Time Lords of the 28th Century, Part II
Of WingMakers, conspiracies, evil aliens, Bill Clinton, time travel, and more…
In the previous newsletter, I introduced the seemingly crazy story of the “WingMakers.”
Perhaps a recap might be in order:
Briefly, in 1972 some out-of-place and apparently advanced technological artifacts were discovered by a group of hikers in a remote canyon in northern New Mexico. The nature of these artifacts attracted the attention of the NSA (!), which assumed jurisdiction of the canyon and codenamed it “Ancient Arrow.”
For two decades, the site produced nothing new, although the agency—not unreasonably—suspected it might conceal evidence of an advanced, prehistoric extraterrestrial civilization. Then, in 1994, a rockslide revealed an extensive network of caves within the canyon wall, disclosing twenty-three chambers each with its own mysterious wallpainting and a representative piece of advanced alien technology.
Moreover, in the twenty-third chamber was found an “optical disc,” which was believed to conceal the secrets of this mysterious, alien civilization. The NSA transferred the project to a secretive sub-department, called the Advanced Contact Intelligence Organization (ACIO), which is headed by a super-intelligent and ambitious cuss known only as “Fifteen.” Fifteen, it turns out, is obsessed with developing something called “Blank Slate Technology” (BST), which would guarantee virtually unlimited power to its possessor, and it was his belief that the Ancient Arrow site was key to achieving this technical breakthrough.
Now the ACIO has within it an even more secretive unit called the “Labyrinth Group,” which is kind of a rogue intelligence agency or shadow organization that basically owes allegiance to no terrestrial government, and this group began investigating the Ancient Arrow site in earnest. After years of investigative dead-ends, a breakthrough was achieved by a “Dr. Anderson,” an accomplished linguist who cracked the code of the optical disc and learned that the “alien civilization” was actually a group of time-traveling humans from the twenty-eighth century, who called themselves the “WingMakers.”
And that’s the story thus far.
According to Dr. Anderson, the WingMakers are an incredibly advanced civilization:
“I don’t know who they are, but they represent themselves as human time travelers from the middle part of the 28th century. They could very well be the future version of the Labyrinth Group, or some other powerful organization. They seem to have a very well integrated sub-culture in that their language is clearly a combination of many extinct languages which they could only have knowledge of if they had access to ACIO information systems, or were indeed time travelers…or both, I suppose.
“Assuming they’re accurately representing themselves, they are very advanced technologically. The Labyrinth Group holds that BST is the most advanced technology conceivable. Anyone who possesses it and can successfully utilize it, is clearly more advanced than our contemporary human culture or any of the extraterrestrials we are currently interfacing with.”
As to why they are called “WingMakers”…well, that is never made clear.
But what is certain is that they have been deeply involved in guiding human evolution from the very beginning—and when I say “the very beginning” I mean that in its most literal acceptation, as indicated in this informative excerpt from a putative memo by a certain Dr. Jeremy Sauthers, another ACIO scientist:
“Based on all available research of the Ancient Arrow time capsule, WingMakers seem to represent themselves as a future aspect of the human race from a time approximately 750 years in our future. They represent a version of humanity that has comprehension of the universal systems that govern existence, or at least the laws of time and space. This understanding permits the WingMakers to travel back in time and interact with humankind at various points in its evolutionary pathway.
“I would speculate that WingMakers have—throughout history—been variously referred to as angels, gods, spirit guides, and, in some instances, extra-terrestrials. They imply that they are adept at subtly interacting with humankind in order to evolve its understanding of the cosmological environment in which life evolves and transforms.
“After successfully decoding the first of 23 segments of the optical disc left in the 23rd chamber, I will share a small excerpt of their introduction as it were:
“‘You may refer to us as WingMakers. We are most often confused with angels, though we are actually quite human—just a future, perhaps more advanced, version. Humans, conditioned as they are, seem unable or unwilling to comprehend the vast diversity of living beings amongst the cosmological planes of existence, and so, somewhat as a defense mechanism, lump together what are distinctly unique beings. The angelic kingdom is a different species of life when compared to the human or the WingMakers’ format of existence. WingMakers exist outside of time’s focus, while their human, extraterrestrial, and angelic counterparts exist within, and, to various degrees, are bound by the principles of time. Our uniqueness stems from our ability to operate independently of time while remaining human with all the physical and mental characteristics therein.’
“WingMakers and their existence appear to be woven into virtually all cultures and civilizations upon earth, and appear to be commonly represented through mythological and religious stories. Their stated purpose is to be the Culture Bearers bringing the seeds of language, art, philosophy, scientific reasoning, and spiritual understanding to the human race throughout time. Apparently, they perform this duty without recognition, preferring to be unknown until the time is ripe to present themselves and their specific mission. I think we have to assume, based on the available data, that WingMakers operate at the pinnacle of human existence since they are interactive time travelers.
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“According to the records of the Ancient Arrow site, it was the WingMakers who originally seeded life upon earth and facilitated life’s evolutionary leaps and biological transformations. They (and we, according to them) originated from the star system Pleiades. They came as the human genotype, and brought with them a library of genetic codes that, through experimentation, produced the human species, and of course, most other forms of life on earth.”
Fascinating stuff.
If true, it means the WingMakers are our creators—and therefore their own creators as well. Or at least I think that’s what it means.
I don’t know…time-travel paradoxes give me a headache.
Anyway, in Dr. Anderson’s interview with the anonymous journalist “Anne,” his discussion ranges further afield and into ever more paranoid territory. For one thing, he expatiates at length about an intricate web of secret organizations and societies that run the world, and of which the ACIO is but a part—even if it is, perhaps, the chiefest part. These include the “IMF, Foreign Relations Committee, NSA, KGB, CIA, World Bank, and the Federal Reserve,” and they all form an elitist and supercilious “breakaway civilization” with its own culture, economy, and destiny.
These sinister organizations essentially rule the world in a massive conspiracy, one to rival the most paranoid fever dreams of the most fervent votaries of QAnon; they control all of the world’s resources and—as of the late 1990s—were “well into the process of designing an integrated world economy based on a digital equivalent of paper currency.”
Sounds an awful lot like Central Bank Digital Currencies. Maybe this Dr. Anderson fellow was onto something.
It gets better. Dr. Anderson tells us that then-president Bill Clinton was actually kind of low on the totem pole in this conspiratorial hierarchy, and was mostly unwittingly manipulated by these organizations; however, he certainly knew all about the Greys and other extraterrestrials, including the Martians, which are
“…a humanoid race fashioned from the same gene pool as we. They live in underground bases within Mars, and their numbers are small. Some have already immigrated to Earth, and with some superficial adjustments to their physical appearance, they could pass for a human in broad daylight.”
But by far the most ominous statement by Dr. Anderson is that the WingMakers have left us a series of warnings, in the form of dire prophecies buried in long-forgotten and recondite texts, about a “future” alien invasion that was to begin in 2011. The aliens are said to hail from a galaxy 2.6 million light-years away (apparently M31, the Andromeda Galaxy), and are represented as a synthetic race, a mixture of biology and technology, with a hive mentality. They are covetous of earth’s cosmically unique genetic diversity—something they badly need to shore up their flagging gene pools—and they will secretly infiltrate the UN and the upper echelons of the earth’s governments before establishing a global empire and liquidating mankind.
Who knows—with the way things are going, perhaps these dire events really have come to pass.
In any case, this apocalyptic outcome is something the WingMakers wish to prevent, for understandably selfish reasons, although it does somewhat undercut their lofty pretense of being altruistic “Culture Bearers.” Fifteen, his Labyrinth Group, and the ACIO wish to stop this as well, and this is presumably why the WingMakers have entrusted him with the discovery of their technology, which will eventually lead to the development of Blank Slate Technology—the only weapon that can stop the invaders.
Fifteen intends to use BST to prevent the alien invaders from ever entering our galaxy and discovering the earth in the first place.
And that’s about the whole of the story. There’s more to it, of course. Dr. Anderson tells us that there’s a galactic “Federation,” à la Star Trek, and that we ain’t in it. There are also involved and complex discussions about the nature of galactic government, as well as intricate metaphysical asides about consciousness and the nature of God. This is the point where Dr. Anderson evolves a complicated cosmology of planetary, solar, galactic, and universal “minds” that seem rather like the hierarchical Logoi of the Theosophists; he also elaborates on God’s role in determining humanity’s worthiness of joining the Federation, and when or whether mankind will be permitted to discover Blank Slate Technology.
For now, however, I think that’s about as much justice as I can do to the WingMakers saga.
Verdict: I have to admit, rendering a verdict on the whole WingMakers story isn’t easy.
The initial response might be that’s a total load of BS. I mean come on: time-traveling civilizations from the future, alien invaders from Andromeda, sinister Greys, translucent ETs, secret conspiracies, ancient prophecies, Martians, unexplored caves in New Mexico, and Bill Clinton?
Someone’s got to be pulling our collective leg.
And there’s good reason to think that. For one thing, we’re told the Ancient Arrow canyon is located “in the middle of nowhere about 80 miles northeast of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico.” Now, by my reckoning, that puts it somewhere on the Jicarilla Apache Nation, in the vicinity of Chama or Dulce. Oddly enough, I’ve actually been in a small canyon in that general area that has intricate and beautifully executed wallpaintings and petroglyphs—though, admittedly, I’ve never found advanced technology or entrances to extensive cave networks.
At least not yet.
At any rate, to my mind at least, it renders the notion of discovering the mysterious remains of an unknown civilization in this part of New Mexico rather less far fetched.
Also, Dr. Anderson assures us that the Ancient Arrow site is concealed with advanced, reverse-engineered cloaking technology to fend off unwanted scrutiny…so there is that.
I guess I can’t rule out the possibility that the Ancient Arrow canyon is out there, somewhere, waiting to be discovered by someone other than NSA and ACIO agents. After all, that part of the state certainly is riddled with out-of-the-way canyon systems and forgotten ruins, so it’s not entirely implausible.
But then there’s this matter of an alien infiltration of the world’s governments in 2011, and the establishment of a global government by extragalactic humanoid cyborgs in 2018. This was predicted in the late ’90s; looking around, it doesn’t seem to have panned out that way…although, considering the world situation, I can’t rule anything out.
I could make a tasteless joke here about the uncanny resemblance of many of our politicians and world leaders to extragalactic humanoid cyborgs, but I think I’ll refrain.
Then again, maybe that crafty Fifteen character and his friends at the Labyrinth Group really did manage to develop that coveted Blank Slate Technology, and promptly used it to alter the course of history and prevent the extragalactic aliens from ever discovering the earth—just like Dr. Anderson said they would.
It’s all very confusing, and time-travel conundrums certainly don’t make unraveling this enigma any easier. Nor am I entirely convinced by the motivations of this mysterious Dr. Anderson, who claims that he defected from the ACIO because deciphering the WingMakers’ language altered the neurophysiology of his brain, placing him en rapport with the time travelers and their mission.
Sounds awfully convenient to me.
And besides, how do we know that these WingMakers are what they say they are? How do we know that their motivations for interfering in history are really as selfless and altruistic as they maintain; maybe their designs on our civilization are much more nefarious than they let on.
Anyhow, for the time being, I suppose it will have to remain a mystery. There’s no proof of anything called the ACIO, or the Labyrinth Group, or anyone called Fifteen—“the earth’s CEO”—still less of anything like BST, or the WingMakers’ advanced technology, or Martians, the Federation, or aliens from another galaxy.
Then again, there’s no proof that any of that doesn’t exist either. I guess I’ll hedge my bets, and hope that Fifteen really did find his Blank Slate Technology, and saved us all from alien infiltration…even if the current timeline doesn’t seem all that much rosier.
So that’s where things stand as far as my verdict. It’s easy enough to dismiss the WingMakers saga as an elaborate hoax, an imaginative ruse and fondly remembered relic of the early Internet. There’s a lot to unpack, and that’s part of its charm and fascination; you can still find the archived original site, complete with paintings from the Ancient Arrow site, as well as snippets of WingMaker philosophy, poetry, and even music.1 If it is a hoax, it’s a damned good one, and I congratulate and salute the hoaxer on a bravura performance.
In the meantime, I’ll just keep poking around the canyons, arroyos, and verdant valleys of northern New Mexico, hoping to someday find the Ancient Arrow site, and maybe—if I’m lucky—an errant trace or two of WingMaker technology…
There’s some controversy here, concerning changes that were made to the original WingMakers site over time—alterations to the back story, the timeline, and other particulars that WingMakers purists reject altogether. For instance, the date of the Ancient Arrow site’s discovery was changed from 1972 to 1996; the distance to the Corteum’s home world was altered from 15,000 light-years to 15 million light-years; and Dr. Anderson was changed to “Dr. Neruda.” If you’re interested, you can learn more about it here; for my part, I can only suggest once more that perhaps Fifteen found his Holy Grail of BST, and busily went about changing the timeline for some inscrutable reason of his own.
Weird one for sure!