Matthew Ehret is a Canadian journalist and researcher who argues that the UFO disclosure movement is a multi-generational psychological operation orchestrated by elite dynastic networks—particularly the Rockefellers—to replace traditional Abrahamic religions with a syncretic “one-world alien religion.” He traces how figures like Lawrence Rockefeller funded both MK Ultra-adjacent psychedelic programs and UFO disclosure advocacy simultaneously, and how the same intelligence operatives involved in the JFK assassination later surfaced as key players in UFO disclosure. Ehret’s core thesis is that the entire UFO narrative—Roswell, Majestic 12, alien contact—is a controlled mythos designed to redirect humanity’s sense of causation and moral agency away from identifiable human power structures and toward incomprehensible extraterrestrial forces, thereby disempowering people from organizing against real conspiracies.
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Ehret’s background and intellectual formation
- Originally trained in graphic design and illustration, Ehret’s worldview shifted around 2003–2004 when he began investigating 9/11 and concluded it was an intentional societal reset rather than a lone-wolf terrorist attack.
- He spent about a decade (roughly 2006–2016) working with the LaRouche organization, which he credits less for its political activism and more for instilling a rigorous method of dialectical thinking rooted in reading original philosophical texts—especially Plato and Kepler.
- The LaRouche curriculum emphasized identifying unexamined core axioms, hunting for paradoxes where hypotheses conflict with empirical data, and understanding how one’s own mind works during the process of discovery.
- Ehret contrasts ancient Greek philosophy—which treated epistemology, metaphysics, and natural science as an integrated whole—with modern academic philosophy, which he sees as fragmented, corporate-funded, and epistemologically lazy.
- He draws heavily on Kepler’s Harmonies of the World (1619), which demonstrated that planetary orbits follow musical-geometric ratios, as evidence that the universe is ordered by discoverable harmonic principles rather than being a closed entropic system winding down toward heat death.
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The thermodynamic worldview and its political implications
- Ehret traces modern Malthusian and ecological thinking to the 19th-century extrapolation of closed-system thermodynamics (heat engines, entropy) onto the entire universe—a leap he considers sloppy and unscientific.
- This worldview assumes all systems tend toward equilibrium and death, which then gets used to justify population control, resource scarcity management, and the idea that humans are a “cancer” on the earth.
- He argues this framework was politically useful to the British Empire: Thomas Malthus wrote his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) while teaching at Haileybury College, the training school for British East India Company administrators, and his geometric-vs-arithmetic growth model was used to justify controlled famines in India.
- Charles Darwin explicitly credited Malthus as the inspiration for natural selection, embedding a Hobbesian “might makes right” assumption into biology—that competition in a world of diminishing returns is the fundamental law of nature.
- Ehret calls these “Trojan horse assumptions” in Darwinism: random mutation, no directionality, gradualism, and the reduction of wholes to the sum of parts—all of which foreclose the possibility of creative leaps or purposeful design.
- By contrast, anti-Darwinian scientists like Carl Ernst von Baer and James Dwight Dana looked at harmonics, centralization of nervous systems, and nonlinear creative leaps as better explanations for speciation.
- Ehret traces modern Malthusian and ecological thinking to the 19th-century extrapolation of closed-system thermodynamics (heat engines, entropy) onto the entire universe—a leap he considers sloppy and unscientific.
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Cosmic radiation, climate, and the closed-system fallacy
- Ehret references the work of Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark (The Cloud Mystery documentary) showing that cosmic ray flux—regulated by the sun’s magnetic field, the Van Allen belts, and galactic dynamics—is a primary driver of cloud formation and global climate, not human CO2.
- He emphasizes that Earth’s climate has fluctuated dramatically over hundreds of millions of years, that we are currently in a relatively cold period, and that the medieval warm period exceeded current temperatures—all of which undermine the narrative that human activity is the dominant climate variable.
- The broader point: treating Earth as a closed system ignores the constant influx of external forces (solar, cosmic, galactic) that shape our environment.
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The Rockefellers’ control grid
- Lawrence Rockefeller, the “philosopher” of the brothers, was the primary driver of the psychocultural dimension of the family’s influence:
- Funded Esalen Institute, the human potential movement, Terrence McKenna, and psychedelic research parallel to MK Ultra.
- Funded the American-Soviet friendship programs that brought KGB-adjacent Soviet technocrats into contact with American counterparts, with Gorbachev as a patron of Esalen inside Russia.
- Was known as “Mr. Ecology” for pushing national parks and conservation policy under JFK—which Ehret interprets through a Malthusian lens as restricting human development options to keep people inside a shrinking cage.
- In the 1990s, he convened figures like Steven Greer, Linda Moulton Howe, and Robert Bigelow at his Wyoming ranch to shape the next phase of UFO disclosure after the Soviet Union’s collapse removed the Cold War organizing principle.
- Nelson Rockefeller served as Vice President; David Rockefeller ran the Trilateral Commission; Michael Rockefeller died under mysterious circumstances in 1961 in New Guinea, reportedly killed and ritually consumed by Asmat headhunters.
- Ehret sees the family as servants of a deeper dynastic system tied to ancient chivalric orders (Order of the Golden Fleece, Order of Malta, Knights Templar) that predate any nation-state.
- Lawrence Rockefeller, the “philosopher” of the brothers, was the primary driver of the psychocultural dimension of the family’s influence:
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The UFO psy-op as multi-generational magic trick
- Ehret’s central hypothesis: UFO disclosure is a long-term psychological operation designed to:
- Replace the moral and philosophical content of Abrahamic faiths (the dignity of humans made in the image of a good creator, the call to fight injustice) with a new mythology where aliens are the real gods and demons.
- Redirect causal explanations for evil—political injustice, war, suffering—toward incomprehensible extraterrestrial forces rather than identifiable human institutions.
- Disempower people from doing what JFK, MLK, or Bobby Kennedy did: organizing to correct identifiable wrongs.
- Key evidence he cites:
- The CIA funded and shaped the National Enquirer (founded by Gen. Roscoe Poe Jr. from the CIA’s Office of Policy Coordination) to blur reality and fiction, mixing real investigative reporting with UFO stories, Bigfoot, and fabricated lore.
- The Majestic 12 documents are provably forged: Truman’s signatures are impossibly identical copy-paste reproductions, and the typewriter used didn’t exist until the 1960s.
- The same CIA operatives fired by JFK—Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell, Charles Cabell—later surfaced in UFO disclosure advocacy. Dulles was advised by Carl Jung, who wrote Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky as a guide for social engineers managing new myths.
- James Clapper (who oversaw the NSA surveillance state and the Snowden affair) and John Podesta (tied to the Pizza Gate emails and the Clinton-Rockefeller UFO initiative) are now leading congressional UFO disclosure pushes.
- Guy Banister, an FBI agent tied to Lee Harvey Oswald and anti-Castro operations, was also involved in the 1947 Maury Island UFO incident—linking the JFK assassination apparatus to early UFO mythology.
- The narrative being seeded: JFK was killed because he wanted to reveal Area 51 and Eisenhower’s secret treaty with aliens—a story Ehret considers disinformation designed to make the assassination seem like a tragic necessity rather than a coup.
- Ehret’s central hypothesis: UFO disclosure is a long-term psychological operation designed to:
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Epstein, Atlantis, and the occult elite
- Jeffrey Epstein modeled his island temple on the movie The Magus (set in Greece), requiring people to address him as “Megas”—a title with deep occult resonance.
- Ghislaine Maxwell was obsessed with finding Atlantis, renamed herself “Janet Atlantis” while on the run, owned a submarine called the Atlantis, and sought Castro’s permission to dive for ruins off Cuba. She reportedly had a relationship with Jacques Cousteau’s granddaughter.
- Jacques Cousteau advocated reducing world population to 200 million—a Malthusian position consistent with the broader depopulation agenda.
- Ehret sees the Epstein files release as another layer of Kabuki theater: the public demands transparency, the government releases just enough horrifying material to induce cynicism and despair, and nothing structurally changes. The release itself serves the operation by acclimating the public to ever-darker revelations while the actual power structures remain untouched.
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The one-world alien religion and its theosophical roots
- Ehret traces the intellectual foundations of the UFO religion to Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, which taught:
- Root race theory: the fifth root race would emerge in California, superseding earlier Atlantean races.
- A fusion of Darwinian “survival of the fittest” with esoteric cosmology.
- The idea that ascended masters and hidden hierarchies guide human evolution.
- Silicon Valley’s transhumanism, he argues, is essentially Theosophy incubated through the Valleýe brothers and other early 20th-century figures who founded the tech hub as a spiritual project.
- Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was head of Canadian Technocracy Inc. (1936–1941), which called for a surveillance-controlled technate with universal basic income for “useless eaters” replaced by automation—then moved the family to apartheid South Africa when that political project failed.
- The endgame: a global religious reset centered on extraterrestrial gods, with different flavors adapted to each existing faith tradition, all serving to dissolve the moral agency that Abrahamic faiths instill.
- Ehret traces the intellectual foundations of the UFO religion to Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, which taught:
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Epistemology as the real battleground
- Ehret insists the most important fight is not over specific facts but over method—how people think, not what they think.
- The operation promotes lazy reason: closed-system thinking, false dialectics (Darwinism vs. young-earth creationism, both wrong for different reasons), and the erosion of people’s confidence in their own judgment.
- He cites Tavistock Institute research on inducing schizophrenia through contradictory messaging—rewarding and punishing the same behavior without explanation—as a model for how mass media and institutional gaslighting break down people’s capacity for discernment.
- His own method is Platonic: read original sources, trace the sausage factory of how ideas are constructed, identify core axioms, and test whether a hypothesis increases human creative agency or diminishes it.
- He is skeptical of anecdotal UFO evidence (the Varginha Brazil case, Uri Geller, the Telepathy Tapes) not because he rules out anomalous phenomena but because anecdotal testimony is the preferred tool of tricksters. His working assumption is that things are explainable without recourse to ETs or the supernatural—while remaining open to being proven wrong.
- Ehret insists the most important fight is not over specific facts but over method—how people think, not what they think.
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Presidential assassinations and the shadow tradition
- Ehret has documented a pattern of American presidents being killed when they threatened the same deep structural interests:
- Zachary Taylor (1850): imprisoned a Golden Circle operative planning to invade Cuba; died of suspected poisoning (vomited black sludge; official cause was cherries and cold milk).
- Lincoln (1865): killed by John Wilkes Booth, a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle—a secret society founded in 1852 to expand slavery into Latin America with Cuba as its center. Booth spent five weeks in Montreal at a Confederate intelligence hub before the assassination.
- Garfield (1881): assassin Charles Guiteau appears to have been shaped by the Oneida cult, a communal group with characteristics of mind control.
- McKinley (1901): killed shortly after which Teddy Roosevelt embraced the Roosevelt Corollary and big-stick imperialism, and the Albert Pike statue was erected in DC.
- Harding (1923): battling the League of Nations; died under suspicious circumstances.
- FDR (1945): six months into fourth term; Stalin privately believed Churchill’s circle killed him to control post-war order.
- JFK (1963): threatened to break the CIA into a thousand pieces; the same apparatus that killed him later surfaced in UFO disclosure.
- Bobby Kennedy (1968): would have been president; collaborating closely with MLK at the time of his assassination.
- Thomas Walsh, FDR’s would-be attorney general who promised to fire J. Edgar Hoover, died of a heart attack two days before his inauguration.
- The common thread: these leaders were drawing from the same constitutionalist, anti-oligarchic tradition, and the same transgenerational institutions kept eliminating them.
- Ehret has documented a pattern of American presidents being killed when they threatened the same deep structural interests:
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Upcoming work
- Ehret and his wife Cynthia Chung are releasing Black Sun Rising: Esoteric Nazism, Past and Present—a film and accompanying 200-page report tracing the Theosophical roots of Nazi UFO cults and the ongoing rehabilitation of fascist ideology.
- His work can be found at matthewehret.substack.com and canadianpatriot.org.
- Educational content focused on beauty and cultural renewal is at risingtidefoundation.net.