Brief
Cargo cult
The claims the writer was given for Cargo cult, in the order they were given.
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Anthropologists discovered that Polynesian islanders built wooden effigies of American military aircraft and conducted rituals to encourage the planes to return with cargo, a phenomenon known as a cargo cult.
“Anthropologists later discovered that in the pilots' absence, these people built wooden effigies of those aircraft, and conducted rituals designed to coax the planes to return again with their bounty of cargo... This is referred to as a cargo cult.”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs 2024-08-19 ch13:4596-4916 hearsay second hand
2
Tom DeLonge sent his Lockheed Martin Skunk Works contact a piece of content written by his adviser about cargo cults, describing a remote tribe that watched aircraft land and unload cargo, food and resources.
“then he sent this individual a piece of content that the vendor had written, and it was all around cargo cults... they could see these planes landing and dropping off all this cargo and stuff, food, resources.”
The UFO Cover-Up Leads to One Secret Society — and One Final Event 2026-07-14 00:36:55.7-00:37:07.0 testimony first hand
3
The cargo cult phenomenon described in the material Tom DeLonge sent to his Lockheed Martin Skunk Works contact occurred in French Polynesia.
“Jesse Michels: In French Polynesia. Jason Samosa: French Polynesia, there you go.”
The UFO Cover-Up Leads to One Secret Society — and One Final Event 2026-07-14 00:37:09.8-00:37:12.3 testimony first hand
4
A documented cargo cult built a tower out of trees and added lights, replicating what its members had observed, in the hope of making the thing land again.
“if we can replicate what we're seeing, so we make the tower out of trees and, you know, put these lights here, maybe we'll also get the thing to land. And that happened, that's documented”
The UFO Cover-Up Leads to One Secret Society — and One Final Event 2026-07-14 00:37:27.5-00:37:37.0 testimony first hand