Project Blue Beam |Some dare call it| Conspiracy |What THEY…

Project Blue Beam
|Some dare call it|
Conspiracy
|What THEY don't want|
you to know!
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Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory which 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 presented in 1994 by Quebecois journalist and 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, and that the Canadian government kidnapped Monast's daughter in an effort to dissuade him from investigating Project Blue Beam.[1][note 1]
The project was apparently supposed to be implemented in 1983,[1] but it didn't happen. It was then set for implementation in 1995 and then 1996,[2] and it still didn't happen. Finally, Monast thought that Project Blue Beam would be brought to fruition by the year 2000,[3] and… well, you can probably guess the rest.
Structure[edit]
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 prepare people psychologically for the conspiracy's dramatic conclusion.
- It shows a lack of comprehension of the practical psychology of those who are not paranoid.[4]
- It plays on fears of alleged advanced technology that most people, including its author, do not understand.
The theory cobbles together past conspiracy tropes, starting from paranoia and progressing to technologically-implausible plans with motivations that literally do not make any sense.
The primary 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 off nicely.
Propagation[edit]
The theory is widely popular (for a conspiracy theory) on the Internet, with many Web pages dedicated to the subject and countless YouTube videos explaining it. The actual source material, however, 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. However, a three-page summary of the theory, apparently penned by Monast himself, appeared in his French-language periodical RINF (Réseau international de nouvelles par fax) at the end of 1994.[5] The currently available pages and videos all appear to trace back to four documents:
- A transcript of the 1994 lecture by Monast, translated into English.[3]
- A GeoCities page[6] 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.[7] 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.[note 2]
From these few texts have come a flood of green ink, in text and video form, in several languages. Even the French language material typically does not cite the original book, but the English language pages on educate-yourself.org. However, conspiracy theorists seem to use quantity as a measure of substance (much as alternative medicine uses appeal to tradition) and never mind the extremely few sources it all traces back to.[note 3]
Proponents of the theory have extrapolated[note 4] it to embrace HAARP,[8] 9/11,[9] the Norwegian Spiral,[10] chemtrails,[11][12] FEMA concentration camps,[13] and Tupac Shakur.[14][15] Everything is part of Project Blue Beam. It's well on its way to becoming the Unified Conspiracy Theory.
Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper's 1991 green ink magnum opus, is considered a prior claim of, hence supporting evidence for, Blue Beam by advocates.[5][note 5] The book is where a vast quantity of now-common conspiracy memes actually came from, so retrospectively claiming it as prior evidence is somewhere between cherrypicking and the Texas sharpshooter fallacy. However, the following quotes intersect slightly with the specific themes of Blue Beam:
It is true that without the population or the bomb problem the elect would use some other excuse to bring about the New World Order. They have plans to bring about things like earthquakes, war, the Messiah, an extra-terrestrial landing, and economic collapse. They might bring about all of these things just to make damn sure that it does work. They will do whatever is necessary to succeed. The Illuminati has all the bases covered and you are going to have to be on your toes to make it through the …