๐Thieme Overview
Richard "neuralcowboy" Thieme has spoken to hackers on UFOs.
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Richard "neuralcowboy" Thieme has spoken to hackers on UFOs.
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Richard "neuralcowboy" Thieme, while not a hacker in the traditional sense, is an author and public speaker, who talks on UFOs at the annual DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas, and at the MUFON Symposium:
2002 MUFON Symposium - Are There UFOs on Mars?: " YouTube video
2006 DEFCON 14 - (clip from talk - mentions crash retrievals and counterintelligence)
2007 DEFCON 15 - Hacking UFOlogy: Thirty Years in the Wilderness of Mirrors: PDF whitepaper, M4B audio, MP4 video, Internet Archive, YouTube video
2009 DEFCON 17 - Hacking UFOlogy 102: The Implications of UFOs for Life, the Universe, and Everything: M4B audio, MP4 video, YouTube video
2013 Security BSides Las Vegas - Governments and UFOs: A Historical Analysis of Disinformation and Deception: MP4 audio, IronGeek, Internet Archive, YouTube video
2013 DEFCON 21 - The Government and UFOs: A Historical Analysis: PDF slides, TXT resources, MP4 video, SRT subtitles, Internet Archive, YouTube video
These two 2013 talks were in line with a book Thieme co-authored: UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry.
2014 THOTCON 0x5 - UFOs and Government: a Case Study in Disinformation, Deception, and Perception Management (No recording)
2016 MUFON Symposium - Against the Wind: Why People Can't Think Seriously About UFOs: Speaker Profile Video, MUFON TV, Vimeo video
2021 DEFCON 29 - UFOs: Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Basic Truth: PDF slides, MP4 video, SRT subtitles, YouTube video
2022 DEFCON 30 - UFOs, Alien Life, and the Least Untruthful Things I Can Say: Abstract, PDF slides, MP4 video, SRT subtitles, YouTube video
Thieme has given talks on other topics as well, see a more complete index here.
Thieme also wrote a monthly column which was compiled in his book Islands in the Clickstream. In the original version, no longer in print, Chapter 9 "The Dark Side of the Moon and Beyond" contains columns written between 1997 and 2001 regarding UFOs. With Thieme's permission, I have republished five of these columns here.
2022 Reddit AMA with Richard Thieme on /r/UFOs: Reddit thread
Thieme's 2023 fiction book Mobius: Out of Time covers "the deft management of UFO phenomena and research in the intelligence community," among other topics.
While an Episcopal priest, Thieme reports a fighter pilot confided in him regarding UFOs, confirming that in their fastest jets,
We chase them, and we can't catch them.
Source: 2014 "Out of the closet on UFOs" by Richard Thieme - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper
At DEFCON 3 in 1995, the late UFO researcher Glen Campbell gave a talk on Area 51: DEF CON 3 - Glen Campbell - QA of Govermental Activities and Surrounding Area-51