Secret Cipher Of UFOnauts Reviewed

Secret Cipher Of UFOnauts

This is a most unusual, interesting, and possibly significant book, in which an attempt is made to connect occultism through the centuries directly with the UFO movement of the past 48 years.

We have known the author, Allen Greenfield, for about 50 years, during which time he has labored in relative obscurity as a highly intelligent scholar in various fields including "magick", politics, and of course ufology.

One is reminded of our former friend Yonah ibn A'haron who has followed a similar course, in even greater obscurity. A'haron is mentioned several times in the book. The references are favorable.

The basic premise of Greenfield's present position is that there are various secret ciphers that have been passed down through the ages by various secret societies. One of these, which he calls "Cipher 6", yields meaningful results when applied to many of the "funny names" (Orthon, Valiant Thor) which have turned up in UFO contactee literature.

In the chart one sees that numerical values are assigned to each letter of the English alphabet and it goes on from there. Though the math involved in cipher study is no more complex than simple addition, the concepts are exceedingly complex and, as Greenfield himself would no doubt admit, controversial.

Your editor, whose occult knowledge is close to absolute zero, took great joy in just learning to understand the chart itself!
For Greenfield, the ufologists who most deserve study are those whom he presumes to have had occult knowledge - beginning with Meade Layne, the founder, in about 1946, of Borderland Sciences Research Associates, which is still in existence in California.

Then came George Adamski who met Orthon; George Hunt Williamson and other Adamski disciples; Ray Palmer, who gave birth to Richard Shaver "Shaver Mystery" and Frank Stranges, who met Valiant Thor.

Palmer always claimed that he had a unique FACT that enabled him to solve the UFO mystery. The word FACT, as it turns out has a cipher significance.

In 1974 a solution was found to certain previously unintelligible groups of ciphers, and after this breakthrough, a computer study was made of the various possibilities of meaning that this opened up.

Unfortunately, about 20,000 variants have thus been discovered,and many more are possible. As Greenfield himself admits:

"Because there are an infinite number of numbers and many combinations of letters, words and phrases, obviously - and this is an old criticism of both simple numerology and Qabala - by stretching until one finds something that correlates to a preconceived notion, one can, if persistent, find just about anything.

The difference here is that, by confining myself to the contents of the short book from which the cipher is derived, and limiting my search pattern to one or two attempts to find something significant with no preconceptions whatsoever, where UFOnaut personal and place names are concerned, there are virtually always case-specific correlations on the very first attempt."

What is needed is to find someone with an open but skeptical mind who is familiar with the history of occultism and with the various subjects including ufology covered in Greenfield book who also is an expert on the mathematics of statistics and probability.

We are certain that Greenfield is intellectually honest enough to be distressed rather than pleased with the fact that it is highly unlikely any such person exists. The idea would be to find out whether his correlations are significantly beyond what the mathematics of chance would predict. We do not know, but are fascinated by his line of scholarship.

As much as we like Greenfield and his book, and fully realizing that ridicule is not part of the scientific method we cannot close without quoting the following gem from a letter written to us by one Dean Zevchek after hearing Greenfield cipher lecture at National UFO Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.

States he: TV's Barney has become a cultural icon and role model for children these days. But exactly what is Barney? Well, he's simply a "Cute Purple Dinosaur." Let us take that one step further and apply my "secret cipher" to Barney.

CVTE PVRPLE DlNOSAVR (Remember that the Romans had no letter "U" and used "V" instead) C+V+V+L +D+l +V (Here we extract all Roman Numerals) 100+5+5+50+500+1+5 (Now we add them together) - 666 (Do you want you children watching a show where the secret cipher equates the star to evil?).

The color of Allan Greenfield shirt was the very same color as
Barney, therefore, according to the cipher, Greenfield could be a Barney disciple spreading disinformation!

Finally, as a counter-balance, we call your attention cryptically to Greenfield Chapter 12, "An interview with Terry R. Wriste". This has to do with the Shaver Mystery ciphers and the UFO contactee syndrome.

We will not tell you any more - except that we really did read all of this book, and Chapter 12 alone is worth the PRICE. In cipher talk, key words are CAPITALIZED.