June 20, 2012 2:47 am
Greg Newkirk
Greg is the contributing editor for
Who Forted?, as well as the head movie making dude at
Fight or Flight Productions. When he's not occupied by writing about the wide world of the weird, he's busy directing and editing films like
The Bigfoot Hunter: Still Searching or perusing used bookstores for antique occult manuscripts. He's currently in pre-production on his latest feature length documentary
Planet Weird which you should totally check out (and get cool stuff for helping). He currently lives in Toronto.
interesting. So the article is by Newkirk himself.
Now this is interesting... when you read the book Greenfield wrote that Newkirk references as having found when trying to look up Terry R. Wriste:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/3255122/SECRET-CIPHER-OF-THE-UFONAUTS
Greenfield doesn't present it as fiction. His writings... are... weird, they tie UFOs into ancient cultic ciphers and metaphysical stuff. But he does have something odd to say:
Allen H. Greenfield: Terry, when we first met I certainly knew that "Terry R. Wriste" was a nom de guerre, because you were then writing rather inflammatory stuff about guerilla warfare and revolution, and what-not.
Um, what? that's an odd thing to just drop in at the beginning. What sort of publication was this?
But I digress. The significance is that it implies that this person HAS written stuff on his own. Thus it's not absurd to think that if it's a real person using a pseudonym(or nom-de-guerre, which literally translates as "name of war"), that they'd continue using it.
I personally think it's more likely that Newkirk read Greenfield's book and decided to add this in to spice up the story. If you take the Wriste connection literally, then Wriste was implying that the Greys were pestering Christie because he lived too close to one of their bases. But it doesn't match with what Wriste said in Greenfield's book. In short Wriste described Greys as interstellar conquerors who use mind control to subjugate populations. The general tone of the messages sent to Newkirk by Wriste are different. The weird codes in the second one are the sort of thing he'd do. But they're more taunting than anything useful. Also Terrry R. Wriste was violently confrontational with Greys. Why would he tell someone who isn't to go look at one of their bases? One of the interviews in Greenfield's book described narrowly avoiding getting killed or captured by Greys when he tried poking around one of their bases. In that case he didn't even get close enough to even see the actual base. Why would he try to talk a videographer into doing something that had a high likelihood of death or capture by hostile aliens??
I know it seems like an odd aspect to study, but.... Newkirk keeps talking about the guy. If we assume Newkirk didn't make it up, then Wriste was trying to bait Newkirk into investigating Grey bases when he recommended that Christie contact him. This is indirectly mentioned in what Christie said about having found a cave/mine that the Greys were coming from.
Honestly after pondering the original book, I think Terry Wriste is fully a fictional character. He's this weirdly multi-competent character in the first book, I mean he supposedly takes a ROCK and retrieves a map of alien bases stored as analog optical data in it's crystalline lattice. If you cross reference with what he tells Newkirk, this map he pulled out of the rock is how he knew there was a base at the specific location. This is allegedly something he learned to do from one of his good alien friends; a refugee from Procyon(which has already been taken over by the Greys).
But yeah, this is really weird stuff. It just feels like the sensible thing is to conclude this incident is fiction written by Newkirk.