A Few Words

 

We live at a time when we have almost instant communication and an internet full of data to access.  We also live at a time when conmen and  exploiters have taken over what was once considered "ufology".  At the start of public access internet data was exchanged but then it became a tool for sensationalism and money making schemes and all someone had to do was say "I didn't see what he reported 45 years ago on my drive through the area" and everyone jumps in because that 'proves' the claim was a hoax.

I am not going to mention Hopkins, Jacobs or Carpenter. Their stain on  UFO research can never be removed and I write that having been a big supporter as well as promoter of their early work.  Today we could not compile an accurate catalogue of yearly UFO sightings because Ufologist debunkers are in competition to beat the outright career debunkers.  Someone sees five (5) entities emerge from a landed object around 300 yards away and locals report strange activity the same evening and a Ufologist debunker goes out in his car to the area and looking in one direction he sees air craft landing. All the data that made the sightings stand out are dismissed; he went out and saw aircraft. Hey -the five aliens were actually a farmers wife with a powerful light going out to check livestock. Every single detail is dismissed because it makes the Ufologist debunker (who believes the Roswell crash was real -as was another).

I have seen websites, including MUFONs, list reports that in all their details are aircraft, satellites, space debris and even thunderstorms (??) as UFOs. I have seen all of this on many sites and it is accepted that every report is a genuine UFO -and by that they mean extra-terrestrial spacecraft.   

Cases that are obviously involving people undergoing psychological problems are accepted as genuine and some of those people even move into high positions in UFO groups (and some because the aliens told them to). No concerns there.  Now I say the internet made this all easier and it did b ut the reason that Ufology descended into fantasy and is literally controlled by conmen who bring money in are the UFO groups.   "Rods" became trendy and drew in money so UFO groups big and small jumped on that band wagon. Then it was "orbs" and once certain researchers faked the evidence the "Greys" were a hot money spinner and old cases were altered so that they involved Greys, reptilians, mantis types and whatever the next 'discovery' was. 

Ufology lost credibility about 30 years ago. Even proven liars are still touted as experts. And books that are lie and fantasy filled sell like hot cakes while serious well researched books are ignored. Ufology as such cannot be returned to even a fraction of its once "credibility" and all we have now are isolated researchers fighting to try to get facts out into the world. The trusted researchers and investigators have all retired or died. That is fact (though some do try to keep going). Take this blog for instance and the fact that after all of these years any comment or feedback is rare.      

Many witnesses or percipients to CE3K/AE incidents do not come forward and others who tried to were dismissed because they refused to accept what the experts at MUFON and elsewhere insisted: they were abducted by Greys.  

In the UK the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) was never going to achieve much. Attempts to get data computerised were put off with one excuse or another and some investigators could nopt be trusted with looking into a cup of tea. Alcoholics, people with various psychological problems and one 'investigator' who told me he could not be as active as he was as "I'm on the far side of 80 now" -I was in touch and communicated with all of these people. And when you hand BUFORA 100+ UFO reports from a 2 year UFO peak and are then told "Oh, they seem to have been lost somewhere at research HQ" (and I am not the only one had this happen) then you realise things are a mess.  When an organisation is only interested in selling things and getting as many paying members as possible while stating that all UFOs and UFO incidents are psychological or misidentifications (and start out investigations with that mindset) it is dead in the water. Here we can see the rot set in with 'new ufology'.

We've seen official bodies open up UFO records only to be attacked by ufologists for having done so...there is a warped mindset. And hoaxes perpetrated by ufologists on other ufologists are not rare.  Even our "most esteemed" UFO periodicals were not behind a little hoaxing. 

Look to works such as The Haunted Skies where everything is checked and double checked and original witnesses and investigators spoken to.  Facts presented not fantasy. Of course a world of Dr Who-like fantasy is far more appealing to people who also believe we have a space fleet fighting aliens in Earth orbit.   

It's a mess.

The 1980/1983 British UFO Report -Not Secret Either

  Circa 1977 I set up a study that later became known as "Grey Book" (from the grey colour covered note books used) and the Anomalous Observational Phenomena Bureau. Most people know that the study was set up at the sugge4stion of Sir Victor Goddard and Lord Clancarty and that other members of that circle supported the study. 

By 1980 I had come up with over 1000 pages detailing all aspects of UFOs (excluding CE3K) and defined two definite phenomena. One was Uninvestigated (by science) Natural Phenomenon or UNP. The other indicated, after many checks, double and triple checking of original sources, UFOBs -Unidentified Flying Object Built -ie seemingly constructed craft that bore no resemblance to anything known at the time or since.

The final report was given various names by different people. The Ministry of Defence simply referred to it as "Grey Book" (because it did not have "UFO" in the title.  Clancarty referred to it as The Hooper Report on UFOs and so on and so forth. Both Clancarty and Goddard referred to this as "The closest thing we will ever get in Great Britain to America's Project Blue Book".

In 1980 British Ufologists were offered a summary version and amongst those Ufologists were some very well known names. Every single one rejected the offer and one in particular suggested that it was all "very James Bondish" -which made no sense. No one in Ufology therefore got to see information and data that would have helped progress study of UFOs -but it was quite clear that 95% of those involved were mainly in the field to make money.

The report was turned into a manuscript and submitted to publishers who then had the Ms read by published authors to review and make a decision on publishing. Each reviewer rejected the Ms as "Not being up to date on Ufology" and one even referred twice to the fact that his own Fortean style books had not been referred to.  Also, the fact that the science was explained so that "the man on the street can understand it" -my mistake was in thinking Ufologists wanted to prove UFDO) reality and educate the public on it. In fact one very well known Ufologist and writer of anything that made money actually contacted British publishers to "warn" them about a "fantasy prone character peddling his theories as fact" (I was the fantasy prone character" apparently.

The truth was that Ufologists did not want anything that showed they had been sat on their backsides doing no research just fabricating and twisting facts for books and TV.

Had the Report gone out back in 1980 all of the names of the peers, etc., who backed it would have been known today. As it was the 1000+ pages was edited down to 550 after concerns over officially sourced material being used.  So a 1983 Report was made and, again, conclusions offered to Ufologists and rejected.

This Report will never be published. I am a lot older now and to edit this into a manuscript for publication would be a year's work and as that manuscript would be read by the same old published authors it would be against their interests to say "Yes".  And I already have self published books that do not sell so a year of work for a book that would not sell?  It needs a real established publisher and they are not interested without going to..."those people" to have it reviewed.

So, here are some quick snaps of some of the material in the Report and the bulky Report itself.

Four Books on CE3K -a Fifth On The Way?

 Yes, some posts have been reverted to drafts as they were on site long enough and no interest shown I decided they could go.  The Jose C. Higgins, Onilson Patero reports have been vastly expanded on as has the 1978 Buckfastleigh case which has had additional information from other percipients.  

These will not appear on the blog, however. They have made up three chapters for the Lost Contacts manuscript and that would be the 5th book solely dedicated to AE-CE3K reports that are mostly ignored, unknown or messed up by early investigators.    

That means there are four books dealing with such cases; no lies or twisting the truth to get sales. All cases looked at in details and to pros and cons weighed fairly -and conclusions on each is based on evidence and do I really have to state (again) that these are not debunking books?  There are people out there who do not want you to read the true facts because it would reveal what they have been getting up to.   

End of 2024 the books will not be available (long story and not really of concern to anyone else) so if you want the actual truth....

JUNE 1966, MOUNT INCAHUASI, ATACAMA, CHILE

This is a rather interesting case but the biggest problem is that we have an account with names but no one that I can find has ever published images of the witnesses nor produced any actual physical evidence that they existed. If anyone in Chile, or elsewhere, has extra information please get in touch -blacktowercg@hotmail.com

 In June 1966, civil servants of the S.N.S. of Serena were sent to Los Morros, a locality at 160 km from Serena and 1500 meters of altitude. One night, two of the civil servants, Astudillo and Muñoz, went to the village of Incahuasi for a medical urgency. They were on the return trip by a clear night with a full moon and without cloud. Whereas the van went up through a zone of turns of the road, having left the lower fog zone, they saw a motionless ball of fire at a few meters. It emitted a strong luminosity and was of a big size, with six protuberances at its periphery. Whereas they started to drive again the UFO moved on with them, in front of them. While arriving at Los Morros and awaking their companions, the latter could see with object which followed them in the air, without the protuberances. Its flight was ascending and at high speed.

Seven months passed, and Dr. Darwin Arriagada proposed to hypnotize civil servants Astudillo and Muñoz, who accepted.

Under hypnosis, Manuel Muñoz Carvajal described:

"There was a very thick fog. We arrive at Tres Cruces. We start to climb the slope of that way. When we arrived at the top, the fog dissipated and we saw a ball of fire cross us. It was like these pellets which one puts in wafers, but large. It crossed from left to the right, namely, from the mountain to the sea. It did that within fifty meters in front of us and turned off. My companion said it was a shooting star. I said that it could not be that, It was like a projection of light which turned off. We continue to go up and arrive towards a light, higher; my companion told me that it was a truck. I answered him that it wasn't; it made a very loud noise. We stopped the van and went down. I was alarmed. It was a large ball, it shone a lot and started to flicker. It was very close to the ground. We go up in the van and continue to advance, I was frightened, it was not a sphere. It approached us; the light which came from this ball illuminated the hood of the van. We still advance a thousand meters and this craft followed us at the same distance. Five from the twenty of us saw it. It was like a nut, it projected rays, a brilliant and then strong and orange light, of a yellow color; and it had two long cables like antennas, which came out by its top. There were changes of lights every half-minute. Under this thing, one noticed like a cabin, there were three motionless heads... I could not sleep. I dreamed that men walked by, who came from the disc. They were green with a round face, large round eyes, half protruding. They were one meter, one meter twenty tall. A very large, round head and a thick neck. They had a broad chest and a narrow belt. The legs were thin, appearing not to have knees."

The other contactee, Luis Astudillo Marin, detailed under hypnosis:

"Then this capsule, I do not know how to give it a correct name, came down a little and one noticed behind the brightness a species of cabin and one saw three heads with helmets."

He did not see these beings out of the vessel, that his companion thinks of having seen in dreams, but both saw the three members of the crew when they were in the fuselage of the ship.

Patrick Grossat URECAT is often very dismissive of these reports so I checked to see what he wrote in Explanation Category. "Extraterrestrial Visitors" -now that had me asking how he concluded  this and here is what he wrote:

"I do suspect that the case could be seen as an "alien abduction" which would be "revealed by hypnosis", but it is rather advisable to make the clear distinction between the two parts, of a different nature, of the case. There is an actual description of something like a craft with three occupants inside, whose helmeted heads are seen by the two witnesses in normal state of consciousness on the one hand, and on the other, elements who significantly appear only from one of the two witnesses, following hypnosis, and he does specify that they are elements of a dream. In the conscious episode, there is no indication of the least loss of consciousness, no "missing time", no landing of the occupants, no contact. This time as in much of the other such cases, the use of hypnosis did not bring up reliable information, only invalid additional elements that blur the case, elements coming from a dream of the witness; which obviously could be caused by the impact of the real experience.

"The conscious part of the case nevertheless remains of high interest, and it is thus unfortunate that the available sources seem rather fragmentary - it can be understood that a much more complete report could have existed."

For me this would be given a Low Credibility rating since although a multi-witness case we have no proof that those witnesses existed and if you know your UFO history you'll know that too many cases looked into never happened and FSR knew this but never corrected the record.

Please, if you know of a fuller report, photographs or anything not includerd in the above get in touch!

"A New South American 'Wave'", by Gordon Creighton,  Flying Saucer Review (FSR),  volume 14, #4, July 1968. This is incorrect as a sources since the article appears in FSR volume 14 no. 5, September/October, 1968

"OVNIs?,  by Dr. Iván Seperiza Pasquali, in the magazine Mundo Mejor, #8, Chile, October 1994.

URECAT  https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/ce3/1966-06-chile-mtincahiasi.htm

The 'Lost' Contacts

 

Well the 1973 Onilson Patero (Brazil) abduction case I today wrote and edited and it comes to 18 pages fully illustrated.

The 1947 Jose C Higgins (Brazil) case has also been expanded so I have (potentially) enough material for the start fifth book on this aspect of Ufology.

I have now had to move all the Brazilian material into a Lever Arch file

I really need to find some British cases.

Suggestions welcome but obscure or hardly reported on.

Five Really Weird Extraterrestrial Encounters

INCREDIBLY ODD: Ten Very Strange Encounters with UFOs and Humanoids

The Ville de Trancas case is dealt with in Contact

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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 ?

the UFO incident/the interrupted journey (1975) [remastered]

Boy hangs out with otherworlders in Swedish summer idyll

They Laughed and Ignored The Reports in 1947 and 77 Years Later Still No Interest

I have to say that I had thought European UFO groups might be far more cooperative than those in the United States where there is no interest in cooperation.  However, to date I have had absolutely no feedback or responses to messages over the last 9 years!  In fact until I checked something earlier I had no idea that I had started this blog in 2015.  

Just how bad has "Ufology" become?  Back in the 1970s-early 1990s, in the days of letter writing, exchange of information was weekly or monthly and from all over the world. Now no one seems interested in an aspect of UFOs that is one of the most important because, the cases that turn out to be seemingly genuine can give us clues as to who/what controls the UFOs. And yet, we are still in the "ignore it" mindset after 77 years (if we take 1947 as "the start" of Ufology.  

If there are any serious researchers out there -in Europe, Australia, the United States or where ever -please get in touch!  blacktowercg@hotmail.com and subject should be marked UFO encounters to bypass spam.

Thank You