La Queue du Loup--Discerning Alien Intervention

Where you detect it first, of course, is in obvious things like the exquisitely exact disabling of the Hubble Telescope, and the grindingly stage-managed, NSA "investigation" (the Allen Report) which followed--very like, in its palpable, plain-as-day obfuscation and prevarication, the Warren Commission and the 9/11 Commission reports.  When one is habitually truthful, unused to and normally unsuspicious of determined mendacity, it first creeps upon the senses with a kind of carrion stench, a sort of "whoa" that both repels and to a degree stupefies.  Then is when a practised liar gets busy, quickly and alertly pouring forth a ready stream of half-truths and dubious plausibilities to forestall reflection or objection. The Allen Report is a classic example of the technique. 

Then you think: "What are all these people being so painstakingly untruthful about?" With the Hubble Telescope it's pretty clear that its light-gathering capacity at relatively close-range--say, 4.37 light years--was the object of its disabling.  Then "Why?"  In itself, direct evidence of terrestrial-type planets in orbit around Alpha Centauri A and B could hardly be all that threatening, even to power-mad, violently psychotic Haters of Light and Lovers of Darkness like the "Security Agencies" of the United States, or to the putative inhabitants of those planets.  The history of the Holy Office of the Inquisition is prima facie evidence, of course, that psychotic governances will expend great amounts of energy and resources to ensure that nothing outside their definition of Terra Cognita is known, or if it is known, talked about.  But still, what does the FBI/CIA/NSA/DEA/BATF/Secret Service care?

Something bigger, something nearer at hand, is the likely source of all this amazing effort to conceal, to deny otherness.  Could it be: Advances in virology, which would make the AIDS epidemic obsolete? Advances in theoretical physics, which would make a "warp drive" feasible? Advances in "sub-etheric" communication that would impart knowledge of the foregoing, and much else besides, to ordinary citizens without the intermediacy of sanctioned, state-controlled institutions? And how could any or all of this be inferred from images of the Hubble Telescope operating at full light-gathering capacity?