Drones Across Your Face!

Regarding the mysterious wave of large, car-sized drones invading the skies of the United States, a friend, collaborator, and CHAMELEO reader from Canada sent me a message last night that read (in part), "Hope all is good for you and you're not being droned out. Could they be what you describe in CHAMELEO?"

I was pleased to see that someone other than myself had noticed the eerie parallels between current events and the surveillance-run-amok technology I describe in the pages of my 2015 nonfiction book, CHAMELEO. I had been thinking about those parallels myself quite a bit during the past few days. Back in 2004, my friend Damien (named Dion Fuller in the book) insisted that flying-saucer-like drones had followed him out of San Diego, into Texas, and all around the country. Almost everyone I knew at the time concluded Damien was suffering from delusions. Now, at the tail end of 2024, everybody in America (including the population of San Diego, where Damien was living when the chaos described in CHAMELEO began to unfold) is seeing the same so-called "delusions" that were dogging Damien's heels twenty years ago. 

Back in 2004, it was just Damien getting mindfucked (as far as I knew at the time). Now, in 2024, everybody's getting mindfucked! I can't wait to see what 2025 will bring. Be prepared for a vertiginous plunge into what my late friend Walter Bowart (author of the 1978 book, OPERATION MIND CONTROL) once referred to as "The Disassociated States of America." 

What follow are two excerpts from CHAMELEO, the first from Chapter 11 and the second from the epilogue...

EXCERPT #1:

He left the city limits of San Diego with five cars on his trail. I wondered if they would even let him leave. But they did. And as he sped farther and farther away from San Diego, those particular five cars turned around and drove away.

From that point on he would call me from his cell phone every other day to give me updates on his progress. He said he was pretty sure that no vehicles had followed him since those initial five. However, he insisted he kept seeing some kind of circular device in the sky that appeared to be trailing him.

“What do you mean?” I said. “Like a flying saucer?”

He said it was kind of like a disc—but relatively small. If not for the sunlight glinting off its metal surface, he never would have noticed it. Sometimes it was there, sometimes it wasn’t.

In the early 1980s the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego developed vertical-take-off-and-landing air vehicles known as Airborne Remotely Operated Devices (AROD). In the 1990s these vehicles evolved into robots called Multipurpose Security and Surveillance Mission Platforms. According to the corporation’s own website, such robots were “designed to provide a rapidly deployable, extended-range surveillancecapability for a variety of operations and missions” including “tactical security” as well as “support to counterdrug and border patrol operations” (http:www.spawar.navy.mil/robots/air/amgss/mssmp.html). Since residents of California are well aware of the fact that the border patrol can’t seem to keep people from slipping over the border into San Diego, perhaps the real purpose of the MSSMPs is to keep certain people in.

Note: The San Diego headquarters of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command is located only six miles from Dion’s Pacific Beach apartment, a mere ten minute drive.

EXCERPT #2:

In 2011, due to various reasons (mainly economic), Dion moved to a house located in the Redwoods in Northern California. His mother lives in the middle of the forest next to a remote area appropriately named “the Lost Coast.” Within weeks of moving into the Redwoods the harassment began again—with renewed intensity.      

The High Strangeness kicked off when Dion began seeing classic, 1950s-style UFOs hovering over his mother’s property, usually very late at night. He’d never before seen anything like these lights. They disobeyed all known laws of physics. After several weeks of documenting these sightings with his camera, he spotted a military-style drone flying low overhead in the night skies, well below the cloud cover. He watched in amazement as the drone seemed to release several lights that looked precisely like the UFOs he’d seen so often before.

It’s important to note that this area of Humboldt County is filled with marijuana farmers who are protective of their crops, suspicious of outsiders, and trigger-happy to boot. As these drones began appearing in waves over the Mattole Valley, the local rednecks whipped out their rifles and began firing at the ominous craft. A rumor spread through the area that the farms would soon be raided by the FBI, or the ATF, or the DEA, or some similar government agency. One day a local resident spotted two “agents” (if, indeed, that’s what they were) camped out on a nearby hillside; the “agents” appeared to be spying on the farmlands below with a pair of binoculars. (The sunlight glinting off the binoculars gave them away.) En masse, the local farmers ran up into the hills with their firearms, intent on blowing the intruders into jagged, bloody shards. The “agents,” or whoever they were, beat their feet and scurried away like panicked vermin. 

Later that night the drone sightings in the valley grew even more intense. They were now so frequent that even Dion’s mother (who had always been skeptical of Dion’s San Diego experiences) admitted she couldn’t explain their presence in the skies above her modest little home…

END OF EXCERPTS

SPECIAL BONUS: In July of 2012, Damien took this photo of a flying-saucer-like drone that streaked off into the skies above Humboldt County. A black-and-white version of this photo appears in CHAMELEO, but this is the first time it's being seen in color...