📖Thieme Overview
Richard "neuralcowboy" Thieme has spoken to hackers on UFOs.
Author, Professional Speaker: Richard Thieme
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 printing, Chapter 9 "The Dark Side of the Moon and Beyond" contains columns written between 1997 and 2003, many of which involve the UFO topic, e.g. "UFOs and the Internet" from July 8, 1997.
2022 Reddit AMA with Richard Thieme on /r/UFOs: Reddit thread
Thieme's 2023 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
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