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Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory which claims that NASA is attempting to implement a New Age religion with the Antichrist at its head and start a New World Order, via a technologically-simulated Second Coming. The allegations were presented in 1994 by Quebecois journalist and conspiracy theorist Serge Monast and later published in his book Project Blue Beam (NASA). Proponents of the theory allege that Monast and another unnamed journalist, who both died of heart attacks in 1996, were in fact assassinated, and that the Canadian government kidnapped Monast’s daughter in an effort to dissuade him from investigating Project Blue Beam.
The project was apparently supposed to be implemented in 1983, but it didn’t happen. It was then set for implementation in 1995 and then 1996, and it still didn’t happen. Finally, Monast thought that Project Blue Beam would be brought to fruition by the year 2000, and… well, you can probably guess the rest.
Structure
Project Blue Beam has all the usual hallmarks of a conspiracy theory:
- It attempts to shoehorn events that have happened, and are happening, into its “predictive” framework, particularly with references to films being used to prepare people psychologically for the conspiracy’s dramatic conclusion.
- It shows a lack of comprehension of the practical psychology of those who are not paranoid.
- It plays on fears of alleged advanced technology that most people, including its author, do not understand.
The theory cobbles together past conspiracy tropes, starting from paranoia and progressing to technologically-implausible plans with motivations that literally do not make any sense.
The primary theorist’s death from a middle-age heart attack cut off its possible spread early and left it short on source material in English — though there is the tantalizing promise of several books’ worth in French — but did cap the theory off nicely.
Propagation
The theory is widely popular (for a conspiracy theory) on the Internet, with many Web pages dedicated to the subject and countless YouTube videos explaining it. The actual source material, however, is very thin indeed.
Monast lectured on the theory in the mid-1990s (a transcript of one such lecture is widely available), before writing and publishing his book, which has not been reissued by his current publisher and is all but unobtainable. However, a three-page summary of the theory, apparently penned by Monast himself, appeared in his French-language periodical RINF (Réseau international de nouvelles par fax) at the end of 1994. The currently available pages and videos all appear to trace back to four documents:
- A transcript of the 1994 lecture by Monast, translated into English.
- A GeoCities page written by David Openheimer and which appears to draw on the original book.
- A page on educate-yourself.org, compiled in 2005, which appears to include a translation of the book from the French.
- Monast’s page in French Wikipedia. The French Wikipedia article is largely sourced from two books on conspiracy theories and extremism by Pierre-André Taguieff, a mainstream academic expert on racist and extremist groups.
From these few texts have come a flood of green ink, in text and video form, in several languages. Even the French language material typically does not cite the original book, but the English language pages on educate-yourself.org. However, conspiracy theorists seem to use quantity as a measure of substance (much as alternative medicine uses appeal to tradition) and never mind the extremely few sources it all traces back to.
Proponents of the theory have extrapolated it to embrace HAARP, 9/11, the Norwegian Spiral,[10] chemtrails,[11][12] FEMA concentration camps, and Tupac Shakur. Everything is part of Project Blue Beam. It’s well on its way to becoming the Unified Conspiracy Theory.
Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper‘s 1991 green ink magnum opus, has lately been considered a prior claim of, hence supporting evidence for, Blue Beam by advocates. The book is where a vast quantity of now-common conspiracy memes actually came from, so retrospectively claiming it as prior evidence is somewhere between cherrypicking and the Texas sharpshooter fallacy. However, the following quotes intersect slightly with the specific themes of Blue Beam:
It is true that without the population or the bomb problem the elect would use some other excuse to bring about the New World Order. They have plans to bring about things like earthquakes, war, the Messiah, an extra-terrestrial landing, and economic collapse. They might bring about all of these things just to make damn sure that it does work. They will do whatever is necessary to succeed. The Illuminati has all the bases covered and you are going to have to be on your toes to make it through the coming years.
Can you imagine what will happen if Los Angeles is hit with a 9.0 quake, New York City is destroyed by a terrorist-planted atomic bomb, World War III breaks out in the Middle East, the banks and the stock markets collapse, Extraterrestrials land on the White House lawn, food disappears from the markets, some people disappear, the Messiah presents himself to the world, and all in a very short period of time? Can you imagine? The world power structure can, and will if necessary, make some or all of those things happen to bring about the New World Order.
The theory
| “”Without a universal belief in the new age religion, the success of the new world order will be impossible! |
The alleged purpose of Project Blue Beam is to bring about a global New Age religion, which is seen as a core requirement for the New World Order‘s dictatorship to be realized. There’s nothing new in thinking of religion as a form of control, but the existence of multiple religions, spin-off cults, competing sects, and atheists suggest that controlling the population entirely through a single religion isn’t particularly easy. Past attempts have required mechanisms of totalitarianism such as the Inquisition.
Monast’s theory, however, suggests using sufficiently advanced technology to trick people into believing. Of course, the plan would have to assume that people could never fathom the trick at all — something contested by anyone sane enough not to swallow this particular conspiracy.
The primary claimed perpetrator of Project Blue Beam is NASA, presented as a large and mostly faceless organization that can readily absorb such frankly odd accusations, aided by the United Nations, another old-time boogeyman of conspiracy theorists.
According to Monast, the project has four steps:
Step One
Step One requires the breakdown of all archaeological knowledge. This will apparently be accomplished by faking earthquakes at precise locations around the planet. Fake “new discoveries” at these locations “will finally explain to all people the error of all fundamental religious doctrines”, specifically Christian and Muslim doctrines.
This makes some degree of sense; if you want to thoroughly usurp a current way of thinking, you need to completely discredit and destroy it before putting forward your own. However, religious belief is notoriously resilient to things like facts. The Shroud of Turin is a famous example that is still believed by many to be a genuine shroud of Jesus as opposed to the medieval forgery that it has been conclusively shown to be. Prayer studies, too, show how difficult it is to shift religious conviction with mere observational fact. Indeed, many theologians avoid making falsifiable claims or place belief somewhere specifically beyond observation to aid this. So what finds could possibly fundamentally destroy both Christianity and Islam, almost overnight, and universally all over the globe? Probably nothing. Yet, this is only step one of an increasingly ludicrous set of events that Project Blue Beam predicts will occur.
Step Two
Step Two involves a gigantic “space show” wherein three-dimensional holographic laser projections will be beamed all over the planet — and this is where Blue Beam really takes off. The projections will take the shape of whatever deity is most predominant, and will speak in all languages. At the end of this light show, the gods will all merge into one god, the Antichrist.
This is a rather baffling plan, as it seems to assume that people will think this is actually their god, rather than the more natural twenty-first-century assumption that it is a particularly opaque Coca-Cola advertisement. Evidence commonly advanced for this is a supposed plan to project the face of Allah, despite its contradiction with Muslim belief of God’s uniqueness, over Baghdad in 1991 to tell the Iraqis to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Someone, somewhere, must have thought that those primitive, ignorant non-Western savages wouldn’t have had television or advertising and would never guess it was being done with mirrors. In general, pretty much anything that either a) involves light or b) has been seen in the sky has been put forward as evidence that Project Blue Beam is real, and such things are “tests” of the technology — namely unidentified flying objects. Existing display technology such as 3D projection mapping and holograms are put forward as foreshadowing the great light show in the sky.
This stage will apparently be accomplished with the aid of a Soviet computer that will be fed “with the minute physio-psychological particulars based on their studies of the anatomy and electro-mechanical composition of the human body, and the studies of the electrical, chemical and biological properties of the human brain”, and every human has been allocated a unique radio wavelength. The computers are also capable of inducing suicidal thoughts. The Soviets are (not “were”) the “New World Order” people. Why NASA would use a Soviet computer when the USSR had to import or copy much of its computer technology from the West is not detailed.
The second part of Step Two (wouldn’t that be Step Three?) happens when the holograms result in the dissolution of social and religious order, “setting loose millions of programmed religious fanatics through demonic possession on a scale never witnessed before”. The United Nations plans to use Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” as the anthem for the introduction of the New Age one world religion.
There is relatively little to debunk in this, the most widely-remembered section of the Project Blue Beam conspiracy, as the idea is so infeasible. Citing actual existing communication technology is odd if the point is for the end product to appear magical, rather than just as cheap laser projections onto clouds. This hasn’t stopped some very strange conspiracy theories about such things popping up. Indeed, the notion of gods being projected into the sky was floated in 1991 by conspiracy theorist Betty J. Mills. And US general (and CIA shyster extraordinaire), Edward Lansdale, actually floated a plan to fake a Second Coming over Cuba to get rid of Castro.
Step Three
Step Three is “Telepathic Electronic Two-Way Communication”. It involves making people think their god is speaking to them through telepathy, projected into the head of each person individually using extreme low frequency radio waves. (Atheists will presumably hear an absence of Richard Dawkins.) The book goes to some lengths to describe how this would be feasible, including a claim that ELF thought projection caused the depressive illness of Michael Dukakis’ wife, Kitty.
Step Four
Step Four has three parts:
- Making humanity think an alien invasion is about to occur in every major city;
- Making the Christians think the Rapture is about to happen;
- A mixture of electronic and supernatural forces, allowing the supernatural forces to travel through fiber optics, coax, power, and telephone lines to penetrate all electronic equipment and appliances that will, by then, all have a special microchip installed.
Then chaos will break out, and people will finally be willing, perhaps even desperate, to accept the New World Order. “The techniques used in the fourth step is exactly the same used in the past in the USSR to force the people to accept Communism.”
A device has apparently already been perfected that will lift enormous numbers of people, as in a Rapture. UFO abductions are tests of this device.
Project Blue Beam proponents believe psychological preparations have already been made, Monast having claimed that 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, and the Star Trek series all involve an invasion from space and all nations coming together[3] (the first two don’t, the third is peaceful contact) and that Jurassic Park propagandises evolution in order to make people think God‘s words are lies.
The New World Order according to Monast
The book detailed the theory. In the 1994 lecture, Monast detailed what would happen afterward.
All people will be required to take an oath to Lucifer with a ritual initiation to enter the New World Order. Resisters will be categorised as follows:
- Christian children will be kept for human sacrifice or sexual slaves.
- Prisoners to be used in medical experiments.
- Prisoners to be used as living organ banks.
- Healthy workers in slave labour camps.
- Uncertain prisoners in the international re-education center, thence to repent on television and learn to glorify the New World Order.
- The international execution centre.
- An as-yet-unknown seventh classification.
The actual source of the theory
Joel Engel’s book Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek was released in 1994, shortly before Monast’s lecture on Project Blue Beam:
| “”In May 1975, Gene Roddenberry accepted an offer from Paramount to develop Star Trek into a feature film, and moved back into his old office on the Paramount lot. His proposed story told of a flying saucer, hovering above Earth, that was programmed to send down people who looked like prophets, including Jesus Christ. |
All the steps of the conspiracy theory were in the unmade mid-’70s Star Trek film script by Roddenberry, which were recycled for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Devil’s Due, broadcast in 1991.
There is no evidence of deliberate fraud on Monast’s part; given that his head was quite thoroughly full of squirrels and confetti by this time, it’s entirely plausible that he thought this was the revelation of secret information in a guise safe for propagation. However, the actual source was so obvious that even other conspiracy theorists noticed. They confidently state it was obvious that Monast had been fed deceptive information by the CIA. Of course!
Inside Project Blue Beam And The Conspiracy Theorist Behind It
According to the Project Blue Beam theory posited by Serge Monast, NASA and the United Nations are trying to establish a totalitarian, one-world government — but is there any proof?
Conspiracy theories today are a dime a dozen, ranging from speculation about the assassination of John F. Kennedy to beliefs about a flat Earth. But among the more bizarre conspiracy theories, there is one that just might be the wildest of them all: Project Blue Beam.
Project Blue Beam was first proposed in the early 1990s by a journalist-turned-conspiracy theorist named Serge Monast. After taking an interest in the work of other conspiracy theorists, Monast began reading about secret societies and became particularly interested in theories about a potential New World Order — which served as the foundation for Project Blue Beam.
In short, Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory that suggests NASA and the UN are trying to create a New World Order by implementing a New Age religion headed by the Antichrist, using advanced technology to trick people into believing in this religion. If they succeed in their supposed mission, all traditional religions will be abolished and all national identities will be removed in favor of a one-world religion and one-world government.
Here’s everything we know about Project Blue Beam, the hypothetical totalitarian dictatorship, and the conspiracy theorist behind it all.
Before he was known for his Project Blue Beam theory, Serge Monast was a Canadian writer working as a journalist during the 1970s and 1980s. Few details are known about his early life, but it’s clear that by the early 1990s, Monast had become deeply interested in conspiracy theories.
He began writing about the New World Order, a term used in several conspiracy theories that claim an organization — such as the UN or the Illuminati — is working to create a single-world government and to indoctrinate people so that they’d accept such a totalitarian dictatorship.
Often, these theories overlap with antisemitism, playing into false narratives that Jews are in complete control of the world’s finances and media organizations and hope to take over the Earth. These theories are also often steeped in fear-mongering and reliant on concerns about the Antichrist.
Notably, New World Order theories have been pushed by one of America’s most infamous conspiracy theorists, Alex Jones, who claimed that the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a “false flag” hoax perpetrated by “crisis actors” in an attempt to take away Americans’ gun rights. (Jones was later ordered to pay about $1.5 billion to the families of Sandy Hook victims after his false claims about the massacre.)
Bob Daemmrich/Alamy Stock PhotoAlex Jones, the founder of the conspiracy website Infowars, at a “You Can’t Close America” rally in Austin, Texas, protesting COVID-19 lockdowns during the height of the pandemic in 2020.
This is important context to identify where Monast was coming from when he first came up with the Project Blue Beam theory.
Monast first wrote about Project Blue Beam in 1994, publishing NASA’s Project Blue Beam, and expanding on the theory a year later in Les Protocoles de Toronto, which was largely modeled on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated text detailing a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world. In a strange twist, some have speculated that Monast may have also been inspired by Star Trek, specifically the premise of a never-produced movie, Star Trek: The God Thing, which would have introduced a mysterious force that claimed to be God but was actually a sentient computer.
But Monast’s theory focused most heavily on NASA and the UN — and their supposed four-step plan to achieve world domination.
The Four Steps Of Project Blue Beam
Wikimedia CommonsThe NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. The government agency has been connected to a number of conspiracy theories throughout the years, but Project Blue Beam may be the strangest.
The first step of Project Blue Beam, according to Serge Monast, involves effectively rewriting history by faking earthquakes around the world. These manmade quakes are meant to lead to the discoveries of fake “artifacts” that will discredit traditional religions, especially Christianity and Islam.
In essence, Monast believed that NASA and the UN would dismantle these established religions around the world by sowing “historical” doubt about them, in order to propagate their New Age religion.
Step two involves three-dimensional holographic laser projections that would be beamed across the planet to create a massive “space show,” depicting a variety of religious figures in the sky, including Jesus, Muhammad, and Buddha. The finale of the show would then involve all of these various holograms merging into a singular entity: the Antichrist.
But how would this space show convince every single person on Earth to go along with NASA and the UN’s supposed plans? This was Monast’s explanation: “Such rays from satellites are fed from the memories of computers that have stored massive data about every human on earth, and their languages. The rays will then interlace with their natural thinking to form what we call diffuse artificial thought.”
WikipediaSome believe that Serge Monast drew inspiration from the premise of the never-produced Star Trek: The God Thing while creating his Project Blue Beam theory.
The third stage is what Serge Monast called “telepathic electronic two-way communication.” He claimed that NASA would use low-frequency radio waves and satellite rays to communicate with individuals “telepathically,” assuming that these people would believe that their god is speaking to them. Through this communication, Monast claimed that NASA would be able to influence how people think, and prepare them for step four.
The final step of Project Blue Beam has multiple stages of its own. The first stage is to convince humanity that an alien invasion is imminent. The second stage is to convince Christians that the Rapture is about to begin.
The third stage involves NASA using advanced technology to allow “supernatural forces” to travel through TV cables, phone lines, and optical fibers to activate microchips in all consumer electronics and appliances.
In the ensuing chaos that was sure to unfold, Monast believed that NASA and the UN would slowly unveil their proposed New World Order — while phasing out cash with a version of cryptocurrency and eliminating the concept of independence — with humanity ready to accept it to ensure survival. Everyone who agreed would be forced to accept the new totalitarian one-world government and a New Age religion that embraced the “cult of man.” Anyone who resisted would face a number of inhumane punishments, ranging from forced labor to a brutal execution.
“The NASA Blue Beam Project is the prime directive for the new world order’s absolute control over the populations of the entire earth,” Monast insisted to his readers. “I would suggest you investigate this information carefully before dismissing it as fanatic lunacy.”
In 1996, Serge Monast died of a heart attack in his home at the age of 51, allegedly after being arrested twice. But his theory didn’t die with him. In fact, Monast’s death paved the way for other conspiracy theorists to further speculate about Project Blue Beam. Some even suggested that he’d been assassinated by figures in power in order to cover up what he’d uncovered.
Project Blue Beam quickly found a second life thanks to the internet becoming more mainstream in the 2000s. One of the earliest propagators of Project Blue Beam was a now-defunct GeoCities page written by David Oppenheimer, which expanded on Monast’s original text. The theory was also covered in-depth on the website educate-yourself.org, owned and edited by a man named Ken Adachi, who is extremely outspoken against organized medicine, even when it comes to treating terminal diseases.
More recently, the theory has re-emerged on social media as the U.S. government becomes more forthcoming about UFOs and shooting down mystery objects spotted in the sky. This has led some to point to Monast’s claims that “flying saucers” and other UFOs are merely NASA’s test runs for their future “space show.” But while Project Blue Beam certainly still has believers today, there has never been any hard evidence that supports it.
It attempts to pull real-world events into an imagined scenario, layering just enough doubt and promoting just enough fear that those who are already inclined to believe in conspiracy theories — people with a strong desire to feel safe and to feel like their community is superior to others, according to a recent study — will likely subscribe to the Project Blue Beam theory.
Ultimately, Project Blue Beam is nothing more than what it seems at first glance: a wild conspiracy theory with no real evidence to support it.
Resources
rationalwiki.org, “”Project Blue Beam.” Rational Wiki editors; allthatsinteresting.com, “Inside Project Blue Beam And The Conspiracy Theorist Behind It.” By Kara Goldfarb;
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