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Thursday, 30 May 2024

Alien Civilisations and the Non Importance of Earth

 


I know of a Spanish Ufologist who was once 100% behind UFO reality and the possibility that the origins were extraterrestrial.  He now declares that all UFO encounters and sightings are 100% psychological or misidentifications. And he has no shame about declaring all of this online in a "private group" with all the other egotists and debunkers -and they will actually call themselves debunkers.

So what happened that made that particular ex Ufologist (seriously if you are "debunking" -a dirty word in most respectable fields- then stop calling yourself a Ufologist and pulling in all the attention you get claiming to be)?  Well, no mass landing or open landing and contact with Earth leaders. How prosaic of a mind must you have to spend 15 years or so investigating and then 20 years "debunking" everything (even by bending the facts) top start stamping your foot and having tantrums because there has been no such events?  Even more prosaic is the 'Ufologist' who proudly boasted to me that he does not carry out investigations any other way than by reading press reports and articles -"Why should I leave my comfortable armchair?"

I think that these people, and others like them, are just full of the human egotism. Ignorance also covers it. It is the egotism of self importance; we are human so what if we kill off thousands of species for 'fun' and are going about destroying our own planet between slaughtering millions in wars and crimes; it is OUR planet and it is OUR right to do whatever we want as the prime species. Which all means that any advanced civilisations in our galaxy are going to come flocking to good old Earth, right? 

No.

Based on the calculations and our growing (but still miniscule) knowledge of planets and life as we know it added to the age of the universe now estimated -/+200) at 13.7 billion years it can be assumed (until we find them) that life is far from uncommon. In fact it could well be common but what form,s this life takes could also be varied from simple microbes to technologically advanced civilisations. What form might the advanced ones take -the ones that could build craft for inter-stellar travel? 



For decades I followed the principle that any alien life would be unfamiliar to us -the bug-eyed monsters and other forms that really would be "alien" to us. This was what all the experts in astronomy told us and so I looked at all of the alleged UFO landing reports and descriptions of entities. I focussed in on some of the non humanoid cases and, sadly, one-by-one they turned out to be hoaxes by Ufologists, reporters and others.  I carried on searching and found that even with physiological and ground traces as well as secondary witnesses good cases were being dismissed. Why? Because the person 'investigating' felt the description of the entities let alone some common farm worker having an encounter were "ridiculous".  

Even into the 1980sUfologists were destroying reports for similar reasons. One report piqued my interest as it matched similar reports that had not been known even in Ufological circles. So I asked the investigator for more details. There were excuses  but, in a nutshell, the original letter from witnesses had been chucked out. Another investigator openly wrote that, despite other UFO sightings in the area over a short period, an entity encounter involving several youngsters was thrown away because they were youngsters.

Oh, then astronomers and those involved in exobiology started stating that the humanoid form, with variations, would probably be the perfect form for advanced life in the universe. It was one of those "bang your head on the table" situations for me. Apply what Science says but then Science decides it is going to change its mind.



Take some headache pills and carry on now re-adjusting everything but still maintaining the old search type "in case"!

The truth is that we could very well have recognisably humanoid life forms with variations and even non humanoid life forms. Officially "we" have never encountered extraterrestrials but that is because for corrupt political reasons as well as the need for the top folk to continue the dogma that "God" created human life therefore we are it (along with some military fear that all they could do about "flying saucer" or UFO reports was sit on their hands) no one officially investigated CE3K/Entity reports. Quite honestly one of the biggest hurdles to this was Ufology itself where only tall, blond-haired space brothers were accepted (despite the obvious racist and religious overtones and money making).

People today still believe everything George Adamski said. And other contactees are also believed because even when their claims fell to pieces authors like John Keel were there to explain that this was all alien or ultra terrestrial deception. Our 'Ufologist' turned debunker has looked into some reports of CE3K that he declared were unexplainable due to all the extra trace evidence. He will probably now declare that he was taken in or influenced in some way into writing what he did..



Had Ufologists not totally ignored reports or simply wrote long articles based on incorrect press reports we might have had a great deal of worthwhile data by now. I still find it almost humorous that French and Italian Ufologists took 20-35 years to actually bother tracking down percipients/witnesses and declared with outrage how reporters had gotten facts wrong. It reminds me of a 1970s incident in which police were observing an alleged landing and I was driven to the spot early in the morning and I asked who had checked  things out to which I got the response from an inspector: "car theft and burglary we'll deal with -UFOs and aliens are your job". He was right. The number of times Ufologists have reported how they ran when they observed a "UFO"   is not a small number. Rather like "Ghost Hunters"Q who run when they think they have heard or seen a ghost!

I know that in the last 30 plus years the conmen have moved into Ufology. I once supported Budd Hopkins until certain things he stated as provable fact turned out to be neither provable or factual and it was obvious that there was either self deception or corruption at work. It was a very black day when I realised that deception was at work. Ufology did not care as it drew in more money for groups from TV and people wanting to see the men who had gotten to the 'truth' behind UFOs and the "Grey agenda". David Jacobs was another I publicly supported  and he even thanked me at one point for an article I had written in defence of his research. It turned out that neither Hopkins, Jacobs or any of the others involved in this business were having their findings peer reviewed and if there was no "Grey" involved the report was psychological or a hoax and because of that, from the 1980s until Hopkins and Jacobs were exposed (more than 30 years) so much was lost and even in 2024 MUFON and others are pushing the "Grey Agenda" and even re-booting old CE3K reports so that now they do involve Greys!

Had it not all been turned into conspiracies and money spinning then we might have some idea of what cases were genuine; even after I found that certain descriptions of entities separated by decodes and continents matched the response from Ufologists was dismissive and probably because there was no money in it and it would mean questioning the dogma and fakery that did make money. Also, if you were a "black" person then...good luck because you were not going to be listened to just dismissed.

Now our foot stamping ex-Ufologist and his pals (most of whom never accepted any UFO report anyway but calling themselves Ufologists gets them attention) as well as the conmen declaring UFO disclosure is coming in 2024...0r 2025 (it's been promised since 1999) and throwing out one fake photo after another fall into two categories: Type 1 the self centred egotist and Type 2 the couldn't care lees and are in it to make money.  There are those who seriously debate why aliens have not made a mass landing at Earth's capitol cities and they are at least trying to understand what is going on even if they are fooling themselves.

Earth -the epicentre of the universe. Well, not really.  Why would any advanced alien civilisation want to come to Earth to pen contact?  Are there not enough morally corrupt, hostile destroyers of their home worlds out there? First thing that would happen is that each government leader would offer a highly dubious version of their self importance and why they are "the go-to guy" and there will also be the "don't trust that other fella; they arrest and torture their own people and start wars for profit".  History shows this is how humans have operated since ancient times.



Why would any advanced alien civilisations be tripping over themselves to get to Earth? If anything all the reports show that there are casual visits to study flora and fauna and that on some of these occasions there is interaction with humans and possibly a standard cover story if asked why they are hear because they have studied us to a degree. To warn us against destroying our planet through war or ecological disasters that we are causing. Those are the main two big concerns and any study of TV/radio broadcasts would show that.  In a lot of cases there are very clear warnings for a witness(es) to stay back and "We are not interested in you -keep back!"  

In others we see the friendly conversation and offer to let someone look around inside the landed craft. "Would you mind if we carry out some tests?" and no memory loss is involved. In other cases there is a memory block -perhaps the trauma of actually meeting real live aliens was too much for the percipients (ala Calvin Parker or Barney Hill) and so the memory is blocked for all of those involved and, perhaps, that memory block is designed to not be permanent but gradually make the person aware of what happened?  The human psyche is a complex thing and is probably something an alien visitor does not fully understand?

I am, of course, referring to seemingly genuine encounters here and not long term or temporary altered states -and these are easily noted if the investigator(s) involved know what to look for. "The aliens are like giant caterpillars and come to Earth as we have great vegetation!" Now that would have more than a few rush around looking for all the reports of UFOs/entities seen in crop fields to prove there is "substance to the claim".

I think that people have to face it (I did long ago) that there may be a galaxy teeming with life but Earth is nothing of importance; we are not special enough to attract the attention of aliens light years away. Was Earth visited by aliens in the past? Well even the late Carl Sagan suggested that was a possibility.  Let's ignore the Von Danikens of this world  though as to them an Inca depiction of a round, sun-like object in a crop field is 'evidence' of alien visitation -not unless they depict giant caterpillars near the object 😄

Craft from other planetary systems passing through and wanting to see what is on this planet might just land and take soil, rock and vegetation samples before continuing their journey. Some may well want to check on animal life here or see how physically advanced the human race is. That's it. 

The majority of CE3K reports are brief and even that annoys debunkers!  The one thing I do know is that "UFO Waves" are false events that might be triggered by increased press/media interest but the 1954 "French wave" was a mixture of seemingly a few genuine reports mixed in with everything from a homeless man on a country road ("a Martian") to a man repairing a broken down bus ("UFO repair incident) and this also applies to the "World Wide Wave of 1973".  Alleged alien abduction incidents are rare and not in their "thousands" or "millions" (as per Hopkins, Carpenter and Jacobs).  "Grabbed and dragged aboard a UFO" could be how a percipient's mind is trying to remember things but getting confused based on all of the UFO trash videos and books out there that they have  seen and read.  

I ought to make it clear that I am not declaring that n o one has ever been dragged aboard a UFO -I was never present.  What I will make clear is that after 50 years of looking at these reports and digging into them I see a slightly different picture to that fed to TV, You Tube and the public by prominent Ufologists who have all been exposed at one time or another for fakery. FACTS are the only thing that  we should look at.



Do I claim all of these encounters reported involve extraterrestrials?  No. Now that is something that annoys a lot of people but let's make things clear.  There are alleged encounter cases that debunkers (often posing as just being "sceptical") have had 25, 30, 40, 60 years to tear apart and the only way they can even try is to invent 'facts' or quite clearly misquote or take a quote out of context and the fact that people like Philip Klass had to resort to offering substantial bribes for percipients to change their stories and say "it was all made up, folks!" speaks volumes.

Fact I: In these cases there are secondary witnesses to the UFO or even car chase by a UFO; there are physiological, psychological effects on percipients and even ground trace evidence. So from that we can say "something happened" because radiation exposure on a quiet country walk or drive is not likely. We can therefore state that something affected the percipients and environment in a way that defies any rational explanation.

Fact II: We have the accounts wherein the entities are quite obviously "not from around here" and that defies any rational explanation which means we now have two facts that are a puzzle.

Fact III: The percipients describe an obviously constructed object -a craft- the performance of which when it comes to speed, manoeuvres perform and witnessed by said percipients and possibly third parties defies explanation. What is described within these craft are similar in some ways but in others unfamiliar to things we know of. 

Putting it into perspective; if the United States or Soviet Union had these craft in the 1940s, 1950s or even 1960s then by now everyone would know about them as we eventually know about the last big "stealth aircraft" that either side produced. 60-70 years later we should all be able to board these "old" aircraft for a 10 minutes long Mexico City to Washington flight. We should have space stations and we should have Moon bases and much more. "How did we get this tech then?" someone shouts out of pure ignorance in the same way the frauds of ancient astronaut theories declare that "human beings were incapable of constructing the pyramids" (often quoting decades old information long since dismissed).



One senior military man once put it this way; had the United States had flying saucer technology at the end of World War 2 then there would have been no objection to General Patton's declaration that we should move on from Germany and eliminate the Soviet threat. The Korean War along with that in Viet Nam would have been over in a day.  Most people are still ignorant of the fact that there were jet fighters developed for use during World War Two. 

Take this from Wikipedia:

"...steam-driven devices such as the aeolipile were known in the first century AD, and there were a few other uses recorded in the 16th century. In 1606 Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont patented his invention of the first steam-powered water pump for draining mines. Thomas Savery is considered the inventor of the first commercially used steam powered device, a steam pump that used steam pressure operating directly on the water. The first commercially successful engine that could transmit continuous power to a machine was developed in 1712 by Thomas NewcomenJames Watt made a critical improvement in 1764, by removing spent steam to a separate vessel for condensation, greatly improving the amount of work obtained per unit of fuel consumed. By the 19th century, stationary steam engines powered the factories of the Industrial Revolution. Steam engines replaced sails for ships on paddle steamers, and steam locomotives operated on the railways."

The human mind sees something and has an idea and then comes the invention. Someone sees how much money and fame that inventor got and decides they can do better -push the invention to the next level.  Unrelated someone working on another invention finds that something is missing. The idea is great and the concept is sound but...  Then that inventor realises what the first two created would make his invention work. It does. And them someone else tries to improve it and there are secondary or third uses. No back engineering alien steam powered craft.

The point is, if we get rid of the fantasies created by certain Ufologists in these accounts, then what we are seeing is technology but technology beyond anything we have.  That is why any military would love a downed or captured alien space craft.  There has never been a crashed or captured alien space craft.


Now we have Facts I, II and III that we cannot explain away in a mundane way.  There is no hoax and most of the percipients declare the encounter to have been true to their dying day -including those who were devoutly religious and for whom a hoax or lie would need to be confessed to before "meting their maker".  Pumped them with scopolamine, wire them up to lie-detectors several times, hound them to the point of a nervous breakdown and the percipients will not change their accounts -when there are 2-4 others involved you normally expect at least one to break down and confess.

We have absolute proof -evidence- that alien space craft are visiting Earth. No. What we have is anecdotal testimony.  You may believe 100% that the percipient(s) are telling the truth and you can see no other explanation but even with physiological, psychological and environmental evidence it is not proof.  It is why physicist Michio Kaku states that any person finding them selves on board any such craft should throw aside morals and "steal something".  You can have Facts I-III but it will always be disputable. However, if you have a solid object -whatever it is- it can be analysed and put through various tests and the results will show factors pointing to the object having been created by a non-Earth technology. that is a hard slap in the face to wake everyone up. 

Those with FAR (Fear of Alien Reality) will stamp their feet and let off steam but any  scientifically investigated artefact coming up "alien technology" will prove the reality. This is why Jacques Vallee and Gary Nolan in my opinion do not possess any alien metal fragments.  Testing of the basic kind would take a day and then they will have proven alien technology and and that "UFOs are real". You claim you need a million or so to carry out the testing -you are scamming.  "This metal does not naturally occur on Earth -it is alien" I have read as a conclusion many times.   No, they do not "naturally" occur on Earth because the fragments were all alloys:

"The meaning of the term 'alloy' is a substance formed from the combination of two or more metals. Alloys can also be formed from combinations of metals and other elements. The properties exhibited by alloys are often quite different from the properties of their individual components."

The Earth is not the focus of a millennia long alien study. The Earth is not the current focus of attention for many hundreds of alien civilisations because we are not that important or worthy of interest except in a way a naturalist may find certain animals or birds of interest or a geologist a rock formation -curiosity.

There is nothing to be "disclosed" because no Earth government knows any more than the best type of Ufologist and that is why military do not want to admit they get UFO reports but they can do nothing. It is why scammers succeed.  The Milky Way may well be teeming with life but only some incredibly stupid race is going to invite humans to "join the community"!

All we can do is investigate, report and study and throw aside the ego.

Saturday, 11 May 2024

Pontejos Santander Spain -6th January, 1969

I have the following notes and images on this incident and they were sent to me by someone many years ago but with no source.  If anyone can give me details of sources in Spanish and English I would appreciate it as I do not usually like un-referenced reports.

Thanks

At around 21:15 hrs Maren Merino was working in the kitchen of a small café owned by her family when she looked out the kitchen window and sees an intensely bright light but did not think anything of it.


Above: location of the incident

Maren continued with her work until her 25 years old daughter, Felicidad Fernandez Merino,  entered the kitchen and also looked out of the window and observing the light, asked her mother about it.  Her mother continued to ignore the light but Felicidad, thinking that it was something abnormal,  yells out to two other women, including a woman called Paquita. 

All three women then open the window and observe an incredible scene, on a field about 30 meters in distance, hovering about 3 meters from the ground they see a luminous square of four to five meters wide, intensely illuminated with a light of orange-white color. Inside the luminous square they see the silhouette of man walking about. Suddenly from the right another similar figure appears and walks towards the left side of the luminous square.


Above: Witness(?) sketch of the object and entities.

 Then from the opposite end of the square three more figures appear, thus making a total of five figures within the luminous square. By now the witnesses are totally fascinated and my source states that they shouted out to the figures. The women  were then joined by another witness; 35-year old Antonio. After watching what was going on Antonio told the women he was going to go outside the get a better look and at this moment the craft disappears from sight. 



Above: an artist's rendering of the scene

According to the observers the movements of the figures was somehow mechanical with arms straight down at their sides without any apparent joint movement. The entities were tall and very well built with normal features, chestnut-color hair and light skin. They wore dark or black, very tight-fitting coveralls with sleeves and turtlenecks. The observation lasted for about 5 minutes. Suddenly  a small shiny sphere descended from the middle of the air falling to the soil in a curvilinear trajectory and the  UFO also became visible again and clearly displaying the shiny square section and the sections of the object that had remained invisible to the witnesses thus far.   The object was an ash-silver colour, lightly fluorescent and half spherical dome shape. The object then ascended slowly and disappeared very quickly leaving behind a brilliant greenish trail that remained visible for about 15 minutes after the object left.


The case was investigated by Professor Manuel Pedrajo.

Some emphasis has been put on the object "vanishing" when Antonio said t5hat he was going to go outside.  Quite honestly there is no reason to believe that the entities "sensed" this and it seems far more likely to be just coincidental.  The sphere dropping to the ground seems to be the part that makes no sense. Are they saying that another object left the first and landed?   There seems to be very little online in English.

 In Spanish I have found Juan Carlos Victorio's Mysteries of The Air blog and  The Pontejos Incident (Cantabria) from  9th February, 2009 which seems to dismiss the sighting as being an observation of the Moon with cloud cover. Which is almost a stretch but the illustration of the entity from one source is dismissed as being a typical Adamski-like Venusian but with short hair but again this seems a stretch to explain the observation as  a hoax or "seeing what they were not seeing" and to back this up a link is provided to a BBC post on witness memory problems. The Moon and bad observations. 

It is also worth pointing out that the witness drawings of the object are said to be similar to another report and I will quote:

"The Santander group CIOVE published an article, The Observation of Pontejos (Santander), in its newsletter Tiempo y Espacio (year 1, no. 1, Nov-Dec. 1970), based on the research carried out by Manuel Pedrajo and Gonzalo Sanz Polidura. In the aforementioned work they show a drawing of the type of humanoid observed, clear influence of the Adamskian extraterrestrial (with short hair), and another of the UFO where the resemblance to the “flying saucer” of Lago Argentino (March 18, 1950 , possibly to journalistic fraud) is evident."




Above an illustration of one of the entities which might be embellished by memory

Well, "possihly" a journalistic hoax is often used to dismiss a report and I would have to ask for the evidence of a journalistic hoax?  Although I believe Adamski was a damned good conman followed by a lot of gullible people (even to this very day) the dismissal of the entity description is pushing it at best since Adamski's "space brothers" did not move mechanically.  The fact that Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos only managed to track down and speak to Felicidad is also no reason to dismiss the account.  Neither is the current position of a window in the developed building.

Did the Mysteries of the Air blog add any details to the report? No. It reproduces two pages from a book but these are not readable or saveable to try to translate. More effort is put into dismissing the report than giving details of it.  Does this mean that the blogger is calling into question Prof. Manuel Pedrajo's investigation?  Certainly Spain has had its fair share of Ufologists hoaxing other Ufologists not to mention attacking other Ufologists credibility (to be fair this happens everywhere in what is largely an undisciplined and often unethical field).

It is an interesting report worth noting but far more is needed to be able to categorise it as a Low, Medium or High Credibility report.

Thursday, 9 May 2024

Are We Going to Let All of the Information Fade Away: Or Are We Going To Do Something About It?

 originally published in 2018 on the AOP Blog

I would like to offer this page from Patrick Gross' Ufologie page.  It shows the results for an incident during the 1954 "French UFO flap" -which may not have been a flap at all (see Unidentified-Identified):


The 1954 French flap:
The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this site is here.

October 3, 1954, Marcoing, Nord:

Reference number for this case: 3-oct-54-Marcoing. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

REPORTS:

[Ref. la1] "L'ALSACE" NEWSPAPER:
The newspaper reports on October 6, 1954, with no other information, that there was a sighting in Marcoing. The date is not given but the sighting is mentioned among others that took place on October 2 and 3, 1954.
See the article here.
[Ref. li1:] "LIFE" MAGAZINE:
Scan
MARTIAN MEN'S HEIGHT is shown by two bakers. Pierre Lucas (left) of Loctudy was going to well when, he said, orange ball fell from the sky. Suddenly a small bearded figure with one eye in the middle of his forehead tapped him on the shoulder. Serge Pochet (right) of Marcoing was approached by two small shadows.
[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:
103.
Location. Marcoing France
Date: October 3 1954 Time: night
Bakers apprentice Serge Pochet was approached by 2 small shadowy entities, about 3-feet tall. No other information.
Humcat 1954-67
Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper reports
Type: E?
[Ref. dj2:] DONALD JONHSON:
Donald Johnson says that on October 3, 1954, a humanoid report occurred later than 6:45 p.m., in the night and did not involve a UFO sighting: young baker's apprentice S. Pouchet, was approached by two small shadowy beings, about three feet tall, in Marcoing, Nord, France.
The sources are noted as "Webb, David F. & Bloecher, Ted. HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0271, citing Life Magazine, November 1, 1954" and "Life Magazine, November 1, 1954".
[Ref. gn1:] "GNEOVNI" UFOLOGY GROUP:
In "Special notes" of their catalogue, the GNEOVNI group indicates that there exists in several books, such as Aimé Michel's "M.O.C.", Planète publishers in 1966, in which there is a number of observation cases in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais which are not included in their catalogue because there "remains much doubts as to their credibility." One of them is noted "3-10-54 Marcoing nord".
[Ref. ta1:] "THINK ABOUT IT" WEBSITE:
Location: Marcoing France
Date: October 3 1954
Time: night
Bakers apprentice Serge Pochet was approached by 2 small shadowy entities, about 3-feet tall. No other information.
Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper reports
[Ref. ub1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this case 9 times:
Case Nr.New case Nr.InvestigatorDate of observationZipPlace of observationCountry of observationHour of observationClassificationCommentsIdentification
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFranceNightCE III
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.30NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.30NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFranceNightCE III

EXPLANATIONS:

Not looked for yet.

KEYWORDS:

(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Marcoing, Nord, Serge Pochet, entity, entities, dark, small, two

SOURCES:

[---] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.
  • [la1] Article in the regional newspaper L'Alsace, Mulhouse, France, October 6, 1954.
  • [li1] Part of the article "Astral Adventurers - Frenchmen report meetings with unlikely creatures", in LIFE Magazine, USA, page 28, November 1, 1954.
  • [---] "HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports", compiled by David Webb and Ted Bloecher, Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), USA, circa 1978.
  • [ar1] "1954 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1954.shtml
  • [dj2] "The Worldwide UFO Wave of 1954", electronic article by Donald Johnson, Ph.D., USA, page 5, 2009, at www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/papers/Worldwide%20UFO%20Wave%20of%201954.pdf
  • [gn1] "Catalogue Régional d'observations", by the Groupement Nordiste d'Etudes des Observations d'Objets Volants Non Identifiés (GNEOVNI), France, undated, circa 2009, at www.geru.fr/fr/catalogue-regional-observation-ovni-nord
  • [ta1] "1954: October Sightings", catalog on the UFO website Think About It, USA, not dated, found 2014, at http://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/8-1954-october-sightings
  • [ub1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de



So what do you notice? Perhaps that someone notes that someone referred to this case...appearing in newspapers?  I am hoping that this sticks out like a ten feet (3m) high glowing red thumb. We have a case, once again, of 'investigation' by news-clippings.

Two reported incidents of alleged actual landings and entities and who turns up after -the press. There were people claiming to be flying saucer investigators but that amounted to noting down a news item on the radio or adding a newspaper clipping to the scrapbook. From the news clipping these people could pontificate and waffle on over pages.

I understand that there was no funding for flying saucer research but most of these people involved in the subject knew each other one way or another. There was a very real attitude, not just in France, that even if a report came from a mile or two away -why go investigate when the newspapers had all the information?

I actually almost choked on a swig of coffee when I read Italian investigators, who had not once even attempted to go and investigate Rosa Lotti's encounter in 1954 until the early 2000's, complaining and criticising newspapers and journalists for leaving out information and not doing a thorough job. Well, at least the reporters got off of their arses and went to see her.  There are literally hundreds of cases like the one above.

Writers -'ufologists'- are making money out of including these cases in their books and worst of all in their "data" or "sightings breakdowns" that make them look so good.  The truth is that they are producing nonsense: they have no data other that he wrote what so-and-so wrote who got it from whatshisname who found it mentioned in a newspaper clipping. That is then the solid data used by people like Jacques Vallee who does not actually check anything himself. 

The period 1947-2018 has literally achieved nothing when it comes to ufology other than over-hyped hysteria, bunko-men and...literally, huge volumes of trash.  Graham F. N. Knewstub's British Flying Saucer Bureau Technical Report No. 1 was in the 1950s, we all thought that we were seeing real science (I was fooled, too) when Vallee published his work on UFO Waves, Flaps and so on.  He included well known hoaxes, misidentifications of aircraft, meteors, weather balloons and much more in amongst the not investigated UFO cases. The data was useless.

Then we saw Ted Bloecher Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, published in 1967. This was an actual attempt at analysis and to piece events from that year together.  Published work that could be peer reviewed. It was as early as 1956 that Bloecher became intrigued by the growing number of “UFO occupant” reports and along with researcher David Webb, started to work on what would become the Humanoid Catalogue –HUMCAT: a collection of early “humanoid” sightings. I prefer not to use the term “Humanoids” as an all-encompassing term but the important thing is that the work began.

   Ted Bloecher’s major interest was always in occupant reports or Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K), as they would be called after J. Allen Hynek set out his categorisation of UFO sighting reports.  Bloecher had been one of the top thinkers in the Civilian Saucer Investigation group and after that became active with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and when  NICAP became “moribund”, Bloecher moved on to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS).  He was still concentrating his efforts on investigation of CE3K reports with David Webb. In 1978, CUFOS published his and Davis's Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, based on the investigation of the Kelly-Hopkinsville case.

   Bloecher could well be called the top authority on these cases in the United States by the 1970s and though he did everything he possibly could (see UFO Contact?) to get the Euporia, Mississippi landing/entity case prioritised and investigated it never was –presumably due to the prejudices of the two investigators.

   But being the top man does not come with a university grant or even financial funding and to keep records complete Bloecher filed away press reports.  This should have been the data base used for thorough investigation of the cases. Instead, ufologists just quoted Bloecher and that he, himself, was referencing newspaper reports.

   Then came the big excuse of the “Grey Abduction Paranoia” –if a case did not involve Greys then it was a fake or misidentification.  No need to bother. Or to use the much criticised US Air Force ‘excuse’ used so well by MUFON today: the amount of time that has passed negates any fruitful investigation.

Ufology does not “get the respect deserved”?  You earn respect.

Two cases from recent years I have tried to get more information on so I went to the site owners who reported on the cases.  In each I was told “I picked that up from (website) –best you contact him” and so I did: “I read that on (name of website) because it seemed interesting” and then I was advised to contact the “original source”. This original source turned out to have copied the item from some newspaper item and he could not remember which or the date. This is the most common response I get when following up old reports and today I more or less expect it.

Ufology is basing all of its claims on cases –including plain old “UFO” sightings- that were never investigated because it is much easier to sit in a chair and say “The evidence is all there” –it is not.

In the United StatesFrance and Belgium I think there are enough ufologists with some credibility who can open cold case investigations on old CE3K/Alien Entity cases.  Once the witnesses, now in their 60’s, 70’s and 80’s are gone then so are all of the facts that they can tell us and to ascertain which, if any, of the CE3K/AE reports is genuine could provide us with the valuable data we need.

I am undertaking this work in the UK (though some prominent ufologists appear to not want this –I wonder why?) and I just hope and pray that someone out there will do likewise in their own country.  

PLEASE!

"Inter-galactic Travel" -What?


Above: Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms. This annotated artist's concept illustrates the new view of the Milky Way, along with other findings presented at the 212th American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis, Mo. The galaxy's two major arms (Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus) can be seen attached to the ends of a thick central bar, while the two now-demoted minor arms (Norma and Sagittarius) are less distinct and located between the major arms. The major arms consist of the highest densities of both young and old stars; the minor arms are primarily filled with gas and pockets of star-forming activity. The artist's concept also includes a new spiral arm, called the "Far-3 kiloparsec arm," discovered via a radio-telescope survey of gas in the Milky Way. This arm is shorter than the two major arms and lies along the bar of the galaxy. Our sun lies near a small, partial arm called the Orion Arm, or Orion Spur, located between the Sagittarius and Perseus arms.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Ca

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I still find it incredible that people in Ufology refer to "inter-galactic visitors"  -how are they supposed to be taken seriously?  Firstly, which galaxy do these people think UFOs are coming from?  Our nearest neighbouring galaxy is Andromeda. And the Andromeda galaxy is 2.2 million light-years away, with a single light-year being almost 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).  It makes no sense that any possible alien civilisation in the Andromeda galaxy would want to visit the Milky Way when its own galaxy sprawls across space.

Look at the number of stars in our own galaxy - Milky Way.  It is difficult to estimate numbers based on our position in the galaxy but scientists give their best estimates as  the Milky Way being made up of approximately 100 billion stars

How many planets is the next question people should be asking and Ufologists tend to get all of their 'facts' off equally dubious web sites.  Bear  in mind that our solar system (not thoroughly investigated) has eight planets, Other stars may have more or less and, turning to scientists who work on this stuff every day, the Milky Way galaxy could have between 100-200 billion planets -or possibly many more.

Now, that leads us into trying to guess, and it is guessing, based on things such as The Greenbank Formula, the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Well, considering that every time someone says "That might be an alien signal" another scientist says "Probably a microwave", you might think that at best maybe 100 -is that too wild a guess?

Far from a wild guess actually as it is, based on very conservative interpretations, estimated that our galaxy holds at least an estimated 300 million  potentially habitable worlds. According to the results of a study to be published in The Astronomical Journal. NASA discusses it here:  https://www.nasa.gov/missions/kepler/about-half-of-sun-like-stars-could-host-rocky-potentially-habitable-planets/#:~:text=Our%20galaxy%20holds%20at%20least,published%20in%20The%20Astronomical%20Journal.

I have no doubt that scientists have looked at UFO reports since 1947. I have no doubt that those scientists have also looked at reports by investigators of close encounters of the third kind.  In fact some such reports from the old Commonwealth -Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, etc, I know were forwarded back to the old Air Ministry.  Whether those in charge had their own personal biases and dismissed such reports based on personal religious beliefs or just because they would not accept that anything was coming from "out there" is another matter.  Talking to the late Air Vice Marshal Sir Victor Goddard I know this was the case.  Look at Ufology where in all the decades since 1947 there is still mocking and ignoring of CE3K reports.

Officialdom is no more enlightened than the Ufologist.   We should have been looking at these encounters from the very outset to establish witness/percipient credibility and from that credibility of the reports.  Instead we have seen nothing more than the various prejudices and no matter how seemingly major a report seems if it involves anyone who is not white skinned the racial prejudices explode into dismissals ("Well, he just came out the US Army and, you know, he's black and -wink wink- you know they smoke some funny stuff!").  We have lost, perhaps, 90%+ reports since 1947 because a news clipping was the only investigation and it took the Ufologist a great deal of skill, time and effort to glue that in a book.  

What we need to remember the Milky Way is 100,000 light years wide -oh, Andromeda is much larger at approx 220,000 light years across.  We need not draw Andromeda into Ufology or our Citizen SETI work because ...well...the Milky Way!  

As American physicist Michio Kaku suggests; if you ever do find yourself on board a UFO/craft -STEAL SOMETHING!  I know, that sounds bad but something made by an alien civilisation can be tested and no I am not even thinking of Vallee and Nolan and their  bunko claims; something taken from an alien craft is evidence because it is an actual physical thing and that is what we have so far lacked.   

Therefore, think only Milky Way as a possible origin point for claimed aliens. Also remember that when it comes to solid evidence you will need to put aside a moral stance and steal something. Humans have done far, far worse over the centuries.

(c)2024 T. Hooper-Scharf


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