Apparently, I did not realise this until I checked the date, over three years ago I asked any blog reader (and there are a lot of you) who had read or knew of a report or article about someone who had encountered a UFO and entities as a one off experience to get in touch.
Nothing.
In fact, I know from having spoken to a couple people that when reporting such incidents thaey were told that they were probably lifelong abductees. They pointed out that they were not and that this was a one off incident. They were told again that they WERE lifelong abductees because all ofvtheresaearch pointed to this in "every" such incident even if only a landed UFO and entities seen but no interaction. They were given the option of being put in touch with a "specialist abductees group" or their report could not be looked into.
Above: Betty & Barney Hill
This is exactly what I predicted would happen well over 20 years ago in articles and posts and later in my books. There are many credible accounts of UFO/entity encounters from 1950 up until the time everyone went "grey abductions" crazy. Look at Euporia, Mississippi in 1973 where racial prejudice reared its ugly head; local investigators chasing up any and every UFO incident but refusing to look at a multi witness incident on a U.S. Highway -because those witnesses were "black" -MUFON still refuses to even consider the case.
Imagine that you genuinely see a strange craft land and entities emerge -there is no interacytion but after a couple of minutes the entities re-enter the object and it leaves. You report it and you are told you were abducted. A dashboard clock may well tell you that you can account for every minute but as David Jacobs stated in his UFO evangelical style -"You saw a UFO and it vanished: YOU WERE ABDUCTED!" no question about it. Are you seriously going to have to go through all the messing around and state you were abducted just to get somone to take yourreport seriously....or do you back away and keep quiet?
What surprised me, because you are never told this but have to dig to find out, is that many percipients or witnesses in these events would never have been known and we would know nothing about the Betty & Barney Hill, the Liberty, Kentucky incident or many others if it had not been for ufologists exposing these people to the press or betraying confidences for their own gain.
Think about that. The Betty and Barney Hill account and all the extra evidence surrounding it -taken to the grave or a family secret. The 1976 Mona Stafford, Louise Smith and Elaine Thomas abduction event -unknown and taken to the grave (I believe Stafford was still alive as of 2020). Even the Walton case would not be known had it not been for the actions of Ufologists at the time.
above: Stafford, Smith and Thomas
In fact, after writing my last book dealing with the subject, Beyond UFO Contact: Aliens from Mind, Time & Space (2020), I sat down and looked at the reports, both abductions and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, from 1950-1995 and realised that at a rough count over 50 we would not know about if Ufologists had not broken confidential agreements with those involved. The figure is probably higher and it is a sad fact that many persons reporting such events were never even spoken to by investigators after 30 years and when some were those self righteous lazy clod-hoppers had the audacity to chastise reporters and newspapers for bad reporting! Absolutely no "If an investigator had gotten his lazy ass out of a chair and bothered we would not have been quoting incorrect facts for over thirty years" oh no. Everyone's fault but their own. So after 40, 50 and 60+ years many of those percipients are no longer with us. We've lost testimony. Eupora would today be classed as a major incident but decades on not one witness (that is still alive) has been spoken to.
Here is another fact worth considering; I know of several incidents where news got out and reached ufologists and the shameful behaviour of those 'truth seekers' made the witnesses withdraw and we lost testimony -one 'investigator' told me that the witness to a landing was obviously a "UFOnut" because he claimed "something" left the landed objkect. In another series ofg events at a quarry in the UK ufologists let the localpress and media know what was going on -this led to witnesses seeing chuckling TV presenters and reporters recounting their "tales". One witness to a landing refused outright to speak and workers at the quarry had told the BBC that if their mocking reporter returned he would be sent for a flight over the edge of the quarry.
Above: Maurice Masse
There are cases in which someone hides, observes a landing and an entity gets out and after a minute or so re-enters the object which takes off but they are no longer in hiding but standing out in the open and a brief encounter was obviously far more involved and years later this was indicated, however, the secret went with them to the grave. M. Masse at Valensole, France was a similar case. When you realise that a straight forward narrative that should go from A to E does so but misses out B, C and D, you can ask why but the person involved will either say they were 'mistaken' or "No. I am never going to say what else happened".
How many witnesses/percipients have encountered something but seeing all the TV and You Tube trash decided that they are "not getting involved in that crap!" or just accepted it as Bob Taylor did after his encounter at Livingstone as "It happened. You get on with your life"? This is a line repeated by a number of percipients whose lives were shattered by an encounter but afterwards (in some cases suffering physical and mental trauma) decide that it happened and they have to get on with their lives. How many have decided this that we do not know about because fiction has taken over from fact or because they do not want to be known as "another one of those crazy UFO abductees" (even if they aren't?
Hopkins and Jacobs along with others has made it almost impossible for someone to report a brief encounter and with MUFON there is the fear that personal details (supposedly confidential) might be sold on?
I am not a debunker and never have been. I am a sceptic and I look at the evidence and assess cases by evidence or by making a decision as to how credible someone is. That should be clear from my books. Until I actually encounter an alien spacecraft I cannot state that aliens are landing on Earth. Even going by what percipients state I cannot say that but if everything points to them not lying and there is back-up evidence such as unconnected observers, etc all I can state is that they seem genuine so it is then up to readers to decide extraterrestrial or not.
above: Marius Dewilde
But we need the testimony because it cannot all be dismissed by genuine debunkers who insist every single observer is "mistaken" or "suffering an altered state" (which they clearly do not understand) and if the accounts are genuine....
