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.<ref>[http://educate-yourself.org/cn/projectbluebeam25jul05.shtml Project Blue Beam] (Educate-Yourself)</ref>
 
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 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.<ref>[http://educate-yourself.org/cn/projectbluebeam25jul05.shtml Project Blue Beam] (Educate-Yourself)</ref>

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For the UFO study done by sane people, see Project Blue Book.

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 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,[2] but was delayed. It was then set for implementation in 1995 and then 1996.[3] Monast thought Project Blue Beam would be brought to fruition by the year 2000[4], really, definitely, for sure.

Contents

The theory

The primary claimed perpetrator is NASA, presented as a large and mostly faceless organization that can readily absorb such frankly odd accusations, aided by the United Nations.

According to Monast, the project has four steps:

Step One

Step One is the breakdown of all archaeological knowledge. This will apparently be accomplished by faking earthquakes at precise locations around the planet. These locations will supposedly have fake "discoveries" to convince humanity that "new discoveries will finally explain to all people the error of all fundamental religious doctrines."

Step Two

Step Two involves a gigantic "space show" wherein three-dimensional laser projections will be beamed all over the planet. These will take the shape of whatever deity is most predominant, and will speak in all languages. At the end of the light show, the gods will all merge into one god, the Antichrist. Apparently people will think this is their god, rather than the more natural twenty-first century assumption that it is a particularly opaque Coca Cola advertisement.

Evidence advanced for this was a supposed plan to project the face of Allah over Baghdad in 1991, to tell the Iraqis to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Of course, those primitive, ignorant non-Western savages wouldn't have had television or advertising, and would never guess it was being done with mirrors.[5]

The light show can supposedly be seen in occasional tests, which manifest as unidentified flying objects. Some of the True Believers in the project cite existing display technology such as 3D projection mapping as foreshadowing the great light show in the sky.[6]

This stage will be accomplished, apparently, with the aid of a Soviet computer that will be fed "with the minute physio-psychological particulars based on their studies of the anatomy and electro-mechanical composition of the human body, and the studies of the electrical, chemical and biological properties of the human brain." The computers are also capable of inducing suicidal thoughts.[7] The Soviets are (not "were") the "New World Order" people. Why NASA would use a Soviet computer when the USSR had to import or copy its computer technology from the West is not detailed.

Step Three

Step Three involves making people think their god is speaking to them through telepathy, projected into the head of each person individually using low-frequency radio waves. The atheists will presumably hear an absence of Richard Dawkins.

Step Four

Step Four has three parts:

  1. Making humanity think an alien invasion is about to occur at every major city;
  2. Making the Christians think the Rapture is about to happen;
  3. A mixture of electronic and supernatural forces, allowing the supernatural forces to travel through fiber optics, coax, power and telephone lines to penetrate all electronic equipment and appliances, that will by then all have a special microchip installed.[8]

Then chaos will break out, and people will finally be willing - perhaps even desperate - to accept the New World Order.

A device has apparently already been perfected that will lift enormous numbers of people, as in a Rapture. UFO abductions are tests of this device.

Project Blue Beam theorists believe psychological preparations have already been made, Monast having claimed that 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars and the Star Trek series all involve an invasion from space and all nations coming together (they don't) and that Jurassic Park propagandises evolution in order to make people think God's words are lies.

Critical acclaim

Project Blue Beam has all the usual hallmarks of a conspiracy theory:

  • It attempts to shoehorn events that have happened and are happening into its predictive framework, particularly with references to films being used to prep people psychologically for the conspiracy's dramatic conclusion.
  • It shows a lack of comprehension of the practical psychology of those who are not paranoid.[5]
  • It plays on fears of alleged advanced technology that most people, including its author, do not understand.

The theory itself cobbles together past conspiracy tropes in such a manner as to gain itself a small amount of attention from future conspiracy theorists, starting from paranoia and progressing to technologically implausible plans with motivations that literally do not make any sense.

The theorist's death from a middle-age heart attack cut off its possible spread early and left it short on source material in English - though there is the tantalizing promise of several books' worth in French - but did cap the theory itself off nicely.

External links

Footnotes

  1. Project Blue Beam (Educate-Yourself)
  2. NASA's Project Blue Beam (International Free Press, Canada)
  3. Project Blue Beam (Contact, April 1996)
  4. NASA's Project Blue Beam (transcript of tape)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Good Lord! What in heaven's name is that? (David Hamling, Sydney Morning Herald, February 5th 2000) The article is about ridiculing the blithering stupidity of those who would advance such a ridiculous plan. But somehow it's become a special favorite of conspiracy theorists, who seem to ignore how the last two paragraphs point out that normal people just aren't stupid enough for this sort of thing to work, even as they mirror it widely.
  6. "Imagine what they can do with lasers!"
  7. The Watcher Files
  8. What is the Blue Beam Project? (David Openheimer)
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