The first stage of the civil war began only months before Nazi Germany’s occupation of Greece ended in October 1944. The German occupation had been resisted by two principal Greek guerrilla forces, the communist-controlled EAM-ELAS (Ethnikón Apeleftherotikón Métopon-Ethnikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Strátos; “National Liberation Front-National Popular Liberation Army”) and the EDES (Ellínikos Dímokratikos Ethnikós Strátos; “Greek Democratic National Army”), which occasionally cooperated in action. Pope helped secure the release of all documents held by the British government related to UFO sightings and investigations dating back to when Winston Churchill first created the “UFO desk.” The files are now available to the public at The National Archives outside of London. In 1837, he showcased a prototypical telegraph that he’d built at a public demonstration. How can ufologists share their findings with the public? Ufologists can share their findings through writing books or articles, speaking at conferences, participating in documentaries or engaging with online communities and social media platforms dedicated to UFO studies and unexplained phenomena. There is no standardized path to becoming a ufologist, given its classification as a pseudoscience, but enthusiasts often engage through self-education, writing or lecturing.

There were no specific rules for creating hobo code symbols, but common elements like circles and arrows were used for directional symbols, while hash marks or crossed lines generally depicted danger. The pictographic code included directional symbols, danger warnings and tips on finding food and shelter. Religious talk will get you food. If in the future needed we will use this law firm. The new uniform will be made available in a phased manner to the nearly 1.2 million personnel of the Indian Army. Think of the hobo code symbols as abstract faces in a crowd of more than two million out-of-work laborers who rode the rails to survive a seriously harsh blip in American history. Pope is a little skeptical of these training and certification programs, because he knows that most participants are true UFO believers who could let their biases get in the way of a clear-eyed investigation. While there may be little evidence to prove that the hobo code was actually widely used, we know for certain that hoboes left their marks. Yet there remains little concrete anthropological evidence that the code was actually widely used.

In 95 percent of cases, there was a simple earthly explanation for what the witnesses had seen — maybe aircraft lights or weather balloons. Another approach is to get out there and do some Fox Mulder-ing of your own as a trained UFO investigator. You must be 18 or older and pass a certification examination based on the field investigator manual. The story goes that hoboes typically tagged tree trunks or scrawled impermanent coded messages in chalk, charcoal or grease pencil in boxcars, under bridges, on water tower bases, walls, fences, sewer trestles and other surfaces in or near railroad yards where other hoboes were likely to pass by. For instance, encrypted messaging applications like Signal offer end-to-end encryption, which means that the only people who can read the messages are the sender and the recipient; not even the app providers themselves can access the information,” says Aggarwal. “In addition, making use of a virtual private network, often known as a VPN, can assist in preventing third parties from tracking your location data as well as the online activities that you participate in.

At the end of the day, data can be tracked. Law enforcement agencies also possess voice recognition technology that can assist in matching a voice to its source. If a third party has recordings of your phone calls and texts, then it’s possible that they could identify you using contextual information or simply by the sound of your voice. Make each of them fast, using the tools provided by each vendor. But both have seen the law get perverted to allow more and more federal privacy invasion of both individuals and companies, using very broad antiterrorism laws and secret courts that seem to rubber-stamp all requests. The lore of the hobo code seems to have originated with Leon Ray Livingston, better known as A-No. Preferring to remain as invisible as possible, hoboes used monikers, like A-No. More than 25 years later, Pope is one of the world’s leading UFO experts and a fixture at UFO conferences like Contact in the Desert and the International UFO Congress, where he lectures on government-sponsored UFO investigations, conspiracy theories and the disclosure of classified government documents.