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Fermi Paradox...WHERE are all the Aliens...

Having given up translating (or trying to) I have been looking at that veritable audio-vizual encyclopaedia of silliness, You Tube.

"The Fermi Paradox", "Why haven't we found Aliens Yet?" and "Where are the aliens?"  It goes on and on.  Looking online we see the same questions and there are lots and lots of them and the alternatives, as far as the answer to this question goes, are:

1)  There are no other advanced civilizations out there.

2)  We are not looking at the right area of space.

These are responses from people whose projects and salaries combined run into the billions of dollars and their jobs are secure up until they retire, if they want to. The real obvious answer they know but if they tell you then someone just might say "cut their funding.  Tell 'em to go get a real job!"

You see, if people ask the question:

"Why do we need to send probes to the Moon -it's our nearest neighbour and with all the great images taken by our telescopes (in space or on Earth) surely we could photograph foot-by-foot and constantly monitor it?"

Well, I have been asked that more than once and the answer is simply that these deep space devices cannot focus on the Lunar surface.  I will put it as simply as I can because it is a very good practical test you can carry out yourself.  If you wear spectacles to see things you may need a second pair to read or work on the computer which will be a foot (30 cms) or so from you.  All nice and clear and you'll see notice that if you turn away from the screen things in and around you are not as clear -they'll be out of focus.

Now, if you have a pair of spectacles that you wear out and about go out next time the Moon is clear. See how clear it is.  Then put on your reading glasses and look at the Moon -not so sharp or well defined.  Two different lens types -one to aid general vision (long or short sighted) and the other for up-close.  Better still, look at your TV or monitor as you normally would then look at it through a pair of binoculars!

The telescopes used are designed in a way that they are not suitable to use to view the Moon.  There are also all types of systems used -detecting X-rays, infra-red blah blah blah.  There are good, high powered telescopes that could be used to monitor the Moon and, weather permitting, the Moon could be observed around the world 24 hours a day.  But those telescopes cost a lot of money so most observers cannot afford them.  Astronomers and those involved in SETI -Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence- moved away from straight optics long ago.  Watching the Moon is also not "sexy" and does not attract a lot of funding.

Exobiologists are, to be honest, no such thing.  They are "speculative biologists" -everything is theory even if it is theory based on what we know about life -not just human- on Earth.  I spoke to a couple of these people once and they spoke as though everything they said about life beyond Earth was fact. No arguing.  Now I was speaking to them as a naturalist but I asked them if they had ever spoken to someone who had claimed to have seen a UFO land and "beings" get out? One almost burst every blood vessel he had.  The other chuckled "Those are just silly people talking about aliens".  Really, the irony of that obviously never struck him.

I think that it is quite clear that CE3K reports are fewer than is claimed.  Therefore, that rarity makes it far more likely that there were genuine encounters.  We are sending signals into space that will journey for thousands of years.  "Someone" picks it up and replies and it will take thousands more years to reach Earth (if we are still here or if They are still there).  There are astronomers who scream too loudly that they used to "believe in UFOs" but discount alien contact coming from such accounts and now put their faith in -hopefully- some day a tiny bit of data being returned and -Whoopee!

That is not scientific.  It shows fear of ridicule at best, fear of actually finding evidence and the fact that these people never conducted investigations.  What were the top-end scientific journals they looked at?  In most cases these people quote Fortean Times. A silly story publication that is not a scientific journal but this and a few dubious UFO mags is how they studied UFOs.  Science and scientists -real ones- are supposed to look at and investigate everything, sort through the data and work from there.  There are scientists who do this and are convinced "UFOs are real".

But these people are looking into deep space.  You might think that if these people were really doing anything other than create a comfortable job-for-life they would be looking closer to "home".  Space.com has an interesting article on the nearest stars to Earth https://www.space.com/18964-the-nearest-stars-to-earth-infographic.html

Take a look at this graphic:

That is 4.24 -16.20 light years from Earth so let's say we only looked at and signalled the nearest so Alpha Centauri is 4.24 +/- light years and Epsilon Eridani is 10.52 light years away.  Between them there are three observed planets and logically one might think these closer neighbours would be the ones to signal or check out more closely -there may/may not be advanced civilizations there capable of inter-stellar travel.

So one answer may be that we are not looking for aliens in the right place -as I pointed out in UFO Contact? our earliest radio signals have already gone out into deep space.  And astronomers should know this but ignore the fact because if they did consider this fact they might have to seriously consider "flying saucers"/UFOs and leave their comfort zone and go out and talk to people.  Perhaps they ought to study Ted Phillips' 4,000+ physical trace cases because there is a lot of evidence there and gathered scientifically.

It could just be that brief visits to Earth have convinced extraterrestrials to avoid the planet.  But astronomers might just as well wear big dunce-hats when they sit in front of TV cameras and pronounce the way they do over UFOs because they have never investigated the matter and, of course, they have to keep their comfortable jobs and free meal-tickets safe.

Now when SETI starts looking closer to home it will be a start but astronomers really must look at the evidence of possible visits having already taken place.  We are no longer in an age where people claiming to be "exobiologists" or seriously involved in "SETI" should be panic-stricken to look at UFOs -especially cases investigated and vetted.

So if you see these articles remember it all comes down to hot air blowing.  Serious UFO investigators and researchers are far more suited to be described as Field Exo-biologists!

We Are Sitting On A Wealth of Information...Am I Alone?

I spent until 02:00 hrs looking at the amount of material that really needs translating if the study of CE3K/AE reports was to have any meaning in the long run.  Some material from French publications made it to Flying Saucer Review but, as I have learnt over the decades, some vital information tended to be left out so we only had an incomplete picture of events.

I have in my collection of references German publications, Spanish, Belgian, Danish, Finnish and others (the nostalgia in looking through a copy of UFO Nyt or AFU Newsletter!).

In 1995 I wrote a long article titled: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Abductions in France" that was intended for Flying Saucer Review.  The article was a listing of known cases and was intended to form the basis of an English language catalogue and ran for 22 pages -all fully referenced. It seems that FSR was put off the idea by a certain ufologist (it would mean, after all, less room for their articles that crammed those pages).  I tried to MUFON Journal but unless I was willing to concentrate only on UFO abductions (the big thing at the time), which would have made the whole purpose of the article void..."no".

And so "Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Abductions in France" has been kept within my CE3K/AE French section of "Hooper's HumCat" ( ☺).  Looking at it now the article seems quite inadequate not to mention out-dated; I have since discovered so many hoaxes or misidentifications amongst the seeming genuine.  Of course, that would be expected in a catalogue that was a "work in progress" -in fact, identifying and re-classifying reports would be its prime function.

Those who have even heard of the November, 1979, UFO abduction of Franck Fontaine at Cergy Pontoise still believe that it was genuine.  The Gendarmerie literally had the case dropped on them and though they suspected "something has happened" they had no idea what.  In fact, as they proved, this was a hoax and based around the Travis Walton report (in those days still not widely known outside of the United States).  I no longer correct the 'experts' who continue to cite the case on their websites.

Much more fascinating was the 1976 alleged UFO abduction of French woman Helene Guiliana.  As far as I am aware this is, again, not widely known outside of France (I touched on it in UFO Contact? ).  The whole case seemed intriguing and, in the end, with English-French dictionary and later an online translator (where was it when I needed it all those years ago!) I translated  the Guiliana case from the A.E.S.V. Bulletin and the case was also reported on in Ouranos (l'Etrange Recontre d'Helene Guiliana).

Just looking at some of the French language publications -Group 5255, Hypotheses Extraterrestres (GEOS), Info CERPA, Lumieres dans la Nuit, Ovni Presence- you can see reports that are intriguing and far better investigated than UK reports were.  However, all of this material is lost to us unless we can get CE3K/RR3 and Alien Entity cases translated into English -English seemingly the most common language spoken/read in ufology means that whether you are Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish or whatever nationality you can access a report and if the original language report is included then that helps those from Spanish or French speaking countries.


However, I have to admit that I believe this sort of thing will never happen.  Firstly, you have to find someone will to translate reports from their country and, Secondly, check the literature / with organisations to see whether anything new needs to be added.  People today want to go online, read or copy and paste rather than do the real work.  This last week I spent several hours translating a Spanish report that has been so badly reported online by 'experts' it is almost unbelievable.

Then I found a French report that appears to have had no follow up that goes from 5 lines in LDLN to a chunky paragraph online -because so much has been added to it that is false. These two cases are now quoted over and over online and even in a couple of You Tube videos -spreading the inaccuracies.

The idea was, and still is to an extent, to form a basis for research so that a serious researcher in, say, Spain, could get in contact and ask: "I am thinking of including the ----- case in my work.  Can you tell me whether there are any known doubts over the case or does it seem genuine?"  I could then check and forward a scanned copy of a file along with any response.  The problem is that those interested appear to be more akin to collectors of any UFO item in print rather than working ufologists carrying out research.

I have tried repeatedly over the last five (!5!) years to get cooperation or find serious researchers on the whole CE3K/AE aspect.  Nothing.  Most have retired, died or just simply do not care.  And so I will trudge on and report on cases in printed format when I can but at times it almost seems as if you either have to jump onto the whole Grey Abduction Agenda or be quiet and yet, here we are sitting on masses of material than could be hands on exobiology.

Now, my head hurts, my eyes are blurry and from tomorrow there is work I have to finish but I hope the past week's postings have given you some food for thought.


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The UFO "Classics"

There is an argument amongst those involved in the whole Bigfoot/Sasquatch field (often a scream at each other field): the famous Patterson-Gimlin footage taken in 1967 has been argued over, point and counterpoint made and after over 50 years it has come down to name-calling.  You can only analyse one short piece of footage so many times -books, documentaries -several forests were felled to make the paper for all the "Patty" writings and there has to be one huge film library somewhere to store all the tapes.

The point is this: there are other cases. However, the "safety net" are the classics -even the dubious ones but, the public are schmucks and will believe what they are told by the experts, right?  Several "Bigfooters" have made the point that the subject has to move on and look at newer cases and new evidence.  Some, like Rictor Riolo, have pointed out that the TV shows and Bigfoot has become entertainment pure and simple.  He may get screamed art, called all sorts of names but there are prominent voices who agree with him -and they tend to either be solo researchers or part of a small team of  up to three trusted people.

I first started reading about flying saucers, ghosts and sea monsters when I was at school and I became a knowledgeable investigator of "weird stuff" after leaving school in 1974.  My late father once said loudly "Him and these UFOs. It's only a fad that'll pass soon".  I think my mother knew better. Some 40 odd years later the 'fad' continues!

TV shows, documentaries, magazine and newspaper articles and lords know how many books I've read over the years but there is one thing I have noticed -hard not to notice because it hits you like a clenched fist: "The Classics".  Yes, ghosts and the paranormal, unknown sea creatures, flying saucers are all alike in that the "Classics" from each field are repeated ad nausem.  Even the cases proved hoaxes are given new life following "I said it was a hoax to avoid attention....then admitted it was not a hoax and then said it was...now I'm here to tell you it was not a hoax"  -you have to ask the rhetorical question:how dumb can people be?

For UFOs it is the said list:

1947  Kenneth Arnold ushering in "The Modern Age of Flying Saucers"
1947  The Maury Island case -often listed as "The Maury Island Hoax" but what's a hoax, right?
1948  Captain Mantell  -no flying saucer was involved it was pilot error.
1971  The Delphos (Kansas) Ring trace case
1973   Coyne Helicopter case

Those are the main ones though there are a few others  but you are probably looking at 10 that are constantly regurgitated -UFO Hunters, the TV series promoted cases as real including the Maury Island hoax.  Probably the last "Classic" was the 1986 Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident.  Those are the UFO sightings cases (Ted Phillips has indicated that the young witness at Delphos may have experienced missing time -which has only been highlighted over the last few years?!).

When it comes to CE3K/AE cases we have the "usual suspects":

1952   Flatwoods, Virginia
1955   Kelly, Kentucky
1961   Betty and Barney Hill, White Mountains, Washington
1964   Cisco Grove, California
1973   Pascagoula, Mississippi
1975   Heber, Arizona
1976   Liberty, Kentucky


Valensole and Quarouble, Arc Sous Cicon, Cussac, France, Villa Santina, Italy, Sao Francisco de Sales, Brazil, Boianai, PNG, and many others are not noted because (1) they were outside the United States and, (2) todays ufologists do not study or read up on the subject other than modern abduction books by Hopkins, Jacobs and Streiber because "We all know its Greys/Tall Whites abducting millions and the US of A is the most important country" (again, another quote).

When you depend on TV shows to bring you up-to-date or for information for your talks it is no wonder I used to sit there and watch and keep mumbling "Wrong date. That's wrong.  That never happened" and so much more.  Re-inventing cases to bust that dollar total by re-inventing the truth so that now every case involved a giant lizard man on a floating platforms, Greys or "It was all a screen image put into their minds by the Greys" means that you are not credible. You are an entertainer and a very bad one at that (but notice how the suits and "styling" get far more expensive as the lectures and TV show appearances progress: great for the bank account but not real science or research).

Ufologists and debunkers still argue about Arnold, Mantell, Flatwoods, Kelly and other classics and both sides consistently lie.

If Bigfooters are being told "Give up on the Patty footage -it's been fifty years!" what should serious ufologists be saying about cases older than that -the Arnold sighting was 70 years ago and it was just that: a sighting from a distance of what might have been unknown/known objects.

I have found case after case from the past few decades that are never touched on.  Some are just 2-6 lines repeated ad nauseum alongside the hoaxes and others but these are not all conveniently gathered together in a source you can crib from or cut and paste from (I mean, a ufologist having to stressed out over re-typing something!).  True, a lot took place outside of the United States which relegates them to "not that significant" but, perhaps, it's time we showed the Slick Jims how it is done?  They are there for cheap entertainment after all not to muddy boots or work through research work early into the mornings.  No amount of Botox is going to hide the weary face or bags under the eyes when you are in front of TV cameras.  The old cry of "My research is everything!" was long ago replaced by "My left side is the most photogenic -film from that side!"

It's lucky I am not here to make friends!

Constantly going back to "Classics" is tantamount to declaring that the subject has hit a steel reinforced concrete wall -it has not.  As always, I welcome contact from any serious researchers / investigators and I am quite sure that there have been reports of CE3Ks out there where no "Grey" was seen.

Now, until some mysterious financial benefactor contacts me, I have work to do.

It Is NOT An Obsession: It Is The Need To Seek Out The Truth and much more!

I had a rather bad, sleepless night but nothing new there!  What was new is that I had a very long dream (which means that in reality it was only lasting 1 second!) that was both disturbing and depressing.

In this dream I was trying to track down more details on a "classic" CE3K case. I went to one ufologist who told me they got the account from another.  I went to that ufologist who told me that, in fact, he had not investigated the case but it had been mentioned by another ufologist in a book.  So I sought out the book, read the account and noted that, up to this point all of those I had spoken to were simply copying word-for-word (or adding the odd extra word because you do not want to be thought of as a plagiarist, do you?).

So, it took a few hours but I tracked down the original ufological source and explained that I was interested in seeing whether there was anything left out of the original account as I had noted a couple odd things in the report.  "Oh, I never investigated the case.  I heard it from ------ who was told about it by a guy used to come up with all sorts of stories -most of them untrue!"

It was a fake report. A very highly likely hoax used to fill a few lines with sensationalism and, rather than correcting the record so that serious researchers did not waste time, effort and money, this ufologist had allowed the account to become 'fact'.  Twice I have spoken to veteran and very well known American ufologists and the line: "Oh, I never investigated the case.  I heard it from ------ who was told about it by a guy used to come up with all sorts of stories -most of them untrue!" is a real one. In one case I pointed out to the "highly respected" ufologist that he is given as the original source and was told that he had lifted the item from a website. Oh, and he added: "If you do find the original source and there's more detail do let me know!"

That afternoon I found that I did have the original source for the CE3K -it was a 1930s book of 'real' ghost stories.  Did I tell the ufologist?  No. The book in question was neither hard to find nor expensive and I found several copies for sale at between £3-7.99 ($5-9 US).

In the last 25 years I have gone through this over and over again. I gave up with "Forteans" because, to be honest, they are just larking about and mostly lie through their teeth and when caught out scream: "It's in the tradition of Charles Fort!"  A hobby formed around a man whose intentions may have been good but could be wildly inaccurate in reporting or in reference sources.

Same can be said for "cryptozoology".  Look, you want to look for rare or scientifically unknown animals then become a naturalist or zoologist not use a hobby name.  Add "Fortean" to "Cryptozoology" and....

With ufology I have to say that I have tried to correct the record.  You Tube videos I used to comment on and explain the incident they just claimed was "the most mysterious and unexplained UFO incident ever!"  Well, they made a video so they do not want to know that case is a well established hoax.  UFO websites (including the ones that use my illustrations without permission on their pages) would be interested, right? No.

Serious (I swear that I am not laughing) ufologists would be because their research depends on full and accurate information and as my late colleague Franklyn Davin-Wilson once wrote: "one piece of bad data will spurt out lots of bad data".  But no and the reason is clear; ufology is nothing more than a money-spinning part of the entertainment industry.  The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in the US has been hit by so many scandals and what serious scientific work is it carrying out and what was its last scientifically presented (if to just ufologists)?  It is now a money-making business and firmly seen as part of the entertainment media.  The British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) has also been hit by scandals and the only difference between BUFORA and MUFON is that MUFON is slicker and makes more money.

A high number of cases -UFO or CE3K- since the mid-1970s in the UK are fake.  Deliberate hoaxes by ufologists and even admitted as being deliberate hoaxes -all with the serious intention of messing up British ufology (it was doing the messing up fairly well before  them).  Before you can accept any UK report -especially CE3K/AE it has to be checked, double checked and triple checked.

Others seriously interested in the subject have finally caught up with what I have been saying for years. People out there do not want the truth. Facts are just not "sexy" enough.  As far as most Americans are concerned we live in an almost Dr Who world: Sasquatch, goat-man, lizard-man, demons, dark entities, Black Eyed Kids -like Slender Man a registered trademark and fiction- bullet-proof mysterious animals, vampires and of course the aliens abducting millions each year in conjunction with the US Armed Forces...or being fought by the US armed forces...or...it goes on and on.  TV shows like The X-Files, Dark Skies, Supernatural, etc. are fiction.


Now I know all of this so why should one dream affect me so?

Probably because of age for one thing.  I started out in 1974 and since then I have found that very few people are really interested in getting to the bottom of mysteries such as UFOs.  The idea of a thorough investigation seems to be a novelty.  From 1947 right up to the present the favourite method of UFO investigation appears to be via newspaper clippings.

In some cases it has taken me 40+ years to get to the bottom of a report and find an explanation and I doubt that I have 40+ more years to waste.

What is needed is a money-man, let's not beat around the bush with niceties here.  There are, supposedly, or so I read and hear, any number of very rich men who have "a very deep interest in UFOs".  Subscribing to a journal or two is not that serious an interest!

We need someone, avoiding existing UFO groups who will soak up cash for....nothing.  Look at the whole Skinwalker Ranch fiasco; plenty of folk in for the free meals, hotels followed by the books, TV shows and tours that will make me a healthy living (better than actually getting a real job, right?) while producing zero evidence just "Well, we were not here but gosh darn it, wouldn't you know all the stuff was going on after we left (again) -caretaker told us all about it!"

There are decades of reports not investigated. Serious writers and researchers, in the past when such people existed, pointed out that the CE3K/AE reports are probably the most important aspect of UFOs because it is not just another lights-in-the-sky (LITS) report that could be a sighting of anything and tells us zero.

You have a landing of a seemingly constructed craft (UFOB) and entities are sighted or encountered then you have the (possible) controllers of the craft.  Now put that into perspective: soak up lots of money that gods know where it goes, and your UFO group presents you with a few LITS reports or you delve into the whole "Grey Abduction Agenda" that will yield zero in the end, unless you need material for your psychological work and twenty years down the line the "Big Event" still has not happened but we learn that the real power behind abductions are species 50 or 51 (and, hey -no one has been given a date for the "Big Event" so it could be decades off still!).

You talk to those people who reported landings and who encountered entities.  You look at the reports and try to find a pattern or commonality. If some reports a landing more recently then you get people out to the site and interview them and get as much trace evidence as you can from the landing site. And the trace evidence then needs to be tested by properly equipped labs to see what we can learn.  Not money to throw away but money to use for things other than providing free meals.

Where are the "UFO mad" Elon Musks?

If these are extraterrestrial visitors, and we have a lot of anecdotal evidence, then this is cutting edge exobiology.  Not broadcasting a radio signal at a point that will take thousands of years to get to "A" from Earth and just as long to receive a signal if "A" had a civilization when the signal reached them.  Not aiming telescopes into deep space to see if you can count "possible" planets (but cannot locate large bodies in our own solar system).  We are talking, literally, "boots on the ground" and if such a team can prove or even if it can "only" produce very strong evidence that UFOs are controlled craft from elsewhere that puts the financial backer in the history books...the investigators become the footnotes -names miss-spelt included.

I will carry on doing what I do because it is not an "obsession" but a scientific need to learn and find out what is going on.

Just In Case...

It may well be a shot in the dark but I have to try.  Should any credible sounding CE3K/AE cases arise in the UK then it would be nice to have some professional volunteers at hand such as persons with psychological training who could initially assess percipients/witnesses.  

Unless someone with a big enough bank account and an intense interest in the subject comes forward as a backer I'm afraid this will always be voluntary.  Just so you know!

Pascagoula and Budd Hopkins

The question came up in a conversation online.  Someone had heard that "Calvin Parker had several hypnosis sessions with Budd Hopkins" and I was asked whether I had heard about this?

The answer is that I was told by Budd that it was one session in a hotel room in 1993 or 1995 (I can't read my own scribble). However, all I can say is that the entities described in the initial encounter were mot the ones in charge based on what was learnt.  I had serious doubts about what came out under hypnosis as Budd said Parker was anxious and nervous -to which I might add that by that time he had probably heard or seen a lot about UFO abductions.  I think the session took place during(?) a UFO conference that Parker was persuaded to attend.

As far as I am aware, after his death, all of Budd's work was sent to David Jacobs.

Hypnosis used to recall an event twenty years later, after a percipient's mind has probably absorbed a lot of information (if even unwillingly heard) is of not much use.  We all guessed that Hickson and Parker probably underwent some form of medical examination -Hickson indicated this- but a session held in a hotel room could be tainted.

Initially, in every case, a psychologist/psychiatrist should be with the investigator and he/she can then assess the percipient for signs of trauma/stress and advise on how to best help them.  If there are physical symptoms since the encounter that need to be medically assessed then there should be access to a doctor.  Only after all of this is done and the percipient is deemed mentally and physically fit should there be any thought of attempting to retrieve any lost memory with hypnosis as the final option and not the first.

I understand that someone is helping Parker to finally write his own account of the Pascagoula encounter.  Obviously, that is going to be interesting but I have serious reservations.

RR3 OVNI (1967) Famille Monin

Ovni RR3 (1974) Famille Le Bihan

RR3 en France 2

To Set The Record Straight

I ought to make it clear that I am not saying that there may be genuine one off abductions by a type of entity that would fit the "Grey" description.  I just think that hypnosis and its use/misuse and the way Dr Jacobs has taken it has led to a Grey paranoia of life long, generational abduction agenda.

Logically and factually it makes no sense.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Rencontres Rapprochées du troisième type (RR3)

I have been looking at the CE3K/RR3 reports from France for a while now -some have featured in my books.  What I have been concentrating on recently are those reports from 1954 -seen as "The French 1954 UFO Wave" and what I have found is quite enlightening.

My first stop on the internet after going through my own file notes and English language summaries was Patrick Gross' Ufologie page. It was amazing to see just how many hoaxes, practical jokes and even misidentifications of people as "Martiens" or plain spacemen there were.  And they were known about at the time yet are still being used in CE3K catalogues or books and talks.  There are the anonymous letters that really cannot be counted as evidence because if you have no witness name and cannot talk to him/her then you have nothing -though some of these are so good Ufologists use them because...well, why not?

If the physical trace evidence gathered by the Gendarmerie/Air Gendarmerie could be explained away then I would agree with Gross that the Marius Dewilde case could be dismissed but as I pointed out in my book UFO Contact? I tried but "he faked it" just does not work.  I did go into detail over Dewilde's later claims and though they can be dismissed they should not effect the original report.

A great many of the CE3K/RR3 reports can be thrown out -some have only a couple of lines to them and could very well be Press inventions -don't be shocked; reporters were and are doing this the world over!

It seems that there are many -many- reports of "flying saucers" that can also be dismissed for similar reasons -in fact, at least 4 of the 1954/1955 cases could be misidentification of a helicopter and its crew.  In one case a 13 year old boy saw a landed object and spoke to its beret wearing occupant who had a Breton accent -not even his parents believed the boy.  Colleagues of a railway worker putting on a fur coat became a classic "small hairy humanoid" case.  Meteors, Venus and much more means that far from being a literal UFO invasion of France, 1954, was a year of great Press exaggeration and flying saucer hysteria.

However, this means that those cases in which witnesses were tracked down and gave investigators their accounts or the Gendarmerie investigated their report  now become far more important. Because they were the percipient/witness and we are not relying on what the Press told us.

In UFO Contact? and Unidentified - Identified I threw out much of the whole Grey Paranoia.  There is simply no evidence and the pro-abduction researchers response: "How can so many people from all walks of life who do not know each other all report the same procedures and scenarios?"  the answer is simple: since Budd Hopkins original 1980s book on abduction and then Whitley Streiber's book, there have been hundreds of movies, TV shows (fiction and 'reality'), magazine and newspaper as well as radio shows that have pounded the scenarios into peoples' heads.  After the internet arrived for all any credibility went.  There is abductee after abductee who says "I saw the image (of a 'Grey') on the cover of Streiber's book and it all started coming back!"  or they refer to Hopkins book with the Grey on the cover.

Dr Karla Turner's books should be read by all ufologists wanting to look into alien abduction syndrome. Into the Fringe and Taken: Inside The Alien Human Abduction Agenda are full of the type of accounts that will be encountered as well as, and this is very important, detailing how Turner came to believe that she was an abductee. Turner's sad death through illness is still seen by some as evidence that she was "murdered for speaking out" on the abduction situation.  The same way that John Mack's tragic death by being hit by a car or Hopkins' death from complications associated with cancer at the age of 80 all pointed to "silencers" at work.

In my book I detailed all of the Turner story as well as defining that in some cases not just hypnagogia was at work but something I have called "Ruth Syndrome" -quite rare?

We see none of this in early reports which are almost slap you in the face with how "untainted" there are.  People going about their normal daily lives and then -it happens.  Some are badly affected by what happened -physically and/or psychologically.  In the 1954 French cases we here of "paralysis" in some cases but that is it; just one more case to add to a collection.  When you look at the cases more deeply you find out just how these encounters affected the person involved.  But then, after they recover, they get back on with their lives.  No extraordinary claims -in fact most of those involved do not want to discuss what happened later on.  "It happened.  Get on with life".  Remember the later case of M. Masse at Valensole who, despite being literally hounded by ufologists, would say no more.

Masse is typical of many of these people: had they not been shocked enough to confide in someone and someone then told reporters or ufologists, we would never have heard of their cases. In some of the most famous cases we only know of them because someone breached a confidentiality.

So the French cases up to, say, 1980 are well worth looking at in more detail.

Likewise early Italian cases have surprised me for the same reasons.  In Belgium there are early cases that have not been thoroughly investigated; in Unidentified - Identified I looked at what is known of an early 'lost' Belgian case; what information there is has never been referred to in English language works (that I have seen).

In Spain there are cases that have been labelled "Press hoax" and yet no source for any such claim let alone evidence is given.  We are to take the word of "sceptical ufologists" who when asked for the evidence for this basically fall silent.  If a claim is false and a or several ufologists know this and can prove it then they have to make this known widely or they are not just being scientific about what they do but are adding to the false nature of ufology and lose credibility.

One CE3K I looked at I was told "The witness is a repeater".  For those that are too young to remember I will explain.  Up until the late 1980s if a person reported a UFO sighting -no problem. I often heard "experienced" ufologists tell witnesses "You were lucky.  It is very rare to see one of these things".  If that person saw a second UFO then alarm bells sounded; were they misidentifying something? They were now a "shaky" witness and their credibility was lessened. If that person reported a THIRD UFO sighting; they were a "UFO-nut!" Sightings 1 and 2 were more or less discounted.

My thought was that if the report did not sound like an aircraft or something "normal" what was it then -if it had been seen three times then we had to either prove the witness was incompetent for one reason or another or find out what was being misinterpreted.  No.  "UFO-nut".

Today, of course, even with one sighting the witness is asked about "missing time".  Three UFO sightings and "it is obvious that there is more going on here than just three UFOs being seen!" What the ufologist hints at -or shouts out- is that the witness must be an abductee because no one "just" sees three UFOs.

That leap into fantasy is what causes so many problems and creates lack of investigator credibility. Three or four or even five "UFO" sightings and if there is a pattern it should be clearly seen -same time? Same weather conditions -same location?  The investigator must first prove that what the witness sees is without mundane explanation. Even then that is a leap from uninvestigated natural phenomena (UNP) to a constructed possibly alien craft (UFOB).

In the Spanish case I looked at I was told "He's a Repeater" -indicating that the report was possibly from a UFO-nut.  Firstly, if a witness has a job where they drive around the country and generally at night then it is odd if they do not see something unusual at least once in their lives.  Meteor, aurora or even UNP; might time is when you are going to really notice something bright in the night sky and when you have less chance of having corroborative witnesses independent of you.  I have seen, up close, UNP on six occasions between 1977-1985.  If I go out tonight and some kind of UFOB lands in front of me and entities emerge am I now a "repeater" who reports aliens?  Of course not -there was absolutely nothing about the previous incidents that could be construed as "alien" as in extraterrestrial and I saw them because I was either out and looked up at the right time or looked out of my window at the right moment.

So the disparaging phrase "He/she is a Repeater" has no place in anything calling itself scientific investigation. It says more about the ufologist.

What of reports from other parts of Europe during 1954; did other countries see increased activity? Not that I can find. Oskar Linke and his daughter in Germany (15th March, 1952) seem to have had the best sighting but there is a problem for German reports for this period.  The Second World War had not ended long before and Germany was split into two occupied zones -East under the control of the Soviet Union and the West divided up by France, the United Kingdom, United States,etc..  Most German citizens would probably keep quiet in East Germany because they didn't want the KGB calling on them for talking about one of their new aircraft.  In the West, well, people tended to keep their heads down more as they were a 'free' occupied country; they might think the same as their countrymen in the East; keep quiet in case it's an Allied weapon being tested.  Even up until the late 1980s West Germans tended to look on authority with certain suspicion and tried not to court the attention of the police.

It is quite possible that a good number of sightings/encounters were never reported.  People could come forward after Unification but unless their is some form of secondary confirmation of an incident it has to be treated cautiously.

There are press stories from 2016-2018 that state the number of UFO encounters has dropped dramatically and they ask "why?"  I have read and heard these same stories since the 1970s and they were around in the 1960s, too.  Some ufologists will tell you that "UFOs may be preparing for a new phase in activity" -that is suitably vague enough to sound impressive. Others might point out that "the controlling entities behind the human abduction agenda may be preparing for something -we just have no idea, just hints, about what that might be".  Impressive but nonsensical.  Will we learn that the "Tall Whites" are, like every other entity type claimed to have been in control since the 1980s, now subservient to another type?

The truth appears to be that, away from the New Age and the Grey Abduction hysteria, there has never been prolonged periods of high UFO activity.  My work in 1980s appears to have been the only one that sifted through reports -not "cases" because a press clipping does not constitute a case, as in a report investigated.  Sorting the UNP from the hoaxes and fabrications (a lot from ufologists) as well as misidentifications (again, ufologists who "looked into the report" took an item about a meteor and in re-telling this became "a bright flying disc traversed the sky") and Insufficient reports it was clear that "Historical UFO Waves" and "Modern UFO Waves" did not exist.

There are reports that, based on what is written in the original account, cannot be categorised as False or UNP but have to be labelled as UFOB -if the original account is not false.

This means that if any "alien abductions" take place they are rare and are not one in "many" life-long abductions by aliens. I will admit right up front that as a major supporter of Hopkins and Jacobs I fell hook, line, sinker and copy of The Angling Times for the whole life long abductions phenomenon. But then I noticed things...things that did not make sense and when I looked at these details more closely one after another turned out to be false. If we sort out, and I have no idea how that can be done given the current mess ufology is in, all of the Turner-types then we have to look at how many are suffering from psychological delusions or ongoing mental health issues.  How many suffer sleep paralysis and or hypnagogic breaks?

There is a problem in that "hypnagogia" tends to be offered up as an "explain it all away" solution -even by people in ufology who have no idea what hypnagogia is.  My older brother suffered from this when younger -but never claimed alien abduction just having a conversation with a starfish on the stairway landing and other day time incidents. Oddly, I stopped and controlled hypnagogia by the time I was 14.  Also, I do suffer sleep paralysis which is terrifying until you know what it is; so long as I am waking when it occurs I control and break the paralysis.  I know what I am talking about -and there is long experience with others so I am not using convenient explanations.

When I went through the UK CE3K reports I noted that a lot could be explained as sleep paralysis or hypnagogia.  There were two sides of this for me: the first was that I had wasted a lot of time on these cases but the Second side of it was that I learnt from these cases so it had not been a complete waste of time.  It meant that there were patterns I could pick up on -any serious researcher should pick up on these.

In UFO Contact? I explained in full the Ruth Syndrome.  This, I believe is quite rare but the problem is that cases are studied by psychologists and so people in ufology or even in paranormal investigation never hear about these.  There is patient confidentiality but you need to know what technical papers to look for. There are a couple of such cases that I believe exist within UK cases.

With UK reports from approximately 1975 on there is the question of reliability as we have now known for several years that well known British ufologists have been faking, or as they call it "planting", CE3K reports: unless I have spoken to a witness/percipient or know someone I can trust who has, I exclude those reports as anything but a note in chronology.

Yes, I am sceptical but unlike "sceptical ufologists" who are debunkers (and nothing more) I approach each case/report with an open mind and assess just what evidence is available.  Now we have no such thing as 100% proof of extraterrestrial visitation -today many ufologists confronted by this simply respond "Well, they could be inter-dimensional" because that, in their minds, explains lack of physical evidence.  I have even heard one ufologist being interviewed state: "They could be inter-dimensional but I call them 'ETs' ".

What I have to go on is what the debunkers write and state and what the ufologists counter with but then look at angles neither side has bothered looking at. The biggest factor in all of this, in the end,
is the percipients/witnesses. I was shocked to find that some of the most famous cases in ufology we would not have heard of had it not been for an acquaintance of those involved or the initial investigator breaching confidentiality -in the latter case to get newspaper funding.  I have catalogued this in UFO Contact? but ufology has nothing to be proud of in many cases -the percipients/witnesses are "just" a means to an end and are often left to fend for themselves when debunkers attack.

When those involved in the incidents do not want publicity, do not want to talk about what happened but are, literally, stalked and pestered by ufologists until they do (it was not unknown for a newspaper to be tipped off who may have seen what to get the witness to talk to a ufologist and fend off reporters) and are then named and their stories splashed over sensationalist newspapers my sympathies are with them.  Yes, it is a double-edged sword in a way: it is vital that we find out details of these reports and study them, however, the way those involved are treated is shameful.  Some are suffering from what was clearly Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (before PTSD was an accepted term I often referred in old talks and articles to percipients behaving as though "Shell-shocked") and even physiological problems but this was never dealt with: the story was the important thing not the person involved.

Depending on what the encounter involved (for Mona Stafford, last survivor of a trio abducted in 1975 and Calvin Parker, the only survivor of the 1973 Pascagoula encounter, they have suffered the mental trauma and name calling for over 40 years) the percipient/witness can find that they get on with life but that the incident is always on their minds.  Others put on a brave face and take the attitude of "It happened. Now get on with the rest of your life" - and do not discuss the matter openly but only they know how they are truly affected.

If there were witnesses to a UFO in the area at the time or there was a radar-vizual incident then that adds credibility. A "UFO" is not an "extraterrestrial space craft" but 95% of people who see something either think or are told it is.  Even if it is a space launch gone wrong or space debris burning up on re-entry. However, even today, some ufologists -specialising in CE3K- will literally back-pedal when interviewed by the media "Well, we don't know what they are nut a lot of us think they might be inter-dimensional rather than extraterrestrial" -pure and simple cowardice. If you investigate a case in which a witness reporters a disc-shaped object -a "flying saucer"- landing and strange entities that only look remotely human and, if there is communication between entity(ies) and witness(es) and it is disclosed that "We come from outer space" and those witnesses are found to be sane, honest, every day people then you have to go by what they say.

People reported odd aircraft and a few years later we saw the stealth bomber and stealth fighters and those witness reports were confirmed as fact. The SR71 was a 'UFO' until it became public knowledge. This is how it works with Earthly technology.

In almost 70 years which country has produced its revolutionary flying saucer spy-craft? Which country has revolutionized air travel with its breakthrough rapid vertical take off and "shot across the sky in seconds" technology?

Oh. No, it hasn't happened, has it. Look at the flying triangles that emerged in the mid-1990s -that is the slow if not deliberate unveiling of new technology.

So if these flying saucers have not been revealed as now very old technology -where did they come from?  Well, if the folk flying the things talk to witnesses and tell them they originate on another planet then what do we think?  Inter-dimensional?

M. Masse at Valensole, when shown a photo of a model of the object Lonnie Zamora saw at Socorro, New Mexico he was over-joyed: someone else had seen and photographed 'his' object.  But he was non-plussed to hear this was seen in the United States not in France or in his area.  Another thing that came from the Masse encounter (exactly what happened we will never know because he refused flat out to tell anyone else -including his wife) was that when he was told of the Betty and Barney Hill case  -more attempting to contaminate a report by ufologists- Masse did not believe them.  He said that they (the entities) would not force you on board if you did not want to go (what did go on that morning?!) and this is interesting.  In France and elsewhere, there are a number of UFO landing reports in which the percipient was approached by entities whom he/she could not understand, however, it seemed that they were being invited to board the craft (?) and when the offer was refused the entities boarded said craft and took off.

No abduction.

Sadly, in the United States, if you were "black" and reported a CE3K you were more likely to be ignored or ridiculed -by ufologists.  This I covered in UFO Contact?  but looked at in a little more detail in Unidentified -Identified.  Let's be honest here: this was not just the case in the United States because I experienced how prejudiced ufologists were towards "black" witnesses myself in the 1970s -1980s and I was actively discouraged from looking into these sightings -that worked out about as well as stopping me looking into Repeater sightings!

I am so glad this was only meant to be a brief post!

When it comes down to it CE3K/RR3 reports are far rarer than we ever thought because many of us accepted what the big name ufologists told us -and they were telling us things that were only 2-4 lines in a newspaper, proven to be hoaxes or misidentifications.  The CE3k/RR3 reports are possibly the most important aspect of the UFO situation -others have said this over the years.  We need to concentrate on old reports from 1947-1984 (ie; before the whole Grey mess sprang up) and start with the oldest because those witnesses will in many cases not be with us much longer.  We build from the oldest reports up until the newest and, above all we need to get those reports translated into English and French, fully referenced and with as much information as possible.

Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Sweden -where ever; serious investigators/researchers need to communicate with each other rather than on sceptical forums or groups.  There are so many CE3K or "Humanoid" catalogues out there that simply catalogue and decide based on their compilers' own prejudices what is or is not genuine.  Personal opinion does not matter -that is for research papers, books or articles.  If reports are fully investigated and copies distributed then that is all that matters and individuals can use their own cataloguing systems (and there are a lot).

All I can do is put that appeal out there.  If you are a serious investigator/researcher then I can be contacted at the following emails or message me at the Face Book page for the Anomalous Observational Phenomena group

aopbureau@yahoo.co.uk

or blacktowercg@hotmail.com

Thank you.

files

Just been sorting things out. 15 files on CE3K/Alien Entity cases that will need up-dating or burning (and I am not joking). I'm sure a file is missing...??

 

A UFO Lands on a US Highway.

Multiple Witnesses. A CE 3K Takes Place...case ignored

"CE3K" refers to Close Encounters of the Third Kind -where an alien-entity is seen in conjunction with a UFO.

I find it truly amazing how "major UFO investigation" organisations talk-the-talk for the TV cameras or the UFO fans at conventions and fill an hour up with their "Best UFO footage" (chinese lanterns, balloons, aircraft and even stars -all out of focus) but when it comes down to the wire...well,they do not even reach the proverbial wire.

In chapter 28 of UFO Contact? I give all the details regarding a major multi-witness UFO incident.  In fact, one UFO hovered over a US highway while another landed.  Oh, and an entity was seen to temporarily emerge. Remember: multiple witnesses and we have some of those names.

Here is the thing, the incident took place in 1973.  Pascagoula involved two men with no other known witnesses at the time -Ufologists flocked there in droves.  Well, I could cite case after case that was swamped with investigators but only involved 2-3 percipients.

We only know what happened in this case because one of the witnesses, who sounded genuinely scared, contacted a local radio station and the DJ there took notes and recorded the interview. No less than Ted Bloecher, seen at the time as the CE3K expert in the US, urged that the case be investigated as soon as possible as it could be very significant.

The two local investigators said "okay".  Poked around the Pascagoula case until they realised the "Big Boys" were involved.  They tried to get into a case involving a well known entertainer and his UFO sighting -backed away when the "Big Boys" got involved. In fact, they talked-the-talk but could not do one step of "the walk".

In fact, the two investigators are prominent by their complete lack of any action at all.  There is a rumour that it was one or both of them who started rumours to the effect that the 'witness' (only one and they knew better) was "iffy".

The entity described is, and I have searched the thousands of reports in my files, unique.  That in itself could be very significant.

So, with all the details kindly provided by the Centre for UFO Studies (CUFOS), I tried to contact investigators in the Mississippi area. Responses: "Probably a hoax". "Well, could be wasting our time -likely a hoax" and "Seems to be a hoax".  Based on...reading a short summary (I am assuming here that they didread the summary). Now, let's see, if it turned out to be a hoax then the hoaxers never followed up and no word has ever surfaced of a hoax claim. If it is genuine then we have a unique, multiple witness event that, despite urging from Ted Bloecher and others, was never investigated -not even a report form sent to the witnesses.

Why would a case of this potential be ignored -everyone was on top of any UFO landing or alien-entity claim at that time.

There is something very unsettling I have noticed about reports from this period and it only takes a close look at the literature back then as well as how cases were promoted or put on a back-burner. The multiple witnesses were all black and came from a poor black area.  Other "black" witnesses of the time seem to be almost dismissed and I asked (with no prompting, just a request to read through the chapter of the book and tell me what they thought) three people who have been involved in Ufology for decades for, as I wrote a general opinion on the incident.

The first Ufologist was British and he said he was "uneasy" about the investigators and what their behaviour implied. Next, someone now living in New York who used to live in Mississippi: "Reading this, that guy never had straight enough hair!"  In other words, he/they were black.  "You have to remember those were different times.  Two white guys driving into a poor black area would probably be scared.  There were a lot of bad things going on in Mississippi back then. Different now". The other contact lives in California and agreed with the one in New York: "There were so many good reports we lost back then. Real danger was mostly in the mind".

If there was concern a meeting could have been held at the radio station or somewhere else. It does make you wonder what the "good reports" were that were lost through investigators not wanting to visit black areas.

But there is still a chance that some of the witnesses are alive. There are + and - to opening up a cold case investigation.  However, the witnesses could have made notes or drawings at the time and it is far better to at least try to rectify past mistakes than ignore a case like this with a dismissive "too long ago" -did Ufologists not attack and criticise the United States Air Force over exactly that same excuse?

So I contacted MUFON. "Dismissive" does not cover the response. It is a long shot but I am going to have to start searching for the witnesses and seeing what I can find out.  Far easier for American investigators of course but American ufology will have to live with the past shame and current unwillingness to do the right thing.

1950 and two dead aliens -both in Germany?

 Published in the German magazine Neue Illustrierte just after the success of the Wiesbaden photo in April, 1950 under  the title "Der Mars-Mensch" -The Martian Man.

1st April, 1950  Wiesbaden, Germany

Wilhelm Sprunkel, journalist of the Wiesbaden daily newspaper "Wiesbadener Tagblatt", in Germany, set up an April's Fools prank for the 1st April, 1950, issue. He had read a flying saucer story in some other newspaper and decided the matter was ideal for such a prank. what he did then was contact the liaison officer of the Wiesbaden US Army base and explained that he needed to take a photo of two soldiers for a flying saucer prank he was planning. At the time German civilians dressing up in a US uniform might have caused a few problems.

Obviously the liaison officer was a bit worried and asked his superior if this was okay and he was told it was! In fact the approval came from the US Army headquarters in Heidelberg.

Photographer Hans Scheffler took photos of his son Peter, aged 5, walking between two soldiers. He then produced a collage and over-painting of an alien over his son's image. The weird alien apparently had only one foot resting on some sort of small disc, a big head with some sort of "Y-shaped nose and two large eyes. "It" was also equipped with what was meant to be a breathing apparatus.

Schefflerworked hard and also made a photograph of a flying saucer wreck and a photograph of the saucer flying above Wiesbaden.

The hoax story was published in the newspaper on 1st April, 1950. The story told of a huge flying disc that flew over Wiesbaden and crashed in a nearby wood in Bleidenstadter Kopf. Readers were told thatvthey should remain confident about the matter, since the crew-member was in a secure place, at the Neroberg hospital in the city,and the military had "reinforced radar surveillance", 

The alien, who would float on a rotary disc, was walked around near the hospital everyday between 2 and 3 p.m. so that he could get acclimatised to our gravity and the breathing apparatus was also furnished by the military.

The hoax apparently had some local success and was believed by another newspaper who repeated the account! . A female journalist wanted to buy the photographic rights for publication in another newspaper and Sprunkel took over 20 minutes to convince her that it was just a prank.

The matter was then completely forgotten until 1977 when an FOIA request for FBI UFO documents showed that some anonymous person had sent the photograph of the "alien" to the FBI and claimed the space visitor had been photographed in New Mexico. Cue author William Moore hearing about it  and he put it in his Roswell book.

When German ufologist Klaus Webner saw the poor photocopy of the picture in Moore's book in 1981, he explained that he knew about this prank as he had found the newspaper article in their archive and gotten the explanation first hand from Sprunkel and Scheffler.

BUT no. The UFO believers were not having that but, it is true and I wrote at least two articles on this in the 1980s -with the help of CENAPs Werner Walter.

Strange Ohio Humanoids: What Should We Accept As Evidence?

   Regarding mysterious Ohio creatures there was this report in 2014:

Alien Encounter in Cincinnati, Ohio, 12^th December, 2014

“We recently bought a place in the fort hill area. we first noticed after about 30 days of living here that we suddenly have a perfect circle that stays fresh green, no matter what weather, in our front yard. friday night (the 12th) we were driving home and after turning on carmel rd which leads to our road (washburn) we went around the curve by the carmel church and then up a small incline and approx. 10 feet over the incline and in front of our truck, the alien ran across the rd and into the woods. my husband saw it. he is a skeptic, almost 60 years old and a proud marine. he wouldn't have admitted to seeing it if he hadn't been in shock. i had him draw it for me when we got to the house. he says it was asphalt gray (our asphalt is gray) and about 7 foot tall, no arms that he could see, but muscular in the legs area. no jawline and it's legs were bent backward and it leaned forward as it ran.”

   The legs looked very odd –almost as though they belonged to a quadruped. However, as I do not live in Ohio I have no idea of the full variety of wildlife there but then I accidentally found the Doubtful News website and it featured this very brief incident.

https://doubtfulnews.com/2015/01/ohio-alien-creature-sighting-may-have-logical-explanation/

   In her piece, Idoubtit, expressed the opinion that what was seen was nothing more than a white Tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on its hind legs or, as others suggested, great blue heron (Ardea herodias): there are other suggestions and based on the fact that there is so little information on this sighting I tend to go for a natural explanation.

   Now there are three other incidents and they are reported on at Phantoms and Monsters, not the most evidence based website as I have found several times. Lon Strickler wrote:

  

“I recently received a 3rd report of a humanoid sighting in the Mount Vernon, Ohio area. The eyewitness' daughter contacted me:

“Hi, I am reaching out not as a hoax but to let you know that I received a phone call from my mom in Mount Vernon, Ohio recently telling me that she saw a figure of what appeared to be an alien come in one side of her basement and go out the other end of the basement. She describes this thing as being tall with long arms, and she didn’t see his face as she watched him from a side view but she did say that his head looked just like the one in this picture I’ve attached (from my last report and above). I wish to have her identity anonymous please if she is not contacted. I thought you might be interested to know that there has been another sighting in this area. My mom said that she wasn’t scared nor did she feel any danger by this presence and that it just came in and left. Thank you....

“NOTE: I am attempting to gather more information from this sighting. Lon”

   Unfortunately, for researchers this report is immediately thrown out.  We have an anonymous report which is okay if the writer clearly identifies herself to the investigator but this is not even her sighting.  It is her mother’s.  The problem is that unless an independent investigator can view and confirm the existence of the witness and that an email was sent reporting the incident and that the actual witness has confirmed details –the report is of no use.

   Does the witness use any medication or have any existing physical health problems –mental/physical?   What was her frame of mind at the time of the sighting –what kind of day had she had; any stress?

   Really, unless an investigator can talk to the witness of an event it cannot be taken as even hearsay: far too much hoaxing and fabrication takes place on the internet.

   The following is the first Ohio report:

Mount Vernon, Ohio:

“As I was driving home on 31 July 2018 at 01:43 on Ohio state route 13 north of Mount Vernon, OH a 7-8ft tall, skinny, humanoid like creature ran across the road out of a corn field across into a soybean field (from a east to west direction). I noticed the creature in my headlights from 50-75ft away as I was traveling at a rate of 55-60mph. As it came out of the cornfield I immediately let off the accelerator. At first thinking it was a deer but then seen the creature walked upright. It was 7-8ft in height, tall slender body, arms and legs small in diameter, hands and feet looked over-sized for its body proportion, small neck with oval elongated head, being dark tan to light brown skin tone and had no body hair. The creature slightly turned its head towards my vehicles headlights and I seen the creatures black eyes and small mouth just open slightly as it continued to run across the road. It barely took 2-3 steps and it was across the road at a tremendous rate of speed. I was in total shock and thought I should check it out at first but then thought for a second and being uncertain of what I may have just seen I had better get out of the area. I lost sight of the entity due to darkness. I am a 24 year USAF retired aircrew veteran with a top secret security clearance. Not to be totally bliss but would someone please advise me on what I seen because it still and truly and frightened me”. - MUFON

   The news item can be found here: https://mountvernonnews.com/article/2018/08/10/alien-sighting-north-of-mount-vernon/

   I am sorry to say that just because it carries a “MUFON” (Mutual UFO Network) tag most people will accept this outright.  What we have, though, is the old problem: a single witness driving along a dark road in the early hours. Again, you could go for a deer crossing the road but there are other options such as a waking dream and this could be a viable explanation but unless MUFON provide online access to the investigator’s report we have no idea how the interview was carried out.

   There are reasons why I tend to be more sceptical about quick sightings under these conditions but in the end it is down to what you want to believe.

   Strickler then goes on to refer to a second sighting in the Mount Vernon, Ohio area:

“Mount Vernon, Ohio - 2018-08-17: I had just gotten back to the parking lot down from Mount Vernon’s Wolf Run Park and when I turned on my lights to leave I saw it in the woods. I felt like I was being followed my entire hike and I got a little lost on the way since I was feeling super sketched out so when I saw it I was panicking and super scared. It looked startled as my lights came on and made this strange gargling scratching sound and I felt super sick to my stomach. I don’t really know what it was. Like I thought it was just someone in the woods but it’s eyes looked weird and it looked smooth and naked. It seemed to vibrate in front of my eyes as I looked at it and I ripped my phone out of my pocket and tried to take pictures but my phone seemed to lag. I have a iPhone 6 plus and I know my battery is having issues but I’ve never had anything like that. I slammed my car in reverse and got out of there as fast as I could. The noise it made still freaks me out like it was like a Velociraptor from a movie but it made me light-headed and made me feel sick in a strange way I’ve never felt”. - MUFON

   There are a lot of warning signs here: the witness felt he had been followed throughout his hike and even describes himself as “feeling super sketched out” and also: “The noise it made still freaks me out like it was like a Velociraptor from a movie but it made me light-headed and made me feel sick in a strange way I’ve never felt”.   The psychological frame of mind of the witness would need to be ascertained as there really are a lot of red lights here.

   How often did the person go hiking?  Had they been under home or work pressure at the time and had they had any other experiences before?

   The problem is that ufologists will accept these reports based on the website version or news item.  This is really –really- bad practice. We need as much information as possible about the witnesses and their lives at the time of their sightings –so long as it can be confirmed that the witnesses do exist they need not be named: it is important that genuine witnesses need their anonymity protected but research hers need to know that they are not being fed a story because that could result in months or even many years wasted –and of course bad data is used.

   Also, there are a few fake videos out there of very similar entities which makes me suspicious.  See...

   For these reports we quite honestly have nothing.

   You may think we do but that is down to personal opinion and beliefs.

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The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none.

Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs

Some of the contents:

 The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988                                     

 The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval   

 Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter                                                         

 UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome                               

 The UFO That Landed On A US Highway                                                     

 My Encounters With The Men In Black                                                         

 A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type                                               

       

 Early 20^th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind                       

 Close Encounter with a Boggart                                                                      

 Some Odd and Unusual Cases                                                                         

 Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities                                                                  

 The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians 

 What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?                             

 The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case                                                        

  

 Strange Aliens from Outer Space?                                                              

   

 Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO                                 

           

 Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue