‘84 Olympics Alien
The 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles had countless memories. Mary Lou Retton became the first American woman to win the all-around gold medal in Olympic gymnastics. A 21-year-old youngster by the name of Michael Jordan led the USA basketball team to a gold medal. And an alien from outer space visited the Rose Bowl and spoke to the crowd.
Wait…what?!?
Yes. This actually happened.
The video of this event is one of the strangest things you’ll ever see.
Let’s break it down.
The Ceremony
The space alien’s UFO arrived at the Rose Bowl towards the end of the Olympic closing ceremony. (Hands-down one of the strangest sentences you’ll ever read).
Before beginning, I should mention there was a full moon that night in Los Angeles. I only mention this because the commentators seem to think that the full moon is a very significant thing, as they mention it multiple times and cut to it repeatedly during the broadcast.
The spectacle began when the lights went off in the Rose Bowl towards the end of the closing ceremony. Total darkness. The audience was instructed to grab flashlights that had been left for them under their seats and shine them toward the sky.
The theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey began playing over the loudspeakers and a flying saucer appeared high above the stadium.
It slowly hovered down closer to the stadium, flashing lights that changed color and brightness every few seconds.
“This spaceship weighs two tons and is powered by jet fuel,” the broadcast commentator remarked. Yeah…sure, dude.
The UFO came to a stop around 1,000 feet above the stadium and the 2001 theme ended.
In the stadium, a group of trumpets started playing and lights flashed at random intervals. When they finished, the flying saucer would make a synthesizer-type sound and flash lights in response. This exchange went on for a minute or so, eventually crescendoing into a symphony-like performance. Very similar to the scene at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The broadcast again cut to the full moon. “That’s the real moon,” the TV commentator stressed.
The spaceship supposedly landed somewhere near the stadium, but it’s too dark to see it. A bunch of flashing lights and smoke machines began to go off, making the Rose Bowl look seriously creepy.
Like, demonic-level creepy.
Once again, the broadcast cut to the full moon.
Then an alien appeared on top of the scoreboard, high above the stadium. He was almost 8 feet tall and had 6 extremely long fingers on each hand.
And the alien spoke:
“I have come a long way because I like what I’ve seen. I’ve seen a family of man united by belief in the limitless possibilities of human achievement. For almost 100 years, you have celebrated the best that humanity has to offer. You call it the Olympic Games, and for that, and for the cities that have kept the Olympic ideal alive, I salute you!”
Some fireworks went off. The broadcast cut to the full moon…again. In case you missed it, there was a full moon that night.
And…that’s it. It’s over. We smoothly transition to a performance by Lionel Richie.
HIGH STRANGENESS
Where does one even begin to analyze this event?
Well, for starters, I hate to break anyone’s bubble, but it’s highly doubtful that the spaceship or the alien were real.
Hollywood producer David Wolper is the man credited with producing the ’84 ceremonies. In a 2009 article for The LA Times, he described in detail how they put together the finale featuring the UFO.
Former Disney amusement ride designer Bob Gurr is credited with creating the UFO, and he described the process in a 2004 article.
The story they tell is that the UFO was made in a factory in California, then suspended over the Rose Bowl by a cable attached to a military helicopter, which was difficult to see against the night sky. Their stories seem detailed enough to make this a believable explanation.
Of course, you can take their words with a grain of salt, if you want to. People lie all the time. Especially Hollywood producers. And Disney is one of the shadiest companies in the world, so you’d be perfectly justified in being skeptical of what anyone associated with Disney says.
So…you can believe them or not. There have been people over the years who’ve claimed the UFO was flying under its own power. But the explanations given by Wolper and Gurr are detailed enough to support the idea of the UFO being built in a factory, then carried by a helicopter as if hovered over the Rose Bowl.
Oh, and about that alien. In a recent interview, basketball player (and tallest man in the USA) George Bell said that he was the person in the alien costume.
While the ’84 ceremony most likely wasn’t a case of alien contact, there has been much speculation over the years about a deeper meaning to the ceremony.
There has long been talk that the ceremony was some sort of esoteric Black Magik ritual. There is of course the full moon that’s constantly referenced on the broadcast, which is widely regarded as an optimal condition for rituals.
It’s been said that Black Magik devotees believe they can add power to their occult rituals by foreshadowing future events — a projection ritual is supposedly the term they give to a ritual intended to bring forth a future outcome. This is why so many movies and television shows have depicted events that end up happening years later. Some have claimed the ’84 closing events were some sort of strange projection ritual intended to foreshadow or bring forth alien contact.
This may sound bizarre to many. But a there’s a lot of people out there who believe in the power of Black Magik rituals and the esoteric, even if you don’t.
For what it’s worth, the UFO landing was preceded by a poetry reading of the Greek poet Pindar. According to some insiders, Pindar is the name of the reptilian controlled head of the Illuminati. So that’s nice.
For those scoring at home, the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies have long featured events that could be described as ritual-like and just plain strange.
There was the stadium full of sick children in hospital beds, as if predicting a mass casualty event. This wholesome spectacle took place during the 2012 London Games.
This was presided over by a giant Voldemort death figure in a creepy black cape…and let’s be honest here, nothing gets you in the Olympic spirit of unity and togetherness like a 50-foot-tall death figure looming over a bunch of sick children.
And who can forget the 1992 Barcelona ceremony, which basically featured 30 consecutive minutes of one bizarre thing after another.
More recently, the opening ceremony to the 2022 Commonwealth Games was a blatant spectacle of occult worship. Vigilant Citizen has done a fantastic job of breaking down the symbolism of this ceremony and others in a recent article.
So what do you think? Was the ’84 ceremony simply a creative, albeit strange, way to close out the Olympics? Or was there something more to it? A way to gauge how people would react to a UFO appearance, or some sort of ritual that only those involved in the dark arts would understand?