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Close Encounters: Volume Two: The Abduction cases of Charles Hickson & Calvin Parker, Scott & Wendy Longley, Linda Cortile, Betty Andreasson, and Kelly Cahill

 

When I screw up and make a dumb-ass purchase I really go for it. I saw this book Close Encounters: Volume Two: The Abduction cases of Charles Hickson & Calvin Parker, Scott & Wendy Longley, Linda Cortile, Betty Andreasson, and Kelly Cahill and it is awful. The linda Cortyile case which is now known to be a hoax is treated as genuine. The other cases are just cobbled together notes and it looks as though blog posts have just been strung into 50 pages. There are no photographs, maps or illustrations and these are important as they give readers something to help visualise and event. I read through this in under half an hour.

Not value for money, certainly not giving you facts and altogether even the cover is uninspiring.

We Have NOT Progressed After More Than 70 Years

 I think that when Ufologists claim that "many thousands" of CE3K/abductions are on record they are correct. That would be proof.

However, when you consider that "many thousands" of those cases were not investigated then that is proof of nothing.

There are claims made based on statistics and "data" that have been accepted by Ufologists.  This is false data.  Looking at the reports (you cannot call them cases as they were not investigated) used there are well known hoaxes, cases that involved people with psychological problems, there are reports of airships, aircraft, helicopters, meteors, aurora. For the 1954 French "UFO wave" the CE3Ks include a man who was repairing a motor vehicle, another involving a local hermit -it goes on and on. 

Above: Entity described in the Dewilde case

These reports are still used today and the number of reports rattled off by the UFO media whores -"Many thousands"/ "Up to twenty thousand estimated reports"- is to impress. I have seen these flim-flam men on recorded interviews and even at conventions citing "cases" where they have facts wrong. Good example; Captain Thomas Mantell was not shot down by a UFO but died due to what we would call "pilot error" these days; he was committed to a chase and flew higher without oxygen. However, it is a "classic" flying saucer story and despite all of the material released the media darlings claim there was a "U.S. Air Force cover up" -that should be USAAF as it was the Army Air Force at the time and there was no cover-up. Bless him but Donald E. Keyhoe had an agenda. 

Do not get me wrong; I first got drawn into UFOs via Brinsley Le Poer Trench's Flying Saucer Story but what got me hooked were the books of Keyhoe. He put his own spin on a story and even Captain Edward J. Ruppelt in his Report on Unidentified Flying Objects noted that while Keyhoe generally had his facts straight, his interpretation of those facts was another question entirely. He thought Keyhoe often sensationalized the material and accused Keyhoe of "mind reading" what he and other officers were thinking. Ruppelt was also the USAF Blue Book man who came up with the term "Unidentified Flying Object" (though some Ufologists tried to credit it to Keyhoe or others.  With Keyhoe I found the facts interesting but always preferred to draw my own conclusions; in a way, Keyhoe was popularising the subject and trying to get the more serious minded people -particularly the military and scientific- and have it taken seriously. Swings and roundabouts really.

What Keyhoe did, probably unintentionally, was take criticising the USAF to get it to be more open but Ufologists took it to the point of downright attacking it. All the flying saucer enthusiasts simply did not understand what Keyhoe was doing and so assumed that he was leading an attack against the flying saucer cover up initiated by the Pentagon. It became a "must do" to attack the Air Force and U. S. government over cover-ups and how would most bodies act under such circumstances? They closed the doors.

An example here is the United Kingdom. Military cases were noted but often not commented on too much. Having known some of the pioneers of Ufology in the UK I learnt one thing; the Air Ministry was always polite and friendly and chap-to-chap would admit that they were flummoxed over the flying saucer reports -there were those who suspected the Soviets and there were those who wondered whether the source of these "craft" were from "elsewhere"? But then the British, wanting to jump on the sensationalist band wagon and stir up publicity for their subject began to declare "government cover ups" which, if you read your UFO history -magazines, books and journals from the time- you realise was false. As an extra note here I never had any obstruction from the Ministry of Defence and they got completed reports from me and blah blah blah. When I spoke to Nick Pope while he was at the MoD he had never seen a single one of my reports (because he was a desk clerk) and I found that he knew nothing about things I had chatted to the MoD over -I realised that he was "not in the chain".

In fact the MoD (Air) has helped me a couple of times on non UFO cases and dug up data that I would never have gotten otherwise!  Now that is a 'cover up' I appreciate! Arthur Constance (look up your UFO history) had meetings at the Air Ministry and presented reports to them. I could list others but these were all private individuals who understood that people at the Air Ministry or MoD were doing a job and when reports popped up that involved test aircraft (in my time on three occasions) they were dropped and not mentioned.

But during the decades reporting became worse. Meteorites, actual weather balloons, aircraft and even natural phenomena -including ball lightning- were all included as "UFOs" and that is "UFO" in the extra-terrestrial sense.  Individuals and groups often dumped cases that did not fit into what they found acceptable and when you mix up everything (including the hoaxes) you have a huge pile of nonsense and it is no wonder so many people fell into the "paranormal UFO" trap or decided that it was all "crap" and became anti-UFO. The biggest problem here is that these people did not go back and study the actual sources. People were reporting as fact reports that filled a one inch news column and THAT was a UFO report. This means that all the proposed theories based on dates, times and locations are invalid. The "Mars Cycle", ortotheny -it all falls to pieces.

The 1954 French 'wave' probably was not a big UFO event. As noted, someone repairing a bus by the side of a road and a known (locally) hermit at another location, an officially noted meteor sighting and even helicopters were all included in the "UFO wave" lore and this mainly because Dr Jacques Vallee included them in his data base and noted them in his books and articles while actually not personally checking the reports and this to the point that even now his work contains 'reports' from someone known as a hoaxer back in the early 1960s and if you have not checked and corrected your data after 50 years that makes you a very poor researcher.

However, and this is the important part: there are CE3K/AE cases from that period that look quite sound. Sound in the sense that they survive scrutiny but none actually furnishing actual proof of, say, extra-terrestrial visitation.  We can say that almost 70 years later no such devices as described by witnesses have emerged as terrestrial test or secret aircraft -so where are they from?  

Now this is important. It means that there are not "many thousands" of CE3K/AE reports but maybe a few hundred -which without thorough investigation may be an exaggeration- actual incidents.  But this means that cases from the past do become far more important because if they are genuine then this may give us a better insight into what is going on or, at least, the type of entities behind the UFOBs -seemingly solid and constructed objects.

This is why I want to stress the importance of actually  tracking down the witnesses/ percipients to these incidents -if we can talk to those from 1954, when the activity really seemed to begin in earnest, then that is important. All of those reports are scraps of paper unless you can say that the person(s) involved were spoken to and they seemed genuine even after these decades.  The Madame LeBoeuf report is a couple of paragraphs in the literature but I found far more material and facts that makes it seem (as far as we can determine) genuine yet the first French Ufologist did not even go to talk to her until decades later and then criticised the press for bad reporting 😵 

Above: Take your pick -which one was it? There are five other pages to choose from!

There are other reports dismissed as hoaxes based on poor reporting and English language sources quote sources that are written by debunkers (they have no idea because "it's all in foreign" so the first English quote is their 'fact'). Marius Dewilde I assumed was a hoax until I actually looked into what went on. I checked the facts. In my books I have gone back to sources and even used cases never before published in the English language and some of these are incredible -including multiple witnesses.

This is where I have certain criteria. We know, in fact psychology has known for many decades, that people can slip into "altered states" and there are those who are prone to what I termed "Ruth Syndrome" and in the latter case these are fully investigated to rule out hoaxes or other psychological problems. It is a game changer not just for UFOs but also the paranormal and Bigfoot fields. Because of this, and I have investigated these cases myself, I tend to give solo UFDO/abduction percipients a low rating. There has to be something significant to make me really consider such a case.

Above: A rather imaginative painting of the "Kelly Goblin"

I tend to look at reports where there are two or more percipients because even Ruth Syndrome cannot make someone else see what that person is experiencing. If you have a case of 'abduction' or a CE3K or simply an alien entity sighting (no UFO) you have the possibility of a hoax so there are questions that need answers. If you have three women travelling along a road when a large, bright object swoops down over them then you note that but when you find that someone reported a car travelling along a road with a bright light over it (this observer is some distance away) then you have to note the report. When the witnesses all note missing time and suffer various physiological symptoms -some perhaps radiation linked then there is no question that it is "of interest" and if those same witnesses suffer obvious symptoms of post traumatic stress....

Many cases of abduction were only discovered because of people breaching confidences -the Hills being one example but there are many. In many of these cases there was no softly softly approach by Ufologists to earn trust and find out what happened while helping those involved. Again and again we read that Ufologists told these already stressed people that it was a case of "Talk to us or we go to the papers" -and even then the Ufologists went to the papers!

Louise Smith, left, Elaine Thomas and Mona Stafford of Liberty

All of the above are found in the Stanford, Kentucky case of 6th January, 1976 involving Mona Stafford, Louise Smith and Elaine Thomas.  Leonard H. Stringfield (before he moved into the crash -retrieval genre) tainted the investigation and the only person who came out of this as trying to help the women was Dr R. Leo Sprinkle who maintained a strict code of ethics in all the cases he was involved with. 

Percipients in alleged UFO incidents were treated disgustingly. They were pushed and prodded for their "story" and then dumped with no follow ups and little interest in how they coped. The Ufologists had their story and something for a book "revealing all the facts" and telling everyone how they, as the great truth seekers , found out about the case and then followed the usual BS. The Lorenzens were very keen on using the "truth drug" or as it is known scopolamene -with all of its inherent risks. 

Warren Smith adding "padding" to his write up on the Herb Schirmer abduction case and things became so confused that Schirmer was labelled a hoaxer (no one bothered to question what this made the "respected" Smith).

At one point I used to look at the reports coming in and some highly dubious ones were accepted -UFOs and "Bigfoot" incidents and looking at the main witnesses it was quite clear that some form of altered state was involved. I pointed out all the indicators and point-by-point went through certain cases. The investigators never responded or contacted me again. The constant claim that "Many extra-terrestrial races" and "Hundreds of ETs may be visiting Earth" just did not seem right. 

It seemed ridiculous and when the Ufologists who do not look at the material available suddenly claim (because they cannot get 100% evidence of ETs) 

"They come from the multi-verse! Another dimension" they may as well just leave and close the door after them. The multi-verse is theoretical and not a fact. It is not something we have seen and recorded but a theory.  

Then we have the "They are US from the future" which is something said when your brain turns to silly putty.  When you follow through what has been reported in UFO incidents and then at the time travel theory (not new by several decades) it just falls to pieces and makes no logical sense. It's a case of "I have no idea so I'll just open my mouth and whatever comes out...."

Well known 1950s and 1960s Ufologists faked reports. They spread rumours to discredit witnesses in cases for their own reasons. Some of these I have looked at in my books and they are eye-openers since even very well known Ufologists KNEW the information came from dubious sources they still used the reports in their books and talks.

With CE3K/AE reports it is fair to say that they are rarer than we thought.  Certainly UFOB sightings are rarer because if we rule out everything other than an investigated report that appears genuine we have...only scraps of paper. No matter how many odd lights you film or photograph in the sky they are only odd lights and absolutely proof of nothing. We also have to be aware that today's U.S. military are openly making us look at hoaxes and even possible new tech described as "UAP".

Above: the original Flatwoods entity before its reboot and becoming a money-spinning pop culture icon

I have said since the 1970s that what we need to be looking at are the reports of alien entities associated with UFOBs (seemingly constructed craft). These reports may tell us more about what is behind any genuine activity than anything else. You have a report of a seeming metallic craft with no/ some portholes flying about the sky or landing on a road. That just tells you that you have a report of a seeming metallic craft with no/ some portholes flying about the sky or landing on a road. What is controlling it? Is it remotely piloted? Is it, to use the term, "manned"?  

Forget the "Greys" because as we have seen they really started and ended with Budd Hopkins and his work (which I was a big champion of in the early years) and his "stacking the decks"

In fact Budd KNEW Linda Cortile was lying and hoaxing but let it go.

For me all of the very odd stuff Budd was coming out with was bad enough but when his book Unseen was published I read it and I was shocked. Budd Hopkins had totally and utterly killed his work and reputation and it was all provable.

David Jacobs was another researcher I corresponded with and supported and even defended his work in articles. Then things began to fall apart and the utter trash he came out with and what we learnt was going on behind the scenes killed off any reputation he had.  Both he and Budd had started off as credible investigators yet from the 1980s on they destroyed actual reporting of CE3K cases because if you were not abducted then you were fake or unimportant.

Yes, there were small, large headed "aliens" reported in the past but they were not "Greys". In fact almost every alleged abductee says that the aliens that abducted them were "exactly" like the one depicted on Whitley Streiber's book Communion or from one of Hopkins book covers. They then proceed to draw their versions of a "Grey" and when you see 15 "Greys" drawn by 15 different people who all claim "this is what they looked like" and they are only vaguely similar you see a problem. The "Greys" were the masterminds behind all of the millions of abductions. 

Above: Gorn from Star Trek. His relatives apparently turn up at the homes of abductees speaking out to beat them up. Seriously.

Then it turned out that pushing hypnosis further the abductees remember them from before they (abductees) were even born and then we had encounters in past lives and then....Hopkins and Jacobs discovered that the "Greys" were not the masterminds and after that each alien type has been replaced by another and so have humans -there are millions of mentally incompetent alien-human hybrids who do not know what music, Tv or basic things they have been taught about since birth are.

I think the "Oh, this is all fantasy" should have hit people when Gorn, the lizard warrior that fought a duel with Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek series turned up as the "heavy" lizard man security for the aliens and abductees drew Gorn -right down to his costume. All absolutely authenticated under hypnosis Jacobs tells us.

What makes it worse are the loud "I'm a 35 year Ufology veteran" types who talk about odd lights then add "Then we have these reports of little guys -what's that about??" In all honesty, if you have been 'investigating' and (definitely not) 'studying' UFOs for 30-35 years and you have never looked at CE3K reports then just shut up. Put a zipper on your mouth and go back to watching Star Trek or Dr Who because you are of no use. Not once (??) have you ever wondered "Who is flying or controlling these objects?"  Mind you, that sums up Ufology.

Eupora, Mississippi in 1973. At the height of a "global UUFO wave" multiple witnesses see two UFOs -one lands or comes close to landing on a U.S. highway and despite even the intervention of Ted Bloecher (THE CE3K man at the time) the case was not looked into. The investigators promised to look into it, in fact they poked their noses into many other reports but did not investigate. Why?

Here is a clue; all the reports they stuck their noses into, and which were already being investigated, involved white people. At Eupora all the known witnesses were black. When I asked around in the 1980s Ufologists in the U. S. told me (paraphrasing since a racist word was used) "No middle class white person is going to drive his car into a black area. If you were not robbed or never had your car stolen you'd probably be murdered by the blacks". And this prejudice was not solely an American thing (it still exists there today) as I came up against it when "black" people reported a UFO sighting in the UK. But let's not get into that here as I discussed this in one of my books.

CE3K involving a black person at the height of the "1973 UFO wave" got, and still get, 2-6 lines at most and that is it. Never investigated in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s or 2000s and once they have gone we lose that data. The rumours such as "Well, the witness is black and recently returned from Viet Nam" was a nod and a wink explanation at the time for not investigating. It made no sense and then I realised that U.S. troops in Viet Nam were known for pot smoking and drug abuse. Oh, and 'of course' being black well... incidentally, the witness had returned from Viet Nam six months before the incident.

We lost data simply because someone's hair was "too curly" as they used to say. When I learnt that this type of prejudice still existed in American Ufology I was sad more than surprised. 

We have many, many reports that are of no use. No information other than in some cases "On 17th December a small person was seen to enter a landed object before returning to it and departing" and that is it. Multiple witness reports summed up in 2-3 lines and never investigated. The longer we leave it the less likely we are to find percipients/observers still among the living.  Cases that were big news at the time were reported on and then they were...forgotten. Do the percipients continue to stand by their accounts 45-50 years on?

With funding I'd spend the time I have left chasing up these case -but there is no funding for this type of work.  I have tried UFO organisations but they have no interest -membership and financial gains seem to be the main aims. MUFON flatly refused to even look at the Eupora case and their responses to polite communications were very rude and dismissive. Where is all the press and money coming in if they actually did the work they were set up to carry out?  Press and media and financial gain is the main interest.

Four years ago I suggested to Ufologists in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France that looking into the old reports from 1954 on might be well worth the effort and with the internet tracking down percipients should not be incredibly difficult and we might find real information and data to study. I followed this up with further emails and messages.

Not one single organisation responded.

Looking at their web sites it seems that promoting debunking (NOT scepticism but clear debunking) of UFOs is the main route they take as that also attracts media. The ones that are pro UFO seem to not be interested in research and definitely not any work into CE3K/AE reports and the fact that several referred me back to "This guy in the UK who runs a study on this" did not help.  That "guy" was me, incidentally.

  We seriously need to carry this work out or we have truly lost valuable information and any credibility as researchers so if you know of any local or national UFO groups that you think could help out -give them my details.

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Terry Hooper-Scharf (A very brief) Biography

 

Born in Bristol, England, 6^th June, 1957,Terry became interested in nature and wildlife.  While attending Greenway Boys School, the interest in science and mysteries of nature increased resulting in several local investigations of natural phenomena.  At the same time, having accidentally picked up a copy of Brinsley le poer Trench’s (later Lord Clancarty) The Flying Saucer Story, Terry began studying UFO reports and local sightings.

Between 1974-to date, Terry has acted as a wildlife consultant to UK police forces on exotic animals living in the UK, being a noted naturalist.  Also in 1974,Terry set up the Bristol UFO Investigation Team (BUFOIT), joined the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), covering much of the West of England as an investigator and Regional Investigations Co-ordinator.  

Circa 1976,Terry joined the oldest UK UFO group, the British Flying Saucer Bureau (f.1952) and became an investigator, later Head of Research & Investigation and also editor of the UFO News Bulletin.  

In 1977, as an attempt to promote more scientific approach to UFO investigation, Terry set up UFO International (see Sachs, M., Encyclopaedia of UFOs).

Having established contact with Lord Clancarty and Air Vice Marshal Sir Victor Goddard (a former head of RAF Intelligence and outspoken UFO believer), in 1977 Terry, along with late colleague Franklyn A. Davin-Wilson, visited London for a meeting with Clancarty, Goddard and others having submitted a document calling for a National Aerospace Commission [NaComm].  Hooper was asked to mount an unofficial investigation into all aspects of the UFO phenomenon –a limited fund for travelling and living expenses was agreed upon.

In January,1978, the Anomalous Observational Phenomena Bureau (AOP B) began its work building up a data base on every aspect of UFOs –historical cases, trace, physiological and psychological, animal disturbance, EM cases and much more.  

Original members of the AOP B were:~

Graham F.N.Knewstub             [deceased]

Dave Cowdy                              [deceased]

Franklyn A.Davin-Wilson         [deceased]

Terry Hooper

Between 1978-1984 there was much unofficial assistance given to the Bureau by professional astronomers (some publicly sceptical), former members of the Armed Forces, Air Ministry, Ministry of Defence as well as serving members of the Armed Forces and Police Forces.  A network of UFO investigation & research groups was set up including GUFOI&RG (Gloucestershire), Wessex UFO I&R Group (Somerset), Wiltshire UFO I&R Team and so on.

Much of this cooperation continued well past the ‘closing’ of the Bureau in 1995, though Governmental changes in policy since then have restricted any cooperation. 

In 1984 a 2000 pages British Report On Unidentified Flying Objects [UFOs] was completed.  This was later reduced to 1500pp on editing.  Lord Clancarty, Sir Victor Goddard and others, including members of the House Of Lords UFO Study Group, stated that the Report was “…the closest thing the UK will ever have to a Project Blue Book”.

Although copies went to the Ministry of Defence and Sir Victor kindly passed copies on to former subordinates and ex-heads of RAF Intelligence, private UFO groups and Ufologists condemned the Report without even having seen the Summary offered.  The Report is currently being up-dated with more contemporary evidence being added.

Terry edited the in-house AOP Bulletin which it is hoped will re-appear in late 2006.

Apart from this work Terry has specialized, since 1974, on Close Encounters of the Third Kind/Entity cases and provided the data for BUFORA to contribute to Ted Bloecher’s HUM-CAT.  He has also written many articles on Ball Lightning, meteorites, astronomy, CE-3Ks and Alien Entity cases as well as reporting on UFO incidents (of which he has investigated approx. 2000 since 1974).

Terry re-opened the AOP Bureau on 1^st January, 2006 to continue the original work, aligned to no other groups or investigators.

Current study includes cases involving non-humanoid alien-entities associated with UFOs, video footage evidence and continued study of “spooklight” phenomena.

Back in the 1970s Terry was also a consultant for the Kentucky UFO Investigators League, a member of the Society for the Investigation of The Unexplained (SITU), of which he operated a UK branch –investigating the Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island and other incidents.  

Terry also maintained links with Bigfoot/Sasquatch researchers  such as The Bay Area Group (BAG), Bigfoot Investigation Team, Dmitri Bayanov, etc..  Terry maintains files on lake and sea creatures, ghosts and most other unexplained or explained phenomena he has looked into –these include ghosts and hauntings.

Terry has written three books on unsolved/solved mysteries –Some Things Strange & Sinister (2009), Some More Things Strange & Sinister (2011), Pursuing The Strange And Weird (2012) as well as one book on Canids including UK mystery canids and the history of foxes –Red Paper: Canids (2010).  These (excepting the latter) contained some UFO material but his main works on CE3K/AE cases are in four books: UFO Contact:Looking For the Evidence of Alien visitation;  Unidentified -Identified: UFO Crashes and Alien Entity Encounters; , Contact! Encounters with Extra Terrestrial Entities?  and Beyond Contact: Aliens From Mind, Space and Time Terry has also edited and published six issues of the AOP Journal which is dedicated solely to accounts of CE3K/AE reports

 

Email: blacktowercg@hotmail.com

 

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Yes I am.

Going through my files I noted that the three pages I had from decades ago on the 18th July 1967 Emma Funk case, Millerton, NY were missing. Apart from a video (see last post) I can find nothing online.

I went through the FSR issues as well as NICAP REporter and APRO Bulletins from July 1967-July 1969 and nothing.

The New UFO Breakthrough from Brad Steiger has scant details and I can find nothing in any of the Raymond Fowler books (you'll see him in the video clip doing his best cigarette sucking "intelligence guy" routine in the background.

ANYONE know any sources then please comment.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Entity Reports -pure bunkum. So Why Do Cases Stand Up To Real Scrutiny?

 I have now written four books on what were called Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien Entity cases. If you Google even "real life Close Encounters of the Third Kind" you will get a lot about the 1970s Spielberg movie but, it seems, nothing about alleged real life encounters with alien beings.

Everything today is pop culture. People eat up all the fantasy TV like X-Files, Dr Who, Star Trek etc etc etc as well as the badly faked "real life" TV and internet shows in which the same "UFO experts" spout out the same false information -often twisted so that it conforms to the latest "trend".  Look at You Tube and, quite literally, it is impossible to find anything on the subject that is not ten years old and conforms only to the Hopkins and Jacobs "format encounters" - and the videos that reveal Hopkins was "stacking the decks" when it came to 'evidence' and was quite happy to go along with hoaxes are never ever referred to. Neither is Jacobs tarnished reputation. These were both men I supported back in the 1980s.

Basically, the same old cases are referred to continuously -the "classics" as they are called; Betty and Barney Hill, Pascagoula and Travis Walton. Entity types have been "rebooted" so that they are "Greys" and so have facts. 

Probably the biggest shock I got was in finding that many reports, often repeated over and over again online (to the point of me wanting to poke my eyes out and not see them again) and which people have added 'facts' and details that never existed. These falsehoods are then copy and pasted by others. Approximately 90% of Close Encounters of the Third Kind were never investigated -conclusions were made by reading newspaper clippings and in some cases when, after 25 to 30 years an investigator decided to contact the percipient they had the temerity to scream out at the inaccuracy of journalistic reports! Even today some of the biggest names in Ufology around the world judge reports on news items from TV, the internet (good lords) and newspaper clippings.

There are major cases from the United States that are not even the centre for UFO Studies has records of but I do. Why? Because I research and investigate (CUFOS is not an investigative body so no blame attaches to them) and I dig until I get as much data as possible. Take the 1973 Euporia, Mississippi encounter which was a major UFO incident but even with Ted Bloecher pushing for an investigation it never happened -the witnesses were all black and even in 2020 MUFON refused to re-open the incident as a cold case. The number of incidents involving black Americans that were thrown out is incredible -yet white people reporting lights in the sky got full investigation teams calling on them.

Many physical trace cases listed in the catalogues of the late Ted Phillips were known hoaxes back in the 1960s. The Vallee Landings catalogue list reports that were hoaxes and even misidentifications -known just after they were reported in the 1950s and 1960s and are still quoted today as "solid cases".

Carl Sagan stated that we would not see continuous visits by alien civilisations due to the vast distances that needed to be traversed and, after all, we are NOT a very important planet (unless you want to study how humans are destroying it).

I have written before that so called alien abductions may not actually have been abductions and that the process used to semi-remove memories of incidents may cause the human mind to begin to misinterpret events. Let's be honest; if someone hears all through their lives that UFOs are not real and "all that alien junk" is fake and then finds themselves confronted with the phenomenon as real -that would blow away any world view held by that person. We can see in many cases, as I noted back in the mid 1990s, post traumatic stress syndrome in percipients and we also find that well known and "credible" UFO investigators did not give a damn so long as they got their reports -as in the Liberty, Kentucky case.

Let me make it clear that there is no 100% real solid evidence of alien visitation to Earth. We can also throw out a large percentage of reports as false, misidentifications (a driver repairing a bus by the roadside in France during 1954 was described as a UFO repair incident and still is!) or even "psychological" and I want to make even clearer that this does not include persons who have Ruth syndrome (as explained fully in UFO Contact?) which is complex but there is so much that helps us explain hauntings, poltergeists as well as Bigfoot cases.  Slipping into an altered state of consciousness is not as rare as we might assume and I have seen this in a number of non-UFO cases.

We throw all of those out and we are left with percipients (human beings) who suffer mental trauma -shock- and even post traumatic stress syndrome after an alleged encounter. In some cases these cases of PTSD and shock are not reported because after over 50 years UFO researchers are still copying and pasting and have never even looked at the actual reports. There has to have been something that caused this because a regular human being going out berry picking or for a country walk or drive does not suddenly go into mental shock and they certainly do not develop full on PTSD which they suffer from even after 40-50 years.

What caused that?

These same people do not suddenly "just happen" to get a high dose of radiation and display signs of radiation poisoning.

What caused that?

There are deep impressions in the group that people who passed by the day before state was not there and the dry, packed earth was tested and jumped on but no imprint of significance was left.

What caused that?

If just the percipient we can offer all types of explanations and even the silliest ones get accepted because then the percipient was "a nut-job" and we can all get back into our world view. It is why I prefer to look at cases with 2+ percipients because if A slips into an altered state then B cannot -should not- be affected.  Yes, I have looked into such cases so I am not just shooting out weird theories. 

Here is the thing in both single percipient and multiple percipient cases; they are physically and mentally affected and it is not "mass hysteria" but there is some physical trace evidence left behind.

What caused that?

A case of one or several percipients involves someone else who was not aware of the encounter but observed a strange object over the area of the encounter (and in fact -Liberty- saw a strange light above a car)? Interesting but then you have several independent observers reporting a strange object (night or day) as well as an unusual noise coming from the direction of the (unknown to them) encounter.

What was it?

We know that none of the objects or entities encountered were United States or Soviet test craft and pilots -that stretches credibility to the stupid extreme. Debunking. Look at the top secret aircraft that we finally got to see  the SR-71 Blackbird, B-2 Bomber, F-117 and the designs that aviation experts have been looking at and speculating on -not one looks anything like the old  type "UFOs" encountered. Certainly UFOs was a good cover story for U.S. experimental aircraft and testing but the various encounters over the years -no.

If these people encountered a solid, constructed object (craft) and entities from them and there are all of the above aspects of PTSD/mental shock, physiological effects, traces plus other independent observers what do we call that? Well, it is not 100% proof because only those percipients were present and only they experienced the actual event. Mental trauma can alter percipients for life even if they claim it does not -Charles Hickson and Mona Stafford (and her late friends) are certainly examples of this. For many it is a case of never going out driving or walking at night -even if people are willing to accompany them. For others they shrug and say "It's something that happened" and get on with their lives (no one knows what is really going through their minds but they decide to get on with life aqnd treat it as a one off event).

When I wrote Some Things Strange and Sinister and Some More things Strange and Sinister I included some CE3K/Entity reports -reports accepted as factual even today (because no one has bothered checking). There were interesting cases but some fell apart just through mild scrutiny. It made me sit back and think. I had to ask "are all of these reports just pure bunk. Un-investigated trash to fill and sell books?" I was, after looking into these reports since 1974, a full-on sceptic with huge files and reference material going up to the ceiling (not an exaggeration). Time, I thought, to look into some of the "classic cases" as well as other reports and show once and for all that we had all been taken for a (non-UFO) ride.

My approach to putting together UFO Contact? The evidence for Alien Visitation was simple -I gathered together the case reports I wanted to include and would look at each and when I mean look at I read as many debunking post and articles on the individual cases that I could as well as the pro-material. I looked at all of this with no bias because looking at it in any other way -anti or pro- would make the work just another pointless piece of pap to add to the Ufological book shelf. 

After a year I concluded the work and my manuscript was written. I sat back and was not very happy. I had not reached the conclusion I had expected before work began. I threw the work out and started again and this time checked and double checked the debunking sources quite sure that I had missed something. I threw out the second draft and started again because all I was finding was that the debunking side side were lying as badly, if not worse than the pro UFO side.

I looked at the psychological side of things and came up with "Ruth Syndrome" and a "classic" British abduction case fell to pieces as it was evident from the earliest reports that the percipient was apt to fall into waking-dream states. Unfortunately, that did not help. In fact I found some of aspects of reports that Ufologists had not disclosed.. that made cases stronger. There could obviously be no 100% proof because of the nature of the reports but I tried and retried and in the end had to conclude that the percipients were giving truthful accounts and that many had independent back up in the form of unconnected observers of a UFO at the time.

To many this is annoying because I would not write "this is evidence that aliens are visiting us" -it is anecdotal and circumstantial evidence that these events very likely happened but it is still not 100% physical proof.

With the second book Unidentified -Identified: UFO Crashes and Alien Entity Encounters I looked deeper into certain cases, again some "classics" but which were not fully investigated and had far more evidence never included in online accounts or books. While many aspects of cases could be explained away based on what had already made it into print there was the problem that a great deal had never been reported such as in the Rosa Lotti case which when I read it all (having had to translate much of it) had be stumped. From a silly story of aliens stealing a stocking and flowers it became a fully credible case.

Using the same working process as with the previous work and digging into more non-UFO related (we assume) events parallels could be found including specific entity types that appeared in a number of reports but no one, it seems, had ever noted this.

I realised that I needed to get away from a lot of the classic reports and search my files for reports either poorly reported in English language sources or totally unknown outside of the country the reports came from. I also decided to see how other countries dealt with UFOs and CE3Ks. This led to  Contact! Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities?

By this time I was beginning to ask myself why the various Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) programs as well as astronomers were not concentrating more on Near Space rather than  Deep Space where a message sent would reach its destination in 55,000 years and we would need to wait another 55,000 years for a response (if any)? Yes, there are astronomers who are willing to look at (mainly) sightings of objects and a very few might discuss what aliens might look like yet none had a system of checking reports and investigating them if they were sound enough as the French had been doing since the 1950s.

I looked at the possibility of "lurkers" within our solar system -automatic alien probes that might be sent out to carry on long term surveys. I questioned whether private SETI might be needed (years before, of course, NASA decided that it would look at UFO reports). My conclusion was that once the mass of reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress. Why is NASA not looking at these? Why are astronomers so reticent? In a number of cases with astronomers the reason is almost hysterical fear that there might be alien life let alone aliens passing by.

Even more was uncovered as I found previously unknown (in English and in their own countries) French, German and Australian cases as well as reports that were never fully followed up in the United States but which had many parallels with others cases and especially the entity descriptions.

My ultimate question had to be why was I (supposedly trying to explain away such cases) turning up so much in the way of correlations and new evidence that big UFO investigation organisations had not?

Even when the third, and intended final, book on the subject was done and dusted things were niggling away at my mind. As much as I did not want to get into another heavily researched book (each and every sources looked at is noted in the books so that they can be peer reviewed if necessary) I decided that Beyond UFO Contact -Aliens from Mind, Time and Space would look at certain reports and aspects such as what might we expect aliens to look like and whether Ufology has progressed since 1977 when it comes to CE3K/AE cases. 

I thought I would give two good examples of "debunked" cases such as that of "Sonny" DesVerger and Dionisio Llanca... I then found that Ufologists had followed the U.S. Air Force line with DesVerger and even the Blue Book and Ruppelt's later book contradicted themselves; rather dubious Ufologists were quite willing to spread a lie that DesVerger, a scout master, was "fond of boys".  As I read more the case (tarnished slightly by the fact that DesVerger was known to tell a tall tale or two -as a joke) went from Ufology's outright hoax to credible. That was not something I wanted to find out.

At least I knew I was on firmer ground with Llanca but then that thought came back to bite me. Flying Saucer Review was outrightly racist toward Llanca (he had the look, according to Gordon Creighton (to be fair anyone not from the civilised west or with a darker skin were all noted as ill educated and superstitious was, according to Creighton, the same as Llanca -"primitive") and even twisted a few facts (not for the first time) to dismiss the case. In fact Llanca comes off as genuine and when he was tracked down years later tried to deny who he was but  eventually related a rather sad story of how the encounter had affected him and, yes, he appeared to suffer PTSD.

With both reports I read, re-read then re-read all the information and then double checked and the "HOAX" classification in my files had to be changed. And why were DesVerger and Llanca given such a bad deal by Ufology? Because they reported entities. 

I took a fresh look at the Imjarvi Skiers case, the case of Piero Franzetta as well as Harrison Bailey's alleged long term encounters. The claims of Pat McGuire and his ranch -a pre-Skinwalker Ranch if you will and a true predecessor to Skinwalker -the Clearview Ranch case -aliens, bigfoot and much, much more.

Why the Eileen Moreland case is not better known outside of New Zealand is ridiculous and well worth noting.

I looked at the cases that Ufologists tend not to want to look into but which have parallels with UFO cases (just no UFO).

The books were, for me, a sharp learning curve as I had to re-think everything I had read or heard in Ufology  and in the end concluded Do Not "Believe" in UFOs -Follow the evidence. I did and I also looked at how someone ought to behave when confronted by a landed UFO and how I would (I hope!) react in such a situation.

Having heard "30 year UFO veterans" when talking about UFOs say "We have reports of these little guys and what's that all about?" Really, 30 and 40 year "UFO veterans" have been chasing reports of UFOs and believe they are craft but never once thought that craft might be controlled or flown -how passenger aircraft fly the skies much be a real mystery to them.

If you want the facts and no personal agenda and to find out which cases seem far more credible then the books are there and if they do not wake you up to the fact that "something" is going on nothing ever will.

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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

Praised by Dr Mark Rodheiger of the Centre for UFO Studies and, below, John Hanson of the Haunted Skies Project and Colonel Charles Halt the officer involved in the Rendlesham incident.

Terry Hooper-Scharf
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The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?" 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      

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The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.

The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.

Once the mass of reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.

Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.

Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?

  

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Beyond UFO Contact i the fourth book in the groundbreaking series looking at reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien-Entity reports from around the world and reassessing these. In addition there is a look at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI) and its relevance to the UFO phenomenon. 

contents list: 

Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality 

1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig 

2. Aliens -What Can We Expect? 

3. The Moreland Incident 

4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed 

5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports 

6. Have Things Changed Since 1977? 

7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre 

8. The Pwca 

9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien 

10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity 

11. The Crystal Lake Encounter 

12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter 

13. Harrison Bailey 

14. Sonny DesVerger 

15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers 

16. Some Interesting Reports to Note 

17. Dead Aliens in Photographs 

18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure 

19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into 

20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report? 

21. Eighteenth Century Aliens? 

22. Clearview Ranch 

23. The Pat McGuire Case 

24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta 

25. The Silbury Hill Encounter 

26. The Bridge Abduction 

27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident 

28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest 

29. What If YOU See Aliens Land? 

30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO?