A Visit To John Hanson & The Great British UFO Archive

UFO Classified with Erica Lukes -Last Episode and a few thoughts (expletives included)

Erica Lukes' last show last night and she mentions needing UFO records to be archived at different locations so they can be shared and mentioned the AFU but she was thinking more in the US. That makes sense because trans-Atlantic travel to look at papers that used to belong to a person who lived 30 miles away at one point is insane.

Another kick in the teeth as she and Jack Brewer (an alleged very experienced veteran Ufologist who tends, admittedly, to think CE3K reports are modern folklore) discuss abductions and that they tell us "nothing" about what we are seeing up in the sky and that shows why 50 years of work means nothing: I did point out to both in a comment that you need to seperate Hopkins, Jacobs and co from serious researchers -no comment though the ones before and after mine were responded to.

These are people who claim to be looking for the facts and to move the subject on but who/what might be flying these UFOs is unimportant. Other comments from guests show they want to be the intellectual elite but it is NOT all "modern folklore"

*Does folklore given you a dose of radiation?

*Does folklore cause physiological effects in a person?

*Folklore causing mental shock and post traumatic stress disorder??

* Folklore that blinds a person and creates long term health issues?

I actually READ books. I have a shelf full of fairylore books from the 19th century to early 20th and none of these effects are noted (even if Forteans misquote and twist aspects of some accounts).

Well, ***** me for 50 years I thought that I was investigating Close Encounters of the Third Kind and alien entity reports all in association with UFOs to try7 to get to the truth and all I was doing was becoming a folklorist.

I have been enjoying the show but at least four times now we have had 'veteran Ufologists' who dismiss CE3K accounts or simply sit on their asses and say "What's all this little guys stuff about?" Seriouisly; what the fuck have you been doing during your "decades in research"? Picking your nose?

I tend to try to keep things polite but we know the Old and New Ufologists are just publicity seeking bad researchers, liars and frauds chasing the money. Now we have people want to smash all of that out of the way bu8t "let's ignore the silly CE3K cases -they mean nothing". About time that people who keep claiming that they want to make Ufology a serious subject (heard that since the 1970s so many times I lost count) but it is not. Look at the bright shiny things in the sky -let's find out what they are! Someone at the same time reported a landing and "little guys" -we can ignore that.

That is not making UFOs a seruious topic., That is the same shit we had in the 1950s (where only money making contactees were welcome because they put paying bums on seats). Same in the 1960s. Same in the 1970s. Same in the 1980s (after that bunko team of Hopkins and Jacobs got started only abductees were accepted with no one questioning anything and "no abduction? Not interested" was the norm.) Same in the 1990s. Same in the 2000s and it looks as though it will continue on under "new more evidence based researchers".

Some aircraft or helicopter lands unexpectedly we check it out to see who is flying it. Oh bless the sainted "veteran Ufologists" that we should ever look at who/what might be flying or inside seemingly constructed craft that cannot be identified.

Am I angry? I am fucking livid. I now at least know not to bother to share information with since I only specialise in 'folklore'. This is exactly why Ufology will NEVER be taken seriously and the messengers of deception within it will keep running the show and earning the big bucks.

One World Government holographic projection shown during Amaury Rivera's...

A Note

 As I have noted before; this blog takes a lot of work and is still only getting 5-6 per post (usually 4 views) and I am seemingly posting to myself with no feedback.

Having watched You Tube videos in which veteran Ufologists who have absolutely no research or investigation background into CE3Ks belittling the data and at times having a joke over it I can tell you...that is gut-wrenching. For 50 years now I have been working on all of this, finding correlations others have not found and more and it is all wasted: the "unwashed" Ufologists get listened to more and so I am once again the "UFONut" in the corner.

"Disillusioned" does not even cover it.

I post when and if I feel like it. You want to learn more -buy one of my books.

Brain -We Have A Problem

 

Here is one for you to ponder: there is no known mechanism for telepathy. Mario Bunge -1919 to 2020- (if you check online he is described as having been  an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles) wrote that telepathy would contradict laws of science and the claim that "signals can be transmitted across space without fading with distance is inconsistent with physics".

That is based on what we know of the human mind.

Wonderopolis states in an interesting summary on the subject:

"So, is telepathy real? In a sense, yes—but it’s made possible by technology, not a special ability. When it comes to natural telepathy, we may never know the truth. There’s no solid evidence today to point to its existence."

https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/Is-Telepathy-Real

Which might seem like a cop out but then you have to realise that should a scientist appear to have concrete evidence of telepathy there are going to be 100 scientists who call him "deluded", "Not having scientific evidence" (ignoring anything inconvenient such as test results) or simply "not having proved this to my satisfaction!" Awards ought to be given out based on scientific egoes and 9 out of 10 scientists agree on that.

We can gather many examples of possible telepathy but it does not concretely prove it exists to science ( science has a long record of being proven wrong based on lone researchers cracking "codes", formulae and more.

"What has this got to do with CE3K encounters?" I telepathically hear you ask (see what I did there?) Well it has a great deal to do with the subject.

We have many reports where percipients encounter alien entities and 'conversation' is via gestures or some unintelligible language which when it is clear the percipient does not understand...ends the encounter.  

This gives us certain things to consider. In the case of "gibberish" or "unintelligible language" being spoken we can speculate a lot. Is it not likely that if some alien intelligences were visiting Earth for a prolonged period that they would have learnt our language? After all that would be an essential, right? Well...define "our language".

For the French it is French  -there are 300 million speakers and is the fifth most spoken. 

 Spanish? Well, around the world there are, get your head around this, 534 million speakers.

Okay so how about English in all of its local variations (and believe me French and Spanish have a good few regional variations)? 1.35 billion.

Those are the main languages and the reason these are so widely spoken is down to colonialism and conquest. The top languages in the world are:

• English (1.35 billion speakers 17% of world population)
• Mandarin (1,117 million speakers second most widely spoken language in the world)
• Hindi (572.0 million speakers)
• Spanish (534 million speakers)
• French (300 million speakers)
• Arabic (274 million speakers)
• Russian (258 million speakers)
• Portuguese (234 million speakers)

When it comes to how many know languages there are in the world there are officially 7,100.  Which is a whole lot and which ones or one would aliens learn? In the late 1950s there was an alleged UFO crash in Gdynia, Poland and a humanoid in silver clothing and helmet washed ashore and spoke an "unintelligible" language and whisked off to Russia. It is very likely (based on the fact that when I looked into this years later I was told to "back off") that this was an unnamed early Russian cosmonaut. So the "unintelligible" language was Russian. Most people describe foreign languages they hear as unintelligible. Therefore any language spoken to a percipient that was not the local one would be "gibberish".

The emphasis of a local language being spoken is not necessarily meaningful if an entity speaks French, Spanish or English it may just be the one they consider to be the best to learn and if they land in France and speak to someone in Russian or land in Russia and speak in French....that may well be down to not realising that just because a ccertain population on continental Europe speaks French does not make it the language of the Continent with its small and large countries and regionalism.

It is always possible -theoretically- that any passing alien race might be adept at language learning  so in some cases they know which language to speak and where while others learn a language without realising it is not "universally" spoken on Earth.

Communicating by sign language -such as an entity pointing to itself and then a landed UFO and then the witness and indicating he/she can come on board is basic. I think anyone who has travelled knows the basics such as indicating being hungry -rubbing the belly and pointing at the mouth or thirsty by raising an imaginary glass to the mouth and then wiping the mouth -it goes on and on. If any alien entity has no knowledge of the language (any of the 7,100 then for a brief landing sign language at its most basic is useful. You'll know the "yes" nod and the nod for "no" so will they (probably).

In fifty years of looking at these reports I have had to consider these things because they do get reported and it is of no significance if Ufologist A or Ufologist B argue that visiting aliens should know "our language" because for the past 70 years reports of CE3K or UFOs not published in the English language have been ignored because these Ufologists do not understand anything other than English. Their arguments are petty and not thought out.

Now (you can relax as we have gotten there now) we come to telepathy. I have seen enough in my time to convince me that we are nowhere near even partly understanding how the human mind works. Poltergeists were at one time thought to be angry ghosts (hence the name) but we know that they are in fact from the Id of a person -teen girl or boy and occasionally from an adult.  I have witnessed such activity first hand. The whole sensationally reported and 'very silly -she's a nutter" stories of "sex with ghosts" we now also know is a creation of the Id. If you have not read my book UFO Contact? and want as good an explanation as we can give of Ruth Syndrome then do so. It has far reaching consequences for the "paranormal" as well as certain creature and UFO reports. 

The mind, conscious and unconscious, is something we are still learning about and it is possible that we will know far more about one day (in a couple hundred years as war is far more budget worthy than research that might benefit humans) and it may be revealed that telepathy does indeed break the physics barrier. But in most cases humans, even the highest intelligences, may be incapable of being receptive to telepathy  or be receptive but totally misunderstand what they are being told.

It may be that simple concepts work better and the mind interprets what it "receives" based on the percipients world view and everyday life. Imagine the entities explain to a percipient that they are from a certain planet -there is no spelling involved therefore the percipient has to interpret that data as best he/she can. Explanations given by entities may sound, once interpreted by the human mind, silly and nonsensical and so the account given is dismissed.  "We come here from our planet 100 light years away to study many things including animals such as the elk and what they eat" is basic but explains that they are carrying out biological studies. However, a human mind might interpret that as "We travel 100 light years to catch your elk to eat".

Imagine how some German sentences are just untranslatable or very weird when in English:

"Das Blaue vom Himmel versprechen"

Is someone “promising you the blue from the sky?” Translating this expression word-for-word isn’t going to give an English speaker much insight into its true meaning. In reality, das Blaue vom Himmel versprechen is a German idiom that means “to over-promise on something completely unrealistic. For example, “John can’t bring enough dessert for everyone.” Er hat mir das Blaue vom Himmel versprochen.” Or “John can’t bring enough dessert for everyone. He totally over-promised.”

Or even my favourite:

Doch

If you ever studied German, this word was likely your best friend and your worst enemy. Doch has a variety of meanings, making it extremely useful, but formidable to translate. It can firmly and definitively mean “yes,” but at the same time it could mean “no,” depending on the stance you’re trying to affirm. Or, it can simply be a point of emphasis. Instead of Komm her “Come here,” for example, one can use doch to say, Komm doch her! “Come on, can you please come here right now?!”

You can see other examples here: https://www.lionbridge.com/blog/translation-localization/10-german-words-phrases-that-dont-translate-into-english/

There are a lot of permutations to communications and language translation (I was told during the 1980s by a woman who worked on German dictionaries that there were around 20 local types of German including Yiddisch. See -complicated.

Telepathic communications may be easy for some alien entities (again we are theorising) but you can put out a great radio show using top equipment but if Arthur Smith is seated somewhere with bad reception it can sound awful. High quality radio station = alien entity and Crap Reception =Human.  If the human mind is incapable of clear telepathic communication then not only might it misinterpret the "input data" but  it might also find that the mind is affected in various negative ways. An electric kettle boiled too much can blow or if you have an inadequate fuse in an electrical item it can blow -so might the human mind.

Most of us have assumed that the mental state of some "abductees" is due to something nasty the aliens have done. It might well be a case of aliens thinking humans can take telepathic communication, and perhaps some can to acertain extent, but...fuse is blown. If the alien entities involved are so uncaring about their human 'victims' why do they replace them, safely, back in their vehicles where they can drive on or be found quickly? I know: "we know nothing about alien minds" and that is the point. We watch TV and movies or read sci fi and every time it is "He spoke to me without moving his lips. His voice in my herad was as clear as if he were talking to me" which automatically assumes humans can just click on the ability for telepathic communications.

The "mind block" may well not be on purpose but a side effect that batters the amygdala, the hippocampus, the cerebellum, and the prefrontal cortex. These are the main parts of the human brain involved with memory. The amygdala is also involved in fear and fear memories and if an alien encounter (even if only initially) causes fear based on 1000 sci fi horror movies then that may make the initial fear seem to have been worse than it was and the mind interprets in its own way: "Why was I confronted by aliens? What did they do when I went on board their UFO -they must havce abducted me!" and every alien abduction story seen and heard now flows into that person. The hippocampus is associated with declarative and episodic memory as well as recognition memory so could also be affected.

Incidentally, a study showed that a certain part of our brain, called the prefrontal cortex, is particularly important for fine-tuning communication depending on the person we are communicating with. As far as we can tell it is not capable of telepathy.

Think about what we read. At Valensole, France, Maurice Masse was invited onto a UFO but politely declined and for that reason he did not believe the Betty and Barney Hill abduction story -if the aliens did that why did they not drag him off? What is more Masse had a conversation with said entities before they left.

Think about this: "I was grabbed and dragged aboard the UFO and subjected to invasive tests before being politely shown around the UFO and conversing with the aliens who explained various things to me" -evil kidnappers who then act very politely and even show concern for the 'abductee' both psychologically and physically. If we are to believe some accounts these alien entities even cured certain percipients of long term health problems. It is so contradictory that many years back I suspected that abduction accounts were not all we were led to believe -particularly with biased reporting and investigation to "sell the cash cow". "I was abducted by aliens!" is far 'sexier' as a news item than "I was invited aboard a UFO and the crew were very polite and tried to explain things as easily as they could to me."

If we put aside the Ruth syndrome cases as well as others (again Ruth sundrome and altered states does not mean that someone is mentally ill and it seems to be a natural function of the mind that is stronger in some: remember dreaming in your sleep is not a mental illness either) which should be studied more though that is out of the hands of Ufology thank goodness. Those cases gone we find that alleged alien 'abductions' are far rarer than some in Ufology would have us believe while some are still sucking on their thumbs asking "What are the little guys about?"

It could well be if someone in an alien encounter panics to the point of hysteria through fear that they are "shut down" -as in the Kelly Cahill case. A person's world view is shattered because "those silly flying saucers nutters talk about" are suddenly very real. That in itself may cause a kind of mental shock and collapse as noted in some cases as far back as the 1950s.

We have seen how Ufologists who have been quite regular people suddenly deal with an abduction case and some may chuckle internally thinking "Yeah, yeah. Even I've had that -means nothing". But then, again "yeah, had that, so what?" then they add 1 +2 = 32 and they are alien abductees themselves.  Even the late Leo Sprinkle withdrew from dealing with abductees through hypnosis as he suspected that the person hypnotised might be telepathically influenced by the (genuine) hynotist. Eventually, Sprinkle even believed that he, himself, was an abductee.

Before we dismiss some "silly" reports of alien-human communication we need to consider all of this and we have also got top understand that, if alien encounters do occur rarely what we believe to be forcable abductions may not be. Fear and false memory from shock may well be influencing a percipient and hypnosis may simply enforce that false memory and belief.

I have rambled on enough. Hopefully some of this is of interest or makes sense!

Still Here

 

As the title says -I am still here. Someone asked whether I had given up the blog. No. I have posted so much in the last month but as I think I wrote befor the maximum number of views on any day is 4. There have been 5 and 10 views but only once.

This is a lot of work. No one comments and so, although I know work has been stolen by others, that ius all I see.

The blog did vanish but that might be down to the fact that Blogger constantly changes its service location -one week there is an IT(aly) url, then a FR(ance) and so on. Obviously a tax dodge and nothing users can do about it.

You want detailed case reports along with photos, maps and stuff you will not find elsewhere...I have books!

Is Messaging Aliens a Bad Idea?

Missing People & "The UFO Connection" - Higdon Case A Personal Comment

Interesting video and an easy way to dismiss the Higdon case, however, not all is so clean cut. I dealt with this case in UFO Contact? and thought that it would be one of the more easily explainable cases. And it is if you go by what you find online.

I have, well of course I do, Margery Higdon's 2017 booklet Alien Abduction of The Wyoming Hunter which is 75pp and ends with this note: 

"Remember if this happens to you talk with someone you can trust. Don't dwell on it and get on with your life."

The book is not sensatuionalist, has no photos or maps and for all the world appears to be just tel;ling it as it was and advising others and that last note I wish more percipients took. It is a world view shattering event in anyones life but a good few percipients have uttered the same words as Robert taylor (Livingstone, Scotland 1979): "It's something that happened now get on with your life".

If I could easily dismiss the case then I would. There is mention of a light colour sky in the video but lights were seen that were not attributable to other searchers and we have to remember where and how Higdon was found, his physical condition and eye problems as well as that bullet and the state it was in. He was tested for drugs -negative. He was checked to ascertain whether he was or had suffered from any psychiatric illnesses -none. My first thought was that he may have been in a fugue state -a dissociative fugue is a temporary state where a person has memory loss (amnesia) and ends up in an unexpected place. People with this symptom can't remember who they are or details about their past. Other names for this include a "fugue” or a “fugue state.” This can be ruled out.

The entity type does sound weird and there are elements left out in this video. It seems almost clear that Higdon was having partial recall and very confused at that. Four people in such ba tiny "cube" plus the other details make no sense which allows some to dismiss the account. Things were not shown to Higdon in writing so he was recalling what was said to the best of his ability. 'Facts' may in fact be his subconcious kicking in to fill the gaps or try to make sense of what he could recall. The late Leo Sprinkle's hypnosis session was conducted professionally and no leading questions were asked ) I am sure Hopkins would have come up with "Greys" somewhere). If you want a full, straight forward account of all the details of this case -my book has it all.

We can look on what Higdon was told (if he was told and it is not his mind filling in blanks) as a deception on the part of the entities involved. Remember that we have never openly, officially met any alien intelligences so we have no idea how they work psychologically and a lie to throw of any real interest if Higdon reported the encounter might be possible.

When it comes down to it Higdon suffered psychological and physiological effects similar to other UFO percipients and those would need explaining. Every other factor needs to be explained away and that includes the infamous bullet which debunkers conveniently ignore or state "It was a miss-fire" or "He fired into a solid object" which do not work. I think that far more went on during the encounter  which was obviously lengthier than he can account for and whatever did happened left him as he was found.

If we accept that alien encounters do take place then we know from the records that abductions are not common place. In fact, most people recall a close proximity UFO and then time has passed.  One percipient always leaves a case open to being down to "natural causes" but when you add in independent observers to strange lights o physical traces you have a unique situation -still not 100% proof of aliens but strong anecdotal evidence. I can cite at least ten cases where "something" may have happened to people but "it just happened" and it has not affected their lives. 

Why do I not push these people to undergo regression hypnosis?  Because it has caused them no problems and though I would dearly love to know what happened I am not going to turn anyones life to garbage. You start digging in that can of worms opened up by hypnosis then you, the investigator had better be prepared to give up your life to be the percipient's confidant-come-social worker. Most Ufologists just want the publicity or chapter for the next book and that's it. Totally unethical.

You either look at all the facts in the Higdon case and conclude "something happened" or take the easy option and say "never happened", Personally, I would really like to go with the latter.....would like to

"And then we have the little guys -what's that all about?" A Brief Answer For "Veteran Ufologists"

 It seems that again and again I hear Ufologists state: "And then we have the little guys -what's that all about?"  On hearing this I want to whack themn over the head with C.D. B. Bryan's Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind book (it's hefty).

I have said and written this so many times before but, if you are a "35 year veteran Ufologist" what the actual f have you been doing in over three decades? Watching You Tube videos? Putting your backside on a chair at talks? Chasing after a dot of light in the night sky to "break the case wide open"?  Seriously, you are not that bright and I am guessing that all of those UFO books they claim to own either do not or are just put on to bookshelves to look impressive.

 "And then we have the little guys -what's that all about?" just...well, after 50 years of looking into these reports and having a book shelf of well thumbed as well as annotated books on the subject I bang my head on the table (my doctor says that I should not do this but what the heck). What exactly have these Ufologists been reading about -the latest MUFON scandal? US government disinformation campaigns?

Hynek dealt with CE3Ks in his The UFO Experience as well as The Hynek UFO Report. Then we have a slew of books by the Lorenzens who specialised in looking into such accounts and reported on them in The Humanoids, ed. by C. Bowen; Flying Saucer Occupants, UFOs Over the Americas, Abducted, etc., etc.. The High Priests of Abduction also wrote books, were featured in magazine and newspaper articles as well as TV shows and documentaries. Even Otto O. Binder's rather alien sex obsessed Flying saucers Are Watching Us dealt with the subject.

John Keel -he wrote on these cases.

Jacques Vallee wrote about these cases.

MUFON Journal, Flying Saucer Review, APRO Bulletin and many others carried reports on these cases.

I could give a whole reading list of books from 1965-2021 dealing with the subject. The above are all just basic reading. Buy my books and get an education and ignore Hopkins, Jacobs and Mack.

The statement also shows that the subject has been treated with little interest over the decades; 1964 no one could be bother visiting the Reeves farm, in 1973 UFO investigators, even when asked, refused to contact the Euporia witnesses who were black. I could provide a very long list of CE3K reports from the United States that no one bothered looking into -it is okay, though as the Ufologistsd have the newsclipping!

Firstly, it was not all "little guys" -yes, the most common type of entity reported was short -up to 5 feet tall (1.5m) and had oversized heads with largish eyes and were spindly. NOT "Greys" think more the end of the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The above looks about right but there were subtle differences as not all had the very  long fingers we saw in Spielberg's movie. This was the type of entity seen during the alleged abduction of the Hills, Walton and Moody. The head below is about right (we are going by percipient verbal reports not photos here).

The full figure below is correct with clothing being described as tight grey, white, black and silver in colour. This is a costume and the eyes would have been normal in appearance but large.

The movie itself has been seen by millions since 1977 with images appearing in books, magazines, newspapers as well as merchandise and unlike in the UK other countries, particularly the United States show it regularly on TV.

If you look at the TV movie based on the Hills encounter, The UFO Incident (1975) the budget was not great but the masks worn to represent the aliens is spot on -false Ufology has tried to reboot this as involving "The Greys" when it did not).

Above: The Hills (the great James Earl Jones as Barney and Estelle Parsons as Betty) being "abducted" The UFO Incident (1975)

Below: Betty (Estelle Parsons) interacts with the alien crew.  The UFO Incident (1975)

There is one morte thing that it seems no one in Ufology noted: there was a very tall spindly alien at the end of the Spielberg that many viewers felt "creeped out" over. And, uh...it introduced the Greys to us (well, one of the Grey types)...

Above and below images that were probably embedded in minds from an early age and may -may- have sparked many accounts of Greys under hypnosis. From Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Those were "The Small Guys". Also noted were far more human looking entities who varied in height from 5 feet to 6 feey plus (1.5 -1.8m). Again, clothing varied from coverall type with uncovered head or helmeted/masked head. These entities often elicited the response from observers that "Wearing normal clothes I wouldn't look at them twice on a crowded street".

It was suggested that the third most commonly reported entity type was the hairy, bellicose dwarf.  However, there were not that many cases of these and some still suggest that they may belong to the "mystery hairy hominid" subject but they tend not to have much knowledge of the cases.

There are slight variations in both the more human and "small guys" and in some cases we can tell the entities were humanoid but their faces were concealed behind masks/breathing apparatus(?). The Bibendum (Michelin Man) types tend to wear helmets and I discussed these at length in my book Contact! Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities?

Yes, there are other such as those seen at Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1973. In fact over that short period there were several other reports that might be describing the same entity type but, again, they were not looked into (two reports from Mississippi involved "black" witnesses and so were ignored despite the strangeness of the cases and possible correlations).

Are we dealing with androids which, as Wikipedia notes: "An android is a humanoid robot or other artificial being often made from a flesh-like material. Historically, androids were completely within the domain of science fiction and frequently seen in film and television, but recent advances in robot technology now allow the design of functional and realistic humanoid robots. 

Or are some robots? Again, let's have Wikipedia define robot and they are far more widespread on Earth than most people think: "A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed to evoke human form, but most robots are task-performing machines, designed with an emphasis on stark functionality, rather than expressive aesthetics.

"Robots can be autonomous or semi-autonomous and range from humanoids such as Honda's Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility (ASIMO) and TOSY's TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot (TOPIO) to industrial robots, medical operating robots, patient assist robots, dog therapy robots, collectively programmed swarm robots, UAV drones such as General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and even microscopic nano robots. By mimicking a lifelike appearance or automating movements, a robot may convey a sense of intelligence or thought of its own."

One migh assume that robots would have been perfecte4d by a more advanced civilisation and certainly the objects encountered by Robert Taylor in Livingstone, Scotland in 1979 could be robots.  There are other reports but Taylor's is probably the best known.

Again, officially, no one has ever encountered an alien life form and the "turn a blind eye" of SETI and astronomers and science in general when it comews to these reports means that they can safely claim this until they retire and their pensions kick in.

There is tyhe possibility of "lurkers" within the solar system -hiding on or behind asteroids and monitoring Earth from a distance. But I think that the late biologist, zoologist and world traveller Ivan T. Sanderson explained why there are variations of "occupants" in reports. This appeared in the paperback Uninvited Visitors (1969 p. 133):

"Just imagine what would happen on some other planetary body if one of our space-probes was manned by (1) a middle aged Bushman woman, (2) a six-foot-six-inch Nigerian from somewhere around Katsena, with his near bhlack skin color and his flowing white robes and turban, (3) a blonde, buxom, Swedish girl, (4) a blue-black-skinned Melanesian with a full mop of branching red hair, (5) a Japanese child, and (6) a Neapolitan man. with shiny, black, wavy hair and an ivory skin. I can imagine the inhabitants of such a planet , if intelligent at all, going into near hysterics ande their authorities immediately locking up any who said thjey had encountered such a coterie coming out of a space vehicle and collecting plants and domestic animals."

Sanderson continued:

"The situation would become more confounded if only one or two of these six types happened to be seen manning a space traveling vehicle. And if only one of the types was seen at a time in various places and by different people, the debate among the witnesses as to which was telling the truth and which imagining things could well lead to bloodshed. This is just about the situation in which we (terrestrial man) are today. So let us try to be a bit more logical."

Unfortunately, finding good samples of Sanderson's Six is a tad difficult with copyrights and nothing showing up as exact matches in colour image searches so here is the best I could do.

Japanese woman

Blonde Swede

African bush woman

Katsena, Nigerian

Melanesian Man below Melanesian children

A Neapolitan man

There are various things that can discolour human skin and blue skin can be caused by not enough oxygen in the blood or silver in the blood.  Green skin and reddened skin is also not known and some people are so white they are almost ghostly!

Paul Karason (November 14, 1950 – September 23, 2013) was  from Bellingham, Washington whose skin turned a purple-blue color over a period of about a decade. His skin was described as having turned blue after he took a homemade silver chloride colloid and rubbing a solution of colloidal silver on his face in an attempt to treat problems with his sinuses, dermatitis, acid reflux and other issues. 

Above: Paul Karason

Just look around or use the internet for what it was intended to do: bring knowledge into your home. Just look at the variety of peoples and skin colourations and all humans! And if you are a Ufologist do some research and do not show your ignorance with that dumb line: "And then we have the little guys -what's that all about?"

Scientists: "There Is No Other Intelligent Life In The Universe. Maybe. Probably. We Have No Idea."

 

 

 Here we go again with people earning big salaries churning out the same old same old dogma. Other than that some good points (but from the writer not scientists).

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Article by Dave Axe https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nasa-theory-why-might-alone-010721240.html

 More and more astronomers are coming around to the idea that we’re not alone in the universe. To them, it’s a matter of math, and humility. With potentially trillions of life-supporting planets out there, why would ours be the only one to evolve a high-tech civilization?

But if extraterrestrials do exist, we still haven’t met them yet. (Probably.) You’d think out of trillions of chances for life to spawn in the universe, we’d have found signs of other intelligent life by now, right?

Now a team based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California is revisiting an old theory to explain why. The “Great Filter” theory posits that other civilizations, potentially many, have existed during the history of the universe, but they all wiped themselves out before they got a chance to make contact with us.

Even more chillingly, we’re on track to “filter” ourselves out of existence as well, so to speak. In that sense, understanding why we haven’t met other civilizations—that is, what aliens may have done to destroy themselves—could hold the key to saving our own civilization.

“The key to humanity successfully traversing such a universal filter is… identifying those attributes in ourselves and neutralizing them in advance,” JPL astrophysicist Jonathan Jiang and his coauthors wrote in a new study that appeared online on Oct. 23 and has not yet been peer-reviewed.

Not everyone in the sciences buys the idea of the Great Filter. “It feels overly deterministic, as if the Great Filter is a physical law or a single looming force that confronts every rising technological civilization,” Wade Roush, a science lecturer and author of Extraterrestrials, told The Daily Beast. “We have no direct evidence of such a force.”

But there’s no disputing the theory’s impact. The Great Filter was originally proposed by Robin Hanson, a George Mason University economist, back in 1996. It has since become a staple of science-fiction worldbuilding. And for good reason: it’s dramatic. “The fact that our universe seems basically dead suggests that it is very very hard for advanced, explosive, lasting life to arise,” Hanson wrote.

By “explosive,” he’s referring to the possibility of a civilization achieving cheap spaceflight and colonizing a lot of other planets, fast. In Hanson’s theory, there’s something—or a lot of somethings—that prevents intelligent life from thriving on its home planet, expanding to other planets and surviving long enough to make contact with aliens such as us.

At least one leading advocate of the search for alien life has no objections to the theory. “I think it is plausible,” Avi Loeb, a Harvard physicist, told The Daily Beast.

To understand the Great Filter, Jiang and his coauthors turned a mirror on humanity. Whatever seems likeliest to kill us might also pose an existential threat to intelligent life on other planets, they proposed. They drew up a short list of the biggest threats to the human species, all but one of which are entirely our own fault.

Sure, an asteroid might hit Earth with enough force to kill pretty much everything on the planet. That’s not necessarily something we can prevent. But the other civilization-killers the JPL team think are likely are also self-inflicted. Nuclear war. Pandemic. Climate change. Runaway artificial intelligence.

Jiang’s team chalks up these existential risks to what they describe as deeply ingrained dysfunction in intelligent beings such as humans. “Dysfunction may snowball quickly into the Great Filter,” the researchers wrote.

But dysfunction isn’t inevitable, Jiang and his coauthors stressed. “The foundation for many of our possible filters finds its roots in immaturity,” they wrote. We could grow up as a species, dismantle our nukes, switch to clean energy, tamp down on the zoonotic viruses that cause the worst pandemics and even develop better technology for deflecting planet-killing asteroids.

All of these reforms require humanity to work together, the JPL team wrote: “History has shown that intraspecies competition and, more importantly, collaboration, has led us towards the highest peaks of invention. And yet, we prolong notions that seem to be the antithesis of long-term sustainable growth. Racism, genocide, inequity, sabotage… the list sprawls.”

With peace, love and understanding—and some major technological breakthroughs—we just might survive our own self-destructive tendencies and defy the Great Filter. And if we can work together to get past the filter, it stands to reason other civilizations could, too. Our own survival should give us hope that someday, somehow, we’ll meet the other Great Filter survivors.

Or maybe not. Hanson himself thinks Jiang and company got the Great Filter, and the potential solutions to it, partially wrong.

The global cooperation Jiang and company advocated as the means of our survival could be the very thing that ends up destroying us, Hanson told The Daily Beast. “Clearly they recommend more centralized control and governance of our civilization,” Hanson said. “But I actually see excess governance centralization as the most likely contribution to our future Great Filter.”

In Hanson’s conception, the more we decentralize, the more likely some of us to survive and thrive. Imagine isolated homesteaders riding out a devastating pandemic, or private space-explorers—your Jeff Bezoses and Elon Musks of the world—establishing off-world colonies on the moon or Mars. Colonies that could endure even as some calamity wipes out everyone on Earth.

Other critics think the entire Great Filter theory is bunk. It’s possible we haven’t met aliens yet not because they’re all dead, but because… well, we haven’t met them yet. The universe is vast. Even if there are billions of thriving alien civilizations, they’re almost certainly very far away. It’s going to take patience, and a lot of searching, to eventually find them.

“The Great Filter theory depends on the assumed observational result that nobody is out there,” Seth Shostak, an astronomer with the California-based SETI Institute, told The Daily Beast. “But that conclusion is far too premature. We’ve just begun to search.”

 

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Well, Seth Shostak is the astronomer who almost appears to be terrified at the prospect of other intelligent life being found and here he is cheering on the SETI....though that is his free meal ticket for life so maybe not unbiased?

I did like the fact that “probably” was added into the line about not having been contacted by aliens.  Perhaps that was a reference to the current interest in UFOs?  (NO. I am not going to let an official disinformation program force me into using “UAP”).

When you put “Theoretical” in front of any job title you know that, basically, there has to be no physical proof or even actual data involved just a lot of hyperbole - exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally but pontificated upon by those involved to keep the grants and pay cheques coming in.

We have been over this ground over and over again to the point that it is the skeleton of a sad dead horse being dragged around a dusty deserted town.

Not one of these people has ever encountered an alien, received a communication from an alien civilization, stepped off this planet and some have limited knowledge of the life forms on this planet. Yet we are supposed to listen to them.  How many of them has suggested that Close Encounters of the Third Kind or UFO landing reports need to be studied to assess their validity and what we can learn from them? Not one. A bunch of fake videos has everyone wetting their pants and listening to one of the worst actors around (Luis Elizondo). Yes, light things whizzing about the sky are the things to look at (hey, just a wake up call but if there are genuine constructed craft not from this planet flying around…who or what do you think is in them? Elizondo can tell you, he said so on camera…uh, but then…he cannot possibly actually tell us as he is still a US government employee and “bound by an oath of secrecy” which is pretty convenient.

Astronomers will go for the grants and safe jobs and would never actually rock, tip or wobble the good ship cash cow. Dogma is what keeps jobs secure and it is almost comical how some put forward theories that support some of the “no life in the universe” group…who then turn to argue and attack the theory. It’s like Ufology.

When scientists from all fields stop being led by the military and intelligence community and do independent work and stop pushing their petty terrestrial and unscientific ideas and start looking at the data in UFO reports we may get somewhere.  Until then all they are depositing on us is a huge heap of  Dr Brian Cox

 And if Avi Loeb thinks the idea has merit....no one should invest money in his current project as that admits its just wasting time.

 

 

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Scientists Preparing for Alien Contact

 

Or so  an article by Victor Tangermann tells us:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/scientists-preparing-for-alien-contact/ar-AA142fjp?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3bcc391b47af4055b14583ef8dd7ea01

Hello Out There

The University of St. Andrews in Scotland has announced the formation of a new research hub last week, bringing together the brightest minds to prepare humanity for the day we might make first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization.

The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Post Detection-Hub is meant to be a meeting point for experts to devise a unified way to respond to aliens — in case they do get in touch with us, or vice versa.

"Science fiction is awash with explorations of the impact on human society following discovery of, and even encounters with, life or intelligence elsewhere," said John Elliott, coordinator of the hub at the University of St Andrews, in a statement.

"But we need to go beyond thinking about the impact on humanity," he added. "We need to coordinate our expert knowledge not only for assessing the evidence but also for considering the human social response, as our understanding progresses and what we know and what we don’t know is communicated."

Alien Conduct

Earlier this year, NASA scientists updated a new message to beam out to any potentially intelligent life in the cosmos. But what would we do if they were to actually reply?

The new Scottish hub's purpose is to fill a policy gap by coming up with internationally agreed-upon procedures in case we ever make contact.

So far, the only commonly agreed upon rules have been set out by the SETI community, as laid out in the SETI Institute's "Declaration of Principles Concerning the Conduct of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence."

Message Received

But those rules are very vague. The SETI Post-Detection Hub is planning to overhaul and expand upon them significantly.

"Will we ever get a message from ET?" Elliot said. "We don’t know."

"But we do know that we cannot afford to be ill prepared — scientifically, socially, and politically rudderless — for an event that could turn into reality as early as tomorrow and which we cannot afford to mismanage," he added.