It may be wondered why I have titled the soon-to-be-published fourth book in my series on Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and Alien Entity (AE) cases Beyond UFO Contact? The siomple answer to that is to state that I could publish book after book on the subject but they would just be collections of reports.
The books have been designed to inform people who are entering into Ufology, existing Ufologists and those outside of the field such as astronomwers on the facts in cases.
In UFO Contact? took a look at humanity and it's early radio signals and how far these had reach out into space ("If You Inviote People To The Party -They Just Might Turn Up"). I then looked at cases, some of them generally accepted within Ufology such as the Alan Godfrey 'abduction' and asked whether there were possible explanations -there were. I then looked at the "classic cases" and some of those had been the subject of intense debunking for 40 or 50 years and I felt sure that once I had looked at the pro and con arguments I would be able to happily dismiss those cases and give good sound reasons for doing so. I am a screptic looking for evidence and npot a debunker. In fact, cases actually stood up to investigation far better than I could imagine.
One thing that was clear when I looked at the cases and delved more into the people involved was that there were some (meaning this could be quite common in certain people) subject to not quite altered states -they were fully awake and functioning yet things were happening to them. It is for the psaychologists to go into more detail but, based on what should be a famous cases (it was well documented yet even amongst paranormal investigators I found that it was not) I termed it "Ruth Syndrome" and it is far too complicated to really explain in a blog -the book is fully referenced.
I found that symptoms of post traumatic stress was common amongst alleged UFO abductees and that their experiences could not be categorised as psychological in any way -there were also physiological effects that could not be put down to being psychosomatic. These people try to carry on with their lives but their UFO experience has shattered their world view and the after effects never leave them.
Others had encounters not involving "abductions" but also suffered from symptoms of shock as well as some physiological effects. Although one can never know what is going on in another persons mind the attitude of these witnesses was "It happenred. Now carry on living my life."
If one thing became obvious it was the almost abusive attitudes of Ufologists in these cases. If percipients did not want to talk to them then they were told fairly clearly that what they had heard of their accounts would be leaked to newspapers. Even after percipients spoke to Ufologists their names and stories were "leaked" to the press or deals were done with The National Enquirer for some very shakey reasons. Jumping straight in with "alien type identikits" and hypnosis or, as far as APRO and the Lorenzens were concerned both hypnosis and scapolamene (the "truth drug"). The well being of the percipients appears to have never been seriously considered and once "the story" was completed the Ufologists moved on. The percipients were left with their traumas.
I also noted how some cases that might be important as evidence were never -in some cases- investigated such as Eupora, Mississippi and that led down a very dark path. It became quite obvious that minor reports from "white" witnresses were focussed on while major, multi-witness reports of UFO landings were repeatredly ignored because thpose involved were "black". There were things that I already knew and, sadly, I was not shocked when I got confirmation.
UFO Contact? has been described as a "ground-breaking work" but I'd never claim that!
With Unidentified - Identified I also took a look at "The Nottinghamshire 'UFO' Crash" which I investigated but despite other investigators agreeing with my conclusions, is today being touted as a "genuine UFO crash." I slso look at the Llandrillo and Berwyn mountain reports. I also looked at entity reports from the United States, Italy, the Woollaton "Gnomes" as well as a former investigators claimed encounter with a "boggart" , my own encounter with "the Men in Black" and reports that no one else seems to have noted containing "black coloured" (as in negative 'colourisation'). A preliminary UK CE3K/AE listing is also included.
Contact: Encounters with Extra-Terrestrial Entities? Looked at the "Monster of Vizcaya", "Michelin-men" type reports, the official French space agency UFO investigation group, Portuguese CE3K reports, the Mindalore incident, the truly frightening side of a UFO encounter, post traumatic stress amongst UFO abductees, the Kathy Reeves and famil;y UFO case and a whole lot more including around 35pp on German CE3K reports -the first and most complete study to date.
A trend in these books is to find more information than has been previously recorded in certain cases -the Centre for UFO Studies (CUFOS), for instance had very little on the Reeves case. There is also the call for a proper study, including opening Cold Case investigations of old reports.
There are rare and hard to find photographs and illustrations and a huge chunk of the material has never seen print in the English language before. Everything is fully referenced so others can carry out their own follow-up research.
Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is dealt with but an important aspect in all of the books is to give background information on the possibility of ETI as well as data on exo-planets and star systems closest to our own.
When it comes to Beyond UFO Contact there is the usual mix of reports that have been reassessed such as that of the Imjarvi skiers and I take a long look at the case of the Rev. Harrison Bailey who claimed a UFO abduction in 1951 and incidents after that: the findings will have a big impact on how these cases are treated -or should have a big impact. I return to exo-planets, SETI, what aliens might look like and what we could expect. Reports from Sweden, Norway and Finland that rarely get any reportage and what to do if you are involved in a UFO landing and CE3K type event -is there governmental protocol on dealing with these cases?
I will give more detail when the book is ready to go to print but it should be another eye-opener for many.
