AboveTopSecret.com or ATS is the website that started it all. Started in 1998 by site owner Simon Gray, it began as a collection of conspiracy-related pages. A small discussion forum was added, and over the years grew to encompass all the subsections listed below. Here you'll find conspiracy discussion on every topic you can imagine, from UFOs to Political Scandals to Paranormal phenomenon. On the main forum page, you will find a listing of all forums and a description of the topics within. Please read the forum descriptions carefully and be sure your topic is going in the right forum. Run by the tireless efforts of Administrator SkepticOverlord and pushed by the business savvy Springer, the entire community has grown in leaps and bounds.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
That's because there is no connection.
Where did you hear that there was?
Back in February I learned of a new "game" which threatens to further blur the lines between fact and fiction within the ufo community and its relevant parapolitical/conspiracy sub- communities. It's called Majestic and it is being billed as "The game that plays you." This new online interactive experience uses the player's own mind as the gaming environment with the world wide web and telecommunications networks as its intravenous feed straight into that player's paranoia prone imagination. The international software developer, Electronic Arts, is banking on the popularity of paranoia as a sort of mental thrill ride. Depending upon what level of interactivity a player desires, players can be contacted by the game via web sites, email, online instant messaging, phone, fax, and even cellular phone messaging systems. With "reality" television shows like Mtv's Fear and the Fox Family Channel's World's Most Haunted Places already pushing the envelope of ethical entertainment, the inherant dangers of such a paranoid "game" are quite apparent.
Among the many ethical ambiguities implied by the very premise of the game is its use of real and fake web sites to promote real and hoax news stories. The game designers have gone so far as to create front companies for several of these web sites. They are actively urging fans of the game to create web sites to act as fronts for the game.
The disinformation is already spreading... I'm already receiving emails from experiencers and researchers who are forwarding links to web pages which turn out to be among the growing list of hoax sites. One experiencer sent me a link to an online image of a supposed reptoid alien. The link was to one of the top two Majestic related fan sites, www.abovetopsecret.com.
One of the likely hoax sites is . If you do a whois lookup on this site you get the name of a company called Octopus Interactive - these web developers really know their conspiracy theory... Anyone familiar with the majority of conspiracy theory from the 1980s and 1990s should recognize the Octopus conspiracy as one of the (allegedly) farthest reaching and most convoluted. Most important is the Octopus theory's linking of continuing news reports about software known variously as the Inslaw and Promis programs that were designed with "back doors" for in-the-know agencies.
But perhaps one of the most direct potential dangers to this game's contamination of the UFO scene can be found within one of our communities most prolific contributors: Filers Files. Since June of last year, each issue of Filers Files has contained the important message "Sponsored by Electronic Arts" within its header. To date, Mr. Filer has not responded to my repeated sincere requests for more information on the nature of this sponsorship.
Meanwhile, high quality parapolitical sites such as [/url=www.disinfo.com][/url] have officially announced their open participation in this new gaming experience.
Of course, many will see this game as a part of the conspiracy itself; ie- the Majestic game is simply a pretext for the very type of data gathering / backdoor access to your privacy engendered in the original claims of Octopus conspiracy researchers and NSA Echelon devotees.
Originally posted by UM_Gazz
It is being discussed here and now "openly" and you have responses from the site owners.
Exactly what are the allegations being made here this time?
POLITICAL ACTIVIST SITES: These can range from radicals of the 60s, to 90s, from PGA to the Weather Underground. Each may have a different style and tone, based on personal experience, political outlook, or just a desire to change the political structure in some way. They can link to other organizations, political news, or even music sites. We do not encourage political propaganda of any type in such sites, but we do want to open people's minds to new perspectives. Many existing sites are beginning to join us, creating unique means of entry or in other ways customizing their site so players of Majestic will recognize it. We hope to find more sites that encourage newsletters, journals, and personal information about how to conduct Internet political activism.
ENVIRONMENTAL SITES: These are another version of the political sites, with different agendas ranging from animal rights and vanishing species to eco-protection or eco-activism. We know that we share a common cause with many such groups, but also encourage fictional sites that spell out the consequences of current policies, if they are pursued to their ultimate end.
PRESS SITES: This is another political animal, perhaps coming from the freelance reporter, muckraker, investigative journalist, or professional news monitoring angles. These might also have lots of links to real news, to lend additional credibility and relevance. And, if you don't like the news out there, you should make up some of your own. We would like to also see if the underground can make its presence felt in traditional news outlets. We have already surfaced in the February 5th issue of Newsweek.
RESEARCH GROUPS: We will want to have some 'hardcore' R&D and similar groups who know a lot about secret goings on, and can add a scientific halo to the proceedings. These will be a little more difficult to create, but we encourage sites about propulsion technologies, encoding, artificial life and how it might respond to alien contact, remote viewing experiments, and new methods of researching and proving the validity of documents.
HUMAN RIGHT SITES: We are also interested in privacy issues (especially as they relate to the Internet), control of government agencies through citizen action, and violation of human rights by mind control experiments. We hope that some sites are able to provide this kind of information and create a forum for others with stories about such abuses. We also encourage sites that use new viral email and petition techniques to share them with others, so we may learn how to increase our Internet outreach.
NEW AGE SITES: Everything you can imagine here is fair game. Discussion of ancient archeology and its connection to space travel is one such approach, but we should have ESP webcam recordings, group remote viewing experiments, self healing, and mental hacking as well. Sites like this should also find ways to make them relevant to our community through message boards, polls, chat, and user submitted content.
UFO AND ALIEN SITES: Since we are working with the Majestic Alliance, we of course are interested in materials that explore this topic. It would be nice to encourage people to provide personal experiences, highlight hidden UFO connections with news events, and contain unique elements, such as UFO photographs. We are particularly interested in exploring what has been happening involving the Shadow Government and UFO research since 1947.
®Larry - the cable guy 
